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From: Thomas Engel <tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: 3DDeviceServer. v0.51 Date: 31 Dec 1994 01:01:52 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3e2s4g$h67@digifix.digifix.com> Release 0.51, 10.12.1994 by Thomas Engel (tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org) The 3DDeviceServer Application Submitted to: ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Graphics/3d ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/drivers ATTENTION..you need gnutar and gzip to unpack this package. This NeXTSTEP application is a general purpose device server. It is the central part of a collection of various device drivers for many different 3D hardware tools. With the help of NeXTs DO/PDO system it will allow an easy 'plug-in' into existing software that may run distributed accross a network. The server tries to simplify shared access to one hardware device by multiple clients (or as I call them: device targets). In addition to that it will allow switching between different devices while they are in use. Using the Server Just start the server. When you click on one of the buttons from the Device windows scrollview, the corresponding driver will become active. Detailed information on how to use the program can be found inside the online help system. For more information on how to use the server in your own projects please read the tutorial in the second chapter. The Package Version 0.51 comes in two packages: - 3DDeviceServer.app & Documentation. The 3DDeviceServer.0.51.NIH.b.tar.gz archive contains a plug'n'play binary for NeXT, Intel and HP hardware that was compiled under NeXTSTEP v3.2. - Source. In 3DDeviceServer.0.51.s.tar.gz you can find the complete sourcecode for this project. More details on compiling are included below. Attention: You need gnutar and gzip und unpack those files. Both programs come bundled with NeXTSTEP since version 3.2. On where to find the latest releases please see the 'About this Project' section. Features This project is still some kind of beta although it runs very stable. >From all the possible devices that this server offers access methods for (mouse, glove, display, scanner, motionTracker) only the mouse method will return a valid driver. Right now I only have a 3D mouse API. If you would like to help designing APIs for other equipment please let me know. The connections to devices work via the servers PDO port named "<hostname>/3DDeviceServer". For more details read the Release Notes and some History. The only 3D mouse the server knows about at the moment is the SpaceMouse (Driver release v0.8). It is the only mouse I own. In my opinion it is the best 3D mouse solution I have seen so far. More information about the hardware can be found in the online help. The other 'mouse' is the Virtual 3D Mouse (Driver release v0.6). It is just a simple GUI (slider based) pseudo mouse. Good for testing your software and for setting exact rotation values. If you own a different kind of 3D input device it should be straight forward to write a driver yourself and include it into the server. Supporting Software Currently (as of 10.12.94) there is one publicly available application that is able to use this server. But others projects are underway. BeakerBoy. My privat chemistry program¼and the reason why I wrote this server. Version 0.3 will include 3D mouse support but is not ready yet because I need to include the IconKit before I put it on the net archives. The code used to handle to 3D mouse events can be found inside the tutorial. solidThinking MODELER. Guido Quaroni from Gestel was one of the early supporters of this server. He is trying to include 3D mouse control into the v2.2 release that might be be around sometime in mid '95. HippoDraw. The Reason Gang enhanced NeXTs original Draw demo application to allow displaying n-tuple data and the relations between certain columns of the tables. Mouse support should be around by Q1/95. WavesWorld. This free collection of objects and InterfaceBuilder palettes was created by Michael B. Johnson. It allows RenderMan objects to be controlled by TCL scripts or other control object. Mouse support should be around once the rotation handling of the WW3DWell class has cleaned up a little. For details on the support I might give other programmers please read the tutorial. If you are a user and would like to use a 3D mouse in your vavorite application you should contact its developers. Maybe they haven't heard of this server or they think it is not worth 10-20 minutes of programming unless someone needs it. Future plans Here are the most wanted improvements form my ToDo-list. More can be found in the online help. - Loading the drivers from bundles. Well quite easy but it needs some time until the MiscFile classes have come to a rest. - I like datagloves so I might take a look at the PowerGlove code moving around the net. Gloves might be a subclass of 3DMouse adding absolut postitons (transformationEvent:isAbsolut:) and data about the fingers (fingerEvent:). This way 3D mouse systems with absolut positions could work as gloves as well. We might also have a right¼ and leftGlove in our server. About this Project Development will continue ± but not at very high speed because my main project is still the BeakerBoy application. At this moment it is still not clear if the driver objects and this server program will find their way into the MiscKit project. Maybe with a Misc3DKit this might get more realistic. Anyway, the MiscRtMatrix is necessary to use this server in your applications. The latest version of this server will be available at the ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de or ftp.cs.orst.edu anonymous ftp servers. SpaceControl will have access to the latest version too, so when you want to buy a mouse just tell them that you are using a NeXTSTEP system. This will cost no extra charge! (as they assured me) Compiling This version includes all the source code needed to just compile the program from scratch but it does not include objects that are part of the MiscKit distribution. So if you need to recompile the application you will need to get the MiscKit project from the archives (Version 1.2.8 or higher) For more details on the MiscKit collection see the ftp servers mentioned above or get the Objective-C or NeXT FAQs. If you would like to submit something to this collection you should contact: Don Yacktman <don@darth.byu.edu> In Case of Trouble If you have any questions you might contact me. Thomas Engel Netpunstr. 9 D-90522 Oberasbach Germany E-mail: tsengel@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org I would like to thank my brother (IconDesign), Matt Brandts (MiscSerialPort), DLR & SpaceControl (hardware questions), Guido Quaroni (software support) and NeXT (DOs are quite cool) for making my work easier. Warrenty and copyright Copyleft Source code that is not part of the MiscKit project - and therefore underlies the MiscKit distribution and copyright rules - is distributed under the GNUpublic license. If you want to write a device driver that you would like to sell, please contact me. No Warrenty This software is provided 'as is' and the programmer is not responsible for any harm this program may cause. You - the user - are responsible for everything that may happen to your business, hardware, software, car, CD collection or what ever may be worth your attention or money. The use of this product is at your own risk and your private fun. There should be no serious bugs inside but remember that a carbon-based unit did the coding. TravelWare Like all my projects this app is free and should be considered as travel-ware. - Let it travel to as many people you know. - Send me a postcard or E-mail if you use it. I will try to keep you informed about new releases. - If you have a free bed or some free space on your floor¼ give me a hint. I might come and visit you on my trip to the US (locations on Hawaii, near Seattle or WhistlerMnt. preferred) Enjoy it.
From: Denise Schneider <Denise_Schneider@NeXT.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NEXTSTEP EXPO 95/Developer Conferences from NeXT, 1995 Date: 2 Jan 1995 15:33:26 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3e9num$ai1@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer, Inc. in concert with Digital Consulting, Inc. (DCI) is pleased to announce the launching of a series of NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Developer Conferences to be held in major metropolitan cities in North America and Europe beginning in the second half of 1995. These conferences will replace the originally scheduled NEXTSTEP Expo '95 in San Francisco and will allow us the opportunity to provide education to more developers and users of NEXTSTEP worldwide. Over the years, customers have told us that the Developer Conference that runs in conjunction with the Expo has provided the most value to developers. Because of this, we believe hosting additional object education events will make it more convenient and cost-effective for new and existing NEXSTEP/OpenStep customers and prospects to attend. Every effort will be made to assure that the excitement, value, depth of information and camaraderie enjoyed annually at Expos is successfully transferred to the new conferences. As we prepare for the first NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Developer Conference, NeXT will work closely with ISV, Object Channel, OpenStep and strategic hardware partners to deliver the most comprehensive technical program about NEXTSTEP and OpenStep to conference attendees. If you have reserved and/or paid for exhibit space for NEXTSTEP Expo '95, we welcome your participation at these conferences. You will be contacted by DCI within 30 days to discuss your current participation. If you have submitted a paper suggesting a session for NEXTSTEP Expo, we are currently evaluating them for potential Developer Conference material and will contact you with more information in late January. In the meantime, if you have any additional questions or session suggestions, please send them to nsx_95_conference@next.com. Sincerely, NeXT Computer, Inc. Digital Consulting, Inc.
From: suckow@contrib.de (Ralf Suckow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: MLMusicKitVoice.app Date: 3 Jan 1995 00:42:03 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3eao3b$eri@digifix.digifix.com> MLMusicKitVoice.app has been uploaded to the submission directories of the following ftp archives (the expected target directories are given): ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Audio/music-apps/MLMusicKitVoice.1.0.N.bsd.tar.gz ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/sources/sound/MLMusicKitVoice.1.0.N.bsd.tar.gz With the help of this little program you can use DSP-based sound synthesis software of the CCRMA MusicKit with the MusicBuilder application from melonSoft, or you can use MusicBuilder to complete your set of MusicKit applications with a score editor and off-line production tool. The story: When I announced in September (via MEDICOM) about my plans to bring out a new version of MusicBuilder end of the year (1994), I had no idea, how many little as well as larger changes are to be made on it. While working on score display and layout, printing, Midi import/export, etc., time has passed and I found being late by a month or two. This is bad news, and not a good beginning of the new year. Thus I took the last three days of the year and tried something that appeared to be very easy: to link MusicBuilder with the MusicKit. Today's January 1, it is finished, with a large example and NeXThelp :-) We'll have a good year again, I think! So I want to wish ALL NEXTSTEP AND MUSIC ENTHUSIASTS A HAPPY NEW YEAR. The program seems to work well, while it is still not perfect in how it uses the DSP performance. In the online help, I formulated the inadequacies where the performance reserves are. If anybody could help me a bit with the MusicKit we could probably make it significantly faster than it is now. Sometimes we will forget that it uses non-realtime synthesis, and recognize that we have no timing limitations! The distribution includes sources, binaries (compiled for NeXT computers) and an example which demonstrates nearly all SynthPatches coming with the CCRMA MusicKit distribution. It is copyrighted but can be used freely, with no warranty of any kind. For more information contact melonSoft Ralf Suckow e-mail: suckow@contrib.de Ludwig-Renn-Strasse 62 fax: (+4930) 9321901 12687 Berlin, Germany Have fun! Ralf
From: gerben@rna.nl (Gerben Wierda) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: WARNING: Taylor UUCP 1.05 and NS 3.3 Date: 3 Jan 1995 00:53:44 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3eaop8$eub@digifix.digifix.com> This announcement is partly because of the fact that 3.3 breaks the NeGeN/NiNe distribution of Taylor UUCP 1.05 for NEXTSTEP. It seems that Taylor UUCP can crash 3.3 thoroughly. Some sites report this, other's don't. When looking at the differences in policy.h it turned out that the crashing system used unblocked writes (Thanks to Tom Hageman tom@basil.icce.rug.nl and Art Isbell art@cubisol.com). So we do not know if this solves all problems but make sure you use a version of Taylor UUCP that does not use unblocked writes. Look for HAVE_UNBLOCKED_WRITES in policy.h and set it to 0. Related to this may be that sometimes when uucico finishes the kernel leaves DTR on. There is *no* process attached to that terminal at that time (no getty, no NXFax, nothing). Using something like kermit seems to reset the kernel error here. NOTE: The NeGeN/Nine (Dutch user group) distribution of Taylor UUCP 1.05 uses unblocked writes and should *not* be installed on NS 3.3 systems!
From: Karen Logsdon <Karen_Logsdon@NeXT.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MARTIN YAM JOINS NeXT AS VICE PRESIDENT OF WORLDWIDE SALES AND MARKETING Date: 3 Jan 1995 16:29:38 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ecfk2$kps@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Karen Logsdon NeXT Computer, Inc. 415-780-3786 or Lisa Hahn Copithorne & Bellows 415-975-2226 MARTIN YAM JOINS NeXT AS VICE PRESIDENT OF WORLDWIDE SALES AND MARKETING REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-January 3, 1995-NeXT Computer, Inc. today announced that Martin A. Yam, 43, has joined the company as Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing. Yam, who has more than 20 years of experience in software sales and marketing, has also been named to NeXT's executive management team. "We are extremely pleased to have Marty join our senior management team and lead our vertical sales and marketing efforts which are focused on the communications, financial services and government markets," said Steven P. Jobs, Chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer, Inc. "Marty brings real-world knowledge of the object marketplace and will help us continue to build momentum for NeXT and for objects." "NeXT has superior technology and I think it has a unique opportunity in the marketplace to help corporate customers overcome the difficulties of client/server computing using objects," said Martin A. Yam. "I look forward to the challenge of making NeXT's object architecture the standard for object-oriented computing." Prior to joining NeXT, Yam was Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Services at Dynasty Technologies. Before that, he served as Vice President of Sales and Services at ParcPlace Systems, Inc. While at ParcPlace, Yam was responsible for building a direct sales organization that increased sales from $3.4M to more than $26M, leading to the company's initial public offering in 1994. Yam also has managed vertical markets and sales channels at Gupta Technologies, Informix Software and Oracle Corporation. NeXT Computer, Inc. NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry-standard computer architectures. Customers use NEXTSTEP's advanced object environment to rapidly develop and deploy custom, enterprise-wide, client/server applications. NeXT is headquartered in Redwood City, California, and has offices in North America, London, Paris, Munich and Tokyo. # # # # NeXT, the NeXT logo and OpenStep, NEXTSTEP are trademarks or registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: dja3@meaddata.com (Dave Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: FLYING MONKEY announces TAGGER Date: 3 Jan 1995 16:30:33 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ecflp$kqj@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FLYING MONKEY SOFTWARE ANNOUNCES TAGGER, a Data-Driven Text Service Application for NEXTSTEP, Featuring Bundled HTML-1 Markup. Contact: Dave Anderson Flying Monkey Software 8424 Todd Creek Cr. West Chester, OH 45069 djanders@nox.cs.du.edu 513-865-6800 x6087 Day 513-779-6489 Evening WEST CHESTER, Ohio, January 3, 1994 -- Flying Monkey Software announces Tagger, a Text Service application for NEXTSTEP which provides the ability to add markup to text in any NEXTSTEP application with the click of a menu button. Marking up text is becoming increasingly important. If you take the WorldWideWeb as an example, making your documents web-compliant is the only way to go - but there's more to web-authoring than a single WYSIWYG environment can handle, because *everything* (documents, mail, news,...) needs to be in HTML. Tagger allows you to quickly insert or wrap markup (of any type - not just HTML) into text in any application through NeXT's Service Menu interface. With dynamic enabling and disabling of Tagger Services, you choose what markup you want available as a service at any particular time. Everything's data-driven: you can make your own tag sets and share them with anybody you'd like. Tagger comes complete as a Text Service, with documentation on how to build and modify your own tag sets. Also included is a copy of the Tagger-ready HTML-1 tag sets that you can use to quickly markup your web documents. You can ftp down a free copy of the HTML-1 tags - just grab the from the stepwise ftp server, or if you're on the web, ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Vendors/Flying_Monkey_Software/Html1TaggerServices.tar.gz. A real productivity win! Tagger, Markup Text Service $15.00 Free electronic upgrades. Media and shipping cost for diskette upgrades. To see all of our Flying Monkey offerings, just start surfing - if you're on the web, http://www.stepwise.com/Vendors/Flying_Monkey_Software.htmld/index.html If you don't have www access yet, we can send you an email copy of the Flying Monkey Software Catalog directly, in rtf or postscript. (Rtf is default, otherwise you'll get postscript. Ask for what you want.) Flying Monkey Software provides object, application, graphic design, and shareware services to the NEXTSTEP community. The monkeys have been flying software for more than twenty years, and love writin' code. Our credo is satisfaction guaranteed: all Flying Monkey products will work - or we'll fix them for free. We'll also extend them for requesting customers on a contractual basis. We're here to stay! NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc. Tagger is an application for NEXTSTEP from Flying Monkey Software. Happy New Year!
From: imdat <imdat@irex.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: IREX Agent put on ftp-server Date: 4 Jan 1995 23:07:55 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3efrar$2lq@digifix.digifix.com> SUBMISSION: =========== IREX Agent put on ftp-server. Because of the great feedback from the net we stripped down Agent to the English version only without the German ZIPs, regions and areas and also removed the other .lproj directories and put it on an ftp-server for public access. The visual difference between the final-agent and ftp-Agent is that you can not search for ZIPs and that you also can not define the worldwide unique area-key for an address. But just the inclusion of the german area-keys makes Agent as big as 35 Megabytes IREX Agent was last seen on: ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/incoming/IREX-Agent.NI.gt.z IREX Agent is compressed using: gnutar cf - ./Agent.app | gzip -c > IREX-Agent.NI.gt.z You can uncompress it by using: gnutar xvzf IREX-Agent.NI.gt.z The final place of IREX-Agent may be /pub/next/submissions/Commercial but I'm not sure where ftp@informatik.uni-muenchen.de will put it in. DESCRIPTION: ============ Agent is a solution to support the real estate business. With Agent you can manage real estate objects/projects and prospective customers for them. Agent uses an international real estate classification with appropriate attributes for each class. The objective of Agent is to make the international trade of real estates via electronic data interchange possible. For further info contact: IREX Software AG Hochreit 7 D-83329 Waging am See Germany Phone: +49-8681-694-0 Fax: +49-8681-694-200 EMail: irex@irex.de (NeXTmail welcome) IREX Software AG,Waging am See, Germany, engineers, develops and markets the industries first truly standardized International Real Estate Exchange System Software. The object-oriented application Agent, helps the Real Estate Agent to get his day-to-day job done easier and more efficiently. Agent also enables the Real Estate Agents to build up local, global, national and international electronic Real Estate markets.
From: Jolly alias Patrick Stein Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: FastConsole / FastSokoban Date: 5 Jan 1995 15:53:01 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Distribution: world Message-ID: <3eh4kt$ec7@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> I just finished version 1.01 of FastConsole New Features : - RE-read - toggle autopopup FastSokoban I just recompiled on a Sparc. The two programs are NIHS-fat and available via (Y)-Ftp from: ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: /pub/comp/platforms/next/Tools/workspace/FastConsole.... ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: /pub/comp/platforms/next/Games/strategic/FastSokoban.... --- keep cool - jolly =================================================================== Jolly alias Patrick Stein jolly@cis.uni-muenchen.de office : USA (no longer availible ) DE (089) 211 06 70 fax : USA (no longer availible ) DE (089) 211 06 74 private: USA (no longer availible ) DE (089) 950 57 34 =================================================================== #include <stdio.h> main() {printf(&unix["\021%six\012\0"],(unix)["have"]+"fun"-0x60);} - d.korn ===================================================================
From: fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Tracer version 1.3 Date: 5 Jan 1995 16:46:58 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ehpci$6qt@digifix.digifix.com> I have placed a Tri-FAT version of Tracer at: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/graphics/Tracer-1.3.tar.gz This version contains a couple of bug fixes. Tracer is an auto trace program that can convert bitmaps into EPS or Adobe Illustrator files. Chris Osborn, Network Administrator Voice: 707 253 3130 Napa Valley College Fax: 707 253 3063 2277 Napa-Vallejo Hwy., Napa, CA, 94558 <fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us> MIME ok, NeXTMail tolerated
From: fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Mynah 0.8ay, a MIME mail reader Date: 5 Jan 1995 22:55:10 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3eieuu$940@digifix.digifix.com> I have placed Mynah 0.8ay at: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/mail/Mynah-0.8ay.tar.gz This version has many bug fixes over the last one. Be sure to get it and check it out if you reported bugs last time around. >From the README: Features: + IMAP + Receives uuencode, BinHex, NeXTMail, MIME, NewsGrazer + X-Face support + Filenames displayed below icons of attached files + Uses Workspace Addressbooks + Reformat/Quote/Insert Signature built in + Reformat/Quote/Insert Signature provided as Services to other apps + Full headers can be displayed + Headers to be hidden selectable by user + Threaded Mailboxes + Messages can be postponed + Any message from you can be resumed (handy for resending messages) + Date/Time in message list is in your local time zone + Messages marked for deletion NOT hidden + Uses mail spool, doesn't move to home directory + Bcc, Reply-To headers available within Compose window + Compose window title reflects Subject + SPACE and - keys page up/down message text + Uses Images/People without stupid passwd file + Strips local domain when looking for Images/People tiff + Icon to indicate a message has been replied to + Quote button built into Compose window + Quoted text can be reformatted (Format/Text/Reformat Selection) + Built in .signature editor + Listens on MailSendDemo port to allow other apps to send via Mynah Chris Osborn, Network Administrator Voice: 707 253 3130 Napa Valley College Fax: 707 253 3063 2277 Napa-Vallejo Hwy., Napa, CA, 94558 <fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us> MIME ok, NeXTMail tolerated
From: jolly@cis.uni-muenchen.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: JollysFax - finally a ZyXEL sendFax driver Date: 7 Jan 1995 14:05:45 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Distribution: world Message-ID: <3em73p$5q4@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> Jollys Fax Modem Package ( v.1.00 ) written by jolly@cis.uni-muenchen.de Jollys Fax Modem Driver supports sendFax capabilities for ZyXEL - modems on NeXTSTEP compatible computers. This Release is somewhat stable on Motorola. I don't have any idea if it runs on Intel, PA-Risc or Sparc based machines. After you've installed the package with Installer.app ( as root ), launch the PrintManager.app and install Jollys_Fax_Modem on the port your modem is conneced to. This software is Shareware - it's NOT FOR FREE ! It's on : ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: /pub/comp/platforms/next/Tools/fax/Jollys_Fax.. There are other programs out there you should check : For receiving faxes : ..../next/Communication/programs/am.. For net'ters : ..../next/Network/Apps/Yftp.. For developers : ..../next/Tools/workspace/FastConsole.. For fun : ..../next/Games/stratgic/FastSokoban.. --- bye - jolly =================================================================== Jolly alias Patrick Stein jolly@cis.uni-muenchen.de =================================================================== " Lacerations echo in the mouth's open erotic sky - where dance together the lost frenzies of rythm and an imploring im/mobility. " - g.jones ===================================================================
From: Alan Chung <alan@lighthouse.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Lighthouse Design seeks Project Lead Engineer Date: 7 Jan 1995 22:57:28 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ennr8$pik@digifix.digifix.com> 6 January 1995 Project Lead Engineer Sought Lighthouse Design is in search of a full time Project Lead Engineer to join our engineering team. The person filling this position will assume the responsibility for leading a small highly motivated team of NEXTSTEP engineers working on our spreadsheet products. Work can begin immediately. Lighthouse Design is the premier provider of productivity applications for NEXTSTEP and soon OpenStep. - Responsibilities - * Provide technical and team leadership * Manage project resources and schedules * Contribute to and lead the design and specification of our spreadsheet applications * Create implementation designs and schedules * Code, test, and debug * Guide projects to a successful finish * Ship high quality applications - Skills and Experience Required - * 3 or more years professional NEXTSTEP application development experience * 1 or more years project management experience * Development experience and knowledge of spreadsheets a big plus * User interface design skills and experience are desirable, but not required * B.S. in Computer Science or related areas. M.S. preferable - Benefits - * Opportunity to work in NEXTSTEP and OpenStep, state of the art object oriented environments * A chance to lead small, highly motivated teams, in a pleasant and collegial professional environment * Opportunity to shape the development of our spreadsheet products * Extensive exposure and involvement in the full product development cycle * Competitive compensation, including stock options * Comprehensive health coverage * Free food and, more importantly, free gourmet coffee - How to Apply - Resumes may be submitted in any of the following ways (listed in order of preference). The submission deadline is *February 3*. Please be sure to put "Resume for the Project Lead Engineer opening" on your cover sheet. Send e-mail to resume@lighthouse.com. NeXT Mail is best. MIME attachments are acceptable, too. Fax us at +1-415-570-7787. US Mail is fine too, but doesn't always get the quick response that electronic submissions do. Send mail to: Human Resources Lighthouse Design, Ltd. 2929 Campus Drive, Suite 250 San Mateo, CA 94403-2534 USA Note, if you have access to the web, we maintain the latest Lighthouse hiring information on our World Wide Web server at http://www.lighthouse.com/Recruiting.html - More Information about Lighthouse Design - If you wish to learn more about Lighthouse Design and our products, you can obtain more information via our web server at http://www.lighthouse.com/
From: stephan@rodion.muc.de (Stephan Wacker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Cribbage 1.1 Date: 7 Jan 1995 22:59:00 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ennu4$pit@digifix.digifix.com> Cribbage.app 1.1 by Stephan Wacker This is an implementation of the popular card game Cribbage. You play against the computer. The complete rules of the game are included in the online help. You can find the sources and a triple-fat binary in ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Games/card/Cribbage.1.1.s.tar.gz ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Games/card/Cribbage.1.1.NIH.b.tar.gz What's new in version 1.1? Not very much. :-) Info->FAQ menu. All TIFF images are LZW compressed. This saves 1.5MB of disk space! In some cards the number or letter of the rank in the lower right corner was flipped. This has been corrected. MAB for Motorola, Intel and HP/PA platforms. Special thanks to Brian Harrison <brie@brie.andrew.cmu.edu> for compiling the app triple-fat. Have fun Stephan
From: Roland Telfeyan <roland@telf.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: SEMiNUG Tuesday, January 10, 1994 Date: 9 Jan 1995 22:30:27 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3esv0j$7o8@digifix.digifix.com> What: Meeting of SEMiNUG (South Eastern Michigan NEXTSTEP Users' Group) Date: Tuesday, January 10, 1994 Time: 7:30 PM Where: 301 Lorch Hall 611 Tappan Street Ann Arbor, MI Lorch Hall is on the central campus of the University of Michigan, just south of South University, directly across the street from the Law Quad. If the door on Tappan is locked, enter the building through the South entrance, walk all the way in, turn to the left, take the elevator to the third floor, walk to the West end of the building. Refreshments provided of course. If you would like additional information, or if you have ideas for future meeting topics, contact one of: Timothy Mills mills_timothy@network.cfc.com phone: 810-948-4959 Roland Telfeyan roland@telf.com phone: 313-761-9590 Shan Bell bell_shan@network.cfc.com phone: 810-948-3199
From: David Peter <dpeter@xanthus.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: New OpenWrite (V1.01) now available via FTP Date: 10 Jan 1995 15:02:49 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3eup59$dnb@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information please contact: Xanthus USA David Peter Phone: +1-619-730-0370 Fax: +1-619-730-0373 Email: info@xanthus.com Xanthus International Jesper Lundh Phone: +46-8-635 30 62 Fax: +46-8-98 70 67 Email: info@xanthus.se NEW OPENWRITE (V1.01) NOW AVAILABLE VIA FTP San Diego, CA, January 9, 1995 -- Xanthus International today announced the availability of a new release of OpenWrite, the word processor for NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP. OpenWrite 1.01, which includes speed improvements, bug fixes and enhancements, is available via FTP on the internet at the following location: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/next/demos/editors/OpenWrite_1.01.tar.gz OpenWrite, which began shipping in November, 1994, is compiled tri-fat and will run on Motorola, Intel and HP PA-RISC hardware. OpenWrite has a retail price of $395 and is available direct from Xanthus or through authorized NEXTSTEP resellers. Information about quantity discounts, site-licenses and reduced prices for educational customers can be obtained by contacting Xanthus directly. ABOUT THE COMPANY Xanthus International AB, with offices in Stockholm, Sweden, and San Diego, California, is a privately owned software development company that specializes in productivity software for the NEXTSTEP platform. Xanthus is 49% owned by the Swedish networking company Upnet (Upnod Networks AB). Upnet is one of Sweden's most successful and expanding networking companies with offices located in Sweden and Norway. The Upnet Group includes 12 companies, has a total of 151 employees and expects sales in excess of $48 million this fiscal year. -End-
From: Matthew Moran <moran@opensource.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: OpenSource Offers Black Canon object.stations Date: 11 Jan 1995 14:32:29 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3f1bod$mas@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: OpenSource, Inc. 1776 Lincoln Street, Suite 1012 Denver, CO 80203 Toll Free: 1-800-TRY-OPEN Phone: 1-303-861-4411 Fax: 1-303-861-2393 E-mail: info@opensource.com OpenSource Offers Black Canon object.stations DENVER, COLORADO - 01/09/95. OpenSource, Inc. today announced the availability of Canon's "black" object.station 41. This eagerly-anticipated option is available to OpenSource customers at no additional charge. As one of the top value-added resellers of the NEXTSTEP-optimized Canon workstations, OpenSource offers the complete line of object.stations in either "white" or "black" including discounted systems for educational users. "The black object.stations look very classy," said Matthew Moran, President and CEO of OpenSource. "They look similar to the original NeXT hardware, so they integrate nicely with current NeXT installations." "A black object.station with a 21 inch monitor was a hit at IT Solutions' NeXT Day Chicago last October," added Dan Gamble, OpenSource Account Executive. "Some people didn't even notice it at first because it looks so much like a NeXT MACHINE. But once they did [notice it], it attracted quite a crowd." The Canon object.station 41 HAS BEEN engineered specifically for NEXTSTEP by the Advanced Technologies Operation of CANON COMPUTER SYSTEMS, INC. Everything you need is available pre-configured: NEXTSTEP, Insignia's SoftPC Demo, on-board SCSI and Ethernet, CD-quality audio, a microphone, speaker and an optional integrated CD-ROM player. In addition, there are four available expansion slots. It even has NeXT specific keycaps and keyboard controls for audio volume and monitor brightness. ### OpenSource, Inc. OpenSource is a single-source reseller of third-party applications and pre-configured hardware for the NEXTSTEP operating system. Dedicated to prompt service and quality support, OpenSource offers the most extensive line of NEXTSTEP related products in the industry. OpenSource is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. Canon Computer Systems Inc. Founded in 1992, Canon Computer Systems, Inc. is chartered to lead Canon's efforts in the U.S. computing market. The company develops and markets desktop and notebook PCs, WORKSTATIONS, scanners, and printers under the Canon brand name using its proven Bubble Jet, laser and other Canon technologies. Through its recently formed Advanced Technologies Operation (ATO), CCSI supplies personal workstation products for Fortune 1000 companies and supports user workgroups and enterprise computing requirements world-wide. CCSI is headquartered in Costa Mesa, California AND THE ATO is based in THE PORTLAND AREA OF Oregon.
From: powell@tropic.aoml.erl.gov (Mark Powell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Miami (FL) Area NEXTSTEP Users Group - January 19 Date: 11 Jan 1995 14:50:46 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3f1cqm$mf4@digifix.digifix.com> When: Thursday, January 19 4pm-6pm Where: 1st floor Seminar Room, NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, 4301 Rickenbacker Causeway Miami, Fl. Agenda: Demonstration of Canon Objectstation 41 Demo of NEXTIME, PencilMeIn Scheduler Trip to the 3rd floor to look at an HP 712 running NEXTSTEP The usual gossip and multi-conversation discussion Directions: The Rickenbacker Causeway ($1.00 toll) connects Miami with Key Biscayne. Access the causeway from: (If traveling from the North) I95 exit, or (if traveling from the south) take the fork to the right from US1 before it turns into I95 and follow the signs for the causeway. NOAA-AOML is accross the street (on the north side) from the U. of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences and just past the Miami Seaquarium. Look for a large 4 story concrete monolith of unusual architectural style (for a G'mt Bldg). The gate will be open. Find a parking spot and go up the stairs to the main entrance. The seminar room is just to the right after you enter the building. Info: Contact Mark Powell (305) 361-4403 powell@tropic.aoml.erl.gov or Marshall Gillula (305) 854-8005 mgilula@gate.net
From: Chris Huston <chuston@dudley.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Denver Meeting - Jan 18th 6pm Date: 12 Jan 1995 17:28:08 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3f4ado$2k7@digifix.digifix.com> For Immediate Release Leif Smith at Pattern Research (303) 778-0880, leif@pattern.rmnug.org Chris Huston at D.C. Dudley & Associates (303) 863-4485, chuston@dudley.com January 3, 1995 Postscript is a wonderful graphic file format, unless you want to edit a document. Commercial artists, service bureau designers, advertising agency art directors, printers and publishers who use Postscript can attend a free open house and learn about Tailor, a proven software package from FirstClass NV. Tailor is the first application that allows you to directly manipulate any graphic or text element in any Postscript document - regardless of it's origin! - be it from Quark Express, PageMaker, DOS, Macintosh, or UNIX. Peter Camps, head of FirstClass NV and creator of Tailor, has come from Drongen, Belgium to Denver on a business trip and has graciously agreed to personally demo this amazing software. Tailor is available on all supported NEXTSTEP platforms including Intel based PCs, Hewlett Packard workstations, SUN SPARC workstations, and NeXT hardware. The open house, presented by PIONS (People Interested in OpenStep / NEXTSTEP), will be held on Wednesday, January 18, 1995 from 6 pm to 9 pm, at D.C. Dudley and Associates, 1776 Lincoln, 9th Floor, in downtown Denver (Please call if you need directions.) Security personnel at the Sherman Street entrance can let you in after the building has been locked (usually at 6 pm). PIONS is an informal professional network of people interested in how to use the tools provided by NEXTSTEP. Free-form meetings are held once a month; bring your questions and ideas. #### NeXT, OpenStep, and NEXTSTEP are trademarks or registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: Thomas Engel <tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: UNIX-HatersTool 0.11. Fixes Intel bug in the MiscShell. Date: 13 Jan 1995 00:59:18 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3f54rm$68n@digifix.digifix.com> Release 0.11, 9.1.1994 by Thomas Engel (tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org) Submitted to: ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Tools/frontends ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/util/ The UNIX-Haters Tool ATTENTION..you need gnutar and gzip to unpack this package. With this tool you might be able to keep your hands from the Terminal application for another bunch of ever returning tasks. It was inspired by Simson Garfinkels new book called the UNIX-HATERS Handbook (IDG Book), the great MiscShell object from Steve Hayman and the TabMatrix palette from Bill Edney, Mark R. Onyschuk and Sean Hill. The functionality is kind of limited but still I find it very useful every day. It was designed to ease my work. So it might need some customization fit your needs. What it does Once you have started this application you should go straight to Paradise. In that window you can use the Tabmatrix to select the tool you need. Currently there is no easy way to extend the application. Still it is very simple to open the NIB inside InterfaceBuilder and add some more shell-tools. More on customization can be found below. The Package Version 0.11 comes in a package that includes: - UNIX-HatersTool.app. A FAT binary for NeXT and Intel hardware - Online Help...minimal - Full Sourcecode - A beta version of the MiscSwapKit palette. You need it to be able to open the main NIB. Don't use it otherwise, unless you don't care if the final version is incompatible ! - A newer version of Steve Haymans MiscShell.m file to fix an archiving bug that is inside the MiscKit up to version 1.3.0 and caused Intel trouble! - This Documentation and a ASCII version (README) of this Introduction On where to find the latest releases please see the 'About this Project' section. Features Currently there are only very simple things this application will do for you. After all it was just created by drag&drop inside InterfaceBuilder. And that within a very short period of time (3 days). The single tools will give you easy access to some features of: ps, kill, df, uucico, uustat, pppup, pppdown, newsrun, sendbatches ...plus showing some log files The uucico and ppp section will need some changes to meet your private needs (like the name of the site to poll etc. pp). I know that there might be a nicer ways to customize that whole application but it was mainly written for private use. Sorry about that. Ask your local guru if you can't put it the way you need it...or drop me a mail. Some features require that you are either root or the application is setuid to root. Always keep in mind that this is just a frontend to UNIX. It won't make UNIX any nicer. Future plans Here are the most wanted improvements form my ToDo-list. More can be found in the online help. - Loading the tools from bundles. Well quite easy but it needs some time until the MiscFile stuff is solid. - More tools...like truncating all those system logs. - Make it smaller. I don't really know why the application is so big. All I do is link some libraries into a no-brainer application. I guess there is a lot of useless code in there. Future versions should either have bundles or be smaller. About this Project I will try to keep improvements rolling in, but don't expect new versions to come out every month. There are other projects I want to spend more time with then this one. The latest version of this server will be available at the ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de or ftp.cs.orst.edu anonymous ftp servers. Soon there will be a WWW page were you can find out more about the status of this...and all the other projects I'm working on. It will be under the projects section of: http://wwwcip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/user/tsengel/ Compiling This version includes all the source code necessary to recompile the program from scratch. It does not come with all the libraries! You will need to get the MiscKit project (Version 1.2.8 or higher) and the TabMatrixPalette from the archives. The MiscKit will provide you the MiscShell and MiscDragViews palettes that are required ± besides the TabMatrix ± to open the main NIB file. MiscKit 1.3.0 comes with a buggy version of the MiscShell. Use the MiscShell.m file that comes with this distribution. For more details on the MiscKit collection see the common NeXT ftp servers or get the Objective-C or NeXT FAQs. If you would like to submit something to this collection you should contact: Don Yacktman <don@darth.byu.edu> Don't use the MiscSwapKit.palette provided with this application. It is a beta hack an might change until in makes it into the final version. Don't blame me if it might be incompatible. In Case of Trouble If you have any questions you can contact me. Thomas Engel Netpunstr. 9 D-90522 Oberasbach Germany E-mail: tsengel@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org (NeXTMail welcome) Warranty and copyright Copyleft Source code that is not part of the MiscKit project - and therefore underlies the MiscKit distribution and copyright rules - is distributed under the GNUpublic license. You are free to extend and modify this application. But don't redistribute a modified version under the same name unless I gave you the permission. I don't want to have different, confusingly incompatible versions running around the world. Anyway..it is highly recommended that you customize the application according to your needs. No Warranty This software is provided 'as is' and the programmer is not responsible for any harm this program may cause. You - the user - are responsible for everything that may happen to your business, hardware, software, car, CD collection or what ever may be worth your attention or money. The use of this product is at your own risk and your private fun. There should be no serious bugs inside but remember that a carbon-based unit did the coding. TravelWare Like all my projects this app is free and should be considered as travel-ware. - Let it travel to as many people you know. - Send me a postcard or E-mail if you use it. I will try to keep you informed about new releases. - If you have a free bed or some free space on your floor¼ give me a hint. I might come and visit you on my trip to the US (locations on Hawaii, near Seattle or WhistlerMnt.(Canada) preferred) Enjoy it. Tomi
From: Thomas Engel <tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: BeakerBoy 0.31. Triple FAT, simple PDB Filter...and more Date: 13 Jan 1995 00:59:40 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3f54sc$68u@digifix.digifix.com> Release 0.31, 7.1.1995 by Thomas Engel (tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org) Submitted to: ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next/Science/Chemistry/ ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Science/chemistry/ ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/science/ The BeakerBoy Application ATTENTION..you need gnutar and gzip to unpack this package. This nice guy is trying to provide a basic framework for chemical vizualization. It serves as the center of a possible collection of many different chemistry tools that should be able to cooperate accross a network and different hardware platforms. As a main goal I want to create a flexible app design that is very simple to extend via additional bundles and able to interoperate with other applications or the SCITools project from the EMBL-Heidelberg. The current Release Version 0.31 still has to be considered as an alpha version that is under development and might change a lot. To get a little impression of the things I have in mind for the releases yet to come read the second chapter of this documentation. I would like to get any kind of feedback from other programmers or chemist to make this app more intuitive, flexible and maybe find some better solutions. All you can do with the current version is: 1. Load some sample molecules. 2. Create new regions by grouping either atoms or bonds. 3. Use the Inspector to adjust the graphical parameters (color, styles, etc.). 4. Doubleclick any collection of selected regions to show them. 5. Rotate the molecules using the RotatorPanel or the 3DDeviceServer. 6. Print the views. Every view you see will be drawn using the settings valid at the moment of creation! Later changes won't affect any already visible view. Right now you might consider this as a feature because you might open the same region with as many different settings as you like. But this definitly will change in the future. The Package This release come with the following resources. They are split in seperate packages to give you the freedom of only downloading the parts you are interested in. - BeakerBoy.app & Documentation. The BeakerBoy.0.31.NIH.bd.tar.gz archive contains a plug'n'play binary for NeXT, Intel and HP PA-RISC hardware that was compiled under NeXTSTEP 3.2. It also includes the documentation. - Source. In BeakerBoy.0.31.s.tar.gz you can find the complete source code for this project. More details on compiling are included below. - LookMolecules. If you want an example molecule collection get the M-1 since BeakerBoy v0.2 still unchangedM-1 BeakerBoy-LookMolecules.0.1.d.tar.gz archive. This package has its seperate version number. The latest release should be available in the /Science/Chemistry area of the following NeXT ftp servers: ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de ftp.cs.orst.edu You might also check out the projects section of my WWW homepage. It can be found at: http://wwwcip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/user/tsengel/ All it does This is a quick summary of the features this version offers. A complete history of all the versions, their features and the currently known bugs can be found inside the Release Notes. v0.31 - Better 3DDeviceServer support. - A basic PDB filefilter. - Compiles on NSfHP just fine...and soon maybe even on NSfSPARC. v0.3 - 3DDeviceServer support for using 3D mouse devices. - More filefilters (Look3D, Alchemy, MacMolecule, MVT) - Uses the IconKit for drag&drop. - Allows simple grouping which will creat regions. - Few preferences (background color, and 3DMouse on/off). - Uses different render settings for rotation and displaying. - Printing the views. v0.2 - Load multiple molecules (Look3D format) and show them with multiple camera views using different styles. The coordinate system is left-handed (x to the right, y upwards and z into the screen. The camera is positioned on the negative z axis). I'm not sure if this is the common orientation ? If not, please give me a hint. - Rotate molecules. - Set different molecule styles and rendering qualities. (Hollow Sticks, Round Sticks, Balls & Sticks, Spacefilling CPK) - Show a nice interface with no function at all...hold on for a while to see a lot of thing get implemented and improved. Bright Future Here is a rough overview of my privat timetable for this project. Given the fact that I'm a student it might be possible to make it a non-vapour project :-) But after all. Time passes on...deadlines slip...nobody cares. More details can be found in the next chapter: ('95) - Load, save, new, ... basic stuff. - More and better fileFilters. (PDB high on the list) - Helppages. - Using Bundles. - Simple stereo-camera. - Molecule construction from basic fragments. (atoms, bonds, molecules) - A simple German localization. ('96) - Tools executable on remote machines via PDO: HP, Sun, SGI, DEC servers? - StructureBoy...a 2D chemistry drawing tool. - Nice clipping planes. Other drawing styles. - Protein building tool. - Energy optimization. ('99) - Direct brain-slot adaptor and other simple extentions. - ...include here what you like. It might get real. More Details I am trying to make it as NeXTSTEP' ish as possible. Full Drag&Drop, Object Links etc. will definitly be added someday. There will be APIs for any kind of loadable bundle or service link. DOs will find their way into this project too. It is almost ideal for creating server based number crunching analysis tools. And once the SCITools project gets going I will try to make BeakerBoy compatible or what ever might be necessary to allow easy coexistance. As said before. This app wants to provide a well defined API, reusable objects and a flexible concept. It is not designed to squeeze the last bit out of memory or CPU performance. The basic idea is to provide useful working speed with almost any molecule size on any hardware. This will need a wide variety of QRenderMan settings. For really impressive pictures I might add some kind of link to solidModeller, intuitiv3D, etc. (some basic shading stuff will be included in BeakerBoy too). Feel free to send comments on the app, interface, molecule files or what ever. But please just send messages with useable information...not something like: "I hate it"...please say why you hate it ;o) If you are interested in chemistry on NeXTSTEP checkout MolViewer by Steve Ludtke. Not as pretty as my app :-) but a lot more useful (at the moment). Georg Tuparev from the EMBL-Heidelberg is writing a frontend to MolScript, porting WHATIF and working on the SCITools. Maybe those projects are interesting to you too. Compiling Sorry, you will need the latest versions of the IconKit and MiscKit to compile the app. Some objects which have been included in v0.3 moved to the MiscKit and are no longer present in this project. If you are interested in programming you should get those libraries anyway. There are many good, reusable objects in there. What is the 3DDeviceServer To allow the user to rotate and move a molecule BeakerBoy uses the 3DDeviceServer.app. It is a DO based server app that does control the access to any kind of 3D hardware..as long as there is a driver for it. It is also available at all the major NeXTSTEP ftp-sites listed above. In Case of Trouble If you have any questions you might contact me. Thomas Engel Netpunstr. 9 D-90522 Oberasbach Germany E-mail: tsengel@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org (NeXTMail welcome) Warranty and copyright Copyleft Source code that is not part of the MiscKit project - and therefore underlies the MiscKit distribution and copyright rules - is distributed under the GNUpublic license. No Warranty This software is provided 'as is' and the programmer is not responsible for any harm this program may cause. You - the user - are responsible for everything that may happen to your business, hardware, software, car, CD collection or what ever may be worth your attention or money. The use of this product is at your own risk and your private fun. There should be no serious bugs inside but remember that a carbon-based unit did the coding. TravelWare Like all my projects this app is free and should be considered as travel-ware. 1. Let it travel to as many people you know. 2. Send me a postcard or E-mail if you use it. I will try to keep you informed about new releases. 3. If you have a free bed or some free space on your floorM-< give me a hint. I might come and visit you on my trip to the US (locations on Hawaii, near Seattle or WhistlerMnt. (Canada) preferred) Credits - The guys at NeXT for this amazing OS + development tools. This was my first NeXTSTEP/Obj-C application and the code was written within 76 days (see the Release Notes). I would have never believed that this was possible. And it was fun too. - Steve Ludtke for the 3DKit code inside MolViewer that gave me a quick start. Although I don't find his code very readable...but it works. - Greg Burd's swapView saved me a lot of time and helped me with all the swapping. But it needed a complete rewrite to meet the apps needs. - Mike Ferris for the MOKit. Very nice and useful objects for everybody. His String object helped me to get going. But now it merged with the MiscKit and so I'm not using his good kit anymore - H. Scott Roy for the IconKit. A very well designed object collection for the basic drag&drop stuff. You can find it on every NeXTSTEP ftp site. - Georg Tuparev for providing access to NeXTSTEP for HP, at the EMBL-Heidelberg. - Everybody writing nice objects like the guys from the MiscKit (Don don't get tired of keeping it all together. Misc is cool) - My brother for all the nice images and chemistry background info I might not remember in detail anymore. Enjoy it. Tomi
From: Nick Christopher <nwc@ny.shl.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Gotham Users of NeXT - January 23 Date: 12 Jan 1995 14:51:17 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3f417l$1l6@digifix.digifix.com> GOTHAM USERS OF NeXT Monday, January 23th I. Q&A - 18:30 Questions. Answers. News. II. What's new at NeXT...Foundation? OpenStep? EOF? We will attempt to cover both technical and marketing issues related to these new products. Specific topics to be discussed are the perceived marketing message on theses products, the target platforms, and brief technical reviews of each. Also, what does NeXT have up its sleeve in addition to these technologies? III. Close of Meeting The continued call to arms! GUN needs people interested in the NEXTSTEP community in the NYC area to participate, and in particular join GUN's board of directors! Anyone interested in an active role is invited to stay after the discussion, attend the board meeting and see what role they could play! Without new blood GUN will close down! Publication Directions 220 East 23rd Street, Suite 503 212-213-6500 Questions to GUN at 718-260-9848 or info@gun.com
From: sbeck@julia.otc.lsu.edu (Stephen David Beck) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Csnd.app v1.5 for NEXTSTEP Date: 12 Jan 1995 14:53:35 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3f41bv$1lq@digifix.digifix.com> SUBMISSION - Csnd.app v1.5beta Csnd.app v1.5 is a graphic interface to Csound for NEXTSTEP computers. It comes bundled with a compiled binary for black hardware only. There is a compiled binary for intel hardware available from ftp.cs.orst.edu. This is an upgrade to the previously released version of Csnd.app, and contains a few new features: * Support of AIFF formated soundfiles (playback, file management, and analysis functions all supported) * Improved Preferences panel with support for midifile editors (it does not contain an editor, but will call one with a double-click) support for panel-based directory searches, and improved interface * Writes score.srt to /tmp * MAB application for use on Intel and Black hardware Csnd.app was developed under NS 3.2 and requires 3.2 to run. This is strictly a beta version. While most new components have been tested, my students are still on break and haven't had their licks at it. If you find any bugs, please let me know, and I'll fix it. Csnd.app is available by anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.orst.edu. Please read the README file for instructions. The compiled binary for intel is available from: ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/sound/Csnd.app.v1.5.beta.tar.gz Stephen David Beck School of Music Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803-2504 sbeck@math.lsu.edu
From: Nicolas Droux <droux@info.isbiel.ch> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: NEXTSTEP Transputer Driver 2.0 Date: 12 Jan 1995 14:53:51 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3f41cf$1m1@digifix.digifix.com> Nicolas Droux Engineering School of Biel-Bienne Computer Science Dpt Rue de la Source 21 CH-2501 Biel-Bienne Switzerland +41 266 314 phone +41 266 523 fax droux@info.isbiel.ch A new version (2.0) of the EIB-ISB NEXTSTEP driver for Transputer based parallel computers is now available: http://www.info.isbiel.ch/droux/nxtrans/ It allows B004 compatible Transputer systems to be used from NEXTSTEP running on Intel based computers. It has been tested with the INMOS D7205 occam toolkit and the PACT Parallel C v93.1 compiler. The distribution includes: - The driver (B004.config) - A NEXTSTEP version of the INMOS iserver - A NEXTSTEP version of the PACT pserver and pcc These three components are delivered pre-compiled and have been tested under NEXTSTEP version 3.2 and 3.3. Changes since version 1.0: - Rewritten from scratch as a DriverKit driver - Provides a UNIX-like interface (/dev/b004) - Does not require a daemon to be installed anymore - Checks for the availability of the card during startup - Faster - Borrows nearly no CPU time
From: skyway@netcom.com (Skyway) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXTSTEP Application Developers Date: 13 Jan 1995 14:29:35 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3f6kav$abk@digifix.digifix.com> Skyway Freight Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Union Pacific, is a leading logistics company creating innovative partnerships with our customers through a full array of inventory services, EDI capabilities and customized business solutions. In order to continue performing at higher standards than most, Skyway's NeXTSTEP Development Team insures the continuous high quality systems available to internal and external customers. Skyway presently has openings for NeXTSTEP Application Developers. We require 3-5 years of programming experience using C, C++, Objective-C, NeXTSTEP, analysis and design experience. Experience in OOA, OOD, and/or OOP highly desirable. Candidates must demonstrate the ability to work in joint development efforts with end users. We offer an excellent salary and comprehensive benefits including medical, dental and vision insurance. Please send your resume to: Skyway Freight Systems, Inc. Attn: Employment Department P.O. Box 1810 Santa Cruz, CA. 96061-1810 or FAX to: (408) 724-9549 or e-mail (ascii) to carol@skyway.com
From: kim@sugarbowl.pdh.com (Kim Ortiz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Software Design Engineer Opening, San Jose Date: 16 Jan 1995 15:31:26 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3fel2u$32j@digifix.digifix.com> Company: PDH, Inc. Position: NeXTStep Software Design Engineer Hiring: January 1995 Location: San Jose, California (near the San Jose Airport) Qualifications: Junior Design Engineer: preferrably 1 year NeXTStep development experience Required: **** US CITIZENSHIP **** BS in Computer Science or related field Willingness to travel within USA Desired: Familiarity with EOF, DBKit, AccessKit, Sybase 10, Oracle 7 Experience in the following: Independent design and development Database design and development GUI design and development Object Oriented Methodology, OOD and OOP UNIX NeXTStep Objective-C, C++, SmallTalk 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 develop custom mission critical applications for customers. Current projects include: system engineering for a 3000+ workstation enterprise environment, a document management system, a specialized work-flow and information tracking system, an electronic signature system, and a program to access relational data bases for tracking information. This is an excellent opportunity to be immediately challenged, where the quality of the company is matched by the quality of the staff. PDH provides excellent vacation, health, 401K and disability benefits. The work attire is casual, hours are flexible, and sponsored refreshments. 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: dylan@wbfa.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Warner Bros. Seeks CGI Programmers Date: 17 Jan 1995 17:17:39 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3fhfm3$7m1@digifix.digifix.com> WARNER BROS. FEATURE ANIMATION is seeking engineers to work in the CGI department of our new, state-of-the-art studio. These engineers will be responsible for designing and implementing the tools to enable the smooth day-to-day operation of the CGI department; integrating CGI software with the rest of the production system, developing custom 3d production software, and marrying third-party and custom software. Secondarily, your task would be to enable cutting-edge visual techniques not available in third-party software.
From: dylan@wbfa.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Warner Bros. Seeks Systems Programmers (Pencil Test) Date: 17 Jan 1995 17:17:54 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3fhfmi$7m8@digifix.digifix.com>
From: cmcgrail@NeXT.COM (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT Computer: Consulting Engineers - Object Experts Date: 17 Jan 1995 22:43:37 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3fi2p9$9cb@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. is currently searching for several Consulting Engineers for the Object Expert group. The position described below represents several positions located at customer site locations within the U.S. and Europe. If you are interested please call Scott Abel, Manager, Object Expert Engineering, at 512-338-1924, or fax your resume. If you know of persons who may fit this profile, please tell them about this position. We would be interested in hearing from interested parties. Contact Information: E-Mail: "oe_staffing@next.com" Fax: 415-780-4554 ************************************************************************ NeXT Inc. is searching for several talented, multi-disciplined Consulting Engineers to join our newly formed Object Expert Engineering group. This team will work closely with NeXT's strategic customers to ensure the success of their NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP application development projects. You must have a 3+ years of NEXTSTEP development expertise, strong background in relational database technology, and experience with distributed computing architectures. These positions also require a strong customer management and expectation setting expertise, not to mention a solid understanding of project management and the software development process. Positions are available now in major metro areas in the US and Europe. If you want to get in on the ground floor of a group that is going to have a pivotal impact on NeXT's success and help bring object technology to a broader business market, send your confidential resume and salary history to oe_staffing@next.com or call Scott Abel at 512-338-1924. NeXT is an equal opportunity employer. ************************************************************************ NeXT Computer, Inc. develops and markets NEXTSTEP, the award winning object-oriented operating system software. NEXTSTEP is used by Fortune 1000 corporations and government organizations to revolutionize the development and deployment of mission critical business applications. NEXTSTEP's business value is in simplifying and speeding the process of developing complex client/server software by providing the industry's first object-oriented framework for distributed computing. In its third release, NEXTSTEP runs on hundreds of industry standard Intel-based PCs and Hewlett-Packard's PA-RISC workstations. It will soon run native on Sun's SPARC workstations. It also will be integrated, through OpenStep, into SunSoft's Solaris and Digital's OSF/1 system software. NeXT's newest product is Enterprise Objects Framework, a database-independent technology for building business objects and storing them in industry-standard relational databases. NeXT's mission is to continue to lead the object revolution and be the leading supplier of object technology in the corporate market. NeXT plans to achieve this goal by offering corporate customers a five- to ten-fold advantage in the development and deployment of custom client/server applications, and by partnering with industry leaders such as Sun, Hewlett-Packard and Digital to become the industry's standard for object-oriented computing. ***** Contact Information: E-Mail: "resumes@next.com" Fax: 415-780-4554 Direct Mail: Staffing Manager NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
From: Thomas Engel <tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: ClassEditor v0.1. A better way to handle class documentation ? Tell me. Date: 18 Jan 1995 01:36:24 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3fict8$agc@digifix.digifix.com> Release 0.1, 17.1.1995 by Thomas Engel (tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org) Submitted to: ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Developer/apps/ClassEditor.0.1.NI.bsd.tar.gz ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/programming/ClassEditor.0.1.NI.bsd.tar.gz The ClassEditor ATTENTION..you need gnutar and gzip to unpack this package. This editor allows you to modify class definitions on a per-method basis. In additon to offering a class browser it will make it very simple to keep the documentation in sync with your code. Both elements are shown side by side. The ideal situation would be to maintain a documentation file from the first moment since creating a new class or method. Currently you should use CM.app (ClassMaker by Mike Barthelemy) to generate the documentation templates. ClassEditor is not able to create the temples for you in this release. But it does help you to stick to NeXTs layout by offering a style menu In the worst case you should think about this project as a RFD (request for discussion). Let's start a news thread on what you expect from advanced development tools. Maybe someone at NeXT might find new ideas for NeXTSTEP 4.0 in there. What it does This editor opens a set of MyClass.m, MyClass.h and MyClass.rtf files and displays them. You can edit and view them on a by-method basis or all three at once inside the "cheat window". Modifying existing classes that are not spread accross more then those three files is quite safe. Adding methods is possible from inside the "cheat window" but introduces more work and some rough edges. See the bugs section for details. The Package Version 0.1 comes in a package that includes: - ClassEditor.app. A FAT binary for NeXT and Intel hardware - An Examples directory containing working test setups of interface, implementation and documentation for a class. - Online Help...minimal. - Full Sourcecode. - This Documentation and an ASCII version (README) of this Introduction. On where to find the latest releases please see the 'About this Project' section. Features Currently there are only very simple things this application will do for you. Now this is just an early alpha version but...anyway...don't expect it to do magic things anytime soon. - Select methods and view or edit the description and implementation. - Use the style menu to get fast access to the right fonts for the nasty documentation work. - Select the "Plain C-Stuff" entry from the mode popup and view (or edit) all three files inside one window (the "cheat window"). Add defines, instance variables or new methods here. Some features will definitly be improved to help me get along with all those missing class docus (yes...MiscSwapKit is already waiting for too long). Bugs and Birds It is not fair to speak about them in a little sub paragraph. There are so many of them that it would justify a whole chapter. This app is a piece of brain stroming...a running ToDo list...not a product. Peter L. would call it another piece of German software: nice idea but quite close to absolutely useless. Well he is kind of right. More details on that can be found below. Now lets face the main problems of this app. Attention: If you have done some changes to the Implementation or Documentation section inside the "cheat window" you must save the changes and reparse the methods (cmd-u). Otherwise you will most likely corrupt your files ! - Many user interface controls are just fakes ! The split view might cause your window to turn into an ugly piece of GUI when used to their limits. - You can't load category file definitions, sources or documentation with the main class. Only single sets of .m,.h and .rtf files that are located inside one directory! - Can't deal with RTFD text files. - Even worse. The .m file must be a RTF source document ! And the .h part must be plain ASCII text. Stupid. Isn't it. (Programmers should be able to switch that to ASCII only within minutes...but I prefer RTF right now...but this might change) - You must follow a very strict coding style. Otherwise ClassEditor won't be able to parse your code. (See the Examples for working layouts) - The cheat window is not always in sync with the main window. But it should most of the time (see above). - Preferences won't work or get saved etc. pp. What it should Of corse this should become the killer application of the nineties. But I am lazy and I do believe in code reuse. The guys at NeXT have already done all the nasty work. So I only want to build a minimal tool to fill the gap until NeXTSTEP 4.0 arrives. Perhaps this app will only lead to a font service application. Who knows. (btw. too many people use the wrong font for source code inside the docus..it is Courier 12pt...not 14pt) Future plans My plans are to enjoy NeXTs new ProjectBuilder that will come with NeXTSTEP 4.0. But only if it comes close to the ClassEditors idea. As far as I can tell from all the published material, I'm not sure that it will really cover all the fruits of desire. So lets see what we are really missing today: - Good Emacs keybinding support in ClassEditor. Should be fixed with one of those public EmacsText objects in the future. - A combination of a class browser with the freedom to write ugly and nasty C-style code. - Being able to create classes from scratch. With all the nice things (protocols, categories, protected & private methods etc. pp). - Support for CVS. Should be quite simple to add check-in/out stuff. - Maintaining a revision history. This could really go hand in hand with the CVS support. - Have default directories for header, source and documentation files. Like HeaderViewer knows where to search for all the stuff. And now lets see what we still might be missing in future: - Tracking bugs with the code and documentation. - System support for "See also:" references. Perhaps HeaderViewer could be smarter and create link buttons infront of all those entries ? - The special categories called (private) and (protected) might be used in the headerfiles and other sections by default. Every category should follow the ClassName_categoryName.h (.m or even .rtf) convention. The editor should create those files for you if you don't want to organize it in your private style. - The editor should be able to dump templates for get/set'er methods and other ever returning tasks. - Grouping methods and adding descriptions to instance variables. - Being sure that classes inside NIB are always up to date with the code. I hate to have to remember all those dependencies. It is true that many things can be done right now...but you have do them by hand. There is no real support from the tools. It is time to change that. About this Project I don't see the need to rush for a much better version of this app until it is clear what NeXT will include with their NeXTSTEP 4.0 release. There are other projects I want to spend more time with then this one. The latest version of this editor will be available at the ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de, ftp.cs.orst.edu or ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de anonymous ftp servers. Soon there will be a WWW page were you can find out more about the status of this...and all the other projects I'm working on. It will be under the projects section of: http://wwwcip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/user/tsengel/ Compiling This version includes all the source code necessary to recompile the program from scratch. It does not come with all the libraries! You will need to get the MiscKit project (Version 1.2.8 or higher) from the archives. For more details on the MiscKit collection see the common NeXT ftp servers or get the Objective-C or NeXT FAQs. If you would like to submit something to this collection you should contact: Don Yacktman <don@darth.byu.edu> In Case of Trouble If you have any questions you can contact me. Thomas Engel Netpunstr. 9 D-90522 Oberasbach Germany E-mail: tsengel@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org (NeXTMail welcome) Warranty and copyright Copyleft Source code that is not part of the MiscKit project - and therefore underlies the MiscKit distribution and copyright rules - is distributed under the GNUpublic license. You are free to extend and modify this application. But don't redistribute a modified version under the same name unless I gave you the permission. I don't want to have different, confusingly incompatible versions running around the world. Anyway...comments are highly appreciated. Take this app as a request for discussion. No Warranty This software is provided 'as is' and the programmer is not responsible for any harm this program may cause. You - the user - are responsible for everything that may happen to your business, hardware, software, car, CD collection or what ever may be worth your attention or money. The use of this product is at your own risk and your private fun. There should be no serious bugs inside but remember that a carbon-based unit did the coding. TravelWare Like all my projects this app is free and should be considered as travel-ware. 1. Let it travel to as many people you know. 2. Send me a postcard or E-mail if you use it. I will try to keep you informed about new releases. 3. If you have a free bed or some free space on your floorM-< give me a hint. I might come and visit you on my trip to the US (locations on Hawaii, near Seattle or WhistlerMnt. (Canada) preferred) Enjoy it. Tomi
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From: dylan@wbfa.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Warner Bros. Seeks Systems Programmers (Editorial) Date: 18 Jan 1995 23:08:54 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3fkokm$ihq@digifix.digifix.com> JOB: Warner Bros. Seeks Systems Programmers (Editorial) WARNER BROS. FEATURE ANIMATION is seeking experienced software engineers to assist in the design and construction of the software systems used by our Editorial department. These engineers will be reponsible for integrating this system with the rest of the production systems used in Warner Brothers' state-of-the-art new animation studio. Requirements/Knowledge/Skills (in order of priority): * Thorough knowledge and experience in UNIX * Object-oriented design * Objective-C/C++/C programming languages * Knowledge and programming experience in Mac OS * Macintosh and HP workstations * NEXTSTEP programming * Familiarity with AVID editorial systems * Ability to work with and write specifications for outside vendors Please submit resume to: Warner Bros. Feature Animation (ED) 15303 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 500 Sherman Oaks CA 91403 attn: Mary Alice Drumm or via email (ASCII, RTF, or Postscript only, please): dylan@wbfa.com Warner Brothers is an equal-opportunity employer.
From: dylan@wbfa.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Warner Bros. Seeks Systems Programmers (Pencil Test) Date: 18 Jan 1995 23:09:24 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3fkolk$ii1@digifix.digifix.com> JOB: Warner Bros. Seeks Systems Programmers (Pencil Test) WARNER BROS. FEATURE ANIMATION is seeking a systems programmers interested and experienced in the field of graphics. These engineers will be responsible for the evaluation and development of pencil test systems to be used for previewing traditional rough animation tests (a.k.a. pencil tests). Substantial design and programming expertise is required. Warner Brothers animators will use the system in production of animated feature-length films in our new state-of-the-art film studio. Thus, engineers are also required to train, support, and obtain feedback from the production staff. Requirements/Knowledge/Skills (in order of priority): * Thorough knowledge and experience in UNIX * Object-oriented design * Objective-C/C++/C programming languages * Knowledge and programming experience in Mac OS * Macintosh and HP workstations * NEXTSTEP programming * Familiarity with existing pencil test systems * Ability to work with and write specifications for outside vendors Please submit resume to: Warner Bros. Feature Animation (PT) 15303 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 500 Sherman Oaks CA 91403 attn: Mary Alice Drumm or via email (ASCII, RTF, or Postscript only, please): dylan@wbfa.com Warner Brothers is an equal-opportunity employer.
From: dylan@wbfa.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Warner Bros. Seeks Systems Programmers (Pencil Test) Date: 18 Jan 1995 23:09:27 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3fkoln$ii8@digifix.digifix.com> JOB: Warner Bros. Seeks Systems Programmers (Pencil Test) WARNER BROS. FEATURE ANIMATION is seeking a systems programmers interested and experienced in the field of graphics. These engineers will be responsible for the evaluation and development of pencil test systems to be used for previewing traditional rough animation tests (a.k.a. pencil tests). Substantial design and programming expertise is required. Warner Brothers animators will use the system in production of animated feature-length films in our new state-of-the-art film studio. Thus, engineers are also required to train, support, and obtain feedback from the production staff. Requirements/Knowledge/Skills (in order of priority): * Thorough knowledge and experience in UNIX * Object-oriented design * Objective-C/C++/C programming languages * Knowledge and programming experience in Mac OS * Macintosh and HP workstations * NEXTSTEP programming * Familiarity with existing pencil test systems * Ability to work with and write specifications for outside vendors Please submit resume to: Warner Bros. Feature Animation (PT) 15303 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 500 Sherman Oaks CA 91403 attn: Mary Alice Drumm or via email (ASCII, RTF, or Postscript only, please): dylan@wbfa.com Warner Brothers is an equal-opportunity employer.
From: dylan@wbfa.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Warner Bros. Seeks Systems Programmers (Production Management) Date: 18 Jan 1995 23:09:52 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3fkomg$iij@digifix.digifix.com> JOB: Warner Bros. Seeks Systems Programmers (Production Management) WARNER BROS. FEATURE ANIMATION is seeking experienced software engineers to design and construct the software systems used for production management. These tools will bind, coordinate and schedule the rest of the production systems used in Warner Brothers' state-of-the-art new animation studio. Requirements/Knowledge/Skills (in order of priority): * Thorough knowledge and experience in UNIX * Object-oriented design * Objective-C/C++/C programming languages * Knowledge and programming experience in Mac OS * Macintosh and HP workstations * NEXTSTEP programming * Distributed systems * Ability to work with and write specifications for outside vendors Please submit resume to: Warner Bros. Feature Animation (PM) 15303 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 500 Sherman Oaks CA 91403 attn: Mary Alice Drumm or via email (ASCII, RTF, or Postscript only, please): dylan@wbfa.com Warner Brothers is an equal-opportunity employer.
From: dylan@wbfa.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Warner Bros. Seeks Systems Programmers (2D / 3D) Date: 18 Jan 1995 23:10:26 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3fkoni$iis@digifix.digifix.com> JOB: Warner Bros. Seeks Systems Programmers (2D / 3D) WARNER BROS. FEATURE ANIMATION is seeking systems programmers with experience in 2D and 3D graphics. These engineers will be primarily responsible for the development of the systems used to combine two-dimensional and three-dimensional artwork in the production of animated feature-length films in our new state-of-the-art film studio. Requirements/Knowledge/Skills (in order of priority): * Thorough knowledge and experience in UNIX * Object-oriented design * Objective-C/C++/C programming languages * Thorough grounding in 2D and 3D geometry and transformations * Open GL / Iris GL / ViewKit / Inventor * NEXTSTEP programming * SGI workstations * Ability to work with and write specifications for outside vendors Please submit resume to: Warner Bros. Feature Animation (23) 15303 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 500 Sherman Oaks CA 91403 attn: Mary Alice Drumm or via email (ASCII, RTF, or Postscript only, please): dylan@wbfa.com Warner Brothers is an equal-opportunity employer.
From: cmcgrail@NeXT.COM (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: Compiler and Runtime Engineer Date: 18 Jan 1995 15:37:00 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3fju5c$fic@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to 415-780-4554. ***************************************************************** Position: Compiler and Runtime Engineer Department: Development Environment Primary responsibilities: Design, development and maintenance of the Objective C, C, and C++ compilers and runtime systems. Specific Responsibilities: o maintenance and bug fixing for gcc and the Objective C runtime o coordinating changes with FSF and NeXT's porting groups o implementation of new compiler and runtime features o responsible for portions of the debugger that has to do with dynamic shared libraries o improving our C++ support in general o optimizations of the Objective C runtime for shared libraries o improving the performance of the shared library codegeneration Position Requirements: o experience with working on compilers o interest in working on runtime systems o knowledge of at least one machine architecture including stack frame layouts and calling conventions o knowledge of debuggers, assemblers, loaders helpful o experience with optimizing software systems in general would be a plus. o experience working with FSF would be a plus o experience working with GCC would be a plus Education and Experience: B.S in Computer Science or related field, and 2+ years of applicable experience. Additional Success Factors: Seeks high degree of reliability in their work. ***************************************************************** NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: cmcgrail@NeXT.COM (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: Development Environment Engineers Date: 18 Jan 1995 15:37:08 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3fju5k$fik@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to 415-780-4554. ***************************************************************** Position: Software Engineer Department: Development Environment Primary responsibilities: Development, maintenance, and enhancement of ProjectBuilder. Refine the existing product based on customer feedback. This includes debugging, modification of existing features and implementation of new features. Specific responsibilities: * Development & maintenance of ProjectBuilder * Implementation of specific aspects of ProjectBuilder including (possibly) SCM integration, class browser, documentation integration, InterfaceBuilder integration, editor enhancements, "syntax" coloring, other tools integration etc. * Debugging and performance tuning of ProjectBuilder Position Requirements: * interest in building an integrated development environment * experience building an integrated development environment a plus Education and Experience: * B.S. or equivalent in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or equivalent. * 3-10 years industrial experience. Additional Success Factors: * Knowledge of NeXTSTEP & appkit programming ***************************************************************** NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: cmcgrail@NeXT.COM (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: EOF Engineer Date: 18 Jan 1995 15:37:20 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3fju60$fir@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to 415-780-4554. ***************************************************************** Position: Senior Development Engineer Department: Enterprise Object Framework Primary Responsibilities: The person filling this position will be part of the Enterprise Object (EO) Framework engineering group and will be responsible for designing, implementing, testing, and maintaining major components of the EO Framework with particular emphasis on the user interface oriented components and tools. Specific Responsibilities: Work with team members on design and implementation of next version of EO Framework Work with customers and management team to understand, assess, and prioritize requirements for subsequent releases of the product Drive usability testing Design and implement ease-of-use features Evaluate other products Position Requirements: Fluency in object oriented implementation language and environment (preferably Objective C and NEXTSTEP) Expert in graphical user interface design and implementation Fluency in C Experience in usability testing and evaluation Experience in Object Oriented design and implementation methodology Experience in shipping high volume products on tight schedules Excellent team skills Excellent problem solving skills Excellent communication skills Education and Experience: Engineering background: 5 - 8 years BSCS or equivalent Additional Success Factors: Experience in 4GL Multi-platform experience (UNIX, PC) Relational DBMS experience Object Oriented DBMS experience NEXTSTEP development experience Experience with Object Oriented Analysis and Design tools Experience in enterprise-wide distributed systems ************************************************************************ ***************************************************************** NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: cmcgrail@NeXT.COM (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: Release Control Engineer Date: 18 Jan 1995 15:37:29 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3fju69$fj3@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to 415-780-4554. ***************************************************************** Position: Release Engineer, Release Control Department: Software Engineering Overall Role Develop and enhance tools to support Release Engineering processes. Perform system administrative and other operational tasks. Specific Responsibilities This person will design and develop tools to build, master, verify, and archive NeXT software releases. Possible development projects include: Distributed builds Multi-CDROM production for internal distribution Investigation of TeamNet version control software for use in Release Engineering Project attribute database Required Background, Education, Skills and Experience A candidate for this position must possess the following qualifications: 4 year Computer Science or Engineering or related degree, or equivalent experience. 3 or more years experience in the software industry. Extensive Unix programming experience. The following qualifications are preferred: Familiarity with Perl. 1-2 years experience with release integration of large software systems. Object oriented and distributed programming experience. Unix system and network administration experience. PC hardware experience. ***************************************************************** NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: cmcgrail@NeXT.COM (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: Functionality Tester (Temp position) Date: 18 Jan 1995 15:37:35 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3fju6f$fja@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to 415-780-4554. ***************************************************************** Full-time Temporary Position at NeXT in California The Functionality Testing group of NeXT's Software Quality department is now hiring for a full-time temporary testing position in Redwood City. This job has these benefits, among others: First-hand access to the most current versions of NEXTSTEP Experience using new hardware running NEXTSTEP Furthering your knowledge of NEXTSTEP The job description is as follows: Performance, stress and regression testing of software (with and without formal testplans) Database querying Writing test reports Communicating to software engineers Requirements: 1 or more years hands-on experience with NEXTSTEP Have good verbal and written communication skills Be well organized and detail-oriented Be a fast learner (new software, methodologies and processes) Preferred: NEXTSTEP or Unix programming experience Experience using commercial NEXTSTEP software Familiar with Intel-based PCs Deductive logic, troubleshooting and analytical skills Comfortable with e-mail communications Important note: This position is at NeXT headquarters in Redwood City, CA. Moving and housing expenses will not be reimbursed. Please email (ASCII, RTF or PostScript), fax or mail your resume to: NeXT Computer Inc 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City - CA 94063 FAX: (415)780-4554 resumes@next.com ***************************************************************** NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: cmcgrail@NeXT.COM (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: Software Engineer Date: 18 Jan 1995 15:37:41 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3fju6l$fjh@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to 415-780-4554. ***************************************************************** Position: Software Engineer - 4.0 Department: Engineering Primary Responsibility Design, develop and own the infrastructure for handling documents in services and applications. Many of the pieces of the infrastructure pre-exist, such as document storage, full text indexing, or file attachments. The challenge consists, in a short time frame, to design a portable and coherent infrastructure sufficient for all the needs of a distributed document storage system under development. Longer term, this infrastructure should expand into a full-blown document infrastructure, spanning things like embedding, connectivity with standards, or DO-Automation. Specific Responsibilities Create a new library gathering and rationalizing pieces from various places. Collaborate on all aspects of the development of a distributed document storage system. Prototype user interface for bringing back-end functionality to users. Minimum Requirements for Skills, Knowledge and Experience Education: a BS or equivalent. 2+ years of practical experience with at least one modern OS, windowing system, GUI toolkit, and object-oriented language/environment. Very strong skills in OOP and API design. Experience with document frameworks such as OLE or OpenDoc desirable. Some experience in designing user interfaces is desirable. Last but not least, experience with NEXTSTEP is highly desirable ***************************************************************** NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: seanl@ringding.cs.umd.edu (Sean Luke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Resound 2.1 Date: 19 Jan 1995 00:06:26 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3fks0i$ir8@digifix.digifix.com> Resound 2.1 Resound 2.1 is a modular sound editor for NeXTSTEP 3.x, specifically designed to be extendable through dynamically-loaded modules. Resound comes with seven modules ready-made, plus an API for creating new modules to do whatever you'd like. Resound 2.1 can be found at ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/sound/Resound.2.1.tar.gz and has also been submitted to ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de. Some objects from Resound source can be found in the MiscKit (/next/misckit on ftp.et.byu.edu). Resound has been compiled FAT for black hardware and Intel machines. If you would like it for another platform, contact me and I'll see what I can do. Resound is not designed to be the end-all and be-all of sound editors. Rather, it's designed to provide a framework for you to add your own filters and sound-bending tools. Think of it as a cheap Adobe Photoshop for sound bites. Resound provides both sample modules and an API for developing ones on your own. If you've used previous versions of Resound, you'll probably be quite pleased with version 2.1. This version of Resound has added a few features, several new modules, and _innumerable_ bug fixes from version 2.0. The result: Resound is FAR more stable for black hardware than in the past. I can't vouch for its stability on Intel hardware as I've not been able to test it much on the platform. :-( However, I'd imagine the bug fixes have helped a lot for Intel as well. Nonetheless, I'd appreciate feedback in this regard. I'd appreciate hearing from you about Resound. Please send bug fixes and comments to: seanl@cs.umd.edu. Sean Luke U Maryland at College Park seanl@cs.umd.edu
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Canon Introduces Latest in Line of NEXTSTEP-Optimized Workstations Date: 18 Jan 1995 16:54:37 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <3fk2mt$gcf@digifix.digifix.com> Contact: Vicki Ferrando Technology Solutions/West (415) 617-4522 Lisa Larkin CCSI/ATO (503) 681-2533 PORTLAND, Ore., January 16, 1995 -- In continued dedication to NEXTSTEP users, the Advanced Technologies Operation (ATO) of Canon Computer Systems, Inc. (CCSI) today introduced the object.station 31, an entry-level addition to its line of Intel 486-based personal workstations. The object.station 31 is specially optimized to run NEXTSTEP, the most advanced object-oriented software for developing custom client-server applications, and is targeted at price-conscious corporate buyers who need optimized solutions today. Committed NeXT users such as Swiss Bank Corporation use NEXTSTEP and the object.station 41 -- Canon's first NEXTSTEP optimized workstation -- to develop and deploy mission-critical applications enterprise-wide. "Object.stations combined with NEXTSTEP are the complete solution for Fortune 1000 companies' enterprise-wide client/server computing needs," said Dale Fuller, director of marketing for the ATO group. "NEXTSTEP is the most mature object-oriented software available, and combined with our object.stations, provides programmers with the performance boost necessary to rapidly develop mission-critical custom applications." Object.stations The object.station 31 incorporates a 486DX4/100 MHz microprocessor and a high-performance video subsystem to run NEXTSTEP and NEXTSTEP applications dramatically faster than other Intel-based systems. Canon's proprietary video subsystem speeds video throughput at NEXTSTEP's native resolution to dramatically improve overall video performance, while maintaining compatibility with a wide-range of video standards, including super VGA resolutions. The object.station 41, which was introduced in June 1994, employs all the performance-enhancing features of the object.station 31, but includes additional enhancements to provide even greater performance. For example, in place of the object.station 31's IDE interface, the object.station 41 incorporates a specially optimized SCSI (Small Computer Systems Interface) controller to boost overall I/O performance. The object.station 41 performs up to 30 percent faster than standard 486-based systems and up to 15 percent faster than Pentium-based systems based on NeXT's NX benchmark. And to preserve a corporation's existing investment in Windows, Canon has ensured that the optimization for NEXTSTEP does not affect an object.station's ability to run Windows or Windows applications. Object.stations come bundled with a 30-day demo version of Insignia Solutions' SoftPC Windows emulation software, allowing users to run Windows applications within the NEXTSTEP environment. Object.station users can also partition their hard drives to run both Windows and NEXTSTEP. The object.stations are targeted at existing NEXTSTEP users and Fortune 1000 companies in the financial, transportation and telecommunications industries that are adopting object technology. The object.station 31 and object.station 41 are the first systems in a line of CCSI/ATO personal workstations designed to run specific advanced operating systems. Configurations Customers can order object.stations "ready out of the box" with NEXTSTEP pre-installed. Both models feature 2MB of VRAM, which allow video resolutions of up to 1280 x 1024 pixels, and16MB of RAM standard, expandable in 16MB increments to 112MB. They come standard with 17" color monitors, a NEXTSTEP-specific keyboard with volume and brightness controls, and they are upgradeable to the Pentium OverDrive CPU, allowing organizations to preserve their hardware investments. The object.station 41 features a high resolution monitor, 500MB SCSI hard disk, with a 1GB drive available as an option. The developer version of the model 41 comes standard with 32MB of RAM, expandable to 112MB. Pricing for the object.station 31 starts at under $4,000 and the object.station 41 at under $5,000. Both systems are available immediately, and Canon provides a one-year limited warranty and seven-day, 24-hour phone support for buyers. Strategic Partners "Object.stations are the clear choice for NEXTSTEP users, because they provide the best performance of any Intel machine we've tested," said Ted Shelton, president and CEO of Information Technology Solutions. "Object.stations provide a measurable and noticeable improvement over PCs when it comes to developing and deploying NEXTSTEP applications." Canon is working with Information Technology Solutions and other strategic partners to provide customers the service and support they need as they adopt object technology, like business and personal productivity applications, as well as training in object-oriented programming and the NEXTSTEP OS. "We're working with Canon's ATO to offer customers a complete solution to their business needs," said Chip Goodman, president of WhiteLight Systems, another Canon partner. "Our software, WhiteLight/Engineer, is used by major international corporations for their most challenging budgeting, business modeling, financial reporting and planning applications. We use them ourselves and recommend them to our customers for terrific NEXTSTEP performance at an affordable price." Founded in 1992, Canon Computer Systems, Inc. is chartered to lead Canon's efforts in the U.S. computing market. The company develops and markets desktop and notebook PCs, scanners and printers under the Canon brand name using its proven Bubble Jet, laser and other Canon technologies. Through its recently formed Advanced Technologies Operation (ATO), CCSI supplies optimized personal workstation products for Fortune 1000 companies and supports user workgroups and enterprise computing requirements worldwide. CCSI is headquartered in Costa Mesa, Calif. and the ATO is based in Portland, Ore.
From: Darren Smith <darren@lsc.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Schema Research Corporation Releases Schema-E Version 1.3 with EOF(r) Compatibility Date: 19 Jan 1995 15:57:42 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3fmjo6$o6l@digifix.digifix.com> For Immediate Release Contact: Lowell Schneider or Darren Smith Schema Research Corporation Info@lsc.com SCHEMA RESEARCH CORPORATION RELEASES SCHEMA-E VERSION 1.3 WITH EOF(r) COMPATIBILITY ----- Redwood City, CA, January 16, 1995 -- Schema Research Corporation announced today that SchemaE(r) version 1.3 is now available and shipping. SchemaE is a NEXTSTEP(r) CASE database design and management tool that integrates with the NEXTSTEP object-oriented software development tools DatabaseKit(r) and Enterprise Objects Framework(r) (EOF) for building client/server database mission-critical software quickly and without extensive programming. SchemaE speeds development and improves the design process by eliminating the need for SQL scripts or programming to update database designs. By reverse engineering the database every work session, SchemaE presents a comprehensive, up-to-date picture of the database schema. Changes such as creating tables, adding columns, or changing data types canbe implemented with simple graphical changes to the schema diagram. Version 1.3 adds support for NeXT Computer Inc.'s EOF and contains about 90% of the functionality of NeXT's Enterprise Objects Modeler(r) (EOM). This feature saves customers even more time during development by combining the two tasks of database construction and modelling into one graphical design environment. The code in version 1.3 has been optimized to increase speed of database access and display. This will be most noticeable with larger databases (those approaching 500 tables), where users can expect to see response times up to ten times faster. New Features in 1.3: - Multiple Diagraming -- Customers can now create customizable diagrams of any area of the database. With multiple diagrams, only the specific area of the database the customer wishes to examine needs to be displayed. - On-Line Help -- SchemaE now supports the NEXTSTEP standard on-line help service. The entire users manual has been integrated into this point and click service allowing customers the immediate help they need, while not requiring them to find and search through the hard copy manual. Utilities available for 1.3: - SRVersion -- This utility allows customers to save the database schema (with or without the data from the tables) in order to archive work in progress, or to save an entire database to a file and recreate it in it's entirety at another site. - InterSql -- A graphical tool that supports drag and drop queries. Note: These utilities do not ship with SchemaE, but are available from Schema Research Technical Support, please contact support@lsc.com for more information. In addition to the above features, version 1.3 also integrates the following customer suggestions: - DBObjects Browser -- This new browser lists all of the views and tables at a glance, allowing quick and easy access to any table or view within the schema. - Color -- SchemaE now includes color functionality which allows users to more easily organize, and better differentiate between, sections of the database schema. - New Licensing Procedures -- Version 1.3 contains support for floating licenses, and has a new simplified set-up procedure. SchemaE 1.3 is available for $3,300, and SchemaE-50(r) which provides all of the same features and capabilities as SchemaE, but limits database size to 50 tables, is available for $950. Schema Research provides nine months of free support and maintenance with each purchase, which includes software patches and upgrades. Upgrades to version 1.3 of SchemaE are provided free of charge to customers covered under maintenance contracts (software purchased after May 15, 1994, or maintenance contracts purchased after January 15, 1994). Upgrades to SchemaE, SchemaE-50, and SchemaView can be purchased for 15% of the retail price of the product at the time of upgrade. Please contact Schema Research for more information, including volume and/or educational discounts. A demo copy of SchemaE is available on the Stepwise ftp server: ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Vendors/Schema_Research_Corporation ------ Schema Research has been providing database expertise since 1988. In addition to SchemaE and SchemaE-50, Schema Research's product line includes SchemaView for $195, and SRTransport(r) for $5,000. For more information please contact: Lowell Schneider or Darren Smith Schema Research Corporation 2603 Broadway, Redwood City, CA 94063 (415) 368-8477 USA Info@lsc.com
From: "Zacharias J. Beckman" <zac@dreams.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NEXTSTEP developers, Costa Mesa, CA (Canon) Date: 19 Jan 1995 16:00:43 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3fmjtr$o81@digifix.digifix.com> Please reply to zac@ccsi.canon.com or send a fax of your resume to 714-438-1966. NEXTSTEP Software Developer Qualified candidates must be skilled in the design and development of software objects, code and programs with a large-scale NEXTSTEP development project. Test programs for quality and robustness. Support existing applications deployed to the user community. Requirements: Bachelors of Computer Science or related field. Minimum four years experience programming in a commercial environment. Minimum two years programming with NEXTSTEP and C, Objective C, SmallTalk, or C++. Proficiency in relational database systems, ORACLE 7 and EOF/DBKit preferred. Experience with relational reporting tools such as SQR and with database tuning a plus. Ability to develop business objects and database systems in a complex and rapidly changing environment a must. Please send resume to: zac@ccsi.canon.com, fax to 714-438-1966, or mail to Canon Computer Systems, Inc., Information Systems Dept., 2995 Redhill Avenue, Costa Mesa, CA 92626, ATTN: O21SW req., NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE. An Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
From: gbol@Think.COM (Gregory Lampshire) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: PopUpMenu-0.2.tar.gz --- right mouse button popup menu with memory Date: 20 Jan 1995 00:16:00 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3fngug$rmj@digifix.digifix.com> I've placed PopUpMenu-0.2.tar.gz on ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/sources/classes/PopUpMenu-0.2.tar.gz which contains classes to build right mouse button popup menu with memory (the last selected item is the first selcted on subsequent popups). These classes violate every NEXTSTEP UI rule. Although the buttons look like Motif's, you can write 2 subclasses that will make them look like NEXT's menus. The 0.2 should be taken seriously. There is no documentation, the code is a nightmare, and the internal (and some external) interfaces will change in future versions. Also, the next version will actually contain Motif-looking classes and internal resources. A MenuBar is in the works. A real, pleasant looking release package will evolve later. There are bugs. The target audience for these classes are developers who must port UIs that demand popup menus in views and who are under severe time constraints. These class will help you get the port up and running quicker. Comments to gbol@rglnext.geol.vt.edu
From: Andreas Glocker <andy@SIRIUS.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: OpenSource offers CheckSum Special Date: 20 Jan 1995 00:17:05 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3fnh0h$rnq@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: OpenSource, Inc. 1776 Lincoln Street, Suite 1012 Denver, CO 80203 Toll Free: 1-800-TRY-OPEN Phone: 1-303-681-4411 Fax: 1-303-681-2393 E-mail: info@opensource.com OpenSource Offers CheckSum Special DENVER, COLORADO - 01/18/95. Sirius Solutions, Inc. and OpenSource, Inc. today announced a price special on the CheckSum personal and small-business accounting application. "With tax time right around the corner, there are probably a lot of people like me who have resolved to keep better track of personal finances in 1995. CheckSum will definitely help me do that," says Chris Miner, Director of Technical Operations for OpenSource, Inc. "Besides, the nifty little money bag that CheckSum comes packaged in is a great place to stash all the money I'll save by using the application." CheckSum is a NEXTSTEP program for the single user or small business owner who has basic accounting needs. CheckSum tracks expenses, income, property, and cash. CheckSum provides income statements and balance sheets, balances your checkbook, and prints checks. CheckSum provides you with a system for managing various accounts-such as cash, checking, savings, credit card, property, and equipment-and the ability to consolidate them into a complete financial picture, either as a balance sheet or a period-sensitive income statement. CheckSum offers many time-saving features, such as automatic transfers between accounts, fast-key category input, memorized transaction for recurring entries, and quick check printing. CheckSum's input screen is as easy to use as a checking account register but provides you with the data that can both inform and guide your financial decisions. CheckSum also can import QIF (Quicken Interchange Formatted) files. During this promotion, which runs from January 1, 1995 through February 28, 1995, CheckSum is available through OpenSource for just $85 ($65 academic). ### Sirius Solutions, Inc., with offices in San Francisco, California, is a privately owned software development company that specializes in productivity software for the NEXTSTEP platform. For more info see http://www.sirius.com/Solutions.html OpenSource, Inc. is a single-source reseller of third-party applications and pre-configured hardware for the NEXTSTEP operating system. Dedicated to prompt service and quality support, OpenSource offers the most extensive line of NEXTSTEP related products in the industry. OpenSource is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
From: scottwei@aol.com (ScottWei) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Paradigm Research Seeks Object Trainers / Los Altos, CA Date: 19 Jan 1995 14:53:37 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3fmg01$ng9@digifix.digifix.com> NOW HIRING --- Object Trainer Paradigm Research, Inc. Los Altos, CA Paradigm Research is in search of a full time software development instructor. Our team of qualified instructors works with leading-edge technologies such as NEXTSTEP/OpenStep, Taligent's Common Point Application System, Smalltalk, ScriptX and the World Wide Web. Paradigm Research offers travel opportunities, incredibly interesting work, competitive salaries and benefits. Skills Required: * Desire to continually improve skills and learn new technologies * Strong interpersonal and presentation skills * Teaching experience * Expertise with one or more of the following languages: Objective-C, Smalltalk, C, C++, ScriptX, HTML * Experience with object development environments * Experience with project management, relational or object databases a plus Responsibilities: * Teaching a variety of courses * Speaking at seminars * Creating course materials * Researching new technologies * Developing software tools and examples Please email your resume to resume@prdgm.com, NEXTmail and MIME attachments welcome, or fax to 415.988.8585 attn: Brad Green. ABOUT PARADIGM RESEARCH Paradigm Research provides training and mentoring services on innovative technologies. Paradigm's knowledge transfer/mentoring approach allows companies to attain a competitive advantage while reducing the risks associated with adopting new technologies. For more information about Paradigm Research's services and products, send email to info@prdgm.com. Paradigm Research, Inc. 1824 Alford Avenue Suite 200 Los Altos, CA 94024
From: Derek Collison <collison@tss.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Teknekron Software Systems releases Rendezvous Software Bus Date: 20 Jan 1995 15:30:54 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3fp6hu$40t@digifix.digifix.com> CONTACT: Teknekron Software Systems, Inc. 530 Lytton Avenue, Third Floor Palo Alto, CA 94301 Voice: 1-800-842-4636 Fax: 1-415-321-3176 E-mail: rv-info@tss.com rv-support@tss.com Teknekron Software Systems releases Rendezvous TM Software Bus for NEXTSTEP PALO ALTO, Calif. - December 6, 1994 - Teknekron Software Systems, Inc., is proud to announce the availability of the Rendezvous Software Bus, the industry's most advanced communications toolkit for building scalable distributed applications, for the NEXTSTEP platform. The Rendezvous Software Bus is a communications software package that makes it easy to create distributed applications. The Rendezvous Software Bus lets your applications exchange data across a network transparently, using powerful publish and subscribe technology, and Teknekron's Subject Based Addressing. It gives you all the software support you need for network transport and data representation. The Rendezvous' object kit is efficient and easy to use. Versions of the Rendezvous Software Bus for different hardware and software platforms let your applications communicate seamlessly between different kinds of computers on a network. "We think that Teknekron's Rendezvous Software Bus offers NEXTSTEP customers an innovative and valuable Publish and Subscribe capability for use in their distributed computing environments," said Steven P. Jobs, chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer, Inc. "Teknekron and NeXT are working closely together to offer NEXTSTEP customers state-of-the-art products like Rendezvous." The Rendezvous Software Bus: - eliminates the applications need to locate clients or determine network addresses. - allows seamless interoperability across heterogeneous platforms. - simplifies the development of distributed application systems by hiding the networking details. - lets you share data without doing network programming. - makes it easy to develop resilient systems because redundant data publishers are transparent to data subscribers. - allows the introduction of new, independently developed applications to running distributed systems without modifying existing code. Rendezvous Applications: - can publish broadcast messages to distribute information quickly and reliably to many subscribers. - can provide request/reply interactions, such as queries or transactions. - are platform independent. The Rendezvous Software Bus includes: - Tekenekron's patented Subject Based Addressing technology, which allows users to exchange data by name without reference to network location. - Self-Describing Data, which eliminates the need for applications running on different platform to agree on data formats. - High-performance, reliable, connectionless data delivery. - Small footprint, simple API, low cost The Rendezvous Software Bus is a derivative of the Teknekron Information Bus TM (TIB) technology. Teknekron Software Systems developed the TIB software technology as a base for building decoupled distributed systems. TIB software is at the heart of high-performance systems serving the financial services and manufacturing industries. The Rendezvous Software Bus makes this technology available for general use. Customers, Teknekron and third party developers will now be able to take advantage of NEXTSTEP's object-oriented environment and rapid development tools. The Rendezvous Software Bus is available now for Motorola, Intel and HPPA-RISC based systems running NEXTSTEP 3.2 via anonymous ftp at ftp.cs.orst.edu. The Rendezvous Software Bus is list priced at $495. ISV's please contact Teknekron for volume pricing arrangements. About Teknekron Software Systems, Inc. Teknekron Software Systems, Inc. is a subsidiary of Reuters Holding PLC (NASDAQ symbol: RTRSY). A systems integrator and software supplier, Teknekron specializes in distributed systems technology. In financial services, Teknekron is the global market leader in digital trading systems with over 150 client sites worldwide. The Teknekron Information Bus (TIB) middleware, the backbone of Teknekron's digital trading systems, is also being used to build distributed systems in the manufacturing, construction and telecommunication industries. Teknekron offers a full spectrum of products and services including consulting, software development, systems integration and project management. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Teknekron has branch offices in the United Kingdom, Japan, Switzerland, Canada, Hong Kong and Australia. # # # # Rendezvous and Teknekron Information Bus are trademarks of Teknekron Software Systems, Inc. TIB is a registered trademark of Teknekron Software Systems, Inc. NeXT, the NeXT logo and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: Nick Jacquet <nickj@prime.wimsey.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: British Columbia OpenStep Group - Feb 1 Date: 20 Jan 1995 14:29:58 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3fp2vm$3ck@digifix.digifix.com> Meeting: British Columbia OpenStep Group Date: February 1st 1995 Location: CyberStore, Suite 101 - 601 West Broadway, Vancouver (near Cambie) Time: 19:00-22:00 (7pm-10pm) Door closes at 19:15 (to prevent your grief and ours, please do not be late) Cost: Members free, Non-members $10.00 at the door or $7.50 for advance commitment (email), Students $5.00 Presentation & Agenda: 1) British Columbia OpenStep Group update - Next In Line Magazine distribution 2) Scott Anderson, NorthWestern Sales Manager, -NeXT Inc. -NeXT market direction -OpenStep and OpenStep partners -Demo of NEXTSTEP for Sparc (beta version) 3) Peter Snelling, Sun Vancouver SE, Sun MicroSystems Inc. -Sun market direction and commitment to OpenStep -OpenStep and OpenStep partners -Video of SunEnergy; availability for private viewing Nick Jacquet Chair British Columbia OpenStep Group nickj@wimsey.com email 604.893.5459 Voice/Fax
From: Marek Roland-Mieszkowski <MMIESZKO@ac.dal.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: DFG_RT Software for sound synthesis Date: 23 Jan 1995 14:53:20 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3g11fg$frl@digifix.digifix.com> PRESS RELEASE ,January 12, 1995 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada For more information please contact =================================== Digital Recordings - Advanced R & D 5959 Spring Garden Road, Suite 1103 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H-1Y5, Canada Tel./ Fax. (902) 429-9622 E-mail: mmieszko@ac.dal.ca DFG - Introduction ================== DFG_RTdemo.app is a demo module for real-time synthesis of the sinusoidal (pure tone) signal.Signals are generated in real time and do not require the DSP processor (which is not available in some NeXTSTEP computers).This version should work on all Motorola and Intel-based NeXTSTEP computers with NeXTSTEP versions 2.* => 3.* equipped in D/A converters. Sun and HP version of DFG_RT would be available at the end of January 1995. This program works very nicely with Digital Oscilloscope and Spectrum Analyzer (both applications come with NeXT) and any recording / editing software. Playback and recording/analysis of the signal could be done simultaneously since DSP chip is not used and main processor is used only 2-3% during signal production. DFG_RT is an ideal signal source for research and teaching in the fields of acoustics, psychoacoustics, electronics, electroacoustics, physics, mechanics, vibration measurements, architecture, audiology and transducer testing. DFG Software Specifications / Parameters ========================================= o Stereo output (independent R and L channel) o Frequency adjustable continuously from 0 to 22,000 Hz. o Frequency stability : +/- 0.0001 Hz at 1000 Hz o Amplitude adjustable continuously from -140 to 0 dB o Amplitude stability : +/- 0.00026 dB at 0 dB o Phase adjustable continuously from 0 to 360 degrees. o S/N ratio = 95 dB DFG_RT Modules =============== Currently there are 8 modules available in DFG_RT software : DFG_RTsine.app - for generating pure tones. DFG_RTsquare.app - for generating square wave. DFG_RTtriangular.app - for generating triangular wave. DFG_RTsawtooth.app - for generating sawtooth wave. DFG_RTpulse.app - for generating delta-pulse train. DFG_RTnoise.app - for generating white noise in 0->22,050 Hz range. DFG_RTnoiseNB.app - for generating narrow band noise from 100->200 Hz to 11,000->22,000 range. DFG_RTnoiseNBv.app - for generating narrow band noise with bandwidth adjustable from 20 Hz to 2,000 Hz and center frequency adjustable from 1 Hz to 22,000 Hz. DFG_RTdemo.app is available on the following FTP sites ====================================================== ( please look for file DFG_RTdemo.app.tar.Z ) ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/submissions ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/submissions ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl/pub2/next/submissions ==> Note: Also you can obtain latest software via NeXTmail from mmieszko@ac.dal.ca
From: tini@gurke.ping.de (Constantin Szallies) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Alexandra.app v0.7 (first beta release) Date: 23 Jan 1995 15:06:41 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3g128h$fun@digifix.digifix.com> Alexandra.app is a simple NEXTSTEP Newsreader. You need NNTP to use it, flatfile is not supported. The use of a NOV database is suggested, but not required. Features: - All the basic stuff. - Multi NNTP server support. - "Slow connection" feature. - Conforms to RFC 1036. - ISO 8859-1 encoding support. Alexandra.app is available from: ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Network/apps/Alexandra.0.7.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Network/apps/Alexandra.0.7.s.tar.gz ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Network/apps/Alexandra.0.7.README The binary distribution contains executables for Motorola, Intel, HP and Sparc. (Thanx to the unknown donator). You need the MiscKit to compile the sources. Constantin Szallies Dortmund, Germany tini@gurke.ping.de
From: Sean.Hill@iphysiol.unil.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: TabMatrixPalette 1.3 Date: 23 Jan 1995 15:09:21 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3g12dh$fvq@digifix.digifix.com> Announcing TabMatrixPalette 1.3. The source code for this palette has been released to ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/sources/classes/TabMatrixPalette1.3.s.tar.gz and was submitted to ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de This palette provides an easy way to add Tab-style controls to any NEXTSTEP program. This closely mimics the behavior of the tabs in the latest InterfaceBuilder. This palette is a great example of a collectively developed piece of software. Bill Edney started this out quite a while ago with a small piece of code he posted to the net. Mark Onyschuk further developed it. Then it got passed back and forth between Bill Edney and I again. Stefanie Herzer donated a great icon. Also thanks to Thomas Engel for the bug reports. In any event, I think it's quite thoroughly useful now. Enjoy- Sean Hill Lausanne, Switzerland 22 January, 1995 Sean.Hill@iphysiol.unil.ch
From: Susan Peterson <susan@pages.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: WebPages by Pages PREMIERES AT WEB WORLD Date: 24 Jan 1995 22:11:24 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3g4fgs$s6q@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Susan Peterson Pages Software Inc 619 492-9050 ext 225 619 492-9124 FAX http://www.pages.com WebPages by Pages(tm) PREMIERES AT WEB WORLD San Diego, CA _ January 23, 1995 _ Pages Software today announced participation in the inaugural Web World Conference and Exposition, in Orlando, Florida, January 30-31, and the combined Web World and EMail World, in Santa Clara, April 19-21, 1995. Pages Software will demonstrate WebPages by Pages(tm), the first fully WYSIWYG HTML editor, running under NEXTSTEP(tm). The Web World Conferences are to the Internet market what the Seybold shows once were to the Desktop Publishing market. The inaugural Web World Conference, Multimedia Applications on the Internet, offers attendees numerous technical and managerial sessions that focus on the problems, solutions, and latest product advances necessary for survival in today's increasingly competitive business climate. "We're excited to be attending Web World on both coasts," said Bruce F. Webster, chief technical officer at Pages. "It's like watching the early days of Seybold and desktop publishing all over again." Pages by Pages word-processor premiered at Seybold shows in the early 1990's. Orlando's keynote will be hosted by industry figurehead, Dr. Jay C. Weber, Director of Research and Development for Enterprise Integration Technologies. To date, the vendors include Pages, AT&T Easylink, CompuServe, Netcom, Netmanage, EIT, IBM, Internet Business Advantage, Netscape, Cariloss, Digital Equipment Corporation, O'Reilly & Associates, Commercenet, Hewlett Packard, Cybercash, Digicash, Verity, Open More, and more. The Orlando show will have an attendance of 300 people. The Santa Clara Web World conference in April is combined with EMail World, which already has 8,000 reservations. Sign up today, and see a demonstration of the WebPages by Pages. WebPages by Pages offers the optimal solution for establishing your presence on the World Wide Web. WebPages by Pages can be used to create styled HTML documents, such as this and all other pages on the Pages Web Server. With WebPages by Pages, you can easily create linked HTML documents, which are readable by standard Web browsers, with styled headlines and tables, with little or no knowledge of HTML. Pages Design Models let you create a look that stands out from the flood of monotonous HTML documents; our custom design service can even give you a unique and recognizable look on the Web without tedious editing of bitmapped graphics. WebPages by Pages is currently in beta and is scheduled for release in March, 1995. The Pages Web Starter Pack sells for $395.00, with an educational discount to $195.00. Site license discounts are available. For more information about WebPages by Pages, please see the Pages Software Web Page: http://www.pages.com. Pages is available for Motorola-, Intel- and HP PA-RISC-based versions of NEXTSTEP and is sold through authorized resellers worldwide, as well as directly from Pages Software Inc. Orders can be placed through the Pages Web Page, by calling 1-619-492-9050, X225, or by sending e-mail to info@pages.com. Pages Software Inc, located at 9755 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., San Diego, California 92124, is a leading developer of object-based productivity applications. Pages was founded in June 1990, with the intent to lead the document processing software industry with easy-to-use, productive solutions for all levels of office professionals. The company's products, initially available on NEXTSTEP, are planned for multiple computer platforms and operating systems. # # # Pages by Pages, ObjectBased, Design Models, and WebPages by Pages are trademarks of Pages Software Inc. NeXT, NEXTSTEP, and OpenStep are trademarks or registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: Sonja Jo Krenz-Bush <sjkb@abstractsoft.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: OpenSource Offers Xanthus/FirstClass/Abstract OfficePro Bundle Date: 23 Jan 1995 23:46:17 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3g20mp$js6@digifix.digifix.com> FOR FOR FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: OpenSource, Inc. 1776 Lincoln Street, Suite 1012 Denver, CO 80203 Toll Free: 1-800-TRY-OPEN Phone: 1-303-861-4411 Fax: 1-303-861-2393 E-mail: info@opensource.com OpenSource Offers Xanthus/FirstClass/Abstract OfficePro Bundle DENVER, COLORADO - 1/23/95. Sweden's Xanthus International AB, Belgium's FirstClass NV, Seattle's Abstract Software, and Colorado's OpenSource, Inc. announce a special OfficePro bundle featuring Xanthus' OpenWrite word processor, Questor spreadsheet, and Graphity 3D business graphics program; FirstClass' Tailor Office PostScript editing application; and Abstract's WSI-Fonts Professional Collection. The $995 bundle is available only from OpenSource, Inc. All of the Xanthus applications and Tailor utilize Open Object Embedding. Open Object Embedding (OOE) is Xanthus' new standard for compound document handling for NEXTSTEP. The OOE standard allows for compound documents to be created and manipulated quickly and easily, and is built around standard NEXTSTEP building blocks such as Distributed Objects and the NEXTSTEP Pasteboard. OOE can be used either to create new graphics from within an OpenWrite document or to edit existing embedded TIFF and EPS images. According to a review published in OpenStep Solutions magazine, "OOE looks really promising, as it brings OLE 2 features into NEXTSTEP...." Wes Carrington, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for OpenSource, praises the OfficePro bundle, "This possibly could be the most powerful third-party application bundle ever offered for NEXTSTEP. All five [components] are outstanding on their own. Bundled with OOE technology, they represent an unprecedented level of productivity for NEXTSTEP users." OpenWrite is a powerful new word processor that includes all the features expected in a high-end word processor, and many features found only in high-end desktop publishing applications, such as character kerning, tracking and free-floating text blocks. OpenWrite also supports all of the advanced features of NEXTSTEP, such as object linking and a robust API, as well as the new OOE standard from Xanthus. Questor is a powerful and easy-to-use matrix-based OOE-compliant spreadsheet application for NEXTSTEP that includes a rich scripting language called QScript, full-page report layouts, seamless SQL database access using Database Kit and a double-directed API for external application control. Graphity is a business graphics application for NEXTSTEP that can be used as a standalone application or together with the Questor spreadsheet application from Xanthus. Data can be imported in many different ways to be displayed as two-dimensional graphs (bar, stacked bar, line, combination, stock, area, stacked area, scatter, and pie) or three-dimensional graphs based on RenderMan (bar, area, scatter, and pie). Tailor Office 2.0 is the visual PostScript editor for NEXTSTEP. Tailor introduces innovative technology for making PostScript documents editable in a graphical way. With Tailor, you can visually edit PostScript documents, effortlessly and cleanly - no specialized knowledge required at all. You can cut pieces out of a document and copy them to any other application. Or recover text paragraphs for use in your favorite word processor. And all this regardless of whether the document originated on NEXTSTEP, on Microsoft Windows, or on a Macintosh. The WSI-Fonts Professional Collection contains 123 professional quality NEXTSTEP fonts. According to a review in the June/July 1993 NeXTWORLD Magazine, "The [WSI-Fonts Professional Collection] covers all the basics for most publishing tasks...the fonts are all good and include text, script, display, and specialty typefaces." Each font is carefully designed with pair kerning and hinting, and most of the fonts include the complete international character set. Purchased separately, the five elements of the OfficePro Bundle would cost $1,929. The $995 bundle price, therefore, represents nearly a 50% discount. As stated, this offer is available only through OpenSource, Inc. and it expires on 2/28/95. ### Xanthus International AB, with offices in Stockholm, Sweden, and San Diego, California, is a privately owned software development company that specializes in productivity software for the NEXTSTEP platform. FirstClass NV was founded in Ghent, Belgium in 1993 by publishing industry professionals as a privately owned company. Its business mission is to develop and market graphics applications for high-end desktop platforms. Abstract Software is a Seattle, Washington company dedicated to providing quality, cost-effective software for NEXTSTEP. Besides offering their excellent WSI-Fonts collections, Abstract Software also provides custom development and network consulting. OpenSource, Inc. is a single-source reseller of third-party applications and pre-configured hardware for the NEXTSTEP operating system. Dedicated to prompt service and quality support, OpenSource offers the most extensive line of NEXTSTEP related products in the industry. OpenSource is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
From: TSS1@ix.netcom.com (John Chandler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Washington DC - NeXT System Developer Needed Date: 25 Jan 1995 16:51:37 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3g6h59$5ck@digifix.digifix.com> Total Service Solutions has successfully implemented client/server solutions for National and International clients from our offices located in New York, Washington D.C. and Atlanta. We are seeking qualified professionals with 2 or more years of expertise in the following areas: - NeXT - Solid background in system development - Solid C skills TSS has immediate openings in Washington D.C.! Fax or mail your resume to: Gene Marshburn Total Service Solutions 2971 Flowers Road SO suite 230 Atlanta GA 30341 Email: TSS1@ix.netcom.com Phone: (404) 457-7282 Fax: (404) 457-2585
From: info@wri.com (Wolfram Research) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Mathematica 2.2 available for NEXTSTEP for HP PA-RISC Date: 25 Jan 1995 17:57:53 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3g6l1h$5tp@digifix.digifix.com> Mathematica 2.2 is now shipping under NEXTSTEP for HP PA-RISC. With this new version, Wolfram Research now offers Mathematica on the complete line of computer systems that support NEXTSTEP. Versions of Mathematica are available for Motorola 680X0, Intel486, and now HP PA-RISC. As with other NEXTSTEP versions, Mathematica for HP PA-RISC supports the Mathematica notebook interface, which lets users combine text, calculations, graphics, and animations in a single document. The notebook interface is currently supported on Macintosh, MS-Windows, NeXT, and X Windows systems. For more information see Wolfram Research's WWW pages (http://www.wri.com/) or contact Wolfram Research at: Wolfram Research, Inc. telephone: 1-800-441-6284 or 1-217-398-0700 email: info@wri.com Wolfram Research Europe Ltd. telephone: +44-(0)1993-883400 email: info-europe@wri.com Wolfram Research Asia Ltd. telephone: 81-3-526-0506 email: info-asia@wri.com
From: duncan@troutbum.nacm.com (Duncan Wilcox) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT Developers, Sybase Developers & Unix Admin Date: 26 Jan 1995 01:49:25 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3g7gll$8be@digifix.digifix.com> Nicholas Applegate Capital Management, a money management firm in San Diego, has wrung in the New Year with an approved hiring target of 15 NEW people. We are currently a staff of 7 NeXT Developers, 2 Sybase and 1 Unix Guru / Wizard developing realtime apps, core object libraries, databases etc... We are in urgent need of talented folks. Some of our most critical needs are as follows : * Senior Trading Project Manager - 3 to 4 years experience in NeXTSTEP, DBKit, Sybase (and EOF). We will be using AFS's afstrade kit. Financial / Trading experience a plus, but can / will train. Manage a team of 3 to 4 people to develop an electronic trade ticket - trade / blotter mgmt system. * Unix Admin - Strong Sun OS / Unix / C skills. NeXT experience a plus. Get to work with one of the best in the business to manage a 150+ NeXT station (and growing) user group. Always the latest & greatest equipment (Pentiums, SPARC Beta, HP Gecko's) * Sybase Developer Requirements: -Minimum 2 years of development experience utilizing Relational Database Management System. -At least 1 year of experience using Sybase SQL Server -1-2 years of experience programming in C. - Efficient with Transact-SQL and Open Client/DB-Lib -Minimum 2 years of experience working in a Unix Operating System environment. Knowledge of Shell Script, SybPerl Script, and NextStep is a plus. Description: Working with the database team to support and develop company's Portfolio Management, Trading, and Marketing/Client Service databases. Primarily responsible for analyzing and loading data from various outside data sources into Sybase Databases. Analyze and design database tables to support data imported into the database. Heavy interface with data vendors to provide support for any new data requirements as well as validating information loaded into the database. Support database team with developer and user requests. Responsible for designing, implementing, and testing production database modifications and enhancements. Reply by email to duncan@nacm.com or fax a resume (619) 687-8072
From: jmartin@Dallas.bozell.com (Jeff Martin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Object Programmers, Dallas, TX Date: 26 Jan 1995 17:11:10 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3g96lu$dno@digifix.digifix.com> Object Programmers, Dallas, TX Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon & Eckhardt is a full service communications agency with complete advertising, direct marketing and public relations capabilities. We are looking for several software engineers with an interest in object oriented programming, user interface design, multimedia and relational databases for our Dallas office. Development will focus on productivity and information management applications using C, C++, Object-C, PostScript, Unix and NEXTSTEP. Located on the Mandalay Canal in Las Colinas, Bozell offers competitive pay, private offices and great hardware. Junior level positions available. Please send cover letter and resume to: Jeff Martin Director of Software Engineering Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon & Eckhardt, Inc. 201 E. Carpenter Freeway Irving, TX 75062 jmartin@bjke.com FAX: (214) 830 - 2687
From: grio@NeXT.COM (Dan Grillo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NeXTanswers email & faxback temporarily broken Date: 23 Jan 1995 22:54:21 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3g1tld$jk0@digifix.digifix.com> NeXTanswers email (nextanswers@next.com) and faxback (415-780-3990) are currently broken. We expect to have it fixed tomorrow morning. NeXTanswers WWW (http://www.next.com/), ftp (ftp.next.com) and BBS (415-780-2965) should all be working. Thank you for your patience. Dan Grillo Premium Support Engineer NeXT Technical Support
From: khare@xent.caltech.edu (Rohit Khare) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: SCaN: Andy Stone @ Caltech, Pasadena, Feb. 2 Date: 23 Jan 1995 23:43:31 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3g20hj$jqf@digifix.digifix.com> SCaN/CaJUN Meeting * February 2nd, Caltech, Pasadena ==================================================== Andy Stone Returns! ==================================================== 6:30 Social / 7:30 Meeting / 9:30 Cleanup Jorgensen 74 (Computer Science), Caltech, Pasadena Contact: khare@caltech.edu or ernest@cco.caltech.edu ==================================================== REPORTS | DEMOS | NeXT DEVELOPER EXPO 95 | STONE DESIGN NeXT has replaced the | Create!, drawing & illustration annual NeXTSTEP Expo with a | Dataphile, personal database series of regional DevCons... | 3DReality, Renderman scenes | OPENSTEP NEWS | NeXTSTEP 3.3 OpenStep/Solaris for SPARC, | New! Mail.app with MIME support Intel, and PowerPC boxes. | Improved graphical network tools OpenStep/OSF1 for DEC Alpha | NEXTIME DIGITAL VIDEO Rumors of OS on Windows 96 | Quad-Fat Developer apps nvgi | IP Muliticast kernel support _Your_ international UG! | SCaN WWW PAGE Community standards, events | http://xent.caltech.edu/SCaN SCaN is a group for NeXTSTEP and OpenStep users in Southern California. NeXTSTEP is an object-oriented operating environment available for NeXT, Intel and HP hardware, and will soon be available for SPARC systems. OpenStep is an open object standard which will be implemented on NeXTSTEP, SUN Solaris, and DEC OSF/1-Alpha in 1995. scan@csulb.edu CaJUN stands for "Caltech & JPL Users of NeXTSTEP". Send mail to cajun@cco for more information.
From: khare@xent.caltech.edu (Rohit Khare) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MAILING LIST: WebStep - a standards effort for W3-aware document management Date: 23 Jan 1995 23:45:02 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3g20ke$jqt@digifix.digifix.com> WebStep - a standards effort for W3-aware document management "The mission of WebStep is to bring developers together to build a small, open set of tools to facilitate W3 work under NeXTSTEP/OpenStep" Agenda: * Define interchangeable file & pasteboard formats for - W3 URLs, URIs, URNs - HTML Pasteboard type * Specify the .htmd/.htmld document types * References to selections within NS documents * Opening URLs in compatible applications * Explore encodings from NeXTSTEP & Symbol to HTML * Expore whether such standards can be sponsored by the nugi Pubishing SIG, nugi-exec, W3O, or NeXT. This is an open, unmoderated, ASCII list: WebStep@mail.xent.caltech.edu Developers: Rohit, Greg, Marco, Dan, & Ken WebStep-announce@mail.xent.caltech.edu Interested Parties, hopefully very low volume WebStep-request@mail.xent.caltech.edu To be added, removed, or moved to WebStep. http://xent.caltech.edu/WebStep Archives, documents, etc.
From: Thomas Engel <tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: ClassEditor v0.2 Trustable and working. Ready to replace Edit. Date: 27 Jan 1995 16:13:59 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3gbnmn$4eu@digifix.digifix.com> Release 0.2, 25.01.1995 by Thomas Engel (tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org) Submitted to: ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Developer/apps ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/programming/ClassEditor.0.2.NI.bsd.tar.gz The ClassEditor ATTENTION..you need gnutar and gzip to unpack this package. This editor allows you to modify class definitions on a per-method basis. In additon to offering a method browser it will make it very simple to keep the documentation in sync with your code. Both elements are shown side by side. The ideal situation would be to maintain a documentation file from the first moment since creating a new class or method. ClassEditor is able to create the docu temples for you in this release. It also helps you to stick to NeXTs layout by offering a style menu In the worst case you should think about this project as a RFD (request for discussion). Let's start a news thread on what you expect from advanced development tools. Maybe someone at NeXT might find new ideas for NeXTSTEP 4.0 in there. What it does ClassEditor opens a set of MyClass.m, MyClass.h and MyClass.rtf files and displays them. You can edit and view the class on a per-method basis or see all three files at once inside the "cheat window". Modifying existing classes that are not spread accross more then those three files is quite safe. Adding methods is possible from inside the "cheat window" but introduces some rough edges. See the bugs section for details.
From: wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu (Wassim M. Jabi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: EggTimer.0.1.N.b.tar.gz --- Simple Reminder App Date: 27 Jan 1995 16:14:56 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3gbnog$4fc@digifix.digifix.com> I've placed EggTimer.0.1.N.b.tar.gz (EggTimer.app v0.1) on: ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/submissions/E ggTimer.0.1.N.b.tar.gz and to: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/binaries/misc/EggTimer.0.1.N.b.tar.gz If all goes well, it should move to: ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Tools/workspa ce/EggTimer.0.1.N.b.tar.gz EggTimer.app is a simple reminder application that brings up an attention panel and (optionally) plays a sound at a user-definable interval. Between reminders, the application remains hidden. You can type any message you want in the reminder panel. For now, EggTimer.app v0.1is compiled only for m68k (black hardware). EggTimer.app is freeware, no warranty is implied, use at your own risk. If you do use it please report your impressions, suggestions, and bug reports by e-mail to the address below. Thank you. Wassim M. Jabi wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu NeXTMail & MIME friendly
From: Moritz Willers <willers@butp.unibe.ch> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: nextispell-0.8 Date: 27 Jan 1995 16:16:36 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3gbnrk$4gl@digifix.digifix.com> I'm glad to announce the SUBMISSION of : nextispell-0.8 Release 0.8, Fri Jan 27 14:28:36 GMT+0100 1995 by Moritz Willers University of Bern Institute for Theoretical Physics Sidlerstr. 5 CH - 3012 Bern Switzerland willers@butp.unibe.ch (NeXTMail, MIME) Availabe at: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/sources/util/nextispell-0.8.tar.gz or http://www-itp.unibe.ch/~willers/Software/nextispell-0.8.tar.gz nextispell is a daemon establishing the connection between ispell (by Geoff Kuenning) and the NeXT spell panel. ispell is a very flexible spelling correction program. Provided with a word list and rules ispell checks your text in any language. ispell also has a special tex mode which is very handy for scientists like me. nextispell brings all this strength into the NeXT GUI. You need to have ispell installed, then nextispell may easily be configured and installed. (The spell server invokes ispell and communicates with it via a pipe) nextispell is still worked on. Version 0.8 should however be _the_ version for some time. There is a bug in the NXSpellServer which has to be fixed by NeXT before I release a nextispell 1.0. This may still take till NS 4.0. Everyone is strongly advised to upgrade. It's worth it and installation is now a lot easier! Thanks to Detlev Droege and Geoff Kuenning for new ideas and thanks to Christoph Hauert for his ever patient help. Not to forget Brian Hill at NeXT for checking out a bug in NS 3.x for me.
From: jcircuit@aol.com (JCircuit) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: OO developer wanted Philadelphia - reinsurance Date: 29 Jan 1995 02:52:38 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3gfhg6$dg0@digifix.digifix.com> IOA Re, a Reinsurance Underwriting Management firm, is looking for an OO programmer, preferably Objective C experienced, C++ a must. Oracle preffered, database & SQL a must. We're looking for someone with at least 1 year experience. Salary commensurate with experience, and benefits are excellent. We are doing some exciting things... developing in NeXT and porting over to a Windows client. Come join our team and stay on the cutting edge. Reply to OOPosition@aol.com
From: ems@its.com (Ted Shelton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: ITS, Canon and Pages Introduce WWW Document Authoring System at Web World Date: 29 Jan 1995 02:54:07 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3gfhiv$dg7@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Tracy Kugelman ITSolutions/East (617) 787-1002 http://www.its.com/ Lisa Glick ITSolutions/Chicago (312) 474-7700 http://www.its.com/ Susan Peterson Pages Software Inc (619) 492-9050 ext 225 http://www.pages.com/ Lisa Larkin Canon -CCSI/ATO (503) 681-2533 IT SOLUTIONS, CANON, AND PAGES INTRODUCE WORLD WIDE WEB DOCUMENT AUTHORING SYSTEM AT INAUGURAL WEB WORLD CONFERENCE Neticity Workstation provides a breakthrough turnkey World Wide Web authoring solution Chicago, IL, January 30, 1995 ± ITSolutions, in conjunction with strategic partners, Canon, and Pages, today announced the Neticity Workstation, a revolutionary workstation that eliminates the traditional hurdles involved in World Wide Web (WWW) document authoring. The Neticity Workstation is premiering in thePages Software booth (D) at Web World, Orlando, FL ± January 30-31, 1995. With the introduction of their Neticity Workstation, ITSolutions, a Chicago-based systems integration firm, in partnership with Pages, a leading ObjectBased application developer, and Canon Computer Systems, Inc., a world-wide manufacturer of computers and other electronic products, together offer Web users a complete system for the seamless creation of Web documents. ŖThe World Wide Web is the premier vehicle for companies to publish information on the Internet,ŗ said Ted Shelton, president and CEO for ITSolutions. ŖUntil now, it has been difficult to create and maintain WWW information without direct knowledge of the HyperText Markup Language (HTML). With WebPages by Pages and the ITSolutions Neticity Workstation, companies have an easy-to-use, turnkey Web page authoring solution.ŗ At the core of the Neticity Workstation is Pages' new WWW Authoring tool, WebPages by Pages(tm). WebPages enables you to create near-WYSIWYG HTML documents and Web pages without requiring any knowledge of HTML. It simplifies document linking and provides the functionality necessary to create professional looking documents, without the use of graphical editing tools. Documents created in WebPages use a drag-and-drop user-interface that adds heads, graphics, and links to other documents -- all to greatly simplify the task of creating hyper text documents. For more information on WebPages, please see the Pages Web Page: http://www.pages.com/. ŖWe are pleased to work with ITSolutions and Canon,ŗ said Larry Spelhaug, Pages' CEO, ŖWe know many potential users will want the ability to have a complete authoring solution. ITSolutions' reputation for superior services, combined with the object.station's elegant technology enable customers to have a professional turnkey solution to run WebPages.ŗ The Neticity Workstation is based on Canon's object.station 41 [tm], a workstation class Intel-based machine, specifically optimized for the NEXTSTEP operating system. Because of the object.station's exceptional multi-tasking performance, it is an ideal platform for the graphically intensive task of creating WWW information. ŖThe Neticity workstation is a response to the market's demands for simplified WWW authoring tools,ŗ said Dale Fuller, director of marketing at CCSI's Advanced Technologies Operation. ŖCombining the expertise of ITSolutions, with Pages' exciting new WebPages software and Canon's object.station technology, gives users the tools needed for rapid Web document development.ŗ Pricing for the Neticity Workstation starts at under $10,000 for a completely integrated, ready to use Web Authoring system. Users get a 32 MB, 1 GB workstation with a 17" color monitor, the NEXTSTEP operating system, WebPages, a graphical image editing tool, and a library of images, icons, and sample WWW pages. ITSolutions also offers a range of installation, training, and creative consulting services to help companies get the most out of their Neticity workstation. For more information on the Neticity Workstation, please see the ITS Web Page; http://www.its.com/. About ITSolutions ITSolutions, headquartered in Chicago, IL was founded in 1990 as a software and consulting firm specializing in object technology. ITSolutions is a NeXT Object Channel partner, a Canon object.station reseller, and provides a wide variety of technical products and services for enterprise messaging systems, object oriented development, and Internet connectivity. About Pages Pages Software Inc, located at 9755 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., San Diego, California 92124, is a leading developer of ObjectBased productivity applications. Pages was founded in June 1990, with the intent to lead the document processing software industry with easy-to-use, productive solutions for all levels of office professionals. The company's products, initially available on NEXTSTEP, are planned for multiple computer platforms and operating systems. About CCSI Founded in 1992, Canon Computer Systems, Inc. is chartered to lead Canon's efforts in the U.S. computing market. The company develops and markets desktop and notebook PCs, scanners, and printers under the Canon brand name using its proven Bubble Jet, laser and other Canon technologies. Through its recently formed Advanced Technologies Operation (ATO), CCSI supplies optimized personal workstation products for Fortune 1000 companies and supports user workgroups and enterprise computing requirements worldwide. CCSI is headquartered in Costa Mesa, CA, and the ATO is based in Portland, OR. # # # Neticity is a trademark of ITSolutions. WebPages by Pages and ObjectBased are trademarks of Pages Software Inc. NeXT, NEXTSTEP, and OpenStep are trademarks or registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. object.station is a trademark of Canon Computer Systems. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: cmcgrail@NeXT.COM (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: NeXTAnswers Product Manager Date: 3 Feb 1995 16:32:38 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3gu7dm$qrn@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about new products, open positions To access the Web the command it http://www.next.com/ ***************************************************************** Position: NeXTanswers Product Manager Department: Support Primary Responsibility To manage our proactive support tools, ie. NeXTanswers and our Web site, so that they can easily scale to meet the demands of an expanding information tree and a larger customer base. Specific Responsibilities Manage NeXTanswers as a business. This person would be responsible for determining both the expense and revenue opportunities that go along with creating and maintaining our proactive tools. Report measurements regularly in order to show increase or decrease of usage and also to identify popular documents. Evangelize NeXTanswers internally and externally as being THE place for NeXT information. Identify and respond to customer demands/suggestions that are made about NeXTanswers, ie. the main point of contact for any and all NeXTanswers issues. Work with support engineers to make sure that NeXTanswers information is being added/modified on a regular basis. Manage interdepartmental relationships required to keep NeXTanswers up-to-date with current information. Maintain and develop policies regarding the submission and maintenance of documents in the NeXTanswers system. Develop the proficiency to make changes in the code and scripts that are used to maintain the NeXTanswers system, ie. act as a back-up to the engineering resources for developing NeXTanswers. Skills and Background Required 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. Familiarity with WWW, HTML, perl, and/or C/Objective C is a plus. ***************************************************************** NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063
From: cmcgrail@NeXT.COM (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: Consulting Engineers; Object Expert Program Date: 3 Feb 1995 16:33:01 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3gu7ed$qru@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about new products, open positions To access the Web the command it http://www.next.com/ ***************************************************************** Position: Consulting Engineers Department: Object Expert Engineering Primary Responsibilities: The Object Expert will provide expedient technical assistance and proactive information to keep NEXTSTEP projects moving forward through first hand exposure to a customer's business goals, hands-on access to project specifications and designs, and face-to-face relationship building with project leaders, development teams, and third parties. This dedicated NeXT engineer will be a focal point for the resolution of day-to-day project issues and will act as the customer's conduit to the expertise of NEXT's Premium Support and Engineering staff who specialize in various aspects of NEXTSTEP. Specific Role & Responsibilities a full-time, dedicated, on-site NEXTSTEP expert analysis, design, and programming assistance a conduit between the customer and NeXT to resolve technical issues and facilitate the adoption of new NeXT technologies into the customers developmentenvironment optimal use of the NEXTSTEP development tools and environment assistance with application planning, integration, and testing ongoing "knowledge transfer" of object oriented concepts third party solutions selection and guidance assistance to project leaders in assessing team skills and mapping team strengths to facilitate NEXTSTEP development weekly project meetings with customer management to review project status, pending technical issues,and associated resolutions. Educational, Experience & Skills Requirements BS degree in related field such as Math, Physics, Computer Science or Engineering. 4+ years experience software development experience, with at least two years of experience in NEXTSTEP development. A solid understanding of the software development process, including object oriented analysis & design. Prior experience with setting and managing customer expectations is a plus. ***************************************************************** NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063
From: cmcgrail@NeXT.COM (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: Intel OEM Manager Date: 3 Feb 1995 16:33:23 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3gu7f3$qs5@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about new products, open positions To access the Web the command it http://www.next.com/ ***************************************************************** Position: Intel OEM Manager Department: Product Marketing Primary Responsibility Manage relationships with strategic PC system vendors. This position includes classical OEM account management, as well as establishing programs and priorities for NeXT's efforts in supporting the relevant systems. In addition, this person is responsible for insuring NeXT's PC partners are technically supported by the NEXTSTEP product offering. Specific Responsibilities In-bound: Provide SW Engineering & SQA, etc. early information/specs on systems well before the releases the these products Understand and communicate the Product Roadmap from strategic PC vendors. Make initial recommendations for NS Driver development to Driver Team. Responsible for the NEXTSTEP Intel Compatibility Experts Program (NICE) Manage day-to-day contact with "NICE" partners Recruit PC partners and customers to join the program Track, document, and publish list of "NICE" systems as part of the Hardware Compatibility Guide Track all hardware configurations through process Provide status on HW in queue Out-bound: Initiate partnerships to capture PC partners' product plans/features in order to incorporate into NS drivers plans. Represent NeXT to PC vendors to promote NEXTSTEP technology. Understand and communicate the NeXT's Product Roadmap to strategic partners. Support OEMs in their NEXTSTEP sales efforts. Act as a liason between OEM and NeXT (e.g. PR, Events, Sales) etc. Key driver in OEM recruitment / negotiation Coordinate Joint Sales/Marketing activities Drive incremental business through OEM partners Position Requirements Ability to provide business / technical direction and leadership Demonstrated ability to determine priorities and drive a project to completion with minimal support/direction Process-oriented, and experience in a position that required the candidate to define and implement process across organizations Attention to detail and strong sense of quality Strong technical PC background, with extensive hands-on knowledge of hardware and peripherals. A general understanding of the Intel hardware market A broad-based technical background with respect to OS offerings Experienced in initiating, developing and strengthening corporate and third-party vendor relationships Excellent communication skills both written and verbal Good interpersonal skills Experience in leading cross-functional teams 3+ years of progressively more responsible technical marketing or technical program management in a system software, computer or peripherals environment. Alternatively, the successful candidate could have an engineering background with experience managing third-party relationships BS in technical field plus 5+ years experience in marketing technical software products,or 2+ years marketing experience with an MBA. ***************************************************************** NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063
From: cmcgrail@NeXT.COM (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: Intel Program Manager Date: 3 Feb 1995 16:33:35 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3gu7ff$qsd@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about new products, open positions To access the Web the command it http://www.next.com/ ***************************************************************** Position:Intel Program Manager Department: Unix Deployment, Product Marketing Intel Program Overview The Intel Program for NeXT consists of the day-to-day operations in supporting Intel hardware vendors such that NEXTSTEP supports the broadest array of Intel hardware products possible. This program includes classical IHV management, as well as establishing programs and priorities for NeXT's efforts in supporting the relevant hardware components. In addition, this group is responsible for insuring NeXT's PC partners are technically supported by the NEXTSTEP product offering. Responsibilities: Responsible for leading a cross-functional team responsible for defining the Intel hardware support strategy, and implementing that strategy within NeXT. This person will also have to take on the added responsibility of IHV relationship management. Intel Program Deliverables: Provide SW Engineering & SQA, etc. early information/specs on cards and chipsets well before IHV Program releases the product Understand and communicate the Product Roadmap from assigned vendors Driver Deliverables: Represent NeXT to PC and Hardware vendors to promote NEXTSTEP technology Initiate partnerships to capture IHV product plans/features in order to incorporate into NS drivers plans Negotiate contracts and agreements for NeXT with third-party driver developers Make initial recommendations for NS Driver development to Driver Team. Manage the Driver Process lifecycle from concept to release. Develop Driver Product Plans as required for assigned vendors Responsible for the NeXT Hardware Compatibility Guide HW Process Deliverables: Responsible for the Hardware Certification Process Modify and refine as required Track all hardware configurations through process Provide status on HW in queue Position Requirements: Ability to provide business / technical direction and leadership Demonstrated ability to determine priorities and drive a project to completion with minimal support/direction Process-oriented, and experience in a position that required the candidate to define and implement process across organizations Attention to detail and strong sense of quality Strong technical PC background, with extensive hands-on knowledge of hardware and peripherals. A general understanding of the Intel hardware market A broad-based technical background with respect to OS offerings Experienced in initiating, developing and strengthening corporate and third-party vendor relationships Excellent communication skills both written and verbal Good interpersonal skills Experience in leading cross-functional teams 3+ years of progressivetechnical marketing or technical program management experience in a system software, computer or peripherals environment. Alternatively, the successful candidate could have an engineering background with experience managing third-party relationships BS in technical field plus five years experience in marketing technical software products, or 2-3 years marketing experience with an MBA. ***************************************************************** NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063
From: cmcgrail@NeXT.COM (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: Programs Specialist, Marcom Date: 3 Feb 1995 16:33:41 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3gu7fl$qsm@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about new products, open positions To access the Web the command it http://www.next.com/ ***************************************************************** Position:Programs Specialist Department: Marketing Communications Primary Responsibilities: Design, implement, and manage external programs to fill and provide continuous pull thru the NeXT sales pipeline. Specific Responsibilities Develop and execute national sales programs Developand implement on-going demand creation and prospecting programs (seminars, tradeshows, partner events, etc.) targeting key IS management in major metro cities with an emphasis on the major verticals of financial, telecommunications, and government Provide assistance to field sales conducting regional seminars and demo sessions in cities outside of major metro areas; Work with marketing and technical teams to create and update seminar demonstrations, presentations, and related materials; Work with marketing and sales to create specific seminar breakouts for vertical market development, ISV recruitment events, etc.; Solicit and coordinate participation from third-parties, partners, prospects,and customers thru communications (direct mail, internet, WWW, partners, etc) Leverage and integrate programs to generate consistent message and continuous pull thru appropriate segments of sales cycle; Oversee all seminar/events logistics; Manage follow-up with sales including seminar lead distribution, attendee evaluation and feedback, seminar promotion sales status, etc. Work with appropriate NeXT departments, especially Professional Services to promote/integrate programs Oversee the development and distribution of outbound communications with the NEXTSTEP community - base-level communications as appropriate, residual from former program Oversee the development and distribution of sales tools and miscellaneous sales tools and marketing and sales programs Examples of tools include; Sales Presentation Binder CD-ROMs Catalogs Assist with development and maintenance of NeXT's prospect/customer database as it related to external programs Assist with developer conferences as appropriate Cross-functional team coordination Other projects as required Skillset and Experience Required: 3-5 years experience in marketing or sales programs Experience in sales seminar development and execution Related technical marketing experience, familiarity or desire to learn OO technology and positioning Understanding of the sales cycle and the needs of the direct sales force Excellent verbal and written skills BS degree or equivalent experience ***************************************************************** NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063
From: cmcgrail@NeXT.COM (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Open Positions at NeXT! (TITLES) Date: 3 Feb 1995 16:33:51 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3gu7fv$qsv@digifix.digifix.com> The following positions are available at NeXT. If you wish to view job descriptions for each of these titles, please refer to other internet postings captioned with the job titles or view the World Wide Web NeXT Page for Open Positions at NeXT. E-mail: "resumes@next.com" To fax resumes: 415-780-4554 Open Positions at NeXT! Marketing - Technical Marketing Manager Programs Specialist Intel Product Marketing Manager Intel OEM Manager Professional Services - Consulting Engineers - Object Expert Program NeXTanswers Product Manager Premium Developer Support Engineer SupportLine Engineer Engineering - Software Engineer Development Environment Engineer Sr. Development Engineer ( EOF) Release Control Engineer, Release Engineering Compiler and Runtime Engineer Sales - Systems Consultant - Chicago Telemarketing Representatives Temporary positions - Pre-release engineers Functionality Tester
From: cmcgrail@NeXT.COM (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: Technical Marketing Manager Date: 3 Feb 1995 16:34:00 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3gu7g8$qt7@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about new products, open positions To access the Web the command it http://www.next.com/ ***************************************************************** Position: Technical Marketing Manager Department: Marketing Communications, Redwood City, CA Primary Responsibilities Primarily provides the technical expertise necessary to explain, support, and evangelize NEXTSTEP. Regularly interacts with senior NeXT management and must have the appropriate maturity and communication skills. Significant travel (~50%) required. General responsibilities: Technical presentations to all levels of customers, industry analysts, and industry press Development and delivery of seminars and tutorials Rapid prototyping for feasibility analysis and demonstration Competitive Analysis Sales Tools Technical marketing writing/editing resource Management of Corporate SC Liaise with Engineering as appropriate Position Requirements: Ability to articulate technically complex issues to a wide variety of audiences Demonstrated aptitude for working independently as well as within a group Strong problem solving skills Excellent verbal and written communication skills Ability to "think on your feet" Ability to prioritize multiple tasks Ability to deliver consistently under pressure Ability to master technical concepts and tasks quickly Strong initiative Excellent working knowledge of sales cycle/process Technical Position Requirements: UNIX system administration in a heterogeneous networking environment NEXTSTEP & Objective-C programming Windowing application development (NeXTSTEP, Macintosh, X11, MSWindows, etc.) Teaching experience GUI design and implementation Database application development (Sybase, Oracle, etc.) TCP/IP, NFS, YP/NIS, distributed application design Advanced application development experience in one of C, FORTRAN, Smalltalk Mac / PC / workstation application development and use B.S. in technical discipline or equivalent 4+ years experience in a computer-related field ***************************************************************** NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063
From: cmcgrail@NeXT.COM (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: Premium Developer Support Engineers Date: 3 Feb 1995 16:35:40 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3gu7jc$qud@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about new products, open positions To access the Web the command it http://www.next.com/ ***************************************************************** Position:Premium Developer Support Engineers Department:Professional Services, Customer Support Locations: Redwood City, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. Primary Responsibilities: Lead technical contact for 4-5 corporate accounts including on-site support for critical issues. Provide solutions to technical problems for developers in a variety of areas of NEXTSTEP and object oriented program design. Responsible for providing technical account management as well as supporting corporate customers in the development of NEXTSTEP applications software. Requirements: BSCS or equivalent, In depth knowledge of NEXTSTEP development and object oriented programming,NEXTSTEP development experience with DBKit and/or EOF, At least 2 years of commercial experience in one or more of the following areas: *Misson Critical Custom Application development *Object Oriented Design *Rapid prototyping of productivity applications *Account management or on-site technical support Excellent problem solving and problem avoidance skills Excellent written and oral communication skills Additional Success Factors: * On-site development support * Database development * Programming with object-oriented programming languages such as Objective-C or C++. * Distributed application development using Distributed Objects, RPC, or sockets * Microsoft Windows development ***************************************************************** NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063
From: cmcgrail@NeXT.COM (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: Compiler Engineer Date: 3 Feb 1995 18:01:35 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3guckf$s2k@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about new products, open positions To access the Web the command is http://www.next.com/ ***************************************************************** Position: Compiler and Runtime Engineer Department: Development Environment Primary responsibilities: Design, development and maintenance of the Objective C, C, and C++ compilers and runtime systems. Specific Responsibilities: maintenance and bug fixing for gcc and the Objective C runtime coordinating changes with FSF and NeXT's porting groups implementation of new compiler and runtime features responsible for portions of the debugger that has to do with dynamic shared libraries improving our C++ support in general optimizations of the Objective C runtime for shared libraries improving the performance of the shared library codegeneration Position Requirements: experience with working on compilers interest in working on runtime systems knowledge of at least one machine architecture including stack frame layouts and calling conventions knowledge of debuggers, assemblers, loaders helpful experience with optimizing software systems in general would be a plus. experience working with FSF would be a plus experience working with GCC would be a plus Education and Experience: B.S in Computer Science or related field 2+ years relevant experience. ***************************************************************** NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063
From: cmcgrail@NeXT.COM (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NeXT: Development Environment Engineer Date: 3 Feb 1995 17:59:04 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3gucfo$rts@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about new products, open positions To access the Web the command it http://www.next.com/ ***************************************************************** Position: Software Engineer Department: Development Environment, Engineering Primary responsibilities: Development, maintenance, and enhancement of ProjectBuilder. Refine the existing product based on customer feedback. This includes debugging, modification of existing features and implementation of new features. Specific responsibilities: * Development & maintenance of ProjectBuilder * Implementation of specific aspects of ProjectBuilder including (possibly) SCM integration, class browser, documentation integration, *InterfaceBuilder integration, editor enhancements, "syntax" coloring, other tools integration etc. * Debugging and performance tuning of ProjectBuilder Position Requirements: * Interest in building an integrated development environment * Experience building an integrated development environment a plus Education and Experience: * B.S. or equivalent in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or equivalent. * 3+ years industrial experience. Additional Success Factors: * Knowledge of NeXTSTEP & appkit programming ***************************************************************** NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063
From: cmcgrail@NeXT.COM (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: Development Environment Engineer Date: 3 Feb 1995 17:59:14 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3gucg2$ru6@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about new products, open positions To access the Web the command it http://www.next.com/ ***************************************************************** Position: Software Engineer Department: Development Environment, Engineering Primary responsibilities: Development, maintenance, and enhancement of ProjectBuilder. Refine the existing product based on customer feedback. This includes debugging, modification of existing features and implementation of new features. Specific responsibilities: * Development & maintenance of ProjectBuilder * Implementation of specific aspects of ProjectBuilder including (possibly) SCM integration, class browser, documentation integration, *InterfaceBuilder integration, editor enhancements, "syntax" coloring, other tools integration etc. * Debugging and performance tuning of ProjectBuilder Position Requirements: * Interest in building an integrated development environment * Experience building an integrated development environment a plus Education and Experience: * B.S. or equivalent in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or equivalent. * 3+ years industrial experience. Additional Success Factors: * Knowledge of NeXTSTEP & appkit programming ***************************************************************** NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063
From: cmcgrail@NeXT.COM (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: SupportLine Engineering Date: 3 Feb 1995 17:59:24 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3gucgc$rud@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about new products, open positions To access the Web the command it http://www.next.com/ ***************************************************************** Position: SupportLine Engineer Department: Support Primary Responsibility This person will work on the SupportLine Team within the NeXT Support group. The position is located in Redwood City. This job is an integral part of the support department. The position can develop the foundation for any technical career at NeXT, for both system administrators and developers. Specific Responsibilities 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. 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. Help customers in tracking down known problems or bugs in NEXTSTEP. Using our bug-tracking application, the SupportLine Engineer will work with software engineering to report and update bug information. Use our support problem-tracking application to log support calls. This person will gather as much information as the customer can provide about the question/problem. Attempt to answer all Tier I and Tier II post-sales technical questions and problems. This includes all installation questions and a large percentage of incoming system administration and developer questions from SystemLine, ObjectLine and pay-per-call customers. Generally, all questions and problems that have documented solutions and/or take less than 2 hours to resolve are considered within Tier I and Tier II. Root cause analysis of problems which fall outside of Tier I and Tier II. Take responsiblity for calling back customers on questions and problems when it's appropriate. Co-manage NeXTanswers by identifying the need for new documents, keeping current documents up-to-date, and delegating writing responsiblities to the rest of support, including SupportLine. Each member of the team is also responsible for the administrative tasks required to maintain NeXTanswers. Work on projects relevant to support as assigned. Support the Telesales team in answering technical pre-sales questions received. Skills and Background Required Bachelor's degree. (Computer Science or equivalent preferred) Fundamental technical understanding of NEXTSTEP and its market. Must also have PC hardware knowledge. Ability to work well both independently and as a team member. Excellent oral and written communications skills, especially in communicating technical information. Excellent problem-solving/analytical skills. Experience with technical support required. ***************************************************************** NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063
From: cmcgrail@NeXT.COM (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: Release Engineer Date: 3 Feb 1995 17:59:35 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3gucgn$ruk@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about new products, open positions To access the Web the command it http://www.next.com/ ***************************************************************** Position: Release Engineer Department: Release Control, Engineering Overall Role Develop and enhance tools to support Release Engineering processes. Perform system administrative and other operational tasks. Specific Responsibilities This person will design and develop tools to build, master, verify, and archive NeXT software releases. Possible development projects include: Distributed builds Multi-CDROM production for internal distribution Investigation of TeamNet version control software for use in Release Engineering Project attribute database Required Background, Education, Skills and Experience A candidate for this position must possess the following qualifications: 4 year Computer Science or Engineering or related degree, or equivalent experience. 3 or more years experience in the software industry. Extensive Unix programming experience. Additional Success Factors: Familiarity with Perl. 1-2 years experience with release integration of large software systems. Object oriented and distributed programming experience. Unix system and network administration experience. PC hardware experience. ***************************************************************** NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063
From: cmcgrail@NeXT.COM (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: Release Engineer Date: 3 Feb 1995 17:59:49 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3guch5$rv7@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about new products, open positions To access the Web the command it http://www.next.com/ ***************************************************************** Position: Release Engineer Department: Release Control, Engineering Overall Role Develop and enhance tools to support Release Engineering processes. Perform system administrative and other operational tasks. Specific Responsibilities This person will design and develop tools to build, master, verify, and archive NeXT software releases. Possible development projects include: Distributed builds Multi-CDROM production for internal distribution Investigation of TeamNet version control software for use in Release Engineering Project attribute database Required Background, Education, Skills and Experience A candidate for this position must possess the following qualifications: 4 year Computer Science or Engineering or related degree, or equivalent experience. 3 or more years experience in the software industry. Extensive Unix programming experience. Additional Success Factors: Familiarity with Perl. 1-2 years experience with release integration of large software systems. Object oriented and distributed programming experience. Unix system and network administration experience. PC hardware experience. ***************************************************************** NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063
From: cmcgrail@NeXT.COM (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: EOF Development Engineer Date: 3 Feb 1995 18:00:06 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3guchm$s0l@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about new products, open positions To access the Web the command it http://www.next.com/ ***************************************************************** Position: Senior Development Engineer Department: Enterprise Object Framework (EOF), Engineering Primary Responsibilities: The person filling this position will be part of the Enterprise Object (EO) Framework engineering group and will be responsible for designing, implementing, testing, and maintaining major components of the EO Framework with particular emphasis on the user interface oriented components and tools. Specific Responsibilities: Work with team members on design and implementation of next version of EO Framework Work with customers and management team to understand, assess, and prioritize requirements for subsequent releases of the product Drive usability testing Design and implement ease-of-use features Evaluate other products Position Requirements: Fluency in object oriented implementation language and environment (preferably Objective C and NEXTSTEP) Expert in graphical user interface design and implementation Fluency in C Experience in usability testing and evaluation Experience in Object Oriented design and implementation methodology Experience in shipping high volume products on tight schedules Excellent team skills Excellent problem solving skills Excellent communication skills Education and Experience: Engineering background: 5 - 8 years BSCS or equivalent Additional Success Factors: Experience in 4GL Multi-platform experience (UNIX, PC) Relational DBMS experience Object Oriented DBMS experience NEXTSTEP development experience Experience with Object Oriented Analysis and Design tools Experience in enterprise-wide distributed systems ***************************************************************** NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063
From: cmcgrail@NeXT.COM (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NeXT: Systems Consultants - Chicago office Date: 3 Feb 1995 18:03:56 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3gucos$s3l@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about new products, open positions To access the Web the command is http://www.next.com/ ***************************************************************** Position: Systems Consultant/Sr. Systems Consultant Department: Sales - Communications, Chicago Primary responsibility: The technical and business partner to a District Sales Manager facilitating the district's business and revenue goals by senior-level technical account management, high-quality pre-sales consulting, qualifying opportunities, and strategically creating solutions to close business. Reports to the Regional Systems Consulting Manager. Specific responsibilities:Pre-sales Help DSM qualify opportunities, establish specific account plans and strategies, and develop territory plans efficiently utilizing appropriate corporate third party resources Respond to the technical sections of RFP's and assist DSM in determining feasibility and business justification Analyze sales prospects' needs and propose the best possible NeXT solution Create and deliver product demonstrations, presentations, and prototypes which map NeXT features and benefits to prospects' needs Provide on-going technical support to qualified prospects conducting evaluations. This may include: hardware configuration and software installation, training, trouble-shooting, technical consultation Prepare and perform benchmarks when appropriate Regional Technical Support Have and further develop an area of NeXTSTEP-related technical expertise which is valuable to the district and the region as a whole Draw upon competitive knowledge and experience to advise sales reps of NeXT's positioning Marketing and Product Support Assist other organizations with product input, pre-release support, and feedback Provide leadership and support for trade shows, conferences, and marketing events Position Requirements: Excellent written and verbal communications are essential Position is based in the Chicago office Significant travel involved Skillset, Education and Experience: B.S./M.S. Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or Engineering. Three or more years experience in computer science or systems consulting/engineering, preferably in a sales environment. Expertise in one or more of the following areas: software development (C, Unix, OOT preferably), graphics, Unix, communications & networking, object oriented programming, window systems & UI tools. ***************************************************************** NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063
From: annalea@its.com (Annalea Sommerville) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: LoopGroup February 9th Date: 3 Feb 1995 16:40:02 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3gu7ri$qvo@digifix.digifix.com> There is a change in date for all future LoopGroup meetings. Meetings will now take place on the second Thursday of each month at 6:30pm. (previously held on the last Tuesday of each month) The meeting on Thursday, February 9th, will feature Ted Shelton, President and CEO of ITSolutions, discussing the Neticity workstation; a revolutionary workstation that eliminates the traditional hurdles involved in World Wide Web (WWW) document authoring. The Neticity workstation premiered in the Pages Software booth at Web World, Orlando, FL - January 30 - 31, 1995. With the introduction of their Neticity Workstation, ITSolutions in partnership with Pages, a leading ObjectBased application developer, and Canon Computer Systems, Inc., a world-wide manufacturer of computers and other electronic products, together offer Web users a complete system for the seamless creation of Web documents. Join Ted Shelton, on Thursday, February 9th at 6:30pm to see a demo of the Neticity Workstation in action! If you have not already looked at our web sites you might want to --> http://www.its.com/ http://www.pages.com/ These were created with the tool and also describe it in some detail. Information Technology Solutions, Inc. 500 West Madison Street, Suite 2210 Chicago, IL 60661 312-474-7700 800-394-4487 annalea@its.com
From: Denise Schneider <Denise_Schneider@NeXT.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NeXT Sponsors "NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Days" at Application Development Conference & Exposition Date: 3 Feb 1995 16:45:35 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3gu85v$r27@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Karen Logsdon NeXT Computer, Inc. 415-780-3786 or Lisa Hahn Copithorne & Bellows 415-975-2226 NeXT Sponsors "NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Days" at Application Development Conference & Exposition Steve Jobs to Keynote Conference on April 4 in New York City REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-February 3, 1995-NeXT Computer, Inc. is sponsoring "NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Days" in conjunction with the Application Development Conference and Exposition, hosted by CMP Publications, Inc. and Software Productivity Group, in New York City. A keynote presentation by Steven P. Jobs, Chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer, Inc., will kick-off the entire event including NeXT's two-day NEXTSTEP/OpenStep conference track held April 4 & 5. NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Days is targeted at CIOs, MIS managers, business executives and application developers with an emphasis on financial services. The NeXT-sponsored sessions are the first in a series of conferences targeted at specific vertical markets that will take place throughout the year both as stand-alone events and in conjunction with other industry shows. "This program represents NeXT's continuing commitment to key vertical markets including financial services, communications and government," said Martin A. Yam, Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at NeXT Computer, Inc. "Events such as NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Days will also enable a larger audience to examine our advanced object-oriented technology and be ready for OpenStep, the volume object standard." Two-Day Conference Targets Executives and Developers Both existing NEXTSTEP customers and prospects will benefit from this program which will include technical information from NeXT, NEXTSTEP/OpenStep developers, systems integrators and customers sharing their experiences with object technology. Topics for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Days include: * Leveraging Objects for Custom Development: Chrysler Financial Case Study * OpenStep: The Industry Standard Object Framework for Open Systems * Three-Tier Enterprise Object Strategy * Real World Financial Services Applications: A Customer Panel * Business & Financial Objects for Re-Use * The Object Advantage for Legacy Systems Integration * Technology Transfer: Migrating to Object-Oriented Technology * Objects for the Enterprise: A Solutions Panel NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Days Registration and Pricing Those wishing to receive more information or to register for this event should call 1-800-808-EXPO, ext. 1 or 516-773-6770. The costs are as follows: * NEXTSTEP/OpenStep conference track 1-day/2-day admission is $300/$600 respectively which includes exhibits, plenary keynotes, exposition show guide and all NeXT-sponsored events. * Exhibits Only - Complimentary with pre-registration, $25 on-site. Exposition Features NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Pavilion Visit NeXT Computer, Inc. in booth #612 and the NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Pavilion to interact with NeXT and its partners, as well as see ObjectWare and third party solutions. Exposition hours are Tuesday & Wednesday, April 4 & 5, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. NeXT Computer, Inc. NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry-standard computer architectures. Customers uses NEXTSTEP's advanced object environment to rapidly develop and deploy custom, enterprise-wide, client/server applications. NeXT is headquartered in Redwood City, California, and has offices in North America, London, Paris, Munich and Tokyo. #### NeXT, the NeXT logo, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP are trademarks or registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: denise@blacksmith.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: BLaCKSMITH Seeking Data Base Administrator Date: 4 Feb 1995 17:47:36 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3h1068$5u9@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information: Denise Britti 9401 Mathy Drive, Suite 300 Fairfax, VA 22031 (800) 619-6147 (703) 250-1741 (703) 250-1744 Fax Plain Text, NeXT Mail, or MIME: info@blacksmith.com JOB: BLACKSMITH SEEKING DATA BASE ADMINISTRATOR BLaCKSMITH, Inc., the developer of CHaRTSMITH, NEXTSTEP's most popular business productivity application for charting and graphing, is looking for a qualified data base/system administrator to join its NEXTSTEP contracting division. The successful candidate will have: - Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent work experience - Minimum two (2) years of Oracle experience (Oracle 7.X) or other relational data base - Minimum two (2) years UNIX system administration experience - NEXTSTEP experience helpful - User training experience helpful - Object-oriented analysis and design experience helpful As a data base and system administrator, the successful candidate will: - Work on site in Baltimore, MD on an award-winning NEXTSTEP development project - Work closely with and provide strong inputs to a team of talented NEXTSTEP developers - Train users - Evolve into a NEXTSTEP development role Founded in 1992, BLaCKSMITH, Inc. is dedicated to providing custom and commercial software solutions to customers who wish to capitalize on the advantages of object-oriented software. The company offers a comfortable and flexible work environment and is located in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Please send resumes to: Denise Britti 9401 Mathy Drive, Suite 300 Fairfax, VA 22031 (800) 619-6147 (703) 250-1741 (703) 250-1744 Fax Plain Text, NeXT Mail, or MIME: info@blacksmith.com We look forward to hearing from you!
From: pericles@athena.com (Jamie O'Keefe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: BCS NeXT User Group: Canon ObjectStation.41 Date: 6 Feb 1995 14:26:21 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3h5t4t$ih3@digifix.digifix.com> Boston Computer Society NeXT User Group MeetingTuesday, February 7th, 1995 MIT Campus, Rm 1-190 7:00PM 7:00PM Introduction 7:05PM Canon ObjectStation.41 Canon released their ObjectStation line of computers optimized for NEXTSTEP. The model 41 is a 486 DX4 with fast video and a NeXTStation look. We will try one out and see how it performs. 8:00PM Rumors of the Month. 8:15PM Q&A 8:30PM Dinner. All are welcome to attend. If you would like more information please contact: Jamie O'Keefe @ pericles@athena.com or 617.734.6372 (W)
From: mezzino@gauss.cl.uh.edu (Mike Mezzino) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: GatorFTP.app Release 1.8.1 Date: 6 Feb 1995 14:30:41 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3h5td1$ij1@digifix.digifix.com> Hello GatorFTP Users: GatorFTP_1.8 is now triple fat (Motorola, Intel, HP)!. Special thanks to Jeff Vega for compiling it for the HP. The new version can be found on our new archive site ftp://ftp.egr.uh.edu/pub/misc/GatorFTP/GatorFTP_MAB_1.8.1.app.tar.Z GatorFTP_MAB_1.8.1.app.tar.Z (NeXTstep triple-fat binary) Regards, Mike Mezzino GatorFTP@gauss.cl.uh.edu
From: Ernest Prabhakar <ernest@pundit.cithep.caltech.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MAILING LISTS: nugi Special Interest Group email lists Date: 3 Feb 1995 23:01:20 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3guu6g$n6@digifix.digifix.com> nugi Special Interest Groups In order to improve communication between users interested in various topics, nugi has set up two sets of mailing lists for Special Interest Groups: Publishing and Multimedia SIG (nextpub) Educational and Scientific SIG (nexted) These lists are open to anyone who is interested: users, vendors, developers, etc. Their mission is to provide encouragement, technical advice, and feedback to people involved in these fields. Through the wizardry of Dimitri Tischenko, nugi's mail czar, we have setup a system for automatically converting NeXTmail to ascii, depending on which sublist you sign up for. Therefore, register by sending a message with: subscribe FirstName LastName in the body to: Publishing and Multimedia: nextpub-nm-request@negen.twi.tudelft.nl (NeXTmail) or nextpub-ascii-request@negen.twi.tudelft.nl (ASCII) Educational and Scientific: nexted-nm-request@negen.twi.tudelft.nl (NeXTmail) or nexted-ascii-request@negen.twi.tudelft.nl (ASCII) Simply use {nextpub,nexted}@negen.twi.tudelft.nl to send mail to the respective lists, and the software will handle the translation and forwarding automatically. nugi is happy to sponsor additional groups like these, given sufficient interest. Contact nugi@negen.twi.tudelft.nl for more details, or if you have problems signing up. Sincerely, -- Ernie Prabhakar nugi President
From: cmcgrail@NeXT.COM (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: Telemarketing Reps Date: 3 Feb 1995 23:02:21 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3guu8d$nn@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about new products, open positions To access the Web the command is http://www.next.com/ ***************************************************************** Position: Telemarketing Representative Department: Sales Primary Objective Responsible for providing high level of professionalism as first point of contact with NeXT Computer. Including: responding to prospect/customer inqueries, collecting qualifying information, answering NeXTSTEP product and service questions, directing prospects to NeXT resources, and general customer service. Specific Responsibilities Telephone coverage of inbound 800 number from 6:00am-3:00pm (PST) or 8:00am-5:00pm (PST), Gathers customer information through qualifying questions and enters into database, including requests for product and services literature. Assimilates complex product knowledge and effectively communicates benefits to prospects/customers. Maintains good working relationship with Telesales and Field Sales to ensure flow of leads for follow up. Uses all NeXT resources to address any customer service issues. Will be required to develop technical knowledge of NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP to answer pre-sales technical support questions. Responsible for project based outbound calling for seminar and marketing programs. Position Requirements; experience, skills. 4 year college degree or equivalent experience Excellent verbal communication skills, motivation to spend approximately six (6) hours per day minimum on the phone. You will be expected to enter and update call data and sales into the system. Experience in customer service, telephone sales, technical support for a technology company preferred. ***************************************************************** NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063
From: cmcgrail@NeXT.COM (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: Functionality Tester (Temporary) Date: 3 Feb 1995 23:02:32 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3guu8o$nv@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about new products, open positions To access the Web the command is http://www.next.com/ ***************************************************************** Full-time Temporary Positions at NeXT in California The Functionality Testing group of NeXT's Software Quality department is now hiring for several full-time temporary testing positions in Redwood City. These jobs have the following benefits, among other: First-hand access to the most current versions of NEXTSTEP Experience using new hardware running NEXTSTEP Furthering your knowledge of NEXTSTEP Job Responsbilities: Performance, stress and regression testing of software (with and without formal testplans) Database querying Writing test reports Communicating to software engineers Job Requirements: 1 or more years hands-on experience with NEXTSTEP Have good verbal and written communication skills Be well organized and detail-oriented Be a fast learner (new software, methodologies and processes) Preferred Skills: NEXTSTEP or Unix programming experience Experience using commercial NEXTSTEP software Familiar with Intel-based PCs Deductive logic, troubleshooting and analytical skills Comfortable with e-mail communications Important note: This position is at NeXT headquarters in Redwood City, CA. Moving and housing expenses will not be reimbursed. ***************************************************************** NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063
From: cmcgrail@NeXT.COM (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: Pre-release Engineers (Temporary) Date: 3 Feb 1995 23:02:41 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3guu91$o6@digifix.digifix.com> vNeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about new products, open positions To access the Web the command is http://www.next.com/ ***************************************************************** Full-time Temporary Positions at NeXT in California The Pre-Release program of NeXT's Software Quality department is now hiring for several full-time temporary positions in Redwood City. These jobs have these benefits, among others: First-hand access to the most current (and future) versions of NEXTSTEP Experience using new hardware running NEXTSTEP Furthering your knowledge of NEXTSTEP and other NeXT products Job Responsbilities Process incoming bugs and suggestions from NEXTSTEP customers Verify (try to duplicate) bug reports Communicate with customers to get further information Submit bug reports to NeXT's Software Engineering team Assist with distribution of Pre-Release software to sites Customer support (installation and configuration issues) General assistance within the SQA/Prerelease Program Skill requirements 1 or more years hands-on experience with NEXTSTEP Have good verbal and written communication skills Be well organized and detail-oriented Be a fast learner Preferred Skills: NEXTSTEP programming experience NEXTSTEP and other networking experience Familiarity with SQL Experience with EOF and/or PDO Experience using commercial NEXTSTEP software Important note: These positions are at NeXT headquarters in Redwood City, CA. Moving and housing expenses will not be reimbursed. ***************************************************************** NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063
From: Ernest Prabhakar <ernest@pundit.cithep.caltech.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NOMINATIONS: 1994 nugi Community Service Award Nominations Date: 5 Feb 1995 22:32:17 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3h4581$d31@digifix.digifix.com> 1994 nugi Community Service Award Nominations In these days of diminishing ISV presence, NEXTSTEP users are increasingly reliant on shareware and freeware developers to provide them with useful tools. Fortunately, the NEXTSTEP community is blessed with a large number of talented and generous individuals and organizations that have enhanced our lives by their work. To honor them, nugi announces the 1994 Community Service Awards. The Award(s) will be given to recognize the best service/product provided free (or nearly so) to the NEXTSTEP Community during 1994. All members of the NEXTSTEP community are encouraged to submit nominations. The finalists will be voted on by the nugi Assembly. The results will be announced on the NeXT newsgroups, and there will probably be an awards ceremony at the International User Group Program (wherever that is). Please nominate as many entities as you like, in as many categories as you can think of. Feel free to provide a _brief_ explanation of why the awardee deserves the prize. Here are a few sample categories to get you started: Developer Tools kits, palettes Application Software programs, filters Community Service information, tech support, administration Community Development meetings, parties, seminars Please, feel free to write in your own! The only rules are: - The product/service must be free or nominally priced - It must have been done/released during 1994 - nugi officers are not eligible (such as Rohit Khare, author of eText) Send your nominations to: nugi@negen.twi.tudelft.nl All submissions become the property of nugi, and may be excerpted as part of the awards process. The decision of the Assembly is final. Thank you, -- Ernie Prabhakar, nugi President
From: Ernest Prabhakar <ernest@pundit.cithep.caltech.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MAILING LIST: nugi Special Interest Group email lists Date: 5 Feb 1995 22:32:45 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3h458t$d39@digifix.digifix.com> nugi Special Interest Groups In order to improve communication between users interested in various topics, nugi has set up two sets of mailing lists for Special Interest Groups: Publishing and Multimedia SIG (nextpub) Educational and Scientific SIG (nexted) These lists are open to anyone who is interested: users, vendors, developers, etc. Their mission is to provide encouragement, technical advice, and feedback to people involved in these fields. Through the wizardry of Dimitri Tischenko, nugi's mail czar, we have setup a system for automatically converting NeXTmail to ascii, depending on which sublist you sign up for. Therefore, register by sending a message with: subscribe FirstName LastName in the body to: Publishing and Multimedia: nextpub-nm-request@negen.twi.tudelft.nl (NeXTmail) or nextpub-ascii-request@negen.twi.tudelft.nl (ASCII) Educational and Scientific: nexted-nm-request@negen.twi.tudelft.nl (NeXTmail) or nexted-ascii-request@negen.twi.tudelft.nl (ASCII) Simply use {nextpub,nexted}@negen.twi.tudelft.nl to send mail to the respective lists, and the software will handle the translation and forwarding automatically. nugi is happy to sponsor additional groups like these, given sufficient interest. Contact nugi@negen.twi.tudelft.nl for more details, or if you have problems signing up. Sincerely, -- Ernie Prabhakar nugi President
From: khare@xent.caltech.edu (Rohit Khare) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: nugi-news volume 1 issue 2 available Date: 5 Feb 1995 22:33:39 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3h45aj$d3i@digifix.digifix.com> NUGI News, Volume 1, Issue 2 January 28 1995 The Bulletin of NEXTSTEP/OpenStep User Groups International .... is now available from the nugi web, at http://xent.caltech.edu/nugiNews -- Rohit Khare nugi Webmaster
From: dcl@panix.com (David Lambert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Quad Fat Fiend.app v1.3 Date: 5 Feb 1995 22:40:17 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3h45n1$d4l@digifix.digifix.com> I have just placed a quad fat executable of Fiend.app in: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/util/Fiend1.3.NIHS.tar.gz Thanks to Robert Stabl <stabl@antigone.ppp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> for the use of his machine to do the quad fat compile. Fiend is a dock and shelf extender with integrated BackSpace support. It is shareware, and costs $10. I hope you enjoy it. - David C. Lambert dcl@homer.uu.panix.com ====================================================================== FROM THE FIEND 1.3 RELEASE NOTES ====================================================================== NEW FEATURES: ------------- * Added a Frequently Asked Questions list * Fiend Dock icon has been rearranged to allow longer dock names * Fiend Dock icon now has a popup list that lets you change dock levels * Fiend Dock can now be locked at a given screen position * File icons can now be dragged from icons on the Fiend Dock * New inspector panel for docked icons * New dwrite to have the Fiend Dock close itself up after an app is launched * New dwrite to draw shelved icons on top of app tiles * New dwrite to disable the display of image thumbnails on the Fiend Shelf and Fiend Dock. * New dwrite to make limit Shelf window depth to 12 bits (to save memory) * New dwrites for Fiend Dock icon font size < and weight < * Persistent icons can now be moved * Now includes HKCrashCatcher object for better crash debugging INCOMPATIBILITIES: ------------------ * WARNING: The "remove icon" operation that used to be assigned to alt-click for the Fiend Dock and the Fiend Shelf has been changed to ctrl-click as part of the reorganization of the dragging behavior - be careful so you don't remove your icons by mistake! * Modification of docked icons' flags is now performed using the docked icon inspector panel, rather than obscure keyboard/mouse-click combinations * Toggling the Fiend Dock's window tier is now performed by alt-clicking the Fiend Dock icon, rather than from the Preferences panel * No more default shelf image (the former default image can be found in the Fiend.app package as "panelleft.tiff") CLEANUPS: --------- * The semantics of dragging selected items from the Fiend Dock and the Fiend Shelf have been extensively reworked to make them more compliant with NEXTSTEP interface conventions * The "Follow Levels" feature is now documented * The "Close-all-but-persistent-icons" feature is now documented * Files with the ".debug" extension are now handled properly * Zero length config files no longer result in hangs * Fiend now tries very hard not to cream its config files if you've run out of disk space * Alt-click now toggles the Fiend Dock's window tier, just like the Workspace dock * Some unnecessary scaling of docked icons was removed * All TIFFs have been compressed BUGS FIXED: ----------- * Fiend sometimes crashes when docked apps are launched from the Workspace or through Services * Fiend causing unnecessary delays when selecting files in Workspace * Docked icons not updating when only persistent icons are visible * BackSpace Password panel doesn't always take entry properly * App delegate messages received in improper order when opening files with command-drag-and-drop onto docked icons * Fiend stupidly drawing the Shelf twice when displaying a background image * Fiend Shelf dithering strangely on HP machines
From: jcircuit@aol.com (JCircuit) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT developer Date: 5 Feb 1995 22:40:40 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3h45no$d4s@digifix.digifix.com> IOA Re, a Reinsurance Underwriting Management firm, is looking for an OO programmer. Preferably Objective C experienced, C++ a must. Oracle preffered, database & SQL a must. We're looking for someone with at least 1 year of experience. Salary commensurate with experience, and benefits are excellent. We are doing some exciting things... developing in NeXT and deploying to Windows. Come join our team and stay on the cutting edge. Reply (ASCII) to OOPosition@aol.com
From: object@crl.com (Robert Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Trading System Developers Date: 5 Feb 1995 22:41:53 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3h45q1$d53@digifix.digifix.com> The Object Shop is looking for a few good programmers who at least have 1 year experience in NeXTStep development. Position is in Atlanta, GA and AI or Financial Experience is a plus. We are currently staffing for our derivitive trading application, and all developers get stock options. All developers are given great responsibility and extreme leeway in problem solving (you can pretty much do whatever you want!). Flex time and extremely flexible hours are part of the benefit package. Send all resumes to Robert Smith at object@crl.com, or call us at (404)524-4492.
From: object@crl.com (Robert Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Training Videos for Developers Date: 5 Feb 1995 22:42:24 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3h45r0$d5j@digifix.digifix.com> The Object Shop has introduced its Corporate Developer Training Videos to train developers that don't want or can't afford to fly all over the country for NeXTStep Developer training. The Corporate Developer series covers basic and advanced topics, and a competent C programmer can be extremely skilled at NeXTStep and Objective-C development after watching the 12 tape set. Videos can be ordered at 1-800-OBJECT-5.
From: ebanzhaf@tri.com (Elizabeth Banzhaf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NEXTSTEP Systems and Network Administration Date: 7 Feb 1995 15:09:48 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3h8k2c$sk0@digifix.digifix.com> High Quality Contracts for Information Technology Professionals The Registry, Inc. is a leading full-service information technology consulting firm. With a national division and 22 offices across the country, we provide superior opportunities to best-in-class consultants nationwide. We are seeking experienced professionals who can bring the appropriate skills and qualifications to the project described below. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Systems and Network Administration to large, global organization. RELEVANT SKILLS: Experience administering Next boxes. Exposure/experience administering Unix boxes on large networks. LOCATION: Chicagoland area. DURATION: Long-term/open ended contract or permanent positions available. RATE: Negotiable. Will be determined by level of experience. Please respond by sending a detailed resume by fax or e-mail to: E-Mail: ebanzhaf@tri.com The Registry Phone: (708) 292-9119 Excellence in Information Fax: (708) 292-9136 Technology Consulting Services.
From: Karen Logsdon <Karen_Logsdon@NeXT.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MCI Selects NEXTSTEP to support Friends & Family Customer Service Systems Date: 7 Feb 1995 15:11:22 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3h8k5a$skc@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Karen Logsdon NeXT Computer, Inc. 415-780-3786 or Carol Aarhus MCI 1-800-436-9749 MCI SELECTS NEXTSTEP TO SUPPORT FRIENDS & FAMILY CUSTOMER SERVICE SYSTEMS REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-February 7, 1995-NeXT Computer, Inc. announced today that MCI has selected its object-oriented software, NEXTSTEP, for the development and delivery of custom applications for MCI's New Friends & Family program. Introduced in January, New Friends & Family offers customers who spend just $10 a month 25% savings on all domestic direct-dialed calls, and 50% savings to other Friends & Family customers in their Calling Circle. To further streamline and improve its customer service applications, MCI has placed a multi-million dollar order for NeXT products, including the advanced PDO (Portable Distributed Objects) and Enterprise Object Framework, which will help advance the company's specialized customer service stations. "We are excited to work with a leading telecommunications innovator like MCI," said Steven P. Jobs, Chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer, Inc. "MCI's speed-to-market and track record with Friends & Family, 1-800-COLLECT and Friends & Family Connections is unmatched, and we look forward to helping them bring more advanced products like these to market even faster. MCI's commitment to our technology is another step in the marketplace acceptance of object technology in general," Jobs added. "We believe in NeXT's object technology, because it speeds our development cycles, keeping us ahead of the competitive curve, and significantly improves our time-to-market with new products and services," said Jim Folk, Vice President of Information Technology for MCI Consumer Markets. "We selected NeXT technology because NEXTSTEP/OpenStep is a powerful object-oriented development environment that allows us to build applications in shorter timeframes and spend more time focusing on customer needs rather than in the lab." MCI MCI, headquartered in Washington, D.C., has expanded from its core long distance business to become the world's third-largest carrier of international calling and a premier provider of data communications over the vast Internet computer network. With annual revenue of more than $13.3 billion, the company today provides a wide array of consumer and business long distance and local services, data and video communications, online information, electronic mail, network management services and communications software. NeXT Computer, Inc. NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry-standard computer architectures. Customers use NEXTSTEP's advanced object environment to rapidly develop and deploy custom, enterprise-wide, client/server applications. NeXT is headquartered in Redwood City, California, and has offices in North America, London, Paris, Munich and Tokyo. # # # # NeXT, the NeXT logo, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP are trademarks or registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: annalea@its.com (Annalea Sommerville) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: LoopGroup (Downtown Chicago User Group) February 9th Date: 7 Feb 1995 15:13:06 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3h8k8i$sl1@digifix.digifix.com> The LoopGroup meeting taking place on Thursday, February 9th will be held at: ITSolutions 500 West Madison Street, Suite 2210 (Citicorp Center/Northwestern Train Station) Chicago, IL 60661 312-474-7700 800-394-4487 When: 6:30pm
From: Graph Sales <graphing@mttam.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: GraphBuilder: CD-ROM Disc, Educational Pricing Date: 9 Feb 1995 22:58:06 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3heo8e$jc0@digifix.digifix.com> GraphBuilder: CD-ROM Disc, Educational Pricing. Contact: VVI-DCS 311 Adams Ave. State College, PA 16803 814-234-9613 814-234-9614 Fax graphing@mttam.com GraphBuilder is the central graph building application in the OpenGraph Complete Graphing System. OpenGraph is used by industry leading Fortune 500 companies for graph based reporting systems and in some of the most demanding trading systems ever built. The GraphBuilder CD-ROM disc is immediately available for $30.00 Student Version++, $80.00 Academic Version++ and includes: GraphBuilder for Intel, NeXT and HP PA-RISC; single and tri-fat binary with seven select real-time demo applications, complete documentation and over 50 graph examples for a price that makes it the outstanding leader in general purpose graphing value. For ordering information and information regarding our other services and products, including the OpenGraph CD-ROM disc, contact VVI-DCS. -- Your OpenGraph Advantage Team For information on how to become a member of the OpenGraph Academic Development Program (OGADP), which includes the OpenGraph CD-ROM disc, send us a request for application and details to graphing@mttam.com. ++Shipping within the U.S. included. Special shipping requests, shipping to foreign destinations or tax, if applicable, will be charged. VISA, MasterCard, purchase orders from an academic institution and checks drawn on U.S. banks accepted. Student version is for personal use only. Copy of current student card required. Academic version is for official university use only. P.O. from an academic institution required. _________________________ OpenGraph, GraphBuilder, The Graph Object Library, VVI Data Control Specialists, VVI-DCS and VVimaging are trademarks of VVimaging, Inc. (VVI-DCS). Reuter Selectfeed is a trademark of Reuters Ltd. IOtech is a trademark of IOtech, Inc. Microsoft Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark of NeXT, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: IMPORTANT: Message posted with forged approval Date: 9 Feb 1995 16:12:15 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <3he0ff$gt1@digifix.digifix.com> I wanted to let you all know that earlier today there was a message to many newsgroups (including this one) by cyber.sell.com (Canter & Siegel). That message included a forged Approved: header, which caused it to be posted to the newsgroups automatically, instead of being sent to the moderators as it normally would be. It was NOT approved for posting in this group, nor was it ever even submitted (not that it would have been approved). The message has been cancelled, but this doesn't help much. If you want details, I'm sure the alt.current-events.net-abuse and the news.* groups will have details available. Thanks Scott
From: Cheri Smith <cheri@take3.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Take 3 Releases Eloquent 2.0 - Quad-Fat News/Mail agent Date: 10 Feb 1995 02:56:17 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3hf671$kfu@digifix.digifix.com> TAKE 3 RELEASES ELOQUENT 2.0, QUAD-FAT NEWS AND MAIL AGENT Cedar, MI - February 9, 1995 - Take 3 announced today the release of Eloquent version 2.0, the complete e-mail and news agent, for NEXTSTEP on Motorola, Intel, HP-PA RISC and SPARC architectures. Eloquent, in this second release, has matured into a powerful tool that provides the functionality e-mail and news users need, all in one package. This upgrade includes substantial new features, improvements in the user interface, and wider support for mailbox and address book formats that already exist on users' systems. General enhancements -completely overhauled user interface -thread messages in newsgroups and mailboxes -send uuencoded attachments in ASCII messages -automatically detects and decodes uuencoded attachments in messages -drag messages into the Workspace Manager -select headers to be included in messages' summaries, including message sizes and non-standard headers headers, so that they can be seen when you scroll through the contents of a mailbox or newsgroup -save viewer settings, and set global default viewer settings for mailboxes and newsgroups. Also set individual defaults for mailboxes. -access mail and news services from a local host and/or multiple remote hosts. All the hosts that provide you with mail and news services, and the mailboxes and newsgroups that you can access from them, are accessed from one central browser. New Mail Features -download mail from a POP server, or read a POP mailbox on the server without downloading messages to your local mailboxes -use mailboxes in any folder that you have read permission for on your local computer or (through IMAP) on a remote server -use Mail.app address books -use MH mailboxes -exchange mail messages with Sun Mail users -retrieve mail from multiple system mailboxes New News Features -access newsgroups hierarchically from a browser -read newsgroups on multiple news servers simultaneously -"fetch" button to retrieve new articles that have arrived since the newsgroup was opened Eloquent 2.0 still has all the features that made version 1.0 so useful, such as sorting incoming mail, smart mailbox options like automatic reply or compact, MIME for both news and mail, message templates, and extensive searching capabilities. A quad-fat demo that will run under NEXTSTEP 3.1 or higher has been uploaded to: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/mail/Eloquent.2.0.NIHS.tar.gz A version for NEXTSTEP 3.0 on Motorola hardware is also available by request. Eloquent 2.0 sells for $175 per user. Contact Take 3 for quantity discounts. There is no charge to current Eloquent users for the upgrade - simply download the demo version from the archives and enter your license key. Eloquent is a trademark of Take 3. All other trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.
From: ccapc@cyber.sell.com (Consumer Credit Advocates) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Message-ID: <3hcpof$imb@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca> Control: cancel <3hcpof$imb@panix.com> Subject: cancel <3hcpof$imb@panix.com> Date: 10 Feb 1995 05:11:27 -0500 ****ing spam artist! Panix.com has removed this gent's account.
From: Georg Tuparev <tuparev@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: eduStep - New WWW server (long) Date: 11 Feb 1995 02:05:53 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3hhnkh$1vr@digifix.digifix.com> For more information, please contact: Georg Tuparev EMBL / Protein Design Phone: +49 - 6221 - 387524 Meyerhofstr. 1 FAX: +49 - 6221 - 387517 D-69117 Heidelberg Germany Tuparev@EMBL-Heidelberg.de (NeXT/MIME-mail) or Gregor Hoffleit Mathematisches Institut, INF 288, 69120 Heidelberg Germany PHONE: (49)6221 56-5771 FAX: 56-3812 EMAIL: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (NeXTmail) "Bringing the power of Objects to the Scientific Masses" The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) announces eduStep, a World Wide Web (WWW) server designed to gather together information on NEXTSTEP and Object-Oriented programming for the scientific community. http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/ eduStep will provide up to date information on: - NEXTSTEP tools and projects for scientists. - SciTools, EMBL's project to develop an Objective-C class hierarchy for scientific applications and a complete NEXTSTEP/OpenStep work environment. - Status reports on GNUstep, a freely-available implementation of OpenStep now being developed. - Public object kits, such as MiscKit. - A list of scientists in different fields who are developing software with NEXTSTEP/OpenStep. - Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist). - A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with customers in the educational community. - Conferences, meetings, workshops - Folklore - stories, jokes about Object orientated programming in science. We also announce two mailing lists and officially announce an ftp site for object-orientated programs and tools of interest to scientists. eduStep ======= - Motivation ------------ "A lot of people think we still sell to the education market. That could not be farther from the truth" -- Steve Jobs, Keynote, NEXTEXPO '94 At the very beginning, NeXT was a small company with a very friendly attitude to the education market. Times have changed. NeXT's current goal is to provide object-oriented technology solutions to the Fortune 500. But because they are still small, NeXT is focusing all their energy and innovation towards their new market niche. So support for the education market has been dropped and individual NeXT lovers have been forgotten altogether. This situation is extremely unstable and dangerous not just for researchers, but also for NeXT: today's students are the decision makers of tomorrow; the university is still the major supplier of new software (often free and high quality) and, most importantly, new and innovative ideas. The aim of this new EMBL initiative is to promote collaboration and information exchange between all researchers and educators working with NEXTSTEP/OpenStep, and to bridge the huge gap between the university and financial world. Call for support: ----------------- - eduStep is just a coordination center. At this beginning stage, we are relying on your help in sending us information; we are interested to hear for anyone involved in, or even just interested in, developing scientific applications under NEXTSTEP/OpenStep. - What we are interested in: your personal and/or group page or url; your project info; your favorite applications (incl. 3rd party), kits, utilities; tips, etc.; your favorite shops; conference news; stories, ideas, or jokes. - Please direct your submission to the appropriate maintainer (below). How to win a bottle of wine (or two)? ------------------------------------- At the end of February I will be in France and there I'll buy two very special bottles of wine (Vin d'Alsace, Pino, Gewuerz -- I'll buy it from a very good vintner). If you want the chance to win one (or both) bottles, design a logo for eduStep and/or the SciTools project and send it by NeXT/MIME mail to me (Georg Tuparev <Tuparev@EMBL-Heidelberg.de>) by the end of February. I will put all logo-projects (anonymously) on the server, and until March 20 anybody can vote (only once). The voting results will be announced and the winners will receive their bottle. So, try it ;-) WWW Maintainers: ---------------- General: "Georg Tuparev" <Tuparev@EMBL-Heidelberg.de> "Gregor Hoffleit" <flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de> Astronomy: "Frederic Hessman" <hessman@uni-sw.gwdg.de> Physics: "Frederic Hessman" <hessman@uni-sw.gwdg.de> Earth Sciences: "David A. Coyle" <dcoyle@goanna.mpi-hd.mpg.de> Molecular biology: "Sean I. O'Donoghue" <Odonoghue@EMBL-Heidelberg.de> Biology and Ecology:(to be changed) "Georg Tuparev" <Tuparev@EMBL-Heidelberg.de> Chemistry: "Thomas Engel" <tsengel@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Computer science: "Dinu Gherman" <gherman@embl-heidelberg.de> Mathematics: "Gregor Hoffleit" <flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de> Visualization: "Jacques Lemordant" <Jacques.Lemordant@imag.fr> Data bases and object archives: "Paul Dell" <pdell@cs.bu.edu> Humanities: "Victor Wang" <VWANG@urz-mail.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Folklore (and criticism in general): "Simson L. GARFINKEL" <simsong@pleasant.cambridge.ma.us> GNUStep: "Martin Michlmayr" <tbm@tci002.uibk.ac.at> "Paul F. Kunz" <Paul_Kunz@SLAC.Stanford.EDU> SciTools project: "Georg Tuparev" <Tuparev@EMBL-Heidelberg.de> Kits and tools of general interest: "Thomas Engel" <tsengel@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Resellers and shops: "Gregor Hoffleit" <flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de> "Georg Tuparev" <Tuparev@EMBL-Heidelberg.de> (and hopefuly somebody from USA) Conferences, meetings, workshops: "Dinu Gherman" <gherman@embl-heidelberg.de> Mailing lists ============= Offical news: (we hope that the list will be used by NeXT Inc and 3-rd.P. people...) edustep-news@embl-heidelberg.de edustep-news-request@embl-heidelberg.de (to (un)subscribe) edustep-news-help@embl-heidelberg.de (to get help) and Discussion, questions, misc. edustep-discussion@embl-heidelberg.de edustep-discussion-request@embl-heidelberg.de (to (un)subscribe) edustep-discussion-help@embl-heidelberg.de (to get help) FTP sites: ========== Oficial EMBL ftp site (updated twice/month) ftp://ftp.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/sci-tools/eduStep and prerelease/in progress ftp site ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next/eduStep About: ====== EMBL & Heidelberg http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/ http://www.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE/ExternalInfo/GeneralInfo/scenes/index.html
From: Tony Rennier <tony@blcksmth.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: cmsg cancel <3hbfb0$8vt@digifix.digifix.com> Control: cancel <3hbfb0$8vt@digifix.digifix.com> Date: 11 Feb 1995 16:24:06 -0500 Organization: Digital Fix Development Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3hj9tn$5nn@digifix.digifix.com> Cancelled Message by sanguish@digifix.com -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: Tony Rennier <tony@blcksmth.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: BLaCKSMITH Announces CHaRTSMITH v1.2O Date: 11 Feb 1995 16:24:16 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3hj9u0$5nu@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information please contact: Angela Smith or Denise Britti (800) 619-6147/(703) 250-1741/(703) 250-1744 Fax Plain Text, NeXT Mail, or MIME: info@blacksmith.com BLACKSMITH ANNOUNCES CHARTSMITH V1.2 WASHINGTON, D.C. --- February 8, 1995 --- BLaCKSMITH announced today the release of CHaRTSMITH v1.2 with introductory pricing through April 15, 1995. CHaRTSMITH, a charting and graphing application for NEXTSTEP, has become well-known because it provides an intuitive user interface, presentation-quality graphics, and a robust Distributed Objects. In this latest release of CHaRTSMITH, BLaCKSMITH has made significant enhancements to its Distributed Objects API as well as added a number of features. "Our customers will recognize a lot of their input when they see v1.2," said Tony Rennier, President of BLaCKSMITH. "We paid particular attention to the issues of performance and ease-of-use, especially in the API. With the addition of the ChartsmithAPIKit, CHaRTSMITH has become an industrial-strength tool for users and developers." ChartsmithAPIKit includes a InterfaceBuilder palette that allows developers to literally drag-and-drop charting functionality into their custom application. The kit supports remote drawing which allows the CHaRTSMITH engine to draw directly into a client application's view. This dramatically improves drawing speed and allows developers to more easily provide users the ability to interact directly with a chart. Using remote drawing, developers can now create charts that display data in near real-time. Other v1.2 enhancements include charts with double-Y axis, bubble graphs, and support for the Open Object Embedding (OOE) standard. CHaRTSMITH v1.2 lists for $595 with an upgrade price of $100. From now until April 15th, BLaCKSMITH is offering special introductory pricing of $395 with and upgrade price of $65. Academic discounts are also available. CHaRTSMITH is available today for Motorola, Intel, and PA-RISC versions of NEXTSTEP 3.0 and later. About BLaCKSMITH Founded in 1992, BLaCKSMITH, Inc. is dedicated to providing software solutions to customers who wish to capitalize on the advantages of object-oriented software. In addition to developing commercial applications like CHaRTSMITH, BLaCKSMITH provides consulting services for organizations seeking to enhance their object-oriented development expertise. NEXTSTEP and InterfaceBuilder are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. CHaRTSMITH is a trademark of BLaCKSMITH, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
From: Mike_Gabrys@bang.org Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: BANG, Thursday 2/16 7pm, SLAC Date: 13 Feb 1995 04:41:38 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3hn9gi$rk@digifix.digifix.com> At BANG's upcoming meeting on Thursday, Feb. 16, Tony Rennier, President of BLaCKSMITH, will demo version 1.2 of Chartsmith, a charting and graphing application for NEXTSTEP, which provides an intuitive user interface, presentation-quality graphics and a robust Distributed Objects API. We will also have our Q&A session and discuss upcoming meetings, NEXTSTEP for Sparc, and other items. The meeting begins at 7pm in the Stanford Linear accelerator Center Auditorium. SLAC is located at 2575 Sandhill Road, 1/2 mile east of highway 280. For more information, call the announcement line at 415-327-BANG, send email to: info@bang.org or connect to our Web server at http://www.bang.org/. We hope to see you at the meeting. Mike Gabrys
From: howardd@swissbank.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: new "Opener" on ftp.cs.orst.edu Date: 13 Feb 1995 23:35:36 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3hpbuo$7iv@digifix.digifix.com> The new version (3.2, February 1995) of "Opener" is available by anonymous #################################################################### Path: news.informatik.uni-muenchen.de!lrz-muenchen.de!fauern!rrze.uni-erlangen.de!rachael.franken.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.belwue.de!newsserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de!news.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de!seicom.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!lamarck.sura.net!hookup!nic.hookup.net!digifix!digifix!not-for-mail From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: University of Waterloo NEXTSTEP Users Group Date: 13 Feb 1995 16:39:40 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Lines: 11 Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Approved: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3hojis$4rm@digifix.digifix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: digifix.digifix.com I am pleased to announce the first meeting of the University of Waterloo NEXTSTEP Users Group, which I have tentatively called WatNeXT in honor of both UW and NeXT's market focus. I have collected a list of about a dozen NEXTSTEP users here at UW and I'm sure there are a few that I've missed. We can get together, share ideas/observations, plan projects, or whatever. This first meeting will mainly consist of get-to-know-yous and the establishment of a regular meeting time which is good for everyone. The meeting will be Thursday February 23rd at 5:00pm in Davis Centre room 3540. If anyone needs directions to either the University or to the room, or wants to come but can't make it at this time, please send me email.
From: liz@sarrus.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Sarrus Software - Office Manager Date: 13 Feb 1995 18:27:06 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3hopsa$5n3@digifix.digifix.com> Sarrus is the leading provider of Group Information Management software for NEXTSTEP and soon OpenStep systems. We are a small, privately held, profitable software company with products that include group and enterprise scheduling, contact management, and directory services. We sell our products worldwide through our direct sales force and through resellers. We're growing like crazy because customers love our products, and we're having an absolute blast. RESPONSIBILITIES As our Office Manager, you will be responsible for three key parts of our business: CORPORATE OFFICE MANAGEMENT * Handling phone reception for inbound calls between 8:30 am and 3 pm * Responding to customer requests and facilitating prompt resolution of problems * Making travel arrangements, purchasing office supplies, and maintaining filing system for corporate office FINANCE * Managing all Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, and Collections * Preparing and sending out invoices * Preparing financial reports and statements for management and our CPA * Processing expense reports, purchase orders, and expense checks * Preparing Sales Tax returns and 1099 forms for consultants OPERATIONS * Managing vendor relationships (including corporate travel agent, printing, order fulfillment & diskette duplication house, and telephone service providers) * Coordinating with fulfillment house on invoicing and inventory processes * Fulfilling requests for product demos and information * Managing internal inventory of diskettes and collateral * Assisting in event coordination, marketing programs, and reseller communications, as needed SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED * Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment * A good understanding of Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Collections * Strong problem-solving skills and follow-through * Excellent interpersonal and communications skills * Computer experience, interest and aptitude required (especially computer-based accounting systems such as MYOB, as well as spreadsheets and word processing). Experience with e-mail, the Internet, and/or NEXTSTEP a plus WE OFFER * a small and highly motivated team that works well together and laughs a lot * a company where team spirit, flexibility, sense of humor, and a readiness to pitch in and help are highly valued * competitive compensation package * Health and dental coverage * Snacks, gourmet coffee, and occasional home-made baked goods TO APPLY FOR THIS POSITION Please forward a resume *and* a one-page cover letter, describing work accomplishments and specific qualifications to: Sarrus Software, Inc. Human Resources 565 Pilgrim Drive, Suite C Foster City, CA 94404 Or fax to: (415) 345-9365 Or send via e-mail with the subject line "Office Manager" to resumes@sarrus.com (NeXTmail OK)
From: Bakhteiarov Serguei <osd!serge@osd.glas.apc.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: cmsg cancel <3hr2q2$ccb@digifix.digifix.com> Control: cancel <3hr2q2$ccb@digifix.digifix.com> Date: 14 Feb 1995 15:54:39 -0500 Organization: Digital Fix Development Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3hr5af$clm@digifix.digifix.com> Cancelled Message by sanguish@digifix.com -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: Darcy Brockbank <samurai@amber.hasc.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Phone-3.4 Date: 14 Feb 1995 15:49:23 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3hr50j$cl3@digifix.digifix.com> Phone Version 3.4 ================= Phone is a personal information manager used to keep addresses, or generic information in a nice, clean format. It supports NeXT .address files, flat files, user defined font, and background color, automatic phone dialing (through modem and speaker), email window opening, and quite a few other cool things. Several powerful features were added in version 3.4, with more planned for 3.5. Version 3.4 features a rewrite of the recognition engine to use regular expressions. This means that the user can customize Phone to recognize patterns and hook them onto service menu items. For instance, support for WWW was added to version 3.4 by writing adding these two lines to "pattern.tbl" and "action.tbl" underneath the .app directory: # action:path-to-bitmap:what-kind-of-action:additional-info url:url.bmp:service:SpiderWoman/Open URL ... /* pattern.tbl: URL (ie. http://www.next.com, or ftp://hasc.ca/pub/next) */ "[^ \t]+:/[/]?[^ \t]+" = "url"; So, a user can now add their own data types, and what should happen when their associated button is clicked. For example, when the URL pattern is found by Phone, it will insert a button, using "url.bmp" to draw the button (a .bmp is just an ASCII file). When the button is clicked, the action table instructs phone to call the service menu under SpiderWoman/Open URL. If the user prefers OmniWeb, they can easily add their own action.tbl under Phone's preferences. They can then edit this action.tbl (with their favorite text editor) and have this action.tbl contain the line: url:url.bmp:service:OmniWeb/Open URL This will override the default action for the "url" pattern. Similarly, users can override the default "mail" action: email:email.bmp:mail:Mail with: email:email.bmp:mail:Eloquent Which will cause Eloquent to be used when you click on a mail icon. The format of the "bmp" files is simple, and is used to allow the user to pick their own color schemes dynamically (by command-clicking on the icon in question). A .bmp file is 14 columns by 11 rows. For example, the handset icon used to hook onto phone numbers looks like this: _________lddb_ ________lddddb _______ldldddb ______lddbldb_ _____lddb__b__ ____lddb______ ___lddb_______ ___lddb_______ ___ldddb______ ___lldb_______ ____lb________ The codes mean: '_' or ' ': transparent 'l' : computer-calculated light shade 'd' : dark shade chosen by user 'b' : black Feel free to download Phone and use it. It's a shareware program, and costs a measly ten bucks. It's well worth it! Phone contains, by default, patterns to recognize North American phone numbers, and some European phone numbers. The German patterns are commented out, as they will also recognize zip codes as phone numbers (because they can both be five digits). If you need German phone numbers recognized, just uncomment the patterns. Other new features in 3.4 ========================= (1) Fixed a bug which would cause the program to crash when reverting an UNTITLED document. (2) Dynamic searching. Searches can narrow each time you type an additional character. (3) Record tracking in title bar [current record / total records]. (4) Cleared up the confusing "Modify" button. (5) Fixed the wacky "Confirm" panel. (6) Preserving last open record for reference on re-open. (7) New Recognition Engine -- 5x faster, and user extensible via regular expressions!!! (8) Minor bug fixes. (9) Browser, like in Jargon (10) Fixed "View Plain Text" (11) Command-click an icon to change its color. (12) To debug regular expressions, do dwrite Phone DebugRegex YES (13) Displaying "Info" in .address files You can get it from: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/demos/productivity/Phone-3.4.mihs.tar.gz (HASC.CA is a slow link) ftp://hasc.ca/pub/next/Phone-3.4.mihs.tar.gz - darcy
From: "Jens Ch. Gloede" <jens@interpc.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Interpersonal Computing/OpenSource offer MovieMachine promotion Date: 14 Feb 1995 22:54:12 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3hrtt4$evj@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: OpenSource, Inc. 1776 Lincoln Street, Suite 1012 Denver, CO 80203 Toll Free: 1-800-TRY-OPEN Phone: 1-303-861-4411 Fax: 1-303-861-2393 E-mail: info@opensource.com WWW: http://www.stepwise.com/resellers OpenSource announces special $300 discount on IPC's Movie Machine Pro video editing package for NEXTSTEP. DENVER, COLORADO - February 11, 1995. OpenSource, Inc., the largest single-source reseller of NEXTSTEP hardware and software today announced that it is offering a $300 discount on interpersonal-computing's Movie Machine Pro video editing package for NEXTSTEP. This special, which will run from February 15th-28th, in honor of the Academy Awards presentation, makes this powerful video package affordable to an even larger number of NEXTSTEP users. The special price for the Movie Machine Pro board, the NEXTSTEP driver, and the various NEXTSTEP applications is $1095. A M-JPEG add-on board option is also available for $395 and provides off-disk 30-fame-per-second video. Movie Machine Pro The MOVIE MACHINE PRO combines four features on one board: VIDEO overlay, TV-Tuner, framegrabber and VIDEO editing. The MOVIE MACHINE PRO digitizes true color with studio quality regardless whether the source is an external composite video signal or the internal TV-Tuner. The live video may be sized or positioned anywhere on the computer screen. The digitized image can be stored at any time as TIFF or printed out for further uses. No scanner could be faster! Naturally you may put any of the input signals or stored images back to video. Connect your local antenna or cable to the MOVIE MACHINE PRO and you have Instant-TV on your desktop. The fully software controllable TV-Tuner provides you with live news, sport magazines or simply comics whenever you click on your TV icon. The smart TV software offers ready-to-run channel tables from over 120 countries equipped. Want some more? Just start the automatic program search which will find your favorite TV station. The software MMStudio provides you with your own Private Desktop Video Studio. You can "cut", "mix", or "zoom" any combination of the live video sources and see the instantaneous results on a video monitor or record them to a VCR. A realistic image of a T-Bar controls effects like "wipe", "flip", and "move". In addition, composing images into the live video is supported by color-, chroma- and luma-keying. In combination with the CODY board you can record and play back movies from and to video. The CODY digitizes a live video source directly onto your harddisk. Once digitized you may use it in NEXTIME, edit or play it back to video again. Features * Live overlay * Cable ready TV-tuner * Stereo Sound, 6 Watt * 2 external video inputs * FBAS/composite video output (VHS compatible) * Digital trick effects * Live frame grabbing Standard Software MMTV The basic package already contains the software for the TV-Tuner for displaying live video on screen. Any of the video input signals may be looped thru to the video output again. What You See Is What You Get, every image you see can instantaneously be digitized and stored as TIFF. MMStudio The application which makes total video possible. All video inputs may be cut, mixed and put back to video again. Images and text can be composed onto the video. A library with more than 30 digital trick effects let you create professional videos. With a realistic T-bar you may control any of the effects manually. Technical Data * True Color, YUV 4:1:1, TIFF support * 1/50 sec. field PAL (1/60 NTSC) * 1/25 sec. frame PAL (1/30 NTSC) * 13.5 MHz scan rate (studio quality) * PAL, NTSC Inputs * Composite, max. 1Vpp 75 Ohm, AGC * 2 external FBAS inputs * 1 internal input (TV-TUNER) Outputs * Video FBAS/Composite (VHS compatible) * 3 Watt amplifier(TV-Tuner) Geometric Resolution * 768x576 PAL/SECAM, 640x480 NTSC Screen Resolution * Up to 800x600 (non interlaced) guaranteed * 1024x768 (possible, without guarantee) * Live video scalable from icon size up to fullscreen Interpersonal Computing Interpersonal Computing develops award winning video and image editing software for the NEXTSTEP platform. Products include Screen Machine II, Movie Machine Pro, ScanOmatic, JetPilot and the NEXTIME VDOconverter. Contact Information =================== interpersonal-computing GmbH NeXT Center Munich Oettingenstrasse 2 80538 Munich/GERMANY ++49 (0) 89-22 33 75 ++49 (0) 89-22 33 76 fax info@interpc.de Jens Ch. Gloede OpenSource, Inc. OpenSource is a single-source reseller of third-party applications and pre-configured hardware for the NEXTSTEP operating system. Dedicated to prompt service and quality support, OpenSource offers the most extensive line of NEXTSTEP related products in the industry. OpenSource is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
From: Bakhteiarov Serguei <osd!serge@osd.glas.apc.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: NCR53C8xx PCI Fast SCSI driver for NEXTSTEP 3.3 Date: 14 Feb 1995 15:11:43 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3hr2pv$cc2@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Moscow, Russia, 14 Feb 95. REC (Russian Electronic Company) announces the availability of the NCR53C8xx PCI Fast SCSI driver for NeXTSTEP 3.3 Information contact: Serguei Bakhteiarov Chapaevski pereulok 14 Moscow Russia, 125252 fax: ++7 (095) 157 5118 ph: ++7 (095) 157 0208 Internet: serge@osd.glas.apc.org Supported SCSI adapters The driver supports any PCI bus SCSI host adapters based on NCR53C810, NCR53C815, NCR53C820 and NCR53C825 single chip SCSI controllers including on-board ones. Supported SCSI devices The driver supports all SCSI II compliant devices. SCSI I devices may or may not to work with this driver. Price: $100 demo is available by request: ncr@osd.glas.apc.org NEXTSTEP is trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc.
From: axon!vrobi@uunet.uu.net (Robert Vasvari) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Starter 1.0 is now available Date: 14 Feb 1995 15:13:25 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3hr2t5$cct@digifix.digifix.com> Starter 1.0 is now available. Contact: Robert Vasvari <vrobi@futon.sfsu.edu> Description: Starter can be a great way to start building a new app. Most features that all apps need, such as document handling, multi-window preference panels and inspectors, menu enabling/disabling are already implemented. Starter is a great application framework which allows the developer to build an app by "filling in the blanks" Starter is also great for developers who are not yet familiar with all the basic Mechanisms in NEXTSTEP and would still like to write an app that conforms to the general guide lines of NS. The code is not complicated, and browsing through it is a great way to learn NEXTSTEP programming. Available: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/sources/programming/Starter.compressed Distribution: Source only Price: free
From: "WSI Nationwide" <p00370@psilink.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: US-NJ-201-NEXTSTEP developer,Bergen Co Date: 14 Feb 1995 15:14:40 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3hr2vg$cd7@digifix.digifix.com> ---------(All fees are paid by our client companies)----------- ----(Please DO NOT return a copy of this announcement with your response)--- Qualified candidates must have at least two years work experience, outside school and not require sponsorship. Preferred candidates will live in the area, already have plans to be here for interviews or able to get themselves here for an interview. Interviewing expenses will not be reimbursed. I have been asked to identify an independent consultant with strong NEXTSTEP development experience to help with a Mainframe to Client/Server converstion in Bergen County, NJ. This will be an initial eight month contract. Your rate will be submitted. If you know someone who might qualify, or who is available, have them call and fax/email their resume. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Qualified candidates must have at least 2 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 who is coming to NYC/NJ, 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 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: "WSI Nationwide" <p00370@psilink.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: US-NY-212-C++,NEXTSTEP,MS-Windows OLE Date: 14 Feb 1995 15:14:54 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3hr2vu$cde@digifix.digifix.com> ---------(All fees are paid by our client companies)----------- ----(Please DO NOT return a copy of this announcement with your response)--- Qualified candidates must have at least two years work experience, outside school and not require sponsorship. Preferred candidates will live in the area, already have plans to be here for interviews or able to get themselves here for an interview. Interviewing expenses will not be reimbursed. I have been asked to identify a Senior developer independent consultant or employee with strong C++ and NEXTSTEP development experience also with MS-Windows OLE for an employee position with this leading NYC software developer (your salary requirements will be submitted) or an independent contractor for an initial six month to one year contract at between $55/hr to $65/hr with paid OT. If you know someone who might qualify, or who is available, have them call and fax/email their resume. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Qualified candidates must have at least 2 years experience - after - graduation, with a company in the USA --- not a school --- working on business systems and must be a US citizen or not require sponsorship, thanks. If you know someone who is coming to NYC/NJ, Email an ascii resume here, fax to 212-534-3724 or call 212-410-1400. - Jay L. (To insure formatting & print quality, please also mail a copy to WSI, 1619 Third Avenue, Box #6415, N#################################################################### Path: news.informatik.uni-muenchen.de!lrz-muenchen.de!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!zib-berlin.de!news.mathworks.com!hookup!nic.hookup.net!digifix!digifix!not-for-mail From: khare@xent.caltech.edu (Rohit Khare) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: WebStep-Compliant eText .92 Release Date: 15 Feb 1995 16:33:48 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Lines: 21 Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Approved: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3htrvs$l39@digifix.digifix.com> Reply-To: khare@caltech.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: digifix.digifix.com eText Project Offers Valentine's Update of Hypermedia Authoring Tool http://www.eText.caltech.edu/eTextEngine 11:59:59 PM, Pacific Standard Time, in a Dark, Fetid Laboratory --- Just because the rest of you are out celebrating St. Valentine's Day (or is it Night?) is no excuse for exhausted, nocturnal hackers to attempt getting a life. Hence, the eText Project's latest, WebStep-compliant release, .92. .92 is a wide-ranging update of .90, the Christmas relase. It's more stable, more featureful, and supports drag-and-drop integration with WebStep-compliant apps like WebPages and OmniWeb .9+. Specifically, it supports the new, standard .htmld format, URI pasteboard, and HTML generation guidelines. Most importantly, it uses the Official WebStep .htmld Icon (TM). More information at: http://xent.caltech.edu/WebStep.
From: seanl@ringding.cs.umd.edu (Sean Luke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Resound 2.2 Date: 2 Feb 1995 15:58:24 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3grh1g$go8@digifix.digifix.com> Resound 2.2 Sean Luke February 2, 1995 Resound 2.2 is a modular sound editor for NeXTSTEP 3.x, specifically designed to be extendable through dynamically-loaded modules. Resound has been compiled FAT for black hardware and Intel machines. Resound is not designed to be the end-all and be-all of sound editors. Rather, it's designed to provide a framework for you to add your own filters and sound-bending tools ("modules"). Think of it as Adobe Photoshop for sound bites. If you're currently using an earlier version of Resound, please upgrade to Resound 2.2. You'll find it...more pleasurable to use. :-) Resound has been uploaded to: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/sound/Resound.2.2.tar.gz It'll probably be in a specialized directory soon in ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de. Sean Luke U Maryland at College Park seanl@cs.umd.edu
From: annard@wft.stack.urc.tue.nl (Annard Brouwer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: BlackIcons shell script for turning white into black Date: 16 Feb 1995 01:48:10 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3husfa$qmd@digifix.digifix.com> BlackIcons.tar.gz is submitted to the following archives: ftp://ftp.stack.urc.tue.nl/home/ftp/pub2/next/Software/Tools_and_Utilities/Unix ftp://ftp.CS.ORST.EDU/software/NeXT/sources/util/BlackIcons.tar.gz ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/submissions This shell script restores the beautiful black monitor icons we were so accustomed to before NEXTSTEP release 3.3. I don't understand why NeXT didn't use the fat binary capability to make distinct icons for black or white hardware, although I'd prefer the black icons even on white hardware. This script comes with no guarantee whatsoever! It has been tried on two different sites, one installed by me and one by someone else (thanks Jon!) and we experienced no problems. Please let me know if you like it. Written by Annard Brouwer <annard@stack.urc.tue.nl> NeXTmail OK
From: Thomas Engel <tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: ClassEditor 0.3 Quad fat, really tested and working with PB. Date: 19 Feb 1995 02:11:56 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3i6qvs$pg@digifix.digifix.com> Release 0.3, 15.02.1995 by Thomas Engel (tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org) Submitted to: ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next/Developer/Apps ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Developer/app ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/programming/ The ClassEditor ATTENTION..you need gnutar and gzip to unpack this package. WHAT's NEW IN 0.3: - Fixed bugs - Should not corrupt files anymore (now tested for one week) - Nicer Icons. - For details read the 'Release Notes' This editor allows you to modify class definitions on a per-method basis. In additon to offering a method browser it will make it very simple to keep the documentation in sync with your code. Both elements are shown side by side. The ideal situation would be to maintain a documentation file from the first moment since creating a new class or method. ClassEditor is able to create the docu temples for you in this release. It also helps you to stick to NeXTs layout by offering a style menu In the worst case you should think about this project as a RFD (request for discussion). Let's start a news thread on what you expect from advanced development tools. Maybe someone at NeXT might find new ideas for NeXTSTEP 4.0 in there. What it does ClassEditor opens a set of MyClass.m, MyClass.h and MyClass.rtf files and displays them. You can edit and view the class on a per-method basis or see all three files at once inside the "cheat window". Modifying existing classes that are not spread accross more then those three files is quite safe. Adding methods is possible from inside the "cheat window" but introduces some rough edges. See the bugs section for details. The Package Version 0.3 comes in a package that includes: - ClassEditor.app. A FAT binary for NeXT, Intel, HP and Sparc hardware. - An Examples directory containing working test setups of interface, implementation and documentation files for retain classes. - Online help...minimal - Full sourcecode - The documentation and an ASCII version (README) of this introduction On where to find the latest releases please see the 'About this Project' section. Features Currently there are only very simple things this application will do for you. Now this is just an early alpha version but...anyway...don't expect it to do magic things anytime soon. - Select methods and view or edit the description and implementation. - Create missing pieces of class and method documentation using automatic text generation and useful ready-to-copy templates. - Use the "Style" menu and panel to get fast access to the right fonts for the nasty documentation work. - Undo the last changes inside a method. - Use Emacs keybindings to navigate inside the text areas. - Select the "Plain C-Stuff" entry from the mode popup and view (or edit) all three files inside the "cheat window". Add defines, instance variables or new methods here. Some features will definitly be improved to help me get along with all those missing class docus (yes...MiscSwapKit docus are already waiting for too long). The latest version of this editor will be available at the ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de, ftp.cs.orst.edu or ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de anonymous ftp servers. Soon there will be a WWW page were you can find out more about the status of this...and all the other projects I'm working on. It will be under the projects section of: http://wwwcip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/user/tsengel/
From: Patrick Stein Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,de.comp.sys.next Subject: SUBMISSION: JollysFax 1.20 Date: 19 Feb 1995 15:38:26 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Distribution: world Message-ID: <3i7oli$ffj@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> Keywords: zyxel,fax,driver Hiho ! Jollys Fax Modem Driver supports sendFax capabilities for ZyXEL-modems on NeXTSTEP compatible computers. This Release is somewhat stable on Motorola and Intel. Changes to version 1.0: Fixed the untrimmed page error. Fax deletion from the PrinterManger works now. Works on Intel ( Thanx Adrian for using your system ) Better internal uucp-locking mechanism. Higher shareware fee cause nobody payed anything. Software is Shareware - it's NOT FOR FREE ! US$ 20 / 30 DM for a single machine US$ 10 / 10 DM for every supplementary machine. It can be obtained using (Y)Ftp to: ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de /pub/comp/platforms/next/Tools/fax/JollysFax.1.20.NI.b.tar.gz --- keep cool - jolly =================================================================== Jolly alias Patrick Stein jolly@cis.uni-muenchen.de office : ++49 +89 -211 06 70 Centrum fuer Informations private: ++49 +89 -950 57 34 und Sprachverarbeitung der Ludwig-Maximilians Universitaet Muenchen =================================================================== Last famous words : " Blue, no..wait, Yellow! " {to a bridgekeeper} monty python ===================================================================
From: Paul Tod Rieger <prie@abl.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: NEXTSTEP:atlanta, February 23rd Date: 17 Feb 1995 15:46:07 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3i31uf$cn0@digifix.digifix.com> Different time and place: Date: Thursday, February 23, 1995 Time: 7:00pm Place: Information Management's conference room 4th floor, Suite 430 (Decatur) Cost: free and open to the public Agenda: administrative matters demo of CHaRTSMITH and its API Map to: Information Management, Inc. (IMI) 150 E. Ponce de Leon Ave., Suite 430 (4th floor) Decatur, GA (located between Church St. and Clairmont Rd. in Decatur; parking is available in a parking deck behind the offices; the parking deck is accessible from a sideroad that runs between Church and Clairmont) Contact: Tod Rieger Phone: 404-381-2464 Email: prie@abl.com
From: slugg jello <mouthers!slugg@nwnexus.wa.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: TIMEFLIES reappears on Internet server Date: 17 Feb 1995 15:48:17 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3i322h$cne@digifix.digifix.com> NEWS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - TIMEFLIES FROM MOUTHING FLOWERS 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 TIMEFLIES REAPPEARS ON INTERNET SERVER Seattle, WA, February 16, 1995 - Mouthing Flowers expressed surprise today that its popular time management application TimeFlies was reported to have disappeared from a popular Internet archive server. Indeed, the most recent version of TimeFlies was found missing on ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/submissions. No one has been able to explain how the files disappeared other than someone outside of Mouthing Flowers apparently deleted the two files, a tar'd NeXT package and a 'README' file. The disappearance was reported to Mouthing Flowers via email by several people who had attempted to download the files and found them missing. Mouthing Flowers expressed gratitude to those who took the time to report the disappearance and announced that the files have been replaced. The files now are located on ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/util. The latest release of TimeFlies is version 2.6 and is available to current TimeFlies users with no upgrade charge. Version 2.6 sports new features including: * A message protocol exported to distributed objects allowing other applications to remotely create TimeFlies alarms. * When an alarm causes a panel to be issued you can now easily ask TimeFlies to reissue the alarm after a given number of minutes (sort of a 'doze' feature). * By popular demand, you may now initialize an alarm using the date given in the new calendar panel. * By popular demand, TimeFlies records alarm settings immediately rather than at logoff and application quit time. * By popular demand, you may now assign a name to each TimeFlies alarm. TimeFlies is a powerful, easy, and well-priced time management application for NEXTSTEP-enabled computers. TimeFlies' objective is to save you time and money by helping you and your coworkers stay on time for meetings and other events. TimeFlies provides you with a flexible system of alarms, a female voice chime, and chimes of your design. TimeFlies also provides a handy calendar and stopwatch. TimeFlies exports a protocol to distributed objects allowing other applications to remotely create alarms. With TimeFlies Alarms Create alarms that: * play sounds, * send email, * issue a message panel on your screen, * execute a shell command, * or any combination of the above. Set alarms to go off at: * a specific time of day, * day of the week, * date of the month, * a specific month, * any combination of the above, * or after a specified period of time. With TimeFlies Chimes Set chimes to go off at any quarter hour. Set a chime so that when it goes off it will: * tell you in a soothing female voice what time it is, or * play a sound. * on the hour, repeat a sound 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 has a handy calendar for quick reference. TimeFlies requires NEXTSTEP 3.1 or greater. TimeFlies ships as a multiple-architecture binary; that is, it runs on both Motorola-based NeXT hardware, qualified Intel-based systems, or on NEXTSTEP networks that mix Intel and Motorola hardware. TimeFlies is available on Internet archive servers (ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/util) 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 $29 or $19 for full-time students, seniors, and handicapped (prices subject to change). Multi-user network rates are available. Mouthing Flowers, Inc. is a Pacific Northwest software development and consulting firm which provides expertise in NEXTSTEP and Microsoft Windows software environments. NeXT and NEXTSTEP are trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corp.
From: powell@tropic.aoml.erl.gov (Mark Powell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING:February Miami (Fl) NEXTSTEP Users Group - Feb. 25 Date: 17 Feb 1995 15:48:56 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3i323o$cnl@digifix.digifix.com> February Miami (Fl) NEXTSTEP Users Group Meeting New Members and interested parties Welcome!!! Where: Univ. of Miami Biology Dept. NEXTSTEP Mathematica Lab Host: Professor Tom Herbert When: Friday, Feb. 25, 4-6 pm Agenda: NEXTSTEP System Administration (with hands-on exposure to an actual network of NS/I machines). Possible additional subjects: Encryption NEXTTIME Rumor Validation on the BIG Feb. Announcement How to solve world hunger Directions: Tom Herbert's office is located in Rm. 162 of the Cox Science Building at the Coral Gables Campus of University of Miami. The NeXTstep meeting will be held in the Computer Lab - Rm 108B, just off the main lobby of the Cox Building. The Coral Gables campus is located off of Rt. 1. Best entrance is from San Amaro Drive on the west side of the campus. Going north on San Amaro from the direction of Miller Drive, turn right into the last entrance before San Amaro curves around to the east. Park anywhere. Those not associated with UM should not worry about the very slight possiblity of a UM parking ticket. (Unlikely after 4 since parking rules end at 4:30.) The Cox Building is a concrete 3 story building with outside balconies, located between the engineering and computer science buildings and across from the library.
From: Zippytech <ztech@well.sf.ca.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Zippytech Releases NetworkKit 1.1 Date: 18 Feb 1995 02:15:22 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3i46qa$md4@digifix.digifix.com> Zippytech Releases NetworkKit 1.1 Free Evaluation Kit On Internet Zippytech is pleased to announce the release of version 1.1 of its NetworkKit object collection for x86, NeXT, HP PA-RISC, and SPARC machines running NEXTSTEP. NetworkKit consists of objects for FTP and TELNET, as well as raw TCP and UDP connections. Designed from scratch for the NEXTSTEP AppKit, NetworkKit objects makes it easy to build NEXTSTEP-based network computing applications in a heterogeneous TCP/IP environment. Zippytech customers are using the NetworkKit in applications ranging from network and systems management to remote process control to medical imaging. WeatherLabs, Inc. uses the NetworkKit to deliver real-time weather reports to major media clients over the Internet. According to Brendan L. Larson, President and CEO of WeatherLabs, "Using the FTP object, we can push weather data to clients who have chosen other platforms such as Windows NT. This type of platform independent network connectivity is extremely important to my business, because it allows our media clients to chose their own operating systems and network platforms." Developers may obtain an evaluation copy of the NetworkKit from the Stepwise anonymous FTP server. ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Vendors/Zippytech/NetworkKit_1.1.tar.gz For more information, contact Chris Maeda Zippytech, 4505 University Way NE 601, Seattle WA 98105, USA ztech@well.sf.ca.us 206-726-3072
From: mitroo@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Varun Mitroo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: NEXTSTEP Software for converting DICOM images to TIFF format Date: 19 Feb 1995 17:24:29 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3i8get$58j@digifix.digifix.com> I have uploaded ImageConverter.app, a NEXTSTEP program for converting DICOM images into TIFF format to the following archive sites: ftp.xray.hmc.psu.edu ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de rsna.org It is compiled "Fat" for Motorola, Intel, HP PA-RISC, and SPARC. Also included is a sample image (1.8 MB compressed) 116456 ftp://rsna.org/pub/incoming/ImageConverter.NIHS.b.tar.gz 1828914 ftp://rsna.org/pub/incoming/ImageConverterSampleImage.tar.gz --------------------------------- >From the README file: ImageConverter Copyright 1995, Varun Mitroo, MD ImageConverter is a NEXTSTEP program designed for converting 12 bit grayscale radiographic images into TIFF format. ImageConverter will convert any ACR/NEMA 2.0 or DICOM 3.0 image as well as any proprietary format that follows the 12 bits per pixel convention for radiographic images. ImageConverter was developed at The Ohio State University Department of Radiology as part of a complete NEXTSTEP-based networked radiology teaching system. This system was exhibited at the 1994 RSNA conference InfoRAD exhibit and received a Magna Cum Laude award. The other applications of this system will be made available shortly for anonymous ftp access, and will allow any radiology department to build its own computer based teaching file of interesting cases and share them with other institutions through the internet.
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Summary 71 - Articles posted since February 16 1995 Date: 20 Feb 1995 05:00:08 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3i97ko$8k2@digifix.digifix.com> Summary: 71 Postings since: February 16 1995 [2903] MEETING: BANG, Thursday 2/16 7pm, SLAC [2904] MEETING: University of Waterloo NEXTSTEP Users Group [2905] JOB: Sarrus Software - Office Manager [2906] SUBMISSION: new "Opener" on ftp.cs.orst.edu [2907] PRESS RELEASE: NCR53C8xx PCI Fast SCSI driver for NEXTSTEP 3.3 [2909] SUBMISSION: Starter 1.0 is now available [2910] JOB: US-NJ-201-NEXTSTEP developer,Bergen Co [2911] JOB: US-NY-212-C++,NEXTSTEP,MS-Windows OLE [2912] SUBMISSION: Phone-3.4 [2913] PRESS RELEASE: Interpersonal Computing/OpenSource offer MovieMachine promotion [2914] JOB: NS Sysadmin in Chicago Area [2915] SUBMISSION: WebStep-Compliant eText .92 Release [2916] SUBMISSION: eText5 .93 Release [2917] SUBMISSION: BlackIcons shell script for turning white into black [2918] MEETING: NEXTSTEP:atlanta, February 23rd [2919] SUBMISSION: TIMEFLIES reappears on Internet server [2920] MEETING:February Miami (Fl) NEXTSTEP Users Group - Feb. 25 [2921] PRESS RELEASE: Stone Design offers "Orphan Owners Upgrade" [2922] PRESS RELEASE: Zippytech Releases NetworkKit 1.1 [2923] SUBMISSION: ClassEditor 0.3 Quad fat, really tested and working with PB. [2924] SUBMISSION: NEXTSTEP Software for converting DICOM images to TIFF format If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com. Archives -------- Individual messages are available at http://www.stepwise.com/comp.sys.next.announce/csna-71/**article_number** where **article_number** is the [xxxx] beside the Subject line above.. FTP archives: ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives/csna-71.tar.gz WWW archives: http://www.stepwise.com/comp.sys.next.announce/csna-71 Article submissions : next-announce@digifix.com Submission guidelines: next-announce-guidelines@digifix.com Suggestions/comments : next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: khare@xent.caltech.edu (Rohit Khare) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: eText5 .93 Release Date: 16 Feb 1995 00:12:40 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3hums8$pvb@digifix.digifix.com> In order to tweak an obscure bug affecting large files, support of WebStep-standard .uri files, and quad-fat compilation, I've replaced the Valentine's .92 release with a new .93. It's available, as usual, at http://etext.caltech.edu/eTextEngine Sorry for any confusion, Rohit
From: dja3@meaddata.com (Dave Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: FLYING MONKEY announces SHELF Date: 22 Feb 1995 00:33:41 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ieibl$s62@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Dave Anderson Flying Monkey Software 8424 Todd Creek Cr. West Chester, OH 45069 djanders@nox.cs.du.edu 513-865-6800 x6087 Day 513-779-6489 Evening FLYING MONKEY SOFTWARE ANNOUNCES SHELF: A LOGICAL FILE ORGANIZER FOR THE RIGHT BRAIN THINKER IN YOU WEST CHESTER, Ohio, February 21, 1995 -- Flying Monkey Software announces Shelf, an application for NEXTSTEP users which provides an alternative to the rigid structure of the file system, allowing them to organize files in whatever way they'd like. Shelf is basically the shelf from a file viewer, torn out and fired up. We like file viewer shelves just fine; it's the only decent way to take a mess of files from all over and put them in one place. But we didn't like having to always have the rest of the file viewer around cluttering up the screen. We tried some of the doc and shelf extenders out there, but never found what we were really searching for. So, we built Shelf. Now you can have as many shelves as you want each in their own window. You can put any type of file in them, including other shelves and handfuls of files from a file viewer. Plus it'll launch apps and files, let you to drag into directories, and basically allow you to manage files logically (the way you think about things) rather than physically (buried in the file system.) It's a tremendous right brain tool for all of us different folks who are tired of trying to stay organized in someone else's organization. Shelf, a logical file organizer $25.00 To order, send a check to Flying Monkey Software at the address above (plus shipping and handling - internet free, us mail $3, international mail $7.50.) Free electronic upgrades. Media and shipping cost for diskette upgrades. To get a full look at all of our Flying Monkey stuff, through the web http://www.stepwise.com/ThirdParty/Developers/Flying_Monkey_Software.htmld/index.html If you don't have www access yet, we can send you an email copy of the latest Flying Monkey Software Catalog directly, in rtf or postscript. (Rtf is default, otherwise you'll get postscript. Ask for what you want.) Flying Monkey Software provides object, application, graphic design, and shareware services to the NEXTSTEP community. The monkeys have been making software for more than twenty years, and show no signs of stopping. Our credo is satisfaction guaranteed: all Flying Monkey products will work - or we'll fix them for free. We'll also extend them for requesting customers on a contractual basis. "Dang, that monkey software really flies!" NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc. Shelf is a an application for NEXTSTEP from Flying Monkey Software. Never operate electrical equipment while wet.
From: Karen Logsdon <Karen_Logsdon@NeXT.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NeXT FY 1994 RESULTS & OPENSTEP FOR WINDOWS Date: 21 Feb 1995 16:18:44 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3idlbk$oet@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Karen Logsdon NeXT Computer, Inc. 415-780-3786 or Lisa Hahn Copithorne & Bellows 415-975-2226 NeXT ANNOUNCES FY 1994 RESULTS: $50 MILLION REVENUES; $1 MILLION PROFIT NeXT Also Announces OpenStep for Windows NT and Windows 95 REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-February 21, 1995-NeXT Computer, Inc. today announced fiscal year 1994 revenues reached $49.6 million and its net income (profit) was $1.0 million. Revenues grew 247% over the prior year. The company also announced that it is developing OpenStep for Windows NT and Windows 95. OpenStep for Windows is a full implementation of NeXT's industry-standard open object layer which allows customers to rapidly develop distributed three-tier, client/server enterprise solutions. According to International Data Corporation (IDC), the market for object-oriented tools continues to grow at approximately 50% per year. IDC estimates this market, which includes stand-alone C++ compilers, was $450 million in 1994. Based on NeXT's 1994 revenues, NeXT captured a 10% market share in 1994, up from a 3.5% market share one year ago. In addition, these statistics highlight NeXT as the third largest supplier of object development tools, following Microsoft and Borland, and the only company of the three focused exclusively on object technology. "I am pleased to announce record growth and profitability for NeXT," said Steven P. Jobs, chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer, Inc. "Our leadership in objects is demonstrated by our strong financial performance, our growing customer base in the Fortune 500 market and our decision to take NeXT's industry-endorsed technology to mainstream desktop platforms." OpenStep for Windows Brings OpenStep to the Mainstream During 1994, NeXT gained support for OpenStep from industry partnerships with Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard Company and Digital Equipment Corporation, who adopted OpenStep as a primary object-oriented offering. NeXT is now expanding the OpenStep platform offerings to include Windows NT and Windows 95. OpenStep for Windows will be in beta testing during the second half of 1995, and is expected to ship in early 1996. Pricing will be determined at that time. "We are pleased to be partnering with NeXT to integrate its proven object technology into our powerful Solaris software environment," said Scott McNealy, chairman and CEO of Sun Microsystems, Inc. "We applaud NeXT's efforts to bring OpenStep to the mainstream and encourage other partners to join the OpenStep initiative." OpenStep for Windows will allow corporate customers to develop object-oriented, three-tier client server applications in a fraction of the time currently possible with available Windows development tools, and deploy these applications on Intel-based PCs running OpenStep for Windows NT or Windows 95. All applications developed in OpenStep are portable across all OpenStep implementations, including those announced from Sun, Hewlett Packard, Digital and NeXT. OpenStep for Windows applications will seamlessly communicate with objects running on servers from Sun, Hewlett Packard and Digital, allowing customers to build truly distributed, scalable applications using Windows NT and Windows 95. OpenStep for Windows applications will also automatically communicate with OLE objects and services, enabling OpenStep applications to interoperate with native Windows applications such as Excel and Word. "We're pleased that NeXT is supporting OLE, Windows NT and Win95," said Roger Heinen, senior vice president of Microsoft Corporation's Developer Division. "We think having a variety of development tools is good for our customers and NeXT's customers will now have access to hundreds of shipping OLE products as part of their development strategies." OpenStep for Windows Technology Demonstrated As part of the OpenStep for Windows announcement, NeXT today demonstrated two components of OpenStep technology that have already been ported to Windows - NeXT's PDO dynamic distributed object model and Display PostScript running under the Windows windowing system. PDO allows NEXTSTEP objects to run on Windows and to seamlessly communicate over a network with PDO objects running on other operating systems, including HP's HP-UX, Sun's Solaris and Sun OS, Digital's Unix and NeXT's MachOS. In addition, NeXT demonstrated transparent interoperability between PDO and Microsoft's OLE/COM object model, such that PDO and OLE/COM objects can communicate with each other without any additional programming. This communication is possible because PDO automatically translates each object's interface into the other's native format, allowing OLE objects to appear as PDO objects, and PDO objects to appear as OLE objects. The integration of the PDO and OLE/COM object models will allow customers to develop applications in PDO which take full advantage of all available OLE services, including those in the Microsoft Office applications. Display PostScript running under the Windows windowing system demonstrates the ability to display OpenStep applications inside Windows windows, alongside native Windows applications. This seamless window system integration is a key milestone in porting OpenStep to Windows and demonstrates that OpenStep for Windows will be a good Windows "citizen." New Customers Deploy Object Technology Into The Enterprise NeXT's success in 1994 was based on the expansion of its product family into application server and database computing, as well as relationships with Sun, HP and Digital. Most importantly, however, was the expansion of NeXT's customer base which can be attributed to strengthened direct sales in vertical markets that are most rapidly adopting object technology - communications, financial services and government. MCI, for example, selected NEXTSTEP for the development and delivery of custom applications for its New Friends & Family program and the U.S. Postal Service Consumer Affairs Division selected NEXTSTEP for its new Customer Care system. NeXT Computer, Inc. NEXT develops and markets OpenStep, the industry's first and most advanced object environment. OpenStep versions have been announced which will run on several operating systems, including NeXT's own MachOS, Sun's Solaris, Digital's OSF/1 and Microsoft's Windows NT and Windows 95. OpenStep's object-oriented technology allows corporate customers to rapidly create and deploy three-tier, client-server, mission critical custom applications. NeXT is headquartered in Redwood City, California, and has offices in North America, London, Paris, Munich and Tokyo. # # # # NeXT, the NeXT logo, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP are trademarks or registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: steve@ion.rice.edu (Steve Ludtke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: MolViewer 0.92 - beta Date: 21 Feb 1995 16:25:00 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3idlnc$oif@digifix.digifix.com> ANNOUNCING MOLVIEWER 0.92(beta) ------------------------------- First, for those of you who didn't see the earlier versions, MolViewer is a program designed to display 3D views of molecules and allow you to play around with them interactively. A lot of the features center on protein chemistry, but the program is still quite useful for other molecules as well. MolViewer runs only under NeXTStep 3.0 and above (only tested on 3.3). There are 3 parts to this release: ftp://ion.rice.edu/pub/next/chemistry/MolViewer0.92b.FAT.tar.gz - I don't have 3.3dev, so it is only bi-fat. ftp://ion.rice.edu/pub/next/chemistry/MolViewerSmp.tar.gz - The sample molecules. ftp://ion.rice.edu/pub/next/chemistry/MolViewer0.92b.src.tar.gz - Complete source! (which I didn't have time to clean up properly, so it's still a bit hard to read) All 3 files are gzipped and can be ftped from ion.rice.edu. This is primarily a bug fix release. There were many annoying bugs in MV0.91. I fixed most of them months ago, but kept planning on doing more. I've finally given up on finding the time for a lot of changes that I'd planned. Aside from fixing the remaining bugs, this will probably be the last release of MolViewer. I have complete rewrite in the works (under a different name), but it may be so long before I finish it that BeakerBoy has made it obsolete : ) Anyway, Please continue to send in bug reports/suggestions which I will incorporate into the new app if I ever get a chance to work on it. Main changes in this release: 1) Bond searches for files with incomplete/missing bond info 2) Protein building now works on intel machines 3) The help window SHOULD open properly on all machines. (If it doesn't, please let me know asap). Even if you don't read the docs, please at least take a look at the history file to see what's changed. All of the docs can be found via online help. If you have any questions, suggestions, etc ... write me: --steve@ion.rice.edu stevel@alumni.caltech.edu http://pgsa.rice.edu/~stevel/
From: Max Boehm <boehm@cube.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: EasyBTX 1.1 Videotex Decoder Date: 22 Feb 1995 02:57:40 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ieqpk$suc@digifix.digifix.com> EasyBTX 1.1 Videotex Decoder EasyBTX.app is a software decoder for interactive videotex services conforming to the CEPT 1.0 standard (BTX, Prestel, Teletel, Viditel, ...). What is new in version 1.1: - Higher speed - New menu entries: Print..., Save Page... - Pages are copied to the poasteboard as ASCII, EPS, and TIFF - National characters are supported - Changed modem access/setup (baudrate up to 38400 supported) - Localization and Online Help for German, English, Frensh - PAN/BTX supported - Documented Distributed Objects interface - Source code of example client applications provided Free source code of example client applications for handling automatic dialogs are provided in this distribution. EasyBTX may be tried free of charge for short sessions and can be registered for DM 99. The software is compiled on NS 3.2 for Motorola, Intel, and HPPA. It is available at the Munich FTP server: ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Communication/commercial/EasyBTX.1.1.NIH.bs.tar.gz 255716 Feb 20 16:42 EasyBTX.1.1.NIH.bs.tar.gz 1108 Feb 20 16:43 EasyBTX.1.1.README For more information please contact: Max Boehm Phone: +49-2301-14658 Fax: +49-2301-14459 Email: boehm@cube.de Germany
From: mezzino@gauss.cl.uh.edu (Mike Mezzino) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: GatorFTP Quad-fat Date: 20 Feb 1995 15:38:42 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3iauki$eqd@digifix.digifix.com> Hello GatorFTP Users: GatorFTP_1.8 is now quadruple fat (Motorola, Intel, HP, Sun)!. Thanks to Bruce Jones for doing this for everyone who might use it. The new version can be found on our new archive site ftp://ftp.egr.uh.edu/pub/misc/GatorFTP GatorFTP_MAB_1.8.2.app.tar.Z (NeXTstep quad-fat binary) Regards, Mike Mezzino GatorFTP@gauss.cl.uh.edu
From: product_feedback@NeXT.COM (NeXT Announce) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NeXT Pricing Announcement Date: 20 Feb 1995 15:39:50 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3iaumm$eqm@digifix.digifix.com> NEXTSTEP User Release 3.3 for SPARC and PA-RISC workstations and NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.3 for all NEXTSTEP platforms is on schedule to ship the week of March 20, 1995 * NEXTSTEP User Release 3.3 in English, French or German for PA-RISC or SPARC workstations, and Intel Processors is priced at $799 US, $819 Europe. * Release 3.3 User upgrades for PA-RISC Workstations, Intel Processors, and NeXT Computers are $199 US, $219 Europe. * Academic Bundles of NEXTSTEP Rel 3.3 User and NEXTSTEP Rel 3.3 Developer are available on all NEXTSTEP platforms for $299 US, $319 Europe. These products are for educational institutions and individual faculty, staff, and students for education and research only. Academic customers who have Rel 3.3 User and Rel 3.2 Developer may purchase an Academic Rel 3.3 Developer upgrade for $99 US or $119 Europe with proper license verification. * Effective April 1st, 1995, the price of NEXTSTEP Release 3.3 Developer will increase to $4999 US, $5019 Europe. The price of NEXTSTEP Rel 3.3 Developer upgrades will increase to $1249 US, $1269 Europe. *** SPECIAL OFFERS *** Now through March 31, US customers who purchase NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.2 direct from NeXT for the price of $2999 will receive a free upgrade to NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.3. In addition, send in the Release 3.3 Developer registration card by June 30, 1995 and receive a free development copy of Enterprise Objects Framework Release 1.1. This represents a net savings of $2000 plus a free copy of EOF Release 1.1. Now through March 31, the price of NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.3 upgrades are $749 US, $789 Europe. Send in the Release 3.3 Developer registration card by June 30, 1995 and receive a free development copy of Enterprise Objects Framework Release 1.1. This represents a net savings of $500 plus a free copy of EOF 1.1. Shipments of FREE Release 3.3 devloper upgrades and FREE EOF Rel 1.1 will commence April 1. To order in the United States, call NeXT Telesales: (800) 848-6398 or (415) 424-8500. Or fax your order to (800) 228-6398 or (415) 780-3977. Shipping and tax is additional. To order in the Europe, call NeXT Telesales in The Netherlands: 31-2503-27060. Or fax your order to 31-2503-29987. Mail your order to: NeXT Computer Logistics BV, P.O. Box 712, 2130 AS Hoofddorp, The Netherlands.
From: jolly@cis.uni-muenchen.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: JollysFax 1.20 Date: 21 Feb 1995 23:17:21 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3iedsh$rml@digifix.digifix.com> Jollys Fax Modem Driver supports sendFax capabilities for ZyXEL-modems on NeXTSTEP compatible computers. This release is somewhat stable on Motorola and Intel. Changes to version 1.0: Fixed the untrimmed page error. Fax deletion from the PrinterManger works now. Works on Intel ( Thanx Adrian for using your system ) Better internal uucp-locking mechanism. Higher shareware fee cause nobody payed anything. Software is Shareware - it's NOT FOR FREE ! US$ 20 / 30 DM for a single machine US$ 10 / 10 DM for every supplementary machine. It can be obtained using (Y)Ftp to: ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Tools/fax/JollysFax.1.20.NI.b.tar.gz
From: Karen Logsdon <Karen_Logsdon@NeXT.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: cmsg cancel <3idlbk$oet@digifix.digifix.com> Control: cancel <3idlbk$oet@digifix.digifix.com> Date: 22 Feb 1995 15:04:17 -0500 Organization: Digital Fix Development Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ig5c1$4m4@digifix.digifix.com> Cancelled Message by sanguish@digifix.com -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: Allan Noordvyk <allan@cetus.ali.bc.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: System engineer - Richmond, BC, Canada Date: 21 Feb 1995 17:45:19 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3idqdv$p7s@digifix.digifix.com> Applicants Wanted Company: ALI Technologies Location: Richmond, BC, Canada Position: Systems Engineer Reporting to: Vice President, Product Operations This is a full-time position after 3 months probation. This position includes significant scope for growth. Salary is commensurate with experience. Duties: 1. Put in place a value engineering program. 2. Develop performance metrics suitable for providing guidance in system configuration and design. 3. Put in place a system to qualify and evaluate vendors and function as technical liaison with key vendors 4. Structure a program to evaluate new hardware technologies which are under consideration for inclusion in the ALI product family 5. Review proposed system configurations in support of the Sales Coordinator. 6. Act as project leader for projects involving significant custom requirements. Requirements: 1. Experience with Unix system design and implementation. 2. Familiarity with PC and workstation hardware. Other Desirable Attributes: 1. Experience with the NeXTSTEP operating system. 2. Experience with WAN technologies such as ISDN and ATM. 3. Masters degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related discipline. 4. Experience with medical image technology. About the company: ALI Technologies is an eight year old company which specializes in PACS (Picture Archiving and Communications Systems) for medical ultrasound. PACS networks are used as a faster, more-cost effective replacement for film images. ALI bundles its software product, UltraPACS, with third party hardware and installs complete systems in hospitals and clinics throughout North America. ALI is a publicly traded company under code ALT on the VSE. Send Applications To: Len Grenier, Vice President, Product Operations, ALI Technologies 95-10551 Shellbridge Way Richmond, BC, Canada V6X 2W9 Voice: 604.279.5422 Fax: 604.279.5468 E-mail: len@ali.bc.ca -- Allan Noordvyk, Software Artisan ALI Technologies, Richmond, BC, Canada
From: Karen Logsdon <Karen_Logsdon@NeXT.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NeXT FY 1994 RESULTS & OPENSTEP FOR WINDOWS Date: 22 Feb 1995 15:04:31 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ig5cf$4me@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Karen Logsdon NeXT Computer, Inc. 415-780-3786 or Lisa Hahn Copithorne & Bellows 415-975-2226 NeXT ANNOUNCES FY 1994 RESULTS: $50 MILLION REVENUES; $1 MILLION PROFIT NeXT Also Announces OpenStep for Windows NT and Windows 95 REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-February 21, 1995-NeXT Computer, Inc. today announced fiscal year 1994 revenues reached $49.6 million and its net income (profit) was $1.0 million. Revenues grew 247% over the prior year. The company also announced that it is developing OpenStep for Windows NT and Windows 95. OpenStep for Windows is a full implementation of NeXT's industry-standard open object layer which allows customers to rapidly develop distributed three-tier, client/server enterprise solutions. According to International Data Corporation (IDC), the market for object-oriented tools continues to grow at approximately 50% per year. IDC estimates this market, which includes stand-alone C++ compilers, was $450 million in 1994. Based on NeXT's 1994 revenues, NeXT captured a 10% market share in 1994, up from a 3.5% market share one year ago. In addition, these statistics highlight NeXT as the third largest supplier of object development tools, following Microsoft and Borland, and the only company of the three focused exclusively on object technology. "I am pleased to announce record growth and profitability for NeXT," said Steven P. Jobs, chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer, Inc. "Our leadership in objects is demonstrated by our strong financial performance, our growing customer base in the Fortune 500 market and our decision to take NeXT's industry-endorsed technology to mainstream desktop platforms." OpenStep for Windows Brings OpenStep to the Mainstream During 1994, NeXT gained support for OpenStep from industry partnerships with Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard Company and Digital Equipment Corporation, who adopted OpenStep as a primary object-oriented offering. NeXT is now expanding the OpenStep platform offerings to include Windows NT and Windows 95. OpenStep for Windows will be in beta testing during the second half of 1995, and is expected to ship in early 1996. Pricing will be determined at that time. "We are pleased to be partnering with NeXT to integrate its proven object technology into our powerful Solaris software environment," said Scott McNealy, chairman and CEO of Sun Microsystems, Inc. "We applaud NeXT's efforts to bring OpenStep to the mainstream and encourage other partners to join the OpenStep initiative." OpenStep for Windows will allow corporate customers to develop object-oriented, three-tier client server applications in a fraction of the time currently possible with available Windows development tools, and deploy these applications on Intel-based PCs running OpenStep for Windows NT or Windows 95. All applications developed in OpenStep are portable across all OpenStep implementations, including those announced from Sun, Hewlett Packard, Digital and NeXT. OpenStep for Windows applications will seamlessly communicate with objects running on servers from Sun, Hewlett Packard and Digital, allowing customers to build truly distributed, scalable applications using Windows NT and Windows 95. OpenStep for Windows applications will also automatically communicate with OLE objects and services, enabling OpenStep applications to interoperate with native Windows applications such as Excel and Word. "We're pleased that NeXT is supporting OLE, Windows NT and Win95," said Roger Heinen, senior vice president of Microsoft Corporation's Developer Division. "We think having a variety of development tools is good for our customers and NeXT's customers will now have access to hundreds of shipping OLE products as part of their development strategies." OpenStep for Windows Technology Demonstrated As part of the OpenStep for Windows announcement, NeXT today demonstrated two components of OpenStep technology that have already been ported to Windows - NeXT's PDO dynamic distributed object model and Display PostScript running under the Windows windowing system. PDO allows NEXTSTEP objects to run on Windows and to seamlessly communicate over a network with PDO objects running on other operating systems, including HP's HP-UX, Sun's Solaris and Sun OS, Digital's Unix and NeXT's MachOS. In addition, NeXT demonstrated transparent interoperability between PDO and Microsoft's OLE/COM object model, such that PDO and OLE/COM objects can communicate with each other without any additional programming. This communication is possible because PDO automatically translates each object's interface into the other's native format, allowing OLE objects to appear as PDO objects, and PDO objects to appear as OLE objects. The integration of the PDO and OLE/COM object models will allow customers to develop applications in PDO which take full advantage of all available OLE services, including those in the Microsoft Office applications. Display PostScript running under the Windows windowing system demonstrates the ability to display OpenStep applications inside Windows windows, alongside native Windows applications. This seamless window system integration is a key milestone in porting OpenStep to Windows and demonstrates that OpenStep for Windows will be a good Windows "citizen." New Customers Deploy Object Technology Into The Enterprise NeXT's success in 1994 was based on the expansion of its product family into application server and database computing, as well as relationships with Sun, HP and Digital. Most importantly, however, was the expansion of NeXT's customer base which can be attributed to strengthened direct sales in vertical markets that are most rapidly adopting object technology - communications, financial services and government. MCI, for example, selected NEXTSTEP for the development and delivery of custom applications for its New Friends & Family program and the U.S. Postal Service Consumer Affairs Division selected NEXTSTEP for its new Customer Care system. NeXT Computer, Inc. NEXT develops and markets OpenStep, the industry's first and most advanced object environment. OpenStep versions have been announced which will run on several operating systems, including NeXT's own MachOS, Sun's Solaris, Digital's OSF/1 and Microsoft's Windows NT and Windows 95. OpenStep's object-oriented technology allows corporate customers to rapidly create and deploy three-tier, client-server, mission critical custom applications. NeXT is headquartered in Redwood City, California, and has offices in North America, London, Paris, Munich and Tokyo. # # # # NeXT, the NeXT logo, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP are trademarks or registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: tim@dancingbear.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Dancing Bear Enterprises Announces MAiLBACK Date: 22 Feb 1995 15:39:53 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ig7ep$50o@digifix.digifix.com> Dancing Bear Enterprises Maui Research and Technology Center 590 Lipoa Parkway Kihei, HI 96753 808-875-2456 808-874-3650 fax tim@dancingbear.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 17, 1995 DANCING BEAR ENTERPRISES ANNOUNCES MAiLBACK(tm), AN INTELLIGENT MAIL AGENT FOR NEXTSTEP SYSTEMS KIHEI, HAWAII - Dancing Bear Enterprises today announced the availability of MAiLBACK, an intelligent mail agent for NEXTSTEP systems. MAiLBACK automates many time-consuming and labor-intensive activities that delay communications and tie-up staff responding to routine information requests, rerouting incoming messages and maintaining email address lists. MAiLBACK provides more efficient email communications with less labor. MAiLBACK does not replace the current NeXT Mail system, it extends the system and adds powerful new functions that automate and manage email communications. MAiLBACK interacts directly with the underlying UNIX sendmail, providing document distribution, message routing and mail list management. Unlike World Wide Web and other current information distribution tools that are limited to users with "high-end" Internet capabilities and require skilled technicians to prepare on-line documents, MAiLBACK does not require special document preparation and is accessible from any system with email capabilities, even basic ASCII mail. Internet connectivity is not required to use MAiLBACK. MAiLBACK can also be beneficial when used with internal email systems. Standard applications are used to create and maintain documents which are linked together in bundles, called iBundles. iBundles enable automatic, unattended distribution of information. Any email user can access these information bundles by simply sending an email message to MAiLBACK with the iBundle name on the subject line. MAiLBACK also accommodates the most sophisticated users, supporting the distribution of: text, image, and voice documents, either as text or as enclosures. Any document that can be emailed can be placed on-line in an iBundle. MAiLBACK also provides a Smart Router that can automatically direct incoming email messages based on address and subject. The Smart Router examines incoming mail messages to identify the proper destination and initiates actions based on the address and subject. Smart Router can be configured to forward messages to any email address, automatically create a log number and send a received receipt back to the requester. It can also send an iBundle to the requester. In addition, MAiLBACK simplifies the creation and management of email address lists. A text file address list can be dropped into MAiLBACK and it will be automatically segmented to comply with sendmail addressing limitations. Lists can be chained, un-chained, modified, imported and exported using simple point and click actions. MAiLBACK is currently available for NEXTSTEP/Motorola and NEXTSTEP/Intel compatible systems, release 3.2 or higher. HP version will be available by the end of February. List price is $249 with an introductory price of $199 through April 30, 1995. The educational price is $62.25. Demonstration copies can be obtained from: ftp://ftp.maui.com/pub/dancingbear/demos/MAiLBACK.tar.gz or by sending a requests to: demos@dancingbear.com. Additional information is available online, email: mailback@dancingbear.com, with a subject of: index, help. Dancing Bear Enterprises (DBE) develops UNIX based applications, primarily in the NeXTSTEP/OpenStep(tm) operating environments. DBE is located in the Maui Research and Technology Center, Kihei, Hawaii. MAiLBACK and Dancing Bear Enterprises are Trademarks of Dancing Bear Enterprises, Inc., NEXTSTEP and OpenStep are Trademarks of NeXT, Inc.
From: tim@dancingbear.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Dancing Bear Enterprises Announces MAiLBACK Contest Date: 22 Feb 1995 15:40:22 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ig7fm$50v@digifix.digifix.com> CONTACT: Timothy J. Griswold Dancing Bear Enterprises Maui Research and Technology Center 590 Lipoa Parkway Kihei, HI 96753 808-875-2456 808-874-3650 fax tim@dancingbear.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 17, 1995 DANCING BEAR ENTERPRISES ANNOUNCES A CONTEST FOR MAiLBACK(tm) USERS KIHEI, HAWAII - Dancing Bear Enterprises today announced a contest seeking the most creative use of MAiLBACK. Each quarter Dancing Bear Enterprises will award a prize for the most original and creative implementation of MAiLBACK. For contest rules, email: mailback@dancingbear.com, subject of: contest rules For sample MAiLBACK uses email: mailback@dancingbear.com, subject of: mailback uses. A MAiLBACK demonstration copy can be obtained from: ftp://ftp.maui.com/pub/dancingbear/demos/MAiLBACK.tar.gz or by sending a requests to: demos@dancingbear.com. Additional information is available online, email: mailback@dancingbear.com, subject of: index, help. Dancing Bear Enterprises (DBE) develops UNIX based applications, primarily in the NeXTSTEP/OpenStep(tm) operating environments. DBE is located in the Maui Research and Technology Center, Kihei, Hawaii. MAiLBACK and Dancing Bear Enterprises are Trademarks of Dancing Bear Enterprises, Inc., NEXTSTEP and OpenStep are Trademarks of NeXT, Inc.
From: gerben@rna.nl (Gerben Wierda) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: WARNING: Errors in NeGeN packages (Taylor UUCP and CNews) Date: 24 Feb 1995 16:52:23 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ilken$gom@digifix.digifix.com> The latest version of the NeGeN Installer packages for Taylor UUCP and CNews are both broken (sigh). We uploaded them about a week ago to ftp.cs.orst.edu and ftp.stack.urc.tue.nl. The installer scripts in both packages contain errors. Nothing will be broken on your system, but the easy installation is not finished. We will look into it ASAP. Our apologies for the inconvienience. The postmasters of both sides will be requested to remove the current version. On behalf of NeGeN-connect and R&A, gerben@rna.nl (Gerben Wierda)
From: Alan Chung <alan@lighthouse.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Lighthouse Design seeks Quality Assurance Engineer Date: 24 Feb 1995 23:55:31 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3imd83$kcb@digifix.digifix.com> Quality Assurance Engineer Sought Lighthouse Design is in search of one full time Quality Assurance Engineer to join our engineering team. The person filling this position will assume responsibility for testing and release approval of our productivity applications. Work can begin immediately. Lighthouse Design is the premier provider of productivity applications for NEXTSTEP and soon OpenStep. - Responsibilities - Product testing and release approval: * Writing, maintaining and using detailed test scripts * Working with programmers to design automated test suites * Work with project teams to determine product quality goals Bug tracking: * Reproducing bugs and verifying fixes * Performing statistical analyses of bug report and fix rates (using cool tools to make snazzy graphs) * Perform regression tests Management: * Hiring and supervising contractors to aid in product testing * In conjunction with our sales team, manage product beta tests * Eventually staffing and managing a QA department - Skills and Experience Required - * Two to five years professional QA experience are required * You must be an obsessive and extensive user of NEXTSTEP or Macintosh applications * You must able to write clearly, concisely, and quickly. You will need to summarize a bug in a sentence, and write step by step recipes for reproducing bugs and testing applications * Technical writing and teaching experience are a big plus * Unix programming and administrative experience are desirable, but not required * Writing samples will be required - Benefits - * Work in a small and highly motivated company, in a pleasant and collegial professional environment * Competitive compensation package, including stock options * Comprehensive health coverage * Free food and, more importantly, free gourmet coffee - How to Apply - Resumes may be submitted in any of the following ways (listed in order of preference). The submission deadline is *January 27*. Please be sure to put "Resume for the Quality Assurance Engineer opening" on your cover sheet. Send e-mail to resume@lighthouse.com. NeXT Mail is best. MIME attachments are acceptable, too. Fax us at +1-415-570-7787. Please be sure and put Human Resources on the cover sheet. US Mail is fine too, but doesn't always get the quick response that electronic submissions do. Send mail to: Human Resources Lighthouse Design, Ltd. 2929 Campus Drive, Suite 250 San Mateo, CA 94403-2534 USA Note, if you have access to the web, we maintain the latest Lighthouse hiring information on our World Wide Web server at http://www.lighthouse.com/Recruiting.html - More Information about Lighthouse Design - If you wish to learn more about Lighthouse Design and our products, you can obtain more information via our web server at http://www.lighthouse.com/
From: Alan Chung <alan@lighthouse.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Lighthouse Design seeks Software Engineer Date: 24 Feb 1995 23:55:53 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3imd8p$kci@digifix.digifix.com> Software Engineer Sought Lighthouse Design is in search of a full time Software Engineer to join our engineering team. Lighthouse Design is the premier provider of productivity applications for NEXTSTEP and soon OpenStep. Work can begin immediately. - Responsibilities - * Contribute to the design and specification of productivity applications * Create implementation designs and schedules * Code, test, and debug * Ship high quality applications - Skills and Experience Required - * 1 or more years professional NEXTSTEP application development experience * User interface design skills and experience are desirable, but not required * Familiarity with Sun workstations and Solaris a plus * B.S. in Computer Science or related areas - Benefits - * Opportunity to work in NEXTSTEP and OpenStep, state of the art object oriented environments * A chance to develop your career, with extensive exposure and involvement in the full product development cycle * Work in small, highly motivated teams, in a pleasant and collegial professional environment * Competitive compensation, including stock options * Comprehensive health coverage * Free food and, more importantly, free gourmet coffee - How to Apply - Resumes may be submitted in any of the following ways (listed in order of preference). The submission deadline is *March 24*. Please be sure to put "Resume for the Software Engineer opening" on your cover sheet. Send e-mail to resume@lighthouse.com. NeXT Mail is best. MIME attachments are acceptable, too. Fax us at +1-415-570-7787. US Mail is fine too, but doesn't always get the quick response that electronic submissions do. Send mail to: Human Resources Lighthouse Design, Ltd. 2929 Campus Drive, Suite 250 San Mateo, CA 94403-2534 USA Note, if you have access to the web, we maintain the latest Lighthouse hiring information on our World Wide Web server at http://www.lighthouse.com/Recruiting.html - More Information about Lighthouse Design - If you wish to learn more about Lighthouse Design and our products, you can obtain more information via our web server at http://www.lighthouse.com/
From: Alan Chung <alan@lighthouse.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Lighthouse Design seeks Project Lead Engineer Date: 24 Feb 1995 23:56:06 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3imd96$kcq@digifix.digifix.com> Project Lead Engineer Sought Lighthouse Design is in search of a full time Project Lead Engineer to join our engineering team. The person filling this position will assume the responsibility for leading a small highly motivated team of NEXTSTEP engineers working on our spreadsheet products. Work can begin immediately. Lighthouse Design is the premier provider of productivity applications for NEXTSTEP and soon OpenStep. - Responsibilities - * Provide technical and team leadership * Manage project resources and schedules * Contribute to and lead the design and specification of our spreadsheet applications * Create implementation designs and schedules * Code, test, and debug * Guide projects to a successful finish * Ship high quality applications - Skills and Experience Required - * 3 or more years professional NEXTSTEP application development experience * 1 or more years project management experience * Development experience and knowledge of spreadsheets a big plus * User interface design skills and experience are desirable, but not required * B.S. in Computer Science or related areas. M.S. preferable - Benefits - * Opportunity to work in NEXTSTEP and OpenStep, state of the art object oriented environments * A chance to lead small, highly motivated teams, in a pleasant and collegial professional environment * Opportunity to shape the development of our spreadsheet products * Extensive exposure and involvement in the full product development cycle * Competitive compensation, including stock options * Comprehensive health coverage * Free food and, more importantly, free gourmet coffee - How to Apply - Resumes may be submitted in any of the following ways (listed in order of preference). The submission deadline is *March 24*. Please be sure to put "Resume for the Project Lead Engineer opening" on your cover sheet. Send e-mail to resume@lighthouse.com. NeXT Mail is best. MIME attachments are acceptable, too. Fax us at +1-415-570-7787. US Mail is fine too, but doesn't always get the quick response that electronic submissions do. Send mail to: Human Resources Lighthouse Design, Ltd. 2929 Campus Drive, Suite 250 San Mateo, CA 94403-2534 USA Note, if you have access to the web, we maintain the latest Lighthouse hiring information on our World Wide Web server at http://www.lighthouse.com/Recruiting.html - More Information about Lighthouse Design - If you wish to learn more about Lighthouse Design and our products, you can obtain more information via our web server at http://www.lighthouse.com/
From: Michael Lofquist <sirius@interconnect.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS-RELEASE: nibIT demo version & release schedule Date: 23 Feb 1995 01:34:23 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3iha9f$am@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Michael Lofquist SIRIUS Object Oriented Technologies Pty Ltd P.O Box 738, North Sydney 2059 NSW, AUSTRALIA sirius@interconnect.com.au +61 18 619 502 (PHONE) +61 29 567 831 (FAX) Demo version -------------- A demo version of nibIT 1.0 has been placed on: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/demos/programming/nibIT1.0-demo.readme ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/demos/programming/nibIT1.0-demo.tar.gz This demo version of nibIT is a fully functional version, which will expire the 1 June 1995. Release plans --------------- A new release of nibIT is planned for release the 1 May 1995. This release (1.1) will support: * new Interface Builder (Nextstep 3.3 developer). * Motorola/Intel/SPARC/PA-RISC architecture. Existing nibIT 1.0 customers will receive the upgrade free of charge. About nibIT ------------- The nibIT palette is a NEXTSTEP CASE utility and Interface Builder enhancement utility that allows developers to support documentation requirements in the software lifecyle for the Interface Builder component of a NEXTSTEP project. The nibIT utility provides support for attaching documentation in the form of text descriptions of individual NIB file objects, and merging these descriptions into the nibIT generated documentation. The nibIT utility can generate 3 kinds of documents: * a NeXT style RTF document * a DIAGRAM!2 file describing object connections * an ascii basefile for user defined post processing The object descriptions can be included in the RTF document and the ascii base file, and can be archived in the nib file or in a seperate archive file. Pricing: -------------- 1 developer seat US $100 1 academic seat US $30 5 developer seats US $200 unlimited seats US $400 all prices include shipping and handling. SIRIUS Object Oriented Technologies P/L. ------------------------------------------- SIRIUS is a NEXTSTEP software development and consulting company based in Sydney, Australia. SIRIUS is the co-developers of the 1994 NeXT Object Honors Award and the Australian CODA award winning project, a NEXTSTEP based Network and Facility Mangement System.
From: sbeck@cantor.otc.lsu.edu (Stephen David Beck) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Csnd.app for NeXT & Intel Date: 23 Feb 1995 16:12:54 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3iitom$67u@digifix.digifix.com> SUBMISSION - Csnd.app v1.6 Csnd.app v1.6 is a graphic interface to Csound for NEXTSTEP computers. It now comes bundled with a compiled MAB binary for NeXT and Intel computers. This is an upgrade to the previously released version of Csnd.app, and contains a few new features: * MAB csound binary for NeXT and Intel platforms * Support of AIFF formated soundfiles (playback, file management, and analysis functions all supported) * Improved Preferences panel with support for midifile editors (it does not contain an editor, but will call one with a double-click) support for panel- based directory searches, and improved interface * Writes score.srt to /tmp Csnd.app was developed under NS 3.2 and requires 3.2 to run. While my students are constant doing things to it that might make it crash, it now seems pretty robust. However, there are probably still problems (as there ALWAYS are). If you find any bugs, please let me know, and I'll fix it. Csnd.app is available by anonymous ftp from the SEAMUS ftp archive. It is located at the following URL: ftp://nicemusic.music.niu.edu/pub/SEAMUS/SOFTWARE/NeXT It is also posted to ftp.cs.orst.edu. It was posted to /pub/next/binaries/sound/Csnd.app.v1.6 and Please read the README file for instructions. Stephen David Beck School of Music Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803-2504 sbeck@math.lsu.edu
From: Nick Jacquet <nickj@prime.wimsey.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: BCOG - Vancouver BC March 1 Date: 24 Feb 1995 01:18:42 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ijto2$aod@digifix.digifix.com> Meeting: British Columbia OpenStep Group Date: March 1st 1995 Location: CyberStore, Suite 201 - 601 West Broadway, Vancouver (near Cambie) Time: 19:00-22:00 (7pm-10pm) Door closes at 19:15 (to prevent your grief and ours, please do not be late) Cost: Members free, Non-members $5.00 *** Seating is Limited *** Presentation & Agenda: 1) BCOG news update - This meeting is geared towards anyone who works with graphics, prepress and output services 2) Presentations - First Class, Tailor Demo: Donovan Whistler - Untucker, Compose In Colour: Mathew Clark, Palmer Jarvis - Mail apps: Allan Noordvyk, ALI Technologies 3) New Business - Discussion - Coffee, tea, juice & donuts Nick Jacquet Chair British Columbia OpenStep Group nickj@wimsey.com email(Nextmail,Mime,ascii) 604.893.5459 Voice/Fax
From: imdat <imdat@irex.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: IREX Announces Release 1.1 of its Real Estate Agent Softare 'Irex Agent' Date: 24 Feb 1995 01:20:00 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ijtqg$ap1@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February, 23rd 1995 IREX Software AG i.G. Contact: Thomas Krempl Hochreit 7 D-83329 Waging a. See Germany phone: +49-8681-694-0 fax: +49-8681-694-200 mail: irex@irex.de IREX ANNOUNCES RELEASE 1.1 OF ITS REAL ESTATE AGENT SOFTARE 'IREX Agent' Waging a. See, Germany - IREX Software AG i.G. announced that the release 1.1 of 'IREX Agent', the industries first truly standardized Real Estate Agent System Software, is available now. IREX Agent will start shipping on 6th of March 1995. It is compiled bi-fat and will run on Intel and Motorola. An HP-PA Release will be available as soon as possible. IREX Agent 1.1 is about 10x faster then 1.0, improved and has a lot of new features built in. Due to the big amount of data required for ZIPs, Areas and Regions represented in Agent Agent is NOT available via ftp in all languages. An english release will be put on ftp-servers without ZIPs, Areas and Regions and with english online help only. All receivers of IREX Agent 1.0 will get IREX Agent 1.1 as a free upgrade. IREX Software AG will start shipping IREX Agent on CD by 6th of March 1995. Agent 1.1 is currently available in German, English and French. The Spanish and Italian release will follow as soon as possible as a free language extension on a disk. If you need any further information please call us, fax us or e-mail us. IREX Software AG, Waging am See, Germany, engineers, develops and markets the industries first truly standardized International Real Estate Exchange System Software. The object-oriented application Agent, helps the Real Estate Agent to get his day-to-day job done easier and more efficiently.Agent also enables the Real Estate Agents to build up local, global, national and international electronic Real Estate markets.
From: eloquent_info@take3.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Take 3 Releases Eloquent Version 2.01 Date: 24 Feb 1995 16:22:56 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3iling$gf0@digifix.digifix.com> TAKE 3 RELEASES ELOQUENT VERSION 2.01 Cedar, MI - February 24, 1995 - Take 3 announces the availability of Eloquent version 2.01. Eloquent is a complete e-mail and Usenet news agent, with advanced features that make handling everyday mail and news tasks easier. Because Eloquent supports a wide variety of message and mailbox formats, Mail.app, Pine and MH users can make the transition to Eloquent effortlessly, even using these programs interchangeably with Eloquent. And because Eloquent is MIME-compliant, news and mail messages containing non-text elements like graphics and files can be exchanged with users on other platforms. A demo version that runs on NEXTSTEP 3.1 or higher for Intel, Motorola, HP-PA RISC or SPARC hardware is available from: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/mail/Eloquent.2.01.NIHS.tar.gz A version for NEXTSTEP 3.0 on Motorola hardware is also available by request. Changes made since version 2.0 include minor improvements to the wait cursor and viewers, and bug fixes. >From the 2.0 release: Eloquent, in this second release, has matured into a powerful tool that provides the functionality e-mail and news users need, all in one package. This upgrade includes substantial new features, improvements in the user interface, and wider support for mailbox and address book formats that already exist on users' systems. General enhancements since 1.0 -completely overhauled user interface -thread messages in newsgroups and mailboxes -send uuencoded attachments in ASCII messages -automatically detects and decodes uuencoded attachments in messages -drag messages into the Workspace Manager -select headers to be included in messages' summaries, including message sizes and non-standard headers, so that they can be seen when you scroll through the contents of a mailbox or newsgroup -save viewer settings, and set global default viewer settings for mailboxes and newsgroups. Also set individual defaults for mailboxes. -access mail and news services from a local host and/or multiple remote hosts. All the hosts that provide you with mail and news services, and the mailboxes and newsgroups that you can access from them, are accessed from one central browser. New Mail Features -download mail from a POP server, or read a POP mailbox on the server without downloading messages to your local mailboxes -use mailboxes in any folder that you have read permission for on your local computer or (through IMAP) on a remote server -use Mail.app address books -use MH mailboxes -exchange mail messages with Sun Mail users -retrieve mail from multiple system mailboxes New News Features -access newsgroups hierarchically from a browser -read newsgroups on multiple news servers simultaneously -"fetch" button to retrieve new articles that have arrived since the newsgroup was opened Eloquent 2.01 still has all the features that made version 1.0 so useful, such as sorting incoming mail, smart mailbox options like automatic reply or compact, MIME for both news and mail, message templates, and extensive searching capabilities. Eloquent 2.01 sells for $175 per user. Contact Take 3 for quantity discounts. There is no charge to current Eloquent users for the upgrade - simply download the demo version from the archives and enter your license key. Eloquent is a trademark of Take 3. All other trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.
From: ecesys@calvino.alaska.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: eCesys Announces Updated Products and Prices for NEXTSTEP 3.3 Systems Date: 26 Feb 1995 15:45:09 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3iqp8l$etj@digifix.digifix.com> eCesys Computers 800-7-eCesys toll-free 800-732-3797 toll-free ecesys@delphi.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 25th, 1995 eCesys ANNOUNCES UPDATED PRODUCTS AND PRICES FOR NEXTSTEP 3.3 SYSTEMS Fremont, CA - eCesys Computers announced their first Pentium based, NEXTSTEP workstation for under $2500 today. "As the NEXTSTEP/OpenStep market continues to expand, our clients are demanding Pentium-class performance for enterprise-wide deployment at aggressive price points", noted J. Chen, Marketing Director. "We are continuing to rapidly expand and differentiate our hardware product line to meet the growing requirements of NEXTSTEP customers in the corporate and educational markets", she added. Price lists and current hardware configurations can be obtained from the Stepwise web server at: http://www.stepwise.com/ About eCesys,Inc. eCesys was founded in early 1993 to provide Intel Hardware to the NEXTSTEP community. We specialize in developing, producing and testing hardware which leads the industry in speed, reliability, low cost and NEXTSTEP compatibility. We continually bring the latest PC hardware technology to our customers and our objective is to combine quality hardware, the latest NEXTSTEP drivers and an internal certification process to produce reliable NEXTSTEP platforms. Our customers include individual users, developers, and system integrators in both corporate and academic environments. In all cases, we make every effort to ensure that your NEXTSTEP deployment on Intel hardware is a seamless, cost effective solution. DoomFactor Performmance Information eCesys Computer's DoomFactor benchmarks can be obtained from http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/Doom eCesys is a Trademark of eCesys, Inc. NEXTSTEP and OpenStep are Trademarks of NeXT, Inc.
From: Terry Wilcox <terry@arcane.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Arcane Systems Announces the TabletKit Date: 26 Feb 1995 02:03:31 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ip943$b0o@digifix.digifix.com> For Immediate Release For further information, contact: tabletkit@arcane.com Arcane Systems Ltd. 10 Bermuda Lane N.W. Calgary, AB T3K 2K2 Canada Phone: (403) 275-9232 Fax: (403) 275-9245 ARCANE SYSTEMS ANNOUNCES TABLETKIT 1.0 Availability of Graphics Tablet Framework CALGARY, AB, February 22, 1995 Arcane Systems Ltd. today announced immediate availability of TabletKit 1.0. Desktop publishers and graphic designers have long been aware of the advantages of NEXTSTEP over other platforms in high-end graphics. NEXTSTEP applications routinely make use of Display PostScript, image filters, and image linking. However, drawing and editing have been limited to the use of a mouse or a tablet using NeXT-supplied drivers. The TabletKit adds a new dimension to NEXTSTEP graphics applications. The TabletKit allows developers to add application-specific tablet events to NEXTSTEP without the pain of writing or acquiring low-level drivers for every available tablet. Users benefit by being able to use a mouse in addition to a tablet, allowing them to use other applications in a normal manner. FEATURES The TabletKit defines a high level framework and API that facilitates communication between applications and graphics tablets. Tablet input occurs independent of both the mouse and a specific display area of the screen. This framework eases development of applications relying on tablet information for digitizing graphs, maps, and other images, in addition to free hand drawing, gesture recognition, and many other activities requiring a tablet and stylus or cursor as the primary mode of input. The TabletKit fully supports features common to many tablets including: * Transmission control settings (baud rate, parity, etc.) * Communication protocol settings * Alternate report formats and report frequency * Resolution and orientation settings * Multi-button pressure and angle sensitive stylus * 4-button and 16-button cursor The TabletKit also provides a high-level API for developers that allows creation of custom tablet reader bundles for reading data from tablets with currently unsupported data formats. The TabletKit currently provides two bundles for reading the MM/SummaSketch and UIOF/Microgrid binary data formats. The distribution also includes high quality documentation, an example drawing application, and source code for the supplied tablet reader bundles which utilize the TabletReader API. "We're thrilled to continue delivering high quality objects to the ObjectWare market." said Terry Wilcox, President of Arcane Systems Ltd. "We're also very fortunate to be working with such talented authors. The ObjectWare market has a long future ahead of it and we're happy to be involved." A single developer TabletKit license is available for $225 US. Academic licenses are available for $95 US. Contact Arcane Systems for ordering details. NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark of NeXT, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners. ABOUT ARCANE SYSTEMS Arcane Systems Ltd. is a privately held software development company based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The company was founded to pursue opportunities in object-oriented product development, training, and consulting. ###
From: federico@heinz.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: F. HEINZ Consultora Announces Dots 3.5.5 for PA-RISC and SPARC Date: 27 Feb 1995 23:37:05 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3iu99h$3tb@digifix.digifix.com> F. HEINZ Consultora Announces Dots 3.5.5 for PA-RISC and SPARC F. HEINZ Consultora announces the availability of the four-way multi-architecture version of Dots 3.5.5, the printer driver for non-PostScript printers under NEXTSTEP. This version features support for over 400 different laser, matrix and ink-jet printers from various manufacturers. ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Commercial/hardware/printer/Dots3.5.5-Readme.rtf ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Commercial/hardware/printer/Dots3.5.5.pkg.tar.gz ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Commercial/hardware/printer/Dots.README and from other NEXTSTEP archive sites. The program works in demo mode until properly licensed. Pricing information is available on request from the addresses listed below. ====================================================================== Welcome to Dots 3.5.5 Dots is a printer driver for bitmap printers under NeXTSTEP. It supports a wide range of printers of different technologies, including impact dot matrix, ink-jet, laser printers and dye sublimation printers. Dots supports all standard paper formats and even non-standard ones, as long as they make sense on your printer. Depending on your printer's capabilities, more than one resolution may be available. Of course, the printout pages come out of the printer in the right order, and thanks to NeXT's unified imaging model, Dots works with all applications, and produces the best-quality graphics your printer is capable of putting on paper. Installing and configuring printers for use with Dots is a simple matter of point-and-click. You can export printers to a NetInfo domain, and modify a printer's configuration at any time. Dots is seamlessly integrated into the NeXTSTEP environment, allowing you to print on any one of the supported printers using the standard Print panel and its Options subpanel. In addition to the standard NeXTSTEP configuration and print options, Dots offers an alternate interface to provide fine control over print job parameters and in particular printer-specific features though feature inspectors that pop up immediately before the document starts printing. For those "printers" that happen to be copiers, Dots supports scanning as well, allowing you to exploit the device's full potential. Dots currently supports the following printers: 24-pin impact dot-matrix printers: Epson NEC PinWriter IBM ProPrinter XL24 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 Canon BJ-300/330 Canon BJ-10/10e/10ex Epson Stylus Epson Stylus Color Laser printers: Hewlett-Packard LaserJet II Hewlett-Packard LaserJet III Hewlett-Packard LaserJet IV Dye sublimation printers: Seiko PhotoMaker Copiers: Canon CLC10 (aka 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. Dots will drive any and all of the above printers. Just plug it to the computer, create a Dots printer for it, and you are set. By default, Dots will drive the printer in demo mode. Demo mode means that Dots will work just as usual, but it will print a diagonal line over each page, and a banner at its bottom. To get the printer to work in regular mode, you must purchase a License ID for it, which you can get from your NEXTSTEP software dealer, or from one of the addresses listed under the heading "Purchase information" in the on-line help. A License ID entitles you to use Dots to drive one printer, you will need a separate License ID for each printer you want to use, even if more than one is of the same type. About F. HEINZ Consultora F. HEINZ Consultora is a privately-held network consulting and software development company located in Cordoba, Argentina. We are committed to the production of high-quality solutions for NEXTSTEP users and developers, and to the development and deployment of NEXTSTEP-based customer solutions. Our product line currently includes Dots, the printer driver for non-PostScript printers under NEXTSTEP, and InterfaceViewer, the user interface documentation program for NEXTSTEP developers. FOR MORE INFORMATION contact us at our development labs in F. HEINZ Consultora Benigno Acosta 4528 5009 V. Centenario Cordoba, Argentina Tel+Fax: (+54 51) 81 75 97 E-Mail: info@heinz.com
From: federico@heinz.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: F. HEINZ Consultora announces InterfaceViewer 1.1 featuring EOF capabilities Date: 27 Feb 1995 23:37:22 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3iu9a2$3ti@digifix.digifix.com> F. HEINZ Consultora announces InterfaceViewer 1.1 featuring EOF capabilities F. HEINZ Consultora is proud to annnounce release 1.1 of InterfaceViewer, the developer-friendly user interface documentation tool for NEXTSTEP. The multi-architecture program for Motorola, Intel, PA-RISC and SPARC hardware as well as sample files may be retrieved by anonymous FTP from ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Commercial/developer/apps/InterfaceViewer.pkg.tar.gz ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Commercial/developer/apps/InterfaceViewer-Samples.pkg.tar.gz ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Commercial/developer/apps/InterfaceViewer-EOF.pkg.tar.gz and from other NEXTSTEP archive sites. There are two versions of the package: InterfaceViewer-EOF.pkg has been linked against the EOF shared libraries and will be able to load nib files that contain EOF ofjects. It will not work on systems that don't have those shared libraries, so if you don't have an EOF license, you should use plain InterfaceViewer.pkg. The program works in demo mode until properly licensed. Pricing information and demo license strings (valid for thirty days) are available on request from the addresses listed below. Version 1.1 of InterfaceViewer is a maintainance release, including several bug fixes and new features based on our feedback from our user base. One of the most important improvements is the ability to load nib files that contain objects from NeXT's EO Framework, but users will notice lots of little changes designed to make their work with InterfaceViewer even easier, like the ability to automatically load all palettes that IB loads on startup, automatical detection of faulty palettes, and a much-improved, much smaller file format that reduces disk requirements by orders of magnitude. As a maintainance release, upgrading to InterfaceViewer 1.1 is free for all registered users. ====================================================================== What does InterfaceViewer do? InterfaceViewer solves a problem common to all NEXTSTEP development: documenting the contents of InterfaceBuilder files (the ubiquitous nibs ). While IB offers great tools for creating user interfaces, its capabilities are very limited when it comes to finding out the inner workings of an existing nib file or documenting the contents of such a file along with the rest of the source code for a project. IV is useful when you want to use any of NeXT's great mini-examples to find out something about the AppKit: the source code is usually easy to follow and profusely documented, but you still have to painfully untangle the connections inside the nib files one by one before you understand what the program does. It is also a boon when you get someone new in your team, and she has to catch up with what the rest of the group has done so far. She can just take the nib files to IV and play with the connections until she knows what's in there. It is very useful at achieving other minor feats such as creating high-quality EPS representations of the UI elements for inclusion in your user documentation or at making poster- or blackboard- sized documents for discussion during team work. InterfaceViewer is the only way to completely document the working of your system, other than doing diagrams of the user interface by hand. How does it do it? To uncover the contents of a nib file, just open the file with InterfaceViewer. What you get is a canvas with a diagram of all objects and all connections of the nib file on it. You get to see it all at once, with every object showing exactly as it appears on screen, respecting all its graphics attributes. Everything is neatly laid out on the canvas and clearly labeled according to your taste. InterfaceViewer will also show a hierarchical view of all objects, reflecting the object tree within the nib file and ensuring that you absolutely can't miss anything that is inside the nib. And it works with any nib file at all, even those that contain custom objects loaded from IB palettes---all you have to do is load the palette into InterfaceViewer too, and it just works! And what can I do with such a drawing? While you work on the screen, InterfaceViewer does a lot to help you read the diagram it created: you can selectively disable the display of connectors according to criteria such as ``I want to see only connectors of class DBTableConnector or IBOutletConector that depart from the currently selected objects''. You can change the color and other graphics attributes of the connectors, change the arrangement of the objects, resize the canvas, get the diagram just as you like it. And while you are at it, let the auto-router lay out the connections for you, so you don't have to position each segment on the page yourself. You can also hide objects as well as connectors, to concentrate on a subset of the contents of the nib. All connections concerning hidden objects disappear automatically as well, of course, until you tell InterfaceViewer to show the objects again. And you can print the diagram to post on the wall or in your documentation records, too. InterfaceViewer will break the canvas into pages according to the page layout and scale. Or you can save the image for later reference, either in InterfaceViewer's own format, or as an EPS image or in Diagram!2 format. You can also produce an ASCII dump of key data concerning the objects in the nib. InterfaceViewer's parseable ASCII format contains information on each object's class and position within the nib's hierarchy, as well as optional information on its name, title, value, frame, etc. Every connection is included as well, with the same level of detail. You can also cut and paste parts of InterfaceViewer's diagram into other documents for your documentation records, or to get high-quality PostScript images of your windows for inclusion in you manuals. How does InterfaceViewer interact with IB palettes? InterfaceViewer loves palettes. You can load palettes into it just by opening them as a normal document, and InterfaceViewer will do the right thing. Once a palette is loaded, you can open nib files that contain objects created from it. And InterfaceViewer will remember to load the palette every time it starts up (unless you tell it not to, of course). Palette authors can even use the InterfaceViewer's API to create custom representations of objects in their palettes. Using the API, objects can be shown in InterfaceViewer's canvas at any desired level of detail, with any custom graphic representation the developer wishes. So this is a demo of InterfaceViewer? The freely available software will work in demo mode for as long as you wish. In demo mode, InterfaceViewer is basically a viewer for its own documents, so you can use it to review the demo documents available from the same source where you got the software, or any documents created with InterfaceViewer by other people. You will not be able to create new diagrams, and saving files will be disabled. To fully exploit InterfaceViewer's potential, you must purchase a license, which is embodied in a license string. Once you enter a valid license string, InterfaceViewer will allow you to create your own diagrams, and you will be able to save them in all the supported formats. Evaluation licenses for trying out InterfaceViewer for a period of thirty days are available on request from F. Heinz Consultora. Just send us a note by E-mail to <InterfaceViewer@heinz.com>, or check the program's on-line help for more information on contacting us and our distributors. You can purchase InterfaceViewer licenses for one, five, ten or thirty simultaneous network users, or as an unlimited site license. Price information on each kind of license as well as on academic pricing is available on request. About F. HEINZ Consultora F. HEINZ Consultora is a privately-held network consulting and software development company located in Cordoba, Argentina. We are committed to the production of high-quality solutions for NEXTSTEP users and developers, and to the development and deployment of NEXTSTEP-based customer solutions. Our product line currently includes Dots, the printer driver for non-PostScript printers under NEXTSTEP, and InterfaceViewer, the user interface documentation program for NEXTSTEP developers. FOR MORE INFORMATION contact us at our development labs in F. HEINZ Consultora Benigno Acosta 4528 5009 V. Centenario Cordoba, Argentina Tel+Fax: (+54 51) 81 75 97 E-Mail: info@heinz.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Summary 72 - Articles posted since February 20 1995 Date: 27 Feb 1995 05:00:06 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3irm8m$hg4@digifix.digifix.com> Summary: 72 Postings since: February 20 1995 [2926] SUBMISSION: GatorFTP Quad-fat [2927] NeXT Pricing Announcement [2929] SUBMISSION: MolViewer 0.92 - beta [2930] JOB: System engineer - Richmond, BC, Canada [2931] SUBMISSION: JollysFax 1.20 [2932] PRESS RELEASE: FLYING MONKEY announces SHELF [2933] SUBMISSION: EasyBTX 1.1 Videotex Decoder [2934] NeXT FY 1994 RESULTS & OPENSTEP FOR WINDOWS [2935] PRESS RELEASE: Dancing Bear Enterprises Announces MAiLBACK [2936] PRESS RELEASE: Dancing Bear Enterprises Announces MAiLBACK Contest [2937] PRESS-RELEASE: nibIT demo version & release schedule [2938] SUBMISSION: Csnd.app for NeXT & Intel [2939] MEETING: BCOG - Vancouver BC March 1 [2940] PRESS RELEASE: IREX Announces Release 1.1 of its Real Estate Agent Softare 'Irex Agent' [2941] PRESS RELEASE: Take 3 Releases Eloquent Version 2.01 [2942] WARNING: Errors in NeGeN packages (Taylor UUCP and CNews) [2943] JOB: Lighthouse Design seeks Quality Assurance Engineer [2944] JOB: Lighthouse Design seeks Software Engineer [2945] JOB: Lighthouse Design seeks Project Lead Engineer [2946] PRESS RELEASE: Arcane Systems Announces the TabletKit [2947] PRESS RELEASE: eCesys Announces Updated Products and Prices for NEXTSTEP 3.3 Systems If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com. Archives -------- Individual messages are available at http://www.stepwise.com/comp.sys.next.announce/csna-72/**article_number** where **article_number** is the [xxxx] beside the Subject line above.. FTP archives: ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives/csna-72.tar.gz WWW archives: http://www.stepwise.com/comp.sys.next.announce/csna-72 Article submissions : next-announce@digifix.com Submission guidelines: next-announce-guidelines@digifix.com Suggestions/comments : next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: Scott.Knowles@Eng.Sun.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: SunSoft's Object Products Group needs experienced NEXTSTEP developer Date: 27 Feb 1995 15:15:34 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3itbt6$nr3@digifix.digifix.com> SunSoft's Object Products Group is looking for an experienced NEXTSTEP application's or object developer. The position involves: * Converting NeXTSTEP programs to OpenStep. * Building NeXTSTEP and OpenStep applications and reusable objects. * Building distributed applications using SunSoft's Distributed Objects Everywhere (DOE) technology. * Building the next generations of DOE products. We're looking for excellent technical contributors with the following characteristics: * BS or MS in Computer Science, or equivalent * 3 or more years software product development * Demonstrated expertise in NeXTSTEP development and the Objective C language * Strong customer- and product-centric perspective. Experience with the following are beneficial, but not required: * Distributed applications * Other objects-oriented systems and languages * Application Frameworks (e.g. MacApp, Foundation Class libraries) For consideration and or more information on this and other positions at SunSoft please respond to: SunSoft, Att. - Scott Knowles 2550 Garcia Ave. MTV19-02 Mt.View, CA 94043 Phone 415-336-1724 Fax 415-336-3157 E-M scottk@eng.sun.com
From: Thomas Engel <tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: FontSearch 0.8. A preferences module to handle multiple font paths. Date: 1 Mar 1995 16:14:38 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3j2o3u$ip5@digifix.digifix.com> Release 0.8, 26.02.1995 by Thomas Engel (tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org) Submitted to: ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next/Tools/Preferences/ ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Tools/preferences ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/NeXT/ ? (incoming) ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/util/FontSearch.0.8.NI.bs.tar.gz The FontSearch Preferences Modul ATTENTION..you need gnutar and gzip to unpack this package. Ever wondered how to deal with 1000 Postscript fonts under NeXTSTEP ? The Font Panel is not too smart at limiting itself or organizing the fonts so that you can easily find the one you are looking for. But NeXTSTEP comes with a simple mechanism to ease your life. The NXFontsPaths dwrite is a simple way to tell the system which font folder you want to use. The FontSearch Preferences modul is the easiest way to handle this task. It does all the nasty work for you. What it does FontSearch allows you to drag&drop certain font directories into the icon well. If the path is absent it will be added to the list of known FontSearchPaths. To really use a font path you have to activate (double-click) it inside the browser. Active paths will be normal, deactivated paths will be displayed in italic. Clicking the "Set" button will store all the changes and rebuild all the cached font information. Therefore you might use the FontSearch modul when you only have added a font and want to use it right away...without logging out of the system and in again. A useful way of organizing your fonts is to have directories for certain font vendors. Besides them you might maintain other dirs (e.g. NiceFonts, Advertising, BookFonts, etc.) where you symbolically link all your frequently used fonts to. There should be no problem having one font at two locations. This method allows you to pick certain fonts according to the task you are doing. Remember that only applications that get started after the settings have been done will be affected by the changes ! So quit and restart the apps if you want to use a different set of fonts. The Package Version 0.8 comes in a package that includes: - FontSearch.preferences. A FAT bundle for NeXT and Intel hardware. - Localization for the English and German language. - Full sourcecode. - The documentation and an ASCII version (README) of this introduction. On where to find the latest releases please see the 'About this Project' section. Features This app does all the necessary work to control your systemwide font path settings. - Add all the font directory you have on your system by drag&drop. - Activate, deactivate or remove certain paths. - See the currently active paths. - Trigger a system update where all afm caches get updated. About this Project This bundle was mainly developed to ease the work of a publisher I know personally. It really was nice to see how simple it was to write Preference moduls (1 day of coding). I don't see any reasons for enhancements but if you think something is missing...let me know. The latest version of this bundle will be available at the ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de, ftp.cs.orst.edu or ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de anonymous ftp servers. There also is a WWW page were you can find out more about the status of this...and all the other projects I'm working on. It can be found under the projects section of: http://wwwcip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/user/tsengel/ This version includes all the source code necessary to recompile the program from scratch. You either need a installed version of the MiscKit project (Version 1.4.0 or higher) or create a link inside the bundles main source directory that points to itself and is called misckit (ln -s . misckit). This ensures that all the headers can be found. For more details on the MiscKit collection see the common NeXT ftp servers or get the Objective-C or NeXT FAQs. If you would like to submit something to this collection you should contact: Don Yacktman <don@darth.byu.edu> In Case of Trouble If you have any questions you can contact me. Thomas Engel Netpunstr. 9 D-90522 Oberasbach Germany E-mail: tsengel@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org (NeXTMail welcome)
From: nathan@ets.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NEXTSTEP System Administrator Date: 27 Feb 1995 15:16:34 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3itbv2$nsm@digifix.digifix.com> Indianapolis, Indiana manufacturer/marketer of tanning equipment has an immediate opening for a NEXTSTEP System Administrator to support a client/server computing environment of over 350 end-users. The successful candidate will possess experience in the following areas: NeXTSTEP System Administration, Local Area Networks (TCP/IP, NetInfo, NFS), Maintain and write shell scripts, Some C programming, Familiarity with Communications Servers. Please email or FAX your resume to: nathan@ets.com (NeXT mail) 317.329.4618 or mail to: Nathan Damptey, Director of MIS ETS, Incorporated 6270 Corporate Drive Indianapolis, IN 46278
From: dja3@meaddata.com (Dave Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: FLYING MONKEY announces a demo version of its new Shelf app Date: 27 Feb 1995 17:33:51 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3itk0f$197@digifix.digifix.com> WEST CHESTER, Ohio, February 27, 1995 -- Flying Monkey Software announces the availability of a shareware demo version of Shelf, an application for NEXTSTEP users which provides an alternative to the rigid structure of the file system, allowing them to organize files in whatever way they'd like. The outcry has been terrific! The demand - fantastic! Lots of right- brainers NeXTers have been wanting shelf for a long time - and now they have it! But some cautious folks would like to take a look first. Well be our guest! You can download a demo version using ftp from ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Vendors/Flying_Monkey_Software/ShelfDemo.tar.gz or just send a request for a mailed copy to djanders@nox.cs.du.edu or replying to this message. The demo version lets you have up to two shelves up at once. It's completely functional within this limitation, and the full user's manual is in the demo package. If, after trying it, you'd like the full version... Shelf, a logical file organizer $25.00 To order, send a check made out to Flying Monkey Software at Flying Monkey Software 8424 ToddCreek Circle WestChester, OH 45069 (plus shipping and handling - internet free, us mail $3, international mail $7.50.) Free electronic upgrades. Media and shipping cost for diskette upgrades. And by the way - if the demo's good enough for you and you just want to keep using it, consider it shareware and send $5.00... To get a full look at all of our Flying Monkey stuff, through the web http://www.stepwise.com/ThirdParty/Developers/Flying_Monkey_Software.htmld/index.html If you don't have www access yet, we can send you an email copy of the latest Flying Monkey Software Catalog directly, in rtf or postscript. (Rtf is default, otherwise you'll get postscript. Ask for what you want.) Flying Monkey Software provides object, application, graphic design, and shareware services to the NEXTSTEP community. The monkeys have been tending the software fields for more than twenty years, and are proud of their crops. Our credo is satisfaction guaranteed: all Flying Monkey products will work - or we'll fix them for free. We'll also extend them for requesting customers on a contractual basis. "Old McMonkey had a farm, Ee-yow-ee-yie-yip!" NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc. Shelf is a an application for NEXTSTEP from Flying Monkey Software. ShelfDemo is a shareware demo of the Flying Monkey Software application. I think it's going to rain tonight.
From: alan@sarrus.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NEXTSTEP Application Developer, SF Bay Area Date: 27 Feb 1995 16:05:56 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3iterk$h7@digifix.digifix.com> NEXTSTEP Application Developer, SF Bay Area Sarrus is the leading provider of Group Information Management software for NEXTSTEP and soon OpenStep systems. We are a small, privately held, profitable software company with products that include group and enterprise scheduling, contact management, and directory services. We sell our products worldwide through our direct sales force and through resellers. We're growing because customers love our products, and we're having a lot of fun in the process. As a member of our development team, you will have the opportunity to work on all aspects of all of our applications, so you should enjoy having assignments that vary widely. We are organized in our approach to creating software, but you should also expect to have wide latitude in defining your tasks and achieving your goals. You should be comfortable working alone and with others on small teams, and you should be open to a collaborative approach to design and development. We are a do-what-it-takes bunch -- we work hard when we have to and treat each other like professionals. We are very customer-oriented, and you will often talk directly with customers about design and support issues. QUALIFICATIONS The right person will meet our technical profile and, more importantly, will want the opportunity to (a) come to a small company, (b) do OOP in the best development environment there is --- NEXTSTEP -- and (c) have a major impact on the leading enterprise workgroup software in our marketplace. We need someone with a base of experience, talent, drive, and intelligence who can learn the specifics on the job. We'd rather hire a quality person who can grow with us than hire somebody who has already done everything we need. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR CONSIDERATION: - Experience with object-oriented programming - Some familiarity with UNIX - Good oral and written English communication skills - 2 years of experience developing application software - Willingness to work on a team and take responsibility for success VERY IMPORTANT (a few of these should apply to you): - C++ or Objective-C or Smalltalk - GUI development experience - Experience with small team development - Sense of humor - Self-confidence - Open to working on different platforms PLUSES: - NEXTSTEP - Solaris - Windows - Relational database application development (SQL, client-server) - Current residence in the SF Bay area WE OFFER - a small and highly motivated team that works well together and laughs a lot - a company where team spirit, flexibility, sense of humor, and a readiness to pitch in and help are highly valued - competitive compensation package - Health and dental coverage - Snacks, and occasional home-made baked goods To apply, send us your resume: Email(preferred): resumes@sarrus.com Fax: (415)345-9365 (Attn: Alan Atlas) No visa assistance is available. Limited relocation assistance may be offered.
From: aoki@physics.ucla.edu (Ken-ichiro Aoki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: tri-fat Archie,Fiend,nxyplot, BSpace module binaries Date: 3 Mar 1995 00:28:25 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3j69dp$k3m@digifix.digifix.com> I uploaded some tri-fat NIH binaries for some apps ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/submissions Hopefully, they will move to the appropriate locations later. Since I found very few H binaries for NS apps and I am using a Gecko temporarily, I compiled a few tri-fat binaries when the source was available. It takes a little bit of time to compile and not everybody has NS developer, so I hope it is of some use. These were compiled on NS3.2-HPPA. I have included the original README files. Uploaded binaries (stripped, no source) -rw-r--r-- 1 aoki wheel 524501 Mar 2 12:33 Archie1.2.NIH.b.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 aoki wheel 318957 Mar 2 12:32 Fiend.NIH.b.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 aoki wheel 172828 Mar 2 12:33 nxyplot1.89.NIH.b.tar.gz Some backspace modules: (I included the source here since in this case, they are small.) -rw-r--r-- 1 aoki wheel 53468 Mar 2 12:37 AnalogClock.NIH.sb.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 aoki wheel 50498 Mar 2 14:10 DigitalClock.NIH.sb.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 aoki wheel 10766 Mar 2 14:07 Lizard.NIH.sb.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 aoki wheel 175870 Mar 2 14:08 Lorenz.NIH.sb.tar.gz Happy NeXTing. ___Kenichiro Aoki (ken@th.phys.titech.ac.jp) Dept.of Physics,Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan. .... on the road oDo .......
From: "Timothy J. Wood" <bungi@omnigroup.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MAILING LIST: New mailing list for PDO Date: 3 Mar 1995 02:39:36 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3j6h3o$kt1@digifix.digifix.com> A mailing list for discussions of PDO on the various supported platforms has been created at <pdo@omnigroup.com>. To subscribe, send mail to <listproc@omnigroup.com> with an empty subject line and the following text: subscribe pdo Your Real Name Suggested topics include: - Strategies for sharing code between client and server. - Bugs/inconsistencies between platforms and possible work-arounds. - Design and implementation of server side EOF apps. - Inter-operability between PDO and other object messaging environments (DCE, OLE, etc). - Suggestions for future development on PDO. - How incredibly cool it is to be able to use Foundation on HPUX, OSF/1, whatever. While the inclusion of Enterprise Objects with PDO 3.0 will probably be its most useful feature to many people, discussion of EOF itself should remain on the <eof@omnigroup.com> list. Any problems subscribing to the list should be directed to <netsec@omnigroup.com>. Timothy J. Wood Omni Development, Inc.
From: info@opensource.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: OpenSource announces ScanOmatic/Umax bundle on NEXTSTEP Date: 1 Mar 1995 16:09:19 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3j2npv$ins@digifix.digifix.com> Contact: OpenSource, Inc. 1776 Lincoln Street, Suite 1012 Denver, CO 80203 Toll Free: 1-800-TRY-OPEN Phone: 1-303-861-4411 Fax: 1-303-861-2393 E-mail: info@opensource.com OpenSource announces ScanOmatic/Umax bundle on NEXTSTEP DENVER, COLORADO - 03/1/95. OpenSource, Inc. today announced special pricing for a hardware/software scanning package for use with NEXTSTEP. The package consists of the Umax UC630 24-bit color scanner and ScanOmatic 1.4 from interpersonal-computing. The price of the package is $850 ($750 educational). The Umax UC630 is a general-purpose three-pass flatbed scanner which supports 16.8 million colors and delivers 600x300 dpi resolution. It has a built-in SCSI interface. ScanOmatic 1.4 is an easy-to-use scanner software for many of the popular desktop scanners. Additional software filters and an intuitive user interface allow powerful scanning from your NEXTSTEP machine. ScanOmatic 1.4 is compatible with all three NEXTSTEP platforms (Motorola, Intel, PA-RISC). "This package makes color scanning an affordable option for many NEXTSTEP users," explains Garrett Rice, OpenSource Account Executive, "It further enhances NEXTSTEP's capabilities and represents another step toward a true 'paperless' work environment." OpenSource also offers ExpressOCR and Professional PaperSight from VISUS, TIFFany II from benchMark, WetPaint from Lighthouse, and other products which can enhance your scanners functionality. The Umax/ScanOmatic offer is good until March 17, 1995. ### interpersonal-computing GmbH interpersonal-computing develops award winning video and image editing software for the NEXTSTEP platform. OpenSource, Inc. OpenSource is a single-source reseller of third-party applications and pre-configured hardware for the NEXTSTEP operating system. Dedicated to prompt service and quality support, OpenSource offers the most extensive line of NEXTSTEP related products in the industry. OpenSource is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. http://www.stepwise.com/Resellers/OpenSource.htmld/index.html/ NeXT and NEXTSTEP are trademarks of NeXT, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective holders.
From: Chris Saldanha <csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Ottawa NeXT User Group on Thursday, March 9 Date: 2 Mar 1995 15:22:26 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3j59e2$gkl@digifix.digifix.com> PLEASE NOTE: The meeting is one week later than usual... Ottawa NeXT User Group Meeting on Thursday, March 9, 1995 ========================================================= Where: computerActive inc. 15 Capella Court Unit 128 Nepean, ON Contact: Chris Saldanha, Software Analyst (613) 225-4824 Voice (613) 225-1670 FAX http://www.mae.carleton.ca/~csaldanh chris@computerActive.on.ca csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca NeXTMail and MIME cheerfully accepted! When: 7:00pm, Thursday, March 9 Topics: -A comparison of WriteUp 1.2 and OpenWrite 1.1 -Both are in beta, but have lots of new features. -NeWS from the NeXT world -OpenStep for Windows95/NT! -Gossip as always :-) Hope to see you there! -Chris
From: Jolly alias Patrick <jolly@joker.cis.uni-muenchen.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Jollys ZyXEL (v.1.30) and Class2.0 (v.1.00PR1) FaxDrivers now available Date: 2 Mar 1995 15:23:43 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3j59gf$gl0@digifix.digifix.com> Hiho ! Jollys ZyXEL Fax ( v.1.30 ) Jollys ZyXEL Fax Modem Driver supports sendFax capabilities for ZyXEL - modems on NeXTSTEP compatible computers. This Release is somewhat stable on Motorola and Intel. Changes to version 1.2: Renamed from JollysFax to JollysZyXELFax due to the creation of JollysClass2.0 driver. ASCII lockfiles can be read now. dwrite for dialprefixes. Jollys Class 2.0 Fax ( v.1.00 PR1) JollysClass 2.0_Fax Modem Driver supports sendFax capabilities for Fax Class 2.0 ( which is different from the Class 2 standard ) compatible modems on NeXTSTEP compatible computers. This Release is a Pre-Release. I've tested the software with a ZyXEL modem using the inbuild 2.0 mode. So this software should work with every 2.0 modem - but we know what standards are ....Anyway - any bugreports, hints appreciated. This software is SHAREWARE - it's NOT FOR FREE ! Feel free to copy and distribute it, but if you use it send me the following shareware-fee : US$ 20 / 30 DM for a single machine US$ 10 / 10 DM for every supplementary machine. I uploaded them to: ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Tools/fax/JollysZyXEL_Fax.. Jolly alias Patrick Stein jolly@cis.uni-muenchen.de
From: pericles@athena.com (Jamie O'Keefe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Boston Computer Society NeXT User Group - March 7 Date: 2 Mar 1995 16:08:36 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3j5c4k$h3h@digifix.digifix.com> Boston Computer Society NeXT User Group Meeting Conextions demonstrates 3270Builder Tuesday, March 7th, 1995 MIT Campus, Rm 1-190 7:00PM 7:00PM Introduction 7:05PM Conextions demonstrates 3270Builder NEXTSTEP's object-oriented features allow custom application developers to build easily maintainable database clients. NEXTSTEP provides various database adaptors to access SYBASE and other databases. For users of legacy systems, such as IBM mainframe, AS/400 or ASCII hosts, accessing this data is not as easy. Ed Kodinsky, President/CEO and Chief Technologist for Conextions, will demonstrate 3270Builder, their innovative solution that provides an EOF interface to legacy mainframe applications. 8:00PM BCS Mega Meeting We have a whole bunch of stuff planned for our presence at it. If you are interested and want to volunteer, then listen in. 8:15PM Rumors of the Month 8:30PM Q&A 8:45PM What's on next month Dinner afterwards. All are welcome to attend. If you would like more information please contact: Jamie O'Keefe @ pericles@athena.com or 617.734.6372 (W)
From: Stefan Siebert <ssiebert@ixpoint.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: QMSprint 2.4 Date: 3 Mar 1995 16:34:32 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3j8218$qcs@digifix.digifix.com> SUBMISSION - QMSprint 2.4 QMSprint 2.4 integrates QMS Printers with ethernet network interface into a NEXTSTEP environment. QMSprint installs a network protocol to access high performance QMS printers running the CROWN network operating system via ethernet. The printers will be accessible through the Print Panel. QMSprint supports server-based installation and serverless printing for maximum printing speed. Furthermore the ppd-files are optimized to support all QMS/NeXT-features, like duplex printing and tray selection. Hot status messages are provided by QMSprint, so that error-messages from the printer are transmitted immediately over the ethernet and displayed on the screen. QMSprint supports the following Printers at the moment: QMS 1060 Print System QMS 860 Print System, QMS 860+ Print System, QMS 1660 Print System QMS 1725 Print System, QMS 1725 SLS Print System, QMS ColorScript 210, QMS ColorScript 230 QMS ColorScript Laser 1000, QMS magicolor and magicolor plus QMS 2xxx and 3xxx series. Availability: Now, for all platforms running NEXTSTEP A demo version which can also be licensed as a full version can be found on: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/demos/drivers/QMSprint.2.4.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de The demo version has several restrictions compared to the full version. Especially it will not use the optimized ppd's but shows the full functionality of the software. For further information please contact: iXpoint Informationssysteme GmbH Stefan Siebert Im Ermlisgrund 20-24 76337 Waldbronn Phone: ++49-7243-65535 Fax: ++49-7243-69817 e-mail: info@ixpoint.de
From: "John D. Yanefski" <john@targetdev.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Target Development Announces Beta Release 3.0 of ReportPalette for the EOF Date: 3 Mar 1995 16:36:25 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3j824p$qdp@digifix.digifix.com> News: For Immediate Release Contact: John Yanefski Target Development Phone: (717) 399.9550 Fax: (717) 399.9551 email: john@targetdev.com Target Development Announces Beta Release 3.0 of ReportPalette for the EOF. LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA - March 1, 1995. Target Development announces the beta 3.0 release of ReportPalette for the Enterprise Objects Framework. The ReportPalette is a collection of objects that allow you to easily add custom report writing features to your EOF applications. The palette is essentially a View generator. The View is driven by the data from your EO hierarchy. Using InterfaceBuilderd, the developer can define one or more templates for each Enterprise Object, mapping each template to a column (using NXTableView). During report generation, the TDReport object will replace the templates with runtime data and hierarchically display that data on the page, with respect to a column. Additional reporting features are listed below . We are currently working on a WYSIWYG extension to the palette that will offer an alternative to the automatic hierarchical layout feature of the current version. ReportPalette Features: - Access to Enterprise Objects through keys of the EOController - UI level formatting of data via Text objects - Support for data types like NSString, NSNumber, NSData for RTF(D), and NXImage for TIFF and EPS - Column formatting, sizing, titling, and arranging via NXTableView - Multiple page and layout options from PrintInfo - Automatic hierarchical layout of data objects according to runtime page size / orientation - Group totals, headers and footers - Page totals, headers and footers - Report totals, cover page and footer page - Delegate notification for runtime customization - Protocol definitions for extending object functionality A date licensed beta version of the palette is available from Target Development. The beta product includes the palette, headers, libs, technical documentation, and demo application. The demo application shows the ReportPalette using Enterprise Objects to generate form letters, mailing labels, and hierarchical reports. The palette retails for $895.00 per developer seat. No runtime fees apply. Educational, site, and source licenses are also available. The palette is available for NeXT, Intel, SPARC, and HP-PA. Please contact us for more details. Target Development is a Pennsylvania-based object-oriented solutions company, specializing in database productivity objects for NeXTSTEP. We are currently shipping object palettes for the DatabaseKitd, AccessKitd, and the EOF, as well as completing a suite of NeXTSTEP applications for self administered managed care. Interested persons should contact us by phone at (717) 399-9550, fax at (717) 399-9551, or email to objects@targetdev.com. DatabaseKit, EOF, Interface Builder, and NeXTSTEP are a trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. AccessKit is a trademark of VNPSoftware, Inc. ReportPalette and RetrieverPalette are trademarks of Target Development.
From: Susan Peterson <susan@pages.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Pages Software Ships WebPages by Pages(tm) Date: 3 Mar 1995 16:37:37 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3j8271$qec@digifix.digifix.com> Contact: Susan Peterson Pages Software Inc 619 492-9050 ext 225 619 492-9124 FAX susan@pages.com PAGES SOFTWARE SHIPS WebPages by Pages(tm) FIRST TRULY WYSIWYG EDITOR FOR WORLD WIDE WEB San Diego, CA 1 February 28, 1995 1 Pages Software today announced shipment of WebPages by Pages(tm) the first truly WYSIWYG HTML editor, which runs on NEXTSTEP/OpenStep. While shipping initially on NEXTSTEP for Intel and Motorola, and soon for Sparc and Hewlett-Packard, WebPages will also be available for OpenStep, the platform-independent object environment that will run on top of Solaris, Digitals' OSF/1, WindowsNT, and Windows95. WebPages is the optimal NEXTSTEP solution for establishing your presence on the World Wide Web. WebPages can be used to create styled HTML (HyperText Markup Language) documents with little or no knowledge of HTML. WebPages allows you to create HTML documents using a drag-and-drop WYSIWYG interface; as you create your document, you see at all times how it will appear without having to switch between *edit: and *preview: modes. Further, you can drag and drop links from NEXTSTEP browsers to establish hyperlinks to other documents without having to type, copy, or know about URLs (Universal Resource Locators). By using the collection of WebPages' HTML Design Models(tm), you can rapidly lay out, edit, rearrange, and restyle a page without ever seeing HTML source code. Links to other documents are done using a select-drag-and-drop approach. The result is error-free HTML code that adheres to the HTML 2.0 Specification. Even styled headlines and tables are automatically converted to an image viewable by most Web browsers. This feature is not available in any other HTML editors. *The Web is mission critical to most of our customers.: states Steven P. Jobs, Chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer, Inc. *Tools like WebPages, with it's tight integration of objects, empowers NEXTSTEP as the ultimate authoring environment for the Web. WebPages solves the two major roadblocks for those seeking to establish a presence on the Web: the difficulty of creating Web pages, and the fact that all HTML documents tend to look the same.: With WebPages, anyone who can use a word processor can create well-styled, well-formed Web pages in a matter of minutes. Pages also includes filter support for Word, WordPerfect, Ami Pro, FrameMaker (MIF), RTF, and so on. The roadblocks to the Web are gone. *Publishing on the Web has become a very hot topic here at Indiana University, School of Journalism,: states Donald Baker, Technical Services Coordinator. *Just as PageMaker and QuarkExpress simplified and enhanced the way we create printed documents, WebPages revolutionizes the way we create Web documents. The combination of WebPages and a powerful internet-wise environment of NeXTSTEP has given us advanced and easy-to-use tools to quickly adapt our curriculum to this new information revolution.: There are 14 HTML-specific Design Models, with more under construction. Pages Software Inc also offers design consulting for firms that want custom Design Models to give their Web documents a unique, distinctive look. The WebPages Starter Pack retails for $395.00, and the Pages WebKit retails for $695.00. Pages HTML Design Models are priced at $75.00 each. Pages is sold through authorized resellers worldwide, as well as directly from Pages Software Inc. Orders can be placed by calling 1-619-492-9050 or by sending e-mail to info@pages.com. For more information on the products and the company, see us on the World Wide Web: http://www.pages.com/. Pages Software Inc is located at 9755 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., San Diego, California 92124. The company's products, initially available on NEXTSTEP, are planned for multiple computer platforms and operating systems. # # # WebPages by Pages and Pages Design Models are trademarks of Pages Software Inc. NeXT and NEXTSTEP are trademarks or registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners.
From: David Cross <dcross@conextions.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NEXTSTEP DEVELOPERS - North Andover, MA Date: 3 Mar 1995 16:38:58 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3j829i$qf8@digifix.digifix.com> Job Opportunities Conextions, Inc., the leading provider of mainframe connectivity solutions and re-engineering tools for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep has several positions available for self-motivated, challenge-seeking candidates who enjoy the informal atmosphere and stimulating working environment of a small company combined with the solid financial status and stability of a big company. Located 25 miles North of Boston, in a wooded area of North Andover, Conextions offers very competitive salaries, full medical and dental coverage, incentive stock option and bonus plans and a highly motivating atmosphere and work environment. Exceptional opportunities now exist for experienced professionals who can drive results and help build the company to new levels of success. Product Marketing Manager As a member of Conextions' management team you will assume full responsibilities for Conextions' Vision and Access product families. These key product families includes Conextions' leading terminal emulators (3270Vision, 5250Vision and AsciiVision), gateway products (CoaxAccess-PC, NetWare for SAA and SNA Server) and other productivity tools for the Enterprise Operating Environment. You will be responsible for defining product marketing direction, performing competitive analysis, developing collateral materials and marketing literature, building customer relationships and acting as a liaison and a mentor to the engineering team. As a leading candidate for this position you will have 3-5 years of product marketing/management experience for a communication products company. Manager, Object Expert Group & Technical Support With Conextions' keen commitment to providing our customers with a variety of services to ensure their success in integrating their legacy systems with NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Conextions has created the new position of Manager, Object Expert Group and Technical Support. In this position you will be responsible for building Conextions' Object Expert team and Technical Support Organization. You will work closely with Conextions' Sales team providing pre and post-sales support and customer training. You will work directly with customers and their development teams, acting as a team member as well as a mentor to ensure their project's success. This highly visible position requires excellent communications and presentation skills, a solid knowledge of the NEXTSTEP operating environment and development tools (Interface Builder, EOF, AppKit, Objective-C) and strong project management skills. Some travel required. Senior Systems Engineer, Object Expert Group As a member of the Object Expert Group you will work closely with Conextions' Engineering and Sales teams providing pre and post-sale support and customer training. You will work directly with Conextions' customers and their development teams, acting as their team member as well as a mentor to ensure their project's success. This highly visible position requires good communication and presentation skills, solid knowledge of NEXTSTEP operating environment and development tools (EOF, AppKit, Objective-C), and project management skills. Some travel required. Technical Writer A part-time or a full-time position is available for a highly-skilled, self-motivated individual capable of working Conextions' Engineering and Marketing teams to produce top quality documentation and marketing collateral materials, such as: * User Reference Manuals * Programmer's Guides * Product Overviews * White Papers As a successful candidate you will have 2-4 years of technical writing experience in two or more of the areas outlined below: * IBM Mainframe Connectivity * 3270 or 5250 Emulation * Networking and Communications in TCP/IP and SNA Environments * Software Development Tools * Object Oriented Programming * Distributed Client <-> Server Application Development * Legacy Systems Re-Engineering Please send your resume in confidence to: Conextions, Inc., 1545 Osgood Street, Suite 108 North Andover, MA 01845 Attn: Human Resources Department You can also email your resume to human_resources@conextions.com or hr@conextions.com NeXT Mail Welcome. No Phone Calls Please.
From: rutledge@camis.Stanford.EDU (Geoffrey Rutledge) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: eps2tiff utility (source, man page, plus NI fat binary) Date: 3 Mar 1995 16:39:22 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3j82aa$qff@digifix.digifix.com> I downloaded the code for the command-line utility "eps2tiff" to orst as ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/util/eps2tiff.NI.tar.gz ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/util/eps2tiff.NI.README The usual disclaimers apply (it's primitive, but it works) -- Geoffrey Rutledge rutledge@camis.stanford.edu >From the README: Usage: eps2tiff [-d nn] [-s nn] [-z] [-j nn] infile outfile Eps2tiff is a simple command-line utility that takes .eps, .ps or .tiff files as input and writes out a .tiff file at the stated depth (-d) and size (-s), and with the stated compression (none, LZW (-z), or jpeg (-j)). See the included man page for details. The tar file (eps2tiff.NI.tar.gz) includes eps2tiff.m (the code, developed and tested under NS 3.0) eps2tiff.1 (the man page) eps2tiffNI (compiled fat (NI) and stripped) eps2tiff.NI.README (this file) I have not tested the eps2tiffNI on Intel hardware. Credits: The original code came from Tom Swanner III (bizarre@clients-r-us.tamu.edu), who sent it to me in response to a query for a routine to convert .eps files to tiff 's (I wanted to make some slides from the .tiff files) I fixed the headers to work under NS3.x, and added the following features: -option z now causes the output file to be written in LZW compressed format -option j n.n causes the output file to be written in jpeg compressed format with compression factor n.n -calling the function with no arguments give the usage syntax.
From: dklein@wsc.com ( Debbie Klein ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NYC: NeXTSTEP/Eiffel position available Date: 3 Mar 1995 16:39:48 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3j82b4$qfm@digifix.digifix.com> WANTED Entry-level programmer interested in: a. living in NYC, b. working for a financial firm on Wall St., c. programming under NEXSTSTEP using Objective-C and Eiffel, d. using object-oriented databases. REQUIREMENTS Enthusiasm. Intelligence. Basic understanding of object-oriented concepts. Willingness to learn. Willingness to work hard. Sound CS knowledge. PLUSES Familiarity with NEXTSTEP. Familiarity with Eiffel. Database experience. Group project experience. IF YOU'RE INTERESTED Email the following to Debbie Klein at dklein@wsc.com: a. Resume b. Letter explaining why this might be an interesting position c. Salary requirements d. 3 references Documents can be in ASCII, Frame, PS, roff, RTF, or TeX. Documents can sent UUENCODED, NeXT Mail, or MIME. If you do not have access to email, fax to (212)797-9897
From: Mike Stepniczka <mike_stepniczka@il.us.swissbank.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Astraloids release on ftp.cs.orst.edu Date: 3 Mar 1995 17:20:27 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3j84nb$qqe@digifix.digifix.com> Astraloids.app is now available on: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/games/astraloids.1.01.tar.Z ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/games/Astraloids.1.01.tar.Z Astraloids is an Asteroids type arcade game with a few additions to the original. The graphics for the game are fully rendered. Unique (at least for Asteroids clones under NeXTSTEP) is the addition of animated asteroids. The total installed size is ~4.5MB. It may just be the definitive mission critical application for NeXTSTEP. Asteroids is being distributed as a shareware game for $15. More information is included in the on-line help. Enjoy. Please include "Astraloids" in the subject line of any mail you e-send me! Thank you, Mike Stepniczka step@il.us.swissbank.com
From: info@hypersight.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Hypersight Ships SIGHT-C-ING 2.0 - Introductory Offer Date: 5 Mar 1995 22:41:20 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3je090$dam@digifix.digifix.com> HYPERSIGHT ANNOUNCES THE AVAILABILITY SIGHT-C-ING 2.0. Introductory offer available until April 15. RED BANK, NJ, March 3, 1995 --- Version 2.0 substantially enhances SIGHT-C-ING's Source Browser and adds the ability to generate high quality documents from commented source code. SIGHT-C-ING's advanced browsing features allow developers to effortlessly identify reusable components, determine how classes behave, browse class documentation, and navigate through code. Its document generation features eliminate the need to redundantly write design documents, commented code, and class descriptive documents. The benefits of document generation are higher quality design reviews, better commented code, and quality descriptions of reusable classes. Developers can also define macros that can be included in their commented code. This allows developers to produce bullet lists, indents and other formatting affects in their documentation. Until April 28, 1995, SIGHT-C-ING 2.0 is available for $495 to commercial customers. This is a $200 savings off SIGHT-C-ING's list price of $695. SIGHT-C-ING 2.0 is also available to education customers for $99, a savings of $50 off its normal education price of $149. Release 1.0 owners can upgrade to SIGHT-C-ING 2.0 for the cost of shipping. Release 2.0 of SIGHT-C-ING adds the following features: 1. Available as a quad-fat binary, supporting HP-PA RISC, SPARC, Intel and NeXT hardware. 2. Compatible with NEXTSTEP 3.3. Document Generation Features 3. Generate documentation from commented source code. SIGHT-C-ING automatically selects the comment directly after the method name, or directly before the method name, depending on which one is present. 4. Browse class documentation. 5. Generate documentation from the command line. This allows document generation to be triggered from a makefile. 6. Specify method sections, which will appear as titled method groups within class documentation and within the source browser. 7. Define document formatting macros, such as bullet lists and indents. 8. Make various modifications to the template used to generate class documentation. Source Browser Features 9. View methods by titled groups, as described under the document generation feature list. 10. Change your code and SIGHT-C-ING automatically parses class source code using a technique that does not require the inclusion of dependent files. This makes parsing much more trouble free. Other parsing problems have also been corrected. 11. Include source code libraries in which header files are located in a different directory than the source files (e.g. the MiscKit). 12. Specify the default editor using the preference panel. This allows SIGHT-C-ING to interact with any editor that supports the "openFile:onHost:atTrueLine:" protocol, such as the Emacs NEXTSTEP application. 13. Includes many enhancements and user interface improvements. 14. Bug fixes. Release 1.0 of SIGHT-C-ING included the following features: 1. Browse the class hierarchy of Objective-C and C code. Quickly examine the behavior of all classes, no matter where they reside in your file system. 2. Simultaneously display multiple class browsers. This allows you to cross reference classes and projects. It also allows you to easily follow message chains. 3. Easily view the class hierarchy of any project. Double-click on a project to view the classes of a project and all its subprojects. 4. Graphically view the entire project tree at once. This allows you to quickly jump to different projects, or pop up the project's Project Builder(tm) panel. 5. Supports RTF format. 6. Identify all classes that respond to a specific method. 7. Instantly find the definition of code elements such as typedefs, defines, globals and methods. 8. Includes many other features. Introductory Offer (available until March 31, 1995): $495 Commercial $99 Education List Price: $695 Commercial $149 Education Demo available at ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/demos/programming/SIGHT-C-ING_2.0_4fat.tar.gz Availability: Shipping now for HP-PA RISC, SPARC, Intel and NeXT hardware. Contact: Don Eaves or Virginia Prouty Hypersight, Inc. (908) 530-7126 Fax: (908) 530-9231 Email: info@hypersight.com Address: 7 Houston St., Red Bank, NJ 07701 Hypersight is a privately-held company that creates leading edge development tools for computers running OPENSTEP. SIGHT-C-ING is a trademark of Hypersight, Inc. NEXTSTEP and Project Builder are trademarks of NeXT, Inc.
From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,news.answers Subject: NEXTSTEP-General-FAQ Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Date: 6 Mar 1995 08:39:05 GMT Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Message-ID: <3jehn9$c4h@babyblue.cs.yale.edu> Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Originator: nathan@laplace Archive-name: NEXTSTEP-General-FAQ Last-modified: Mon Mar 6 03:03:59 EST 1995 Version: 3.1 These FAQs are under significant construction, and may well change form and content over the next weeks. These FAQs focus on various aspects of OpenStep, NEXTSTEP, and NeXT machines. The FAQs are kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu Many FAQs, including these, are available (www, ftp, email) 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. 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. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. 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>. Some important NEXTSTEP & OpenStep Information WWW sites: NeXT, Inc. http://www.next.com/ NeXTanswers http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/ Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server http://digifix.digifix.com/ TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ B0. Where can I find additional information about NEXTSTEP? 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 information about NEXTSTEP? 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 [From: R. Craig Woods <rcw@caspian.cc.vt.edu>] In the NEXTSTEP-General-FAQ it states that the NeXT Technical documentation can be ordered from Addison-Wesley. I called Addison-Wesley yesterday and found out that that is no longer true. I finally tracked down Brian Zacko at NeXT (415-780-2703) and found out that the documentation is available directly from NeXT. Cost of the set for educational people (personal and departmental) is $133.50. He said that there are different part numbers for the docs for black hardware and the docs for Intel. 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 HyperSense Users To join, email: hypersense-user-request@thoughtful.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 MusicKit: mkdist@ccrma.stanford.edu is a news group for music kit info. To subscribe, send mail to mkdist-request@ccrma.stanford.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. ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Systems Manager, Axel T. Brvnger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Summary 73 - Articles posted since February 27 1995 Date: 6 Mar 1995 05:00:06 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3je4sm$dp1@digifix.digifix.com> Summary: 73 Postings since: February 27 1995 [2949] JOB: SunSoft's Object Products Group needs experienced NEXTSTEP developer [2950] JOB: NEXTSTEP System Administrator [2951] JOB: NEXTSTEP Application Developer, SF Bay Area [2954] ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines [2955] SUBMISSION: FLYING MONKEY announces a demo version of its new Shelf app [2957] NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet [2958] PRESS RELEASE: F. HEINZ Consultora Announces Dots 3.5.5 for PA-RISC and SPARC [2959] PRESS RELEASE: F. HEINZ Consultora announces InterfaceViewer 1.1 featuring EOF capabilities [2960] PRESS RELEASE: OpenSource announces ScanOmatic/Umax bundle on NEXTSTEP [2961] SUBMISSION: FontSearch 0.8. A preferences module to handle multiple font paths. [2962] MEETING: Ottawa NeXT User Group on Thursday, March 9 [2963] SUBMISSION: Jollys ZyXEL (v.1.30) and Class2.0 (v.1.00PR1) FaxDrivers now available [2964] MEETING: Boston Computer Society NeXT User Group - March 7 [2965] SUBMISSION: tri-fat Archie,Fiend,nxyplot, BSpace module binaries [2966] MAILING LIST: New mailing list for PDO [2967] SUBMISSION: QMSprint 2.4 [2968] PRESS RELEASE: Target Development Announces Beta Release 3.0 of ReportPalette for the EOF [2969] PRESS RELEASE: Pages Software Ships WebPages by Pages(tm) [2970] JOB: NEXTSTEP DEVELOPERS - North Andover, MA [2971] SUBMISSION: eps2tiff utility (source, man page, plus NI fat binary) [2972] JOB: NYC: NeXTSTEP/Eiffel position available [2973] SUBMISSION: Astraloids release on ftp.cs.orst.edu [2974] PRESS RELEASE: Hypersight Ships SIGHT-C-ING 2.0 - Introductory Offer If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com. Archives -------- Individual messages are available at http://www.stepwise.com/comp.sys.next.announce/csna-73/**article_number** where **article_number** is the [xxxx] beside the Subject line above.. FTP archives: ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives/csna-73.tar.gz WWW archives: http://www.stepwise.com/comp.sys.next.announce/csna-73 Article submissions : next-announce@digifix.com Submission guidelines: next-announce-guidelines@digifix.com Suggestions/comments : next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines Date: 6 Mar 1995 05:15:03 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3je5on$ds7@digifix.digifix.com> NEW POLICY: =========== In an attempt to standardize the format of the FTP locations for files, all ftp addresses should be submitted using the Universal Resource Locator (URL) format. (for example) ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/submissions/file.tar.gz Please try and give an indication of where you expect the file will end up on the archive site, in the same notation. Cross Posting ============= I try very hard to make sure that postings get out in a timely fashion. Most go out in less than 24 hours. Postings that require editing because they do not contain information in a useable format, or have already been posted to other comp.sys.next.* groups may be delayed, or returned to you. If your posting is rejected, I'll try and make suggestions about what should be changed where possible. Obviously off charter messages (spams, open-letters, etc) may not get a response. Content 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 _IN URL FORMAT_ supported CPU's for binary distributions, OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting, time of meeting, speakers expected Signatures 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. Announcement of Product Sales ============================= This is an area of announcement that has caused me terrible grief in recent months. The policy is tilted towards the ISV, which has worked out well in the past. Posts that announce sales of products that you are DIRECTLY involved in the development of are OK. Posts from companies trying to sell other products are evaluated on an individual basis. Time Sensitive Announcements ============================ Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date. 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.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet Date: 6 Mar 1995 05:15:08 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3je5os$ds7@digifix.digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site comp.sys.next newsgroups related newsgroups comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list ftp sites NeXTanswers Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site =============================================== This online community resource includes - 200+ ISV company pages - 400+ ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - NEXTSTEP User Group Directory - comp.sys.next archives - User Group information - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.stepwise.com/ Additionally the NEXTSTEP there is a Mail Server available. You can get information on using the mail server at ns-products@stepwise.com Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise, please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com. eduSTEP WWW site ================ *** NEED INFORMATION *** NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site ============================ http://www.next.com comp.sys.next.* newsgroups ========================== news: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. news: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. Archives are available by ftp at ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. news: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. news: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. news: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. news: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!!! news: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. news:comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. news:comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. Related Newsgroups ================== news: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. news:comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. news: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 ============= ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions ftp://nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff, but very short on disk space ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: In Germany. ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://ftp.next.com: See the below ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com ===================================== [from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help] 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, read them on the world-wide web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS. 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 REPLY-TO address sets the e-mail address NeXTanswers uses 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 VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web server at URL http://www.next.com. 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. USING NEXTANSWERS BY MODEM To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at (415) 780-2965. Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section. From there you can download NeXTanswers documents. FOR MORE HELP... If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available from NeXTanswers, call the Support Hotline at 1-800-955-NeXT (outside the U.S. call +1-415-424-8500) to speak to a NEXTSTEP Technical Support Technician. If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must make this call to the hotline. Otherwise, hotline support is on a pay-per-call basis. Thanks for using NeXTanswers! Written by: Eric P. Scott (mailto:eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU) and Scott Anguish (mailto:sanguish@digifix.com) Additions from: Greg Anderson (mailto:Greg_Anderson@afs.com) Michael Pizolato (mailto:Michael_Pizolato@afs.com) Dan Grillo (mailto:dan_grillo@next.com)
From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NEXTSTEP-Intel-General-FAQ Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Date: 6 Mar 1995 08:39:07 GMT Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Message-ID: <3jehnb$c4i@babyblue.cs.yale.edu> Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Originator: nathan@laplace Archive-name: NEXTSTEP-Intel-General-FAQ Last-modified: Mon Mar 6 03:03:59 EST 1995 Version: 3.1 These FAQs are under significant construction, and may well change form and content over the next weeks. These FAQs focus on various aspects of OpenStep, NEXTSTEP, and NeXT machines. The FAQs are kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu Many FAQs, including these, are available (www, ftp, email) 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. 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. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. 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>. Some important NEXTSTEP & OpenStep Information WWW sites: NeXT, Inc. http://www.next.com/ NeXTanswers http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/ Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server http://digifix.digifix.com/ 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/m68k? 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? NEXTSTEP/Intel 3.3 User has been released. The Developer system is at 3.2. ____________________________________________________________________________ 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/m68k? 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? Yes. 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 introduced a 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. [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 is included with NEXTSTEP/Intel. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C20. How will my DOS and Windows applications perform under NEXTSTEP/Intel? 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. [From: caro@mv.us.adobe.com] Executive Summary: It is possible to install DOS, Windows NT with NTFS, and NEXTSTEP/FIP on the same disk, and select which partition is booted at boot time. I spent some time experimenting with a 200MB SCSI disk. I wanted to see if the following configuration would be possible: Partition 1 Primary DOS Partition 2 Extended DOS Partition 3 Windows NT NTFS Partition 4 NS/FIP 3.2 Since Windows NT requires at least 70MB for installation, and NS/FIP requires at least 120MB, there wasn't much room for DOS! Ultimately, I only tested a three partition system (DOS, NTFS, NS/FIP), but I have no reason to believe that the extended DOS wouldn't also work. The recipe is as follows: * Preparation. You need a bootable DOS floppy that has FORMAT.COM on it. You need another (blank) floppy for installing NT. * Start with the NS/FIP installation. When it asks you how you want to configure your disk, it gives you three choices, which are basically 1) erase the whole disk and use it all for NS/FIP, 2) save some room for DOS, 3) advanced. Choose the advanced option, which places you in NS/FIP fdisk (not to be confused with DOS FDISK.EXE). * Create three partitions in this order: 1) Primary DOS (if more than 32MB desired, use the "large" FAT option) 2) HPFS (this is a placeholder for NT, and can be any non-DOS format) 3) NEXTSTEP * Proceed with the rest of the NEXTSTEP installation. * When NEXTSTEP is safely installed and tested out, boot DOS from your bootable DOS floppy. * FORMAT the DOS partition (which should be Drive C if you made it the first partition). You want to FORMAT C:/S, to install the boot code to make the DOS partition bootable. * Once DOS is safely formated and tested out, insert the NT installation floppy and reboot. * Proceed with the NT installation. Tell Setup to install NT in the second partition (which shows up as "Unformatted"). You can select NTFS for FAT format. * Insert the blank floppy when asked. Don't bother to format it, NT unconditionally formats it. * If you select NTFS, there is a scary part of the installation that makes it seem like NT can't reboot. In fact, it is converting the installed files from FAT to NTFS in place. Just let it keep rebooting until it finishes, don't interrupt it like I did. * Finish setting up NT and test it out. It should be able to see the DOS partition in FileManager. * Likewise, there should be a DOS filesystem in / on NS/FIP. If you configured NT for FAT instead of NTFS, there should be two DOS filesystems in /. That's it. When you boot, you see the familiar NS/FIP multibooter. If you select DOS, it boots NT, which in turn offers you a chance to boot DOS or NT (not NS/FIP, of course). Kinda weird that you have this two tiered boot, but it's probably because the bootsector has been modified by NT. I haven't tried setting the active partition to DOS -- that might avoid the two tiers. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C25. Can NEXTSTEP/Intel read, write, and format DOS and Mac floppies? Yes. ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Systems Manager, Axel T. Brvnger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu
From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NEXTSTEP-Intel-Hardware-FAQ Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Date: 6 Mar 1995 08:39:07 GMT Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Message-ID: <3jehnb$c4j@babyblue.cs.yale.edu> Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Originator: nathan@laplace Archive-name: NEXTSTEP-Intel-Hardware-FAQ Last-modified: Mon Mar 6 03:03:59 EST 1995 Version: 3.1 These FAQs are under significant construction, and may well change form and content over the next weeks. These FAQs focus on various aspects of OpenStep, NEXTSTEP, and NeXT machines. The FAQs are kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu Many FAQs, including these, are available (www, ftp, email) 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. 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. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. 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>. Some important NEXTSTEP & OpenStep Information WWW sites: NeXT, Inc. http://www.next.com/ NeXTanswers http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/ Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server http://digifix.digifix.com/ TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ D1. Where to find information about specific hardware requirements to run NEXTSTEP/Intel? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: D1. Where to find information about specific hardware requirements to run NEXTSTEP/Intel? Use 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, read them on the world-wide web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS. 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." The NeXTstep for Intel Processors HomeBrew Mailing list: The NSFIP HomeBrew Mailing list was started to help people that want to build their own systems to work with NeXTstep and/or reconfigure their existing system to work with NeXTstep. To subscribe to the nsfip-homebrew list, send a message to: majordomo@mmg2.im.med.umich.edu ...with this text: subscribe nsfip-homebrew -- Nathan Janette Systems Manager, Axel T. Brvnger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu
From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NEXTSTEP-Languages-FAQ Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Date: 6 Mar 1995 08:39:08 GMT Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Message-ID: <3jehnc$c4k@babyblue.cs.yale.edu> Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Originator: nathan@laplace Archive-name: NEXTSTEP-Languages-FAQ Last-modified: Mon Mar 6 03:03:59 EST 1995 Version: 3.1 These FAQs are under significant construction, and may well change form and content over the next weeks. These FAQs focus on various aspects of OpenStep, NEXTSTEP, and NeXT machines. The FAQs are kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu Many FAQs, including these, are available (www, ftp, email) 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. 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. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. 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>. Some important NEXTSTEP & OpenStep Information WWW sites: NeXT, Inc. http://www.next.com/ NeXTanswers http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/ Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server http://digifix.digifix.com/ 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 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: 800-998-9938 Voice: (707) 829-0515 nuts@ora.com [From: "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@ora.com>] Or, my new book, "Learning Perl". Much better for beginners. ____________________________________________________________________________ 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 Systems Manager, Axel T. Brvnger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu
From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NEXTSTEP-Misc-FAQ Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Date: 6 Mar 1995 08:39:09 GMT Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Message-ID: <3jehnd$c4l@babyblue.cs.yale.edu> Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Originator: nathan@laplace Archive-name: NEXTSTEP-Misc-FAQ Last-modified: Mon Mar 6 03:03:59 EST 1995 Version: 3.1 These FAQs are under significant construction, and may well change form and content over the next weeks. These FAQs focus on various aspects of OpenStep, NEXTSTEP, and NeXT machines. The FAQs are kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu Many FAQs, including these, are available (www, ftp, email) 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. 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. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. 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>. Some important NEXTSTEP & OpenStep Information WWW sites: NeXT, Inc. http://www.next.com/ NeXTanswers http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/ Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server http://digifix.digifix.com/ 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? F4. How do I get pictures of people from remote sites to appear in Mail.app and NewsGrazer? 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 Digital Websters Dictionary from a program? F10. How do I remap the \ and | keys on my keyboard? 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! [From: andre@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Andre Roberge)] 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. [From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu>] 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@orb.com 415-383-7512 ____________________________________________________________________________ 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: 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. [eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)] adds: Needs to be revised for 3.x systems. wmdefaults is only for 2.x; it's not needed for 3.0 and later. ____________________________________________________________________________ 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 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: 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. [From: jbrow@radical1.radical.com (Jim Brownfield)] I have added a Terminal Service to terminal to add a signature file whenever I type <command> "0" (command/zero), and I thought this might be of interest to people who read your FAQ. I have used this technique for over a year with no problems, and it has the advantage of working both with non-NeXT and NeXT Mail. First, you must create a file with your signature containing the characters "--" on the first line (there has been some discussion as to whether this should be "-- " ("--" followed by a blank), but my file only has the "--" as the first line. The rest of the file should contain your normal signature. If you place the file in your home directory, I recommend NOT using the filename ".signature" for this file since it may conflict with other programs (like NewsGrazer). I use the filename ".fullSignature". The file used for the signature should be ascii and not RTF to allow the file to be used for NeXT and non-NeXT mail. You can create a "Get signature" service by launching Terminal and accessing the "Terminal Services" window through the "Info/Terminal Services..." menu item. Then perform the following: - Create a new service by clicking on the "New" button. Change the service name to "Get signature". - Add the command "cat <full-path-name-to-your-signature-file>" and "0" (zero) to the "Command and Key Equivalent" entry. The "0" is obviously arbitrary, but I've found that it doesn't conflict with any of the commands I normally use. - De-select any items checked within the "Accept" grouping. - Select the "As Input" radio button under the "Use Selection" section. - Change the "Execution" popup to "Run Service in the Background". Select the "Return Output" and "No Shell" radio buttons. - Click the "Save" button. Now, when you type <command> "0" (actually, from any application), your signature will be added wherever your cursor is located (be careful not to have text selected as it will replace the selected text with your signature). I have found this to be very convenient for adding my .sig to outgoing mail. ____________________________________________________________________________ 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: Geert Jan van Oldenborgh <gj@csun.psi.ch>] I find the following script in /usr/local/bin very handy to bring back the behaviour that God Intended 'find' to have: #!/bin/csh if ( $#argv == 1 ) then /usr/bin/find \*$1\* else set noglob /usr/bin/find $argv[1-] unset noglob endif [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 Systems Manager, Axel T. Brvnger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu
From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NEXTSTEP-OS-FAQ Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Date: 6 Mar 1995 08:39:10 GMT Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Message-ID: <3jehne$c4m@babyblue.cs.yale.edu> Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Originator: nathan@laplace Archive-name: NEXTSTEP-OS-FAQ Last-modified: Mon Mar 6 03:03:59 EST 1995 Version: 3.1 These FAQs are under significant construction, and may well change form and content over the next weeks. These FAQs focus on various aspects of OpenStep, NEXTSTEP, and NeXT machines. The FAQs are kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu Many FAQs, including these, are available (www, ftp, email) 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. 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. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. 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>. Some important NEXTSTEP & OpenStep Information WWW sites: NeXT, Inc. http://www.next.com/ NeXTanswers http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/ Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server http://digifix.digifix.com/ TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ G1. What information is there about NEXTSTEP/FIP (For Intel Processors)? G3. Can I delete /odmach or /sdmach and save 700K? 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: 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: 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@orb.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 Systems Manager, Axel T. Brvnger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu
From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NEXTSTEP-Printing-FAQ Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Date: 6 Mar 1995 08:39:11 GMT Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Message-ID: <3jehnf$c4n@babyblue.cs.yale.edu> Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Originator: nathan@laplace Archive-name: NEXTSTEP-Printing-FAQ Last-modified: Mon Mar 6 03:03:59 EST 1995 Version: 3.1 These FAQs are under significant construction, and may well change form and content over the next weeks. These FAQs focus on various aspects of OpenStep, NEXTSTEP, and NeXT machines. The FAQs are kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu Many FAQs, including these, are available (www, ftp, email) 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. 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. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. 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>. Some important NEXTSTEP & OpenStep Information WWW sites: NeXT, Inc. http://www.next.com/ NeXTanswers http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/ Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server http://digifix.digifix.com/ 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)? H13. What are the Canon part numbers for ink cartridges equivalent to those NeXT's Color Printer uses? H14. How to fix NEXTSTEP/hppa 3.2 dvips bug? ____________________________________________________________________________ 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 Trilithon Software is an Adobe-authorised reseller for Adobe Type 1 fonts. Trilithon Software, Two Ohlone Portola Valley, California 94028. Telephone: (415) 325-0767 FAX: (415) 325-0768 E-mail: info@trilithon.com Some fonts in Type 1 format for NEXTSTEP are also available from Y&Y: Y&Y, Inc. 45 Walden St Suite 2F Concord, MA 01742 Voice: 800 742 4059 Voice: 508 371 3286 Fax: 508 371 2004 71172,524 on CompuServe 71172.524@compuserve.com from InterNet They have some PS fonts for use with TeX. ____________________________________________________________________________ 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. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H13. What are the Canon part numbers for ink cartridges equivalent to those NeXT's Color Printer uses? [from: <Matthias Weber> mono@schweber.rhein-main.de] Red: BJI-643 M Yellow: BJI-643 Y Blue: BJI-643 C Black: BJI-643 Bk ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H14. How to fix NEXTSTEP/hppa 3.2 dvips bug? [Roberto Di Cosmo <dicosmo@dmi.ens.fr>] Here is the description and the solution, that turns out to point out a bug in the optimizer of the HP compiler. As shipped, dvips does not handle properly the redirection of output to a pipe. If you try: dvips -o"| lpr -Pmyprinter" foo.dvi here is what we get This is dvips 5.51 Copyright 1986, 1993 Radical Eye Software ' TeX output 1994.10.07:1813' -> | lpr -Pmyprinter <tex.pro><special.pro>. sh: nd: not found Broken pipe In the source file output.c, there is a call to popen() that the optimizer completely screws up. The easiest solution is then to just compile output.c *without* the -O switch. ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Systems Manager, Axel T. Brvnger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu
From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NEXTSTEP-Utilities-FAQ Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Date: 6 Mar 1995 08:39:12 GMT Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Message-ID: <3jehng$c4o@babyblue.cs.yale.edu> Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Originator: nathan@laplace Archive-name: NEXTSTEP-Utilities-FAQ Last-modified: Mon Mar 6 03:03:59 EST 1995 Version: 3.1 These FAQs are under significant construction, and may well change form and content over the next weeks. These FAQs focus on various aspects of OpenStep, NEXTSTEP, and NeXT machines. The FAQs are kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu Many FAQs, including these, are available (www, ftp, email) 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. 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. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. 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>. Some important NEXTSTEP & OpenStep Information WWW sites: NeXT, Inc. http://www.next.com/ NeXTanswers http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/ Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server http://digifix.digifix.com/ 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: kermit.columbia.edu http://www.columbia.edu/kermit Older versions of 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: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)] Louis Mamakos' TransSys-PNI-1.7-beta.tar.gz is available for anonymous FTP. [From: Stephen J. Perkins <perkins@sidney2b.cps.msu.edu>] There is a Public Domain PPP that has been ported to NeXT. This PPP is based on the PPP-2.2 distribution. This distribution offers several enhancements over ppp-2.1.2. Especially noteworty is that it implements BSD packet compression. Using packet compression can lead to higher throughput than you get using compressing modems. The PPP-2.2 distribution is currently in alpha stage (4th release). However, the NeXT port of this code is very stable. The NeXT port will remain in alpha stage as long as the PPP-2.2 remains in that stage. Then, the NeXT port will follow the stages of the PPP-2.2 distribution. The port works on Motorola, Intel (both Mux and NeXT supplied serial drivers), and HP systems running OS 3.2 and 3.3. It also works in conjunction with Black and White's NXFAX software. Both source and MAB Installer packages are available. In order to keep the sources and READMEs up to date with the current status of the PD PPP-2.2, all current work resides in a centralized location (ftp://ftp.duq.edu/pub/next/ppp). For more information on this work, check out: ftp://ftp.duq.edu/pub/next/ppp/README You may also want to join the mailing list for PPP. This will keep you informed of new releases and will provide an arena for discussing problems with the NeXT specific PPP port. To add yourself to the list (or for any other administrative requests), send an email message to: nextppp-request@uunet.uu.net requesting you be placed on the list. Make sure to include your proper return email address. To send mail to all the participants on the list, address your messages to: nextppp@uunet.uu.net. Please note that at the moment, this list is maintained by hand. Please be courteous with your requests. ____________________________________________________________________________ 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. NewsGrazer is now available as an MAB for both m68k and Intel NEXTSTEP systems! 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. [From: boyan@tmnxt1.iit.edu (Boyan I. Boyanov)] The latest distributions of gnuplot (3.5 or later) include the NeXT patches. It is not necessary to get them from sonata. This has the additional advantage that the arrow keys can be used to recall commands from the history list (I could not make this work with the Purdue patches). 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 issueing the following commands in a terminal window: dwrite Workspace compress /usr/bin/gzip dwrite Workspace uncompress /usr/bin/gunzip dwrite 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 Systems Manager, Axel T. Brvnger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu
From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NeXT-General-FAQ Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Date: 6 Mar 1995 08:39:14 GMT Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Message-ID: <3jehni$c4p@babyblue.cs.yale.edu> Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Originator: nathan@laplace Archive-name: NeXT-General-FAQ Last-modified: Mon Mar 6 03:03:59 EST 1995 Version: 3.1 These FAQs are under significant construction, and may well change form and content over the next weeks. These FAQs focus on various aspects of OpenStep, NEXTSTEP, and NeXT machines. The FAQs are kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu Many FAQs, including these, are available (www, ftp, email) 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. 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. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. 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>. Some important NEXTSTEP & OpenStep Information WWW sites: NeXT, Inc. http://www.next.com/ NeXTanswers http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/ Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server http://digifix.digifix.com/ 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? ...I am pleased to announce to you the formation of NEXTSTEP User Groups International (nugi), an organization currently spanning three continents and several countries. Darren Smith helped catalyze our founding, and donated his mailing lists to us. Based on the pioneering work of Joe Barello, nugi is a "group of groups." Ultimate authority is delegated to the "nugi Assembly", which consists of one representative from each member group. Day to day business, however, is handled by the nugi Executive committee ("nEC") appointed by the Assembly. The nEC currently consists of: Coordinator and Chair of nEC: Gerben Wierda <gerben@rna.nl> Gerben assumes the coordinator role as defined in the charter. His task will be to keep things going as smoothly as possible. President: Ernest Prabhakar <ernest@pundit.cithep.caltech.edu> Ernie will be the main organizer. He will keep track of all projects and be responsible for NeXT relations (as defined in the charter). Vendor Relations: Jackie Mackay <mackay@cognito.demon.co.uk> Jackie will work with NeXT and others to demonstrate how vendors and users can work together (such as through special events and discounts) to help each other. User Group Relations: Timothy Mills <t6882tm@network.cfc.com> The newest member of the nEC, Timothy's focus is directly on helping user groups be more effective. nugi is a young group, and we are still "finding ourselves." However, we would like to - with your help - become the definitive voice for the NEXTSTEP user community. We hope to provide a variety of services to user groups, including Special Interest Groups (SIGS), negotiating user group discounts, providing information via a web site, providing mutual technical support, and much more. Information about these will be available on forthcoming messages. To that end, we would like to ask your groups to join nugi. To do so, simply read the charter (below), and answer the following questions. 1) Have you read, and do you agree to, the nugi Charter? (Note that the Charter can only be modified by vote of the Assembly. To join, you must agree to the current charter. After that, you are welcome to propose changes, if you so desire.) 2) What is the name & email address of your representative to the nugi Assembly? Is it NeXTMail? 3) What is the email address for your group, or a leader of the group? Is it NeXTMail? Replies should be sent to the coordinator at: nugi-coordinator@negen.twi.tudelft.nl Thank you very much for your time. It is hard to function without support from NeXT, but I believe there is enough vitality and vision in the user community to help us make it through, and even thrive. I welcome your comments and suggestions. Sincerely, -- Ernie Prabhakar nugi President nugi@negen.twi.tudelft.nl ____________________________________________________________________________ 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: ftp.next.com 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 Systems Manager, Axel T. Brvnger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu
From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NeXT-Hardware-General-FAQ Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Date: 6 Mar 1995 08:39:14 GMT Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Message-ID: <3jehni$c4q@babyblue.cs.yale.edu> Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Originator: nathan@laplace Archive-name: NeXT-Hardware-General-FAQ Last-modified: Mon Mar 6 03:03:59 EST 1995 Version: 3.1 These FAQs are under significant construction, and may well change form and content over the next weeks. These FAQs focus on various aspects of OpenStep, NEXTSTEP, and NeXT machines. The FAQs are kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu Many FAQs, including these, are available (www, ftp, email) 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. 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. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. 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>. Some important NEXTSTEP & OpenStep Information WWW sites: NeXT, Inc. http://www.next.com/ NeXTanswers http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/ Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server http://digifix.digifix.com/ TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ K1. Where to obtain hardware service, parts, or used systems? K2. What types of NeXT machines were manufactured? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: K1. Where to obtain hardware service, parts, or used systems? [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 [From: dbrad@ucdmath.ucdavis.edu (David Bradford)] Pixelated Technologies 1-800-749-3563 & 310-459-6831 James Moosmann E-mail: moose@moose.pdial.interpath.net 255 Camelot Rd. Salisbury NC 28147 Phone/FAX: (704)633-8885 Dancing Bear Enterprises 590 Lipoa Parkway Kihei, Maui, HI 96753 808-875-2456 808-874-3650 fax 800-221-2217 toll free orders@dancingbear.com sales@dancinbear.com info@dancingbear.com ftp://ftp.maui.com/pub/dancingbear/index http://www.maui.com/~dancingbear/ Samuel M. Goldberger/smg@orb.com Spherical Solutions 47 Myrtle Avenue Mill Valley, CA 94941 415-383-2919--voice 415-381-9556--fax ____________________________________________________________________________ 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. It is possible to add another internal device; see the FAQ. ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Systems Manager, Axel T. Brvnger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu
From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NeXT-Hardware-Internal-FAQ Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Date: 6 Mar 1995 08:39:15 GMT Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Message-ID: <3jehnj$c4r@babyblue.cs.yale.edu> Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Originator: nathan@laplace Archive-name: NeXT-Hardware-Internal-FAQ Last-modified: Mon Mar 6 03:03:59 EST 1995 Version: 3.1 These FAQs are under significant construction, and may well change form and content over the next weeks. These FAQs focus on various aspects of OpenStep, NEXTSTEP, and NeXT machines. The FAQs are kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu Many FAQs, including these, are available (www, ftp, email) 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. 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. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. 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>. Some important NEXTSTEP & OpenStep Information WWW sites: NeXT, Inc. http://www.next.com/ NeXTanswers http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/ Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server http://digifix.digifix.com/ 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 a SONY 2.88 MB floppy 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? L10. How to expand DSP memory? L11. How to boot a NeXT without a monitor? L12. Two internal hard drives on NeXT Motorolla 68040 slabs? ____________________________________________________________________________ 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 later version fan which turns in the opposite direction. It is 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. Try to obtain the cleaning kit and OD filter retrofit parts also. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: L2. Can I connect a SONY 2.88 MB floppy 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. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: L10. How to expand DSP memory? The Speech Recognition Lab at San Francisco State University has developed a DSP memory expansion board for the NeXT computer that provides the maximum memory supported by the DSP56001 processor. We are now offering this board to those whose are interested in high-performance custom DSP development. -- The board is a 576KB DSP expansion memory board organized as three non-overlapping 192KB banks: X-data, Y-data and Program. The board uses relatively fast (<35ns) SRAM. This board compares with NeXT's DSP memory expansion board, which offers only 96KB in an imaged memory configuration. -- The board is a high-quality, 4-layer board, open-circuit tested prior to assembly. It fits into the DSP memory daughterboard slot on all NeXT machines. -- The price will be $600. Please let us know if you are interested. Delivery will be in about 3-4 weeks. -- Contact Tom Holton (th@ernie.sfsu.edu). E-mail is prefered. The address is: Tom Holton Division of Engineering San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Avenue San Francisco, CA 94132 415 338 1529 (phone) 415 338 0525 (fax) Note: Because we've organized our memory as three separate (non-overlapping) banks (X, Y and P) of 192KB apiece, none of the DSP memory image functionality provided by NeXT with its existing 8K base configuration, or its 96KB DSP expansion module is supported. While we cannot guarantee that every existing DSP application ever written will be plug-and-play compatable with our DSP expansion memory, we are not aware of any existing applications that use the image functionality. The MusicKit, and demo programs that use the DSP, such as Mandlebrot and ScorePlayer, work fine with our memory module. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: L11. How to boot a NeXT without a monitor? [From: The Onyx Kitten <onyxcat@vesta.unm.edu>] The procedure is to just touch pins 6 and GND on the DB-19 NeXT monitor out with a 470 Ohm resistor (450 is the actual resistance, but 470 ohms is more commonly found in resistors). Pin 6 is the power sense, and pins 13-19 (and the DB shell) are the GND. Just say "pin 19", it may be easier. There's a pinout diagram of the DB-19 in the NeXT Users Reference Manual. If you have an old Cube, the power supply needs to have more power drawn from it than an 030 (and 040?) board uses to stay on. So: On the DB-19, attach a Power Resistor (20 Ohm, at least 20 Watt) between pins 12 and GND. (Pin 12 is -12V, pin 13 works well for GND). Then just "touch" the 470 ohm resistor as described above, and you're set. The 20 Ohm resistor draws an old 030 running monitorless in an old CUBE), but it isn't necessary - just don't touch it (*HOT!* ;-) To power off, type "halt -p" as root on the machine (either through a terminal connected to port A, or over the eithernet connection). Also, you have to have the Rom Monitor settings done correctly. The important ones are: Wait until keypress? N Sound out tests? N Port A as alternate Console? Y (if you have one, it's nice) Verbose mode? N (I think this may need to be N to work, don't remember). ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: L12. Two internal hard drives on NeXT Motorolla 68040 slabs? [From: takken@hulme-pc-2e.Stanford.EDU (Todd Takken)] It is possible to fit a second internal hard drive in a NeXT slab, in addition to the floppy drive and the first hard drive. The second drive must be third height, or 1 inch high. There is no room for a half height device. Buy a bracket or make one out of sheet metal for the 1 inch high drive. On 25 MHz mono stations the SIMMs are smaller and the drive doesn't have to go all the way against the back wall. In this case, glue the bracket to the underside of the NextStation cover, centered from side to side and as far to the back as possible. This is sufficient. On 25 MHz colorstations, however, one must file away a bit of the interior metal on the cover in order to glue the bracket fully to the rear of the cover. Once this modification is done, the drive will clear the RAM when the cover is closed. Screw the drive into the bracket, with the power and SCSI plugs toward the right hand side of the NextStation so that the cables will reach. Go to your favorite computer store and get both a "dual internal SCSI bus cable" and a "dual internal SCSI power cable." Plug in the cables to both internal hard drives and close the cover. This was verified on both a 25 MHz mono and a 25 MHz color NextStation. No power or heating problems occurred. ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Systems Manager, Axel T. Brvnger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu
From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NeXT-Hardware-Peripherals-FAQ Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Date: 6 Mar 1995 08:39:17 GMT Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Message-ID: <3jehnl$c4s@babyblue.cs.yale.edu> Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Originator: nathan@laplace Archive-name: NeXT-Hardware-Peripherals-FAQ Last-modified: Mon Mar 6 03:03:59 EST 1995 Version: 3.1 These FAQs are under significant construction, and may well change form and content over the next weeks. These FAQs focus on various aspects of OpenStep, NEXTSTEP, and NeXT machines. The FAQs are kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu Many FAQs, including these, are available (www, ftp, email) 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. 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. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. 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>. Some important NEXTSTEP & OpenStep Information WWW sites: NeXT, Inc. http://www.next.com/ NeXTanswers http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/ Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server http://digifix.digifix.com/ 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 NeXT color 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? M26. I'm trying to initialize a QUANTUM ELS170S on a NeXTStation and get sd2: Incomplete disk transfer? M27. What are the NeXT mouse connections and alternatives? ____________________________________________________________________________ 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, i7link 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 ____________________________________________________________________________ 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. Some monitors reported to work well include: Sony GDM-1601 Nanao T560i NEC IBM 17P [From: William Shipley <wjs@omnigroup.com>] Note that you need the 13W3 to BNC cable to connect a 3rd party monitor to a NeXT. The monitor must have BNC connectors (most high end ones do), and must sync on green. Ideally it should have a P22 phosphor (persistence) and a white point of 9300 Kelvin. ____________________________________________________________________________ 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 [From: Robert Nicholson <robert@steffi.demon.co.uk>] DISCLAIMER: I take no responsiblity for the following. If you can source the bits yourself here's how it's built. 1 female 13W3 connector 3 Male BNC connectors 3 mini coax ie. the pins to the coaxials are male and the regular pins are female. Looks like this. . o o o o o . . 13W3 FEMALE A1 o o o o o A2 A3 | | | Red Green Blue 3 BNC's That's the coax part. The outer shielding of the coax's are grounded on both pin 10 and the case. ____________________________________________________________________________ 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. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M26. I'm trying to initialize a QUANTUM ELS170S on a NeXTStation and get sd2: Incomplete disk transfer? [From: max@Kolmogorov.gac.edu (Max Hailperin)] The Quantum ELSxxxS drives only work with NeXTs if they are the only SCSI device. If alone, they work fine, but if there are other SCSI devices you get "incomplete disk transfer" messages. Subject: M27. What are the NeXT mouse connections and alternatives? [From: eric@skatter.usask.ca] Thanks to Alvin Austin (austin@cs.USask.Ca) I have the information I need on the NeXT mouse connections. Pin Function 1 +5v 2 X Encoder Phase A 3 X Encoder Phase B 4 Y Encoder Phase A 5 Y Encoder Phase B 6 Right Button 7 Left Button 8 Ground [From: Tom.Blenko@yale.edu] The MS mouse comes with a "Mini HDIN" 9-pin plug. I found no way to use this, and had to cut the cable and wire to a mini DIN 8-pin plug. If you haven't built a cable with an 8-pin mini DIN before, take the advice that has been offered here before and don't try to solder to the plug -- get a cable with bare wires or a cable with the plug on one end (lots of Macs use these) and cut it. On to the details. Notice that if the pins weren't numbered differently, the layout would be approximately the same. The MS mouse doesn't use switch numbered 2. And there is no reason I know of that another MS mouse need have the same color coding, so check it against the pins after cutting the cable. NeXT mouse wiring: 1 +5V 2 XA 3 XB 4 YA 5 YB 6 right button 7 left button 8 ground shell chassis ground pinout: 6 7 8 3 4 5 1 2 Microsoft Bus Mouse wiring: 1 switch (2) 2 left switch (3) Blue 3 ground Black 4 XB White 5 YA Orange 6 YB Yellow 7 right switch (1) Green 8 +5V Red 9 XA Brown pinout: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Systems Manager, Axel T. Brvnger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu
From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NeXT-Hardware-RAM-FAQ Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Date: 6 Mar 1995 08:39:18 GMT Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Message-ID: <3jehnm$c4t@babyblue.cs.yale.edu> Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Originator: nathan@laplace Archive-name: NeXT-Hardware-RAM-FAQ Last-modified: Mon Mar 6 03:03:59 EST 1995 Version: 3.1 These FAQs are under significant construction, and may well change form and content over the next weeks. These FAQs focus on various aspects of OpenStep, NEXTSTEP, and NeXT machines. The FAQs are kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu Many FAQs, including these, are available (www, ftp, email) 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. 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. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. 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>. Some important NEXTSTEP & OpenStep Information WWW sites: NeXT, Inc. http://www.next.com/ NeXTanswers http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/ Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server http://digifix.digifix.com/ 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 *Testing system...: 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 boardsPincluding new 25 MHz NeXTstations and all Turbo systemsPwill 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 16-Nov-94] 30 Pin SIMMs 1x8-70ns 1 Mb SIMM $ 36 4x8-70ns 4 Mb SIMM $ 127 1x9-70ns 1 Mb SIMM $ 39.50 4x9-70ns 4 Mb SIMM $ 141 72 Pin SIMMs 1x32-70ns 4 Mb SIMM $ 148 2x32-70ns 8 Mb SIMM $ 294 4x32-70ns 16 Mb SIMM $ 479 (non-composite) 4x32-70ns 16 Mb SIMM $ 504 (composite) 1x36-70ns 4 Mb SIMM $ 166 2x36-70ns 8 Mb SIMM $ 334 4x36-70ns 16 Mb SIMM $ 549 (non-composite) 4x36-70ns 16 Mb SIMM $ 567 (composite) Lifetime Warranty. Marco International 800-621-4668 (Within US/Canada) 303-449-9191 800 447 8448 (CT Office) [Prices current as of 21-Jul-94] 30 Pin SIMMs 1x8-70ns 1 Mb SIMM $ 38.50 4x8-70ns 4 Mb SIMM $ 129 1x9-70ns 1 Mb SIMM $ 40.50 4x9-70ns 4 Mb SIMM $ 157 72 Pin SIMMs 1x32-70ns 4 Mb SIMM $ 148 1x36-70ns 4 Mb SIMM $ 171 2x32-70ns 8 Mb SIMM $ 295 2x36-70ns 8 Mb SIMM $ 345 4x32-70ns 16 Mb SIMM $ 585 (non-composite) 4x36-70ns 16 Mb SIMM $ 645 (composite) 8x32-70ns 32 Mb SIMM $1250 8x36-70ns 32 Mb SIMM $1410 Lifetime Warranty, toll-free support, 24hr RMA. "NeXT certified". Chip Merchant 9541 Ridgehaven Court San Diego, CA 92123 (800) 426-6375 South Coast Electronics Tustin, CA (800) 289-8801 714-669-9503 Impediment (617) 837-8877 ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Systems Manager, Axel T. Brvnger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu
From: clint@techSCOUTS.com (technicalSCOUTS) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NEXTSTEP Positions available Date: 6 Mar 1995 23:07:19 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3jgm5n$n21@digifix.digifix.com> TechnicalSCOUTS, a national leader in technical consulting and permanent placement, seeks ---Object-Oriented Programmers for clients across the country. Current positions in California, Texas, Colorado, Pacific Northwest, Northeast, Southeast, and the Midwest areas. Our clients are looking for talented NEXTSTEP and Smalltalk software engineers with 1-5+ years experience. Additional positions in PowerBuilder. Please review the following for specific details: Midwest-- 3) Sr. Level NEXTSTEP software applications development engineers with 2-5 years of NEXTSTEP development. Financial applications experience a plus. EOF, Sybase, DBKit plus. permanent positions, salary range $50-$90k 2) NEXTSTEP system administrators experience with large networks, 3-5 years admin. experience, permanent positions, salary range 45-65k+ 8) Smalltalk programmers with 1-4+ years Smalltalk experience working on exciting OO applications development.. permanent positions, salary range 40-80k+ California-10)Mid. to Sr. Level NEXTSTEP software developers to work on various financial applications. Cutting edge environments, working with EOF, DBKit, Sybase. Fast paced, self starters able to work in a dynamic team environment. permanent positions, salary range 50-90k+ 2) NEXTSTEP system administrators, experience with 100+ node networks, 3-5 years admin. experience, permanent positions, salary range 45-65k+ 2) Jr. level NEXTSTEP system administrators, strong university experience considered. UNIX/NEXTSTEP. Entry/JR. level salary. 2) Very Sr. Level NEXTSTEP engineers to create a total development environment from the ground up. MUST have 4+ years of NEXTSTEP experience. Large distributed systems experience, able to work in a fast paced environment. Able to lead and work with a team of high energy engineers. Strong OOA/OOD/OOP background-permanent positions, salary $75-$100k+ 6) PowerBuilder engineers, 1-2+ years experience in PowerBuilder client/server applications development in PowerScript, Oracle/SQL experience a plus. client interface, excellent verbal and written communications skills, permanent positions, salary range according to experience Pacific Northwest-- 3) NEXTSTEP Consultants with 3-5 years experience to work on applications development within a fasted paced environment 6+ months contract, rates $40-$80hour depending on experience Colorado--1) Sr. Level NEXTSTEP programming consultant, with EOF, DBKit Sybase experience. 3-5 years NEXTSTEP experience, rate $50-$70 per hour, depending on experience 12) Smalltalk programmers with 1-4+ years Smalltalk experience working on exciting OOP applications development.. permanent positions, salary range 40-80k+ Texas- 2) NEXTSTEP applications developers with strong OOP/OOA/OOD experience, able to work in a strong team environment, 2-5 years NEXTSTEP or Smalltalk experience. permanent position, salary $45-70k+ Northeast- 1) NEXTSTEP applications programmers with 1-3 years of NEXTSTEP experience, also have C++/UNIX background, Oracle/SQL.. permanent positions, salary range according to experience. 1) NEXTSTEP developer with 2-5 years NEXTSTEP programming experience. Additional background in UNIX/OS2/C++/GUI permanent positions, salary range according to experience. 2) NEXTSTEP or Smalltalk developers to work on financial applications, Sybase plus, strong OOA/OOD/OOP experience. permanent positions, salary range according to experience. Virginia/Maryland/DC/RTP/North Carolina areas-- 1) Sr. Level Manager/OOP/tech lead/business developer, 6-10 years total experience. Able to work in a fast paced environment, strong UNIX/OO background, excellent interpersonal communication skills, self starter. client interface. Able to manager multiple projects, clients and programmers. Salary range according to experience. 4) NEXTSTEP or UNIX system administrators, experience with 100+ node networks, 3-5 years admin. experience, permanent positions, salary range 45-75k+ contact positions also available. 3) Smalltalk programmers with 1-4+ years Smalltalk experience working on exciting OO applications development within telecomm, financial, or business environments permanent positions, salary range 40-70k+ 8)Mid. to Sr. Level NEXTSTEP software developers to work on various financial applications. Cutting edge environment, working with EOF, DBKit, Sybase. Fast paced, self starters able to work in a dynamic team environment. permanent positions, salary range 50-75k+ Southeast-- 5) NEXTSTEP applications developers with strong OOP/OOA/OOD experience, able to work in a strong team environment, 2-5 years NEXTSTEP development, NEXTSTEP mentoring/training, customer interface, excellent interpersonal skills, able to lead a team of developers. Salary, according to experience. Other-- If you love to travel and want to stay on the leading edge of the NEXTSTEP or Smalltalk environments, you may qualify for other exciting positions. To be kept informed of the latest HIGH TECH positions forward your resume today!! United States or Canadian Citizenship required for most of our positions. If you are not a citizen but are in the top 10% of the programmers in your field, please forward a resume for consideration. Please send resume to the following email address, fax, or US Mail address. ALSO, please specify which position you are applying for. Thanks you for your understanding. All resumes will be held in confidence, and everyone who applies will receive a response. Thank you for choosing technicalSCOUTS to represent you in your job search, we know you have a choice, and our goal is to earn your trust. If you know of a software engineer that is seeking employment please forward this information for there review. 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From: Florian Gutzwiller <Florian.Gutzwiller@open.ch> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: PointBreak Software PBTableView Release 1.0 Date: 6 Mar 1995 23:08:56 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3jgm8o$n2g@digifix.digifix.com> PointBreak Software Announces Release 1.0 of PBTableView for EOF FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: PointBreak Software A Division of Open Systems AG Petersplatz 12 CH-4051 Basel, Switzerland Tel. +41 61 262 0505 Fax. +41 61 262 0510 E-Mail. Info@PointBreak.com PointBreak Software PBTableView(tm) Release 1.0 Basel/Zurich/Lausanne, March 6th, 1995 - PointBreak Software announces it's new EOF compliant DBTableView/NXTableView alternative PBTableView 1.0. PBTableView is the first product in a line of Swiss quality objectware for the NEXTSTEP/OpenStep community including the following and more features: * multi line headers * frozen columns * hidden columns * page scrolling * cursor navigation * block selection & copy/paste * text overlapping * layout storage (to file) * selectable cell height * selectable fonts * full IB support to set up the tables layout and connect it's columns to a EOModule * plug & play method compatibility to NXTableView and DBTableView * platform for future features (calculation rows, color, multiple dimensions etc.) About PointBreak Software: PointBreak Software is dedicated to deliver products and custom development services to the professional NEXTSTEP and OpenStep community. PointBreak Software was launched by Open Systems AG who made early efforts in promoting and selling products from NeXT back in 1991. For more information please contact: WWW Server http://www.pointbreak.com Sales & Product Information: info@PointBreak.com Telephone/Fax: +41 61 262 0505/+41 61 262 0510 DatabaseKit, EOF, Interface Builder, and NeXTSTEP are a trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. PBTableView is a trademark of PointBreak Software
From: axon!vrobi@uunet.uu.net (Robert Vasvari) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Starter 1.1(foundationized) is now available. Date: 6 Mar 1995 23:15:36 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3jgml8$n35@digifix.digifix.com> Contact: Robert Vasvari <vrobi@futon.sfsu.edu> My appologies to all who waited for this version. It took much more work than I anticipated. Since NS is not fully foundationized (the appkit still interfaces via C strings) Starter contains a mix of Object and NSObject subclasses. The core structure IS based on the foundation kit, however. I hope it is useful to those who want to build an app using the foundation kit. Description: Starter can be a great way to start building a new app. Most features that all apps need, such as document handling, multi-window preference panels and inspectors, menu enabling/disabling are already implemented. Starter is a great application framework which allows the developer to build an app by "filling in the blanks" Starter is also great for developers who are not yet familiar with all the basic Mechanisms in NEXTSTEP and would still like to write an app that conforms to the general guide lines of NS. The code is not complicated, and browsing through it is a great way to learn NEXTSTEP programming. Available: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/sources/programming/Starter1.1.tar.Z Distribution: Source only Price: free
From: Daniel Green <dang@fnbc.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: cmsg cancel <3jilla$1b7@digifix.digifix.com> Control: cancel <3jilla$1b7@digifix.digifix.com> Date: 7 Mar 1995 17:19:38 -0500 Organization: Digital Fix Development Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3jim5q$1gk@digifix.digifix.com> Cancelled Message by sanguish@digifix.com -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: Roland Telfeyan <roland@telf.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: SEMiNUG - Tuesday, March 14, 1995 Date: 7 Mar 1995 00:26:37 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3jgqqd$nkt@digifix.digifix.com> What: Meeting of SEMiNUG (South Eastern Michigan NEXTSTEP Users' Group) Date: Tuesday, March 14, 1995 Time: 7:30 PM Where: The Advanced Technologies Laboratory (ATL) Building 1101 Beal Ave. Ann Arbor, MI Coming from the east into Ann Arbor on I-94 ... 1. Exit I-94 onto I-23 (going north). 1. Take I-23 through Ann Arbor and exit onto Geddes (going west). 2. Turn right at 3rd light onto Huron Parkway (going north) 3. Left at Glacier (going west) 4. Right at Beal Avenue (going north) 5. Take first left into ATL metered parking lot. The ATL building is just uphill (north) from the parking lot and across from the Gerald R Ford Presidential Library. Once in the building, signs will be posted showing where the demonstration will be held (its a small building so there is not much change of getting lost in the building). Speaker: Craig Rasmussen, Turn of the Century Software A demonstration of software written for the Upper Atmospheric Research Colaboratory (UARC) will be given at the next SEMiNUG meeting on Tuesday, March 14. The demonstration will be held at the Advanced Technologies Laboratory on the North Campus of the University of Michigan. UARC is an multidisciplinary effort sponsored by the National Science Foundation to examine ways in which computers can be used to aid collaborating groups of humans to communicate over a distance. Scientists supported by the project are studying the upper atmosphere of the Earth using remote instruments at Sondrestrom, Greenland. Currently, UARC software supports a chat window, various data displays, and annotations on the data. The UARC project uses NeXT's distributed objects for multicasting data and messages. Come join us for an exciting presentation, spirited talk, helpful Q&A, and some top notch refreshments. If you would like additional directions or information or if you have ideas for topics to be covered in future meetings, contact one of the following: Timothy Mills mills_timothy@network.cfc.com phone: 810-948-4959 Roland Telfeyan roland@telf.com phone: 313-761-9590 Shan Bell bell_shan@network.cfc.com phone: 810-948-3199
From: Daniel Green <dang@fnbc.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NEXTSTEP Developers: Financial Engineering Date: 7 Mar 1995 17:11:59 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3jilnf$1cd@digifix.digifix.com> First Chicago Capital Markets is aggressively seeking candidates with all levels of expertise in financial engineering and applications development within trading products support. Our professionals enjoy an entrepreneurial and collegial environment where rapid and robust systems deployment is the way to compensation and satisfaction. If you are a leading performer at your organization, we would like you to join us. The individuals we seek should have 1 to 7 years proven working experience with NEXTSTEP and Objective C, combined with an astute understanding of the economics and technologies of derivatives trading. Proven architects in a given derivatives specialty are especially desired. All candidates must have a demonstrated ability to communicate with traders, quantitative researchers, and other members of the application development team. So bring your skills to the forefront of banking. Join First Chicago. For consideration of these exceptionally rewarding positions, submit your resume with salary history in confidence to: The First National Bank of Chicago One First National Plaza Suite 0016 Department PK/ND Chicago, IL 60670 FAX: 312.407.4954. NO PHONE CALLS. Equal Opportunity Employer.
From: a0047@freenet.uni-bayreuth.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Pencil1.0 / PencilTCLClient Date: 7 Mar 1995 17:12:53 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3jilp5$1d4@digifix.digifix.com> Reply-To: me@iwo.cube.net SUBMISSION: Pencil.app 1.0 and PencilTCLClient Pencil is a vector-oriented drawing program. Its most remarkable feature is that new drawing methods can be added to it in the form of postscript language procedures (even at run-time). However, even if you are unfamiliar with PostScript, Pencil can be quite useful with its built-in set of drawing methods. There are polygons, curves (hermite and bezier), circles, arcs, rectangles (also with rounded corners), character paths, "Rich Text" and so on. You can rotate, scale, group, clip, copy, paste, reorder and move graphics. There are numerous fill types (several gradients) and stroke types (including "neon light" gradient stroke). You can add shadows and other effects to a graphics object. You can print the document or copy it as postscript-code to the clipboard (for use in Edit etc.). You can scroll around and zoom into the view. There is even a basic freehand tool for drawing polygons. Import of TIFF/EPS-images is supported. A lot of sample documents are provided. You can send commands to Pencil via Distributed Objects. I have written a program named PencilTCLClient (ptcl) to simplify this task. (ptcl is based on tcl 7.3 and tclsh by John Ousterhout, University of California at Berkeley) PencilTCLClient is available as source and binary, so if you don't have the tcl-distribution, you can use it anyway. One can use ptcl to create/open/save/print documents, add graphic objects to the current document, edit the current selection and read out the graphic objects' attributes. This could be useful for writing scripts that create a graph in Pencil from some text data, so the user can edit it afterwards. Pencil.app may be distributed under the terms of the GNU general public license. Pencil.app can be found in: Binary: FTP://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Graphics/vector/Pencil1.0.b.NI.tar.gz This archive contains a fat (i386, m68k) binary. -rw-r--r-- 1 me 110853 Mar 5 22:05 Pencil1.0.b.NI.tar.gz Source is available in: FTP://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Graphics/vector/Pencil1.0.s.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 me 77241 Mar 5 22:05 Pencil1.0.s.tar.gz PencilTCLClient: (Binary and Source) FTP://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Graphics/vector/PencilTCLClient.bs.NI.tar.gz This archive contains a fat (i386, m68k) binary. The source doesn't include tcl. -rw-r--r-- 1 me 114601 Mar 6 17:59 PencilTCLClient.bs.NI.tar.gz (Sorry, I can't compile triple- (or quadruple-)fat) Florian Marquardt a0047@freenet.uni-bayreuth.de
From: Thomas Engel <tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: FontSearch 0.85. Enhanced and Bugs fixed. Date: 8 Mar 1995 16:20:19 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3jl72j$akh@digifix.digifix.com> Release 0.85, 07.03.1995 by Thomas Engel (tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org) Submitted to: ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next/Tools/Preferences/ ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Tools/preferences/ ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/NeXT/tools/preferences/ ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/util/ The FontSearch Preferences Modul ATTENTION..you need gnutar and gzip to unpack this package. NEW: - Seperated "Set" and "Recache" - Fixed those nasty bugs Ever wondered how to deal with 1000 Postscript fonts under NeXTSTEP ? The Font Panel is not too smart at limiting itself or organizing the fonts so that you can easily find the one you are looking for. But NeXTSTEP comes with a simple mechanism to ease your life. The NXFontsPaths dwrite is a simple way to tell the system which font folder you want to use. The FontSearch Preferences modul is the easiest way to handle this task. It does all the nasty work for you. What it does FontSearch allows you to drag&drop certain font directories into the icon well. If the path is absent it will be added to the list of known FontSearchPaths. To really use a font path you have to activate (double-click) it inside the browser. Active paths will be normal, deactivated paths will be displayed in italic. Clicking the "Set" button will store all the changes into the systems database. Using "Recahe" will do the same but also will rebuild all the cached font information. This is necessary if you have added fonts to some path. Just use the FontSearch modul whenever you only have added a font and want to use it right away...without logging out of the system and in again. Usually NeXTSTEP does that automagically for you but if you find some fonts are missing...just "Recache" it. A useful way of organizing your fonts is to have directories for certain font vendors. Besides them you might maintain other dirs (e.g. NiceFonts, Advertising, BookFonts, etc.) where you symbolically link all your frequently used fonts to. There should be no problem having one font at two locations. This method allows you to pick certain fonts according to the task you are doing. Remember that only applications that get started after the settings have been done will be affected by the changes ! So quit and restart the apps if you want to use a different set of fonts. The Package Version 0.85 comes in a package that includes: - FontSearch.preferences. A FAT bundle for NeXT and Intel hardware. - Localization for the English and German language. - Full sourcecode. - The documentation and an ASCII version (README) of this introduction. On where to find the latest releases please see the 'About this Project' section. Features This app does all the necessary work to control your systemwide font path settings. - Add all the font directory you have on your system by drag&drop. - Activate, deactivate or remove certain paths. - See the currently active paths. - Trigger a system update where all afm caches get updated. About this Project This bundle was mainly developed to ease the work of a publisher I know personally. It really was nice to see how simple it was to write Preference moduls (1 day of coding). I don't see any reasons for enhancements but if you think something is missing...let me know. The latest version of this bundle will be available at the ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de, ftp.cs.orst.edu or ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de anonymous ftp servers. There also is a WWW page were you can find out more about the status of this...and all the other projects I'm working on. It can be found under the projects section of: http://wwwcip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/user/tsengel/ This version includes all the source code necessary to recompile the program from scratch. You either need a installed version of the MiscKit project (Version 1.4.0 or higher) or create a link inside the bundles main source directory that points to itself and is called misckit (ln -s . misckit). This ensures that all the headers can be found. For more details on the MiscKit collection see the common NeXT ftp servers or get the Objective-C or NeXT FAQs. If you would like to submit something to this collection you should contact: Don Yacktman <don@darth.byu.edu> In Case of Trouble If you have any questions you can contact me. Thomas Engel Netpunstr. 9 D-90522 Oberasbach Germany E-mail: tsengel@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org (NeXTMail welcome)
From: Thomas Engel <tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: WARNING: FontSearch: DON'T run as ROOT !!! Date: 8 Mar 1995 16:19:36 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3jl718$ak7@digifix.digifix.com> Hi all! Don't run FontSearch as ROOT. Why ? Everything works just as it should but... FontSearch tries to addjust paths to refer to the users home path. This will make: ~NextLibrary/Fonts out of: /NextLibrary/Fonts This is just fine for every app....exept the loginwindow !!! After you log out you will not be able to log in again ! The loginwindow will fail to find its fonts. Fixing is simple: Just remove the roots "GLOBAL NXFontsPaths" value out of the database. (either boot in single user or rlogin form somewhere else) Sorry is this caused you trouble but this is a strange behvior of NeXTSTEP. I can't understand why the app uses roots defaults but does not know about root home path ????? Aloha Tomi P.S: I hate it to spend some hour of pushing app on the archive just to find out the other day that some nasty little bugs are still in there...grrrr.
From: "C. Scott Keith" <scott@QuickBase.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Request for NSObjects Date: 8 Mar 1995 18:01:49 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3jld0t$bm6@digifix.digifix.com> March 8, 1995, SofDesign Corporation announces it is assembling a set of public domain objects compatible with EOF and OPENSTEP. These objects will be made freely available on the internet. Submitted objects must... 1. include full source code 2. be subclasses of NSObject 3. fully support EOF where appropriate 4. must have no licensing restrictions "What will make these objects different is that they will be fully compatible with future implementations of NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP", says Scott Keith, president of SofDesign, "Our goal is to encourage NEXTSTEP and EOF development by offering a few useful objects currently not available through NeXT." In particular, SofDesign is looking for submissions in the following areas: 1. Field validation 2. Pop-up chooser management (using EOF) 3. Flip views 4. Simple reporting objects (using EOF) Contributors will receive copies of OpenOffice (contact management software) and SumTime (time & billing software) applications at no charge. Please e-mail your submissions to: info@QuickBase.com
From: Mike Gabrys <Mike_Gabrys@bang.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: BANG, Thursday 3/16 7pm, SLAC Date: 8 Mar 1995 18:02:16 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3jld1o$bmd@digifix.digifix.com> Bay Area NeXT Group (BANG). A general meeting is scheduled for Thursday, March 16, 7:00 PM at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) Auditorium in Menlo Park, 1 mile east of 280 on Sand Hill Road. For more information, call the announcement line at 415-327-BANG, send email to: info@bang.org or connect to our Web server at http://www.bang.org/ for more details on upcomming meetings. We hope to see you at the meeting. Mike Gabrys
From: a0047@freenet.uni-bayreuth.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Pencil1.0 / PencilTCLClient Date: 7 Mar 1995 18:14:12 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3jipc4$1s7@digifix.digifix.com> Reply-To: me@iwo.cube.net SUBMISSION: Pencil.app 1.0 and PencilTCLClient Pencil is a vector-oriented drawing program. Its most remarkable feature is that new drawing methods can be added to it in the form of postscript language procedures (even at run-time). However, even if you are unfamiliar with PostScript, Pencil can be quite useful with its built-in set of drawing methods. There are polygons, curves (hermite and bezier), circles, arcs, rectangles (also with rounded corners), character paths, "Rich Text" and so on. You can rotate, scale, group, clip, copy, paste, reorder and move graphics. There are numerous fill types (several gradients) and stroke types (including "neon light" gradient stroke). You can add shadows and other effects to a graphics object. You can print the document or copy it as postscript-code to the clipboard (for use in Edit etc.). You can scroll around and zoom into the view. There is even a basic freehand tool for drawing polygons. Import of TIFF/EPS-images is supported. A lot of sample documents are provided. You can send commands to Pencil via Distributed Objects. I have written a program named PencilTCLClient (ptcl) to simplify this task. (ptcl is based on tcl 7.3 and tclsh by John Ousterhout, University of California at Berkeley) PencilTCLClient is available as source and binary, so if you don't have the tcl-distribution, you can use it anyway. One can use ptcl to create/open/save/print documents, add graphic objects to the current document, edit the current selection and read out the graphic objects' attributes. This could be useful for writing scripts that create a graph in Pencil from some text data, so the user can edit it afterwards. Pencil.app may be distributed under the terms of the GNU general public license. Pencil.app can be found in: Binary: FTP://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Graphics/vector/Pencil1.0.b.NI.tar.gz This archive contains a fat (i386, m68k) binary. -rw-r--r-- 1 me 110853 Mar 5 22:05 Pencil1.0.b.NI.tar.gz Source is available in: FTP://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Graphics/vector/Pencil1.0.s.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 me 77241 Mar 5 22:05 Pencil1.0.s.tar.gz PencilTCLClient: (Binary and Source) FTP://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Graphics/vector/PencilTCLClient.bs.NI.tar.gz This archive contains a fat (i386, m68k) binary. The source doesn't include tcl. -rw-r--r-- 1 me 114601 Mar 6 17:59 PencilTCLClient.bs.NI.tar.gz (Sorry, I can't compile triple- (or quadruple-)fat) Florian Marquardt a0047@freenet.uni-bayreuth.de
From: tbm@tci002.uibk.ac.at (Martin Michlmayr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: GNU OpenStep for OS/2 Date: 9 Mar 1995 16:44:37 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3jnss5$65j@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Keith Mason Coordinator of the GNU OpenStep Display PostScript Team keith@netcom.com or Martin Michlmayr Coordinator of the GNU OpenStep Documentation Team tbm@tci002.uibk.ac.at OS/2 PORT OF GNU OpenStep IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT March 9, 1995 - The GNU OpenStep Development Team announced today that a port of GNU OpenStep to OS/2 is under development. "I am looking forward to the moment when GNU OpenStep will be available for OS/2," said Martin Michlmayr, Coordinator of the GNU OpenStep Documentation Team. "Because NeXT has opened up the true power of NEXTSTEP by publishing the OpenStep specification, this team is able to implement OpenStep and bring the power of NeXT's object-oriented API to IBM's OS/2 operating system." "I have always thought that the graphical user environment of NEXTSTEP would be an excellent replacement of the OS/2 PM. Now, that NeXT has opened its object-oriented technology, we will be able to provide source code compatibility to OpenStep," said Jeff Bakst, GNU OpenStep for OS/2 Display PostScript Leader. "Our implementation will run on top of the Presentation Manager, so you will be able to run native OS/2 and OpenStep application on the same desktop." "We will extend GhostScript, an interpreter for the PostScript language from Aladdin Enterprises, to handle the Display PostScript System," said Keith Mason, Coordinator of the Display PostScript Team. "Much source code can be shared between the OS/2 and X Window System implementations." "We've just started the port of the existing GNU OpenStep effort. libobjects is the first piece and has thus far gone quite smoothly," said Tom Gall, one of the GNU OpenStep for OS/2 Developers. "I would like to see OpenStep on OS/2," said Mike Dahmus, a well know OS/2 user. "It's great that the GNUStep effort has choosen this platform." "This announcement should also serve as a Call For Participation (CFP)," said Martin Michlmayr, Coordinator of the Documentation Team. "As we don't get paid for coding GNU OpenStep, we are still looking for volunteers who might help on this or another part of the project." GNU OpenStep GNU OpenStep is going to be an implementation of the OpenStep API, which was published by NeXT Computer, Inc. It is currently under development. OpenStep is an operating system independent, object-oriented application layer. Further information about OpenStep can be found at http://fvkma.tu-graz.ac.at/tbm/OpenStep or http://WWW.NeXT.COM/ The World Wide Web page of GNU OpenStep is located at http://fvkma.tu-graz.ac.at/gnustep/gnustep.html. The newest version of the FAQ can be obtained by anonymous ftp from ftp://ftp.cosy.sbg.ac.at/pub/gnustep/gnustep.FAQ A HTML version of it can be found on http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/comp/os/gnustep/faq.html. If you think you could contribute in any way, let us know! # # # # NeXT, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP are trademarks or registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners. -- Martin Michlmayr | tbm@tci002.uibk.ac.at | tbm@fvkma.tu-graz.ac.at GNU OpenStep Development Team, Documentation Coordinator/Leader http://fvkma.tu-graz.ac.at/gnustep/gnustep.html
From: a0047@freenet.uni-bayreuth.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: cmsg cancel <3jilp5$1d4@digifix.digifix.com> Control: cancel <3jilp5$1d4@digifix.digifix.com> Date: 12 Mar 1995 17:45:20 -0500 Organization: Digital Fix Development Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3jvti0$e1h@digifix.digifix.com> Cancelled Message by sanguish@digifix.com -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: Herve Avril <herve@amber.hasc.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Persistence Kit Date: 12 Mar 1995 17:46:54 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3jvtku$e3c@digifix.digifix.com> The Persistence Kit for Objective C and Eiffel. Contact: Herve Avril The Hutchison Avenue Software Corporation phone: 514.499.2067 fax: 514.499.3666 email: herve@hasc.ca March 12, 1995 The Persistence Kit is the first persistence library that provides a complete, powerful and simple interface between the Objective C world and Object-Oriented Database Management Systems. It handles storage and retrieval of persistant objects, moving them into and out of databases, and deals with multiple APIs provided by different database management systems. Hutchison also has an Eiffel implementation of the Persistence Kit available. Because the Persistence Kit removes virtually all programming overhead in storing and retrieving objects, persistent mission-critical applications can be developed rapidly, while allowing for accurate modelling. The Persistence Kit addresses the following issues: Transparency: Unlike using other database interfaces, there is no requirement to generate and maintain specialized persistent versions of classes. Persistence can be added to third-party libraries and existing programs with minimal adjustments for fine-grained control. Portability: By encapsulating the persistent storage medium, developers working with Objective C or Eiffel, and the Persistence Kit are freed from implementing low-level persistence related solutions and do not need to deal with different database interface languages. Persistence programming becomes uniform across heterogeneous databases. Extensibility: Users of the Persistence Kit can easily extend or re-write actions such as those for storing and retrieving objects. Hutchison Avenue Software has been providing object-oriented software consulting services to Wall Street financial companies for three years. During this time, Hutchison has developed several innovative solutions in collaboration with their clients, one of which is WSC Investment Services, a firm on Wall Street that provides technical services to the brokerage industry. The idea of the Persistence Kit arose out of software design meetings between Hutchison Avenue Software and WSC Investment Services. Paul Murphy, WSC's Director of Advanced Technology was part of the planning and design for the original Eiffel Persistence Kit: "When we first started looking at our systems' requirements, we realized we were going to need the performance and characteristics of an object database. We also realized that tying ourselves to a single vendor was foolish given the state of the market. We needed high-performance, flexibility, and isolation from the database's API. All in all, a tall order. We approached Hutchison because of their expertise in this area. Having worked with them in the past, we had complete faith in their technical staff. The current version of the kit surpasses our original expectations," says Murphy. The Persistence Kit currently supports O2 Technology's O2 database. Adaptors for other databases are currently in the works. Documentation for the Persistence Kit is available at ftp://hasc.ca/pub/pkit/Documentation.tar.gz About the Hutchison Avenue Software: The Hutchison Avenue Software Corporation is a software company based in Montreal, developing innovative custom and shrink-wrap solutions for corporate clients. Our clients include Equinox Capital Management, American Student Assistance Guarantor, WSC Investment Services, Telerate Systems, Bell Canada, and Hewlett-Packard.
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Summary 74 - Articles posted since March 6 1995 Date: 13 Mar 1995 05:00:08 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3k0jgo$fsg@digifix.digifix.com> Summary: 74 Postings since: March 6 1995 [2976] ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines [2977] NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet [2978] NEXTSTEP-General-FAQ [2979] NEXTSTEP-Intel-General-FAQ [2980] NEXTSTEP-Intel-Hardware-FAQ [2981] NEXTSTEP-Languages-FAQ [2982] NEXTSTEP-Misc-FAQ [2983] NEXTSTEP-OS-FAQ [2984] NEXTSTEP-Printing-FAQ [2985] NEXTSTEP-Utilities-FAQ [2986] NeXT-General-FAQ [2987] NeXT-Hardware-General-FAQ [2988] NeXT-Hardware-Internal-FAQ [2989] NeXT-Hardware-Peripherals-FAQ [2990] NeXT-Hardware-RAM-FAQ [2991] JOB: NEXTSTEP Positions available [2992] PRESS RELEASE: PointBreak Software PBTableView Release 1.0 [2993] SUBMISSION: Starter 1.1(foundationized) is now available. [2994] MEETING: SEMiNUG - Tuesday, March 14, 1995 [2996] JOB: NEXTSTEP Developers: Financial Engineering [2998] JOB: NEXTSTEP Developers: Financial Engineering [2999] SUBMISSION: Pencil1.0 / PencilTCLClient [3000] WARNING: FontSearch: DON'T run as ROOT !!! [3001] SUBMISSION: FontSearch 0.85. Enhanced and Bugs fixed. [3002] PRESS RELEASE: Request for NSObjects [3003] MEETING: BANG, Thursday 3/16 7pm, SLAC [3004] PRESS RELEASE: GNU OpenStep for OS/2 [3005] PRESS RELEASE: Persistence Kit If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com. Archives -------- Individual messages are available at http://www.stepwise.com/comp.sys.next.announce/csna-74/**article_number** where **article_number** is the [xxxx] beside the Subject line above.. FTP archives: ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives/csna-74.tar.gz WWW archives: http://www.stepwise.com/comp.sys.next.announce/csna-74 Article submissions : next-announce@digifix.com Submission guidelines: next-announce-guidelines@digifix.com Suggestions/comments : next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines Date: 13 Mar 1995 05:15:03 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3k0kcn$fus@digifix.digifix.com> NEW POLICY: =========== In an attempt to standardize the format of the FTP locations for files, all ftp addresses should be submitted using the Universal Resource Locator (URL) format. (for example) ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/submissions/file.tar.gz Please try and give an indication of where you expect the file will end up on the archive site, in the same notation. Cross Posting ============= I try very hard to make sure that postings get out in a timely fashion. Most go out in less than 24 hours. Postings that require editing because they do not contain information in a useable format, or have already been posted to other comp.sys.next.* groups may be delayed, or returned to you. If your posting is rejected, I'll try and make suggestions about what should be changed where possible. Obviously off charter messages (spams, open-letters, etc) may not get a response. Content 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 _IN URL FORMAT_ supported CPU's for binary distributions, OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting, time of meeting, speakers expected Signatures 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. Announcement of Product Sales ============================= This is an area of announcement that has caused me terrible grief in recent months. The policy is tilted towards the ISV, which has worked out well in the past. Posts that announce sales of products that you are DIRECTLY involved in the development of are OK. Posts from companies trying to sell other products are evaluated on an individual basis. Time Sensitive Announcements ============================ Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date. 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.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet Date: 13 Mar 1995 05:15:08 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3k0kcs$fus@digifix.digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site comp.sys.next newsgroups related newsgroups comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list ftp sites NeXTanswers Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site =============================================== This online community resource includes - 200+ ISV company pages - 400+ ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - NEXTSTEP User Group Directory - comp.sys.next archives - User Group information - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.stepwise.com/ Additionally the NEXTSTEP there is a Mail Server available. You can get information on using the mail server at ns-products@stepwise.com Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise, please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com. eduSTEP WWW site ================ *** NEED INFORMATION *** NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site ============================ http://www.next.com comp.sys.next.* newsgroups ========================== news: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. news: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. Archives are available by ftp at ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. news: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. news: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. news: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. news: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!!! news: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. news:comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. news:comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. Related Newsgroups ================== news: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. news:comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. news: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 ============= ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions ftp://nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff, but very short on disk space ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: In Germany. ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://ftp.next.com: See the below ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com ===================================== [from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help] 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, read them on the world-wide web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS. 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 REPLY-TO address sets the e-mail address NeXTanswers uses 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 VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web server at URL http://www.next.com. 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Scott (mailto:eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU) and Scott Anguish (mailto:sanguish@digifix.com) Additions from: Greg Anderson (mailto:Greg_Anderson@afs.com) Michael Pizolato (mailto:Michael_Pizolato@afs.com) Dan Grillo (mailto:dan_grillo@next.com)
From: Info@SmartSoft.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: SmartSoft office relocation Date: 13 Mar 1995 00:44:34 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3k0m42$g6q@digifix.digifix.com> Santo Domingo, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, March 10, 1995 In order to help serve you better, please make a note of our new contact information. Postal: SmartSoft CPS# 1848 P.O. Box 149020 Coral Gables, FL 33114-9020 Email: Info@SmartSoft.COM Voice: (809) 565-2864 Fax: (809) 566-8814 We are going to be posting new demo versions to all our products to ftp.cs.orst.edu in the next few days. All new versions feature HP-PA RISC support, updated contact information, and a new feedback system. SmartSoft, Inc. a Wisconsin Corporation, founded in 1993, develops and markets a variety of business productivity and entertainment applications for NEXTSTEP including: StayInTouch, CollagistPro, InForms, Rocks!, NIST Synchronicity, FONTinspector, DiskMaker, DotFiles, and TouchLink (available very soon now).
From: seanl@ringding.cs.umd.edu (Sean Luke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Resound 2.3 Date: 13 Mar 1995 01:08:09 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3k0ng9$gb5@digifix.digifix.com> Resound 2.3 Sean Luke Resound is a modular sound editor for NeXTSTEP 3.x, specifically designed to be extendable through dynamically-loaded modules. Resound has been compiled FAT for black hardware and Intel machines. Resound is not designed to be the end-all and be-all of sound editors. Rather, it's designed to provide a framework for you to add your own filters and sound-bending tools ("modules"). Think of it as a free Adobe Photoshop for sound bites. Resound 2.3 fixes a few bugs from Resound.2.2, and adds the ability to read wav/au/aiff files. If you're currently using an earlier version of Resound, please upgrade to Resound 2.3. Resound has been uploaded to: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/binaries/sound/Resound.2.3.NI.b.tar.gz ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Audio/audio-apps/Resound.2.3.NI.b.tar.gz Sean Luke U Maryland at College Park seanl@cs.umd.edu
From: info@hypersight.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Hypersight Announces the Availability Sight-C-ing 2.0. Date: 14 Mar 1995 00:27:56 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3k39gs$osn@digifix.digifix.com> HYPERSIGHT ANNOUNCES THE AVAILABILITY SIGHT-C-ING 2.0. Introductory offer available until April 15. RED BANK, NJ, March 13, 1995 --- Version 2.0 substantially enhances SIGHT-C-ING's Source Browser and adds the ability to generate high quality documents from commented source code. SIGHT-C-ING's advanced browsing features, allow developers to effortlessly identify reusable components, determine how classes behave, view object methods by type, browse class documentation, and navigate through code. Its document generation features eliminate the need to redundantly write design documents, commented code, and class descriptive documents. The benefits of document generation are higher quality design reviews, better commented code, and quality descriptions of reusable classes. Developers can also define macros that can be included in their commented code. This allows developers to produce bullet lists, indents and other formatting affects in their documentation. Until April 28, 1995, SIGHT-C-ING 2.0 is available for $495 to commercial customers. This is a $200 savings off SIGHT-C-ING's list price of $695. SIGHT-C-ING 2.0 is also available to education customers for $99, a savings of $50 off its normal education price of$149. Release 1.0 owners can upgrade to SIGHT-C-ING 2.0 for the costof shipping. SIGHT-C-ING is a winner of the 1994 Object Honors Award. A demo is available at ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/demos/programming/SIGHT-C-ING_2.02_4fat.tar.gz. Release 2.0 of SIGHT-C-ING adds the following features: 1. Available as a quad-fat binary, supporting HP-PA RISC, Intel and NeXT hardware. 2. Compatible with NEXTSTEP 3.3. Document Generation Features 3. Generate documentation from commented source code. SIGHT-C-ING automatically selects the comment directly after the method name, or directly before the method name, depending on which one is present. 4. Browse class documentation. 5. Generate documentation from the command line. This allows document generation to be triggered from a makefile. 6. Specify method sections, which will appear as titled method groups within class documentation and within the source browser. 7. Define document formatting macros, such as bullet lists and indents. 8. Make various modifications to the template used to generate class documentation. Source Browser Features 9. View methods by typed groups, as described under the document generation feature list. 10. Change your code and SIGHT-C-ING automatically parses class source code using a technique that does not require the inclusion of dependent files. This makes parsing much more trouble free. Other parsing problems have also been corrected. 11. More color support. 12. Include source code libraries in which header files are located in a different directory than the source files (e.g. the MiscKit). 13. Specify the default editor using the preference panel. This allows SIGHT-C-ING to interact with any editor that supports the "openFile:onHost:atTrueLine:" protocol, such as the Emacs NEXTSTEP application. 14. Includes many enhancements and user interface improvements. 15. Bug fixes. Release 1.0 of SIGHT-C-ING included the following features: 1. Browse the class hierarchy of Objective-C and C code. Quickly examine the behavior of all classes, no matter where they reside in your file system. 2. Simultaneously display multiple class browsers. This allows you to cross reference classes and projects. It also allows you to easily follow message chains. 3. Easily view the class hierarchy of any project. Double-click on a project to view the classes of a project and all its subprojects. 4. Graphically view the entire project tree at once. This allows you to quickly jump to different projects, or pop up the project's Project Builder(tm) panel. 5. Supports RTF format. 6. Identify all classes that respond to a specific method. 7. Instantly find the definition of code elements such as typedefs, defines, globals and methods. 8. Includes many other features. Introductory Offer (available until March 31, 1995): $495 Commercial $99 Education List Price: $695 Commercial $149 Education Availability: Shipping now for HP-PA RISC, Intel and NeXT hardware. Contact: Don Eaves or Virginia Prouty Hypersight, Inc. (908) 530-7126 Fax: (908) 530-9231 Email: info@hypersight.com Address: 7 Houston St., Red Bank, NJ 07701 Hypersight is a privately-held company that creates leading edge development tools for computers running OPENSTEP. SIGHT-C-ING is a trademark of Hypersight, Inc. NEXTSTEP and Project Builder are trademarks of NeXT, Inc.
From: Denise Schneider <Denise_Schneider@NeXT.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: cmsg cancel <3k510v$13h@digifix.digifix.com> Control: cancel <3k510v$13h@digifix.digifix.com> Date: 14 Mar 1995 16:50:19 -0500 Organization: Digital Fix Development Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3k532s$1e1@digifix.digifix.com> Cancelled Message by sanguish@digifix.com -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: Denise Schneider <Denise_Schneider@NeXT.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Days Date: 14 Mar 1995 17:21:45 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3k54tp$1n2@digifix.digifix.com> NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP DAYS April 4 & 5, 1995 Sheraton New York, New York City DON'T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN ABOUT NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP. TWO FULL DAYS OF CONFERENCE SESSIONS from NeXT, leading systems integrators, NEXTSTEP/OpenStep application developers, and customers sharing their experiences with object technology for only $500. Registration includes all NeXT sponsored events and full access to the exhibition floor. There will be a NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Pavilion featuring exhibits from: Blacksmith, Inc. Conextions, Inc. Lighthouse Design, Ltd. Pencom Software Parabase Software C-ATS Software, Inc. Yrrid Inc Ocean Software Pages Software Inc GS Corporation Xanthus International AB Insignia Solutions, Inc. VNP Software Information Technology Solutions --------------------------------- NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP DAYS April 4 & 5, 1995 Sheraton New York, New York City NeXT in Financial Services This is the first in a series of NeXT-sponsored events beneficial to all interested in learning about object-oriented technology. This event is held in conjunction with Application Development Conference & Exposition, sponsored by CMP Publications, Inc. and Software Productivity Group. This forum brings together the industry's leading practitioners, visionaries, vendors, analysts, and editors to explore the critical success factors of implementing mission-critical business applications, from the desktop to the enterprise. For more information, call 1-800-808-EXPO, ext. 1 or (516) 733-6770. NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP DAYS AGENDA Tuesday, April 4, 1995 9:10am -10:00am Steve Jobs' Opening Keynote Chairman & CEO, NeXT Computer, Inc. 10:00am-11:00am Grand Opening of Exposition Hall 11:00am-12:30pm Leveraging Objects for Mission-Critical Application Development Case Study: Chrysler Financial Corp. NEXTSTEP Product Demonstration Mike Adelson, Manager of Objects, Data & Technology Chrysler Financial Corp. Vidas Neverauskas, Systems Consultant Manager, NeXT Computer, Inc. 12:30pm-1:30pm Lunch Break 1:30pm-2:45pm OpenStep: The Industry Standard Object Framework for Open Systems Charly Kleissner, Director, OpenStep Software, NeXT Computer, Inc. 2:45pm-3:15pm Expo only break 3:15pm-4:15pm Three-Tier Distributed Client/Server Architecture: An Enterprise Object Strategy Paul Glenn, Senior Technical Architect, SHL Systemhouse 4:15pm-5:15pm Real World Financial Services Applications: A Customer Panel Fred Winograd, Group Manager, Distributed Applications Services, Merrill Lynch Hadar Pedhazur, Managing Director Global Equity Derivatives, Union Bank Switzerland Mike Adelson, Manager of Objects, Data & Technology, Chrysler Financial Corp. 5:15pm-5:30pm Application Development Trends Innovator Awards Wednesday, April 5, 1995 10:00am-11:00am WWW:Exploring Internet Opportunities for the Financial Community Bruce Webster, Chief Technical Officer, Pages Software Inc 11:00am-12:00pm Business & Financial Objects for Re-Use Ted Shelton, President, Information Technology Solutions, Inc. Greg Anderson, President, Anderson Financial Systems, Inc. 12:00pm-1:30pm Lunch Break 1:30pm-3:00pm The Object Advantage for Legacy Systems Integration Scott Opitz, Director of Sales & Marketing, Conextions, Inc. Paul Murphy, Director of Advanced Technology, WSC Investment Services, Inc. 3:00pm-3:15pm Break 3:15pm-4:15pm Technology Transfer: Migrating to Object Oriented Technology Fred Winograd, Group Manager, Merrill Lynch Matthew Waters, Product Marketing Manager, Pencom Software 4:15pm-5:15pm Objects for the Enterprise: A Solutions Panel Tony Rennier, President, Blacksmith, Inc. Steve Turnbull, Technical Marketing Manager, C-ATS Software Paul Glenn, Senior Technical Architect, SHL Systemhouse HOW TO REGISTER To register call 1-800-808-EXPO, ext. 1 or 516.733.6770 NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP DAYS Tuesday, April 4 Wednesday, April 5 Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers Seventh Avenue at 52nd St. New York, NY 10019 phone 212.581.1000 toll free: 1.800.325.3535 REGISTRATION FEES One day conference fee: $300 Two day conference fee: $500 Registration fees includes all exhibits and NeXT sponsored events. A NEXTSTEP Developer Bundle including Enterprise Objects Framework (EOF) is available for a special purchase price to all conference attendees. To register please provide: name title company address city, state, zip phone fax e-mail To guarantee your space, payment in advance is required. Visa, Mastercard, American Express or checks payable to CMP Publications, Inc. are accepted. Please provide your registration information: phone: 1-800-808-EXPO, ext. 1 or 516.733.6770 fax: 1-800-858-0412 or (516) 733.6730 e-mail: confreg@cmp.com REGISTER TODAY.
From: mike@bang.org Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Bay Area NeXT Group, March 16 Date: 15 Mar 1995 18:47:25 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3k7uad$arp@digifix.digifix.com> Bay Area NeXT Group (BaNG) info@bang.org <URL:http:/www.bang.org/> MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT Thursday, March 16, 7:00 PM Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Auditorium 2725 Sand Hill Rd Menlo Park, CA 94025 The Bay Area NeXT Group (BaNG) invites NEXTSTEP, Sun, and Macintosh users to attend the March 16 meeting, for demos of NS for SPARC, and Mac-to-NeXT connectivity. Clorox has been a Mac environment for a very long time (still is), but they have successfully integrated NEXTSTEP in a way that gives them a competitive advantage. For this demo, Michael Rutchik, Senior Designer at Clorox, and John Fox, VP Technology at GS Corporation will be present. ============================================== NEXTSTEP PUBLISHING...ALIVE AND WELL AT CLOROX Reports of the demise of NEXTSTEP publishing are greatly exaggerated! The Clorox Company, one of the nation's leading manufacturers of packaged goods, has successfully integrated NEXTSTEP and third party applications into their Packaging Graphics department, with stunning results. Michael Rutchik, Senior Designer at Clorox and John Fox, VP Technology at GS Corporation, will provide "real-world" examples of reengineering with NEXTSTEP and applications like GS' Collaggi Palette. (Michael will be presenting a talk the following week at Seybold Boston..hear about it at BaNG first)! This is also where you can get a copy of Serving Financial Services: Reenginering with NEXTSTEP/OpenStep, a multimedia CD produced by GS containing a variety of third party applications and product information. It contains your chance to win a Canon object.station! ============================================= Directions: SLAC is located off 280, 1 mile east of the freeway via the Sand Hill Road exit. Stop at the booth and tell the guard you are attending the BaNG meeting. Turn right and park; walk up the hill on the paved path to the auditorium. ---------GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT BaNG------------ BaNG meetings are held at 7:00 pm on the third Thursday of the month at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) auditorium, at 2575 Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California. Monthly meetings are free and open to the public; annual membership dues are $35. For additional information, send email to: info@bang.org, connect to: http:/www.bang.org/ or call the announcement line at 415-327-BaNG. -- Michael Gabrys, Bay Area NeXT Group mike@bang.org <URL:http://www.bang.org/>
From: dan@pdh.com (Dan Delany) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: PDH is expanding their NEXTSTEP customer base. Date: 15 Mar 1995 18:48:59 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3k7udb$as8@digifix.digifix.com> SAN JOSE, CA - MARCH 14, 1995 - PDH IS NOW LOOKING TO EXPAND THEIR NEXTSTEP CUSTOMER BASE. PDH, Inc., a privately held company headquartered in San Jose California, is a leader in client-server system development, specializing in information technology for large enterprise wide systems. PDH's team of NEXTSTEP engineers is dedicated to providing services to end user organizations using NEXTSTEP and OpenStep. PDH has supported several very large NEXTSTEP enterprise environments with re-engineering, system engineering, studies and analyses, development, documentation, multi-level testing, configuration management, installation, and training. Projects have included document management, digital signature, automatic document generation, tracking and scheduling systems, configuration management, development tools, and work flow systems. PDH incorporates commercial off-the-shelf components, and develops custom software to provide solutions for your information management problems. Our systems are typically comprised of NEXTSTEP, with DBKit/EOF, Sybase/Oracle, and application specific engines performing workflow or text search and retrieval functions. As a system integrator and a registered NEXTSTEP software developer, PDH provides a full range of services to support users in adopting this revolutionary technology and has among the largest staff of NEXTSTEP engineers in Silicon Valley, outside of NeXT Computer, Inc. If you are interested in learning more about how PDH can help you with your NEXTSTEP development or systems needs, contact: Prototyping & Development Heuristics, Inc. Attention: Peter Murray or Kathy DeMartini 2635 North First Street, Suite 224 San Jose, CA 95134 Phone: (408) 428-9596 Fax: (408) 428-9599 e-mail: contact@pdh.com NEXTSTEP, EOF, and DBKit are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle, Inc. Sybase is a registered trademark of Sybase, Inc.
From: Chris Huston <chuston@dudley.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: PIONS Meeting Weds. March 22nd Date: 15 Mar 1995 18:49:41 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3k7uel$asj@digifix.digifix.com> People Interested in Open/NEXTSTEP (PIONS) Meeting Wednesday, March 22, 1995 @ D.C. Dudley & Associates It's been a month and a half since our last meeting - I think we're about due. Adam Fedor of the University of Colorado Optoelectronics Computing Systems laboratory has been working closely with Paul Kunz and Andrew McCallum on a GNU implementation of OpenStep, an operating system independent, object-oriented application layer, based on NeXT's advanced object technology. Adam will discuss the current status of the GNU OpenStep project and demonstrate some of the tools currently available. The effort boasts a NeXT Interface Builder (nib) file translator that converts nib files to X/Motif code and implementations of NEXTSTEP's AppKit and Common classes. Projects underway include implementations of Foundation Kit and Display Postscript. The groups goal is to pass NeXT's test suite to become an official OpenStep implementation available under the (free) GNU Public License. PIONS meetings are an opportunity for conversation, exchange of ideas, and schemes intended to take advantage of the tools provided by NEXTSTEP. There is no set program, but everyone is encouraged to bring questions, opinions, news, product descriptions, jokes, cartoons, and other possibly useful information. 6 pm, Wednesday, March 22nd, at D. C. Dudley & Associates, Denver, 1776 Lincoln, 9th Floor. If you arrive after the Lincoln Street doors are locked, go to the Sherman Street door and attract the attention of the guard. Chris Huston 863-4485, chuston@dudley.com Leif Smith 778-0880, leif@pattern.rmnug.org ** OpenStep, NEXTSTEP, and NeXT are trademarks of NeXT Computers Inc.
From: axon!vrobi@uunet.uu.net (Robert Vasvari) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: RBrowser 0.97 is now available. Date: 16 Mar 1995 00:40:31 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3k8j0f$crk@digifix.digifix.com> What is RBrowser? RBrowser was developed for NEXTSTEP users who use other UNIX machines remotely, and would like to use the features and general functionality of the NEXTSTEP Workspace file browser. Remote Browser (RBrowser) provides access to files on remote UNIX systems with NEXTSTEP graphical interface. While matching the Workspace Manager's file viewer look and feel it provides a uniform interface to distributed file transfer and file related operations, greatly simplifying access and use of files on remote systems scattered across the Internet. Main Features: 1. RBrowser gives you a Workspace-like file browser on a filesystem of a remote machine which can run any flavor of UNIX. RBrowser implements almost all of the functionality of the Workspace for file system viewing and manipulation. There is no special software required on remote systems. 2. Drag-and-drop file transfer (including directories) between machines. 3. Open, edit, and automatic saveback of documents. 4. TESTED REMOTE SYSTEMS: + A/UX + AIX + DomainOS + Irix + HP/UX + Linux + NEXTSTEP + NetBSD + OSF/1 + SunOS + Solaris + Ultrix Architectures: Shipping now for HP-PA RISC, Intel and NeXT hardware. RBrowser is available at: <URL:ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/binaries/wide-area-info/RBrowser.0.97.tar.Z> Price: Free =[vrobi]= March 1995. Robert Vasvari e-mail:vrobi@ddrummer.com Different Drummer Software Publishing Inc.
From: TECHNICAL OPTIONS <toi@mcs.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Chicago NEXTSTEP Developer Date: 16 Mar 1995 01:17:06 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3k8l52$d1i@digifix.digifix.com> POSTIONS: SOFTWARE ENGINEERS JOB DESCRIPTION: WILL BE DEVELOPING SYSTEMS FOR CURRENCY OPTIONS OR INTEREST RATE DERIVATTIVE TRADING SYSTEMS. REQUIRMENTS: NEXTSTEP, OBJECTIVE C, SYBASE, LOCATION: CHICAGO CONTACT: MIKE HARTNETT TECHNICAL OPTIONS 1200 IROQUOIS AVE. NAPERVILLE, IL. 60563 P-708.357.9400 F-708.357.9411 EMAIL: toi@mcs.com
From: erictremblay@genie.geis.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Walnut Creek CDROM offers NEXTSTEP CD information on the WWW Date: 16 Mar 1995 01:19:55 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3k8lab$d20@digifix.digifix.com> Walnut Creek CDROM is now on the World Wide Web (WWW) Walnut Creek, Calif., March 7, 1995 - Walnut Creek CDROM is now on the World Wide Web (WWW). The Web is the Net's newest and easist way to access information. The address of our site is <URL:http://www.cdrom.com/>. Access our anonymous ftp site, our catalog, on-line ordering, job postings and links to other cool web pages. NEXTSTEP users can get more information on our NEXTSTEP products like Nebula CDROM for NEXTSTEP Intel users and Nova CDROM for Motorola "Black Hardware" users So come and see what we have for you at our site! Walnut Creek CDROM
From: gerben@rna.nl Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: NeGeN/NiNe's easy install package for Taylor UUCP 1.05 Date: 16 Mar 1995 01:20:51 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3k8lc3$d27@digifix.digifix.com> This is the announcement of the binary distribution of Taylor UUCP for NEXTSTEP, as brought to you by NeGeN/NiNe (the Dutch NEXTSTEP user group) and R&A. It is meant as a complete replacement of the (slow, inefficient) BSD uucp that comes with the standard NEXTSTEP distribution (when used by both sides...). It can be found at: ftp://ftp.nl.net/pub/comp/next/NeGeN-1.2_Taylor-UUCP-1.05.NI.b.tar.gz the readme file can be found at: ftp://ftp.nl.net/pub/comp/next/NeGeN-1.2_Taylor-UUCP-1.05.README.rtf The archive consists of two Installer packages: the Taylor UUCP package and the Mux drivers version 1.7 for NEXTSTEP/i486. The Taylor package contains binaries for m68k and i486. It comes with an easy configuration install procedure. It even comes with a sendmail configuration option (user choosable, if you don't want it you don't get it). The supplied sendmail configuration is meant for single machine sites that pose as domains on the Internet through UUCP, but it also works as replacement for the sendmail configuration of the mailhost. This sendmail.cf is ready for inverse aliasing with Netinfo (just uncomment one line), see the article in NEXTSTEP In Focus in the Summer/Fall 1994 issue. All existing stuff is backed up. This package is meant to be usable for non-techies. It just works. You have to read the accompanying NeGeN-1.2_Taylor-UUCP-1.05.README.rtf, though. It explains what you have to do when installing. IMPORTANT WARNING: due to (probably) a kernel bug in the serial driver introduced in NEXTSTEP 3.3 the use of Taylor UUCP occasionally causes system panics or -freezes on some Motorola systems (25 MHz '040 cubes, maybe others), which can and most probably will cause data corruption. In other words: don't use Taylor UUCP if you run NS3.3 on such black hardware. We are trying to find a workaround for this rather nasty problem..., but so far without luck. UNIMPORTANT WARNING: We use the ShellUtils to present panels without menu and without app icon. It seems Fiend crashes when such a program is started. No big deal, but you have been told. For more info contact: <negen-connect@negen.twi.tudelft.nl> For help, bugs and problems contact: <tom@rna.nl> NeGeN/NiNe (NEXTSTEP Gebruikers Nederland / NEXTSTEP in the Netherlands) is the Dutch NEXTSTEP User group, and is a member of the international association of NEXTSTEP user groups, N GI. One of its activities is to facilitate mail and news connectivity to its members. NewsConfig is part of this effort. As of this writing the following binary distributions are available from NeGeN / Connectivity as easy-to-install NEXTSTEP Installer packages. NeGeN-NEWS: CNewsConfig This application. CNewsTools Enhanced C News + nntp server. NeGeN-UUCP: Taylor-UUCP UUCP, The NeXT Generation. Mux Mark Salyzyn's serial driver for NS/FIP. R&A supports NeGeN/NiNe by organizing the connectivity. R&A is a small firm specialized in quality software design and implementation and consultancy. We are specialized in OO, Unix, NEXTSTEP and portability. Contact: R&A Goudreinetstraat 582 2564 PX Den Haag The Netherlands Fax/answering: +31 70 3230851 Email: <info@rna.nl>
From: gerben@rna.nl Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: NeGeN/NiNe's easy install package for CNews+nntp Date: 16 Mar 1995 01:21:15 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3k8lcr$d2e@digifix.digifix.com> SUBMISSION: NeGeN/NiNe's easy install package for CNews+nntp This is the announcement of the binary distribution of C News for NEXTSTEP, as brought to you by NeGeN/NiNe (the Dutch NEXTSTEP user group) and R&A. It contains an enhanced version of the standard c-news software, plus the server portion of nntp, which is needed by most newsreaders to access the news article database. Also included is NewsConfig.app, an easy to use application that allows you to quickly setup your news site. It can be found at: ftp://ftp.nl.net/pub/comp/next/NeGeN-1.1_CNews.NI.b.tar.gz the readme file can be found at: ftp://ftp.nl.net/pub/comp/next/NeGeN-1.1_CNews.README.rtf The archive consists of two Installer packages: one for the basic CNews software and one that contains a NEXTSTEP application to configure CNews. I all just works, but you have to read the README file for instructions. NewsConfig.app also contains online help. FEATURES The news software has been enhanced by R&A and provides the following features over the standard c-news distribution: automatic signature appendage to posted articles (now fully configurable). automatic removal of empty directories in the article database to save space (configurable). newsbatches can be compressed with gzip for smaller batches, thus faster transmission (use this only if the other side supports this too). mail generated by news now carry subjects to classify them more easily. better handling of checkgroups control messages (using NLnet's scripts). the newgroup and rmgroup control messages and the addgroup and delgroup scripts now update the newsgroup description database newsgroups. rmgroup now checks the sender's permissions, like newgroup already did (permissions are determined from the description in newgroupperm) inews is fixed so that canceling articles from NewsGrazer works. and of course: the server portion of nntp has been included (the client portion has been omitted since this is just a very primitive newsreader...) the NewsConfig application makes setting up your news site very simple indeed. The easiest way to get your news site up and running is to use NewsConfig.app. The application offers on-line help that should guide you through the configuration of your news system. it is a simple tool, meant to setup your news site in such a way that it can receive news, from a single newsfeed, quickly and easily. It does not address the more arcane aspects of C News configuration, like: multiple newsfeeds, expire control, send batch control, mailpaths, newgroup/rmgroup authentication, checkgroups authentication and nntp access control. These are explained in more detail in the section ``Advanced News Configuration'' of NewsConfig's on-line help. Reasonable (we hope) defaults are established for these aspects when you install CNewsTools for the first time. Also keep in mind that it only sets up your end of the news system; you'll almost certainly have to contact your news provider to actually get any news. Of course, if you're brave (or you know what you're doing), you can also configure C News the hard way, by reading manpages and editing the configuration files by hand. Some people may even <shudder> prefer it that way. UNIMPORTANT WARNING: We use the ShellUtils to present panels without menu and without app icon. It seems Fiend crashes when such a program is started. No big deal, but you have been told. For more info contact: <negen-connect@negen.twi.tudelft.nl> For help, bugs and problems contact: <tom@rna.nl> NeGeN/NiNe (NEXTSTEP Gebruikers Nederland / NEXTSTEP in the Netherlands) is the Dutch NEXTSTEP User group, and is a member of the international association of NEXTSTEP user groups, N GI. One of its activities is to facilitate mail and news connectivity to its members. NewsConfig is part of this effort. As of this writing the following binary distributions are available from NeGeN / Connectivity as easy-to-install NEXTSTEP Installer packages. NeGeN-NEWS: CNewsConfig This application. CNewsTools Enhanced C News + nntp server. NeGeN-UUCP: Taylor-UUCP UUCP, The NeXT Generation. Mux Mark Salyzyn's serial driver for NS/FIP. R&A supports NeGeN/NiNe by organizing the connectivity. R&A is a small firm specialized in quality software design and implementation and consultancy. We are specialized in OO, Unix, NEXTSTEP and portability. Contact: R&A Goudreinetstraat 582 2564 PX Den Haag The Netherlands Fax/answering: +31 70 3230851 Email: <info@rna.nl>
From: Georg Fleischmann <georg@vhf.cube.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: OpenEnd 2.0 - HPGL, DXF, Gerber, PostScript Date: 16 Mar 1995 17:40:27 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3kaeor$j0b@digifix.digifix.com> Contact: VHF Computer GmbH Daimlerstrasse 13 D-71101 Schoenaich, Germany Voice +49 7031 75019-0 Fax +49 7031 654 031 E-mail info@vhf.cube.de USA and Canada: globesoft 6446 Dryden Drive McLean, VA, 22101 Voice [703] 448-9854 E-mail info@globesoft.com Availability: Motorola now, Intel now, HP PA Prices: DM 980.-- $ 576.-- Educational prices: DM 490.-- $ 288.-- Low Cost Version (no removing of hidden areas, no tool radius correction): DM 179.-- $ 115.-- OpenEnd - Vector Format Conversion - Version 2.0 Schoenaich, March, 16, 1995 - VHF Computer announced today the release of a new version of the vector graphics processing software OpenEnd, offering a wide scope of import and export formats. OpenEnd not only allows all main conversion possibilities in the fields of CAD or DTP, but also establishes a stable link between CAD and DTP applications. Among the convertible formats are PostScript, AI, HPGL, DXF and Gerber. Conversions are possible from any one format mentioned to another. The conversion algorithm ensures that problems regarding the conversion quality, i. e. arithmetic precision, are not likely. The internal floating-point precision (better than 25,400 dpi) secures best results even for complicated formats. One of OpenEnd's very handy features is the preview capability. OpenEnd displays a detailed view of all imported formats on screen, and is therefore, excellent for quality control and manufacturing preview purposes. OpenEnd with it's superior conversion tools enhances the output capabilities of systems using NeXTSTEP. This ensures the user to plot documents, drawings and charts quickly, accurately and with superior quality. Depending on the output device, colored outputs can also be generated. Evaluating the quality of the output and the ease of use of the application lets one realize the full capabilities of OpenEnd. VHF Computer offers a demo version of OpenEnd which is limited in its functionality to a preview of the import formats. The demo version is available on several ftp servers. ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Commercial/graphics/convertos/OpenEnd.1.10.NI.b.tar.gz ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Commercial/graphics/convertos/OpenEnd.1.10.README VHF Computer, founded in 1988, is specialized in developing CAD/CAM products for NEXTSTEP and other platforms. A well-known product is the PCB Design System Platon. Products: Platon (PCB Design System), m800 (CNC-Controller), OpenEnd (Vector Graphics Converter), Zenon PCB (PCB Prototyping), Zenon DTP (Engraving and Cutting Software for Signmaking), Zenon Cut (Cutting Software for signmaking), Janus (Atari ST compatible card for PCs).
From: hhsu@impact.com (Henry Hsu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Quad-Fat Superdebugger 3.8 with New Features and Pricing Available Date: 16 Mar 1995 17:41:57 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3kaerl$j1h@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information please contact: Impact Software Publishing, Inc. Phone: 1-800-822-3385 / (718) 472-0600 (M-F 9am-5pm EST) FAX: (718) 472-0160 E-mail: info@impact.com QUAD-FAT SUPERDEBUGGER 3.8 WITH NEW FEATURES AND PRICING AVAILABLE Long Island City, New York - March 15, 1995 - Impact Software Publishing, Inc. today announced the availability of a new Quad-FAT version 3.8 of its SuperDebugger(tm) product, a program which helps reduce application development time by providing a more powerful, easy-to-use, and faster debugging environment. SuperDebugger, which began shipping in June, 1993, is compiled Quad-FAT and will run on HP PA-RISC, SPARC, Intel, and NeXT hardware. Version 3.8 contains the following new features and improvements: 1. The problem of communicating with the updated version of gdb in NEXTSTEP Developer 3.3 has been fixed. 2. The ability to set customized actions for the right mouse click using the Preferences panel has been added. 3. A new SuperDB program has been provided to easily open a program for debugging from the ProjectBuilder. 4. Modifications were made so that Rich Text Format files with colored comments could be edited in the Source window. 5. Help documentation has been updated and improved, with a Power Tips, Tutorial, and Troubleshooting sections added. 6. The license panel has been enhanced so that payment information for orders will be automatically encrypted using an advanced time-variant probabilistic encryption with a unique identification stamp. (This encryption is more advanced than public key encryption, and is even more secure.) SuperDebugger is available direct from Impact Software and through authorized NEXTSTEP resellers. Information about quantity discounts and site-licenses can be obtained by contacting Impact Software directly. SuperDebugger 3.8 simplifies debugging by providing an intuitive graphical interface with many enhancements and features to save time. It 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. (The dynamic local variables browser gives users the ability to easily inspect and trace dynamic variables.) SuperDebugger 3.8 also features a simple interface for setting conditional breakpoints, and enhancements such as the ability to bring up a header file by double-clicking on a source class in the methods browser. SuperDebugger 3.8 is very easy to use, and includes an extensive help facility with illustrated instructions on how to use each program feature. SuperDebugger 3.8 can also be easily set as the ProjectBuilder's default debugger so that it starts up automatically when the "Debug" button is pressed in the ProjectBuilder. Current registered licensees of SuperDebugger are entitled to a free upgrade to SuperDebugger 3.8. (SuperDebugger 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8 all use the same set of license keys.) Requests for a demo copy of SuperDebugger 3.8 can be sent to demos@impact.com. A demo copy of SuperDebugger 3.8 is also available at: <URL:ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/demos/programming/SuperDebugger3.8.NIHS.tar.Z> For users without NeXTmail or FTP access, free demo floppies of SuperDebugger 3.8 can be requested by calling 1-800-822-3385. Retail Price: Commercial: $195.00 Academic: $95.00 Internet Price: Commercial: $95.00 Academic: $45.00 Availability: Shipping now for HP PA-RISC, SPARC, Intel, and NeXT hardware. *** SuperDebugger is a trademark of Impact Software Publishing, Inc. NEXTSTEP is a trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: Paul Tod Rieger <prie@abl.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: NEXTSTEP:atlanta, March 23rd Date: 16 Mar 1995 22:59:23 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3kb1er$kk2@digifix.digifix.com> Different time and place: Date: Thursday, March 23, 1995 Time: 7:00pm Place: Advanced Technology Development Center Suite N-114 (conference room) Cost: free and open to the public Agenda: Presentation: NEXTSTEP Developer 3.3 the new Interface Builder CHaRTSMITH's API Robert Smith (The Object Shop) Directions to: Advanced Technology Development Center 430 Tenth St. N.W. Atlanta, GA I75/85 to 10th Street exit 10th west about 1 mile left onto Greenfield immediate right into parking lot enter main breezeway, which leads to the conference room Contact: Tod Rieger Phone: 404-381-2464 Email: prie@abl.com
Belgium.EU.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcomsv!uu3news.netcom.com!netcomsv!uucp3.netcom.com!wl10!digifix!digifix!not-for-mail From: far@earthlink.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: GateKeeper a ppp2.2 gui front-end Date: 16 Mar 1995 18:22:28 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3kah7k$ja1@digifix.digifix.com> SUBMISSION:GateKeeper.app GateKeeper is a gui front-end to ppp2.2. Source files for GateKeeper are available at: <URL:ftp://ftp.duq.edu/pub/next/ppp/GateKeeper.tar.gz> GateKeeper's story: 1. GateKeeper launches and kills pppd and its subprocesses merely by starting and stopping GateKeeoer.app. 2. GateKeeper can display pppd diagnostics data if you enable this option in GateKeeper's preferences. 3. GateKeepers Workspace icon reflects whether it is running. 4. GateKeeper includes instructions to help you install it and ppp2.2. Felipe A. Rodriguez far@earthlink.net (NeXTmail prefered)
From: golden@world.std.com (Goldenrod Design) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NEXTSTEP Job Opportunity in New Haven, Connecticut Date: 17 Mar 1995 01:50:37 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3kbbft$ljd@digifix.digifix.com> NEXTSTEP Job Opportunity in New Haven, Connecticut area Private startup company has built an innovative medical device for a billion dollar world-wide market. Feedback from demonstrations has been great; sales begin this year. This is an excellent learning opportunity for a talented, conscientious programmer to work with an interesting application; it includes a touchscreen graphical interface, digital signal waveform displays, PID control, shared memory across a multibus between NEXTSTEP interface cpu and embedded controller cpu running custom software, and other hardware and software architectural aspects that should keep you interested. Send resume to: Don Gilmore don@world.std.com
From: Angela Grady <angela@lighthouse.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Lighthouse Design Ships OmniWeb 1.0 Date: 17 Mar 1995 18:17:23 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3kd5a3$rg9@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For product information, contact: Robin Shields 415/570-7736, ext.10 robin@lighthouse.com or try: <URL:http://www.lighthouse.com> Lighthouse Design Ships OmniWeb 1.0 for NEXTSTEP --Provides Single User Licenses Free of Charge-- March 17, 1995 - SAN MATEO, CA - Lighthouse Design, Ltd. today announced that it has added OmniWeb 1.0, a powerful new World Wide Web (WWW) browser for the object-oriented NEXTSTEP, environment, to its product line, now totaling more than a dozen applications. OmniWeb 1.0 is the first commercial release of the product, which has until today been tested across the globe by more than a thousand World Wide Web users. The first of many web-based products to be introduced by Lighthouse Design, OmniWeb brings powerful browsing and navigation capabilities to NEXTSTEP users of internal networks and the Internet. OmniWeb's support for industry standard HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and many of the emerging extensions (such as those driven by Mosaic Communications' NetScape products) allows NEXTSTEP users to participate as first class citizens in the emerging global information marketplace. "The web is opening a vast array of new business opportunities for our customers," said Jonathan Schwartz, president of Lighthouse Design, Ltd. "OmniWeb delivers instant access to the world's growing information infrastructure, and provides those customers delivering next generation applications with a superior front-end to the Internet and World Wide Web community." OmniWeb includes an array of powerful and convenient features designed to make the World Wide Web accessible to new and power users alike. Its features include: - Fully integrated forms support - Instantaneous text rendering displays pages as they are downloaded without requiring users to wait for the entire document to load - Support for multiple concurrent browsers, allowing more than one session to be run simultaneously - Fully integrated gopher and FTP access, simplifying the process of retrieving archival data and software to point and click - Three different schemes for displaying browsing history - Hierarchically organized bookmark windows for organizing large URL libraries (a starter library with more than 200 web sites is bundled with the application) - Bookmark windows can contain links to other bookmark pages, enabling companies to set up standard sets of documentation for all users, and allowing users to share each other's favorite pages - An animated progress bar that monitors downloads - Full support for proxy servers and firewalls - Ability to copy and paste rich text (with all formatting and graphics) from a browser into mail messages, or any other application that accepts RTF or RTFD - Package includes OmniImage, which supports viewing of all standard World Wide Web image file formats (as well as several dozen others), and allows you to save any included graphic in a NEXTSTEP readable TIFF format - Exports configurable NEXTSTEP services to all applications, allowing them to look up words on any indexed web page; samples are included for searching in NeXTanswers and AT&T's 1-800 directory OmniWeb 1.0 is free to individual users, and is available now for Intel-, Motorola- and HP PA-RISC-based versions of NEXTSTEP 3.2 or later. For organizations purchasing multiple licenses, the product will list for $119, with volume discounts available.Beginning March 20th, the software can be ftp'd from the following location:ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/wide-area-info/OmniWeb-1.0.app.tar.gz OmniWeb is a key addition to Lighthouse Design's line of products, which now includes Quantrix, a multi-dimensional spreadsheet; Diagram!, a drawing program for information graphics; Concurrence, a presentation and outlining package; ParaSheet, a traditional rows and columns spreadsheet; WriteUp, a general-purpose word processor; VarioData, a multi-user workgroup database; TaskMaster, a project and resource management application; WetPaint, a painting and image manipulation program; and the Foundation Classes, a library of reusable objects for custom developers. Lighthouse is also an authorized reseller of Frame Technology Corporation's FrameMaker, 3.2 on NEXTSTEP for Intel, the industry's premier document publishing package. Lighthouse Design is dedicated to delivering unsurpassed productivity to enterprise developers and end-users of NEXTSTEP, and OpenStep. The company is located at 2929 Campus Drive, San Mateo, CA 94403. For further information on Lighthouse Design and its products, contact Lighthouse Design, Ltd. directly at 1-800-366-2279 or 1-415-570-7736, or send electronic mail to info@lighthouse.com, or see Lighthouse Design's World Wide Web page at <URL:http://www.lighthouse.com>. -30- Lighthouse Design, Ltd., Quantrix, Diagram!, Concurrence, ParaSheet, VarioData, TaskMaster, WetPaint, the Foundation Classes and the Lighthouse logo are trademarks of Lighthouse Design, Ltd. OmniWeb is a trademark of Omni Development, Inc. FrameMaker is a registered trademark of Frame Technology Corporation. All other trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.
From: schillin@elmer.tds.com (Frank Schillinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NEXTSTEP Application Developer, Los Angeles Date: 17 Mar 1995 16:55:51 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3kd0h7$qv7@digifix.digifix.com> NEXTSTEP Application Developer, Los Angeles Trident Data Systems is one of the largest Nextstep systems integrators specializing in custom mission critical applications development. We are currently looking for a lead developer for a large project requiring Nextstep and Oracle and/or Sybase experience. CANDIDATE MUST HAVE 2 years experience developing GUI applications 2 years experience with UNIX solid object oriented design background in addition to expertise with the Nextstep appkit. (This is not a simple hook up EOF objects in IB project.) Good communications skills with customers and team members PLUSES Sybase DBlib or Oracle OCI experience as well as EOF CAD or Graphic layout applications development Interested parties should contact Pat Dwight at: pat_dwight@tds.com ascii email only. HR still uses MACs :( or snail mail to: Pat Dwight Trident Data Systems 5933 W. Century Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90045
From: Chris Huston <chuston@dudley.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Data Storage Introduces the DataStor Pentium 90 Laptop for NEXTSTEP Date: 19 Mar 1995 01:55:21 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3kgkgp$6m3@digifix.digifix.com> For Immediate Release Contact: Dale Pratt Data Storage Marketing, Inc. Telephone: 1-800-543-6098 Facsimile: 1-303-442-7985 E-mail: Datastor@labyrinth.com Data Storage Marketing announces the Introduction of the DataStor Pentium 90 Laptop for NEXTSTEP, Denver, Colorado - March 13, 1995 - Data Storage Marketing announces the introduction of the DataStor P5 Pentium 90 Active Color Laptop running NEXTSTEP 3.3. The DataStor PS Pentium 90 Laptop includes features like a 10.5" large screen, 16-bit audio chip, up to 40 MB of RAM and 810 MB of Hard Disk. DataStor PS Pentium 90 Active Color Laptop Features * Pentium 90MHz Intel Processor * Ram configurations of 16/24/32/40MB * Hard Drives - 344/520/720/810MB * 64-bit, 256K burst external cache * PCI Local Bus Video, 1MB Video RAM * PCI Local Bus Hard Drive Controller * PCMCIA Type III slot * 16-bit Stereo Audio * Built-in Stereo speaker and microphone * Built-in track ball on palm rest * External VGA & Keyboard / Mouse Port * Dimensions: 11" x 8.5" x 1.97" The Laptop will come preloaded with NEXTSTEP. End User Pricing starts under $7,700 including NEXTSTEP User. Educational Pricing Starts under $6,500 including NEXTSTEP User and Developer. Data Storage Marketing offers a full line of Desktop and Tower PCs running NEXTSTEP, including a Tower Server Unit that supports 6 EISA and 4 PCI slots, up to 512MB of RAM and 20GB internal storage. Data Storage Marketing also offers RAID systems for mission critical environments. Contact Dale Pratt for more details. Please include a telephone number on all e-mail requests for information. Data Storage Marketing is a Colorado-based company, specializing in the custom manufacture of computer hardware, at a capacity of 5,000 systems per month, and storage devices since 1987. All Data Storage Marketing products carry a Full three year manufacturer's warranty which is convertible to on-site for a nominal fee. Since its inception, Data Storage Marketing has operated profitably every month of every quarter. With revenue growth in every year of business, Data Storage Marketing was ranked #111 on the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing private businesses in 1991/92. Data Storage Marketing posted sales of $106 Million in 1994. NEXTSTEP is a trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc.
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Summary 75 - Articles posted since March 13 1995 Date: 20 Mar 1995 05:00:07 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3kj24n$ct9@digifix.digifix.com> Summary: 75 Postings since: March 13 1995 [3007] ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines [3008] NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet [3009] PRESS RELEASE: SmartSoft office relocation [3010] SUBMISSION: Resound 2.3 [3011] PRESS RELEASE: Hypersight Announces the Availability Sight-C-ing 2.0. [3013] NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Days [3014] MEETING: Bay Area NeXT Group, March 16 [3015] PRESS RELEASE: PDH is expanding their NEXTSTEP customer base. [3016] MEETING: PIONS Meeting Weds. March 22nd [3017] SUBMISSION: RBrowser 0.97 is now available. [3018] JOB: Chicago NEXTSTEP Developer [3019] PRESS RELEASE: Walnut Creek CDROM offers NEXTSTEP CD information on the WWW [3020] SUBMISSION: NeGeN/NiNe's easy install package for Taylor UUCP 1.05 [3021] SUBMISSION: NeGeN/NiNe's easy install package for CNews+nntp [3022] PRESS RELEASE: OpenEnd 2.0 - HPGL, DXF, Gerber, PostScript [3023] PRESS RELEASE: Quad-Fat Superdebugger 3.8 with New Features and Pricing Available [3024] SUBMISSION: GateKeeper a ppp2.2 gui front-end [3025] MEETING: NEXTSTEP:atlanta, March 23rd [3026] JOB: NEXTSTEP Job Opportunity in New Haven, Connecticut [3027] JOB: NEXTSTEP Application Developer, Los Angeles [3028] PRESS RELEASE: Lighthouse Design Ships OmniWeb 1.0 [3029] PRESS RELEASE: Data Storage Introduces the DataStor Pentium 90 Laptop for NEXTSTEP [3030] PRESS RELEASE: SmartSoft Announces the Release of CollagistPro Version 1.0 [3031] PRESS RELEASE: SmartSoft announces the release of InForms version 1.0 If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com. Archives -------- Individual messages are available at http://www.stepwise.com/comp.sys.next.announce/csna-75/**article_number** where **article_number** is the [xxxx] beside the Subject line above.. FTP archives: ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives/csna-75.tar.gz WWW archives: http://www.stepwise.com/comp.sys.next.announce/csna-75 Article submissions : next-announce@digifix.com Submission guidelines: next-announce-guidelines@digifix.com Suggestions/comments : next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines Date: 20 Mar 1995 05:15:03 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3kj30n$d21@digifix.digifix.com> NEW POLICY: =========== In an attempt to standardize the format of the FTP locations for files, all ftp addresses should be submitted using the Universal Resource Locator (URL) format. (for example) ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/submissions/file.tar.gz Please try and give an indication of where you expect the file will end up on the archive site, in the same notation. Cross Posting ============= I try very hard to make sure that postings get out in a timely fashion. Most go out in less than 24 hours. Postings that require editing because they do not contain information in a useable format, or have already been posted to other comp.sys.next.* groups may be delayed, or returned to you. If your posting is rejected, I'll try and make suggestions about what should be changed where possible. Obviously off charter messages (spams, open-letters, etc) may not get a response. Content 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 _IN URL FORMAT_ supported CPU's for binary distributions, OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting, time of meeting, speakers expected Signatures 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. Announcement of Product Sales ============================= This is an area of announcement that has caused me terrible grief in recent months. The policy is tilted towards the ISV, which has worked out well in the past. Posts that announce sales of products that you are DIRECTLY involved in the development of are OK. Posts from companies trying to sell other products are evaluated on an individual basis. Time Sensitive Announcements ============================ Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date. 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.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet Date: 20 Mar 1995 05:15:08 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3kj30s$d21@digifix.digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site comp.sys.next newsgroups related newsgroups comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list ftp sites NeXTanswers Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site =============================================== This online community resource includes - 200+ ISV company pages - 400+ ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - NEXTSTEP User Group Directory - comp.sys.next archives - User Group information - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.stepwise.com/ Additionally the NEXTSTEP there is a Mail Server available. You can get information on using the mail server at ns-products@stepwise.com Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise, please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com. eduSTEP WWW site ================ *** NEED INFORMATION *** NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site ============================ http://www.next.com comp.sys.next.* newsgroups ========================== news: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. news: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. Archives are available by ftp at ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. news: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. news: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. news: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. news: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!!! news: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. news:comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. news:comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. Related Newsgroups ================== news: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. news:comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. news: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 ============= ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions ftp://nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff, but very short on disk space ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: In Germany. ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://ftp.next.com: See the below ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com ===================================== [from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help] 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, read them on the world-wide web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS. 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 REPLY-TO address sets the e-mail address NeXTanswers uses 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 VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web server at URL http://www.next.com. 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. USING NEXTANSWERS BY MODEM To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at (415) 780-2965. Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section. From there you can download NeXTanswers documents. FOR MORE HELP... If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available from NeXTanswers, call the Support Hotline at 1-800-955-NeXT (outside the U.S. call +1-415-424-8500) to speak to a NEXTSTEP Technical Support Technician. If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must make this call to the hotline. Otherwise, hotline support is on a pay-per-call basis. Thanks for using NeXTanswers! Written by: Eric P. Scott (mailto:eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU) and Scott Anguish (mailto:sanguish@digifix.com) Additions from: Greg Anderson (mailto:Greg_Anderson@afs.com) Michael Pizolato (mailto:Michael_Pizolato@afs.com) Dan Grillo (mailto:dan_grillo@next.com)
From: Manuel Alberto Ricart <alberto@SmartSoft.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: SmartSoft Announces the Release of CollagistPro Version 1.0 Date: 19 Mar 1995 22:56:14 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3kiucu$cfs@digifix.digifix.com> News For Immediate Release For more information write to: Info@SmartSoft.COM or call SmartSoft at (809)565-2864 SmartSoft Announces The Release Of CollagistPro Version 1.0 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, March 17, 1995 - SmartSoft has announced the availability of a major update to their best selling utility Collagist. CollagistPro is an electronic pasteboard. With it you can join several files together into a single PostScript document that you can email, fax or print with ease. "This release represents a major rewrite of the software. It adds several new features, and improves existing ones. This release provides more stability and enhances the performance of the product. We made so many enhancements to the software, that when we were done it became obvious that we needed to upgrade the product name as well. Because of this, we changed the name from Collagist to CollagistPro" said Allen Washatko, Marketing Director of SmartSoft, Inc. "Many of the improvements were suggestions offered by our customers. We basically did everything that our users asked for, further demonstrating our commitment to the NEXTSTEP market and our ability to respond to our user's needs" Washatko added. The major benefits include: * Works with all standard NEXTSTEP file formats, EPS, PS, TIFF, FAX, RTF, RTFD, plain text (ASCII), and any other file type that can be converted to one of the above via a Filter Service. * It is filter services aware. The application supports any third-party file format that can be converted via a Filter Service to any of the standard types. This feature will depend on the software installed in your system. * Full Page Layout control of each document. You can specify to image any file N-Up, and give special page and binding margins on a per file basis or to the entire CollagistPro job. * You can add Page Numbers on a per file(s) or to the entire Collage. You can choose from various number formats. You can specify the location on the page. and you have Font and size control of the page number. * You can now save CollagistPro documents. Documents you drag into a Collage document can be referenced by file system links or copied into the document wrapper. With links your CollagistPro document refers to original file, making the latest version of your document available to your Collage. * You are now able to preview and print documents directly from CollagistPro. The Preview helps you see how some non-standard file formats have been translated by Filter Services. You can also use it to read a group of related documents from a single app. * You can use CollagistPro to organize documents created from various files. * CollagistPro offers an API (Application Programmer's Interface) so that you can incorporate the power of CollagistPro into your own mission critical applications. The API provides powerful features for Emailing, Faxing and Printing of multiple documents. CollagistPro requires NEXTSTEP 3.0 or better and it is available in multiple-architecture binary form. MAB or fat binary software runs on Motorola-based NeXT computers, Intel, and HP PA-RISC based systems. PRICING INFORMATION: CollagistPro 1.0 is $199/license + Shipping. CollagistPro upgrade from Collagist $50.00 + Shipping. PRODUCT AVAILABILITY CollagistPro is shipping now! The software is available directly from SmartSoft and a ftp-able demo version will eventually find its way to ftp.cs.orst.edu. CONTACT INFORMATION For more information please call or write SmartSoft: (809) 565-2864 or by Email Info@SmartSoft.COM Orders, please call SmartSoft at: (809) 565-2864 or by fax at (809) 566-8814. Or by Email: Info@SmartSoft.COM Visa and MC are accepted. SmartSoft, Inc. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, founded in 1993, develops and markets a variety of business productivity and entertainment applications for NEXTSTEP CollagistPro, Collagist, and SmartSoft are trademarks of SmartSoft, Inc. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
From: Manuel Alberto Ricart <alberto@SmartSoft.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: SmartSoft announces the release of InForms version 1.0 Date: 19 Mar 1995 22:57:07 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3kiuej$cg3@digifix.digifix.com> For Immediate Release For more information write to: Info@SmartSoft.COM or call SmartSoft at (809)565-2864 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, March 17, 1995 - SmartSoft has announced the availability of their new product InForms. InForms is an useful application for filling out single page forms such as transmittals, memos, or any other office form used in an office environment. "InForms is the alternative to diving into a word processor or some other heavy duty application to fill out simple one page form. Forms documents are the same .draw documents used for fax cover sheets. Using Draw.app, included with NEXTSTEP, you can lay out beautiful forms that are very fast and easy to fill using our application. Unlike the NEXTSTEP Fax Cover sheet panel, InForms presents a form document in a WYSIWYG ("What You See Is What You Get") fashion. You can also use the spell checking panel and change fonts on words or fields" said Alberto Ricart, CEO of SmartSoft, Inc. "This utility grew up from an in-house project to fill out several forms without the need to fire up a big application to do it, many of our contract customers found it so useful, that we decided to make it available as a supported product to the general NEXTSTEP market" Ricart added. The major benefits include: * WYSIWYG view of the form. * Ability to change fonts size and face attributes * Ability to use the NEXTSTEP spell checking panel * EMACS key bindings InForms requires NEXTSTEP 3.0 or better and it is available in multiple-architecture binary form. MAB or fat binary software runs on Motorola-based NeXT computers, Intel, and HP PA-RISC based systems. InForms is available directly from SmartSoft and a demo version will eventually be found at the ftp site ftp.cs.orst.edu. Pricing Information: InForms 1.0 is $150/license + Shipping. Product Availability: InForms is shipping now! For more information please call or write SmartSoft: (809) 565-2864 or by Email Info@SmartSoft.COM Orders, please call SmartSoft at: (809) 565-2864 or by fax at (809) 566-8814. Or by Email: Info@SmartSoft.COM Visa and MC are accepted. SmartSoft, Inc. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, founded in 1993, develops and markets a variety of business productivity and entertainment applications for NEXTSTEP InForms, and SmartSoft are trademarks of SmartSoft, Inc. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
From: "Paul Lansky" <paul@washburn.Princeton.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Princeton Sound Kitchen - NEXTSTEP sound utilities Date: 20 Mar 1995 16:22:55 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3kkrnf$j2d@digifix.digifix.com> We have collected a group of NeXTStep music Apps, built in and around Princeton and made them accessible via the "Princeton Sound Kitchen" <URL:http://www.music.princeton.edu/PSK> from here they can be fetched by anonymous ftp after browsing through. The apps are mostly for editing, creating and mixing sound, and include a variety of utilities which are useful workbench tools (or stovetop tools, to pursue the metaphor). Most of the Apps are built for Intel and Motorola, and we will update for Sparc and HP when we can. Here is the current list: o Cmix Source code for NeXT, Linux, Sparc, SGI o cmixEZ.app, cmix front-end (intel/motorola) o ein.app, dsp scratchpad (intel/motorola) o Hyperupic.app, from sight to sound (motorola) o Hz.app, sine tester (intel/motorola) o Meter.app, sound level meter(intel/motorola) o Pplay.app, Visual Sound Player (intel/motorola) o Pvc.app, phase vocoder, front-end (motorola) o Razor.app, super editing machine (intel/motorola) o rt: realtime mixer (intel/motorola) o Pplot.app, Sample viewer/editor, click remover, (intel/motorola) more to come. The software is free. Paul Lansky paul@silvertone.princeton.edu
From: Scott Parkinson <scott@amber.hasc.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Hutchison Avenue Software announces release of the HASC Kit Date: 20 Mar 1995 16:26:05 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3kkrtd$j38@digifix.digifix.com> The HASC Kit Contact: Scott Parkinson Vice President Sales The Hutchison Avenue Software Corporation tel: 514/499-2067 fax: 514/499-3666 net: scott@hasc.ca March 20, 1995 The HASC Kit is an extensive library containing over 70 Objective C classes, 3 palettes and 10 example programs. Included are string, data structure and powerful user interface classes. The HASC Kit comes with full Digital Librarian ready documentation. There are no runtime fees associated with the kit and site licenses are available as a source code license. The HASC Kit is composed of three extension libraries: the HASC Kit proper, the NewKit, and the C Kit. The HASC Kit provides a rich set of classes which extend the user interface capabilities of NEXTSTEP's Application Kit. The HASC Kit comes with four palettes for use with InterfaceBuilder, allowing the objects to be inspected and configured quickly and easily through a classwise decomposition of their functionality. Classes in the HASC Kit include: HKMatrix A subclass of Matrix which allows for rows and columns of varying sizes and can be manipulated via the mouse. HKTextFieldCell A generic drop-in replacement for TextFieldCell which provides added features such as EMACS keybindings. This class has a powerful interface making it easy to create subclasses with custom behaviour. (It's what Next's TextFieldCell should have been!) Simply trade off HKTextFieldCell for all instances of the NeXT TextFieldCell and your apps will have emacs keybindings, making power users everywhere breathe a sigh of relief. HKNumberCell, HKDateCell, HKChoiceCell, HKBooleanCell For restricting user input and automatically formatting output, nothing beats these classes. These classes handle numbers - floating point and int, dates in any format, lists of strings, and true/false values respectively. All are fully configurable - both programmatically and through inspectors in IB - and are loaded with features such as automatic completion and value toggling. They can be used in any control that uses cells or in their corresponding custom field class. HKIconWell, HKTitledIconWell, HKFileIconWell, HKFileTitledIconWell Make doing all kinds of drag-and-drop a breeze - from "suitcases" to "shelves" to "wells." HKEmacsText A drop-in replacement for Text which adds EMACS keybindings. HKColorBackground A simple object for handling a color background, either through drag-and-drop or programmatic specification. HKColorWell A svelte version of NeXT's color well, for use when esthetics demand it. You can see this object in action in our shareware "Phone.app." HKRecycler If you've ever needed to allocate and destroy thousands of objects rapidly, then this object can help you manage your classes without fear of fragmenting memory and/or losing performance because of memory allocation woes. It non-intrusively catches allocation and deallocation calls to registered objects, and caches their memory for reuse. HKMailComposer, HKMailSpeaker These objects are modified versions of the freeware MailComposer/MailSpeaker classes. The user interface has been enhanced, and functionality such as forking mail process threads for direct emailing has been added. HKCrashTrap A crash-catching object based on the freeware ObjectError class, with some of our customizations and improvements. HKInspector, HKInspectorController Two classes which allow one to quickly and easily build inspectors for objects inside your application. These objects manage a multi-tiered inspector window, allowing for two-dimensional object editing. You can find theses classes being used in the demo of our product "Invoice" called "InvoiceDEMO.app." HKDialer An object capable of dialing a telephone through tones played over the computer's speakers, or through a hayes modem. The New Kit extends NEXTSTEP's Foundation Kit by providing high performance data structures and collection classes, as well as utility classes such as timers. Contained within this kit are classes such as: NKQueue, a fast circular queue list implementation which offers a five-fold performance advantage over NSArray; and NKDelimitedTable, a class which provides a simple interface to reading and writing flat delimited data files. The C Kit is a fast, portable ANSI C core on which the New Kit is based. The C Kit works under operating systems such as: HPUX, Solaris, SunOS, Windows NT, Windows 3.1, and DOS. The C Kit offers ANSI C versions of most everything in the New Kit. The HASC Kit sells for $2,999 and is available from OpenSource, Inc., Object Technolgies, Inc. and from Hutchison Avenue Software directly. Demos and documentation can be obtained from ftp://hasc.ca/pub/next/ or ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/demos/programming/ For more information about the HASC Kit, or any other product from Hutchison, please see our Web pages on StepWise at http://www.stepwise.com/Developers/Hutchison_Avenue_Software_Corp.htmld or send email to info@hasc.ca. About the Hutchison Avenue Software: The Hutchison Avenue Software Corporation is a software company based in Montreal, developing innovative custom and shrink-wrap solutions for corporate clients. Our clients include Equinox Capital Management, American Student Assistance Guarantor, WSC Investment Services, Bell Canada, Dow Jones/Telerate Systems, Inc. and Hewlett-Packard.
From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: Networking Engineer Date: 21 Mar 1995 01:47:02 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3klsp6$mr0@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> ***************************************************************** Position: Senior Networking Engineer Department: Operating Systems Primary responsibilities: All aspects of network related network product development, from device drivers to administrative applications for a multiple protocol architecture (TCP/IP, IPX, OSI, etc) system. Specific responsibilities: In short term, maintenance and upgrading of current product components. In long term, be a contributer to group redesigning and implementing networking to: a) run outside the kernel b) be runtime configurable c) provide open ended (i.e., multiple) networking architecture support. Position Requirements: Excellent programming skills Data structures Critical-time applications Education and Experience: B.S.C.S + 6 years industry experience or equivalent. 4-6 years experience with lower levels of networking. 4-6 years experience in near realtime programming. Additional Success Factors: Good communication skills, both oral and written. Ability to think on the macro level with regard to networking technology. Emphasis on quality and maintenance. OO experience Concurrent programming experience UNIX (BSD or other) experience Netware experience is a plus ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: Kernel Engineer Date: 21 Mar 1995 01:47:13 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3klsph$mr8@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> ***************************************************************** Title: OS Engineer (Kernel) Reporting to: Manager, OS group Position Description: This engineer will perform general OS programming tasks (including the kernel, libraries, commands and loadable modules), primarily in the machine independent portions of both UNIX and Mach. Responsibilities Assist with kernel tasks including: general kernel enhancements file system enhancements (UFS and NFS) virtual memory enhancements performance tuning multiprocessing Assist with general OS tasks including: C (and related) library enhancements UNIX/Mach command enhancements out of kernel file system enhancements security multi-threading Platform support: Intel PCs Sun Sparc workstations HP PA-RISC workstations NeXT Motorola workstations Required Experience and Skills 4+ years OS engineering background: UNIX internals, Mach internals a plus Understands how to write OS code that is portable across diverse computer platforms Fluency in C, experience with assembly language BSCS or equivalent Desired Experience and Skills 3-8 years OS internals Device driver development experience Knowledge of RISC architectures and assembly languages Experience with designing and documenting APIs, with an appreciation of the issues required for platform independence, future extension and backward compatibility Experience with object-oriented languages (Objective C, C++, Smalltalk) NEXTSTEP programming experience Required Hiring Criteria Strong problem solving skills... good at learning new areas Team oriented - able to work well with others. Able to work in an environment characterized by aggressive schedules, a high level of interrupts, targets and expectations which change over time. Focus on high quality engineering Desired Hiring Criteria Ability to propose innovative solutions Strong communication skills - able to interact with other groups Quick to take ownership of issues rather than pass the buck Can follow a myriad of details within a large project Broad knowledge of OS technologies in order to contribute to the company strategically ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: Printing Software Engineer Date: 21 Mar 1995 01:47:20 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3klspo$mrf@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> ***************************************************************** Position: Software Engineer - Printing Department: NEXTSTEP 4.0 (AppKit Group) Location: Redwood City CA Primary Responsibility Design, develop, and maintain printing software for the NEXTSTEP operating system. Specific Role and Responsibilities This person will be responsible for the development and support of NEXTSTEP printing software. He or she will: Be responsible for development and maintenance of all printing software throughout the release cycle. The printing software includes applications, Application Kit objects and panels, daemons, printer drivers, and legacy UNIX software. Be the principal technical contact for printing issues in the Software Development organization. This includes providing expertise to the engineering organization, occasional developer and customer contact, contributing to product planning, and maintaining some awareness of both NeXT and non-NeXT printer usage and printing issues. Contribute to API design of other software layers used by the printing software. Required Background, Skills, and Abilities BS/CS degree or equivalent. 4 years professional programming experience, including experience with a large software system. Ability and motivation to learn many levels of printing software: applications, toolkit objects, spooler software, output device drivers, etc. Independent and Proactive. Can do requirements analysis and design with a minimum of supervision. Solid engineering skills. Generalist. Has the capacity to understand and discuss a complex, multi-layered software system. Is comfortable working with information from many sources: reported bugs, co-workers, customers, other NeXT people, competing products. Product-oriented. Focuses on defining customer needs and problems, and delivering solutions to those needs. Excellent problem solving skills. Good communication skills. Additional Success Factors: Experience in some (not all) of the areas below is strongly preferred, in loose order of importance: Toolkit design and implementation, especially with regard to printing. Printing application software and/or system software (e.g., experience with the printing aspect of a DTP application). Coding and/or API design in an object-oriented language. The PostScript language, PostScript print job structure, and/or Adobe printing standards. Printer drivers and experience with output devices. Print spooling and administration, especially UNIX lpd. User interface design and implementation, especially with regard to printing. Color management. ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: Windows Product Marketing Manager Date: 21 Mar 1995 01:47:27 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3klspv$mrm@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> ***************************************************************** Position: OpenStep Windows Product Manager Department: Product Marketing Primary Responsibility This person is responsible for leading a cross-functional team to define, assist to develop/create , ship, and launch a development and deployment environment on Win32 platforms for applications built using the OpenStep application development APIs. This person needs to educate and mobilize a Unix product company to launch a successful product in the Windows market place. Specific Responsibilities Define the product feature set jointly with engineering, through input from the sales force, direct customer contacts, and market data. Insure the product strategy is complementary to NeXT's overall strategy. Define and manage project schedule by balancing immediate business needs, resource and schedule constraints, as well as long term strategic considerations. Lead the product team to ensure timely delivery of the product as specified. Deliver marketing plan including overall product strategy, product positioning, pricing, distribution, packaging, and product rollout. Track and report project status within NeXT. Be knowledgeable of competing Windows products, and disseminate such information to the sales force as needed. Work with key industry partners to create a whole-product solution in the area of application development. Develop sales tools (eg. selling guides, slide shows, demos) to empower sales force and distribution channels. Define and manage all aspect of launching a product into the Windows market. Requirements Education BS or equivalent in technical field plus a minimum of five years experience as described below; or MBA or equivalent plus a minimum of 3 years. Experience Minimum of 3+ years of progressively more responsible technical marketing, sales or technical program management experience in a system software, computer or peripherals environment. Alternatively, the successful candidate could have similar levels of experience in an engineering environment with experience managing third-party relationships. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Windows Market and Technical Knowledge A thorough understanding of the Windows software industry and technologies A broad-based technical background with respect to Windows user interfaces, 4GL tools, object-oriented environments, with extensive hands-on knowledge of Windows development tools Product Marketing/Management Skills Experienced with defining product specifications by balancing market and customer requirements with available engineering resources. Demonstrated ability to prioritize and drive a project to completion with only general support/direction Proven track record of shipping high volume products on tight schedules Attention to detail and strong sense of quality Third Party Relationship Experience Experienced in initiating, developing and strengthening corporate and third-party vendor relationships Excellent negotiation and planning skills Communication and Leadership Skills Excellent interpersonal and communication skills both written and verbal Experience in making public presentations, speaking with industry press and analysts, and face-to-face customer interaction Experience in leading cross-functional teams Ability to provide business / technical direction and leadership ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: OEM Product Marketing Manager (Intel) Date: 21 Mar 1995 01:47:36 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3klsq8$mrt@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> ***************************************************************** Position: Intel OEM Manager Department: Product Marketing Primary Responsibility Manage relationships with strategic PC system vendors. This position includes classical OEM account management, as well as establishing programs and priorities for NeXT's efforts in supporting the relevant systems. In addition, this person is responsible for insuring NeXT's PC partners are technically supported by the NEXTSTEP product offering. Position Requirements Ability to provide business / technical direction and leadership Demonstrated ability to determine priorities and drive a project to completion with minimal support/direction Process-oriented, and experience in a position that required the candidate to define and implement process across organizations Attention to detail and strong sense of quality Strong technical PC background, with extensive hands-on knowledge of hardware and peripherals. A general understanding of the Intel hardware market A broad-based technical background with respect to OS offerings Experienced in initiating, developing and strengthening corporate and third-party vendor relationships Excellent communication skills both written and verbal Good interpersonal skills Experience in leading cross-functional teams 3+ years of progressively more responsible technical marketing or technical program management in a system software, computer or peripherals environment. Alternatively, the successful candidate could have an engineering background with experience managing third-party relationships BS in technical field plus 5+ years experience in marketing technical software products, or 2+ years marketing experience with an MBA. ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: Technical Marketing Manager Date: 21 Mar 1995 01:47:44 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3klsqg$ms4@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> ***************************************************************** Position: Technical Marketing Manager Department: Marketing Communications Location: Redwood City, CA Primary Responsibilities Primarily provides the technical expertise necessary to explain, support, and evangelize NEXTSTEP. Regularly interacts with senior NeXT management and must have the appropriate maturity and communication skills. Significant travel (~50%) required. Typical duties include: Technical presentations to all levels of customers, industry analysts, and industry press Development and delivery of seminars and tutorials Rapid prototyping for feasibility analysis and demonstration Competitive Analysis Sales Tools Technical marketing writing/editing resource Management of Corporate SC Liaise with Engineering as appropriate Skills and Experience Required: Ability to articulate technically complex issues to a wide variety of audiences Demonstrated aptitude for working independently as well as within a group Strong problem solving skills Excellent verbal and written communication skills Ability to "think on your feet" Ability to prioritize multiple tasks Ability to deliver consistently under pressure Ability to master technical concepts and tasks quickly Desire to "do whatever it takes" to get the job done Excellent working knowledge of sales cycle/process B.S. in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, or equivalent 4+ years experience in a computer-related field Additional Success Factors: Technical Experience in the following: UNIX system administration in a heterogeneous networking environment NEXTSTEP & Objective-C programming Windowing application development (NeXTSTEP, Macintosh, X11, MSWindows, etc.) Teaching experience GUI design and implementation Database application development (Sybase, Oracle, etc.) TCP/IP, NFS, YP/NIS, distributed application design Advanced application development experience in one of C, FORTRAN, Smalltalk, ... Mac / PC / workstation application development and use ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: Development Environment Product Manager Date: 21 Mar 1995 01:47:51 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3klsqn$msb@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> ***************************************************************** Position: ADE Product Manager Department: Product Marketing Position Charter To manage and market NeXT's application development environment - NEXTSTEP Developer. The Product Manager will be responsible for both product management as well as product marketing for the product. Responsibilities Product management consists of defining the product feature set jointly with engineering, through input from the sales force and direct customer contacts. The product manager is responsible for the overall strategy of the product line, to insure that it remains ahead of the competition in its market. In addition, the product manager has the responsibility for the proper marketing of the product line to the potential customer markets. Be well-versed in the area of object-oriented development, and be able to communicate the benefits to customers, press, and analysts Gather, distill, and prioritize customer need information from the NeXT sales force, channels of distribution, and customers for use during product planning and development cycle Deliver NeXT products to market, including pricing, packaging, and promotion. Be knowledgeable of competing products, and disseminate the information to the sales force as needed Insure the product strategy is complementary to the overall NEXTSTEP strategy in the market Work with key industry partners to create a whole-product solution in the area of application development Act as spokesperson for NeXT's application development environment, competitive advantages, product positioning, etc. Develop sales tools (eg. selling guides, slide shows, demos) that communicate NeXT's development advantage. Qualifications B.S. in Computer Science or related area 3 - 5 years development experience in a GUI environment Experience with Object-Oriented development paradigms and programming environments Experience in face-to-face customer interaction, speaking with industry press and analysts, and making pulic presentations Knowledge of industry standards such as OMG's CORBA specification, OSF's DCE technology Familiarity with UNIX, Microsoft Windows, and various development environments available for those operating systems Familiarity with client-server development tools Basic understanding of network computing, and network standards 2 years experience in project management, marketing and/or sales of software development tools and technology ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: Printing Software Engineer Date: 21 Mar 1995 01:44:58 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3klsla$mml@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> ***************************************************************** Position: Software Engineer - Printing Department: NEXTSTEP 4.0 (AppKit Group) Location: Redwood City CA Primary Responsibility Design, develop, and maintain printing software for the NEXTSTEP operating system. Specific Role and Responsibilities This person will be responsible for the development and support of NEXTSTEP printing software. He or she will:Be responsible for development and maintenance of all printing software throughout the release cycle. The printing software includes applications, Application Kit objects and panels, daemons, printer drivers, and legacy UNIX software. Be the principal technical contact for printing issues in the Software Development organization. This includes providing expertise to the engineering organization, occasional developer and customer contact, contributing to product planning, and maintaining some awareness of both NeXT and non-NeXT printer usage and printing issues. Contribute to API design of other software layers used by the printing software. Required Background, Skills, and Abilities BS/CS degree or equivalent. 4 years professional programming experience, including experience with a large software system. Ability and motivation to learn many levels of printing software: applications, toolkit objects, spooler software, output device drivers, etc. Independent and Proactive. Can do requirements analysis and design with a minimum of supervision. Solid engineering skills. Generalist. Has the capacity to understand and discuss a complex, multi-layered software system. Is comfortable working with information from many sources: reported bugs, co-workers, customers, other NeXT people, competing products. Product-oriented. Focuses on defining customer needs and problems, and delivering solutions to those needs. Excellent problem solving skills. Good communication skills. Additional Success Factors: Experience in some (not all) of the areas below is strongly preferred, in loose order of importance: Toolkit design and implementation, especially with regard to printing. Printing application software and/or system software (e.g., experience with the printing aspect of a DTP application). Coding and/or API design in an object-oriented language. The PostScript language, PostScript print job structure, and/or Adobe printing standards. Printer drivers and experience with output devices. Print spooling and administration, especially UNIX lpd. User interface design and implementation, especially with regard to printing. Color management. ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: Performance Tools Engineer Date: 21 Mar 1995 01:45:12 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3klslo$mmu@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources>. ***************************************************************** Position: Performance Tools Engineer Department: Development Environment Primary responsibilities: Maintain, enhance, and productize in-house and external tools for analyizing and improving the performance of NeXT's software. Work with other engineers to define new features for performance analysis tools and help the organization, in general, with performance related issues. Participate in and possibly lead a comittee charged with improving performance of NeXT's software. Specific responsibilities: Maintenance and development of performance analysis tools such as gprof, sample, malloc_debug (for leak detection), and others. Recommend areas to concentrate for the 4.0 timeframe and recommend tools to productize for (probably) after 4.0. Consider presentation issues (i.e. do we need a spiffy gui?) and integration issues (i.e. do we need to talk to ProjectBuilder?). Work with group charged with making performance improvements on strategy for improving overall system performance. Position Requirements: * Interest in performance analysis tools. * Experience with some "low-level" aspects of software engineering for example: compilers, debuggers, OS. * For at least one architecture good knowledge of stack-frame layouts and calling conventions. * Ability to work well with others * Good oral and written communication skills. Education and Experience: * B.S. or equivalent in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or equivalent. * 3-10 years industrial experience. 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From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: Release Engineer Date: 21 Mar 1995 01:45:23 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3klsm3$mn5@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> ***************************************************************** Position: Release Engineer, Release Control Department: Software Engineering Overall Role Develop and enhance tools to support Release Engineering processes. Perform system administrative and other operational tasks. Specific Responsibilities This person will design and develop tools to build, master, verify, and archive NeXT software releases. Possible development projects include: Distributed builds Multi-CDROM production for internal distribution Investigation of TeamNet version control software for use in Release Engineering Project attribute database Required Background, Education, Skills and Experience A candidate for this position must possess the following qualifications: 4 year Computer Science or Engineering or related degree, or equivalent experience. 3 or more years experience in the software industry. Extensive Unix programming experience. The following qualifications are preferred: Familiarity with Perl. 1-2 years experience with release integration of large software systems. Object oriented and distributed programming experience. Unix system and network administration experience. PC hardware experience. ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. -- NewsGrazer, a NeXTstep(tm) news reader, posting -- M>UQR=&8P7&%N<VE[7&9O;G1T8FQ<9C!<9FYI;"!4:6UE<RU2;VUA;CM<9C%< M9G-W:7-S($AE;'9E=&EC83M]"EQM87)G;#$R,`I<;6%R9W(Q,C`*7'!A<F1< M='@U-C!<='@Q,3(P7'1X,38X,%QT>#(R-#!<='@R.#`P7'1X,S,V,%QT>#,Y M,C!<='@T-#@P7'1X-3`T,%QT>#4V,#!<9C!<8C!<:3!<=6QN;VYE7&9S,CA< M9F,P7&-F,"!.95A4($-O;7!U=&5R($EN8RX@;&]C871E9"!I;B!2961W;V]D M($-I='DL($-!(&ES(&-U<G)E;G1L>2!S96%R8VAI;F<@=&\@9FEL;"!T:&4@ M9F]L;&]W:6YG('!O<VET:6]N+B`@268@>6]U(&%R92!I;G1E<F5S=&5D(&]R M(&MN;W<@;V8@<&5R<V]N<R!F:71T:6YG('1H92!P<F]F:6QE(&1E<V-R:6)E M9"!P;&5A<V4@<V5N9"!R97-U;64@=&\@(G)E<W5M97-`;F5X="YC;VTB(&]R M(&9A>"!T;R!3=&%F9FEN9R!-86YA9V5R(&%T(#0Q-2TW.#`M-#4U-"Y<"EP* M4&QE87-E(&9E96P@9G)E92!T;R!V:65W(&]U<B!.95A4($-O;7!U=&5R(%=7 M5R!086=E('=I=&@@97AC:71I;F<@:6YF;W)M871I;VX@86)O=70@;W5R(&]P M96X@<&]S:71I;VYS(&%N9"!N97<@<')O9'5C=',N("!4;R!A8V-E<W,@=&AE M(%=E8B!T:&4@8V]M;6%N9"!I<R!H='1P.B\O=W=W+FYE>'0N8V]M+TYE6%0@ M0V]M<'5T97(O3W!E;B!0;W-I=&EO;G,@870@3F585"%<"BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ M*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ M*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ7`I<"EP*7`H*7'!A<F1<='@U,C!<='@Q,#8P7'1X,38P,%QT M>#(Q,C!<='@R-C8P7'1X,S(P,%QT>#,W,C!<='@T,C8P7'1X-#@P,%QT>#4S M,C!<9C%<8EQF<S(T7&9C,%QC9C`@4&]S:71I;VXZ"0D)"EQB,"!296QE87-E M($5N9VEN965R+"!296QE87-E($-O;G1R;VP*7&(@7`I$97!A<G1M96YT.@D) M"EQB,"!3;V9T=V%R92!%;F=I;F5E<FEN9PI<8B!<"@I<8C`@7`H*7&(@3W9E M<F%L;"!2;VQE7`H*7&(P($1E=F5L;W`@86YD(&5N:&%N8V4@=&]O;',@=&\@ M<W5P<&]R="!296QE87-E($5N9VEN965R:6YG('!R;V-E<W-E<RX@(%!E<F9O M<FT@<WES=&5M(&%D;6EN:7-T<F%T:79E(&%N9"!O=&AE<B!O<&5R871I;VYA M;"!T87-K<RY<"EP*"EQB(%-P96-I9FEC(%)E<W!O;G-I8FEL:71I97-<"@I< M8C`@5&AI<R!P97)S;VX@=VEL;"!D97-I9VX@86YD(&1E=F5L;W`@=&]O;',@ M=&\@8G5I;&0L(&UA<W1E<BP@=F5R:69Y+"!A;F0@87)C:&EV92!.95A4('-O M9G1W87)E(')E;&5A<V5S+EP*7`H*7&(@4&]S<VEB;&4@9&5V96QO<&UE;G0@ M<')O:F5C=',@:6YC;'5D93I<"@I<<&%R9%QT>#,V,%QT>#$P-C!<='@Q-C`P M7'1X,C$R,%QT>#(V-C!<='@S,C`P7'1X,S<R,%QT>#0R-C!<='@T.#`P7'1X M-3,R,%QB,%QF:2TS-C!<;&DS-C!<9F,P7&-F,""W"41I<W1R:6)U=&5D(&)U M:6QD<R!<"K<)375L=&DM0T123TT@<')O9'5C=&EO;B!F;W(@:6YT97)N86P@ M9&ES=')I8G5T:6]N(%P*MPE);G9E<W1I9V%T:6]N(&]F(%1E86U.970@=F5R M<VEO;B!C;VYT<F]L('-O9G1W87)E(&9O<B!U<V4@:6X@4F5L96%S92!%;F=I M;F5E<FEN9R!<"K<)4')O:F5C="!A='1R:6)U=&4@9&%T86)A<V4@7`H*7'!A M<F1<='@U,C!<='@Q,#8P7'1X,38P,%QT>#(Q,C!<='@R-C8P7'1X,S(P,%QT M>#,W,C!<='@T,C8P7'1X-#@P,%QT>#4S,C!<8EQF8S!<8V8P(%P*4F5Q=6ER M960@0F%C:V=R;W5N9"P@161U8V%T:6]N+"!3:VEL;',@86YD($5X<&5R:65N M8V5<"@I<8C`@02!C86YD:61A=&4@9F]R('1H:7,@<&]S:71I;VX@;75S="!P M;W-S97-S('1H92!F;VQL;W=I;F<@<75A;&EF:6-A=&EO;G,Z(%P*"EQP87)D M7'1X,S8P7'1X,3`V,%QT>#$V,#!<='@R,3(P7'1X,C8V,%QT>#,R,#!<='@S M-S(P7'1X-#(V,%QT>#0X,#!<='@U,S(P7&9I+3,V,%QL:3,V,%QF8S!<8V8P M(+<)-"!Y96%R($-O;7!U=&5R(%-C:65N8V4@;W(@16YG:6YE97)I;F<@;W(@ M<F5L871E9"!D96=R964L(&]R(&5Q=6EV86QE;G0@97AP97)I96YC92Y<"K<) M,R!O<B!M;W)E('EE87)S(&5X<&5R:65N8V4@:6X@=&AE('-O9G1W87)E(&EN M9'5S=')Y+EP*MPE%>'1E;G-I=F4@56YI>"!P<F]G<F%M;6EN9R!E>'!E<FEE M;F-E+B!<"B!<"@I<<&%R9%QT>#4R,%QT>#$P-C!<='@Q-C`P7'1X,C$R,%QT M>#(V-C!<='@S,C`P7'1X,S<R,%QT>#0R-C!<='@T.#`P7'1X-3,R,%QF8S!< M8V8P(%1H92!F;VQL;W=I;F<@<75A;&EF:6-A=&EO;G,@87)E('!R969E<G)E M9#H@7`H*7'!A<F1<='@S-C!<='@Q,#8P7'1X,38P,%QT>#(Q,C!<='@R-C8P M7'1X,S(P,%QT>#,W,C!<='@T,C8P7'1X-#@P,%QT>#4S,C!<9FDM,S8P7&QI M,S8P7&9C,%QC9C`@MPE&86UI;&EA<FET>2!W:71H(%!E<FPN(%P*MPDQ+3(@ M>65A<G,@97AP97)I96YC92!W:71H(')E;&5A<V4@:6YT96=R871I;VX@;V8@ M;&%R9V4@<V]F='=A<F4@<WES=&5M<RY<"K<)3V)J96-T(&]R:65N=&5D(&%N M9"!D:7-T<FEB=71E9"!P<F]G<F%M;6EN9R!E>'!E<FEE;F-E+EP*MPE5;FEX M('-Y<W1E;2!A;F0@;F5T=V]R:R!A9&UI;FES=')A=&EO;B!E>'!E<FEE;F-E M+B!<"K<)4$,@:&%R9'=A<F4@97AP97)I96YC92X@7`H*7'!A<F1<='@U-C!< M='@Q,3(P7'1X,38X,%QT>#(R-#!<='@R.#`P7'1X,S,V,%QT>#,Y,C!<='@T M-#@P7'1X-3`T,%QT>#4V,#!<9C!<9G,R.%QF8S!<8V8P(%P*7`HJ*BHJ*BHJ M*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ M*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*EP*7`H*7'!A<F1<='@Y-C!<='@Q.3(P7'1X,C@X,%QT M>#,X-#!<='@T.#`P7'1X-3<V,%QT>#8W,C!<='@W-C@P7'1X.#8T,%QT>#DV M,#!<9F,P7&-F,"!#;VYT86-T($EN9F]R;6%T:6]N.EP*"5P*"45M86EL"2)R M97-U;65S0&YE>'0N8V]M(EP*"5P*"49!6#H@("`@"3$M-#$U+3<X,"TS.3,Q M7`I<"@E!9&1R97-S.@E.95A4($-O;7!U=&5R($EN8RY<"@D)"3DP,"!#:&5S M87!E86ME($1R:79E7`H)"0E2961W;V]D($-I='DL($-!("`Y-#`V,UP*7`H* M7'!A<F1<='@U-C!<='@Q,3(P7'1X,38X,%QT>#(R-#!<='@R.#`P7'1X,S,V M,%QT>#,Y,C!<='@T-#@P7'1X-3`T,%QT>#4V,#!<9F,P7&-F,"!.95A4($-O M;7!U=&5R($EN8RX@:7,@86X@97%U86P@;W!P;W)T=6YI='D@96UP;&]Y97(N %7`H*?0IR `
From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: Temporary Pre-release Engineers Date: 21 Mar 1995 01:45:31 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3klsmb$mnc@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> ***************************************************************** Position: Release Engineer, Release Control Department: Software Engineering Status:Full-Time, Temporary position, 3 month assignment Overall Role Perform release operations for NEXTSTEP releases. In addition, perform administrative and development tasks. Specific Responsibilities This person will be responsible for release operations for the NEXTSTEP release. * Build and distribute software integrations, baselines, and internal software updates. * Master and verify release and pre-release CDROM and floppy images for duplication. * Archive NeXT software offline to secure location. * Configure and administer the network of release control machines. * Assist in the development of release engineering tools. Required Background, Education, Skills and Experience * 5+ years software engineering experience and CS/Engineering or related degree or equivalent. * Extensive Unix experience. Additional success factors: * Unix programming experience strongly preferred. * 1-2 years experience with release integration of large software systems. * PC hardware experience. ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. -- NewsGrazer, a NeXTstep(tm) news reader, posting -- M>UQR=&8P7&%N<VE[7&9O;G1T8FQ<9C!<9FYI;"!4:6UE<RU2;VUA;CM]"EQM M87)G;#$R,`I<;6%R9W(Q,C`*7'!A<F1<='@U-C!<='@Q,3(P7'1X,38X,%QT M>#(R-#!<='@R.#`P7'1X,S,V,%QT>#,Y,C!<='@T-#@P7'1X-3`T,%QT>#4V M,#!<9C!<8C!<:3!<=6QN;VYE7&9S,CA<9F,P7&-F,"!.95A4($-O;7!U=&5R M($EN8RX@;&]C871E9"!I;B!2961W;V]D($-I='DL($-!(&ES(&-U<G)E;G1L M>2!S96%R8VAI;F<@=&\@9FEL;"!T:&4@9F]L;&]W:6YG('!O<VET:6]N+B`@ M268@>6]U(&%R92!I;G1E<F5S=&5D(&]R(&MN;W<@;V8@<&5R<V]N<R!F:71T M:6YG('1H92!P<F]F:6QE(&1E<V-R:6)E9"!P;&5A<V4@<V5N9"!R97-U;64@ M=&\@(G)E<W5M97-`;F5X="YC;VTB(&]R(&9A>"!T;R!3=&%F9FEN9R!-86YA M9V5R(&%T(#0Q-2TW.#`M-#4U-"Y<"EP*4&QE87-E(&9E96P@9G)E92!T;R!V M:65W(&]U<B!.95A4($-O;7!U=&5R(%=75R!086=E('=I=&@@97AC:71I;F<@ M:6YF;W)M871I;VX@86)O=70@;W5R(&]P96X@<&]S:71I;VYS(&%N9"!N97<@ M<')O9'5C=',N("!4;R!A8V-E<W,@=&AE(%=E8B!T:&4@8V]M;6%N9"!I<R!H M='1P.B\O=W=W+FYE>'0N8V]M+TYE6%0@0V]M<'5T97(O3W!E;B!0;W-I=&EO M;G,@870@3F585"%<"BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ M*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ7`I<"EP*7`I<"@I< M<&%R9%QT>#8R,%QT>#$R-#!<='@Q.#8P7'1X,C0X,%QT>#,Q,#!<='@S-S(P M7'1X-#,T,%QT>#0Y.#!<='@U-C`P7'1X-C(R,%QB7&9C,%QC9C`@"5!O<VET M:6]N.@E296QE87-E($5N9VEN965R+"!296QE87-E($-O;G1R;VQ<"@E$97!A M<G1M96YT.B`@4V]F='=A<F4@16YG:6YE97)I;F=<"@E3=&%T=7,Z1G5L;"U4 M:6UE+"!496UP;W)A<GD@<&]S:71I;VXL(#,@;6]N=&@@87-S:6=N;65N="!< M"EP*"EQB,"`)"EQI($]V97)A;&P@4F]L95P*"EQI,"`)4&5R9F]R;2!R96QE M87-E(&]P97)A=&EO;G,@9F]R($Y%6%135$50(')E;&5A<V5S+B`@26X@861D M:71I;VXL('!E<F9O<FT@"6%D;6EN:7-T<F%T:79E(&%N9"!D979E;&]P;65N M="!T87-K<RY<"EP*"0I<:2!3<&5C:69I8R!297-P;VYS:6)I;&ET:65S7`H* M7&DP(`E4:&ES('!E<G-O;B!W:6QL(&)E(')E<W!O;G-I8FQE(&9O<B!R96QE M87-E(&]P97)A=&EO;G,@9F]R('1H92!.15A44U1%4"`)<F5L96%S92X@("!< M"@DJ"4)U:6QD(&%N9"!D:7-T<FEB=71E('-O9G1W87)E(&EN=&5G<F%T:6]N M<RP@8F%S96QI;F5S+%P*"0EA;F0@:6YT97)N86P@<V]F='=A<F4@=7!D871E M<RY<"@DJ"4UA<W1E<B!A;F0@=F5R:69Y(')E;&5A<V4@86YD('!R92UR96QE M87-E($-$4D]-(&%N9"!F;&]P<'D@"0EI;6%G97,@9F]R(&1U<&QI8V%T:6]N M+EP*"2H)07)C:&EV92!.95A4('-O9G1W87)E(&]F9FQI;F4@=&\@<V5C=7)E M(&QO8V%T:6]N+EP*"2H)0V]N9FEG=7)E(&%N9"!A9&UI;FES=&5R('1H92!N M971W;W)K(&]F(')E;&5A<V4@8V]N=')O;"!M86-H:6YE<RY<"@DJ"4%S<VES M="!I;B!T:&4@9&5V96QO<&UE;G0@;V8@<F5L96%S92!E;F=I;F5E<FEN9R!T M;V]L<RY<"EP*"0I<:2!297%U:7)E9"!"86-K9W)O=6YD+"!%9'5C871I;VXL M(%-K:6QL<R!A;F0@17AP97)I96YC95P*"EQI,"`)*@DU*R!Y96%R<R!S;V9T M=V%R92!E;F=I;F5E<FEN9R!E>'!E<FEE;F-E(&%N9"!#4R]%;F=I;F5E<FEN M9R!O<B`)"7)E;&%T960@9&5G<F5E(&]R(&5Q=6EV86QE;G0N7`H)*@E%>'1E M;G-I=F4@56YI>"!E>'!E<FEE;F-E+B!<"EP*"0I<:2!!9&1I=&EO;F%L('-U M8V-E<W,@9F%C=&]R<SH@7`H*7&DP(`DJ"55N:7@@<')O9W)A;6UI;F<@97AP M97)I96YC92!S=')O;F=L>2!P<F5F97)R960N(%P*"2H),2TR('EE87)S(&5X M<&5R:65N8V4@=VET:"!R96QE87-E(&EN=&5G<F%T:6]N(&]F(&QA<F=E('-O M9G1W87)E7`H)"7-Y<W1E;7,N7`H)*@E00R!H87)D=V%R92!E>'!E<FEE;F-E M+B!<"@I<<&%R9%QT>#4V,%QT>#$Q,C!<='@Q-C@P7'1X,C(T,%QT>#(X,#!< M='@S,S8P7'1X,SDR,%QT>#0T.#!<='@U,#0P7'1X-38P,%QF8S!<8V8P(%P* M*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ M*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BI<"EP*"EQP87)D7'1X.38P7'1X,3DR,%QT M>#(X.#!<='@S.#0P7'1X-#@P,%QT>#4W-C!<='@V-S(P7'1X-S8X,%QT>#@V M-#!<='@Y-C`P7&9C,%QC9C`@0V]N=&%C="!);F9O<FUA=&EO;CI<"@E<"@E% M;6%I;`DB<F5S=6UE<T!N97AT+F-O;2)<"@E<"@E&05@Z("`@(`DQ+30Q-2TW M.#`M,SDS,5P*7`H)061D<F5S<SH)3F585"!#;VUP=71E<B!);F,N7`H)"0DY M,#`@0VAE<V%P96%K92!$<FEV95P*"0D)4F5D=V]O9"!#:71Y+"!#02`@.30P M-C-<"EP*"EQP87)D7'1X-38P7'1X,3$R,%QT>#$V.#!<='@R,C0P7'1X,C@P M,%QT>#,S-C!<='@S.3(P7'1X-#0X,%QT>#4P-#!<='@U-C`P7&9C,%QC9C`@ M3F585"!#;VUP=71E<B!);F,N(&ES(&%N(&5Q=6%L(&]P<&]R='5N:71Y(&5M ,<&QO>65R+EP*"GT* `
From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: Temporary Functionality Tester Date: 21 Mar 1995 01:45:39 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3klsmj$mnj@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> ***************************************************************** Full-time Temporary Position at NeXT in California The Functionality Testing group of NeXT's Software Quality department is now hiring for a full-time temporary testing position in Redwood City. This job has these benefits, among others: First-hand access to the most current versions of NEXTSTEP Experience using new hardware running NEXTSTEP Furthering your knowledge of NEXTSTEP The job description is as follows: Performance, stress and regression testing of software (with and without formal testplans) Database querying Writing test reports Communicating to software engineers Requirements: 1 or more years hands-on experience with NEXTSTEP Have good verbal and written communication skills Be well organized and detail-oriented Be a fast learner (new software, methodologies and processes) Preferred: NEXTSTEP or Unix programming experience Experience using commercial NEXTSTEP software Familiar with Intel-based PCs Deductive logic, troubleshooting and analytical skills Comfortable with e-mail communications Important note: This position is at NeXT headquarters in Redwood City, CA. Moving and housing expenses will not be reimbursed. 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From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: Temporary Pre-release Engineers Date: 21 Mar 1995 01:45:55 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3klsn3$mnt@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> ***************************************************************** Position: Release Engineer, Release Control Department: Software Engineering Status:Full-Time, Temporary position, 3 month assignment Overall Role Perform release operations for NEXTSTEP releases. In addition, perform administrative and development tasks. Specific Responsibilities This person will be responsible for release operations for the NEXTSTEP release. * Build and distribute software integrations, baselines, and internal software updates. * Master and verify release and pre-release CDROM and floppy images for duplication. * Archive NeXT software offline to secure location. * Configure and administer the network of release control machines. * Assist in the development of release engineering tools. Required Background, Education, Skills and Experience * 5+ years software engineering experience and CS/Engineering or related degree or equivalent. * Extensive Unix experience. 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From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: Sr. Test Engineer Date: 21 Mar 1995 01:46:07 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3klsnf$mp2@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> ***************************************************************** Position: Senior Test Engineer - with OS focus. Department: Software Quality, Engineering Location: Redwood City, CA Primary Responsibility DriverKit and Device Driver API Testing or UNIX API Device Drivers (Serial, Networking, Filesystem(s), etc...) Specific Responsibilities Develop structured test plans Develop suites of automated functional, stress and performance tests Orderly release of those tests (documentation sufficient to de-skill test application) Position Qualifications and Requirements: MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience. Basic project management skills (spec/documentation writing, setting/communicating expectations, scheduling). Requires little/no supervision. Is capable of setting objectives/expectations and providing appropriate status updates. Strong 'C' programmer. Understands generic OS (UNIX preferred) implementation details as related to device drivers (i.e. VM & stack usage, User/System-side interfaces, interrupts, etc...). Must be able to work with development engineers as a peer. Demonstrated initiative, problem-solving skills, ability to learn with own initiative, hands on. Normally tests will be run in automated fashion or with help of temps, it may be necessary from time to time to perform certain tests manually (certainly during test debug at least). Able to work well with others Good communications skills Additional Success Factors: OS Internals (UNIX preferred). UNIX device driver {writing|testing|maintain} experience DriverKit experience UNIX Networking experience, BSD Fast Filesystem OOP experience NEXTSTEP programming experience familiarity with QA techniques and terminology ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: Temporary Pre-release Engineers Date: 21 Mar 1995 01:46:16 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3klsno$mpk@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> ***************************************************************** Position: Release Engineer, Release Control Department: Software Engineering Status:Full-Time, Temporary position, 3 month assignment Overall Role Perform release operations for NEXTSTEP releases. In addition, perform administrative and development tasks. Specific Responsibilities This person will be responsible for release operations for the NEXTSTEP release. * Build and distribute software integrations, baselines, and internal software updates. * Master and verify release and pre-release CDROM and floppy images for duplication. * Archive NeXT software offline to secure location. * Configure and administer the network of release control machines. * Assist in the development of release engineering tools. Required Background, Education, Skills and Experience * 5+ years software engineering experience and CS/Engineering or related degree or equivalent. * Extensive Unix experience. Additional success factors: * Unix programming experience strongly preferred. * 1-2 years experience with release integration of large software systems. * PC hardware experience. ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: Windows Tech Writer Date: 21 Mar 1995 01:46:25 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3klso1$mpu@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> ***************************************************************** Position: Technical Writer Department: User Publications Location: Redwood City, CA Primary Responsibilities: Write conceptual overviews and detailed reference material for the NEXTSTEP and OpenStep software frameworks, working from information provided by programmers, gleaned from source code, and discovered from your own test programs. Participate in the design and review of new frameworks and help in the refinement of their APIs (application programming interfaces). Work with other writers to improve our documentation and the processes we use to produce it. Act as a mentor for more junior writers. Specific responsibilities In this position you will concentrate on NeXT's Windows-related technologies. In particular, you will document APIs that interact with Microsoft's Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) and Common Object Model (COM) technologies, as well as other Windows-related projects. In addition, you may be involved in assessing the impact of our Windows products on our documentation and helping find solutions to documentation production and delivery on OpenStep platforms. Background and skills required Writing: The ability to write clear, logically sequenced, grammatically expressed expositions is essential. Must be able to organize and carry out short to long (book-length) assignments with a minimum of supervision. Technical knowledge: The ability to program in one or more languages and familiarity with OLE and COM is required. Knowledge of C and object-oriented programming is highly desirable. Knowledge of one or more of these languages and environments is a plus: Objective C, C++, NEXTSTEP, SQL, PostScript. General: 3+ years experience as a technical writer is required and 2+ years programing experience (doesn't have to be professional programming). ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: PDO Engineer - Windows Date: 21 Mar 1995 01:46:33 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3klso9$mq9@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> ***************************************************************** Position: Software Engineer - PDO Engineer/NT Department: Portable Distributed Objects group Primary Responsibility Port of the PDO reference product to various platforms, with a focus on the runtime and emulation server components. Specific Responsibilities runtime integration with GNU tools Runtime enhancement/maintenance for Objective C on foreign OS Enhancement/maintenance of emulation services including Mach IPC and nmserver DO class enhancement in the context of PDO Tool productization for source products and binary shrinkwrap products Portability engineering for all products above The candidate will primarily work on the various platforms, although will be involved with other foreign OSs such as HP-UX, Solaris, OSF/1. Minimum Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities * Strong understanding of NT technology essential for success. 4 year Computer Science degree or equivalent experience 3 - 5 years experience in the software industry Excellent problem solving skills, in areas of software design and implementation. Good communication skills, ability to work in a group. Potential to grow into roles with greater design and architectural responsibility. Self-motivated, with a high energy level. Experience with NEXTSTEP. Previous experience with GNU tools and other OS's (Windows NT) desireable. ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: Managing Editor, Journals Date: 21 Mar 1995 01:46:42 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3klsoi$mqg@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> ***************************************************************** Position: Managing Editor, Journals Department: Publications Reporting to: Manager, Art & Production Location: Redwood City, CA Position Charter Manage the production of NeXT's OpenStep journal. Plan content, based on user feedback, documentation needs, Support and Marketing feedback, and previous content. Balance dedication to quality with adherence to deadlines and budgets. Deliver straightforward technical information while remaining in-line with corporate product plans and marketing strategies. Responsibilities Schedule tasks to produce the journal once each per quarter Plan and manage journal budget Solicit input and review from departments company-wide, including Services, Software Engineering, Marketing, and Sales Recruit authors and develop articles Manage contract staff as necessary for editing and production Coordinate with Art and Production for book and cover design, artwork, and production Coordinate distribution Required Skills Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in English, Journalism, Communications, or related field 3+ years in a publications environment Proven publications and editorial skills Some familiarity with UNIX or NeXT network and system administration, and object-oriented programming Additional Success Factors Experience using or documenting a graphical user interface, particularly in the NEXTSTEP environment Understanding of a variety of hardware platforms ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: EOF: Sr. Development Engineer Date: 21 Mar 1995 01:46:51 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3klsor$mqn@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> ***************************************************************** Position: Senior Development Engineer Department: Enterprise Object Framework Primary Responsibilities: The person filling this position will be part of the Enterprise Object (EO) Framework engineering group and will be responsible for designing, implementing, testing, and maintaining major components of the EO Framework with particular emphasis on the user interface oriented components and tools. Specific Responsibilities: Work with team members on design and implementation of next version of EO Framework Work with customers and management team to understand, assess, and prioritize requirements for subsequent releases of the product Drive usability testing Design and implement ease-of-use features Evaluate other products Position Requirements: Fluency in object oriented implementation language and environment (preferably Objective C and NEXTSTEP) Expert in graphical user interface design and implementation Fluency in C Experience in usability testing and evaluation Experience in Object Oriented design and implementation methodology Experience in shipping high volume products on tight schedules Excellent team skills Excellent problem solving skills Excellent communication skills Education and Experience: Engineering background: 5 - 8 years BSCS or equivalent Additional Success Factors: Experience in 4GL Multi-platform experience (UNIX, PC) Relational DBMS experience Object Oriented DBMS experience NEXTSTEP development experience Experience with Object Oriented Analysis and Design tools Experience in enterprise-wide distributed systems ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT: PDO Product Marketing Manager Date: 21 Mar 1995 01:47:59 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3klsqv$msi@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> ***************************************************************** Position: PDO Product Manager Department: Product Marketing Position Charter This position is responsible for providing Technical Marketing leadership to refine, assist in the development and testing, and ship NeXT's Portable Distributed Objects product. In addition, this position will be responsible for all sales and marketing issues relating to licensing PDO technology to other systems vendors and defining the overall interoperability strategy of NeXT PDO and other industry object models. Primary and Specific Responsibilities Deliver NeXT PDO to market, including product feature set via customer input, pricing, packaging, and marketing and promotion strategies; Become NeXT's internal expert in the area of distributed object solutions in the software industry and develop the strategy for interoperability between NEXTSTEP PDO and other industry object models; Act as an internal and external spokesperson for NeXT's distributed object strategy, competitive advantages, product positioning, and other related technologies; Become NeXT's representative to the Object Management Group (OMG); track industry standards such as OMG CORBA and OSF DCE, and define the strategy for NEXTSTEP PDO conformance to such standards; Work with key industry partners to define interoperability between PDO and their respective technology (e.g. HP and DOMF) Gather, distill, and prioritize customer need information from the NeXT sales force, channels of distribution, and customers for use during product planning and development cycle; Develop sales tools (eg. selling guides, slide shows, demos) that communicate NeXT's PDO advantage; Qualifications B.S. in Computer Science or related area, or equivalent experience 3 - 5 years development experience in large distributed application environments, plus 2 years experience in project management, marketing and/or sales of software development tools and technology, including experience in launching a software product into the market (total of 5-7 years) Experience with Object-Oriented development paradigms and programming environments Experience in face-to-face high-level customer interaction, speaking with industry press and analysts, and making pulic presentations Knowledge of industry standards such as OMG's CORBA specification, OSF's DCE technology Knowledge of existing industry offerings such as HP DOMF, IBM DSOM, SUN's DOE, etc. Basic understanding of network computing, and network standards Experience in launching a software product into the market ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: Raymond Rodden <ray@goldleaf.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: GS Corporation Announces Contest Extension Date: 24 Mar 1995 16:39:20 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3kve68$58r@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Julie Saffren 415.945.7003 info@goldleaf.com GS Corporation Announces Contest Extension to April 30, 1995 Solutions Suite CD offers chance to win a trip for two, Canon object.station and software BOSTON, MARCH 24, 1995 Š GS Corporation announced an extension to the deadline of the WIN BIG contest within Serving Financial Services, the second multimedia CD in their Solutions Suite series. Contest entries will now be accepted until April 30, 1995. WIN BIG is sponsored by GS Corporation and Canon ATO. Viewing the Solutions Suite CD and completing the WIN BIG entry form allows CD users a chance to win a fabulous Grand Prize: a trip for two to San Francisco, two nights accomodations at one of San Francisco's leading hotels, and a Canon object.station 41 workstation with software. The workstation will include the NEXTSTEP user environment and software from a variety of third party participants on the CD, including desktop publishing products, personal productivity tools and specialized communications and database applications. For a chance to win, entrants must solve a scrambled sentence offered within the CD and email or fax a completed questionnaire and entry form to GS Corporation no later than April 30, 1995. No purchase is necessary to enter the contest. Entry forms are available from GS. About the Solutions Suite CD The Solution Suite CD-ROM is an interactive magazine that contains product information, software demos, videos, and unlockable software for the NEXTSTEP/OpenStep environment. The CD pioneers a unique distribution concept where users can acquire information about products from GS Corporation, Canon, NeXT, HP, Sun, and NEXTSTEP third-party vendors, try the software, and then purchase directly from the CD. About GS Corporation GS Corporation develops and markets object-oriented software designed to meet the needs of enterprise customers for modular and custom solutions for document processing, database publishing, and graphic arts. About Canon Computer Systems, Inc. (CCSI) Through its recently formed Advanced Technologies Operation (ATO), CCSI supplies products for Fortune 1000 companies and supports users' workgroup and enterprise computing requirements.
From: amm@NeXT.COM (Alan M. Marcum) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NeXT: Advanced NetInfo Class Date: 25 Mar 1995 17:34:32 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3l25po$eje@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT is offering two sessions of our Advanced NetInfo class. The first will be in Redwood City, California, April 10th-12th; the second, in McLean, Virginia, May 22-24. Content of both classes will include: - NeXT's model of a NetInfo network - NetInfo terminology - The domain hierarchy - IP addresses and protocols - Binding and connecting - Special properties - Command-line programs - Daemons: what, where, why, how - The NetInfo protocols - Analyzing NetInfo packets - Updates and update propagation The classes are designed for people with at least six months' experience administering a NetInfo network of reasonable size (at least three levels, at least several dozen computers). We'll expect you have at least passing knowledge of the IP protocol suite, and that you've attended one of our Network and System Administration classes (or have equivalent experience). We recommend you read the Summer, 1993 issue of _NEXTSTEP in Focus_ (available in hard copy from NeXT, and available in soft copy through NeXTanswers and through my home Web page). To register for either of these classes, call us at 800-955-NeXT, or +1-415-780-2922. Cost of the class: $1600; class number: E2047. (And, if you're wondering when we'll offer the class again, we don't know: it's not always scheduled on a regular basis, and, when it is, it's relatively infrequently.) -- Alan M. Marcum NeXT Tech Support amm@NeXT.COM http://www.NeXT.COM/~amarcum/
From: Erik Jacobsen <jacobsen@cs.wisc.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: GNU Common LISP for m68k/NeXT hardware Date: 25 Mar 1995 17:42:15 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3l2687$ek2@digifix.digifix.com> README: This is a recompile of GNU Common LISP (gcl) under NeXTSTEP using GNUMake and gcc-2.6.x. Since some people have reported difficulty getting gcl to compile under NeXTSTEP with the NeXT supplied compilers. I've created this binary only distribution of gcl-1.1. I have not made an i386 (or Sparc or HP) version because I used the FSF's version of gcc, not NeXT's. I believe an i386 compile would be trivial. A Sparc or HPport would be much more difficult. Legal: I've used this software for two months now with no difficulties; however, I'm not the most demanding of users. If you find a bug in the NeXT port, I'll take a look at it, but I offer no guarantees that the software will work, will be useful or any other legal crap. Use at your own risk. If you find a bug in GCL, contact the author. Getting: I've placed gcl on orst in the following location: Readme: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/binaries/proglang/gcl-1.1.m68k.README Binary: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/binaries/proglang/gcl-1.1.m68k.tar.gz Installing: To install execute the following command (you may need to do this as root depending on your permissions in /usr/local*): gzcat gcl-1.1.m68k.tar.gz | tar xvf - This will place gcl in /usr/local/lib and put a shell script to invoke it in /usr/local/bin. Enjoy Erik Jacobsen jacobsen@cs.wisc.edu What follows is an excerpt from the original README. Description of GCL (GNU Common Lisp) system. OVERVIEW: The GCL system contains C and Lisp source files to build a Common Lisp sytem. The original KCL system was written by Taiichi Yuasa and Masami Hagiya in 1984. The AKCL system work was begun in 1987 by William Schelter and continued through 1994. A number of people have contributed ports and pieces. The file doc/contributors lists some of these. In 1994 AKCL was released as GCL (GNU Common Lisp) under the GNU public library license. Version akcl-1-624 was the last version made under the old license and using the old file change mechanism. This readme only applies to versions gcl.1.0 and later. The GNU library license does allow redistribution of executables containing GCL as well as proprietary code, but such redistribution must be accompanied by sufficient material (eg .o files) to allow recipients to rebuild an executable, after possibly modifying GCL. See the GNU file COPYING.LIB-2.0 for a full description of your right to copy this software. << rest of readme may be found on orst - this was cut to make the announcement less than 400 lines >> DISCLAIMER: ---------- W. Schelter, the University of Texas, and other parties provide this program on an "as is" basis without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Bill Schelter wfs@math.utexas.edu See the file doc/contributors for a partial list of people who have made helpful contributions to ports etc.
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Summary 76 - Articles posted since March 20 1995 Date: 27 Mar 1995 05:00:07 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3l5gon$mkm@digifix.digifix.com> Summary: 76 Postings since: March 20 1995 [3033] ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines [3034] NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet [3035] SUBMISSION: Princeton Sound Kitchen - NEXTSTEP sound utilities [3036] PRESS RELEASE: Hutchison Avenue Software announces release of the HASC Kit [3037] JOB: NeXT: Printing Software Engineer [3038] JOB: NeXT: Performance Tools Engineer [3039] JOB: NeXT: Release Engineer [3040] JOB: NeXT: Temporary Pre-release Engineers [3041] JOB: NeXT: Temporary Functionality Tester [3042] JOB: NeXT: Temporary Pre-release Engineers [3043] JOB: NeXT: Sr. Test Engineer [3044] JOB: NeXT: Temporary Pre-release Engineers [3045] JOB: NeXT: Windows Tech Writer [3046] JOB: NeXT: PDO Engineer - Windows [3047] JOB: NeXT: Managing Editor, Journals [3048] JOB: NeXT: EOF: Sr. Development Engineer [3049] JOB: NeXT: Networking Engineer [3050] JOB: NeXT: Kernel Engineer [3051] JOB: NeXT: Printing Software Engineer [3052] JOB: NeXT: Windows Product Marketing Manager [3053] JOB: NeXT: OEM Product Marketing Manager (Intel) [3054] JOB: NeXT: Technical Marketing Manager [3055] JOB: NeXT: Development Environment Product Manager [3056] JOB: NeXT: PDO Product Marketing Manager [3057] PRESS RELEASE: Athena announces Mesa 2 for NEXTSTEP - Mesa 1.5 price drop [3058] PRESS RELEASE: Mesa Spreadsheet now running on NEXTSTEP/Sparc [3059] PRESS RELEASE: FLYING MONKEY announces 4096: A Pure, Undithered Color Finder [3060] SUBMISSION:ACRViewer.app [3061] JOB: NeXT: Summer Position -Test Technician [3062] JOB: NeXT: Sales & Applications Programmer [3063] JOB: NeXT: Consulting Engineers; Object Expert Engineering [3064] SUBMISSION: new Class2, Class2.0 and ZyXEL fax drivers [3065] SUBMISSION: Sen:te announces new release of SpiderWoman [3066] PRESS RELEASE: Hypersight announces availability of Sight-C-ing 2.0 [3067] PRESS RELEASE: NYRO Technix, Inc. Announces On Vacation v2.0 [3068] PRESS RELEASE: NYRO Technix, Inc. Announces ReadReceiptPlus [3069] PRESS RELEASE: NYRO Technix, Inc. Announces VirtSpace v3.03 [3070] SUBMISSION: M. Onyschuk and Associates Inc. releases update to OATextFields Palette and Tools [3071] PRESS RELEASE: StayInTouch 2.27hp is available [3072] JOB: NeXT: Manager, Art & Production [3073] PRESS RELEASE: GS Corporation Announces Contest Extension [3074] NeXT: Advanced NetInfo Class [3075] SUBMISSION: GNU Common LISP for m68k/NeXT hardware If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com. Archives -------- Individual messages are available at http://www.stepwise.com/comp.sys.next.announce/csna-76/**article_number** where **article_number** is the [xxxx] beside the Subject line above.. FTP archives: ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives/csna-76.tar.gz WWW archives: http://www.stepwise.com/comp.sys.next.announce/csna-76 Article submissions : next-announce@digifix.com Submission guidelines: next-announce-guidelines@digifix.com Suggestions/comments : next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: Kevin Solie <kevins@bMD.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Mission Critical Stereogram module for TIFFany II Date: 27 Mar 1995 00:10:33 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3l5hc9$mn7@digifix.digifix.com> Contact: Kevin Solie <kevins@bmd.com> Description For your mission critical pleasure benchMark Development's Inc has submittedit's ever so nifty Stereogram module for TIFFany II Available: For the low, low price of nada, this gem can be yours via ftp from <URL:ftp://ftp.bmd.com/tiffany/Modules/Stereogram.pkg.tar> >From all of us at bMD... Enjoy!
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines Date: 27 Mar 1995 05:15:02 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3l5hkm$mnt@digifix.digifix.com> NEW POLICY: =========== In an attempt to standardize the format of the FTP locations for files, all ftp addresses should be submitted using the Universal Resource Locator (URL) format. (for example) ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/submissions/file.tar.gz Please try and give an indication of where you expect the file will end up on the archive site, in the same notation. Cross Posting ============= I try very hard to make sure that postings get out in a timely fashion. Most go out in less than 24 hours. Postings that require editing because they do not contain information in a useable format, or have already been posted to other comp.sys.next.* groups may be delayed, or returned to you. If your posting is rejected, I'll try and make suggestions about what should be changed where possible. Obviously off charter messages (spams, open-letters, etc) may not get a response. Content 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 _IN URL FORMAT_ supported CPU's for binary distributions, OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting, time of meeting, speakers expected Signatures 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. Announcement of Product Sales ============================= This is an area of announcement that has caused me terrible grief in recent months. The policy is tilted towards the ISV, which has worked out well in the past. Posts that announce sales of products that you are DIRECTLY involved in the development of are OK. Posts from companies trying to sell other products are evaluated on an individual basis. Time Sensitive Announcements ============================ Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date. 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.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet Date: 27 Mar 1995 05:15:07 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3l5hkr$mnt@digifix.digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site comp.sys.next newsgroups related newsgroups comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list ftp sites NeXTanswers Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site =============================================== This online community resource includes - 200+ ISV company pages - 400+ ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - NEXTSTEP User Group Directory - comp.sys.next archives - User Group information - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.stepwise.com/ Additionally the NEXTSTEP there is a Mail Server available. You can get information on using the mail server at ns-products@stepwise.com Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise, please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com. eduSTEP WWW site ================ *** NEED INFORMATION *** NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site ============================ http://www.next.com comp.sys.next.* newsgroups ========================== news: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. news: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. Archives are available by ftp at ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. news: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. news: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. news: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. news: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!!! news: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. news:comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. news:comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. Related Newsgroups ================== news: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. news:comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. news: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 ============= ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions ftp://nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff, but very short on disk space ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: In Germany. ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://ftp.next.com: See the below ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com ===================================== [from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help] 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, read them on the world-wide web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS. 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 REPLY-TO address sets the e-mail address NeXTanswers uses 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. 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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. USING NEXTANSWERS BY MODEM To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at (415) 780-2965. Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section. From there you can download NeXTanswers documents. FOR MORE HELP... If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available from NeXTanswers, call the Support Hotline at 1-800-955-NeXT (outside the U.S. call +1-415-424-8500) to speak to a NEXTSTEP Technical Support Technician. If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must make this call to the hotline. Otherwise, hotline support is on a pay-per-call basis. Thanks for using NeXTanswers! Written by: Eric P. 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Belgium.EU.net!EU.net!news.sprintlink.net!hookup!remus.wat.hookup.net!digifix!digifix!not-for-mail From: "Jamie O'Keefe" <pericles@athena.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Boston Computer Society NeXT User Group - April 4 Date: 28 Mar 1995 16:25:51 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3l9usv$7os@digifix.digifix.com> Boston Computer Society NeXT User Group Meeting See the easy way to build World Wide Web documents Tuesday, April 4th, 1995 MIT Campus, Rm 1-190 7:00PM 7:00PM Introduction 7:05PM IT Solutions demonstrates the Neticity workstation Tracy Kugelman from IT Solutions will demonstrate the Neticity workstation. The Neticity Workstation is a professional web authoring environment with advanced software tools for creating and maintaining high quality HTML documents -- with no knowledge of HTML required. The Neticity workstation will significantly reduce the time spent creating pages while significantly increasing the quality of those pages. The professional version can be used as a server. 8:15PM BCS Mega Meeting Recap It happened, we were there, and we'll tell you all about it. 8:30PM Rumors of the Month 8:45PM Q&A 9:00PM What's on next month Dinner afterwards. All are welcome to attend. If you would like more information please contact: Jamie O'Keefe at: pericles@athena.com 617.426.6372 (W)
From: product_feedback@NeXT.COM (NeXT Announce) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Last Chance to Order Before Price Increase Date: 29 Mar 1995 16:09:32 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3lciac$goj@digifix.digifix.com> Last Chance to Order Before Price Increase - Order by Noon, Friday 3/31/95 *** ACT NOW - NEXTSTEP DEVELOPER PRICE INCREASE 4/1/95 *** Save $2000 by purchasing NEXTSTEP Developer before 4/1/95 - includes free EOF! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Now through March 31, US customers who purchase NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.2 direct from NeXT for the price of $2999 will receive a free upgrade to NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.3. In addition, send in the Release 3.3 Developer registration card by June 30, 1995 and receive a free development copy of Enterprise Objects Framework 1.1. Save $500 by upgrading before 4/1/95 - includes free EOF! --------------------------------------------------------- Now through March 31, the price of NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.3 upgrades are $749 US, $789 Europe. Send in the Release 3.3 Developer registration card by June 30, 1995 and receive a free development copy of Enterprise Objects Framework Release 1.1. New bundles for academic customers ---------------------------------- Academic Bundles of NEXTSTEP Rel. 3.3 User and NEXTSTEP Rel. 3.3 Developer are available on all NEXTSTEP platforms for $299 US, $319 Europe. These products are for educational institutions and individual faculty, staff, and students for education and research only. Academic customers who have Rel. 3.3 User and Rel 3.2 Developer may purchase an Academic Rel 3.3 Developer upgrade for $99 US or $119 Europe with proper license verification. Product highlights ------------------ NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.3 includes new features that further improve programmer productivity and application robustness. New visual programming capabilities help developers ensure application correctness, while a new compiler provides improved error and warning generation, and upgraded support for ANSI C and C++. Support for new PC hardware and RISC CPU architectures lets programmers develop device drivers for a broader range of hardware platforms. Foundation Kit provides an implementation of many of the new OPENSTEP features, deployable under NEXTSTEP Release 3.3 today. * Foundation Kit: Preview the industry standard OPENSTEP software development kit. * Upgraded Compiler: Gnu Compiler version 2.5.8 * Extended Multi-Architecture Binaries: MAB Support for Motorola 68K, Intel, HP PA-RISC and Sun SPARC platforms. * New Interface Builder :New Connection Inspector, New Palette Support, New Class Inspector * New Header Viewer: Class Cluster Browsing * Extended Driver Kit: Supports PCI, PCMCIA, and Advanced Power Management * Open Application APIs: Login Window Bundles, Open DO API to Terminal, IP Multicast support Shipping information -------------------- NEXTSTEP User Release 3.3 for SPARC and PA-RISC workstations and NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.3 for all NEXTSTEP platforms is on schedule to ship the week of March 20, 1995. Shipments of FREE Release 3.3 devloper upgrades and FREE EOF Rel 1.1 will commence April 1. Shipping and tax is additional. Ordering information -------------------- To order in the United States, call NeXT Telesales: (800) 848-6398 or (415) 424-8500. Or fax your order to (800) 228-6398 or (415) 780-3977. To order in the Europe, call your nearest NeXT software reseller or contact NeXT Telesales in The Netherlands: 31-2503-27060. Or fax your order to 31-2503-29987. Academic customers should call Object Technologies (OTI) at 800-452-7608
From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,news.answers Subject: cmsg cancel <3jehn9$c4h@babyblue.cs.yale.edu> Control: cancel <3jehn9$c4h@babyblue.cs.yale.edu> Date: 31 Mar 1995 00:14:15 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Message-ID: <3lfhgn$hn6@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Originator: pshuang@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU Article cancelled by pshuang@mit.edu, member of the *.answers moderation team. -- -- Yours in Leadership, Friendship, and Service, Ping Huang (INTERNET: pshuang@mit.edu)
Belgium.EU.net!EU.net!news.sprintlink.net!hookup!remus.wat.hookup.net!digifix!digifix!not-for-mail From: "WSI Nationwide" <p00370@psilink.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: US-FL-407-NEXTSTEP-Senior Date: 30 Mar 1995 16:12:44 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3lf6sc$pcq@digifix.digifix.com> ---------(All fees are paid by our client companies)----------- ----(Please DO NOT return a copy of this announcement with your response)--- I have been asked to identify several Senior O-O NEXTSTEP developers with solid full project lifecycle experience at several levels for a two to five year multi-million dollar project based in Florida. Strong Nextstep experience as well as OBJECTIVE-C, ODE and some RDBMS (the client is using Oracle & Tuxedo) with "Big 6" accounting image & presentation- (verbal & written). This giant reservation project with diverse platforms & resources involves hotel, airlines, car rental & cruise ships and is in the prototype phase and requires hands-on seniors to get the process started on-site in Florida. This growing force in O-O technology offers starting salaries of up to $100K+ plus all living/travel expenses including flights home every weekend. If you know someone who might qualify, or who is available, have them give me a call and fax/email their resume. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Qualified candidates must have at least 2 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 who is coming to NYC/NJ, Email an ascii resume (with no decoding required) to p00370@psilink.com, 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. .3 also includes support for PCMCIA, Advanced Power Management and 8-bit color. With the appropriate drivers, these features provide the foundation to support popular portable computers. Release 3.3 comes bundled with more than 50 device drivers to support a wide variety of peripherals. These new features simplify the task of hardware configurations and enable NEXTSTEP to run on a larger variety of Intel-based desktop and portable systems. NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.3 NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.3 is designed to aid customers who need to rapidly develop robust and easy-to-maintain client/server applications. It is also a stepping-stone for developers planning to deploy OpenStep on Windows NT, Windows 95, Solaris and OSF/1 applications in the future. Specifically, the visual development tools, including NeXT's industry-acclaimed Interface Builder, have been improved in this release to ease development and promote greater object re-use. NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.3 also includes improved C++ support. For those operating in heterogeneous computing environments, the product enables customers to build enterprise-wide, client/server applications to run on any of four hardware platforms - Intel PCs, PA-RISC and SPARC workstations and NeXT Computers. Enterprise Objects Framework Enterprise Objects Framework builds on NeXT's leadership in object-oriented software development by dramatically reducing the costs of building and maintaining database applications. The Framework is unique in its ability to bring the benefits of object-oriented programming to relational database application development. Enterprise Objects Framework enables developers to construct reusable business objects that combine business logic with persistent storage in industry-standard relational databases. Portable Distributed Objects PDO (Portable Distributed Objects) extends NEXTSTEP's industry-leading object model and messaging architecture to industry-standard server operating systems, scaling that advantage from the desktop to the data center. PDO provides this framework by extending the same seamless object framework that NEXTSTEP developers already use for local and distributed objects. OpenSource, Inc. OpenSource is a single-source reseller of third-party applications and pre-configured hardware for the NEXTSTEP operating system. Dedicated to prompt service and quality support, OpenSource offers the most extensive line of NEXTSTEP-related products in the industry. OpenSource is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. NeXT Computer, Inc. NeXT develops and markets OpenStep, the industry's first and most advanced object environment. OpenStep versions have been announced which will run on several operating systems, including NeXT's own MachOS, Sun's Solaris, Digital's OSF/1 and Microsoft's Windows NT and Windows 95. OpenStep's object-oriented technology allows corporate customers to rapidly create and deploy three-tier, client-server, mission critical custom applications. NeXT is headquartered in Redwood City, California, and has offices in North America, London, Paris, Munich and Tokyo. # # # # NeXT, OpenStep, NEXTSTEP, NetInfo, Portable Distritbuted Objects, PDO and Enterprise Objects are trademarks or registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: Brian Willoughby <brianw@sounds.wa.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: sdformat 1.3 binary for SPARC, etc. - sets block size of SCSI device Date: 1 Apr 1995 03:02:46 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3lj1b6$93k@digifix.digifix.com> ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/util/sdformat_1.3.MIHS.tar.gz ftp://cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/binaries/util/sdformat_1.3.MIHS.README The first file is for Releases 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3, with support for Black, White, Green and Blue hardware (OK, perhaps I'm going overboard with the colors). The second file is the README. sdformat.tar.Z should be maintained on orst for pre-3.1 users. The README is excerpted here for your reading pleasure... sdformat -------- INTRO ----- sdformat is an enhanced replacement for the sdform utility shipped with NEXTSTEP. It allows selection of the SCSI device's block size for improved performance - both in access speed and available free space. REVISION HISTORY ---------------- This is the third major release version of sdformat (Version 1.3), and the first to support NEXTSTEP on NeXT/Motorola, Intel, HP-PA RISC and Sparc processors. There was only one reported problem with Version 0.9, so version 1.1 was released to address problems with very large hard drives (about 3 GB or more). It has since been proven to work with drives as large as 9 GB (The Seagate ELITE), even though NeXT's sdform would not work on that drive. Version 1.2 added more verbose error message text from the ANSI SCSI specification, in addition to HP-PA support. Now, version 1.3 is friendlier to other SCSI programs and has improved error reporting. BACKGROUND ---------- One of the most popular performance enhancements for NEXTSTEP workstations is to do a low-level format of all capable SCSI drives at a block size of 1024 bytes. If you have a new drive, or if you have backed up all data on your current drive, then you might consider wiping the slate clean and starting over with a faster, larger drive (for free!) sdformat does what you cannot do with the utilities supplied by NeXT. I believe it is easier to use than the "formatter" utility on the archives - and compatible with more drives. For some strange reason, the formatting utilities included in NEXTSTEP are not orthogonal in features. Specifically, fdform allows specification of the block size as 512 or 1024 bytes, but sdform has no such option. sdform is also limited to working with SCSI devices which were attached when the system was started, simply because it takes a raw device name instead of a SCSI id. Hence the need for sdformat. sdformat, which is available as a FAT binary, is capable of formatting any SCSI device selected by its target ID (and logical unit number, if applicable). The utility can also be used to examine the current settings for a particular device's block size. You will only need root access for drives which were attached and powered up when NEXTSTEP was booted, otherwise any user can just power up a new drive, format, and reboot to initialize the drive with the file system of your choice (sdformat does not handle the step of file system initialization, but neither does sdform or fdform). Drive cables should only be attached while the computer is halted or powered off, but the drive may be powered up and down while NEXTSTEP is running so long as you do not power off a mounted drive. Need further convincing? If you aren't already convinced that you want to back up your drive and execute a low-level reformat, read on! For space increase, you can expect numbers like the following: Original Reformat Increase Drive 406.5 MB 419.9 MB 13.39 MB Seagate ST1480N (NeXT supplied 400 MB) 1.156 GB 1.227 GB 73.30 MB Maxtor MXT-1240S 5.407% Seagate ST41650N (Wren VIII) I have not personally measured the inherent increases in throughput performance, but figures ranging from 20% to 25% have been reported by users of sdformat. PARTING NOTE ------------ sdformat does not Initialize the SCSI device. In this respect it is just like NeXT's own sdform. When sdformat is finished, you must decide whether to create a BFFS, DOS (not very useful), or Macintosh (probably impossible) volume. I usually just let Workspace.app handle the Initialization, since it tends to want to do so automatically. Please do not contact me for help in initializing your disk, and especially not if you need to partition your large (greater than 2 GB) disk. For these tasks, I would suggest becoming an expert on the /etc/disk utility shipped with NEXTSTEP - or perhaps you can consult the NEXTSTEP FAQ as posted to comp.sys.next.announce Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting: Software Design and Development Software Design Engineer, BSEE from NCSU NeXTmail welcome BrianW@SoundS.WA.com Bellevue, WA
Belgium.EU.net!EU.net!news.sprintlink.net!hookup!remus.wat.hookup.net!digifix!digifix!not-for-mail From: m5b14@btmpx4.mat.uni-bayreuth.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Pencil now on ftp.cs.orst.edu Date: 30 Mar 1995 15:17:31 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3lf3kr$p2o@digifix.digifix.com> SUBMISSION: Pencil.app 1.0 and PencilTCLClient now on ftp.cs.orst.edu I have uploaded Pencil1.0 and PencilTCLClient to ftp.cs.orst.edu. The files are currently in the directory Pencil binary: FTP://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/binaries/graphics/Pencil.1.0.NI.b.tar.gz Pencil source: FTP://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/sources/graphics/Pencil.1.0.s.tar.gz PencilTCLClient source&binary: FTP://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/binaries/graphics/PencilTCLClient.NI.bs.tar.gz ABOUT PENCIL: Pencil is a vector-oriented drawing program. Its most remarkable feature is that new drawing methods can be added to it in the form of postscript language procedures (even at run-time). However, even if you are unfamiliar with PostScript, Pencil can be quite useful with its built-in set of drawing methods. There are polygons, curves (hermite and bezier), circles, arcs, rectangles (also with rounded corners), character paths, "Rich Text" and so on. You can rotate, scale, group, clip, copy, paste, reorder and move graphics. There are numerous fill types (several gradients) and stroke types (including "neon light" gradient stroke). You can add shadows and other effects to a graphics object. You can print the document or copy it as postscript-code to the clipboard (for use in Edit etc.). You can scroll around and zoom into the view. There is even a basic freehand tool for drawing polygons. Import of TIFF/EPS-images is supported. A lot of sample documents are provided. You can send commands to Pencil via Distributed Objects. I have written a program named PencilTCLClient (ptcl) to simplify this task. (ptcl is based on tcl 7.3 and tclsh by John Ousterhout, University of California at Berkeley) PencilTCLClient is available as source and binary, so if you don't have the tcl-distribution, you can use it anyway. One can use ptcl to create/open/save/print documents, add graphic objects to the current document, edit the current selection and read out the graphic objects' attributes. This could be useful for writing scripts that create a graph in Pencil from some text data, so the user can edit it afterwards. Pencil.app may be distributed under the terms of the GNU general public license. Pencil.app can also be found in: Binary: FTP://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Graphics/vector/Pencil1.0.b.NI.tar.gz This archive contains a fat (i386, m68k) binary. -rw-r--r-- 1 me 110853 Mar 5 22:05 Pencil.1.0.NI.b.tar.gz Source is available in: FTP://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Graphics/vector/Pencil1.0.s.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 me 77241 Mar 5 22:05 Pencil.1.0.s.tar.gz PencilTCLClient: (Binary and Source) FTP://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Graphics/vector/PencilTCLClient.bs.NI.tar.gz This archive contains a fat (i386, m68k) binary. The source doesn't include tcl. -rw-r--r-- 1 me 114601 Mar 6 17:59 PencilTCLClient.NI.bs.tar.gz Florian Marquardt a0047@freenet.uni-bayreuth.de (March 30, 1995)
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Summary 77 - Articles posted since March 27 1995 Date: 3 Apr 1995 04:00:07 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3lnrs7$2dj@digifix.digifix.com> Summary: 77 Postings since: March 27 1995 [3077] SUBMISSION: Mission Critical Stereogram module for TIFFany II [3078] ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines [3079] NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet [3080] MEETING: Boston Computer Society NeXT User Group - April 4 [3081] Last Chance to Order Before Price Increase [3082] PRESS RELEASE: WebPages by Pages(tm) DEMOS AT SEYBOLD SEMINARS BOSTON [3083] PRESS RELEASE: ErgoCim to be at ISE'95 [3084] SUBMISSION: Pencil now on ftp.cs.orst.edu [3085] JOB: US-FL-407-NEXTSTEP-Senior [3086] PRESS RELEASE: NeXT Computer, Inc. and OpenSource, Inc. Announce Direct Resale Agreement [3087] SUBMISSION: sdformat 1.3 binary for SPARC, etc. - sets block size of SCSI device [3090] SUBMISSION: DoomView v2.0 - browse all Doom "WAD" files, print maps, and export resources [3091] SUBMISSION: News2mbox v1.4 - archives news articles to mailboxes - QUAD-FAT [3092] SUBMISSION: holidays - enhances Preference to show holiday icons on the calendar If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com. Archives -------- Individual messages are available at http://www.stepwise.com/comp.sys.next.announce/csna-77/**article_number** where **article_number** is the [xxxx] beside the Subject line above.. FTP archives: ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives/csna-77.tar.gz WWW archives: http://www.stepwise.com/comp.sys.next.announce/csna-77 Article submissions : next-announce@digifix.com Submission guidelines: next-announce-guidelines@digifix.com Suggestions/comments : next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines Date: 3 Apr 1995 04:15:02 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3lnso6$2fn@digifix.digifix.com> NEW POLICY: =========== In an attempt to standardize the format of the FTP locations for files, all ftp addresses should be submitted using the Universal Resource Locator (URL) format. (for example) ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/submissions/file.tar.gz Please try and give an indication of where you expect the file will end up on the archive site, in the same notation. Cross Posting ============= I try very hard to make sure that postings get out in a timely fashion. Most go out in less than 24 hours. Postings that require editing because they do not contain information in a useable format, or have already been posted to other comp.sys.next.* groups may be delayed, or returned to you. If your posting is rejected, I'll try and make suggestions about what should be changed where possible. Obviously off charter messages (spams, open-letters, etc) may not get a response. Content 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 _IN URL FORMAT_ supported CPU's for binary distributions, OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting, time of meeting, speakers expected Signatures 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. Announcement of Product Sales ============================= This is an area of announcement that has caused me terrible grief in recent months. The policy is tilted towards the ISV, which has worked out well in the past. Posts that announce sales of products that you are DIRECTLY involved in the development of are OK. Posts from companies trying to sell other products are evaluated on an individual basis. Time Sensitive Announcements ============================ Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date. 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.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet Date: 3 Apr 1995 04:15:07 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3lnsob$2fn@digifix.digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site comp.sys.next newsgroups related newsgroups comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list ftp sites NeXTanswers Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site =============================================== This online community resource includes - 200+ ISV company pages - 400+ ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - NEXTSTEP User Group Directory - comp.sys.next archives - User Group information - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.stepwise.com/ Additionally the NEXTSTEP there is a Mail Server available. You can get information on using the mail server at ns-products@stepwise.com Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise, please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com. eduSTEP WWW site ================ *** NEED INFORMATION *** NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site ============================ http://www.next.com comp.sys.next.* newsgroups ========================== news: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. news: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. Archives are available by ftp at ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. news: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. news: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. news: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. news: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!!! news: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. news:comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. news:comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. Related Newsgroups ================== news: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. news:comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. news: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 ============= ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions ftp://nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff, but very short on disk space ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: In Germany. ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://ftp.next.com: See the below ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com ===================================== [from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help] 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, read them on the world-wide web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS. 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From: Mike Hovan <mhovan@blcksmth.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: BLACKSMITH Seeking Junior And Senior Developers Date: 3 Apr 1995 14:46:42 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3lpfqi$7gf@digifix.digifix.com> BLaCKSMITH, Inc., developers of CHaRTSMITH, NEXTSTEP's most popular business productivity application for charting and graphing, is looking for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep developers to join its commercial products and custom development divisions. Candidates will participate in full life-cycle development of business productivity applications for the current and emerging NEXTSTEP/OpenStep markets. The successful junior developer candidate will have: - Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent work experience - Minimum five years of development experience in C - Experience with Objective-C/C++ or other Object Oriented Programming Language is helpful - Experience with RDBMS (Oracle or Sybase) is helpful - Willingness to invest in the future by acquiring tomorrow's software development skills today. The successful senior developer candidate will have: - Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent work experience - Minimum ten years of development experience in C - Minimum two years of NEXTSTEP applications development experience - Experience with RDBMS (Oracle or Sybase) is helpful - Excellent software project management skills - The desire to work in an organization that not only lets you, but insists that you do *it* right The successful candidate will: - Work closely with a team of highly talented NEXTSTEP/OpenStep developers - Design and implement an integrated suite of NEXTSTEP/OpenStep productivity applications - Design and implement NEXTSTEP/OpenStep custom applications for clients with mission specific requirements - Get in on the ground floor of one of the fastest growing OpenStep development companies today Founded in 1992, BLaCKSMITH, Inc. is dedicated to providing custom and commercial software solutions to customers who wish to capitalize on the advantages of object-oriented software. The company offers a comfortable and flexible work environment and is located in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Please send resumes to: Denise Britti 9401 Mathy Drive, Suite 300 Fairfax, VA 22031 (800) 619-6147 (703) 250-1741 (703) 250-1744 Fax Plain Text, NeXT Mail, or MIME: info@blacksmith.com We look forward to hearing from you!
From: Mike Hovan <mhovan@blcksmth.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: BLACKSMITH Seeking DBA Interested in becoming NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP Developer Date: 3 Apr 1995 14:47:29 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3lpfs1$7gp@digifix.digifix.com> BLaCKSMITH, Inc., developers of CHaRTSMITH, NEXTSTEP's most popular business productivity application for charting and graphing, is looking for a qualified Oracle data base administrator to join its NEXTSTEP contracting division. The position will evolve into a NEXTSTEP development position and the candidate will be expected to provide support as junior-level developer as soon as possible. The successful candidate will have: - Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent work experience - Minimum two years of Oracle experience (Oracle 7.X) or other relational data base - General knowledge of object-oriented analysis and design - One to two years development experience in C or C++ - Two years experience with UNIX - UNIX system administration a plus - NEXTSTEP experience helpful As a data base administrator/Jr. developer, the successful candidate will: - Work on-site in Baltimore, MD on an award-winning NEXTSTEP development project - Work closely with and provide strong inputs to a team of talented NEXTSTEP developers - Provide all database administration - Design, configure and deploy a database existing on a WAN - Continue to take on more responsibilities as a NEXTSTEP developer - Work in an environment that is flexible, relaxed and technically challenging. Founded in 1992, BLaCKSMITH, Inc. is dedicated to providing custom and commercial software solutions to customers who wish to capitalize on the advantages of object-oriented software. The company offers a comfortable and flexible work environment and is located in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Please send resumes to: Denise Britti 9401 Mathy Drive, Suite 300 Fairfax, VA 22031 (800) 619-6147 (703) 250-1741 (703) 250-1744 Fax Plain Text, NeXT Mail, or MIME: info@blacksmith.com We look forward to hearing from you!
From: Mike Hovan <mhovan@blcksmth.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: BLACKSMITH Seeking a Telecommunications Specialist for a Communications Systems Engineering Position Date: 3 Apr 1995 14:48:00 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3lpft0$7h2@digifix.digifix.com> BLaCKSMITH, Inc.is looking for a qualified telecommunications specialist to join its rapidly growing contracting division. This candidate will serve as a systems architect, designing, developing and implementing a network solution for a Government agency as part of a large-scale, object-oriented development program. The successful candidate will have: - Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Engineering with a concentration in communications - Minimum three to five years of experience in networking and communications - Experience designing a WAN - Working knowledge of LAN and WAN technologies including: - token ring, Ethernet, ISDN and T1 - FDDI, ATM and Sonet - Working knowledge of TCP/IP and SNA - Experience with bridges, routers and hubs - Working knowledge of UNIX - NEXTSTEP experience helpful As a communications engineer, the successful candidate will: - Work on-site in Baltimore, MD on an award-winning development project - Architect and develop a network solution that will be deployed city-wide - Work closely with a team of talented NEXTSTEP developers - Work in an environment that is flexible, relaxed and technically challenging. Founded in 1992, BLaCKSMITH, Inc. is dedicated to providing custom and commercial software solutions to customers who wish to capitalize on the advantages of object-oriented software. The company offers a comfortable and flexible work environment and is located in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Please send resumes to: Denise Britti 9401 Mathy Drive, Suite 300 Fairfax, VA 22031 (800) 619-6147 (703) 250-1741 (703) 250-1744 Fax Plain Text, NeXT Mail, or MIME: info@blacksmith.com We look forward to hearing from you!
From: Mike Hovan <mhovan@blcksmth.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: BLACKSMITH Seeking Experienced NEXTSTEP Developer Date: 3 Apr 1995 14:48:44 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3lpfuc$7i0@digifix.digifix.com> BLaCKSMITH, Inc., developers of CHaRTSMITH, NEXTSTEP's most popular business productivity application for charting and graphing, is looking for an experienced NEXTSTEP developer to join its NEXTSTEP/Openstep contracting division. The candidate will participate in full life-cycle application development. The initial deployment phase is expected to be in Q4, 1995. The work environment is flexible, relaxed and technically challenging. The successful candidate will have: - Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent work experience - Minimum five years of development experience in C/C++ and UNIX - Two years of Objective C and NEXTSTEP development experience - Working knowledge of DBKit (EOF knowledge a plus) - Experience with RDBMS (Oracle or Sybase) As an experienced developer, the successful candidate will: - Work on-site in Baltimore, MD on an award-winning NEXTSTEP development project - Work closely with a team of talented NEXTSTEP developers and provide valuable input and direction - Have the opportunity to migrate into a management position on the development team Founded in 1992, BLaCKSMITH, Inc. is dedicated to providing custom and commercial software solutions to customers who wish to capitalize on the advantages of object-oriented software. The company offers a comfortable and flexible work environment and is located in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Please send resumes to: Denise Britti 9401 Mathy Drive, Suite 300 Fairfax, VA 22031 (800) 619-6147 (703) 250-1741 (703) 250-1744 Fax Plain Text, NeXT Mail, or MIME: info@blacksmith.com We look forward to hearing from you!
From: maarten@icgned.nl Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOBS: Software Development at IC Group Date: 3 Apr 1995 14:45:11 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3lpfnn$7em@digifix.digifix.com> 3 April 1995 Software Developers sought IC Group The Netherlands is in search of full time Software Developers to join our development team. IC Group is the premier provider of object-oriented client/server solutions in the Benelux. It's primary target markets include financial services, telecommunication and publishing. IC Groups' main development-environment is NEXTSTEP/OpenStep. - Responsibilities - * Contribute to the design and specification of productivity applications * Create implementation designs and schedules * Code, test, and debug * Ship high quality applications - Skills and Experience Required - * 1 or more years professional NEXTSTEP application development experience * Experience with several OO-methods * User interface design skills and experience are desirable, but not required * Familiarity with Solaris * B.S. in Computer Science or related areas * systematic, creative - Benefits - * Opportunity to work in state of the art object oriented environments * Work in small, highly motivated teams, in a pleasant and collegial professional environment * Competitive compensation * Free coffee (no decaf!) * Fun - How to Apply - Resumes may be submitted in any of the following ways (listed in order of preference). The submission deadline is *April 10*. Please be sure to put "Resume for the Software Engineer opening" on your cover sheet. Send e-mail to maarten@icgned.nl. NeXT Mail is best. MIME attachments are acceptable, too. Fax us at +31.10.4470099. Regular Mail is fine too, but doesn't always get the quick response that electronic submissions do. Send mail to: Mr M.J.W.M. Derks IC Group bv PO Box 4254 3006 AG ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS
From: Karen Logsdon <Karen_Logsdon@NeXT.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NeXT SHIPS ENTERPRISE OBJECTS FRAMEWORK RELEASE 1.1 Date: 4 Apr 1995 08:43:01 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3lresl$dua@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Karen Logsdon NeXT Computer, Inc. 415-780-3786 or Lisa Hahn Copithorne & Bellows 415-975-2226 NeXT SHIPS ENTERPRISE OBJECTS FRAMEWORK RELEASE 1.1 Product upgrade enables customers to maintain investment in relational databases while gaining the advantages of object technology REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-April 4, 1995-NeXT Computer, Inc. today shipped Enterprise Objects Framework Release 1.1, a new version of its revolutionary technology which seemlessly integrates object-oriented applications with data from leading relational databases from Oracle Corporation and Sybase, Inc. The Enterprise Objects Framework enables customers to rapidly build reusable business and application-level objects that are independent of underlying databases. With this release, the Enterprise Objects Framework has been optimized for performance in the areas of application start-up time, virtual memory usage and CPU usage. It now includes database adaptors for Sybase System 10 and Oracle7 on all four NEXTSTEP platforms - Intel PC, Motorola 68k, PA-RISC and SPARC. Applications using Enterprise Objects Framework Release 1.1 can now also be deployed on servers from HP, Sun and Digital running their native operating systems, using NeXT's PDO 3.0 portable distributed object model software which runs on HP-UX, SUN OS, Solaris and Digital UNIX operating systems. "Enterprise Objects Framework Release 1.1 is an excellent example of an incremental product improvement. Used in conjunction with industry-standard relational databases, Release 1.1 fetches objects significantly faster than Release 1.0 and DB Kit," said Steven P. Jobs, Chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer, Inc. "When the Enterprise Objects Framework is combined with our PDO - Portable Distributed Objects - technology, customers will see how easy it is to build three tier client server applications that scale across the entire enterprise." Benchmarks Show Performance Dramatically Increased Specifically, Enterprise Objects Framework Release 1.1 has been optimized for performance in three critical areas: application start-up time, virtual memory usage and CPU usage. When measured in tests against Enterprise Objects Framework Release 1.0 and DB Kit, NeXT's previous database product, application start up time was reduced by more than 50%. With NeXT's new Foundation Kit, the virtual memory usage is half the overhead of DB Kit. Finally, CPU usage has been dramatically reduced. In tests, Release 1.1 has been measured to fetch large numbers of objects up to six times faster than Release 1.0 and up to twenty times faster than DB Kit. "We have been very impressed by the Enterprise Objects Framework because it is stable and has given us a major gain in productivity," said Jonathan Weeks, technical architect at McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc. "Using the Enterprise Objects Framework, our lines of application code shrank by 80 percent and developer productivity went way up, so we are looking forward to even greater productivity gains with Release 1.1." Enterprise Objects integrate business data with the business policies that make the data meaningful. For example, a customer credit rating (data) has little meaning separate from the policy that determines credit ratings. In addition, a credit rating that is computed according to an obsolete policy is erroneous. As a result of existing within the NEXTSTEP application development environment, Enterprise Objects can be reused in application after application. Therefore, as business requirements change, the policies in effect for a particular business object can easily be redefined and every application automatically incorporates the new policies. The Enterprise Objects Framework Modules The Enterprise Object Modeler is used by developers to build Enterprise Objects (NeXT's term for business objects); and create a mapping structure that sits between these Enterprise Objects and the databases used by the application. If the structure of the database changes, the Enterprise Object Modeler can be used to reconfigure the mapping structure. The Framework enables Enterprise Objects to run on the NEXTSTEP operating system and is required for all systems on which Enterprise Objects Framework-built applications will be deployed. This module is available for NEXTSTEP today and will be available for the PDO platforms this summer, enabling Enterprise Objects to be deployed on servers running HP-UX, SUN OS, Solaris and Digital UNIX operating systems. The adaptor layer provides database independence by enabling the Framework to communicate to a variety of RDBMSs, transparent to Enterprise Objects. Today, database adaptors for Oracle and Sybase are bundled with the product. Other adaptors are available from database vendors and third party developers. Pricing and Availability Enterprise Objects Framework Release 1.1 is available today at a U.S. list price of $299. Upgrades from Enterprise Objects Framework 1.0 are $199. NeXT Computer, Inc. NeXT develops and markets OpenStep, the industry's first and most advanced object environment. OpenStep versions have been announced which will run on several operating systems, including NeXT's own MachOS, Sun's Solaris, Digital's OSF/1 and Microsoft's Windows NT and Windows 95. OpenStep's object-oriented technology allows corporate customers to rapidly create and deploy three-tier, client-server, mission critical custom applications. NeXT is headquartered in Redwood City, California, and has offices in North America, London, Paris, Munich and Tokyo. NeXT, the NeXT logo, NEXTSTEP, PDO, Portable Distributed Objects, the PDO logo and Enterprise Objects are trademarks or registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: Karen Logsdon <Karen_Logsdon@NeXT.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NeXT ACQUIRES RIGHTS TO OBJECTIVE-C PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE FROM STEPSTONE Date: 4 Apr 1995 08:43:05 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3lresp$duh@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Karen Logsdon NeXT Computer, Inc. 415-780-3786 or K.K. Tan The Stepstone Corporation 203-426-1875 NeXT ACQUIRES RIGHTS TO OBJECTIVE-C PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE FROM STEPSTONE REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-April 4, 1995-NeXT Computer, Inc. and The Stepstone Corporation today announced that NeXT has acquired all of Stepstone's rights in the Objective-Ci programming language and the Objective-C trademark. As part of this agreement, NeXT will license Stepstone to continue to market Stepstone's version of Objective-C software in its compiler products. Objective-C is the premier C-based object-oriented programming language utilized in NeXT's highly-acclaimed NEXTSTEP software. Originally developed by Stepstone, and extended and enhanced by NeXT, Objective-C is gaining wider popularity through the success of NEXTSTEP. It is NeXT's intention to submit its Objective-C language specification to standards bodies, such as ANSI, for adoption as an open, industry-standard, object-oriented programming language. "We are pleased to unify the Objective-C world, and plan on offering our Objective-C specification as an open, industry standard," said Steven P. Jobs, Chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer, Inc. "NeXT has the momentum in the object market to drive an open, Objective-C standard." "Stepstone is very pleased that NeXT is taking the lead to make Objective-C an open, industry standard. We look forward to the standardization of the Objective-C language and the increased visibility of Objective-C that will result," said K.K. Tan, President of The Stepstone Corporation. The Stepstone Corporation Stepstone develops and markets object-oriented software components for use with the Objective-C language. Since 1983, Stepstone has been providing solutions for the development of software components and systems through the organization of data and procedures. Stepstone is headquartered in Sandy Hook, Connecticut. NeXT Computer, Inc. NeXT develops and markets OpenStep, the industry's first and most advanced object environment. OpenStep versions have been announced which will run on several operating systems, including NeXT's own MachOS, Sun's Solaris, Digital's OSF/1 and Microsoft's Windows NT and Windows 95. OpenStep's object-oriented technology allows corporate customers to rapidly create and deploy three-tier, client-server, mission critical custom applications. NeXT is headquartered in Redwood City, California, and has offices in North America, London, Paris, Munich and Tokyo. # # # # NeXT, the NeXT logo, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP are trademarks or registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: Karen Logsdon <Karen_Logsdon@NeXT.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NeXT SHIPS NEXTSTEP 3.3 FOR SUN AND HP WORKSTATIONS AND NEXTSTEP DEVELOPER 3.3 Date: 4 Apr 1995 08:43:11 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3lresv$duo@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Karen Logsdon NeXT Computer, Inc. 415-780-3786 or Lisa Hahn Copithorne & Bellows 415-975-2226 NeXT SHIPS NEXTSTEP 3.3 FOR SUN AND HP WORKSTATIONS AND NEXTSTEP DEVELOPER 3.3 NeXT products now available on Intel PCs, Sun and HP Workstations REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-April 4, 1995-NeXT Computer, Inc. today announced that it is shipping NEXTSTEP Release 3.3 for SPARC and PA-RISC workstations and NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.3 for Intel, SPARC, PA-RISC and Motorola 68k workstations. The release of these products marks the first time corporate customers can simultaneously develop and deploy robust object-oriented, client/server applications on Intel PCs, Sun and HP workstations. NEXTSTEP Release 3.3, shipping since December for Intel PCs and now for Sun and Hewlett-Packard workstations, provides greater support for corporate enterprise environments by addressing critical deployment issues. "With NEXTSTEP for SPARC workstations, Sun and NeXT are providing customers with proven object software technology today," said Edward Zander, president of Sun Microsystems Computer Company. "We encourage Sun customers to get started today with NEXTSTEP in preparation for our OpenStep on Solaris implementation." NEXTSTEP Developer 3.3 provides a stepping-stone to the industry-standard OpenStep object-oriented application framework. It is a tool developers, who are planning to use a cross-platform implementation of OpenStep, can use today to prepare for OpenStep on Windows NT, Windows 95, Solaris and OSF/1. Applications developed with these tools can be converted to OpenStep applications in the future. Specifically, NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.3 includes improved C++ support; multiple architecture binary support for four platforms; improved visual development tools; and feature enhancements. "These products are important milestones for NeXT because they solidify our commitment to our partners Sun and Hewlett-Packard," said Steven P. Jobs, chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer, Inc. "This release is also significant for our Fortune 1000 customers because the products we are shipping today provide developers with a stepping-stone to the industry object standard-OpenStep." NEXTSTEP Release 3.3 Now Available On RISC Platforms With this release, customers with Sun and HP workstations can now gain the benefits of object-oriented NEXTSTEP for the enterprise-wide deployment of object-oriented custom applications that those with Intel PCs already enjoy. NEXTSTEP Release 3.3 provides greater support for large-scale environments typical of NeXT's corporate customers. Specifically, it addresses issues such as interoperability, scalability and ease of use that are critical to application deployment. For example, the task of system administration is reduced by the capability provided to system administrators to do a network installation. Today, NEXTSTEP can be fully installed and configured to a corporate network in less than one hour. Customers will see enhancements to NeXTmail, such as MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) support, which give them greater flexibility in how electronic mail is delivered, accessed, managed and stored. Additionally, NEXTSTEP for PA-RISC and SPARC supports multiple monitors for a virtual desktop, enabling users to drag windows from one monitor to another. New Developer Product Provides Stepping-Stone To OpenStep NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.3 is designed to aid customers who need to rapidly develop robust and easy-to-maintain client/server applications. It is also a stepping-stone for developers planning to deploy OpenStep on Windows NT, Windows 95, Solaris and OSF/1 applications in the future. The visual development tools, including NeXT's industry-acclaimed Interface Builder, have been improved in this release to ease development and promote greater object re-use. For example, new tools enable developers to navigate the Foundation class clusters more easily and developers can now build complete palettes containing precompiled objects for rapid re-use without writing code. NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.3 also includes improved C++ support. The new C++ compiler, which supports multiple inheritance and templates, allows developers to create C++ objects as well as Objective C objects. NEXTSTEP Developer 3.3 continues to support Objective C++, NeXT's integrated Objective C & C++ compiler. For those operating in heterogeneous computing environments, NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.3 enables customers to build enterprise-wide, client/server applications to run on any of four hardware platforms - Intel PCs, PA-RISC and SPARC workstations and NeXT Computers. For example, developers can create a single executable, install the application on a network and run the application on any of the four architectures. NEXTSTEP Developer 3.3's extended Driver Kit provides fully object-oriented class libraries that allow developers to develop drivers for new PC technologies, including portables. It supports PCI, PCMCIA and Advanced Power Management. Additionally, open application APIs, such as IP Multicast, provide support for broadcast messaging and the framework for multimedia networking and live information feeds. Pricing and availability NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.3 is available now for $4,999, with upgrades priced at $1,249. NEXTSTEP Release 3.3 is available for $799, with upgrades priced at $199. Those interested in obtaining more information about these products can access datasheets and hardware compatibility guides via the World Wide Web at http://www.next.com/ or via NeXTanswers (NeXT's technical support free information retrieval system) at nextanswers@next.com, 415-780-3990 (fax) or ftp.next.com. NeXT Computer, Inc. NeXT develops and markets OpenStep, the industry's first and most advanced object environment. OpenStep versions have been announced which will run on several operating systems, including NeXT's own MachOS, Sun's Solaris, Digital's OSF/1 and Microsoft's Windows NT and Windows 95. OpenStep's object-oriented technology allows corporate customers to rapidly create and deploy three-tier, client-server, mission critical custom applications. NeXT is headquartered in Redwood City, California, and has offices in North America, London, Paris, Munich and Tokyo. # # # # NeXT, the NeXT logo, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP are trademarks or registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: Wes Carrington <wes@opensource.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: OpenSource, Inc. Announces full line of SPARC-Based NEXTSTEP Workstations! Date: 4 Apr 1995 08:43:15 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3lret3$duv@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: OpenSource, Inc. 1776 Lincoln Street, Suite 1012 Denver, CO 80203 Toll Free: 1-800-TRY-OPEN (879-6736) Phone: 1-303-861-4411 Fax: 1-303-861-2393 E-mail: info@opensource.com OpenSource, Inc. Announces Full Line Of SPARC(tm)-Based NEXTSTEP Workstations! DENVER, COLORADO - April 3, 1995. OpenSource Inc. today announced the newest addition to its hardware line, the OpenStation 5s and 20s workstations for NEXTSTEP v.3.3 for SPARC processors. These systems are 100% compatible with Sun Microsystems' Sparc 5 and Sparc 20 workstations. They are the first SPARC-based systems available to come pre-installed with NEXTSTEP. The OpenStation 5s and 20s are low cost, high performance desktop systems. OpenSource also builds the popular OpenStation 5i Pentium workstations and offers Canon's object.stations. OpenSource also represents hundreds of 3rd party software applications. "In the short term, our SPARC line allows us to offer incredibly fast, highly integrated workstations for NEXTSTEP users. Ultimately, as present Solaris users migrate to OpenStep, the OpenStation 5s and 20s will allow us to agressively support them as well. We believe all of our hardware bases are now covered." said Wes Carrington, OpenSource's Vice President. ----OPENSTATION 5s WORKSTATION---- The OpenStation 5s is a compact, desktop workstation that is based on the MicroSPARCII(tm) processor. It comes pre-installed with NEXTSTEP v. 3.3 for SPARC processors. Processor and Performance: MicroSPARCII(tm) Processor running at 70mhz or 85mhz, with SPARC reference MMU with 256 contexts, 8-KB data and 16-KB instruction on-chip cache. The 70mhz and 85mhz models perform at 57 or 64 SPECint92 and 47.3 or 54.6 SPECfp92 respectively. Memory: Choice of either PS/2 or Sun-style memory, with 8 memory banks. Maximum of 256MB of RAM (8X32MB SIMMS). Standard Interfaces: Ethernet: AUI interface with Twisted Pair adapter. 10-MB/sec coaxial. SCSI: 10-MB/sec SCSI-2 (synchronous) Serial: Two S-232/RS-423 serial ports Parallel: Centronics-compatible bidirectional parallel port. Audio: CD-quality 16-bit audio, 8 to 48KHz, internal speaker. S-BUS: Three expansion slots; 32-bit data bus width. Mass Storage: Floppy: Standard 3.5-in MS-DOS(r)/IBM(r) compatible (1.44MB formatted) Internal Disk: Two 3.5-in disks (520 MB, 1 GB, or 2 GB formatted) Graphics: Frame buffer: CG3/SVGA 8-bit card Accelerator: GX/TGX+ accelerator Monitor Options: Various Options in 15", 17", 20", and 21" Models (1152X900@8bit resolution). Input Devices: Keyboard: Sun type 4 or type 5 compatible Mouse: 3-button mechanical (optical optional) Other: AC Voltage: 87.5-132 VAC or 180-264 VAC AC Frequency: 47-63 Hz Safety: UL, CSA, TUV RF1/EMI: FCC, FTZ Dimensions: 3" Height by 16.5" Width by 17" Depth ----OPENSTATION 20s WORKSTATION and 20s TOWER SERVER---- The OpenStation 20s is a powerful desktop workstation that is based on the Superscalar SPARC(tm) processor. The OpenStation 20s Tower offers the same performance as the 20s but comes in a tower case with significantly increased expandability. Both come pre-installed with NEXTSTEP v. 3.3 for SPARC processors. Processor and Performance: Either one or two Superscalar SPARC version 8 Processors running at 50mhz or 60mhz, with SPARC reference MMU with 65,536 contexts, 20-KB data and 16-KB instruction on-chip cache. Secondary 1MB external optional. The 50mhz and 60mhz models perform at 69.2 or 88.9 SPECint and 78.3 or 102.8 SPECfp respectively. Multiple processors will increase these ratings roughly proportionally. Memory: Sun SPARC 20 style memory. Maximum of 512MB of RAM (8X64MB SIMMS). Standard Interfaces: Ethernet: 10-MB/sec twisted pair (10baseT). AUI optional w/ adapter. SCSI: 10-MB/sec SCSI-2 (synchronous) Serial: Two S-232/RS-423 serial ports Parallel: Centronics-compatible bidirectional parallel port. Audio: CD-quality 16-bit audio, 8 to 48KHz, internal speaker. ISDN: Dual basic-rate (2B + D_ interface: 144 Kb/sec S-BUS: Four expansion slots; 32/64-bit data bus width. S-BUS (Tower Config): Optional expansion for 9 slots, 32-64 bit. Mass Storage: Floppy: Standard 3.5-in MS-DOS(r)/IBM(r) compatible (720K/1.44MB formatted) Internal Disk: Two 3.5-in disks (520 MB, 1 GB, or 2 GB formatted) Internal Disk (Tower Config): Six 3.5" hard disks and Three 5.25" devices Graphics: Accelerator: GX/TGX+ accelerator. 8-bit 2-D/3-D wireframe, 1152X900@ 8bit. SX graphics card offers 24-bit color at 1152X900. Monitor Options: Various Options in 15", 17", 20", and 21" Models (1152X900@8bit resolution). Input Devices: Keyboard: Sun type 4 or type 5 compatible Mouse: 3-button mechanical (optical optional) Other: AC Voltage: 87.5-132 VAC or 180-264 VAC AC Frequency: 47-63 Hz Watt: 165watt Power supply (Desktop), 300watt Power Supply (Tower) Safety: UL, CSA, TUV RF1/EMI: FCC, FTZ Dimensions: 3" Height by 16.5" Width by 17" Depth OPENSOURCE, INC. OpenSource is a single-source reseller of third-party applications and pre-configured hardware for the NEXTSTEP operating system. Dedicated to prompt service and quality support, OpenSource offers the most extensive line of NEXTSTEP related products in the industry. OpenSource is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. **Sun, Solaris, and SPARC are trademarks of Sun Microsystems Inc. NEXTSTEP and OpenStep are trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. OpenStation is a trademark of OpenSource Inc. All other trademarks belong to their respective companies.
From: Chris Saldanha <chris@computerActive.on.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Ottawa NeXT User Group, Thursday, April 6 Date: 4 Apr 1995 23:54:37 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3lt49t$jkg@digifix.digifix.com> Ottawa NeXT User Group Meeting on Thursday, April 6, 1995 ========================================================= Where: computerActive inc. 15 Capella Court Unit 128 Nepean, ON Contact: Chris Saldanha, Software Analyst (613) 225-4824 Voice (613) 225-1670 FAX http://www.mae.carleton.ca/~csaldanh chris@computerActive.on.ca csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca NeXTMail and MIME cheerfully accepted! When: 7:00pm, Thursday, April 6 Hope to see you there! --Chris
Belgium.EU.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.moneng.mei.com!hookup!remus.wat.hookup.net!digifix!digifix!not-for-mail From: jrussell@netsurfer.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Netsurfer Announces Netsurfer For NEXTSTEP Date: 4 Apr 1995 16:29:55 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3lsa83$gv4@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information contact: Jeff Russell Netsurfer, Inc. 430 Tenth St. N.W. Suite N-105 Atlanta, GA 30318 USA (404) 815-1050 jrussell@netsurfer.com http://www.netsurfer.com Netsurfer Announces Netsurfer(tm) For NEXTSTEP(tm) Atlanta, GA, April 4, 1995 - Netsurfer, Inc. announces new Internet access software that runs on NEXTSTEP(tm) and soon, OpenStep(tm). The software, Netsurfer(tm), provides integrated World-Wide Web, Gopher, and FTP access to Personal Computers and Workstations connected to the Internet, all with an easy-to-use NEXTSTEP graphical interface. Netsurfer 1.0 will begin shipping for all NEXTSTEP hardware platforms on April 24. Netsurfer is the most advanced, easy-to-use Internet access software available on any computing platform. Netsurfer gives users a simple, icon based index for saving and retrieving frequently accessed Internet resources. In addition to a multimedia browser for World-Wide Web and Gopher based resources, Netsurfer also provides a graphical browser for navigating FTP file archive servers. Netsurfer features a fully multi-threaded interface, allowing users to perform multiple operations simultaneously. Netsurfer will support the upcoming Secure HTTP specification from the W3 Internet Standards Consortium, providing the capability of performing user authentication and secure transactions over the Internet. In mid-1995, Netsurfer will ship an add-on to Netsurfer, Netsurfer News(tm), that provides a feature-rich interface for reading and posting both plain-text and multimedia enriched (MIME) Internet (USENET) news articles. Netsurfer News adds seamless news reading capability to Netsurfer's simple, easy-to-use graphical interface. Netsurfer will be available directly from Netsurfer via electronic distribution. A single user license for Netsurfer is priced at $195 US. Academic discount price is $39 US. Site licenses are available. ___ Netsurfer, Inc. produces easy-to-use graphical software that allows individuals and organizations to access resources available on the global Internet computer network. Netsurfer and Netsurfer News are trademarks of Netsurfer, Inc. NEXTSTEP and OpenStep are trademarks of Next Computer, Inc.
Belgium.EU.net!EU.net!news.sprintlink.net!hookup!remus.wat.hookup.net!digifix!digifix!not-for-mail From: berger@mindspring.com (Willi Berger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NEXTSTEP Programming - SQL Date: 4 Apr 1995 17:09:25 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3lsci5$hbr@digifix.digifix.com> Cap Gemini America is looking for NEXTSTEP developers full time positions. The job requires the following: - Minimum 2 Years Commercial Programming experience - At least 2 years of COMMERCIAL NEXTSTEP Programming experience working with Appkit - SQL and one of the following RDBMS (Informix ,Oracle, Sybase DB2 & Ingres) - DBKit or EOF a big plus Work will be starting in the middle of the April and will continue for a minimum of 1 year and could possibly last 4-5 years. If you are interested please send rtf version of your resume to berger@mindspring.com. thanks willi Willi Berger berger@mindspring.com
From: berezaw@river.it.gvsu.edu (Bill Bereza) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Docgen v.0.2.0 beta, a document generator for Objective-C class files. Date: 5 Apr 1995 15:29:47 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3lur3b$q47@digifix.digifix.com> Announcing Docgen v.0.2.0 beta, a document generator for Objective-C class files. Docgen has been tested on HPPA and NeXT with NextStep 3.2, and on an Amiga with OS 3.0 and GCC. The Docgen archive contains all the necessary source code, and a rudimentary configure script. Docgen is being released under the GNU Public License FTP *** ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/sources/util/docgen-0.2.0.tar.gz Author ****** Email: berezaw@river.it.gvsu.edu S-mail: Bill Bereza 9526 Judson Rd. Ravenna, MI 49451-9427 Docgen ****** docgen is a program to automatically create RTF documentation of Objective C source code. You can run docgen with a starting directory, and docgen will then look for any matching .h and .m class files. From those files it will create NeXT-style documents. Changes ******* <This is the first public release. See the ftp site README or the archive for complete history.> ToDo **** * Look at the code to auto-generate comments. * better handling of instance variables Usage ***** 'docgen -?' or docgen with any unknown option will give you the usage template. Usage: docgen [-d dir] [-l library] [-I headerdirs] [-R] [-v #] [-s string] [-e string] [-x] [-S] [-F] [-C] [-A] [-D] [-d dir] Root dir to begin search for files [-l library] dir to dump RTF files into [-I headerdirs] List of directories separated by ':' [-R] recursively search the header dirs [-s string] Separator for inheritance path output [-v (0-5)] level of verbosity(0 = none, 5 = all) [-e string] Name of directory to put in Declared In: [-x] Don't document methods that begin with _ [-F] Don't check for net-like fancy text. [-S] Sort the methods in the descriptions. [-C] Print the first line of comments. [-A] Auto-document ALL set and get methods. [-D] Show default values for all the above. <See the ftp site README or the archive for complete usage instructions.> Thanks ****** Thanks go to Dr. Carl Erickson for "suggesting" the program, and Jim Wissner and Carl for beta-testing and giving ideas for additions. /* docgen Objective C Document Generator Copyright (C) 1995 Bill Bereza. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */ -- Bill Bereza berezaw@river.it.gvsu.edu <NeXT mail> <PGP>
Belgium.EU.net!EU.net!news.sprintlink.net!hookup!noc.tor.hookup.net!remus.wat.hookup.net!digifix!digifix!not-for-mail From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL (Gerben Wierda) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Easy install POP3 server for NEXTSTEP Date: 5 Apr 1995 15:33:02 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3lur9e$q6i@digifix.digifix.com> For everyone who wants to run a POP3 server on NEXTSTEP, I have submitted one, including binaries for m68k and i486 to ftp.nl.net, in the pub/comp/next directory: ftp://ftp.nl.net/pub/comp/next/Pop3d-RnA-1.0.rtf ftp://ftp.nl.net/pub/comp/next/Pop3d-RnA-1.0.NI.bs.tar.gz This includes the sources (which were taken from the Linux distribution and modified to fit the NEXTSTEP layout. Unpack the archive and follow the simple instructions in the rtf file. R&A, Gerben Wierda (In return I'd like to know what the best POP3 clients for DOS and Windows are that use Packet Drivers (I.e. Eudora over Trumpet Winsock is one). Email: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL Phone/fax: +31 70 3230851
From: info@stone.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: STONE DESIGN Announces 3D Reality 2. Date: 6 Apr 1995 17:52:01 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3m1nq1$6rv@digifix.digifix.com> For more information write info@stone.com or call Katie Graunke at (505) 345-4800 STONE DESIGN Announces 3D Reality 2.0 ALBUQUERQUE, NM, April 7, 1995 - Stone Design announced today that the quad fat 3D Reality will ship in June on the STONE_CD volume 2. Andrew Stone, CEO of Stone Design said, "This version of 3DReality is very cool! " He added, "Don't forget to check out our Web site: http://www.stone.com/stone/." 3DReality 2.0 incorporates several new features, including support for alternate renderers, such as Larry Gritz's Blue Moon Renderer and faster loading times. There are also several bug fixes for this version, making it the best release of Reality to date. 3DReality 2.0 can now run on Motorola, Intel, HP-RISC, or SPARC processors running NEXTSTEP 3.2 or greater. To find out more about 3DReality and Stone Design, visit Stone Design's WWW site: http://www.stone.com/stone/ especially: http://www.stone.com/stone/3DReality_2.0_Features.rtfd.tar.gz http://www.stone.com/stone/3d/3DReality_Info.ps.gz To reach a human, please call 505-345-4800 between 9am and 5pm Mountain Standard Time. *-* Stone Design Corporation of Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 1984, develops a variety of productivity applications for NEXTSTEP. 3D Reality, DataPhile, and Create are trademarks of Stone Design Corporation. The Stone Design logotype is copyright Stone Design 1994. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
From: info@stone.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Stone Design Announces Upgrade Special Offer Date: 6 Apr 1995 17:52:12 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3m1nqc$6s9@digifix.digifix.com> For more information write info@stone.com or call Katie Graunke at (505) 345-4800 Stone Design Announces Special Offer: Buy Now, Get Upgrade Free ALBUQUERQUE, NM, April 7, 1995 - Stone Design announced today that the quad fat versions of DataPhile 3.0, Create 3.0 and 3DReality 2.0 will ship in June, and that all new sales after April 1, 1995 will include the upgrade to the new versions at no extra charge, delivered on the STONE_CD volume 2. Additionally, registered users of Create 1.2 and DataPhile 1.1 can upgrade now to Create 2.1 and DataPhile 2.1 and receive the 3.0 versions free. Andrew Stone, CEO of Stone Design quoted, "This is an incredible deal. Take advantage of it while you can. Wait until you see the STONE_CD V 2!" For more information on these products: http://www.stone.com/stone/ especially: http://www.stone.com/stone/Create_3_Features.rtfd.tar.gz http://www.stone.com/stone/DataPhile_3_Features.rtfd.tar.gz http://www.stone.com/stone/cr/Create_Info.ps.gz http://www.stone.com/stone/dp/DataPhile_Info.ps.gz http://www.stone.com/stone/3d/3DReality_Info.ps.gz To reach a human, please call 505-345-4800 between 9am and 5pm Mountain Standard Time. *-* Stone Design Corporation of Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 1984, develops a variety of productivity applications for NEXTSTEP. 3D Reality, DataPhile, and Create are trademarks of Stone Design Corporation. The Stone Design logotype is copyright Stone Design 1994. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. *DataPhile was named the "The Best DataBase product of 1992" by a Usenet survey.
Belgium.EU.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!hookup!remus.wat.hookup.net!digifix!digifix!not-for-mail From: info@stone.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: STONE DESIGN Announces Create 3.0 Date: 6 Apr 1995 17:50:15 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3m1nmn$6ql@digifix.digifix.com> For more information write info@stone.com or call Katie Graunke at (505) 345-4800 STONE DESIGN Announces Create 3.0 ALBUQUERQUE, NM, April 7, 1995 - Stone Design announced today that the quad fat Create 3.0 will ship in June on the STONE_CD volume 2. Andrew Stone, CEO of Stone Design remarked, "This version of Create is the best ever! It has many requested features and bug fixes that make Create the finest drawing application in the NEXTSTEP market, hands down." Create 3.0 incorporates numerous new features, including, but not limited to: GENERAL: * QUAD Fat Architecture: runs on Motorola, Intel, HP and SPARC. * Autotracing to convert TIFFs to editable graphics. * Support for layers on each page. * Background graphic on each page. * More art galleries for shared access to clip art. * Template files and directories for stationary, forms, etc. * Expanded, updated on-line manual. * Colorful interface. EXPORT, EMBEDDING and LINKS: * EPS exported by Create remains editable by Create. * OOE Level 2 allows embedding Create docs into OpenWrite. * Filter program allows dropping of Create docs into other apps. * Total control over exported TIFFS: bitdepth, compression, etc. * True object links with no redundant storage. MAIL: * Prepare for Mailing to enfold links. * Allow alternate email support addresses. * Allow alternate Mailer to be used. TEXT: * Support for 2-byte fonts, like Kai-Su. * Convert Super Text to Paragraph Text and vice versa. * Text can be automatically "boxed". DESIGN: * Layout Guides for easy placement of objects. * Your custom zooms are remembered and available for all docs. * Multiple objects can receive the same pattern easily. * Predefine your default colors of object's effects. * Composite masks formed from groups. * Reverse path of splines and polylines. * Objects can be "unscaled". Create is THE fully supported drawing application for NEXTSTEP. Create is a multi-page, full color, easy and fun to use graphics program that is perfect for professional artists and non-artists alike. Create's tool palette is highly extensive, including arcs, circles, lines, curves, splines, ovals, rectangles, squares, text, super text, and freehand tools. Create's User PostScript is unique, and perfect for advanced users or users who would like to learn more about PostScript, view, directly edit and repeatedly execute the PostScript code associated with any object created in or imported into the program. To find out more about Create, visit Stone Design's WWW site: http://www.stone.com/stone/ The 3.0 features and fixes are described pictorially in: http://www.stone.com/stone/Create_3_Features.rtfd.tar.gz To reach a human, please call 505-345-4800 between 9am and 5pm Mountain Standard Time. *-* Stone Design Corporation of Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 1984, develops a variety of productivity applications for NEXTSTEP. 3D Reality, DataPhile, and Create are trademarks of Stone Design Corporation. The Stone Design logotype is copyright Stone Design 1994. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
Belgium.EU.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.moneng.mei.com!hookup!remus.wat.hookup.net!digifix!digifix!not-for-mail From: info@stone.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: STONE DESIGN Announces DataPhile 3.0 Date: 6 Apr 1995 17:51:10 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3m1noe$6r8@digifix.digifix.com> For more information write info@stone.com or call Katie Graunke at (505) 345-4800 STONE DESIGN Announces DataPhile 3.0 ALBUQUERQUE, NM, April 7, 1995 - Stone Design announced today that the quad fat DataPhile 3.0 will ship in June on the STONE_CD volume 2. Andrew Stone, CEO of Stone Design said, "We're working hard to make it this release the best ever, and it's going great thanks to the speed of NEXTSTEP on a SPARC machine. This version will once again confirm Stone Design's committment to the growing NEXTSTEP community and to the betterment of 3rd party applications. Try it and see for yourself!" DataPhile 3.0 incorporates numerous new features requested by users, including, but not limited to: NEW DATA TYPES: * Summary Fields - total your data. * Time Fields. * Duration Fields - great for client billing! * URL Fields - store and search your favorite WWW sites. GENERAL: * QUAD Fat Architecture: runs on Motorola, Intel, HP and SPARC. * Pop up lists. * Radio Buttons. * Search on non-alphanumeric characters. * EMACS key bindings. * Faster Navigation and Searches. * Expanded, updated on-line manual. * Ability to import fixed-length data. * More Colorful Interface. REPORTS: * Headers & footers printed first/last page only. * Two Page Views. * Sequence Number Function. * Choose envelope alignment for various printers. * Works with XANTHUS's OpenWrite and OpenMerge. MAIL: * Allow alternate email support addresses. * Allow alternate Mailer to be used. DESIGN: * Layout Guides for easy placement of objects. * Grids in Design Mode now a user preference. * Ability to reorder entry lists. FIXES: * Many performance enhancements and bug fixes. DataPhile is an award winning* flatfile database application for NEXTSTEP. For more information on DataPhile 3.0's features and fixes, get this file: http://www.stone.com/stone/DataPhile_3_Features.rtfd.tar.gz For more info on DataPhile and Stone Design, visit: http://www.stone.com/stone/ To reach a human, please call 505-345-4800 between 9am and 5pm Mountain Standard Time. *-* Stone Design Corporation of Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 1984, develops a variety of productivity applications for NEXTSTEP. 3D Reality, DataPhile, and Create are trademarks of Stone Design Corporation. The Stone Design logotype is copyright Stone Design 1994. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. *DataPhile was named the "The Best DataBase product of 1992" by a Usenet survey.
From: Ralph_Zazula@next.com (Ralph Zazula) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: RZToDoList.app / RZBrowserCell Date: 8 Apr 1995 00:43:02 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3m548m$8o4@digifix.digifix.com> I've uploaded the following files to ftp.cs.orst.edu: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/util/RZToDoList.app.compressed ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/sources/util/RZToDoList.src.compressed RZToDoList.app.compressed a todo-list application that demonstrates the use of a custom NXBrowserCell subclass, RZBrowserCell (4-way fat: m68k i386 hppa sparc) RZToDoList.src.compressed source to the above application and the RZBrowserCell class RZToDoList_README..rtf some text... About RZToDoList.app: -------------------- This is a simple to-do list application with various types of items that can be added: appointments, low-high priority items. The application has a simple heuristic built in for sorting items (item raise in the list as deadlines draw near). This application started as a test-bed for a custom NXBrowserCell I developed called RZBrowserCell. About RZBrowserCell: ------------------- This NXBrowserCell subclass provides a simple way to develop browser-based interfaces similar to that found in Mail.app (and RZToDoList!). A RZBrowserCell can display tab-aligned icons and text in multiple fonts and colors. Feel free to send me comments or feedback on this code. Enjoy! Z -- Ralph Zazula NeXT Computer, Inc. Ralph_Zazula@next.com (415) 780-2893
From: "Geoffrey S. Knauth" <gsk@marble.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: mixdriver 2.04 for NEXTSTEP 3.3 Date: 8 Apr 1995 00:44:09 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3m54ap$8ob@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: i.link GmbH Piers Uso Walter Nollendorfstrasse 11-12 10777 Berlin Federal Republic of Germany Phone: +49 30 -216 20 48 Fax: +49 30 -215 82 74 Email: info@ilink.de (NeXTMail, MIME) ANNOUNCING THE RELEASE OF THE MIXDRIVER VERSION 2.04 Update to NEXTSTEP Telecommunication System Is Now Available Berlin, Germany, April 4, 1995 -- A new release of the mixdriver has just been publically released. It is required to run mix 2.03 under NEXTSTEP 3.3/Motorola. The mixdriver-2.04-update may be obtained via ftp to any of the following sites: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu:/software/NeXT/sources/drivers/mixdriver-2.04-update.tar.gz ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de:/pub/NeXT/demos/mixdriver-2.04-update.tar.gz ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/communications/commercial/mixdriver-2.04-update.tar.gz To unpack, use: gzcat mixdriver-2.04-update.tar.gz | tar xf - *** Please read the ReadMe files before installing *** sum mixdriver-2.04-update.tar.gz 23405 22 mix is the NEXTSTEP telecommunication system for fax, voice and data - advanced digital telephone answering machine - digital recording of announcements and messages - high quality send and receive of fax pages - automatic service detection to differentiate between incoming voice call, fax, and modem - scalable soft- and hardware architecture mix is available for NEXTSTEP / Intel and NeXT Computer. mix for NEXTSTEP combines all telephone based communication forms (voice, fax, data) in a flexible way, e.g. as an advanced digital answering machine, fax system, or extensible computer telephone integration (CTI) system that forms the basis for many CTI applications. With its scalable hardware and software architecture, mix can be extended from a simple system for small offices all the way to complex information retrieval systems. Let the caller browse through acoustical menus to retrieve the desired information. Provide information via fax, without raising a finger - the callers select their fax documents by themselves. Automate your order processing via fax or telephone. Or use your telephone to retrieve information while being out of the office. Registered users may contact the i.link support at support@ilink.de or the above address. Acknowledgement: We thank the Internet community for making this painless way of updating possible. If you don't like this, please contact us. All trademarks used herein belong to their respective owners.
From: Jeffrey Huff <jhuff@next.mc.maricopa.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Phoenix Area NeXTSTEP Users Group - April 13 Date: 8 Apr 1995 00:44:36 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3m54bk$8oi@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Meeting When: 7:00 PM April 13, 1995 Where: Mesa Community College 1833 W. Southern Ave Mesa, AZ 85202 Different Room! Park on West side of campus First building south of the MCC Library (Look for Center for Teaching and Learning sign) Agenda: Announcements & Rumors Open Forum for ANY NeXT related questions User Group Business FREE GS Corp CDROMs!!! Donated to the Group by GS Corp PheNUG World Wide Web Page Design Discussion to get some ideas for the group home page. For more information contact: Brad Kincaid at kincaid@next.mc.maricopa.edu or Jeff Huff at jhuff@next.mc.maricopa.edu
From: Roland Telfeyan <roland@telf.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: SEMiNUG - Monday, April 10, 1995 Date: 8 Apr 1995 00:44:59 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3m54cb$8op@digifix.digifix.com> What: Meeting of SEMiNUG (South Eastern Michigan NEXTSTEP Users' Group) (Note the day and location changes.) Date: Monday, April 10, 1995 Time: 7:30 PM Where: The Advanced Technologies Laboratory (ATL) Building 1101 Beal Ave. Ann Arbor, MI ATL is located on the University of Michigan's North Campus. If you're not sure how to get there, send some email to or call one of the people listed below. The schedule for the meeting will be: 7:30 PM - questions 7:40 PM - news items 8:00 PM - Distributed Objects discussion/demo 8:30 PM - answers 8:45 PM - discussion of what's on for next month Come join us for an exciting presentation, spirited talk, helpful Q&A, and some top notch refreshments--featuring another shrimp platter and beverages). If you would like additional directions or information or if you have ideas for topics to be covered in future meetings, contact one of the following: Timothy Mills mills_timothy@network.cfc.com phone: 810-948-4959 Roland Telfeyan roland@telf.com phone: 313-761-9590 Shan Bell bell_shan@network.cfc.com phone: 810-948-3199
From: Neil Greene <neil@bMD.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: bMD Launches TIFFany II 2.3 Prerelease 2 Date: 7 Apr 1995 15:09:26 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3m42l6$59b@digifix.digifix.com> Contact: benchMark Developments, Inc. 11970 Charter Oak Parkway St. Louis, MO 63146 Phone: 314-872-2907 Fax: 314-872-3128 Email: Info@bMD.com bMD Launches TIFFany II 2.3 Prerelease 2 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Quad Architecture APRIL 7, 1995 - ST LOUIS, MO - Caffeine Software and benchMark Developments, Inc. are proud to announce TIFFany II 2.3 is entering its prerelease 2 phase. This release includes several bug fixes, speed enhancements and new features since the 2.01 CD-ROM release. The quadruple architecture of TIFFany II 2.3 is scheduled for final release in late May 1995 and may be upgraded by all registered 2.01 users through bMD for $45.00. Enhancements and New Features List: * Mask Actions Any TIFFany Action object can be used as a mask where the alpha channel describes the intensity of the applied Action. * New Actions (Balance, Clone, Diffusion, ChannelConversionRGB) * New pre-defined actions * Improved online help * Additional tutorials * German language support * New Image Navigator Easily navigate through zoomed images * Multiple action inspectors * Improved CMYK support * OOE Compliant * New-style interpolation and antialiasing methods * Major speed enhancements TIFFany extends NEXTSTEP's intuitive environment into the digital image domain giving the user a powerful means of professional and creative imaging expression. Whether preparing images for press time or designing a new corporate image, TIFFany provides easy access to sophisticated imaging tools otherwise difficult, if not impossible, with other imaging solutions. Simply select one of the 150+ pre-defined actions from TIFFany's signature Action Manager and apply to your image with one of 8 tools. It's that easy. The fun doesn't stop there. Can't find an action to suit your needs? Define your own. TIFFany comes bundled with 41 Action Families that can be used to tailor your own set of actions without any special coding. Each Action Family has a set of parameters that may be adjusted to produce a number of special effects. Group actions by project for easy retrieval or save your actions in different Action Manager File for easy organization. Other Features: * Multi Threaded Apply actions images in the background while continuing your work on another. * Unlimited undo * Animation support Apply TIFFany's actions to a series of frames Some actions may be set to change over time. * Morphing Morph from image to image or animation to animation. * Processes Group actions into a "process" that may be applied to an image. Processes may be applied to a list of images in the background. * API Developers can write their own custom modules and actions with TIFFany's API. WHAT SOME OF THE USERS ARE SAYING ABOUT TIFFANY Andrew Stone, CEO of Stone Design Corp "The guys at Caffeine Software and benchMark have done it again! They keep improving this amazing program, which sets the standard for all other image manipulation tools. Its seamless integration with other NEXTSTEP design apps, such as Create and 3DReality, make it a Must-Have" Michael Burgstahler, Two Tribes GMBH "Doing professional image retouching with TIFFany has vastly improved our creative work and made our customers stare. Compared against the competing products on NEXTSTEP or Macintosh, it's a pleasure to work with TIFFany's superior, well-organized and customizable user interface rather than endless lists of fancy filters and deeply hidden functionality. With TIFFany, your ideas work straight and fast - it's as multi-threaded as our minds!" Dino Bagdadi, Partner, ex nihilo, inc. "Tiffany II has some features we can't live without! TIFFany 0II's batch processing is one of the most powerful and flexible features making our work easier by automating our image processing needs." Alexander Levine, Review Editor, NEXT IN LINE "In the area of image processing, TIFFany II offers the first example of an application which fully exploits the potential of NEXTSTEP. Users will be impressed by performance and a good range of features." HOT TO GET TIFFANY TIFFany is available via anonymous ftp to ftp.bmd.com, in single and multi-architecture binaries for Motorola, Intel, HP-PARISC and SPARC. <URL:ftp://ftp.bMD.com/pub/tiffany> TIFFany may also be found at your favoriate NEXT ftp site. HOW TO JOIN THE BETA PROGRAM Users wishing to participate in the Beta Release program may join by sending email to Majordomo@bMD.com with the body text "subscribe t2-beta email_address". Users participating in the Beta Program will receive temporary license keys to fully activate the TIFFany II imaging software. For more information, send email to Majordomo@bMD.com with the body text "help". PRICING TIFFany II 2.3 Commercial $695.00 Educational $345.00 TIFFany II 2.3 with Tailor Office 2.0 Commercial $725.00 TIFFany II 2.3 with Tailor Publishing Commercial $1225.00 TIFFany II 2.3 with Create _or_ 3DReality Commercial $799.00 TIFFany II 2.3 with Create _and_ 3DReality Commercial $999.00 TIFFany II 2.3 for OpenWrite users (Does not include price of OpenWrite. One per OpenWrite purchase) Commercial $599.00 TIFFany II 2.01 to 2.3 Upgrade All $45.00 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The TIFFany logo is a trademark of Caffeine Software, the bMD logo is a trademark of benchMark Developments, Inc. and NEXTSTEP is a trademark of NeXT, Inc, All other brand names mentioned are trademarks of their respective owners.
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Summary 78 - Articles posted since April 3 1995 Date: 10 Apr 1995 04:00:09 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3maag9$mh0@digifix.digifix.com> Summary: 78 Postings since: April 3 1995 [3094] ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines [3095] NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet [3096] JOBS: Software Development at IC Group [3097] JOB: BLACKSMITH Seeking Junior And Senior Developers [3098] JOB: BLACKSMITH Seeking DBA Interested in becoming NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP Developer [3099] JOB: BLACKSMITH Seeking a Telecommunications Specialist for a Communications Systems Engineering Position [3100] JOB: BLACKSMITH Seeking Experienced NEXTSTEP Developer [3101] NeXT SHIPS ENTERPRISE OBJECTS FRAMEWORK RELEASE 1.1 [3102] NeXT ACQUIRES RIGHTS TO OBJECTIVE-C PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE FROM STEPSTONE [3103] NeXT SHIPS NEXTSTEP 3.3 FOR SUN AND HP WORKSTATIONS AND NEXTSTEP DEVELOPER 3.3 [3104] PRESS RELEASE: OpenSource, Inc. Announces full line of SPARC-Based NEXTSTEP Workstations! [3105] PRESS RELEASE: Netsurfer Announces Netsurfer For NEXTSTEP [3106] JOB: NEXTSTEP Programming - SQL [3107] MEETING: Ottawa NeXT User Group, Thursday, April 6 [3108] SUBMISSION: Docgen v.0.2.0 beta, a document generator for Objective-C class files. [3109] SUBMISSION: Easy install POP3 server for NEXTSTEP [3110] PRESS RELEASE: STONE DESIGN Announces Create 3.0 [3111] PRESS RELEASE: STONE DESIGN Announces DataPhile 3.0 [3112] PRESS RELEASE: STONE DESIGN Announces 3D Reality 2. [3113] PRESS RELEASE: Stone Design Announces Upgrade Special Offer [3114] PRESS RELEASE: bMD Launches TIFFany II 2.3 Prerelease 2 [3115] SUBMISSION: RZToDoList.app / RZBrowserCell [3116] SUBMISSION: mixdriver 2.04 for NEXTSTEP 3.3 [3117] MEETING: Phoenix Area NeXTSTEP Users Group - April 13 [3118] MEETING: SEMiNUG - Monday, April 10, 1995 If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com. Archives -------- Individual messages are available at http://www.stepwise.com/comp.sys.next.announce/csna-78/**article_number** where **article_number** is the [xxxx] beside the Subject line above.. FTP archives: ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives/csna-78.tar.gz WWW archives: http://www.stepwise.com/comp.sys.next.announce/csna-78 Article submissions : next-announce@digifix.com Submission guidelines: next-announce-guidelines@digifix.com Suggestions/comments : next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines Date: 10 Apr 1995 04:15:06 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3mabca$mj6@digifix.digifix.com> NEW POLICY: =========== In an attempt to standardize the format of the FTP locations for files, all ftp addresses should be submitted using the Universal Resource Locator (URL) format. (for example) ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/submissions/file.tar.gz Please try and give an indication of where you expect the file will end up on the archive site, in the same notation. Cross Posting ============= I try very hard to make sure that postings get out in a timely fashion. Most go out in less than 24 hours. Postings that require editing because they do not contain information in a useable format, or have already been posted to other comp.sys.next.* groups may be delayed, or returned to you. If your posting is rejected, I'll try and make suggestions about what should be changed where possible. Obviously off charter messages (spams, open-letters, etc) may not get a response. Content 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 _IN URL FORMAT_ supported CPU's for binary distributions, OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting, time of meeting, speakers expected Signatures 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. Announcement of Product Sales ============================= This is an area of announcement that has caused me terrible grief in recent months. The policy is tilted towards the ISV, which has worked out well in the past. Posts that announce sales of products that you are DIRECTLY involved in the development of are OK. Posts from companies trying to sell other products are evaluated on an individual basis. Time Sensitive Announcements ============================ Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date. 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.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet Date: 10 Apr 1995 04:15:14 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3mabci$mj6@digifix.digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site comp.sys.next newsgroups related newsgroups comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list ftp sites NeXTanswers Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site =============================================== This online community resource includes - 200+ ISV company pages - 400+ ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - NEXTSTEP User Group Directory - comp.sys.next archives - User Group information - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.stepwise.com/ Additionally there is a Mail Server available. You can get information on using the mail server at ns-products@stepwise.com Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise, please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com. eduSTEP WWW site ================ http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/ eduStep aims to provide up-to-date information on: - NextStep tools and projects for scientists. - Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist). - A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with customers in the educational community. - Conferences, meetings, workshops - Major projects, such as SciTools, EMBL's project to develop a NextStep scientific work environment NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site ============================ http://www.next.com comp.sys.next.* newsgroups ========================== news: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. news: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. Archives are available by ftp at ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. news: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. news: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. news: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. news: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!!! news: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. news:comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. news:comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. Related Newsgroups ================== news: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. news:comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. news: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 ============= ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions ftp://nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff, but very short on disk space ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: In Germany. ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://ftp.next.com: See the below ftp://ftp.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/sci-tools/eduStep ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com ===================================== [from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help] 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, read them on the world-wide web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS. 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 REPLY-TO address sets the e-mail address NeXTanswers uses 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 VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web server at URL http://www.next.com. 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. USING NEXTANSWERS BY MODEM To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at (415) 780-2965. Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section. From there you can download NeXTanswers documents. FOR MORE HELP... If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available from NeXTanswers, call the Support Hotline at 1-800-955-NeXT (outside the U.S. call +1-415-424-8500) to speak to a NEXTSTEP Technical Support Technician. If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must make this call to the hotline. Otherwise, hotline support is on a pay-per-call basis. Thanks for using NeXTanswers! Written by: Eric P. Scott (mailto:eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU) and Scott Anguish (mailto:sanguish@digifix.com) Additions from: Greg Anderson (mailto:Greg_Anderson@afs.com) Michael Pizolato (mailto:Michael_Pizolato@afs.com) Dan Grillo (mailto:dan_grillo@next.com)
From: "Tom R.Hageman" <tom@basil.icce.rug.nl> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: gzip_package 1.7 Date: 10 Apr 1995 00:16:23 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3maben$mkh@digifix.digifix.com> gzip_package 1.7 by Tom Hageman. This is the first public (beta) release of my Installer package squasher. Gzip_package tries to reduce the size of NEXTSTEP Installer packages. It achieves this by replacing the package's contents archive, which is compressed using compress(1), with a gzip(1)ped version of the archive. Since Installer expects a compress(1)ed contents archive at installation time, gzip_package also installs special pre_ and post_install scripts to automatically convert the contents archive back to its original compressed form before actual installation. (If the original package contained pre_ and post_install scripts, these will still be executed, of course.) Typical space savings are about 20-25%. (your mileage may vary) See the README for more information. I've uploaded the following files: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/sources/util/gzip_package-1.7.s.tar.gz ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/sources/util/gzip_package-1.7.README Please report any bugs or suggestions to <tom@basil.icce.rug.nl>. Enjoy!
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL (Gerben Wierda) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Sources for NewsConfig-1.3 Date: 10 Apr 1995 00:16:54 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3mabfm$mkq@digifix.digifix.com> SUBMISSION: Sources for NewsConfig-1.3 NewsConfig is part of the easy-install CNews package from the Dutch user group NeGeN/NiNe as produced by R&A. Since it is released under the GNU license, there is also a source distribution. It can be found as: ftp://ftp.nl.net/pub/comp/next/NewsConfig-1.3.s.tar.gz ftp://ftp.nl.net/pub/comp/next/NewsConfig-1.3.README>. Contact: Tom_Hageman@RnA.NL Description: NewsConfig for NEXTSTEP by Tom Hageman <Tom_Hageman@RnA.NL> (version: 1.3) March 1995 This is the source distribution of NewsConfig, a simple yet effective application to help you setup your C News site. It is part of NeGeN/NiNe's suite of connectivity tools: NewsConfig is included in NeGeN's binary CNews distribution, which can be found at <ftp://ftp.nl.net/pub/comp/next/>. The application offers on-line help that should guide you through the configuration of your news system. it is a simple tool, meant to setup your news site in such a way that it can receive news, from a single newsfeed, quickly and easily. It does not address the more arcane aspects of C News configuration, like: multiple newsfeeds, expire control, send batch control, mailpaths, newgroup/rmgroup authentication, checkgroups authentication and nntp access control. These are explained in more detail in the section ``Advanced News Configuration'' of NewsConfig's on-line help. Reasonable (we hope) defaults are established for these aspects when you install CNewsTools for the first time. Also keep in mind that it only sets up your end of the news system; you'll almost certainly have to contact your news provider to actually get any news. INSTALLATION Before you start building the application, you may want to obtain recent copies of the `active' and `newsgroups' lists from your provider, and replace the distributed ones with these. That way you'll have an up-to-date view of the news hierarchy, including local newsgroups that may not show up in the distributed lists. This is not strictly necessary though, certainly not if you're only interested in established newsgroups (like the `big 7' and alt hierarchies.) and want to be up-and-running quickly. NewsConfig has been made to work with an enhanced version of the C News software, but it will also work with the standard C News distribution. The differences, as far as NewsConfig is concerned, are that the standard distribution does not allow configuration of automatic .signature attachments (the standard distribution always attaches the first 4 lines of the .sig), and does not allow automatic removal of empty directories in the news article spool. Context diffs for the enhanced version against the standard 22-feb-93 C News distribution are available on request. NewsConfig looks for C News' master "config" file in the "bin" subdirectory of one of the following directories: /usr/local/lib/news /usr/lib/news /usr/local/news /usr/news in that order. If it is not found there, NewsConfig punts. To build NewsConfig, either build the application in ProjectBuilder, or run "make" from the command line. ( Use "make TARGET_ARCHS='arch1 arch2...'" to build a multi-architecture binary from the command line.) To install NewsConfig, either build the "install" target in ProjectBuilder, or run "make install from the command line. This will install NewsConfig in the directory "/LocalAdmin". If you want to install it somewhere else, either change the installation directory in ProjectBuilder's Attributes view, or run "make INSTALLDIR=/your/installation/directory install" from the command line. If you install the application as "root", it will be installed setuid news. This means that every user can in principle run NewsConfig and change the news configuration, but only if they know the root or news password (or usenet if it exists.) If you don't install NewsConfig setuid news, every user can examine the news configuration, but only if NewsConfig is started by root or news (or usenet if it exists) they are allowed to change it. LEGALIA Copyright (C) 1994,1995 Tom R. Hageman. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this software; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
From: Mark Onyschuk <mark@oa.guild.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: OA Announces Update of its Popular, Freely Available EOF Adaptor Date: 10 Apr 1995 00:19:49 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3mabl5$ml3@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Monica Watson M. Onyschuk and Associates Inc. 416/462-3954 M. Onyschuk and Associates Inc. Releases Update of its Popular Free Multi-user SQL EOF Adaptor for NEXTSTEP. TORONTO CANADA - April 8, 1995 - M. Onyschuk and Associates, Inc. today announced an update to its popular, freely-available Enterprise Objects Framework adaptor for a multi-user SQL database. MiniSQL adaptor allows NEXTSTEP developers to build Enterprise Objects Framework applications using David Hughes' exciting new MiniSQL client-server SQL database for NEXTSTEP, Solaris, HP-UX and other popular UNIX environments. "Now, everybody can take advantage of NeXT's excellent Enterprise Objects Framework," says Mark Onyschuk, senior consultant at O&A. BY FTP: ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Vendors/M_Onyschuk_and_Associates_Inc/MiniSQLEOFAdaptor.950408.s.gnutar.gz HISTORY: MiniSQLEOFAdaptor.950408.s.gnutar.gz 1. added methods new with EOF v1.1. 2. fixed -fetchInProgress bug, the adaptor now no longer erroneously reports that fetches are in progress when they are not. MiniSQLEOFAdaptor.950305.s.gnutar.gz 1. reenabled support for table aliasing within MSQLExpression after adding support for this feature to MSQL server 1.0.5.1 (submitted to bambi@Bond.edu.au for inclusion into the official MSQL distribution). MSQL 1.0.5.1 can now evaluate expressions like: select t0.LAST_NAME, t1.LAST_NAME from EMPLOYEE t0, EMPLOYEE t1 where t0.MANAGER = t1.EMP_ID ABOUT M. ONYSCHUK AND ASSOCIATES INC: M. Onyschuk and Associates Inc. is a privately held software consulting firm specializing in rapid application development in the NEXTSTEP environment. M. Onyschuk and Associates' clients have included NeXT Computer Inc., customers in the telecommunications industry including McCaw Cellular and Tellabs Communications Canada Ltd., as well as NeXT system integrators and Object Channel partners. Its software projects have included paperless-office systems, diagnostic tools for the telecommunications industry, customer and dealer management systems, and police systems. M. Onyschuk and Associates' head office is located in Toronto Canada, and may be reached by phone at (416) 462-3954, or via electronic mail at ask-oa@oa.guild.org.
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL (Gerben Wierda) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: New version of Easy-Install Taylor UUCP package from NeGeN Date: 11 Apr 1995 15:47:18 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3memc6$7n6@digifix.digifix.com> SUBMISSION: New version of Easy-Install Taylor UUCP package from NeGeN This is a maintenance release. It repairs a small glitch in the Mux installation. The easy-install Mux installation now correctly handles the System configuration (the previous one didn't but the information had a workaround) Contact: Tom_Hageman@RnA.NL Location: ftp://ftp.nl.net/pub/comp/next/NeGeN-1.3_Taylor-UUCP-1.05.NI.b.tar.gz ftp://ftp.nl.net/pub/comp/next/NeGeN-1.3_Taylor-UUCP-1.05.README.rtf What it is: This is the binary distribution of Taylor UUCP for NEXTSTEP, as brought to you by NeGeN/NiNe (the Dutch NEXTSTEP user group) and R&A. It is meant as a complete replacement of the (slow, inefficient) BSD uucp that comes with the standard NEXTSTEP distribution. The package also contains an easy-install of the Mux drivers (thanks Mark!) which are a replacement of the buggy serial drivers that come with NEXTSTEP for Intel.
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL (Gerben Wierda) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: cmsg cancel <3memc3$7mv@digifix.digifix.com> Control: cancel <3memc3$7mv@digifix.digifix.com> Date: 11 Apr 1995 15:48:09 -0400 Organization: Digital Fix Development Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3memdp$7nf@digifix.digifix.com> Cancelled Message by sanguish@digifix.com -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: camani@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Mark Williams") Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: C++ programmers wanted Date: 11 Apr 1995 15:42:23 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3mem2v$7kb@digifix.digifix.com> Team Leader Software Engineers (C++) Cambridge Animation Systems is seeking to recruit several first class software engineers and a Technical Administration and Support Manager to work on a state of the art cartoon animation software in Cambridge, England. Cambridge Animation Systems is a fast growing company that develops and supplies state-of-the-art software to automate the production of cartoon animation. The software is used by the entertainment and games industries worldwide in the production of feature films, television series animation, commercials and computer games. The company's Head office and development is based in Cambridge UK and the USA subsidiary for sales and support is based in Hollywood, USA. We are looking for several first class software engineers with excellent academic qualifications who are familiar with object orientation programming. Candidates should ideally be experienced in graphics, self starters, and capable of producing efficient industrial strength code. In addition, applicants should be prepared to take on responsibility, and should enjoy working in a small high powered team. Cambridge Animation offers good remuneration, and an excellent package of benefits which includes a company pension scheme, and a health scheme. We are specifically looking for: Software Engineer Team Leader: 4 to 5 years of programming experience Team leadership/management experience C++ experience good academic qualifications X/Motif experience and ideally porting experience NeXTStep/OpenStep experience Programmers (several positions) At least 1 years programming experience in C++ good academic qualifications and one or more of the following: U/I design and implementation experience Graphics experience Experience developing with NeXTStep Experience developing on Silicon Graphics If you are interested please contact Andrew Berend by email, letter or fax including a CV at: E- mail : andrew@cam-ani.co.uk ( please copy e-mail to : mark@cam-ani.co.uk ) Address: Cambridge Animation Systems Ltd 20 Cambridge Place Cambridge CB2 1NR United Kingdom Tel 01223 311231 Fax 01223 350286
Belgium.EU.net!EU.net!news.sprintlink.net!hookup!remus.wat.hookup.net!digifix!digifix!not-for-mail From: nickj@wimsey.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: British Columbia OpenStep Group - April 26 Date: 13 Apr 1995 00:15:57 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3mi8ht$jmt@digifix.digifix.com> Meeting: British Columbia OpenStep Group Date: April 26, 1995 Location: CyberStore, Suite 201 - 601 West Broadway, Vancouver (near Cambie) Time: 19:00-22:00 (7pm-10pm) Door closes at 19:15 (to prevent your grief and ours, please do not be late) Cost: Members free, Non-members $5.00 at the door *** Seating is Limited *** Please Note: This meeting is geared for Developers and is somewhat technical. Presentation & Agenda: 1) British Columbia OpenStep Group update 2) Glen Biagioni, ProSoft Solutions Inc. NEXTSTEP and InStep Mobile Communications' Computer Assisted Dispatch Systems - Description of InStep Products - Architectural Overview - Major software interfaces Nick Jacquet Chair British Columbia OpenStep Group nickj@wimsey.com email 604.893.5459 Voice/Fax
From: "'Carl A. Wright'" <WRIGHT@SWITCH.LAA.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Intl. Telecommunications NEXTSTEP Product Date: 13 Apr 1995 17:10:24 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3mk400$qht@digifix.digifix.com> Lynn-Arthur Associates, Inc. (LAA) announces its International Real-Time Rating System (IRTRS) for the A.T.& T. 5ESS(R) telephone switch. The IRTRS prices telephone services for coin phone calls, credit card calls, collect calls, and third party calls handled by telephone operators. It also prices person-to-person and station calls. The International IRTRS rates calls to special services like 976 numbers and other lesser known information services. The IRTRS is in production use at the Compania Dominicana de Telefonos (CODETEL). They are the national telephone company for the Dominican Republic and are wholly owned by GTE Corporation. The IRTRS is implemented in Objective-C in the NextStep operating system using distributed objects. It is available to run on Intel and Hewlett- Packard computers. The IRTRS is a high-demand mission-critical applica- tion delivered on two redundant computer systems. The A.T.& T. 5ESS(R) switch is connected to the IRTRS over two X.25 digital links on which transaction loads are shared. Each data link is connected to a separate computer system. LAA delivers the IRTRS as a turn-key solution of hardware, software, tariff database, training, and installation support. Delivery takes approximately six weeks from contract signing. IRTRS consists of four major software components. Three of these components run on NextStep and the fourth runs in the DOS/Windows environment. 1. The "Real-Time Rating" component receives all the rating transactions from the 5ESS switch, processes them, and answers the transactions. All knowledge of the 5ESS switch is within. 2. The "TeleRate(tm) Rating" component performs all pricing of telephone services. All knowledge of telephone services, their costs, and the database of tariffs is within. 3. The "IRTRS Control" component is an application which communicates with the real-time process to stop, start, monitor, and modify the mission-critical RTRS application. 4. The "IRTRS Data Control" is a DOS/Windows suite of applications for the tariff analysts who control the data on which pricing is based. "TeleRate(tm) Rating" and "RTRS Data Control" components are used in our "Operator Reference Data Base" product and act as servers when more than one application which use them is running. For more information, contact Mr. Carl Wright at +1 313 995-5590 or at "wright@laa.com". Mailing address: Lynn-Arthur Associates, Inc. 2350 Green Road, Suite 160 Ann Arbor, MI 48103 Fax phone: +1 313 995-5989 Immediate availability 5ESS(R) is a trademark of A.T.& T.
From: clint@techSCOUTS.com (technicalSCOUTS) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOBS: NEXTSTEP/Smalltalk/OpenStep/C++/OOP Date: 13 Apr 1995 17:29:33 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3mk53t$qm4@digifix.digifix.com> TechnicalSCOUTS, a national leader in technical consulting and permanent placement, seeks ---Object-Oriented Programmers for clients across the country. Current positions in Florida, California, Texas, Colorado, Pacific Northwest, Northeast, Southeast, and the Midwest areas. Our clients are looking for talented NEXTSTEP and Smalltalk software engineers with 1-5+ years experience. If you feel you are qualified for the following positions please email or call. Please review the following for specific details: Southeast--Florida 9) NEXTSTEP applications developers with strong OOP/OOA/OOD experience, able to work in a strong team environment, 2-5 years NEXTSTEP development, NEXTSTEP mentoring/training, customer interface, excellent interpersonal skills, able to lead a team of developers. DBKit, EOF, RDBMS, Salary according to experience. $60-100K+ Midwest--Chicago, Michican, Minnesota 1) Sr. Level NEXTSTEP software applications development engineers with 2-5 years of NEXTSTEP development. Financial applications experience a plus. EOF, Sybase, DBKit plus. permanent positions, salary range $50-$90k 2) NEXTSTEP system administrators experience with large networks, 3-5 years admin. experience, permanent positions, salary range 45-65k+ California --Bay area, Southern California 4) Mid. to Sr. Level NEXTSTEP software developers to work on various financial applications. Cutting edge environments, working with EOF, DBKit, Sybase. Fast paced, self starters able to work in a dynamic team environment. permanent positions, salary range 50-90k+ 1) Software test engineer with strong SQA/Testing experience developing and running NEXTSTEP test applications. 1-3 years of testing experience. salary range 40-65k+ 3) NEXTSTEP applications developers with strong OOA/OOD/OOP experience to work on various applications, GUI, porting experience strong development experience. and strong team player. salary range according to experience. 1) NEXTSTEP engineer with UNIX internals and XWindows programming experience. Porting experience, applications development, GUI. Salary range according to experience. 1) NEXTSTEP system administrators, experience with 100+ node networks, 3-5 years admin. experience, permanent positions, salary range 45-65k+ 1) Very Sr. Level NEXTSTEP engineers to create a total development environment from the ground up. MUST have 4+ years of NEXTSTEP experience. Large distributed systems experience, able to work in a fast paced environment. Able to lead and work with a team of high energy engineers. Strong OOA/OOD/OOP background-permanent positions, salary $75-100k+ Pacific Northwest--Seattle/Portland 5) NEXTSTEP and/or Smalltalk software engineers with 3-5 years experience to work on applications development within a fasted paced environment. salary according to experience Virginia/Maryland/DC/RTP/North Carolina areas-- 3) NEXTSTEP and (2) UNIX system administrators, experience with 3-5 years admin. experience, permanent positions, salary range 45-75k+ contact positions also available. 12) Sr. Level NEXTSTEP software applications development engineers with 2-5 years of NEXTSTEP development. Financial applications experience a plus. EOF, Sybase, DBKit plus. permanent positions, salary range $50-$90k PLUS BONUS 4) Mid. to Sr. Level NEXTSTEP software developers to work on various financial applications. Cutting edge environment, working with EOF, DBKit, Sybase. Fast paced, self starters able to work in a dynamic team environment. permanent positions, salary range 50-75k Other--If you love to travel and want to stay on the leading edge of the NEXTSTEP or Smalltalk environments, you may qualify for other exciting positions. To be kept informed of the latest HIGH TECH positions forward your resume or call/email for more information today!! United States or Canadian Citizenship required for most of our positions. If you are not a citizen but are in the top 10% of the programmers in your field, please forward a resume for consideration. Please send resume to the following email address, fax, or US Mail address. ALSO, please specify which position you are applying for. Thanks you for your understanding. All resumes will be held in confidence, and everyone who applies will receive a response. Thank you for choosing technicalSCOUTS to represent you in your job search, we know you have a choice, and our goal is to earn your trust. If you know of a software engineer that is seeking employment please forward this information for there review. Clint Tomlinson Director, Object Technology Recruiting technicalSCOUTS 13492 Research Blvd. Suite 120-171 Austin, TX 78750 Phone: 512-257-1100 Fax: 512-335-1899 Email: clint@techSCOUTS.com
From: Darren Smith <darren@lsc.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: BANG (Bay Area NeXT Group) April 20 Date: 14 Apr 1995 16:54:33 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3mmne9$650@digifix.digifix.com> Bay Area NeXT Group General Meeting Thursday, April 20, 1995, 7:00 - 9:00 P.M. Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Auditorium 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park Demonstrations of NEXTSTEP for SPARC and of GNUStep will be featured at the BANG meeting on Thursday, April 20, at the SLAC Auditorium. -- NEXTSTEP for SPARC: An Overview John Landwehr, product manager at NeXT, will provide an overview and demonstration of NEXTSTEP 3.3 for SPARC at the BANG meeting on Thursday, April 20th, beginning at 7:00 p.m. NEXTSTEP 3.3 for SPARC provides a stepping-stone to the industry-standard OpenStep object-oriented application framework. It is a tool developers, who are planning to use a cross-platform implementation of OpenStep, can use today to prepare for OpenStep on Windows NT, Windows 95, Solaris and OSF/1. Applications developed with these tools can be converted to OpenStep applications in the future. Specifically, NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.3 includes improved C++ support; multiple architecture binary support for four platforms; improved visual development tools; and feature enhancements. NEXTSTEP Release 3.3 provides greater support for large-scale environments typical of NeXT's corporate customers. Specifically, it addresses issues such as interoperability, scalability and ease of use that are critical to application deployment. For example, the task of system administration is reduced by the capability provided to system administrators to do a network installation. Today, NEXTSTEP can be fully installed and configured to a corporate network in less than one hour. Customers will see enhancements to NeXTmail, such as MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) support, which give them greater flexibility in how electronic mail is delivered, accessed, managed and stored. Additionally, NEXTSTEP for SPARC supports multiple monitors for a virtual desktop, enabling users to drag windows from one monitor to another. "With NEXTSTEP for SPARC workstations, Sun and NeXT are providing customers with proven object software technology today," said Edward Zander, president of Sun Microsystems Computer Company. "We encourage Sun customers to get started today with NEXTSTEP in preparation for our OpenStep on Solaris implementation." - Paul Kunz to Discuss GNUStep Paul Kunz will be demonstrating the objcX library, which is being developed at SLAC and elsewhere using GNU Objective-C to aid porting NEXTSTEP applications to X-Windows platforms. It is currently a subset of the appkit and uses Motif for the user interface objects. In addition, a program to translate nib files to equivalent files that use GNU Objective-C runtime has been developed and will be demonstrated. In the future, this library will be converted to OpenStep and the Motif replaced with free software. Eventually, when this work is done, the objcX library will evolve into GNUStep; it isn't there now. ++ Information on BANG ++ BANG meetings are open to the public, and are held at 7:00 pm on the third Thursday of the month at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) Auditorium, at 2575 Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park. Monthly meetings are free and open to the public; annual membership dues are $35. For additional information on BANG and upcoming meetings, send email to: info@bang.org, connect to: http://www.bang.org/ or call the announcement line at 415-327-BANG. Directions to SLAC: Take the Sand Hill Road East exit off I-280. At the second traffic light after the one at the interchange, turn right. Stop at the guard house and tell the guard that you are going to the BANG meeting. The Auditorium is to the left of the guard house; a parking lot is on the right.
From: "'Carl A. Wright'" <WRIGHT@SWITCH.LAA.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Telecom Objectware Date: 14 Apr 1995 15:07:59 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3mmh6f$52f@digifix.digifix.com> TeleRate Objectware(tm) Implement telecom customer care systems in six months ----------------------------------------------------- To lead your market and capture market share, you need to quickly implement customer care, network management, and billing applications. We have all seen the impact of MCI's Friends & Family marketing in the long distance marketplace. This is just the most visible example of how rapid development captures market share and revenues. Re-use working software; Don't re-implement it ----------------------------------------------- What does it do? This objectware implements all the service rating features for local, zone, long distance, and international calling for all the carriers in the U.S. and Canada. The TeleRate object is created for each call and there is no limits to the number you can have at one time. Each object can do the following main methods. Use these methods after using the methods to define the attributes of your call. -(long) doRateCall; This method calculates the cost of the call and gathers all the information on which the rate is based. -(long) doPurchaseLimit: (long) maxTime; This method calculates the length of time which a caller can talk without spending more than a specific limit. -(long) doRateQuote; This method retrieves the pricing information which will be used to price a call. There are more than fifty additional methods which you use to set the attributes of the object or to get the resulting attributes back out of an object. These attributes include where the call originated from or when it started. Exactly what do I get? You get objects to use on your NEXTSTEP systems. And you get MS Windows software for your tariff management department so they can maintain and publish new tariffs for you. You get the software setup for easy integration into your applications. You can get source code. With this TeleRate Objectware you easily hook up the object to screen panels in customer care applications. You can also hook it up to your real-time applications by programming method calls. (Methods are your way of manipulating the objects.) Can it handle my special requirements? The existing software is backed up by a database structure which is able to rate calls from all the carriers in the U.S. and Canada. We provide you software which permits you to include any special pricing you want. If you need to rate calls from origins other than the U.S. and Canada, we also have other software for the rest of the world. Eliminate testing with pre-tested proven software ------------------------------------------------- After you've implemented any new system you still have days, weeks, or months of testing to do before you can deploy your applications. With TeleRate Objectware, you begin your testing with the most complicated part of your application already well-tested. Is it dependable? The rating algorithms within TeleRate are used at GTE, USWest, AirTouch Cellular, and many other companies in the U.S. This specific object is used in real-time operator assistance applications using the AT&T 5ESS(R) switch at two telephone companies in the U.S. What kind of support can I get? We provide some of our customers twenty four hour, seven days a week support. The rest of our customers get business hours support. You choose what suits your needs. Contact Us!!!!!!! ----------------- Contact Lynn-Arthur Associates, Inc. at + 313 995-5590 or use our internet mail address of <info@laa.com>. We can demonstrate the benefits of TeleRate Objectware today. You can talk to our customers and check out our claims. Available: Immediately Address: Lynn-Arthur Associates, Inc. 2350 Green Road, Suite 160 Ann Arbor, MI 48105 Email= info@laa.com
From: Liz Statmore <liz@sarrus.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Sarrus Software, Inc. Date: 14 Apr 1995 15:46:05 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3mmjdt$5d3@digifix.digifix.com> Wanted to let everyone know that we are definitely alive and kicking. In fact, we've just moved to larger office space this past week. Unfortunately, our phones weren't properly installed until Monday afternoon. That's why we were unreachable from about 3pm on Friday until the same time on Monday. We apologize for any inconvenience that this disruption may have caused, but we're back on the air now. Please note that although our postal address and local phone/fax numbers have changed, our e-mail and toll-free 800 number remain the same as before. We can be reached at: Sarrus Software, Inc. 500 Airport Blvd., Suite 300 Burlingame, CA 94010 (415) 343-9111 VOICE (800) 995-1963 TOLL-FREE (415) 343-8588 FAX info@sarrus.com Liz Statmore Vice President of Sales & Marketing Sarrus Software, Inc. liz@sarrus.com
From: dja3@meaddata.com (Dave Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: FLYING MONKEY releases TIFF TOOLS for NEXTSTEP Date: 14 Apr 1995 15:52:04 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3mmjp4$5f7@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Dave Anderson Flying Monkey Software 8424 Todd Creek Cr. West Chester, OH 45069 djanders@nox.cs.du.edu 513-865-6800 x6087 Day 513-779-6489 Evening FLYING MONKEY SOFTWARE releases TIFF TOOLS for NEXTSTEP WEST CHESTER, Ohio, April 10, 1995 -- Flying Monkey Software has released four tools for manipulating tiff files, available separately, or together in a reduced price suite. TiffBleacher - allows you to adjust the saturation of colored Tiff files with surprising ease. You interpolate between all the original colors in the tiff and a saturated version of the colors, all the time limiting which pixels participate with saturation and alpha thresholds. Whenever you need to water pixels down or wake pixels up, TiffBleacher is a serious graphic arts application which can save you some serious effort. $15.00 TiffDyer - allows you to quickly alter the hue and brightness of Tiff files. While limiting which pixels participate via saturation and alpha thresholds, you assign the new hue and interpolate between the original and new brightness. Whenever you need to change the color of a pixel or lighten or darken an image, in as little time as possible, TiffDyer is the application for you. $15.00 TiffMatch - gives you direct access to the colors inside your tiffs. You can adjust the colors individually through it's color map, or selectively match the colors with the colors in colorlists - like the Pantone's so you can get those images ready for the Printers. If you need to get to the colors of the pixels inside your tiffs instead of messing with each pixel individually, TiffMatch is the app you need. $25.00 TiffTinter - allows you to adjust the color and alpha of the pixels in your Tiff files. You interpolate between all the original colors in the tiff and a new color, while limiting which pixels participate with saturation and alpha thresholds. This gives you the ability to bias the tiff towards any color, including scaling the transparency of the image. Whether you quickly need to look at a tiff through rose-colored glasses, or see it fade slowly into obscurity, TiffTinter will do the job. $15.00 TiffSuite1 - (a $70.00 value.) The TiffBleacher, TiffDyer, TiffMatch, and TiffTinter Applications all together. $62.00 We needed these apps, wrote them for ourselves to do product-quality graphic artwork for our NEXTSTEP customers, and are finally making them available to the NEXTSTEP graphic arts community. To order, send a check to Flying Monkey Software at the address above (plus shipping and handling - internet free, us mail $3, international mail $7.50.) Free electronic upgrades. Media and shipping cost for diskette upgrades. VISA and MasterCard orders are accepted, add 6.7% and 50 cents for processing. To find Flying Monkey Software out on the web, surf over to http://www.stepwise.com/ThirdParty/Developers/Flying_Monkey_Software.htmld/index.html If you don't have www access yet, we can send you an email copy of the latest Flying Monkey Software Catalog directly, in rtf or postscript (rtf is default, otherwise you'll get postscript - ask for what yee shall receive.) Flying Monkey Software provides object, application, graphic design, and shareware services to the NEXTSTEP community. We've been softwaring for more than twenty years, and can be found running around at all hours of the night! (gasp!) Our credo is satisfaction guaranteed: all Flying Monkey products will work - or we'll fix them for free. We'll also extend them for requesting customers on a contractual basis. Don't be a-scared - They're Flying Monkeys! NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc. TiffBleacher, TiffDyer, TiffMatch, and TiffTinter are applications for NEXTSTEP from Flying Monkey Software. TiffSuite1 is a collection of the applications for NEXTSTEP from Flying Monkey Software. 100% Natural Ingredients: Hibiscus, cinnamon, peppermint, lemongrass, orange peel and blossoms, linden flowers, chicory, sarsaparilla, other spices and natural flavors.
From: howardd@swissbank.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Opener 3.3 Date: 16 Apr 1995 00:00:53 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3mq4pl$gf6@digifix.digifix.com> app and utility binaries ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/next/binaries/util/Opener_3.3_MAB.tar.gz all source files and utility binaries necessary for building ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/next/sources/util/Opener_3.3_MAB_source.tar.gz all source for the public-domain utilities used by Opener, including any (for example) Makefile changes that were necessary to compile "fat". It also contains all the test files ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/next/sources/util/Opener_3.3_MAB_utils.tar.gz ---- It is also on sonata.cc.purdue.edu. Opener 3.3 is a Multi-Architecture Binary (i.e., "fat"). It runs on machines running NeXTSTEP 3.1 or later, Intel i386-based PCs, HP/PA-RISC based machines, and Sun Sparc based machines. Opener is a utility that is indispensible for unpacking or creating common kinds of archived files (.tar, .tar.Z, .shar, .zip, .arc, .arj, .zoo, .gz, etc.). See Opener.app/HelpOpener/General.rtfd for details. To install, unpack and drop Opener.app into an Apps folder. Differences from Opener 3.2a: - Added .gnutar.gz, .gnutar.z support to Opener.table - Moved .gz after all other extensions ending in .gz in Opener.table to avoid a search order dependence problem. Creating a .tar.gz appeared to work but really only created a .gz. - Added -appWillInit: to fix first-time-in bug. Opener only opened a file once already launched. - Split out app source files as separate archive from app - Split out test files and put them in Opener_utils part of distribution - Revamped Help - Suggestion no longer overwrites a pending Mail compose window's contents Differences from Opener 3.2: - Fixed bug in setting of default directory preference (really this time!) - Added .mime to Opener.table and Controller.m (omitted before) - Added docAu.tiff to project and to app wrapper (omitted earlier) If you have any questions, problems, or suggestions for future updates, please contact one of us: Michael Hawley (original author) MIT Media Laboratory 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA 02139 mike@media-lab.mit.edu Denise Howard (current maintainer) Swiss Bank Corporation howardd@swissbank.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Summary 79 - Articles posted since April 10 1995 Date: 17 Apr 1995 04:00:11 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3msp4b$o3o@digifix.digifix.com> Summary: 79 Postings since: April 10 1995 [3120] ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines [3121] NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet [3122] SUBMISSION: gzip_package 1.7 [3123] SUBMISSION: Sources for NewsConfig-1.3 [3124] PRESS RELEASE: OA Announces Update of its Popular, Freely Available EOF Adaptor [3125] JOB: C++ programmers wanted [3127] SUBMISSION: New version of Easy-Install Taylor UUCP package from NeGeN [3128] MEETING: British Columbia OpenStep Group - April 26 [3129] PRESS RELEASE: Intl. Telecommunications NEXTSTEP Product [3130] JOBS: NEXTSTEP/Smalltalk/OpenStep/C++/OOP [3131] PRESS RELEASE: Telecom Objectware [3132] CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Sarrus Software, Inc. [3133] PRESS RELEASE: FLYING MONKEY releases TIFF TOOLS for NEXTSTEP [3134] MEETING: BANG (Bay Area NeXT Group) April 20 [3135] SUBMISSION: Opener 3.3 If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com. Archives -------- Individual messages are available at http://www.stepwise.com/comp.sys.next.announce/csna-79/**article_number** where **article_number** is the [xxxx] beside the Subject line above.. FTP archives: ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives/csna-79.tar.gz WWW archives: http://www.stepwise.com/comp.sys.next.announce/csna-79 Article submissions : next-announce@digifix.com Submission guidelines: next-announce-guidelines@digifix.com Suggestions/comments : next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines Date: 17 Apr 1995 04:15:04 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3msq08$oah@digifix.digifix.com> NEW POLICY: =========== In an attempt to standardize the format of the FTP locations for files, all ftp addresses should be submitted using the Universal Resource Locator (URL) format. (for example) ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/submissions/file.tar.gz Please try and give an indication of where you expect the file will end up on the archive site, in the same notation. Cross Posting ============= I try very hard to make sure that postings get out in a timely fashion. Most go out in less than 24 hours. Postings that require editing because they do not contain information in a useable format, or have already been posted to other comp.sys.next.* groups may be delayed, or returned to you. If your posting is rejected, I'll try and make suggestions about what should be changed where possible. Obviously off charter messages (spams, open-letters, etc) may not get a response. Content 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 _IN URL FORMAT_ supported CPU's for binary distributions, OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting, time of meeting, speakers expected Signatures 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. Announcement of Product Sales ============================= This is an area of announcement that has caused me terrible grief in recent months. The policy is tilted towards the ISV, which has worked out well in the past. Posts that announce sales of products that you are DIRECTLY involved in the development of are OK. Posts from companies trying to sell other products are evaluated on an individual basis. Time Sensitive Announcements ============================ Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date. 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.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet Date: 17 Apr 1995 04:15:10 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3msq0e$oah@digifix.digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site comp.sys.next newsgroups related newsgroups comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list ftp sites NeXTanswers Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site =============================================== This online community resource includes - 200+ ISV company pages - 400+ ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - NEXTSTEP User Group Directory - comp.sys.next archives - User Group information - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.stepwise.com/ Additionally there is a Mail Server available. You can get information on using the mail server at ns-products@stepwise.com Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise, please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com. eduSTEP WWW site ================ http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/ eduStep aims to provide up-to-date information on: - NextStep tools and projects for scientists. - Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist). - A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with customers in the educational community. - Conferences, meetings, workshops - Major projects, such as SciTools, EMBL's project to develop a NextStep scientific work environment - Status reports on GNUStep, a freely-available implementation of OpenStep now being developed NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site ============================ http://www.next.com comp.sys.next.* newsgroups ========================== news: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. news: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. Archives are available by ftp at ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. news: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. news: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. news: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. news: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!!! news: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. news:comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. news:comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. Related Newsgroups ================== news: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. news:comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. news: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 ============= ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions ftp://nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: In Germany. ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next/ eduStep ftp://ftp.next.com: See below ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com ===================================== [from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help] 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, read them on the world-wide web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS. 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 REPLY-TO address sets the e-mail address NeXTanswers uses 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 VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web server at URL http://www.next.com. 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. USING NEXTANSWERS BY MODEM To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at (415) 780-2965. Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section. From there you can download NeXTanswers documents. FOR MORE HELP... If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available from NeXTanswers, call the Support Hotline at 1-800-955-NeXT (outside the U.S. call +1-415-424-8500) to speak to a NEXTSTEP Technical Support Technician. If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must make this call to the hotline. Otherwise, hotline support is on a pay-per-call basis. Thanks for using NeXTanswers! Written by: Eric P. Scott (mailto:eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU) and Scott Anguish (mailto:sanguish@digifix.com) Additions from: Greg Anderson (mailto:Greg_Anderson@afs.com) Michael Pizolato (mailto:Michael_Pizolato@afs.com) Dan Grillo (mailto:dan_grillo@next.com)
From: Angela Grady <angela@lighthouse.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Lighthouse Design Announces Academic CD Date: 17 Apr 1995 15:21:12 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3muf38$1aa@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For U.S. product information, contact: Robin Shields (Lighthouse Design) 415/570-7736, ext.10 robin@lighthouse.com For European product information, contact: Josie Kelsall (DART) Liz Lynch (P & L Systems) (+49) 40-38023-0 (+44) 1494 432422 josie@dart.de info@plsys.com --Lighthouse Design Introduces the Lighthouse Academic CD-- --Company also announces exclusive European academic reseller agreements with DART and P&L Systems-- April 17, 1995 - SAN MATEO, CA - Lighthouse Design, Ltd. today reaffirmed its commitment to NEXTSTEP academic users and announced that is has created the Lighthouse Academic CD, a product that combines 8 best-selling Lighthouse applications for one low price. The Lighthouse Academic CD is available now and includes: Quantrix - a multi-dimensional spreadsheet Diagram! - a drawing program for information graphics Concurrence - a presentation and outlining package OmniWeb - a World Wide Web (WWW) browsing tool WetPaint - a painting and image manipulation program ParaSheet - a traditional rows and columns spreadsheet VarioData - a multi-user workgroup database TaskMaster - a project and resource management application The product suite, representing a commercial value of greater than $3,000, will be priced at $89 to students and faculty who purchase individual copies. For universities and labs that purchase multiple copies, the suite is priced at $249 per CD. Though on-line help is available for all applications, paper documentation is also available at a nominal charge. "Throughout Lighthouse Design's history, we've had a fantastic relationship with our academic customers," said Dain Ehring, Director of Sales at Lighthouse Design. "Students and faculty have helped Lighthouse shape new products, guided feature revisions and greatly aided in beta testing new applications. We hope that by further reducing the price of our product suite to academia, we are expressing our continued commitment and appreciation." Lighthouse also announced that it has appointed DART Software in Hamburg, Germany, and P & L Systems in London, England as its exclusive European resellers for academic customers. "We've seen many innovative ideas and new products coming out of the NEXTSTEP academic community in Europe," said Wilfried Beeck, President of DART Software GmbH. "The World-Wide-Web concept from CERN is a good example. We're very pleased that Lighthouse continues to so actively support the academic community with the best productivity tools available today." "Without the commitment of the academic community the NEXTSTEP world would be immeasurably poorer. We are delighted that Lighthouse is helping us to return that support," added Paul Lynch, Director of P & L Systems. The Academic CD replaces Lighthouse Design's previous academic discount model. Individual products included on the CD, with the exception of OmniWeb, are not available separately at a discount. OmniWeb is available free to individual users. For universities and labs wishing to purchase multiple copies, OmniWeb is priced at $49/license. Lighthouse Design is dedicated to delivering unsurpassed productivity to enterprise developers and end-users of NEXTSTEP, and OpenStep`. The company is located at 2929 Campus Drive, San Mateo, CA 94403. For further information on Lighthouse Design and its products, contact Lighthouse Design, Ltd. directly at 1-800-366-2279 or 1-415-570-7736, or send electronic mail to info@lighthouse.com, or see Lighthouse Design's World Wide Web page at http://www.lighthouse.com/. DART Software GmbH is a leading European NEXTSTEP distributor, servicing NeXT VARs, corporate developers and end-users in central Europe. The company is located at Virchowstr.17, 22767 Hamburg, Germany. For further information on Lighthouse products in Europe contact DART at (+49) 40-38023-0, or send electronic mail to lighthouse@dart.de. P & L Systems are NEXTSTEP specialists based in the UK. P & L Systems sells NEXTSTEP and third party software to commercial and academic NEXTSTEP users, and provides specialist support, training and consulting services. P & L Systems can be contacted by e-mail at info@plsys.com, or by phone at +44 1494 432422, and are based at 12, The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks, HP7 0HP, UK. -30- Lighthouse Design, Ltd., Quantrix, Diagram!, Concurrence, ParaSheet, VarioData, TaskMaster, WetPaint, the Foundation Classes and the Lighthouse logo are trademarks of Lighthouse Design, Ltd. NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.
From: jmcnamar@onramp.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Bifrost Workstations Date: 18 Apr 1995 02:26:51 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3mvm3b$7jg@digifix.digifix.com> Thanks to the support we've received, we've moved to a larger location to better serve you. We will continue to provide the NEXTSTEP community with the best Pentium machines available. Effective immediately, you'll find us at: Bifrost Workstations, Inc. 10850 Richmond Avenue Suite 270 Houston, TX 77042 Voice 713.952.9949 Facsimile 713.952.9934 Further improvements are also in the works. In the next few weeks, please be on the lookout for 800 service, a change in our domain name, and our own Web server. Again, thanks to all of you who have made this possible. We appreciate your support! Dan (dkramer@onramp.net) Jason (jmcnamar@onramp.net) Trademarks mentioned herein belong to their respective holders.
From: Mark Trombino <mark@jehu.UCSD.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: InstrumentBuilder1.0 available by ftp Date: 19 Apr 1995 16:44:55 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3n3so7$l52@digifix.digifix.com> InstrumentBuilder version 1.0 InstrumentBuilder is a graphic tool for creating instruments for the computer music program cmusic (some attempts have been made to make it csound compatible as well). Users drag and drop unit generators on a page, connect them, and "unparse" the instruments directly into cmusic scores. Users can also "parse" cmusic scores, have InstrumentBuilder extract the instrument definitions from them, and create its version of the instruments. This release of InstrumentBuilder runs under NeXTSTEP 3.x, requires about 4 MB of disk space, and is compiled for both black and white hardware. InstrumentBuilder is shareware but costs nothing to register (I only ask that users do register it). InstrumentBuilder1.0 is currently available by anonymous ftp at: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/next/binaries/sound/InstrumentBuilder1.0.tar.Z Some Key Features: - Graphic, user-friendly environment for creating cmusic instruments. - Drag and drop unit generators into instruments and control-click to connect them. - Users can unparse directly into existing scores, or they can create new scores. - Users can parse an existing score, having IB extract the instruments from them. - IB learns about unit generators at runtime through an external file (ibdef), so it is not locked into a fixed set of unit generators, and default unit generator characteristics can be modified at anytime. - The unit generator palette can be reloaded at any time -- and from any ibdef file. - IB is very configurable. - Multiple scores can be open at a time, and scores can have mutiple instruments. - Cut and paste unit generators between instruments or scores. - You can save your score as an "InstrumentBuilder Score" (.ibs), thereby saving the placement of the windows, the placement of the unit generators, scale factor of the instruments, etc. - You can create "Groups" -- a set of unit generators grouped together inside another unit generator. This allows you to quickly add features to your instrument by dropping a Group into it. - Groups can be saved in "InstrumentBuilder Group" files (.ibg). These files can be loaded at anytime, and you can have InstrumentBuilder load them automatically as it loads unit generators from an ibdef file. - Full on-line Help. For any other information, I can be reached at: trombino@wendy.ucsd.edu Mark Trombino
From: upgrader@SmartSoft.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: SmartSoft Announces The Release Of CollagistPro Version 1.1 Date: 21 Apr 1995 02:55:27 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3n7ksv$5d6@digifix.digifix.com> News For Immediate Release For more information write to: Info@SmartSoft.COM or call SmartSoft at (809)565-2864 SmartSoft Announces The Release Of CollagistPro Version 1.1 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, March 17, 1995 - SmartSoft announced the availability of version 1.1 of CollagistPro. The new release introduces new functionality and corrects problems with CollagistPro 1.0-1.03. CollagistPro is an electronic pasteboard. With it you can join several files together into a single PostScript document that you can email, fax or print with ease. CollagistPro v.1.1 Release Notes This release corrects problems and introduces new functionality to the initial release of CollagistPro. This release addressed the following issues: Fax files (.fax) now print and preview properly. Added Adobe Illustrator (.ai) and Adobe TouchType (.type) compatibility via filter services. RTF & RTFD margins are now properly handled. Please note that pagination produced by Edit.app differs from that produced by CollagistPro. Edit scales down documents; fonts are smaller than what is specified. CollagistPro prints according to what is specified in the file, ie. 12 pt text prints at 12 pt. Also, CollagistPro doesn't split pictures across pages. These issues results in more printed pages, than when printed by Edit.app. To obtain the same results as Edit.app, collage a PostScript file generated by Edit.app instead. Some PostScript collages failed to print from Preview (Preview.app didn't report any PostScript errors when displaying the file). This files printed properly from within CollagistPro. Filter services that translated files into EPS didn't work reliably. PostScript files that included fonts generated PostScript errors. CollagistPro now includes fonts properly. As a side benefit from CollagistPro resource management only a single copy of each font file is included in the PostScript collage - CollagistPro does not include font resources, unless they were included in a PostScript file or the user prints the PostScript Collage and specifies to include fonts. A new feature, controlled by the Preferences command, eliminates the path information from the browser, complete file paths can be read on the Inspector. This reduces clutter. CollagistPro now reports which files are being filtered and what the type they are filtering into. This display may not be accurate for ASCII files that filter back into an ASCII type format. Files copied into the collage wrapper now have permissions set as per the user's umask setting. Before, copied files had the same permissions as the original file and removing copied files gave a permissions error if the file didn't have write permissions for the 'new' owner. Dragging large folders into CollagistPro created multiple copies of the files in the folder to be added to the Collage. Sometimes, this killed CollagistPro. CollagistPro incorrectly registered itself as a reader of EPS files. Miscellaneous user interface issues were cleaned up. The major benefits of the CollagistPro application include: * Works with all standard NEXTSTEP file formats, EPS, PS, TIFF, FAX, RTF, RTFD, plain text (ASCII), and any other file type that can be converted to one of the above via a Filter Service. * It is filter services aware. The app supports any third-party file format that can be converted via a Filter Service to any of the standard types. This feature will depend on the software installed in your system. * Full Page Layout control of each document. You can specify to image any file N-Up, and give special page and binding margins on a per file basis or to the entire CollagistPro job. * You can add Page Numbers on a per file(s) or to the entire Collage. You can choose from various number formats. You can specify the location on the page. and you have Font and size control of the page number. * You can now save CollagistPro documents. Documents you drag into a Collage document can be referenced by file system links or copied into the document wrapper. With links your CollagistPro document refers to original file, making the latest version of your document available to your Collage. * You are now able to preview and print documents directly from CollagistPro. The Preview helps you see how some non-standard file formats have been translated by Filter Services. You can also use it to read a group of related documents from a single app. * You can use CollagistPro to organize documents created from various files. * CollagistPro offers an API (Application Programmer's Interface) so that you can incorporate the power of CollagistPro into your own mission critical applications. The API provides powerful features for Emailing, Faxing and Printing of multiple documents. CollagistPro requires NEXTSTEP 3.0 or better and it is available in multiple-architecture binary form. MAB or fat binary software runs on Motorola-based NeXT computers, Intel, and HP PA-RISC based systems. SPARC support will be added very soon now. CollagistPro is available directly from SmartSoft. Demo version We have placed a demo of CollagistPro at ftp.cs.orst.edu ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/demos/postscript/CollagistPro_v.1.1HIH.tar.gz This version corrects several problems with the initial release of the software. If you have version 1.0 or 1.03, you really want to get a copy of this release. Pricing Information: CollagistPro 1.0 is $199/license + Shipping. Upgrade Pricing: CollagistPro upgrade from Collagist $50.00 For more information please call (809) 565-2864 or by Email Info@SmartSoft.COM. For orders, please call SmartSoft at (809) 565-2864 or by fax at (809) 566-8814. Visa and MC are accepted. CollagistPro Copyright 1993-95 by SmartSoft, Inc. All Rights Reserved. SmartSoft, Inc. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, founded in 1993, develops and markets a variety of business productivity and entertainment applications for NEXTSTEP CollagistPro, Collagist, and SmartSoft are trademarks of SmartSoft, Inc. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
From: jmcnamar@onramp.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: cmsg cancel <3mvm3b$7jg@digifix.digifix.com> Control: cancel <3mvm3b$7jg@digifix.digifix.com> Date: 19 Apr 1995 17:25:25 -0400 Organization: Digital Fix Development Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3n3v45$lf7@digifix.digifix.com> Cancelled Message by sanguish@digifix.com -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: jmcnamar@onramp.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Bifrost Workstations Date: 19 Apr 1995 17:25:32 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3n3v4c$lfe@digifix.digifix.com> Thanks to the support we've received, we've moved to a larger location to better serve you. We will continue to provide the NEXTSTEP community with the best Pentium machines available. Effective immediately, you'll find us at: Bifrost Workstations, Inc. 10850 Richmond Avenue Suite 270 Houston, TX 77042 Voice 713.952.9949 Facsimile 713.952.9934 Further improvements are also in the works. In the next few weeks, please be on the lookout for 800 service, a change in our domain name, and our own Web server. Again, thanks to all of you who have made this possible. We appreciate your support! Dan (dkramer@onramp.net) Jason (jmcnamar@onramp.net) Trademarks mentioned herein belong to their respective holders.
From: kim@copper.pdh.com (Kim Ortiz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Design Engineer Date: 20 Apr 1995 16:06:39 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3n6esf$hl@digifix.digifix.com> Company: PDH, Inc. Position: NeXTStep Software Design Engineer Hiring: April 1995 Location: San Jose, California (near the San Jose Airport) Qualifications: Junior Design Engineer: preferrably 1 year NeXTStep development experience Required: **** US CITIZENSHIP **** BS in Computer Science or related field Willingness to travel within USA Desired: Familiarity with EOF, DBKit, AccessKit, Sybase 10, Oracle 7 Experience in the following: Independent design and development Database design and development GUI design and development Object Oriented Methodology, OOD and OOP UNIX NeXTStep Objective-C, C++, SmallTalk 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 develop custom mission critical applications for customers. Current projects include: system engineering for a 3000+ workstation enterprise environment, a document management system, a specialized work-flow and information tracking system, an electronic signature system, and a program to access relational data bases for tracking information. This is an excellent opportunity to be immediately challenged, where the quality of the company is matched by the quality of the staff. PDH provides excellent vacation, health, 401K and disability benefits. The work attire is casual, hours are flexible, and sponsored refreshments. 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: Juergen Sell <js@icem.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: cmsg cancel <3n3rou$kv5@digifix.digifix.com> Control: cancel <3n3rou$kv5@digifix.digifix.com> Date: 21 Apr 1995 02:52:41 -0400 Organization: Digital Fix Development Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3n7knp$5ah@digifix.digifix.com> Cancelled Message by sanguish@digifix.com -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: resumes@next.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: cmsg cancel <3n3sg0$l3f@digifix.digifix.com> Control: cancel <3n3sg0$l3f@digifix.digifix.com> Date: 21 Apr 1995 02:52:45 -0400 Organization: Digital Fix Development Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3n7knt$5ak@digifix.digifix.com> Cancelled Message by sanguish@digifix.com -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: upgrader@SmartSoft.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: SmartSoft Announces The Release Of Rocks 1.83hp Date: 21 Apr 1995 02:53:11 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3n7kon$5ar@digifix.digifix.com> News For Immediate Release For more information write to: Info@SmartSoft.COM or call SmartSoft at (809)565-2864 SmartSoft Announces The Release Of Rocks 1.83hp! Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, April 17, 1995 - SmartSoft has announced the availability of Rocks Version 1.83hp. This release provides compatibility with Motorola, Intel, and HP PA RISC NEXTSTEP platforms. (A SPARC version will follow soon). Rocks! is the mother of all space and asteroid type of games. It has engaging graphics and sounds. AVAILABILITY Motorola now, Intel now, HP-PA RISC now, SPARC very soon now. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS NEXTSTEP 3.0 or better PRICING INFORMATION Rocks is $50.00/license + shipping. UPGRADE INFORMATION The upgrade is free to all registered users who ftp the new software from ftp.cs.orst.edu, the software is currently in the ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/demos/games/Rocks_v.1.83NIH.tar.gz Upgrade disks with the new version are available directly from SmartSoft for a nominal $25 shipping and handling fee. For more information please call or write SmartSoft: (809) 565-2864 or by Email Info@SmartSoft.COM New orders, please call SmartSoft at: (809) 565-2864 or by fax at (809) 566-8814. Or by Email: Info@SmartSoft.COM Visa and MC are accepted. SmartSoft, Inc. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, founded in 1993, develops and markets a variety of business productivity and entertainment applications for NEXTSTEP. Rocks, and SmartSoft are trademarks of SmartSoft, Inc. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
From: upgrader@SmartSoft.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: cmsg cancel <3n167c$cl0@digifix.digifix.com> Control: cancel <3n167c$cl0@digifix.digifix.com> Date: 21 Apr 1995 02:53:21 -0400 Organization: Digital Fix Development Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3n7kp1$5au@digifix.digifix.com> Cancelled Message by sanguish@digifix.com -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: upgrader@SmartSoft.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: SmartSoft Announces The Release Of DotFiles 2.0hp Date: 21 Apr 1995 02:53:50 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3n7kpu$5b6@digifix.digifix.com> News For Immediate Release For more information write to: Info@SmartSoft.COM or call SmartSoft at (809)565-2864 SmartSoft Announces The Release Of DotFiles 2.0hp Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, April 17, 1995 - SmartSoft has announced the availability of DotFiles Version 2.0hp. This release provides PA RISC NEXTSTEP compatibility DotFiles simplifies and accelerates the process of becoming an 'UNIX Expert', so that you can see or hide hidden files in the Workspace. It does this by means of a convenient command under the services menu. This software is available free of charge to the NEXTSTEP community who can ftp it from ftp.cs.orst.edu. The software is also available from SmartSoft, Inc. for a small shipping and handling charge. ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/demos/util/DotFiles_v.2.0NIH.tar.gz For more information please call or write SmartSoft: (809) 565-2864 or by Email Info@SmartSoft.COM New orders, please call SmartSoft at: (809) 565-2864 or by fax at (809) 566-8814. Or by Email: Info@SmartSoft.COM Visa and MC are accepted. SmartSoft, Inc. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, founded in 1993, develops and markets a variety of business productivity and entertainment applications for NEXTSTEP. DotFiles, and SmartSoft are trademarks of SmartSoft, Inc. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
From: upgrader@SmartSoft.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: cmsg cancel <3n166h$ckk@digifix.digifix.com> Control: cancel <3n166h$ckk@digifix.digifix.com> Date: 21 Apr 1995 02:53:53 -0400 Organization: Digital Fix Development Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3n7kq1$5b9@digifix.digifix.com> Cancelled Message by sanguish@digifix.com -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: upgrader@SmartSoft.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: SmartSoft Announces The Release Of DotFiles 2.0hp Date: 21 Apr 1995 02:54:00 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3n7kq8$5bg@digifix.digifix.com> News For Immediate Release For more information write to: Info@SmartSoft.COM or call SmartSoft at (809)565-2864 SmartSoft Announces The Release Of DotFiles 2.0hp Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, April 17, 1995 - SmartSoft has announced the availability of DotFiles Version 2.0hp. This release provides PA RISC NEXTSTEP compatibility DotFiles simplifies and accelerates the process of becoming an 'UNIX Expert', so that you can see or hide hidden files in the Workspace. It does this by means of a convenient command under the services menu. This software is available free of charge to the NEXTSTEP community who can ftp it from ftp.cs.orst.edu. The software is also available from SmartSoft, Inc. for a small shipping and handling charge. ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/demos/util/DotFiles_v.2.0NIH.tar.gz For more information please call or write SmartSoft: (809) 565-2864 or by Email Info@SmartSoft.COM New orders, please call SmartSoft at: (809) 565-2864 or by fax at (809) 566-8814. Or by Email: Info@SmartSoft.COM Visa and MC are accepted. SmartSoft, Inc. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, founded in 1993, develops and markets a variety of business productivity and entertainment applications for NEXTSTEP. DotFiles, and SmartSoft are trademarks of SmartSoft, Inc. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
From: upgrader@SmartSoft.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: InForms v.1.0 NIH posted to ftp.cs.orst.edu Date: 21 Apr 1995 02:54:04 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3n7kqc$5bn@digifix.digifix.com> News For Immediate Release For more information write to: Info@SmartSoft.COM or call SmartSoft at (809)565-2864 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, April 17, 1995 - SmartSoft has placed a demo version of InForms at ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/demos/productivity/InForms_v.1.0NIH.tar.gz . InForms is an useful application for filling out single page forms such as transmittals, memos, or any other office form used in an office environment. InForms is the alternative to diving into a word processor or some other heavy duty application to fill out simple one page form. Forms documents are the same .draw documents used for fax cover sheets. Using Draw.app, included with NEXTSTEP, you can lay out beautiful forms that are very fast and easy to fill using our application. Unlike the NEXTSTEP Fax Cover sheet panel, InForms presents a form document in a WYSIWYG ("What You See Is What You Get") fashion. You can also use the spell checking panel and change fonts on words or fields. The major benefits include: * WYSIWYG view of the form. * Ability to change fonts size and face attributes * Ability to use the NEXTSTEP spell checking panel * EMACS key bindings InForms requires NEXTSTEP 3.0 or better and it is available in multiple-architecture binary form. MAB or fat binary software runs on Motorola-based NeXT computers, Intel, and HP PA-RISC based systems. InForms is available directly from SmartSoft and a demo version is available via FTP at ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/demos/-----------/InForms_v.1.0NIH.tar.gz Pricing Information: InForms 1.0 is $150/license + Shipping. Product Availability: InForms is shipping now! For more information please call or write SmartSoft: (809) 565-2864 or by Email Info@SmartSoft.COM Orders, please call SmartSoft at: (809) 565-2864 or by fax at (809) 566-8814. Or by Email: Info@SmartSoft.COM Visa and MC are accepted. SmartSoft, Inc. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, founded in 1993, develops and markets a variety of business productivity and entertainment applications for NEXTSTEP InForms, and SmartSoft are trademarks of SmartSoft, Inc. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
From: upgrader@SmartSoft.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: cmsg cancel <3n165q$cka@digifix.digifix.com> Control: cancel <3n165q$cka@digifix.digifix.com> Date: 21 Apr 1995 02:54:11 -0400 Organization: Digital Fix Development Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3n7kqj$5bq@digifix.digifix.com> Cancelled Message by sanguish@digifix.com -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: upgrader@SmartSoft.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: StayInTouch v.2.27 NIH posted to ftp.cs.orst.edu Date: 21 Apr 1995 02:54:29 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3n7kr5$5c1@digifix.digifix.com> News For Immediate Release For more information write to: Info@SmartSoft.COM or call SmartSoft at (809)565-2864 StayInTouch(tm) is a sophisticated electronic address book providing powerful features to help you increase your productivity in all your communication tasks. It helps you manage mailing addresses, email addresses, phone and fax numbers and correspondence; the information you need to stay in touch. StayInTouch provides many features that take advantage of the information you store in address books. With a mouse click, you can dial a phone number, address an envelope or compose an email message in a pre-addressed Mail.app window. These features are designed to save time and help you work smarter. Information stored in StayInTouch is available system wide. Fax numbers in our address books are available from within any application that supports faxing under NEXTSTEP. StayInTouch supports the notion of groups. Grouping allows you to email or fax to many destinations at once, automate repetitive tasks such as printing a series of envelopes by working with one card, or more effectively organize your records. FEATURE LIST * Automatic recognition of addresses, phone numbers or fax numbers * Complete integration with Workspace Addresses format * Fax numbers are available in the fax panel without the need to export data to a special format * Flexible Envelope Layout Design. Add TIFF and EPS files. Design and use as many different layouts as you want * USPS Bar code support * Flexible Label Layout Design. Add TIFF and EPS files. Design and use as many different layouts as you want * Record Grouping. All operations performed to a group are extended to each of the members (mass Email, mass printing, mass faxing, etc.) * Supports the exporting/merging of data to WriteNow and WordPerfect * Flexible record exporting to a variety of character delimited formats * Record linking across address books * Import any character delimited file format with our powerful import language * Phone dialing via a modem or phone tones emitted by the computers speaker StayInTouch is able to figure out how to dial any phone number depending on your current location * Fax memos * Group fax memos * Pre-address Mail.app compose windows * Group Email * Correspondence Management drag and drop files and folders into cards. When you look up a record not only do you get contact information, but immediate access to files related to that person. * Export group email aliases for use with Mail.app * Email and postal address search services available from any application that supports the use of text * Complete drag and drop of records across applications and across address books * Address book files can be inspected and shared by users who don't use StayInTouch * EMACS key binding support * Auto Save * Displays user images if available in: /LocalLibrary/People/Images or /LocalLibrary/NewsGrazer/People * Fax memo archiving * Envelope printing service available to other applications that support text * Print hard copy address books for those times when you are away from your computer * Automated Multi-media (fax, email or hard copy) document delivery function via CollagistPro.app depending on recipient * Phone dialing service available to other applications that support text SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS * NEXTSTEP 3.0 or better * 8MB of Memory * Hard Disk * 3 1/2 Floppy Drive PRODUCT AVAILABILITY StayInTouch 2.27hp is shipping now! PRICING INFORMATION StayInTouch is $150.00/license + shipping. Educational pricing is $99.00 + shipping - Sorry, Multi-user licenses are not available with an educational discount. As a promotion of a the newly introduced CollagistPro software, you can obtain a StayInTouch and CollagistPro ($199) bundle for $300.00, a $50 discount! UPGRADE INFORMATION The upgrade is free to all registered users of release 2.xx who ftp the new software from ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/demos/productivity/StayInTouch_v.2.27NIH.tar.gz While the upgrade is free, users will need to obtain a new license string from SmartSoft to enable the new software. To obtain a free upgrade, please send all requests via email to Info@SmartSoft.COM or fax to (809) 566-8814. Please include your name, address, phone number, and current license string. Upgrade disks with the new version are available directly from SmartSoft for a nominal $25 shipping and handling fee. For more information please call or write SmartSoft: (809) 565-2864 or by Email Info@SmartSoft.COM New orders, please call SmartSoft at: (809) 565-2864 or by fax at (809) 566-8814. Or by Email: Info@SmartSoft.COM Visa and MC are accepted. SmartSoft, Inc. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, founded in 1993, develops and markets a variety of business productivity and entertainment applications for NEXTSTEP. StayInTouch, and SmartSoft are trademarks of SmartSoft, Inc. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
From: upgrader@SmartSoft.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: cmsg cancel <3n164a$ck1@digifix.digifix.com> Control: cancel <3n164a$ck1@digifix.digifix.com> Date: 21 Apr 1995 02:54:33 -0400 Organization: Digital Fix Development Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3n7kr9$5c5@digifix.digifix.com> Cancelled Message by sanguish@digifix.com -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: upgrader@SmartSoft.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: SmartSoft Announces The Release Of FONTinspector 1.1hp Date: 21 Apr 1995 02:54:45 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3n7krl$5cd@digifix.digifix.com> News For Immediate Release For more information write to: Info@SmartSoft.COM or call SmartSoft at (809)565-2864 SmartSoft Announces The Release Of FONTinspector 1.1hp Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, April 17, 1995 - SmartSoft has announced the availability of FONTinspector Version 1.1hp. This release provides PA RISC NEXTSTEP compatibility. FONTinspector is the Workspace Manager contents inspector for '.font' files. Fonts need not be installed for the inspector to work. This software is available free of charge to the NEXTSTEP community who can ftp it from ftp.cs.orst.edu. The software is also available from SmartSoft, Inc. for a small shipping and handling charge. ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/demos/fonts/FONTinspector_v.1.1NIH.tar.gz For more information please call or write SmartSoft: (809) 565-2864 or by Email Info@SmartSoft.COM New orders, please call SmartSoft at: (809) 565-2864 or by fax at (809) 566-8814. Or by Email: Info@SmartSoft.COM Visa and MC are accepted. SmartSoft, Inc. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, founded in 1993, develops and markets a variety of business productivity and entertainment applications for NEXTSTEP. FONTinspector, and SmartSoft are trademarks of SmartSoft, Inc. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
From: upgrader@SmartSoft.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: cmsg cancel <3n163h$cjp@digifix.digifix.com> Control: cancel <3n163h$cjp@digifix.digifix.com> Date: 21 Apr 1995 02:54:51 -0400 Organization: Digital Fix Development Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3n7krr$5ci@digifix.digifix.com> Cancelled Message by sanguish@digifix.com -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: upgrader@SmartSoft.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE SmartSoft Announces The Release Of DiskMaker v.1.75hp Date: 21 Apr 1995 02:55:03 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3n7ks7$5cq@digifix.digifix.com> News For Immediate Release For more information write to: Info@SmartSoft.COM or call SmartSoft at (809)565-2864 SmartSoft Announces The Release Of DiskMaker v.1.75hp Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, April 6, 1995 - SmartSoft has announced the availability of DiskMaker Version 1.75hp. This release provides compatibility with NEXTSTEP for PA RISC. DiskMaker is the fastest disk duplication software for NEXTSTEP. With it you can mass duplicate disks in record time. DiskMaker can duplicate disks 4 to 9 times faster than by hand. Manual duplication can take anywhere from 4.3 to 9 minutes per disk depending on the sizes of files and other factors. DiskMaker reduces this task to about one minute. Duplication times are linear and independent of the number of files on the disk. DiskMaker supports industry standard 720K, 1.4MB and 2.8MB disk densities. Its powerful verification technology insures that defective media is not distributed to your customers. DiskMaker will automatically format the disk (if needed), name it, and fill it up in a single step. DiskMaker is able to reuse low level disk formatting. Readily available pre-formatted DOS disks can be used to build NEXTSTEP volumes without reformatting the disks. DiskImages are saved on the disk allowing you to archive your releases. FEATURE LIST DiskImages are saved on disk allowing you to archive your releases. Disk duplication is performed in the background, freeing the computer to do other things. 32-bit checksums provided you with reassurance that your copies match your original disks bit by bit. Preformatted DOS disks can be used to build NEXTSTEP volumes at a fraction of the time. AVAILABILITY Motorola now, Intel now, HP-PA RISC now, SPARC very soon now. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS NEXTSTEP 3.0 or better A NeXT computer with a NeXT supplied 3 1/2 Floppy Drive or a NEXTSTEP compatible INTEL or HP PA RISC machine PRICING INFORMATION DiskMaker is $150.00/license + shipping. UPGRADE INFORMATION The upgrade is free to all registered users of release 1.75 who ftp the new software from ftp.cs.orst.edu, ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/demos/util/DiskMaker_v.1.75NIH.tar.gz Upgrade disks with the new version are available directly from SmartSoft for a nominal $25 shipping and handling fee. For more information please call or write SmartSoft: (809) 565-2864 or by Email Info@SmartSoft.COM New orders, please call SmartSoft at: (809) 565-2864 or by fax at (809) 566-8814. Or by Email: Info@SmartSoft.COM Visa and MC are accepted. SmartSoft, Inc. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, founded in 1993, develops and markets a variety of business productivity and entertainment applications for NEXTSTEP. DiskMaker, and SmartSoft are trademarks of SmartSoft, Inc. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
From: upgrader@SmartSoft.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: cmsg cancel <3n1621$cji@digifix.digifix.com> Control: cancel <3n1621$cji@digifix.digifix.com> Date: 21 Apr 1995 02:55:09 -0400 Organization: Digital Fix Development Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3n7ksd$5ct@digifix.digifix.com> Cancelled Message by sanguish@digifix.com -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: upgrader@SmartSoft.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: cmsg cancel <3n15vu$cj4@digifix.digifix.com> Control: cancel <3n15vu$cj4@digifix.digifix.com> Date: 21 Apr 1995 02:55:33 -0400 Organization: Digital Fix Development Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3n7kt5$5da@digifix.digifix.com> Cancelled Message by sanguish@digifix.com -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: Henry Hsu <hhsu@impact.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: cmsg cancel <3n14u1$ce8@digifix.digifix.com> Control: cancel <3n14u1$ce8@digifix.digifix.com> Date: 21 Apr 1995 02:55:50 -0400 Organization: Digital Fix Development Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3n7ktn$5dg@digifix.digifix.com> Cancelled Message by sanguish@digifix.com -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: Henry Hsu <hhsu@impact.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Quad-FAT Version 2.0 of SuperDraw Now Available Date: 21 Apr 1995 02:55:56 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3n7kts$5dn@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information please contact: Impact Software Publishing, Inc. Phone: 1-800-822-3385 / 718-472-0600 FAX: 718-472-0160 E-mail: info@impact.com NEW QUAD-FAT VERSION 2.0 OF SUPERDRAW NOW AVAILABLE Long Island City, New York - April 17, 1995 - Impact Software Publishing, Inc. today announced the availability of a new Quad-FAT version 2.0 of its SuperDraw(tm) product, a powerful and easy-to-use graphics and desktop publishing program with additional multimedia authoring capabilities. SuperDraw features tools for rotating, scaling, skewing, joining, clipping, and blending of graphic objects, such as text, lines, rectangles, polygons, Bezier splines, and 24-bit color TIFF and EPS images. SuperDraw also offers 6400 percent zoom-in capability, up to 100 levels of undo/redo, multiple concurrent views of a multi-page document, object/sound linking, and much more. It also allows you to choose PANTONE colors from the NEXTSTEP Colors panel and then drag and drop them into objects. SuperDraw provides customizable template and palette libraries, and includes sample templates for address labels, business cards, disk labels, shipping labels, and calendar. SuperDraw also includes sample palettes for creating flow charts, network diagrams, and organization charts. SuperDraw includes an extensive on-line help with illustrated step-by-step instructions. By simply clicking any section of the screen with the Help cursor, explanation of every menu item and program feature is available instantly. In addition, an illustrated tutorial is included to get you started quickly. SuperDraw is compiled Quad-FAT and will run on SPARC, Intel, HP PA-RISC, and NeXT hardware. SuperDraw is available direct from Impact Software and through authorized NEXTSTEP resellers. Information about quantity discounts, site-licenses, and reduced prices for educational customers can be obtained by contacting Impact Software directly. Current registered licensees of SuperDraw are entitled to a free upgrade to SuperDraw 2.0. (SuperDraw 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 all use the same set of license keys.) In addition, registered licensees of SuperDraw for NEXTSTEP are entitled to a free upgrade to SuperDraw for OPENSTEP when it becomes available. Requests for a demo copy of SuperDraw 2.0 can be sent to demos@impact.com. A demo copy of SuperDraw 2.0 is also available at ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/graphics/SuperDraw2.0.NIHS.tar.gz ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/graphics/SuperDraw2.0.NIHS.tar.gz (To decompress from Terminal.app, type: "gzip -c -d SuperDraw2.0.NIHS.tar.gz | tar -xvf -") For users without NeXTmail or FTP access, free demo floppies of SuperDraw 2.0 can be requested by calling 1-800-822-3385. Availability: Shipping now for SPARC, Intel, HP PA-RISC, and NeXT hardware. Retail Price: $495.00 Internet Price: $445.00 (for users who have obtained a copy via internet) Promotional Internet Price: $245.00 (available until May 15, 1995) *** SuperDraw is a trademark of Impact Software Publishing, Inc. NEXTSTEP is a trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks acknowledged.
From: J.W.deBruijn@ctg.tudelft.nl (Jan-Willem de Bruijn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: cmsg cancel <3n14qn$ccm@digifix.digifix.com> Control: cancel <3n14qn$ccm@digifix.digifix.com> Date: 21 Apr 1995 02:56:08 -0400 Organization: Digital Fix Development Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3n7ku8$5dq@digifix.digifix.com> Cancelled Message by sanguish@digifix.com -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: J.W.deBruijn@ctg.tudelft.nl (Jan-Willem de Bruijn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: NiNe/NeGeN (Netherlands) May 13 Date: 21 Apr 1995 02:56:13 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3n7kud$5e1@digifix.digifix.com> Meeting of NEXTSTEP users in the Netherlands (NiNe/NeGeN) on May 13, 1995 ========================================================================= The next meeting of NiNe/NeGeN will be held on Saturday May 13, 1995 in Utrecht, in room 1 of the conference centre 'Zeezicht'. There is no fixed programme as yet. As soon as there is, it will be made public. The purpose of the meeting is also the election of a new board, but it is mainly meant to keep up contacts between the members. We want to spend as little time as possible on the official part, with which the meeting starts. After that, the people that have presentations on hard- and software will briefly announce what is to been seen. The rest of the time can be used to admire the expositions and for informal contacts. We hope to show you (among other things) NEXTSTEP for SPARC processors, and to welcome a guest from a foreign NEXTSTEP user group. We will also have a live Internet connection, to be used for demonstrations, and for browsing (don't you find "surfing" an annoying term?) the World Wide Web. The details Date: 13 mei 1995 Place: Room 1 of conference centre Zeezicht, Nobelstraat 2, 3512 EN Utrecht, tel 030 - 31 99 57 Time: 14:30 (open at 14:00 for installing equipment and gossiping) Communications Zeezicht is a quarter of an hour walk from Central Station. You could also take the bus. City buses 2, 3, 5, 9, 11 and 22 and also Midnet buses 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 57, 70, 80 and 81 leave from Utrecht Central Station to Janskerkhof. Continuing on foot from there it is only a minute to Zeezicht. The centre of Utrecht is not easily traversed by car on Saturday afternoon. The easiest is to park your car in the garage in the Kruisstraat. A small map of the centre of Utrecht can be found on the World Wide Web with the URL http://www.twi.tudelft.nl/Local/NeGeN/zeezicht.html Hope to see you at the meeting, The board of NiNe/NeGeN
From: Karen Logsdon <Karen_Logsdon@NeXT.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: cmsg cancel <3n14nd$cc8@digifix.digifix.com> Control: cancel <3n14nd$cc8@digifix.digifix.com> Date: 21 Apr 1995 02:56:35 -0400 Organization: Digital Fix Development Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3n7kv3$5e4@digifix.digifix.com> Cancelled Message by sanguish@digifix.com -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: Karen Logsdon <Karen_Logsdon@NeXT.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: OBJECT DEMO DAYS: TEST THE TECHNOLOGY Date: 21 Apr 1995 02:56:42 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3n7kva$5eb@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Karen Logsdon NeXT Computer, Inc. 415-780-3786 or Kindle DiGiusto NeXT Computer, Inc. 415-780-3781 OBJECT DEMO DAYS: TEST THE TECHNOLOGY NeXT kicks-off two-month seminar program in North America REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-April 18, 1995-Many companies claim to have real, reusable, developer "objects," but few are delivering them. For that reason, NeXT Computer, Inc. is offering information technology executives the chance to see Real Objects - Right Now. Beginning May 9, NeXT will deliver free, half-day "Object Demo Days" in major North American cities. Geared toward CIOs, information system managers and developers, the seminars will provide a basic overview of object-oriented technology and its benefits to developer and end-user productivity. Attendees will see a demonstration of Next's award-winning NEXTSTEP/OpenStep environment. They will also preview Next's newly-released Enterprise Objects Framework (EOF) which offers a bridge between objects and relational databases; and Portable Distributed Objects (PDO) which extends the object model enabling the deployment of server-based objects to non-NEXTSTEP environments including Sun, HP and Digital operating systems. Attendees will also learn how this powerful technology will make its way to the computer mainstream with the introduction of OpenStep for Windows 95 and Windows NT. Overview of Seminar From 9 a.m. to noon, executives will receive an introduction to object-oriented technology, including the benefits of object-oriented development versus traditional development tools, and see a demonstration of NEXTSTEP/OpenStep. Participants will also have the opportunity to "test drive" NEXTSTEP/OpenStep. At certain locations, partners and Systems Integraters will be on hand to demonstrate third-party solutions. With documented case studies from major corporations such as MCI, Skyway Freight and Pan Canadian, IT executives will gain important insights into the many ways object-oriented technology saves time and money, and allows for the rapid deployment of new products and services. "The seminar program is an honest look at the state of object technology today. It is designed to be interactive and to help those exploring object technology sift through all of the hype," said Martin Yam, vice president of sales and marketing at NeXT Computer, Inc. "We encourage all IT executives to attend." Event Sites Seminars will be held in Chicago (May 9); Toronto (May 11); Washington D.C. (May 16); Minneapolis (May 18); San Francisco (June 13); Dallas (June 15); Washington D.C. (June 20). Additional dates may be added, for more information or to register for these free seminars, please call 1-800-TRY-NeXT or email to seminars@next.com. NeXT Computer, Inc. NeXT develops and markets OpenStep, the industry's first and most advanced object environment. OpenStep versions have been announced which will run on several operating systems, including NeXT's own MachOS, Sun's Solaris, Digital's UNIX and Microsoft's Windows NT and Windows 95. OpenStep's object-oriented technology allows corporate customers to rapidly create and deploy three-tier, client-server, mission critical custom applications. NeXT is headquartered in Redwood City, California, and has offices in North America, London, Paris, Munich and Tokyo. # # # # NeXT, the NeXT logo, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP are trademarks or registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: "Bruce F. Webster" <bwebster@pages.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: IT Solutions to acquire NEXTSTEP product line from Pages Software Inc Date: 22 Apr 1995 18:05:39 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3nbujj$dnt@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:Ted Shelton IT Solutions 312 474-7700 312 474-9361 FAX http://www.its.com/ info@its.com Bruce F. Webster Pages Software Inc 619 492-9050 ext 212 619 492-9124 FAX http://www.pages.com/ bwebster@pages.com IT SOLUTIONS TO ACQUIRE NEXTSTEP PRODUCT LINE FROM PAGES SOFTWARE INC WILL CONTINUE DEVELOPMENT AND MARKETING OF PAGES NEXTSTEP PRODUCTS WebWorld, Santa Clara, CA -- April 20, 1995 -- IT Solutions has executed a letter of intent to acquire development and marketing rights for the NEXTSTEP/OpenStep products created by Pages Software Inc, including Pages by Pages[tm] document design software, WebPages by Pages[tm]--the first truly WYSIWYG HTML editor on the market--and the complete line of Pages Design Models[tm]. Terms of the arrangement were not disclosed by either party. IT Solutions, a leader in object technology in the NEXTSTEP market, offers custom development, commercial products, and preconfigured systems. One of their most popular offerings is the Neticity Workstation, a turnkey web authoring solution, combining premier hardware and robust software, including WebPages by Pages. "The incredible growth of the World Wide Web has created strong demand from current and potential customers who want Web technology solutions running under NEXTSTEP and OpenStep. This acquisition gives us both an outstanding document processor and the best Web authoring product on the market today, and we are committed to improving both," stated Ted Shelton, President and CEO of IT Solutions. Larry Spelhaug, President and CEO of Pages Software Inc, said, "IT Solutions has been a good partner and effective reseller of our products. We have every confidence in their ability to carry our NEXTSTEP/OpenStep product line forward." IT Solutions will continue to bundle the WebPages product with the Neticity workstation, while integrating its functionality into a complete line of Web application development tools. IT Solutions is a NeXT Object Channel Partner, located at 500 West Madison St., Suite 2210, Chicago, Illinois 60661. Pages Software Inc is located at 9755 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., San Diego, California 92124. # # # Neticity is a trademark of IT Solutions. WebPages by Pages, Pages by Pages, ObjectBased, and Design Models are trademarks of Pages Software Inc. NeXT, NEXTSTEP, and OpenStep are trademarks or registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners. ----- 30 -----
From: "Bruce F. Webster" <bwebster@pages.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Pages Software announces development of WebPages for Windows[tm] Date: 22 Apr 1995 18:05:43 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3nbujn$do4@digifix.digifix.com> --------------------- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:Bruce F. Webster Pages Software Inc (WebWorld Booth 103) vox: 619.492-9050 x212 fax: 619.492-9124 web: http://www.pages.com/ e-mail: bwebster@pages.com p-mail: 9755 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., San Diego, CA 92124 PAGES SOFTWARE ANNOUNCES DEVELOPMENT OF WEBPAGES FOR WINDOWS[tm] SECOND-GENERATION WEB DOCUMENT TOOLS TO BE AVAILABLE FOR WINDOWS 95, WINDOWS NT WebWorld, Santa Clara, CA -- April 20, 1995 -- Pages Software Inc today made public for the first time its on-going development project for WebPages for Windows[tm], a set of second-generation web document tools to run under Windows 95 and Windows NT. Product plans remain confidential, but Pages indicated that the first public release of their Windows-based technology should occur before the end of this year. Larry Spelhaug, President and CEO of Pages Software Inc, said, "We are focusing all our expertise and resources on meeting the needs of the rapidly growing Web marketplace. We view our current product line as a starting point and are actively expanding our technology in new directions." Pages Software Inc had previously developed and shipped WebPages for Pages[tm], the first truly WYSIWYG editor for creating HTML documents, as well as an extensive set of their patented WebPages Design Models[tm], allowing users to rapidly lay out, edit, rearrange, and restyle web pages without ever seeing HTML source code. These products, developed for NEXTSTEP, received strong acclaim from reviewers and enthusiastic response from users and viewers at trades shows such as WebWorld/Orlando, Seybold/Boston, and InternetWorld/San Jose. "We've been doing object-based compound document architecture for nearly five years," said Bruce F. Webster, Chief Technical Officer and co-founder of Pages Software Inc. "That's why we were able to bring WebPages by Pages to market so quickly. We're taking all that we've learned from that experience, as well as all our input from current and potential customers, and using it to build effective and advanced products for the markets we've identified." Spelhaug added, "Consistently we have been asked at trade shows and on customer visits, 'When will WebPages be available for Windows?' We are now on a path to answer that question." Craig Bustrin, an associate at Morgan Stanley, welcomed the announcement. "Those of us doing web authoring here at Morgan Stanley have looked at virtually everything on the market, and we felt that WebPages by Pages had them all beat hands down. We believe that WebPages for Windows will set new standards in web document creation and management." In a separate announcement today, IT Solutions of Chicago, IL, executed a letter of intent to acquire development and marketing rights for Pages' current line of NEXTSTEP/OpenStep products. IT Solutions is located at 500 West Madison St., Suite 2210, Chicago, Illinois 60661; (312) 474-7700. Pages Software Inc is located at 9755 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., San Diego, California 92124. # # # WebPages for Windows, WebPages by Pages, ObjectBased, and Design Models are trademarks of Pages Software Inc. Windows 95 and Windows NT are trademarks of Microsoft. NeXT, NEXTSTEP, and OpenStep are trademarks or registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners. ---- 30 -----
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Summary 80 - Articles posted since April 17 1995 Date: 24 Apr 1995 04:00:09 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3nf7o9$o9k@digifix.digifix.com> Summary: 80 Postings since: April 17 1995 [3137] ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines [3138] NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet [3139] PRESS RELEASE: Lighthouse Design Announces Academic CD [3153] SUBMISSION: InstrumentBuilder1.0 available by ftp [3154] CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Bifrost Workstations [3155] JOB: Design Engineer [3156] PRESS RELEASE: SmartSoft Announces The Release Of Rocks 1.83hp [3157] PRESS RELEASE: SmartSoft Announces The Release Of DotFiles 2.0hp [3158] PRESS RELEASE: SmartSoft Announces The Release Of DotFiles 2.0hp [3159] PRESS RELEASE: InForms v.1.0 NIH posted to ftp.cs.orst.edu [3160] PRESS RELEASE: StayInTouch v.2.27 NIH posted to ftp.cs.orst.edu [3161] PRESS RELEASE: SmartSoft Announces The Release Of FONTinspector 1.1hp [3162] PRESS RELEASE SmartSoft Announces The Release Of DiskMaker v.1.75hp [3163] PRESS RELEASE: SmartSoft Announces The Release Of CollagistPro Version 1.1 [3164] PRESS RELEASE: Quad-FAT Version 2.0 of SuperDraw Now Available [3165] MEETING: NiNe/NeGeN (Netherlands) May 13 [3166] OBJECT DEMO DAYS: TEST THE TECHNOLOGY [3167] PRESS RELEASE: IT Solutions to acquire NEXTSTEP product line from Pages Software Inc [3168] PRESS RELEASE: Pages Software announces development of WebPages for Windows[tm] If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com. Archives -------- Individual messages are available at http://www.stepwise.com/comp.sys.next.announce/csna-80/**article_number** where **article_number** is the [xxxx] beside the Subject line above.. FTP archives: ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives/csna-80.tar.gz WWW archives: http://www.stepwise.com/comp.sys.next.announce/csna-80 Article submissions : next-announce@digifix.com Submission guidelines: next-announce-guidelines@digifix.com Suggestions/comments : next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines Date: 24 Apr 1995 04:15:05 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3nf8k9$omj@digifix.digifix.com> NEW POLICY: =========== In an attempt to standardize the format of the FTP locations for files, all ftp addresses should be submitted using the Universal Resource Locator (URL) format. (for example) ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/submissions/file.tar.gz Please try and give an indication of where you expect the file will end up on the archive site, in the same notation. Cross Posting ============= I try very hard to make sure that postings get out in a timely fashion. Most go out in less than 24 hours. Postings that require editing because they do not contain information in a useable format, or have already been posted to other comp.sys.next.* groups may be delayed, or returned to you. If your posting is rejected, I'll try and make suggestions about what should be changed where possible. Obviously off charter messages (spams, open-letters, etc) may not get a response. Content 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 _IN URL FORMAT_ supported CPU's for binary distributions, OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting, time of meeting, speakers expected Signatures 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. Announcement of Product Sales ============================= This is an area of announcement that has caused me terrible grief in recent months. The policy is tilted towards the ISV, which has worked out well in the past. Posts that announce sales of products that you are DIRECTLY involved in the development of are OK. Posts from companies trying to sell other products are evaluated on an individual basis. Time Sensitive Announcements ============================ Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date. 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.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet Date: 24 Apr 1995 04:15:12 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3nf8kg$omj@digifix.digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site comp.sys.next newsgroups related newsgroups comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list ftp sites NeXTanswers Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site =============================================== This online community resource includes - 200+ ISV company pages - 400+ ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - NEXTSTEP User Group Directory - comp.sys.next archives - User Group information - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.stepwise.com/ Additionally there is a Mail Server available. You can get information on using the mail server at ns-products@stepwise.com Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise, please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com. eduSTEP WWW site ================ http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/ eduStep aims to provide up-to-date information on: - NextStep tools and projects for scientists. - Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist). - A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with customers in the educational community. - Conferences, meetings, workshops - Major projects, such as SciTools, EMBL's project to develop a NextStep scientific work environment - Status reports on GNUStep, a freely-available implementation of OpenStep now being developed NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site ============================ http://www.next.com comp.sys.next.* newsgroups ========================== news: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. news: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. Archives are available by ftp at ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. news: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. news: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. news: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. news: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!!! news: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. news:comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. news:comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. Related Newsgroups ================== news: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. news:comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. news: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 ============= ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions ftp://nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: In Germany. ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next/ eduStep ftp://ftp.next.com: See below ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com ===================================== [from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help] 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, read them on the world-wide web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS. 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. 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Scott (mailto:eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU) and Scott Anguish (mailto:sanguish@digifix.com) Additions from: Greg Anderson (mailto:Greg_Anderson@afs.com) Michael Pizolato (mailto:Michael_Pizolato@afs.com) Dan Grillo (mailto:dan_grillo@next.com)
From: Paul Tod Rieger <prie@abl.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: NEXTSTEP:atlanta, April 27th Date: 24 Apr 1995 04:27:36 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3nf9bo$p2e@digifix.digifix.com> Different time and place: Date: Thursday, April 27, 1995 Time: 7:00pm Place: Advanced Technology Development Center Suite N-114 (conference room) Cost: free and open to the public Agenda: Netsurfer release party Demos: Netsurfer (World Wide Web, FTP, Gopher, etc.) WebPages (WWW publishing) Solutions Suite CDs will be given away Directions to: Advanced Technology Development Center 430 Tenth St. N.W. Atlanta, GA I75/85 to 10th Street exit 10th west about 1 mile left onto Greenfield immediate right into parking lot enter main breezeway, which leads to the conference room Contact: Tod Rieger Phone: 404-381-2464 Email: prie@abl.com
From: Juergen Sell <js@icem.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: playcd 1.3 Date: 24 Apr 1995 20:36:39 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3nh24n$220@digifix.digifix.com> Playcd is a simple command line program to play audio cds on black hardware. Sound output is via NeXT's sound system. Tested with NEC and Toshiba drives only. Sorry. playcd comes as a full source gzipped tar archive and can be found on the following ftp sites: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/sources/util/playcd-1.3.tar.gz ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de Here is the complete README : Playcd 1.3 ============ This is the fourth public release of the playcd,play3401 series. Playcd is a program which reads the contents audio CDs, transfers them digitally over the SCSI bus to the NeXT itself and then plays them on the host system. As currently there is not yet a standard set of SCSI commands for this task, all the CD ROM drives which can do this do it in mutually incompatible ways. As a consequence this reader work only with the Toshiba 3401 and NEC 3X series of CD ROM drives. (We do have hopes though to incorporate support for other drives. Currently, the required OPCODE for Hitachi and Sony is known as to be 0xD8. But this has not been verified and this information is not to be relied on) Playcd needs to access the raw CD which on NeXTs is only possible for root. As a consequence it needs to be run either by root himself, or has to be installed SUID root. "make install" by root will install play3401 properly for general usage. Playcd has been heavily optimized to use as little CPU time as possible to the point that virtually all its CPU load is caused by system call overhead. This still leaves a CPU load of about 15% on a 25 MHz mono slab in addition to an unspecified load on the SCSI bus. So probably you'll not want to run playcd while recompiling the operating system or doing 3D animation , but for use with low-impact tasks like news/mail reading/writing, text editing or an occasional compile, it'll work just fine. If you find any bugs or have any problems feel free to email me. Carl Edman 2-3-93 <cedman@princeton.edu> Juergen Sell 12 Apr, 1995 <js@icem.de> Changes between V1.3 and V1.2: ============================== - added support the NEC 3X series. Should also work with the 1X, 2X and 4X series of NEC drives but has not yet been tested. - added stupid l option to get simplest form of table of contents - added d<n> option to begin inquiry at /dev/sd<n>. Default is '0'. - renamed project to 'playcd' to reflect added nec support. Changes between V1.2 and V1.1: ============================== - There is a slightly better chance that play3401 will work on NS/FIP hardware. - Play3401 will now also record samples directly off the CD to a standard NS sound file. - A number of minor bugs were fixed including one which made play3401s track numbering unreliable. Juergen
From: pascal@wsc.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: SGS 0.1.1 Date: 24 Apr 1995 20:38:37 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3nh28d$22i@digifix.digifix.com> SUBMISSION: SGS version 0.1.1 New York, Monday April 24, 1995 - SGS 0.1.1 is now available from ftp at: ftp://ceo-www.jrc.it/pub/sgs/src. The location of the archive is likely to change this week. If you can't find it, send email to sgs-bugs@wsc.com, and we'll tell you how to get it. WHAT IS SGS? SGS is a Sequence Generation System featuring a lightweight sequence daemon and an easy to use C API allowing you to use the functionality from within your favorite C, C++ or Objective-C applications. The API provides functions for creating and destroying named sequences, getting the current or the next value, caching entries in memory, and setting the increment or the current value for each named sequence. Multiple client applications can access the sequence daemon, and need not be on the same machine, as they communicate with the daemon by means of TCP/IP networking. SGS is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. Report problems and direct all questions to: sgs-bugs@wsc.com SGS was written by: Pascal Forget Chief Programmer, Arc Project Working on location at: Wall Street Concepts Investment Services 90 Broad Street, New York NY USA 10004 Phone: (212) 797-1887 E-Mail: pascal@wsc.com
From: ttsinfo@trillium.ab.ca Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: BETA TEST: Trillium Sound Research needs testers for TextToSpeech Kit 2.0 Date: 24 Apr 1995 20:42:46 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3nh2g6$23m@digifix.digifix.com> Call For Beta Testers: Trillium Sound Research is looking for beta testers for Version 2.0 of the TextToSpeech Kit. Specifically, we wish to test the software on NeXT computers and on Intel platforms equipped with the Turtle Beach Tahiti MultiSound DSP card. Although we would like to accommodate everyone who wants to participate in the test program, our limited resources means that only a small number of beta testers will be required. Priority will be given to current customers, and remaining testers will be chosen on a first come, first served basis. If you are interested, please supply the following information, and send via email to manzara@trillium.ab.ca. Name: Email address: Surface mail address (for shipping): Platform: If Intel, is it equipped with the Turtle Beach Tahiti DSP/Sound card?: NEXTSTEP OS Version: Are you a current customer?: Version 2.0 of the TextToSpeech Kit features breakthroughs in speech synthesis research not found on any competing system. It uses the first ever real-time digital articulatory synthesizer integrated into a commercial text-to-speech system. Since the synthesizer directly models the propagation of sound pressure waves through the human vocal and nasal tracts, it produces a voice quality that is much more natural than that produced by traditional formant synthesizers. Another advantage is that scaling from a male voice to a child or female voice can be intuitively specified simply by shortening the vocal tract and raising the average pitch. The TextToSpeech Kit comes in two versions: the Developer Kit and the User Kit. The Developer Kit enables developers to incorporate text-to-speech capabilities into their own software. The User Kit gives users the ability to convert any length of English text into synthesized speech in real time. Both Kits are seamlessly integrated into the NEXTSTEP environment, which means that one can synthesize text from any application that supports the services menu. If you would like more information, please send your name and surface mail address to ttsinfo@trillium.ab.ca, and we will send you a brochure. Contact Information: Trillium Sound Research Inc. 1500, 112 - 4th Avenue S.W. Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2P 0H3 Email: ttsinfo@trillium.ab.ca Telephone: (403) 284-9278 Fax: (403) 282-6778
From: dpeter@xanthus.com (David W. Peter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: OpenWrite 1.1 to ship in May (Free Upgrade) Date: 24 Apr 1995 20:45:00 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3nh2kc$243@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information please contact: Xanthus USA David Peter Phone: +1-619-730-0370 Fax: +1-619-730-0373 Email: info@xanthus.com Xanthus International Jesper Lundh Phone: +46-8-635 30 62 Fax: +46-8-98 70 67 Email: info@xanthus.se OPENWRITE 1.1 TO SHIP IN MAY (Free Upgrade) 600% Faster -- HTML Support -- Table Editor -- PC & Mac File Compatibility San Diego, CA, April 19, 1995 -- Xanthus today announced that it will begin shipping OpenWrite 1.1 in May. The new version, which is 600% faster than previous releases and includes many new features, will be shipped on CD-Rom FREE to all registered owners of OpenWrite. "The new version of OpenWrite includes many exciting new features, nearly all of which were based on requests and feedback from our customers," said David Peter, VP of Sales for Xanthus. "We've increased the speed significantly, greatly improved import and export of Word, WordPerfect and WriteNow files, added HTML support, some very useful companion applications and, of course, fixed quite a few bugs." Xanthus also announced that OpenWrite 2.0, a major upgrade planned for release this summer, is currently ahead of schedule. Xanthus plans to make a prerelease version available as early as June. A partial list of features planned for OpenWrite 2.0 includes: table of contents generation, indexing, redlining, full HTML authoring, World Wide Web browsing, support for multi-file books, auto-bullets and auto-paragraph numbering, endnotes, and customizable speedbars and menus. * SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICING FOR OPENWRITE 1.1 * First-time OpenWrite purchasers can take advantage of a special promotional price of $249 for a single-user license (limit one per customer), available through the end of June, a savings of 40% off the retail price of $395. The Open Office Suite, which includes OpenWrite, Questor (Spreadsheet) and Graphity (3D Charts and Graphs), and normally retails for $895, will also be available at a promotional price of $549 for a single-user license (one per customer). Those interested should contact Xanthus via email (info@xanthus.com) to request an order form. A partial list of new features and a description of the companion applications included free with OpenWrite 1.1 is below: * NEW FEATURES IN OPENWRITE 1.1 * - Significant Speed Improvements -- over 600% faster than previous releases - HTML Authoring Tools -- intuitive, easy-to-use tools for creating documents for the World Wide Web. Includes preview and edit modes, as well as auto-verification for checking the validity of HTML documents you've created. (Beta in OpenWrite 1.1) - World Wide Web Browser -- use OpenWrite to browse HTML documents locally within your organization or on the World Wide Web. (Beta in OpenWrite 1.1) - Tables in OpenWrite Documents -- create and edit impressive tables with rotated text, shading and drop shadows directly in OpenWrite documents, and import or export tables to or from other popular word processors such as Word, WordPerfect, AmiPro and others. Imported tables are fully editable and scaleable in OpenWrite. - Windows and Mac Compatibility -- finely tuned filters for importing and exporting Word, WordPerfect, WriteNow, AmiPro, Framemaker, Interleaf, RTF and RTFD files, including full support for graphics and tables. - OOE 2 -- supports the new enhanced version of the Open Object Embedding standard. - Improved User Interface -- refinements and enhancements to the UI that make OpenWrite even more intuitive and easy to use. - Keyboard Selectable Text -- use your keyboard to select characters, words or lines of text at a time. - Insert Page Break Command -- we've added a new menu item and command key equivalents for inserting logical page breaks. * COMPANION APPS -- INCLUDED FREE WITH OPENWRITE 1.1 * - Tables 1.0 -- Create and edit impressive tables directly in OpenWrite documents: rotate text, apply shading, highlights and drop shadows, straddle columns, import and export to other file formats, etc. - Envelopes 1.0 -- Print single envelopes from any NEXTSTEP application and multiple envelopes from OpenMerge data files, or merge directly from your NEXTSTEP ".addresses" files. - KeyConfig 1.0 -- Easily assign your keyboards functions keys to features in OpenWrite, other Xanthus applications, or any NEXTSTEP application that supports the new function key standard. - Labels 1.0 -- Print single labels from any NEXTSTEP application and multiple labels from OpenMerge data files, or merge directly from your NEXTSTEP ".addresses" files. - Addresses 1.0 -- Mailmerge directly from your NEXTSTEP addresses file. - OpenMerge 1.1 -- An enhanced version of Xanthus' mailmerge utility for OpenWrite. Manipulate data from any database, or create tables of data to merge with OpenWrite. - Frequent Phrases 1.2 -- Quickly add your commonly used text and phrases to OpenWrite documents or any NEXTSTEP application. * ORDERING OPENWRITE 1.1 * Current registered owners of OpenWrite will be sent a new CD containing OpenWrite 1.1 and all companion applications automatically, free of charge. The new version will also be available via FTP at major sites. Others interested in purchasing OpenWrite or who would like to request additional information should contact Xanthus directly. OpenWrite, which began shipping in November, 1994, is compiled quad-fat for Motorola, Intel, HP PA-RISC and Sparc based computers. OpenWrite has a retail price of $395 and is available direct from Xanthus or through authorized NEXTSTEP resellers. Information about quantity discounts, site-licenses and reduced prices for educational customers can be obtained by contacting Xanthus directly. * ABOUT THE COMPANY * Xanthus International AB, with offices in Stockholm, Sweden, and San Diego, California, is a privately owned software development company that specializes in productivity software for the NEXTSTEP and OpenStep platforms. Xanthus is one of twelve companies in the Upnet Group, one of Sweden's most successful and expanding networking companies with offices located in Sweden and Norway. The Upnet Group has more than 150 employees and revenues in excess of $50 million per year. -End-
From: Christian Baur <cbaur@informatik.uni-muenchen.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: [Peanuts FTP-Archive]: CD-ROM available now Date: 24 Apr 1995 20:48:47 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3nh2rf$26o@digifix.digifix.com> Peanuts Archive Discs NEXTSTEP/OpenStep FTP-Archive ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/ pub/comp/platforms/next available on compact disc! "Peanuts", one of the world's leading ftp-archives for NEXTSTEP software on NeXT, Intel, HP/PA and SUN Sparc hardware, is now also available on compact disc. The complete archive contains more than 1.3 GByte of compressed software and is distributed on two compact discs. Most of the applications are free- or shareware. For demonstration purposes, a wide range of popular commercial applications is included; this section is more than just a compilation of different third-party compact discs. The archive contains NEXTSTEP-applications, unix programs, X11 programs, tools for developers, collections of easily reusable classes and code, documents, hard- and software-reviews, tutorials for programming and system administration, the NeXTAnswers directly from NeXT, a collection of important mailing-lists, newsletters from NeXT usergroups and an archive of national and international newsgroups from 1989 up to now. This and a rich collection of graphics, sound and audio files, drivers, classes, filters, preference modules, palette, fonts and much more, makes this CD a comprehensive tool for every user and developer of NeXT's advanced, object-oriented operation system. The archive is sorted in different categories and each filename follows a special naming convention making it possible to check the version number and distribution form (binary and/or source) of a program; further it is possible to see from the filename on which hardware platform any binary distributed application can be run. Also supplied is a short description file for almost every program enabling the user to find rapidly what he is searching for. With a simple double click any compressed file can be unpacked. Useful documents including usenet news, FAQs, the NeXTAnswers and the description files are fully indexed and can be used right off the CD together with NEXTSTEP's Digital Librarian for a fast and efficient information retrieval. The description files can also be copied to hard disc for an efficient search without the compact discs. The peanuts archive discs are available at the end of april at the cost of US$59 (DM 69.-) plus shipping and handling. The costs for sending the discs COD (cash on delivery) are about DM 8.- in germany and $20 for the rest of europe. Outside europe you can send us cash (costs for shipping are $12), you can transfer to our account (costs are $12, make sure we get $59 after all charges deducted!) or you pay by credit card (europe: $6, outside: $12). Please ask for details. Together with the CD-ROMs a registration card is supplied for a $15/DM20.- discount of the next issue of the peanuts archive discs. For your orders or for any questions concerning the peanuts FTP-archive please contact: Peanuts Archive Discs c/o Christian Baur Aurbacherstrasse 11/VIII D-81541 Muenchen-Haidhausen Fax: (++49) 89 - 483563 pad@informatik.uni-muenchen.de The peanuts FTP archive can be reached on ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next, on many mirror sites in Europe and on some BBSs in Germany.
From: Raymond Rodden <ray@goldleaf.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Win Big Contest from GS Corp Deadline April 30 Date: 25 Apr 1995 02:36:53 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3nhn85$4mo@digifix.digifix.com> Raymond M. Rodden Executive Director, Operations GS Corporation 929 Sir Francis Drake Blvd. Kentfield, CA 94904 415-945-7015 415-945-7007 fax (general) ray@goldleaf.com NeXT mail The deadline for the Solutions Suite CD contest is fast approaching. April 30th is your last chance to enter to win a trip for 2 to San Francisco and a Canon object.station with Solutions Suite software! If you haven't recieved a CD , you can still enter. Simply return this email with answers to the questions below and you will be automatically entered in the drawing. Name: Title: Company or Institution: Address: City, State, Zip: (Country, Postal Code, if applicable) Telephone: Fax: email: NeXTmail ok? Do you presently use NEXTSTEP? If not, what OS do you use? What hardware do you use? Are you on a network? How many NEXTSTEP network users do you have currently? Reply to: ray@goldleaf.com
From: Dimitri Plotrikov <e3udzp@aikman.fnma.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Balling Date: 25 Apr 1995 03:08:53 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3nhp45$4t8@digifix.digifix.com> I built this tiny program under NeXTSTEP 3.2 for both m68k and 80x86. Hopefully it will run on your machine. ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/games/Balling.tar.gz The idea of the game is very simple: you are supposed to arrange the balls so that they make rows or triangles of the same color. If you succeed, the rows and triangles vanish to free room for other balls. The game ends when there is no more room available. You can use left and right arrow keys to move the falling balls to the left or right, the up and down arrows to change the order of the balls and the space key to drop them. Command-n starts a new game. Command-p will pause the game, then any key will resume it. Hiding the application automatically pauses it. If first levels are too boring for you, hit Command-2 or Command-3 to leap directly to the second or third level. If you want to share the same score table with other people, just launch the application from the same file Balling.app, located on a file server in your local area network. The score table is located inside Balling.app and the application will accurately synchronize your score table. Have fun! Dimitri Plotnikov Home phone: (703) 860-9260
From: info@opensource.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: OpenSource announces Daydream 2.11 availability Date: 25 Apr 1995 20:07:28 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3njkq0$bhd@digifix.digifix.com> Contact: OpenSource, Inc. 1776 Lincoln Street, Suite 1012 Denver, CO 80203 Toll Free: 1-800-TRY-OPEN Phone: 1-303-861-4411 Fax: 1-303-861-2393 E-mail: info@opensource.com OpenSource Offers Daydream DENVER, COLORADO - 04/25/95. OpenSource, Inc. today announced the availability of the Daydream* version 2.11 Macintosh* environment for NeXT* computers from QUIX of Switzerland. Daydream lets you run the Apple* Macintosh System 7* on your black NeXT computer. It opens a new world of applications, utilities, and solutions - the world of Macintosh software. Use your existing NeXT hardware to discover and take advantage of thousands of Mac software and hardware products. And, take advantage of your NeXT as a high performance workstation. Daydream converts your NeXT hardware into a virtual Macintosh workstation. This latest 2.11 version of Daydream offers the following: - Converts ALL 030/040 based NeXT computers into Mac-compatible workstations - Runs as fast as a Quadra 900/950 - Runs original Apple software: System 7.01, 7.1, 7.1 PRO OR SYSTEM 7.5 (must be purchased separately) - Uses licenced system and ROM code from Apple Supports: - NeXT Laser Printers at full 400 dpi - NeXTdimension boards (24 bit direct color) - NeXT color station, 12 bit color, works w/ Illustrator* and Photoshop* - Ethernet (Twisted Pair / BNC) - Modems - ADB Systems, including Mac-ADB devices - 1.4 MB internal floppy drives - SCSI devices (Scanners, Hard Disks, Removables, CD-ROMs, except DAT Tapes) - 68040 Floating Point Operations Not supported: Sound, Midi, 800k Floppys Daydream users work with the Macintosh graphical user interface through the Macintosh Desktop and Finder* with all of the features of Apples System 7. This includes Aliases, TrueType*, publish-and-subscribe*, AppleEvents*, Balloon Help*, QuickDraw*, 32-bit addressing, File Sharing* and MS-DOS support. One Daydream user, Robert Wakeman -- a lone NeXT user at a Macintosh-based New York advertising agency -- reports, "Having the Daydream on my slab at work is a real blessing. With the NeXT's built-in networking, I can plug into our network without having to use the external network box that everybody else has to use. Not only that, but System 7.5 looks better and runs faster on the NeXT. Quark* opens in just 20 seconds!" Daydream is priced at $655 and includes the Daydream software, ROM box with Apple ROM's installed, and "minimal" System 7.1. ### QUIX Computerware A pioneer in operating system technology, QUIX announced, in October, 1993, that it would provide cross-platform Macintosh compatibility. In March 1994, QUIX entered a licence agreement with Apple Computer, Inc. which enables QUIX to ship "Daydream for NeXT" product with original System Software and ROMs from Apple, thereby securing superior compatibility. QUIX is located in Ebikon, Switzerland. OpenSource, Inc. OpenSource is a single-source reseller of third-party applications and pre-configured hardware for the NEXTSTEP operating system. Dedicated to prompt service and quality support, OpenSource offers the most extensive line of NEXTSTEP related products in the industry. OpenSource is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. _____________________________________________________________________ * corresponds to (R) or (TM) NeXT and NEXTSTEP are trademarks of NeXT, Inc. Apple, Macintosh, Mac, Macintosh Quadra 900, Macintosh Quadra 950, Macintosh LC, System 7, Finder, publish-and-subscribe, AppleEvents, Balloon Help*, QuickDraw, Personal Filesharing, AppleShare, Appletalk, EtherTalk, AppleLink, PC Exchange and Apple Disk Copy are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. TrueType, Illustrator, and Photoshop are trademarks of Adobe Systems, Inc. Quark is a trademark of Quark, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective holders. Mention of non-QUIX products is for informational purposes and constitutes neither an endorsement nor a recommendation. Specifications subject to change without notice.
From: Al Davis <ever@fairfield.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Nextstep project in Florida Date: 25 Apr 1995 20:08:18 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3njkri$bhk@digifix.digifix.com> There is a very substantial Nextstep project in Florida just starting. We are looking for a couple of Senior level hands-on developers with C++ or Objective C or Visual Works. This is going to be a high profile multi-million dollar project. Salaries and benefits will be in accord to the level of experience. There will be additional NextStep developers requirements as well. If you know of someone or are interested yourself please drop me a line or give me a call. Alfred Davis Al Davis Internet al@amerishare.win.net Evergreen Information CIS 73312,3227 406 West Depot Tel 515-472-9626 Fairfield, IA 52556 800-634-2954 Fax 515-469-3240
From: eloquent_info@take3.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Eloquent announces edu/user group pricing Date: 26 Apr 1995 03:34:02 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3nkeva$e51@digifix.digifix.com> CONTACT: Take 3 P.O. Box 40 Cedar, MI 49621-0040 (616) 228-6556 eloquent_info@take3.com PRESS RELEASE: News and Mail application still Eloquent Cedar, MI -- Take 3 is pleased to announce educational and user group pricing on Eloquent(tm), the most advanced news and mail application available for NEXTSTEP. The reduced price of $50, which is available to students, educational institutions and qualified NEXTSTEP/Openstep user group members, means that now even more people can experience the benefits of Eloquent. Eloquent has all the familiar features you have come to expect from the traditional NEXTSTEP mail and news agents, but it also has advanced capabilities that simplify routine tasks and let you customize the program to adapt it to your needs. A variety of message formats, address books, and mailboxes are supported, which means you won't have to give up anything in the way of compatibility when making the transition to Eloquent. A quad-fat demo version for NEXTSTEP 3.1 or higher is available from ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/mail/Eloquent.2.01.NIHS.tar.gz A version for NEXTSTEP 3.0 on black hardware is available by request. Eloquent's retail price is $175. Eloquent supports the following protocols: NNTP and IMAP for news; POP, IMAP and SMTP for mail. For additional information on taking advantage of the educational discount, or qualifying your user group, contact eloquent_sales@take3.com
From: Alan Chung <alan@lighthouse.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Lighthouse Design seeks Quality Assurance Engineer Date: 26 Apr 1995 20:15:57 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3nm9lt$kv4@digifix.digifix.com> Quality Assurance Engineer Sought Lighthouse Design is in search of one full time Quality Assurance Engineer to join our engineering team. The person filling this position will assume responsibility for testing and release approval of our productivity applications. Work can begin immediately. Lighthouse Design is the premier provider of productivity applications for NEXTSTEP and soon OpenStep. - Responsibilities - Product testing and release approval: * Writing, maintaining and using detailed test scripts * Working with programmers to design automated test suites * Work with project teams to determine product quality goals Bug tracking: * Reproducing bugs and verifying fixes * Performing statistical analyses of bug report and fix rates * Perform regression tests Management: * Hiring and supervising contractors to aid in product testing * In conjunction with our sales team, manage product beta tests * Update and improve current SQA processes * Eventually staffing and managing a QA department - Skills and Experience Required - * Two to five years professional QA experience are required * You must be an obsessive and extensive user of NEXTSTEP or Macintosh applications * You must able to write clearly, concisely, and quickly. You will need to summarize a bug in a sentence, and write step by step recipes for reproducing bugs and testing applications * Technical writing and teaching experience are a big plus * Unix programming and administrative experience are desirable, but not required * Writing samples will be required - Benefits - * Work in a small and highly motivated company, in a pleasant and collegial professional environment * Competitive compensation package, including stock options * Comprehensive health coverage * Free food and, more importantly, free gourmet coffee - How to Apply - Resumes may be submitted in any of the following ways (listed in order of preference). The submission deadline is *May 30*. Please be sure to put "Resume for the Quality Assurance Engineer opening" on your cover sheet. Send e-mail to resume@lighthouse.com. NeXT Mail is best. MIME attachments are acceptable, too. Fax us at +1-415-570-7787. Please be sure and put Human Resources on the cover sheet. US Mail is fine too, but doesn't always get the quick response that electronic submissions do. Send mail to: Human Resources Lighthouse Design, Ltd. 2929 Campus Drive, Suite 250 San Mateo, CA 94403-2534 USA Note, if you have access to the web, we maintain the latest Lighthouse hiring information on our World Wide Web server at http://www.lighthouse.com/Recruiting.html - More Information about Lighthouse Design - If you wish to learn more about Lighthouse Design and our products, you can obtain more information via our web server at http://www.lighthouse.com/
From: Ullrich Platt <up@elsa.mhs.compuserve.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: ELSA announces new graphics boards -- Multiple screen support continued Date: 28 Apr 1995 05:11:33 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3npte5$3j6@digifix.digifix.com> April 26, 1995 ELSA Inc. ELSA GmbH Contact: Contact: Thomas Neubert Carsten Grashorn Vice President Sales and Marketing International Sales Manager 2041 Mission College Blvd. Sonnenweg 11 Suite 165 52070 Aachen Santa Clara, CA 95054 Germany USA Phone +49-241-9177-0 Phone +1-408-565-9669 Sales +49-241-9177-225 Phone +1-800-272-ELSA Fax +49-241-9177-600 Fax +1-408-565-9650 BBS +49-241-9177-981 (modem) BBS +1-408-565-9630 BBS +49-241-9177-7800 (ISDN) Email: Email: thomasn@elsa-usa.mhs.compuserve.com cg@elsa.mhs.compuserve.com ELSA ANNOUNCES NEW GRAPHICS BOARDS --- MULTIPLE SCREEN SUPPORT CONTINUED Santa Clara, CA, USA/Aachen, Germany - ELSA, manufacturer of German-engineered high performance computer graphics and data communication products announces a new generation of the WINNER 2000PRO graphic accelerators, the WINNER 2000PRO/X. These new boards come with ELSA's high performance NEXTSTEP drivers for single and multiple screens. The new WINNER 2000PRO/X series has been designed for the most demanding professional user. Clear, sharp and flickerfree displays and a high graphics performance are achieved by high valuable components. Based on S3's Vision968, the board comes with either 2, 4 or 8 Mb of VRAM for PCI bus. For the 2 and 4 Mb versions the maximum refresh rates were increased by 26% from the previous generation of graphic accelerators. The 220 MHz RAMDAC supports the colors space configurations BW:8, RGB:256/8, RGB:555/16, RGB:444/16, RGB:888/32. With 4 Mb of VRAM the card will support the resolutions of 800x600, 1024x768, 1120x832, 1152x864, 1280x1024, 1408x1024 at a maximum refresh rate of 100 Hz. Even at 83 Hz refresh rate in 1600x1200 the WINNER 2000PRO/X still provides a flickerfree display. The WINNER 2000PRO/X can also be configured with 8 Mb of VRAM and a 250 MHz RAMDAC for every TrueColor application. The WINNER 2000PRO/X-PCI-8 displays a resolution of 1600x1200 with 16.7 million colors at a refresh rate of 80 Hz. In True Color modes maximum refresh rates are doubled compared to the 4 Mb version by a 128 bit wide bus between VRAM and RAMDAC. Multiple-Screen support for ELSA WINNER PRO and PRO/X PCI graphic accelerators is available with ELSA's new NEXTSTEP driver v 1.36. This driver provides a simplified installation process compared to the previous version, it is currently shipping with all ELSA graphics boards. Current users can download this driver from ELSA's BBS in Aachen, Germany, and Santa Clara, USA. ELSA GmbH is a privately-owned company based in Aachen, Germany, with subsidiaries in Santa Clara, California, and Taipei, Taiwan (ROC). Founded in 1980, ELSA has built its world-renowned reputation for applying advanced engineering expertise to computer graphics and data communications products. ELSA's customer list includes Computer 2000, BASF, Philips, Siemens, Hewlett Packard, Hughes Aircraft, NASA, General Electric, and many others.
From: Greg_Anderson <greg@afs.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Anderson Financial Systems releases WriteUp 1.2 Date: 29 Apr 1995 03:53:41 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3nsd85$arj@digifix.digifix.com> Anderson Financial Systems Inc. 909 Sumneytown Pike, Suite 106 Springhouse, PA 19477 +1 215 653 0911 +1 215 653 0711 fax Contact: Gregory H. Anderson Voice: 215 653 0911 Greg_Anderson@afs.com For Immediate Release ANDERSON FINANCIAL SYSTEMS RELEASES WRITEUP 1.2 Popular NEXTSTEP word processor gains significant new features SPRINGHOUSE, PENNSYLVANIA, April 25, 1995 -- Anderson Financial Systems Inc. today announced that it has released a new version of WriteUp, its popular NEXTSTEP word processing software. "WriteUp 1.1 has received wide acclaim for its clean design and ease of operation, but customers told us they needed additional features. WriteUp 1.2 responds to those requests," said Gregory H. Anderson, Founder and CEO of AFS. "This release adds significant functionality without sacrificing ease of use." Among the new features in WriteUp 1.2 are: * A complete set of document import AND export filters for all popular word processors on other platforms, including both text and graphics for Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, and AmiPro (contact AFS for a complete list of supported formats) * Table importing (cell contents editable; table formatting preserved and displayed) * Multiple headers and footers * Partial definition of named paragraph styles, plus local overrides * Paragraph border attribute importing (lines and fills) * Auto-numbering for lists and outlines * Dot-leader tabs and default spacing for "virtual" tabs * Embedded graphics can be scaled, inspected, and hidden * Page-based graphics can be rotated and precisely scaled * Text token for "Total Number of Pages" ("Page m of n") * Autosave period * Keymap files for customized keyboard bindings * Widow/orphan, "keep together", and "keep with next" paragraph break protection * Digital Librarian filter service to index .wub files * Support for all four shipping NEXTSTEP hardware architectures * The usual collection of performance enhancements and bug fixes The commercial price of WriteUp 1.2 is $350 for a single user, $1,395 for a five-pack. Students can purchase a personal copy of WriteUp 1.2 for $175 (proof of status required). For other academic users, the price is $230 per license. Further discounts are available at higher volumes. Registered users of WriteUp 1.0 and 1.1 can upgrade to WriteUp 1.2 at a cost of $25 for students, $35 for other academics, and $50 for commercial users, per license. Contact upgrades@afs.com for detailed information about upgrade policies and pricing. A full demo version of WriteUp 1.2 is now available by anonymous FTP from ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/submissions and will be moving to ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/productivity directory. Download WriteUp.README first for complete information about how to download and assemble the application. ABOUT ANDERSON FINANCIAL SYSTEMS Anderson Financial Systems Inc. is a privately held software development company based in Springhouse, Pennsylvania (suburban Philadelphia). Founded in 1982, the company's primary business has been designing customized trading software for more than 60 Wall Street firms on MSDOS and NEXTSTEP platforms. Representative clients include First National Bank of Chicago, PaineWebber, Dean Witter, Soros Fund Management, Delaware Management Company, Oppenheimer Management Corp. and Texas Commerce Bank. Since adding NeXT to its roster in 1991, AFS has made a substantial commitment to building applications that leverage the unique capabilities of the NEXTSTEP operating environment. ###
From: Greg_Anderson <greg@afs.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: cmsg cancel <3nma7k$l3d@digifix.digifix.com> Control: cancel <3nma7k$l3d@digifix.digifix.com> Date: 29 Apr 1995 03:53:49 -0000 Organization: Digital Fix Development Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3nsd8e$arm@digifix.digifix.com> Cancelled Message by sanguish@digifix.com -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: Ullrich Platt <up@elsa.mhs.compuserve.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: ELSA announces new graphics boards -- Multiple screen support continued Date: 29 Apr 1995 03:54:03 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3nsd8r$art@digifix.digifix.com> April 26, 1995 ELSA Inc. ELSA GmbH Contact: Contact: Thomas Neubert Carsten Grashorn Vice President Sales and Marketing International Sales Manager 2041 Mission College Blvd. Sonnenweg 11 Suite 165 52070 Aachen Santa Clara, CA 95054 Germany USA Phone +49-241-9177-0 Phone +1-408-565-9669 Sales +49-241-9177-225 Phone +1-800-272-ELSA Fax +49-241-9177-600 Fax +1-408-565-9650 BBS +49-241-9177-981 (modem) BBS +1-408-565-9630 BBS +49-241-9177-7800 (ISDN) Email: Email: thomasn@elsa-usa.mhs.compuserve.com cg@elsa.mhs.compuserve.com ELSA ANNOUNCES NEW GRAPHICS BOARDS --- MULTIPLE SCREEN SUPPORT CONTINUED Santa Clara, CA, USA/Aachen, Germany - ELSA, manufacturer of German-engineered high performance computer graphics and data communication products announces a new generation of the WINNER 2000PRO graphic accelerators, the WINNER 2000PRO/X. These new boards come with ELSA's high performance NEXTSTEP drivers for single and multiple screens. The new WINNER 2000PRO/X series has been designed for the most demanding professional user. Clear, sharp and flickerfree displays and a high graphics performance are achieved by high valuable components. Based on S3's Vision968, the board comes with either 2, 4 or 8 Mb of VRAM for PCI bus. For the 2 and 4 Mb versions the maximum refresh rates were increased by 26% from the previous generation of graphic accelerators. The 220 MHz RAMDAC supports the colors space configurations BW:8, RGB:256/8, RGB:555/16, RGB:444/16, RGB:888/32. With 4 Mb of VRAM the card will support the resolutions of 800x600, 1024x768, 1120x832, 1152x864, 1280x1024, 1408x1024 at a maximum refresh rate of 100 Hz. Even at 83 Hz refresh rate in 1600x1200 the WINNER 2000PRO/X still provides a flickerfree display. The WINNER 2000PRO/X can also be configured with 8 Mb of VRAM and a 250 MHz RAMDAC for every TrueColor application. The WINNER 2000PRO/X-PCI-8 displays a resolution of 1600x1200 with 16.7 million colors at a refresh rate of 80 Hz. In True Color modes maximum refresh rates are doubled compared to the 4 Mb version by a 128 bit wide bus between VRAM and RAMDAC. Multiple-Screen support for ELSA WINNER PRO and PRO/X PCI graphic accelerators is available with ELSA's new NEXTSTEP driver v 1.36. This driver provides a simplified installation process compared to the previous version, it is currently shipping with all ELSA graphics boards. Current users can download this driver from ELSA's BBS in Aachen, Germany, and Santa Clara, USA. ELSA GmbH is a privately-owned company based in Aachen, Germany, with subsidiaries in Santa Clara, California, and Taipei, Taiwan (ROC). Founded in 1980, ELSA has built its world-renowned reputation for applying advanced engineering expertise to computer graphics and data communications products. ELSA's customer list includes Computer 2000, BASF, Philips, Siemens, Hewlett Packard, Hughes Aircraft, NASA, General Electric, and many others.
From: Ullrich Platt <up@elsa.mhs.compuserve.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: cmsg cancel <3npte5$3j6@digifix.digifix.com> Control: cancel <3npte5$3j6@digifix.digifix.com> Date: 29 Apr 1995 03:54:07 -0000 Organization: Digital Fix Development Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3nsd90$as0@digifix.digifix.com> Cancelled Message by sanguish@digifix.com -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: TECHNICAL OPTIONS <toi@mcs.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Chicago - NEXTSTEP developers Date: 29 Apr 1995 03:54:18 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3nsd9a$as7@digifix.digifix.com> Technical Options, Inc. is a search firm specializing in information systems. Two of our clients located in chicago are looking for NeXT developers. Both clients are large trading firms, developing interest rate derivative and currency options systems. ENVIRONMENT: NEXTSTEP, OBJECTIVE C, SYBASE Both companies offer excellent benefits salary plus bonus Please contact Mike Hartnett for more information TECHNICAL OPTIONS,INC. P-708.357.9400 1200 IROQUOIS AVE F-708.357.9411 NAPERVILLE, IL. 60563 EMAIL toi@mcs.com
From: TECHNICAL OPTIONS <toi@mcs.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: cmsg cancel <3nm9se$l1a@digifix.digifix.com> Control: cancel <3nm9se$l1a@digifix.digifix.com> Date: 29 Apr 1995 03:54:22 -0000 Organization: Digital Fix Development Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3nsd9e$asa@digifix.digifix.com> Cancelled Message by sanguish@digifix.com -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: "Jamie O'Keefe" <pericles@athena.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Boston Computer Society NeXT User Group - May 2nd Date: 29 Apr 1995 03:57:21 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3nsdf1$ask@digifix.digifix.com> NEXTSTEP on SPARC, Mesa 1.5B for NS/SPARC, and #9's GXE64Pro video board Boston Computer Society NeXT User Group Meeting Tuesday, May 2nd, 1995 MIT Campus, Rm 1-190 7:00PM 7:00PM Introduction 7:05PM NeXT and Athena Design demonstrate NEXTSTEP/SPARC and Mesa Matt Cur and Peter Licursi from NeXT will demonstrate NEXTSTEP running on a Sun SPARCstation and talk about what it up at NeXT. David Pollak, President of Athena Design will demonstrate a quad fat version of Mesa 1.5B on the SPARCstation. 8:00PM BiFrost Workstations demonstrates Dual headed 1600x1200 video board Jason McNamara from BiFrost Workstations will demonstrate Number 9's GXE64Pro video board with a NEXTSTEP system. This video board and BiFrost's drivers allows you to display NEXTSTEP on two 1600x1200 monitors. 8:30PM Rumors of the Month 8:45PM Q&A 9:00PM What's on next month Dinner afterwards. All are welcome to attend. If you would like more information please contact: Jamie O'Keefe at: pericles@athena.com 617.426.6372 (W) 617.628.4136 (H)
From: sarah@athena.com (Sarah Garnsey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Athena Design to visit BSC-NeXT group Date: 29 Apr 1995 04:15:40 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3nsehc$b09@digifix.digifix.com> PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Sarah Garnsey 1.617.426.6372 ATHENA DESIGN, INC. JOINS NEXT IN DEMO TO BOSTON COMPUTER SOCIETY USER GROUP April 28, 1995 - Boston - Athena Design, Inc. has announced that it will join representatives from NeXT Computer Inc. in demonstrating NEXTSTEP to the Boston Computer Society NeXT User Group Tuesday May 2. NeXT will be demonstrating NEXTSTEP on the Sun SPARC station. Athena Design has just released a quad-fat version of Mesa, which runs on Motorola, Intel, HP-PA RISC and now SPARC architectures. "Our first public demo of Mesa was at the BCS-NeXT meeting three years ago," says Athena Design president David Pollak. "We're back demonstrating the newest version of the best-selling NEXTSTEP spreadsheet - Mesa running on SPARC.". Mesa includes palettized objects for integrating spreadsheet functionality into mission-critical custom applications. Mesa contains direct access to Sybase databases, allowing users to select and update data between the database and the spreadsheet. AddIns are available for Oracle, and other SQL databases. Mesa also incorporates real-time data from real-world sources (for example: financial markets, medical instruments, and data/telephone switches) into the spreadsheet for analysis and reporting. In addition to the quad-fat version, Athena Design has recently announced that it will develop Mesa 2 for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep, and delighted Mesa users with the news of a price drop to a low $199. Mesa, the premier NEXTSTEP spreadsheet, boasts unique features such as SmartFill, for entering sequential data into a range of cells at the touch of a button, Formula Inheritance, which allows a formula to be shared by many cells while being maintained in a single place, and MScript, an easy-to-use scripting language. These features make Mesa worksheets easy to develop and maintain. Mesa reads and writes Lotus .wk1 files and SYLK files, as well as reading Excel. "We are very happy to see Athena Design's continuing support for the NEXTSTEP marketplace. We and many of our customers use Mesa and MOLI (Mesa Object Libraries) and having these tools available on SPARC workstations is a big plus," said Ted Shelton, President of I.T. Solutions. "Athena is the one company in the NEXTSTEP market that has successfully grown to support a second market (OS/2) and it is a pleasure to see them continuing to support their original NEXTSTEP customers in addition to their new OS/2 customers." Athena Design, Inc. was founded in 1989 to manufacture and sell Mesa spreadsheet software for 32-bit operating environments. For more information about Athena Design or Mesa spreadsheet software, contact the company at 1.617.734.6372, fax at 1.617.734.1130 or by e-mail at info@athena.com. - 30 - Mesa, Smartfill and Formula Inheritance are trademarks of Athena Design, Inc. SPARC is a registered trademark of Sun Corporation. NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark of NeXT, Inc. Other trademarks which apply belong to their respective companies.
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Summary 81 - Articles posted since April 24 1995 Date: 1 May 1995 04:00:06 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3o1mc6$qai@digifix.digifix.com> Summary: 81 Postings since: April 24 1995 [3170] ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines [3171] NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet [3172] MEETING: NEXTSTEP:atlanta, April 27th [3173] SUBMISSION: playcd 1.3 [3174] SUBMISSION: SGS 0.1.1 [3175] BETA TEST: Trillium Sound Research needs testers for TextToSpeech Kit 2.0 [3176] PRESS RELEASE: OpenWrite 1.1 to ship in May (Free Upgrade) [3177] PRESS RELEASE: [Peanuts FTP-Archive]: CD-ROM available now [3178] PRESS RELEASE: Win Big Contest from GS Corp Deadline April 30 [3179] SUBMISSION: Balling [3180] PRESS RELEASE: OpenSource announces Daydream 2.11 availability [3181] JOB: Nextstep project in Florida [3182] PRESS RELEASE: Eloquent announces edu/user group pricing [3183] JOB: Lighthouse Design seeks Quality Assurance Engineer [3189] PRESS RELEASE: Anderson Financial Systems releases WriteUp 1.2 [3190] PRESS RELEASE: ELSA announces new graphics boards -- Multiple screen support continued [3191] JOB: Chicago - NEXTSTEP developers [3192] MEETING: Boston Computer Society NeXT User Group - May 2nd [3193] PRESS RELEASE: Athena Design to visit BSC-NeXT group [3194] PRESS RELEASE: SuperDraw 2.0 upgrade offer for APPSOFT DRAW users [3195] SUBMISSION: djgpp hosted under NeXTSTEP If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com. Archives -------- Individual messages are available at http://www.stepwise.com/comp.sys.next.announce/csna-81/**article_number** where **article_number** is the [xxxx] beside the Subject line above.. FTP archives: ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives/csna-81.tar.gz WWW archives: http://www.stepwise.com/comp.sys.next.announce/csna-81 Article submissions : next-announce@digifix.com Submission guidelines: next-announce-guidelines@digifix.com Suggestions/comments : next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines Date: 1 May 1995 04:15:03 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3o1n87$qda@digifix.digifix.com> NEW POLICY: =========== In an attempt to standardize the format of the FTP locations for files, all ftp addresses should be submitted using the Universal Resource Locator (URL) format. (for example) ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/submissions/file.tar.gz Please try and give an indication of where you expect the file will end up on the archive site, in the same notation. Cross Posting ============= I try very hard to make sure that postings get out in a timely fashion. Most go out in less than 24 hours. Postings that require editing because they do not contain information in a useable format, or have already been posted to other comp.sys.next.* groups may be delayed, or returned to you. If your posting is rejected, I'll try and make suggestions about what should be changed where possible. Obviously off charter messages (spams, open-letters, etc) may not get a response. Content 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 _IN URL FORMAT_ supported CPU's for binary distributions, OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting, time of meeting, speakers expected Signatures 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. Announcement of Product Sales ============================= This is an area of announcement that has caused me terrible grief in recent months. The policy is tilted towards the ISV, which has worked out well in the past. Posts that announce sales of products that you are DIRECTLY involved in the development of are OK. Posts from companies trying to sell other products are evaluated on an individual basis. Time Sensitive Announcements ============================ Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date. 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.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet Date: 1 May 1995 04:15:09 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3o1n8d$qda@digifix.digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site comp.sys.next newsgroups related newsgroups comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list ftp sites NeXTanswers Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site =============================================== This online community resource includes - 200+ ISV company pages - 400+ ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - NEXTSTEP User Group Directory - comp.sys.next archives - User Group information - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.stepwise.com/ Additionally there is a Mail Server available. You can get information on using the mail server at ns-products@stepwise.com Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise, please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com. eduSTEP WWW site ================ http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/ eduStep aims to provide up-to-date information on: - NextStep tools and projects for scientists. - Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist). - A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with customers in the educational community. - Conferences, meetings, workshops - Major projects, such as SciTools, EMBL's project to develop a NextStep scientific work environment - Status reports on GNUStep, a freely-available implementation of OpenStep now being developed NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site ============================ http://www.next.com comp.sys.next.* newsgroups ========================== news: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. news: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. Archives are available by ftp at ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. news: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. news: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. news: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. news: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!!! news: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. news:comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. news:comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. Related Newsgroups ================== news: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. news:comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. news: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. 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Scott (mailto:eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU) and Scott Anguish (mailto:sanguish@digifix.com) Additions from: Greg Anderson (mailto:Greg_Anderson@afs.com) Michael Pizolato (mailto:Michael_Pizolato@afs.com) Dan Grillo (mailto:dan_grillo@next.com)
From: hhsu@impact.com (Henry Hsu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: SuperDraw 2.0 upgrade offer for APPSOFT DRAW users Date: 30 Apr 1995 21:40:02 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3o103i$ni0@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information please contact: Impact Software Publishing, Inc. Phone: 1-800-822-3385 / 718-472-0600 FAX: 718-472-0160 E-mail: info@impact.com SUPERDRAW 2.0 UPGRADE OFFER FOR APPSOFT DRAW USERS Long Island City, New York - May 1, 1995 - Impact Software today announced the availability of a $75 rebate offer for Appsoft Draw users who upgrade to SuperDraw(tm) version 2.0 for SPARC, HP PA-RISC, Intel, and NeXT hardware. SuperDraw 2.0 is a powerful and easy-to-use graphics and desktop publishing program with additional multimedia authoring capabilities. Impact Software is making available its SuperDraw program at a promotional price of $245 until May 15, 1995. Appsoft Draw users who purchase SuperDraw 2.0 for $245 will receive a rebate check for $75 after mailing in a proof of purchase for Appsoft Draw. SuperDraw 2.0 is a program which integrates many graphics, page-layout, and multimedia authoring features found in programs such as CorelDraw, QuarkXPress, and Authorware. SuperDraw features tools for rotating, scaling, skewing, joining, clipping, and blending of graphic objects, such as text, lines, rectangles, polygons, Bezier splines, and 24-bit color TIFF and EPS images. SuperDraw also offers 6400 percent zoom-in capability, up to 100 levels of undo/redo, multiple concurrent views of a multi-page document, object/sound linking, and much more. It also allows you to choose PANTONE colors from the NEXTSTEP Colors panel and then drag and drop them into objects. SuperDraw provides customizable template and palette libraries, and includes sample templates for address labels, business cards, disk labels, shipping labels, and calendar. SuperDraw also includes sample palettes for creating flow charts, network diagrams, and organization charts. SuperDraw includes an extensive on-line help with illustrated step-by-step instructions. By simply clicking any section of the screen with the Help cursor, explanation of every menu item and program feature is available instantly. In addition, an illustrated tutorial is included to get you started quickly. SuperDraw is compiled Quad-FAT and will run on SPARC, Intel, HP PA-RISC, and NeXT hardware. SuperDraw is available direct from Impact Software and through authorized NEXTSTEP resellers. Information about quantity discounts, site-licenses, and reduced prices for educational customers can be obtained by contacting Impact Software directly. Current registered licensees of SuperDraw are entitled to a free upgrade to SuperDraw 2.0. (SuperDraw 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 all use the same set of license keys.) In addition, registered licensees of SuperDraw for NEXTSTEP are entitled to a free upgrade to SuperDraw for OpenStep when it becomes available. Requests for a demo copy of SuperDraw 2.0 can be sent to demos@impact.com. A demo copy of SuperDraw 2.0 is also available at: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/graphics/SuperDraw2.0.NIHS.tar.gz (To decompress from Terminal.app, type: "gzip -c -d SuperDraw2.0.NIHS.tar.gz | tar -xvf -") For users without NeXTmail or FTP access, free demo floppies of SuperDraw 2.0 can be requested by calling 1-800-822-3385. Availability: Shipping now for SPARC, Intel, HP PA-RISC, and NeXT hardware. Retail Price: $495.00 Internet Price: $445.00 (for users who have obtained a copy via internet) Promotional Internet Price: $245.00 (available until May 15, 1995) For more information please contact: Impact Software Publishing, Inc. Phone: 1-800-822-3385 / 718-472-0600 FAX: 718-472-0160 E-mail: info@impact.com *** SuperDraw is a trademark of Impact Software Publishing, Inc. NEXTSTEP is a trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks acknowledged.
From: jacobsen@world.std.com (Erik Jacobsen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: djgpp hosted under NeXTSTEP Date: 30 Apr 1995 22:15:29 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3o1261$nqs@digifix.digifix.com> Erik Jacobsen April 1995 (jacobsen@metamorph.com) For more information: email info@metamorph.com Readme for the NeXTSTEP port of djgpp. What? Djgpp is a DOS port of gcc, it is hosted under DOS (actually under a DOS extender) and produces executables that run under DOS (well, the extender again). This is simply a "port" of djgpp that hosts it under NeXTSTEP (m68k or i386) and yet still produces executables that run under DOS. djgpp.NS.src.tar.gz - source that compiles under NeXTSTEP djgpp.NSi386.tar.gz - binaries for NeXTSTEP Intel only djgpp.NSm68k.tar.gz - binaries for NeXTSTEP Motorola only The current version is based on gcc 2.6.0. Why? "Hosting" a port of gcc to DOS under NeXTSTEP seems like a pretty weird idea, why would one do it? Because Id Software wanted to be able to do all their development under NeXTSTEP and they needed a compiler that would produce DOS executables. This work is courtesy of Id Software as they paid for the port. Where? Note: due to a full filesystem, the source distribution will not be available for a few days. Please email info@metamorph.com if you need it immediately. Submitted to: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/binaries/proglang/djgpp.README ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/binaries/proglang/djgpp.NSm68k.tar.gz ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/binaries/proglang/djgpp.NSi386.tar.gz ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/sources/proglang/djgpp.NS.src.tar.gz Who? Thanks to Id Software for financing the port. Erik Jacobsen (jacobsen@metamorph.com), David Carley (carley@metamorph.com) and Craig Peeper (drizzt@metamorph.com) ported the software. Thanks to DJ Delorie and the GNU folks for the original software. MetaMorph is a group of software developers who will write software or consult for NeXTSTEP, UNIX, Linux, DOS, Windows, Windows-NT, and OS/2. Please email info@metamorph.com for more information. How? To install: 1) gunzip and untar the distribution to somplace (say /usr/local/lib) 2) Place [dir]/djgpp/makefile.djgpp in /usr/local/lib 3) Edit /usr/local/lib/makefile.djgpp and set DJGPP_DIR to point to the djgpp directory (this is not necessary if you placed djgpp in /usr/local/lib). 3) Make sure that gnu make ([dir]/djgpp/bin/gmake) is in your path. 4) Place go32.exe on your PC (Optional provided you have the proper version of go32.exe on the PC already). 5) See the example in [dir]/djgpp/example *Important*: You must use the same version of go32 as djgpp! If you don't and you have interupt handlers they will not shut down properly due to some odd interaction between the old go32 and the new compiler. We have included the proper version of go32.exe. ***How to use djgpp (relatively) painlessly under NeXTSTEP***: 1) In your makefile: After all your definitions, but before any targets add the line include /usr/local/lib/makefile.djgpp This will redefine CC, CFLAGS and LFLAGS to use djgpp. You must use these definitions or manually add the code contained in makefile.djgpp to your makefile. You must have both the CFLAGS and the LFLAGS in your link target. If you want to use "specs", setenv LIBRARY_PATH [dir]/djgpp/lib 2) You can invoke coff2exe by adding the line $(COFF2EXE) $(OUTPUT_NAME) this will create $(OUTPUT_NAME).exe 3) After you have created an executable you can run it under DOS provided you ensure that go32.exe is in your path (a copy of go32.exe is provided in [dir]/djgpp/bin). To build: use the make.djgpp.sh script. To do a fresh port or for help building: see CHANGELOG in [dir]/djgpp/src provided you grabbed the djgpp.NS.src.tar.gz file. Misc notes: gcc, ld and gas are compiled with -O2 and have been stripped. You will get the following error if you do not use GNU make: gcc: installation problem, cannot exec cpp: No such file or directory This software is distributed under the FSF license as a public service. The authors offer no warranty or guarantee of any type.
From: jacobsen@world.std.com (Erik Jacobsen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: MetaMorph announces MetaMorph Convert v1.0 Date: 2 May 1995 02:32:48 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3o45kg$4un@digifix.digifix.com> PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Erik Jacobsen (jacobsen@metamorph.com) April 1995 MetaMorph is proud to announce MetaMorph Convert version 1.0 (MMC v1.0) MetaMorph Convert transforms NeXT Mach-O executables into DOS LE/LX style executables suitable for an Intel PC running DOS. The MMC package contains everything a developer needs to write and compile an application under NeXTSTEP and deploy under DOS including: source for a subset of the standard C library, an example application and the converter itself. MMC was originally written for Id software and is most likely to benefit those who must deploy their applications under DOS, but who would like to enjoy the benefits of developing in a "programmer friendly" environment. Versions for Intel PCs and NeXT Computers are available now and SPARC and PA-RISC ones are in the works. MetaMorph is a group of computer consultants who write software for a variety of computer platforms and operating systems including: NeXTSTEP, Linux, UNIX, OS/2, Windows-NT, Windows, and DOS. Please email info@metamorph.com for more information. * * * * MetaMorph and MetaMorph Convert are trademarks of MetaMorph. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: Roland Telfeyan <roland@telf.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: SEMiNUG - Monday, May 8, 1995 Date: 2 May 1995 19:37:22 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3o61li$bfo@digifix.digifix.com> What: Meeting of SEMiNUG (South Eastern Michigan NEXTSTEP User Group) When: Monday, May 8, 1995, 7:30 PM Where: The Advanced Technologies Laboratory (ATL) Building 1101 Beal Ave. Ann Arbor, MI ATL is located on the University of Michigan's North Campus. If you're not sure how to get there, send email or call one of the people listed below. The schedule for the meeting will be: 7:30 PM - Questions 7:35 PM - News Items 7:45 PM - Invoice Application Demo 8:00 PM - Distributed Objects Presentation 8:30 PM - Answers 8:45 PM - Discussion of what's on for next month Come join us for an exciting presentation, spirited talk, helpful Q&A, and some top notch refreshments--featuring another shrimp platter and beverages). If you would like additional directions or information or if you have ideas for topics to be covered in future meetings, contact one of the following: Timothy Mills mills_timothy@network.cfc.com phone: 810-948-4959 Roland Telfeyan roland@telf.com phone: 313-761-9590 Shan Bell bell_shan@network.cfc.com phone: 810-948-3199
From: info@stone.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: STONE DESIGN Ships DataPhile 3.0 Date: 2 May 1995 21:08:34 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3o670i$cgv@digifix.digifix.com> News For immediate release For more information write info@stone.com or call Katie Graunke at (505) 345-4800 STONE DESIGN Ships DataPhile 3.0 ALBUQUERQUE, NM, May 2, 1995 - Stone Design today shipped DataPhile 3.0, the premier database manager for NEXTSTEP on the STONE_CD v2. Andrew Stone, CEO of Stone Design said, "We've worked hard to make it this release the best ever, and it went great thanks to the speed of NEXTSTEP on a SPARC machine. This version once again confirms Stone Design's committment to the growing NEXTSTEP community and to the betterment of 3rd party applications. Try it and see for yourself!" DataPhile 3.0 incorporates numerous new features requested by users, including, but not limited to: NEW DATA TYPES: * Summary Fields - total your data. * Time Fields. * Duration Fields - great for client billing! * URL Fields - store and search your favorite WWW sites. GENERAL: * QUAD Fat Architecture: runs on Motorola, Intel, HP and SPARC * Pop up lists. * Radio Buttons. * Search on non-alphanumeric characters. * EMACS key bindings. * Faster Navigation and Searches. * Expanded, updated on-line manual. * Ability to import fixed-length data. * More Colorful Interface. REPORTS: * Headers & footers printed first/last page only. * Two Page Views. * Sequence Number Function. * Choose envelope alignment for various printers. * Works with XANTHUS's OpenWrite and OpenMerge. * Extract records from the command line. MAIL: * Allow alternate email support addresses. * Allow alternate Mailer to be used. DESIGN: * Layout Guides for easy placement of objects. * Grids in Design Mode now a user preference. * Ability to reorder entry lists. FIXES: * Many performance enhancements and bug fixes. DataPhile is an award winning* flatfile database application for NEXTSTEP. DataPhile lists for $695 but excellent academic and student pricing is available. The upgrade from version 2.1 is $149, and the upgrade from version 1 is $249. To download a demo, check your favorite NEXTSTEP archive, or: ftp://cs.unm.edu/pub/stone/DataPhile/DataPhile_3.0.tar For more information on DataPhile 3.0's features and fixes, get this file: http://www.stone.com/stone/DataPhile_3_Features.rtfd.tar.gz For more info on DataPhile and Stone Design, visit: http://www.stone.com/stone/ To reach a human, please call 505-345-4800 between 9am and 5pm Mountain Standard Time. =*= Stone Design Corporation of Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 1984, develops a variety of productivity applications for NEXTSTEP. 3D Reality, DataPhile, and Create are trademarks of Stone Design Corporation. The Stone Design logotype is copyright Stone Design 1994. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. *DataPhile was named the "The Best DataBase product of 1992" by a Usenet survey.
From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Software Engineering - Printing, NeXT Computer, RWC, CA Date: 3 May 1995 03:34:44 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3o6tkk$fau@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> In addition, NeXT's Open Positions page is linked to CareerMosaic on the WWW! ***************************************************************** Position: Software Engineer - Printing Department: AppKit Location: Redwood City, CA Primary responsibility: Design, develop, and maintain printing software for the NEXTSTEP operating system. This includes the design and implementation of our printing strategy on Windows. Specific responsibilities: This person will be responsible for the development and support of NEXTSTEP printing software. Incumbent will: Be responsible for development and maintenance of all printing software throughout the release cycle. The printing software includes applications, Application Kit objects and panels, daemons, printer drivers, and legacy UNIX software. In the near term, this will mostly consist of completing the release of these modules for 4.0, and deciding and implementing our printing strategy for Windows. Be the principal technical contact for printing issues in the Software Development organization. This includes providing expertise to the engineering organization, occasional developer and customer contact, contributing to product planning, and maintaining some awareness of both NeXT and non-NeXT printer usage and printing issues. Contribute to API design of other software layers used by the printing software. Required Background, Skills, and Abilities BS/CS degree or equivalent. 4 years professional programming experience, including experience with a large software system. Ability and motivation to learn many levels of printing software: applications, toolkit objects, spooler software, output device drivers, etc. Independent and Proactive. Can do requirements analysis and design with a minimum of supervision. Solid engineering skills. Generalist. Has the capacity to understand and discuss a complex, multi-layered software system. Is comfortable working with information from many sources: reported bugs, co-workers, customers, other NeXT people, competing products. Product-oriented. Focuses on defining customer needs and problems, and delivering solutions to those needs. Excellent problem solving skills. Desirable Skills and Experience: Experience in some (not all) of the areas below is strongly preferred, in loose order of importance: Toolkit design and implementation, especially with regard to printing. Printing application software and/or system software (e.g., experience with the printing aspect of a DTP application). Coding and/or API design in an object-oriented language. The PostScript language, PostScript print job structure, and/or Adobe printing standards. Printer drivers and experience with output devices. Print spooling and administration, especially UNIX lpd. User interface design and implementation, especially with regard to printing. Color management. ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: EOF Software Engineer; NeXT Computer, RWC, CA Date: 3 May 1995 03:34:57 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3o6tl1$fb5@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> In addition, NeXT's Open Positions page is linked to CareerMosaic on the WWW! ***************************************************************** Position: Senior Development Engineer Department: Enterprise Object Framework Primary Responsibilities: The person filling this position will be part of the Enterprise Object (EO) Framework engineering group and will be responsible for designing, implementing, testing, and maintaining major components of the EO Framework with particular emphasis on the user interface oriented components and tools. Specific Responsibilities: Work with team members on design and implementation of next version of EO Framework Work with customers and management team to understand, assess, and prioritize requirements for subsequent releases of the product Drive usability testing Design and implement ease-of-use features Evaluate other products Position Requirements: Fluency in object oriented implementation language and environment (preferably Objective C and NEXTSTEP) Expert in graphical user interface design and implementation Fluency in C Experience in usability testing and evaluation Experience in Object Oriented design and implementation methodology Experience in shipping high volume products on tight schedules Excellent team skills Excellent problem solving skills Excellent communication skills Education and Experience: Engineering background: 5 - 8 years BSCS or equivalent Additional Success Factors: Experience in 4GL Multi-platform experience (UNIX, PC) Relational DBMS experience Object Oriented DBMS experience NEXTSTEP development experience Experience with Object Oriented Analysis and Design tools Experience in enterprise-wide distributed systems ************************************************************************ ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Windows Tools Engineer - NeXT Computer, RWC, CA Date: 3 May 1995 03:35:20 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3o6tlo$fbc@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> In addition, NeXT's Open Positions page is linked to CareerMosaic on the WWW! ***************************************************************** Position: Windows Tools Engineer Department: OpenStep on Windows NT/Windows 95 Location: Redwood City, CA Primary Responsibility Develop and enhance tools to support engineering processes for OpenStep on Windows NT and Windows 95. Specific Responsibilities You will design and develop tools to build NeXT software releases for OpenStep. Additional activities will include evaluating existing build tools running on Windows NT for the purpose of building OpenStep. Maintain and enhance the build environment used for OpenStep development. Skills, Education and Experience Required A candidate for this position must possess the following qualifications: BS Computer Science or Engineering or related degree, or equivalent experience. 3+ years experience in the software industry. Extensive Unix and/or Windows NT programming experience. Experience implementing or maintaining various compilation tools such as compilers, linkers, or debuggers. Additional Success Factors: Familiarity with Perl. Object oriented and distributed programming experience. Windows NT system and network administration experience. Unix system and network administration experience. PC hardware experience. ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Engineering Manager - Foundation **new position** NeXT Computer Date: 3 May 1995 03:35:27 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3o6tlv$fbj@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> In addition, NeXT's Open Positions page is linked to CareerMosaic on the WWW! ***************************************************************** Position: Manager, Foundation Department: Foundation Location: Redwood City, CA Primary Responsibility Manage the Foundation development team. Responsible for the Foundation framework on all NeXT products, focusing new development of the Foundation framework, and for the timely delivery of Portable Distributed Objects (PDO) on multiple platforms including HP-UX, SunOS, Solaris, OSF/1, and Windows NT. The candidate will be responsible for overall management of the group as well as engineering product management for the PDO products. Specific Responsibilities Represent Foundation team within the company and to senior management Create and manage overall project schedules Recruit and manage NeXT project staff Understand and manage cross-functional dependencies with other departments Represent NeXT's interests and technical relationships with PDO licensees. Manage all aspects of PDO products. Focus engineering effort for next generation of Foundation technologies. Skills, Education and Experience Required Strong management background: 5+ years Experience shipping real, high volume products on tight schedules BSCS or equivalent and 5 - 8 years software engineering experience Significant multi-platform experience (HP-UX, SunOS, Solaris, OSF/1, Windows) Experience with object-oriented languages (e.g., Objective C or C++) ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: OS Engineer - SQ; NeXT Computer, RWC, CA Date: 3 May 1995 03:35:35 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3o6tm7$fbq@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> In addition, NeXT's Open Positions page is linked to CareerMosaic on the WWW! ***************************************************************** Position: Senior Test Engineer - with OS focus. Department: Software Quality, Engineering Location: Redwood City, CA Primary Responsibility DriverKit and Device Driver API Testing or UNIX API Device Drivers (Serial, Networking, Filesystem(s), etc...) Specific Responsibilities Develop structured test plans Develop suites of automated functional, stress and performance tests Orderly release of those tests (documentation sufficient to de-skill test application) Position Qualifications and Requirements: MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience. Basic project management skills (spec/documentation writing, setting/communicating expectations, scheduling). Requires little/no supervision. Is capable of setting objectives/expectations and providing appropriate status updates. Strong 'C' programmer. Understands generic OS (UNIX preferred) implementation details as related to device drivers (i.e. VM & stack usage, User/System-side interfaces, interrupts, etc...). Must be able to work with development engineers as a peer. Demonstrated initiative, problem-solving skills, ability to learn with own initiative, hands on. Normally tests will be run in automated fashion or with help of temps, it may be necessary from time to time to perform certain tests manually (certainly during test debug at least). Able to work well with others Good communications skills Additional Success Factors: OS Internals (UNIX preferred). UNIX device driver {writing|testing|maintain} experience DriverKit experience UNIX Networking experience, BSD Fast Filesystem OOP experience NEXTSTEP programming experience familiarity with QA techniques and terminology ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Windows Development Engineer - NeXT Computer, RWC, CA Date: 3 May 1995 03:35:49 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3o6tml$fc1@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> ***************************************************************** Sr. Development Engineer (OpenStep for WindowsNT/Windows 95) Primary Responsibilities: You will be the primary engineer responsible for Windows specific design/implementation issues in OpenStep for Windows NT and Windows 95. Specific Responsibilities: Work with team members on design and implementation of the OpenStep product on the Windows NT and WIndows 95 platform. Help drive the definition and implementation of the product from a Windows perspective. Work with customers and management team to understand, assess, and prioritize requirements for the product. Design and implement various parts of the system Evaluate other products Position Requirements: Fluency in Win32 API demonstrated by significant implementation using the APIs Fluency in issues related to design/implementation of products using OLE2 Fluency in object oriented implementation language and environment Expert in graphical user interface design and implementation Fluency in C Experience in usability testing and evaluation Experience in Object Oriented design and implementation methodology Experience in shipping high volume products on tight schedules Excellent team skills Excellent problem solving skills Excellent communication skills Education and Experience: Engineering background: 5 - 8 years BSCS or equivalent Additional Success Factors: Multi-platform experience (UNIX, PC) NEXTSTEP development experience Experience dealing with User Interface issues Experience with Object Oriented Analysis and Design tools Experience in enterprise-wide distributed systems ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Technical Writer; NeXT Computer, RWC, CA Date: 3 May 1995 03:36:02 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3o6tn2$fc8@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> In addition, NeXT's Open Positions page is linked to CareerMosaic on the WWW! ***************************************************************** The User Publications group at NeXT Computer, Inc. is looking for a highly-skilled, motivated, and energetic technical writer to write NEXTSTEP documentation for end users. This is a regular, full-time position located in Redwood City, California. Primary Responsibility Research, plan, and write a broad spectrum of task-oriented procedural documentation and detailed reference material for NEXTSTEP end-users. You'll work on a diverse set of projects, including printed and on-line documentation for end user applications, installation and configuration documentation, and product release notes. Specific Responsibilities - Work with other writers to produce printed and on-line documentation for end users - Write and update installation and configuration documentation - Work closely with software engineers to prepare product release notes - Work with others in User Publications, Localization, and Art & Production, to help improve NEXTSTEP documentation and the processes we use to produce it. You will be expected to: work under general instruction and supervision; produce clean copy without substantial editing; schedule your own work accurately; prepare doc plans, outlines, and content plans; perform project management functions for small projects; actively contribute to UI design. Skills, Education and Experience Required General: A four-year college degree (or equivalent) and three or more years experience as a technical writer. Writing: The ability to write clearly, logically, and grammatically is required; a lively and engaging conversational tone is a plus. Submission of writing samples is a prerequisite to being interviewed. Technical: Familiarity with NEXTSTEP and/or other GUI-based software environments is a plus. Experience with Intel-based computer hardware, add-on cards, and device drivers is also a plus. Additional Success Factors It's a plus if you're excited, interested, and motivated to learn and grow in a fast-paced, challenging environment; proactive and persistent, yet flexible; attentive to detail, with good listening and interviewing skills; quality-oriented, and open to constructive criticism. If interested, please send your resume to: Gary Miller NeXT Computer, Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Fax: (415) 780-4554 Redwood City, CA 94063 E-mail: Gary_Miller@next.com ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: info@stone.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: STONE DESIGN Ships 3D Reality 2.0 Date: 2 May 1995 20:49:10 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3o65s6$cbl@digifix.digifix.com> News For immediate release For more information write info@stone.com or call Katie Graunke at (505) 345-4800 STONE DESIGN Ships 3D Reality 2.0 ALBUQUERQUE, NM, May 2, 1995 - Stone Design today shipped 3D Reality 2.0 for NEXTSTEP on the STONE_CD v2. Andrew Stone, CEO of Stone Design said, "This version of 3DReality is very powerful!" He added, "Don't forget to check out our Web site: http://www.stone.com/stone/." 3DReality 2.0 incorporates several new features, including support for alternate renderers, such as Larry Gritz's Blue Moon Renderer and faster loading times. There are also several bug fixes for this version, making it the best release of Reality to date. 3DReality 2.0 can now run on Motorola, Intel, HP-RISC, or SPARC processors running NEXTSTEP 3.2 or greater. 3DReality lists for $495 but excellent academic and student pricing is available. The upgrade from version 1 is $49. To download a demo, check your favorite NEXTSTEP archive, or: ftp://cs.unm.edu/pub/stone/3DReality/3DReality_2.0.tar To find out more about 3DReality and Stone Design, visit Stone Design's WWW site: http://www.stone.com/stone/ especially: http://www.stone.com/stone/3DReality_2.0_Features.rtfd.tar.gz http://www.stone.com/stone/3d/3DReality_Info.ps.gz To reach a human, please call 505-345-4800 between 9am and 5pm Mountain Standard Time. =*= Stone Design Corporation of Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 1984, develops a variety of productivity applications for NEXTSTEP. 3D Reality, DataPhile, and Create are trademarks of Stone Design Corporation. The Stone Design logotype is copyright Stone Design 1994. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
From: Dick Locke <dick_locke@wiltel.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXTSTEP Developer (FT), WilTel ATG, The Woodlands, TX Date: 2 May 1995 20:02:36 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3o634s$boa@digifix.digifix.com> WilTel's Advanced Technology Group (ATG) has openings for NeXT developers. The successful candidates will be part of a team involved in the ongoing analysis, design, and programming of the Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and Frame Relay (FR) Network Management Systems being developed by the ATG. Minimum Experience: - NeXTSTEP development - Appkit familiarity, Objective-C programming - B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science or equivalent Desired Experience: - UNIX - Telecommunications industry software development Other Desirable Traits: - Team-oriented individual with excellent verbal and written communication skills - Firm grasp of Object-Oriented concepts MUST be U.S. citizen or permanent resident of the U.S. If interested, please send your resume and a brief cover letter to: Email: (preferred) dick_locke@wiltel.com (ascii or NeXTMail only please) US Mail: WilTel Advanced Technology Group Attn: Dick Locke 8665 New Trails Drive The Woodlands, Texas 77381 About WilTel and ATG: Note: You can find out more about WilTel by accessing WilTel's World Wide Web server at: http://www.wiltel.com/ WilTel is a long distance carrier of voice, data, and video transmissions over a national fiber optic network. WilTel merges a decade of its market-leading innovations with the aggressive growth of LDDS, reshaping the telecommunications landscape of the United States. The merger represents a powerful combination of revenues, market shares, infrastructure, and expertise. As a result, there are now four preeminent long-distance companies in the United States: WilTel, AT&T, MCI, and Sprint. The partnership delivers advanced data communications services, such as commercial Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) service and commercial Frame Relay (FR) service--an industry first. WilTel and LDDS have a common goal: to remain the industry leader in customer service. With this in mind, the commitment to exploring new technologies is vital. WilTel's Advanced Technology Group (ATG) is an R&D group committed to developing and deploying leading-edge software and network-management technologies for WilTel and the telecommunications industry. The unparalleled R&D environment supports creativity, teamwork, and personal and professional growth. The ATG's systems combine the power of Object-oriented technology and the NeXTSTEP environment for both development and deployment. Consisting of approximately 80 hardware and software engineers, testers, analysts, designers, architects, and technical writers, the ATG is a forerunner in ATM technology. The ATG developed the Network Management System (NMS) to control WilTel's ATM network. While the ATG continues to add significant new features to the ATM NMS, the group is developing an NMS for Frame Relay that will offer WilTel customers easy-to-use interfaces and problem-solving tools. About The Woodlands The Woodlands is a 25,000-acre new community designed to become largely self-sustaining in human, environmental and economic terms. Opened October 19, 1974, it has grown steadily ever since to become one of Texas' most desired places to live and work. The projected population of The Woodlands is planned for nearly 150,000 residents, but it will never seem crowded because of a carefully considered master plan of controlled growth and development standards. In The Woodlands, approximately one quarter of the land is designated for greenbelts, parks, and protected reserves, so the natural beauty of the forestland will always remain. The Woodlands is located 27 miles north of downtown Houston, and is linked to downtown by two freeways. The Woodlands' residents enjoy the neighborhood parks and tot lots, located conveniently to their homes. More than 60 miles of footpaths connect the homes with parks, which include swimming pools, tennis courts, playfields, picnic facilities, and children's play equipment. More than 460 firms including WilTel, Dresser Industries, Hughes Christensen, Penzoil Products, and Chevron have selected The Woodlands as a business location.
From: info@stone.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: STONE DESIGN Ships the STONE CD volume 2 Date: 2 May 1995 20:48:17 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3o65qh$cb0@digifix.digifix.com> News For immediate release For more information write info@stone.com or call Katie Graunke at (505) 345-4800 STONE DESIGN Ships the STONE CD volume 2 ALBUQUERQUE, NM, May 2, 1995 - Stone Design today shipped the STONE_CD v2 for NEXTSTEP. Andrew Stone, CEO of Stone Design said, "Besides containing the latest versions of DataPhile, Create and 3DReality, this is a very special CDROM. It is destined to become a classic. As we enter our seventh year shipping NEXTSTEP software, we celebrate the NEXTSTEP community with this CD." The CD includes the new Stone Explorer application which makes navigating the CD simple and exciting. Highlights of the STONE CD include: StoneWare: * DataPhile 3.0 - the premier Database manager for NEXTSTEP * Create 3.0 - the most powerful drawing and layout package for NEXTSTEP * 3DReality 2.0 - the easy 3D modeling and rendering program * Stone_Order - get quotes and place orders via EMAIL with this handy app StoneFun: * Stone Rave Pictorial Archive - over a hundred full screen TIFFs of the last three Stone parties * Time Wave Zero for NEXTSTEP - an application for understanding the fractal nature of time * Bear's Choice - pointers to what's cool in the NEXTSTEP community STONE Partners Apps: * Mesa - demo of Athena Design's excellent spreadsheet * TIFFany - the most powerful painting and image manipulation software on any platform 3D Rendering * Blue Moon Renderer - Larry Gritz's rendering tools; an alternate rendering engine * Musgrave Shaders - more excellent shaders for your collection * Wave's World - the latest version of Michael B. Johnson's rendering and animation package, including binary, source, and a never before published treatise on the architecture of WW Icons, Fonts & Objects: * Chinese font - Jackson LTD's public domain KaiSu-Regular font * Icons - hundreds and hundreds of icons from Tim Reed's next-icon@gun.com mailing list * MiscKit - Source and binary to the NEXTSTEP community's collaborative object library effort The price for the STONE CD is just $15 - every cent of which is refundable on your next software purchase from Stone. Also available is the commemorative Stone Design Tshirt - a 100% black cotton shirt featuring the Stone Seal on the front, and the "StoneWorker" hammering away on the back. These are available for $15 each while they last, and for a limited time, you can get both the CD and the tshirt for $22. To find out more about Stone Design, visit our WWW site: http://www.stone.com/stone/ To reach a human, please call 505-345-4800 between 9am and 5pm Mountain Standard Time. =*= Stone Design Corporation of Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 1984, develops a variety of productivity applications for NEXTSTEP. 3D Reality, DataPhile, and Create are trademarks of Stone Design Corporation. The Stone Design logotype is copyright Stone Design 1994. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
From: info@stone.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: STONE DESIGN Ships Create 3.0 Date: 2 May 1995 20:48:46 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3o65re$cbc@digifix.digifix.com> News For immediate release For more information write info@stone.com or call Katie Graunke at (505) 345-4800 STONE DESIGN Ships Create 3.0 ALBUQUERQUE, NM, May 2, 1995 - Stone Design today shipped Create 3.0, the powerful drawing, design and layout program for NEXTSTEP on the STONE_CD v2. Andrew Stone, CEO of Stone Design remarked, "This version of Create is the best ever! It has many requested features and bug fixes that make Create the finest drawing application in the NEXTSTEP market, hands down. And being 7 years in the making, it's rock solid and finely polished." Create is THE fully supported drawing application for NEXTSTEP. Create is a multi-page, full color, easy and fun to use graphics program that is perfect for professional artists and non-artists alike. Create's tool palette is highly extensive, including arcs, circles, lines, curves, splines, ovals, rectangles, squares, text, super text, and freehand tools. Create's User PostScript is unique, and perfect for advanced users or users who would like to learn more about PostScript, view, directly edit and repeatedly execute the PostScript code associated with any object created in or imported into the program. Create 3.0 incorporates numerous new features, including, but not limited to: GENERAL: * QUAD Fat Architecture: runs on Motorola, Intel, HP-RISC and SPARC * Autotracing to convert TIFFs to editable graphics. * Support for layers on each page. * Background graphic on each page. * More art galleries for shared access to clip art. * Template files and directories for stationary, forms, etc. * Expanded, updated on-line manual. * Colorful interface. EXPORT, EMBEDDING and LINKS: * EPS exported by Create remains editable by Create. * OOE Level 2 allows embedding Create docs into OpenWrite. * Filter program allows dropping of Create docs into other apps. * Total control over exported TIFFS: bitdepth, compression, etc. * True object links with no redundant storage. MAIL: * Prepare for Mailing to enfold links. * Allow alternate email support addresses. * Allow alternate Mailer to be used. TEXT: * Support for 2-byte fonts, like Kai-Su and other Hanji and Kanji fonts. * Convert Super Text to Paragraph Text and vice versa. * Text can be automatically "boxed". DESIGN: * Layout Guides for easy placement of objects. * Your custom zooms are remembered and available for all docs. * Zooming is much faster. * You can zoom in on an area with CONTROL-SHIFT drag. * Multiple objects can receive the same pattern easily. * Predefine your default colors of object's effects. * Composite masks formed from groups. * Reverse path of splines and polylines. * Objects can be "unscaled". Create lists for $495 but excellent academic and student pricing is available. The upgrade from version 2.1 is $99, and the upgrade from version 1 is $149. To download a demo, check your favorite NEXTSTEP archive, or: ftp://cs.unm.edu/pub/stone/Create/Create_3.0.tar To find out more about Create, visit Stone Design's WWW site: http://www.stone.com/stone/ The 3.0 features and fixes are described pictorially in: http://www.stone.com/stone/Create_3_Features.rtfd.tar.gz To reach a human, please call 505-345-4800 between 9am and 5pm Mountain Standard Time. =*= Stone Design Corporation of Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 1984, develops a variety of productivity applications for NEXTSTEP. 3D Reality, DataPhile, and Create are trademarks of Stone Design Corporation. The Stone Design logotype is copyright Stone Design 1994. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
From: info@stone.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: STONE DESIGN Announces Upgrade Pricing Date: 2 May 1995 20:50:05 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3o65tt$cc6@digifix.digifix.com> News For immediate release For more information write info@stone.com or call Katie Graunke at (505) 345-4800 STONE DESIGN Announces Upgrade Pricing ALBUQUERQUE, NM, May 2, 1995 - Stone Design today announced pricing for its new software shipped today, and cost of upgrades to registered users. Product List Price Upgrade from 1.x Upgrade from 2.x DataPhile $695 $249 $149 Create $495 $149 $ 99 3DReality $495 $ 49 STONE CD* $ 15 Stone Tshirt* $ 15 CD & Tee* $ 22 Software support is available free for 60 days after purchase. One year support contracts are available, call for more info. Full-time Students receive a 50% discount, and academia receives a 25% discount on the DataPhile and Create upgrade prices. To find out more about Stone Design, visit our WWW site: http://www.stone.com/stone/ To reach a human, please call 505-345-4800 between 9am and 5pm Mountain Standard Time. * No additional discount on these items. =*= Stone Design Corporation of Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 1984, develops a variety of productivity applications for NEXTSTEP. 3D Reality, DataPhile, and Create are trademarks of Stone Design Corporation. The Stone Design logotype is copyright Stone Design 1994. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
From: Aerotek <maximgrp@netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NEXTSTEP Los Angeles/Orange County Date: 2 May 1995 21:22:35 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3o67qr$cki@digifix.digifix.com> Subject: JOB: So. Cali. -NEXTSTEP developers Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) Summary: Keywords: NEXTSTEP, oracle, unix, developer We have an immediate need for a NEXTSTEP developer in the Los Angeles/Orange County area. Rates will be determined on the amount of experience the individual has. Please feel free to call me at any time for more information. My telephone number is 1-800-743-1225. If you would like to send a resume, my fax# is (310) 217-2350. Resumes may also be mailed to: The Maxim Group 1225 W. 190th St. Ste. 250 Gardena, Ca. 90248 attn: Edgar Morris Thank you, Edgar Morris
From: Brett Adam <bpja@xedoc.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Xedoc's Fabrik middleware brings Xerox InConcert workflow to enterprise NEXTSTEP users Date: 3 May 1995 23:11:53 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3o9glp$2sn@digifix.digifix.com> News For Immediate Release Contact: Brett Adam Xedoc Software Development Pty Ltd. Tel: +61 3 214 0111 Fax: +61 3 214 0102 Internet: info@xedoc.com.au Xedoc Web page: http://www.xedoc.com.au/Xedoc/Welcome.htmld Xedoc's Fabrik middleware brings Xerox InConcert workflow to enterprise NEXTSTEP users. MELBOURNE, Australia.- 1st May, 1995-Xedoc Software Development Pty Ltd. today announced the release of Fabrik: a NEXTSTEP-based Enterprise workflow middleware solution for XSoft's (a division of Xerox) InConcert workflow engine. Fabrik uses object messaging and is compatible with NeXT's Portable Distributed Object Technology (PDO). It will be completely OpenStep-compliant. Fabrik is a workflow integration toolkit for corporations who intend to develop workflow-enabled NEXTSTEP applications using the Xerox InConcert workflow engine. Fabrik consists of a range of tools, methods and services aimed at maximising productivity with InConcert and NEXTSTEP. "Both InConcert and Fabrik are ideal tools for creating business critical applications. We are pleased to have InConcert extended to the NEXTSTEP market" said Tom Dwyer, GM of XSoft's Workflow Business Unit. Brett Adam, Senior Software Architect at Xedoc Software Development said: "Until now, no robust, server-based workflow engine was directly available for NEXTSTEP developers. With the release of Fabrik, this gap has now been filled". "The award winning Fabrik software makes NEXTSTEP even more compelling for Enterprise custom application developers" said Steve Jobs, Chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer, Inc. Fabrik has already been successfully used to tackle a rapid application development project for Telecom Australia, the largest user of IT in Australia. Telecom uses the workflow system to manage a 48,000-line government radio network. Using workflow allows Telecom to manage a vast and complicated network with a fraction of the human resources usually required. The project won an Object Honours award in San Francisco in June '94. In September '94 it won an award at Object World Sydney, in the category of "Best cost savings using objects". Workflow management has become a key technology for businesses to integrate business process reengineering and application design, where workflow can give order of magnitude performance improvements. Prof. Peter Weill of Melbourne Business School, an international authority on IT infrastructure adds: "BPR alone can deliver huge improvements in performance, but the failure rate is high. The successful firms either use existing IT infrastructure services or use the project to help justify new, more tailored, IT infrastructure with cost savings attached to the BPR". Fabrik: Fabrik is a workflow integration strategy for corporations who intend to develop workflow-enabled NEXTSTEP applications using the XSoft InConcert workflow engine. Fabrik consists of a range of tools, methods and services aimed at maximising productivity with InConcert and NEXTSTEP. It consists of five components some of which are available as a separate product useable by non-NEXTSTEP developers. One such component is TDL, the Template Definition Language which allows workflows to be defined independently of GUI tools. XSoft InConcert: InConcert is a sophisticated document-based, workflow management software for distributed computing environments. Its architecture is open and completely independent of other applications. No proprietary image management, office automation or electronic publishing software are required to take advantage of InConcert's process management functionality. InConcert models and coordinates all components of a work process, including the people, procedures, and information involved, and offers extensive real-time access to workflow status. InConcert captures information about each job: its owner, task sequence, necessary documents, applications, and the names of users responsible for task execution. InConcert automatically tracks all tasks and jobs, providing complete and timely status on those activities, as well as management reports on the organisation's progress on the whole. Xedoc Software Development Pty Ltd: Xedoc Software Development is an award-winning Australian software company which specialises in object technology, workflow and cross-platform middleware. The company was an early adopter of NEXTSTEP. Xedoc is a member of the Workflow Management Coalition.
From: "Eric A. Litman" <Eric_Litman@nxstep.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ARCHIVE SITE: US NeXTSTEP mirror for informatik (Peanuts) archive Date: 3 May 1995 23:13:48 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3o9gpc$2t4@digifix.digifix.com> The FTP archives at ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de (Peanuts) are now mirrored at ftp.dn.net:/pub/next, or at <a href="ftp://ftp.dn.net/pub/next"> digitalNATION NeXTSTEP Archives</a> for the WWW-able readers out there. Please note that submissions to this archive should still be uploaded to ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de. </eal>
From: "Eric A. Litman" <Eric_Litman@nxstep.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ARCHIVE SITE: US NeXTSTEP mirror for informatik (Peanuts) archive Date: 3 May 1995 23:14:58 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3o9gri$2th@digifix.digifix.com> The FTP archives at ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de (Peanuts) are now mirrored at ftp.dn.net:/pub/next, or at <a href="ftp://ftp.dn.net/pub/next"> digitalNATION NeXTSTEP Archives</a> for the WWW-able readers out there. Please note that submissions to this archive should still be uploaded to ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de. </eal>
From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Driver Engineer; NeXT Computer, RWC, CA Date: 3 May 1995 03:36:10 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3o6tna$fcf@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> In addition, NeXT's Open Positions page is linked to CareerMosaic on the WWW! ***************************************************************** Position: Driver Engineer Department: Software Engineering, Driver Development Primary Responsibility Architecture, development , and maintenance of NEXTSTEP device drivers for a variety of hardware including Display Cards, Keyboard & Mouse devices, and Serial & Parallel ports. Also responsible for Test Suite development for these subsystems. Specific Responsibilities Maintenance & development engineering on existing drivers and associated code. Review code developed by 3rd parties and integrate into our source base. Serve as a source of expertise on Intel platform issues to the rest of the company, including Sales, Marketing, Support, QA and other groups within Engineering. Serve as technical liaison with engineers from adapter & peripheral vendors as needed during development and maintenance of drivers. Assist in creation of driver specifications and product plans. Design and implement driver test suites, and consult with publications on documentation efforts. Minimum Requirements BSCS or equivalent and 2-4 years experience in driver or kernel development Highly experienced with development and debugging of drivers for Intel hardware under UNIX, Mach, or NEXTSTEP. Familiarity with Intel-compatible hardware and busses (ISA/EISA/VL-Bus/PCI) Has developed under Unix (familiar with Unix development tools: make, cc, nm,... ) Understanding of filesystems, UNIX or Mach kernels, and object-oriented design is highly desirable. Has developed driver test suits and/or harnesses; use of logic analyzer is a plus. Ability to deal with changing priorities and tasks, and yet stay focused on key deliverable. ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Contractor Position: Token Ring Driver Engineer Date: 3 May 1995 03:36:20 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3o6tnk$fcm@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> In addition, NeXT's Open Positions page is linked to CareerMosaic on the WWW! ***************************************************************** Position: Token Ring Driver Engineer - Contract Position Department: Driver Group Location: RWC Required 1 year development of Token Ring drivers 2 years network-related development Familiarity with the TCP/IP (and IPX?) protocol suite(s) Ability to work with AOF Desirable Token Ring network administration experience Netware experience and administration ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Systems Consultants/Systems Engineering - Chicago & NYC Date: 3 May 1995 03:36:30 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3o6tnu$fct@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> In addition, NeXT's Open Positions page is linked to CareerMosaic on the WWW! ***************************************************************** Position: Systems Consultant Department: Systems Engineering Location: Chicago, IL New York, NY Primary Responsibility NeXT Systems Consultants provide the technical expertise necessary to close sales, and generally evangelize the NeXT product family. SE's must possess superb technical skills and a sense of innovation, combined with a personality which promotes cooperation, trust, and the sharing of ideas. The successful candidate will have a mix of software engineering skills, and enjoy working with people and new technology. Specific Responsibilities * Rapid prototyping of software for feasibility analysis * Technical presentations to all levels of customers * Integration of NeXT products with existing systems * Technical account management * Provide strategic input and guidance to sales, marketing, and engineering, regarding market conditions, product requirements, and overall program successes or failures A typical NeXT Systems Engineer will spend one-third of their time writing NeXTSTEP applications for customer-based prototyping or proof-of-concept efforts, one-third consulting one-on-one with potential and existing customers on software development and network engineering, and one-third performing presentations and demonstrations of NeXTSTEP. Experience, Skills, and Education * Ability to articulate technically complex issues to a wide variety of audiences * Strong problem solving skills * BSCS or equivalent with 4 years experience required; MSCS preferred * 2+ years NeXTSTEP, Objective-C, Mach experience * 2+ years UNIX systems programming/systems administration experience * 2+ years Object-oriented programming experience * Advanced application programming in C, LISP, and FORTRAN (or equivalent) * Windowing application development (Macintosh, X11, MSWindows, etc.) * Database application development (Sybase, Oracle, etc.) * TCP/IP, NFS, YP/NIS * PostScript * Pre-sales support experience ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Software Engineer; Development Environment; NeXT Computer Date: 3 May 1995 03:36:37 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3o6to5$fd4@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> In addition, NeXT's Open Positions page is linked to CareerMosaic on the WWW! ***************************************************************** Position: Software Engineer Department: Development Environment Primary responsibilities: Development, maintenance, and enhancement of ProjectBuilder. Refine the existing product based on customer feedback. This includes debugging, modification of existing features and implementation of new features. Specific responsibilities: * Development & maintenance of ProjectBuilder * Implementation of specific aspects of ProjectBuilder including (possibly) SCM integration, class browser, documentation integration, InterfaceBuilder integration, editor enhancements, "syntax" coloring, other tools integration etc. * Debugging and performance tuning of ProjectBuilder Position Requirements: * interest in building an integrated development environment * experience building an integrated development environment a plus Education and Experience: * B.S. or equivalent in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or equivalent. * 3-10 years industrial experience. Additional Success Factors: * Knowledge of NeXTSTEP & appkit programming ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: OS Engineer - Kernel; NeXT Computer, RWC, CA Date: 3 May 1995 03:36:54 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3o6tom$fdb@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> In addition, NeXT's Open Positions page is linked to CareerMosaic on the WWW! ***************************************************************** Title: OS Engineer (Kernel) Reporting to: Manager, OS group Position Description: This engineer will perform general OS programming tasks (including the kernel, libraries, commands and loadable modules), primarily in the machine independent portions of both UNIX and Mach. Responsibilities Assist with kernel tasks including: general kernel enhancements file system enhancements (UFS and NFS) virtual memory enhancements performance tuning multiprocessing Assist with general OS tasks including: C (and related) library enhancements UNIX/Mach command enhancements out of kernel file system enhancements security multi-threading Platform support: Intel PCs Sun Sparc workstations HP PA-RISC workstations NeXT Motorola workstations Required Experience and Skills 4+ years OS engineering background: UNIX internals, Mach internals a plus Understands how to write OS code that is portable across diverse computer platforms Fluency in C, experience with assembly language BSCS or equivalent Desired Experience and Skills 3-8 years OS internals Device driver development experience Knowledge of RISC architectures and assembly languages Experience with designing and documenting APIs, with an appreciation of the issues required for platform independence, future extension and backward compatibility Experience with object-oriented languages (Objective C, C++, Smalltalk) NEXTSTEP programming experience Required Hiring Criteria Strong problem solving skills... good at learning new areas Team oriented - able to work well with others. Able to work in an environment characterized by aggressive schedules, a high level of interrupts, targets and expectations which change over time. Focus on high quality engineering Desired Hiring Criteria Ability to propose innovative solutions Strong communication skills - able to interact with other groups Quick to take ownership of issues rather than pass the buck Can follow a myriad of details within a large project Broad knowledge of OS technologies in order to contribute to the company strategically ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Performance Tools Engineer; NeXT Computer Date: 3 May 1995 03:37:01 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3o6tot$fdi@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> In addition, NeXT's Open Positions page is linked to CareerMosaic on the WWW! ***************************************************************** Position: Performance Tools Engineer Department: Development Environment Primary responsibilities: Maintain, enhance, and productize in-house and external tools for analyizing and improving the performance of NeXT's software. Work with other engineers to define new features for performance analysis tools and help the organization, in general, with performance related issues. Participate in and possibly lead a comittee charged with improving performance of NeXT's software. Specific responsibilities: Maintenance and development of performance analysis tools such as gprof, sample, malloc_debug (for leak detection), and others. Recommend areas to concentrate for the 4.0 timeframe and recommend tools to productize for (probably) after 4.0. Consider presentation issues (i.e. do we need a spiffy gui?) and integration issues (i.e. do we need to talk to ProjectBuilder?). Work with group charged with making performance improvements on strategy for improving overall system performance. Position Requirements: * Interest in performance analysis tools. * Experience with some "low-level" aspects of software engineering for example: compilers, debuggers, OS. * For at least one architecture good knowledge of stack-frame layouts and calling conventions. * Ability to work well with others * Good oral and written communication skills. Education and Experience: * B.S. or equivalent in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or equivalent. * 3-10 years industrial experience. Additional Success Factors: * Knowledge of NeXTSTEP won't hurt. * Knowledge of gcc and gdb. * Knowledge of prof & gprof. ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Consulting Engineers; Object Expert Engineering Program; NeXT Computer Date: 3 May 1995 03:37:11 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3o6tp7$fdp@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> In addition, NeXT's Open Positions page is linked to CareerMosaic on the WWW! ***************************************************************** Position: Consulting Engineers Department: Object Expert Engineering Program Locations: NY, NY; Orlando, FL; Newark, NJ; Chicago, IL General Description The Object Expert will provide expedient technical assistance and proactive information to keep NEXTSTEP projects moving forward through first hand exposure to a customer's business goals, hands-on access to project specifications and designs, and face-to-face relationship building with project leaders, development teams, and third parties. This dedicated NeXT engineer will be a focal point for the resolution of day-to-day project issues and will act as the customer's conduit to the expertise of NEXT's Premium Support and Engineering staff who specialize in various aspects of NEXTSTEP. Specific Role & Responsibilities a full-time, dedicated, on-site NEXTSTEP expert analysis, design, and programming assistance a conduit between the customer and NeXT to resolve technical issues and facilitate the adoption of new NeXT technologies into the customers development environment optimal use of the NEXTSTEP development tools and environment assistance with application planning, integration, and testing ongoing "knowledge transfer" of object oriented concepts third party solutions selection and guidance assistance to project leaders in assessing team skills and mapping team strengths to facilitate NEXTSTEP development weekly project meetings with customer management to review project status, pending technical issues, and associated resolutions. Educational Background, Skills, and Abilities Bachelors degree in related field such as Math, Physics, Computer Science or Engineering. At least four years of software development experience, with at least two years of experience in NEXTSTEP development. A solid understanding of the software development process, including object oriented analysis & design. Prior experience with setting and managing customer expectations is a plus. ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Engineering Services Mgr; Object Expert Program Date: 3 May 1995 03:37:18 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3o6tpe$fe0@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> In addition, NeXT's Open Positions page is linked to CareerMosaic on the WWW! ***************************************************************** Position: Engineer Services Manager, Object Expert Program Department: OE Group, Professional Services Reporting to: Director, OE Program General Description: The Engineering Services Manager is responsible for all the Object Expert and outbound training business in their specific geographic territory. They work closely with the sales team to close new business, hire the consulting engineers, and manage the projects and accounts related to this business. Specific Role & Responsibilitiess: Work with the sales team to close new business Interview & hire the engineers necessary to deliver against new consulting business Manage the account relationship with current and future customers. Manage all the consulting engineers working in their respective geography. Manage the P&L for their business unit. Assist sales in closing large and technically complex new accounts. Provide direct project management for strategic customers Perform billable engineering services 25% of the time. Education Background, Skills, and Abilities: Bachelors degree in related field such as Math, Physics, Computer Science or Engineering. At least five years of software development experience, with at least one year of experience in NEXTSTEP development. A solid understanding of the software development process, including object oriented analysis & design. At least two years of project management and customer management expertise. Previous experience managing an engineering service business is a plus. ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Technical Support Engineer; NeXT Computer, RWC, CA Date: 3 May 1995 03:37:35 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3o6tpv$fe7@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> In addition, NeXT's Open Positions page is linked to CareerMosaic on the WWW! ***************************************************************** Position: SupportLine Engineer Department: Technical Support Location: Redwood City, CA Entry-level position: This position can provide the foundation for many technical career paths at NeXT, such as engineering, technical training, system administration and systems engineering within NeXT. Primary Responsibility This person is an integral member of the SupportLine Team responsible for first level support with the customer in order to solve technical problems or escalate technical issues to the appropriate departments. Specific Responsibilities Provide first-contact telephone and e-mail technical support to NeXT customers on our 800-number. Set customers expectation level regarding support. Troubleshoot problems or bugs in NEXTSTEP. Using our bug-tracking application, the SupportLine Engineer will work with software engineering to report and update bug information. Troubleshoot basic hardware, system administration, and developer problems, including PC hardware troubleshooting, NEXTSTEP installation, NetInfo troubleshooting, EOF and related developer issues. Assist in the creation and maintenance of documents on NeXTanswers (http://www.next.com/), NeXT's document retrieval system and web site. Also contribute to the further development of the NeXTanswers system and WWW site. Skills, Education and Experience Required Bachelor's degree. (Computer Science or equivalent preferred) Excellent oral and written communications skills, especially in communicating technical information. Excellent problem-solving/analytical skills. Experience with technical support or help desk required. Additional Success Factors Fundamental technical understanding of NEXTSTEP and its market. PC hardware knowledge and programming experience a plus. ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Developer Trainer; Technical Training; NeXT Computer Date: 3 May 1995 03:37:43 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3o6tq7$fee@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> In addition, NeXT's Open Positions page is linked to CareerMosaic on the WWW! ***************************************************************** Title: Developer Training Department: Professional Services/Training Overall Responsibilities 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. Minimum Required Skills + 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 Minimum Required Experience + 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. 30 - 50% travel is required. ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: dpeter@xanthus.com (David W. Peter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: OpenWrite 1.1 now available via FTP (Free Upgrade) Date: 3 May 1995 19:17:17 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3o8krt$l9u@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information please contact: Xanthus USA David Peter Phone: +1-619-730-0370 Fax: +1-619-730-0373 Email: info@xanthus.com Xanthus International Jesper Lundh Phone: +46-8-635 30 62 Fax: +46-8-98 70 67 Email: info@xanthus.se OPENWRITE 1.1 NOW AVAILABLE VIA FTP (Free Upgrade) 600% Faster--HTML Support--Table Editor--PC & Mac File Compatibility San Diego, CA, May 1, 1995 -- Xanthus USA today announced that OpenWrite 1.1, the company's powerful, easy-to-use word processor for NEXTSTEP, is available via FTP on the Internet. The new version, which is 600% faster than previous releases and includes many new features, will also be shipped on CD-Rom FREE to all registered owners of OpenWrite. FTP LOCATION OpenWrite 1.1 (quad-fat) is available via FTP at the following locations: North American Site ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/editors European Site ftp://sics.se/pub/next/xanthus Owners of OpenWrite 1.0 can download the new version and use their original license string to register OpenWrite 1.1 and all OpenWrite companion applications. SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICING FOR OPENWRITE 1.1 -- $249 First-time OpenWrite purchasers can take advantage of a special promotional price of $249 (retail $395) for a single-user license. The offer is available through June 30 (limit one per customer). Those interested should contact Xanthus via email (info@xanthus.com) to request an order form. SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICING FOR THE OPEN OFFICE SUITE -- $549 The Open Office Suite, which includes OpenWrite, Questor (Spreadsheet) and Graphity (3D Charts and Graphs) is available at a promotional price of $549 for a single-user license. The offer is available through June 30 (limit one per customer). Those interested should contact Xanthus via email (info@xanthus.com) to request an order form. ABOUT THE COMPANY Xanthus International AB, with offices in Stockholm, Sweden, and San Diego, California, is a privately owned software development company that specializes in productivity software for the NEXTSTEP and OpenStep platforms. Xanthus is one of twelve companies in the Upnet Group, one of Sweden's most successful and expanding networking companies with offices located in Sweden and Norway. The Upnet Group has more than 150 employees and revenues in excess of $50 million per year. -End-
From: dpeter@xanthus.com (David W. Peter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Xanthus USA announces student prices for Open Office Apps Date: 3 May 1995 19:19:24 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3o8kvs$laa@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information please contact: Xanthus USA David Peter Phone: +1-619-730-0370 Fax: +1-619-730-0373 Email: info@xanthus.com Xanthus International Jesper Lundh Phone: +46-8-635 30 62 Fax: +46-8-98 70 67 Email: info@xanthus.se XANTHUS ANNOUNCES STUDENT PRICES FOR OPEN OFFICE APPS OPENWRITE ($50) -- OPEN OFFICE SUITE ($100) San Diego, CA, May 1, 1995 -- Xanthus USA today announced special prices for students on its popular word processing, spreadsheet and graphics applications for NEXTSTEP. Effective immediately, qualified students may purchase single-user licenses of OpenWrite, Questor or Graphity for $50 each. The entire Open Office Suite (all three) is available for $100. Fully functional versions of the sofware are available to students via ftp. For an additional $20 students may request the software on CD-Rom. Printed documentation is not included but comprehensive on-line help is available in all applications. HOW TO ORDER Please complete the attached order form and fax it, along with a copy of your current student ID, to Xanthus USA at (619) 730-0373. After your order has been confirmed, your license string will be sent to you via email along with the ftp location for the software you have ordered. _________________ Xanthus Student Order Form _________________ You may use the following form to submit your order: Name ________________________________________________ Company ______________________________________________ Address _______________________________________________ City __________________________________________________ State _________________________________________________ Zip __________________________________________________ Country _______________________________________________ Phone ________________________________________________ Fax __________________________________________________ Email _________________________________________________ Type of Credit card: ( ) VISA ( ) MC Expiration Date: _______ Credit Card Number: ______________________________________ Name on Card: __________________________________________ I would like to order the following: _______ Copies of OpenWrite -- $50 _______ Copies of Questor -- $50 _______ Copies of Graphity -- $50 _______ The Open Office Suite -- $100 _______ Please ship the software to me on CD-Rom -- $20 extra _______ Total _________________ End Student Order Form ___________________ ABOUT THE COMPANY Xanthus International AB, with offices in Stockholm, Sweden, and San Diego, California, is a privately owned software development company that specializes in productivity software for the NEXTSTEP and OpenStep platforms. Xanthus is one of twelve companies in the Upnet Group, one of Sweden's most successful and expanding networking companies with offices located in Sweden and Norway. The Upnet Group has more than 150 employees and revenues in excess of $50 million per year. -End-
From: "Eric A. Litman" <Eric_Litman@nxstep.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: cmsg cancel <3o9gpc$2t4@digifix.digifix.com> Control: cancel <3o9gpc$2t4@digifix.digifix.com> Date: 4 May 1995 00:56:16 -0400 Organization: Digital Fix Development Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3o9mpg$41f@digifix.digifix.com> Cancelled Message by sanguish@digifix.com -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: Samuel Goldberger <smg@orb.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Spherical Solutions announces Pyro 50Mhz Accelerator for NeXT 25 Mhz Hardware Date: 5 May 1995 02:12:28 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ocfkc$dtk@digifix.digifix.com> SPHERICAL SOLUTIONS ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF THE PYRO 50MHZ ACCELERATOR BOARD FOR NEXT 25 MHZ COMPUTERS. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information please contact: Samuel M. Goldberger, President Spherical Solutions 47 Myrtle Avenue Mill Valley, CA 94941 415-383-2919--voice 415-381-9556--fax smg@orb.com--email May 4, 1995 Spherical Solutions is pleased to annouce the availability of its "Pyro(TM) 50 mhz Accelerator Board" for all 25 mhz Motorola 68040-based NeXT hardware, including the Cube, NeXT Station and NeXT Station Color. Manufactured to Spherical's specifications by Newer Technology, one of the leading designers and manufacturers of accelerator products for the Apple Macintosh (tm) line, the Pyro effectively doubles the processing power of the original NeXT computer. Spherical's President, Sam Goldberger, says, "Many NextStep users love the original "black" NeXT hardware, because of the reliability, quality, appearance and the range of applications available, some of which haven't been ported to non-Motorola machines (Improv, WriteNow, etc.) Moreover, many users have made significant investments in their hardware and want to derive maximum value. But they want to maximize performance of their machines at a reasonable price. This is why we designed the Pyro." "It Just Works" The Pyro is a small daugherboard that plugs into the existing '040 socket on the NeXT motherboard. It contains a 50 mhz '040 chip with integral cooling fan and support circuitry. No additional software is required, and there are no known incompatibilities with the operating system or any tested application. All other features and ports (DSP, printer and serial ports, ethernet, etc) operate normally. "It just works," says Goldberger. Different models of the Pyro are designed to operate with both Cube and Station configurations. Say Goldberger, "We've tested the Pyro against the 33 mhz Turbo and even the famous 'Nitro' 40 mhz board (which never became commercial production). Pyro significantly outperforms the Turbo in most measures, and is essentially the equal of the Nitro. Moreover, the Nitro was only designed for Turbo machines, leaving the 25 mhz user without an upgrade path." He continued, "We selected Newer Technology to design and manufacture the Pyro because of their excellent track record in the Macintosh market, their outstanding and reliable product line, and their depth of engineering expertise, particularly with the Motorola CPU. We are delighted with the product and documentation they have produced, their warranty program, and their commitment to the Next marketplace." Research is currently underway into an accelerator board for Turbo machines. Test Results A series of tests have been performed to compare the performance of the Pyro board to the unmodified 25 mhz Next, the Turbo and the Nitro. Tests included both standard benchmarks and a suite of real-world applications. Results are available over the Internet from the Pyro Web Page: http://orb.com/Pyro or by ftp from ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/submission/Pyro.test.ps. Availability and Pricing Spherical Solutions is the exclusive reseller of the Pyro board on behalf of Newer Technolgies, Inc.. It is available directly to end users, and is warranteed for one year by Newer Technology, Inc. Reseller inquiries are welcome, and should be addressed to Spherical Solutions. Introductory pricing for the Pyro 50 mhz Accelerator Board is $899 for all platforms. Orders are currently being accepted for delivery beginning May 20, 1995. For further information and ordering information, please contact: Samuel M. Goldberger Spherical Solutions 47 Myrtle Avenue Mill Valley, CA 94941 415-383-2919--voice 415-381-9556--fax smg@orb.com--email Spherical Solutions has been in the business of supplying Next hardware and software solutions to the Next community since 1991. *** Pyro 50 mhz Accelerator Board is a trademark of Newer Technology. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: Nicholas Christopher <ir001265@interramp.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: PPPMeter on ftp.cs.orst.edu Date: 5 May 1995 00:07:49 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3oc8al$cgh@digifix.digifix.com> PPPMeter now available on ftp.cs.orst.edu: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/sources/comm/PPPMeter.src.tar.gz ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/sources/comm/PPPMeter.README INTRODUCTION What is PPPMeter? It's a VAA (Value Adding Application) for the cool public domain PPP (ppp2.2). PPPMeter simplifies just a few basic activities - bringing the link up, taking it down, viewing the log and monitoring your connection time usage. It has a few other minor features as well but they will show up as you go along. INSTALLATION Read the app's PPPMeter Setup help section. SOURCE NOTES There is some ok code in here... some AppKit Object class autoreleasing that is Foundation compatible. A nice SIMPLE string class. A mail API object... other neat stuff. Go wild. \n ir001265@interramp.com (Yup a PPP connection.. necessity is the mother of invention and all that :-) May 4 1995
From: Alexander Wilkie <wilkie@CSlab.tuwien.ac.at> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION - NXMine 1.2a Date: 5 May 1995 18:01:40 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3oe784$jdh@digifix.digifix.com> NXMine 1.2a - a free Minesweeper clone for NeXTStep The new version is a more or less completely new game, so anyone who didn't like 1.0 should take another look. It has been submitted to ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/games/NXMine.1.2a.NI.compressed This version replaces version 1.0. At the moment the app is only a .NI doublefat; this will be fixed soon. Changes since 1.0: - faster graphics - two sizes of tiles - one can alter the colour of the playing field - proper on-line help - sound Also, it's look and feel now much more resembles the original. The source will be submitted to the same site in due course. Have fun! Alexander Wilkie wilkie@cslab.tuwien.ac.at
From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Software Engineer - NeXT Computer, RWC, CA **new** Date: 4 May 1995 18:23:42 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3obk5e$afo@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources>. In addition, NeXT's Open Positions page is linked to CareerMosaic on the WWW. ***************************************************************** Position: Software Engineer Department: Software Engineering Location: Redwood City, CA Primary responsibility Design and implemention of client/server systems for a very exciting new development project Skills, Education and Experience Required BS in Computer science or equivalent experience Very strong Unix and C in a commercial environment building client/server systems Highly professional, with the ability to deliver solid work on tight schedules Experience with OO design and development Superior analysis and problem solving skills Demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities Tenacity and eagerness to solve complex technical problems Self motivated, independent and proactive Additional Success Factors NEXTSTEP programming experience PDO/DO experience Unix sockets and RPC Knowledge of encryption and authentication techniques Network Security Communication Protocols (TCP/IP, MIME,...) ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: cmcgrail@next.com (Caroline McGrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Contract - Windows Application Programmer - NeXT Computer, RWC, CA Date: 4 May 1995 18:24:10 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3obk6a$afv@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. Fax: 415-780-4554 Email: "resumes@next.com" Contractor Position Position: Windows Application Programmer (Contractor) Department: Portable Distributed Objects, Engineering Location: Redwood City, CA Primary responsibility Design and implement sample Windows applications that demonstrate NeXT's PDO-OLE integration technology. Assist NeXT's SQA team in developing tests for our PDO-OLE integration. Specific Responsibilities * Design and develop well-documented demo and example apps using MS Visual C++ and PDO * Help develop auxilary utilities for creating and running PDO objects under Windows * Assist NeXT SQA with writing test suites for PDO-OLE integration Skills and Experience Requirements * At least 2 years experience developing commercial or custom Windows applications * At least 1 year developing with MS Visual Basic and Visual C++ * Strong object-oriented programming knowledge * At least 1 year experience developing with OLE * Objective-C/NEXTSTEP programming knowledge a major plus
From: Chris Saldanha <chris@computerActive.on.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: computerActive Wins SCOAP award for NEXTSTEP based solutions again! Date: 5 May 1995 17:49:35 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3oe6hf$ja9@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information please contact: Kevin Ford computerActive inc. Phone (613) 225-4824 Fax (613) 225-1670 15 Capella Crt., Unit 128 Ottawa, ON, Canada, K2E 7X1 Internet mail: kevin@computeractive.on.ca COMPUTERACTIVE WINS SCOAP AWARDS FOR NEXTSTEP BASED SOLUTIONS TWO YEARS IN A ROW! Ottawa, On, CAN, May 4, 1995 -- computerActive, a NEXTSTEP System Integrator, displayed it's wares at the COMTECH 95 Trade Show in Ottawa this week. Being Canada's capital, most of the federal government computer acquisitions are made in Ottawa. About 15,000 government and business professionals typically attend. Any company doing significant computer business with the federal government attends. Over 300 booths are filled with the likes of IBM, Microsoft, Apple, QMS, etc. Independent from the show organizers, the Society of Computer Office Automation Professionals (SCOAP) judges products at the show. You don't apply or campaign to win; they have a team of judges quietly touring the show selecting those products they feel are outstanding. In 1994 show we were delighted to be awarded SCOAP Finalist, Award of Excellence, Best of Show, for our NEXTSTEP based Crisis Management System developed for Transport Canada. In 1995 we did it again! We were awarded SCOAP Finalist Award of Excellence, Best of Show, for our NEXTSTEP based Public Key Encryption product. (Stand by for a Press Release on Encryption) With all the competition it's outrageous for a small company to beat out the big boys. To do it two years in a row is unheard of. You really can do it better with NEXTSTEP. ABOUT THE COMPANY We are an Ottawa, Canada based consulting and system integration firm specializing in applying UNIX tools to today's business challenges. We have skills in DOS and Macintosh computers however we focus on client /server solutions using UNIX. NEXTSTEP is our platform of choice for the desktop. Our mission is to help our customers be more efficient and effective than their competition.
From: andrew@stone.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: DataPhile 3.0 on ftp.cs.orst.edu Date: 6 May 1995 23:47:09 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ohfrt$rml@digifix.digifix.com> DataPhile 3.0 is now available on ftp.cs.orst.edu ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/database/DataPhile_3.0.tar ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/database/DataPhile_3.0.tar.README Stone Design's DataPhile ======================== - the NEXTSTEP Database Manager for the rest of us. This online package contains software for: MOTOROLA, INTEL, HP_RISC, and SPARC Contents: DataPhile_3.0.pkg The Database Manager, ready to roll... DataPhile_Aux.pkg Sample databases and auxilliary files DP_Filter.pkg A services filter to allow drag & drop of .dp files DP_French.pkg Si parlez-vous francais... DP_Importer.pkg An applet to allow you to import fixed length data DataPhile_3.0.rtfd A fancy version of this file! For pricing (students and faculty get great discounts) and ordering: email: info@stone.com phone: (505) 345-4800 fax : (505) 345-3424 http://www.stone.com/stone Stone Design Corporation 3725 Rio Grande NW Albuquerque, NM 87107 Mon Apr 24 22:09:42 MDT 1995
From: andrew@stone.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Create 3.0 on ftp.cs.orst.edu Date: 6 May 1995 23:47:27 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ohfsf$rms@digifix.digifix.com> The latest/greatest Create is now available on ftp.cs.orst.edu: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/graphics/Create_3.0.tar ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/graphics/Create_3.0.tar.README Stone Design's Create ======================== - the awesome design and layout package for NEXTSTEP; it's been 7 years in the making. This online package contains software for: MOTOROLA, INTEL, HP_RISC, and SPARC Contents: Create_3.0.pkg The Drawing Package, ready to roll... Create_Aux.pkg Sample files and tutorials CR_Filter.pkg A services filter to allow drag & drop of .create files CR_French.pkg Si parlez-vous francais... Create_3.0.rtfd A fancy version of this file! For pricing (students and faculty get great discounts) and ordering: email: info@stone.com phone: (505) 345-4800 fax : (505) 345-3424 http://www.stone.com/stone Stone Design Corporation 3725 Rio Grande NW Albuquerque, NM 87107 Mon Apr 24 22:09:42 MDT 1995
From: andrew@stone.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: 3DReality 2.0 on ftp.cs.orst.edu Date: 6 May 1995 23:47:41 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ohfst$rn3@digifix.digifix.com> The latest/greatest Reality is now available on ftp.cs.orst.edu: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/graphics/3DReality_2.0.tar ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/graphics/3DReality_2.0.tar.README Stone Design's 3DReality ======================== - the ultimate in easy 3D modeling and rendering for NEXTSTEP. This online package contains software for: MOTOROLA, INTEL, HP_RISC, and SPARC Contents: 3DReality_2.0.pkg The actual program 3DRealityShaders.pkg Some cool shaders and textures 3DRealitySamples.pkg Some samples of things to do 3DRealityAPI.pkg The Programmer's Application Interface For pricing (students and faculty get great discounts) and ordering: email: info@stone.com phone: (505) 345-4800 fax : (505) 345-3424 http://www.stone.com/stone Stone Design Corporation 3725 Rio Grande NW Albuquerque, NM 87107
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Dynamic IP adddresses and TransSys PNI SLIP Date: 7 May 1995 00:19:34 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ohhom$rv1@digifix.digifix.com> The PNI SLIP package from TransSys is fairly straightforward to setup if your SLIP connection is provided with a fixed IP address. It's a bit more challenging to set it up for the situation where your sessions are given a IP address when they connect (ie, you'll get a different IP address each time you start up a SLIP session). I had to have PNI SLIP work with dynamically-assigned IP addresses, and as near as I can tell I have it working pretty well now. I thought it would be useful for others if I wrote up what I've done, and how I've done it. The file PNI-DynamicIP.rtfd.compressed is a rich-text writeup of how I setup the TransSys PNI SLIP package so that it works fairly well with dynamically-assigned IP addresses. It includes some example files, and discussion of why the files are written the way that they are written. Currently you can pick this up at: ftp://eclipse.its.rpi.edu/NeXT/comm/PNI-DynamicIP.rtfd.compressed or ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/demos/comm/PNI-DynamicIP.rtfd.compressed Note that I have no connection to TransSys other than I bought the CSLIP upgrade for the TransSys PNI package. My setup works fine with TransSys version 1.13 running on NS/m68k-3.2. Your mileage may vary. This writeup is only intended to give you some helpful ideas of what to look for when setting the package up. It wouldn't be overly surprising if some details of what I've done are not strictly correct, but at least this writeup is a good starting point for someone coming into this with no background. I'll be interested in any comments on the writeup, but please note that I don't have the time to help people setup TransSys to work with the specifics of *their* own terminal servers. I am not a networking expert, and don't have the time to consult on other people's hookups or TCL scripts. I hope this writeup will be of some help to others using the package. Garance Alistair Drosehn gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu ITS Systems Programmer Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Summary 82 - Articles posted since May 1 1995 Date: 8 May 1995 00:00:07 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3ojmu7$3sq@digifix.digifix.com> Summary: 82 Postings since: May 1 1995 [3197] ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines [3198] NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet [3199] PRESS RELEASE: MetaMorph announces MetaMorph Convert v1.0 [3200] MEETING: SEMiNUG - Monday, May 8, 1995 [3201] JOB: NeXTSTEP Developer (FT), WilTel ATG, The Woodlands, TX [3202] PRESS RELEASE: STONE DESIGN Ships the STONE CD volume 2 [3203] PRESS RELEASE: STONE DESIGN Ships Create 3.0 [3204] PRESS RELEASE: STONE DESIGN Ships 3D Reality 2.0 [3205] PRESS RELEASE: STONE DESIGN Announces Upgrade Pricing [3206] PRESS RELEASE: STONE DESIGN Ships DataPhile 3.0 [3207] JOB: NEXTSTEP Los Angeles/Orange County [3208] JOB: Software Engineering - Printing, NeXT Computer, RWC, CA [3209] JOB: EOF Software Engineer; NeXT Computer, RWC, CA [3210] JOB: Windows Tools Engineer - NeXT Computer, RWC, CA [3211] JOB: Engineering Manager - Foundation **new position** NeXT Computer [3212] JOB: OS Engineer - SQ; NeXT Computer, RWC, CA [3213] JOB: Windows Development Engineer - NeXT Computer, RWC, CA [3214] JOB: Technical Writer; NeXT Computer, RWC, CA [3215] JOB: Driver Engineer; NeXT Computer, RWC, CA [3216] JOB: Contractor Position: Token Ring Driver Engineer [3217] JOB: Systems Consultants/Systems Engineering - Chicago & NYC [3218] JOB: Software Engineer; Development Environment; NeXT Computer [3219] JOB: OS Engineer - Kernel; NeXT Computer, RWC, CA [3220] JOB: Performance Tools Engineer; NeXT Computer [3221] JOB: Consulting Engineers; Object Expert Engineering Program; NeXT Computer [3222] JOB: Engineering Services Mgr; Object Expert Program [3223] JOB: Technical Support Engineer; NeXT Computer, RWC, CA [3224] JOB: Developer Trainer; Technical Training; NeXT Computer [3225] PRESS RELEASE: OpenWrite 1.1 now available via FTP (Free Upgrade) [3226] PRESS RELEASE: Xanthus USA announces student prices for Open Office Apps [3227] PRESS RELEASE: Xedoc's Fabrik middleware brings Xerox InConcert workflow to enterprise NEXTSTEP users [3229] ARCHIVE SITE: US NeXTSTEP mirror for informatik (Peanuts) archive [3230] JOB: Software Engineer - NeXT Computer, RWC, CA **new** [3231] JOB: Contract - Windows Application Programmer - NeXT Computer, RWC, CA [3232] SUBMISSION: PPPMeter on ftp.cs.orst.edu [3233] PRESS RELEASE: Spherical Solutions announces Pyro 50Mhz Accelerator for NeXT 25 Mhz Hardware [3234] PRESS RELEASE: computerActive Wins SCOAP award for NEXTSTEP based solutions again! [3235] SUBMISSION - NXMine 1.2a [3236] SUBMISSION: DataPhile 3.0 on ftp.cs.orst.edu [3237] SUBMISSION: Create 3.0 on ftp.cs.orst.edu [3238] SUBMISSION: 3DReality 2.0 on ftp.cs.orst.edu [3239] SUBMISSION: Dynamic IP adddresses and TransSys PNI SLIP If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com. Archives -------- Individual messages are available at http://www.stepwise.com/comp.sys.next.announce/csna-82/**article_number** where **article_number** is the [xxxx] beside the Subject line above.. FTP archives: ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives/csna-82.tar.gz WWW archives: http://www.stepwise.com/comp.sys.next.announce/csna-82 Article submissions : next-announce@digifix.com Submission guidelines: next-announce-guidelines@digifix.com Suggestions/comments : next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines Date: 8 May 1995 00:15:03 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3ojnq7$3uv@digifix.digifix.com> NEW POLICY: =========== In an attempt to standardize the format of the FTP locations for files, all ftp addresses should be submitted using the Universal Resource Locator (URL) format. (for example) ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/submissions/file.tar.gz Please try and give an indication of where you expect the file will end up on the archive site, in the same notation. Cross Posting ============= I try very hard to make sure that postings get out in a timely fashion. Most go out in less than 24 hours. Postings that require editing because they do not contain information in a useable format, or have already been posted to other comp.sys.next.* groups may be delayed, or returned to you. If your posting is rejected, I'll try and make suggestions about what should be changed where possible. Obviously off charter messages (spams, open-letters, etc) may not get a response. Content 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 _IN URL FORMAT_ supported CPU's for binary distributions, OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting, time of meeting, speakers expected Signatures 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. Announcement of Product Sales ============================= This is an area of announcement that has caused me terrible grief in recent months. The policy is tilted towards the ISV, which has worked out well in the past. Posts that announce sales of products that you are DIRECTLY involved in the development of are OK. Posts from companies trying to sell other products are evaluated on an individual basis. Time Sensitive Announcements ============================ Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date. 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.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet Date: 8 May 1995 00:15:08 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3ojnqc$3uv@digifix.digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site comp.sys.next newsgroups related newsgroups comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list ftp sites NeXTanswers Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site =============================================== This online community resource includes - 200+ ISV company pages - 400+ ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - NEXTSTEP User Group Directory - comp.sys.next archives - User Group information - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.stepwise.com/ Additionally there is a Mail Server available. You can get information on using the mail server at ns-products@stepwise.com Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise, please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com. eduSTEP WWW site ================ http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/ eduStep aims to provide up-to-date information on: - NextStep tools and projects for scientists. - Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist). - A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with customers in the educational community. - Conferences, meetings, workshops - Major projects, such as SciTools, EMBL's project to develop a NextStep scientific work environment - Status reports on GNUStep, a freely-available implementation of OpenStep now being developed NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site ============================ http://www.next.com comp.sys.next.* newsgroups ========================== news: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. news: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. Archives are available by ftp at ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. news: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. news: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. news: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. news: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!!! news: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. news:comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. news:comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. Related Newsgroups ================== news: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. news:comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. news: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 ============= ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions ftp://nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: In Germany. ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next/ eduStep ftp://ftp.next.com: See below ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com ===================================== [from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help] 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, read them on the world-wide web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS. 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. 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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 VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web server at URL http://www.next.com. 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. USING NEXTANSWERS BY MODEM To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at (415) 780-2965. Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section. From there you can download NeXTanswers documents. FOR MORE HELP... If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available from NeXTanswers, call the Support Hotline at 1-800-955-NeXT (outside the U.S. call +1-415-424-8500) to speak to a NEXTSTEP Technical Support Technician. If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must make this call to the hotline. Otherwise, hotline support is on a pay-per-call basis. Thanks for using NeXTanswers! Written by: Eric P. Scott (mailto:eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU) and Scott Anguish (mailto:sanguish@digifix.com) Additions from: Greg Anderson (mailto:Greg_Anderson@afs.com) Michael Pizolato (mailto:Michael_Pizolato@afs.com) Dan Grillo (mailto:dan_grillo@next.com)
From: hhsu@impact.com (Henry Hsu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: SuperDraw 2.0 Competitive Upgrade Offer Date: 7 May 1995 22:59:35 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ok1en$4mj@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Impact Software Publishing, Inc. 36-32 34th Street, Long Island City, NY 11106 Phone: 1-800-822-3385 / 718-472-0600 Fax: 718-472-0160 E-mail: info@impact.com SUPERDRAW 2.0 UPGRADE OFFER FOR CREATE, DIAGRAM!, OR ILLUSTRATOR USERS Long Island City, New York - May 8, 1995 - Impact Software today announced the availability of a $75 rebate offer for Create, Diagram!, or Adobe Illustrator users who upgrade to SuperDraw(tm) version 2.0 for Motorola, Intel, HP PA-RISC, and SPARC based computers. SuperDraw 2.0 is a powerful and easy-to-use graphics and desktop publishing program with additional multimedia authoring capabilities. Impact Software is making available its SuperDraw program at a promotional price of $245 until May 15, 1995. Create, Diagram!, or Adobe Illustrator users who purchase SuperDraw 2.0 at $245 can get a $75 rebate by faxing or mailing in copy of their registration card or purchase reciept. SuperDraw 2.0 is a program which integrates many graphics, page-layout, and multimedia authoring features found in programs such as CorelDraw, QuarkXPress, and Authorware. SuperDraw features tools for rotating, scaling, skewing, joining, clipping, and blending of graphic objects, such as text, lines, rectangles, polygons, Bezier splines, and 24-bit color TIFF and EPS images. SuperDraw also offers 6400 percent zoom-in capability, up to 100 levels of undo/redo, multiple concurrent views of a multi-page document, object/sound linking, and much more. It also allows you to choose PANTONE colors from the NEXTSTEP Colors panel and then drag and drop them into objects. SuperDraw provides customizable template and palette libraries, and includes sample templates for address labels, business cards, disk labels, shipping labels, and calendar. SuperDraw also includes sample palettes for creating flow charts, network diagrams, and organization charts. SuperDraw includes an extensive on-line help with illustrated step-by-step instructions. By simply clicking any section of the screen with the Help cursor, explanation of every menu item and program feature is available instantly. In addition, an illustrated tutorial is included to get you started quickly. SuperDraw is compiled quad-fat and will run on Motorola, Intel, HP PA-RISC, and SPARC based computers. SuperDraw is available direct from Impact Software and through authorized NEXTSTEP resellers. Information about quantity discounts, site licenses, and reduced prices for educational customers can be obtained by contacting Impact Software directly. Current registered users of SuperDraw are entitled to a free upgrade to SuperDraw 2.0. (SuperDraw 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 all use the same set of license keys.) In addition, purchasers of SuperDraw 2.0 and current registered users of SuperDraw are entitled to a free upgrade to SuperDraw 3.0, 4.0, and SuperDraw for OpenStep when these versions become available. (Version 3.0 of SuperDraw with additional features and improvements is scheduled to be released in July 1995 with a retail price of $595.) Requests for a demo copy of SuperDraw can be sent to demos@impact.com. A demo copy of SuperDraw 2.0 is also available from: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/graphics/SuperDraw2.0.NIHS.tar.gz For users without NeXTmail or FTP access, free demo floppies of SuperDraw 2.0 can be requested by calling 1-800-822-3385. Retail Price: $495.00 Internet Price: $445.00 (for users who have a demo copy) Promotional Internet Price: $245.00 (available until May 15, 1995) Availability: Shipping now for Motorola, Intel, HP PA-RISC, and SPARC based computers. * ABOUT THE COMPANY * Impact Software Publishing, Inc. is a privately held software development and publishing company based in Long Island City, New York. Founded in 1990, the company provides the service of handling the distribution, sales, and marketing of software written by many independent developers. Some of the programs that Impact Software currently distributes for independent developers include debugging, backup, graphics, utility, and educational programs. *** SuperDraw is a trademark of Impact Software Publishing, Inc. NEXTSTEP is a trademark of NeXT, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: bill@athena.com (Bill Watt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Athena Design Announces New Technical Support Offering Date: 8 May 1995 01:24:30 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ok9ue$5ie@digifix.digifix.com> PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Sarah Garnsey 1.617.426.6372 Athena Design Announces New Technical Support Offering MAY 1, 1995 - Boston - Athena Design, Inc. has announced that it will begin offering new technical support packages to its Mesa(TM) customers, providing them with support based on their specific needs. Beginning May 15, 1995, one-year technical support licenses will be available through resellers for $99 US. Mesa, native spreadsheet software available for NEXTSTEP and OS/2, currently comes with 90 days of free technical support via e-mail or fax with purchase. With the addition of this new offering, users who need additional assistance can now receive support via telephone as well. "The best thing we can do to support our customers is provide them with services focused on their specific needs. Offering stand-alone technical support packages allows us to do that without raising the product price for users across the board," said David Policar, Athena's product development manager. Athena has been analyzing its technical support demands since the OS/2 version of Mesa was released in the fall of '94, to learn how best to meet support customers' needs. "Getting users' feedback about Mesa is very important to us," continued Policar,"so we want to encourage all Mesa users to continue to contact us with their comments, regardless of which technical support offering they take advantage of. We love to hear product feedback - it's the best way for us to be responsive to customer needs and continue to refine the product." Technical support packages are available for both the NEXTSTEP and OS/2 versions of Mesa spreadsheet software. To purchase them, please contact your favorite local reseller or call Athena Design for a referral. Athena Design, Inc. was founded in 1989 to manufacture and sell spreadsheet software for 32-bit operating environments. For more information about Athena Design or Mesa spreadsheet software, contact the company at 1.617.426.6372, fax at 1.617.426.7665 or by e-mail at info@athena.com. - 30 - Mesa is a trademark of Athena Design, Inc. - NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark of NeXT Computer Inc. - OS/2 is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation - Other trademarks which apply belong to their respective companies.
From: Roberto.Dicosmo@ens.fr (Roberto DiCosmo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Cirrus Logic GD6440 Video Driver Date: 8 May 1995 17:17:18 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3om1ou$b2n@digifix.digifix.com> This is to announce the availability of my CirrusLogicGD6440 NeXTSTEP Video Driver based on the IOSVGA class. This driver has been written to directly support an external SVGA monitor at 1024x768 resolution, *2bit-grayscale*, 60Hz, and has been succesfully tested on a Sager9200 connected to a Philips multisync monitor. I remember you that, in the current state of affair, we *cannot* get color on chips that, like (probably) the 6440, do not support linear addressing of the video memory. You will find the binary distribution of the video driver at the following URL: ftp://ftp.ens.fr/pub/dmi/users/dicosmo/SW/GD6440/GD6440.tar.gz Please report all problems to Roberto Di Cosmo <dicosmo@dmi.ens.fr>, http://www.ens.fr/users/dicosmo/index.html LIENS Ecole Normale Superieure 45, Rue d'Ulm 75005 Paris FRANCE IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER Remember that playing with video chips is inherently dangerous and can, and *will* lead to physical damage to your video controller, monitor and LCD display if something goes wrong. I tried to do my best to insure that this will not happen using my driver, but since I am not at all an expert of video drivers, when you use this driver, it is under your personal responsibility: you have been warned, *dont blame me if things go wrong*. INSTALLATION Just double click on CirrusLogicGD6440.config and enter the root password for installation, then remove the DefaultVGA driver that probably will have already caused a warning in Configure.app at this point. Save and exit. Reboot the machine, and do whatever is necessary to select the CRT display only and turn off the LCD (on my Sager 9200, I press Ctrl-Alt-Esc when the system asks if I want to boot NeXTSTEP or Dos), then press enter at the boot: prompt, so you can see the log messages. Shortly after "Configuring Device Drivers", you should get a series of messages like the following: May 6 20:45:25 ranger mach: GD6440: Chipset is on Local Bus May 6 20:45:25 ranger mach: GD6440: CL6440 defaults to 1024k May 6 20:45:25 ranger mach: GD6440: found Chipset CL6440 on Display CRT with 1024k of memory. If you do not have the right chipset, or if the LCD is still on, you will get a message like May 6 19:47:14 ranger mach: SVGADisplay0: Sorry, cannot use requested display mode. May 6 19:47:14 ranger mach: Cannot use 1024x768x2x60hz on LCD display! Aborting But you will anyway get the old DefaulVGA display driver, so indeed you will want to always leave this driver installed: if you have only the LCD display, then you get the old VGA driver, while on a CRT display you will get the full 1024x768 resolution at 60Hz. Otherwise, you will see something like: May 6 20:45:25 ranger mach: SVGADisplay0: Initialized `1024x768x2x60hz' @ 60 Hz. May 6 20:45:25 ranger mach: Registering: SVGADisplay0 and you are up and running! Enjoy. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My sincerest acknowledgements to Manfred Brands, who wrote the 6440 portion of the XFree video drivers, that I am using here, and pointed me to the newest version of Finn Thoegersen's vgadoc3.zip out there, and gave me permission to use his code for chip identification. Finn Thoegersen's vga collection is a great job, and I would never have got this working without his tools. -- Roberto Di Cosmo <dicosmo@dmi.ens.fr>, http://www.ens.fr/users/dicosmo/index.html LIENS Ecole Normale Superieure 45, Rue d'Ulm 75005 Paris FRANCE
From: Dover Pacific Computing <dover@callamer.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Dover Pacific offers NEXTSTEP Consulting Date: 9 May 1995 16:34:49 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3oojl9$kkk@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Robert Walrath or Mont Rothstein Dover Pacific Computing, Inc. 1540 Marsh St. Suite 303 San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 tel: 805-781-8317/fax:805-781-8319 e-mail: dover@callamer.com <URL:http://www.callamer.com/~dover> DOVER PACIFIC COMPUTING, INC. OFFERS NEXTSTEP CONSULTING SERVICES. San Luis Obispo, Calif. - May 8, 1995 Dover Pacific Computing, a Central California Coast based corporation, announces its availability to provide contract NEXTSTEP programming, system design, and system integration. Dover Pacific employs a unique set of talent bringing extensive experience in NEXTSTEP programming, database design, and real world business computing to every situation. The ability to deliver mission critical custom applications to their customers is fundamental to Dover Pacific Computing. They have chosen to focus on NEXTSTEP because of its ability to foster rapid application prototyping, design and development through an object-oriented environment. Beyond rapidly developed systems, Dover Pacific realizes that businesses need one source for all their computing needs. That's why Dover Pacific has collected a team of professionals that can handle all levels of a system, from the hardware and specification all the way to development, deployment and end-user training. They can help you decide what would be best for your business and be around to help when your business changes. ŖCustom, Modular Applications provide a competitive advantage in todays global economic environment and we want to help businesses achieve that advantage today, for today and the future,ŗ says Rob Walrath, President. Most businesses have found that shrink-wrap software doesn't do everything that they require, but programs not utilizing object-oriented design can take years to develop. Often, customers' needs have changed by the time their software would be done. Dover Pacific has found that businesses for whom custom applications simply weren't an option, are now able to get a system that meets their exact needs in a reasonable amount of time and at a competitive price. Additionally, object-oriented techniques make the types of changes that all businesses need more manageable than under other more Ŗconventionalŗ programming environments. Dover Pacific is here to help you, whether you are moving away from paper or leaving your mainframe behind. It is rare that as many people are needed to maintain NEXTSTEP applications as are needed to develop them. That's another position Dover Pacific can fill. They provide the extra man power and expertise needed for system or object development, freeing you to run your business, and helping to reduce long-term employment overhead. Also watch for Shrink-Wrap Software and ObjectWare being released under Dover Pacific Computing, Inc. d.b.a. Non-Linear Systems. NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc.
From: Jeff Russell <jeff@netsurfer.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Netsurfer Announces Availability of Netsurfer For NEXTSTEP Date: 9 May 1995 17:43:48 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3oonmk$l96@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information contact: Jeff Russell Netsurfer, Inc. 430 Tenth St. N.W. Suite N-105 Atlanta, GA 30318 USA (404) 815-1050 (800) 275-4010 (US only) jrussell@netsurfer.com http://www.netsurfer.com Netsurfer Announces Availability of Netsurfer(TM) For NEXTSTEP(TM) Special introductory pricing until the end of June Atlanta, GA, May 9, 1995 - Netsurfer, Inc. announces availability of its new Internet access software that runs on NEXTSTEP(TM). The software, Netsurfer(TM), provides integrated World-Wide Web, Gopher, and FTP access to Personal Computers and Workstations connected to the Internet. The final pre-release version of the software is available fully functional for evaluation until May 31, 1995. The software is available via the Internet through Netsurfer's World-Wide Web and FTP servers: http://www.netsurfer.com/ ftp://ftp.netsurfer.com/pub/next/Netsurfer/Netsurfer.1.0RC3.NI.app.tar.gz ftp://ftp.netsurfer.com/pub/next/Netsurfer/Netsurfer.1.0RC3.HS.app.tar.gz The final production release of Netsurfer 1.0 is scheduled for the week of May 15, 1995, and will also be available on the Internet Netsurfer is the most advanced, easy-to-use Internet access software available on any computing platform. Netsurfer gives users a simple, icon based index for saving and retrieving frequently accessed Internet resources. In addition to a multimedia browser for World-Wide Web and Gopher based resources, Netsurfer also provides a graphical browser for navigating FTP file archive servers. Netsurfer is available directly from Netsurfer via electronic distribution. A single user license for Netsurfer is priced at $195 US. Academic discount price is $39 US. Site licenses are available. Special introductory pricing until the end of June Until June 30, 1995, Netsurfer can be purchased at a special introductory price of $145 US, a savings of $50. Credit card orders can be placed via phone and electronic mail as well as Netsurfer's World-Wide Web server on the Internet using the demonstration version of the Netsurfer software. Electronic mail orders can be sent to sales@netsurfer.com. ___ Netsurfer, Inc. produces easy-to-use graphical software that allows individuals and organizations to access resources available on the global Internet computer network. Netsurfer is a trademark of Netsurfer, Inc. NEXTSTEP is a trademark of Next Computer, Inc.
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL (Gerben Wierda) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: NeGeN/NiNe's connectivity suite update: now Quad-FAT Date: 9 May 1995 16:57:00 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ookus$kpv@digifix.digifix.com> NeGeN/NiNe's suite of easy-to-install binary distributions for Taylor UUCP, C News and Mux have been updated, and are now also available for HP-PA and Sun Sparc architectures. The connectivity suite can be found at: ftp://ftp.nl.net/pub/comp/next/NeGeN-1.4_Taylor-UUCP-1.05.NI.b.tar.gz - Taylor UUCP package has been unchanged since 1.3, automatic detection of NetInfo Map support by /usr/lib/sendmail, and support of NetInfo reverse mail aliases has been added to NeGeN sendmail.cf since 1.2. - NOTA BENE: Mux package has been removed from this distribution, and is now distributed separately! ftp://ftp.nl.net/pub/comp/next/NeGeN-1.4_Taylor-UUCP-1.05.HS.b.tar.gz - Recompile for HP-PA and Sparc of the Taylor UUCP package. (this port has not yet been tested, so consider this a beta release) ftp://ftp.nl.net/pub/comp/next/NeGeN-1.4_Taylor-UUCP.README.rtf The readme file for the above. ftp://ftp.nl.net/pub/comp/next/NeGeN-1.2_CNews.NIHS.b.tar.gz - CNewsTools has been recompiled quad-fat; - CNewsConfig has been updated with recent (May 4, 1995) `active' and `newsgroups' lists from nlnet, and has been recompiled quad-fat. ftp://ftp.nl.net/pub/comp/next/NeGeN-1.2_CNews.README.rtf The readme file for the above. ftp://ftp.nl.net/pub/comp/next/NewsConfig-1.3.NIHS.b.tar.gz NEW (this is ALSO part of the CNews distribution) - has been updated with recent (May 4, 1995) `active' and `newsgroups' lists from nlnet, and has been recompiled quad-fat. ftp://ftp.nl.net/pub/comp/next/NewsConfig-1.3.s.tar.gz The source distribution of the above. ftp://ftp.nl.net/pub/comp/next/NewsConfig-1.3.README The readme file for the NewsConfig source distribution. ftp://ftp.nl.net/pub/comp/next/NeGeN-1.1_Mux-1.7.I.b.tar.gz NEW (this used to be part of the Taylor-UUCP distribution) - Installation procedure now installs Mux as an Active Driver in the System configuration, and deactivates the SerialPorts driver when applicable. ftp://ftp.nl.net/pub/comp/next/NeGeN-1.1_Mux-1.7.README.rtf The readme file for the above. -------- NeGeN Taylor UUCP comes with an easy configuration install procedure, which guides you through a series of questions and creates a working UUCP configuration on the fly. It even comes with a sendmail configuration option (user choosable, if you don't want it you don't get it): the supplied sendmail configuration is meant for single machine sites that pose as domains on the Internet through UUCP, but it also works as replacement for the sendmail configuration of the mailhost. This sendmail.cf supports inverse aliasing with Netinfo, see the article in NEXTSTEP In Focus in the Summer/Fall 1994 issue. The installation procedure detects whether the sendmail daemon at your host supports this feature, and disables Inverse aliasing if it is not supported. All existing stuff is backed up. This package is meant to be usable for non-techies. It just works. You have to read the accompanying README file though. It explains what you have to do when installing. IMPORTANT WARNING: due to (probably) a kernel bug in the serial driver introduced in NEXTSTEP 3.3 the use of Taylor UUCP occasionally causes system panics or -freezes on some Motorola systems (25 MHz '040 cubes, maybe others), which can and most probably will cause data corruption. In other words: don't use Taylor UUCP if you run NS3.3 on such black hardware. We are trying to find a workaround for this rather nasty problem..., but so far without luck. -------- NeGeN CNews, the binary distribution of C News for NEXTSTEP, contains an enhanced version of the standard c-news software, plus the server portion of nntp, which is needed by most newsreaders to access the news article database. Also included is NewsConfig.app, an easy to use application that allows you to quickly setup your news site. The archive consists of two Installer packages: one for the basic CNews software and one that contains a NEXTSTEP application to configure CNews. It all just works, but you have to read the README file for instructions. NewsConfig.app also contains online help. The news software has been enhanced by R&A and provides the following features over the standard c-news distribution: - automatic signature appendage to posted articles (now fully configurable). - automatic removal of empty directories in the article database to save space (configurable). - newsbatches can be compressed with gzip for smaller batches, thus faster transmission (use this only if the other side supports this too). - mail generated by news now carry subjects to classify them more easily. - better handling of checkgroups control messages (using NLnet's scripts). - the newgroup and rmgroup control messages and the addgroup and delgroup scripts now update the newsgroup description database newsgroups. - rmgroup now checks the sender's permissions, like newgroup already did (permissions are determined from the description in newgroupperm) - inews is fixed so that canceling articles from NewsGrazer works. and of course: - the server portion of nntp has been included (the client portion has been omitted since this is just a very primitive newsreader...) - the NewsConfig application makes setting up your news site very simple indeed. The easiest way to get your news site up and running is to use NewsConfig.app. The application offers on-line help that should guide you through the configuration of your news system. it is a simple tool, meant to setup your news site in such a way that it can receive news, from a single newsfeed, quickly and easily. It does not address the more arcane aspects of C News configuration, like: multiple newsfeeds, expire control, send batch control, mailpaths, newgroup/rmgroup authentication, checkgroups authentication and nntp access control. These are explained in more detail in the section ``Advanced News Configuration'' of NewsConfig's on-line help. Reasonable (we hope) defaults are established for these aspects when you install CNewsTools for the first time. Also keep in mind that it only sets up your end of the news system; you'll almost certainly have to contact your news provider to actually get any news. Of course, if you're brave (or you know what you're doing), you can also configure C News the hard way, by reading manpages and editing the configuration files by hand. Some people may even <shudder> prefer it that way. -------- NeGeN Mux is the binary distribution of Mark Salyzyn's serial port driver for NS/Intel. It is meant as a replacement of the SerialPorts driver that comes with the standard NEXTSTEP distribution. If you need a reliable, high speed serial connection, for instance with Taylor UUCP or a SLIP or PPP link, you should seriously consider upgrading to Mux. This distribution simplifies installation. -------- UNIMPORTANT WARNING: Fiend crashes when running the ShellUtils we use during setup. This is not very serious and it seems to have to do with the way the programs are started. (I lost the message which explained it and since it is not our bug and not serious we'll leave it as is. For more info contact: <negen-connect@negen.twi.tudelft.nl> For help, bugs and problems contact: <tom@rna.nl> NeGeN/NiNe (NEXTSTEP Gebruikers Nederland / NEXTSTEP in the Netherlands) is the Dutch NEXTSTEP User group, and is a member of the international association of NEXTSTEP user groups, NuGI. One of its activities is to facilitate mail and news connectivity to its members. NewsConfig is part of this effort. As of this writing the following binary distributions are available from NeGeN / Connectivity as easy-to-install NEXTSTEP Installer packages. NeGeN-NEWS: CNewsConfig An application to get your news site up and running. CNewsTools Enhanced C News + nntp server. NeGeN-UUCP: Taylor-UUCP UUCP, The NeXT Generation. Mux Mark Salyzyn's serial driver for NS/FIP. R&A supports NeGeN/NiNe by organizing the connectivity. R&A is a small firm specialized in quality software design and implementation and consultancy. We are specialized in OO, Unix, NEXTSTEP and portability. Contact: R&A Goudreinetstraat 582 2564 PX Den Haag The Netherlands Fax/answering: +31 70 3230851 Email: <info@rna.nl> -- gerben@rna.nl (Gerben Wierda) NEXTSTEP RD242 "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there" Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
From: chuston@dudley.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: PIONS User Group - Wed May 17th Date: 9 May 1995 16:18:02 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ooilq$kdu@digifix.digifix.com> People Interested in Open/NEXTSTEP (PIONS) Meeting Wednesday, May 17, 1995 @ D.C. Dudley & Associates PV-WAVE on NEXTSTEP David Besemer will demonstrate Visual Numerics' PV-WAVE product running on NEXTSTEP. PV-WAVE is a numeric visualization tool available on a wide variety of workstation platforms. Visual Numerics recently ported the PV-WAVE engine to NEXTSTEP and created an InterfaceBuilder palette called the PVWaveKit, which facilitates the creation of NEXTSTEP client applications that employ PV-WAVE as a back-end numeric visualization server. A representative from Visual Numerics will also be at the meeting to answer questions. PIONS meetings are an opportunity for conversation, exchange of ideas, and schemes intended to take advantage of the tools provided by NEXTSTEP. There is no set program, but everyone is encouraged to bring questions, opinions, news, product descriptions, jokes, cartoons, and other possibly useful information. 6 pm, Wednesday, May 17th, at D. C. Dudley & Associates, Denver, 1776 Lincoln, 9th Floor. If you arrive after the Lincoln Street doors are locked, go to the Sherman Street door and attract the attention of the guard. Chris Huston 863-4485, chuston@dudley.com Leif Smith 778-0880, leif@pattern.rmnug.org ** OpenStep, NEXTSTEP, and NeXT are trademarks of NeXT Computers Inc.
From: Steve Koch <steve@sparkle.intele.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Deanox NS SySTEMS Group Date: 9 May 1995 16:18:38 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ooimu$ke8@digifix.digifix.com> The Deanox Group, Inc. has changed internet providers pursuant to better servicing the NEXTSTEP community with hardware solutions. Deanox NS SySTEMS Group can now be contacted via e-mail at: nsgroup@intele.net (NeXTmail welcome) This is a temporary address. The permanent address will be available in roughly ten days. Notice of that change will be posted on this newsgroup as well. We can also be contacted at 1-800-390-0727. Deanox NS SySTEMS Group The Deanox Group, Inc. 123 East 1400 North, Suite A Logan, Utah 84341 vox: 800-390-0727 fax: 801-755-0959 NeXT and NEXTSTEP are trademarks of NeXT Computer Inc.
From: Martin Fossum <root@fossum.alaska.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: eCesys Computers announces Q2 NEXTSTEP 3.3. Systems Date: 9 May 1995 16:21:37 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ooish$kek@digifix.digifix.com> eCesys Computers 800-7-eCesys toll-free 510-226-6300 [ext. 160] ecesys@delphi.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 9th, 1995 eCesys ANNOUNCES Q2 PRODUCTS AND PRICES FOR NEXTSTEP 3.3 SYSTEMS Fremont, CA - eCesys Computers announced their latest addition to their NEXTSTEP for Intel product line today. "As the NEXTSTEP/OpenStep market continues to expand, our clients are demanding cutting edge, Pentium-class performance for enterprise-wide deployment at aggressive price points", noted J. Chen, Marketing Director. "We are continuing to rapidly expand and differentiate our hardware product line by introducing our new Pentium systems based on Intel's Triton PCI chipset", she added. Price lists and current hardware configurations can be obtained from our homepage on the Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server http://www.stepwise.com/Resellers/eCesys.htmld ========================================================================= About eCesys,Inc. ========================================================================= eCesys was founded in early 1993 to provide Intel Hardware to the NEXTSTEP community. We specialize in developing, producing and testing hardware which leads the industry in speed, reliability, low cost andNEXTSTEP compatibility. We continually bring the latest PC hardwaretechnology to our customers and our objective is to combine qualityhardware, the latest NEXTSTEP drivers and an internal certification process to produce reliable NEXTSTEP platforms. Our customers include individual users, developers, and system integrators in both corporate and academic environments. In all cases, we make every effort to ensure that your NEXTSTEP deployment on Intel hardware is aseamless, cost effective solution. eCesys Systems are the NSFIP compatible, Private Label line manufactured and supported by Intelligent Computers and Technologies(ICT), a large personal computer manufacturer located in Fremont, CA. ICT is also a major player in the multimedia computer market, and markets a variety of DOS/Windows systems under the Intelesys brand name. The eCesys product line has a specific NSFIP compatible system architecture which is targetted for deployment into the growing NEXTSTEP Corporate market. By combining eCesys' long-standing NEXTSTEP expertise with the hardware manufacturing capability of ICT, corporate customers can enjoy unprecedented, low-cost, NEXTSTEP specific PC hardware from a major manufacturer. The eCesys choice provides Corporate, Government and Educational accounts access to excellent price/performance on NSFIP compliant systems, without paying a significant premium for NEXTSTEP compatibility. eCesys is a Trademark of eCesys, Inc. NEXTSTEP and OpenStep are Trademarks of NeXT, Inc.
From: Jeffrey Huff <jhuff@next.mc.maricopa.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ANNOUNCE: MCC Offers Objective-C Programming Course for NEXTSTEP Date: 10 May 1995 01:44:29 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3opjrt$os2@digifix.digifix.com> Mesa Community College is offering a programming course based on Objective-C for NeXTSTEP. The course is taught through the engineering department at Mesa Community College and runs the normal fall semester length ( approx. Aug 26 - Dec 15 1995). The instructor is Dr. J. Mike Sims, the principle advocate of Mesa's commitment to NeXTSTEP in educational instruction and an accomplished NeXTSTEP Programmer. COURSE DESCRIPTION Introduction to object-oriented programming and its application to solving engineering and scientific problems. Software design using object-oriented languages based on the C programming language. Prerequisites: Successful completion of a 3-credit course in any standard programming language or instructor approval. Course Title: Object-Oriented Programming Course Code: ECE141 Course Section #: 1770 Course Time: Tuesdays and Thursday's 7:30am -10:20am Course Location: FS2W Questions regarding the class or the prerequisite requirement should be directed to Dr. Mike Sims. Dr. Mike Sims Mesa Community College Physical Science Department/Engineering Science 1833 W. Southern Av. Mesa, AZ 85202 (602)-461-7010 voice (602)-461-7803 fax sims@next.mc.maricopa.edu
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Release 3.0 of CheckMail (formerly MailCall) Date: 10 May 1995 23:21:46 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3orvsa$6qm@digifix.digifix.com> CheckMail is a simple NeXTSTEP application to check the spool file for incoming mail. It puts up a window listing the "From" and "Subject" lines of any messages it finds, and will play a sound when a new message arrives. In the window it puts up, it also indicates which messages are in NeXTmail or MIME formats. There are a few preferences to modify the behavior of CheckMail. The application is free to anyone. CheckMail used to be called MailCall. The name was changed because some application launchers seem to get confused and will use the icon for Mail.app when displaying MailCall The original MailCall application was written by Dennis Smyers. He released version 2.1 in 1992. I've made some bug fixes and added several new features since then. CheckMail has been compiled for all four NeXTSTEP architectures. It has only been tested on NeXT and Intel systems, but I can't imagine why it wouldn't work on HP or SPARC systems. For now I'm not making the source available, but I might change my mind on that in the future. Also available is version 2.9.2 of MailCall. This version does not have all the changes that CheckMail has (it won't flag MIME-format mail, for instance). However, it will run on NeXT systems that are still running NeXTSTEP-2.x. CheckMail requires NeXTSTEP-3.0 or later. You can currently find these files at: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/mail/CheckMail-3.0.README ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/mail/CheckMail-3.0_NIHS.tar.gz ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/mail/MailCall_2.9.2.README ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/mail/MailCall_2.9.2.tar.Z You can also get them at: ftp://eclipse.its.rpi.edu/NeXT/utils/CheckMail_f (which will give you the listing of a directory that contains CheckMail in four individual-architecture binaries, as well as the README and quad-fat binary available at ftp.cs.orst.edu). Garance Alistair Drosehn Systems Programmer (and NeXTSTEP aficionado) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, New York, USA email: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
From: jwdb@duttak0.tn.tudelft.nl (Jan-Willem de Bruijn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: NEXTSTEP, Utrecht, Netherlands, May 13 Date: 10 May 1995 23:25:34 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3os03e$6r4@digifix.digifix.com> Programme for the NiNe/NeGeN meeting on May 13 at half past two in room 1 of conference center Zeezicht, Nobelstraat 2, Utrecht. 14:30 Member conference Agenda: 1. The board reports. 2. Election of a new board. 3. Gerben Wierda on the NiNe connectivity programme. coffee break 15:15 Georg Tuparev from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, on the SciTools project. 15:40 Short announcements on the hard- and software being presented. Everyone who has something to show, makes a brief speech about his demo, mentioning some highlights. Not a big presentation, but more of an intro. 19:00 Vacation of the premises. To continue the tradition a group of enthousiasts will have dinner at a place advised by Mark de Does (long-time citizen of Utrecht, so he should know best). Hardware demonstrations: * Sun SPARC running NEXTSTEP * Canon Object Station Software demonstrations: * Internet on-line with OmniWeb. (Delft University of Technology) * Report generator based on Enterprise Objects Framework. * Financial information system with NEXTSTEP user interface. * Logistics system with NEXTSTEP user interface. * Hotel reservation system with NEXTSTEP user interface. The special thing about this is the architecture, based on reservation-objects in a network. * Application for making weather maps with data from a database accessed through Internet. * First version of a sound editor. (Aeldrik Pander, Royal Music Conservatory, Den Haag) * Object oriented logistics system. * Software for university education in statistics. (Dimitri Tischenko, Statistics Section, Delft University of Technology)
From: Technical Options <toi@mcs.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Chicago: Unix Systems Architect Trading Systems to 130K Date: 10 May 1995 23:29:59 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3os0bn$6ro@digifix.digifix.com> Capital Markets Systems-- Head of Architecture Unit (Recruiter) The individual will have responsibility for developing and implementing a Business, Information, Technical and Applications architecture for the systems that support the Global Capital Markets business. The individual will have ongoing responsibility for keeping the Architecture current and adapting it to changes in the business and technologies. He/she will also be responsible for working with the business and development units to syndicate what`s needed from their perspectives and to maintain continuous communications on the activities and research the unit is engaging in and the decisions that the unit is making. The individual must have a good knowledge of the trading business as well as a minimum of 5 years of experience with trading systems. They must have at least 10 years experience in trading and/or systems with a track record for getting things done. The individual must be a leader and a self starter. They must be able to work in a heavily matrixed environment with extremely demanding interal customers, both business and systems. This site is currently running Next & Sun systems. Please contact Mike Hartnett P-708.357.9400 E-mail: toi@mcs.com Technical Options F-708.357.9411
From: john@targetdev.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Target Development Announces Release 3.0 of ReportPalette for EOF Date: 11 May 1995 16:32:33 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ots91$d61@digifix.digifix.com> News: For Immediate Release Contact: John Yanefski Target Development Phone: (717) 399.9550 Fax: (717) 399.9551 email: john@targetdev.com Target Development Announces Release 3.0 of ReportPalette for EOF. LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA - May 10, 1995. Target Development announces the 3.0 release of ReportPalette for the Enterprise Objects Framework. The ReportPalette is a collection of objects that allow you to easily add custom report writing features to your EOF applications. The palette uses Interface Builder as a medium for the specifying the EO hierarchy and relative page layout of your report. At runtime, the keys of your EO's are substituted into your template is order to create a report View that can be printed, previewed, faxed, saved, or emailed. The palette provides full support for NSString, NSNumber, NSCalendarDate, NSData, and NXImage objects. ReportPalette Features: - Access to Enterprise Objects through keys of the EOController - report template definition in IB via ScrollView, Text, and TextField objects - Support for data types like NSString, NSNumber, NSData for RTF(D), and NXImage for TIFF and EPS - Column formatting, sizing, titling, and arranging via NXTableView - Multiple page and layout options from PrintInfo - Automatic hierarchical layout of data objects according to runtime page size / orientation - Group totals, headers and footers - Page totals, headers and footers - Report totals, cover page and footer page - Delegate notification for runtime customization - Protocol definitions for extending object functionality The real advantage to the ReportPalette is that it is an object based reporting solution. The palette allows the developer to add custom reporting into existing EOF applications, or create new applications dedicated to report writing. ŖThe ReportPalette was a key component of the reporting solution we were looking forŗ, says Jonathan Weeks of McCaw Cellular. John Yanefski of Target Development said ŖWe had a beta tester ask us about integrating the ReportPalette with CHaRTSMITH so they could have custom charting features inside of their reports. The OO nature of the ReportPalette and the easy to use API of CHaRTSMITH allowed us to quickly integrate our product for the release.ŗ A date licensed version of the palette is available via ftp or directly from Target Development. Demo license keys should be obtained directly from Target Development. The product includes the palette, headers, libraries, technical documentation, and various demo applications. The palette retails for $895.00 per developer seat. No runtime fees apply. Educational, site, and source licenses are also available. The palette is available via ftp to : ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Vendors/Target_Development/ ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Vendors/Target_Development/Installation_README.rtfd.compressed ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Vendors/Target_Development/ReportPalette_1.compressed ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Vendors/Target_Development/ReportPalette_2.compressed The archived version is compiled for Intel and Motorola hardware only. Sparc and HP-PA versions can be obtained by sending email to objects@targetdev.com. Target Development is a Pennsylvania-based object-oriented solutions company, specializing in database productivity objects for NeXTSTEP. We are currently shipping object palettes for the DatabaseKit, AccessKit, and the EOF, as well as completing a suite of NeXTSTEP applications for self administered managed care. Interested persons should contact us by phone at (717) 399-9550, fax at (717) 399-9551, or email to objects@targetdev.com. DatabaseKit, EOF, Interface Builder, and NeXTSTEP are a trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc in the U.S. and other countries. AccessKit is a trademark of VNP Software, Inc. ReportPalette and RetrieverPalette are trademarks of Target Development. CHaRTSMITH is a trademark of BLaCKSMITH, Inc.
From: hhsu@impact.com (Henry Hsu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: enTar 3.1 Quad-Fat now available Date: 11 May 1995 22:55:14 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ouimi$gbs@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Impact Software Publishing, Inc. 36-32 34th Street, Long Island City, NY 11106 Phone: 1-800-822-3385 / 718-472-0600 Fax: 718-472-0160 E-mail: info@impact.com NEW QUAD-FAT VERSION 3.1 OF ENTAR NOW AVAILABLE LONG ISLAND CITY, NEW YORK - May 12, 1995 - Impact Software today announced the availability of a new quad-fat version 3.1 of its enTar(tm) product, an interactive tar archiving program for backing up to DAT, 8 mm, and other SCSI tape devices. enTar will painlessly back up your files and directories onto mass storage devices. enTar works with DAT, 8 mm, and other SCSI tape devices, as well as with floppy, optical, and other removable disks. In addition, enTar can back up your data to networked disks. Because enTar automatically configures tape devices, it works with most SCSI tape devices. enTar can back up multiple files and directories into a single file and can browse and selectively restore files within the single backup. enTar also features UNIX data compression and tar formats for backups so that backup data can be exchanged with other UNIX systems, such as Sun or IBM. enTar includes an extensive on-line help facility. By simply clicking any section of the screen with the Help cursor, explanation of every menu item and program feature is available instantly. enTar 3.1 is compiled quad-fat and will run on Motorola, Intel, HP PA-RISC, and SPARC based computers. enTar 3.1 is available direct from Impact Software and through authorized NEXTSTEP resellers. Information about quantity discounts, site licenses, and reduced prices for educational customers can be obtained by contacting Impact Software directly. Current registered users of enTar are entitled to a free upgrade to enTar 3.1. (enTar 1.3, 1.4, 3.0, and 3.1 all use the same set of license keys.) In addition, purchasers of enTar 3.1 and current registered users of enTar are entitled to a free upgrade to enTar 4.0 and enTar for OpenStep when these versions become available. (Version 4.0 of enTar, with automatic timed backup capability, is scheduled to be released in July 1995 with a retail price of $295.) Requests for a demo copy of enTar 3.1 can be sent to demos@impact.com. A demo copy of enTar 3.1 is also available from: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/util/enTar3.1.NIHS.tar.Z For users without NeXTmail or FTP access, free demo floppies of enTar 3.1 can be requested by calling 1-800-822-3385. Retail Price: $145.00 Internet Price: $95.00 (for users who have a demo copy) Availability: Shipping now for Motorola, Intel, HP PA-RISC, and SPARC based computers. * ABOUT THE COMPANY * Impact Software Publishing, Inc. is a privately held software development and publishing company based in Long Island City, New York. Founded in 1990, the company provides the service of handling the distribution, sales, and marketing of software written by many independent developers. Some of the programs that Impact Software currently distributes for independent developers include debugging, backup, graphics, utility, and educational programs. *** enTar is a trademark of Impact Software Publishing, Inc. NEXTSTEP is a trademark of NeXT, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: far@ni.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: GateKeeper 0.8 for ppp2.2 Date: 12 May 1995 01:37:40 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ous74$p8@digifix.digifix.com> GateKeeper is a graphical user interface control for ppp2.2. It allows you to launch, kill and view diagnostic output from the "pppd" daemon. GateKeeper version 0.8 assumes you have a properly installed ppp2.2. The GateKeeper has the following features: -- Capable of auto-launching pppd using defaults or using information from a GateKeeper document -- AutoRedial if provider's line is busy. -- Compound document format for acessing multiple internet providers. -- Secure mode which translates all output from pppd to "X"'s. This provides some user feadback as to pppd's progress in establishing the link. -- An online timer tracks session and monthly usage. -- AppIcon shows session time. -- A Quad-state animated icon provides feadback as to GateKeeper's status. -- GateKeeper's ppp editor allows easy editing of ppp2.2 related files -- Command line for pppd can be set in Preferences -- NeXTStep Help -- Plays a sound file when link is established -- Captures and displays connection information when link is established. FILES GateKeeper.0.8.src.tar.gz contains a source distribution GateKeeper.0.8.NI.tar.gz contains a NeXT/Intel MAB distribution WHERE TO GET IT: GateKeeper is avalable along with ppp2.2 at: ftp://ftp.duq.edu/pub/next/ppp/GateKeeper.0.8.src.tar.gz It is also avalable at Orst : ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/submissions/GateKeeper.0.8.src.tar.gz and will move to ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/sources/comm/GateKeeper.0.8.src.tar.gz Comments, bug reports and suggestions should be sent to: Felipe A. Rodriguez far@ni.net(current) or far@terra.ni.net or far@terra.crystalengine.com(eventually this will be my address) Agoura Hills, CA.
From: erictremblay@genie.geis.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Clips CDROM for NEXTIME Date: 11 May 1995 17:31:14 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3otvn2$dj7@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For information contact: Walnut Creek CDROM 1-800-786-9907 Walnut Creek Releases Clips for QuickTime CDROM Walnut Creek, California, May 3, 1995 - Walnut Creek CDROM today announced the availability of it's new Clips for QuickTime CDROM for QuickTime compatible computers. This CDROM offers a wide range of QuickTime movie clips which can be viewed on computers running Windows, Macintosh or NEXTSTEP operating systems. Walnut Creek CDROM the market leader who brought you the Nova CDROM for NeXT computers and the very popular Nebula for NEXTSTEP Intel once again takes the lead and introduces Clips. The first CDROM targeted at users of the NEXTIME multimedia extensions for NEXTSTEP. "Clips is just part of our commitment to fully support the NEXTSTEP platform." said Eric Tremblay, Clips for QuickTime author To make your movie viewing interesting we have included 224 movie clips totaling over 600MB of multimedia fun. The movie clips are classified into different categories ranging from animals to virtual reality. You will also find movie clips about airplanes, motorcycles, space and many others too numerous to mention here. There's something for everyone on Clips for QuickTime. So if your interested in viewing movie clips using NEXTIME on your NEXTSTEP computer make sure that Clips for QickTime is part of your CDROM collection. Clips for QuickTime is a Triple-OS compatible CDROM. It is made to work on NEXTSTEP with NEXTIME extensions, Windows (The CDROM includes Quicktime for Windows) and Macintosh. Clips for QuickTime is a dual-format DOS/Macintosh CDROM. On NEXTSTEP a simple double click is needed to view the movie. Walnut Creek CDROM develops and publishes CDROM's for a variety of platforms including MS-DOS/Windows, Macintosh, NEXTSTEP, Sun, Atari and Amiga. The Clips for QuickTime disc is available immediately from Walnut Creek CDROM at a retail price of $19.95 For more information contact: Walnut Creek CDROM 1547 Palos Verdes Mall Suite 260 Walnut Creek, CA 94596 1 800 786-9907 +1510 947-5996 +1 510 947-1644 FAX info@cdrom.com (Electronic Mail) World Wide Web: http://WWW.cdrom.com/ All trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners. -- 30 --
From: Mark Powell <powell@tropic.aoml.erl.gov> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Miami (Florida) NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP Users Group - May 18 Date: 11 May 1995 17:48:13 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ou0mt$dpk@digifix.digifix.com> The Miami NEXTSTEP/Openstep Users Group (MiamiNUG) is dedicated towards people interested in the NEXTSTEP/Openstep object-oriented computer operating and software development system. It meets monthly or bimonthly at a variety of sites where NEXTSTEP is used. New members and interested parties are always welcome!! When: Meeting Thursday 18 May, 4-6 pm Where: NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Labs, 1 st floor Seminar Room 4301 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, Florida Info: Mark Powell (305) 361-4403 powell@tropic.aoml.erl.gov Marshall Gillula (305) 854-8954 mgilula@inca.gate.net Rob Wilson (407) 488-6258 rwilson@inca.gate.net Agenda: - Attorney Rob Wilson will discuss NEXTSTEP in Law - Graphic artist Dino Bagdadi will demo NEXTIME animation software, - Other topics: SafetyNet backups, Pyro Accelerator board news, - NEW NEXTSTEP 3.3 User and Developer features, - and NEXTSTEP-mainframe connectivity. Come to the meeting and and test the probabilities of receiving a free Solutions Suite CD!!! We'll give away five)
From: grd@ccrma.stanford.edu (glen diener) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: ObjC evaluator available Date: 13 May 1995 01:03:02 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3p1ei6$9eq@digifix.digifix.com> A new version of Eval, version3.3, has been downloaded to ftp://ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu:/pub/NeXT/Eval3.3.tar.gz and to ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/Eval3.3.tar.gz will eventually end up in ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/sources/tools/Eval3.3.tar.gz Eval is a programming environment which brings to ObjC much of the flexibility and immediacy of integrated programming systems often associated with SmallTalk and Lisp. Although Eval **feels** like an interpreter, it's actually an incremental compiler built on NeXT's ObjC compiler and run-time system. This is version 3.3 of Eval: it represents a considerable enhancement over all previous releases. In addition to functioning as a stand-alone program, Eval provides a service to other programs through the Services menu, making its functionality available to any application which can write ascii to the pasteboard. This allows you to select text in Edit, Mail, NewsGrazer, and so on, and execute that text as ObjC or PostScript. Eval provides windows, called Code Browsers, which are designed for editing ObjC program text. Text in a Code Browser is automatically classified into one of 7 categories (comment, keyword, method definition, etc.), and each category is displayed with its own user-definable font, size, and color. In sum, Eval provides the following functions: o Compile, load, execute, and unload the current selection as ObjC code. o Compile and load the current selection as an ObjC class or classes. o Dynamically load from disk any archive (library, i.e. .a file), object module (.o file), or compile and load any ObjC implementation file (.m file). o Create an interface definition file (.h file) from the current selection. o Interpret the current selection as PostScript. o Edit code in Code Browsers, automatically displaying ObjC reserved words, comments, strings, and so on, using user-definable fonts, sizes, and colors, while displaying an index of all method definitions in a separate scrolling browser. Eval provides extensive on-line NeXTSTEP-style help. The best way to get going with Eval is to work through the on-line tutorials on evaluation and loading, sections 2.1 and 3.1 respectively. Eval is freeware, and is distributed in source code form only. You need NeXTSTEP developer not only to build Eval, but to run it is well. It has been tested under 3.2 black and white, and 3.3 for Moto, Intel, HP, and Sparc. Glen Diener grd@ccrma.stanford.edu
From: Dirk Schwarzhans <dirk@kalium.physik.TU-Berlin.DE> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Puzzle1.21 (now quad-FAT) -- A jigsaw puzzle game Date: 16 May 1995 15:20:28 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3patts$dp6@digifix.digifix.com> I have submitted the new version of my program "Puzzle" to the following ftp sites: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/games/Puzzle.1.21.NIHS.b.tar.gz (now) ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Games/strategic/Puzzle.1.21.NIHS.b.tar.gz The file contains the Puzzle application which runs on Nextstep 3.2 and higher on Motorola, Intel, HP-PA and Sparc hardware. The program is offered free of charge without any warranty. Commercial copying and usage is not allowed (see license panel). About the program: Puzzle cuts a TIFF picture to pieces which the player must put together. Some highlights are: - real looking jigsaw puzzle pieces - comfortable drag and drop interface Feel free to mail me your opinion! Dirk Schwarzhans email: dirk@kalium.physik.tu-berlin.de
From: Dirk Schwarzhans <dirk@kalium.physik.TU-Berlin.DE> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: MIDIPlayer 1.0 -- A MIDI file player. Date: 16 May 1995 15:23:21 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3pau39$dpt@digifix.digifix.com> I have submitted the first version of my program "MIDIPlayer" to the following ftp sites: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/sound/MIDIPlayer.1.0.NI.b.tar.gz ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: /pub/comp/platforms/next/Audio/music-apps/MIDIPlayer.1.0.NI.b.tar.gz The file contains the MIDIPlayer application which runs on Nextstep 3.3 Motorola and Intel hardware. The program is offered free of charge without any warranty. Commercial copying and usage is not allowed (see license panel). -------------------------------------------------------------------- **** From the README ***: This is the first Version of MIDIPlayer. A program which lets you play MIDI files on a keyboard which is connected to a MIDI interface of your computer. MIDI Software under NeXTstep is very rare and there is currently (5'95) no program available for NeXTstep I know of which plays MIDI files with the correct timing. (If you know better tell me!) Needed Hardware and MIDI Drivers: Motorola: * The MIDI driver is included in the systems software but it is corrupt in release 3.3 of NeXTstep! If you want to use MIDIPlayer with release 3.3 you need to exchange the files "/usr/lib/kern_loader/Midi/mididriver_reloc" "/usr/lib/kern_loader/Midi/midi_reloc_2.0" with the files of release 3.2. If you don't have release 3.2 any more you can obtain the files from "ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu". * I don't know of any company which still offers MIDI interfaces for Motorola hardware but a circuit diagram of a MIDI interface is included with this player in the file "MIDIInterfaceCircuitDiagram.rtfd" Intel: * You need a MPU-401 compatible MIDI card. * The MIDI driver can be obtained from "ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu" as part of the MusicKit. * Because I don't have access to Intel equipment with MIDI hardware, I never tested MIDIPlayer on Intel hardware! Tell me if it works! HP, SUN: * I don't know anything about MIDI support on these two architectures. If you know more drop me a mail. * MIDIPlayer is not compiled to run on HP or Sparc. What MIDIPlayer does: * You can open any number of MIDI files by double-clicking them in Workspace, command-dragging them on MIDIPlayer's icon or using the "Files/Add Files ..." menu of MIDIPlayer*. * MIDIPlayer plays the files once, continuous, or in random sequence depending of the mode buttons you have selected. * You can change the order of the files in the "MIDI file list" window by control-dragging them*. Note: * This only works if there is currently no file playing! What MIDIPlayer does not do: * It doesn't display any information (like the contained text events) about the MIDI files. * You cannot make any changes to the MIDI files (like changing the program change events). * It does not behave very well on corrupted MIDI files. All you get is an error message in the console window and MIDIPlayer skips this file and stops playing. The same is true for some files which are not really corrupt but violate the MIDI file specification in one or the other way (like appending garbage to the end of the file). * It does not play files which tempo is given in real time. I never encountered such a file yet. Future plans: I don't plan to improve MIDIPlayer much because it was only a quick hack I wrote to test my MIDI file parsing object. Because of that please don't mail me bug reports concerning the user interface of MIDIPlayer. I am thinking about writing a full featured MIDI sequencer program starting from the beginning again with the player part which will be available on the net sometime in the future. My motivation to do this may depend on the resonance I get about MIDIPlayer. Feel free to mail me your opinion! Dirk Schwarzhans email: dirk@kalium.physik.tu-berlin.de
From: Robert Lutwak <robert@amo.mit.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: cmsg cancel <3p8gvs$46h@digifix.digifix.com> Control: cancel <3p8gvs$46h@digifix.digifix.com> Date: 15 May 1995 17:28:53 -0400 Organization: Digital Fix Development Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3p8h2m$47a@digifix.digifix.com> Cancelled Message by sanguish@digifix.com -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions) http://www.stepwise.com/ (Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server)
From: Robert Lutwak <robert@amo.mit.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: GnuTerm 1.0 Date: 15 May 1995 17:29:10 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3p8h36$47m@digifix.digifix.com> The first public release of GnuTerm 1.0 is now available on ftp.cs.orst.edu. ABOUT GNUTERM: GnuTerm is an output terminal for gnuplot that offers several advantages (listed below) over the one in the standard gnuplot distribution. It is NOT a standalone plotting package. It is merely a front-end terminal for gnuplot. The GnuTerm 1.0 distribution contains compiled executables (Double FAT m68k and i386) for GnuTerm.app and gnuplot version 3.5.178. The GnuTerm 1.0 distribution also contains source for the GnuTerm application and the modifications to the gnuplot source. It does not contain the entire source to the gnuplot distribution. FEATURE LIST: Button Selection of "ACTIVE" window (the one addressed by command-line gnuplot instances). Choice of Landscape or Portrait printing as well as overall print scaling via the Page Layout panel. Customizable Titles for the GnuTerm output windows via the Windows->Title menu option. Flexible location of GnuTerm.app: ~/Apps, /LocalApps, or via the GNUTERMPATH environment variable. Multiple windows with menu access via the Windows menu. OBTAINING GNUTERM: The distribution is in: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/binaries/plotting/GnuTerm_1.0.NI.tar.gz ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/binaries/plotting/GnuTerm_1.0_README Please address all comments and correspondence to me: Robert Lutwak Atomic Resonance Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology robert@amo.mit.edu
From: gery <gery@ares.fdn.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISISON: ZZVolume 1.59 on ftp.cs.orst.edu Date: 17 May 1995 23:45:28 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3pefso$sn9@digifix.digifix.com> ZZVolume 1.59 is now available on ftp.cs.orst.edu ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/next/demos/graphics/ZZVolume.pkg.1_59.IMSH.b.gz ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/next/demos/graphics/ZZVolumeLibrary.tar.gz ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/next/demos/graphics/ZZVolume.1.59.README ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/next/demos/graphics/ZZVolumeAnimation.tar.gz ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/next/demos/graphics/ZZVolumeAnimation.README ARES' ZZVolume1.59 ======================== - The unique Architectural CAD on NEXTSEP. ZZVolume is the first architectural CAD program available on NEXTSTEP. As a powerful modelling tool, ZZVolume enable to create 3D spaces at an incredible speed - including entire buildings - and to virtualy tour the spaces you create. ( exports:EPS, Adobe Illustrator, RIB, DXF 2D/3D, render images, etc ...) Contents: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/graphics/ZZVolume.pkg.1_59.IMSH.b.gz ZZVolume for MOTOROLA, INTEL, HP_RISC, and SPARC ( SPARC not fully tested yet) ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/graphics/ZZVolumeLibrary.tar.gz ZZVolume item Library ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/graphics/ZZVolume.1.59.README About ZZVolume ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/graphics/ZZVolumeAnimation.tar.gz An Animation Directory predone on ZZVolume to render on your machine. ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/graphics/ZZVolumeAnimation.README About ZZVolumeAnimation For infos and pricing (students and faculty get great discounts): email: zz@ares.fdn.fr phone: (+33) 72 801 630 fax : (+33) 72 801 632 Ares 8 rue Victor Lagrange 69007 Lyon, France
From: athan@morgan.com (Andrew C Athan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: CVS for NeXTSTEP Date: 17 May 1995 15:57:16 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3pdkes$ov7@digifix.digifix.com> I have submitted ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/sources/programming/CVS_for_NeXTSTEP.tar.gz which is a source distribution of everything you need to do CVS source code control on NeXTSTEP projects. This distribution is based on CVS 1.3, which has been modified so as to correctly handle NeXTSTEP "wrappers" (bundles, directories, whatever). Below is an RTF->ASCII version of a portion of the README. Enjoy, aca athan@morgan.com athan@cs.columbia.edu ------ CVS FOR NeXTSTEP Distribution 1, based on cvs 1.3 rcs 5.6.0.1 diffutils 2.7 tar 1.11.2 INTRODUCTION One day, quite a while ago, while working for OTI (Objective Technologies, Inc., in NY) I found myself wanting to use CVS to manage a NeXTSTEP development project (The Impress (r) * report writer). The problem was that CVS, as distributed, does not correctly handle wrappers/bundles/etc. That is, it doesn't know how to deal with the concept of directories which are really supposed to be treated like files. Existing solutions were not satisfactory to me, since they did not address all types of wrappers (e.g., rtfd's, etc.) and did not prevent rcsmerge in certain cases. I decided to modify CVS so that it would be able to deal with wrappers. The files in this distribution consist the GNU cvs, rcs, diff and tar packages modified so that CVS can be used as an effective source code control system under NeXTSTEP. The modifications made are summarized in the diffs contained in the directory "diffs." This CVS package has been used in two rather large software development efforts to date, so a good number of problems have been ironed out. The changes I made are rather small but I had to touch quite a number of files. The changes consisted of calling various functions implemented within cvs1-3/src/wrapper.c from appropriate places within the rest of CVS. The top of wrapper.c has a comment which explains what's going on. The changes actually apply more generally than just wrapper-handling. Specifically, I added capability for CVS to pre and post process files/directories before applying some action. The file cvswrappers, which should live within $CVSROOT/CVSROOT allows you to define filename patterns and how to pre and post process matched files. It also allows you to specify that files matching a pattern should not be put through the rcsmerge process when conflicts exist during an update, and that instead, the repository version should be copied in (the user's version is backed up in the usual way, e.g. as .#foobar.nib.1.3) The diff & rcs packages are unmodified (except perhaps the Makefiles ... to make installation possible). The tar package is modified to provide some additional tar options which ensure that tarred up wrapper directories only differ when the contents of the tarred up directory have changed ... i.e., not when the owner of some file has changed. * "Impress" is a registered trademark of Objective Technologies, Inc.
From: Mark Trombino <mark@jehu.UCSD.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: NXCraps - a craps game for Motorola and Intel Date: 17 May 1995 16:11:47 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3pdla3$p3d@digifix.digifix.com> NXCraps! Version 1.0 By Mark Trombino trombino@wendy.ucsd.edu NXCraps is a craps game for NEXTSTEP, compiled for both NeXT and Intel Harware. It can be obtained from the following archive: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/next/binaries/games/NXCraps1.0.pkg.tar.Z The installed application takes up about 4MB of diskspace (about 2.7MB for black hardware only). * * * * * Just what the NEXTSTEP Community needed.... A craps game! I wrote this game in preparation for a trip to Las Vegas. I had rented some casino games for my SNES and found them difficult and cumbersome to use. I thought that I would try and do better... I have since gone a little overboard with the game. Its way more involved now than I had intended, and at the same time is missing what I really wanted to implement: animation. However, lacking any 3D software and the skills necessary to draw dice by hand, I decided to leave it for a later version... If there is one. As it stands now the game is probably easier to play and faster without the animation. Some features of NXCraps! Simple GUI with point and click betting. Almost all bets have been implemented. Table minimums and maximums can be changed at any time. Free odds allowed (up to ten times a la the Frontier). Numbers of wins and loses tracked on the table. Descriptions of a bet displayed on the table by moving the mouse over it. Up to four players allowed. Sound Effects. Extensive NEXTSTEP help for the first time craps player. An ATM so players can withdraw more money when they bet the farm and lose. Games are not saved, but player files are, retaining the amount you have in chips, and the amount you have withdrawn. This also means a player could play the game alone, then later use the same file and play with another person. Player files are independent of NXCraps, so that I could write other casino games and players could use the same files. Beautiful black and white color! Its stupid, it unnecessary, and its fun. Enjoy it! Mark Trombino Please send me any comments or suggestions!
From: Tomas Hurka <tom@hukatronic.cz> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: S3Link 1.00 beta available Date: 19 May 1995 16:00:07 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3pitc7$h3c@digifix.digifix.com> The first public release of S3Link 1.00 beta is now available on ftp.cs.orst.edu S3Link 1.00 beta: - connection to any PSION SIBO machine - browsing the PSION file system - file transfer from and to PSION OCSoftware just released the _very_ first version of S3Link. The application controls the serial communication between any NEXTSTEP computer and PSION SIBO machines (as MC200, MC400, HC, Series3, Series3a or Workabout). You must ensure a physical serial connection between PSION and desktop (eg. using the PSION Serial Link for Series3/3a). S3Link then uses this connection to communicate with the Link process on SIBO machine, exactly same way as the supplied MS DOS 'MCLINK.EXE'. * FEATURES * - automatic connection as soon as PSION is ready - PSION file system browsing - sensing PSION file/directory attributes - receiving PSION files to NEXTSTEP (beta: only one file at a time) - transmitting NEXTSTEP files to PSION (beta: only one file at a time) - automatic generation of a PSION file name (8+3) based on a NEXTSTEP (long) file name - both graphical and text progress indicators - wide set of preferences, allowing a rich customization (beta: using 'dwrite') - standard NEXSTEP look and feel - full NEXTSTEP help The application was released as soon as possible to allow testing on diverse configurations. It is the reason it lacks some features intended for the final 1.00. Mainly these are only cosmetic details (eg. setting preferences using 'dwrite' command in Terminal), the most serious is the impossibility to transfer more files at once. For the same reason the beta uses the FoundationKit, which significantly shortens the develop time. Let us please know at <ocs@earn.cvut.cz> if you cannot use the beta, having neither 3.3 nor EOF; should there be many such an unfortunate users the application might be rewritten without FK. * PRICING * The beta is mainly intended for beta testing and localization. If you want to beta test and/or localize, please download the application; its help includes full instructions for testers and localizers. For testers and localizers is the application naturally free. * AVAILABILITY * S3Link 1.0 beta is available at ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/comm/S3Link.pkg.NIHS.tar.gz Download the S3Link.pkg.NIHS.tar.gz file; the README is a copy of this text. Supported architectures: NeXT, Intel, HP, SPARC Supported software: NEXTSTEP 3.2 or higher (might work on older, untested) FoundationKit _required_! * ABOUT THE COMPANY * OCSoftware is a small private company in Prague, Czech Republic, specialized in NEXTSTEP and PSION software development. Although mainly focused to the vertical market with proprietary software packs, it had prepared a number of general applications as well, as - PSION NewEncoding Kit, which allows to use any code page on PSION Series3/3a - PSION Software Localization Kit, which allows to localize Series3/3a to any language - NEXTSTEP NewEncoding Kit, which allows to use any code page with NEXTSTEP (developed with Hukatronic, the premium driver writer) - NEXTSTEP FIDONet Message Editor - NEXTSTEP KeySwitch application to select wanted keyboard by one click - NEXTSTEP Czech spellchecker - NEXTSTEP Universal spellchecker, using ASCII file as dictionary - NEXTSTEP RTF Filter, converting RTFD to ASCII with numbered paragraphs and figures - PSION Ophir application, to supervise accounts - some games to attract users :) * FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT * OCSoftware Email: ocs@earn.cvut.cz
From: mgreen4156@aol.com (MGreen4156) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NEXTSTEP Developer - Toronto (Short Term) Date: 19 May 1995 16:01:21 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3piteh$h55@digifix.digifix.com> A NEXTSTEP Developer. Experienced with version 3.1 or higher. For research project, development of prototype. In Toronto. Availability immediately. Project through 1st July and possibly beyond. Please contact Margaret Green telephone: 416-286-7664 fax: 416-971-6886
From: Carl Edman <cedman@cedman.remote.Princeton.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Emacs for NeXTstep 4.1 released Date: 18 May 1995 16:08:08 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3pg9f8$7ba@digifix.digifix.com> Emacs for NeXTstep 4.1 ====================== ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/editors/Emacs_for_NeXTstep_4.1.README ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/editors/Emacs_for_NeXTstep_4.1.pkg.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/sources/editors/Emacs_for_NeXTstep_4.1.src.NIHS.s.tar.gz This is the second public release of Emacs for NeXTstep (**). This is a version of GNU Emacs 19.28 (the latest release as of this writing) which has been enhanced so that it supports NeXTstep windows, colors, fonts, menus a.s.o. in the same way the stock Emacs 19 supports X. In addition it also supports some special NeXTstep only features like font and file panels, NeXTstep services, opening documents in Emacs by double-clicking them in the workspace, NeXTstep style pop up and pull down menus, cooperation with ProjectBuilder, drag and drop, ISOLatin character set, automatic saving on logout, NeXTstep defaults and a look and feel which honest people can describe as being different from ugly. None of the capabilities of GNU Emacs 19.28 have been lost, so this Emacs will still run without problems under a dumb terminal and virtually all Emacs Lisp software written for GNU Emacs under X will run without modifications under NeXTstep. Creating a single binary which will run under NeXTstep, X or a dumb terminal (depending on how it was launched) requires nothing more than recompiling the source with a different compiler switch (see installation instructions). So very likely this is the only Emacs you'll ever need which is lucky considering how big a complete Emacs installation is and how much work it can be. To reduce that amount of work, there are two archives available -- a quad fat binary-only Installer package Emacs_for_NeXTstep_4.1.pkg.NIHS.b.tar.gz, and a full source distribution Emacs_for_NeXTstep_4.1.src.NIHS.s.tar.gz (for PGP signatures see end of message). The binary distribution is fully functional, comes with complete online documentation and should only take a few minutes and less than 10 MBytes of disk space to install for a single architecture. If you don't have a developer package or the 40 MBytes or so of free disk space which installing Emacs from sources temporarily needs or you need a fat Emacs binary, you should get this package. However, you need to get and make the full source distribution under any of these conditions: (a) You run NeXTstep on any hardware other than NeXT, Intel, HP or Sparc hardware. (b) You need an Emacs binary which also runs under X. (c) You don't have write access to your /LocalApps directory and need to install Emacs somewhere else. (d) You want to dump a customized Emacs. (e) You don't just want to browse the online documentation but also want to print it out in a pretty form. (f) Your Emacs binary crashes immediately upon startup. An Emacs dumped under one release does not necessarily work on all others. That is why NeXT had to distribute a new Emacs with NS3.3. The binary package is compiled to work on as many machines as possible and there have been no reports that it actually crashes on any machine. But if this happens to you, recompile the source on your machine. It will work. For more details on how to customize Emacs to your liking, read the online documentation (menu item Info/Info) and in particular the NeXT specific sections (menu item Info/Info about Emacs for NS). Emacs for NeXTstep runs only under NS 3.x (and for best results use NS 3.2 or later). Carl Edman May 18, 1995 <cedman@princeton.edu> ** So why in the world is it called version 4.1 ? To avoid confusion with the older Emacs.app interface (lately up to version 3.1) which is completely unrelated except for the fact that its author, Michael Brouwer, has been a major contributor to this project as well. And even he has replaced the old Emacs.app with Emacs for NeXTstep. For Emacs_for_NeXTstep_4.1.pkg.NIHS.b.tar.gz: -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6 iQCVAwUAL7uCXNfR9INiNy8BAQHv4wP/VFxJQAMYyYsZqj5n5U7vqRQtUuCCFVzm 4HsVIv0hZEhtFHaQ7wK/7d0v2+dci60XXMkCz05rVROpoAXKcou5A+nZ651MuNUp GbWSxHTLwXw2i7qiGiKtx65kdm3KNu9hiil+Q4SWwtjzX9jBmcGFT+tyR9IhA3X1 QJhgYXSlNhk= =vvpQ -----END PGP MESSAGE----- For Emacs_for_NeXTstep_4.1.src.NIHS.s.tar.gz: -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6 iQCVAwUAL7uCbdfR9INiNy8BAQGBLgQAiVaW3c5TG5FaYuoxbJJrB1WDoR4swZ09 LDSV0MA6OUULPfI04Zk1uOCrwyBmMuXtzU3HXST9inj/ApZiANpDwvrb302Sc95J r5dF8juO3aaaiDREHHEWTDU8oL0arB/OxG8Sys6ixYU2Mggd6ZB9kgYUNggm+ZRV oNWqC6TGdxs= =+yJp -----END PGP MESSAGE-----
From: Georg Tuparev <tuparev@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: OOCNS'95 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Date: 20 May 1995 00:24:30 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3pjqtu$kso@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Georg Tuparev EMBL / Protein Design Phone: +49 - 6221 - 387524 Meyerhofstr. 1 FAX: +49 - 6221 - 387517 D-69117 Heidelberg Germany Tuparev@EMBL-Heidelberg.de (NeXT & MIME mail) or Jacques Lemordant ViS-GRAVIR-IMAG Phone: +33-76-51-44-98 BP 43, 38041 Grenoble Fax: +33-76-63-84-23 Cedex 9 France Lemordan@imag.fr (NeXT mail) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Second Multi-disciplinary International Workshop on O B J E C T - O R I E N T E D C O M P U T I N G I N T H E N A T U R A L S C I E N C E S Grenoble, France November 21-24, 1995 With Support of IMAG (Informatique Mathematiques Appliquees, Grenoble, France) and EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany) PURPOSE ======= This workshop will bring together computer scientists and experts from different fields in the natural sciences involved or interested in Object-Oriented Computing. The latest languages and environments will be presented, visions and requests for the next generation of scientific computing environments will be addressed. MOTIVATION ========== Most of the scientific computing being done all over the world today uses the classic resources made available during the heyday of mainframe computers and the introduction of relatively simple graphical user interfaces (X11). However, the amount of data being processed has exploded over the past decade, straining the capabilities of standard methods and program packages. The natural scientist can no longer flexibly analyze the available data because only specialized solutions to particular problems are available - she/he spends much of her/his time worrying about how to get to a particular goal rather than what it means to have attained it. The new generations of object-oriented (OO) computer languages and systems promise to free the users from much of this outdated computational burden but they are being developed mainly with commercial applications in mind. Now that the vendors of OO technology are beginning to cooperate (e.g. OpenStep, CORBA) and/or are offering the same systems on many hardware platforms (e.g. NEXTSTEP on Intel PC's and Sun and HP workstations), the time has come to focus on what OUR needs are and how they might be implemented in the near future on available systems. An exchange of information with the academic and commercial developers of OO systems is needed. Because theoretical discussions and academic exercises are unlikely to bear fruits on time scales of interest to the active researcher, this conference has as its underlying goal the discussion and formulation of concrete measures which might enable us to begin using the fruits of OO software-technology soon. Finally, this conference is intended to provide a forum in which current OOP projects - both scientific and commercial -- can be displayed, discussed, and compared in the hopes that we might all profit from the experience of others. PRELIMINARY TOPICS ================== The following computer science topics will be covered: o Object-oriented languages o Object-oriented data bases and knowledge representation o Object-oriented environments o Natural programming (visual,scripts, ...) The following natural science fields will be covered: o Physics o Astrophysics o Ecology o Chemistry o Molecular Biology o Earth sciences Working scientists from a wide variety of fields (astronomy, agriculture, computer science, engineering geology, high-energy physics, mathematics, molecular biology and veterinary epidemiology) met last year at OOCNS'94 to share their experiences and discuss why and how object orientation is beneficial for solving their problems. Among others topics , the handling of large amount of complex computer data, the choice of the right OO language and the interactive ways to operate on data where discussed. Besides case studies, OOCNS'95 will be a place to discuss new environment such as OpenStep, new languages such as Dylan and facilities offered by OO databases. Information on OOCNS'94 (Report on the conference) can be found on : http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/Conferences/OOCNS94/ WORKSHOP FORMAT =============== In order to promote discussion, each day will start with a few invited talks (40min) and a small number of contributed talks (20min), followed by panel discussions. The afternoons will be filled with time for working groups, seminars, poster sessions, demonstrations, and a vendor fair. Interested speakers are asked to send an extended abstract with up to 300 words including a short bibliography by September 15, 1995 via email to: OOCNS95@imag.fr A LaTeX template will be available via anonymous ftp from: ftp://ftp.imag.fr/pub/vis/OOCNS95/abstract_template.tex or ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next/Events/OOCNS-95/abstract_template.tex The number of talks is restricted by time limitation. Authors will be notified of acceptance by July 15, 1995 for abstract received by June 30, 1995 or by September 30, 1995 for abstract received by September 15, 1995. A preliminary program will be distributed via a public electronic bulletin. We are planning to publish a selection of articles after the workshop and are currently in contact with publishers. The list of (tentatively) invited speakers includes: L. Buisson (Grenoble, F) M. Johnson (Boston, USA) D. Coyle (Heidelberg, D) C. Roche (Chambery, F) S. Garfinkel (Boston, USA) A. Stone (Albuquerque, USA) DATE AND LOCATION ================= The workshop will take place at the new Jean Kuntzmann house on the campus of the University of Grenoble. The Jean Kuntzmann house belongs to the IMAG Institute. Location: Maison Jean Kuntzmann, University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France Date: November 21 - 24, 1995 ORGANIZATION ============ The workshop is organized by the IMAG Institut at the Jean Kuntzmann House and by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (Heidelberg, Germany) Jacques Lemordant ( IMAG) <Jacques.lemordant@imag.fr> Georg Tuparev ( EMBL) <tuparev@EMBL-Heidelberg.de> Members of the organizing committee are: P. Genoud (IMAG, Grenoble, France) G. Hoffleit (Univ. Heidelberg, Germany) G. Kuntz (IMAG, Grenoble, France). Members of the program committee are: L. Buisson (Grenoble, France) F. Hessman (Gottingen, Germany) D. Coyle (MPI fur Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany) S. Garfinkel (Boston, USA) P. Dell (Boston University, MA, USA) C. Roche (Chambery, France) M. Johnson (MIT, Boston, MA,USA) A. Stone (Albuquerque, NM, USA) REGISTRATION AND FEES ===================== The workshop is open to all researchers. All participants planning to attend the workshop are requested to fill in the registration form either using: 1. Automatic WWW registration form: http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/Conferences/OOCNS95/ or 2. the PostScript* template ftp://ftp.imag.fr/pub/vis/OOCNS95/registration_form.ps or 3. the ascii form: ftp://ftp.imag.fr/pub/vis/OOCNS95/registration_form.txt If you register with 2. or 3. or 4., return the form by fax, mail or email to: Jacques Lemordant (OOCNS'95) ViS-GRAVIR-IMAG BP 43, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9 France Email: OOCNS95@imag.fr Phone: +33-76-51-44-98 Fax: +33-76-63-84-23
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL (Gerben Wierda) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: NeGeN/NiNe's connectivity suite: CNews now really Quad-FAT Date: 20 May 1995 23:33:59 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3pmcb7$sou@digifix.digifix.com> Some executables in the last release of NeGeN/NiNe's easy-to-install binary CNews distribution were accidentally compiled dual-fat (Sparc/HP only:-/) This is fixed in this maintenance release. The distribution can be found at: ftp://ftp.nl.net/pub/comp/next/NeGeN-1.3_CNews.NIHS.b.tar.gz CNews Tools + CNews Config packages. ftp://ftp.nl.net/pub/comp/next/NeGeN-1.3_CNews.README.rtf The readme file for the above. ftp://ftp.nl.net/pub/comp/next/NewsTools-1.3.NIHS.b.tar.gz NEW (this is ALSO part of the CNews distribution) -------- NeGeN CNews, the binary distribution of C News for NEXTSTEP, contains an enhanced version of the standard c-news software, plus the server portion of nntp, which is needed by most newsreaders to access the news article database. Also included is NewsConfig.app, an easy to use application that allows you to quickly setup your news site. The archive consists of two Installer packages: one for the basic CNews software and one that contains a NEXTSTEP application to configure CNews. It all just works, but you have to read the README file for instructions. NewsConfig.app also contains online help. The news software has been enhanced by R&A and provides the following features over the standard c-news distribution: - automatic signature appendage to posted articles (now fully configurable). - automatic removal of empty directories in the article database to save space (configurable). - newsbatches can be compressed with gzip for smaller batches, thus faster transmission (use this only if the other side supports this too). - mail generated by news now carry subjects to classify them more easily. - better handling of checkgroups control messages (using NLnet's scripts). - the newgroup and rmgroup control messages and the addgroup and delgroup scripts now update the newsgroup description database newsgroups. - rmgroup now checks the sender's permissions, like newgroup already did (permissions are determined from the description in newgroupperm) - inews is fixed so that canceling articles from NewsGrazer works. and of course: - the server portion of nntp has been included (the client portion has been omitted since this is just a very primitive newsreader...) - the NewsConfig application makes setting up your news site very simple indeed. The easiest way to get your news site up and running is to use NewsConfig.app. The application offers on-line help that should guide you through the configuration of your news system. it is a simple tool, meant to setup your news site in such a way that it can receive news, from a single newsfeed, quickly and easily. It does not address the more arcane aspects of C News configuration, like: multiple newsfeeds, expire control, send batch control, mailpaths, newgroup/rmgroup authentication, checkgroups authentication and nntp access control. These are explained in more detail in the section ``Advanced News Configuration'' of NewsConfig's on-line help. Reasonable (we hope) defaults are established for these aspects when you install CNewsTools for the first time. Also keep in mind that it only sets up your end of the news system; you'll almost certainly have to contact your news provider to actually get any news. Of course, if you're brave (or you know what you're doing), you can also configure C News the hard way, by reading manpages and editing the configuration files by hand. Some people may even <shudder> prefer it that way. -------- For more info contact: <negen-connect@negen.twi.tudelft.nl> For help, bugs and problems contact: <tom@rna.nl> NeGeN/NiNe (NEXTSTEP Gebruikers Nederland / NEXTSTEP in the Netherlands) is the Dutch NEXTSTEP User group, and is a member of the international association of NEXTSTEP user groups, NuGI. One of its activities is to facilitate mail and news connectivity to its members. NewsConfig is part of this effort. As of this writing the following binary distributions are available from NeGeN / Connectivity as easy-to-install NEXTSTEP Installer packages. NeGeN-NEWS: CNewsConfig An application to get your news site up and running. CNewsTools Enhanced C News + nntp server. NeGeN-UUCP: Taylor-UUCP UUCP, The NeXT Generation. Mux Mark Salyzyn's serial driver for NS/FIP. R&A supports NeGeN/NiNe by organizing the connectivity. R&A is a small firm specialized in quality software design and implementation and consultancy. We are specialized in OO, Unix, NEXTSTEP and portability. Contact: R&A Goudreinetstraat 582 2564 PX Den Haag The Netherlands Fax/answering: +31 70 3230851 Email: <info@rna.nl>
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines Date: 22 May 1995 04:15:04 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3pp348$bkk@digifix.digifix.com> NEW POLICY: =========== In an attempt to standardize the format of the FTP locations for files, all ftp addresses should be submitted using the Universal Resource Locator (URL) format. (for example) ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/submissions/file.tar.gz Please try and give an indication of where you expect the file will end up on the archive site, in the same notation. Cross Posting ============= I try very hard to make sure that postings get out in a timely fashion. Most go out in less than 24 hours. Postings that require editing because they do not contain information in a useable format, or have already been posted to other comp.sys.next.* groups may be delayed, or returned to you. If your posting is rejected, I'll try and make suggestions about what should be changed where possible. Obviously off charter messages (spams, open-letters, etc) may not get a response. Content 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 _IN URL FORMAT_ supported CPU's for binary distributions, OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting, time of meeting, speakers expected Signatures 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. Announcement of Product Sales ============================= This is an area of announcement that has caused me terrible grief in recent months. The policy is tilted towards the ISV, which has worked out well in the past. Posts that announce sales of products that you are DIRECTLY involved in the development of are OK. Posts from companies trying to sell other products are evaluated on an individual basis. Time Sensitive Announcements ============================ Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date. 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.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet Date: 22 May 1995 04:15:10 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3pp34e$bkk@digifix.digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site comp.sys.next newsgroups related newsgroups comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list ftp sites NeXTanswers Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site =============================================== This online community resource includes - 200+ ISV company pages - 400+ ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - NEXTSTEP User Group Directory - comp.sys.next archives - User Group information - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.stepwise.com/ Additionally there is a Mail Server available. You can get information on using the mail server at ns-products@stepwise.com Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise, please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com. eduSTEP WWW site ================ http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/ eduStep aims to provide up-to-date information on: - NextStep tools and projects for scientists. - Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist). - A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with customers in the educational community. - Conferences, meetings, workshops - Major projects, such as SciTools, EMBL's project to develop a NextStep scientific work environment - Status reports on GNUStep, a freely-available implementation of OpenStep now being developed NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site ============================ http://www.next.com comp.sys.next.* newsgroups ========================== news: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. news: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. Archives are available by ftp at ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. news: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. news: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. news: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. news: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!!! news: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. news:comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. news:comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. Related Newsgroups ================== news: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. news:comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. news: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. 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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. USING NEXTANSWERS BY MODEM To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at (415) 780-2965. Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section. From there you can download NeXTanswers documents. FOR MORE HELP... If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available from NeXTanswers, call the Support Hotline at 1-800-955-NeXT (outside the U.S. call +1-415-424-8500) to speak to a NEXTSTEP Technical Support Technician. If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must make this call to the hotline. Otherwise, hotline support is on a pay-per-call basis. Thanks for using NeXTanswers! Written by: Eric P. 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From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Summary 84 - Articles posted since May 15 1995 Date: 22 May 1995 04:00:11 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3pp28b$bh9@digifix.digifix.com> Summary: 84 Postings since: May 15 1995 [3263] ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines [3264] NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet [3265] FTP SITE: eduStep ftp site for commercial apps [3267] SUBMISSION: GnuTerm 1.0 [3268] SUBMISSION: Puzzle1.21 (now quad-FAT) -- A jigsaw puzzle game [3269] SUBMISSION: MIDIPlayer 1.0 -- A MIDI file player. [3270] SUBMISSION: CVS for NeXTSTEP [3271] SUBMISSION: NXCraps - a craps game for Motorola and Intel [3272] SUBMISISON: ZZVolume 1.59 on ftp.cs.orst.edu [3273] SUBMISSION: Emacs for NeXTstep 4.1 released [3274] SUBMISSION: S3Link 1.00 beta available [3275] JOB: NEXTSTEP Developer - Toronto (Short Term) [3276] ANNOUNCEMENT: OOCNS'95 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION [3277] SUBMISSION: NeGeN/NiNe's connectivity suite: CNews now really Quad-FAT If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com. Archives -------- Individual messages are available at http://www.stepwise.com/comp.sys.next.announce/csna-84/**article_number** where **article_number** is the [xxxx] beside the Subject line above.. FTP archives: ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives/csna-84.tar.gz WWW archives: http://www.stepwise.com/comp.sys.next.announce/csna-84 Article submissions : next-announce@digifix.com Submission guidelines: next-announce-guidelines@digifix.com Suggestions/comments : next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: Stefan Schneider <stefan@ping.at> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: HelpViewer 0.9d Date: 22 May 1995 23:02:04 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3prj7c$ldr@digifix.digifix.com> HelpViewer 0.9d =============== HelpViewer prints any application's help, replacing help links with page numbers. Auto-scanning of all hidden help files. Auto-chaptering. Customizable TOC, headers, and footers. Additional benefit for developers: HelpViewer finds all help links that do not point to valid help files, so you can quickly locate & eliminate all broken links in your own application's help. HelpViewer can be obtained from: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/util/HelpViewer.0.9d.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/util/HelpViewer.0.9d.README ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Commercial/tools/apps/HelpViewer.0.9d.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Commercial/tools/apps/HelpViewer.0.9d.README ftp://moolah.fml.tuwien.ac.at/pub/developer/apps/HelpViewer.0.9d.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://moolah.fml.tuwien.ac.at/pub/developer/apps/HelpViewer.0.9d.README Fully functional demo, prints 'DEMO' over each page. To obtain a license for $30 US, contact the author directly at <stefan@ping.at>. Stefan Schneider Software Lerchenfelder St. 85/6 A-1070 Vienna, Austria, Europe Fax: +43-1-523-5834 E-Mail: stefan@ping.at (NeXTmail preferred)
From: clint@techSCOUTS.com (technicalSCOUTS) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NEXTSTEP Positions Date: 22 May 1995 23:05:05 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3prjd1$led@digifix.digifix.com> technicalSCOUTS, a national leader in technical consulting and permanent placement, seeks ---Object-Oriented Programmers for clients across the country. Current positions in California, Texas, Colorado, Pacific Northwest, Northeast, Southeast, East, and the Midwest areas. Our clients are looking for talented NEXTSTEP and Smalltalk software engineers with 1-5+ years experience. Please review the following for specific details: ANYWHERE USA: ** 8) OOPer with NEXTSTEP/Smalltalk OR C++ experience. Strong interpersonal skills, able to travel with a position 75%. Self starter with strong OO programming experience. Base salary plus incentives for traveling possible. These are really cool positions, if you like to travel. Mentoring, training and OOA/OOD experience helpful.. Travel locations could be USA, Europe, Australia, etc.. Call or email for more details. YOU CAN LIVE ANYWHERE USA!! (within 1~ hour of international airport) Salary range $40-$100k Midwest-- 1) Sr. Level NEXTSTEP software applications development engineers with 2-5 years of NEXTSTEP development. Financial applications experience a plus. EOF, Sybase, DBKit plus. permanent positions, salary range $50-$90k + 1) NEXTSTEP system administrators experience with large networks, 3-5 years admin. experience, permanent positions, salary range 45-65k+ 3) Smalltalk/NEXTSTEP programmers with 1-4+ years Smalltalk experience working on exciting OO applications development.. permanent positions, salary range 40-80k+ 4) Jr.-Mid. level NEXTSTEP developer for full-time position. Business applications, financial application, and mentoring experience preferred. Strong interpersonal communications skills self starter, salary 35-65k plus possible bonuses. **Very strong new graduates considered California- 5) Mid. to Sr. Level NEXTSTEP software developers to work on various financial applications. Cutting edge environments, working with EOF, DBKit, Sybase. Fast paced, self starters able to work in a dynamic team environment. permanent positions, salary range 50-90k+ 1) NEXTSTEP system administrator, 3-5 years admin. experience, permanent positions, salary range 45-65k+ 1) Sr. level NEXTSTEP/UNIX developer for full-time position. Business applications, financial application, and mentoring experience preferred. Strong interpersonal communications skills OOA/OOD, self starter, C++/UNIX salary 50-75k plus incentive plan. 4) NEXTSTEP/OpenStep developers to work on applications development and porting. Strong interpersonal skills, EOF, DBKit, RDB, Porting, extensive AppKit experience, OOA/OOD. Team player with can do attitude!! 2-5 years NEXTSTEP experience, salary $50-$100k+ according to experience. **More positions in California available, but to many to go into details here, please call or email or more info..thank you for your understanding... Pacific Northwest-- 1) NEXTSTEP Consultants with 3-5 years experience to work on applications development within a fasted paced environment 6+ months contract, rates $40-$80hour depending on experience 2) NEXTSTEP programmers with telecomm experience to work on NS applications development. Strong AppKit, Objective-C programming skills. salary $50-$75k Colorado-- 1) Sr. Level NEXTSTEP programming consultant, with EOF, DBKit Sybase experience. 3-5 years NEXTSTEP experience, rate $50-$70 per hour, depending on experience 6) Smalltalk/NEXTSTEP programmers with 1-4+ years Smalltalk experience working on exciting OOP applications development.. permanent positions, salary range $40-$80k+ Texas- 2) NEXTSTEP/Smalltalk applications developers or trainers with strong OOP/OOA/OOD experience, able to work in a strong team environment, 2-5 years NEXTSTEP or Smalltalk experience. permanent position, salary $45-70k+ 2) Smalltalk/NEXTSTEP programmers with 1-2+ years Smalltalk experience working on exciting OOP applications development.. Mentoring, training, and development experience. Excellent interpersonal communication skills, self starter, permanent positions, salary range $40-$80k+ 3) Smalltalk/NEXTSTEP applications developers with OOA/OOD experience. Strong OO Methodologies experience. Salary range according to experience. Northeast- 1) Sr. level NEXTSTEP developer for full-time position in NYC. Business applications, financial application, and mentoring experience preferred. Strong interpersonal communications skills OOA/OOD, self starter, salary $50-$75k plus incentive plan. 1) NEXTSTEP developer with 2-5 years NEXTSTEP programming experience. Additional background in UNIX/OS2/C++/GUI permanent positions, salary range according to experience. 1) NEXTSTEP or Smalltalk developers to work on financial applications, Sybase plus, strong OOA/OOD/OOP experience. permanent positions, salary range according to experience. Virginia/Maryland/DC/RTP/North Carolina areas--EAST 2) Smalltalk/NEXTSTEP programmers with 1-4+ years Smalltalk experience, working on exciting OO applications development within telecomm, financial, or business environments permanent positions, salary range 40-70k+ 5) Mid. to Sr. Level NEXTSTEP software developers to work on various financial applications. Cutting edge environment, working with EOF, DBKit, Sybase. Fast paced, self starters able to work in a dynamic team environment. permanent positions, salary range 50-75k+ 2) Mid level NEXTSTEP applications developers to work on business applications. Objective-C, AppKit, RDB, DBKit, experience preferred salary according to experience level 1) Jr.-Mid. level NEXTSTEP developer for full-time position. Business applications, financial application, and mentoring experience preferred. Strong interpersonal communications skills self starter, salary 35-65k plus possible bonuses. Southeast-- 1) NEXTSTEP applications developers with strong OOP/OOA/OOD experience, able to work in a strong team environment, 2-5 years NEXTSTEP development, NEXTSTEP mentoring/training, customer interface, excellent interpersonal skills, able to lead a team of developers. Salary, according to experience. LONDON-- 3) Smalltalk/NEXSTEP programmers for financial and business applications development in LONDON. Strong OOP/OOA/OOD skills, with specific backgroung in Smalltalk applications programming. These positions could be based in LONDON, or London then back to USA. Please call or email for more details. OTHER INFO-- ****If you love to travel and want to stay on the leading edge of the NEXTSTEP or Smalltalk environments, you may qualify for other exciting positions. To be kept informed of the latest HIGH TECH positions forward your resume, call or email for more info today!! United States or Canadian Citizenship required for most of our positions. If you are not a citizen but are in the top 10% of the programmers in your field, please forward a resume for consideration. Please send resume to the following email address, fax, or US Mail address. ALSO, please specify which position you are applying for. Thank you for your understanding. All resumes will be held in confidence, and everyone who applies will receive a response. Thank you for choosing technicalSCOUTS to represent you in your job search, we know you have a choice, and our goal is to earn your trust. If you know of a software engineer that is seeking employment please forward this information for there review. Clint Tomlinson Director, Object Technology Recruiting technicalSCOUTS 13492 Research Blvd. Suite 120-171 Austin, TX 78750 Phone: 512-257-1100 Fax: 512-335-1899 Email: clint@techSCOUTS.com http://www.stepwise.com/ThirdParty/Services/technicalSCOUTS.htmld
From: Angela Grady <angela@lighthouse.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: How To Order the Lighthouse Design Academic CD Date: 23 May 1995 15:48:12 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3pte5s$t8k@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE HOW TO ORDER THE LIGHTHOUSE DESIGN ACADEMIC CD May 22, 1995 -- Due to overwhelming demand for Lighthouse Design's recently announced Academic CD, Lighthouse has created an auto-respond mail address (academic@lighthouse.com) for NEXTSTEP users interested in learning more about Lighthouse's support for students, faculty and universities. The Academic CD, priced at $89 (more than a 90% discount from a $5,000 commercial list) offers full-blown commercial versions of NEXTSTEP's most popular applications: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Concurrence - presentation and outlining Diagram! - drawing for information graphics OmniWeb - World Wide Web (WWW) browser ParaSheet - traditional rows and columns spreadsheet Quantrix - powerful multi-dimensional spreadsheet TaskMaster - project and resource management VarioData - multi-user workgroup database WetPaint - image/icon editor ---------------------------------------------------------------- For more information about the Academic CD, please write: academic@lighthouse.com Many thanks for your continued support, and we look forward to hearing from you! Lighthouse Design, Ltd.
From: info@its.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: IT Solution Releases WebPages on NEXTSTEP for SPARC MACHINES Date: 23 May 1995 15:56:06 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ptekm$49@digifix.digifix.com> 1.312.474.7700 1.312.474.9361 fax 1.800.394.4487 info@its.com http://www.its.com/ IT Solution Releases WebPages on NEXTSTEP for SPARC MACHINES World Wide Web Show Special SUNWORLD, May 23, 1995 - IT Solutions has announced the release of WebPages for NEXTSTEP running on SPARC machines. WebPages will be offered at SUNWORLD as part of a special software bundle for SUN users. WebPages is showing in the OpenStep Partners Pavillion at SUNWORLD. The bundle includes NEXTSTEP 3.3, the premier object oriented operating system, WebPages web authoring software, and OmniWeb web browser. The bundle price specifically for the SUNWORLD show is $1195. Ted Shelton, President and CEO of IT Solutions, remarked, "We are very excited to be at SUNWORLD introducing WebPages to Sun customers. WebPages offers a professional authoring tool to get pages produced for the web in record time. We look forward to being a part of the Sun community. We plan to port WebPages to Sun OpenStep as soon as Sun makes this product available to developers." WebPages is the optimal solution for establishing your presence on the World Wide Web. WebPages combines a styled HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) generator with superb graphics handling. You can create well-formatted, eye-catching and professional web pages with no knowledge of HTML! WebPages allows you to create HTML documents using a drag-and-drop WYSIWYG interface; as you create your document, you see at all times how it will appear without having to switch between "edit" and "preview" modes. By using the collection of WebPages' HTML Design Models, you can rapidly lay out, edit, rearrange, and restyle a page without ever seeing HTML source code. WebPages comes with 15 HTML Design Models. Links to other documents are done using a select-drag-and-drop approach. The result is error-free HTML code that adheres to the HTML 2.0 Specification. Even styled headlines and tables are automatically converted to a standard "GIF" image viewable by most Web browsers. In addition, "EPS" and "TIFF" images are automatically converted to "GIF" images. This feature is not available in any other HTML editors. Anyone who can use a word processor can create striking Web pages in a matter of minutes. OmniWeb [tm] by Lighthouse Design Ltd. brings powerful browsing and navigation capabilities to users of internal networks and the Internet. OmniWeb's support for industry standard HTML and many of the emerging extensions (such as those driven by Mosaic Communications' NetScape products) allow you to participate in the emerging global information marketplace. NEXTSTEP for SPARC has been licensed by SunSoft from NeXT Computer, Inc. and forms the technology base for Sun's OpenStep object-oriented development environment. IT Solutions, headquartered in Chicago, IL, was founded in 1990 as a software and consulting firm specializing in object technology. IT Solutions provides a wide variety of technical products and services for enterprise messaging systems, database connectivity, object oriented development, and Internet application development tools. -30- WebPages and ObjectBased are trademarks of Pages Software Inc. NeXT, NEXTSTEP, and OpenStep are trademarks or registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. OmniWeb is a trademark of Lighthouse Design, Ltd. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
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From: product_feedback@NeXT.COM (NeXT Announce) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: NEXTSTEP Software available from SUN Date: 24 May 1995 00:08:29 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3pubft$41k@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR MORE INFORMATION Susan Fallon Sun Microsystems Computer Company (415) 786-8070 Kindle DiGiusto NeXT Computer, Inc. (415) 780-3781 NEXTSTEP Software Available from Sun for Sparc Workstations Provides Object Development Pathway to Industry-Standard OpenStep for Solaris MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. May 23, 1995 - Sun Microsystems Computer Company (SMCC) and NeXT Computer, Inc. today announced a distribution agreement under which Sun will provide NEXTSTEP(TM) object-oriented software for SPARCstation(TM) model 4, 5 and 20 workstations. Aimed at Fortune 1000 companies and other large, heterogeneous business environments, the NEXTSTEP software running on SPARCstation desktops provides Sun and NeXT customers with the proven object software and high-performance processing needed today to rapidly develop and deploy custom business applications throughout an enterprise. The announcement also puts Sun customers on a fast track to Sun's upcoming implementation of the advanced OpenStep(TM) object environment as part of Project DOE(Distributed Objects Environment). DOE is an extension to the Solarisoperating environment for rapidly developing and deploying networkedobject applications. An OpenStep-compliant desktop and development tools are integrated with DOE. Two forms of the NeXT software will be available from Sun: NEXTSTEP Release 3.3, a comprehensive, object-oriented user environment,and NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.3, which includes a complete objectframework and all of the tools needed to build interoperable, scalable and easy-to-use client/server applications. Powered by high-performance SPARC computing technology, industry-leading graphics and advanced networking capabilities, Sun customers gain an ideal environment in which to begin object-oriented software development and deployment. "Rapid development and deployment of powerful applications that provide a competitive edge is crucial in today's business environment," said Ed Zander, president of SMCC. "NEXTSTEP software for SPARCstation desktops is the first in a series of powerful solutions Sun will provide to help customers achieve that edge through networked objects. With NEXTSTEP software, SPARCstation system customers can take advantage of a proven object solution today, while they create applications that are compatible with our upcoming implementation of the OpenStep object standard for the Solaris operating environment." "Our partnership with Sun brings the power of NEXTSTEP software to a high-performance workstation at a very attractive price point," said Steven Jobs, chairman and chief executive of NeXT Computer, Inc. "Fast-paced industries such as telecommunicationsand finance have to work quickly and efficiently to stay ahead of the competition, and NEXTSTEP software on SPARC desktop systems provides a powerful competitive tool." "We're seeing a dramatic increase in developer productivity with NEXTSTEP on SPARC," said Jonathan Schwartz, president of Lighthouse Design, Ltd., a leading independent software vendor for NeXT. "In delivering our entire family of developer and end-user products to the SPARC platform, we're confident SPARC system users now have the ideal environment to begin making their transition to objects." Pricing, Support and Product Information NEXTSTEP software-only products and NEXTSTEP software co-packaged with select SPARCstation 4, 5, and 20 systems will be available in the U.S. beginning in June, and worldwide beginning in July. NEXTSTEP software bundled with SPARCstation systems will be priced the same as similarly configured SPARCstation desktop systems running the Solaris operating environment and will be available from Sun's direct sales force and authorized resellers. Sun is also offering a competitive upgrade program targeted at existing hardware systems running NEXTSTEP, such as x86, NeXT and HP systems. Customers trading in one of these systems will receive a credit toward the purchase of a new SPARCstation desktop system. NEXTSTEP software-only products may be purchased directly from Sun or NeXT at the following prices (U.S.): NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.3: $4,999 NEXTSTEP Release 3.3: $799 The products will be supported worldwide by the SunService Division of Sun Microsystems, Inc. NEXTSTEP datasheets and hardware compatibility guides can be accessed via the World Wide Web at http://www.next.com/ or via NeXTanswers (NeXT's technical support free information retrieval system) at nextanswers@next.com, 415-780-3990 (fax) or ftp.next.com. NeXT develops and markets OpenStep, the industry's first and most advanced object environment. OpenStep versions have been announced which will run on several operating systems, including NeXT's own MachOS, Sun's Solaris, Digital's UNIX and Microsoft's Windows NT and Windows 95. The OpenStep object-oriented technology allows corporate customers to rapidly create and deploy three-tier, client-server, mission-critical custom applications. NeXT is headquartered in Redwood City, California, and has offices in North America, London, Paris, Munich and Tokyo. Sun Microsystems Computer Company (SMCC) is a world leader in the design, manufacture and sale of network computing systems and is a division of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Recognized for quality and innovation, the company's SPARC workstations and multiprocessing servers each hold the No. 1 UNIX marketshare position. These systemsare used primarily by businesses, educational institutions and governments worldwide for technical, commercial, industrial and software development applications. # # # Sun, the Sun logo, Sun Microsystems, Sun Microsystems Computer Company, SunSoft, the SunSoft logo, SunService and Solaris are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of Sun Microsystems,Inc. All SPARC trademarks are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. SPARCstation is licensed exclusively to Sun Microsystems, Inc. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, exclusively licensed through X/Open Company, Ltd. NeXT, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP are trademarks or registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other product or service names mentioned herein are trademarks of service marks of their respective owners. Press announcements and other information about Sun Microsystems are available on the Internet via the World Wide Web using a tool such as Netscape or NCSA Mosaic. Type http://www.sun.com at the URL prompt For reader inquiries, telephone 1-800-821-4643.
From: Brian Cuthie <brian@systemix.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MAILING LIST: Mailing List for SafetyNet Users Date: 26 May 1995 00:31:44 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3q3ljg$a9q@digifix.digifix.com> Systemix Software, Inc. PO Box 2457 Columbia, MD 21045 Mailing List for SafetyNet Users For Immediate Release Friday, May 26, 1995 Contact: Brian Cuthie Systemix Software, Inc. (800) 509-0039 (410) 290-8813 (410) 290-8934 FAX Columbia, Maryland -- Systemix Software is pleased to announce the establishment of a mailing list for SafetyNet(tm) users. The list will be used to facilitate rapid and accurate dissemination of SafetyNet operating procedures, bugs, and new software availability. To join the SafetyNet mailing list send email to "majordomo@systemix.com". Include in the body of your message the phrase "subscribe safetynet-users". SafetyNet, Systemix Software and the Systemix Software logo are trademarks of Systemix Software, Inc.
From: Ralph_Zazula@next.com (Ralph Zazula) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: RZToDoList v1.1 Date: 26 May 1995 00:34:34 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3q3loq$aal@digifix.digifix.com> Hi - I've submitted version 1.1 of the RZToDoList application, including source-code, to the archive sites. ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/util/RZToDoList_v1.1.compressed ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/sources/util/RZToDoList_v1.1.src.compressed Here is a list of the major changes in this release: v1.1 5/15/95 - fixed bug with "Really Delete?" panel - fixed drag/drop bug where files wouldn't be added unless there was an insertion point - made adding an attachment file dirty the to-do list - restored missing IB connection between the SplitView and ToDoController (this corrects some resize problems) - fixed bug where Command-n (or new item) would forget edits in progress - added service to add items from other programs (e.g., Mail) - selections provided as service (e.g., Mail Selection) - added timestamp (Command-T) operation (and cool new icon from DM!) - single-click no longer selects the "Subject" line (this is to allow services to export the selected item). It now requires a double-click to select the "Subject" line. And, in case you missed it, here's a note from the original release: RZToDoList This is a simple to-do list application with various types of items that can be added: appointments, low-high priority items. The application has a simple heuristic built in for sorting items (item raise in the list as deadlines draw near). This application started as a test-bed for a custom NXBrowserCell I developed called RZBrowserCell. RZBrowserCell (and its associates) are found in the RZBrowserCell subproject of this application. Enjoy, Z Ralph Zazula NeXT Computer, Inc. Ralph_Zazula@next.com (415) 780-2893
From: Brian Cuthie <brian@systemix.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: SafetyNet V2.5 Now Shipping Date: 26 May 1995 00:46:24 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3q3mf0$ae6@digifix.digifix.com> Systemix Software, Inc. PO Box 2457 Columbia, MD 21045 SafetyNet V2.5 Now Shipping For Immediate Release Friday, May 26, 1995 Contact: Brian Cuthie Systemix Software, Inc. (800) 509-0039 (410) 290-8813 (410) 290-8934 FAX Columbia, Maryland -- Systemix Software is pleased to announce the release of version 2.5 of its award winning SafetyNet(tm) file system backup application. SafetyNet is the professional's choice for backing up mission critical data to 8mm and DAT tape. This new version of SafetyNet adds support for all NEXTSTEP platforms, including Motorola, Sparc, PA-RISC and Intel processors. Also new to this version are better reporting and more flexible tape management for unattended backups. Awarded four cubes and "Best of Breed" by NeXTWORLD Magazine, SafetyNet is a full featured backup and archiving application for networks of NEXTSTEP computer systems. SafetyNet supports a wide variety of storage devices including DAT, 8mm and Optical Disk. SafetyNet saves files into archives, maintaining on-line catalogs of each archive's contents for easy reference. Browsers and inspectors allow easy selection of files for retrieval. SafetyNet's advanced tape management features accumulate multiple backups onto a single tape and can restore any file in seconds. Regular backup regimens are easy to setup with SafetyNet's drag and drop backup scheduler. Daily email reports keep system administrators aware of each night's backup results. A demonstration copy of SafetyNet 2.5 can be obtained from the ftp server ftp.systemix.com ftp://ftp.systemix.com/pub/SafetyNet2.5.tar Upgrade licenses may be purchased by contacting Systemix Software at the address listed above, by FAX at (410) 290-8934, or via email at SafetyNet@Systemix.COM. SafetyNet, Systemix Software and the Systemix Software logo are trademarks of Systemix Software, Inc.
From: "Jens Ch. Gloede" <jens@interpc.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: NEXTIME Converter Shipping Date: 29 May 1995 17:15:24 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3qddhc$djr@digifix.digifix.com> PRESS RELEASE MULTIMEDIA - VDOconverter 2.0, NEXTIME movie format converter Munich, May 29, ipc -- another VDO tool is shipping. The VDOconverter is a tool for the conversion between different movie and animation formats. After opening an animation you may set conversion range, playback rate, apply several filters and choose the output format. A comprehensive user interface and the modular design makes this application to a tool, which is simply necessary in any multi media surrounding. The preview window displays any frame from the source animation. The output preview allows to check any frame prior to being written into the new movie. SUPPORTED FORMATS ================= - NEXTIME (Wavelet compression) - QuickTime input (as supported by NT) - TIFF animation (.anim; any compression and color depth) - Motion-JPEG (FAST compression board) - MovieStream (plain data; VDOdirector) - BitMap animations (if filters available) FEATURES ======== - click & run demo mode - multiple in/out format support - REAL NEXTIME (Wavelet) support - special movie filters - frame preview - DO communication - API available - MAB (Intel, NeXT, [SUN, HP-PA: no NT]) PLANNED ======= - new formats (mpeg, QuickTime & AVI writer) - more movie like filters - sound support (as soon as supported by NEXTIME) PRICE ===== Retail 250 US$ Students 150 US$ Update 1.x FREE Members of the EU without VAT number have to add 15% VAT. ftp SOURCE ========== VDOconverter is available on the best ftp server: ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de /pub/comp/platforms/next/Commercial/graphics/video/ VDOconverter.2.0.NIHS.b.tar.gz VDOconverter.2.0.README CONTACT INFORMATION =================== interpersonal-computing GmbH NeXT Center Munich Oettingenstrasse 2 80538 Munich - GERMANY Phone: ++49 (0) 89 22 33 75 Fax: ++49 (0) 89 22 33 76 E-mail: vdo@interpc.de NEXTIME is a trademark of NeXT Computer Inc., Redwood City QuickTime is a trademark of Apple, Palo Alto
From: nickj@wimsey.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: British Columbia OpenStep Group - June 7th Date: 29 May 1995 17:49:47 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3qdfhr$e1f@digifix.digifix.com> Meeting: British Columbia OpenStep Group Date: Wednesday, June 7th, 1995 Location: CyberStore, #201 - 601 West Broadway, Vancouver (near Cambie) Time: 19:00-22:00 (7pm-10pm) Door closes at 19:15 (to prevent your grief and ours, please do not be late) Cost: Members free, Non-members $5.00 at the door *** Seating is Limited *** Please Note: This meeting is geared for Developers and is somewhat technical. Presentation & Agenda: 1) British Columbia OpenStep Group update 2) Eric Kolotyluk, Senior Systems Engineer, Enterprise Solutions formerly, Manger of Research and Instructional Systems, SFU also, creator/instructor of SFU User Interface Design course Designing Forms, Surveys, and other Data Entry User Interfaces - What's special about forms - Golden rules of form design - Designing forms using NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP - Aesthetics of form design - Tales of teaching form design (or pitfalls and problems) 3) Rhys Smallwood and Peter Zachary (partners in UDADS software development project) - Presenters will demonstrate AN 'alpha version' of UDADS, a user defined animation and debugging system, developed in Kiev, Ukraine. UDADS is a product intended to assist developers in the development of applications containing objects with ongoing, interesting, dynamic behavior. It provides an animation facility to watch these objects execute in an 'ObjectWorld' as well as debugging facilities to investigate program execution in the typical 'code orientated' manner. (40 minutes) Nick Jacquet Chair British Columbia OpenStep Group nickj@wimsey.com email 604.988.4204 Voice
From: guido@gestel.it Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: GESTEL ships solidThinking 2.3 Date: 29 May 1995 17:50:32 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3qdfj8$e1t@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Alex Mazzardo GESTEL Italia srl Ph.: ++39 444 964-974 Fax: ++39 444 964-984 E-mail: alex@solid.gestel.it "GESTEL Italia ships solidThinking 2.3" Vicenza, Italy, May 29th, 1995 - GESTEL Italia announces today the release of "solidThinking 2.3", the award-winning 3D environment that runs on every NEXTSTEP supporting platform (Intel based PC, HP PA-Risc, SUN SPARC, NeXT). The new version includes several enhancements. Among the new features: - New DXF import module. - Import of 3DStudio and Lightwave file formats. - Numeric input (to add points by typing the X, Y, and Z values of each new point in the data fields. This feature integrates the normal method to draw a path by adding points with the mouse in the orthographic views). - Offset action (to create a copy of one or more selected paths at a fixed distance). - Pixelmap action (to create a mesh that will be deformed on the ground of the brightness intensity of the picture that you use as a map). - Makepoly action (to create filled surfaces delimitated by three or more selected points). - Pathcast action (to project one or more paths on a plane, inclined or not). - New iconified hierarchy browser. A demonstrative version of solidThinking 2.3 is available on ftp: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/demos/graphics/solidThinking2.3.NIHS.tar.gz # # # # GESTEL Italia srl is a privetely-held software company headquartered in Vicenza, Italy. Founded in 1989, GESTEL Italia is specialized in the development of 3D shrinkwrapped and customized applications. GESTEL Italia also develops FxCAD, a full-featured 2D designing and drafting software for NEXTSTEP. GESTEL Italia srl, Viale dell'Oreficeria 30/P, I - 36100 Vicenza (Italy), Ph.: ++39 444 964-974, Fax: ++39 444 964-984, Email: info@solid.gestel.it solidThinking is a registered trademark of GESTEL Italia srl. All other product names mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners.
From: Dirk Schwarzhans <dirk@diaspar.fb10.TU-Berlin.DE> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: MIDIPlayer 1.02 - Now runs on intel hardware Date: 28 May 1995 23:13:29 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3qbe4p$6u8@digifix.digifix.com> I have submitted the newest version of my program "MIDIPlayer" to the following ftp sites: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/sound/MIDIPlayer.1.0.NI.b.tar.gz ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Audio/music-apps/MIDIPlayer.1.0.NI.b.tar.gz The file contains the MIDIPlayer application which runs on Nextstep 3.3 Motorola and Intel hardware. The program is offered free of charge without any warranty. Commercial copying and usage is not allowed (see license panel). -------------------------------------------------------------------- **** From the README ***: This is the first Version of MIDIPlayer,a program which lets you play MIDI files on a keyboard (synthesizer) connected to a MIDI interface of your computer. MIDI Software under NeXTstep is very rare and there is currently (5'95) no program available for NeXTstep I know of which plays MIDI files with the correct timing. (If you know better tell me!)
IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT Because MIDIPlayer.app uses the FoundationKit you need NextStep 3.3 or EOF-User to run it! IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT
Needed Hardware and MIDI Drivers: --------------------------------- Motorola: - The MIDI driver is included in the systems software but it is corrupt in release 3.3 of NeXTstep! If you want to use MIDIPlayer with release 3.3 you need to exchange the files "/usr/lib/kern_loader/Midi/mididriver_reloc" "/usr/lib/kern_loader/Midi/midi_reloc_2.0" with the files of release 3.2. If you don't have release 3.2 any more you can obtain the files from "ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu". - I don't know of any company which still offers MIDI interfaces for Motorola hardware but a circuit diagram of a MIDI interface is included with this player in the file "MIDIInterfaceCurcuitDiagram.rtfd" Intel: - You need a MPU-401 compatible MIDI card. - The MIDI driver can be obtained from "ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu" as part of the MusicKit. - Because I don't have access to Intel equipment with MIDI hardware, I never tested MIDIPlayer on Intel hardware! Tell me if it works! HP, SUN: - I don't know anything about MIDI support on these two architectures. If you know more drop me a mail. - MIDIPlayer is not compiled to run on HP or Sparc. Revision history: 1.0 : - first released version 1.01: - Due to an error in the linking order MIDIPlayer 1.0 didn't run on Intel hardware. This should be fixed now. 1.02: - Fixed a problem with the play mode switches. Now they work as intended. What MIDIPlayer does: - You can open any number of MIDI files by double-clicking them in Workspace, command-dragging them on MIDIPlayer's icon or using the "Files/Add Files ..." menu of MIDIPlayer*. - MIDIPlayer plays the files once, continuous, or in random sequence depending of the mode buttons you have selected. - You can change the order of the files in the "MIDI file list" window by control-dragging them*. Note: * This only works if there is currently no file playing! What MIDIPlayer does not do: - It doesn't display any information (like the contained text events) about the MIDI files. - You cannot make any changes to the MIDI files (like changing the program change events). - It does not behave very well on corrupted MIDI files. All you get is an error message in the console window and MIDIPlayer skips this file and stops playing. The same is true for some files which are not really corrupt but violate the MIDI file specification in one or the other way (like appending garbage to the end of the file). - It does not play files which tempo is given in real time. I never encountered such a file yet. Future plans: I don't plan to improve MIDIPlayer much because it was only a quick hack I wrote to test my MIDI file parsing object. Because of that please don't mail me bug reports concerning the user interface of MIDIPlayer. I am thinking about writing a full featured MIDI sequencer program starting from the beginning again with the player part which will be available on the net sometime in the future. My motivation to do this may depend on the resonance I get about MIDIPlayer. Dirk Schwarzhans dirk@kalium.physik.TU-Berlin.DE
From: dscheidegger@access.ch (Daniel Scheidegger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: ConnectNow 1.0 available Date: 28 May 1995 23:14:18 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3qbe6a$6uf@digifix.digifix.com> ConnectNow enables you to access an IBM AS/400 from your NeXTSTEP terminal with the same functionality as an IBM 3477-FC terminal. Some of the highlights of ConnectNow are: - Fastest 5250 Emulation available. - Extremly reliable. - Ease of use. - Predefined sessions. - Wide range of settings and preferences. - Tools to simplify documentation for your host application (save as TIFF, Print session). - No crashes and superior speed even under heavy load. - Avoids a bug in the IBM TCP/IP protocol. - Window size for 80x24 and 132x27 can be set individually. FILES: ConnectNow.1.0.doc.ps.compressed Documentation in PostScript-Format ConnectNow.1.0.NIHS.b.tar Package as NeXT/Intel/HPPA/Sparc MAB WHERE TO GET: ConnectNow has been uploaded to: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/demos/comm/ConnectNow.1.0.doc.ps.compressed ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/demos/comm/ConnectNow.1.0.NIHS.b.tar Feel free to send comments, bug reports and suggestions to: NOW GmbH, Zugerstrasse 11b, CH-6340 Baar, Switzerland comments@now.ch
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Summary 85 - Articles posted since May 22 1995 Date: 29 May 1995 04:00:08 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3qbgs8$79i@digifix.digifix.com> Summary: 85 Postings since: May 22 1995 [3279] ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines [3280] NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet [3281] SUBMISSION: HelpViewer 0.9d [3282] JOB: NEXTSTEP Positions [3283] PRESS RELEASE: How To Order the Lighthouse Design Academic CD [3284] PRESS RELEASE: IT Solution Releases WebPages on NEXTSTEP for SPARC MACHINES [3285] PRESS RELEASE: NEXTSTEP Software available from SUN [3287] MAILING LIST: Mailing List for SafetyNet Users [3288] SUBMISSION: RZToDoList v1.1 [3289] PRESS RELEASE: SafetyNet V2.5 Now Shipping [3290] SUBMISSION: MIDIPlayer 1.02 - Now runs on intel hardware [3291] SUBMISSION: ConnectNow 1.0 available If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com. Archives -------- Individual messages are available at http://www.stepwise.com/comp.sys.next.announce/csna-85/**article_number** where **article_number** is the [xxxx] beside the Subject line above.. FTP archives: ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives/csna-85.tar.gz WWW archives: http://www.stepwise.com/comp.sys.next.announce/csna-85 Article submissions : next-announce@digifix.com Submission guidelines: next-announce-guidelines@digifix.com Suggestions/comments : next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines Date: 29 May 1995 04:15:03 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3qbho7$7cj@digifix.digifix.com> NEW POLICY: =========== In an attempt to standardize the format of the FTP locations for files, all ftp addresses should be submitted using the Universal Resource Locator (URL) format. (for example) ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/submissions/file.tar.gz Please try and give an indication of where you expect the file will end up on the archive site, in the same notation. Cross Posting ============= I try very hard to make sure that postings get out in a timely fashion. Most go out in less than 24 hours. Postings that require editing because they do not contain information in a useable format, or have already been posted to other comp.sys.next.* groups may be delayed, or returned to you. If your posting is rejected, I'll try and make suggestions about what should be changed where possible. Obviously off charter messages (spams, open-letters, etc) may not get a response. Content 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 _IN URL FORMAT_ supported CPU's for binary distributions, OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting, time of meeting, speakers expected Signatures 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. Announcement of Product Sales ============================= This is an area of announcement that has caused me terrible grief in recent months. The policy is tilted towards the ISV, which has worked out well in the past. Posts that announce sales of products that you are DIRECTLY involved in the development of are OK. Posts from companies trying to sell other products are evaluated on an individual basis. Time Sensitive Announcements ============================ Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date. 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.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet Date: 29 May 1995 04:15:10 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3qbhoe$7cj@digifix.digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site comp.sys.next newsgroups related newsgroups comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list ftp sites NeXTanswers Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site =============================================== This online community resource includes - 200+ ISV company pages - 400+ ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - NEXTSTEP User Group Directory - comp.sys.next archives - User Group information - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.stepwise.com/ Additionally there is a Mail Server available. You can get information on using the mail server at ns-products@stepwise.com Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise, please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com. eduSTEP WWW site ================ http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/ eduStep aims to provide up-to-date information on: - NextStep tools and projects for scientists. - Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist). - A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with customers in the educational community. - Conferences, meetings, workshops - Major projects, such as SciTools, EMBL's project to develop a NextStep scientific work environment - Status reports on GNUStep, a freely-available implementation of OpenStep now being developed NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site ============================ http://www.next.com comp.sys.next.* newsgroups ========================== news: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. news: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. Archives are available by ftp at ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. news: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. news: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. news: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. news: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!!! news: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. news:comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. news:comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. Related Newsgroups ================== news: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. news:comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. news: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. 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From: hhsu@impact.com (Henry Hsu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Limited-Time $200 Promotional Rebate Offer for SuperDraw 2.0 Date: 30 May 1995 14:54:11 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3qfpkj$m4s@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Impact Software Publishing, Inc. 36-32 34th Street, Long Island City, NY 11106 Phone: 1-800-822-3385 / 1-718-472-0600 Fax: 718-472-0160 E-mail: info@impact.com OpenSource, Inc. 1776 Lincoln Street, Suite 1012, Denver, CO 80203 Phone: 1-800-TRY-OPEN / 1-303-861-4411 Fax: 1-303-861-2393 E-mail: info@opensource.com LIMITED-TIME $200 PROMOTIONAL REBATE OFFER FOR SUPERDRAW 2.0 Long Island City, New York - May 31, 1995 - Impact Software today announced the availability of a $200 promotional rebate offer for users who purchase SuperDraw(tm) version 2.0 from Impact Software or OpenSource by June 25, 1995. SuperDraw 2.0 is a powerful and easy-to-use graphics and desktop publishing program with additional multimedia authoring capabilities. Impact Software is making available its SuperDraw program at $495 with a $200 promotional rebate until June 25, 1995. Create, Diagram!, Appsoft Draw, or Adobe Illustrator users who purchase SuperDraw 2.0 by June 25 can get an additional $75 rebate by faxing or mailing in copy of their registration card or purchase receipt. SuperDraw 2.0 is a program which integrates many graphics, page-layout, and multimedia authoring features found in programs such as CorelDraw, QuarkXPress, and Authorware. SuperDraw features tools for rotating, scaling, skewing, joining, clipping, and blending of graphic objects, such as text, lines, rectangles, polygons, Bezier splines, and 24-bit color TIFF and EPS images. SuperDraw also offers 6400 percent zoom-in capability, up to 100 levels of undo/redo, multiple concurrent views of a multi-page document, object/sound linking, and much more. It also allows you to choose PANTONE colors from the NEXTSTEP Colors panel and then drag and drop them into objects. SuperDraw provides customizable template and palette libraries, and includes sample templates for address labels, business cards, disk labels, shipping labels, and calendar. SuperDraw also includes sample palettes for creating flow charts, network diagrams, and organization charts. SuperDraw includes an extensive on-line help with illustrated step-by-step instructions. By simply clicking any section of the screen with the Help cursor, explanation of every menu item and program feature is available instantly. In addition, an illustrated tutorial is included to get you started quickly. SuperDraw is compiled quad-fat and will run on Motorola, Intel, HP PA-RISC, and SPARC based computers. Information about quantity discounts, site licenses, and reduced prices for educational customers can be obtained by contacting Impact Software directly. Current registered users of SuperDraw are entitled to a free upgrade to SuperDraw 2.0. (SuperDraw 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 all use the same set of license keys.) In addition, purchasers of SuperDraw 2.0 and current registered users of SuperDraw are entitled to a free upgrade to SuperDraw 2.1, 3.0, and SuperDraw for OpenStep when these versions become available. Requests for a demo copy of SuperDraw can be sent to demos@impact.com. A demo copy of SuperDraw 2.0 is also available from: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/graphics/SuperDraw2.0.NIHS.tar.gz For users without NeXTmail or FTP access, free demo floppies of SuperDraw 2.0 can be requested by calling 1-800-822-3385. *** SuperDraw is a trademark of Impact Software Publishing, Inc. NEXTSTEP is a trademark of NeXT, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: Susan Little <slittle@ato.canon.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Canon Announces New Pentium-Based object.stations Date: 30 May 1995 15:17:03 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3qfqvf$mgu@digifix.digifix.com> Contact: Barbara Hagin Technology Solutions/West (415) 617-4523 Lisa Larkin CCSI/ATO (503) 614-5131 Canon Announces New Pentium-Based object.stations New object.stations Offer Object-Oriented Users Added Performance and Pentium/PCI Capabilities PORTLAND, Ore., May 30, 1995 -- Canon's Advanced Technologies Operation (ATO) today announced the first members of its new family of Pentium/PCI-based object.stations. The object.stations 50 and 52, based on the Pentium 100 and 120MHz processors, join Canon's rapidly expanding line of personal workstations designed specifically for object-oriented computing. The new object.stations feature greater performance, added expansion and dual platform capabilities in a new mini tower design. "Today's leading technology companies are adopting objects to solve their critical business needs and provide them with a competitive edge," said Dale Fuller, director of marketing for the ATO. "Our new object.station models have been designed with these customers in mind -- we provide cost-effective and easy-to-use solutions that allow users to rapidly take advantage of the power of objects." The object.stations 50 and 52 include a Fast SCSI II interface and PCI bus for faster performance speeds ideal for true multitasking as well as the ability to run both NEXTSTEP and Windows NT operating systems, allowing users to harness the power of multiple object-oriented programming tools. Canon's family of object.stations are optimized specifically to accommodate the demands of object-oriented programming, ranging from robust video performance, superior CD-quality audio, and LAN and SCSI performance, to the ability to distribute applications across multiple platforms. They are targeted for Fortune 1000 companies in financial, transportation and telecommunications markets using objects to solve critical business needs like faster application development, easier application maintenance in a client/server environment and cost-effective business process re-engineering. In one large midwest trading firm for example, the Canon object.station running NEXTSTEP is used to calculate market positions and display real-time graphs of pricing information gathered from financial markets. Traders say the speed of the machine and the fast, smooth graphics set Canon's machines apart from the competition. "Our new Pentium-based mini tower workstations provide considerable performance advantages," added Fuller. "And they enable users to choose among different operating systems, maximizing their options." The object.stations 50 and 52 are state-of-the-art, cross platform solutions that are compatible with leading industry operating systems such as NEXTSTEP, Windows NT, Microsoft DOS and Windows, UNIX and others. The object.stations are upgradable to future Pentiums -- a great investment protection path for customers. Products will be built to order (BTO) in accordance with available product configurations ranging in storage size, memory and more. The standard configuration includes a 100MHz Pentium processor, 2MB of VRAM, a 500MB internal hard drive, 16MB of memory and a 17" color monitor. Pricing starts at $4,000 and both systems are available in early June. Founded in 1992, Canon Computer Systems, Inc. is chartered to lead Canon's efforts in the U.S. computing market. The company develops and markets desktop and notebook PCs, scanners and printers under the Canon brand name using its proven Bubble Jet, laser and other Canon technologies. Through its recently formed Advanced Technologies Operation(ATO), CCSI supplies optimized personal workstation products for Fortune 1000 companies and supports user workgroups and enterprise computing requirements worldwide. CCSI is headquartered in Costa Mesa, Calif. and the ATO is based in Portland, Ore. ### Canon and the Canon logo are registered trademarks, and object.station is a trademark of Canon Inc. NeXT and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners.
From: Chris Saldanha <chris@computerActive.on.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Ottawa NeXT User Group, Thursday June 1 Date: 30 May 1995 01:07:15 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3qe963$gha@digifix.digifix.com> Ottawa NeXT User Group Meeting on Thursday, June 1, 1995 ======================================================== Where: computerActive inc. 15 Capella Court Unit 128 Nepean, ON Contact: Chris Saldanha, Software Analyst (613) 225-4824 Voice (613) 225-1670 FAX http://www.mae.carleton.ca/~csaldanh chris@computerActive.on.ca csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca NeXTMail and MIME cheerfully accepted! When: 7:00pm, Thursday, June 1 Topics: -Developing applications with Enterprise Objects Framework -Overview of EOF 1.1 -The EOF development process -Access Layers -Mapping a database into objects -Database Adaptors -News from the NeXT world -Gossip as always :-) Hope to see you there! --Chris
From: darren@SchemaResearch.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Schema Research Corporation Ships Schema-E 1.3.1 for NEXTSTEP Sparc Date: 30 May 1995 22:52:35 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3qgllj$qht@digifix.digifix.com> Contact: Lowell Schneider or Darren Smith Schema Research Corporation info@SchemaResearch.com SCHEMA RESEARCH CORPORATION SHIPS SCHEMA-E 1.3.1 FOR NEXTSTEP SPARC ----- Redwood City, CA, May 30, 1995 -- Schema Research Corporation announced today that SchemaE(tm) version 1.3.1 for the Sun SPARC(r) architecture is now available and shipping. SchemaE is the only database CASE tool available for the NEXTSTEP(r) platform. It integrates with the NEXTSTEP object-oriented software development tools Enterprise Objects Framework(r) (EOF) and DatabaseKit(r) for building client/server database software quickly and without extensive programming. SchemaE speeds development and improves the design process by eliminating the need for SQL scripts or programming to update database designs. By reverse engineering the database every work session, SchemaE presents a comprehensive, up-to-date picture of the database schema. Changes such as creating tables, adding columns, or modifying data types can be implemented with simple point-and-click changes to a graphical diagram. In addition to it's strength as a design tool, SchemaE is also effective as a graphical system-administration tool for on-going maintenance. New Features in 1.3.1 SPARC: Enhanced EOF Support -- The new EOF features make it possible for customers to perform database design, creation and modelling all within the SchemaE environment. Improved licensing scheme -- In addition to ease-of-use improvements, the new scheme allows customers to evaluate a fully-functional product. To begin evaluation, customers simply install the software and request a temporary license string from inside the license panel. Utilities available for 1.3.1: SRVersion -- This utility allows customers to save the database schema (with or without the data from the tables) in order to archive work in progress, or to transfer a database to another site where it can be re-created. InterSql -- A graphical tool that supports drag-and-drop queries to the database. This tool has been enhanced to allow drag and drop joins (ie. selecting columns from multiple tables will automatically generate the SQL "where" clause to join the tables). Note: These utilities are available from Schema Research Technical Support, please contact support@SchemaResearch.com for more information. SchemaE 1.3.1 is free to all current customers running SchemaE 1.3. Please contact Schema Research for more information. SchemaE 1.3.1 is available for $3,300, and SchemaE-50(tm), which provides all of the same features and capabilities as SchemaE, but limits database size to 50 tables, is available for $950. SchemaView(tm), a read-only version of SchemaE, is available for $195. Schema Research provides nine months of free technical support and maintenance with each purchase, which includes all software patches and upgrades. Upgrades to SchemaE, SchemaE-50, and SchemaView can be purchased for 15% of the retail price of the product at the time of upgrade. Please contact Schema Research for more information, including volume and/or educational discounts. For demonstration copies, or for on-line product information, visit our new World-Wide Web Page: http://www.stepwise.com/Developers/Schema_Research.htmld or our ftp site: ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Vendors/Schema_Research ------ Schema Research has been providing database expertise since 1988. In addition to SchemaE and SchemaE-50, Schema Research's product line includes SRTransport(tm) for $5,000. The Schema Research family of products support NEXTSTEP and the industry-standard OpenStep initiative. For more information, please contact: Darren Smith Schema Research Corporation 2603 Broadway, Redwood City, CA 94063 (415) 368-8477 USA darren@SchemaResearch.com
From: dimitri@duti609a.twi.tudelft.nl (Dimitri Tischenko) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: perl5e package for Intel and Motorola Date: 31 May 1995 14:29:29 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3qici9$5mm@digifix.digifix.com> I've just uploaded the files perl5e.NI.b.pkg.tar perl5e.README to the NeXT-related submissions directory on the peanuts archive ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de. The URL should become: ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Unix/script/perl5e.NI.b.pkg.tar The README file is very short: This is the NiNe distribution of Larry Wall's perl 5 system. Currently compiled for Motorola and Intel architectures. Install it just like any standard NEXTSTEP package. In case of problems, please e-mail me at the address below. Have fun! Dimitri Tischenko D.B.Tischenko@TWI.TUDelft.NL
From: Stefan Preuss <stefan@daisy.syd.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: TurboTar 0.92b Date: 31 May 1995 16:29:44 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3qijjo$6pi@digifix.digifix.com> TurboTar 0.92b -------------- TurboTar (TT) is a backup tool for SCSI Tapedrives. It handles 'offline' indexfiles of your tapes and accesses stored data quickly. TT uses 'gnutar' to perform backup and restore operations. So you can read the tapes on every platform on which 'gnutar' is available. As side effect you can parse in 'ls -Rl', 'gnutar -tv', 'ls -al' or whatever ASCII files. For example you can parse in the ASCII-Indexfile of your favorite FTP-Site and browse through it in the TT filebrowser. This is the first official release of TurboTar. It is still under development and there is a lot of stuff to do. This is a beta version cause the number of people who tested TurboTar is small ( < 10 ). Please test it with your system/hardware and return bugreports to me ( stefan@daisy.syd.de ). Features in version 0.92beta: - offline indexfiles - fast access to your data ( < 3 min. accesstime ) - Inspector for indexfiles - uses 'gnutar' & 'mt' - remote tape access - can access mounted devices ( NFS, CD-Rom ...) - 'parse in' ASCII files ( even plain path/file information ) - export Indexfiles as 'ls -whatever' ( ASCII ) - various Filterfunctions ( Date/Time/Path filter ) - 'multi session' display in one browser - Find Panel - uses Drag & Drop - multi threaded - shows tape activity in the AppIcon ( for local and remote TapeDrives ) - automatic retry on SCSI errors Tested configurations: - HP-DAT drive - NS on black/white hardware as remote/local system - Linux as remote system You can get TurboTar from: -------------------------- ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Tools/archiver/TurboTar.app.0.92b.NI.b.tar.gz ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Tools/archiver/TurboTar.app.0.92b.README ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/util/TurboTar.app.0.92b.NI.b.tar.gz ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/util/TurboTar.app.0.92b.README Stefan Preuss stefan@daisy.syd.de
From: Kindle DiGiusto <Kindle_DiGiusto@NeXT.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NeXT Sponsors West Coast NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Day Date: 31 May 1995 23:28:00 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3qjc40$bd@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kindle DiGiusto NeXT Computer, Inc. 415-780-3781 or Charlotte Penner Copithorne & Bellows 415-795-2280 NeXT SPONSORS WEST COAST "NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP DAY" IN CONJUNCTION WITH OBJECT WORLD Steve Jobs To Keynote - Monday, August 14 REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-May 31, 1995-NeXT Computer, Inc. today announced it is sponsoring a one-day, dual-forum "NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Day" in conjunction with Object World, held August 14-17 in San Francisco. A keynote presentation by Steven P. Jobs, Chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer, Inc., will kick-off NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Day, Monday, August 14. NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Day is targeted at CIOs, MIS managers, business executives and application developers. The dual-forum program is designed to provide both a business and a technical perspective to organizations currently developing or evaluating object technology. At the keynote, Steve Jobs will demonstrate NEXTSTEP/OpenStep, the industry's most advanced object-oriented development environment. OpenStep allows organizations to rapidly create, deploy and evolve three-tier client/server applications which automate mission-critical business operations. OpenStep applications are not only scalable across clients and servers, they are portable to both Windows and Unix platforms. "The 'NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Days' we held in New York City in early April were such a success that we decided to offer two forums in conjunction with Object World - a forum for business managers and one for developers," said Martin A. Yam, Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at NeXT Computer, Inc. "We look forward to demonstrating our advanced object-oriented technology, including pieces of OpenStep, to attendees." One-Day/Dual-Forum Conference Targets Executives and Developers Both existing NEXTSTEP customers and prospects will benefit from this program which will include technical information from NeXT, NEXTSTEP/OpenStep developers, systems integrators and customers sharing their experiences with object technology. The dual-forum structure is designed to meet the needs of established NEXTSTEP/OpenStep developers as well as those new to the technology. NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP DAY ~ Dual-Forum EXECUTIVE FORUM * OpenStep: The Industry Standard Object Framework for Open Systems: Cross-Platform Development for Unix & Windows Integration * Migrating to Object-Oriented Technology: High-Level OOA&D, Methodology, Project Management and Mentorship * The Object Advantage for Legacy Systems Integration * Integrating Third Party Objects with Custom Applications: A Solutions Panel * Strategies for Object Reuse: A Customer Panel * WWW: Exploring Internet Opportunities with NEXTSTEP/OpenStep DEVELOPER FORUM * Portable Distributed Objects (PDO): The OpenStep Distributed Object Model: An In-depth Technical Overview * The Components of OpenStep: Building Three-Tier Distributed Client/Server Architecture (Enterprise Objects Framework & PDO) * Windows Development with NeXT Objects * From NEXTSTEP to OpenStep: Migrating to OpenStep for Windows and/or OpenStep for Unix * Technical Architects: Building Better Objects - Scalable, Robust & Reusable * Deployment & System Administration for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep * Preview to NEXTSTEP 4.0 & NEXTSTEP Developer 4.0 * Ask NeXT Engineers NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Day Registration and Pricing To register for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Day or for further conference information call 1-800-225-4698 or outside the United States call (508) 879-6700. For NeXT product and services information call 1-800-TRY-NeXT. * NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Day Admission includes exhibits, plenary keynotes, exposition show guide and all NeXT-sponsored events. Early Registration (before July 14) ~ $395 Between July 15- August 12 ~ $450 On-site registration ~ $525 Additionally, there are 3, 4, and 5 day packages available that include both the NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Day and Object World conference sessions. Call 1-800-225-4698 for more information. * Group Packages Available Register 4 attendees for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Day and receive 1 free admission. This applies to all conferences packages, however, the least expensive conference package will be complimentary. All registrations must be made at the same time to qualify. * Exhibits & Keynotes Only - Complimentary with pre-registration, $50.00 on-site. Exposition Features NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Pavilion Visit NeXT Computer, Inc. (booth 710) and the NeXT Partners' Pavilion (booth 634) to see third-party solutions and interact with NeXT's products and partners. Exposition hours are Tuesday (11am-6pm), Wednesday (11am-6pm) and Thursday (10am-2pm), August 15-17. This NeXT-sponsored forum is the second in a series of events targeted at organizations evaluating object-oriented technology. Additional events will take place throughout the year both as stand-alone events and in conjunction with other industry shows. NeXT Computer, Inc. NeXT develops and markets OpenStep, the industry's first and most advanced object-oriented environment. OpenStep versions have been announced which will run on several operating systems, including NeXT's own MachOS, Sun's Solaris, Digital's UNIX and Microsoft's Windows NT and Windows 95. OpenStep's object-oriented technology allows corporate customers to rapidly create and deploy three-tier client/server, mission critical custom applications. NeXT is headquartered in Redwood City, California, and has offices in North America, London, Paris, Munich and Tokyo. #### NeXT, the NeXT logo, OpenStep, NEXTSTEP, Enterprise Objects and Portable Distributed Objects are trademarks or registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Release 3.1 of CheckMail (formerly MailCall) Date: 31 May 1995 23:58:18 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3qjdsq$lm@digifix.digifix.com> CheckMail is a simple NeXTSTEP application to check the spool file for incoming mail. It puts up a window listing the "From" and "Subject" lines of any messages it finds, and will play a sound when a new message arrives. In the window it puts up, it also indicates which messages are in NeXTmail or MIME formats. There are a few preferences to modify the behavior of CheckMail. The application is free to anyone. The main changes between version 3.0 and 3.1 are: - Better handling of errors while playing sounds, particularly on Intel systems which don't have a sound card. - New option to use the system beep, or to play no sound at all (both useful to Intel owners without a sound card). - Improved handling of the window-positioning code. This is much more likely to work correctly on machines that have multiple monitors on them. CheckMail has been compiled for all four NeXTSTEP architectures. At the moment I'm not making the source available, but I might change my mind on that in the future. CheckMail requires NeXTSTEP release 3.0 or later (people running NeXTSTEP 2.x should look for an app called MailCall, version 2.9.2). You can find these files at: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/mail/CheckMail-3.1.README ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/mail/CheckMail-3.1_NIHS.tar.gz You can also get them at: ftp://eclipse.its.rpi.edu/NeXT/utils/CheckMail_f (which will give you the listing of a directory that contains CheckMail in four individual-architecture binaries, as well as the README and quad-fat binary available at ftp.cs.orst.edu). Garance Alistair Drosehn Systems Programmer (and NeXTSTEP aficionado) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, New York, USA email: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
From: Stefan Leuker <leuker@news.rwth-aachen.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: NetTalk 1.3alpha quad fat Date: 1 Jun 1995 16:56:13 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ql9hd$9nt@digifix.digifix.com> NetTalk.app 1.3alpha is available quad fat (NIHS) now! This is a chat program that makes use of the NEXTSTEP user interface. It is, however, *NOT* compatible with the shell talk, xtalk, ytalk etc, and will probably never be! But being a real NEXTSTEP application, NetTalk has some advantages compared to its shell equivalent: - NetTalk's windows contain RichText. This means - you can use various fonts and styles all in one document; - you can edit any portion of the text at any time; - you can drag images into it from the Workspace; - you can even send files to your peer by dragging them into your text. - Connecting to your peers is as easy as opening a file. (See the NetTalk online help for additional information.) The files are located in ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/next/Network/apps/NetTalk.1.3a.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/next/Network/apps/NetTalk.1.3a.README Please report any bugs or write suggestions to leuker@POOL.informatik.rwth-aachen.de Thank you!
From: Stefan Schneider <stefan@ping.at> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: HelpViewer: new version 0.9e Date: 2 Jun 1995 01:15:25 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3qm6pd$i3@digifix.digifix.com> HelpViewer.app - scanning & printing NEXTSTEP on-line help ========================================================== HelpViewer prints any application's help, replacing help links with page numbers. Auto-scanning of all hidden help files. Auto-chaptering. Customizable TOC, headers, and footers. Additional benefit for developers: HelpViewer finds all help links that do not point to valid help files, so you can quickly locate & eliminate all broken links in your own application's help. News in version 0.9e: ===================== + new Find Panel finds all links to any help file, not just to nonexistent ones. Handy when you want to rename, move, or remove help files, and want to know which help links need to be updated. + more flexible page selection for printing a particular range of help files. + HelpViewer now contains full on-line help, including complete reference section and index. + various bug fixes. HelpViewer can be obtained from: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/util/HelpViewer.0.9e.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/util/HelpViewer.0.9e.README ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Commercial/tools/apps/HelpViewer.0.9e.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Commercial/tools/apps/HelpViewer.0.9e.README ftp://moolah.fml.tuwien.ac.at/pub/developer/apps/HelpViewer.0.9e.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://moolah.fml.tuwien.ac.at/pub/developer/apps/HelpViewer.0.9e.README Fully functional demo, prints 'DEMO' over each page. To obtain a license for $30 US, contact the author directly at <stefan@ping.at>. Stefan Schneider Software Lerchenfelder St. 85/6 A-1070 Vienna, Austria, Europe voice/fax: +43-1-523-5834 e-mail: stefan@ping.at (NeXTmail preferred)
From: "Jamie O'Keefe" <pericles@athena.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Boston Computer Society NeXT User Group - Tuesday, June 6th Date: 2 Jun 1995 18:22:17 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3qo2up$805@digifix.digifix.com> MindShare 2.0 Demonstration at a special location! Boston Computer Society NeXT User Group Meeting Tuesday, June 6th, 1995 MIT Campus, Building NE43, room 518 (545 Tech Square) 7:00PM 7:00PM Introduction 7:05PM MindShare 2.0 Demonstration Pangea was formed to bring GroupWare tools to NEXTSTEP. Their product, MindShare, was created to fulfill that need. Join us as we meet Dave Martel from Pangea and see MindShare 2.0 in action. We'll be using a special overhead projection system thanks to Ed Hurley, so everyone should get a good view at a high resolution! 8:00PM Rumors of the Month 8:15PM Q&A 8:30PM What's on next month Dinner afterwards. All are welcome to attend. If you would like more information please contact: Jamie O'Keefe at: pericles@athena.com 617.426.6372 (W) 617.628.4136 (H) Directions: The building is 545 technology square, room 518, which is on the 5th floor. 545 tech square is on Main St. in Cambridge, 2 blocks from Kendall Square in the direction of Central Square. If you are coming by T, use the red line and get off at the Kendall Sq/MIT stop. Walk away from the river (toward the Kendall Square Harvard Coop). Walk past Ames St. and Vassar St. Just after you cross Vassar St. you'll cross some railroad tracks, and almost immediately you'll see a group of ugly concrete buildings on your right. The first one is 545. Go in the main lobby and catch an elevator. After business hours the parking lot is free, so you will be able to drive right to the building.
From: rmyers@dec5200.acs.uci.edu (Richard Myers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Kurt's Free Calendar Date: 4 Jun 1995 16:20:04 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3qt4hk$oss@digifix.digifix.com> kfc.app is a free calendar program similar in functionality to the old 'Date' program- for those who remember that.... However, kfc is more powerful than I remember Date being, and it has a human-readable file format! For those of you who tried kfc.app in it's previous release and thought 'This would be a neat app, if it did more and behaved well', check it out. Some general features: kfc displays the full month's appointments and has a mini-view of the next and previous month's appointments. May load up any number of appointment files (and can be set to auto-load files on startup). Context sensitive help. Handles logout and powerdown gracefully. Hey, it's free! Some of the more obvious appointment features: Specify full or partial date (eg. No specific month will repeat every month). Specify a time (w/ or w/o repeat warnings). Specify a number of days to repeat. Specify an expiration date for repeat appointments. Specify a day of the week (eg. 2nd tuesday of the month). Specify the number of days ahead of time to give warning. Specify the type of warning (Panel, Mail, both, or none). kfc is currently at Version 1.0.0. kfc is very powerful, does everything I want it to, but not everything everyone could want. I will maintain kfc and distribute upgrades to the archives as they become practical. If you would like to see something changed/added, let me know. Better yet, offer to change it yourself! If you are interested in hacking the code, please do tell me what you're up to - I hate to see effort duplicated. kfc depends on the MiscKit (a lot!!). You will need MiscKit 1.5.0 or later to compile it. NOTE: if you try to compile kfc with a version of the MiscKit lower than 1.5.0 it may well compile without warning, but it will not function correctly due to old bugs in the MiscTime class. The kfc data files use a subset of the format used in the unix program 'remind'. remind is written by David F. Skoll and is available in usenet archives. kfc is being release under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE. kfc is currently located at: FAT binary for NeXT and Intel machines: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/productivity/KFC.1.0.NI.tar.gz Source for all! ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/productivity/KFC.1.0.src.tar.gz Anyone who has ANY previous version of KFC should upgrade (you too, beta users). Kurt
From: suckow@contrib.de (Ralf Suckow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Shipping MusicBuilder 1.2.0 Date: 4 Jun 1995 16:20:57 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3qt4j9$ot4@digifix.digifix.com> Shipping MusicBuilder 1.2.0 Release 1.2.0 of MusicBuilder, a music creation application for NEXTSTEP, is shipping. A demonstration version has been uploaded to the submission directory of the "Peanuts" archive. The full path will probably be ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Commercial/audio/MusicBuilder-Demo.1.2.0.NIHS.b.tar.gz The new features are - import and export of Midi files - printing (postscript score symbols included) - immediate playback in MLScore.app (using the main CPU) - editable score page layout, predefined layouts - improved score display with automatic note direction and beams - 1/32 and 1/64 notes and rests - full online documentation (NEXTSTEP Help) - runs on Next, x86, HP, Sun Also, a number of enhancements and bug fixes has been done. Here's the new price list: professional user $299 home user $199 educational $199 student $59 (w/o printed documentation) The upgrade from 1.0.1 is free for users who ordered until November 30, 1994. Please e-mail to suckow@contrib.de to get the upgrade disks, and don't forget your current snail-mail address :-) Ralf Suckow
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines Date: 5 Jun 1995 04:15:06 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3qu0ca$sjl@digifix.digifix.com> NEW POLICY: =========== In an attempt to standardize the format of the FTP locations for files, all ftp addresses should be submitted using the Universal Resource Locator (URL) format. (for example) ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/submissions/file.tar.gz Please try and give an indication of where you expect the file will end up on the archive site, in the same notation. Cross Posting ============= I try very hard to make sure that postings get out in a timely fashion. Most go out in less than 24 hours. Postings that require editing because they do not contain information in a useable format, or have already been posted to other comp.sys.next.* groups may be delayed, or returned to you. If your posting is rejected, I'll try and make suggestions about what should be changed where possible. Obviously off charter messages (spams, open-letters, etc) may not get a response. Content 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 _IN URL FORMAT_ supported CPU's for binary distributions, OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting, time of meeting, speakers expected Signatures 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. Announcement of Product Sales ============================= This is an area of announcement that has caused me terrible grief in recent months. The policy is tilted towards the ISV, which has worked out well in the past. Posts that announce sales of products that you are DIRECTLY involved in the development of are OK. Posts from companies trying to sell other products are evaluated on an individual basis. Time Sensitive Announcements ============================ Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date. 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.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet Date: 5 Jun 1995 04:15:15 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Distribution: inet Message-ID: <3qu0cj$sjl@digifix.digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site comp.sys.next newsgroups related newsgroups comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list ftp sites NeXTanswers Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site =============================================== This online community resource includes - 200+ ISV company pages - 400+ ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - NEXTSTEP User Group Directory - comp.sys.next archives - User Group information - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.stepwise.com/ Additionally there is a Mail Server available. You can get information on using the mail server at ns-products@stepwise.com Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise, please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com. eduSTEP WWW site ================ http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/ eduStep aims to provide up-to-date information on: - NextStep tools and projects for scientists. - Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist). - A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with customers in the educational community. - Conferences, meetings, workshops - Major projects, such as SciTools, EMBL's project to develop a NextStep scientific work environment - Status reports on GNUStep, a freely-available implementation of OpenStep now being developed NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site ============================ http://www.next.com comp.sys.next.* newsgroups ========================== news: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. news: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. Archives are available by ftp at ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. news: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. news: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. news: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. news: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!!! news: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. news:comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. news:comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. Related Newsgroups ================== news: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. news:comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. news: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 ============= ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions ftp://nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: (Peanuts) Located in Germany. ftp://ftp.dn.net/pub/next Peanuts mirror in the US ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next/ eduStep ftp://ftp.next.com: See below ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com ===================================== [from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help] 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, read them on the world-wide web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS. 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 REPLY-TO address sets the e-mail address NeXTanswers uses 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 VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web server at URL http://www.next.com. 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. USING NEXTANSWERS BY MODEM To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at (415) 780-2965. Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section. From there you can download NeXTanswers documents. FOR MORE HELP... If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available from NeXTanswers, call the Support Hotline at 1-800-955-NeXT (outside the U.S. call +1-415-424-8500) to speak to a NEXTSTEP Technical Support Technician. If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must make this call to the hotline. Otherwise, hotline support is on a pay-per-call basis. Thanks for using NeXTanswers! Written by: Eric P. Scott (mailto:eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU) and Scott Anguish (mailto:sanguish@digifix.com) Additions from: Greg Anderson (mailto:Greg_Anderson@afs.com) Michael Pizolato (mailto:Michael_Pizolato@afs.com) Dan Grillo (mailto:dan_grillo@next.com)
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys-soft.nextstep Subject: Summary 86 - Articles posted since May 29 1995 Date: 5 Jun 1995 04:00:12 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3qtvgc$sge@digifix.digifix.com> Summary: 86 Postings since: May 29 1995 [3293] ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines [3294] NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet [3295] PRESS RELEASE: NEXTIME Converter Shipping [3296] MEETING: British Columbia OpenStep Group - June 7th [3297] PRESS RELEASE: GESTEL ships solidThinking 2.3 [3298] MEETING: Ottawa NeXT User Group, Thursday June 1 [3299] PRESS RELEASE: Limited-Time $200 Promotional Rebate Offer for SuperDraw 2.0 [3300] PRESS RELEASE: Canon Announces New Pentium-Based object.stations [3301] PRESS RELEASE: Schema Research Corporation Ships Schema-E 1.3.1 for NEXTSTEP Sparc [3302] SUBMISSION: perl5e package for Intel and Motorola [3303] SUBMISSION: TurboTar 0.92b [3304] NeXT Sponsors West Coast NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Day [3305] SUBMISSION: Release 3.1 of CheckMail (formerly MailCall) [3306] SUBMISSION: NetTalk 1.3alpha quad fat [3307] SUBMISSION: HelpViewer: new version 0.9e [3308] MEETING: Boston Computer Society NeXT User Group - Tuesday, June 6th [3309] SUBMISSION: Kurt's Free Calendar [3310] PRESS RELEASE: Shipping MusicBuilder 1.2.0 If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com. Archives -------- Individual messages are available at http://www.stepwise.com/comp.sys.next.announce/csna-86/**article_number** where **article_number** is the [xxxx] beside the Subject line above.. FTP archives: ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives/csna-86.tar.gz WWW archives: http://www.stepwise.com/comp.sys.next.announce/csna-86 Article submissions : next-announce@digifix.com Submission guidelines: next-announce-guidelines@digifix.com Suggestions/comments : next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: dja3@meaddata.com (Dave Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: cmsg cancel <3qvjn5$61r@digifix.digifix.com> Control: cancel <3qvjn5$61r@digifix.digifix.com> Date: 5 Jun 1995 18:52:10 -0000 Organization: Digital Fix Development Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3qvjoq$625@digifix.digifix.com> Cancelled Message by sanguish@digifix.com -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions) http://www.stepwise.com/ (Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server)
From: dja3@meaddata.com (Dave Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Flying Monkey announces shareware images... Date: 5 Jun 1995 18:52:55 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3qvjq7$62g@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Dave Anderson Flying Monkey Software 8424 Todd Creek Cr. West Chester, OH 45069 djanders@nox.cs.du.edu 513-865-6800 x6087 Day 513-779-6489 Evening WEST CHESTER, Ohio, June 5, 1995 -- Flying Monkey Software announces some NeXT-ready shareware icons for your personal or business use. All are free for the taking! Use them yourself, give them to your friends, ship them with your systems, whatever... All can had through a simple ftp under ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Vendors/Flying_Monkey_Software/Shareware/Images The icons are provided as is, usually in multiple colorspaces, and alpha'd where appropriate. The costs below are simply suggested; feel no obligation to send money. But your support will help the shareware icons sets to grow. Credit Cards - amex, discover, master card, and visa - $5 Files - c++ file - $1 Stop and Go - 16x16 stop and go signs - $1 To get a full look at all of our Flying Monkey stuff check out our pages on the web at http://www.stepwise.com/ThirdParty/Developers/Flying_Monkey_Software.htmld/index.html If you don't have www access yet, we can send you an NeXTmail copy of the latest Flying Monkey Software Catalog directly, in rtf. By the way, if you do ask for the rtf catalog, you'll be able to lift the tiff out of it directly in Edit. Just send a note... Flying Monkey Software provides object, application, shareware, programming and award-winning graphic design services to the NEXTSTEP community. We've been been kicking out software over the last twenty-one years, making a buck here and there. Our credo is satisfaction guaranteed: all Flying Monkey products will work - or we'll fix them for free. We'll also extend them for requesting customers on a contractual basis. Just listen for the howling in the trees... NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc. The shareware icons mentioned above are from Flying Monkey Software. Somewhere off in the distance, a dog is barking.
From: dja3@meaddata.com (Dave Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Flying Monkey announce a VRML Tagger Service Date: 5 Jun 1995 18:53:23 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3qvjr3$62n@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Dave Anderson Flying Monkey Software 8424 Todd Creek Cr. West Chester, OH 45069 djanders@nox.cs.du.edu 513-865-6800 x6087 Day 513-779-6489 Evening WEST CHESTER, Ohio, June 5, 1995 -- Flying Monkey Software announces another free tagger service for use with the Tagger application for NEXTSTEP. This time its VRML 1.0 (Virtual Reality Markup Language 1.0) the first version of a public-domain language which is used to describe virtual realities for transmission over the world wide web. Conceived in the spring of 94, VRML became a subset of Silicon Graphic's Inventor File Format with extentions to support networking. SGI has publicly stated that the file format is available for use in the open market. The tagger service is available via ftp under ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Vendors/Flying_Monkey_Software/TaggerServices Two organizations of the VRML markup are included: a logical organization which creates services menu popups organized by common behaviors of VRML objects, and a book organization which creates services menu popups organized according to the www presentation of the VRML 1.0 Spec. You may take your choice of which you'd rather use by enabling the one you want via Tagger. Taggger, a data-driven, text-tagging, service program is available from Flying Monkey for $15.00 and comes with an HTML tagger service for marking up text intended to be accessible from the world wide web. All the documentation necessary for you to build your own tagger services is included. To see the Flying Monkey big picture check out our pages on the web at http://www.stepwise.com/ThirdParty/Developers/Flying_Monkey_Software.htmld/index.html If you don't have www access yet, we can send you an NeXTmail copy of the latest Flying Monkey Software Catalog directly, in rtf. Just send a note... Flying Monkey Software provides object, application, shareware, programming and award-winning graphic design services to the NEXTSTEP community. We've been been building software over the last twenty-one years; its what we like to do. Our credo is satisfaction guaranteed: all Flying Monkey products will work - or we'll fix them for free. We'll also extend them for requesting customers on a contractual basis. Have you done that monkey-thing lately? NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc. Tagger is an applications for NEXTSTEP from Flying Monkey Software. Do not exceed recommended dosage because at higher doses, nervousness, dizziness or sleeplessness may occur.
From: dja3@meaddata.com (Dave Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: cmsg cancel <3qvjo6$622@digifix.digifix.com> Control: cancel <3qvjo6$622@digifix.digifix.com> Date: 6 Jun 1995 02:38:52 -0000 Organization: Digital Fix Development Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3r0f3s$9u8@digifix.digifix.com> Cancelled Message by sanguish@digifix.com -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions) http://www.stepwise.com/ (Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server)
From: dja3@meaddata.com (Dave Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Flying Monkey releases free UnixAssist Shareware Date: 6 Jun 1995 02:39:26 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3r0f4u$9uf@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Dave Anderson Flying Monkey Software 8424 Todd Creek Cr. West Chester, OH 45069 djanders@nox.cs.du.edu 513-865-6800 x6087 Day 513-779-6489 Evening WEST CHESTER, Ohio, June 5, 1995 -- Flying Monkey Software announces a set of "UNIX ASSIST" shareware to continue to help stamp out typing in our lifetime. These apps are aimed at NeXT developers who create software incrementally, have to deal with multiple platforms, non-NeXT domains, and more typing into terminals than they'd like. The UNIX ASSIST series will continue to expand as more quick-and-dirty opportunities to wrap UNIX are identified. All of these apps are free for the taking! Use them yourself, give them to your friends, ship them with your systems, whatever... All can had through a simple ftp under ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Vendors/Flying_Monkey_Software/Shareware/UnixAssist The registration costs below are simply suggested; feel no obligation to send money. But your support will help the UNIX ASSIST shareware series to grow. gzipper - a wrapper for gzip and gunzip - (registration: $5 suggested) gzipper lets you zip and unzip files and directories with a click, a drag, or a call. Unix Assist -> gzip will appear on your Services menu to fire on a file, or you can command-click gz files in the file viewer, or command drag files into the gzipper icon. GzipperSpeaker.h and GzipperSpeaker.m are also provided as an API. msgwrapper - a wrapper for msgwrap - (registration: $2) msgwrapper lets create speaker/listener pairs from a msg file with a click, a drag, or a call. Unix Assist -> msgwrap will appear on your Services menu to fire on a file, or you can command-click msg files in the file viewer, or command drag msg files into the msgwrapper icon. MsgwrapperSpeaker.h and MsgwrapperSpeaker.m are also provided as an API. stripper - a wrapper for strip - (registration: $2) stripper lets you strip executable files (directly or in .app directories) with a click, a drag, or a call. Unix Assist -> strip will appear on your Services menu to fire on a file, or you can command drag files into the stripper icon. StripperSpeaker.h and StripperSpeaker.m are also provided as an API. uuencoder - a wrapper for uuencode and uudecode - (registration: $2) uuencoder lets you uuencode and uudecode files or directories with a click, a drag, or a call. (Note: if you want to uuencode directories, you'll need the gzipper shareware above.) Unix Assist -> uuencode will appear on your Services menu to fire on a file, or you can command-click uue files in the file viewer, or command drag files into the uuencoder icon. UuencoderSpeaker.h and UuencoderSpeaker.m are also provided as an API. To get a full look at all of our Flying Monkey stuff check out our pages on the web at http://www.stepwise.com/ThirdParty/Developers/Flying_Monkey_Software.htmld/index.html If you don't have www access yet, we can send you an NeXTmail copy of the latest Flying Monkey Software Catalog directly, in rtf. Just send a note... Flying Monkey Software provides object, application, shareware, programming and award-winning graphic design services to the NEXTSTEP community. We've been been frantically making software over the last twenty-one years, just to keep ourselves happy. Our credo is satisfaction guaranteed: all Flying Monkey products will work - or we'll fix them for free. We'll also extend them for requesting customers on a contractual basis. Flying Monkey is always looking for more fun! NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc. UNIX ASSIST is a watchword of Flying Monkey Software. Gzipper, Msgwrapper, Stripper, and Uuencoder are shareware applications from Flying Monkey Software. Some states or countries do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential exclusions or limitations, so the above exclusion or limitation may not apply to you incidentally or consequentially in a particular state or country.
From: amm@NeXT.COM (Alan M. Marcum) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: CLASS, U.K.: Advanced NetInfo & Advanced NetInfo Update Date: 6 Jun 1995 20:41:51 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3r2eif$jp6@digifix.digifix.com> I am very pleased to announce that Tower Education in London will be hosting a set of Advanced NetInfo classes July 17th-21st. There'll be two classes: Advanced NetInfo, 3 days (July 17-19), 950 pounds Advanced NetInfo Update, 2 days (July 20-21), 795 pounds (Prices are in U.K. Pounds, and exclude VAT.) The Advanced NetInfo Class is aimed at experienced NetInfo administrators -- those with at least 6 months of experience managing and administering a network with at least a three-level NetInfo hierarchy. We cover binding, connecting, update propagation, the protocols and data formats on the wire, operations of the various NetInfo servers (nibindd, netinfod, and lookupd), client-side operations, and integration of NetInfo with the DNS and NIS. We also cover some troubleshooting (including a trouble-shooting exercise) and system startup (through an exercise). New for this edition of the class will be information on configuring multi-homed servers and the architecture of non-NEXTSTEP NetInfo. The Advanced NetInfo Update class is aimed specifically at those who've attended a previous Advanced NetInfo class, and want both a refresher and an update to the world of NetInfo under NEXTSTEP Release 3.3. We'll cover the new features of 3.3, including both server-side and client-side enhancements, changes to the command-line programs, and changes to the GUI-based applications. Trouble-shooting information and exercises are included in the class, as will information on configuring multi-homed servers and the architecture of non-NEXTSTEP NetInfo To register, or for further information, please contact: Tower Education DG Tower, Great West Road Brentford, Liddlesex TW89AN United Kingdom Telephone: +44-181-758-6600 Fax: +44-181-758-6758
From: Ernest Prabhakar <ernest@pundit.cithep.caltech.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: June 14th: SCaN User Group Meeting at Caltech Date: 7 Jun 1995 18:39:27 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3r4rov$1ql@digifix.digifix.com> SCaN Meeting "Death & Resurrection of the NUG Community" June 14th, 1995 at Caltech The June 14th, 1995 Meeting of SCaN will be held at the California Institute of Technology, in Jorgensen 74 (Computer Science Dept). This will be the final SCaN Meeting at Caltech, since Rohit and Ernie are graduating. Ernie will be staying in the area to do consulting, but Rohit is going to MIT to work at the World Wide Web Consortium. Tim Byars has volunteered to take over as SCaN President; there will be an election at the June meeting. Other nominations are always welcome. When: Wednesday 14th June 1995 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 74 Jorgensen Death and Rebirth: The Future of the User Community Ernest N. Prabhakar, Ph.D. President, NEXTSTEP/OpenStep User Groups International NeXT and the Web Rohit Khare W3 Consortium OpenStep Markets Chet Kapoor Inventa, Inc. Reports: NeXTSTEP Expo, OpenStep delays Rumors, Rumors, Rumors... Dues: $2.00 SCaN is a group for NeXTSTEP and OpenStep users in Southern California. NeXTSTEP is an object-oriented operating system running on NeXT, Intel, HP, and SPARC systems. OpenStep is an open object standard which will be implemented on NeXTSTEP, SUN Solaris, and DEC OSF/1-Alpha in 1995/96. Directions: Jorgensen is located near the center of Caltech, on San Pasqual Ave. (west of Hill Ave., north of California Blvd. and south of Del Mar) in Pasadena (south of the 210 Freeway, east of the 110). More details on the back, and a map will appear in the followup. Contact: Michael K. Mahoney, SCaN President (310) 985-1550 Computer Eng. and Computer Sci. Dept. mahoney@csulb.edu California State University, Long Beach Long Beach, CA 90840 or: Tim Byars, SCaN Presidential Nominee (310) 535-4830 Overdrive tbyars@overdrive.com or: Ernie Prabhakar, CaJUN Vice-President (818) 395-8379 Caltech Physics Department ernest@cco.caltech.edu or: Rohit Khare, CaJUN 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 Hill 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. You are near Caltech. The next light is San Pasqual. Turn Right. 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. Keep going until you get to Hill, at which point turn Left (North). Go to the stop light at San Pasqual, and turn Left. Once you are on San Pasqual, keep going to the dead end. Jorgensen will be on your right. Parking is on the street, or in the parking structure on Holliston, which is the right turn before San Pasqual dead ends. The meeting will be in Jorgensen 74 which is in the basement. Go down the stairs in front of Jorgensen, and you should find the door propped open. Refreshments will be served inside. Any questions, call Ernie Prabhakar, Home: (818) 568-9168, Work: (818) 395-8379, ernest@cco.caltech.edu
From: Roland Telfeyan <roland@telf.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: SEMiNUG - Monday, June 12, 1995 Date: 7 Jun 1995 18:39:55 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3r4rpr$1qs@digifix.digifix.com> What: Meeting of SEMiNUG (South Eastern Michigan NEXTSTEP User Group) Date: Monday, June 12, 1995 Time: 7:30 PM Where: The Advanced Technologies Laboratory (ATL) Building 1101 Beal Ave. Ann Arbor, MI ATL is located on the University of Michigan's North Campus. If you're not sure how to get there, send email or call one of the people listed below. The schedule for the meeting will be: 7:30 PM - questions 7:35 PM - news items 7:45 PM - Notebook application demo 8:00 PM - CHI'95 report/discussion (CHI is the main conference sponsored each year by the ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction.) 8:30 PM - answers 8:45 PM - discussion of what's on for next month There will also be a Sun Voyager at the meeting courtesy of Carl Wright and Lynn-Arthur Associates, Inc. Of course, as one would expect, it will be running NEXTSTEP. Come join us for an exciting presentation, spirited talk, helpful Q&A, and some top notch refreshments. If you would like additional directions or information or if you have ideas for topics to be covered in future meetings, contact one of the following: Timothy Mills mills_timothy@network.cfc.com phone: 810-948-4959 Roland Telfeyan roland@telf.com phone: 313-761-9590 Shan Bell bell_shan@network.cfc.com phone: 810-948-3199
From: rob@bedazzled.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Next In Line Announces Its Departure From the NEXTSTEP Market Date: 6 Jun 1995 20:52:16 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3r2f60$k0k@digifix.digifix.com> June 6, 1995 Contact: Robert A. Wyatt Publisher NEXT IN LINE Magazine 703.955.5045 rob@bedazzled.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEXT IN LINE ANNOUNCES ITS DEPARTURE FROM THE NEXTSTEP MARKET. Effective immediately, NEXT IN LINE Magazine has ceased publication. The decision to leave the NEXTSTEP market was a difficult one to make. However, no visible support from NeXT and a waning third party market has rendered it impossible for NEXT IN LINE to remain financially viable. "After a year of hard work it has become clear that there is insufficient interest in an exclusively NEXTSTEP-oriented magazine," said NEXT IN LINE's editor and publisher, Robert Wyatt. "I hate to think of us as yet another casualty of this market, but at this point our only option is to cease publication. Despite my best efforts, NEXT IN LINE has lost money on every issue. We had hoped that as OpenStep became more of a reality, there would be increased interest in NEXT IN LINE. This turned out to be wishful thinking. The number of NEXTSTEP users interested in a publication seems to be shrinking as more and more jump ship in favor of the Mac or Windows. Although we continue to receive several inquiries each day, the volume is not enough to sustain our efforts and the MCCA sites don't seem to be interested in a NEXTSTEP-oriented publication." "In addition, most third party vendors don't have the resources to purchase advertising space in every issue of NEXT IN LINE. Our very survival is dependant upon a strong and prosperous third party market and, unfortunately, there isn't one," Mr. Wyatt continued. "We are very grateful to every developer who has advertised in NEXT IN LINE. When considering the purchase of a new software product, I hope that every NEXT IN LINE reader will choose to support these fine companies. However, the numbers just didn't add up." "In addition, despite much well-wishing from many employees, NeXT never chose to stand behind us, to endorse us, or to contribute to our growth and survival by advertising in NEXT IN LINE. In the end, this indifference dealt us the harshest, and perhaps most damaging, blow." "Finally, I would like to take a moment to thank each of the NEXT IN LINE contributors. I feel very privileged to have worked with such a fine group of people. But, most importantly, I want to thank our subscribers for taking a chance and believing in us. Please accept my sincerest apologies for not being able to fulfill our promise of a NEXTSTEP-oriented publication," concluded Mr. Wyatt. Although it is small consolation, NEXT IN LINE readers will be happy to learn that arrangements are being made to distribute NEXT IN LINE #4 (completed, but not printed at the time of this announcement) electronically. We are considering both PostScript and Web distribution. Watch the comp.sys.next.announce USENET group for more information.
From: Kindle DiGiusto <Kindle_DiGiusto@NeXT.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Ocean Software ships Complete Access v1.0.1 for NEXTSTEP Date: 8 Jun 1995 03:05:07 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3r5pd3$6r1@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Dana W. Parrish 904-363-1646 dana@oceansoft.com OCEAN SOFTWARE SHIPS COMPLETE ACCESS v1.0.1 for NEXTSTEP June 7, 1995-Jacksonville, Florida - Ocean Software, Inc. is pleased to announce that Complete Access version 1.0.1 is now shipping for the NEXTSTEP environment. Complete Access is a database query, reporting, and data analysis application which works in conjunction with NeXT's Enterprise Objects Framework to generate sophisticated documents for the end-user. Complete Access enables both professionals and generalists to create hierarchical reports, forms, columnar reports, form letters, envelopes, and labels, quickly and easily. The application can also produce summary pages to display aggregate values without showing the individual records from which the aggregates were derived. Database reporting applications typically create static documents which require continuous query execution to be modified. Complete Access documents are dynamic, allowing the user to perform "what-if" scenarios on data by omitting, finding, sorting, and applying various filters to browse a subset of data retrieved with a database query or text file import. Multiple documents may reference the results of a single query or import and multiple query results and imports are easily combined. "Our customers tell us Complete Access enables them to off-load much of the work currently required of their IS staffs. Their employees in the trenches can make quicker and better informed decisions too." said Randy Leonard, president of Ocean Software, Inc. Indeed, Complete Access offers almost instant results to the end user who does not even know SQL. "It is exciting to see an intuitive data analysis tool emerge on the NEXTSTEP platform," said Martin Yam, NeXT VP of Sales and Marketing. "The ability to generate multiple data views, apply filters, and analyze results makes Complete Access the perfect complement to NeXT's Enterprise Objects Framework." Dan Gamble of OpenSource agrees, stating that "since our first day of operation, we have had requests for a powerful, yet intuitive data access and reporting tool. Only now, with Complete Access, can we offer such a solution." But Complete Access is not only for end-users, but developers as well. The extensive API and upcoming developer version will almost certainly meet or exceed the requirements of even the most demanding developer. Complete Access includes a vast array of powerful and intuitive features designed to make database access, reporting, and data analysis fast and easy. * The only EOF-based reporting application. DBKit support is also included. * Extensive query support, including: * A graphical query builder empowers even the novice, no knowledge of SQL is required * Query parameterization * Results of many queries are easily combined * Automatic generation of subqueries as an optional feature * Query results may be shared by many documents * Extensive import/export support, including: * Arbitrary field and record delimiters * Drag & drop import with optional automatic model generation * Export data from multiple tables to a single text file * Exported data may be sorted * Filters to exclude specific records from the exported data * Extensive aggregate support, including: * Total, Running Total, Percent of Total, Average, Minimum, Maximum, and Count * Group aggregates, unlimited nested groups are supported * Filters to exclude specific records from the aggregate result * Extensive document interfaces * Hierarchical reports, forms, columnar reports, form letters, envelopes, labels, and summary pages * Free form design environment * A paper interface allows you to see how your document will appear as it is designed * A document's paper size is arbitrary, your reports automatically reflow to the paper size you require * Variables permit easy modification to queries and calculations and can be displayed in your documents too * Arbitrary formatting of dates, times, and numbers * Documentation * Tutorial * QuickStart Manual * On-line Help * Extensive API to empower developers Complete Access v1.0.1 is available now for Intel-, Motorola-, and HP PA-RISC-based versions of NEXTSTEP 3.2 or later. Pricing starts at $799 per user, with volume discounts available. Contact Dana Parrish of Ocean Software at 904-363-1646 or dana@oceansoft.com for further details. Ocean Software, Inc. Ocean Software, Inc. of Jacksonville, FL, founded in 1991, develops a variety of database access tools for NEXTSTEP and OpenStep. Complete Access is a trademark of Ocean Software, Inc. NeXT Computer, Inc. NeXT develops and markets OpenStep, the industry's first and most advanced object environment. OpenStep versions have been announced which will run on several operating systems, including NeXT's own MachOS, Sun's Solaris, Digital's OSF/1 and Microsoft's Windows NT and Windows 95. OpenStep's object-oriented technology allows corporate customers to rapidly create and deploy three-tier, client-server, mission critical custom applications. NeXT is headquartered in Redwood City, California, and has offices in North America, London, Paris, Munich and Tokyo. Trademark Info: NeXT, the NeXT logo, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP are trademarks or registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners. ###
From: "William B. Pietri" <william@smile.apdg.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NEXTSTEP Developers, SysAdmins Date: 8 Jun 1995 03:07:04 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3r5pgo$6rk@digifix.digifix.com> Apollo Derivatives Group, LLC, a trading company located at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, is looking for experienced NEXTSTEP Developers and Systems Administrators. Apollo Derivatives is a small, growing trading firm based in Chicago with offices in London and Frankfurt and additional offices in the works. To meet the technical demands of an expanding and dynamic company, the Apollo Tech Group is looking for some highly motivated technical personnel that are geared towards learning, growing, and hard work. The Apollo Tech Group attracts some of the most talented NEXTSTEP developers on the planet. NEXTSTEP Developers Senior level NEXTSTEP Developers with 2 or more years of object-oriented NEXTSTEP development experience. Knowledge of trading systems, HTML, or perl a plus. Systems Administrators NEXTSTEP or UNIX Systems Administrators with 2 or more years WAN experience. Knowledge of trading systems, perl, or World Wide Web a plus. About the Tech Group Our work environment is very relaxed. If you come into work with a suit on, you will be laughed at. Apollo is dedicated to providing a work environment that is ergonomically correct. Projects are managed by a Project Manager and guided by a Technical Director. There are no politics. Please Contact: Christine Palmieri Project Manager palmieri@apdg.com (312) 364 - 1424 VOICE (312) 364 - 1401 FAX
From: "Carl E. Lindberg" <lindberg@blacksmith.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Database admin w/ NEXTSTEP development - Blacksmith, Inc. (MD) Date: 9 Jun 1995 03:19:57 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3r8ekt$im5@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information: Denise Britti 9401 Mathy Drive, Suite 300 Fairfax, VA 22031 (800) 619-6147 (703) 250-1741 (703) 250-1744 Fax Plain Text, NeXT Mail, or MIME: info@blacksmith.com JOB: BLACKSMITH SEEKING DATA BASE ADMINISTRATOR INTERESTED IN BECOMING NEXTSTEP DEVELOPER BLaCKSMITH, Inc., developers of CHaRTSMITH, NEXTSTEP's most popular business productivity application for charting and graphing, is looking for a qualified Oracle data base administrator to join its NEXTSTEP contracting division. The position will evolve into a NEXTSTEP development position and the candidate will be expected to provide support as a junior-level developer as soon as possible. The successful candidate will have: - Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent work experience - Minimum two years of Oracle experience (Oracle 7.X) or other relational data base - General knowledge of object-oriented analysis and design - One to two years development experience in C or C++ - Two years experience with UNIX - UNIX system administration a plus - NEXTSTEP development experience a plus As a data base administrator/Jr. developer, the successful candidate will: - Work on-site in Baltimore, MD on an award-winning NEXTSTEP development project - Work closely with and provide strong inputs to a team of talented NEXTSTEP developers - Provide database administration - Continue to take on more responsibilities as a NEXTSTEP developer - Design and implement NEXTSTEP applications - Provide UNIX system administration - Work in an environment that is flexible, relaxed and technically challenging. Founded in 1992, BLaCKSMITH, Inc. is dedicated to providing custom and commercial software solutions to customers who wish to capitalize on the advantages of object-oriented software. The company offers a comfortable and flexible work environment and is located in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Please send resumes to: Denise Britti 9401 Mathy Drive, Suite 300 Fairfax, VA 22031 (800) 619-6147 (703) 250-1741 (703) 250-1744 Fax Plain Text, NeXT Mail, or MIME: info@blacksmith.com We look forward to hearing from you!
From: Tracy Kugelman <tracy@its.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: IT Solutions Announces the Release of Crashcatcher 2 Date: 9 Jun 1995 06:22:21 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3r8pat$kad@digifix.digifix.com> PRESS RELEASE IT Solutions Tracy Kugelman 1.617.787.1002 1.617.787.1218 fax info@its.com http://www.its.com/ IT SOLUTIONS ANNOUNCES THE RELEASE OF CRASHCATCHER 2 Announces New Pricing June 9, 1995 - Chicago, IL - Today, IT Solutions announced that it has shipped a final beta release of CrashCatcher 2, a non-intrusive runtime utility for Objective-C debugging. IT Solutions has purchased CrashCatcher from WhiteLight Systems and has spent considerable time upgrading the product. In addition, we are releasing an early beta of a companion product called SymbolDecoder. CrashCatcher 2 provides developers with detailed diagnostic information that enables developers to improve the quality of their applications. Developers link CrashCatcher into their application and may use it with gdb. Then, when the application ships, CrashCatcher ships with it. In the event of a crash or exception in the user's hands, CrashCatcher automatically sends an e-mail message back to the developer (or system administrator). No user intervention is necessary. CrashCatcher provides debugging information that is impractical to obtain with gdb. "CrashCatcher 2 was purchased by IT Solutions to provide a valuable tool to programmers, with functionality not available on any other development platform. Since IT Solutions' developers have used and benefited from the first version of CrashCatcher, we knew that developers and by extension end users would benefit from this new release," said Ted Shelton, President and CEO of IT Solutions. New features included in this version are: - C and C++ diagnostic reporting (using SymbolDecoder) - Crash avoidance and recovery - Compatibility with NeXT's Enterprise Objects and the Foundation Kit - Support for NEXTSTEP on HP and SPARC architectures - Error handling controllable on a per-error basis - Non-fatal error reporting with controllable priority levels - Mach exception handling - Zone memory checking - Improved interaction with debuggers 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 errors. CrashCatcher helps developers create a closed loop quality cycle with their end-users. The cost of CrashCatcher 2 and the companion SymbolDecoder is $495. An additional $80 annual maintenance fee for each license entitles users to email support and free upgrades. CrashCatcher 2 runs on NEXTSTEP 3.0 or higher for Motorola, Intel, HP. A version of CrashcCatcher2 is still being tested on the SPARC platform. A CrashCatcher Evaluation Kit is available. It includes source code to a demonstration application which is full of insidious bugs, a fully-functional time-limited library, and complete documentation. The Evaluation Kit is available via email at no charge or by mail for $19.95 prepaid. IT Solutions, headquartered at 500 West Madison St., Suite 2210, Chicago, Illinois 60661, was founded in 1990 as a software development and consulting firm specializing in object technology. IT Solutions specializes in object oriented systems including database connectivity and application design, web services and Internet application development tools for strategic technology and messaging infrastructures for clients throughout the United States. IT Solutions has offices in Boston and San Francisco in addition to our Chicago office. -30- CrashCatcher, CrashCatcher2 and SymbolDecoder are trademarks of WhiteLight Systems and licensed by Information Technology Solutions. NeXT, NEXTSTEP, and OpenStep are trademarks or registered trademarks of NeXT Computer Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: info@eversoft.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Everest Software Releases Everest Asset Management 1.5 Date: 9 Jun 1995 18:32:14 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ra43e$q6u@digifix.digifix.com> FROM: Mark McNiel, Sr. Account Executive Everest Software Corporation 4347 W. Northwest Highway Suite 851 Dallas, TX 75220 (214) 437-7634 mark@eversoft.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE EVEREST SOFTWARE CORPORATION RELEASES EVEREST ASSET MANAGEMENT 1.5 FOR NEXTSTEP POWERFUL ASSET MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE DALLAS, TX, USA - Everest Software Corporation today announced the release of Everest Asset Management 1.5 for NEXTSTEP, "...a powerful and easy to use application that extends asset management across all aspects of an infrastructure." The application, which takes full advantage of NeXT's object technologies, delivers sophisticated functionality of a high level including organizational modeling and financial analysis. The application allows users to manage information from multiple sources across accounting, network, location, company and departmental barriers. All logistical, financial and contractual data within an infrastructure is brought together in categories including equipment, software, personnel, maintenance, facilities, leases, services and consumables. The software also provides the ability to create and manage an unlimited number of configurations within an organization. Information may be viewed and analyzed from simultaneous and multiple perspectives. Specifically, benefits and features of Everest Asset Management 1.5 include: - Asset tracking - Superior decision support - Improved cost control - Budget creation - Cost driver analysis - Contract management - Variance analysis - Simulation analysis - Retention of actual, projected and targeted financial information The application provides connectivity to industry standard relational database management systems including Sybase/SQL Server and Oracle. A full featured demo version of Everest Asset Management 1.5 is now available on diskette or via FTP from http://www.everestsw.com. Additional product information may be obtained by calling Everest Software Corporation at (214) 437-7634 or by email at info@eversoft.com. Everest Software is a provider of data processing and management information system software and consulting services, specializing in controlling and reducing costs. The company is based in Dallas, Texas, serving oil and gas, government, financial services, engineering, direct marketing, communications and health care industries. NEXTSTEP is a trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. Everest Asset Management is a trademark of Everest Software Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Oracle is a trademark of Oracle Corporation. SQL Server is a trademark of Microsoft. Sybase is a trademark of Sybase Corporation. ### For additional information, contact: Mark McNiel, Sr. Account Executive phone: (214) 437-7634 fax: (214) 437-7600 email: mark@eversoft.com
From: Paul Tod Rieger <prie@abl.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: NEXTSTEP:atlanta, June 15th Date: 9 Jun 1995 18:32:34 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ra442$q77@digifix.digifix.com> Different time and place: Date: Thursday, June 15, 1995 Time: 7:00pm Place: Advanced Technology Development Center Suite N-114 (conference room) Cost: free and open to the public Agenda: Taligent on AIX/PowerPC: A NEXTSTEP Developer's View Robert Smith (The Object Shop) Stone Design's CD (Create, Dataphile, 3DReality, and more) Directions to: Advanced Technology Development Center 430 Tenth St. N.W. Atlanta, GA I75/85 to 10th Street exit 10th west about 1 mile left onto Greenfield immediate right into parking lot enter main breezeway, which leads to the conference room Contact: Tod Rieger Robert Smith Email: prie@abl.com Email: object@crl.com Phone: 404-381-2464
From: Andrew Stone <andrew@stone.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: STONE DESIGN Ships DataPhile 3.0 for German Speakers Date: 9 Jun 1995 18:33:24 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ra45k$q7h@digifix.digifix.com> News For immediate release For more information write info@stone.com or call Katie Graunke at (505) 345-4800 STONE DESIGN Ships DataPhile 3.0 for German Speakers ALBUQUERQUE, NM, June 9, 1995 - Stone Design today shipped the German language version of DataPhile 3.0, the premier database manager for NEXTSTEP on the STONE_CD v2. Andrew Stone, CEO of Stone Design said, "We've worked hard to make it this release the best ever, and it went great thanks to the speed of NEXTSTEP on a SPARC machine. This version once again confirms Stone Design's committment to the growing NEXTSTEP community and to the betterment of 3rd party applications. Try it and see for yourself!" German speaking users can pick up the DP_German package at: ftp://ftp.cs.unm.edu/pub/stone/DataPhile/DP_German.pkg.tar.gz DataPhile 3.0 incorporates numerous new features requested by users, including, but not limited to: NEW DATA TYPES: * Summary Fields - total your data. * Time Fields. * Duration Fields - great for client billing! * URL Fields - store and search your favorite WWW sites. GENERAL: * QUAD Fat Architecture: runs on Motorola, Intel, HP and SPARC * Pop up lists. * Radio Buttons. * Search on non-alphanumeric characters. * EMACS key bindings. * Faster Navigation and Searches. * Expanded, updated on-line manual. * Ability to import fixed-length data. * More Colorful Interface. REPORTS: * Headers & footers printed first/last page only. * Two Page Views. * Sequence Number Function. * Choose envelope alignment for various printers. * Works with XANTHUS's OpenWrite and OpenMerge. * Extract records from the command line. MAIL: * Allow alternate email support addresses. * Allow alternate Mailer to be used. DESIGN: * Layout Guides for easy placement of objects. * Grids in Design Mode now a user preference. * Ability to reorder entry lists. FIXES: * Many performance enhancements and bug fixes. DataPhile is an award winning* flatfile database application for NEXTSTEP. DataPhile lists for $695 but excellent academic and student pricing is available. The upgrade from version 2.1 is $149, and the upgrade from version 1 is $249. To download a demo, check your favorite NEXTSTEP archive, or: ftp://cs.unm.edu/pub/stone/DataPhile/DataPhile_3.0.tar For more information on DataPhile 3.0's features and fixes, get this file: http://www.stone.com/stone/DataPhile_3_Features.rtfd.tar.gz For more info on DataPhile and Stone Design, visit: http://www.stone.com/stone/ To reach a human, please call 505-345-4800 between 9am and 5pm Mountain Standard Time. =*= Stone Design Corporation of Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 1984, develops a variety of productivity applications for NEXTSTEP. 3D Reality, DataPhile, and Create are trademarks of Stone Design Corporation. The Stone Design logotype is copyright Stone Design 1994. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. *DataPhile was named the "The Best DataBase product of 1992" by a Usenet survey.
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: NEXT IN LINE acquired, to continue publishing Date: 10 Jun 1995 03:03:45 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <3rb22h$1kt@digifix.digifix.com> -------------------------------------------- 6/9/1995 A letter to our loyal subscribers, advertisers, and supporters >From NEXT IN LINE Magazine. By now many of you have heard that NEXT IN LINE magazine decided to cease publication effective June 6th 1995. This decision was not made lightly. While Issue #4 was ready for publication, financial issues prevented us from printing and distributing it. Today, however, I am very happy to announce that NEXT IN LINE has been acquired in whole by a company dedicated to pursuing its publication with the same "style and care" with which NIL was founded. Not only am I thrilled to see our project live on, I'm very confident that NIL's new owners will continue to deliver an informative and unbiased publication. Robert Wyatt Founder NEXT IN LINE ---------------- Dear Subscriber: We realize that you may be concerned about the future of NIL now that it has been acquired. I would like to take this moment to answer some of the questions you may have about NEXT IN LINE. Q: When will we see issue #4? A: As part of our acquisition of NEXT IN LINE, we have agreed to print and ship Issue #4 by June 30th. The format and style for Issue #4 and future issues will be similar to earlier issues. Q: I paid for six issues, how many am I going to get? A: All paid subscriptions will be honored. We will ship every magazine that has been paid for. In addition, we plan to publish issues #5 and #6 before the end of the year. Q: How do I contact NIL? A: In addition to changing owners, NEXT IN LINE is moving to the west coast. At this time, we are deciding on a permanent location. Address, phone, and email information will be posted to the comp.sys.next newsgroups by June 19th. It will also be included within Issue #4, and available at NEXT IN LINE's old phone number (703) 955-5045 for several months. Q: Is the magazine going to be different? A: We have no changes planned for the style or format of NEXT IN LINE. We will however be adding more focus for larger corporate customers of NEXTSTEP and OpenStep. The name will also remain the same. We thank you for your patience, and look forward to continuing to deliver the most informative and thoughtful publication possible for NeXTSTEP/OpenStep users and developers. Nancy Vanderburg Director NEXT IN LINE
From: Tracy Kugelman <tracy@its.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: IT Solutions Announces New WWW Workstaion - Pricing and Configurations Date: 9 Jun 1995 19:04:00 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ra5v0$qg5@digifix.digifix.com> IT Solutions Tracy Kugelman 1.617.787.1002 1.617.787.1218 fax info@its.com http://www.its.com/ IT Solutions Announces New Neticity Web Authoring and Publishing Workstations and New Pricing June 9, 1995 - Chicago, IL. Today, IT Solutions announced new configurations and new pricing for the Neticity Workstation, a turnkey World Wide Web authoring and publishing solution. The Neticity workstation was developed jointly with Canon and is based on the Canon family of object.stations featuring high performance video. The release of Canon's Pentium based object.station50 machine has increased the available options for the Neticity workstation. In addition, the price for the entry level Neticity system has dropped dramatically. Now that IT Solutions has licensed WebPages the Neticity Workstation includes all 15 WebPages HTML Design Models. "The Neticity Workstation has been the best priced workstation for WWW authoring and publishing solutions since it was introduced in January of 1995 and is now even more affordable. With Canon's announcement of the the object.station50 we can offer our customers even faster machines to get up and running on the Web, " said Ted Shelton, President and CEO of IT Solutions. "We are pleased that IT Solutions has completed the licensing of the WebPages product which enhances the value of the Neticity Workstation. The WebPages product creates professional quality web pages with no knowledge of HTML. This kind of software along with our hardware provides a total solution to people who want to get on the web quickly," said Dale Fuller, Director of Marketing for Canon's Advanced Technologies Organization. The new pricing and configurations for the Neticity Workstation are: object.station 41 products (Systems based on Intel 486) The Neticity.41 Web Authoring System $4995 1) Canon 41 (Intel 486), 32 MB of RAM, 500 MB SCSI hard drive, 17" color monitor 2) NEXTSTEP object oriented operating system 3) WebPages HTML authoring tool 4) OmniWeb WWW Browser Neticity.41 Web Publishing System $6995 1) Canon 41, 32 MB of RAM, 1 GB SCSI hard drive, CD ROM drive and 17" color monitor 2) NEXTSTEP object oriented operating system 3) WebPages HTML authoring tool 4) OmniWeb WWW Browser 5) Wetpaint image editing tool 6) intuitiv'3d rendering tool 7) NEXTIME movie viewer 8) Web Server Software object.station 50 product (Power system based on Intel Pentium 100 Mhz) Neticity.50 Web Publishing System $8595 1) Canon 50 (Pentium), 32 MB of RAM, 1 GB SCSI, hard drive, CD ROM and 17" color monitor 2) NEXTSTEP object oriented operating system 3) WebPages HTML authoring tool 4) OmniWeb WWW Browser 5) Wetpaint image editing tool 6) intuitiv'3d rendering tool 7) NEXTIME movie viewer 8) Web Server Software Pricing for the Neticity Web Workstations will be in effect until August 31, 1995. IT Solutions, headquartered at 500 West Madison St., Suite 2210, Chicago, Illinois 60661, was founded in 1990 as a software development and consulting firm specializing in object technology. IT Solutions specializes in object oriented systems including database connectivity and application design, web services and Internet application development tools for strategic technology and messaging infrastructures for clients throughout the United States. IT Solutions has offices in Boston and San Francisco in addition to our Chicago office. -30- Neticity is a trademark of Information Technology Solutions, Inc. WebPages by Pages is a trademark of Pages Software Inc. and licensed by Information Technology Solutions. NeXT, NEXTSTEP, NEXTIME and OpenStep are trademarks or registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. object.station is a trademark of Canon Computer Systems. All other trademarks mentioned, belong to their respective owners.
From: Tracy Kugelman <tracy@its.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: IT Solutions Commited to NEXTSTEP - WebPages Special Offer Date: 9 Jun 1995 19:05:37 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ra621$qgc@digifix.digifix.com> PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release June 9, 1995 IT Solutions Tracy Kugelman 1.617.787.1002 1.617.787.1218 fax info@its.com http://www.its.com/ IT Solutions Announces Commitment to NEXTSTEP Marketplace Offers WebPages Special for the First 200 Motorola Hardware Customers June 9, 1995 - Chicago, IL - IT Solutions announces a special introduction offer for our first 200 WebPages customers! To show our commitment to the NEXTSTEP marketplace, and to launch WebPages by IT Solutions, we will offer 200 copies of WebPages for NEXTSTEP Motorola-based machines at the special price of $295.00. Customers will receive WebPages with 15 HTML Design Models, a $495.00 value, for $295.00. WebPages is the optimal NEXTSTEP solution for establishing your presence on the World Wide Web. WebPages can be used to create styled HTML (HyperText Markup Language) documents with little or no knowledge of HTML. WebPages allows you to create HTML documents using a drag-and-drop WYSIWYG interface; as you create your document, you see how your document will appear without having to switch between "edit" and "preview" modes. By using the collection of WebPages' HTML Design Models, you can rapidly lay out, edit, rearrange, and restyle a page without ever seeing HTML source code. Links to other documents are done using a select-drag-and-drop approach. The result is error-free HTML code that adheres to the HTML 2.0 Specification. Even styled headlines and tables are automatically converted to a standard "GIF" image viewable by most Web browsers. In addition, "EPS" and "TIFF" images are automatically converted to "GIF" images. Anyone who can use a word processor can create well-styled, well-formatted Web pages in a matter of minutes. WebPages imports text from WriteNow, Frame, RTF/RTFD and WordPerfect providing quick and easy access to your existing information. Ted Shelton, President and CEO of IT Solutions, said "We are really excited to keep WebPages available to the NEXTSTEP community. We have been part of the community since 1990 and hope that this special will show the NEXTSTEP customers that we are still committed to this marketplace." In order to qualify for this special offer, you must order before June 30,1995; be running NEXTSTEP 3.1 or better; be one of the first 200 people to order the product; accompany your order with check, money order, Mastercard, VISA, or American Express. Sorry No Purchase Orders can be accepted. The software will be available by FTP only, original hard copy documentation produced by Pages will follow by mail. Contact IT Solutions at 1.800.394.4487 or1.312.474.7700 by phone,1.312.474.9361 by fax or info@its.com to place your order or for more information. IT Solutions, headquartered at 500 West Madison St., Suite 2210, Chicago, Illinois 60661, was founded in 1990 as a software development and consulting firm specializing in object technology. IT Solutions specializes in object oriented systems including database connectivity and application design, web services and Internet application development tools for strategic technology and messaging infrastructures for clients throughout the United States. IT Solutions has offices in Boston and San Francisco in addition to our Chicago office. -30- WebPages by Pages is a trademark of Pages Software Inc and licensed by Information Technology Solutions, Inc. NeXT and NEXTSTEP are trademarks or registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: Tracy Kugelman <tracy@its.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: IT Solutions Licenses Web Pages Date: 9 Jun 1995 19:06:22 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ra63e$qgj@digifix.digifix.com> PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release June 9, 1995 IT Solutions Tracy Kugelman 1.617.787.1002 1.617.787.1218 fax info@its.com http://www.its.com/ IT SOLUTIONS LICENSES WEBPAGES FROM PAGES SOFTWARE INC. Will Continue Development and Marketing of WebPages Announces New Pricing June 9, 1995 --Chicago, IL, IT Solutions has licensed the rights to develop and market WebPages by Pages[tm]--the first truly WYSIWYG HTML editor on the market--and the complete line of WebPages Design Models. Terms of the final agreement were not disclosed by either party. IT Solutions, a leader in object technology, offers custom development, commercial products, and preconfigured systems. One of their most popular offerings is the Neticity Workstation, a turnkey web authoring and publishing solution, with premier Canon hardware and robust software, including WebPages by Pages. The Neticity Workstation solution was jointly developed by IT Solutions and Canon. "The incredible growth of the World Wide Web has created strong demand from current and potential customers who want Web technology solutions. This acquisition gives us an outstanding Web authoring product, and we are committed to adding features as this new marketplace evolves," stated Ted Shelton, President and CEO of IT Solutions. "Now that IT Solutions is publishing the WebPages product we can continue to offer our customers a complete web solution. We are pleased that all 15 HTML Design Models will be offered on the Neticity Workstation because we are providing even more value to our customers at the same price," said Dale Fuller, Director of Marketing for Canon's Advanced Technologies Organization. In a separate note, Larry Spelhaug, CEO of Pages Software, Inc. announced that effective immediately Pages has ceased operations. IT Solutions is announcing new pricing for WebPages. The complete line of 15 HTML Design Models will be included in the purchase price of $495.00. This is a reduction in price from $695.00. The educational price will continue to be $195.00. An upgrade from Pages version 1.5 to the WebPages version 1.7 product will cost $295.00. IT Solutions will continue to bundle the WebPages product with the Neticity workstation, while integrating its functionality into a complete line of Web application development tools. IT Solutions, headquartered at 500 West Madison St., Suite 2210, Chicago, Illinois 60661, was founded in 1990 as a software development and consulting firm specializing in object technology. IT Solutions specializes in object oriented systems including database connectivity and application design, web services and Internet application development tools for strategic technology and messaging infrastructures for clients throughout the United States. IT Solutions has offices in Boston and San Francisco in addition to our Chicago office. -30- Neticity is a trademark of Information Technology Solutions Inc. WebPages by Pages is a trademark of Pages Software Inc and licensed by Information Technology Solutions, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: Glover@UH.EDU (John Glover) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: UHDiagramKit, UHTookKit, UHInspectorKit and UHDeveloper objects Date: 10 Jun 1995 04:59:12 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3rb8r0$4l9@digifix.digifix.com> New versions of UHDiagramKit, UHToolKit, UHInspectorKit, and UHDeveloper have been placed on ftp://uhoop.uh.edu/pub/nextstep/ ftp://uhoop.uh.edu/pub/nextstep/objects/UHDiagramKit This is a kit of objects suitable for creating applications which use a "block diagram" paradigm. The documentation with the kit is fairly thorough. ftp://uhoop.uh.edu/pub/nextstep/objects/UHToolKit Toolboxes dynamically load and manage "tools". Tools are usually instances of UHTool, or of UHTool subclasses, but they can be any object that implements the methods in the informal UHToolMethods protocol. A toolbox provides an easy way to load these tools into the application and know when they have been selected for use by an instance of a UHToolSelector subclass. ftp://uhoop.uh.edu/pub/nextstep/objects/UHInspectorKit These are classes to facilitate the use of inspectors and inspector panels similar to those in InterfaceBuilder. ftp://uhoop.uh.edu/pub/nextstep/objects/UHDeveloper.compressed This provides three directories needed to build many of the projects above: Libraries Headers Subprojects - This one simply holds a copy of DiagramKit.subproj, needed in DiagramApp and other projects using the UHDiagramKit. John R. Glover Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Houston glover@uh.edu
From: Constantin Szallies <tini@gurke.ping.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Newsreader Alexandra.app v0.8 Date: 12 Jun 1995 03:08:30 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3rgb3e$lge@digifix.digifix.com> There's a new release of Alexandra, the NeXTSTEP newsreader! The files are located in ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/platforms/next/Network/apps/Alexandra.0.8.s.tar.gz ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/platforms/next/Network/apps/Alexandra.0.8.NHIS.b.tar.gz Version: 0.8 (beta) Author: Constantin Szallies & Erik Doernenburg, Dortmund, Germany Send comments and bug reports to: bugs@gurke.ping.de This is the second beta release of Alexandra.app, a NeXTStep Newsreader.You need a NNTP server to use Alexandra.app. Flatfile is not supported.Uses NOV database (installation not required, but strongly suggested). You need the MiscKit lib (1.2.8 or higher) to compile this puppy. New features 0.7 -> 0.8 * "New News" command. * The author's name is displayed after the subject. * The articles size is indicated by the size of a dot * Automatic reconnect to NNTP server after a timeout. * Change the default font size. * Sort the newsgroup list. * Kill filter (kill a thread or an author). * Mark all articles read even if more than one newsgroup is selected. * Browser view * Choose some headers and hide all the others. * Find/Find-All Panel (Find newsgroups, subjects, authors, message ids, references). Regular expressions are supported. * Use curser up/down to go to the previous/next article * Use curser right/left to mark all articles in the current selected thread as read and go to the next/previous unread article. * Use Emacs keybindings in the Compose window. * Default Panel * Lots of minor enhancements Enjoy! om inside the "cheat window" but introduces some rough edges. See the bugs section for details. The Package Version 0.4 comes in a package that includes: - ClassEditor.app. A FAT binary for NeXT, Intel, HP and Sparc hardware. - An Examples directory containing working test setups of interface, implementation and documentation files for some dummy classes. - Online help...minimal - Full source code - The documentation and an ASCII version (README) of this introduction On where to find the latest releases please see the 'About this Project' section. The latest version of this editor will be available at the ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de, ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de or ftp.cs.orst.edu anonymous ftp servers. There is a WWW page were you can find out more about the status of this...and all the other projects I'm working on: http://wwwcip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/user/tsengel/Projects/Projects.html In Case of Trouble If you have any questions you can contact me. Thomas Engel Netpunstr. 9 D-90522 Oberasbach Germany E-mail: tsengel@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org (NeXTMail welcome)
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys-soft.nextstep Subject: Summary 87 - Articles posted since June 5 1995 Date: 12 Jun 1995 04:00:13 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3rge4d$ltl@digifix.digifix.com> Summary: 87 Postings since: June 5 1995 [3312] ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines [3313] NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet [3316] PRESS RELEASE: Flying Monkey announces shareware images... [3317] PRESS RELEASE: Flying Monkey announce a VRML Tagger Service [3318] PRESS RELEASE: Flying Monkey releases free UnixAssist Shareware [3319] CLASS, U.K.: Advanced NetInfo & Advanced NetInfo Update [3320] PRESS RELEASE: Next In Line Announces Its Departure From the NEXTSTEP Market [3321] MEETING: June 14th: SCaN User Group Meeting at Caltech [3322] MEETING: SEMiNUG - Monday, June 12, 1995 [3323] PRESS RELEASE: Ocean Software ships Complete Access v1.0.1 for NEXTSTEP [3324] JOB: NEXTSTEP Developers, SysAdmins [3325] JOB: Database admin w/ NEXTSTEP development - Blacksmith, Inc. (MD) [3326] PRESS RELEASE: IT Solutions Announces the Release of Crashcatcher 2 [3327] PRESS RELEASE: Everest Software Releases Everest Asset Management 1.5 [3328] MEETING: NEXTSTEP:atlanta, June 15th [3329] PRESS RELEASE: STONE DESIGN Ships DataPhile 3.0 for German Speakers [3330] PRESS RELEASE: IT Solutions Announces New WWW Workstaion - Pricing and Configurations [3331] PRESS RELEASE: IT Solutions Commited to NEXTSTEP - WebPages Special Offer [3332] PRESS RELEASE: IT Solutions Licenses Web Pages [3333] PRESS RELEASE: NEXT IN LINE acquired, to continue publishing [3334] SUBMISSION: UHDiagramKit, UHTookKit, UHInspectorKit and UHDeveloper objects [3335] SUBMISSION: ClassEditor v0.4. Drag&Drop refs, bug fixes and more. [3336] SUBMISSION: Newsreader Alexandra.app v0.8 If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com. Archives -------- Individual messages are available at http://www.stepwise.com/comp.sys.next.announce/csna-87/**article_number** where **article_number** is the [xxxx] beside the Subject line above.. FTP archives: ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives/csna-87.tar.gz WWW archives: http://www.stepwise.com/comp.sys.next.announce/csna-87 Article submissions : next-announce@digifix.com Submission guidelines: next-announce-guidelines@digifix.com Suggestions/comments : next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines Date: 12 Jun 1995 04:15:06 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3rgf0a$m1m@digifix.digifix.com> NEW POLICY: =========== In an attempt to standardize the format of the FTP locations for files, all ftp addresses should be submitted using the Universal Resource Locator (URL) format. (for example) ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/submissions/file.tar.gz Please try and give an indication of where you expect the file will end up on the archive site, in the same notation. Cross Posting ============= I try very hard to make sure that postings get out in a timely fashion. Most go out in less than 24 hours. Postings that require editing because they do not contain information in a useable format, or have already been posted to other comp.sys.next.* groups may be delayed, or returned to you. If your posting is rejected, I'll try and make suggestions about what should be changed where possible. Obviously off charter messages (spams, open-letters, etc) may not get a response. Content 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 _IN URL FORMAT_ supported CPU's for binary distributions, OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting, time of meeting, speakers expected Signatures 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. Announcement of Product Sales ============================= This is an area of announcement that has caused me terrible grief in recent months. The policy is tilted towards the ISV, which has worked out well in the past. Posts that announce sales of products that you are DIRECTLY involved in the development of are OK. Posts from companies trying to sell other products are evaluated on an individual basis. Time Sensitive Announcements ============================ Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date. 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.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet Date: 12 Jun 1995 04:15:14 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Distribution: inet Message-ID: <3rgf0i$m1m@digifix.digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site comp.sys.next newsgroups related newsgroups comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list ftp sites NeXTanswers Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site =============================================== This online community resource includes - 200+ ISV company pages - 400+ ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - NEXTSTEP User Group Directory - comp.sys.next archives - User Group information - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.stepwise.com/ Additionally there is a Mail Server available. You can get information on using the mail server at ns-products@stepwise.com Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise, please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com. eduSTEP WWW site ================ http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/ eduStep aims to provide up-to-date information on: - NextStep tools and projects for scientists. - Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist). - A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with customers in the educational community. - Conferences, meetings, workshops - Major projects, such as SciTools, EMBL's project to develop a NextStep scientific work environment - Status reports on GNUStep, a freely-available implementation of OpenStep now being developed NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site ============================ http://www.next.com comp.sys.next.* newsgroups ========================== news: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. news: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. Archives are available by ftp at ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. news: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. news: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. news: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. news: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!!! news: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. news:comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. news:comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. Related Newsgroups ================== news: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. news:comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. news: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 ============= ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions ftp://nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: (Peanuts) Located in Germany. ftp://ftp.dn.net/pub/next Peanuts mirror in the US ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next/ eduStep ftp://ftp.next.com: See below ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com ===================================== [from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help] 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, read them on the world-wide web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS. 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 REPLY-TO address sets the e-mail address NeXTanswers uses 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 VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web server at URL http://www.next.com. 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. USING NEXTANSWERS BY MODEM To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at (415) 780-2965. Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section. From there you can download NeXTanswers documents. FOR MORE HELP... If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available from NeXTanswers, call the Support Hotline at 1-800-955-NeXT (outside the U.S. call +1-415-424-8500) to speak to a NEXTSTEP Technical Support Technician. If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must make this call to the hotline. Otherwise, hotline support is on a pay-per-call basis. Thanks for using NeXTanswers! Written by: Eric P. Scott (mailto:eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU) and Scott Anguish (mailto:sanguish@digifix.com) Additions from: Greg Anderson (mailto:Greg_Anderson@afs.com) Michael Pizolato (mailto:Michael_Pizolato@afs.com) Dan Grillo (mailto:dan_grillo@next.com)
From: charles@harcourt.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: BANG - Thursday June 15 Date: 12 Jun 1995 19:06:48 -0000 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ri388$523@digifix.digifix.com> When: 7:00 PM, Thursday, June 15 Where: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Auditorium 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA Topics: A NEXTSTEP World Wide Web extravaganza: The popular WWW browsers available for NEXTSTEP will be shown, including Lynx, Lighthouse Design's OmniWeb, and the newly released Netsurfer. Connecting these to the internet will also be discussed, with focus on configuring PPP for NEXTSTEP. These presentations will be complemented by a guided tour of World Wide Web sites of interest to NEXTSTEP users. Contact: info@bang.org BANG, P.O. Box 1731, Palo Alto, CA 94302 (415) 327-BANG Directions: SLAC is much easier to reach from 280. FROM 280: Take 280 towards Palo Alto. Take the Sand Hill Road exit (east). Follow Sand Hill over a small hill, about one mile. The SLAC entrance will be on your right at 2575 Sand Hill Road. Look for directions to the Auditorium at the guard office at the entrance. FROM 101: Take 101 towards Palo Alto. Take the Embarcadero Road exit (west). Continue on Embarcadero a few miles, cross El Camino Real onto the Stanford campus. The road forks about a block later, take the right fork; you are now on Arboretum Rd. Follow Arboretum across Palm Drive and through the Stanford Shopping Center. Turn left onto Sand Hill Road. Follow Sand Hill Road for a few miles, crossing Foothill Expressway/Alemeda de las Pueguas (street has two names) and passing a Shell station on your right. The SLAC entrance will be on your left at 2575 Sand Hill Road. Look for directions to the Auditorium at the guard office at the entrance. See you there!
From: a0047@freenet.uni-bayreuth.de (Florian Marquardt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: PencilTWO.app Date: 13 Jun 1995 15:35:16 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3rkp9k$heu@digifix.digifix.com> I have placed my freeware (GNU GPL) vector-drawing program PencilTWO on ftp.cs.orst.edu: The files ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/sources/graphics/PencilTWO.s.tar.gz ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/graphics/PencilTWO.NI.b.tar.gz PencilTWO is also available on the Peanuts ftp server in: ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Graphics/vector/ The most important new feature in PencilTWO is its built-in tcl interpreter. It has about 50 PencilTWO-related tcl commands and an "object-oriented-like" tcl interface to some of NEXTSTEPs GUI classes (a bit like tk). You can read in nib-files and attach tcl commands to the objects (a bit like in WavesWorld). Other new features: - 128 layers - new Catmull-Rom curve type - drag&drop of graphic objects from a "palette window" - set customly definable graphic attributes by clicking on a button in the "attributes window" - blending of graphic objects (smooth transformation) - transparency (limited, but it will print, since I don't use compositing) - NEXTSTEP HELP panel - TIFF/EPS images are now composited when not rotated (eliminating a bug in printing) - "real scrollbars" - a full transformation matrix is now stored with every object - so you can shear them too - better support for PageLayout - custom PS definitions can be put in separate files And for those of you who don't know Pencil1.0, here is a short description of the other features: - You can add your own graphic types (fill/stroke-types, shapes) by writing PostScript code (even at run-time) - Graphic objects can be rotated, scaled, sheared, moved, grouped&ungrouped, clipped - You can zoom into the document (25-3200 percent) - polygons, circles, arcs, rectangles, curves (Hermite, Bezier, Catmull-Rom) - gradients (linear, double, spherical, "gradient stroke") - A lot of SampleImages are included Note: I have changed/removed some of the PS definitions, so you will have to convert Pencil1.0-documents (there is an automatic way of doing this and you can also load/view/change them without conversion). You will need the tcl-library and tcl.h to compile the source code. The binary is only for Motorola and Intel, since I can't compile triple (quad)-fat. I would be glad if someone could do this for me. The binary won't run on 3.0. But you can compile the source when you replace every "unsigned long long int" with "unsigned int", every 64 with 32 and every 63 with 31 (leaving you with "only" 64 layers). This seems to be a compiler bug. For comments, suggestions, questions: a0047@freenet.uni-bayreuth.de Florian Marquardt
From: dpeter@xanthus.com (David W. Peter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Xanthus Announces Promotional Prices Through June 30 Date: 13 Jun 1995 15:38:41 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3rkpg1$hft@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information please contact: Xanthus USA David Peter Phone: +1-619-730-0370 Fax: +1-619-730-0373 Email: info@xanthus.com Xanthus International Jesper Lundh Phone: +46-8-635 30 62 Fax: +46-8-98 70 67 Email: info@xanthus.se Xanthus Announces Promotional Prices Through June 30 OpenWrite ($249) -- Open Office Suite $549 San Diego, CA, June 12, 1995 -- Xanthus USA today announced that only two weeks remain to purchase OpenWrite 1.1, the company's powerful, widely popular, easy-to-use word processor for NEXTSTEP, or the Open Office Suite, a complete set of productivity applications similar to Microsoft Office, at special reduced promotional prices. The offer expires on June 30. SPECIAL PRICING FOR OPENWRITE 1.1 -- $249 OpenWrite purchasers can take advantage of a special promotional price of $249 for a single-user license, a savings of 40% off the retail price of $395. SPECIAL PRICING FOR THE OPEN OFFICE SUITE -- $549 The Open Office Suite, which includes OpenWrite (Word Processor) Questor (Spreadsheet) and Graphity (3D Charts and Graphs) is available at a promotional price of $549 for a single-user license, a savings of 40% off the retail price of $895. DEMO VERSIONS AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET VIA FTP Fully licensable versions of all Xanthus applications are available via FTP at the following locations: North American Site OpenWrite: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/editors Questor: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/spreadsheets Graphity: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/graphics European Site All Apps: ftp://sics.se/pub/next/xanthus ORDERING INFORMATION Faxed purchase orders, telephone orders and orders sent via email or regular mail are accepted. Please submit your order to the Xanthus sales office nearest your location: North American Sales Office Xanthus USA 800 Grand Ave., Suite A20 Carlsbad, CA 92008 +1 619 730 0370 Phone +1 619 730 0373 Fax Email: sales@xanthus.com (NEXTMAIL accepted) European Sales Office Xanthus International AB P.O. Box 20161 S-161 02 Bromma Sweden +46 8 635 30 00 Phone +46 8 98 70 67 Email: sales@xanthus.se (NEXTMAIL accepted)
From: Daniel.Scheidegger@public.imp.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: ConnectNow new release 1.0.1 Date: 14 Jun 1995 15:18:04 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3rnclc$f5@digifix.digifix.com> ConnectNow enables you to access an IBM AS/400 or any other host that supports the IBM 5250 Telnet implementation from your NeXTSTEP terminal with the same functionality as an IBM 3477-FC terminal. Some of the highlights of ConnectNow are: - Fastest 5250 Emulation available. - Extremly reliable. - Ease of use. - Predefined sessions. - Wide range of settings and preferences. - Tools to simplify documentation for your host application (save as TIFF, Print session). - No crashes and superior speed even under heavy load. - Avoids a bug in the IBM TCP/IP protocol. - Window size for 80x24 and 132x27 can be set individually. Version 1.0.1 fixes the problems with the Installer package and some small bugs in the application. If you already received License Strings from NOW, you have to reapply them in the new version. FILES: ConnectNow.1.0.1.doc.ps.compressed Documentation in PostScript-Format ConnectNow.1.0.1.NIHS.b.tar Package as NeXT/Intel/HPPA/Sparc MAB WHERE TO GET: ConnectNow has been uploaded to: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/demos/comm Feel free to send comments, bug reports and suggestions to: NOW GmbH, Zugerstrasse 11a, CH-6340 Baar, Switzerland comments@now.ch
From: dpeter@xanthus.com (David W. Peter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Xanthus Announces New Version and Competitive Upgrade for Questor Date: 14 Jun 1995 15:29:41 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3rndb5$h4@digifix.digifix.com> NEWS - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information please contact: Xanthus USA David Peter Phone: +1-619-730-0370 Fax: +1-619-730-0373 Email: info@xanthus.com Xanthus International Jesper Lundh Phone: +46-8-635 30 62 Fax: +46-8-98 70 67 Email: info@xanthus.se XANTHUS ANNOUNCES $99 COMPETITIVE "UPGRADE TO QUESTOR" PROMOTION NEW VERSION OF AWARD-WINNING SPREADSHEET APPLICATION FOR NEXTSTEP San Diego, June 13, 1995 -- Xanthus International today announced a competitive Upgrade to Questor promotion for the all-new release of its award-winning spreadsheet application for NEXTSTEP. For $99, users of any spreadsheet application, including Mesa, Wingz, Parasheet, Quantrix or others, may purchase a single-user license of Questor 3.2 for only $99. Current registered owners of Questor may purchase an upgrade to the new release for $49 per license. The offer is good through July 15, 1995. We feel strongly that any current user of a spreadsheet application for NEXTSTEP will benefit from upgrading to this new, significantly improved release of Questor, and we are offering a compelling incentive for them to do so, said David Peter, VP of Sales for Xanthus. Questor 3.2 provides the functionality, familiarity, and features of Microsoft Excel, including support for the Excel 5.0 file format, at a very affordable price, Peter added. Questor is a matrix-based spreadsheet that can easily be used by anybody familiar with traditional spreadsheet programs such as Microsoft Excel, Lotus 1-2-3 or Wingz. Questor offers a number of unique features, including easy-to-use SQL database access, a powerful scripting language, multi-level undo and a versatile API. The new release of Questor 3.2 offers many enhancements, including: - Improved speed and performance - Excel 5.0 file importing (beta) - Function key support - Streamlined menu structure - Additional API functions - Bug fixes and other improvements Complete product information can be requested from Xanthus directly. * DEMO VERSION AVAILABLE VIA FTP ON THE INTERNET * A fully licensable demo version of Questor is available via FTP at the following locations: North American Site ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/spreadsheets European Site ftp://sics.se/pub/next/xanthus Questor, which began shipping in 1992, is compiled quad-fat for Motorola, Intel, HP PA-RISC and Sparc based computers. Questor has a retail price of $595 and is available direct from Xanthus or through authorized NEXTSTEP resellers. Information about quantity discounts, site-licenses and reduced prices for educational customers can be obtained by contacting Xanthus directly. * ORDERING INFORMATION * Faxed purchase orders, telephone orders and orders sent via email or regular mail are accepted. Please submit your order to the Xanthus sales office nearest your location: North American Sales Office Xanthus USA 800 Grand Ave., Suite A20 Carlsbad, CA 92008 +1 619 730 0370 Phone +1 619 730 0373 Fax Email: sales@xanthus.com (NEXTMAIL accepted) European Sales Office Xanthus International AB P.O. Box 20161 S-161 02 Bromma Sweden +46 8 635 30 00 Phone +46 8 98 70 67 Email: sales@xanthus.se (NEXTMAIL accepted)
From: Pauline Philipps-Zabel <ppz@fnbc.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NEXTSTEP Developer & Application Administration Date: 15 Jun 1995 17:50:31 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3rq9v7$e1k@digifix.digifix.com> For Immediate Release: The currency options application development group at First National Bank of Chicago is looking for qualified NEXTSTEP programmers and application administrators. Our applications are used by expanding, aggressive front office currency trading and marketing groups in Chicago and major international cities. We're seeking dynamic, energetic and open minded system professionals to join our team. Qualifications for NEXTSTEP developer: ~ 1-4+ years experience developing NEXTSTEP applications . ~ Financial Derivatives/Trading Business Knowledge ~ Object Oriented Design and Development experience Qualifications for Application administrator: ~ 1-4+ years application or system administration experience ~ C programming skills ~ Perl, shell language, etc ~ Sybase database administration knowledge, a plus ~ Financial Derivatives/Trading Business Knowledge, or ability to learn Please send resumes to: Pauline Philipps-Zabel 1 First National Plaza Chicago, IL 60670 (312) 732-3638 (703) 732-1657 Fax Plain Text, NeXT Mail, or MIME: ppz@fnbc.com
From: resumes@next.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Performance Tools Engineer - NeXT Computer Date: 15 Jun 1995 17:50:59 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3rqa03$e1u@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources>. In addition, NeXT's Open Positions page is linked to CareerMosaic on the WWW. ***************************************************************** Position: Performance Tools Engineer Department: Development Environment Location: Redwood City, CA Primary responsibility Maintain, enhance, and productize in-house and external tools for analyizing and improving the performance of NeXT's software. Work with other engineers to define new features for performance analysis tools and help the organization, in general, with performance related issues. Participate in and possibly lead a comittee charged with improving performance of NeXT's software. Specific responsibilities Maintenance and development of performance analysis tools such as gprof, sample, malloc_debug (for leak detection), and others. Recommend areas to concentrate for the 4.0 timeframe and recommend tools to productize for (probably) after 4.0. Consider presentation issues (i.e. do we need a spiffy gui?) and integration issues (i.e. do we need to talk to ProjectBuilder?). Work with group charged with making performance improvements on strategy for improving overall system performance. Skills, Education and Experience Requirements * Interest in performance analysis tools. * Experience with some "low-level" aspects of software engineering for example: compilers, debuggers, OS. * For at least one architecture good knowledge of stack-frame layouts and calling conventions. * Ability to work well with others * Good oral and written communication skills. * B.S. or equivalent in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or equivalent. * 3+ years industrial experience. Additional Success Factors * Knowledge of NeXTSTEP won't hurt. * Knowledge of gcc and gdb. * Knowledge of prof & gprof. ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: resumes@next.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Sr. Media Engineer - NeXT Computer Date: 15 Jun 1995 17:51:16 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3rqa0k$e26@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> In addition, NeXT's Open Positions page is linked to CareerMosaic on the WWW. ***************************************************************** Position: Senior Software Engineer Department: Media Group Location: Redwood City, CA Primary Responsibility Assist with the design and maintenance of NEXTSTEP Media Software. This includes NeXT's Display PostScript based WindowServer, OpenStep graphics under WIN32, and other media-related projects. The successful candidate needs to be a system software generalist with a specialty in graphics. Specific Responsibilities Contribute to the design and implementation of OPENSTEP graphics on NT. This includes developing integration strategies for native printing and font support. Help maintain the device-independent portions of NeXT's graphics architecture. This includes adding features and fixing bugs at various levels of NeXT's graphics and media system software. Contribute architectural improvements to NEXT's media system software. Consult with RISC and OpenStep teams on general graphics issues. Skills, Education and Experience Required 5 - 8 years experience window-systems, graphics, or multi-media system software. BS degree in Math, Physics, Engineering or CS, or equivalent experience Architectural and design experience. Fluency in C, PostScript, experience with assembly language helpful. Understanding of client/server architectures. Comfortable handling vendor relationships at the technical level. (i.e. Adobe, PIXAR, various board vendors. . .) Strong, tenacious, critical thinking and problem solving skills. Technically versatile. Able to work well with others. Good communication skills. Additional Success Factors Architectural work on multimedia system software Experience with object-oriented languages (Objective C, C++, Smalltalk) NEXTSTEP programming experience. Some UNIX driver writing experience X windows internals or WIN32 experience a plus ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: resumes@next.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Windows NT Programmers - NeXT Computer Date: 15 Jun 1995 17:51:32 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3rqa14$e2i@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> In addition, NeXT's Open Positions page is linked to CareerMosaic on the WWW. ***************************************************************** Position: Sr. Windows Development Engineer Department: OpenStep Location: Redwood City, CA Primary Responsibility Will be the primary engineer responsible for Windows specific design/implementation issues in OpenStep for Windows NT and Windows 95. Specific Responsibilitie Work with team members on design and implementation of the OpenStep product on the Windows NT and WIndows 95 platform. Help drive the definition and implementation of the product from a Windows perspective. Work with customers and management team to understand, assess, and prioritize requirements for the product. Design and implement various parts of the system Evaluate other products Skills, Education and Experience Requirements Fluency in Win32 API demonstrated by significant implementation using the APIs Fluency in issues related to design/implementation of products using OLE2 Fluency in object oriented implementation language and environment Expert in graphical user interface design and implementation Fluency in C Experience in usability testing and evaluation Experience in Object Oriented design and implementation methodology Experience in shipping high volume products on tight schedules Engineering background: 5 - 8 years BSCS or equivalent Additional Success Factors: Multi-platform experience (UNIX, PC) NEXTSTEP development experience Experience dealing with User Interface issues Experience with Object Oriented Analysis and Design tools Experience in enterprise-wide distributed systems ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: resumes@next.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Development Environment Software Engineer - NeXT Computer Date: 15 Jun 1995 17:51:49 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3rqa1l$e2r@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> In addition, NeXT's Open Positions page is linked to CareerMosaic on the WWW. ***************************************************************** Position: Software Engineer Department: Development Environment Location: Redwood City, CA Primary responsibility Development, maintenance, and enhancement of ProjectBuilder. Refine the existing product based on customer feedback. This includes debugging, modification of existing features and implementation of new features. Specific responsibilities: * Development & maintenance of ProjectBuilder * Implementation of specific aspects of ProjectBuilder including (possibly) SCM integration, class browser, documentation integration, InterfaceBuilder integration, editor enhancements, "syntax" coloring, other tools integration etc. * Debugging and performance tuning of ProjectBuilder Skills, Education and Experience Required * interest in building an integrated development environment * experience building an integrated development environment a plus * B.S. or equivalent in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or equivalent. * 3+ years industrial experience. Additional Success Factors: * Knowledge of NeXTSTEP & appkit programming ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: resumes@next.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: cmsg cancel <3rqa2p$e3b@digifix.digifix.com> Control: cancel <3rqa2p$e3b@digifix.digifix.com> Date: 15 Jun 1995 18:02:11 -0400 Organization: Digital Fix Development Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3rqal3$e80@digifix.digifix.com> Cancelled Message by sanguish@digifix.com -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions) http://www.stepwise.com/ (Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server)
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From: resumes@next.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Sr. Software Engineer - NeXT Computer Date: 15 Jun 1995 17:52:09 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3rqa29$e32@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> In addition, NeXT's Open Positions page is linked to CareerMosaic on the WWW. ***************************************************************** Position: Senior Software Engineer Department: Software Engineering Location: Redwood City, CA Primary Responsibility Work with other team members to design and implement a new NEXTSTEP framework Skills, Education and Experience MS in Computer science or equivalent experience Experience with OO design and development in a commercial environment Highly professional, with the ability to deliver solid work on tight schedules Very strong Unix and C Strong Objective-C, C++ or other OO language Strong GUI design Superb Communication skills, both verbal and written Superior analysis and problem solving skills Demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities Team player, eager to build consensus among peers in the team while acting as a leader Tenacity and eagerness to solve complex technical problems Self motivated, independent and proactive Additional Success Factors NEXTSTEP programming experience IB palettes Framework development experience Knowledge of encryption techniques Network Security ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: resumes@next.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Technical Support Engineer - NeXT Computer Date: 15 Jun 1995 18:34:23 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3rqchf$ek0@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> In addition, NeXT's Open Positions page is linked to CareerMosaic on the WWW. ***************************************************************** Position: Premium Developer Support Engineer Department: Professional Services, Customer Support Location: Redwood City, Chicago, or Washington, D.C. Primary Responsibilities: - Provide technical support to developers via email, telephone and FAX - Lead technical contact for 5 corporate accounts - Provide on-site support to customers for critical and urgent issues. - Provide solutions to technical problems for developers in a variety of areas of NEXTSTEP and object oriented program design. - Responsible for providing technical account management as well as supporting corporate customers in the development of NEXTSTEP applications software. - Work with Sales, Marketing and Engineering to solve problems and provide product feedback. - Proactively produce written information and example code for NeXTAnswers and our Technical Journals to supplement our documentation. - Work as a team member in support, help others with problems, mentor junior members of the team, interview prospective new members and participate in team discussions. Requirements: BSCS or equivalent Knowledge of NEXTSTEP development and object oriented programming At least one year of commercial experience in one or more of the following areas: Mission Critical Custom Application development Use of object-oriented programming languages such as C, Objective C or C++ Object Oriented Design Rapid prototyping of productivity applications Account management or on-site technical support Excellent problem solving and problem avoidance skills - able to research answers for questions in areas in which they do not have expertise - able to deduce the root of a problem from a phone or email interaction - able to anticipate and avoid problems based on knowledge of customer's projects and configurations Excellent written and oral communication skills - able to determine the context of the question so that the right question is answered, not simply the one that is asked - able to write or verbalize the answer at the technical level of the person asking the question - able to log the history of the interaction so that others on the team can learn from it too Other desirable experience includes: * NEXTSTEP development experience with DBKit and/or EOF * On-site development support * Previous experience in assigned-account technical support. * Database development * Distributed application development using Distributed Objects, RPC, or sockets * Microsoft Windows development * Classroom training ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: resumes@next.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: System/Network Administrator - NeXT Computer Date: 15 Jun 1995 18:34:41 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3rqci1$ek7@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> In addition, NeXT's Open Positions page is linked to CareerMosaic on the WWW. ***************************************************************** POSITION: System/Network Administrator DEPARTMENT: Information Services, RWC Primary Responsibility Administration of the network of NEXTSTEP machines, other UNIX hosts; administration of the company wide TCP/IP network. Detailed Responsibilities Troubleshooting network problems Maintenance of user accounts Network backup Managing secure dial-in remote access (ISDN, PPP, dial-back Defender) UUCP sendmail administration Software upgrade of networked machines Knowledge of DNS Maintenance of Usenet News (INN) and WWW Network Security (sendmail, routers, firewalls) Required Background Minimum of 3 years experience as a UNIX system administrator with proven competence in the following: BSD 4.3 UNIX operating system and tools Shell scripting (Bourne,Perl) Internet Usage and Security Management Education: 4-year degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience Excellent communication skills - written and verbal Process-oriented problem-solver Adaptable to dynamic business conditions and environment; can-do attitude Ability to prioritize and respond to multiple customer requests in a dynamic work environment Ability to identify system and/or network problems and propose solutions via existing systems Nice to have background Responsible for analyzing and tuning network performance Administration of an Auspex NFS server System Administration of a Solaris server Wide-area networking (Frame-Relay, leased lines, ISDN, ATM, etc.) C programming NEXTSTEP programming ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: resumes@next.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Systems Consultants/NYC & Chicago - NeXT Computer Date: 15 Jun 1995 18:34:56 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3rqcig$ekg@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> In addition, NeXT's Open Positions page is linked to CareerMosaic on the WWW. ***************************************************************** Position: Systems Consultant Department: Systems Engineering Location: Chicago, IL New York, NY Primary Responsibility NeXT Systems Consultants provide the technical expertise necessary to close sales, and generally evangelize the NeXT product family. SE's must possess superb technical skills and a sense of innovation, combined with a personality which promotes cooperation, trust, and the sharing of ideas. The successful candidate will have a mix of software engineering skills, and enjoy working with people and new technology. Specific Responsibilities * Rapid prototyping of software for feasibility analysis * Technical presentations to all levels of customers * Integration of NeXT products with existing systems * Technical account management * Provide strategic input and guidance to sales, marketing, and engineering, regarding market conditions, product requirements, and overall program successes or failures A typical NeXT Systems Engineer will spend one-third of their time writing NeXTSTEP applications for customer-based prototyping or proof-of-concept efforts, one-third consulting one-on-one with potential and existing customers on software development and network engineering, and one-third performing presentations and demonstrations of NeXTSTEP. Experience, Skills, and Education * Ability to articulate technically complex issues to a wide variety of audiences * Strong problem solving skills * BSCS or equivalent with 4 years experience required; MSCS preferred * 2+ years NeXTSTEP, Objective-C, Mach experience * 2+ years UNIX systems programming/systems administration experience * 2+ years Object-oriented programming experience * Advanced application programming in C, LISP, and FORTRAN (or equivalent) * Windowing application development (Macintosh, X11, MSWindows, etc.) * Database application development (Sybase, Oracle, etc.) * TCP/IP, NFS, YP/NIS * PostScript * Pre-sales support experience ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: resumes@next.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Sofware Engineer - Frameworks - NeXT Computer Date: 15 Jun 1995 22:39:08 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3rqqsc$gip@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> In addition, NeXT's Open Positions page is linked to CareerMosaic on the WWW. ***************************************************************** Position: Software Engineer Department: Software Engineering Location: Redwood City, CA Primary responsibility Design and implemention of client/server systems for a very exciting new development project Skills, Education and Experience Required BS in Computer science or equivalent experience Very strong Unix and C in a commercial environment building client/server systems Highly professional, with the ability to deliver solid work on tight schedules Experience with OO design and development Superior analysis and problem solving skills Demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities Tenacity and eagerness to solve complex technical problems Self motivated, independent and proactive Additional Success Factors NEXTSTEP programming experience PDO/DO experience Unix sockets and RPC Knowledge of encryption and authentication techniques Network Security Communication Protocols (TCP/IP, MIME,...) ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: resumes@next.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Frameworks Architect - NeXT Computer Date: 15 Jun 1995 22:39:24 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3rqqss$gj0@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> In addition, NeXT's Open Positions page is linked to CareerMosaic on the WWW. ***************************************************************** Position: Senior Software Engineer Department: Software Engineering Location: Redwood City, CA Primary Responsibility Work with other team members to design and implement a new NEXTSTEP framework Skills, Education and Experience MS in Computer science or equivalent experience Experience with OO design and development in a commercial environment Highly professional, with the ability to deliver solid work on tight schedules Very strong Unix and C Strong Objective-C, C++ or other OO language Strong GUI design Superb Communication skills, both verbal and written Superior analysis and problem solving skills Demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities Team player, eager to build consensus among peers in the team while acting as a leader Tenacity and eagerness to solve complex technical problems Self motivated, independent and proactive Additional Success Factors NEXTSTEP programming experience IB palettes Framework development experience Knowledge of encryption techniques Network Security ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: resumes@next.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Developer Trainer - EOF - NeXT Computer Date: 15 Jun 1995 22:39:44 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3rqqtg$gj7@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> In addition, NeXT's Open Positions page is linked to CareerMosaic on the WWW. ***************************************************************** Position: Developer Trainer Area of Focus: EOF Department: Professional Services/Education Location: Redwood City, CA Primary responsibility: Deliver NEXTSTEP/OpenStep programming courses to application developers, focusing on the Enterprise Objects Framework. Develop and enhance the Enterprise Objects Framework curriculum to respond to changes in the development environment and to meet the needs of NeXT's customers. Specific responsibilities: Train NeXT customers of varying skill levels and backgrounds on the use of the Enterprise Objects Framework and Foundation Classes in developing NEXTSTEP applications. Courses will be taught to NeXT's customers in one of three formats: open enrollment in NeXT training facilities; on-site at customer sites; and customized as part of long-term educational packages deployed at customer sites. Travel to Chicago, Illinois, Washington, DC, and customer sites is required. Develop curriculum that covers fundamental concepts of the Enterprise Objects Framework, working closely with training, support, engineering, and technical publications groups. Develop programming exercises for use with course materials, both in open enrollment classes and customized for specific customers. Create example code for use in course curriculum and in "on the fly" situations in response to student questions. Education, Skills and Experience Required: General: BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or Physics, or related fields. Technical knowledge: 3 - 5 years of software development experience with the NEXTSTEP environment, including the Enterprise Objects Framework or DBKit. Experience developing database applications for a relational database such as Sybase or Oracle is required, as is experience with SQL. Experience with PowerBuilder, Visual Basic, or Visual C++ is a plus, as is the ability to develop and design course curriculum. Communication skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required, as well as the ability to deliver classroom training. Excellent listening skills are also required. Additional Success Factors: Prior training experience and prior experience setting and managing customer expectations are a plus. ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: resumes@next.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Developer Trainer - NEXTSTEP - NeXT Computer Date: 15 Jun 1995 22:40:24 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3rqquo$gje@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> In addition, NeXT's Open Positions page is linked to CareerMosaic on the WWW. ***************************************************************** Position: Developer Trainer Department: Professional Services/Education Location: Redwood City, California Primary responsibility: Deliver NEXTSTEP/OpenStep programming courses to application developers. Develop and enhance curriculum to respond to changes in the development environment and to meet the needs of NeXT's customers. Specific responsibilities: Train NeXT customers of varying skill levels and backgrounds on NEXTSTEP and Objective C programming and the use of the NEXTSTEP/OpenStep development environment and tools. Courses will be taught to NeXT's customers in one of three formats: open enrollment in NeXT training facilities; on-site at customer sites; and customized as part of long-term educational packages deployed at customer sites. Travel to Chicago, Illinois, Washington, DC, and customer sites is required. Develop curriculum that covers fundamental concepts of the NEXTSTEP environment, working closely with training, support, engineering, and technical publications groups. Develop programming exercises for use with course materials, both in open enrollment classes and customized for specific customers. Create example code for use in course curriculum and in "on the fly" situations in response to student questions. Education, Skills and Experience Required: General: Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or Physics or related fields. Technical knowledge: Two years of software development experience with the NEXTSTEP environment. Alternately, current experience with object-oriented programming, the C programming language, and the Unix operating system. Experience with PowerBuilder, Visual Basic, or Visual C++ is a plus, as is the ability to develop and design course curriculum. Communication skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required, as well as the ability to deliver classroom training. Candidates will be required to give a presentation as part of the interview process, to assess training and presentation skills. Excellent listening skills are also required. Prior training experience and prior experience setting and managing customer expectations are a plus. Additional Success Factors: This position requires a self-motivated person who enjoys working with people and solving problems and who thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: resumes@next.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Consulting Engineers - Engineering Services - NeXT Computer Date: 15 Jun 1995 22:40:52 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3rqqvk$gjl@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> In addition, NeXT's Open Positions page is linked to CareerMosaic on the WWW. ***************************************************************** Position: Consulting Engineer, Object Expert Program Department: OE Group, Professional Services General Description The primary goal for the Object Expert (OE) program is to accelerate our customers' mission critical application development efforts and ensure that these applications are architected for performance, scalability, and code re-use. This means ensuring that the customer has the right mix of development staff, a sound design, a scalable architecture, an efficient implementation, and an effective deployment plan. The NeXT OE Consulting Engineer functions as the primary technical conduit into NeXT engineering. They help the customer with all aspects of the OO software development process including skill mapping, project management, OOA&D, proper use of NEXTSTEP development tools, selection of third party products, and general knowledge transfer. In short, these engineers are an insurance policy for the customers success. Through the OE program, our customers remain up to speed on the latest developments in engineering, up coming future products, changes is functionality or design (EOF vs DBKit for example), and of course, general technical support. We also try to steer their development efforts, providing virtual project management and direction. Specific Role & Responsibilities a full-time, dedicated, on-site NEXTSTEP expert analysis, design, and programming assistance a conduit between the customer and NeXT to resolve technical issues and facilitate the adoption of new NeXT technologies into the customers development environment optimal use of the NEXTSTEP development tools and environment assistance with application planning, integration, and testing ongoing "knowledge transfer" of object oriented concepts third party solutions selection and guidance assistance to project leaders in assessing team skills and mapping team strengths to facilitate NEXTSTEP development weekly project meetings with customer management to review project status, pending technical issues, and associated resolutions. Educational Background, Skills, and Abilities BS degree in related field such as Math, Physics, Computer Science or Engineering. 4+ years of software development experience, with at least two years of experience in NEXTSTEP development. A solid understanding of the software development process, including object oriented analysis & design. Prior experience with setting and managing customer expectations is a plus. ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: Pauline Philipps-Zabel <ppz@fnbc.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOBS: NEXTSTEP Developer & Application Administration Date: 16 Jun 1995 14:54:06 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3rsk0e$ndt@digifix.digifix.com> For Immediate Release: The currency options application development group at First National Bank of Chicago is looking for qualified NEXTSTEP programmers and application administrators. Our applications are used by expanding, aggressive front office currency trading and marketing groups in Chicago and major international cities. We're seeking dynamic, energetic and open minded system professionals to join our team. Qualifications for NEXTSTEP developer: ~ 1-4+ years experience developing NEXTSTEP applications . ~ Financial Derivatives/Trading Business Knowledge ~ Object Oriented Design and Development experience Qualifications for Application administrator: ~ 1-4+ years application or system administration experience ~ C programming skills ~ Perl, shell language, etc ~ Sybase database administration knowledge, a plus ~ Financial Derivatives/Trading Business Knowledge, or ability to learn Please send resumes to: Pauline Philipps-Zabel 1 First National Plaza Chicago, IL 60670 (312) 732-3638 (312) 732-1657 Fax Plain Text, NeXT Mail, or MIME: ppz@fnbc.com
From: resumes@next.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Consulting Engineers - London Office - NeXT Computer Date: 16 Jun 1995 14:55:09 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3rsk2d$nec@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> In addition, NeXT's Open Positions page is linked to CareerMosaic on the WWW. ***************************************************************** Position: Consulting Engineers - Object Expert Group - Europe Department: Professional Services (Europe) Location: Based in London, England with assignments throughout Europe Potential exists for alternative bases in continental Europe Primary Responsibility: The Object Expert will provide expedient technical assistance and proactive information to keep NEXTSTEP projects moving forward through first hand exposure to a customer's business goals, hands-on access to project specifications and designs, and face-to-face relationship building with project leaders, development teams, and third parties. This dedicated NeXT engineer will be a focal point for the resolution of day-to-day project issues and will act as the customer's conduit to the expertise of NEXT's Premium Support and Engineering staff who specialize in various aspects of NEXTSTEP. Specific Responsibilities * a full-time, dedicated, on-site NEXTSTEP expert * analysis, design, and programming assistance * a conduit between the customer and NeXT to resolve technical issues and facilitate the adoption of new NeXT technologies into the customers development environment * optimal use of the NEXTSTEP development tools and environment * assistance with application planning, integration, and testing * ongoing "knowledge transfer" of object oriented concepts * third party solutions selection and guidance * assistance to project leaders in assessing team skills and mapping team strengths to facilitate NEXTSTEP development * weekly project meetings with customer management to review project status, pending technical issues, and associated resolutions. Skills, Education and Experience Requirements * First degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or related field. *4+ years experience software development experience, with at least two years of experience in NEXTSTEP development. *A solid understanding of the software development process, including object oriented analysis & design. Prior experience with setting and managing customer expectations is a plus. Please contact Peter Forrow, Director Professional Services, Europe at pforrow@next.com or phone on +44 181 565 0005. Note: Some medical and other benefits may not apply as described above for employees hired in Europe. ********************************************************************** ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: resumes@next.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: ENTRY LEVEL OPPORTUNITY/MARKETING Date: 16 Jun 1995 14:55:20 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3rsk2o$nel@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> In addition, NeXT's Open Positions page is linked to CareerMosaic on the WWW. ***************************************************************** Position: Product Marketing Manager, PDO Product Line Department: Product Marketing Position Charter This position is responsible for providing Technical Marketing to refine, assist in the development and testing, and ship NeXT's Portable Distributed Objects product. In addition, this position will be responsible for all sales and marketing issues relating to licensing PDO technology to other systems vendors and defining the overall interoperability strategy of NeXT PDO and other industry object models. Specific Responsibilities Deliver NeXT PDO to market, including product feature set via customer input, pricing, packaging, and marketing and promotion strategies; Become NeXT's internal expert in the area of distributed object solutions in the software industry and develop the strategy for interoperability between NEXTSTEP PDO and other industry object models; Act as an internal and external spokesperson for NeXT's distributed object strategy, competitive advantages, product positioning, and other related technologies; Become NeXT's representative to the Object Management Group (OMG); track industry standards such as OMG CORBA and OSF DCE, and define the strategy for NEXTSTEP PDO conformance to such standards; Work with key industry partners to define interoperability between PDO and their respective technology (e.g. HP and DOMF) Gather, distill, and prioritize customer need information from the NeXT sales force, channels of distribution, and customers for use during product planning and development cycle; Develop sales tools (eg. selling guides, slide shows, demos) that communicate NeXT's PDO advantage; Skills, Education and Experience Requirements B.S. in Computer Science or related area, or equivalent experience 2+ years development experience or product marketing experience Additional Success Factors Experience in launching a software product into the market desired Experience in face-to-face high-level customer interaction, speaking with industry press and analysts, and making pulic presentations Basic understanding of network computing, and network standards Experience with Object-Oriented development paradigms and programming environments ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: resumes@next.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: CONTRACT WINDOWS APPS DEVLPR - NeXT Computer Date: 16 Jun 1995 14:55:37 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3rsk39$nf1@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> In addition, NeXT's Open Positions page is linked to CareerMosaic on the WWW. ***************************************************************** Position: Windows Application Programmers (Contractors) Department: Portable Distributed Objects, Engineering Location: Redwood City, CA Assignment length: 3 months, possible extension Pay: Up to $90/hour, depending on skill set. Contact: Caroline McGrail, 415-780-3931 Primary responsibility Design and implement sample Windows applications that demonstrate NeXT's PDO-OLE integration technology. Assist NeXT's SQA team in developing tests for our PDO-OLE integration. Specific Responsibilities * Design and develop well-documented demo and example apps using MS Visual C++ and PDO * Help develop auxilary utilities for creating and running PDO objects under Windows * Assist NeXT SQA with writing test suites for PDO-OLE integration Skills and Experience Requirements * At least 2 years experience developing commercial or custom Windows applications * At least 1 year developing with MS Visual Basic and Visual C++ * Strong object-oriented programming knowledge * At least 1 year experience developing with OLE * Objective-C/NEXTSTEP programming knowledge a major plus ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: resumes@next.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: WINDOWS ENGINEER - NeXT Computer Date: 16 Jun 1995 14:55:52 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3rsk3o$nfb@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> In addition, NeXT's Open Positions page is linked to CareerMosaic on the WWW. ***************************************************************** Position: Windows Engineer Department: Foundation Technology group Location: Redwood City, CA Primary Responsibility: Develop OLE based applications to interface with PDO for Little John. These applications will be used to help with the design and implementation of the OLE bridge for Little John, and will help the Little John team to understand issues relating to application development from an OLE/Windows perspective. Will also own certain pieces of Little John as they relate to Windows (i.e. Install program) Specific responsibilities: Develop OLE applications using PDO/OLE bridge Provide Windows and OLE expertise Provide feedback to help with design of OLE bridge Work as member of PDO Little John team Work with Premium support to provide expertise building LJ applications Work with Tech Pubs on Little John examples Work with RC and other groups for LJ logistics Own the LJ install program and process Education, Skills and Experience Required: Fluency in Win32 API demonstrated by significant implementation Fluency in issues related to design/implementation of OLE products Fluency in object oriented implementation language and environment Fluency in C, Visual Basic, OLE Automation Experience in Object Oriented design and implementation methodology Engineering background: 5 - 8 years BSCS or equivalent Additional Success Factors: Knowledge of dynamic Object systems (Smalltalk, Objective C) Fast learner Ability to proactively take on responsibility ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: resumes@next.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: DRIVER ENGINEER - NeXT Computer Date: 16 Jun 1995 14:56:06 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3rsk46$nfk@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> In addition, NeXT's Open Positions page is linked to CareerMosaic on the WWW. ***************************************************************** Position: Driver Engineer Department: Software Engineering, Driver Development Primary Responsibility Architecture, development , and maintenance of NEXTSTEP device drivers for a variety of hardware including Display Cards, Keyboard & Mouse devices, and Serial & Parallel ports. Also responsible for Test Suite development for these subsystems. Specific Responsibilities Maintenance & development engineering on existing drivers and associated code. Review code developed by 3rd parties and integrate into our source base. Serve as a source of expertise on Intel platform issues to the rest of the company, including Sales, Marketing, Support, QA and other groups within Engineering. Serve as technical liaison with engineers from adapter & peripheral vendors as needed during development and maintenance of drivers. Assist in creation of driver specifications and product plans. Design and implement driver test suites, and consult with publications on documentation efforts. Minimum Requirements BSCS or equivalent and 2-4 years experience in driver or kernel development Highly experienced with development and debugging of drivers for Intel hardware under UNIX, Mach, or NEXTSTEP. Familiarity with Intel-compatible hardware and busses (ISA/EISA/VL-Bus/PCI) Has developed under Unix (familiar with Unix development tools: make, cc, nm,... ) Understanding of filesystems, UNIX or Mach kernels, and object-oriented design is highly desirable. Has developed driver test suits and/or harnesses; use of logic analyzer is a plus. Ability to deal with changing priorities and tasks, and yet stay focused on key deliverable. ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: resumes@next.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: KERNEL ENGINEER - NeXT Computer Date: 16 Jun 1995 14:56:18 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3rsk4i$nfs@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <<URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources> In addition, NeXT's Open Positions page is linked to CareerMosaic on the WWW. ***************************************************************** Job Title: Operating System Kernel Developer Department: Operating Systems Location: Redwood City, CA Job Description: This position involves designing and programming fundamental system control aspects of Intel-based, Sparc, and HP machine architectures. This includes system bus control, interrupt handling details, DMA setup, and so forth. The code written or modified must integrate within the entire scope of our on-going operating system efforts. Requirements: Minimum of BS CS or BS EE; min 5 years experience. Must be an expert on one of the following machine architectures, and at least capable of absorbing the details of the other two: Sparc, HP, Intel-based 80x86. Familiarity with object oriented programming principles is a must. Must like to program low-level functions in both C and assembler language. The candidate should have experience in machines which are interconnected across networks. Additional Job Information: There are a wide array of very mature and capable tools to assist with the job: project building applications, debugging facilities, visual and graphic means to examine some parts of machine activity. Further, there are others on the team with much expertise in this area to help a new person understand the job: we need the candidate to help us expand our platform support into the future. Even with this support structure, the candidate must be able to work on problems tenaciously and be independently motivated to do so. ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: Pauline Philipps-Zabel <ppz@fnbc.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: cmsg cancel <3rq9v7$e1k@digifix.digifix.com> Control: cancel <3rq9v7$e1k@digifix.digifix.com> Date: 16 Jun 1995 14:52:31 -0400 Organization: Digital Fix Development Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3rsjtf$nd0@digifix.digifix.com> Cancelled Message by sanguish@digifix.com -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions) http://www.stepwise.com/ (Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server)
From: Pauline Philipps-Zabel <ppz@fnbc.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: cmsg cancel <3rsjuu$nd8@digifix.digifix.com> Control: cancel <3rsjuu$nd8@digifix.digifix.com> Date: 16 Jun 1995 14:53:51 -0400 Organization: Digital Fix Development Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3rsjvv$ndl@digifix.digifix.com> Cancelled Message by sanguish@digifix.com -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions) http://www.stepwise.com/ (Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server)
From: "Carl E. Lindberg" <lindberg@BLaCKSMITH.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Blacksmith, Inc. - Jr & Sr NEXTSTEP Developers Date: 16 Jun 1995 16:21:45 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3rsp4p$of4@digifix.digifix.com> For Immediate Release: Fantastic Opportunities for All NEXTSTEP Developers!! BLaCKSMITH, Inc., one of the fastest growing NEXTSTEP/OpenStep development companies in the market, is hiring NEXTSTEP developers to fill a broad range of openings, from junior-level to senior-level positions in both in its commercial products and consulting divisions. Every resume will be considered! Thanks to BLaCKSMITH's prominent reputation, its products and services are in high demand in almost every major NEXTSTEP market: government, telecommunications, entertainment and financial services. The company will be hiring individuals who believe in the technology and are committed to building a wildly successful OpenStep company. BLaCKSMITH employees are considered to be the company's most valuable asset. Job openings are available in the following categories: 1) Jr. NEXTSTEP Developer - 6 months to 2 years NEXTSTEP/Objective-C experience required - Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent work experience required - General knowledge of object-oriented analysis and design required - Two years development experience in C or C++ required - Two years experience with UNIX required - UNIX system administration and database administration helpful - US Citizenship required 2) Sr. NEXTSTEP Developer - 3 to 5 years NEXTSTEP/Objective-C experience required - Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent work experience required - Minimum 5 years of development experience in C/C++ and UNIX required - Working knowledge of EOF helpful - US Citizenship required 3) NEXTSTEP Developer/Project Manager - 3 to 5 years NEXTSTEP/Objective-C experience required - Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent work experience required - Minimum 5 years of development experience in C/C++ and UNIX required - Minimum 2 years software development project management experience required - US Citizenship required Successful candidates who join BLaCKSMITH's commercial products division will: - Work on a suite of business productivity applications with high market demand - Work with extremely talented NEXTSTEP developers and provide valuable input and direction - Work in a relaxed, casual atmosphere Successful candidates who join BLaCKSMITH's consulting division will: - Have the opportunity to learn and be a part of an exciting business environment in the telecommunications, entertainment, financial or government industries - Work on high-profile NEXTSTEP development projects - Work with a team of talented NEXTSTEP developers and provide valuable input and direction - Work with state-of-the-art object modeling and implementation techniques and professionals with extensive business and development experience. Founded in 1992, BLaCKSMITH, Inc. is dedicated to providing custom and commercial software solutions to customers who wish to capitalize on the advantages of object-oriented software. BLaCKSMITH is the developer of CHaRTSMITH, NEXTSTEP's most popular business productivity application for charting and graphing. The company is located in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Please submit resumes by fax or mail no later than July 14, 1995. For more information contact: Denise Britti 9401 Mathy Drive, Suite 300 Fairfax, VA 22031 (800) 619-6147 (703) 250-1741 (703) 250-1744 Fax Plain Text, NeXT Mail, or MIME: info@blacksmith.com
From: Jens Breitenborn <jensb@mathematik.uni-bremen.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: ACRViewer.app, quad-fat, dicom3, api, extensible Date: 16 Jun 1995 22:56:33 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3rtg91$ra9@digifix.digifix.com> Submission:ACRViewer.app, quad-fat, dicom3, api, extensible I have uploaded ACRViewer.app to ftp://forte.mathematik.uni-bremen.de/pub/next/ACRViewer 3047 Jun 15 16:32 ACRViewer.1.3.NIHS.bd.README 773387 Jun 15 16:32 ACRViewer.1.3.NIHS.bd.tar.gz I have also uploaded these files to ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de there you should find them under /pub/comp/platforms/next/science/medicine Changes since ACRViewer 1.0: - quad-fat for NeXT (Motorola), Intel, hp-pa, sparc - Distributed Objects API - extensibility: create your own image operators - DICOM 3.0 format is now supported The contents of the README file: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ACRViewer.1.3.NIHS.bd.tar.gz file contains - ACRViewer.app - ACRViewerScreenShot.tiff - A Distributed Objects API for ACRViewer - Class Interface (dynamically extending ACRViewer with image operators) - ACRViewer.1.3.NIHS.bd.README ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What is ACRViewer ? ACRViewer can display medical images stored in a representation that is specified in a NEMA (National Electrical Manufactures Association) Standards Publication. Together with the ACR (American College of Radiology) the NEMA formed a joint committee to develop a standard for Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM). At the moment ACRViewer can display most ACR-NEMA 1.0, ACR-NEMA 2.0 and DICOM 3.0 (new in ACRViewer 1.3) images. ACRViewer will reject any other input. If you don't have ACR-NEMA files you may have a look at the screen shot (ACRViewerScreenShot.tiff) to get an impression of what ACRViewer does. If you have ACR-NEMA files you will probably like the unique features of ACRViewer: - transparent file format handling (ACR-NEMA 1/2, DICOM 3, swapped, ...) - interface displaying non-image data specified by ACR-NEMA standard + patient data (Name, Id, Study Date, ...) + image data (width, height, windows, ...) - support of volume browsing (slice by slice) + volume animation + Application Programming Interface (API). - Extensibility: implement your own image operators. The specialized case of 16Bit grayscale image data enables very fast image processing. - ACRViewer supports drag-and-drop. Simply drag the displayed image into your favorite word processor or into the File-Browser. ACRViewer is now compiled Quad-Fat for NeXT, Intel, HP-PA and Sparc processors. For "License and Warranty" see Info->Info...->more Info... -------------------------------------- What are the roots of ACRViewer ? At the CeVis (Center for Complex Systems and Visualisation - University of Bremen) we are developing a general purpose image processing system that also contains several very specialized algorithms for medical diagnostics. This system runs on Silicon Graphics workstations and uses the Image Vision Library (IL) from SGI. In the IL's execution model, image data is processed only on demand. This enables our system to process huge data sets. For more information contact the CeVis WWW Server at http://www.cevis.uni-bremen.de I have taken the ACR format parsing software from this image processing system developed at CeVis (with permission from CeVis) and built a NEXTSTEP Interface around it. The ACR format parsing software uses (for DICOM 3.0 images) the "European CTN Dicom Software (Version 2.0)" provided by "OFFIS, Oldenburg University and CERIUM". You'll find the Copyright notice for this software in the ACRViewer Application under "Info/Info.../more info...". Jens Breitenborn, 95/06/14 EMail: jensb@mathematik.uni-bremen.de, or jensb@informatik.uni-bremen.de
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys-soft.nextstep Subject: Summary 88 - Articles posted since June 12 1995 Date: 19 Jun 1995 00:00:07 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3s2em7$iji@digifix.digifix.com> Summary: 88 Postings since: June 12 1995 [3338] ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines [3339] NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet [3340] MEETING: BANG - Thursday June 15 [3341] SUBMISSION: PencilTWO.app [3342] PRESS RELEASE: Xanthus Announces Promotional Prices Through June 30 [3343] SUBMISSION: ConnectNow new release 1.0.1 [3344] PRESS RELEASE: Xanthus Announces New Version and Competitive Upgrade for Questor [3346] JOB: Performance Tools Engineer - NeXT Computer [3347] JOB: Sr. Media Engineer - NeXT Computer [3348] JOB: Windows NT Programmers - NeXT Computer [3349] JOB: Development Environment Software Engineer - NeXT Computer [3350] JOB: Sr. Software Engineer - NeXT Computer [3354] JOB: SupportLine Engineer - NeXT Computer [3355] JOB: Technical Support Engineer - NeXT Computer [3356] JOB: System/Network Administrator - NeXT Computer [3357] JOB: Systems Consultants/NYC & Chicago - NeXT Computer [3358] JOB: Sofware Engineer - Frameworks - NeXT Computer [3359] JOB: Frameworks Architect - NeXT Computer [3360] JOB: Developer Trainer - EOF - NeXT Computer [3361] JOB: Developer Trainer - NEXTSTEP - NeXT Computer [3362] JOB: Consulting Engineers - Engineering Services - NeXT Computer [3364] JOBS: NEXTSTEP Developer & Application Administration [3365] JOB: Consulting Engineers - London Office - NeXT Computer [3366] JOB: ENTRY LEVEL OPPORTUNITY/MARKETING [3367] JOB: CONTRACT WINDOWS APPS DEVLPR - NeXT Computer [3368] JOB: WINDOWS ENGINEER - NeXT Computer [3369] JOB: DRIVER ENGINEER - NeXT Computer [3370] JOB: KERNEL ENGINEER - NeXT Computer [3371] JOB: Blacksmith, Inc. - Jr & Sr NEXTSTEP Developers [3372] SUBMISSION: ACRViewer.app, quad-fat, dicom3, api, extensible If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com. Archives -------- Individual messages are available at http://www.stepwise.com/comp.sys.next.announce/csna-88/**article_number** where **article_number** is the [xxxx] beside the Subject line above.. FTP archives: ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives/csna-88.tar.gz WWW archives: http://www.stepwise.com/comp.sys.next.announce/csna-88 Article submissions : next-announce@digifix.com Submission guidelines: next-announce-guidelines@digifix.com Suggestions/comments : next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines Date: 19 Jun 1995 00:15:03 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3s2fi7$ilu@digifix.digifix.com> NEW POLICY: =========== In an attempt to standardize the format of the FTP locations for files, all ftp addresses should be submitted using the Universal Resource Locator (URL) format. (for example) ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/submissions/file.tar.gz Please try and give an indication of where you expect the file will end up on the archive site, in the same notation. Cross Posting ============= I try very hard to make sure that postings get out in a timely fashion. Most go out in less than 24 hours. Postings that require editing because they do not contain information in a useable format, or have already been posted to other comp.sys.next.* groups may be delayed, or returned to you. If your posting is rejected, I'll try and make suggestions about what should be changed where possible. Obviously off charter messages (spams, open-letters, etc) may not get a response. Content 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 _IN URL FORMAT_ supported CPU's for binary distributions, OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting, time of meeting, speakers expected Signatures 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. Announcement of Product Sales ============================= This is an area of announcement that has caused me terrible grief in recent months. The policy is tilted towards the ISV, which has worked out well in the past. Posts that announce sales of products that you are DIRECTLY involved in the development of are OK. Posts from companies trying to sell other products are evaluated on an individual basis. Time Sensitive Announcements ============================ Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date. 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.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet Date: 19 Jun 1995 00:15:09 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Distribution: inet Message-ID: <3s2fid$ilu@digifix.digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site comp.sys.next newsgroups related newsgroups comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list ftp sites NeXTanswers Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site =============================================== This online community resource includes - 200+ ISV company pages - 400+ ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - NEXTSTEP User Group Directory - comp.sys.next archives - User Group information - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.stepwise.com/ Additionally there is a Mail Server available. You can get information on using the mail server at ns-products@stepwise.com Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise, please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com. eduSTEP WWW site ================ http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/ eduStep aims to provide up-to-date information on: - NextStep tools and projects for scientists. - Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist). - A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with customers in the educational community. - Conferences, meetings, workshops - Major projects, such as SciTools, EMBL's project to develop a NextStep scientific work environment - Status reports on GNUStep, a freely-available implementation of OpenStep now being developed NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site ============================ http://www.next.com comp.sys.next.* newsgroups ========================== news: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. news: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. Archives are available by ftp at ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. news: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. news: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. news: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. news: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!!! news: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. news:comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. news:comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. Related Newsgroups ================== news: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. news:comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. news: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 ============= ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions ftp://nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: (Peanuts) Located in Germany. ftp://ftp.dn.net/pub/next Peanuts mirror in the US ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next/ eduStep ftp://ftp.next.com: See below ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com ===================================== [from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help] 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, read them on the world-wide web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS. 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 REPLY-TO address sets the e-mail address NeXTanswers uses 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 VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web server at URL http://www.next.com. 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. USING NEXTANSWERS BY MODEM To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at (415) 780-2965. Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section. From there you can download NeXTanswers documents. FOR MORE HELP... If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available from NeXTanswers, call the Support Hotline at 1-800-955-NeXT (outside the U.S. call +1-415-424-8500) to speak to a NEXTSTEP Technical Support Technician. If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must make this call to the hotline. Otherwise, hotline support is on a pay-per-call basis. Thanks for using NeXTanswers! Written by: Eric P. Scott (mailto:eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU) and Scott Anguish (mailto:sanguish@digifix.com) Additions from: Greg Anderson (mailto:Greg_Anderson@afs.com) Michael Pizolato (mailto:Michael_Pizolato@afs.com) Dan Grillo (mailto:dan_grillo@next.com)
From: Greg Anderson <greg@afs.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Anderson Financial Systems Introduces ReadUp Date: 19 Jun 1995 14:47:45 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3s4goh$5na@digifix.digifix.com> Anderson Financial Systems Inc. 909 Sumneytown Pike, Suite 106 Springhouse, PA 19477 +1 215 653 0911 +1 215 653 0711 fax Contact: Gregory H. Anderson Voice: 215 653 0911 Greg_Anderson@afs.com For Immediate Release ANDERSON FINANCIAL SYSTEMS INTRODUCES READUP Universal document inspection and indexing available soon for NEXTSTEP SPRINGHOUSE, PENNSYLVANIA, June 19, 1995 -- Anderson Financial Systems Inc. today introduced ReadUp(tm), a breakthrough utility that will allow NEXTSTEP users to view, print, and index all types of documents from other platforms. "Document interchange has been a vital concern for NEXTSTEP users,because so many popular document applications from other platforms have not been ported," said Gregory H. Anderson, Founder and CEO of AFS. "Multimedia mail loses value when you can't open the documents people send you. In addition, Digital Librarian is limited if you can't browse Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, AmiPro, and other documentsfrom non-NEXTSTEP areas of your organization. ReadUp is a must-haveutility that makes this possible." ReadUp document windows are fully integrated with the NEXTSTEP Workspace, Mail, and Librarian applications. In fact, ReadUp documents look like standard Librarian document windows. A simple double-click on a File Viewer, Mail message, or Librarian browser opens the selected document and finds the first occurrence of any specified keyword. Filters are provided to extract the text from documents for indexing and instantaneous searches. In addition, selected text in a ReadUp document window can be relayed back to Librarian for further searches in other documents. Because ReadUp is derived from WriteUp(tm), AFS's popular word processing application, it retains all page formatting attributes such as headers, footers, page numbers, and fixed-position graphics. Users can browse, print, and copy RTF/RTFD for use in Mail and other applications, but the original documents cannot be modified. The commercial price of ReadUp 1.0 will be $100 for a single user, $50 for each additional user at a site. Students and other academic users who download the application electronically can acquire a single copy for $50. ReadUp 1.0 is now in final beta testing and will ship in July. In the meantime, further information and complete specifications can be obtained by sending email to ReadUp@afs.com. 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 MSDOS and NEXTSTEP platforms. Representative clients include First National Bank of Chicago, PaineWebber, Dean Witter, Soros Fund 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: "Carl E. Lindberg" <lindberg@BLaCKSMITH.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Blacksmith, Inc. - NEXTSTEP Training division Date: 19 Jun 1995 14:48:08 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3s4gp8$5nh@digifix.digifix.com> For Immediate Release: Fantastic Opportunity for NEXTSTEP Trainers!! BLaCKSMITH, Inc., one of the fastest growing NEXTSTEP/OpenStep development companies in the market, will be hiring an instructor/courseware developer to join its NEXTSTEP Training division. Thanks to BLaCKSMITH's prominent reputation, its products and services (particularly training!) are in high demand in almost every major NEXTSTEP market: government, telecommunications, entertainment and financial services. The company will be looking for individuals who believe in the technology and are committed to building a wildly successful OpenStep company. BLaCKSMITH employees are considered to be the company's most valuable asset. The following describes the position's requirements: - 2 years NEXTSTEP development experience required - 2 years additional development experience in C, or C++ required - 2 years experience with UNIX required - Program management experience helpful - US Citizenship required The successful candidate will: - Help develop course material relating to NEXTSTEP software development - Deliver NEXTSTEP course material in a classroom setting - Help market/sell NEXTSTEP training - Have the opportunity to learn and be a part of an exciting business environment in the telecommunications, entertainment, financial or government industries - Work with a team of talented NEXTSTEP developers - Work in a relaxed, casual atmosphere Founded in 1992, BLaCKSMITH, Inc. is dedicated to providing custom and commercial software solutions to customers who wish to capitalize on the advantages of object-oriented software. BLaCKSMITH is the developer of CHaRTSMITH, NEXTSTEP's most popular business productivity application for charting and graphing. The company is located in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Please submit resumes by fax or mail no later than July 14, 1995. For more information contact: Denise Britti 9401 Mathy Drive, Suite 300 Fairfax, VA 22031 (800) 619-6147 (703) 250-1741 (703) 250-1744 Fax Plain Text, NeXT Mail, or MIME: info@blacksmith.com
From: jobs@onestep.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NEXTSTEP Solutions Sales and Marketing Date: 19 Jun 1995 14:50:19 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3s4gtb$5nr@digifix.digifix.com> OneStep Solutions Plc require Sales and Marketing staff to join our expanding company. The successful candidates will participate in the full sales cycle of business and technical applications and related hardware, within both our current and emerging vertical markets. - Responsibilities include - * Identifying new markets * Further realize our existing markets potential * Strengthen awareness of the company, its products & services * Production of marketing literature * Sales demonstrations * Production of Quotations * And, of course, Strong Closing skills - Personal skills required - * Self motivation * Creativity * Strong Academic qualifications or equivalent work experience - Experience desired - * Solution & services sales * Promotional literature production * Technical writing - Benefits - * Work in a professional and highly motivated company * Competitive salary package * Stock options for long term employees * Free tea, coffee and unbelievable Christmas meal :-) - About OneStep Solutions plc - Founded in 1984, OneStep Solutions Plc is dedicated to supplying market leading software and hardware solutions to discerning clients. Our focus is total solutions to allow our clients to become number one in their chosen markets. From these projects we develop many "add-on" technologies which we sell into the general NEXTSTEP and marketplace. We are an accredited reseller for SUN, HP PA-RISC, Intel systems and NEXTSTEP. These systems are sold to both major corporate and small business alike in the UK, Europe, USA and the Far East. - How to apply - CVs may be submitted in any of the following ways; Via email to jobs@onestep.co.uk, plain, NeXTMail or MIME formats Via fax to 01702 551515 or International +44 1702 551515 Via mail to: Mr A Diamond OneStep Solutions Plc 351 London Road Hadleigh Essex SS7 2BT England
From: jobs@onestep.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Software Developer Date: 19 Jun 1995 14:50:42 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3s4gu2$5o2@digifix.digifix.com> OneStep Solutions Plc require additional staff to join our software development team. Both senior and junior positions are available. The successful candidates will participate in the full life-cycle development of business and technical applications for both our current and emerging vertical markets. - Responsibilities include - * Contribute to the design and specification of applications * Create implementation designs and schedules * Code, test and debug * Write clear and concise documentation * Produce high quality applications * Technical support - Personal skills - * Self motivation * Desire to "get it right" * Strong communication and interpersonal skills * Strong academic qualifications or equivalent work experience * Ability to work as part of a team * Analytical and problem solving - Technical Experience desired - * NEXTSTEP application development * Strong C skills * Object Orientated programming techniques * Unix (NEXTSTEP or Solaris a plus) * Client / Server * User interface design skills * Technical writing * SQL, Network & Telecommunication We are keen to meet people already acquainted with these technologies, but above all we are looking for individuals who can demonstrate a flexible outlook and are excited by technical challenge. - Benefits - * Work in a professional and highly motivated company * Competitive salary package * Stock options for long term employees * Free tea, coffee and unbelievable Christmas meal :-) - About OneStep Solutions plc - Founded in 1984, OneStep Solutions Plc is dedicated to supplying market leading software and hardware solutions to discerning clients. Our focus is total solutions to allow our clients to become number one in their chosen markets. From these projects we develop many "add-on" technologies which we sell into the general NEXTSTEP and Unix marketplace. We are an accredited reseller for SUN, HP PA-RISC, Intel systems and NEXTSTEP. These systems are sold to both major corporate and small business alike in the UK, Europe, USA and the Far East. - How to apply - CVs may be submitted in any of the following ways; Via email to jobs@onestep.co.uk, plain, NeXTMail or MIME formats Via fax to 01702 551515 or International +44 1702 551515 Via mail to: Mr A Diamond OneStep Solutions Plc 351 London Road Hadleigh Essex SS7 2BT England
From: jobs@onestep.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Software Engineers Date: 19 Jun 1995 14:51:09 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3s4gut$5o9@digifix.digifix.com> OneStep Solutions Plc requires additional engineers to join our hardware team. Both senior and junior positions are available. The successful candidates will participate in the development, testing, assembling and maintenance of networks, workstations and associated peripherals including field service calls. - Responsibilities include - * Assembly, configuration, testing of workstations * Installation of systems and networks, both UK and abroad * Booking into stock and testing of new equipment received * Liaison with suppliers in the case of faulty equipment * Processing both our customer and training company's orders - Senior position will also perform - * Full documentation of the above responsibilities to meet quality control standards * Evaluation of potential new products * Liaison with our driver writing team in testing drivers * Design of logical and physical networks for clients * Troubleshooting networks - Personal skills required - * Self motivation * Desire to "get it right" * Systematic approach * Strong communication and interpersonal skills * GCSE or equivalent in English, Maths, Physics or equivalent work experience (Junior) * BSc or City & Guilds qualifications (Senior) * Full clean driving licence - Technical Experience - * PC or workstation production and maintenance * Unix (NEXTSTEP or Solaris a plus) * Technical writing (Senior) * Network & Telecommunications * 6 months work in similar workplace (Junior), 3 years (Senior) We are keen to meet people already acquainted with these technologies, but above all we are looking for individuals who can demonstrate a flexible outlook and are excited by technical challenge. - Benefits - * Work in a professional and highly motivated company * Competitive salary * Day release to attain professional qualifications, if required * Stock options for long term employees * Free tea, coffee and unbelievable Christmas meal :-) - About OneStep Solutions plc - Founded in 1984, OneStep Solutions Plc is dedicated to supplying market leading software and hardware solutions to discerning clients. Our focus is total solutions to allow our clients to become number one in their chosen markets. From these projects we develop many "add-on" technologies which we sell into the general NEXTSTEP and Unix marketplace. We are an accredited reseller for SUN, HP PA-RISC, Intel systems and NEXTSTEP. These systems are sold to both major corporate and small business alike in the UK, Europe, USA and the Far East. - How to apply - CVs may be submitted in any of the following ways; Via email to jobs@onestep.co.uk, plain, NeXTMail or MIME formats Via fax to 01702 551515 or International +44 1702 551515 Via mail to: Mr A Diamond OneStep Solutions Plc 351 London Road Hadleigh Essex SS7 2BT England
From: Roland Telfeyan <telfeyan@eecs.umich.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NEXTSTEP programmer - Univ. of Michigan Date: 19 Jun 1995 14:44:08 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3s4gho$5l8@digifix.digifix.com> NEXTSTEP Programming Job at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Job Title: PROGRAMMER ANALYST II Grade: 09 Min/Max $ 25,500/ 64,500 Posting Number: T-95-2483-MM Electrical Engr & Computer Sci Open Date: 06/19/1995 Close Date: 06/23/1995 Jobclass: 14790 Hours: 40.00 DUTIES: Write, modify and document complex computer programs in Objective-C, and SQL using the NEXTSTEP development; assist in the design and implementation of new generic systems for automation and control; assist in the formulation of projects efforts for the realization of these designs, including estimation of time and skills; present training sessions of complex software system. DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science with two years programming experience with NEXTSTEP, Objective-C, and Mach; considerable knowledge of modern programming languages, and operating systems; experience with one of the major client-server DBMS; knowledge of database management systems; excellent written and verbal skills; experience with programming and network administration of networked computers in a heterogeneous platform environment; ability to solve problems independently, effectively, and innovatively; excellent team member skills; strong motivation toward customer satisfaction and continual quality improvement. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent combination of education and work experience; reasonable responsible programming experience; some knowledge of system procedures and techniques; some working experience with an installation's operating system. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Present Applications For This Position To The Following Office: Ann Arbor Campus Employment Services Office Room G250 Wolverine Tower 3003 South State Street Ann Arbor, Michigan 48l09 (313) 764-6580 8 AM to 5 PM, Monday - Friday
From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: TransSys to cease NeXTSTEP development activities Date: 20 Jun 1995 23:40:08 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3s84ao$n6b@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Louis Mamakos TransSys, Inc. LAUREL, Maryland, USA 19 June 1995 I'd like to announce today that TransSys, Inc. will no longer be offering licenses for its SLIP software for sale, and is ceasing further NeXTSTEP product development. The time available to do development and support have been sharply curtailed due other demands. The TransSys PNI (and TransSys Dial-Up IP before it) software packages were really done because they filled a need that I personally had. The software was packaged and distributed, intended for the experienced end-user or OEM who could install the software and configure it without requiring support. Since then, the world has evolved, and PPP is more and more the correct solution, requiring less support and being more auto-configuring. Some of the tools in the TransSys software (such as extensive scripting capability based on TCL) were intended to address some of those requirements, but were difficult to use by inexperienced end-users. Unfortunately, available time doesn't permit a PPP implementation to be done.. Porting and testing new versions of TransSys PNI for HP and Sun platforms is severely hampered by both the lack of time, and an unexpectedly high upgrade cost for the development tools. Given the limited time available to do this work and how long it will take for the investment in tools to be recovered, I've elected to cease development activities here. Further, it is unclear to me how to evolve this software such that it makes any sense on OpenStep platforms, which will likely have their own native networking support, or what the market for such software in it's current shape would be in the future. The target for NeXTSTEP and OpenStep systems seems to be custom application development, and not third party applications. I cannot help but believe that this trend will continue even more in the future. The freely, SLIP-only version of the software will continue to be available, without support from the current FTP archive sites, including ftp://ftp.uu.net/vendor/TransSys/ Other software which is available include the Morning Star PPP product (http://WWW.MorningStar.COM) as well as a freeware PPP implementation for the NeXT (http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/). If possible, I would like to sell the NeXTSTEP rights to this software to an interested company with the resources to carry it into the future. Ideally, the company could complete porting and testing efforts to new hardware platforms, add new features (like PPP and dial-on-demand), as well as provide extensive customer support of end-users. I've been in NeXTSTEP development since the NeXTSTEP Release 0.8 days on a 68030 cube, and it's been a lot of fun. There have been high points and low ones; it's been an interesting ride. However, it's finally come to an end. While the character and interests of the folks using NeXTSTEP has changed over the years from Higher-Ed to MCCA to whatever it is these days, it's been quite a lot fun working with all of you. Louis Mamakos TransSys, Inc.
From: Kindle DiGiusto <Kindle_DiGiusto@NeXT.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: NeXT Ships PDO Release 3.0 Date: 20 Jun 1995 22:56:24 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3s81oo$mt8@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kindle DiGiusto NeXT Computer, Inc. 415/780-3781 or Charlotte Penner Copithorne & Bellows 415-975-2280 NeXT Ships PDO Release 3.0 PDO's transparent object distribution now available on Digital, Sun and HP Unix operating systems REDWOOD CITY-June 20, 1995-NeXT Computer, Inc. today announced that it is shipping Portable Distributed Objects (PDO) Release 3.0, a new version of its distributed object model which runs on popular server platforms including Digital UNIX, SunOS, Solaris and HP-UX. NeXT also announced that it plans to release a version of PDO to run on Microsoft's Windows NT operating system later this year. PDO is the distributed object model at the heart of OpenStep, NeXT's cross-platform, object-oriented application framework. PDO Release 3.0 enables objects to run on server platforms from Digital, Sun, and Hewlett-Packard. Using PDO, developers create objects which can be deployed without modification on any client or server running NEXTSTEP, OpenStep, or PDO. With PDO's transparent distribution, objects are accessed in identical fashion whether they are running locally or remotely. Programmers do not have to determine during development where an object will be deployed-all objects are inherently distributable. This enables applications to be partitioned in order to take advantage of network resources without adding complexity to the design and implementation. NeXT will ship a version of PDO for Windows NT later this year which will provide interoperability with Microsoft's OLE object model. Future versions of PDO will also provide interoperability between OpenStep objects and CORBA objects. "In its third major release, PDO is the industry's only proven distributed object model," said Steven P. Jobs, Chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer, Inc. "Today, customers are running scalable mission-critical applications using PDO that take advantage of all their computing resources. Furthermore, the objects they develop now will soon interoperate seamlessly with OLE and CORBA objects, enabling applications to be deployed in a mixed object environment." PDO Release 3.0 Enables Distribution of Business Objects to Servers PDO Release 3.0 extends platform support to include Digital UNIX and provides increased flexibility for customers using NeXT's Enterprise Objects Framework. The Enterprise Objects Framework enables developers to construct reusable business objects that combine business logic with persistent data stored in industry-standard relational databases. Using the Enterprise Objects Framework and PDO Release 3.0, three-tiered client/server applications can be developed which distribute business objects across high-performance compute and database servers throughout the enterprise. This architecture allows objects to be located where they make best use of computing resources. "The combination of the Enterprise Objects Framework and PDO allows our developers to design a scalable computing infrastructure," said Duncan Wilcox, Director of Investment Technology for Nicholas Applegate Capital Management. "As the number of users and the amount of data grows, we have the flexibility to easily relocate our business objects to take advantage of more powerful servers." Pricing and Availability PDO Release 3.0 is currently shipping for Digital UNIX, SunOS, Solaris and HP-UX operating systems. Pricing for PDO is $499 per seat. Those interested in obtaining more information about NeXT's products can access product literature via the World Wide Web at http://www.next.com/ or via NeXTanswers (NeXT's technical support free information retrieval system) at nextanswers@next.com, 415-780-3990 (fax), or ftp.next.com. NeXT Computer, Inc. NeXT develops and markets OpenStep, the industry's first and most advanced object environment. OpenStep versions have been announced which will run on several operating systems, including NeXT's own MachOS, Sun's Solaris, Digital UNIX, and Microsoft's Windows NT and Windows 95. OpenStep's object-oriented technology allows corporate customers to rapidly create and deploy three-tiered, client/server applications. NeXT is headquartered in Redwood City, California, and has offices in North America, London, Paris, Munich, and Tokyo. # # # # NeXT, the NeXT logo, OpenStep, NEXTSTEP, Portable Distributed Objects, PDO, and Enterprise Objects are trademarks or registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: Alan Atlas <alan@sarrus.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Sarrus Software Searching for Developer Support Person Date: 20 Jun 1995 23:00:40 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3s820o$mtu@digifix.digifix.com> Sarrus Software is looking for a Development Support person to join our development team. Sarrus is the leading provider of Group Information Management software for NEXTSTEP and soon OpenStep systems. We are a small, privately held, profitable software company with products that include group and enterprise scheduling, contact management, and directory services. We sell our products worldwide through our direct sales force and through resellers. We're growing because customers love our products, and we're having a lot of fun in the process. As a member of our development team, you will be responsible for QA/test of all products (60%), customer technical support (30%), and some system administration (10%), including setting up and maintaining our fulltime Internet site. You will participate in working through design issues,representing customer interests and QA concerns, maintaining the bug tracking system, and in general covering the non-coding team roles in product development. You will be the line of communication between our customers and the development group, and we'll depend on you to help customers solve their problems while keeping them happy, impressing them with your level of professionalism, and keeping track of their problems and suggestions for the team. And you will help keep the network alive and healthy. With you, we'll be able to step up to new levels of product quality and development power. Without you, we are a team that's missing an important contributor. QUALIFICATIONS We need someone with a base of experience, talent, drive, and intelligence who can learn and grow on the job. The right person will meet our technical profile and, more importantly, will want the opportunity to be a part of a close-knit, hard-working development team. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR CONSIDERATION: - Willingness to work on a team and take responsibility for success - 2+ years professional experience in a commercial UNIX or NEXTSTEP environment - 1+ years in GUI application testing - UNIX or NEXTSTEP system administration, including some sendmail/uucp experience, Internet, etc. - Excellent oral (including telephone) and written English communication skills PLUSES: - C++ or Objective-C - NEXTSTEP - Solaris - Sybase - perl, awk, shell programming, other UNIX utilities - Current residence in the SF Bay area WE OFFER - a small and highly motivated team that works well together and laughs a lot - a company where team spirit, flexibility, sense of humor, and a readiness to pitch in and help are highly valued - competitive compensation package - Health and dental coverage - Snacks and occasional home-made baked goods To apply, send us your resume: Email(preferred): resumes@sarrus.com Fax: (415) 343-8588 (Attn: Alan Atlas) U.S. citizens or green card holders only. No visa assistance is available. Limited relocation assistance may be offered. **************PRINCIPALS ONLY PLEASE****************
From: khare@cco.caltech.edu (Rohit Khare) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: CONFERENCE: nugi Expo, August 14th-17th, San Francisco Date: 21 Jun 1995 01:42:53 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3s8bgt$o3c@digifix.digifix.com> CONFERENCE: nugi Expo, August 14th-17th, San Francisco nugi Announces International NEXTSTEP/OpenStep User Conference to be held Aug 14th-17th in San Francisco, in conjunction with West Coast NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Days and ObjectWorld Expo. For Conference Information Contact: Rohit Khare nugi Conference Publicist 617/491-5030 khare@w3.org http://xent.w3.org/~khare/NugiExpoAnnounce.htmld [0] PASADENA, CA - In response to overwhelming demand for an international forum for users of NeXT technology, NEXTSTEP/OpenStep User Groups International (nugi) has formally declared August 14th through 17th in San Francisco to be "nugi Expo". Dedicated to the memory of NEXTWORLD Expo '92, '93 and NEXTSTEP Expo '94, nugi Expo is intended to bring together NEXTSTEP/OpenStep (NS/OS) Developers and Users from around the world to network, brainstorm, and have fun. nugi Expo is built around four segments. The first is NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Day on August 14th, sponsored by NeXT. The second is ObjectWorld San Francisco on August 15th-17th, sponsored by DCI, which will include a keynote address by Steve Jobs. We will attempt to coordinate the efforts of small vendors who wish to exhibit at ObjectWorld - contact [1] for details. The third segment is the International Conference on OpenStep and NEXTSTEP (ICoON), sponsored by nugi, which will run concurrently with the other two. It will take the form of three consultations, for Users, Developers, and User Groups. Each consultation will involve structured and free-form discussions about challenges and solutions for surviving in the evolving NS/OS marketplace. The results of these consultations will be presented to NeXT and other OpenStep vendors by the nugi leadership. Some tentative areas of discussion include: User: educational, home, and publishing markets; hardware compatibility Developer: Tools, Internet Services, MiscKit, Emacs, Database Access User Groups: purposes, membership, resources, networking These tracks may be broken down further into BOF (Birds-of-a-Feather) sessions, as needed. If you would interested in organizing a BOF in one of these tracks, contact [2]. The final segment is the NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Social Event (NOSE). Due to circumstances beyond our control, we will not be able to hold the traditional Stone Rave. Instead, we will work with Andy Stone and others to organize a single event combining both a party and the nugi auction. It will take place in a location near the conference center, in a venue that will allow for networking as well as socializing. We are still looking for vendor and user group sponsors for such an event. Agendas and registration information will be provided at a later date. Most events will be open to anyone, free of charge. We do encourage people to sign up for ObjectWorld to take full advantage of the Expo experience. Anyone interested in attending or exhibiting is encouraged to review the web pages cited above, or to contact [3] directly. Watch for more details on comp.sys.next.announce and the Web. REFERENCES [0] See http://xent.w3.org/~khare/NugiExpoAnnounce.htmld [1] mailTo:mackay@cognito.demon.co.uk with subject: nugi Expo [2] mailTo:ernest@caltech.edu with subject: nugi BOF [3] mailTo:khare@w3.org with subject: nugi Expo?
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: GNU m4 1.4 (QUAD-FAT) Date: 21 Jun 1995 02:54:51 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3s8fnr$oli@digifix.digifix.com> GNU m4 macro processor v1.4 ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/binaries/proglang/GNU-m4-1.4-NIHS.gztar This is a quad-fat binary and source distribution of the GNU m4 macro processor. This utility can be used to create sendmail configuration files (*.cf) from macro files (*.mc) The latest version of sendmail 8.x requires this utility. Robert La Ferla Registered NEXTSTEP Consultant Hot Technologies info@hot.com + 1 (617) 252-0088
From: osg@onramp.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: US-Virginia NeXT Developers Date: 22 Jun 1995 15:56:20 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3scht4$c0u@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT OBJECT MODELERS AND DEVELOPERS OSG (Object Systems Group) is a technology-based consultancy that provides assistance to Global 1000 corporations in new and emerging technologies. OSG is currently hiring for a very large NeXT project in the Virginia. The project is a new development (no legacy issues) and will span 2+ years. We will need to hire object modelers, and numerous developers. If you have a minimum of 2 years experience in a NeXTSTEP environment at any level, we want to talk to you. The rate will reflect the level of responsibility. All work must be done on site. Candidates must be willing to make a minimum of a one year commitment to the projects. If you or someone you know might be interested cutting edge work, please send resume to osg@onramp.net, US mail your resume to Object Systems Group, Inc., Attn: Glenda Maddox, 5001 Infomart, 1950 Stemmons Freeway, Dallas, Tx. 75207, or fax to 214 746-5974.
From: Leonard Manzara <uulen!len@trillium.ab.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Trillium Announces Version 2.0 of the TextTospeech Kits Date: 22 Jun 1995 23:45:34 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3sddcu$fj8@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, please contact: Trillium Sound Research Inc. 1500, 112 - 4th Ave. S.W. Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2P 0H3 Telephone: (403) 284-9278 Fax: (403) 282-6778 Order Desk: 1-800-567-2867 E-mail: info@trillium.ab.ca Trillium Announces Version 2.0 of the TextTospeech Kits Calgary, Alberta - June 21, 1995 - Trillium Sound Research Inc. today announced a major breakthrough in rule-based speech synthesis technology. Incorporating the first-ever real-time articulatory speech synthesizer, Trillium is now shipping Version 2.0 of the TextToSpeech Kits. The innovative system is the result of several years of intensive research, supported in part by the National Research Council of Canada through their IRAP RDA program, and included collaboration with speech experts at ENST in Paris. "No one else in the world offers the type of system we have," said David Hill, Vice President of Research at Trillium. "True articulatory synthesis, which simulates the propagation of sound pressure waves through the vocal and nasal tracts, provides a breakthrough in naturalness and intelligibility." "Even top research labs do not offer real-time articulatory synthesis of unrestricted speech from text," he said. "A common approach is non-real-time synthesis using articulatory constraints indirectly, followed by conversion to sound through a formant synthesizer of some sort. This perpetuates most of the disadvantages of formant synthesis." "This major advance in computer-generated speech is analogous to what occurred in computer graphics when ray tracing replaced polygonal modelling," said Hill. "We can now scale to female and childrens voices simply by adjusting the length of the vocal tract and raising the median pitch. Trillium is proud to be the company that first made real-time articulatory speech synthesis a practical reality." Trillium's Object-Oriented TextToSpeech Kits run under the NEXTSTEP operating system on both Motorola and Intel hardware, and come in two flavours---User and Developer. Both kits offer immediate access to text-to-speech facilities for the user through the Services Menu and an application named BigMouth, while the Developer Kit provides the libraries, documentation and sample code needed to build new applications that use text-to-speech. In the simplest case, only three lines of code are needed in an application to provide speech output, and the developer needs no speech expertise. "We have adopted a policy of keeping the kit price low for both users and developers," said Dr. Leonard Manzara, President of Trillium. "The User Kit costs only $125 CND, or $69 CDN for educational customers. The Developer Kit has no licensing or royalty restrictions, and is available for $450 CDN, or $199 CDN for educational use. We also have plans to release a Research Kit later in the year---this kit will be suitable for the serious speech and phonetics researcher." The TextToSpeech Kit runs on all NeXT computers without any additional hardware. Intel platforms require any one of the Turtle Beach Multisound DSP/Audio boards.
From: resumes@next.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Release Engineer - NeXT Computer Date: 23 Jun 1995 16:54:52 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3sf9ms$n2r@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. located in Redwood City, CA is currently searching to fill the following position. If you are interested or know of persons fitting the profile described please send resume to "resumes@next.com" or fax to Staffing Manager at 415-780-4554. Please feel free to view our NeXT Computer WWW Page with exciting information about our open positions and new products. To access the Web the command is <URL:http://www.next.com/HumanResources>. In addition, NeXT's Open Positions page is linked to CareerMosaic on the WWW. ***************************************** Position: Release Engineer, Release Control Department: Software Engineering Overall Role Develop and enhance tools to support Release Engineering processes. Perform system administrative and other operational tasks. Specific Responsibilities This person will design and develop tools to build, master, verify, and archive NeXT software releases. Possible development projects include: Distributed builds Multi-CDROM production for internal distribution Investigation of TeamNet version control software for use in Release Engineering Project attribute database Required Background, Education, Skills and Experience A candidate for this position must possess the following qualifications: 4 year Computer Science or Engineering or related degree, or equivalent experience. 3 or more years experience in the software industry. Extensive Unix programming experience. The following qualifications are preferred: Familiarity with Perl. 1-2 years experience with release integration of large software systems. Object oriented and distributed programming experience. Unix system and network administration experience. PC hardware experience. *********************** ***************************************************************** Contact Information: Email "resumes@next.com" FAX: 1-415-780-3931 Address: NeXT Computer Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 NeXT Computer Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
From: Nicolas Droux <droux@info.isbiel.ch> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: NXPGP 1.0.2 Date: 23 Jun 1995 16:56:39 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3sf9q7$n39@digifix.digifix.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- This is release 1.0.2 of NXPGP This is an updated version of Sam Pigg's NXPGP, a NEXTSTEP front-end for Phil Zimmerman's PGP. I'm releasing this new version with the consent of Sam. Changes since last version: - Fixed crash bug - New cleaner project - Enhanced user interface - Compiled for NeXT, Intel, HP-PA, and SPARC - Distributed as an Installer package This new version has been tested only under NEXTSTEP 3.3 using PGP 2.6, but it should run with other releases as well. Please note that I didn't changed the original source code (expected to fix the little bug). Version 1.0.2 includes the following files: File name MD5 digital signature ------------------------------- -------------------------------- NXPGP.1.0.2.b.NIHS.pkg.tar.gz 1db3e60afec835e1bad9fa5e23052234 NXPGP.1.0.2.s.tar.gz 032cea9c8b2dec5096c84dace3d3a52d This new version is available from http://www.isbiel.ch/~don/NXPGP/ Nicolas Droux droux@info.isbiel.ch http://www.isbiel.ch/~don/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQB1AwUBL+qVqcOxRGTiPipJAQG09QMApDBNP4RheomgWSjVi37X9J0ckS04Y0w1 unioci5GubUTnxKETYLXb1ZrBbBt7UXX0rO8xwnhfgiq+vxJUlWO4cLPdYgethEj d4QfSmbkCqmoqitF7HMq7Dlx15CTenlE =FWRZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- +-+-+ Original Note from Sam Pigg (version 1.0.1) NXPGP is a NeXTSTEP interface to Phillip Zimmerman's pgp encryption package. NXPGP uses the services menu to allow you to select text in an application and encrypt, decrypt, sign, or check the signature of. This allows the user to decrypt and encrypt mail from inside of Mail.app, sign and check the signatures of articles in NewsGrazer or NewsBase, and encrypt any ascii text from inside of an application, without the bothersome need to save the text to a file, grab a shell window, cd to the directory, type out the pgp command to decrypt, typically having to give a filename for the plaintext (or encrypted text), and then deleting the original, and then opening the file in another application. While not being difficult, the above operation can become quite tedious, and tends to discourage routine usage of pgp for mail and News article posting usage. Note: NXPGP1.0.1 does not actually include pgp, it is a front end for it, so it is legal to distribute NXPGP1.0.1 across the U.S. border. NXPGP1.0.1 is "donateware". You aren't required to give any money to use it, but it would be helpful. Full source code is included, of course. Sam Pigg (samuel_pigg@phx.mcd.mot.com)
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: WatNeXT--Waterloo NeXTSTEP Users Group - July 6th Date: 24 Jun 1995 23:18:35 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3sikib$3mf@digifix.digifix.com> WatNeXT Meeting -- Thursday July 6th, 5:00pm, University of Waterloo, Hagey Hall of the Humanities Room 175C. Waterloo, Ontario After considerable procrastination on my part, WatNeXT is having its second meeting. David Downie, of UW's School of Accountancy, will be demonstrating NeXTSTEP 3.3/Sparc and WebPages. Following this will be general NeXTSTEP- related discussion, including the launch of the WatNeXT home page. For those who cannot make this meeting, the following meeting will focus on PPP as specifically related to UW.
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys-soft.nextstep Subject: Summary 89 - Articles posted since June 18 1995 Date: 26 Jun 1995 04:00:07 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3slbc7$c3c@digifix.digifix.com> Summary: 89 Postings since: June 18 1995 [3374] ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines [3375] NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet [3376] JOB: NEXTSTEP programmer - Univ. of Michigan [3377] PRESS RELEASE: Anderson Financial Systems Introduces ReadUp [3378] JOB: Blacksmith, Inc. - NEXTSTEP Training division [3379] JOB: NEXTSTEP Solutions Sales and Marketing [3380] JOB: Software Developer [3381] JOB: Software Engineers [3382] PRESS RELEASE: NeXT Ships PDO Release 3.0 [3383] JOB: Sarrus Software Searching for Developer Support Person [3384] PRESS RELEASE: TransSys to cease NeXTSTEP development activities [3385] CONFERENCE: nugi Expo, August 14th-17th, San Francisco [3386] SUBMISSION: GNU m4 1.4 (QUAD-FAT) [3387] JOB: US-Virginia NeXT Developers [3388] PRESS RELEASE: Trillium Announces Version 2.0 of the TextTospeech Kits [3389] JOB: Release Engineer - NeXT Computer [3390] SUBMISSION: NXPGP 1.0.2 [3391] MEETING: WatNeXT--Waterloo NeXTSTEP Users Group - July 6th If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com. Archives -------- Individual messages are available at http://www.stepwise.com/comp.sys.next.announce/csna-89/**article_number** where **article_number** is the [xxxx] beside the Subject line above.. FTP archives: ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives/csna-89.tar.gz WWW archives: http://www.stepwise.com/comp.sys.next.announce/csna-89 Article submissions : next-announce@digifix.com Submission guidelines: next-announce-guidelines@digifix.com Suggestions/comments : next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines Date: 26 Jun 1995 04:15:05 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3slc89$ca1@digifix.digifix.com> NEW POLICY: =========== In an attempt to standardize the format of the FTP locations for files, all ftp addresses should be submitted using the Universal Resource Locator (URL) format. (for example) ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/submissions/file.tar.gz Please try and give an indication of where you expect the file will end up on the archive site, in the same notation. Cross Posting ============= I try very hard to make sure that postings get out in a timely fashion. Most go out in less than 24 hours. Postings that require editing because they do not contain information in a useable format, or have already been posted to other comp.sys.next.* groups may be delayed, or returned to you. If your posting is rejected, I'll try and make suggestions about what should be changed where possible. Obviously off charter messages (spams, open-letters, etc) may not get a response. Content 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 _IN URL FORMAT_ supported CPU's for binary distributions, OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting, time of meeting, speakers expected Signatures 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. Announcement of Product Sales ============================= This is an area of announcement that has caused me terrible grief in recent months. The policy is tilted towards the ISV, which has worked out well in the past. Posts that announce sales of products that you are DIRECTLY involved in the development of are OK. Posts from companies trying to sell other products are evaluated on an individual basis. Time Sensitive Announcements ============================ Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date. 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.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet Date: 26 Jun 1995 04:15:11 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Distribution: inet Message-ID: <3slc8f$ca1@digifix.digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site comp.sys.next newsgroups related newsgroups comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list ftp sites NeXTanswers Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site =============================================== This online community resource includes - 200+ ISV company pages - 400+ ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - NEXTSTEP User Group Directory - comp.sys.next archives - User Group information - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.stepwise.com/ Additionally there is a Mail Server available. You can get information on using the mail server at ns-products@stepwise.com Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise, please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com. eduSTEP WWW site ================ http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/ eduStep aims to provide up-to-date information on: - NextStep tools and projects for scientists. - Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist). - A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with customers in the educational community. - Conferences, meetings, workshops - Major projects, such as SciTools, EMBL's project to develop a NextStep scientific work environment - Status reports on GNUStep, a freely-available implementation of OpenStep now being developed NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site ============================ http://www.next.com comp.sys.next.* newsgroups ========================== news: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. news: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. Archives are available by ftp at ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. news: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. news: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. news: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. news: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!!! news: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. news:comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. news:comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. Related Newsgroups ================== news: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. news:comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. news: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 ============= ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions ftp://nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: (Peanuts) Located in Germany. ftp://ftp.dn.net/pub/next Peanuts mirror in the US ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next/ eduStep ftp://ftp.next.com: See below ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com ===================================== [from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help] 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, read them on the world-wide web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS. 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. 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Scott (mailto:eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU) and Scott Anguish (mailto:sanguish@digifix.com) Additions from: Greg Anderson (mailto:Greg_Anderson@afs.com) Michael Pizolato (mailto:Michael_Pizolato@afs.com) Dan Grillo (mailto:dan_grillo@next.com)
From: hhsu@impact.com (Henry Hsu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Quad-Fat Version 3.3 of PhaseScope Now Available Date: 26 Jun 1995 14:38:55 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3smurv$5e7@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Impact Software Publishing, Inc. 36-32 34th Street, Long Island City, NY 11106 Phone: 1-800-822-3385 / 718-472-0600 Fax: 718-472-0160 E-mail: info@impact.com NEW QUAD-FAT VERSION 3.3 OF PHASESCOPE NOW AVAILABLE LONG ISLAND CITY, NEW YORK - June 26, 1995 - Impact Software Publishing, Inc. today announced the availability of a new quad-fat version 3.3 of its PhaseScope(tm) product, a comprehensive user-interface and general graphical display for analyzing dynamical systems. PhaseScope serves as a specialized front end to Mathematica's kernel, and can be used as a general purpose modeling tool, where one can easily check the qualitative behavior of the assumptions before proceeding to a detailed analysis. PhaseScope can also be used as a learning tool supporting several topics in a typical course in differential equations. PhaseScope provides color 2D and 3D graphical displays of the dynamical system. PhaseScope 3.3 includes an on-line NEXTSTEP help facility, and the following new features: 1. Equations can now be defined in terms of parameters, whose values can be adjusted independently. This feature makes it easy to change critical components of the equations easily. 2. When displaying a solution in the phase-plane, clicking anywhere in the plane will define an initial position and subsequently display the new solution for those initial conditions. This make it easy to experiment with phase-plane stability. PhaseScope 3.3 is available direct from Impact Software and through authorized NEXTSTEP resellers. Information about quantity discounts, site licenses, and reduced prices for educational customers can be obtained by contacting Impact Software directly. Requests for a demo copy of PhaseScope 3.3 can be sent to demos@impact.com. A demo copy of PhaseScope 3.3 is also available at: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/science/PhaseScope3.3.NIHS.tar.Z For users without NeXTmail or FTP access, free demo floppies of PhaseScope 3.3 can be requested by calling 1-800-822-3385. Availability: Shipping now for SPARC, Intel, HP PA-RISC, and NeXT hardware. Retail Price: $245.00 Internet Price: $195.00 (for users who have a demo copy) *** PhaseScope is a trademark of Impact Software Publishing, Inc. NEXTSTEP is a trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: nickj@wimsey.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: BCOG - Vancouver, BC - June 28 Date: 26 Jun 1995 14:55:03 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3smvq7$5mf@digifix.digifix.com> Date: June 28, 1995 Location: CyberStore, 601 West Broadway, Vancouver (near Cambie) Meeting room is on the ground floor. Signs are posted Time: 19:00-22:00 (7pm-10pm) Door closes at 19:15 (to prevent your grief and ours, please do not be late) Cost: Members free, Non-members $5.00 at the door *** Seating is Limited *** Presentation & Agenda: 1) British Columbia OpenStep Group update -Next meeting is in September. -BCOG Newsletter: Summer -Thank you note to CyberStore for the space and time. 2) Scott Parkinson, Vice President Finance, Hutchison Avenue Software, Montreal, Quebec -Recent projects with NEXTSTEP -Operating Systems -Perspectives on the future of NEXTSTEP 3) Scott Keith, President, SofDesign -QuickBase and the NeXtStep market -Finland, Denmark and London implementations of QuickBase 4) Cliff Bihl, Channel Sales Manager Canon - Canon and NextStep - Future systems Nick Jacquet Chair British Columbia OpenStep Group nickj@wimsey.com email 604.988.4204 Voice
From: hhsu@impact.com (Henry Hsu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Impact Software Ships SuperDraw 2.1 with Free Upgrade for Registered Users Date: 27 Jun 1995 16:14:12 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3spoqk$g2m@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Impact Software Publishing, Inc. 36-32 34th Street, Long Island City, NY 11106 Phone: 1-800-822-3385 / 718-472-0600 Fax: 718-472-0160 E-mail: info@impact.com Impact Software Ships SuperDraw 2.1 with Free Upgrade for Registered Users LONG ISLAND CITY, NEW YORK - June 27, 1995 - Impact Software Publishing, Inc. today announced that it is shipping Release 2.1 of its SuperDraw(tm) product, a powerful and easy-to-use graphics and desktop publishing program with additional multimedia authoring capabilities. Registered users of SuperDraw are entitled to a free upgrade to SuperDraw 2.1, and a promotional pricing of $265.00 for SuperDraw 2.1 is being made available until July 31, 1995. SuperDraw features tools for rotating, scaling, skewing, joining, clipping, and blending of graphic objects, such as text, lines, arcs, rectangles, polygons, Bezier splines, and 24-bit color TIFF and EPS images. SuperDraw also features neon effects, virtual shadows, gradient fills, transparency effects, rulers, guides, and full Rich Text Format (RTF) support. SuperDraw provides customizable template and palette libraries, and includes sample templates for address labels, business cards, disk labels, shipping labels, and calendar. SuperDraw also includes sample palettes for creating flow charts, network diagrams, and organization charts. SuperDraw offers 6400 percent zoom-in capability, up to 100 levels of undo/redo, multiple concurrent views of a multi-page document, object/sound linking, and much more. It also allows you to drag and drop PANTONE colors, user-definable EPS/TIFF patterns, custom dashes, and styles directly into objects. SuperDraw includes an extensive on-line help with illustrated step-by-step instructions. By simply clicking any section of the screen with the Help cursor, explanation of every menu item and program feature is available instantly. In addition, an illustrated tutorial is included for getting started quickly. Version 2.1 of SuperDraw includes many new interface enhancements and the following new features: 1. An easy-to-use arc tool for quickly drawing arcs with point-and-click adjustment of arc radius and angles. 2. Capability to write out TIFF images with 2 or 8 bit gray depth, 12 or 24 bit color depth, and LZW or JPEG compression. 3. Support for Kai-Su and other two-byte fonts with a preference option for enabling additional two-byte fonts. 4. Capability to convert any arc, line, rectangle, circle, star, and other shapes into editable paths by ungrouping the shape. 5. New preference options for setting the default ruler units, default grid spacing, default measurement unit, and TIFF export preferences. SuperDraw is compiled quad-fat and will run on SPARC, Intel, HP PA-RISC, and NeXT hardware. SuperDraw is available direct from Impact Software and through authorized NEXTSTEP resellers. Information about quantity discounts, site-licenses, and reduced prices for educational customers can be obtained by contacting Impact Software directly. Current registered users of SuperDraw are entitled to a free upgrade to SuperDraw 2.1. (SuperDraw 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, and 2.1 all use the same set of license keys.) In addition, registered users of SuperDraw for NEXTSTEP are entitled to a free upgrade to SuperDraw for OpenStep when it becomes available. Requests for a demo copy of SuperDraw 2.1 can be sent to demos@impact.com. A demo copy of SuperDraw 2.1 is also available at: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/graphics/SuperDraw2.1.NIHS.tar.gz For users without NeXTmail or FTP access, free demo floppies of SuperDraw 2.1 can be requested by calling 1-800-822-3385. Availability: Shipping now for SPARC, Intel, HP PA-RISC, and NeXT hardware. Retail Price: $495.00 Promotional Price: $265.00 (available until July 31, 1995) *** SuperDraw is a trademark of Impact Software Publishing, Inc. OpenStep and NEXTSTEP are trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: product_feedback@NeXT.COM (NeXT Announce) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NeXT Releases Japanese Versions of its Object Software Date: 27 Jun 1995 16:14:59 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3spos3$g3c@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kindle DiGiusto NeXT Computer, Inc. 415-780-3781 or Charlotte Penner Copithorne & Bellows 415-975-2280 NeXT RELEASES JAPANESE VERSIONS OF ITS OBJECT SOFTWARE Reinforces NeXT's commitment to global object market REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-June 26, 1995-NeXT Computer, Inc. today announced that it is shipping NEXTSTEP 3.3J, NEXTSTEP Developer 3.3J and Enterprise Objects Framework 1.1J versions of their products for the Japanese market. The Japanese release of these products emphasizes NeXT's continued commitment to the global marketplace. Both NEXTSTEP Developer 3.3J and NEXTSTEP 3.3J provide support for Intel, HP PA-RISC, SUN and Motorola 68k workstations. This marks the first time that Japanese users can simultaneously develop and deploy robust object-oriented, client/server applications on Intel PCs, Sun and HP workstations. The release of Enterprise Objects Framework 1.1J is NeXT's first localized Enterprise Objects Framework release for the Japanese product. Enterprise Objects Framework 1.1J extends NeXT's object-oriented database technology to the Japanese market by seamlessly integrating object-oriented applications with data from relational Japanese databases from Sybase, Inc. and Oracle Corporation. "The release of these Japanese products emphasizes our commitment to setting the global standard in object-oriented technology," said Steve Jobs, chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer. "In addition, we plan to increase our market share leadership by leveraging our partnerships with Sun and Hewlett Packard in Japan, just as we are doing in the United States and Europe." "The main advantage of NeXT's Japanese products is that you can now develop applications that will run on Intel, HP PA-RISC, Sun, and Motorola 68K platforms," said Yasuyuki Kato, Senior Research Engineer, Intelligent Software Research Group at NTT Access Network Systems Laboratories. "Because we are able to take advantage of both the powerful RISC architecture and NeXT's Object-oriented solution we are able to strategically meet our aggressive growth plan." NEXTSTEP Release3.3J NEXTSTEP 3.3J will support all of the features of the standard NEXTSTEP Release 3.3 and include additional capabilities and applications specific to the Japanese market. With the release of NEXTSTEP 3.3J provides users with greater support for large-scale environments typical of NeXT's corporate customers. Specifically, it addresses issues such as interoperability, scalability, and ease of use that are critical to application deployment. Japanese customers will see enhancements in the operating system, such as Japanese MIME support in the NextMail application. Additional Japanese software is included, such as an Input Manager that allows Japanese character input , Japanese-aware UNIX commands, and the Gaji Manager that allows users to create personalized characters. NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.3J provides stepping stone to OpenStep NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.3J is designed to aid customers who need to rapidly develop robust and easy-to-maintain client/server applications. It is also a stepping-stone for developers planning to deploy OpenStep on Windows NT, Windows 95, Solaris and Digital UNIX applications in the future. The visual development tools, including NeXT's industry-acclaimed Interface Builder, have been improved in this release to ease development and promote greater object re-use. For example, new tools enable developers to navigate the Foundation class clusters more easily and developers can now build complete palettes containing precompiled objects for rapid re-use without writing code. NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.3J also includes improved C++ support. The new C++ compiler, which supports multiple inheritance and templates, allows developers to create C++ objects as well as Objective C objects. NEXTSTEP Developer 3.3 continues to support Objective C++, NeXT's integrated Objective C & C++ compiler. For those operating in heterogeneous computing environments, NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.3J enables customers to build enterprise-wide, client/server applications to run on any of four hardware platforms - Intel PCs, PA-RISC and SPARC workstations and NeXT Computers. For example, developers can create a single executable, install the application on a network and run the application on any of the four architectures. NEXTSTEP Developer 3.3J's extended Driver Kit provides fully object-oriented class libraries that allow developers to develop drivers for new PC technologies, including portables. It supports PCI, PCMCIA and Advanced Power Management. Additionally, open application APIs, such as IP Multicast, provide support for broadcast messaging and the framework for multimedia networking and live information feeds. EOF 1.1J provides access to existing relational databases The Enterprise Objects Framework 1.1J is NeXT's revolutionary technology which enables customers to rapidly build reusable business and application-level objects that are independent of underlying databases. Enterprise Objects Framework Release 1.1J seamlessly integrates object-oriented applications with data from Japanese releases of leading relational databases from Oracle Corporation and Sybase, Inc. Specifically, Enterprise Objects Framework Release 1.1J provides for high performance in three critical areas: application start-up time, virtual memory usage and CPU usage. Enterprise Objects integrate business data with the business policies that make the data meaningful. For example, a customer credit rating (data) has little meaning separate from the policy that determines credit ratings. In addition, a credit rating that is computed according to an obsolete policy is erroneous. As a result of existing within the NEXTSTEP application development environment, Enterprise Objects can be reused in application after application. Therefore, as business requirements change, the policies in effect for a particular business object can easily be redefined and every application automatically incorporates the new policies. The Enterprise Objects Framework Modules The Enterprise Object Modeler is used by developers to build Enterprise Objects (NeXT's term for business objects); and create a mapping structure that sits between these Enterprise Objects and the databases used by the application. If the structure of the database changes, the Enterprise Object Modeler can be used to reconfigure the mapping structure. The Framework enables Enterprise Objects to run on the NEXTSTEP operating system and is required for all systems on which Enterprise Objects Framework-built applications will be deployed. This module is available for NEXTSTEP today and will be available for the PDO platforms this summer, enabling Enterprise Objects to be deployed on servers running HP-UX, SUN OS, Solaris and Digital UNIX operating systems. The adaptor layer provides database independence by enabling the Framework to communicate to a variety of RDBMSs, transparent to Enterprise Objects. Today, database adaptors for Oracle and Sybase are bundled with the product. Other adaptors are available from database vendors and third party developers. Pricing and Availability Enterprise Objects Framework Release 1.1J, NEXTSTEP 3.3J and NEXTSTEP Developer 3.3J are all now available worldwide. NeXT Computer, Inc. NeXT develops and markets OpenStep, the industry's first and most advanced object environment. OpenStep versions have been announced which will run on several operating systems, including NeXT's own MachOS, Sun's Solaris, Digital's UNIX and Microsoft's Windows NT and Windows 95. OpenStep's object-oriented technology allows corporate customers to rapidly create and deploy three-tier, client-server, mission critical custom applications. NeXT is headquartered in Redwood City, California, and has offices in North America, London, Paris, Munich and Tokyo. # # # # NeXT, the NeXT logo, NEXTSTEP, PDO, Portable Distributed Objects, the PDO logo and Enterprise Objects are trademarks or registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: Adam Fedor <fedor@mode.Colorado.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: MathArray-0.1 Date: 27 Jun 1995 16:47:53 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3spqpp$gf8@digifix.digifix.com> MathArray: Objective-C classes for mathematical manipulation of matrices MathArray is a general class for performing mathematical operations on arrays (vectors, matrices, etc) of values. It can operate on any standard 'C' number type plus numbers of complex type. MathArray is implemented using a "class cluster" concept, allowing one to perform mathematical calculations on a number without necessarily being aware of what type (class) of number is being operated on. MathArray knows implicitly what types of operations can be performed on what types of numbers and will automatic ally cast itself to the correct number type representation to handle the specific operation. Standard operations include addition, scalar and matrix multiplication and logical operations. Mathematical operations in the standard C math library are also supported, as well as user-defined functions. MathArray also does much more. Arrays can be manipulated, transposed and concatenated. One can extract subarrays or include subarrays within larger arrays. What would you expect to pay for all this? Nothing, you say? Well wait, there's more. If you ftp now, you get the following extra classes at no extra charge: MaskedException - extends NSException to allow for special processing for debugging and other uses. MANumber,NSNumber(extras) - Adds complex number capability, plus other extras. MAValueData - Like NSData only it knows what type of data it stores and can access values appropriately. libMathArray is distributed absolutely free. It requires an OpenStep(TM) compliant Foundation kit (like the GNU libobjects library***) or the NeXT Foundation kit (with EOF or NeXT release 3.3). Get it from: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/sources/classes/MathArray-0.1.tar.gz ftp://hopper.colorado.edu/pub/optics/MathArray-0.1.tar.gz *** NOTE: MathArray requires version 0.1.12 or greater of the GNU libobjects library. (Which, alas, hasn't been release at the time of this writting). More info, contact: Adam Fedor <fedor@colorado.edu>
From: Graph Sales <graphing@mttam.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: OpenGraph VAR Development Program (OGVARDP) Date: 27 Jun 1995 16:50:50 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3spqva$gfr@digifix.digifix.com> Contact: VVI Data Control Specialists (VVI-DCS) 311 Adams Ave. State College, PA 16803 814-234-9613 814-234-9614 Fax graphing@mttam.com VVI-DCS is currently seeking additional Value Added Resellers (VARs) to integrate and sell real-time and interactive graph based data display solutions using OpenGraph. The integration must be associated with an existing commercial concern, application, and user base. For an application form send e-mail to graphing@mttam.com with the title: "Send OGVARDP Application Form". -- Your OpenGraph Advantage Team If you would like additional information (formatted in NeXTMail) send e-mail to graphing@mttam.com with any of the titles (shown in quotes): "Send OpenGraph Newsletter" - An electronic newsletter about OpenGraph release 3.2k improvements. "Send VVI-DCS Newsletter" - An electronic newsletter about VVI-DCS including a complete overview of OpenGraph products and services. "Send OpenGraph Information" - Includes the OpenGraph Advantage Brochure, CD-ROM welcome file, and CD-ROM disc order form. About OpenGraph: OpenGraph Version 3.2k is for SPARC, Intel, HP PA-RISC, and NeXT Computers and is distributed on CD-ROM disc. The most savvy and aware NEXTSTEP customers use OpenGraph at the heart of their most profitable and flagship applications. Simply the best supported and most professional technical graphing and data display package available for any platform or operating system. OpenGraph, VVI Data Control Specialists, VVI-DCS and VVimaging are trademarks of VVimaging, Inc. (VVI-DCS). NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark of NeXT, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Release 1.3 of KPerfMon Date: 28 Jun 1995 00:34:50 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3sqm5a$jhc@digifix.digifix.com> KPerfMon is an application that shows the current load on your system. It can show CPU, memory, network, or disk activity (or flip between those various displays). It displays the information by writing a little graph into the icon of the application. It has been compiled for NeXT, Intel, HP-PA, and SPARC architectures. It has not been tried (by me) on HP-PA or Sparc. Source code to it is also provided. KPerfMon was originally written by Kenny Leung. Lately it's been maintained by Garance Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> (not that much has been done on it since Kenny wrote it). I haven't done much more to KPerfMon since 1992 other than fixing some bugs, although I do have some ideas of things I might try to add in some future version. Don't hold your breath, though... The current version of KPerfMon requires NeXTSTEP 3.0 or later. There is also a version 1.0VM available, which fixes one serious memory leak in version 1.0, and which should run fine under NS-2.1. Changes for Version 1.3: * be a bit more intelligent about getting network statistics, to make sure it's displaying the statistics for en0 (on NS/intel, it was getting the info for lo0, not en0). [people running PNI or PPP might want to check out some compile-time options WRT Networking in Monitor.m, too] * if disk statistics not available, then don't show the "non-paging" info (black on the disk graph). There seems to be a problem on NS/Intel (on mine, at least), that whatever it was displaying for the "non-paging" disk information had nothing much to do with the actual disk activity. * Correct the way it switches between displays, so it's much better at skipping past displays that the user has turned off. You should be able to find these files at: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/util/KPerfMon-1.3.README ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/util/KPerfMon-1.3_NIHS.tar.gz ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/sources/util/KPerfMon-1.3_src.tar.gz You can also get them at: ftp://eclipse.its.rpi.edu/NeXT/utils/KPerfMon_f (which will give you the listing of a directory that contains KPerfMon in four individual-architecture binaries, as well as the README and quad-fat binary available at ftp.cs.orst.edu. Eclipse also has the KPerfMon-1.0VM.tar.Z file available in the subdirectory named 01_PREVIOUS ). Garance Alistair Drosehn Systems Programmer (and NeXTSTEP aficionado) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, New York, USA email: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
From: rfielder@hsmpk14a-105.Eng.Sun.COM (Robin Fielder [TEMP]) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Graphics Applications Manager Date: 28 Jun 1995 14:05:54 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ss5m2$5p9@digifix.digifix.com> Graphics Applications Manager In your role as Fast Applications Manager you will lead the team of talented 3D graphics software engineers who find and fix software bottlenecks and work closely with both internal and external developer to make sure technical applications run faster on Sun than any other workstation. A technical background in 3d graphics is an important requirement for this position. You should have a BS or MS in Computer Science and work experience in C and Unix. Sun developer experience is highly desired. You should enjoy close customer contact, have excellent communication skills, and the ability to manage several activities at the same time. Call Robin Fielder 415-786-7559 415-786-7334 fax (Menlo Park)
From: Angela Grady <angela@lighthouse.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Lighthouse Design Announces Quantrix 2.0 for NEXTSTEP and OpenStep Date: 28 Jun 1995 14:07:50 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ss5pm$5q0@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For product information, contact: Robin Shields 415/570-7736, ext.10 robin@lighthouse.com <http://www.lighthouse.com/ -Lighthouse Design Announces Quantrix 2.0 for NEXTSTEP and OpenStep- --New version of innovative spreadsheet adds advanced functionality- including real-time support-optimized for developers of custom finance applications-- JUNE 28, 1995 - NEW YORK, NY - Lighthouse Design, Ltd. today announced Quantrix 2.0, a major revision to its popular multi-dimensional spreadsheet product for the object-oriented NEXTSTEP operating environment, and for Sun's coming OpenStep environment. The announcement was made in conjunction with the Securities Industry Association (SIA) tradeshow, being held here from June 28-30. Quantrix 2.0 is being demonstrated in the Sun Microsystems booth, #3100. Quantrix 2.0 adds a wealth of new features, including a powerful graphics engine, real-time support and significant optimization. Quantrix 2.0 also includes a broadened application programmer's interface (API), which provides programmatic access to every feature of the application. Such a complete API makes Quantrix a powerful tool for prototyping and deploying object-based mission critical finance applications. In addition, the API is fully object-oriented and supports NEXTSTEP distributed objects (DO). The Quantrix framework is optimized for large data sets and substantially reduces the development effort required to build and deploy custom financial applications. "Quantrix really exemplifies the advantages of an open API and the NEXTSTEP environment," said Henry Krempel, principal of Pan Pacific Software. "The Quantrix bundle architecture gave us all the tools we needed to provide our customers easy access to multi-vendor real-time market data from right inside Quantrix." Quantrix, one of twenty products and services from Lighthouse Design, allows users to describe and manipulate data in terms of categories, rather than rows and columns. This approach allows users to write plain English formulas such as "Gross Revenue = Product Revenue + Service Revenue," rather than "$a27=b17+$c$31." Coupled with data tabs for fast navigation, unlimited undo and redo, multiple views and smart cells, Quantrix makes complex financial models and reports easy to create and share with others. Quantrix is compatible with Lotus Improv for NeXT and Windows, with Microsoft Excel compatibility coming soon. Quantrix 2.0 adds support for developers of real-time applications in the financial services marketplace. A trigger-based calculation scheme provides dramatic performance improvements while simplifying developer tasks. Color tagging highlights recently changed numbers, while support for auto-reducing fractions makes Quantrix the ideal addition to the portfolio manager's desktop. Quantrix also provides an expandable function library, allowing developers to augment the application with proprietary algorithms (e.g., risk management). Support for loadable bundles allows developers to embed complete stand-alone applications within Quantrix at runtime. Quantrix 1.2 is available now for the SPARC-, Intel-, Motorola-, and HP PA-RISC-based versions of NEXTSTEP 3.2 or later. Quantrix 2.0 is in final beta and will begin shipping in mid-July. Quantrix is priced at $895. Site licenses are available as well as academic discounts. Lighthouse Design is the leading developer of object products for NEXTSTEP and OpenStep. With a family of more than twenty products and services, Lighthouse is at the forefront of broadening the commercial marketplace for object technology and products. The company is located at 2929 Campus Drive, San Mateo, CA 94403. For further information on Lighthouse Design and its products, contact Lighthouse Design, Ltd. directly at 1-800-366-2279 or 1-415-570-7736, or send electronic mail to info@lighthouse.com, or visit Lighthouse Design's World Wide Web page at <<http://www.lighthouse.com/. -30- Lighthouse Design, Ltd., Quantrix, and the Lighthouse logo are trademarks of Lighthouse Design, Ltd. NEXTSTEP and OpenStep are trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. Microsoft is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Lotus Improv is a trademark of Lotus Development Corporation. All other trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.
From: Stefan Leuker <leuker@news.rwth-aachen.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: NetTalk 1.3beta Date: 28 Jun 1995 14:08:16 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3ss5qg$5r8@digifix.digifix.com> NetTalk.app 1.3beta is available quad fat (NIHS) now! This is a chat program that makes use of the NEXTSTEP user interface. It is, however, *NOT* compatible with the shell talk, xtalk, ytalk etc! But being a real NEXTSTEP application, NetTalk has some advantages compared to its shell equivalent: - NetTalk's windows contain RichText. This means - you can use various fonts and styles all in one document; - you can edit any portion of the text at any time; - you can drag images into it from the Workspace; - you can even send files to your peer by dragging them into your text. - Connecting to your peers is as easy as opening a file. (See the NetTalk online help for additional information.) The files NetTalk.pkg.1.3b.NIHS.b.tar.gz and NetTalk.readme are located in ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/next/Network/apps. Don't miss the NetTalk.ReleaseNotes also located on the server. Please report any bugs or write suggestions to leuker@POOL.informatik.rwth-aachen.de Bye, Stefan Leuker --
From: clint@techSCOUTS.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOBS: NEXTSTEP Developers / Programmers Date: 29 Jun 1995 01:21:21 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3std8h$5ef@digifix.digifix.com> technicalSCOUTS, a national leader in technical consulting and permanent placement, seeks ---Object-Oriented Programmers for clients across the United States and Over Seas. Current positions in California, Texas, Colorado, Pacific Northwest, Northeast, Southeast, East, and the Midwest areas. New positions in Europe, Scandinavia, and Middle East. Our clients are looking for talented NEXTSTEP and Smalltalk software engineers with 1-5+ years experience. Please review the following for specific details: ANYWHERE USA: ** 4) OOPer with NEXTSTEP/Smalltalk or C++ experience. Strong interpersonal skills, able to travel with a position 75%. Self starter with strong OO programming experience. Base salary plus incentives for traveling possible. These are really cool positions, if you like to travel. Mentoring, training and OOA/OOD experience helpful..Travel locations could be USA, Europe, Australia, etc.. Call or email for more details. YOU CAN LIVE ANYWHERE WITHIN THE USA!! (within 1~ hour of international airport) Salary range $40-$100k + bonus Midwest-- 2) NEXTSTEP system administrators, experience with large networks, 3-5 years admin. experience, permanent position, salary range $45-$65k+ 4) Mid-Sr. level Smalltalk/NEXTSTEP programmers with 1-4+ years Smalltalk/NS experience working on exciting OO applications development..permanent positions, salary range $40-$80k + Bonus 2) Jr.-Mid. level NEXTSTEP developer for full-time position. Business applications, financial application, and mentoring experience preferred. Strong interpersonal communications skills self starter, salary $30-$55k plus possible bonuses. **Very strong new graduates considered 1) Sr. Level NEXTSTEP software applications development engineers with 2-5 years of NEXTSTEP development. Financial applications experience a plus. EOF, Sybase, DBKit plus. permanent positions, salary range $50-$90k + California- 5) Mid. to Sr. Level NEXTSTEP software developers to work on various financial applications. Cutting edge environments, working with EOF, DBKit, Sybase. Fast paced, self starters able to work in a dynamic team environment. permanent positions, salary range $50-$90k + bonus 2) NEXTSTEP system administrator, 3-5 years admin. experience, permanent positions, salary range $45-$65k + 1)*Manager--Sr. level Network/System Manager to manager a group of 12+ SADM. 3-5+ years management experience. 6-10+ years total experience. OOP and OO administration background. NEXTSTEP/Smalltalk/C++. UNIX/NEXTSTEP hardware experience. 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Additional background in UNIX/OS-2/C++/GUI permanent positions, salary range according to experience. 1) NEXTSTEP or Smalltalk developers to work on financial applications, Sybase a plus, strong OOA/OOD/OOP experience. permanent positions, salary range according to experience. Virginia/Maryland/DC/RTP/North Carolina areas--EAST 2) Jr.-Mid. level NEXTSTEP developer for full-time position. Business applications, financial application, and mentoring experience preferred. Strong interpersonal communications skills self starter, salary 35-65k plus possible bonuses. 1) Smalltalk/NEXTSTEP programmers with 1-4+ years Smalltalk experience, working on exciting OO applications development within telecomm, financial, or business environments permanent positions, salary range 40-70k+ 1)*Manager--OOP Manager to lead a team of C++ programmers working on cutting edge telecommunication applications development. Telecommunications network management experience. 2-5 years management, within on OOP environment, C++/Smalltalk or NEXTSTEP. Strong interpersonal skills. Salary range 65k-80k+ 4) Mid. to Sr. Level NEXTSTEP software developers to work on various financial applications. Cutting edge environment, working with EOF, DBKit, Sybase. Fast paced, self starters able to work in a dynamic team environment. permanent positions, salary range 50-75k+ bonus 3) Mid level NEXTSTEP applications developers to work on business applications. 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From: drodger@world.std.com (Dave P Rodger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Mesa for NEXTSTEP Special Offer/Competitive Upgrade Date: 29 Jun 1995 17:25:52 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3sv5p0$dai@digifix.digifix.com> PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Sarah Garnsey 1.617.426.6372 ATHENA DESIGN ANNOUNCES SALE PRICE FOR MESA FOR NEXTSTEP, OFFERS COMPETITIVE UPGRADE JUNE 16, 1995 - BOSTON - Today, Athena Design set a special price of $99 for Mesa <TM> for NEXTSTEP,. In addition, Athena is offering a $79 competitive upgrade to Mesa for users of other NEXTSTEP spreadsheets including Questor, Wingz, Improv, Parasheet, and Quantrix. These prices are effective immediately and are good through July 15th, 1995. Products at these prices must be purchased directly from Athena Design. Mesa retails for $199 per license. Mesa is a traditional spreadsheet application with unique features including SmartFill <TM>, for entering sequential data into a range of cells, Formula Inheritance <TM>, which allows a formula to be shared by many cells while being maintained in a single place, and MScript <TM>, an easy-to-use scripting language. Mesa also allows users SQL database access so they can select and update data between the database and the spreadsheet. Mesa also incorporates real-time data from real-world sources (for example: financial markets, medical instruments, and data/telephone switches) into the spreadsheet for analysis and reporting. Mesa contains these and other features which make it easy to use and powerful. "By offering a sale price, we are giving folks a chance to purchase the best-selling NEXTSTEP spreadsheet at an awesome price," says Athena Design president David Pollak. "Mesa is the best selling, best performing, and most robust NEXTSTEP spreadsheet. This is the perfect opportunity for folks to buy or switch to Mesa." There is a limit of five licenses per person or organization under this special offer. This offer is only available to purchases made directly from Athena Design and may be subject to additional restrictions and limitations. Please contact Athena Design at 1.617.426.6372 or info@athena.com for more information or to place an order. This offer expires on July 15, 1995 and may not be combined with any other offer. Athena Design, Inc. was founded in 1989 to manufacture and sell spreadsheet software for 32-bit operating environments. For more information about Athena Design or Mesa spreadsheet software, contact the company at 1.617.426.6372, fax at 1.617.426.7665, by e-mail at info@athena.com. or visit our web site: http://www.athena.com. - 30 - Mesa is a trademark of Athena Design, Inc. NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc. Other trademarks may apply.
From: suckow@uropax.contrib.de (Ralf Suckow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Shipping MusicBuilder 1.2.2 Date: 29 Jun 1995 23:56:47 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <3svslv$fno@digifix.digifix.com> melonSoft Ralf Suckow Berlin e-mail: suckow@contrib.de Ludwig-Renn-Strasse 62 fax: (+4930) 932 19 01 12687 Berlin, Germany Shipping MusicBuilder 1.2.2 Release 1.2.2 of MusicBuilder, a music creation application for NEXTSTEP, is shipping. A demonstration version has been uploaded to the submission directory of the "Peanuts" archive. The full path is ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Commercial/audio/MusicBuilder-Demo.1.2.2.NIHS.b.tar.gz 1.2.1 and 1.2.2 are mainly bug fixing releases. Nevertheless, there are two new features - You can define a string-valued filter parameter in MLScore.app or in MLOrchestra.app. The filter parameter is interpreted as expression, which is applied as frequency filter to the sound in MLVoice.app. In this way you can modify the spectre of the voice independently of it's definition and of the pitch (freq), to implement some kind of formants: formant \'for-ment, -,mant\n (1901) :a characteristic component of the quality of a speech sound; specif: any of several resonance bands held to determine the phonetic quality of a vowel - A sample voice server, MLPluck.app, is included in the distribution as source and binary. It implements a physical modeling algorithm for plucked string instruments. See the online-help of MLPluck.app for information about the algorithm. You can take and modify the code if you want to write your own voice server for MusicBuilder, or just to try other algorithms. MusicBuilder is available for all current NEXTSTEP platforms. Here's the suggested retail price list: professional user $299 home user $199 educational $199 student $59 (w/o printed documentation) Ralf Suckow
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