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From: Jordan Zimmerman <jordanz@altura.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Altura Software, Inc. Announces Mac2NeXT Compatibility Date: 30 Dec 1996 23:11:44 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5a9i7g$687@news.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Lee Lorenzen, President Altura Software, Inc. 408.655.8005 http://www.altura.com Altura Software, Inc. Announces Mac2NeXT Compatibility PACIFIC GROVE, California - December 26, 1996 -- Altura Software, Inc. announced today its intention to create a Mac2NeXT Porting Technology to provide Macintosh Developers a quick and easy way to port their Mac Applications to Apple's "NewOS" operating system. Altura will leverage it's Mac2Win Porting Technology which is being used by major Mac Developers such as Fractal Design, Claris, ACI, Macromedia, and Metrowerks. Mac2Win is a library that allows MacOS code to be to ported to Windows 3.1, Windows 95, and Windows NT without it having to be rewritten. "We're as excited as the rest of the Mac community about Apple's recent announcements regarding NeXT," commented Lee Lorenzen, President of Altura. "Of course, this is all very new, and we can't be sure of all the details. But, we knew immediately that we wanted to voice our support for the new direction by making this announcement." Altura currently works very closely with Apple and Metrowerks (the major tools provider for Mac Developers). These relationships give Altura a head-start in re-targeting its Mac2Win Technology for NeXT as soon as documentation and tools become available. Additional details regarding price and availability will be provided at Altura's booth in Developer Central at the MacWorld(r) Exposition in San Francisco January 1997. "Mac2Win made it possible to quickly port our application to Windows without having to rewrite it," remarked Dieter Weidenbruck, Chairman, the IsoDraw Company. "With Mac2Win, it's a real Windows app. It has the correct look and feel. With Mac2NeXT, I'm sure Altura will achieve this same level of smooth integration and native platform look and feel. I know that Altura has the experience necessary to deliver a dynamite Mac2NeXT solution." ABOUT ALTURA SOFTWARE Altura Software, Inc. is a leading developer of porting technology solutions for the Macintosh and Windows platforms. The company's Mac2Win(tm) technology gives software developers unparalleled solutions for quickly moving their Macintosh applications to Windows. Altura Software also offers QuickHelp(tm), the WinHelp compatible, context sensitive help system for Macintosh; and QuickView(tm), the Microsoft Multimedia Viewer-compatible multimedia and online reference development tool. Altura Software, Inc. was founded in 1990 and is based in Pacific Grove, California. For more information on Altura Software and its products, please contact Lee Lorenzen at 408-655-8005. Statements in this press release regarding future products are forward looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties including successful and timely development of future products and customer acceptance of those products.
From: tpud@oregoncoast.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Job Opening for Senior Software Engineer Date: 31 Dec 1996 22:11:20 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5ac328$h9a@news.digifix.com> For Immediate Release: Job Opening for Senior Software Engineer Tillamook People's Utility District, located on the Oregon coast, has an immediate opening for a senior software engineer. Tillamook PUD, a distribution electric utility which serves over 18,000 customers, is expanding its Information System staff as they move forward with their migration to client/server computing from the existing TI Mainframe. Candidates should possess working knowledge of UNIX, C, Objective-C, Client/Server, Oracle RDBMS, and NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP development tools. Tillamook is a rural community of 25,000 people located 70 miles west of Portland, Oregon. Because of deregulation of the electric industry and a desire for better customer service the PUD has embarked upon an ambitious reengineering of their entire information system. Candidates must have a strong background in three main areas: client/server computing, relational database concepts, and object-oriented technology (NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP preferred). The PUD has been using the NEXTSTEP operating system and development tools for the last two years. The network consist of 40 workstations and data is served by Oracle running on a DEC Alpha. Future plans include migrating all business functions to the NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP environment, and a secure, interactive web site for customers to view historical data. The PUD offers competitive salaries and an excellent comprehensive benefits package. Resumes must be received by the PUD no later than January 17, 1997. For more information or to apply for a career with the utility please send your resume to: Jack Rice, IS Supervisor P.O. Box 433 Tillamook, Oregon 97141 phone: 1-800-422-2535 E-mail: tpud@oregoncoast.com Fax: 1-503-842-4161 Tillamook People's Utility District is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
From: dfrohman@surgery.bsd.uchicago.edu (Danny Frohman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT-SQL-Improv Support in Chicago Date: 2 Jan 1997 20:02:19 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5ah48b$99@news.digifix.com> We need some hardware-software-programming support in Chicago for an aging system. Our monthly financial data is loaded into Sybase databases and queried through a NeXT workstation running NEXTSTEP 3.2 and executing files of custom SQL code. The resulting tables are imported by versions of public API imxGeneric routines into Lotus Improv 1.0 linked spreadsheets. All of this was implemented in 1992-93 and is no longer supported by our department or the division. Things are slowing down and the number of errors is increasing. The long range plan is to do everything in Microsoft Office with Access and Excel, since they are supported locally, so we need to keep the NeXT based system going until then. We need someone who can look at the system and: (1) tell us what a tune-up would involve, (2) do the tune-up, and (3) tell us if converting to Nextstep for Intel and Improv for Windows is worth considering as an intermediary step. Any suggestions for local Chicago talent? for: news:comp.sys.next.announce (or wherever you think most appropriate) from: Danny Frohman, University of Chicago, Department of Surgery contact: dfrohman@surgery.bsd.uchicago.edu
From: "Margaret Schofield" <margaret@uxlusa.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,misc.jobs.contract,misc.jobs.offered Subject: JOB: NeXTSTEP Sys Admin NEEDED Date: 2 Jan 1997 20:03:25 GMT Organization: Object Systems Group, Inc. Message-ID: <5ah4ad$9d@news.digifix.com> Our OO Consultancy needs a System Administrator for a client located in the Northern Virginia area. This person must have minimum two years experience working as an Admin. in a NeXTSTEP environment. OpenStep experience is a plus. We pay well, offer good benefits, and require a minimum one year commitment. Must have authorization to work in the US or be a Canadian citizen. Please send resumes in Word, TEXT, or ASCII format to margaret@osgcorp.com
From: tracy@pdh.com (Tracy Alexander) Newsgroups: ba.jobs.offered,comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: SAN JOSE: Software and Database Design Engineers Date: 3 Jan 1997 04:40:33 GMT Organization: PDH, Inc. Message-ID: <5ai2k1$4jm@news.digifix.com> >>>>> Career Opportunity<<<<< for an Object Oriented Designer and Developer PDH, Inc. is a leader in client-server systems using NEXTSTEP and soon OpenStep software development environments. These environments permit a 10 to 1 improvement in developer productivity on the first project and up to 25 to 1 on subsequent projects through the use of the tools, OOD, and the robust libraries (classes, palettes, kits). You will develop custom mission critical applications for customers. Qualifications: Required: BS in Computer Science or related field Objective-C, C++, SmallTalk, Java Willingness to travel within USA Desired: Familiarity with EOF, DBKit, AccessKit Experience in the following: Independent design and development Database design and development (SQL, Sybase or Oracle) Distributed databases Distributed architectures, Client-Server Graphical User Interface (GUI) design and development Object Oriented Methodology (OOA,OOD and OOP) UNIX Windows 95, NT, OLE NEXTSTEP Objective-C, C++, SmallTalk, Java Duties: Design, engineer, and participate in all stages of the product life-cycle: requirements, design, implementation, testing, documentation, training, and support. Take responsibility for technology insertion, database architectures, performance issues, and provide state-of-the-art solutions right to the desktops of customers. This is an excellent opportunity to be immediately challenged and to be a part of an elite staff. PDH provides excellent vacation, holiday, health, 401K and disability benefits. The work attire is casual, hours are flexible, and refreshments are sponsored. If you would like to be part of our fast-paced, high growth, engineering-focused development team, send your resume to: PDH, Inc. Personnel Department Vox: (408) 428-9596 Fax: (408) 428-9599 E-mail: personnel@pdh.com(NeXT Mail welcome) 2635 North First Street, Suite 224, San Jose, CA 95134-2034 Visit our web site at: http://www.pdh.com PDH, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. US CITIZENSHIP Required for Position
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: octave-2.0 Available Date: 3 Jan 1997 04:41:22 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5ai2li$4jp@news.digifix.com> I've completed the port of octave-2.0 to NEXTSTEP for m68k and i386 platforms. I've uploaded it to: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/ octave-2.0.README octave-2.0.Build.NeXT octave-2.0.NI.bd.tar.gz It'll probably be moved somewhere soon that is more meaningful, like ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/educational/ This current build has only gone through a couple weeks of testing, so who knows how stable it REALLY is. Let me know if you encounter any serious problems. The 'octave-2.0.Build.NeXT' file describes my porting effort in detail. The 'octave-2.0.README' file contents are appended to this post. Enjoy. ____ Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln --------------------------------------- octave-2.0.README octave-2.0.NI.bd.tar.gz Jan 1997 An Installer.app package containing octave-2.0 for the m68k-next-nextstep3 i386-next-nextstep3 platforms. I would have done hppa and sparc too, but I don't have any of those platforms on hand. It is an implementation of octave-2.0. Ample documentation is included in the directory src/octave-2.0/doc. Building this wasn't too fun. First, I needed to build/install the latest versions of gcc-2.7.2.1, g77-0.5.19, libg++-2.7.2. Second, I made a quick-build binary for testing (to make sure the darn thing worked). Lastly, I tweaked the configuration to put files where I like them, eg, having a common executable location for all nextstep platforms (aren't FAT binaries wonderful?), instead of separate ones. OVERVIEW Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically. Octave 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. INSTALLATION Unpacking the original archive reveals an Installer.app-style package. Simply double-click octave.pkg in the Workspace as root to install into /usr/local. Note: /usr/local is hardwired into the program, if you want it somewhere else, you'll need to recompile. If you're daring, you can unpack the archive manually using tar: cd /usr/local gnutar xZf /PathToArchive/octave.pkg/octave.tar.Z HISTORY This is my own internal history of progress. No change in source code versions occurred, just different builds of the same code, b1: Dec 17, 1996 (Binary Beta 1) First successful build. Let's try it out. b2: Dec 18, 1996 (Binary Beta 2) Fixed help system bug (couldn't find info binary, because I had moved it.) r1: Dec 20, 1996 (Binary Release 1) Added m68k binary. r2: Jan 2, 1997 (Binary Release 2) Added documentation, FAT libraries Install as Installer.app package First public release, uploaded to ftp.next.peak.org, Jan 2, 1997 CREDITS: Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> Computer System Manager Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Octave source and other binaries: http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave ftp://ftp.che.wisc.edu/pub/octave
From: tracy@pdh.com (Tracy Alexander) Newsgroups: ba.jobs.offered,comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: SAN JOSE: Senior Software and Database Design Engineers Date: 3 Jan 1997 04:40:12 GMT Organization: PDH, Inc. Message-ID: <5ai2jc$4jl@news.digifix.com> >>>>> Career Opportunity<<<<< for an experienced Object Oriented Architect and Developer PDH, Inc. is a leader in client-server systems using NEXTSTEP and soon OpenStep software development environments. These environments permit a 10 to 1 improvement in developer productivity on the first project and up to 25 to 1 on subsequent projects through the use of the tools, OOD, and the robust libraries (classes, palettes, kits). NEXTSTEP and OpenStep are available on Motorola, Intel, Sun, HP and DEC workstations now, and will soon be running in Windows/NT and SUN NEO. You will develop custom mission critical applications for customers. Qualifications: Preferably at least 5+ years software/database development experience. Required: BS in Computer Science or related field Willingness to travel within USA Object Oriented Methodology (OOA,OOD and OOP) UNIX Independent design and development Desired: Familiarity with EOF, DBKit, AccessKit Experience in the following: Database design and development (SQL, Sybase or Oracle) Distributed databases Distributed architectures, Client-Server, CORBA Graphical User Interface (GUI) design and development Windows 95, NT, OLE NEXTSTEP Objective-C, C++, SmallTalk, Java Duties: Design, engineer/architect, and participate in all stages of the product life-cycle: requirements, design, implementation, testing, documentation, training, and support. Lead a team of highly creative, qualified engineers/architects through product development providing both the technical and managerial aspects of the project. Take responsibility for technology insertion, database architectures, performance issues, and provide state-of-the-art solutions right to the desktops of customers. This is an excellent opportunity to be immediately challenged and to be a part of an elite staff. PDH provides excellent vacation, holiday, health, 401K and disability benefits. The work attire is casual, hours are flexible, and refreshments are sponsored. If you would like to be part of our fast-paced, high growth, engineering-focused development team, send your resume to: PDH, Inc. Personnel Department Vox: (408) 428-9596 Fax: (408) 428-9599 E-mail: personnel@pdh.com(NeXT Mail welcome) 2635 North First Street, Suite 224, San Jose, CA 95134-2034 Visit our web site at: http://www.pdh.com PDH, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. US CITIZENSHIP Required for Position
From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: muc.archive.update,de.admin.archiv,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (3.1.97) Date: 3 Jan 1997 20:00:04 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <5ajog4$sjl@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> On the Peanuts NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next, [129.187.249.15]): 44824 Dec 30 23:34 Usenet/news/1996/Ann-12.gz 234992 Dec 29 15:39 Graphics/apps/BeYap.1.21b.NI.b.tar.gz 2001 Dec 29 15:39 Graphics/apps/BeYap.README 25493 Dec 28 02:56 Usenet/news/1996/Bugs-12.gz 1275009 Dec 31 03:30 Network/news/HNNews.0.92.NIHS.b.tar.gz 3672 Dec 31 03:30 Network/news/HNNews.0.92.README 217934 Dec 30 21:25 Usenet/news/1996/Hard-12.gz 260424 Dec 30 23:38 Usenet/news/1996/Misc-12.gz 577794 Dec 28 10:40 Text/apps/PDFView.1.61.NIHS.b.tar.gz 6953 Dec 28 10:40 Text/apps/PDFView.1.61.README 7233728 Dec 29 15:33 Commercial/graphics/cad/Platon.3.01.I.b.tar.gz 6997467 Dec 29 15:33 Commercial/graphics/cad/Platon.3.01.N.b.tar.gz 1771 Dec 29 15:33 Commercial/graphics/cad/Platon.3.01.README 98675 Dec 30 21:58 Usenet/news/1996/Prog-12.gz 5222 Dec 29 15:44 OpenStep/developer/resources/ReportPalette.4.2.README 2950344 Dec 29 15:44 OpenStep/developer/resources/ReportPalette.4.2.m.NIS.b.tgz 291634 Dec 30 23:38 Usenet/news/1996/Soft-12.gz 186910 Dec 30 19:15 Usenet/news/1996/Sys-12.gz 230788 Dec 30 19:02 Usenet/news/1996/de.comp.sys.next-12.gz 1292814 Dec 29 15:41 Tools/editor/programs/nvi.1.76.NIHS.b.tar.gz 1013 Dec 29 15:41 Tools/editor/programs/nvi.1.76.README 1271960 Dec 29 15:41 Tools/editor/programs/nvi.1.76.s.tar.gz 201879 Dec 29 15:40 Unix/shell/pdksh.5.2.12.NI.b.tar.gz 1654 Dec 29 15:40 Unix/shell/pdksh.5.2.12.README Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/pub/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-hamburg.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-siegen.de/ France: ftp://ftp.fdn.fr/, ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Switzerland: ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/ UUCP (Germany) wburg.hanse.de (Tel. ++49-40-307 89 06) Mailbox (Germany) (Tel. ++49-8803-61111, ISDN ++49-8803-62149). Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from december 1995. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.leo.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.leo.org)
From: Greg Anderson <greg@afs.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: NEXTSTEP Developers Will Exhibit at MacWorld Date: 3 Jan 1997 21:32:43 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5ajttr$ao2@news.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 NEXTSTEP DEVELOPERS WILL EXHIBIT AT MACWORLD Public Invited To See Real Applications SPRINGHOUSE, PA, January 3, 1997 -- Representatives from the leading independent vendors of NEXTSTEP software announced today that they support the NeXT/Apple merger and will demonstrate their existing NEXTSTEP applications next week at MacWorld Expo in San Francisco. Featured applications at the NEXTSTEP Application Developers booth will include: the CHaRTSMITH charting package and DaTASCRIBE Database Reporting Tool from Blacksmith, Inc.; Create, a full-featured drawing application from Stone Design (www.stone.com); Mesa, a spreadsheet from P&L Systems; PasteUp and WriteUp, desktop publishing and word processing from Anderson Financial Systems; Pencil Me In, the leading personal and group calendaring product, and SBook, a personal address book and contact manager, both from Sarrus Software; and TIFFany II advanced image editing from Caffeine Software. Demonstrations will focus on how these applications work both separately and in combination in the integrated NEXTSTEP environment. "Interest in NeXT technology is sky high since the merger announcement, and next week's keynote will only add to the curiosity," said Gregory H. Anderson, Founder and CEO of Anderson Financial Systems. "We want to show existing Apple developers and users that this technology supports serious applications." "The announcement of the Apple/NeXT merger has all NeXT-technology enthusiasts excited about the new opportunities that will come from this," added Tony Rennier, President of BLaCKSMITH. "NeXT's technology is outstanding, and we look forward to demonstrating that to the Apple community." "As an early Macintosh and HyperTalk software house which was converted to NEXT in 1989, Stone Design embraces the Apple/NeXT merger," said Andrew Stone, CEO of Stone Design. "We have been shipping software for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep for 8 years and are overjoyed that these technologies will be available to the Macintosh market." The NEXTSTEP Application Developers will be exhibiting in booth #3490, along the back aisle of North Hall. For more information prior to the show, contact Greg Anderson as listed above. ###
From: bmunn@lighthouse.com (Beth Munn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Lighthouse Design/Sun Microsystems Date: 3 Jan 1997 22:01:48 GMT Organization: Lighthouse Design, a Sun Microsystems business Message-ID: <5ajvkc$avt@news.digifix.com> Lighthouse Design (a Sun Microsystems business) 2929 Campus Drive San Mateo, Ca. 94403 415.570.7736 http://www.lighthouse.com Founded in 1989, and acquired by Sun Microsystems in July of 1996, Lighthouse Design is one of the industry's most experienced developers of applications for purely object-oriented environments. Lighthouse offers the exciting and fast paced environment of a small company, while being able to provide "big company" benefits. JavaPlan, the newest product from Lighthouse Design is the industry's first enterprise devlopment platform for the analysis, design, and generation of sophisticated Java applications. Lighthouse is also the premiere provider of productivity applications for the OpenStep and Solaris environments. We are looking for individuals who can demonstrate excellence in Object-OrientedTechnology, GUI Design, Software Engineering Management, and Application Development. Your skills should include: Java, Objective-C, Smalltalk, C++, OpenStep, Solaris, Windows NT, RDBMS, OODBMS, and OO A/D, "off the shelf" application development, The following positions are currently open: JAVA DEVELOPMENT MANAGER APPLICATIONS ENGINEERS JAVAPLAN ENGINEERS SALES ENGINEERS TRAINERS/CURRICULUM DEVELOPERS OPERATIONS MANAGER .....and others!! Lighthouse is a leader in the Object-Oriented software industry, come and work with some of the best people in the business. For more informaiton please contact or send your resume to: Beth Munn 415-570-7736 bmunn@lighthouse.com For other opportunities, please see our web site at: www.lighthouse.com
From: hnalgae@soback.kornet.nm.kr (Kang Hyun) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: HNNews 0.91 beta Date: 3 Jan 1997 22:16:10 GMT Organization: Hayan Nalgae Message-ID: <5ak0fa$b1j@news.digifix.com> HNNews 0.92 released. * Introduction HNNews is powerful multi-tasking USENET newsreader. HNNews gives you ability of navigating news servers very easily. HNNews is commercial product. * HNNews's main feature - Multi Tasking - Graphical environment - Saving downloaded articles to database - Easy to use and fast to go - Powerful feature for expert of USENET - Online, Offline newsreader - Mime and UUDecode binary articles - Internal mail * Changes from 0.91 beta - Help added - Find Panel - Emacs key binding - Purge bug fixed You can download HNNews 0.92 at: ¬ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/news/HNNews.0.92.README ¬ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/news/HNNews.0.92.NIHS.b.tar.gz ¬ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/news/HNNews-K.0.92.README ¬ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/news/HNNews-K.0.92.NIHS.b.tar.gz or ¬ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/new_arrivals/HNNews.0.92.README ¬ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/new_arrivals/HNNews.0.92.NIHS.b.tar.gz ¬ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/new_arrivals/HNNews-K.0.92.README ¬ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/new_arrivals/HNNews-K.0.92.NIHS.b.tar.gz HNNews-K version is for Korean, Japanese, and needs NeXTSTEP-J. If you have suggestion or find bugs, contact to Hayan Nalgae. --- Hayan Nalgae, NeXTSTEP Developer. hnalgae@soback.kornet.nm.kr <Kang Hyun> Hayan Nalgae in Korean means White Wing in English. NeXT, Mime mail OK.
From: Christian Starkjohann <cs@hal.kph.tuwien.ac.at> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: vmount 0.4 -- more filesystems for NEXTSTEP (repost) Date: 6 Jan 1997 04:14:30 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5apu76$4np@news.digifix.com> [Obviously, my first posting on Dec 23 did not get through, so this is a repost:] Version 0.4 of vmount is now available from ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/Unix/disk/vmount* (ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/ or whereever it will move to.) The files "vmount-Linux-2.0.25.s.gnutar.gz" and "vmount-ntfs-cs.s.gnutar.gz" have not changed! There is no need to waste bandwidth if you have already fetched them with a previous version. The most important new feature: tremendous speed improvement due to a disk cache. * What has changed since 0.2? ============================= - Added support for extended partitions, thereby changing the numbering scheme for partitions. - Changed meaning of -s parameter from sector size to partition size - Added -v option to print the version number and exit * What has changed since 0.3? ============================= - Vmount works with 4GB disks now - Improved limit-checking on large partitions - Implemented a disk cache, which brings a _tremendous_ speed improvement - As a consequence of the disk cache, the iso9660 filesystem works now If you still don't know what vmount is, here some excerpts from the README: * What does vmount do? ====================== vmount is a utility that allows you to mount foreign filesystems in your directory hierarchy. It uses the NFS-interface to the kernel to make the files available and the Linux code for the lowlevel filesystem access. * What do I need to run vmount? =============================== To run vmount: 1.) An i386 based machine (i386 is the CPU-class, not the actual processor). 2.) NEXTSTEP 3.2 or higher (I have only tested on 4.0, however). To compile from the sources: 1.) NEXTSTEP 3.3 Developer or higher. I have also tested with gcc 2.7.2 and NEXTSTEP 3.2 Developer, this works too. gcc 2.2.2, which comes with 3.2 Developer, complains about prototype mismatches for built in functions. This can probably be solved easily, but I have not tried. You should edit the Makefile to reflect the compiler you intend to use. 2.) GNU-make. Openstep 4.0 and higher comes with GNU-make, it is available under the name "gnumake". And, of course, you need the vmount distribution: vmount.0.4.I.b.gnutar.gz for the binary only distribution vmount.0.4.I.s.gnutar.gz for the vmount sources vmount-Linux-2.0.25.s.gnutar.gz for the Linux filesystem sources This directory contains the "fs" and "include" hierarchy of the Linux kernel sources. "fs" contains only the filesystem specific subdirectories. vmount-ntfs-cs.s.gnutar.gz for the modified ntfs sources For more information please read the README file at ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/Unix/disk/vmount-0.4.I.README or ftp://hal.kph.tuwien.ac.at/pub/NeXT/tools/vmount/vmount-0.4.I.README -- Christian Starkjohann <cs@hal.kph.tuwien.ac.at> or <cs@ds1.kph.tuwien.ac.at>, finger for PGP Public Key. PGP fingerprint: DF FD 40 60 91 6A 14 1C CD 2C E9 07 38 AE CB 4E
From: Katie Graunke <katie@stone.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: STONE DESIGN announces support for Mac OpenStep Date: 6 Jan 1997 20:15:05 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5armg9$anv@news.digifix.com> NEWS For Immediate Release For more information, please contact: Katie Graunke katie@stone.com 505-345-4800 http://www.stone.com Stone Design Announces Support for Mac/Openstep Monday, January 6, 1997 - San Francisco - Stone Design, a long time provider of NeXTSTEP and OpenStep software, announced today its intention to fully support the Stone line of productivity applications under Mac/OpenStep. Create, the powerful object draw package, will likely be the first drawing application to ship on the Mac/OpenStep platform. "We are delighted about the merger between Apple Computer and NeXT Software," said Andrew Stone, President of Stone Design. "It is especially exciting to be major players in what is certain to be the best graphics OS yet developed." "It's such a thrill to be able to offer the world's best technology to the graphically sophisticated Macintosh market," said Katie Graunke, Vice-president of Marketing for Stone Design. Phone calls, email and faxes are pouring into the offices of Stone Design with many congratulations and good wishes from their large customer base. Stone Design will have a presence at MacWorld starting today. Look for the NEXTSTEP Application Developers who will be exhibiting in booth #3490, along the back aisle of the North Hall. Or visit www.stone.com for more info! -*- Stone Design Corp. was founded in 1984 and shipped the first commercial application for NeXT, TextArt, in 1989. Since then, Stone has been committed to NeXT's state of the art technology, producing a series of productivity applications, including DataPhile (an award winning database package), Create, and 3D Reality (a 3D modeler), as well as supporting CheckSum (a check writer). Stone Design will continue producing quality shrinkwrap applications for the new generation with Mac/OpenStep. 3D Reality, DataPhile, and Create are trademarks of Stone Design Corporation. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
From: Thomas Engel <tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ANNOUNCMENT: ObjectFarm opens: "TheMerger". Web site to teach you the buzzwords from the other side. Date: 7 Jan 1997 04:07:14 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5asi5i$dgk@news.digifix.com> 7. Jan.1997 The ObjectFarm announces the addition of a new web site: TheMerger ... "They're getting the Band together" http://asterix.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/TheMerger/ This site and its maintainers are trying to help bridge both worlds (Apple and NeXT) and provide information which could help during the transition to a common next generation operating system. The information provided is targeted at developers and users coming from both systems. While there are many sites which focus on commenting and analyzing the effects of the merger, we are mainly focused on "buzzword" explanation and technology "mapping", since most problems and fears expressed by users and developers result from misunderstandings. As more facts become available during Macworld'97 we will try to adjust our predictions for Apple's NeXT OS (the MergerOS, as we call it until an official naming has been set by Apple) Share and enjoy...and provide feedback to make the site richer. Tomi Engel tsengel@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de
From: park@pangea.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Pangea Corporation Ships MindShare 3.0 Date: 7 Jan 1997 19:59:17 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5au9ul$jie@news.digifix.com> Contact: Peter J. Park Pangea Corporation +1-412-381-9944, ext. 25 park@pangea.com http://www.pangea.com PANGEA CORPORATION SHIPS MINDSHARE 3.0 Advanced e-mail and groupware for OpenStep Pittsburgh, PA, 7 January 1997: Pangea Corporation, the OpenStep enterprise messaging market leader, has shipped a new version of its best-selling electronic mail and groupware product. The new release is available immediately at Pangea's Web site, http://www.pangea.com. MindShare 3.0's features include... - MIME, RFC822, and NeXT format e-mail - Groupware "discussions" and shared mailboxes - Message threading and priorities, with customizable notification - Client-server object database architecture - Database replication across the Intranet or Internet - High speed searching of indexed database - User- and group-based discussion security - Tcl-based API for custom development and administration While details from Apple are still forthcoming, Pangea is planning to release MindShare on the NewOS. "Pangea is pleased with Apple's decision to purchase NeXT," said Peter J. Park, president of Pangea Corporation. "We feel the NewOS will be a compelling platform and that advanced applications like MindShare will give Apple the edge it needs to succeed." About Pangea Corporation Pangea has been developing custom and shrink-wrap OpenStep applications since 1991. Experts in... - object-oriented analysis, design, and implementation - multi-tier client/server architecture - intranet application design and development - user interface design - Windows NT, UNIX, and OpenStep - C++, Java, and Objective C Pangea's defining characteristics are professionalism and a passion for excellence.
From: park@pangea.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Pangea Corporation Offers OpenStep Consulting Date: 7 Jan 1997 19:59:53 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5au9vp$jif@news.digifix.com> Contact: Peter J. Park Pangea Corporation +1-412-381-9944, ext. 25 info@pangea.com http://www.pangea.com PANGEA CORPORATION OFFERS OPENSTEP CONSULTING Expert OpenStep Developers Offer Porting Services Pittsburgh, PA, 7 January 1997: Pangea Corporation, a leading OpenStep development company, has announced a new full-service consulting division for companies creating apps for Apple's NewOS. Pangea provides a range of services from mentoring through complete application development. "Finding qualified NeXT talent in the coming year will be harder and harder," said Peter J. Park, president of Pangea Corporation. "Pangea has been at the forefront of NeXT technology since the beginning and our engineers are among the most experienced in the world." For more information see Pangea's home page at http://www.pangea.com. About Pangea Corporation Pangea has been developing custom and shrink-wrap OpenStep applications since 1991. Experts in... - object-oriented analysis, design, and implementation - multi-tier client/server architecture - intranet application design and development - user interface design - Windows NT, UNIX, and OpenStep - C++, Java, and Objective C Pangea's defining characteristics are professionalism and a passion for excellence.
From: Daisho <daisho@earthlink.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Nextstep Sys Admin Date: 8 Jan 1997 05:11:44 GMT Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <5avaag$muv@news.digifix.com> We are in need of a system adminstrator for nextstep office net. Very versatile position, lots of challenges and creativity. Very exciting environment in the entertainment industry. From database design and maintainence, web site, sys admin, graphics etc. Innovative creative thinker needed specializing in nextstep. Must have valid pasport as job may entail travel. Not your usual corporate/government job. Applicant must have two -three years Nextstep & Mac experience. Database, graphics, internet & net expertise. Location: Washington DC
From: Katie Graunke <katie@stone.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Stone Design Announces December Raffle Winner Date: 8 Jan 1997 05:17:35 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5avalf$n1c@news.digifix.com> NEWS For immediate release For more information: EMAIL: info@stone.com TEL: Katie Graunke, (505) 345-4800 Albuquerque, NM, January 7, 1996 -- Stone Design Corp, a long time leader in the OpenStep/NEXTSTEP software marketplace, announced today the winner of the December Raffle for a Stoneworker t-shirt and Stone CD Volume 3. The winner is John Bartley. Stone Design will raffle a tshirt and CD combo each month while supplies last. To enter the raffle, please visit our World Wide Web site: <http://www.stone.com/ =*= Stone Design Corporation of Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 1984, develops a variety of productivity applications for Mac/OpenStep, OpenStep, NEXTSTEP and Java. 3D Reality, DataPhile, and Create are trademarks of Stone Design Corporation. The Stone Design logotype is copyright Stone Design 1994. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ANNOUNCE: PEAK renovations complete Date: 8 Jan 1997 05:18:01 GMT Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Message-ID: <5avam9$n1d@news.digifix.com> Contact: next-ftp@peak.org Date: 7 January 1997 Thanks almost entirely to Eric Tremblay, the PEAK FTP site has undergone a major renovation and overhaul. While minor changes may still take place (changing files from .Z to .gzip, getting rid of old versions of programs which are no longer needed, etc) the majority of the work is done, and the new structure is in place. We'd like to thank everyone for their patience during this time, as well as those who have sent us notes of encouragement, pointed out permissions problems (all of which are fixed), and those who have made submissions. We hope this new layout will allow you to find what you are looking for, as well as browse in a easy-to-follow format. Towards that end, we have added two services: 1) a searching feature via email, where you can send email with a search word and have any matching URLs sent back to you. For example, if you wanted to search for "sendmail", you would send an email message to "luomat@peak.org" with the SUBJECT "search-peak sendmail" (without the " marks, of course). 2) a new index of the directory layout has just been made available. This will give you a better overall sense of the flow of the site. It can be found at: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/Layout-Guide.txt.gz Once again, keep those submissions coming in! Thanks for using the PEAK NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site
From: bmunn@lighthouse.com (Beth Munn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Open Positions! Lighthouse Design, a Sun Microsystems, Inc. business Date: 10 Jan 1997 16:32:09 GMT Organization: Lighthouse Design, a Sun Microsystems business Message-ID: <5b5qu9$hc6@news.digifix.com> Lighthouse Design (a Sun Microsystems business) 2929 Campus Drive San Mateo, Ca. 94403 415.570.7736 http://www.lighthouse.com Founded in 1989, and acquired by Sun Microsystems in July of 1996, Lighthouse Design is one of the industry's most experienced developers of applications for purely object-oriented environments. Lighthouse offers the exciting and fast paced environment of a small company, while being able to provide "big company" benefits. JavaPlan, the newest product from Lighthouse Design is the industry's first enterprise devlopment platform forthe analysis, design and generation of sophisticated Java applications. Lighthouse is also the premiere provider of productivity applications for the OpenStep and Solaris environments. We are looking for individuals who can demonstrate excellence in Object-OrientedTechnology, GUI design, software engineering management, and application development. Your skills should include: JAVA, OBJECTIVE-C, SMALLTALK, C++, OPENSTEP, SOLARIS, Windows NT, RDBMS, OODBMS, OO A/D, and "off the shelf" application development, The following positions are currently open: JAVA DEVELOPMENT MANAGER APPLICATIONS ENGINEERS JAVAPLAN ENGINEERS SALES ENGINEERS TRAINERS/CURRICULUM DEVELOPERS OPERATIONS MANAGER ......and others!! Lighthouse is a leader in the Object-Oriented software industry, come and work with some of the best people in the business. For more informaiton please contact or send your resume to: Beth Munn 415-570-7736 bmunn@lighthouse.com For other opportunities, please see our web site at: www.lighthouse.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines for comp.sys.next.announce Supersedes: <589851299728@digifix.com> Date: 10 Jan 1997 16:42:18 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <476852914536@digifix.com> 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 the past. 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.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <587851299369@digifix.com> Date: 10 Jan 1997 16:42:13 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <475852914532@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 - ISV company pages - ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.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 next-advocacy next-announce next-bugs next-hardware next-marketplace next-misc next-programmer next-software next-sysadmin object lang-objective-c (For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's. To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying: subscribe where * is the name of the list e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com The ftp sites ============= ftp://ftp.next.peak.org - The main site for North American submissions formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu 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) 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 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 ( eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU ) and Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com ) Additions from: Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com ) Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net ) Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: muc.archive.update,de.admin.archiv,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (10.1.97) Date: 10 Jan 1997 20:00:06 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <5b6746$s3j@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> On the Peanuts NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next, [129.187.249.15]): 3779502 Jan 2 22:37 Commercial/developer/apps/JavaPlan.2.0.NIS.b.tar.gz 4167261 Jan 2 22:37 Commercial/developer/resources/classes/LighthouseFrameworks-2.0.tar.gz Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/pub/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-hamburg.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-siegen.de/ France: ftp://ftp.fdn.fr/, ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Switzerland: ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/ UUCP (Germany) wburg.hanse.de (Tel. ++49-40-307 89 06) Mailbox (Germany) (Tel. ++49-8803-61111, ISDN ++49-8803-62149). Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from december 1995. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.leo.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.leo.org)
From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: muc.archive.update,de.admin.archiv,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (17.1.97) Date: 17 Jan 1997 20:00:05 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <5bolo5$38s@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> On the Peanuts NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next, [129.187.249.15]): Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/pub/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-hamburg.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-siegen.de/ France: ftp://ftp.fdn.fr/, ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Switzerland: ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/ UUCP (Germany) wburg.hanse.de (Tel. ++49-40-307 89 06) Mailbox (Germany) (Tel. ++49-8803-61111, ISDN ++49-8803-62149). Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from december 199e. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.leo.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.leo.org)
From: Amy.Yeater@OEinc.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: OPENSTEP Jobs from entry to senior Date: 18 Jan 1997 08:07:21 GMT Organization: Seanet Online Services, Seattle WA Message-ID: <5bq0bp$n7f@news.digifix.com> Object Enterprises Incorporated has employment opportunities for highly skilled object-oriented programmers, WebObjects webmasters and system administrators. Openings are expanding in the Washington DC area and other areas. If you are experienced with OPENSTEP or are looking for entry level opportunities, we may be able to help. Ideal candidates will have some NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP experience. Objective C or UNIX experience is desired as well. Desirable Skills: - Large-scale NEXTSTEP site experience. - Strong knowledge of NEXTSTEP / Objective C - Understanding of EOF 2.0 and its concepts - Java - Good RDBMS skills (Sybase or Oracle preferred) - UNIX skills - Exposure to Windows NT - Web related experience If you are interested, please email resumes to: Resumes@OEinc.com (NeXTMail welcome) or snail mail a copy to: Resumes Object Enterprises Incorporated 2608 Second Avenue Suite 119 Seattle WA 98121-1276 And please visit our website for more information. http://www.oeinc.com/Jobs Thank you for your interest. -- Amy Yeater Object Enterprises Incorporated 2608 Second Avenue Suite 119 Seattle WA 98121-1276 206-217-0891 - PHONE Amy.Yeater@OEinc.com www.oeinc.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <475852914532@digifix.com> Date: 19 Jan 1997 04:57:55 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <413853649874@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 - ISV company pages - ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.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 next-advocacy next-announce next-bugs next-hardware next-marketplace next-misc next-programmer next-software next-sysadmin object lang-objective-c (For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's. To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying: subscribe where * is the name of the list e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com The ftp sites ============= ftp://ftp.next.peak.org - The main site for North American submissions formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu 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) 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 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 ( eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU ) and Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com ) Additions from: Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com ) Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net ) Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines for comp.sys.next.announce Supersedes: <476852914536@digifix.com> Date: 19 Jan 1997 04:57:58 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <414853649878@digifix.com> 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 the past. 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: Nicole Overson <Nicole_Overson@next.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Apple Support of NeXT's Products Date: 21 Jan 1997 21:06:58 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5c3b5i$giv@news.digifix.com> Dear NeXT Customer: As you know, Apple is in the process of acquiring NeXT Software, Inc. NeXT Software is in the business of providing application development tools and solutions for enterprises who build client/server, Internet, and intranet-based applications. This letter is to welcome you to becoming a customer of Apple, and to reassure you regarding our intentions to continue to support you. Much of the press surrounding this announcement has focused on its relevance for existing Apple customers. But at the same time, we're firmly committed to you and to NeXT's enterprise solutions. I want to assure you that your continued business with us is important. We intend to continue to offer these product lines and services to you and to other enterprise customers. Specifically, I want to address questions that NeXT customers, the press, and analysts have had about the effect the acquisition will have on the product plans for the WebObjects product line, OpenStep Enterprise, and NeXT's cross-platform support. WebObjects. We will continue to develop and enhance WebObjects Enterprise and WebObjects Pro in the future. In addition, we plan to continue selling WebObjects to current and future customers in markets where it is being sold now, with the same sales and support resources. Over time, we'll work to tie WebObjects closer to Apple Technologies, incorporating Apple's unique platform offerings. Lastly, we look forward to WebObjects running on Power Macintosh as well. OpenStep Enterprise. We are also committed to continue the development of OpenStep Enterprise and OpenStep Developer, and to enhance them over time. One example is the developer API documentation, which we plan to update and improve. We plan to continue selling OpenStep Enterprise to current and future customers in markets where it is being sold now, with the same sales and support resources. Finally, the OpenStep API and development tools will be a core component of Rhapsody the code name for Apple's next generation operating system. This will increase the installed base of OpenStep many times over, helping ensure its acceptance as a viable and popular development environment. Cross Platform Support. Apple will maintain NeXT's commitment to cross-platform and cross-processor support, and will continue to develop, sell, and support products currently available, including those for Windows NT, Solaris, HP-UX, and NEXTSTEP. In addition, we plan to add support with Rhapsody on PowerPC processors. Cross platform support for WebObjects and OpenStep aligns perfectly with Apple's overall strategy of moving core software technologies such as QuickTime cross platform. We firmly believe that Apple's acquisition of NeXT will increase the market acceptance for the NeXT technology in which you've invested time, resources, and money. Apple is firmly committed to enhancing, selling, and supporting this technology in the future, and to providing NeXT customers with innovative technology for cross-platform development of mission-critical, enterprise solutions. Thank you and best regards, Dr. Gil Amelio Chief Executive Officer Apple Computer, Inc.
From: Alastair Thomson <alastair@csarc.otago.ac.nz> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Manager University of Otago Computer Science Applied Research Centre Date: 23 Jan 1997 04:40:08 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5c6q38$2ih@news.digifix.com> University of Otago Manager - Computer Science Applied Research Centre Applications are invited for the position of Manager of the Computer Science Applied research Centre (the Black Albatross). The manager provides technical leadership of the six programmers employed in the Centre, interfaces with all major clients, and applies the research skills held in the Department of Computer Science to external clients. The successful applicant is likely to have substantial experience with object-oriented programming, with applications that run on the Internet, with secure servers for the Web, with Nextstep and Openstep software, and in management of technical staff. An industry competitive salary package will be negotiated. Longer term or short term initial contracts can be considered. Enquires can be made to the Director of the Centre, Professor B G Cox, (bgcox@otago.ac.nz), phone +64-3-479-8579, fax +64-3-479-8529, or by visiting our web page http://www.csarc.otago.ac.nz:800/ Applications in the form described in the information for candidates close with Professor Cox on 31 January 1997. Equal opportunity in employment is University policy. E tautoko ana Te Whare Wananga o Otago i te kaupapa whakaorite whiwhinga mahi.
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: sendmail 8.8.5 Date: 24 Jan 1997 04:38:57 GMT Organization: Posted via CAIS Internet <info@cais.com> Message-ID: <5c9ed1$d8m@news.digifix.com> sendmail 8.8.5 addresses critical security problems in 8.8.4 and adds additional enhancements. See CERT advisory @ http://www.cert.org for more information. Finally, a decent up-to-date sendmail for NEXTSTEP! This latest version is compiled for multiple architectures (NeXT m68k, Intel x86, HP PA-RISC, Sun SPARC), supports NetInfo, NIS, smrsh (sendmail restricted shell), mail.local and outgoing aliases (YourName@host.com) with the user database. To obtain a copy of my distribution: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/sendmail-8.8.5.NIHS.bd.ta r.gz To verify that you have a good copy of my distribution, execute the following command. Note that the first number is the 16-bit checksum which must match exactly and that the second number is the number of blocks and can vary. % sum sendmail-8.8.5.NIHS.bd.tar.gz 32715 1509 To unpack the distribution: % gnutar xvpzf sendmail-8.8.5.NIHS.bd.tar.gz NOTE: Use Terminal.app not Stuart.app since version 2.6.1 has a bug which will cause the unzip to fail. This will create a .pkg file. You need to be logged in as "root" to install the package. Documentation for sendmail 8.8 is in /etc/sendmail/doc. Configuration files are in /etc/sendmail/cf. You will need the GNU m4 compiler to create a .cf configuration file for use with this version of sendmail. It is available in the proglang subdirectory on next-ftp.peak.org's NeXT FTP archive. I recommend that you pick up a copy of the O'Reilly and Associates book on sendmail before using this version of sendmail. Furthermore, the installation and use of this software is entirely at your own risk. Read the README notice for more details. Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP / Rhapsody Consultant Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com -- Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP/Rhapsody Consultant HTI Boston, MA - Washington, DC + 1 (617) 252-0088
From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: muc.archive.update,de.admin.archiv,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (24.1.97) Date: 24 Jan 1997 20:00:04 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <5cb4c4$al9@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> On the Peanuts NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next, [129.187.249.15]): 577901 Jan 23 17:57 Text/apps/PDFViewer.1.14beta.NIHS.b.tar.gz 3614 Jan 23 18:04 Text/apps/PDFViewer.README 0 Jan 24 12:14 PEANUTS.sd2a 0 Jan 24 14:01 Commercial/PEANUTS.sd2b 403294 Jan 18 20:16 Developer/languages/java/guavac.0.2.5.s.tar.gz 1387552 Jan 13 12:21 Developer/languages/java/kaffe.0.7.0.I.b.tar.gz 2263 Jan 18 18:55 Developer/languages/java/kaffe.0.7.0.README 257221 Jan 18 19:30 Developer/languages/java/kaffe.0.7.0.s.tar.gz 705 Jan 16 03:52 Graphics/library/loginpanels/login_bears-merge.README 212447 Jan 16 13:14 Graphics/library/loginpanels/login_bears-merge.tar.gz Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/pub/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-hamburg.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-siegen.de/ France: ftp://ftp.fdn.fr/, ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Switzerland: ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/ UUCP (Germany) wburg.hanse.de (Tel. ++49-40-307 89 06) Mailbox (Germany) (Tel. ++49-8803-61111, ISDN ++49-8803-62149). Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from december 199e. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.leo.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.leo.org)
From: takis@superior.eng.ohio-state.edu (Panagiotis Velissariou) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION : WWW Tools Date: 25 Jan 1997 04:15:39 GMT Organization: eNET Inc. - Internet Service Provider Message-ID: <5cc1db$mon@news.digifix.com> Hi, I have submitted the following in the archives : 1) Analog 1.93 (the Log analysis tool for HTTPD servers) compiled quad FAT for NeXT. The program can be found at : ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/www/Analog.1.93.NIHS.bs.tar .gz Please read the file : ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/www/Analog.1.93.NIHS.README for more details. 2) wwwcount.2.3 (Web Counter for your Web pages) compiled quad FAT for NeXT. The program can be found at : ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/www/wwwcount.2.3.NIHS.bs.ta r.gz Please read the file : ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/www/wwwcount.2.3.NIHS.READM E for more details. 3) counter_digits (extra digit gifs to use with wwwcount.2.3) . The file can be found at : ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/www/counter_digits.tar.gz Please read the file : ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/www/counter_digits.README for more details. Thanks -- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ Panagiotis Velissariou _/ _/ The Ohio State University _/ _/ Department of Civil, Graphics & Environmental Engineering _/ _/ E-mail: takis@superior.eng.ohio-state.edu _/ _/ pvelissa@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu _/ _/ takis@takis2.ee.net _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
From: Mike Gabrys <Mike_Gabrys@bang.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: BANG General Meeting: Thursday January 23rd, 7:00pm Date: 20 Jan 1997 07:36:46 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5bv7ae$26k@news.digifix.com> **** ANNOUNCEMENT **** Bay Area NeXT Group Meeting When: Thursday, January 23, 7:00 PM Where: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Auditorium 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA SPECIAL MEETING: Welcome Mac Users! Developers and users from the Apple community are invited to join the renewed NeXT family in attending the regularly scheduled monthly meeting of the Bay Area NeXT Group, to be held Thursday, January 23, 1997, at 7:00 PM, at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Auditorium, at 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California. Topic: [Almost] Everything You Always Wanted to Know about NEXTSTEP! With a strong sense of merger optimism from both the Apple and NeXT communities, BANG has decidedly dedicated the January 1997 monthly meeting to providing a overview of NEXTSTEP/OpenStep, the advanced operating system and core technology that motivated Apple's acquisition of NeXT Software, Inc. as the basis of its future Macintosh Operating System solution. Representatives of NeXT have been asked to provide an informational presentation and demonstration of NEXTSTEP. Space is expected to be limited, so we are requesting that you RSVP by sending email to: <wendy@bang.org> with your name (and -optional- email address) to assist us in anticipating the number of attendees for this very special meeting. An overview of the merger will be detailed, with a comprehensive introduction to NeXT's technology, and the historic decisions which created the superior operating system, development tool set, user environment, platform-independent portability, major Web and enterprise solutions. Details of future OS decisions may be provided. Since the merger, the devoted Macintosh community has been surprised to discover how significant the NeXT productivity environment is. Here is an opportunity to learn about future Apple technology from those who know it best. Empower yourself by getting an informed start toward your computing future. Learn why MACH and Display PostScript are your friends! Speakers will be announced on the BANG Web page and Usenet newsgroups. Stay Tuned! Meeting Format: We will have announcements, technical questions and answers, demo / presentation, and a review of developments at MacWorld Expo SF 1997. After the meeting, join us at a nearby restaurant (Palo Alto or Menlo Park). See you there! Contact: wendy@bang.org [for Jan. 23 meeting] -- PLEASE RSVP. info@bang.org http://www.bang.org/ (415) 487-6237 Directions: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center is much easier to reach from 280. FROM 280: Take 280 toward 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 toward 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/Alameda de las Puelguas (street has two names) and passing a Shell station on your right. The SLAC entrance is at a light on your left. Look for directions to the Auditorium at the guard office at the entrance.
From: Ingmar Camphausen <ingmar@aurora.in-berlin.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Berlin NEXTSTEP User Group February meeting Date: 27 Jan 1997 08:31:02 GMT Organization: INDIVIDUAL NETWORK BERLIN Message-ID: <5chp46$eml@news.digifix.com> **** MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT **** Berlin NEXTSTEP User Group (BeNG) February meeting ================================================== The BeNG (Berlin NEXTSTEP User Group) will be holding its next meeting on Monday, February 3, 1997, at 8:00 p.m. (MET) in the "Institut fuer Energietechnik" of the Technical University Berlin in Room KT 101 (1st floor), Marchst. 18, D-10587 Berlin, Germany. Topic we will address this time: o SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT UNDER NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP (3): Introduction to the ApplicationKit: Windows, Panels, Buttons, Events (3rd part in a series of bi-monthly lectures on programming under NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP we project) (There will be time to discuss the lastes and greatest news about the NeXT-Apple merger, too.) The meeting is open to anyone who is interested in NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP. "newbies" or people seeking for more first hand information before they further engage with NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP (especially Mac users!), are very welcome, too. After the program, join us for a snack and/or drink at the nearby "Cafe' Campus". Looking forward to seeing you at the meeting! Contact: Gerald Erdmann gerald@kurt.in-berlin.de (NeXTmail welcome) or Ingmar Camphausen ingmar@aurora.in-berlin.de (NeXTmail welcome) BeNG: e-mail beng@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (mailinglist!) WWW http://buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de/~beng FTP ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/NeXT How to get there: We recommend coming by bicycle or using the public transport (BVG): You can either take the underground line U2 or bus 145 or bus X9 and leave at 'Ernst-Reuter-Platz' (+ 400 m walking), or you choose bus 245 up to Ernst-Reuter-Platz/Marchst. (+ 200 m walking). The nearest rapid transit ("S-Bahn") station is "Tiergarten" (~1000 m/ ~10 min walking distance); you get there via the rapid transit lines S3, S5, S7 or S75. There is a limited number of parking lots near the building, too. If you approach from the roundabout traffic Ernst-Reuter-Platz, you have to take the Marchst. exit. About 200 m into the Marchst., right after a blue building and the drive to a parking lot on the right hand side, there is the "Institut fuer Energietechnik". The entrance to the building is on the left hand side behind the gate at the end of the parking lot. (Watch out for the NeXT-logo-like 'BeNG' signs and follow them to the meeting room! :-) All those of you familiar with the geography of Berlin (Germany) can take a look at a map of the meeting location and its environment via the StadtINFO online city map under the URL http://www.kulturbox.de/cgi-bin/k/pixelinfo?PQ=m11&X=96&Y=381&TEXT=BeNG%21 (The "Institut fuer Energietechnik" is marked with a red circle.) . . . The subsequent meeting is scheduled for March 3, 1997. We plan to show how to integrate a Windows95 system into a NEXTSTEP network using "Samba". --- BeNG --- WHO WE ARE --- The Berlin NEXTSTEP User Group (BeNG) exists since 1990 and is a loose "aggregation" of NeXT resp. NEXTSTEP enthusiasts. Our participants may be reached via our mailing list. Of course, we are present in the WorldWideWeb, too. We also manage the NeXT/NEXTSTEP FTP archive at the Technical University (TU) Berlin. mailing list mailto:beng@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de WWW http://buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de/~beng FTP ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/NeXT We meet the first Monday each month at 8:00 p.m. (If this coincides with a holiday, the meeting takes place the subsequent week.) We usually have a lecture or presentation; respective suggestions or offers are very welcome and should be directed to our mailing list.
From: WELKERH@aol.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Next Development in MI Date: 27 Jan 1997 08:31:56 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5chp5s$eou@news.digifix.com> WE ARE: CIBER, Inc. (Consultants in Business, Engineering and Research), founded in 1974, now a publicly owned company. CIBER continues to be one of the most innovative and respected consulting companies in the services business. CIBER focuses on developing long-term relationships with our clients and we provide a full range of services to accomplish this, including; facilities management, software development/maintenance, technical/systems support, systems analysis/design, and technical training/education. CIBER also provides a career environment for its consultants, which includes: Field Management, a Full Line of Benefits (described below) and a relationship which promotes growth from within. We achieve this with client satisfaction and employee satisfaction through a high standard of professionalism and the technical competence of our employees, living up to our philosophy of "An Ethic of Excellence". PROGRAMMER/ANALYSTS - Contract position for 6 months with an option to hire by the Client. The client is located in the Northeast Suburbs of Detroit. Job duties include: -Interacting with users to develop system requirements. -Design. implementation and coding of new modules and systems. -Design, implementation and coding of low- and mid-level object libraries. Requirements: -Extensive experience programming computers. -Extensive experience programming in the C language in Unix environment. Desirable attributes, in approximate order of importance: -Extensive experience in object-oriented design & programming. -Experience programming for the NeXT platform. -Extensive experience programming in C++ language. -Experience programming in Objective-C language. -Experience using or knowledge of standard algorithms such as quicksort, b-trees, hash functions, etc. -Experience programming for the Unix operating system. -Experience using the Sybase SQL database server. -Experience using SQL database server. -Experience programming in the Postscript language. WE OFFER: A variety of challenging work assignments as a full-time, permanent employee of CIBER, Inc; Competitive salaries and benefits, including: Internal Education, Paid Overtime, Health, Dental, Optical, Short/Long Term Disability and Life Insurance, Two Weeks Vacation, Plus Six Standard Holidays, Plus Five additional Client Holidays, Tuition Reimbursement, 401K Tax Sheltered Savings Plan (Plus Matching Funds), Stock Purchase Plan, and Relocation Assistance. If you are interested in joining the CIBER team, please call or send your resume in confidence to: Henry A. Welker, Human Resources E-mail: welkerh@aol.com CIBER, Inc.Weekdays: 800 800-0271 4 Parklane Blvd, Ste 323 313 271-1221 Dearborn, MI 48126-2660 Fax: 313 271-3416 EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER M/F xciberx
From: Ingmar Camphausen <ingmar@aurora.in-berlin.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Berlin NEXTSTEP User Group February meeting Date: 26 Jan 1997 23:05:51 GMT Organization: INDIVIDUAL NETWORK BERLIN Message-ID: <5cgo0f$b75@news.digifix.com> **** MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT **** Berlin NEXTSTEP User Group (BeNG) February meeting ================================================== The BeNG (Berlin NEXTSTEP User Group) will be holding its next meeting on Monday, February 3, 1997, at 8:00 p.m. (MET) in the "Institut fuer Energietechnik" of the Technical University Berlin in Room KT 101 (1st floor), Marchst. 18, D-10587 Berlin, Germany. Topic we will address this time: o SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT UNDER NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP (3): Introduction to the ApplicationKit: Windows, Panels, Buttons, Events (3rd part in a series of bi-monthly lectures on programming under NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP we project) (There will be time to discuss the lastes and greatest news about the NeXT-Apple merger, too.) The meeting is open to anyone who is interested in NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP. "newbies" or people seeking for more first hand information before they further engage with NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP (especially Mac users!), are very welcome, too. After the program, join us for a snack and/or drink at the nearby "Cafe' Campus". Looking forward to seeing you at the meeting! Contact: Gerald Erdmann gerald@kurt.in-berlin.de (NeXTmail welcome) or Ingmar Camphausen ingmar@aurora.in-berlin.de (NeXTmail welcome) BeNG: e-mail beng@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (mailinglist!) WWW http://buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de/~beng FTP ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/NeXT How to get there: We recommend coming by bicycle or using the public transport (BVG): You can either take the underground line U2 or bus 145 or bus X9 and leave at 'Ernst-Reuter-Platz' (+ 400 m walking), or you choose bus 245 up to Ernst-Reuter-Platz/Marchst. (+ 200 m walking). The nearest rapid transit ("S-Bahn") station is "Tiergarten" (~1000 m/ ~10 min walking distance); you get there via the rapid transit lines S3, S5, S7 or S75. There is a limited number of parking lots near the building, too. If you approach from the roundabout traffic Ernst-Reuter-Platz, you have to take the Marchst. exit. About 200 m into the Marchst., right after a blue building and the drive to a parking lot on the right hand side, there is the "Institut fuer Energietechnik". The entrance to the building is on the left hand side behind the gate at the end of the parking lot. (Watch out for the NeXT-logo-like 'BeNG' signs and follow them to the meeting room! :-) All those of you familiar with the geography of Berlin (Germany) can take a look at a map of the meeting location and its environment via the StadtINFO online city map under the URL http://www.kulturbox.de/cgi-bin/k/pixelinfo?PQ=m11&X=96&Y=381&TEXT=BeNG%21 (The "Institut fuer Energietechnik" is marked with a red circle.) . . . The subsequent meeting is scheduled for March 3, 1997. We plan to show how to integrate a Windows95 system into a NEXTSTEP network using "Samba". --- BeNG --- WHO WE ARE --- The Berlin NEXTSTEP User Group (BeNG) exists since 1990 and is a loose "aggregation" of NeXT resp. NEXTSTEP enthusiasts. Our participants may be reached via our mailing list. Of course, we are present in the WorldWideWeb, too. We also manage the NeXT/NEXTSTEP FTP archive at the Technical University (TU) Berlin. mailing list mailto:beng@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de WWW http://buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de/~beng FTP ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/NeXT We meet the first Monday each month at 8:00 p.m. (If this coincides with a holiday, the meeting takes place the subsequent week.) We usually have a lecture or presentation; respective suggestions or offers are very welcome and should be directed to our mailing list.
From: wsi@spacelab.net (WSI Nationwide) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: US-NY-212-Nextstep,Objective-C/C++-salaried-WSI Date: 28 Jan 1997 22:21:50 GMT Organization: WSI Nationwide Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5clu5u$1eb@news.digifix.com> - - -------(All fees are paid by our client companies and all projects are on-site at the locations listed below- no telecommuting and no 3rd party referrals or agencies, please)----------- I have been asked to identify a Nextstep developer candidate with strong Nextstep or Openstep experience with for an expanding Wall Street Nextstep development project also using Objective-C, UNIX/C, Sybase, MS-Windows NT and C++ in New York City with no starting salary initially defined, your asking salary will be submitted, after your approval. This company pays great bonuses and has the fringe benefits you would expect from a world leader. If you know someone who might qualify (no 3rd party referrals or agencies, please) or is coming to the NYC/NJ/CT/PA area, e-mail a straight ascii text file/resume to Jay L. (and please do not return a copy of this announcement with your response) to wsi@spacelab.net, fax to 212-534-3724 or call 212-410-1400. (To insure formatting & print quality, please also mail a copy to me at WSI, 1619 Third Avenue, Box #6415, New York, 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. xwsix
From: wsi@spacelab.net (WSI Nationwide) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: US-NY-212-Nextstep,Objective-C/C++-contract-WSI Date: 28 Jan 1997 22:21:47 GMT Organization: WSI Nationwide Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5clu5r$1ea@news.digifix.com> - - -------(All fees are paid by our client companies and all projects are on-site at the locations listed below- no telecommuting and no 3rd party referrals or agencies, please)----------- I have been asked to identify an independent consultant with strong Nextstep or Openstep experience with for a long term Wall Street development project also using Objective-C, UNIX/C, Sybase, MS-Windows NT and C++ in New York City with no starting rate initially defined, your asking rate will be submitted, after your approval. If you know someone who might qualify (no 3rd party referrals or agencies, please) or is coming to the NYC/NJ/CT/PA area, e-mail a straight ascii text file/resume to Jay L. (and please do not return a copy of this announcement with your response) to wsi@spacelab.net, fax to 212-534-3724 or call 212-410-1400. (To insure formatting & print quality, please also mail a copy to me at WSI, 1619 Third Avenue, Box #6415, New York, 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. xwsix
From: brianm@datacom1.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,misc.jobs.offered Subject: JOB: London (UK) - NeXT/Sybase/ObjC - New Project - Full-Time or Contract Date: 28 Jan 1997 22:20:29 GMT Organization: Datacom Technology Group Inc Message-ID: <5clu3d$1e9@news.digifix.com> Major International Corporation based in London is looking for experienced NeXT developers. Candidates must have a strong NeXTSTEP (2+ years) development background coupled with 2/3 years C/C++/ObjC & Sybase skills. Responsible for development of a large scale system, and developing a pilot project using OpenStep/WinNT, WebObjects, and OO Tools. Full-Time or Contract (6 month minimum). CONTACT: Brian Mitchell Datacom Technology Group Inc 212-629-5720 (ext.221) 212-629-3374(FAX) brianm@datacom1.com
From: MWRon@metrowerks.com (MW Ron) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: MetroWorks to Acquire Latitude Porting Technology Date: 29 Jan 1997 05:51:49 GMT Organization: Metrowerks Message-ID: <5cmohl$46t@news.digifix.com> METROWERKS TO ACQUIRE LATITUDE PORTING TECHNOLOGY CodeWarrior(R) To Be Hosted On Sun Microsystems(R)' Solaris(TM)-based UNIX(R) Workstations AUSTIN, Texas--January 27, 1997--Metrowerks Inc. (NASDAQ: MTWKF, TSE/ME:MWK), one of the world's leading providers of software development tools, today announced that it had signed a letter of intention to acquire the principle assets of The Latitude Group, Inc., of Mountain View, Calif. Latitude's principle assets include a porting library which allows Mac(TM) OS applications to be ported to UNIX-hosted operating systems, including Sun Microsystems' Solaris 2.3+, Silicon Graphics(R)' IRIX(TM) 5.2+ and Hewlett-Packard(R)'s HP-UX(R) 9.03+. The Latitude porting libraries redirect Mac OS commands to the target operating system, with a UNIX library containing a portable implementation of the Mac OS API at its core. Metrowerks will also take over providing the Latitude porting technology to The Latitude Group, Inc.'s existing clients already under contract. Metrowerks intends to use the Latitude porting library to port CodeWarrior to run on Sun Microsystems' Solaris-based UNIX workstations in order to offer this platform as a host for embedded systems development. Sun's Solaris-based UNIX workstations are widely used by embedded systems programmers worldwide. The Latitude porting libraries will be incorporated in a new product, CodeWarrior Latitude. CodeWarrior Latitude will continue to support the UNIX-hosted operating systems outlined above. Metrowerks also plans to extend CodeWarrior Latitude to enable the port of Mac OS applications to run on Rhapsody, Apple's Next Generation OS. This will allow Metrowerks' existing clients to more easily port their existing applications to Rhapsody. As part of the agreement between Metrowerks and The Latitude Group, Inc., David Hempling, president and CEO of The Latitude Group, Inc., will join Metrowerks as the technical lead for CodeWarrior Latitude. Mr. Hempling was a co-founder of Quorum Software Systems Inc., which created Latitude. "The Latitude porting technology offers Metrowerks a great opportunity to move CodeWarrior to UNIX," said Jean Belanger, chairman and chief executive officer. "By offering embedded systems versions of CodeWarrior on Windows, Mac OS and, now, UNIX, our embedded story will be more compelling than ever. Implementing support for Rhapsody in CodeWarrior Latitude will allow Mac OS developers to move their applications to Apple's Next Generation OS much faster than would otherwise be the case." Pricing and Availability Metrowerks plans to ship CodeWarrior Latitude in the summer of 1997. CodeWarrior Latitude will include all available targets in one library package and will sell for $399. UNIX-hosted versions of CodeWarrior for embedded development will be available in late 1997. About Metrowerks Founded in 1985, Metrowerks develops, markets and supports a complete line of programming tools for building applications for a number of operating systems intended for use on desktop computers or embedded systems, including Mac(TM) OS, Windows(R) 95, Windows NT(TM), PlayStation(TM) OS, BeOS(TM) and Palm OS(TM), running on a number of microprocessors including 68K, PowerPC(TM), MIPS(TM) and x86 microprocessors. Metrowerks' CodeWarrior products are used by over 65,000 registered users in 70 countries. Additional information on Metrowerks and its products is available via e-mail at "info@metrowerks.com", from our web site at "http://www.metrowerks.com", or by calling (800) 377-5416 or (512) 873-4700. ### Metrowerks, the Metrowerks logo and CodeWarrior are registered trademarks of Metrowerks Inc. Apple and Macintosh are registered trademarks, and Mac is a trademark, of Apple Computer, Inc. Windows and WindowsNT are registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and other countries. All other company and product names may be registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective companies/holders, and are hereby recognized. Statements in this press release regarding CodeWarrior Latitude are forward looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including successful and timely development of CodeWarrior Latitude and customer acceptance of the product. -- METROWERKS Ron Liechty "Software at Work" MWRon@metrowerks.com http://www.metrowerks.com/about/people/rogues.html#mwron
From: Christian Starkjohann <cs@hal.kph.tuwien.ac.at> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: rumba version 0.2 Date: 30 Jan 1997 04:13:27 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5cp757$d41@news.digifix.com> This is the first public release of rumba. If you want a short description of what rumba can do for you: you can mount volumes exported by Windows or related operating systems on your Unix machine. For a more detailed description I will quote from the README file: What does rumba do? =================== If you know smbfs for Linux: rumba is roughly the same. It is derived from smbfs, but runs as a user level program, not in the kernel. If you know samba: rumba is roughly the opposite: a client for the Lanmanager protocol. If you know neither of these: rumba lets you mount drives exported by Windows (f.Workgroups/95/NT), Lan Manager, OS/2 etc. on Unix machines. Does rumba run on my machine? ============================= Currently, rumba can be compiled for: - NEXTSTEP 3.X and 4.X (tested for i386 and m68k architectures) - Linux It should be relatively easy to port rumba to other Unix-like operating systems (see "How do I port rumba to XXX?" [in the README]) Copyright: ========== rumba is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (version 2). For more information please read the README file. Version 0.2 of rumba is now available form the following URLs (Note: this is slightly different from what the README says): ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/Unix/network/filetransfer/ ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/ or wherever it will move to. In these directories you can find the files: rumba.0.2.s.gnutar.gz the sourcecode of rumba rumba.0.2.NI.b.gnutar.gz fat binary for Intel and Motorola CPUs rumba.0.2.README the README file -- Christian Starkjohann <cs@hal.kph.tuwien.ac.at> or <cs@ds1.kph.tuwien.ac.at>, finger for PGP Public Key. PGP fingerprint: DF FD 40 60 91 6A 14 1C CD 2C E9 07 38 AE CB 4E
From: Daniel Green <dang@cmg.FCNBD.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: COSGiL meeting Wednesday February 12th - Apple/NeXT Update Date: 30 Jan 1997 22:35:18 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5cr7n6$k1k@news.digifix.com> COSGiL, The downtown Chicago OpenStep Group in the Loop, a NEXTSTEP/OpenStep User Group, is having a meeting at First Chicago NBD on Wednesday, February 12th, 1997. NeXT Software, now joined with Apple Computer, will be talking about the Apple Computer / NeXT Software merger, including product positioning, timeframes. and the OPENSTEP/WebObjects Enterprise Development Environments. As usual, we'll cover the latest and greatest OpenStep and Rhapsody info and rumors. Post-meeting discussion and activities begin promptly after 8:00pm at the Berghoff pub, 17 W. Adams Street. WHERE: First Chicago NBD Corporation One First National Plaza 18th floor Conference Room (Dearborn Street Side) Chicago, Illinois WHEN: Wednesday, February 12th, 1997 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM WHAT: Apple / NeXT Update CONTACT: Robert Beaty First Chicago NBD Corporation <drbob@cmg.fcnbd.com> (312)732-3087
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@seer.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Mesa 2 for NeXTSTEP, end of Beta period Date: 31 Jan 1997 04:16:29 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5crrmt$m7b@news.digifix.com> Thanks to all those people who have participated in the beta programme for Mesa 2. Without your assistance, the product would be much poorer. Thanks in particular to those who have complimented us on the new user interface design. We thought and hoped that we had made a significant improvement, and you have told us that we have succeeded much more than we had hoped. THE CURRENT BETA VERSION EXPIRES ON JANUARY 31. A new version is on our site at: ftp://ftp.plsys.co.uk/pub/Products/Mesa2/Mesa2.Beta.tar.gz This version does not expire until March 1st. It will be the final beta release of Mesa 2, although we still welcome your comments and suggestions. We are in the final stages of preparing the release packages for Mesa 2, and will make a further announcement when they are ready. Those of you who have preordered your upgrades will receive new license codes in the next few days. Upgrades are available to all users for $50 per license. I'll also try to sneak in an announcement for Mesa 2.1. This will run on OpenStep (spelt R-h-a-p-s-o-d-y), and will include, amongst others, the following new features: - multiple sheet "workbook" format - Excel 7 Import/Export - EOF database access Mesa 2.1 will be a free upgrade for all Mesa 2.0 customers. Paul --- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: MacWorld Show Report Date: 31 Jan 1997 04:19:12 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Message-ID: <5crrs0$m7f@news.digifix.com> I habitually wrote a report from NeXTWorld Expo, mainly for the benefit of the uk-nextstep-users mailing list, who aren't all fortunate enough to get to San Francisco. I have continued this habit for the MacWorld event. In case you aren't used to the style, there is a certain English dry irreverence involved, which isn't to everyone's taste. You can find the report from my home page: http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul. Other pages of general NeXT User interest are at http://www.plsys.co.uk/plsys/, with a Merger news page at http://www.plsys.co.uk/plsys/merger.html. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: muc.archive.update,de.admin.archiv,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (31.1.97) Date: 31 Jan 1997 20:00:07 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <5ctj07$e5c@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> On the Peanuts NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next, [129.187.249.15]): 720 Jan 25 19:43 Network/programs/www/Analog.1.93.NIHS.README 793597 Jan 25 19:43 Network/programs/www/Analog.1.93.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 2079078 Jan 27 17:55 Tools/calendars/Chronographer.0.86.NIHS.b.tar.gz 8779 Jan 27 17:57 Tools/calendars/Chronographer.0.86.README 8443922 Jan 24 07:25 Commercial/graphics/presentation/Concurrence.2.77.NIHS.b.tar.gz 577901 Jan 23 17:57 Text/apps/PDFViewer.1.14beta.NIHS.b.tar.gz 3614 Jan 23 18:04 Text/apps/PDFViewer.README 0 Jan 24 12:14 PEANUTS.sd2a 0 Jan 24 14:01 Commercial/PEANUTS.sd2b 770091 Jan 25 19:49 Network/filetransfer/Yftp.0.9644.NIHS.b.tar.gz 19544 Jan 25 19:49 Network/filetransfer/Yftp.0.9644.README 1302 Jan 28 20:38 OpenStep/developer/programs/class-dump.2.0.README 50665 Jan 28 20:38 OpenStep/developer/programs/class-dump.2.0.m.NIS.bs.tar.gz 69423 Jan 25 19:39 Network/programs/filetransfer/rumba.0.2.NI.b.gnutar.gz 9297 Jan 25 19:39 Network/programs/filetransfer/rumba.0.2.README 67936 Jan 25 19:39 Network/programs/filetransfer/rumba.0.2.s.gnutar.gz 1545007 Jan 25 19:46 Mail/programs/sendmail/sendmail-8.8.5.NIHS.bd.tar.gz 3880 Jan 25 19:47 Mail/programs/sendmail/sendmail.8.8.5.README 324179 Jan 22 22:39 Network/programs/www/wwwcount.2.3.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 3776 Jan 22 22:39 Network/programs/www/wwwcount.2.3.README Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/pub/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-hamburg.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-siegen.de/ France: ftp://ftp.fdn.fr/, ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Switzerland: ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/ UUCP (Germany) wburg.hanse.de (Tel. ++49-40-307 89 06) Mailbox (Germany) (Tel. ++49-8803-61111, ISDN ++49-8803-62149). Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from december 199e. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.leo.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.leo.org)
From: support@Radical.Com (Radical Product Support) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: RadicalNews.0.8.10 Date: 31 Jan 1997 22:49:16 GMT Organization: Radical System Solutions, Inc. Message-ID: <5ctstc$f1@news.digifix.com> January 31, 1997 - Anaheim Hills, California. Radical System Solutions, a long-time provider of object oriented expertise to the professional market, is proud to release the latest free beta version of its commercial newsreader, RadicalNews. RadicalNews is an advanced object-oriented newsreader, designed for the discriminating NEXTSTEP marketplace. This release provides some new features along with several bug fixes. For more information see the README file or visit our web site. RadicalNews is built quad-fat, running on Motorola, Intel, Sparc, and HP platforms with NEXTSTEP 3.2 or later. (NEXTSTEP 3.0/3.1 will work, but are not supported.) The J version requires NEXTSTEP-J. The beta version is free, and will run until March 1, 1997. After the beta period, a license may be purchased. The beta version may be available via anonymous ftp at: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/RadicalNews.0.8.10.NIHS.README ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/RadicalNews.0.8.10.NIHS.tar.gz ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/RadicalNewsJ.0.8.10.NIHS.tar.gz ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/next/submissions/RadicalNews.0.8.10.NIHS.tar.gz ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/next/submissions/RadicalNewsJ.0.8.10.NIHS.tar.gz ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/next/submissions/RadicalNews.0.8.10.NIHS.README RadicalNews should eventually move to: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/demos/news/RadicalNews.0.8.10.NIHS.README ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/demos/news/RadicalNews.0.8.10.NIHS.tar.gz ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/demos/news/RadicalNewsJ.0.8.10.NIHS.tar.gz ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/next/Network/news/RadicalNews.0.8.10.NIHS.tar.gz ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/next/Network/news/RadicalNewsJ.0.8.10.NIHS.tar.gz ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/next/Network/news/RadicalNews.0.8.10.NIHS.README Our web site will have updated information and links to the most current version: http://www.radical.com/ For further information, contact: Radical System Solutions, Inc. mailto:RadicalNews@Radical.Com
From: john@targetdev.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Target Development Announces Release 4.2.2 of ReportPalette for OpenStep/Mach (EOF 2.0) Date: 3 Feb 1997 07:18:20 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5d43fs$m7p@news.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 4.2.2 of ReportPalette for OpenStep/Mach (EOF 2.0) LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA - February 3, 1997. Target Development announces the 4.2.2 release of ReportPalette for OpenStep/Mach and the Enterprise Objects Framework (version 2.0). The ReportPalette is a collection of objects that allow you to easily add custom report writing features into your EOF applications. Unlike traditional report writers that directly access database tables, the ReportPalette reports on NSDictionary values from your Enterprise Objects. EODisplayGroups can be used to define the hierarchy of the report, and Interface Builder serves as the medium for page layout. Using the ReportPalette, keys of your EOs can be mapped directly to columns or free-form text fields on the report page. Images and formatted rich text with imbedded keys can also be added graphically. This WYSIWYG reporting tool is capable of reproducing custom forms, generating mailing labels and form letters, and producing on-the-fly hierarchical column-based and free-form reports. Other ReportPalette Features: + Custom Static and Dynamic Page Sequences; for report cover, insertion, and trailer pages + Custom page backgrounds; for page header and footer information + Automatic Page Layout control at runtime + Horizontal pagination + Multi-level group headers and footers, including totals + Column Headers and Footers, with totals + Support for Report Document Archiving and Unarchiving + Full support for the Foundation classes, including NSString, NSNumber, NSCalendarDate, NSData for RTF(D), and NSImage objects. + Fully documented API for programmatic customization The ReportPalette ships with several demo applications and NIBs, along with install scripts and EOModels for Sybase, Oracle, Informix, and QuickBase. The example NIBs can be loaded and run using IB's 'Test Interface' mode! That's how easy it is! Example NIBs include a column based report, form letters, mailing labels, a free-form report, and a custom healthcare form. A date licensed version of the palette is available via ftp or directly from Target Development. The product is licensed through January 10, 1997. The product includes the Interface Builder palette, the TDReportKit and TDSharedKit Frameworks, complete technical documentation, and various demo applications and NIBS. The palette retails for $895.00 per developer seat. No runtime fees apply. Educational, site, and source licenses are also available. The palette can be downloaded from our new Web site at: http://www.stepwise.com/Target_Development The palette can also be obtained via ftp from: ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Vendors/Target_Development/OpenStep/EOF2.0/ReportPalette Installation_README.rtfd.tar.gz ReportPalette.pkg.tar.gz The archived version is compiled tri-Fat for Intel, Motorola, and Sparc. Thin versions may be requested by sending email to objects@targetdev.com. Target Development is a Pennsylvania-based object-oriented solutions company, specializing in database productivity objects for NEXTSTEP and OpenStep. We are currently shipping object palettes for the DatabaseKit, AccessKit, and the EOF (versions 1.1, 1.2, and 2.0). We additionally offer NeXTSTEP and OpenStep consulting and training, and are available for onsight services. Interested persons should contact us by phone at (717) 399-9550, fax at (717) 399-9551, or email to objects@targetdev.com. DatabaseKit, EOF, Interface Builder, NEXTSTEP, and OpenStep are a trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc in the U.S. and other countries. AccessKit is a trademark of VNP Software, Inc. ReportPalette and RetrieverPalette are trademarks of Target Development.
From: john@targetdev.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Target Development Announces beta Release 4.3 of ReportPalette for OpenStep/NT Date: 3 Feb 1997 07:18:34 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5d43ga$m7r@news.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 4.3 of ReportPalette for OpenStep/NT. LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA - February 3, 1997. Target Development announces the beta 4.3 release of ReportPalette for OpenStep/NT and the Enterprise Objects Framework (version 2.0). The ReportPalette is a collection of objects that allow you to easily add custom report writing features into your EOF applications. Unlike traditional report writers that directly access database tables, the ReportPalette reports on NSDictionary values from your Enterprise Objects. EODisplayGroups can be used to define the hierarchy of the report, and Interface Builder serves as the medium for page layout. Using the ReportPalette, keys of your EOs can be mapped directly to columns or free-form text fields on the report page. Images and formatted rich text with imbedded keys can also be added graphically. This WYSIWYG reporting tool is capable of reproducing custom forms, generating mailing labels and form letters, and producing on-the-fly hierarchical column-based and free-form reports. Other ReportPalette Features: + Custom Static and Dynamic Page Sequences; for report cover, insertion, and trailer pages + Custom page backgrounds; for page header and footer information + Automatic Page Layout control at runtime + Horizontal pagination + Multi-level group headers and footers, including totals + Column Headers and Footers, with totals + Support for Report Document Archiving and Unarchiving + Full support for the Foundation classes, including NSString, NSNumber, NSCalendarDate, NSData for RTF(D), and NSImage objects. + Fully documented API for programmatic customization The ReportPalette ships with several demo applications and NIBs, along with install scripts and EOModels for Sybase, Oracle, Informix, and QuickBase. The example NIBs can be loaded and run using IB's 'Test Interface' mode! That's how easy it is! Example NIBs include a column based report, form letters, mailing labels, a free-form report, and a custom healthcare form. A date licensed version of the palette is available via ftp or directly from Target Development. The product is demo licensed through March 3, 1997. The product includes the Interface Builder palette, the TDReportKit and TDSharedKit Frameworks, complete technical documentation, and various demo applications and NIBS. The palette retails for $895.00 per developer seat. No runtime fees apply! Educational, site, and source licenses are also available. The palette can be downloaded from our new Web site at: http://www.stepwise.com/Target_Development/OpenStep/WIN_NT/ReportPalette Target Development is a Pennsylvania-based object-oriented solutions company, specializing in database productivity objects for NEXTSTEP and OpenStep. We are currently shipping object palettes for the DatabaseKit, AccessKit, and the EOF (versions 1.1, 1.2, and 2.0), Mach and NT. We additionally offer NeXTSTEP and OpenStep consulting and training, and are available for onsight services. Interested persons should contact us by phone at (717) 399-9550, fax at (717) 399-9551, or email to objects@targetdev.com. DatabaseKit, EOF, Interface Builder, NEXTSTEP, and OpenStep are a trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc in the U.S. and other countries. AccessKit is a trademark of VNP Software, Inc. ReportPalette and RetrieverPalette are trademarks of Target Development.
From: Katie Graunke <katie@stone.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Stone Design Announces January Raffle Winner! Date: 3 Feb 1997 20:54:59 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5d5jb3$s5k@news.digifix.com> NEWS For immediate release For more information: EMAIL: info@stone.com TEL: Katie Graunke, (505) 345-4800 Albuquerque, NM, January 3, 1996 -- Stone Design Corp, a long time leader in the NEXTSTEP/OpenStep software marketplace, announced today the winner of the Januray 1997 Raffle for a Stoneworker tshirt and Stone CD Volume 3. The winner is Joe Barello. Stone Design will raffle a tshirt and CD combo each month while supplies last. To enter the raffle, please visit our World Wide Web site: http://www.stone.com/ =*= Stone Design Corporation of Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 1984, develops a variety of productivity applications for OpenStep, and soon to be Rhapsody. 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: leonvs@vishnu.occam.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: AnUG (Austin NEXTSTEP User Group), Tuesday, February 11 Date: 4 Feb 1997 20:28:37 GMT Organization: Zilker Internet Park, Inc. Message-ID: <5d865l$7u3@news.digifix.com> AnUG, the Austin NEXTSTEP/OpenStep User Group, is having a meeting on Tuesday, February 11. We'll have a representative of Metrowerks talk about the upcoming support for Objective-C in CodeWarrior, in preparation for Apple's release of Rhapsody. We'll also have a demo of technologies by people from Bifrost Workstations, as well as a report on the events at MacWorld in January. We'll discuss the implications of the Apple-NeXT deal, questions will be asked and answered, and NEXTSTEP machines will be available for perusal. NEXTSTEP and MacOS users, developers, and administrators are enouraged to attend. WHEN: Tuesday, February 11, 1997 6:30 PM - 9ish Refreshments served at 6 PM WHERE: offices of PSW Technologies 6300 Bridgepoint Parkway, Bldg. 3 (near the 360 bridge) From Loop 360 (Capital of Texas Hwy.), turn west on Courtyard Dr. (which is the stoplight just north of the bridge). Take the first left onto Bridgepoint Parkway. Take the second driveway to the right, up to the parking garage. The PSW building is down from the garage. PSW Technologies, Inc. is a software services company working on the leading edge of computing technologies. This includes object-oriented development using NEXTSTEP and OpenStep. PSW Technologies is based in Austin. Bifrost Workstations is a provider of custom-configured NEXTSTEP and OpenStep systems. Bifrost is based in Houston. Metrowerks, Inc. is the producer of the CodeWarrior object-oriented development environment for MacOS, BeOS, Windows 95, and Windows NT operating systems. CodeWarrior includes support for C, C++, Java, and Object Pascal, and will soon be adding support for Objective-C. Metrowerks is based in Austin. If you'd like to join the AnUG mailing list, send your request to <owner-anug@pswtech.com> For more information, contact Leon von Stauber <leonvs@occam.com> (512) 342-3311
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: PEAK announces OpenStep-specific FTP Archive Date: 5 Feb 1997 20:46:27 GMT Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <5darj3$hjs@news.digifix.com> Contact: The PEAK FTP Team <next-ftp@peak.org> 4 Feb 1997 - (Corvallis Oregon) The PEAK FTP site is happy to announce the expansion of its FTP site for NeXTStep and OpenStep submissions. The OpenStep part of the archive has been made a separate entity from the NeXTStep part. Support for NeXTStep submissions will continue as before for any and all NeXTStep applications, information, etc which might be uploaded. We decided this was necessary because OpenStep submissions are beginning to trickle in, and we wanted to maintain clarity in which applications were for which platform. We also wanted to emphasize our commitment and excitement to OpenStep by giving it a place of its own. To that end, a new section of the FTP site has been created: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/openstep/ Without having to access a new host, users can connect to this URL as the top-level of purely OpenStep applications and information. It should be clear from that URL that what follows us for OpenStep rather than NeXTStep. Having just finished a major overhaul of the NeXTStep portion of the FTP archive, we wanted to keep the OpenStep portion of similar "look and feel". Therefore, you will notice that the sub-folders of the OpenStep archive is identical to the sub-folders of the NeXTStep archive -- with one (slight, but important) difference. Since OpenStep exists on many different platforms, and in order to keep the platforms separate on the site, the main folder (/pub/openstep) has 4 subdivisions: /pub/openstep/mach # for OpenStep for MACH /pub/openstep/solaris # for OpenStep for Solaris /pub/openstep/windows # for OpenStep for WinNT and finally /pub/openstep/multi-platforms # for any submissions which are for more than one of the above. Again, this structure allows for an ease-of-use because a simple glance at the URL will tell you what platform the applications or information relate to, and if new OpenStep ports come out (ie /pub/openstep/powerpc) we can easily integrate them into the existing structure. So each of the /pub/openstep/* folders mentioned above have their own sub-structure identical to the structure of /pub/next/. NEW ARRIVALS: All new arrivals to the entire /pub/openstep hierarchy will be linked to /pub/openstep/new_arrivals for at least 30 days. Naming conventions for OpenStep will allow use of one common folder for all new arrivals, at least for now. In the future we may find it necessary to have separate "new_arrivals" folders for each platform, but we shall cross that proverbial bridge when we come to it. SUBMISSIONS: All OpenStep submissions should be uploaded to /pub/openstep/submissions/ Be sure to read the file "README-HOW-TO-NAME-OPENSTEP-SUBMISSIONS" before submitting any OpenStep files. NeXTStep: Just to re-state that the NeXTStep part of the FTP site will continue as before, submissions should be uploaded to /pub/next/submissions/ and new arrivals can be found at /pub/next/new_arrivals/ If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at <next-ftp@peak.org> Thanks! The PEAK FTP Team
From: hnalgae@soback.kornet.nm.kr (Kang Hyun) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: HNNews 0.93 Date: 5 Feb 1997 04:07:07 GMT Organization: Hayan Nalgae Software Message-ID: <5d911b$avh@news.digifix.com> HNNews 0.93 released. * Introduction HNNews is powerful multi-tasking USENET newsreader. HNNews gives you ability of navigating news servers very easily. HNNews is commercial product. * HNNews's main feature - Multi Tasking - Graphical environment - Saving downloaded articles to database - Easy to use and fast to go - Powerful feature for expert of USENET - Online, Offline newsreader - Mime and UUDecode binary articles - Internal mail - HNNews is built quad-fat, running on NeXT, Intel, Sun, HPPA. * Changes from 0.92 - Database occupies smaller space and makes input/output faster than ever. - Threading is faster than previous version. - Help is linked with the objects. - Lots of bugs were fixed and some features were added. You can download HNNews at following site. ¬ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/news/HNNews.0.93.README ¬ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/news/HNNews.0.93.NIHS.b.tar.gz ¬ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/news/HNNews.K.0.93.README ¬ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/news/HNNews.K.0.93.NIHS.b.tar.gz or ¬ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/new_arrivals/HNNews.0.93.README ¬ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/new_arrivals/HNNews.0.93.NIHS.b.tar.gz ¬ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/new_arrivals/HNNews.K.0.93.README ¬ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/new_arrivals/HNNews.K.0.93.NIHS.b.tar.gz HNNews.K version is for Korean, Japanese, and needs NeXTSTEP-J. If you have suggestion or find bugs or needs further information, contact to Hayan Nalgae Software. --- Hayan Nalgae Software. NeXTSTEP Developer. hnalgae@soback.kornet.nm.kr <Kang Hyun> Hayan Nalgae in Korean means White Wing in English. NeXT, Mime mail OK.
From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: muc.archive.update,de.admin.archiv,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (7.2.97) Date: 7 Feb 1997 20:00:05 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <5dg1k5$or3@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> On the Peanuts NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next, [129.187.249.15]): 290 Jan 31 22:34 Developer/webobjects/resources/BareChat.README 6510 Jan 31 22:34 Developer/webobjects/resources/BareChat.s.tar.gz 1061480 Feb 4 00:51 Tools/macintosh/programs/CAPer.V4.I.b.tar.gz 1002971 Feb 4 00:51 Tools/macintosh/programs/CAPer.V4.N.b.tar.gz 5869 Feb 4 00:52 Tools/macintosh/programs/CAPer.V4.README 2136 Jan 31 22:34 Developer/webobjects/resources/COCheckBoxMatrix.README 1714 Jan 31 22:34 Developer/webobjects/resources/COCheckBoxMatrix.s.tar.gz 2065 Jan 31 22:34 Developer/webobjects/resources/CORadioMatrix.README 1600 Jan 31 22:34 Developer/webobjects/resources/CORadioMatrix.s.tar.gz 1162 Jan 31 22:34 Developer/webobjects/resources/Counter.README 2516 Jan 31 22:34 Developer/webobjects/resources/Counter.s.tar.gz 1405560 Jan 31 18:51 Network/news/HNNews.0.93.NIHS.b.tar.gz 4335 Jan 31 19:00 Network/news/HNNews.0.93.README 719 Jan 31 22:34 Developer/webobjects/resources/Mailform-WO-1.4.README 83233 Jan 31 22:34 Developer/webobjects/resources/Mailform-WO-1.4.s.tar.gz 663915 Feb 6 09:49 Text/apps/OmniPDF.2.1.1.H.b.tar.gz 624186 Jan 31 22:13 Text/apps/OmniPDF.2.1.1.I.b.tar.gz 608907 Feb 6 09:50 Text/apps/OmniPDF.2.1.1.N.b.tar.gz 1535581 Feb 4 20:02 Text/apps/OmniPDF.2.1.1.NIHS.b.tar.gz 643226 Feb 6 09:51 Text/apps/OmniPDF.2.1.1.S.b.tar.gz 404 Jan 31 22:34 Developer/webobjects/resources/PartialLink.s.tar.gz 605 Jan 31 22:34 Developer/webobjects/resources/PartialLinkAndTarget.README 383 Jan 31 22:34 Developer/webobjects/resources/PartialTarget.s.tar.gz 7101 Jan 31 22:34 Developer/webobjects/resources/PoweredByWebObjects.s.tar.gz 167 Jan 31 22:34 Developer/webobjects/resources/PrintHTTP.README 3037 Jan 31 22:34 Developer/webobjects/resources/PrintHTTP.s.tar.gz 1459080 Jan 31 22:14 Network/news/RadicalNews.0.8.10.NIHS.b.tar.gz 5653 Jan 31 22:14 Network/news/RadicalNews.0.8.10.README 1533047 Jan 31 22:15 Network/news/RadicalNewsJ.0.8.10.NIHS.b.tar.gz 4924175 Feb 3 14:53 Developer/languages/c/gcc.2.7.2.1.I.b.tar.gz 4782792 Feb 3 14:51 Developer/languages/c/gcc.2.7.2.1.N.b.tar.gz 2685898 Jan 31 22:22 Developer/languages/java/kaffe.0.7.1.I.b.tar.gz 4025 Jan 31 22:22 Developer/languages/java/kaffe.0.7.1.README 420708 Feb 3 17:50 Developer/languages/java/kaffe.0.7.1.s.tar.gz 69423 Jan 25 19:39 Network/programs/system/rumba.0.2.NI.b.gnutar.gz 9297 Jan 25 19:39 Network/programs/system/rumba.0.2.README 67936 Jan 25 19:39 Network/programs/system/rumba.0.2.s.gnutar.gz Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/pub/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-hamburg.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-siegen.de/ France: ftp://ftp.fdn.fr/, ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Switzerland: ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/ UUCP (Germany) wburg.hanse.de (Tel. ++49-40-307 89 06) Mailbox (Germany) (Tel. ++49-8803-61111, ISDN ++49-8803-62149). Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from december 199e. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.leo.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.leo.org)
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Apple Computer, Inc. Finalizes Acquisition of NeXT Software Inc. Date: 8 Feb 1997 04:48:23 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5dh0in$b5n@news.digifix.com> Apple Computer, Inc. Finalizes Acquisition of NeXT Software Inc. Company Moves Forward with Operating System Strategy Incorporating NeXT Technology CUPERTINO, Calif., Feb. 7 -- Apple Computer, Inc. today announced it has completed its acquisition of NeXT Software, Inc., after securing all necessary regulatory approvals. Apple announced on Dec. 20, 1996 its intention to purchase NeXT in a friendly acquisition for approximately $400 million. Steve Jobs, Chairman and CEO of NeXT Software, will serve as an advisor to Dr. Gilbert F. Amelio, Apple's Chairman and CEO. "The finalization of our acquisition of NeXT confirms our commitment to providing our customers and software developers with a solid OS strategy," said Dr. Gilbert F. Amelio, Chairman and CEO, Apple Computer Inc. "We embark upon Apple's third decade with renewed enthusiasm, and we look forward to working with our developers, customers, and industry colleagues to proliferate Apple's legacy of vision and technological excellence." The acquisition brings together Apple's and NeXT's innovative and complementary technology portfolios including Apple's leadership in ease-of-use and multimedia solutions and NeXT's strengths in development software and operating environments for both the enterprise and Internet markets. The combination significantly strengthens Apple's position as a company advancing industry standards. NeXT's object oriented software development products will contribute to Apple's goal of creating a differentiated and profitable software business, with a wide range of products for enterprise, business, education, and home markets. Earlier this year, Apple announced the company's operating system strategy, which incorporates NeXT technology. The Mac OS will continue to be upgraded in regular biannual releases, while NeXT technology will form the basis for Apple's next-generation OS, Rhapsody. Apple believes that the advanced technical underpinnings and rapid development environment of Rhapsody will allow developers to create new applications that leapfrog those of other "modern" operating systems, such as Windows NT. The first release of Rhapsody is expected to be launched to developers in mid to late 1997 and to customers within 12 months. A unified Rhapsody release is expected to be in the hands of customers by mid-1998. This will include compatibility with existing Mac OS applications, as well as provide a platform for next-generation computing. The acquisition of NeXT is further evidence that Apple is fundamentally changing the way it does business. Apple believes that by embracing outside technology and driving cross-platform industry standards, it can innovate in the key areas that give its products and technology differentiation. NeXT's cross-platform development environments for enterprise and Internet/intranet markets, allow developers to write once and deploy across a range of Internet and client-server platforms. In a new era of industry collaboration and joint initiatives -- brought on by the "megatrends" of pervasive Internet and ubiquitous multimedia -- NeXT technology complements Apple's strength in multimedia authoring and playback, as well as Internet access, Internet authoring, and Internet server solutions. In the last year Apple has worked on a series of collaboration initiatives which leverage the Company's core strengths in Internet, multimedia, and component software. Wide ranging agreements with Netscape Communications, Sun Microsystems, and Silicon Graphics Computer Systems -- along with the acquisition of NeXT -- confirm Apple is building strategic relationships at the forefront of the information industry. Except for the historical information contained herein, the statements regarding effecting innovation, introducing new products, continuing focus on certain industry growth areas and are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Potential risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, continued competitive pressures in the marketplace; the effect competitive factors and the Company's reaction to them may have on consumer and business buying decisions with respect to the Company's products; the Company's ability to deliver successful innovative products to the marketplace; the Company's ability to deliver new products to the marketplace on a timely basis; the effect of the announced business restructuring on the future performance of the Company, especially the performance of the Company's employees; and the need for any future restructuring. More information on potential factors that could affect the Company's financial results are included in the Company's Form 10-Q for the first quarter of the 1997 fiscal year, to be filed with the SEC. Apple Computer, Inc., a recognized innovator in the information industry and leader in multimedia technologies, creates powerful solutions based on easy-to-use personal computers, servers, peripherals, software, personal digital assistants and Internet content. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Apple develops, manufactures, licenses and markets solutions, products, technologies and services for business, education, consumer, entertainment, scientific and engineering and government customers in more than 140 countries. CONTACT: Apple Computer, Inc. Katie Cotton, 408-974-7269 Susan Lehman, 408-974-0182
From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: new rlogin (re: Re: CERT Advisory CA-97.06 - Vulnerability in rlogin/term) Date: 8 Feb 1997 21:51:02 GMT Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Message-ID: <5disg6$hai@news.digifix.com> Contact: <luomat@peak.org Persuant to "distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler)"'s post in comp.sys.next.sysadmin He put source code for the FreeBSD2.2 version of "rlogin", hacked to compile and run under NS at <http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/progs/rlogin.tar.gz> I compiled it QuadFat It has been tested under m68k and HPPA 3.3. Use at your own risk. It is available at: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/misc/rlogin.FreeBSD2.2.README ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/misc/rlogin.FreeBSD2.2.NIHS.tar.gz and linked to: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/new_arrivals/rlogin.FreeBSD2.2.README ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/new_arrivals/rlogin.FreeBSD2.2.NIHS.tar.gz TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!
From: leonvs@occam.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: AnUG (Austin NEXTSTEP User Group), Tuesday, February 11 Date: 8 Feb 1997 23:25:55 GMT Organization: Zilker Internet Park, Inc. Message-ID: <5dj223$hqk@news.digifix.com> AnUG, the Austin NEXTSTEP/OpenStep User Group, is having a meeting on Tuesday, February 11. We'll have a representative of Metrowerks talk about the upcoming support for Objective-C in CodeWarrior, in preparation for Apple's release of Rhapsody. We'll also have a demo of technologies by people from Bifrost Workstations, as well as a report on the events at MacWorld in January. We'll discuss the implications of the Apple-NeXT deal, questions will be asked and answered, and NEXTSTEP machines will be available for perusal. NEXTSTEP and MacOS users, developers, and administrators are enouraged to attend. WHEN: Tuesday, February 11, 1997 6:30 PM - 9ish Refreshments served at 6 PM WHERE: offices of PSW Technologies 6300 Bridgepoint Parkway, Bldg. 3 (near the 360 bridge) From Loop 360 (Capital of Texas Hwy.), turn west on Courtyard Dr. (which is the stoplight just north of the bridge). Take the first left onto Bridgepoint Parkway. Take the second driveway to the right, up to the parking garage. The PSW building is down from the garage. PSW Technologies, Inc. is a software services company working on the leading edge of computing technologies. This includes object-oriented development using NEXTSTEP and OpenStep. PSW Technologies is based in Austin. Bifrost Workstations is a provider of custom-configured NEXTSTEP and OpenStep systems. Bifrost is based in Houston. Metrowerks, Inc. is the producer of the CodeWarrior object-oriented development environment for MacOS, BeOS, Windows 95, and Windows NT operating systems. CodeWarrior includes support for C, C++, Java, and Object Pascal, and will soon be adding support for Objective-C. Metrowerks is based in Austin. If you'd like to join the AnUG mailing list, send your request to <owner-anug@pswtech.com> For more information, contact Leon von Stauber <leonvs@occam.com> (512) 342-3311 -- ____________________________________________________________________ Leon von Stauber http://www.occam.com/leonvs/ Occam's Razor, Game Designer <leonvs@occam.com> PSW Technologies, System Administrator <leonvs@pswtech.com> MIDS, Web Developer <leonvs@mids.org> "We have not come to save you, but you will not die in vain!"
From: Tomas Hurka <tom@hukatronic.cz> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: DAS-12 Data Acqisition Adapter Device Driver Date: 9 Feb 1997 21:05:05 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5dle61$pig@news.digifix.com> Version 1.0 of DAS-12 Data Acqisition Adapter Device Driver for NEXTSTEP Release 3.2 and 3.3 for Intel Processors and OPENSTEP 4.0 /Mach The driver has been uploaded to ftp.next.peak.org and placed in the /pub/next/submissions directory. Driver should be moved to the /pub/next/drivers/misc directory. The appropriate files are: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/drivers/misc/DAS-12.1.0.I.bsd.README ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/drivers/misc/DAS-12.1.0.I.bsd.tar.gz OVERVIEW: DAS-12 Data Acqisition Adapter device driver lets you take advantage of the following adapters: Manufacturer Adapter PC Bus Analogic Corp. DAS-12/50 ISA Analogic Corp. DAS-12/125 ISA The driver actually consists from two parts. The driver itself and the user level interface. The user level interface is a collection of Objective-C classes wrapped around the MIG functions. In the directory DAS-12 there is a DAS_Sample application, which demonstrates the usage of the driver and its user level interface. See the DAS-12/README.rtf for more details. COPYING: The DAS-12 is freeware. You can freely distribute without changing or removing any parts of the package. Release 1.0 notes: 1. This a first public release of the driver originally developed for Thierry Guimbertau <tguimber@cdphot.u-strasbg.fr>. 2. You need NEXTSTEP developer 3.3 or higher to able to use the driver, since there is no direct integration of the DAS-12 into system. Contact: Tomas Hurka Hukatronic (H.C.C.) Kankovskeho 8 182 00 Praha 8 Czech Republic Email: tom@hukatronic.cz
From: wsi@spacelab.net (WSI Nationwide) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: US-NY-212-Nextstep,Objective-C/C++-contract-WSI Date: 10 Feb 1997 20:18:17 GMT Organization: WSI Nationwide Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5dnvq9$50a@news.digifix.com> - - -------(All fees are paid by our client companies and all projects are on-site at the locations listed below- no telecommuting and no 3rd party referrals or agencies, please)----------- I have been asked to identify an independent consultant with strong Nextstep or Openstep experience with for a long term Wall Street development project also using Objective-C, UNIX/C, Sybase, MS-Windows NT and C++ in New York City with no starting rate initially defined, your asking rate will be submitted, after your approval. If you know someone who might qualify (no 3rd party referrals or agencies, please) or is coming to the NYC/NJ/CT/PA area, e-mail resume to Jay L. (a straight ascii text file preferred and please do not return a copy of this announcement with your response) to wsi@spacelab.net, fax to 212-534-3724 or call 212-410-1400. (To insure formatting & print quality, please also mail a copy to me at WSI, 1619 Third Avenue, Box #6415, New York, 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. xwsix
From: wsi@spacelab.net (WSI Nationwide) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: US-NY-212-Nextstep,Objective-C/C++-salaried-WSI Date: 10 Feb 1997 20:18:05 GMT Organization: WSI Nationwide Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5dnvpt$509@news.digifix.com> - - -------(All fees are paid by our client companies and all projects are on-site at the locations listed below- no telecommuting and no 3rd party referrals or agencies, please)----------- I have been asked to identify a Nextstep developer candidate with strong Nextstep or Openstep experience with for an expanding Wall Street Nextstep development project also using Objective-C, UNIX/C, Sybase, MS-Windows NT and C++ in New York City with no starting salary initially defined, your asking salary will be submitted, after your approval. This company pays great bonuses and has the fringe benefits you would expect from a world leader. If you know someone who might qualify (no 3rd party referrals or agencies, please) or is coming to the NYC/NJ/CT/PA area, e-mail a resume to Jay L. (a straight ascii text file preferred and please do not return a copy of this announcement with your response) to wsi@spacelab.net, fax to 212-534-3724 or call 212-410-1400. (To insure formatting & print quality, please also mail a copy to me at WSI, 1619 Third Avenue, Box #6415, New York, NY 10128-0004) When resumes are received, the candidate is contacted if there is a match, the situation is thoroughly described and the candidate tells us how they would like us to proceed. No information leaves our office without prior approval. (This makes for long term relationships, which we encourage) - - ------------------------------------------------------- WSI is a "specialty" recruiting organization with over twenty years experience and fees paid by our selected client companies, freeing our hands to find top level candidates for "better" projects all over the USA. xwsix
From: Amy.Yeater@OEinc.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,seattle.jobs.offered Subject: JOB: WebObjects/OPENSTEP Jobs Date: 12 Feb 1997 04:25:02 GMT Organization: Seanet Online Services, Seattle WA Message-ID: <5drgmu$hpv@news.digifix.com> Object Enterprises Inc. needs skilled WebObjects webmasters, graphic artists and other web content providers. Webmasters develop the front end design and coding for world wide web interfaces to legacy systems. Webmasters have experience in web design and understand how to program object oriented data access from three tier integration deployments. Some projects may be off-site and can be created from the webmaster's own universe. Ideal candidates will have the following skills: Essential: ƒ Some knowledge of NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP / WebObjects or objects ƒ Some understanding of EOF 2.0 and its concepts ƒ Strong HTML skills layout and design Desirable: ƒ Java ƒ UNIX ƒ Other web related experience ƒ Exposure to Windows NT -- Amy Yeater Object Enterprises Incorporated 2608 Second Avenue Suite 119 Seattle WA 98121-1276 206-217-0891 - PHONE Amy.Yeater@OEinc.com www.oeinc.com
From: Katie Graunke <katie@stone.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Stone Design Announces Monkey Madness Promotion Date: 12 Feb 1997 18:22:13 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5dt1ol$nlj@news.digifix.com> NEWS For Immediate Release For more information, please contact: Katie Graunke katie@stone.com 505-345-4800 <http://www.stone.com Stone Design Announces Monkey Madness Promotion February 12, 1997 - Albuquerque, New Mexico - Stone Design, a leader in the NEXTSTEP/OpenStep/Rhapsody marketplace, announced the Monkey Madness Sale today. For four weeks only, NEXTSTEP and OpenStep users can buy DataPhile, Create, 3D Reality and CheckSum as a package for only $299.00, and get a free StoneWorker t-shirt, while supplies last. Individual applications can be purchased for only $99.00 each. Students can buy all four Stone apps for only $89.00. Prices do not include shipping. "We want to honor the long enduring NeXTSTEP community and provide everyone a chance to use our apps at rock bottom prices, " emoted Andrew Stone, CEO of Stone Design, "Don't miss this sale!" "We must have gone bananas to offer a sale like this!" exclaimed Katie Graunke, Vice President of Marketing at Stone Design. Prices effective from February 12, 1997 until March 12, 1997. Orders may be faxed to: 505-345-3424. Students must ftp the applications and provide Stone Design with a copy of a current student id card. Stone Design accepts Visa, MasterCard, corporate or personal checks, and university purchase orders. For more information about Stone Design, Create, DataPhile, 3D Reality, CheckSum and our Java applets and training classes, please visit our web site: www.stone.com To reach a human, please call 505-345-4800 between 9am and 5pm Mountain Standard Time. Or email info@stone.com anytime! -=- Stone Design Corp. in Albuquerque, New Mexico was formed in 1984 and was the first developer to ship a product on NeXT Hardware in 1989 with the release of TextArt. Since then, Stone Design has been a leader in innovative shrinkwrap software in the NEXTSTEP and OpenStep marketplace. Like a rock, Stone is committed to OpenStep/Rhapsody development. CheckSum is a registered trademark of Sirius Solutions. 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: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: muc.archive.update,de.admin.archiv,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (14.2.97) Date: 14 Feb 1997 20:00:17 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <5e2g8h$4ud@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> On the Peanuts NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next, [129.187.249.15]): 51805 Feb 9 20:57 Tools/frontends/Anvil.1.0.NIHS.b.tar.gz 258 Feb 9 20:57 Tools/frontends/Anvil.1.0.README 16857 Feb 8 12:33 Tools/cdrom/CDDesigner-0.81.Compatibilit.ps 1162857 Feb 8 12:33 Tools/cdrom/CDDesigner-0.81.I.b.tar.gz 1143889 Feb 8 12:33 Tools/cdrom/CDDesigner-0.81.N.b.tar.gz 3749770 Feb 8 12:34 Tools/cdrom/CDDesigner-0.81.NIHS.b.tar.gz 1134 Feb 8 12:34 Tools/cdrom/CDDesigner-0.81.README 293565 Feb 9 20:40 Mail/bundles/Colorizer.1.5.NIHS.b.tar.gz 2490 Feb 9 20:40 Mail/bundles/Colorizer.1.5.README 11353652 Feb 12 19:27 Commercial/text/OpenWrite.2.1.8.NIHS.b.tar.gz 2094512 Feb 9 20:54 Commercial/tools/archiver/SafetyNet.2.5r1.NIHS.tar.gz 5371 Feb 9 20:54 Commercial/tools/archiver/SafetyNet.2.5r1.README 3074396 Feb 12 19:31 Text/apps/Tables.2.0.NIHS.b.tar.gz 1328793 Feb 11 10:55 Developer/languages/java/kaffe.0.8.0.I.b.tar.gz 3720 Feb 11 10:53 Developer/languages/java/kaffe.0.8.0.README 6357943 Feb 9 20:51 Science/mathematics/octave-2.0.1.NI.bd.tar.gz 2275 Feb 9 20:51 Science/mathematics/octave-2.0.1.NeXT.gz 2611 Feb 9 20:51 Science/mathematics/octave-2.0.1.README 9707 Feb 9 20:50 Unix/admin/top.0.5.README 165128 Feb 9 20:50 Unix/admin/top.0.5.s.tar.gz 1381656 Feb 9 20:55 Unix/shell/zsh.3.0.2.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 1031 Feb 9 20:55 Unix/shell/zsh.3.0.2.README Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/pub/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-hamburg.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-siegen.de/ France: ftp://ftp.fdn.fr/, ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Switzerland: ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/ UUCP (Germany) wburg.hanse.de (Tel. ++49-40-307 89 06) Mailbox (Germany) (Tel. ++49-8803-61111, ISDN ++49-8803-62149). Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from december 199e. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.leo.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.leo.org)
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <413853649874@digifix.com> Date: 16 Feb 1997 02:23:10 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <22496856059808@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 - ISV company pages - ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.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 next-advocacy next-announce next-bugs next-hardware next-marketplace next-misc next-programmer next-software next-sysadmin object lang-objective-c (For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's. To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying: subscribe where * is the name of the list e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com The ftp sites ============= ftp://ftp.next.peak.org - The main site for North American submissions formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu 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) 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 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 ( eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU ) and Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com ) Additions from: Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com ) Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net ) Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines for comp.sys.next.announce Supersedes: <414853649878@digifix.com> Date: 16 Feb 1997 02:23:13 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <22497856059811@digifix.com> 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 the past. 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: Olaf Mueller <orest.escape.de!olaf@oker.escape.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: OlafAM.1.0 - a programmable voice/fax/data machine for selected modems Date: 18 Feb 1997 15:50:46 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5ecj4m$ige@news.digifix.com> The programmable voice/fax/data machine OlafAM ver 1.0 for NeXT Computers and selected modems is available now at ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/Communication/apps/OlafAM.1.0.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/Communication/apps/OlafAM.1.0.README Here the contents of the README: OlafAM a programmable Voice/Fax/Data machine for Computers running NextStep and selected Modems What is OlafAM ? ---------------- You can: telephone like before. OlafAM.app can dial for you. configure the behavior of the answering machine for your own purpose. You can play messages, reading digits entered by the caller, and invoke actions depending on the results of this input. You are able to listen to recorded voices from a remote place, and you can leave a message for friends. You are able to build a "Fax On Demand" machine. Received calls can be delivered to your mailbox, and a simple doubleClick will play it. send faxes using the PrintPanel This means, that you can fax everything you can print. receive faxes Received faxes can be delivered to your mailbox, and a simple doubleClick will display it. receive data calls Everybody can dial into your computer, if this feature is enabled. make data calls Use PPP, uucp or other programs to call out into the wide world of data communications. Requirements ------------ This software is built with white NS3.3 and tested on white, black and yellow NS3.3. It will probably also run on green computers. Following modems do definitely work together with this software: ZyXEL U1496?? (voice/fax/data modem) ZyXEL E2864?? (voice/fax/data modem) Creatix SG 2834 turbo (voice/fax/data modem) Creatix SG 2834 (fax/data modem) Other modems including a ROCKWELL chipset will probably also work. Modems only supporting Class2.0 Fax will maybe work. People who help me to support a modem, which does not work together with this software, will get a free permanent licence. Use --- If no licence string is entered, this package will run in demo mode. That means: * Incoming voices are limited to 4 seconds. * Regarding digits entered by caller disabled. * Incoming faxes are disabled. * Outgoing faxes are limited to 1 page. * Incoming data calls are limited to 1 minute. You can order a licence for 10 days for free, which enables all functions. You can order a permanent licence for each feature, either voice or fax or data with following prices: Voice Fax Data All 40 US$ 40 US$ 20 US$ 85 US$ Answering machine programs -------------------------- Answering Machine programs will be written in the language "AnsweringMachineLanguage" (AML). It is simple and sufficient for (nearly) all cases, i can imagine. You can have as many programs as you like. So you are able to configure your telephone today as a private machine and tomorrow as a fax-on-demand machine. Author: Olaf Mueller Heinrichstr. 38 D-38106 Braunschweig Germany eMail: olaf@orest.escape.de Tel/Fax: +49 -531 338026
From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: LogHooks.1.0 - Login and Logout Hooks for NeXTStep Date: 20 Feb 1997 20:35:52 GMT Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Message-ID: <5eicj8$87t@news.digifix.com> ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/workspace/LogHooks.1.0.NIHS.bs.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/workspace/LogHooks.1.0.README LogHooks.1.0 19 Feb 1997 These are the same LoginHook and LogoutHook which have been available on the 'net for some time. However, they have previously been bundled with the program "Bypass" and I could never remember where they were, so I decided to put them in their own .tar.gz folder. They are compiled QuadFat by Eric Tremblay (eric@cdrom.com) and I copied them off the Nebula/Walnut Creek CD-ROM set which Eric puts together. See http://www.cdrom.com/titles/share/nebula.htm for more information on the CD-ROM set and http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ for other NeXTStep CD-ROM sets For those who aren't familiar, these programs, see /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin/09_StartShut.rtfd Login Hook A script or application that runs when anyone logs in. Logout Hook A script or application that runs when anyone logs out. The programs allow you to set (as root) the following dwrites: dwrite loginwindow LoginHook /usr/local/bin/LoginHook dwrite loginwindow LogoutHook /usr/local/bin/LogoutHook (where /usr/local/bin is the path to the two programs found herein). LoginHook will look for the file ~/.LoginHook when a user logs in and run it before the loginwindow starts up. LogoutHook will look for the file ~/.LogoutHook when a user logs out and will run it before completing the logout. I find it useful to prompt for the user to clean out their Recycler using the LogoutHook, and also use it to ask me if I want to reboot the machine, power the machine down, or just exit. See the script "Logout.sh" for an example of what you might want to do in ~/.LogoutHook Released by: TjL <luomat@peak.org> --Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org)If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL! EMAIL ADDRESS: Please use the PEAK address and not the NERC one
From: Dennis Chu <dennisc@atlantis.softeng.lamrc.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Bay Area Opportunity for Object Oriented Architect/NEXTSTEP Developer Date: 20 Feb 1997 20:38:15 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5eicnn$880@news.digifix.com> Lam Research, Inc. is a leader in the semiconductor etch machinery industry located on the outskirts of Silicon Valley. We utilize the NEXTSTEP and NT software development environments to create a consistent graphical user interface to our etching cluster tools. You will be involved in the further development of critical applications for our customers. Qualifications: Preferably at least 3+ years software development experience. Required: BS in Computer Science or related field Object Oriented Methodology (OOA,OOD and OOP) NT/UNIX Independent design and development Desired: Experience in the following: Graphical User Interface (GUI) design and development Use of various GUI CASE tools Graphics art design tools NEXTSTEP Objective-C Familiarity with a plus: SmallTalk, Java EOF OPENSTEP on Mach or NT Database design and development (SQL, Sybase or Oracle) Distributed architectures TCP/IP RPC Communication with client/server based architecture NT application development. Duties: Design, engineer/architect, and participate in requirements, design, and implementation of Graphical User Interface on the next generation cluster tools. Work with small, fun-loving, aggressive team and take responsibility for technology insertion, performance issues, and provide state-of-the-art solutions right to the desktops of customers. This is an excellent opportunity to be immediately challenged. Lam Research provides excellent vacation, holiday, health, 401K and disability benefits. If you would like to be part of our fast-paced, high growth, engineering-focused development team, send your resume to: dennisc@lamrc.com ASAP! Visit our web site at: http://www.lamrc.com Lam Research, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
From: Michael Friedel <mfriedel@alta.starr.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: WOAccess Framework Announcment Date: 21 Feb 1997 04:24:36 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5ej824$b0b@news.digifix.com> For Immediate Release CONTACT: Rex Riley Starr.Com 2811 Carleton Street San Diego, CA 92106 Phone: (800)397-7909 (USA) Phone: ++1 619 523 3300 (International) Fax: ++1 619 523 2416 Email: info@Starr.Com URL: http://www.starr.com/ WOAccess Framework Beta Announcement SECURE ACCESS TO WebObjects(TM) APPLICATIONS WITH WOAccess(TM) FRAMEWORK. WOAccess allows WebObjects developers to control access to all or to individually specified components. San Diego, CALIFORNIA - February 19. 1997, Starr.Com, an innovative NeXT software developer, announced today the beta release of WOAccess, the first access control framework for WebObjects 3.0. WOAccess extends WebObjects with an easy, configurable access control mechanism and user authentication framework. All that is needed is a single configuration file with the addresses of the clients which are allowed to access WebObjects applications. The configuration file is similar in function to '.htaccess' files available on popular web servers. WOAccess works with Pro and Enterprise versions of WebObjects, as well as compiled and scripted components. Configuration The WOAccess framework has a wide range of options set in a configuration file: * Global - for all components of the application * Individual - for each component * Group - for a group of components (like a frameset) Key features are: Access control: * by IP address (including netmask) and domain names * by users and groups Authentication:. * HTTP Authentication Protocol (supports Basic and Digest schemes) * A WebObjects component (i.e.login panel) * A custom component Certification: * WOAccessFileCertifier (flat file user and group files) * ApacheCertifier (uses Apache user & group files) * A custom component (user & group information from a database) Support of response components Unlike in regular HTTP requests - there are usually two pages (components) involved in a WebObjects transaction - the WOAccess Framework performs access checks on both the request and response components. WOAccess prevents further component initialization where user access is 'denied' to the component. Errors and access denial messaging is supported by either WebObjects components or static HTML. Extendable WOAccess framework has a documented API and is extendable through custom bundles such as authentication, certification, and login components. For more information, documentation, and the beta program please visit our web site at: http://www.starr.com/WOAccess Starr.Com is positioned to provide dynamic security solutions for WebObjects applications. Starr.Com was founded in 1991 and is based in San Diego California. The company is a privately-held venture. For more information call (800)397-7909.
From: "Michael M. Gabrys" <mgabrys@netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Bay Area NeXT Group Meeting: Thursday February 27th @ 7pm Date: 21 Feb 1997 04:56:24 GMT Organization: NETCOM Message-ID: <5ej9to$b71@news.digifix.com> **** ANNOUNCEMENT **** What: Bay Area NeXT Group Meeting When: Thursday, February 27, 7:00PM Where: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Auditorium 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA Topic: What in the World is WebObjects? What's a dynamic web site? What's a web application? Why should you care? What does WebObjects have to do with all that? How can it help you deal with HTTP, HTML, CGI, NS-API, state management, localization, reusability, and more? Why are the web sites of The Sharper Image, Disney Online, Club Med, Dell, and others "powered by WebObjects"? Why did Apple call WebObjects "a key strategic advantage of NeXT"? How does the award-winning WebObjects fit in with other NeXT technologies, including the ones that will serve as the basis for Rhapsody, Apple's future operating system? Come join us for answers to these questions and others at this month's BANG meeting, when Bruce Ong, one of the NeXT engineers who created WebObjects, will provide the lowdown on this latest of NeXT's cool tools. He'll present an overview of what WebObjects can do, provide insights into the philosophy behind the product, and go into some of its technical aspects. Other members of the WebObjects engineering team will also be on hand. Bring your WebObjects queries and conundrums for the question and answer session that will follow the presentation. As usual, we will also cover OPENSTEP and other NeXT-related issues in the general technical questions and answers, as well as discuss the latest information and rumors (bring yours) about what's up in the NeXT community, the NeXT-Apple "merger", Rhapsody, etc... After the meeting, join us at a nearby Palo Alto or Menlo Park restaurant for dinner. See you there! Contact: info@bang.org http://www.bang.org/ (415) 487-6237 Directions: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center is much easier to reach from 280. FROM 280: Take 280 toward 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 toward 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/Alameda de las Puelguas (street has two names) and passing a Shell station on your right. The SLAC entrance is at a light on your left. Look for directions to the Auditorium at the guard office at the entrance.
From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: muc.archive.update,de.admin.archiv,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (21.2.97) Date: 21 Feb 1997 20:00:06 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <5ekus6$grd@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> On the Peanuts NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next, [129.187.249.15]): 868789 Feb 16 18:35 Communication/apps/OlafAM.1.0.NIHS.b.tar.gz 2700 Feb 16 18:36 Communication/apps/OlafAM.1.0.README 69718 Feb 13 21:52 Network/programs/system/rumba.0.4.NI.b.tar.gz 9928 Feb 13 21:54 Network/programs/system/rumba.0.4.README 69872 Feb 13 21:56 Network/programs/system/rumba.0.4.s.tar.gz Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/pub/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-hamburg.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-siegen.de/ France: ftp://ftp.fdn.fr/, ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Switzerland: ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/ UUCP (Germany) wburg.hanse.de (Tel. ++49-40-307 89 06) Mailbox (Germany) (Tel. ++49-8803-61111, ISDN ++49-8803-62149). Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from december 199e. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.leo.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.leo.org)
From: marketing@iconixsw.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: CASE Tools for NextStep/Intel Date: 21 Feb 1997 21:41:06 GMT Organization: Cinenet Communications,Internet Access,Los Angeles;310-301-4500 Message-ID: <5el4pi$ia1@news.digifix.com> ICONIX announces availability of ObjectModeler for NextStep/Intel ICONIX Software Engineering, Inc. (www.iconixsw.com) is pleased to announce the immediate availability of all 10 ICONIX PowerTools modules, including ObjectModeler, the leading Macintosh OOA/OOD tool, for the NextStep operating system on the Intel platform. "ICONIX has been building development tools for the Macintosh since 1984, with a strong focus on object-oriented analysis and design since about 1990," stated company President Doug Rosenberg. "We think that ObjectModeler's advanced O-O modeling capabilities are a perfect match for NeXT's state-of-the-art Object-Oriented development environment. In particular, we believe ObjectModeler's support for OMT Class Modeling and Use Case driven modeling (Jacobson's Objectory) provides an excellent front-end for developing with the NeXT Enterprise Object Framework, Interface Builder, and, of course, WebObjects. We expect a significant number of new developers to begin working with the NextStep frameworks in the near future and are ready to provide analysis and design tools to support them." ICONIX uses porting technology from Albuquerque, NM based ARDI, Inc. (www.ardi.com) to enable applications for NextStep/Intel. ICONIX applications are also deployed across SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX, Windows 3.1, 95 and NT, as well as NextStep and MacOS. Additionally, ICONIX produces a line of computer-based training CD-ROM tutorials on object-oriented software engineering, and provides a variety of on-site training and consulting services. The company expects to have a downloadable demo version of ObjectModeler/NextStep on the internet at http://www.iconixsw.com by the end of January. ICONIX is located at 2800 28th Street, Suite 320, Santa Monica, CA 90405. Phone 310-458-0092, FAX 310-396-3454, EMAIL marketing@iconixsw.com, WWW: http://www.iconixsw.com
From: tracy@pdh.com (Tracy Alexander) Newsgroups: ba.jobs.offered,comp.sys.next.announce,su.jobs.offered,ucb.jobs.offered,la.jobs.offered Subject: SAN JOSE: Software and Database Design Engineers Date: 22 Feb 1997 04:46:43 GMT Organization: PDH, Inc. Message-ID: <5eltnj$kqm@news.digifix.com> >>>>> Career Opportunity<<<<< for an Object Oriented Designer and Developer PDH, Inc. is a leader in client-server systems using NEXTSTEP and soon OpenStep software development environments. These environments permit a 10 to 1 improvement in developer productivity on the first project and up to 25 to 1 on subsequent projects through the use of the tools, OOD, and the robust libraries (classes, palettes, kits). You will develop custom mission critical applications for customers. Qualifications: Required: BS in Computer Science or related field Objective-C, C++, SmallTalk, Java Willingness to travel within USA Desired: Familiarity with EOF, DBKit, AccessKit Experience in the following: Independent design and development Database design and development (SQL, Sybase or Oracle) Distributed databases Distributed architectures, Client-Server Graphical User Interface (GUI) design and development Object Oriented Methodology (OOA,OOD and OOP) UNIX Windows 95, NT, OLE NEXTSTEP Objective-C, C++, SmallTalk, Java Duties: Design, engineer, and participate in all stages of the product life-cycle: requirements, design, implementation, testing, documentation, training, and support. Take responsibility for technology insertion, database architectures, performance issues, and provide state-of-the-art solutions right to the desktops of customers. This is an excellent opportunity to be immediately challenged and to be a part of an elite staff. PDH provides excellent vacation, holiday, health, 401K and disability benefits. The work attire is casual, hours are flexible, and refreshments are sponsored. If you would like to be part of our fast-paced, high growth, engineering-focused development team, send your resume to: PDH, Inc. Personnel Department Vox: (408) 428-9596 Fax: (408) 428-9599 E-mail: personnel@pdh.com(NeXT Mail welcome) 2635 North First Street, Suite 224, San Jose, CA 95134-2034 Visit our web site at: http://www.pdh.com PDH, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. US CITIZENSHIP Required for Position
From: tracy@pdh.com (Tracy Alexander) Newsgroups: ba.jobs.offered,comp.sys.next.announce,su.jobs.offered,ucb.jobs.offered,la.jobs.offered Subject: SAN JOSE: Senior Software and Database Design Engineers Date: 22 Feb 1997 04:46:47 GMT Organization: PDH, Inc. Message-ID: <5eltnn$kqn@news.digifix.com> >>>>> Career Opportunity<<<<< for an experienced Object Oriented Architect and Developer PDH, Inc. is a leader in client-server systems using NEXTSTEP and soon OpenStep software development environments. These environments permit a 10 to 1 improvement in developer productivity on the first project and up to 25 to 1 on subsequent projects through the use of the tools, OOD, and the robust libraries (classes, palettes, kits). NEXTSTEP and OpenStep are available on Motorola, Intel, Sun, HP and DEC workstations now, and will soon be running in Windows/NT and SUN NEO. You will develop custom mission critical applications for customers. Qualifications: Preferably at least 5+ years software/database development experience. Required: BS in Computer Science or related field Willingness to travel within USA Object Oriented Methodology (OOA,OOD and OOP) UNIX Independent design and development Desired: Familiarity with EOF, DBKit, AccessKit Experience in the following: Database design and development (SQL, Sybase or Oracle) Distributed databases Distributed architectures, Client-Server, CORBA Graphical User Interface (GUI) design and development Windows 95, NT, OLE NEXTSTEP Objective-C, C++, SmallTalk, Java Duties: Design, engineer/architect, and participate in all stages of the product life-cycle: requirements, design, implementation, testing, documentation, training, and support. Lead a team of highly creative, qualified engineers/architects through product development providing both the technical and managerial aspects of the project. Take responsibility for technology insertion, database architectures, performance issues, and provide state-of-the-art solutions right to the desktops of customers. This is an excellent opportunity to be immediately challenged and to be a part of an elite staff. PDH provides excellent vacation, holiday, health, 401K and disability benefits. The work attire is casual, hours are flexible, and refreshments are sponsored. If you would like to be part of our fast-paced, high growth, engineering-focused development team, send your resume to: PDH, Inc. Personnel Department Vox: (408) 428-9596 Fax: (408) 428-9599 E-mail: personnel@pdh.com(NeXT Mail welcome) 2635 North First Street, Suite 224, San Jose, CA 95134-2034 Visit our web site at: http://www.pdh.com PDH, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. US CITIZENSHIP Required for Position
From: "Stelio TZONIS" <stelio@lysis.ch> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: OPENSTEP Developers Date: 22 Feb 1997 04:46:34 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5eltna$kql@news.digifix.com> Lysis SA is a Swiss based company, developing integrated solutions for digital Radio and TV Broadcasting. Actual customers are world wide major players in the Digital Television market (Direct Broadcast Satellite, Cables...). In order to extend its software development team in the USA, Lysis SA is opening the following positions for its LA offices. Position: Development Engineers Location: Los Angeles, CA Primary Responsibilities The successful candidate will join the engineering group, developing a framework for digital television broadcasting. The main goal of this framework is to manage the acquisition, editing and broadcasting of audio/video/data information using the most up to date technologies including MPEG-II video servers, interactive Set Top Boxes. He will design and implement key components of the framework using OPENSTEP and Java based technologies. Skills, Education, Experience Requirements * Very good experience with OPENSTEP / EOF2 * Demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities * Excellent teamwork and communications * BS Computer Science, Math, Physics or Electrical Engineering, or equivalent degree Additional Success Factors * Experience in Object Oriented design and implementation methodology * Fluency in an object oriented implementation language and environment (Java, Smalltalk) Multi-platform experience (UNIX, Windows-NT) Please, e-mail resume and cover letter to hubert@lysis.ch or Fax to "Hubert" at (310) 858 17 52.
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: GSPrintFilter v1.12 Date: 23 Feb 1997 04:55:24 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5eoijs$sp4@news.digifix.com> I've just finished up another revision of GSPrintFilter, enabling the use of non-postscript printers in NEXTSTEP/Mach-OpepStep. Appended is a snippet from the README file. Enjoy. ____ Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln GSPrintFilter.1.12.README Feb 1997 To be (most likely) placed at: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/printer This GSPrintFilter package includes primarily Aladin Ghostscript, v4.03. It's application here is used as a filter, so that one can use a Non-PostScript printer with NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP. It comes bundled with many public domain fonts (PostScript and otherwise), but will fall back to using installed Postscript fonts in /NextLibrary/Fonts/outline and /LocalLibrary/Fonts/outline. HISTORY 1.12 - Modularized GSPrintFilter into 3 separate packages: binaries, setup documentation, and fonts. - Fixed typo in GSPrintFilter.postinstall so that a 'burst page' no longer prints a garbage 1st page before actual printjob. The script SHOULD set the printcap variables sb AND sh to false), not just sb. Note: similar symptoms as this occur sometimes when using NeXT's Parallel port driver, especially when printouts stop after just a few pages. - Compiled against Xnext X11R6 libs (succesfully, this time). - Added drivers: lbp8, lips3, lj250 (and alternate declj250), oki182, okiibm, st800. FILES GSPrintFilter.1.12.NIHS.b.tar.gz: REQUIRED Alladin ghostscript version 4.03 binaries and assocated files. Installation of this package is optional if you already have homebrewed gs binaries, but you will need to modify the setup instructions appropriately to reflect the different installation and locations of files. GSPrintFilterSetup.1.12.d.tar.gz: REQUIRED Setup instructions and documentation to install ghostscript as a NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP printer filter. GSPrintFilterFonts.1.12.d.tar.gz OPTIONAL Alladin ghostscript fonts (and associated Fontmap). Extracted from font packages distributed with ghostscript. These fonts aren't neccessary since ghostscript can (and should) be configured to use NeXT's resident PS Fonts. Note that some public domain PS Fonts do not work in conjunction with ghostscript. SUPPORTED PRINTERS This version of ghostscript supports primarily Epson, Canon BubbleJet, HP DeskJet, HP LaserJet, HP PaintJet printers. Any printer capable of emulating these types of printers is also naturally supported. Please refer to the ghostscript www home page and included documentation in /usr/local/lib/ghostscript/4.03/doc for more information. prompt> /usr/local/lib/ghostscript/bin/gs-4.03 --help ..snip... Input formats: PostScript PostScriptLevel1 PostScriptLevel2 PDF Available devices: x11 x11alpha x11cmyk x11mono epson eps9high eps9mid ibmpro epsonc stcolor deskjet djet500 laserjet ljetplus ljet2p ljet3 ljet4 lj4dith ljet5l lbp8 lips3 lj250 declj250 oki182 okiibm st800 cdeskjet cdjcolor cdjmono cdj550 pj pjxl pjxl300 bj10e bj200 bjc600 bjc800 faxg3 faxg32d faxg4 pcxmono pcxgray pcx16 pcx256 pcx24b pbm pbmraw pgm pgmraw pgnm pgnmraw pnm pnmraw ppm ppmraw tiffcrle tiffg3 tiffg32d tiffg4 tifflzw tiffpack tiff12nc tiff24nc psmono bit bitrgb bitcmyk pngmono pnggray png16 png256 png16m pdfwrite nullpage ..snip...
From: "Ted Erck" <terck@invensys.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Object Oriented Software Development Date: 24 Feb 1997 21:10:56 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5et050$e0k@news.digifix.com> InvenSys Ltd., a provider of software systems for the management and operation of high speed networks, with offices in Houston, Austin and Tokyo, Japan is expanding its software development staff in response to increased customer demand for its systems. InvenSys' software engineers have produced several of the largest distributed object oriented systems currently in operation. InvenSys is looking for energetic software engineers with less than 1 year experience who want to develop their skills where performance is recognized and rewarded. A BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related discipline is required as well as expertise in the following: * C, C++, or Objective C * TCP/IP suite of protocols * UNIX * Objective Oriented Design * JAVA The positions available in Austin and Houston. Mail resume and salary requirements to the address listed below or fax same to 713.622.9407. (Please no agencies). InvenSys Ltd. 8 Greenway, Suite 930 Houston, Texas 77046 InvenSys is an Equal Opportunity Employer
From: "Michael M. Gabrys" <mike@bang.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Bay Area NeXT Group - February 27th @ 7pm Date: 25 Feb 1997 20:17:06 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5evhc2$m43@news.digifix.com> **** ANNOUNCEMENT **** What: Bay Area NeXT Group Meeting When: Thursday, February 27, 7:00PM Where: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Auditorium 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA Topic: What in the World is WebObjects? What's a dynamic web site? What's a web application? Why should you care? What does WebObjects have to do with all that? How can it help you deal with HTTP, HTML, CGI, NS-API, state management, localization, reusability, and more? Why are the web sites of The Sharper Image, Disney Online, Club Med, Dell, and others "powered by WebObjects"? Why did Apple call WebObjects "a key strategic advantage of NeXT"? How does the award-winning WebObjects fit in with other NeXT technologies, including the ones that will serve as the basis for Rhapsody, Apple's future operating system? Come join us for answers to these questions and others at this month's BANG meeting, when Bruce Ong, one of the NeXT engineers who created WebObjects, will provide the lowdown on this latest of NeXT's cool tools. He'll present an overview of what WebObjects can do, provide insights into the philosophy behind the product, and go into some of its technical aspects. Other members of the WebObjects engineering team will also be on hand. Bring your WebObjects queries and conundrums for the question and answer session that will follow the presentation. As usual, we will also cover OPENSTEP and other NeXT-related issues in the general technical questions and answers, as well as discuss the latest information and rumors (bring yours) about what's up in the NeXT community, the NeXT-Apple "merger", Rhapsody, etc... After the meeting, join us at a nearby Palo Alto or Menlo Park restaurant for dinner. See you there! Contact: info@bang.org http://www.bang.org/ (415) 487-6237 Directions: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center is much easier to reach from 280. FROM 280: Take 280 toward 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 toward 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/Alameda de las Puelguas (street has two names) and passing a Shell station on your right. The SLAC entrance is at a light on your left. Look for directions to the Auditorium at the guard office at the entrance.
From: Katie Graunke <katie@stone.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Stone Design Announces Monkey Madness Promotion Date: 27 Feb 1997 03:52:52 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5f30ek$516@news.digifix.com> NEWS For Immediate Release For more information, please contact: Katie Graunke katie@stone.com 505-345-4800 <<http://www.stone.com Stone Design Announces Monkey Madness Promotion LAST TWO WEEKS - ORDER NOW! February 26, 1997 - Albuquerque, New Mexico - Stone Design, a leader in the NEXTSTEP/OpenStep/Rhapsody marketplace, announced the last two weeks of the Monkey Madness Sale today. For the next two weeks only, NEXTSTEP and OpenStep users can buy DataPhile, Create, 3D Reality and CheckSum as a package for only $299.00, and get a free StoneWorker t-shirt, while supplies last. Individual applications can be purchased for only $99.00 each. Students can buy all four Stone apps for only $89.00. Prices do not include shipping. "We want to honor the long enduring NeXTSTEP community and provide everyone a chance to use our apps at rock bottom prices, " emoted Andrew Stone, CEO of Stone Design, "Don't miss this sale!" "We must have gone bananas to offer a sale like this!" exclaimed Katie Graunke, Vice President of Marketing at Stone Design. Prices effective from February 12, 1997 until March 12, 1997. Orders may be faxed to: 505-345-3424. Students must ftp the applications and provide Stone Design with a copy of a current student id card. Stone Design accepts Visa, MasterCard, corporate or personal checks, and university purchase orders. For more information about Stone Design, Create, DataPhile, 3D Reality, CheckSum and our Java applets and training classes, please visit our web site: www.stone.com To reach a human, please call 505-345-4800 between 9am and 5pm Mountain Standard Time. Or email info@stone.com anytime! -=- Stone Design Corp. in Albuquerque, New Mexico was formed in 1984 and was the first developer to ship a product on NeXT Hardware in 1989 with the release of TextArt. Since then, Stone Design has been a leader in innovative shrinkwrap software in the NEXTSTEP and OpenStep marketplace. Like a rock, Stone is committed to OpenStep/Rhapsody development. CheckSum is a registered trademark of Sirius Solutions. 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: susanm@cac-versa.cac.stratus.com (Susan Miano) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: OpenStep contract developer Date: 27 Feb 1997 03:52:11 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA Message-ID: <5f30db$515@news.digifix.com> In search of a motivated individual to join a fast paced team developing a call tracking system utilizing NeXT's OpenStep development environment with Oracle as the DB technology. A successful candidate will be proficient in OpenStep, have familiarity with EOF 2.0. and the ability to create a design spec and code from a functional spec. Good written and verbal communication skills are required. Knowledge of DevMan is a plus. Stratus is headquartered in Marlboro, MA with offices worldwide. The location for this developer opening is either Phoenix, AZ or Marlboro, MA. Qualified candidates should email resume and salary requirements to Susan_Miano@stratus.com.
From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: muc.archive.update,de.admin.archiv,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (28.2.97) Date: 28 Feb 1997 20:00:05 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <5f7dg5$h52@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> On the Peanuts NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next, [129.187.249.15]): 2090359 Feb 27 19:20 Unix/file/GNU_fileutils.3.16.NIHS.bd.tar.gz 1290 Feb 27 19:20 Unix/file/GNU_fileutils.3.16.README 4337818 Feb 20 08:15 Tools/printer/GSPrintFilter.1.12.NIHS.b.tar.gz 8286 Feb 20 08:12 Tools/printer/GSPrintFilter.1.12.README 2748342 Feb 20 08:18 Tools/printer/GSPrintFilterFonts.1.12.d.tar.gz 23557 Feb 20 08:12 Tools/printer/GSPrintFilterSetup.1.12.d.tar.gz 126740 Feb 20 02:33 Developer/webobjects/extensions/nextstep/WOAccessFramework.Mach.Beta1.NI.b.tar.gz 683 Feb 20 02:33 Developer/webobjects/extensions/nextstep/WOAccessFramework.Mach.Readme 122701 Feb 20 04:22 Developer/webobjects/extensions/win-nt/WOAccessFramework.NT.Beta1.b.tar.gz 798 Feb 20 04:22 Developer/webobjects/extensions/win-nt/WOAccessFramework.NT.Readme Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/pub/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-hamburg.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-siegen.de/ France: ftp://ftp.fdn.fr/, ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Switzerland: ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/ UUCP (Germany) wburg.hanse.de (Tel. ++49-40-307 89 06) Mailbox (Germany) (Tel. ++49-8803-61111, ISDN ++49-8803-62149). Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from december 199e. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.leo.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.leo.org)
From: support@Radical.Com (Radical Product Support) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: RadicalNews 0.8.11 Date: 28 Feb 1997 22:52:16 GMT Organization: Radical System Solutions, Inc. Message-ID: <5f7nj0$o9o@news.digifix.com> February 28, 1997 - Anaheim Hills, California. Radical System Solutions, a long-time provider of object oriented expertise to the professional market, is proud to release the latest free beta version of the most "dangerous" newsreader on the planet, RadicalNews. RadicalNews is an advanced object-oriented newsreader, designed for the discriminating NEXTSTEP marketplace. This version provides a work-around for an apparent bug in OPENSTEP on Intel platforms that garbles boolean parameters when forwarding methods. This was causing RadicalNews to misbehave and even crash. The bug has been reported to NeXT and only affects applications built under NEXTSTEP and run under OPENSTEP on Intel platforms. It is unknown whether the bug exists on OPENSTEP on Sparc platforms. RadicalNews is built quad-fat, running on Motorola, Intel, Sparc, and HP platforms with NEXTSTEP 3.2 or later. (NEXTSTEP 3.0/3.1 will work, but are not supported.) The J version requires NEXTSTEP-J. The beta version is free, and will run until May 1, 1997. After the beta period, a license may be purchased. The beta version may be available via anonymous ftp at: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/RadicalNews.0.8.11.NIHS.README ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/RadicalNews.0.8.11.NIHS.tar.gz ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/RadicalNewsJ.0.8.11.NIHS.tar.gz RadicalNews should eventually be found at: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/demos/news/RadicalNews.0.8.11.NIHS.README ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/demos/news/RadicalNews.0.8.11.NIHS.tar.gz ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/demos/news/RadicalNewsJ.0.8.11.NIHS.tar.gz ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/next/Network/news/RadicalNews.0.8.11.README ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/next/Network/news/RadicalNews.0.8.11.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/next/Network/news/RadicalNewsJ.0.8.11.NIHS.b.tar.gz Our web site will have updated information and links to the most current version: http://www.radical.com/ For further information, contact: Radical System Solutions, Inc. mailto:RadicalNews@Radical.Com
From: bettis@inetnebr.com (Mr. Jeremy Bettis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: BugNet WWW-Based bug tracking system Date: 28 Feb 1997 22:53:35 GMT Organization: Internet Nebraska Message-ID: <5f7nlf$o9u@news.digifix.com> For Immediate Release February 27, 1997 - Omaha, Nebraska. Hickman-Kenyon Systems, Inc. Announces BugNet. Hickman-Kenyon Systems, Inc., announces BugNet, (http://bugnet.hksys.com), a WWW-based bug tracking system intended for use by free software developers. BugNet is an online service that allows the public to submit bug reports, and allows developers to keep track of the status of reported bugs. There is no charge for using the service, either as a project maintainer or as a respository for bug reports. This service is designed to benefit the free software community. BugNet allows users to submit bugs to a centralized location. Projects can be set up with many different options, including allowing browsing and submission of bugs to the public. Visit http://bugnet.hksys.com today to register your software project for bug tracking, then tell your users to submit their problems and feature requests to that web page. Feature requests to BugNet should be made in the BugNet system. BugNet is based on Wool, HKS's dynamic web page generator and web-based database access system. Because the address bugnet.hksys.com is new, your DNS server may not yet know of it. Should you encounter problems, please try http://www.hksys.com:6446. For more information, please contact: Elizabeth Tape etape@hksys.com 402-596-1294
From: bettis@inetnebr.com (Mr. Jeremy Bettis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: BugNet WWW-Based bug tracking system Date: 28 Feb 1997 22:53:33 GMT Organization: Internet Nebraska Message-ID: <5f7nld$o9t@news.digifix.com> For Immediate Release February 27, 1997 - Omaha, Nebraska. Hickman-Kenyon Systems, Inc. Announces BugNet. Hickman-Kenyon Systems, Inc., announces BugNet, (http://bugnet.hksys.com), a WWW-based bug tracking system intended for use by free software developers. BugNet is an online service that allows the public to submit bug reports, and allows developers to keep track of the status of reported bugs. There is no charge for using the service, either as a project maintainer or as a respository for bug reports. This service is designed to benefit the free software community. BugNet allows users to submit bugs to a centralized location. Projects can be set up with many different options, including allowing browsing and submission of bugs to the public. Visit http://bugnet.hksys.com today to register your software project for bug tracking, then tell your users to submit their problems and feature requests to that web page. Feature requests to BugNet should be made in the BugNet system. BugNet is based on Wool, HKS's dynamic web page generator and web-based database access system. Because the address bugnet.hksys.com is new, your DNS server may not yet know of it. Should you encounter problems, please try http://www.hksys.com:6446. For more information, please contact: Elizabeth Tape etape@hksys.com 402-596-1294
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@seer.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: P & L Systems Announce Release of Mesa 2.0 for NeXTSTEP Date: 1 Mar 1997 04:30:35 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5f8bdb$r65@news.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For product information, contact: Elizabeth Lynch +44 1494 432422 liz@plsys.co.uk URL: http://www.plsys.co.uk/plsys P & L SYSTEMS ANNOUNCE RELEASE OF MESA 2.0 FOR NeXTSTEP FEBRUARY 21st 1997 -- AMERSHAM, UK -- P & L Systems today announced the end of the Mesa 2 Betatest period. Mesa 2 is now available for purchase. As the leading spreadsheet for the NeXTSTEP object-oriented environment, Mesa is a highly functional and fast traditional spreadsheet for NeXTSTEP with 1-2-3 and Excel interoperability, and provides a powerful API used by many of its extensive customer base. Mesa 2.0 is a substantial redesign of Mesa, aimed at optimising the user interface while still extending functionality. "The Beta test has been most successful" said Paul Lynch, Managing Director of P & L Systems. "We've had very enthusiastic feedback from users. This is only the first stage in our enhancement plans; later in 1997 we intend to upgrade Mesa for NeXTSTEP to support workbooks, and to release Mesa for OpenStep." Mesa 2 is available immediately from P & L Systems in ftp://ftp.plsys.co.uk/pub/Products/Mesa2/Mesa2.tar.gz and ftp://ftp.plsys.co.uk/pub/Products/Mesa2/Mesa2Info.tar.gz The price for commercial users is $375 per license. The price for academic users continues at $99. Any existing user of Mesa may upgrade to Mesa 2.0 for NeXTSTEP for $50 per license. Customers who have preordered upgrades will receive their licenses over the coming week. P & L Systems provides customer service and upgrades for all customers. Customers can request support by sending email to mesa@plsys.co.uk, fax to +44 1494 432478, or phoning +44 1494 432422. Mesa will continue to be available from your favourite NeXTSTEP reseller, or directly from P & L Systems. Mesa for NeXTSTEP is a traditional spreadsheet that is a powerful tool for analysing your data. Mesa, the best-selling NeXTSTEP spreadsheet, won the 1993 NeXTWORLD Magazine "Best-of-Breed" award for financial modelling. Quad-fat, Mesa runs on NEXTSTEP for Motorola, Intel, HP-PA RISC and SPARC architectures. It also qualifies for a prize as a NeXTSTEP survivor. Mesa 2.0 has the following new features: * redesigned user interface * all icons redesigned * user interface consistent with NeXT UI Guidelines * ToolBox accepts drag and drop of all pasteboard types, including Mesa menu functions * single Inspector window * Graphics can be used in ReportLayouts * auto selection of ranges in Tool and Inspector functions * Resizeable formula entry area * New Formula Builder * QuickBase database adaptor * Oracle database adaptor * dBASE import/export * HTML table export * Reuters datafeed functions: DATAFEED(), etc P & L Systems is the leading supplier of products and services for NeXTSTEP in the UK. With a complete range of software and hardware products and services, P & L Systems offer full support for customers in the aggressive and sometimes bewildering world of object oriented solutions. Products developed by P & L Systems include the Oracle Adaptor for Mesa; the QuickBase Adaptor for Mesa; Pager, a flexible application for pagers and beepers; PassKey, a password management tool for administrators; AppManager, a software usage monitoring and license allocation utility; and Informant!, a radical new real-time data feed distribution application for Reuters and other feeds on NeXTSTEP, Solaris and Windows NT. For additional information about P &L Systems and its products and services, contact the company directly at +44 1494 432422, send electronic mail to info@plsys.co.uk, or visit P & L Systems' World Wide Web pages at http://www.plsys.co.uk/plsys. P & L Systems, AppManager, PassKey, Informant! and Mesa are trademarks of P & L Systems. NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark of NeXT Software, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. --- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: PEAK adds new URL for HTTP access to their FTP site Date: 2 Mar 1997 04:45:31 GMT Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Message-ID: <5fb0lb$b3s@news.digifix.com> Contact: The PEAK FTP Team <next-ftp@peak.org> 1 Mar 1997 - (Corvallis Oregon) The PEAK FTP team is pleased to announce that their FTP site is available via HTTP. While this has been true for some time, we have shortened the URLs for access to make things simpler to remember. To access the NeXTStep portion of the archive, simply use this URL: http://www.peak.org/next To access the OpenStep portion of the archive, simply use this URL: http://www.peak.org/openstep Of course, the site will remain available via FTP at ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/ as well. We would also like to thank Jon Hooper <hoops@cbc.net> for designing and donating the banner images you will see on the OpenStep and NeXTStep web pages. TjL <luomat@peak.org>
From: Scott Christley <scottc@net-community.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Display Ghostscript System version 0.2.0 Date: 3 Mar 1997 20:20:24 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5ffbq8$901@news.digifix.com> ANNOUNCE ******** The Display Ghostscript System, version 0.2.0, is now available. What is the Display Ghostscript System? ======================================= The Display Ghostscript System is a free software implementation of a Display PostScript(tm) System. A Display PostScript System provides a device-independent imaging model for displaying information on a screen. The imaging model uses the PostScript language which has powerful graphics capabilities and frees the programmer from display-specific details like screen resolution and color issues. The Display Ghostscript System is composed of a PostScript interpreter (Ghostscript), the Client library, and the pswrap translator. The Display Ghostscript System uses a client/server architecture. Applications are linked with the Client library which communicates with the PostScript interpreter residing in the server. The application utilizes the procedures and data structures in the Client library which are independent of the actual PostScript interpreter. The pswrap translator allows you to take custom PostScript language programs and wrap them with a C function interface thus allowing your applications to call them directly. pswrap programs are generally more efficient then performing the same PostScript program purely with the Client library procedures. Postscript, Display Postscript, and Adobe are trademarks or registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. We need your help! ================== Peter Deutsch, who is the author of Ghostscript, has agreed to provide some key enhancements so that Ghostscript fully conforms to Adobe's specification of a Display Postscript(tm) System. We need these enhancements implemented if GNUstep is to truly take full advantage of the power of Display Postscript. However, the catch is that Peter would like to be paid for his efforts, so we are asking you to contribute money towards this worthwhile project. You can contribute in one of two ways: * Write the enhancements for free! Now that would be really great, but be forewarned that it is a large task. If you are serious then please contact <scottc@net-community.com> for details. * Send a tax-deductible charitable contribution to the Free Software Foundation and specify that the funds should be directed toward the GNUstep Display Ghostscript Project. The Free Software Foundation's address is: Free Software Foundation 59 Temple Place Suite 330 Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA Contact <scottc@net-community.com> or <gnu@gnu.ai.mit.edu> for more information. We currently have about 50% of the funds required for this project, so any amount you can contribute helps! What's new in this release? =========================== The currently released version of the Display Ghostscript System is `0.2.0'. Noteworthy changes in version `0.2.0' ===================================== * Upgraded the Ghostscript source code to version 4.03. This also includes new fonts. * Upgraded jpeg library to version 6a. * Now configures, compiles, and installs the jpeg, png, and zlib libraries and programs. * Slight restructuring of where DGS related libraries files are installed; instead of create a subdirectory of DGS within the library install directory, ie `/usr/local/lib', the DGS subdirectory is placed under the gnustep library directory, ie `/usr/local/lib/gnustep'. This helps keep all of the GNUstep related resources together. Noteworthy changes in version `0.1.1' ===================================== * Brought together the Adobe DPSclient library, Aladdin Ghostscript, the Aladdin Ghostscript fonts, the PNG library, the JPEG library, and the ZLIB library into a single configuration. All of the separate packages are segregated so that it will be relatively easy to incorporate newer versions of the individual sources. * Incorporated Randy Chapman's patches to the Adobe DPSclient library and Aladdin Ghostscript so that they will work together as a Display Ghostscript System. * Modifications so that the Display Ghostscript System can be installed and uninstalled without conflicting with any Ghostscript executables and/or library files that exist on the user's system. Where can you get it? How can you compile it? ============================================== The dgs-0.2.0.tar.gz distribution file has been placed on `ftp.gnustep.org' in `pub/gnustep'. The program requires gcc 2.7.2.1 or higher. The `.tar' file is compressed with GNU gzip. Gzip can be obtained by anonymous ftp at any of the GNU archive sites. For info about FTP via email, send email to <ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com> with no subject line, and two-line body with line one `help' and line two `quit'. The most recent (not necessarily tested) snapshots of the library will be placed in `ftp://alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu/gnu/gnustep'. Creators rejoice! Scott Christley <scottc@net-community.com> [ Most GNU software is packed using the GNU `gzip' compression program. Source code is available on most sites distributing GNU software. For information on how to order GNU software on tape, floppy or cd-rom, or printed GNU manuals, check the file etc/ORDERS in the GNU Emacs distribution or in GNUinfo/ORDERS on prep, or e-mail a request to: <gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu> By ordering your GNU software from the FSF, you help us continue to develop more free software. Media revenues are our primary source of support. 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From: Ingmar Camphausen <ingmar@aurora.in-berlin.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Berlin NeXT Usergroup - March 3, 8:00 pm Date: 28 Feb 1997 03:55:20 GMT Organization: INDIVIDUAL NETWORK BERLIN Message-ID: <5f5kv8$egv@news.digifix.com> **** MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT **** Berlin NEXTSTEP User Group (BeNG) March meeting ================================================= The BeNG (Berlin NEXTSTEP User Group) will be holding its next meeting on Monday, March 3, 1997, at 8:00 p.m. (MET) in the "Institut fuer Energietechnik" of the Technical University Berlin in Room KT 101 (1st floor), Marchst. 18, D-10587 Berlin, Germany. Topics we will address this time: o DANCING IN THE NETWORK: Heterogeneous network communication between computers running NEXTSTEP, MacOS and Windows, using samba, rumba and the likes. o NEWSFLASH The latest and greatest from NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP and "Rhapsody": - OPENSTEP 4.2 - OPENSTEP for Windows 95 - first prototype running "Rhapsody" has been unveiled The meeting is open to anyone who is interested in NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP. people seeking for more first hand information about NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP (especially Mac users), are very welcome, too. After the program, join us for a snack and/or drink at the nearby "Cafe' Campus". Looking forward to seeing you at the meeting! Contact: Gerald Erdmann gerald@kurt.in-berlin.de (NeXTmail welcome) or Ingmar Camphausen ingmar@aurora.in-berlin.de (NeXTmail welcome) BeNG: e-mail beng@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (mailinglist!) WWW http://buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de/~beng FTP ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/NeXT How to get there: We recommend coming by bicycle or using the public transport (BVG): You can either take the underground line U2 or bus 145 or bus X9 and leave at 'Ernst-Reuter-Platz' (+ 400 m walking), or you choose bus 245 up to Ernst-Reuter-Platz/Marchst. (+ 200 m walking). The nearest rapid transit ("S-Bahn") station is "Tiergarten" (~1000 m/ ~10 min walking distance); you get there via the rapid transit lines S3, S5, S7 or S75. There is a limited number of parking lots near the building, too. If you approach from the roundabout traffic Ernst-Reuter-Platz, you have to take the Marchst. exit. About 200 m into the Marchst., right after a blue building and the drive to a parking lot on the right hand side, there is the "Institut fuer Energietechnik". The entrance to the building is on the left hand side behind the gate at the end of the parking lot. (Watch out for the NeXT-logo-like 'BeNG' signs and follow them to the meeting room! :-) All those of you familiar with the geography of Berlin (Germany) can take a look at a map of the meeting location and its environment via the StadtINFO online city map under the URL http://www.kulturbox.de/cgi-bin/k/pixelinfo?PQ=m11&X=96&Y=381&TEXT=BeNG%21 (The "Institut fuer Energietechnik" is marked with a red circle.) . . . The subsequent meeting is scheduled for April 7, 1997. We plan for the next part of our continous lectures on software development under NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP. --- BeNG --- WHO WE ARE --- The Berlin NEXTSTEP User Group (BeNG) exists since 1990 and is a loose "aggregation" of NeXT resp. NEXTSTEP enthusiasts. Our participants may be reached via our mailing list. Of course, we are present in the WorldWideWeb, too. We also manage the NeXT/NEXTSTEP FTP archive at the Technical University (TU) Berlin. mailing list mailto:beng@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de WWW http://buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de/~beng FTP ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/NeXT We meet the first Monday each month at 8:00 p.m. (If this coincides with a holiday, the meeting takes place the subsequent week.) We usually have a lecture or presentation; respective suggestions or offers are very welcome and should be directed to our mailing list.
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: R&A releases source patches for Postgres95 1.0 pl14 Date: 4 Mar 1997 20:19:39 GMT Organization: R&A Message-ID: <5fi04r$kvp@news.digifix.com> R&A has released the source patches to compile Postgres 1.0 pl14. Postgres is currently at a higher version, but we do not actively support it anymore. The patches to get postgres running under NEXTSTEP 3.x can be found in ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next/postgres95/. They are split it in two parts. The first part (pg95-1.0pl14-NS_RnA.base.patch.gz) contains the patches against the base (pg95 1.0pl14) distribution; The second part (pg95-port-next.tar.gz) contains the backend/port/next directory. R&A does not support postgres anymore, unless we are paid to do so. To get postgres running under NEXTSTEP, one needs these patches, as well as SysVIPC (System V semaphore and shared memory emulation). SysVIPC is free for educational use. For commercial use, a license is needed. SysVIPC is distributed through ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next/SysVIPC/. The original Postgres.Readme follows: Postgres95 1.0 patchlevel 14 for NEXTSTEP: This NEXTSTEP release of Postgres95 is provided by R&A as-is, as a service to the community. The software is supportware. If you like it, you may send us money to cover our expenses. The more money, the more support we will be able to provide. We provide our patches and diffs to the postgres95 community, including the dynamic loader. The only exception is the System V IPC functionality (shared memory and semaphores). We do however make a package for this available on the net. The use of SysVIPC for educational purposes falls under shareware conditions, you pay if you want to pay. For commercial purposes you have to buy a license. Limited Warranty: This software is provided `as is' 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. The entire risk as to the quality and performance of this software is yours. This software is probably defective. You assume the cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction. No damages: In no event shall R&A be held liable for any damages, including any lost profits, lost monies or other special, incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use or inability to use this software, even if R&A has been advised of the possibility of such damages. The files in this directory: postgres95.Readme This file postgres95.Install.rtf Installation instructions (RTF format) postgres95.KnownBugs.rtf Known bugs (RTF format) postgres95Client.NIHS.b.pkg.tar Tar file with postgres clients (monitor/psql) binary, compiled for m68k, i486, hppa and sparc postgres95Libs.NIHS.b.pkg.tar Tar file containing manuals and developer stuff binary, compiled for m68k, i486, hppa and sparc postgres95Server.NIHS.b.pkg.tar Tar file containing actual database system binary, compiled for m68k, i486, hppa and sparc postgres95Server.N.b.pkg.tar Ditto for m68k only postgres95Server.I.b.pkg.tar Ditto for i486 only postgres95Server.H.b.pkg.tar Ditto for hppa only postgres95Server.S.b.pkg.tar Ditto for sparc only R&A Goudreinetstraat 582 2564 PX The Hague The Netherlands E-mail: Info@RnA.nl -- Gerben_Wierda@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. Renee: "Met veel koper maakt men hoempa." (After hearing a Nielsen symphony)
From: Luke Howard <lukeh@xedoc.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Xedoc Software Development announces NetInfo Editions 4.1 Date: 5 Mar 1997 05:14:24 GMT Organization: Xedoc Software Development Australia Pty Ltd Message-ID: <5fivfg$kj@news.digifix.com> Xedoc Software Development, Inc. PO Box 1402 Menlo Park, CA 94026-1402 Phone (415) 519 7760 Fax (415) 519 7760 Email: info@xedoc.com NetInfo Editions 4.1 - new platforms, new features, reduced pricing. Menlo Park, California.- March 3, 1997 Xedoc Software Development, Inc. (www.xedoc.com) announced today the release of NetInfo Editions 4.1, adding new platform support, new features, a new Workgroup Edition and a reduction in pricing on all products. These changes are all a direct result of extensive customer surveys conducted during 1996. 5 Key points about NetInfo Editions 4.1 ======================================= 1. New Workgroup Edition, renamed Server Edition 2. New platform support for Linux, SGI IRIX and Solaris x86 3. Complete interoperability with NEXTSTEP, OPENSTEP for Mach, and future Rhapsody clients. 4. Performance and scalability enhancements over NetInfo Editions 3.3 5. Reduced pricing Workgroup Edition ================= Following extensive customer surveys conducted during 1996, Xedoc is pleased to offer a new Edition of NetInfo - the Workgroup Edition. The Workgroup Edition has been designed with those features required by smaller networks to provide a viable replacement for dedicated NEXTSTEP systems in the middle tiers of the domain hierarchy. Additionally, the Server Edition has been renamed the Enterprise Edition to better indicate its positioning in the product range. New platforms ============= Platforms supported with NetInfo 4.1 are DEC UNIX 3.x (OSF/1), Solaris 2.5, SunOS 4.1.x, Auspex, HP/UX 10.x, AIX 3.2.5, and IRIX 5.x. Additionally, NetInfo Workstation for Linux and Solaris x86 are being released for beta testing. Interoperability ================ This new release brings Xedoc's range of NetInfo server solutions up to date with most of the features in OPENSTEP for Mach 4.2, including the TS2 enhancements previously only offered to NeXT Premium Support customers. These enhancements are particularly useful for large NetInfo networks, with much improved logging and statistics, support for virtual hosts, and proxy processes to handle readalls in the background. Feature Enhancements ==================== NetInfo Editions 4.1 also includes significant enhancements unique to Xedoc's products, including extended caching in the lookup daemon and extensions to the BOOTP server to support better integration with Windows and NT clients. NetInfo Editions is ideal for sites with a large number of NEXTSTEP or OPENSTEP for Mach workstations, as well as those that plan to migrate to Rhapsody. NetInfo Editions supports NIS clients through its NIS emulation daemon; notably, some vendors, including Insignia, are providing NIS integration solutions for NT, providing a potential migration path for OPENSTEP for NT sites. Reduced Pricing =============== Effective with this release, Xedoc have reduced the pricing on NetInfo Editions products as follows. [For full details, please see our web site, http://www.xedoc.com] Product New PRICE Workstation Edition $150 (previously $500) Workgroup Edition $995 (new product) Enterprise Edition $2495 (previously $5000) Upgrade Policy ============== Existing customers with current Xedoc support agreements will receive the latest release free of charge. All other upgrades are priced at 50% of list price. Background ========== NetInfo Editions have been developed and supported by Xedoc for over four years, with many of the largest NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP sites as satisfied customers. Further information regarding NetInfo Editions and other Xedoc products can be obtained from the Xedoc World Wide Web server at http://www.xedoc.com/. NetInfo Editions are available directly from Xedoc, with full software and documentation downloadable via the web. Evaluation copies of NetInfo 4.1 can also be downloaded from the Xedoc web site, with 15-day evaluation keys available on request. For all inquiries regarding NetInfo Editions, please contact: Xedoc Software Development, Inc. PO Box 1402, Menlo Park, CA 94026-1402 Ph: (408) 354 3645 netinfo@xedoc.com http://www.xedoc.com About NetInfo ============= NetInfo Editions are the cross-platform editions of the advanced directory service used in NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP. NetInfo Editions greatly simplify the management of administrative information in a heterogeneous network of NEXTSTEP, OPENSTEP for Mach, and Rhapsody clients and UNIX servers. Native NetInfo (NetInfo bundled with NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP for Mach) and NetInfo Editions are 100% compatible and provide complete integration between NEXTSTEP and other UNIX operating systems. NetInfo is now available for DEC UNIX, Solaris 2.5, SunOS 4.1.x, Auspex, HP/UX 10.x, AIX 3.2.5, IRIX 5.x, Solaris x86 2.5, and Linux 2.x. About Xedoc =========== Xedoc Software Development is an award-winning software company that produces a wide range of integration products for enterprise computing, including NetInfo Editions, system administration for mixed NeXT/UNIX networks and Fabrik Foundation - the only workflow platform for OpenStep developers using the Xerox InConcert workflow server. Xedoc is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia and has been providing products and support to customers globally for over 8 years. Fabrik is a trademark of Xedoc Software Development. NetInfo, NeXT, the NeXT logo, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP are trademarks or registered trademarks of NeXT Software, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: Mark Trombino <mark@jehu.UCSD.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: NEXTVegas version 3.1 available Date: 5 Mar 1997 20:38:20 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5fkljs$8dt@news.digifix.com> Announcing the availability of the latest version of the extreamely popular freeware casino game NEXTVegas. NEXTVegas is a casino-simulation game with dynamically loading game modules including Blackjack and Craps. NEXTVegas comes with six game modules (Baccarat, Blackjack, Craps, Klondike, Red Dog, and Video Poker). Hopefully, there will be more modules available in the future... NEXTVegas is available by anonymous ftp at: ftp://wendy.ucsd.edu/pub/Mark/NEXTVegas3.1.NI.tar.gz And should also be available at: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/NEXTVegas3.1.NI.tar.gz And later... ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/games/NEXTVegas3.1.NI.tar.gz NEXTVegas requires NEXTSTEP version 3.0 or later and is compiled for both Motorola and Intel hardware. People who are interested in writting modules and who need access to the source code should write me. /Fuji/mark/Apps> sum NEXTVegas3.1.NI.tar.gz 60875 2675 /Fuji/mark/Apps> Changes since version 3.0: NEXTVegas & all the modules (except VideoPoker) * Colorized!! Really this time! (3.0 was supposed to be in color, but for some unknown reason it wasn't when it shipped. I have a turbo color slab now, so I KNOW its in color. * New players automatically start with $2000. * Variable Chip Well allows players to set a default amount for repetivie bets. * Spiffy new Welcome Panel with cheap animation * BUG FIX: Changing table min/max takes effect immediately. Blackjack * When both a player and dealer has blackjack, player wins. * Option to have dealer take away his cards instead of displaying. Klondike * Sounds when cards are moved. * Tracks wins/losses across multiple sessions. Red Dog * Players can discard first two cards if they wish. Video Poker * Audio is sync'd with video on turbo machines. It is my goal to write more modules for the game, and I encourage others to do the same. Texas Hold 'em, Pai Gao anyone? Please check out the game and let me know what you think. Any and all feedback is appreciated! Mark Trombino mtrombin@ix.netcom.com Legal Disclaimer: NEXTVegas is intended for amusement only!
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: stopthatmail -- prevents sender's remorse Date: 6 Mar 1997 04:26:30 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5flh1m$bnb@news.digifix.com> Author: Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: 5 March 1997 Version: 1.0.0 (first public) For: Mail.app 3.3 (and 3.2 -- with one drawback) After an extensive week long testing process (done solely by me, but I send a lot of email), I'm happy to announce the first public release of "stopthatmail" -- a Mail.app mailer. Have you ever accidentally sent an email message? Have you ever clicked "Deliver" and immediately wished you could get the message back? Well, if you have the Mail.app from NeXTStep 3.3, you now have one more tool. This program is a simple /bin/sh script (what else did you expect from me?) that you use as the Mailer (under Expert preferences). When you "Deliver" the message, this script steps in and give you a warning panel: - Deliver the message - Cancel the message (it just goes away) (and, using the Mail.app 3.3) - Return the message to me This is also a way to catch read receipts. The Subject of the message will appear in the top of the Alert panel, and the recipients list will appear in the middle of the Alert panel. NOTE: for this package to work you have to have the Alert binary from this package: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/ShellPanel.2.0.NIHS.bs.tar.gz If someone under OpenStep 4.x could check to see if this script works (especially the "Return to me" part), I'd appreciate it. TjL
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <22496856059808@digifix.com> Date: 6 Mar 1997 20:42:14 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5437857680935@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 - ISV company pages - ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.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 next-advocacy next-announce next-bugs next-hardware next-marketplace next-misc next-programmer next-software next-sysadmin object lang-objective-c (For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's. To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying: subscribe where * is the name of the list e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com The ftp sites ============= ftp://ftp.next.peak.org - The main site for North American submissions formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu 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) 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 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 ( eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU ) and Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com ) Additions from: Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com ) Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net ) Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines for comp.sys.next.announce Supersedes: <22497856059811@digifix.com> Date: 6 Mar 1997 20:42:17 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5444857680938@digifix.com> 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 the past. 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: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: stopthatmail -- prevents sender's remorse (version 1.1.0) Date: 7 Mar 1997 05:07:56 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5fo7rc$mra@news.digifix.com> Due to a bug in version 1.0 and the fact that I didn't even include the URL, a new submission: Author: Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: 6 March 1997 Version: 1.1.0 (second public) For: Mail.app 3.3 (and 3.2 -- with one drawback) After an extensive week long testing process (done solely by me, but I send a lot of email), I'm happy to announce the first public release of "stopthatmail" -- a Mail.app mailer. Have you ever accidentally sent an email message? Have you ever clicked "Deliver" and immediately wished you could get the message back? Well, if you have the Mail.app from NeXTStep 3.3, you now have one more tool. This program is a simple /bin/sh script (what else did you expect from me?) that you use as the Mailer (under Expert preferences). When you "Deliver" the message, this script steps in and give you a warning panel: - Deliver the message - Cancel the message (it just goes away) (and, using the Mail.app 3.3) - Return the message to me This is also a way to catch read receipts. The Subject of the message will appear in the top of the Alert panel, and the recipients list will appear in the middle of the Alert panel. NOTE: for this package to work you have to have the Alert binary from this package: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/ShellPanel.2.0.NIHS.bs.tar.gz If someone under OpenStep 4.x could check to see if this script works (especially the "Return to me" part), I'd appreciate it. TjL ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/stopthatmail.1.1.README ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/stopthatmail.1.1.NIHS.bs.tar.gz ps -- for those who are interested, the bugfix was to change: /usr/lib/sendmail to /usr/lib/sendmail -oi -odb which seemed to work for me. Please let me know if it works for you. I will be out of town from March 7-12
From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: muc.archive.update,de.admin.archiv,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (7.3.97) Date: 7 Mar 1997 20:00:13 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <5fps4d$le9@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> On the Peanuts NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next, [129.187.249.15]): 2114828 Feb 28 18:56 Tools/calendars/Chronographer.0.87.NIHS.b.tar.gz 9924 Feb 28 18:56 Tools/calendars/Chronographer.0.87.README 2090359 Feb 27 19:20 Unix/file/GNU_fileutils.3.16.NIHS.bd.tar.gz 1290 Feb 27 19:20 Unix/file/GNU_fileutils.3.16.README 1346457 Mar 2 07:20 Communication/apps/GateKeeper.2.1.Beta.6.NI.b.tar.gz 5289 Mar 2 08:28 Communication/apps/GateKeeper.2.1.Beta.6.README 710165 Mar 2 08:27 Communication/apps/GateKeeper.2.1.Beta.6.s.tar.gz 1458236 Feb 27 21:08 Network/news/RadicalNews.0.8.11.NIHS.b.tar.gz 4859 Feb 27 21:13 Network/news/RadicalNews.0.8.11.README 1528357 Feb 28 02:12 Network/news/RadicalNewsJ.0.8.11.NIHS.tar.gz 51027 Mar 2 13:27 Tools/phone/TEUMAX.1.4.1.NIHS.sda.tar.gz 7896 Mar 2 13:27 Tools/phone/TEUMAX.1.4.1.README 431189 Mar 3 12:44 OpenStep/systems/gnustep/sources/libFoundation.0.7.tar.gz 5402 Mar 3 12:51 OpenStep/systems/gnustep/sources/libFoundation.README 240553 Mar 1 13:53 Unix/admin/top.0.5.NI.b.tar.gz Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/pub/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-hamburg.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-siegen.de/ France: ftp://ftp.fdn.fr/, ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Switzerland: ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/ UUCP (Germany) wburg.hanse.de (Tel. ++49-40-307 89 06) Mailbox (Germany) (Tel. ++49-8803-61111, ISDN ++49-8803-62149). Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from december 199e. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.leo.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.leo.org)
From: Mark Trombino <mark@jehu.UCSD.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Klondike for NEXTVegas and version 3.11 available Date: 7 Mar 1997 21:16:29 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5fq0jd$5l@news.digifix.com> For some reason, the 3.10 distribution of NEXTVegas was missing the Klondike module. I have uploaded it to next-ftp.peak.org, as well as a new version of NEXTVegas which includes the Klondike. Version 3.11 is only very slightly different from 3.10. Besides including Klondike, the background images used by the modules have been darkeded a little. Those are the only differences. Klondike can be obtained from: ftp://wendy.ucsd.edu/pub/Mark/NEXTVegasKlondike.NI.tar.gz The full version of NEXTVegas is available by anonymous ftp at: ftp://wendy.ucsd.edu/pub/Mark/NEXTVegas.3.11.NI.tar.gz ftp://wendy.ucsd.edu/pub/Mark/NEXTVegas.3.11.README And should also be available at: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/NEXTVegas.3.11.NI.tar.gz ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/NEXTVegas.3.11.README And later... ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/games/NEXTVegas.3.11.NI.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/games/NEXTVegas.3.11.README NEXTVegas requires NEXTSTEP version 3.0 or later and is compiled for both Motorola and Intel hardware. People who are interested in writting modules and who need access to the source code should write me. BTW, NEXTVegas is a casino-simulation game with dynamically loading game modules including Blackjack and Craps. For those two games alone its worth the download! --- Mark Trombino mtrombin@ix.netcom.com (NEXTMail, MIME Mail okay)
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <5437857680935@digifix.com> Date: 9 Mar 1997 05:25:33 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <7353857885137@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 - ISV company pages - ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.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 next-advocacy next-announce next-bugs next-hardware next-marketplace next-misc next-programmer next-software next-sysadmin object lang-objective-c (For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's. To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying: subscribe where * is the name of the list e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com The ftp sites ============= ftp://ftp.next.peak.org - The main site for North American submissions formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu 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) 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 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 ( eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU ) and Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com ) Additions from: Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com ) Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net ) Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines for comp.sys.next.announce Supersedes: <5444857680938@digifix.com> Date: 9 Mar 1997 05:25:36 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <7354857885140@digifix.com> 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 the past. 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: hnalgae@soback.kornet.nm.kr (Kang Hyun) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: HNNews 0.94 was released. Date: 10 Mar 1997 04:24:07 GMT Organization: Hayan Nalgae Software Message-ID: <5g02d7$oom@news.digifix.com> * Introduction - HNNews is powerful multi-tasking USENET newsreader. - HNNews gives you ability of navigating news servers very easily. - HNNews is commercial product. * System Requirements - HNNews works on NEXTSTEP 3.3. Any version but 3.3 was not tested. But someone told me that HNNews works on OPENSTEP 4.0 or 4.1 - HNNews works on Intel, Motorola, Sparc, HPPA. * HNNews's main feature - Multi threading - Graphical environment - Saving old articles - Easy to use and fast to go - Powerful feature for expert of USENET - Online, Offline newsreader - Mime and UUDecode binary articles - Internal mail * Download You can find HNNews 0.94 at: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/HNNews.0.94.NIHS.b.tar.gz This will be moved to: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/demos/news/HNNews.0.94.NIHS.b.tar.gz And you can find at: http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~hnalgae/ --- Hayan Nalgae Software, NEXTSTEP Development. http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~hnalgae/ hnalgae@soback.kornet.nm.kr <Kang Hyun> Hayan Nalgae means White Wing in Korean. NeXT, Mime mail OK.
From: tracy@pdh.com (Tracy Alexander) Newsgroups: ba.jobs.offered,comp.sys.next.announce,su.jobs.offered,ucb.jobs.offered,la.jobs.offered Subject: SAN JOSE: Software and Database Design Engineers Date: 10 Mar 1997 21:59:19 GMT Organization: PDH, Inc. Message-ID: <5g207n$34j@news.digifix.com> >>>>> Career Opportunity<<<<< for an Object Oriented Designer and Developer PDH, Inc. is a leader in client-server systems using NEXTSTEP and soon OpenStep software development environments. These environments permit a 10 to 1 improvement in developer productivity on the first project and up to 25 to 1 on subsequent projects through the use of the tools, OOD, and the robust libraries (classes, palettes, kits). You will develop custom mission critical applications for customers. Qualifications: Required: BS in Computer Science or related field Objective-C, C++, SmallTalk, Java Willingness to travel within USA Desired: Familiarity with EOF, DBKit, AccessKit Experience in the following: Independent design and development Database design and development (SQL, Sybase or Oracle) Distributed databases Distributed architectures, Client-Server Graphical User Interface (GUI) design and development Object Oriented Methodology (OOA,OOD and OOP) UNIX Windows 95, NT, OLE NEXTSTEP Objective-C, C++, SmallTalk, Java Duties: Design, engineer, and participate in all stages of the product life-cycle: requirements, design, implementation, testing, documentation, training, and support. Take responsibility for technology insertion, database architectures, performance issues, and provide state-of-the-art solutions right to the desktops of customers. This is an excellent opportunity to be immediately challenged and to be a part of an elite staff. PDH provides excellent vacation, holiday, health, 401K and disability benefits. The work attire is casual, hours are flexible, and refreshments are sponsored. If you would like to be part of our fast-paced, high growth, engineering-focused development team, send your resume to: PDH, Inc. Personnel Department Vox: (408) 428-9596 Fax: (408) 428-9599 E-mail: personnel@pdh.com(NeXT Mail welcome) 2635 North First Street, Suite 224, San Jose, CA 95134-2034 Visit our web site at: http://www.pdh.com PDH, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. US CITIZENSHIP Required for Position
From: tracy@pdh.com (Tracy Alexander) Newsgroups: ba.jobs.offered,comp.sys.next.announce,su.jobs.offered,ucb.jobs.offered,la.jobs.offered Subject: SAN JOSE: Senior Software and Database Design Engineers Date: 10 Mar 1997 22:02:40 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5g20e0$38f@news.digifix.com> X-Newsreader: RadicalNews (TM) 0.8.11 Beta(n) Organization: PDH, Inc. >>>>> Career Opportunity<<<<< for an experienced Object Oriented Architect and Developer PDH, Inc. is a leader in client-server systems using NEXTSTEP and soon OpenStep software development environments. These environments permit a 10 to 1 improvement in developer productivity on the first project and up to 25 to 1 on subsequent projects through the use of the tools, OOD, and the robust libraries (classes, palettes, kits). NEXTSTEP and OpenStep are available on Motorola, Intel, Sun, HP and DEC workstations now, and will soon be running in Windows/NT and SUN NEO. You will develop custom mission critical applications for customers. Qualifications: Preferably at least 5+ years software/database development experience. Required: BS in Computer Science or related field Willingness to travel within USA Object Oriented Methodology (OOA,OOD and OOP) UNIX Independent design and development Desired: Familiarity with EOF, DBKit, AccessKit Experience in the following: Database design and development (SQL, Sybase or Oracle) Distributed databases Distributed architectures, Client-Server, CORBA Graphical User Interface (GUI) design and development Windows 95, NT, OLE NEXTSTEP Objective-C, C++, SmallTalk, Java Duties: Design, engineer/architect, and participate in all stages of the product life-cycle: requirements, design, implementation, testing, documentation, training, and support. Lead a team of highly creative, qualified engineers/architects through product development providing both the technical and managerial aspects of the project. Take responsibility for technology insertion, database architectures, performance issues, and provide state-of-the-art solutions right to the desktops of customers. This is an excellent opportunity to be immediately challenged and to be a part of an elite staff. PDH provides excellent vacation, holiday, health, 401K and disability benefits. The work attire is casual, hours are flexible, and refreshments are sponsored. If you would like to be part of our fast-paced, high growth, engineering-focused development team, send your resume to: PDH, Inc. Personnel Department Vox: (408) 428-9596 Fax: (408) 428-9599 E-mail: personnel@pdh.com(NeXT Mail welcome) 2635 North First Street, Suite 224, San Jose, CA 95134-2034 Visit our web site at: http://www.pdh.com PDH, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. US CITIZENSHIP Required for Position
From: Gideon King <gideon@csarc.otago.ac.nz> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: DUNEDIN, NEW ZEALAND: Manager - Computer Science Applied Research Centre Date: 11 Mar 1997 21:18:24 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5g4i70$dlt@news.digifix.com> University of Otago Manager - Computer Science Applied Research Centre Applications are invited for the position of Manager of the Computer Science Applied research Centre (the Black Albatross). The manager provides technical leadership of the six programmers employed in the Centre, interfaces with all major clients, and applies the research skills held in the Department of Computer Science to external clients. The successful applicant is likely to have substantial experience with object-oriented programming, with applications that run on the Internet, with secure servers for the Web, with Nextstep and Openstep software, and in management of technical staff. An industry competitive salary package will be negotiated. Longer term or short term initial contracts can be considered. Enquires can be made to the Director of the Centre, Professor B G Cox, (bgcox@otago.ac.nz), phone 64-3-479-8579, fax 64-3-479-8529. Applications in the form described on the Web at http://www.csarc.otago.ac.nz:800/ close with Professor Cox on 2 April 1997. Equal opportunity in employment is University policy. E tautoko ana Te Whare Wananga o Otago i te kaupapa whakaorite whiwhinga mahi. Information for Candidates Manager - Computer Science Applied Research Centre Responsible to the Director, Computer Science Applied Research Centre (Professor B G Cox) The Centre The Computer Science Applied Research Centre develops the skills held in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Otago to external clients. Major work is currently in progress for more than one major national organisation. The staff of the Centre currently consists of a manager, and five programmers, with a sixth programmer appointment pending. Administrative and technical support is provided by other staff of the Department of Computer Science. The Centre is located in its own building, and is linked to the campus ethernet, and to external services. Academic staff of the Department of Computer Science act as consultants to the projects being developed in the Centre. Serious consideration is being given to the appointment of a marketing consultant to help further the aims of the Centre. The Centre is equipped with individual workstations (mainly Pentiums running Openstep on top of Windows-NT), with supporting devices. There is also access to all campus facilities. Systems are often developed on additional equipment which is later relocated to client sites. Further details on the Centre can be found via the Web at http://www.csarc.otago.ac.nz:800/ The Position The Manager is expected to provide the technical and day to day leadership of the Centre. He/she assists with the preparation of the budgets, the pricing of new work, the assignment of work to staff, and liaison with major clients and has delegated authority for most day to day activity. It requires some knowledge of the department and of the University, together with well-developed technical skills particularly in communications, the use of the World-wide Web, and in object-oriented program development. Several years experience of the computing industry is likely for the successful candidate. An industry competitive salary package will be negotiated. Longer term or short term initial contracts can be considered. Other conditions of employment will be based on the University's standard individual employment contract. Applications Applications can be submitted electronically via the Web from the Centre's pages, and must contain the following information:- Full Name Postal address Email address Telephone and fax numbers Qualifications Work experience Other interests Contact information (e-mail, phone, fax and mail address) for three referees to whom confidential reference can be made. Alternatively the above information supplemented by a c.v. can be supplied by e-mail to admin@cs.otago.ac.nz . A separate equal employment opportunity statement covering Name Position applied for Gender Marital Status Ethnic Origin Source of application Disabilities (if any) is also required for confidential review by our EEO Coordinator. A form for this is also available on the web, or you can e-mail your EEO information to Kris.Smith@stonebow.otago.ac.nz . Incomplete applications may not receive detailed consideration. Applications close with Professor Cox on 31 January 1997. Brian G Cox Director Computer Science Applied Research Centre Department of Computer Science University of Otago PO Box 56 Dunedin New Zealand Phone: +64 3 479 8579 Fax: +64 3 479 8529 E-mail: bgcox@cs.otago.ac.nz --- Gideon King | Phone +64-3-479 9017 Acting Manager | Fax +64-3-479 8529 The Black Albatross | University of Otago | Computer Science Applied | e-mail gideon@csarc.otago.ac.nz Research Centre | NeXT mail, MIME ok. PGP key available. Department of Computer Science | P.O. Box 56 | I don't have a solution Dunedin | but I admire the problem. New Zealand | WWW access: http://www.csarc.otago.ac.nz:805/
From: hnalgae@soback.kornet.nm.kr (Kang Hyun) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Virtual GameBoy for NEXTSTEP 0.7 Date: 12 Mar 1997 20:18:07 GMT Organization: Hayan Nalgae Software Message-ID: <5g731v$ogg@news.digifix.com> ---------------------------- VGB 0.7 Virtual GameBoy for NEXTSTEP ---------------------------- (*) GameBoy is a registered trademark of Nintendo. * Prolog There was a lot of need for the games in NEXTSTEP community, and I really need the game running on NEXTSTEP. I thought that merely porting of VGB would make hundreds of games available to NEXTSTEP users. So I ported this to NEXTSTEP. I developed and tested this only for 2 days. So this may have some bugs. But while I tested, it worked quite well. I really hope that everyone using NEXTSTEP enjoy this... For the gamer on NEXTSTEP... * Introduction - VGB for NEXTSTEP is Portable Nintendo GameBoy Emulator. - VGB for NEXTSTEP is ported from Marat Fayzullin's original work. - VGB for NEXTSTEP is Freeware. Everybody can use and distribute this without fee. * System Requirements - VGB for NEXTSTEP works on NEXTSTEP 3.3. (Not tested on OPENSTEP) - VGB for NEXTSTEP works on Intel, Motorola, Sparc, HPPA. * Downloads ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/VGB.0.7.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/VGB.NEXTSTEP.README and it will be moved to ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/games/VGB.0.7.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/games/VGB.NEXTSTEP.README or by World Wide Web http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~hnalgae/ * Original author of VGB Very special thanks to Marat Fayzullin mailto:fms@freeflight.com http://www.freeflight.com/fms/ --- Hayan Nalgae Software, NEXTSTEP Development. http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~hnalgae/ hnalgae@soback.kornet.nm.kr <Kang Hyun> Hayan Nalgae means White Wing in Korean. NeXT, Mime mail OK.
From: Gerald Erdmann <gerald@rcn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: RCN announces ProductionPartner 1.72 and special CeBIT offer Date: 12 Mar 1997 21:07:45 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5g75v1$osk@news.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MARCH 13, 1997, Berlin, Germany. Realtime Computing and Nets (RCN), the leader in the development of sound processing tools for NEXTSTEP, is pleased to announce the newest release (1.72) of ProductionPartner for NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP/MACH, a new pricing scheme, and a special CeBIT offer. ProductionPartner is a professional tool for harddisk-recording, playing, editing, and archiving of high quality (CD) sounds. You can rearrange, cut, paste, and edit sounds. Sounds can be collected in archives (called playlists), which are units within ProductionPartner. PRODUCTIONPARTNER Via documents (list of sounds) you can easily administrate sounds or search and find text marks. In addition to the sound data, ProductionPartner stores additional information (e.g., the author's name or any other comments) in .rtfd format. By the way sound files can be located on other machines within a network; the sounds will be linked or copied. Using ProductionPartner you can include graphics, videos, or pictures in your audio archive just like in a multimedia archive. A comfortable sound editor permits displaying and cutting of sounds, level changes and other effects. BroadcastPartner: We also offer an extention to ProductionPartner called BroadcastPartner, which offers an automation of radio broadcasts. Further extension to ProductionPartner to distribute music through networks for music production and publication firms is under development, and other special solutions are available from RCN. For further information please contact RCN. Special features of ProductionPartner compared with other sound applications available for NEXTSTEP: * ProductionPartner is the only NEXTSTEP application which enables you to record sounds in CD quality (44.1 kHz, stereo) on Intel hardware * ProductionPartner records AND plays directly from your hard disk, so your swap disk will not grow, even when working with very large audio files. Therefore ProductionPartner doesn't need much more memory to play big sounds. * ProductionPartner can play audio files longer even longer than six minutes. RCN has located and bypassed a bug in the NEXTSTEP operating system which normally prevents playing such sounds (most other sound applications cannot do this). * ProductionPartner has a time bar to jump to any position within a sound or sound list WITHOUT delay during playback even using very large sounds! You can do this with a single mouse click. * The ProductionPartner editor supports reduction factors less than 1.0, so you can zoom in as far as you want! Moreover, it's much faster than most other sound editors, and it uses less memory. * ProductionPartner offers you a frontend for making backups of your sound library on a streamer or other devices (in tar format). Support for NeXT Computer and Intel-based NEXTSTEP systems is available now. ProductionPartner is available for SUN and HP workstations, too. ProductionPartner is available in a demo version which can be licensed. You can find the newest version at the following internet locations: ftp://ftp.rcn.de/rcn/next ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/NeXT/new/audio/apps/commercial ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/Commercial/audio ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/demos/sound A copy of ProductionPartner is also available on Peanuts CDROM and NeXT Third Party CDROM, but these may not me the newest version. REGULAR PRICES $275 for the ProductionPartner 1.72 (single user license) $295 for the ProductionPartner 1.72 (machine license) Network licenses are available, call RCN for information ONE YEAR LEASE OPTION RCN offers a one year full license of ProductionPartner. After this year you can continue with a full license by paying the price difference. $ 99 for ProductionPartner 1.72 (user license) $129 for ProductionPartner 1.72 (machine license) Students receive get a special discount of $40 off! A valid student-ID is required. CEBIT OFFER CeBIT (the world's greatest computer exhibition) opens on March 13th, 1997. During this week, and continueing until Easter, RCN is offering ProductionPartner for the "Easter-Egg" price of $55 (97 DM)! Call now! For getting a license or licenseable version please contact RCN; We accept MC, VISA, money order, etc. Realtime Computing and Nets (RCN) Flotowstrase 2 D - 12203 Berlin Germany TEL + 49 30 8340107 FAX + 49 30 8340108 EMAIL info@rcn.de WWW http://www.rcn.de FTP ftp://ftp.rcn.de/rcn To order a license please send us the following information: * Username and HostID (user license) * HostID (machine license) * Number of users and one HostID (network license) RELEASE NOTES 1.72 - New sound inspector added - Minor bug fixes 1.70 - Completly reengineered memory sound management and significant optimizations - Better display performance in the sound editor, especially for work in high resolution - Redesigned and colored icons - New "Delete" menu entry - Improved check if user's action is plausible - Some minor bugs were fixed ABOUT RCN Realtime Computing and Nets (RCN) was founded in 1989 by engineers who worked on research problems at the Technical University of Berlin; among others the research areas of RCN are acoustics, sound engineering, broadcast and radio management systems, audio and video database systems, digital signal processing, instrumentation, communication, satellite, and navigation systems. PRODUCTS PC boards and interface cards for instrumentation and digital signal processing (DSP) in audio/video, acoustics, signal analysis and system analysis, synthesis control and measurement, neural networks. NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP systems and products. SUN, HP, Silicon Graphics, Apple, PC Intel (DOS/Windows) Systems. SYSTEM CONSULTING AND SERVICE Development of hard- and software according to industry needs and standards at customers request. Consulting and distribution of DSP hardware and software. NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP support, Unix heterogeneous nets, and system administration. DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING AND SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT DSP cards, signal i/o interfaces, software and developer tools, developments on customers' demands, DSP application software SOLUTIONS FOR NETWORK COMPUTING Internet services (World Wide Web, ISDN) System integration, multimedia databases APPLICATION AREAS Communication service and support, audio and video signal processing, data base applications, system engineering and control SPECIAL INTEREST Development of hardware and software for DSP (digital signal processing), DSP boards, multiprocessor systems, instrumentation solutions, audio and video for multimedia applications, communication, ISDN systems and installation, acoustic design. With compentence and expert knowledge RCN succeeds in INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS in the following areas: Digital signal processing and system development, software and hardware for audio processing, measurement and instrumentation, radio, broadcast and professional music applications. Copyright (c) 1997 RCN Realtime Computing and Nets. All brand names mentioned are trademarks of their respective owners.
From: Hannes Tiefenbrunner <hannes@ping.at> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: OPENSTEP User Group Austria, An Introduction for Mac Developers Date: 12 Mar 1997 22:36:27 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5g7b5b$pio@news.digifix.com> I N V I T A T I O N The Openstep User Group Austria NOUGAT invites for an evening entitled Software Development with OPENSTEP An Introduction for Mac Developers When: Thursday, March 20th, 1997 from 5 p.m. to appr. 8 p.m. Where: Apple Austria, Ungargasse 59 Vienna Planned lectures are: "Objective-C" Dipl.-Ing. Christian Starkjohann Introduction to the language concepts Comparision with C++ and Java "Foundation Kit" Karl Schwarzott Overview over OPENSTEP base classes Concepts (Class Cluster, Memory Management, Mutablility, Archiving) "Application Kit" Norbert Heger Overview over OPENSTEP GUI classes Concepts (Target/Action, ResponderChain, Delegation/Notification, Services) "Display PostScript" Johannes Tiefenbrunner Differences/Extensions to PostScript Usage in OPENSTEP "Building Custom Applications with OPENSTEP" Dr. Werner Staringer (AAA+ Software Forschungs- & Entwicklungs-GmbH) A real life example from the financial business Keynote speaker will be Mag. Heinz Janecska of Apple Austria For questions send mail to Erich Ruprecht chairman of OPENSTEP User Group Austria rue@rts.co.at
From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: muc.archive.update,de.admin.archiv,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (14.3.97) Date: 14 Mar 1997 20:00:11 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <5gcaob$78i@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> On the Peanuts NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next, [129.187.249.15]): 1338424 Mar 7 06:24 Communication/apps/GateKeeper.2.1.Beta.7.NI.b.tar.gz 5374 Mar 7 06:14 Communication/apps/GateKeeper.2.1.Beta.7.README 711172 Mar 7 06:07 Communication/apps/GateKeeper.2.1.Beta.7.s.tar.gz Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/pub/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-hamburg.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-siegen.de/ France: ftp://ftp.fdn.fr/, ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Switzerland: ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/ UUCP (Germany) wburg.hanse.de (Tel. ++49-40-307 89 06) Mailbox (Germany) (Tel. ++49-8803-61111, ISDN ++49-8803-62149). Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from december 199e. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.leo.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.leo.org)
From: yiannis@prologos.nrl.navy.mil (John Michopoulos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NeXT Postscript Printer Driver Instalation for Windows NT 4.0 Date: 14 Mar 1997 19:57:24 GMT Organization: Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC Message-ID: <5gcaj4$fnt@news.digifix.com> NeXT Postscript Printer Driver Instalation for Windows NT 4.0 * Prolog When I mentioned that I'v done this, some good people at next-prog@omnigroup.com suggested that I upload this. So here it is * Introduction - This is for Windows NT 4.0 to print on a NeXT Black printer * System Requirements - Load the lpr package on your network configuration on your NT machine * Downloads ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/NeXTprinterWNT40.I.d.zip ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/NeXTprinterWNT40.I.d.readme or by World Wide Web http://www.gomeco.com/next/ Here is the Readme file: ---------------------------------------------------------- >From Y. Michopoulos, yiannis@kybos.gomeco.com, March 13, 1997 This is a compressed directory, with everything you need to install a postscript printer driver (PPD) for the NeXT printer that is connected to your black hardware, and you want to printon it from your Windows NT 4.0 machine. This is offered to all those that persist on the black hardware dream! This is a hack! No guaranties are implied about anything. You do everything at your OWN risk. However, if you have any problems drop me a line at yiannis@prologos.nrl.navy.milor yiannis@kybos.gomeco.com I'll try to answer. It has been asumed that: 1. your NT machine is already connected through the net to yourBlack NeXT machine. This black machine is your print server because yourblack NeXT printer is connected to it. 2. you know the IP address of your server and the name of the "local" name of the printer as it appears in the PrintManager panel (usually it is called Local_Printer). 3. the lpr package is loaded in your network configuration on your NT machine If you know how to add lpr printers then use the directory NeXTprinterWNT40.I.d as the source of yourntprint.inf file when asked. If you do not understand the previous statement then here's what you have to do. Please follow the steps: 1. unzip the file in a directory of your choice in your Windows NT 4.0 filesystem 2. Launch your(Double click ) "Printers" icon from your "My Computer" icon 3. Double click on the "Add Printer" icon 4. The "Add Printer Wizard" panel will show up; Select "My Computer" and then "Next>" 5. Push the "Add Port" button if you have not already configured a network printer before 6. In the "Printer Ports" panel that shows up, select "LPR Port" and then hit the "New Port" button 7. In the "Add LPR compatible printer" panel fill in the IP address of your Black print server in the first field and the name of the black printer as known to that machine (usually Local_Printer) 8. Then hit the OK button 9. In the "Add Printer Wizard" panel the port will show up in the list of ports.Select it and Hit "Next>" again. 10. Hit the "Have Disk" button and then on the "Install From Disk" panel hit browseand go (cd) to the NeXTprinterWNT40.I.d dir and select the ntprint.inf file and hit OK 11. Now in the "Add Printer Wizard" panel the option NeXT will appear (among others) in the list of Manufacturers. Select it and then select the only available option in the list of Printers: "NeXT 400 dpi black printer". Hit "Next >" 12. Finish the instalation by selecting whichever subsequent options you desire. ________________________________________________________ Cheers to all,
From: duncanc@datacom1.com (Duncan Campling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: US-NY-NYC - NeXTSTEP/RDBMS programmer analyst - trading applications Date: 14 Mar 1997 20:03:33 GMT Organization: Datacom Technology Group Inc. Message-ID: <5gcaul$fqh@news.digifix.com> * New Position* - This is not a repeat post Our client, a major financial organization based in the Wall Street area, New York City is currently seeking a permanent NEXTSTEP programmer analyst to develop Fixed Income trading applications. Ideal candidates will have strong NEXTSTEP design and development experience. A minimum of 2 years NEXTSTEP/Objective C experience is essential. 5 years total Information Technology experience is required. Essential Skills: * NEXTSTEP / Objective C * RDBMS skills (Sybase preferred) * BS computer science (or similar) Desirable Skills: * EOF (highly desirable) * OPENSTEP / Windows NT (not essential) * Financial experience (not essential) Salaries will reflect depth of technical and business experience. For more information please send a detailed resume to: Duncan Campling duncanc@datacom1.com www.datacom1.com 212-629-5720 Ext:230 (voice) 212-629-3374 (fax) Please mark all fax correspondence with my name - thanks. Datacom Technology Group Inc. The Empire State Building - Suite 3805 350 Fifth Avenue New York NY 10118
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <7353857885137@digifix.com> Date: 16 Mar 1997 05:00:28 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <608858488427@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 - ISV company pages - ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.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 next-advocacy next-announce next-bugs next-hardware next-marketplace next-misc next-programmer next-software next-sysadmin object lang-objective-c (For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's. To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying: subscribe where * is the name of the list e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com The ftp sites ============= ftp://ftp.next.peak.org - The main site for North American submissions formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu 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) 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 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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From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines for comp.sys.next.announce Supersedes: <7354857885140@digifix.com> Date: 16 Mar 1997 05:00:33 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <610858488431@digifix.com> 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 the past. 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: Nick Jacquet <nickj@prime> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: British Columbia Openstep Group, Thursday, March 20 Date: 16 Mar 1997 06:59:02 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5gg5nm$5ui@news.digifix.com> A meeting of the British Columbia Openstep Group will be held at 7:30 p.m. this Thursday, March 20th, 1997 in the offices of KPMG in downtown Vancouver, B.C., Canada. On the agenda: 1. Dennis Gaastra will present the result of his Master's thesis -- an object-oriented simulation of a ski resort, which models individual skier preferences and provides a realistic graphical interface for monitoring lift queues and run capacities. The model was built under NEXTSTEP 3.3 and was recently made OPENSTEP-compliant. 2. An open discussion of Questions and Answers about Apple's upcoming Rhapsody operating system, such as: + What do Mach and OPENSTEP bring to the new MacOS? + How easy is it to convert NEXTSTEP code to OPENSTEP compliance? Since the meeting will be held in the 7th floor boardroom of KPMG, please reply to this message to confirm your intent to attend, then be sure to arrive at 777 Dunsmuir Street (Pacific Center -- corner of Howe St.) before 7:30 p.m. and wait in the lobby to be escorted up the elevator. For information about the BCOG and a map of how to get to KPMG, visit our web site at: http://www.bcog.org
From: Gareth Bestor <bestor@whitewater.chem.wisc.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NeXTdimension mailing list and Web site Date: 16 Mar 1997 22:07:29 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5ghqv1$jda@news.digifix.com> This is to announce the formation of a mailing list and Web site dedicated to NeXTdimension hardware and software. In the past few months the cost of used NeXT hardware has fallen dramatically and a lot people have bought a NeXTdimension computer and want to know more about it. The ND is rather a unique piece of hardware and unfortunately very little has ever been published about it (an earlier mailing list for the ND has long since died and fallen off the Internet). I received numerous responses to my Usenet posting from people wishing to get in touch with other ND owners and with the assistance of Ryan Watkins (vamp@vamp.org) we've setup a mailing list and a Web site [actually Ryan did all the work, I just provided the brilliant idea! :-) ] To subscribe to the NeXTdimension owners mailing list send an email message to "majordomo@dimensionx.com" with the words subscribe nd-owners yourname@somewhere.else in the body of the message. The URL for the Web site is http://www.vamp.org/NeXT Presently the site is under construction but it does contain the "NeXTdimension Compendium" compiled by Steven Weintz in 1993. If you have anything else to add to the general knowledge pool please submit it! - Gareth Bestor Computer Sciences Department University of Wisconsin-Madison bestor@cs.wisc.edu
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: IMPORTANT: Configuring INN 1.5.1 for OpenStep Date: 18 Mar 1997 10:45:15 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5glrnr$1k2$1@news.digifix.com> CERT recently announced a major security flaw in INN versions before 1.5.1. Control messages that are formatted just so can gain access to your files. Perhaps most frightening is that the messages can be mixed in with any newsgroup. Anyone's machine that receives one could be compromised. Its REALLY important to upgrade to INN 1.5.1, IMMEDIATELY. I've installed the newest version of INN on three of my NEXTSTEP/OpenStep boxes now, and wrote up the basic compilation and install steps in an article on Stepwise. I've also included the config.data file that I'm using, since this is the worst part of getting INN to compile correctly. You can find the article, and pointers to the appropriate software to compile and install INN at http://www.stepwise.com/Resources/Software/inn_1.5.1_configuration.htm l Good luck! Scott -- Scott Anguish DBS Online - http://www.dbs-online.com/DBS sanguish@digifix.com Stepwise OpenStep WWW - http://www.stepwise.com
From: Stefan Schneider <stefan@ping.at> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: LatinByrd Date: 18 Mar 1997 19:52:43 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5gmrqb$dve$1@news.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Stefan Schneider Software DI Stefan Schneider Lerchenfelder St. 85/6 A-1070 Vienna, Austria, Europe +43-1-523-5834 stefan@ping.at http://www.ping.at/members/stefan/ ANNOUNCING THE INITIAL RELEASE OF LATINBYRD Vienna, Mar 18, 1997 -- LatinByrd.app has been submitted to FTP sites. LatinByrd is an RTF to HTML converter. LatinByrd converts RTF documents, RTFD documents, and plain ASCII documents to web pages. LatinByrd converts single documents as well as document trees. In addition, LatinByrd also converts single TIFF and EPS images to GIF and JPEG format. LatinByrd is a commercial product. Fully licensable demo. Localized to English, French, and German. FEATURES Conversion of Documents and Document Trees - converts single RTF, RTFD, and ASCII documents - converts document trees, like an entire NS3.x on-line help - various hands-free, semi-automatic, and manual image conversion strategies available - local sharing of identical images (i.e. per document) - global sharing of identical images (i.e. per document tree) - stores embedded files and folders as .tar/.Z/.gz archive files - cross-ref validation of links - detects damaged documents, missing or damaged images, missing or damaged embedded files/folders, invalid link target docs, invalid link target markers, duplicate marker definitions, and unreachable documents - selectable text and background colors - selectable background image - adjustable mapping of font sizes - customizable conversion rules for special characters - simulates RTF ruler settings with invisible spacer images and invisible HTML3.2 tables - optionally replaces bullet char with selectable bullet image - optionally aligns left margin for minimal use of tables - optionally replaces divider images with <hr> tags - optionally replaces link buttons by anchoring neighboring text - selectable link image for remaining link buttons - automatically turns <URL> text into links Conversion of Images - converts TIFF and EPS images to GIF and/or JPEG format - selectable gamma correction factors (GIF + JPEG) - optionally applies Netscape colormap (GIF) - optionally applies Floyd-Steinberg error distribution (GIF) - selectable threshold for pure transparency (GIF) - partial transparency is pre-rendered over selected background color (GIF + JPEG) - sync-view of both GIF and JPEG versions, on-the-fly changes of image options are rendered immediately Other - compiled for Motorola, Intel, HPPA, and sparc - requires NEXTSTEP 3.2 or higher, or NS/OS 4.x for Mach - LatinByrd is localized to English, French, and German - in demo mode, every 8th character is X'd out, and images contain a tiny DEMO string AVAILABILITY LatinByrd (1.63MB) can be obtained from: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/converters/LatinByrd.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/converters/LatinByrd.README ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/converters/LatinByrd.LIESMICH ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/converters/LatinByrd.LISEZMOI PRICE US$ 119 US$ 69 (Academic) For information on how to purchase a license key for LatinByrd, please contact Stefan Schneider Software at stefan@ping.at, or visit us at http://www.ping.at/members/stefan/index.html Fuer Bestell-Informationen senden Sie Email an stefan@ping.at, oder besuchen Sie uns auf http://www.ping.at/members/stefan/gindex.html Pour toute information visant l'achat d'une licence de LatinByrd, veuillez communiquer avec Andre Lalonde a : tralala@mlink.net, ou visitez notre site http://www.mlink.net/~tralala/ - Stefan Schneider
From: Mark Trombino <mark@jehu.UCSD.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: NEXTVegas 3.12 Now Available Date: 18 Mar 1997 19:58:51 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5gms5r$e04$1@news.digifix.com> March 16, 1997 Announcing the availability of the latest, greatest, AND LAST version of the extreamely popular freeware casino game NEXTVegas. NEXTVegas is a casino-simulation game with dynamically loading game modules including Blackjack and Craps. NEXTVegas comes with six game modules (Baccarat, Blackjack, Craps, Klondike, Red Dog, and Video Poker). Hopefully, there will be more modules available in the future... NEXTVegas is available by anonymous ftp at: ftp://wendy.ucsd.edu/pub/Mark/NEXTVegas.3.12.NI.tar.gz ftp://wendy.ucsd.edu/pub/Mark/NEXTVegas.3.12.README And should also be available at: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/NEXTVegas.3.12.NI.tar.gz ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/NEXTVegas.3.12.README And later... ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/games/NEXTVegas.3.12.NI.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/games/NEXTVegas.3.12.README NEXTVegas requires NEXTSTEP version 3.0 or later and is compiled for both Motorola and Intel hardware. It seems to run fine on Openstep 4.1 (Motorola) as well. This is a binary only release -- people who are interested in writting modules and who need access to the source code should write me. PLEASE NOTE: This will be the last NEXTSTEP version of NEXTVegas. I have recently upgraded to Openstep, and so can no longer compile for NEXTSTEP (why is that, anyway?). Hopefully, I'll have an Openstep version out soon! Please check out the game and let me know what you think. Any and all feedback is appreciated! Mark Trombino mtrombin@ix.netcom.com Legal Disclaimer: NEXTVegas is intended for amusement only! NOTE: RedDog is broken in this release. After "Collecting All Bets", the deal button becomes disabled and does not become enabled again even after the player adds a bet to the table. Changes since version 3.11: * BUG FIX: ATM no longer automatically gives players $2000 everytime they access it. * Blackjack: If player has Blackjack, and Dealer has ace showing, the dealer no longer asks the player if he wants insurance after the player has been paid for his Blackjack. Changes since version 3.10: * Includes Klondike module (accidently left out of 3.1 distribution). * Table images for modules have been darkened a little. Changes since version 3.00: NEXTVegas * Colorized!! Really this time! (3.0 was supposed to be in color, but for some unknown reason it wasn't when it shipped. I have a turbo color slab now, so I KNOW its in color now. * New players automatically start with $2000. * Variable Chip Well allows players to set a default amount for repetivie bets. * Spiffy new Welcome Panel with cheap animation * BUG FIX: Changing table min/max takes effect immediately. Blackjack * When both a player and dealer has blackjack, player wins. * Option to have dealer take away his cards instead of displaying. Klondike * Sounds when cards are moved. * Tracks wins/losses across multiple sessions. Red Dog * Players can discard first two cards if they wish. Video Poker * Audio is sync'd with video on turbo machines.
From: Amy.Yeater@OEinc.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,dc.jobs,va.jobs,md.jobs Subject: JOB: OPENSTEP Programmers for DC Area Date: 18 Mar 1997 22:09:00 GMT Organization: Seanet Online Services, Seattle WA Message-ID: <5gn3ps$hbt$1@news.digifix.com> JOB: OPENSTEP Programmers for DC Area Object Enterprises Inc. needs programmers in the DC area with experience in a variety of sites throughout the OPENSTEP development community. Ideal candidates will have strong OPENSTEP experience, a minimum of 3 years NEXTSTEP/Objective C experience, and currently reside in the DC area. Essential Skills: ƒ Strong knowledge of NEXTSTEP / Objective C ƒ Understanding of EOF 2.0 and its concepts ƒ Good RDBMS skills (Sybase or Oracle preferred) ƒ UNIX skills Desirable Skills: ƒ Java ƒ Exposure to Windows NT ƒ Web related experience ƒ OPENSTEP / Windows NT ƒ Large-scale NEXTSTEP site experience. Please send resume in ascii or RTF along with information on availability, rates, etc. -- Amy Yeater Object Enterprises Incorporated 2608 Second Avenue Suite 119 Seattle WA 98121-1276 206-217-0891 - PHONE Amy.Yeater@OEinc.com www.oeinc.com
From: Scott Christley <scottc@net-community.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: GNUstep Database Library version 1.0.0 Date: 18 Mar 1997 22:48:51 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5gn64j$imm$1@news.digifix.com> ANNOUNCE ******** The GNUstep Database Library, version 1.0.0, is now available. What is the GNUstep Database Library? ===================================== The GNUstep Database Library is a hierarchy of Objective-C classes that provide a three-tiered architecture for developing database applications. The three-tier architecture is a flexible paradigm for building robust and scalable client/server applications; the three tiers refer to the database, the Application Objects, and the user interface. The separation of the database from the user interface through intermediary Application Objects allows the data to be distributed appropriately across database servers and still have the user interface display data cohesively for the end-user. Business logic, as implemented in the Application Objects, provides the mechanism for consistency and reusability across all your business applications. Entity-relationship modelling is used for describing the Application Objects and how they are mapped to database fields. The GNUstep Database Library represents these models as plain ASCII text files; this allows external programs to be used for constructing and maintaining the models separate from the applications which use them. What Databases are supported? ============================= The GNUstep Database Library has adaptors written and tested for these databases: * PostGres, tested on the Linux/GNU operating system. * Sybase Server, tested on the NEXTSTEP operating system. * Microsoft SQL Server, tested on the Windows NT operating system. If your database is not listed above then please consider writing and donating an adaptor; there is written documentation regarding what classes and methods need to be implemented for a database adaptor. NET-Community will also consider writing an adaptor for companies who are willing to donate a database server. How can I get support for this software? ======================================== We currently do not have any mailing lists setup explicitly for the GNUstep Database Library; however, you may wish to use the GNUstep discussion mailing list for general questions and discussion. Look at the GNUstep Web Pages for more information regarding GNUstep resources `http://www.gnustep.org' There are also companies which provide commercial support for the GNUstep Database Library, see the file `SUPPORT' for more information. What's new in this release? =========================== The currently released version of the GNUstep Database Library is `1.0.0'. Noteworthy changes in version `1.0.0' ===================================== * First public release of the GNUstep Database Library. * Mircea and Ovidiu write Postgres95 adaptor; though PostGres has been going through some rapid changes and development recently. They have dropped the `95' from their name, and there has been much restructuring of the source, so we hope to maintain compatibility through these changes. * Scott takes Sybase adaptor and modifies it for Microsoft SQL Server; ports the source to Windows NT in the process. * Mircea and Ovidiu write initial code to Sybase database on NEXTSTEP. Where can you get it? How can you compile it? ============================================== The gstep-db-1.0.0.tar.gz distribution file has been placed on `ftp.gnustep.org' in `pub/gnustep'. The GNUstep Database Library requires GCC `2.7.2' or higher. It also requires a FoundationKit library as specified by the OpenStep specification. The FoundationKit libraries known to work are NeXT's as provided with the NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP operating systems, libFoundation version `0.7.0', or the GNUstep Base Library version `0.2.12'. Depending upon your FoundationKit library, you may need the FoundationExtensions library as well. Users of the GNUstep Base Library should get version `0.7.1' or higher of FoundationExtensions. The `.tar' file is compressed with GNU gzip. Gzip can be obtained by anonymous ftp at any of the GNU archive sites. For info about FTP via email, send email to <ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com> with no subject line, and two-line body with line one `help' and line two `quit'. The most recent (not necessarily tested) snapshots of the library will be placed in `ftp://alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu/gnu/gnustep'. Creators rejoice! Scott Christley <scottc@net-community.com> [ Most GNU software is packed using the GNU `gzip' compression program. Source code is available on most sites distributing GNU software. 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From: "DXtra Inc." <info@dxtra.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: WorldStation(tm) from DXtra Inc. Date: 19 Mar 1997 04:34:37 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5gnqct$qc6$1@news.digifix.com> NOTE: DXtra Inc. is a registered NeXT Software Inc. ISV and is the sole developer of WorldStation(tm). Compnay : DXtra Inc. Web Site : http://www.dxtra.com E-mail address: info@dxtra.com Telephone : 516-541-2342 DXtra Inc. is pleased to announce availability of version 1.0 of WorldStation(tm), its' software driven radio tuner. It is a unique NeXTStep application which utilizes the NeXT platform's graphic capabilities to a high level. The software allows a user with a supported computer enabled radio to remotely control the radio from a virtual NeXTStep GUI. Targeted users for this application are amateur radio operators, scanner users, and shortwave listeners' (SWLers). Customized drivers can also be written. The following major features are supported: 1. Full support of all radio functions such as tuning and reception mode selection from the GUI. 2. Ability to control internal radio parameters from the fromt-panel GUI. 2. Included frequency and band plan databases using the table object to allow for interactive sorting by dragging and dropping columns. 3. Real-time scanning of the radio spectrum and plotting of signal strengths. 4. Auto-frequency lookup from the main tuner panel. 5. A "What's On" database, updated every minute, showing short wave stations coming on the air. Supported Platforms: NeXTStep/Openstep for Intel processors Price: $250.00 Availability: Now
From: Dwight Everhart <everhart@alterlife.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Chronographer 0.88 Date: 19 Mar 1997 04:34:03 GMT Organization: Sailor Hardware Message-ID: <5gnqbr$qbu$1@news.digifix.com> Chronographer -- A daily planner application Dwight Everhart everhart@alterlife.com March 18, 1997 Version 0.88 of Chronographer has been released. Several major features have been added since the last publicly-announced version, including: o The user interface of the schedule window has been improved. It should be much easier to use. It now sports a button bar. You can use the buttons to control which windows are displayed. You can also use other buttons to directly select a different day of the week. You can also select the next or previous day, week, month, or year with the arrow buttons. There is also a button labeled "Now" which will always take you to the current day and time. o A filter has been added for the to-do lists. Using a pop-up list, you can control which to-do items are displayed based on which role they belong to. o Schedules now scroll automatically when an appointment is dragged over them, just like OmniWeb's bookmark windows. o Multiple selection has been added. Multiple roles, goals, tasks, and appointments can now be cut, copied, duplicated, dragged, or bumped at the same time. o The Page Layout panel's settings are now remembered between launchings of Chronographer. o Reminder times now always stay in sync with the system clock. Even if daylight savings time changes while Chronographer is running, the reminders will be issued at the times requested. DESCRIPTION =========== Chronographer is an application designed to help you to organize not only your time but also your priorities in life. Instead of just keeping track of appointments, Chronographer also keeps track of the goals that these appointments further, so you can easily determine if what you are doing today is helping you to accomplish what you want to do this week, this month, this year, and this decade. Instead of just asking yourself, "What needs to be done and when do I need to do it?", Chronographer encourages you to first ask, "What do I want to accomplish in life?" and then ask, "What do I need to do in order to achieve these goals?" Chronographer focuses on the long term as well as the short term. Chronographer helps you to organize your life by establishing a hierarchy of roles and goals. Out of these roles and goals appointments are scheduled. Chronographer allows you to set a time budget for each role or goal, and it provides you with instant summaries of how much time you've actually spent on each item. It also provides a detailed report of how you've spent your time. AVAILABILITY ============ Chronographer is being distributed in one, quad-fat package: name: Chronographer.0.88.NIHS.b.tar.gz h/w: NeXT, Intel, HP-PA, SPARC size: 2160657 md5: 4f8027d86acb04fbf9f016bfd34b10a9 sum32: 4110762764 Chronographer has been submitted to PEAK: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/demos/productivity/Chronographer.0.88.NIHS.b.tar.gz Chronographer has also been submitted to Peanuts: ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/Tools/calendars/Chronographer.0.88.NIHS.b.tar.gz The release is binary-only and includes software for NeXT, Intel, HP-PA, and SPARC hardware. It will run on NEXTSTEP versions 3.2 and later. It might also run on 3.0 and 3.1, but it has not been tested with those versions. If you find that it does run on either of those versions, please let me know. This is the 15th release of Chronographer. It is a beta release. Version 1.00 will be commercial, but this beta release is free and is fully functional, except that it will stop running on June 1. By that time, a newer version will be available. The commercial version will cost US$40 per user.
From: Dana Shadrick <dana@sgsnet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Job - WebObjects Developer Date: 20 Mar 1997 04:21:33 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5gqe0d$qu9$1@news.digifix.com> SGS Net Inc. a Chicago area based provider of internet technology services to coporations is seeking individuals with experience with any of the following: WebObjects EOF OpenStep Objective, C++, Java, Perl OOA/OOD Please send your resume to: Email:jobs@sgsnet.com or Fax to: (847) 733-8973
From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: muc.archive.update,de.admin.archiv,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (21.3.97) Date: 21 Mar 1997 20:00:04 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <5gupc4$cfm@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> On the Peanuts NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next, [129.187.249.15]): 2160657 Mar 15 09:01 Tools/calendars/Chronographer.0.88.NIHS.b.tar.gz 7714 Mar 15 09:01 Tools/calendars/Chronographer.0.88.README 7222119 Mar 11 07:50 Commercial/spreadsheet/Mesa.2.0.NIHS.b.tar.gz 902 Mar 11 08:26 Commercial/spreadsheet/Mesa.2.0.README 4609732 Mar 11 08:11 Commercial/spreadsheet/MesaInfo.2.0.NIHS.b.tar.gz 70015 Mar 11 08:24 Commercial/spreadsheet/MesaInstallation.2.0.d.ps 4494 Mar 11 08:24 Commercial/spreadsheet/MesaReleaseNotes.2.0.d.rtf 481052 Mar 11 08:22 Commercial/spreadsheet/MesaUserGuide.2.0.d.gz 1260029 Mar 13 16:43 Commercial/audio/ProductionPartner.1.72.1.HS.b.tar.gz 1241180 Mar 13 16:46 Commercial/audio/ProductionPartner.1.72.1.NI.b.tar.gz 7423 Mar 13 16:43 Commercial/audio/ProductionPartner.1.72.1.README 178 Mar 13 08:46 Developer/languages/java/kaffe.0.8.2.I.bs.README 1348039 Mar 13 08:45 Developer/languages/java/kaffe.0.8.2.I.bs.tar.gz 3860 Mar 13 08:55 Developer/languages/java/kaffe.0.8.2.README Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/pub/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-hamburg.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-siegen.de/ France: ftp://ftp.fdn.fr/, ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Switzerland: ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/ UUCP (Germany) wburg.hanse.de (Tel. ++49-40-307 89 06) Mailbox (Germany) (Tel. ++49-8803-61111, ISDN ++49-8803-62149). Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from december 199e. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.leo.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.leo.org)
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: comp.sys.next.announce/Stepwise back online Date: 22 Mar 1997 06:16:25 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5gvtfp$oma$1@news.digifix.com> After a couple of days of hassles thanks to the inept handling (by my old ISP) of moving my connectivity to a new ISP, I'm happy to say that Stepwise should be reachable by most everyone again. http://www.stepwise.com/ This is the first time Stepwise has changed ISPs in the last three years that its been operating, and hopefully the last. We are now one hop away from a T3, and have options for upgrades as required. As far as comp.sys.next.announce goes, I'd like to find some additional sites that would accept outgoing feeds of the articles posted to comp.sys.next.announce. Currently announce postings will going out through my new ISP, and they also are fed to Blacksmith and AFS to aid propogation. I'd like to find two or three additional sites, preferably well-connected sites, to accept outgoing csn.announce articles. Feel free to contact me via email to work out the details. -- Scott Anguish DBS Online - http://www.dbs-online.com/DBS sanguish@digifix.com Stepwise OpenStep WWW - http://www.stepwise.com
From: G.C.Th.Wierda@RnA.nl (Gerben Wierda) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: BIND-4.9.5 Installer package (m68k, i486, hppa, sparc) Date: 24 Mar 1997 20:59:28 GMT Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid Message-ID: <5h6pvg$6ls$1@news.digifix.com> Scott, I did not want to wait anymore for sending this out, so I send it from here (AWT.nl). Could you please change the headers (if neceto From: Gerben Wierda <Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl> Organization: R&A ======================== START POST CONTENTS ============================== BIND-4.9.5 Installer package (m68k, i486, hppa, sparc) Courtesy of Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl Location: ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next/Internet/BIND-4.9.5.pkg.tar.gz ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next/Internet/BIND-4.9.5.README The contents of the README file follows: This is the README file for BIND-4.9.5.pkg, a package containing a replacement for the BIND installation that comes with NEXTSTEP. At least under NEXTSTEP 3.x, this is a very old version of BIND, which contains bugs and security problems. I created this package because I will soon be releasing an Installer package for the Squid Internet Object Cache. This cache has revealed a bug in the named daemon, which prompted me to install the latest version of BIND. This package has not been checked under NEXTSTEP 4.x. Please tell me if it works. The software has not been checked on sparc and hppa architectures. Again, please tell me if it works. Note: I don't have the time to tell you how BIND works. Read the man page for named for a start. This package does not contain a replacement for the developer side, the header files and libraries on your system will be unaffected. Safe Installation: You can normally safely install this package. It will backup the existing files before installing the newer versions. When you delete or compress the package again the original files will be reinstalled. Is that great or what? Yours, March 20, 1997 -- Gerben Wierda, R&A
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <608858488427@digifix.com> Date: 23 Mar 1997 05:00:18 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3027859093225@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 - ISV company pages - ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.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 next-advocacy next-announce next-bugs next-hardware next-marketplace next-misc next-programmer next-software next-sysadmin object lang-objective-c (For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's. To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying: subscribe where * is the name of the list e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com The ftp sites ============= ftp://ftp.next.peak.org - The main site for North American submissions formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu 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) 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 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. 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From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines for comp.sys.next.announce Supersedes: <610858488431@digifix.com> Date: 23 Mar 1997 05:00:21 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3029859093227@digifix.com> 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 the past. 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: info@bang.org Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Bay Area NeXT Group, Thursday March 27th Date: 26 Mar 1997 07:16:57 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5haih9$iq0$1@news.digifix.com> **** ANNOUNCEMENT **** Bay Area NeXT Group Meeting When: Thursday, March 27, 7:00 PM Where: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Auditorium 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA Topic: Graphic Design and Multimedia NEXTSTEP Apps This month, we offer a look at the seamless (print and Web) graphic designer's user environment created by applications running on NEXTSTEP: TIFFany, Virtuoso, ImageCurator and NeXTMail. Speaker: Michael Rutchik, Mudhaus Design, San Francisco Michael Rutchik, principal graphic designer at Mudhaus Design in San Francisco, will demonstrate the superior graphic arts environment that has been available in NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP for years. If you thought graphic wizardry was limited to the Macintosh, see what you can do with these apps. TIFFany II, by Stan Jirman, a professional image processing application that takes full advantage of NeXT's object-oriented design and multi-threading capability, rivals the capability of Adobe's PhotoShop. Virtuoso (closely related to Freehand) is used for accurate PostScript rendering and for production of Web-destined .gifs. ImageCurator, by Robert Keiffer, now working for OpenStep Developers' Lighthouse Design/ Sun, is a wonderful image-management application that allows display of image collections by dragging and dropping folders of images. As all NeXT users have known, NeXTmail seamlessly ties the work environment together by empowering the desktop with what is still the best multimedia mail on the planet. Bring your questions about graphic-arts programs and Web design. We will also have a technical Q&A, and dinner afterward at a nearby restaruant. See you at the meeting! Contact: info@bang.org http://www.bang.org/ BANG, P.O. Box 1731, Palo Alto, CA 94302 (415) 327-BANG Directions: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center is much easier to reach from 280. FROM 280: Take 280 toward 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 toward 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/Alameda de las Puelguas (street has two names) and passing a Shell station on your right. The SLAC entrance is at a light on your left. Look for directions to the Auditorium at the guard office at the entrance. --
From: Chris Roehrig <croehrig@ascaris.house.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: ThreadedApp: NS3.3 class to support multithreaded apps Date: 28 Mar 1997 04:15:10 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5hfgke$i2u$1@news.digifix.com> I've submitted ThreadedApp.1.0 to next-ftp.peak.org. They should appear soon as ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/sourcelibrary/classes/ThreadedApp.1.0.README ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/sourcelibrary/classes/ThreadedApp.1.0.s.tar.gz Here's the README file: ThreadedApp v 1.0 Chris Roehrig <croehrig@House.ORG> March 1997 Writing multi-threaded applications in NEXTSTEP is not as easy as it could be. I wrote ThreadedApp to make it easy to write multi-threaded applications that use the AppKit. In particular, it provides an easy mechanism for threads to use the AppKit features in a safe and robust way. So now there's no excuse not to use threads! Let's make those Apps RESPONSIVE! ThreadedApp Support for multi-threaded applications for NEXTSTEP 3.3. ThreadedApp is a subclass of Application that contains the functionality of the OpenStep NSThread object, but also provides increased support for interaction with the AppKit. The AppKit is not thread-safe and only the main thread can use it. All other threads must message the main thread to perform any functions (drawing, etc) that involve the AppKit. ThreadedApp does this by introducing the notion of callback methods. This is a flexible mechanism whereby a thread can request that the main application thread invoke a method on its behalf. This allows a thread to have virtually full access to the AppKit in a way that is easy to understand and use. The callback mechanism uses Mach messages to make requests to the main AppKit thread. The main thread only receives the messages when it is in an event loop, so it is crucial that the main thread remains responsive to events. (This is only good user-interface design anyways.) ThreadedApp provides support for locking shared data or code via the CJRLock and CJRConditionLock classes. These classes allow the main AppKit thread to "block" while waiting to acquire a lock, but still remain responsive to events so that other threads may still perform callbacks. Send any bug reports, comments, etc. to Chris Roehrig <croehrig@House.ORG> If you find ThreadedApp useful and are using it in an application, send me a note; I'd like to hear about it! Chris
From: abraxas@iag.net (Michelle McCosh) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: East and West USA - Nextstep Openings Date: 26 Mar 1997 19:46:30 GMT Organization: Abraxas Technologies, Inc Message-ID: <5hbuem$5g3$1@news.digifix.com> Abraxas Technologies are looking for experienced Nextstep developers to work for their clients in the east and west parts of the US. We are interested in candidates from anywhere in the world, as we will sponsor you for the correct visa and relocate you and your family to the USA if you have the right skills. We pay top salaries ($80k - $100k) and full benefits. We will also sponsor you for a green card if you are interested. If you are interested please contact: Michelle McCosh Abraxas Technologies 140 Alexandria Blvd., Suite A Oviedo Fl 32765 Phone: 407 359-0020 Fax: 407 359-9922 email: michelle@abraxas.com
From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: muc.archive.update,de.admin.archiv,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (28.3.97) Date: 28 Mar 1997 20:00:05 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <5hh805$oq2@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> On the Peanuts NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next, [129.187.249.15]): 3127 Mar 27 22:38 Commercial/network/LatinByrd.LIESMICH 3348 Mar 27 22:38 Commercial/network/LatinByrd.LISEZMOI 1708995 Mar 27 22:39 Commercial/network/LatinByrd.NIHS.b.tar.gz 2804 Mar 27 22:39 Commercial/network/LatinByrd.README 2854582 Mar 27 23:07 Games/card/NEXTVegas.3.12.NI.tar.gz 3802 Mar 27 23:07 Games/card/NEXTVegas.3.12.README 664880 Mar 27 01:37 Text/apps/OmniPDF.2.1.2.H.b.tar.gz 627190 Mar 27 01:37 Text/apps/OmniPDF.2.1.2.I.b.tar.gz 612132 Mar 27 01:36 Text/apps/OmniPDF.2.1.2.N.b.tar.gz 1542951 Mar 27 01:26 Text/apps/OmniPDF.2.1.2.NIHS.b.tar.gz 645085 Mar 27 01:38 Text/apps/OmniPDF.2.1.2.S.b.tar.gz 70400 Mar 27 22:21 Text/apps/PDFView.1.71.NIHS.b.tar.gz 104428 Mar 27 22:46 Tools/frontends/Ping.2.1.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 1500 Mar 27 22:46 Tools/frontends/Ping.2.1.README 51707 Mar 27 22:37 Tools/phone/TEUMAX.1.5.1.NIHS.sda.tar.gz 8941 Mar 27 22:37 Tools/phone/TEUMAX.1.5.1.README 156182 Mar 27 22:36 OpenStep/text/tex/Tex2Eps.1.0.I.b.tar.gz 831 Mar 27 22:36 OpenStep/text/tex/Tex2Eps.1.0.REAMDE 176717 Mar 27 22:36 OpenStep/text/tex/Tex2Eps.wm.s.tar.gz 430266 Mar 27 22:50 Games/action/VGB.0.7.NIHS.b.tar.gz 2509 Mar 27 22:50 Games/action/VGB.NEXTSTEP.README 262274 Mar 27 22:40 Network/programs/system/bootp.DD2.4.3.NIHS.b.tar.gz 1548 Mar 27 22:40 Network/programs/system/bootp.DD2.4.3.README 703 Mar 27 22:42 Fonts/fonts/ghostscriptPSFonts.4.03.README 2023592 Mar 27 22:42 Fonts/fonts/ghostscriptPSFonts.4.03.d.tar.gz 1457621 Mar 27 23:08 Developer/languages/java/kaffe.0.8.3.I.b.tar.gz 3613 Mar 27 23:08 Developer/languages/java/kaffe.0.8.3.README 2218684 Mar 27 22:54 X11/clients/science/xppaut.2.71.NIHS.bd.tar.gz 1600 Mar 27 22:54 X11/clients/science/xppaut.2.71.README Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/pub/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-hamburg.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-siegen.de/ France: ftp://ftp.fdn.fr/, ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Switzerland: ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/ UUCP (Germany) wburg.hanse.de (Tel. ++49-40-307 89 06) Mailbox (Germany) (Tel. ++49-8803-61111, ISDN ++49-8803-62149). Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from december 199e. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.leo.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.leo.org)
From: Tommy Hwang <me@mysolution.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Disk Quota for NeXTStep 3.3 Date: 28 Mar 1997 21:26:15 GMT Organization: Internet Solutions Incorporated of Fort Wayne, IN Message-ID: <5hhd1n$aea$1@news.digifix.com> DiskQuota for NeXTStep m68K - Binary ALPHA Release Contact: Internet Solutions/Formosa Inc. Tommy K. Hwang P.O. Box 8126 Fort Wayne, IN 46898-8126 Product Summary: Disk Quota Manager, based loosely on SVR4's equivalent, for use by NeXTStep System Administrators to minimize any individual account to "hog" had entire harddrive or RAID system. Product Level of Diffuculties: HARD - No graphical interface whatsoever and none will be developed by me. Usage is very loosely based on the SVR4 implementation and user should be fully knowledged with NeXTStep and SVR4 to use this software. Origin of Program: Direct decendent of Purdue University's (PUCC) Quota Manager for NeXTStep. This is NOT called or directly affiliated with PUCC's version only because the sources sent to me was incomplete and I was told Purdue will not support it (so modifications were made to it out of need). Purdue do not have a NeXT lab for many years now. CLASSIFICATION of Program: FREEWARE - As by conditions of the source release to me from Purdue University. Current Know Bug/Incompleteness: 1. Restricted Quota shell not available. As a temporary replacement, a simple shell script that will disconnect a user is used. Availability: UNIX Binary Distribution QuotaManager for NeXTStep 3.3 m68K will be made available in the following location (subject to change at any time due to the temporary nature of AnimeBBS at this moment): http://animebbs.mysolution.com/~next/
From: tracy@pdh.com (Tracy Alexander) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SAN JOSE: Software and Database Design Engineers Date: 28 Mar 1997 21:28:07 GMT Organization: PDH Inc. Message-ID: <5hhd57$aen$1@news.digifix.com> >>>>> Career Opportunity<<<<< for an Object Oriented Designer and Developer PDH, Inc. is a leader in client-server systems using NEXTSTEP and soon OpenStep software development environments. These environments permit a 10 to 1 improvement in developer productivity on the first project and up to 25 to 1 on subsequent projects through the use of the tools, OOD, and the robust libraries (classes, palettes, kits). You will develop custom mission critical applications for customers. Qualifications: Required: BS in Computer Science or related field Objective-C, C++, SmallTalk, Java Willingness to travel within USA Desired: Familiarity with EOF, DBKit, AccessKit Experience in the following: Independent design and development Database design and development (SQL, Sybase or Oracle) Distributed databases Distributed architectures, Client-Server Graphical User Interface (GUI) design and development Object Oriented Methodology (OOA,OOD and OOP) UNIX Windows 95, NT, OLE NEXTSTEP Objective-C, C++, SmallTalk, Java Duties: Design, engineer, and participate in all stages of the product life-cycle: requirements, design, implementation, testing, documentation, training, and support. Take responsibility for technology insertion, database architectures, performance issues, and provide state-of-the-art solutions right to the desktops of customers. This is an excellent opportunity to be immediately challenged and to be a part of an elite staff. PDH provides excellent vacation, holiday, health, 401K and disability benefits. The work attire is casual, hours are flexible, and refreshments are sponsored. If you would like to be part of our fast-paced, high growth, engineering-focused development team, send your resume to: PDH, Inc. Personnel Department Vox: (408) 428-9596 Fax: (408) 428-9599 E-mail: personnel@pdh.com(NeXT Mail welcome) 2635 North First Street, Suite 224, San Jose, CA 95134-2034 Visit our web site at: http://www.pdh.com PDH, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. US CITIZENSHIP Required for Position
From: jason@brubeck.bifrostworks.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Texas (Oklahoma) NEXTSTEP/Intel sysadmins Date: 27 Mar 1997 04:34:25 GMT Organization: The Black Box, Houston, Tx (713) 480-2686 Message-ID: <5hctch$gcb$1@news.digifix.com> Hello all - One of our customers is looking to add two sysadmins in Texas or perhaps Oklahoma. The postitions may be part-time or full-time, depending on your location and availability. Some travel may be required. Being based in Dallas or Austin is a plus. The administrators should have a background as a network client administrator, have good organizational skills, and understand: 1. NEXTSTEP and UNIX TCP/IP networking commands 2. how to configure and test laser printer network interface cards, 3. running basic diagnostics on Intel-based PC's, writing detailed descriptions of problems that a repair techs will understand, 4. how to communicate effectively in a training situation, as trainer or trainee. The administrator should be someone who likes to clearly document what he's learned regarding administration of the NEXTSTEP network. 5. basic 10Base-T wiring concepts, including the difference between straight-through and crossover cables, 6. how to properly connect machines to hubs, etc. via patch-panels You will not be responsible for all troubleshooting and replacement of bad equipment, only the preliminaries thereof. The initial contract would be for six months, and is renewable. If interested and/or if you have questions, please fax/NeXTMail relevant info/questions to me at the coordinates below. Thanks for your time. Jason McNamara jason@bifrostworks.com (NeXTMail encouraged!) Bifrost Workstations, Inc. 10850 Richmond Ave, Suite 270 Houston, TX 77042 http://www.bifrostworks.com/ 713.952.9934 facsimile
From: dana@oceansoft.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Ocean Software Ships Complete Access v2.0pr1 for OpenStep/Mach and OpenStep/NT Date: 27 Mar 1997 22:04:53 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5hequ5$a3r$1@news.digifix.com> News For Immediate Release: Contact: Dana W. Parrish 904-363-1646 dana@oceansoft.com OCEAN SOFTWARE SHIPS COMPLETE ACCESS v2.0 PR1 FOR OPENSTEP/MACH AND OPENSTEP/NT March 17, 1997 - Jacksonville, Florida - Ocean Software, Inc. is pleased to announce Complete Access (TM) and Complete Access Enterprise (TM) v2.0 PR1 for the OpenStep (TM) for Mach and NT environments. Collectively, these tools provide query, reporting, and decision-making tools for both the end user and the application developer. Complete Access is the stand-alone application for the unsophisticated end user requiring database query and reporting functionality on the OpenStep/Mach or OpenStep/NT platforms. Complete Access Enterprise is the combination of an end user query and reporting tool, and an Interface Builder palette. This tool is tightly integrated with both Interface Builder and Enterprise Objects Framework (TM) (EOF) v2.0 and permits rapid integration of database query, reporting, and data analysis functionalities in mission critical custom applications. Both of these products have been built on top of Ocean Software's frameworks for deploying query and reporting tools in a number of configurations, including OpenStep, WebObjects (TM), and Portable Distributed Objects (TM) (PDO). These frameworks have been defined as follows: CompleteAccess.framework - Dynamically generates document objects with various calculations, aggregates, custom formatting, etc. This framework makes no references to the AppKit framework, so it can be used in PDO and WebObjects environments. CompleteAccessAppKit.framework - Provides a user interface for the document objects generated in the CompleteAccess framework and permits user interaction with each document. This framework does reference the AppKit framework. CompleteAccessWeb.framework - Includes the necessary Java client-side applets for viewing Document objects in a Java-enabled client. Look for Ocean Software's newest offering, Complete Access Web in 2Q'97. CompleteAccessEditor.framework - Used by the Complete Access Enterprise palette to provide a graphical interface for designing reports without any programming. This framework will be extended to support WebObjects Builder v3.5 as well. "The new framework architecture in Complete Access opens our tools to a larger audience," says Randy Leonard, president of Ocean Software, Inc. "Not only can our customers deploy reporting applications on Windows NT and Mach, but will soon be able to leverage their investment in our tools to both WebObjects and Rhapsody." It is important to note that Complete Access v2.0 is not just a port of our successful NEXTSTEP-based products. Among the feature enhancements included in our new version is a simplified user interface and a subclass of the EOAssociation class. Other features include: - The only EOF-based OpenStep reporting application. - 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 - Query results may be shared by many documents - Extensive import/export support, including: - Arbitrary field and record delimiters - Import with optional automatic model generation - Export data, aggregates, and calculated values from multiple tables to a single text file - Exported data may be sorted - Filters to exclude specific records from the exported or imported data - Extensive aggregate support, including: - Total, Running Total, Page Totals, 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, form letters, envelopes, labels, and summary pages - Free form design environment - A paper interface allows you to see how your document will appear as you design it - A document's paper size is arbitrary, your reports automatically reflow to the paper size you require - Extensive support for calculations including: - Seven distinct function categories: - Math - Statistics - Trigonometric - Text - Date/Time - Database - Logical - Ability to define and add custom functions - Calculations on aggregated values - Aggregates on calculated values - Automatic scanning for syntax errors - Shared "smart" variables - Utilize variables in any number of calculations - Embed variables within queries - Display variables in any number of documents - Use variables for layout, aggregate and data export filters - Arbitrary and conditional formatting of dates, times, and numbers - Arbitrary data source - EOF v2.0 - Text files - Any data source providing records abiding by the EOKeyValueCoding protocol - Documentation - Tutorial - User Manual - API Manual - Developer Manual - FAQ's - Extensive API to empower developers - Currently porting to the OpenStep platform - Web version due 2Q'97 Complete Access and Complete Access Enterprise v2.0 PR1 are available now for Windows NT and Mach based versions of OpenStep 4.0. Pricing starts at $499 per user for Complete Access and $999 per developer seat for Complete Access Enterprise, with volume discounts available for both. A demonstration version is available via ftp, e-mail, or disk. 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 OpenStep and WebObjects. Complete Access, Complete Access Enterprise, and Complete Access Web is a trademark of Ocean Software, Inc. Trademark Info: NeXT, the NeXT logo, OpenStep, WebObjects and Portable Distributed Objects are trademarks or registered trademarks of NeXT Software, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <3027859093225@digifix.com> Date: 30 Mar 1997 05:00:28 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <7486859698032@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 - ISV company pages - ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.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. 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 next-advocacy next-announce next-bugs next-hardware next-marketplace next-misc next-programmer next-software next-sysadmin object lang-objective-c (For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's. To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying: subscribe where * is the name of the list e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com The ftp sites ============= ftp://ftp.next.peak.org - The main site for North American submissions formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu 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) 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 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 ( eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU ) and Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com ) Additions from: Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com ) Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net ) Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines for comp.sys.next.announce Supersedes: <3029859093227@digifix.com> Date: 30 Mar 1997 05:00:31 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <7488859698035@digifix.com> 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 the past. 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: Ingmar Camphausen <ingmar@aurora.in-berlin.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Berlin NEXTSTEP User Group (BeNG) April Date: 31 Mar 1997 20:47:26 GMT Organization: INDIVIDUAL NETWORK BERLIN Message-ID: <5hp7su$aau$1@news.digifix.com> **** MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT **** Berlin NEXTSTEP User Group (BeNG) April meeting ================================================= The BeNG (Berlin NEXTSTEP User Group) will be holding its next meeting on Monday, April 7, 1997, at 8:00 p.m. (MET) in the "Institut fuer Energietechnik" of the Technical University Berlin in Room KT 101 (1st floor), Marchst. 18, D-10587 Berlin, Germany. Topics we will address this time: o CEBIT 1997: The latest information about NeXT, Apple and Rhapsody from Hannover. o NEWSFLASH The newest facts about Rhapsody and the announced plans of a takeover of Apple by Oracle. o NEXTTOYOU 97.1 The new spring 1997 issue of the sole NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine in German will be presented o MAILTIFFS In its most recent issue, the "NEXTTOYOU" starts an online archive for Mail.app pictures. The tools needed to use it will be discussed as well as an explanation of the underlying concept The meeting is open to anyone who is interested in NEXTSTEP, OPENSTEP and RHAPSODY, Apple's future operating system . People seeking for more first hand information about these OS's (especially Mac users), are very welcome, too. The official part of the meeting is scheduled to end at about 10 p.m. After the program, join us for a snack and/or drink at the nearby "Cafe' Campus". Looking forward to seeing you at the meeting! Contact: Gerald Erdmann gerald@kurt.in-berlin.de (NeXTmail welcome) or Ingmar Camphausen ingmar@aurora.in-berlin.de (NeXTmail welcome) BeNG: e-mail beng@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (mailinglist!) WWW http://buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de/~beng FTP ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/NeXT How to get there ---------------- We meet in Room KT 101 on the 1st floor of the "Institut fuer Energietechnik", a building of the Technical University of Berlin. It is located Marchst. 18 on the campus of the TU near the western city-center of Berlin. The entrance to the building is on the left hand side behind a gate at the end of a parking lot. Watch out for the NeXT-logo-like 'BeNG' signs and follow them upstairs to the meeting room! :-) * Coming by bike or public transport: We recommend coming by bicycle or using the public transport (BVG): You can either take the underground line U2 or bus 145 or bus X9 and leave at 'Ernst-Reuter-Platz' (+ 400 m walking), or you choose bus 245 up to Ernst-Reuter-Platz/Marchst. (+ 200 m walking). The nearest rapid transit ("S-Bahn") station is "Tiergarten" (~1000 m/ ~10 min walking distance); you get there via the rapid transit lines S3, S5, S7 or S75. * Coming by car - from North (Wedding, Moabit, Reinickendorf, Pankow ...) Main direction is Turmst. or Beusselst. and then "Alt-Moabit" St. Follow them south, crossing the Spree River via the Gotzkowsky Bridge. At the fork keep left into the Franklinst. After crossing the March Bridge and the Einstein St, the "Institut fuer Energietechnik" is located on the left-hand side of the street behind the drive to a parking lot. - all other directions: Head for Ernst-Reuter-Platz via Bismarckst. or Hardenbergst. (from the West-Berlin city center/Zoo) or "Strasse des 17. Juni"/Grosser Stern. From the roundabout Ernst-Reuter-Platz, take the Marchst. exit. About 200 m into the Marchst., right after a blue building and the drive to a parking lot on the right hand side, you find the "Institut fuer Energietechnik". There is a limited number of parking lots near the building. All those of you familiar with the geography of Berlin (Germany) can take a look at a map of the meeting location and its environment via the StadtINFO online city map under the URL http://www.kulturbox.de/cgi-bin/k/pixelinfo?PQ=m11&X=96&Y=381&TEXT=BeNG%21 (The "Institut fuer Energietechnik" is marked with a red circle.) * * * The subsequent meeting is scheduled for May 5, 1997. --- BeNG --- WHO WE ARE --- The Berlin NEXTSTEP User Group (BeNG) exists since 1990 and is a loose "aggregation" of NeXT resp. NEXTSTEP enthusiasts. Our participants may be reached via our mailing list. Of course, we are present in the WorldWideWeb, too. We also manage the NeXT/NEXTSTEP FTP archive at the Technical University (TU) Berlin. mailing list mailto:beng@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de WWW http://buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de/~beng FTP ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/NeXT We meet the first Monday each month at 8:00 p.m. (If this coincides with a holiday, the meeting takes place the subsequent week.) We usually have a lecture or presentation; respective suggestions or offers are very welcome and should be directed to our mailing list.
From: Katie Graunke <katie@stone.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Stone Design Announces March Raffle Winner! Date: 1 Apr 1997 20:42:38 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5hrrvu$am6$1@news.digifix.com> NEWS For immediate release For more information: EMAIL: info@stone.com TEL: Katie Graunke, (505) 345-4800 Albuquerque, NM, April 1, 1997 -- Stone Design Corp, a long time leader in the NEXTSTEP/OpenStep software marketplace, announced today the winner of the March 1997 Raffle for a copy of CheckSum and Stone CD Volume 3. The winner is Dimitri Tischenko. Stone Design will raffle software and a CD each month while supplies last. To enter the raffle, please visit our World Wide Web site: http://www.stone.com/ =*= Stone Design Corporation of Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 1984, develops a variety of productivity applications for Java, OpenStep, and soon to be Rhapsody. 3D Reality, DataPhile, and Create are trademarks of Stone Design Corporation. The Stone Design logotype is copyright Stone Design 1994. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
From: Chris Roehrig <croehrig@ascaris.house.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: ThreadedApp-1.0.1 bug fix release Date: 3 Apr 1997 20:40:12 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5i14jc$ep5$1@news.digifix.com> I've submitted ThreadedApp.1.0.1 to next-ftp.peak.org. This is a bug fix release. The files are ThreadedApp.1.0.1.s.tar.gz and ThreadedApp.README and should appear in ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/sourcelibrary/classes By popular demand, ThreadedApp is in the process of being donated to MiscKit. Thanks for the response! --- Chris Roehrig croehrig@House.ORG Neuroscience and Computer Science at University of British Columbia, Vancouver http://www.House.ORG/chris http://www.sns.cs.ubc.ca/chris Here's the README file: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ThreadedApp v 1.0.1 This is a bug-fix release. Chris Roehrig <croehrig@House.ORG> March 1997 Writing multi-threaded applications in NEXTSTEP is not as easy as it could be. I wrote ThreadedApp to make it easy to write multi-threaded applications that use the AppKit. In particular, it provides an easy mechanism for threads to use the AppKit features in a safe and robust way. All source code in this module can be freely distributed and modified providing the copyright notice remains intact. So now there's no excuse not to use threads! Let's make those Apps RESPONSIVE! ThreadedApp Support for multi-threaded applications for NEXTSTEP 3.3. ThreadedApp is a subclass of Application that contains the functionality of the OpenStep NSThread object, but also provides increased support for interaction with the AppKit. The AppKit is not thread-safe and only the main thread can use it. All other threads must message the main thread to perform any functions (drawing, etc) that involve the AppKit. ThreadedApp does this by introducing the notion of callback methods. This is a flexible mechanism whereby a thread can request that the main application thread invoke a method on its behalf. This allows a thread to have virtually full access to the AppKit in a way that is easy to understand and use. The callback mechanism uses Mach messages to make requests to the main AppKit thread. The main thread only receives the messages when it is in an event loop, so it is crucial that the main thread remains responsive to events. (This is only good user-interface design anyways.) ThreadedApp provides support for locking shared data or code via the CJRLock and CJRConditionLock classes. These classes allow the main AppKit thread to "block" while waiting to acquire a lock, but still remain responsive to events so that other threads may still perform callbacks. Send any bug reports, comments, etc. to Chris Roehrig <croehrig@House.ORG> If you find ThreadedApp useful and are using it in an application, send me a note; I'd like to hear about it! Chris
From: Andrew Stone <andrew@stone.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: **Stone Design Announces New Low Prices ** Date: 4 Apr 1997 04:22:37 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5i1vmd$rfc$1@news.digifix.com> News For immediate release For more information, please contact: Katie Graunke: 505-345-4800 info@stone.com www.stone.com Stone Design Announces New Lower Prices Albuquerque, New Mexico - April 4, 1997 - Stone Design announced a new pricing structure for all of its productivity applications that run on NEXTSTEP and OpenStep. The new prices represent significant savings over former prices - up to 65% off of former prices. "The tremendous response to the Monkey Madness Sale made us rethink our pricing structure, " said Katie Graunke, sales manager for Stone Design. "Customers want our applications and they want them at lower prices. We're listening and responding to our widening market." "The people using NEXTSTEP and OpenStep today are the pioneers who can tell their grandchildren that they were "there" when it all began," said Andrew Stone, CEO of Stone Design. "We believe this courageous commitment should be rewarded with StoneWare at low, low prices. Take advantage now, and insure the success of OpenStep!" The new prices are: Software Type of end user: Package Regular Academic Student* ------- ------- -------- -------- DataPhile $ 395 $ 195 $ 129 Create $ 295 $ 149 $ 79 3DReality $ 295 $ 149 $ 79 CheckSum $ 149 $ 79 $ 49 SD Bundle $ 499 $ 299 $ 149 Savings 64% 60% 65% The Stone Design Bundle includes Create 3.1 or 4.0, DataPhile 3.1, 3D Reality 2.1 and CheckSum 2.0. These prices are effective immediately. Please contact Stone Design if you have any questions or when you want to place your order. *Students must ftp the applications and fax Stone Design a copy of their current student id card: FAX: (505) 345-3424. ** -=- Stone Design Corp of New Mexico was founded by Andrew Stone in 1984 and was the first firm to ship a product on NeXT Hardware in 1989 with the release of TextArt. Since then, Stone Design has been a leader in innovative shrinkwrap software in the NEXTSTEP and OpenStep marketplace and a forerunner in creating widgets and gizmos for Java. Create, DataPhile, 3DReality are tradenames of Stone Design Corp.
From: Paul Heffernan <cedar@cedar.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Cedar Systems announces availability of CedarWord v1.1 US$35 word processor Date: 8 Apr 1997 02:55:01 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5icc25$44n$1@news.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information please contact: Cedar Systems Limited 2440 The Quadrant, Aztec West, Bristol, BS12 4AQ, England Phone: +44 1454 878708 Fax: +44 1454 878608 Email: info@cedar.co.uk http://www.cedar.co.uk or in German to: David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development, Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG, Fax: +49 33056 82152 Email: dave@turbocat.de http://harvey.aball.de/dave CEDAR SYSTEMS ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF CEDARWORD V1.1 US$35 WORD PROCESSOR BRISTOL, ENGLAND - April 7, 1997 - Cedar Systems today announced the availability of version 1.1 of their popular word processor for NEXTSTEP. Due to considerable demand for CedarWord with German users, this version includes a full German interface and German version of the on-line help. Cedar Systems are also pleased to announce a partnership with Turbocat's Development in Germany to provide sales and customer support to customers in Germany, Austria and other German speaking areas. With the excellent TeX German hyphenation, German spell checking and now the German interface; CedarWord is a MUST for all German users. The new release also features much faster loading times, particularly for users with a large number of fonts, numerous minor enhancements including support for emacs cursor movement. The version incorporates fixes for all reported bugs including a problem encountered using KaiSu multibyte fonts. A temporary license code is published on our web site enabling unrestricted access to CedarWord until the end of April 1997, and the new customer discount will be continued until April 28, 1997. CedarWord is an easy-to-use WYSIWYG word processor that has been designed to perform the basic functions of a word processor quickly and effectively. It handles large ( > 500 page) documents effortlessly, always keeping the user informed of the document status. CedarWord uses the standard Rich Text Format (RTF) as its native file format, ensuring easy and accurate transfer of documents with all popular word processors on any platform. CedarWord utilises user definable document templates and hierarchical styles to enable documents to be created quickly and with a consistent layout. Documents may have header and footer text, incorporate graphics which may be resized, and include page number and date/time variables. All the normal paragraph and character formatting features are provided through an easy to use inspector. CedarWord provides the standard NEXTSTEP spell checking facility and full find and replace functionality. CedarWord offers a comprehensive formatting bar and user definable preferences which include a facility to define command key equivalents for all menu operations. Utilising the TeX hyphenation algorithm and standard TeX hyphenation files, this will be one word processor that you will leave automatic hyphenation turned on which ever language you use! For more details about CedarWord and to download a fully working copy of CedarWord v1.1 see our web site http:\\www.cedar.co.uk Licensed users may download and use this latest version free with their original license code.
From: Paul Heffernan <cedar@cedar.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Cedar Systems announces availability of CedarWord v1.1 US$35 word processor (GERMAN) Date: 8 Apr 1997 02:55:29 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5icc31$44v$1@news.digifix.com> FR SOFORTIGE VERFFENTLICHUNG Fr weitere Informationen wenden Sie Sich bitte an: In Deutschland, sterreich, der Schweiz und anderen deutschsprachigen Gebieten: Turbocat's Development Dipl. WiInf. David Wetzel Buchhorster Strae 1c D-16567 Mhlenbeck bei Berlin Telefon +49 33056 82151 Telefax +49 33056 82152 eMail info@turbocat.de http://harvey.aball.de/dave In anderen Lndern: Cedar Systems Limited 2440 The Quadrant, Aztec West, Bristol, BS12 4AQ, England Telefon +44 1454 878708 Telefax +44 1454 878608 eMail info@cedar.co.uk http://www.cedar.co.uk CEDAR SYSTEMS GIBT DIE VERFGBARKEIT VON CEDARWORD V1.1 BEKANNT BRISTOL, ENGLAND - 7. April 1997 - Cedar Systems gibt heute die Verfgbarkeit der Version 1.1 ihrer Textverarbeitung fr NEXTSTEP bekannt. Aufgrund der hohen Nachfrage enthlt diese Version ein vollstndig ins Deutsche bersetzte Benutzerinterface und eine deutsche Version der Online-Hilfe. Cedar Systems hat mit Turbocat's Development in Deutschland einen Partner gefunden, der den Vertrieb und den Kundensupport fr Deutschland, sterreich, der Schweiz und andere deutschsprachige Gebiete bernimmt. Mit der ausgezeichneten deutschen TeX-Silbentrennung, deutscher Rechtschreibprfung und der neuen deutschen Oberflche ist CedarWord ein Mu fr alle deutschsprachigen NEXTSTEP-Anwender. Die neue Version bietet auerdem viel krzere Ladezeiten - besonders fr Anwender mit vielen Schriftarten. Viele kleine Verbesserungen wie die Untersttzung von Emacs-Tastaturbefehlen wurden vorgenommen. Diese Version behebt alle bekannten Bugs einschlielich eines Problems mit KaiSu Multibyte-Fonts. Ein temporrer Lizenzcode wird auf unserer Website publiziert. Mit diesem Code knnen Sie CedarWord bis Ende April 1997 benutzen. Der Neukundenrabatt wird bis zum 28. April 1997 fortgesetzt. CedarWord ist ein leicht bedienbares WYSIWYG Textprogramm, das die Grundlegenden Funktionen einer Textverarbeitung schnell und effektiv ausfhrt. Es bearbeitet groe Dokumente (> 500 Seiten) ohne Probleme. CedarWord benutzt Standard Rich Text Format (RTF) als Dokumentenformat. Dies gewhrleistet einen einfachen und sicheren Datenaustausch zwischen den Textverarbeitungen verschiedener Plattformen. CedarWord benutzt benutzerdefinierbare Dokumentvorlagen und hierarchische Stile und bietet damit effektive Mglichkeiten schnell Dokumente mit einem konsistenten Layout zu erstellen. Dokumente knnen Kopf- und Fuzeilen, Grafiken, Seitennummern und Datum-/Zeitfelder enthalten. Das Zeichen- und Absatzformat kann ber einfach bedienbare Inspektoren modifiziert werden. CedarWord bietet eine ntzliche Formatierungsleiste und benutzerdefinierbare Prferenzen, die sogar eine nderung der Men- Befehle erlauben. CedarWord benutzt den gleichen Algorithmus fr die automatische Trennung wie Donald Knuths TeX Programm. Dies garantiert eine ausgezeichnete Trennung und ermglicht die Benutzung vieler frei erhltlicher sprachspezifischer Trenndateien. Um mehr ber CedarWord zu erfahren, oder um eine voll funktionsfhige Kopie zu erhalten, besuchen sie uns im WWW http://harvey.aball.de/dave Registrierte Benutzer knnen die neue Version mit Ihren bisherigen Lizenzen benutzen.
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <7486859698032@digifix.com> Date: 6 Apr 1997 05:00:24 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <28108860302827@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 - ISV company pages - ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.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. 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 next-advocacy next-announce next-bugs next-hardware next-marketplace next-misc next-programmer next-software next-sysadmin object lang-objective-c (For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's. To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying: subscribe where * is the name of the list e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com The ftp sites ============= ftp://ftp.next.peak.org - The main site for North American submissions formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu 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) 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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From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: UPDATE: comp.sys.next.announce and Stepwise now working - really Date: 25 Mar 1997 21:39:46 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5h9gn2$6ve$1@news.digifix.com> Sigh Last week wasn't one of my better weeks. The good news is that now, I can say with confidence, that the line problems are solved, and that Stepwise and comp.sys.next.announce are both back to full working order. Basically the details are that, after fixing the snafu caused by the inept idiots at my old ISP, MCI kept dropping my routing because the router here was flapping (going up and down). This was caused by occassional, but massive numbers of errors being sent. Bell came out yesterday and started line tests and determined that it was the physical line that was wrong, and early on Tuesday that tracked down the exact location and replaced it with fiber optic cable (oooooo). Now everything is humming again. Really... http://www.stepwise.com Outgoing feeds of comp.sys.next.announce When I asked this the other day I didn't really expect the replies I got. So let me clarify a few things, and update the status. In order to accept an outging comp.sys.next.announce feed, you'd need to be running INN or some other news server software, and be in a position to make the changes to allow me to feed you the messages. Currently, comp.sys.next.announce is fed to - news.blacksmith.com - news.omnigroup.com (thanks Ken!) - istar.ca - xenitec.on.ca - afs.com (thanks Greg!) From here it gets dispersed to their upstream news sites, and spreads. Its probably overkill, but I'd like to get one or two more feeds, either someone just off of bbnplannet or sprintlink and someone off alternet... And I'd also be interested in a European outgoing feed as well. -- Scott Anguish DBS Online - http://www.dbs-online.com/DBS sanguish@digifix.com Stepwise OpenStep WWW - http://www.stepwise.com
From: tracy@pdh.com (Tracy Alexander) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: CA, SAN JOSE: Senior Software and Database Design Engineers Date: 8 Apr 1997 19:28:46 GMT Organization: PDH Inc. Message-ID: <5ie69e$q6o$1@news.digifix.com> >>>>> Career Opportunity<<<<< for an experienced Object Oriented Architect and Developer PDH, Inc. is a leader in client-server systems using NEXTSTEP and soon OpenStep software development environments. These environments permit a 10 to 1 improvement in developer productivity on the first project and up to 25 to 1 on subsequent projects through the use of the tools, OOD, and the robust libraries (classes, palettes, kits). NEXTSTEP and OpenStep are available on Motorola, Intel, Sun, HP and DEC workstations now, and will soon be running in Windows/NT and SUN NEO. You will develop custom mission critical applications for customers. Qualifications: Preferably at least 5+ years software/database development experience. Required: BS in Computer Science or related field Willingness to travel within USA Object Oriented Methodology (OOA,OOD and OOP) UNIX Independent design and development Desired: Familiarity with EOF, DBKit, AccessKit Experience in the following: Database design and development (SQL, Sybase or Oracle) Distributed databases Distributed architectures, Client-Server, CORBA Graphical User Interface (GUI) design and development Windows 95, NT, OLE NEXTSTEP Objective-C, C++, SmallTalk, Java Duties: Design, engineer/architect, and participate in all stages of the product life-cycle: requirements, design, implementation, testing, documentation, training, and support. Lead a team of highly creative, qualified engineers/architects through product development providing both the technical and managerial aspects of the project. Take responsibility for technology insertion, database architectures, performance issues, and provide state-of-the-art solutions right to the desktops of customers. This is an excellent opportunity to be immediately challenged and to be a part of an elite staff. PDH provides excellent vacation, holiday, health, 401K and disability benefits. The work attire is casual, hours are flexible, and refreshments are sponsored. If you would like to be part of our fast-paced, high growth, engineering-focused development team, send your resume to: PDH, Inc. Personnel Department Vox: (408) 428-9596 Fax: (408) 428-9599 E-mail: personnel@pdh.com(NeXT Mail welcome) 2635 North First Street, Suite 224, San Jose, CA 95134-2034 Visit our web site at: http://www.pdh.com PDH, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. US CITIZENSHIP Required for Position
From: tracy@pdh.com (Tracy Alexander) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: CA, SAN JOSE: Software and Database Design Engineers Date: 8 Apr 1997 19:28:32 GMT Organization: PDH Inc. Message-ID: <5ie690$q6f$1@news.digifix.com> >>>>> Career Opportunity<<<<< for an Object Oriented Designer and Developer PDH, Inc. is a leader in client-server systems using NEXTSTEP and soon OpenStep software development environments. These environments permit a 10 to 1 improvement in developer productivity on the first project and up to 25 to 1 on subsequent projects through the use of the tools, OOD, and the robust libraries (classes, palettes, kits). You will develop custom mission critical applications for customers. Qualifications: Required: BS in Computer Science or related field Objective-C, C++, SmallTalk, Java Willingness to travel within USA Desired: Familiarity with EOF, DBKit, AccessKit Experience in the following: Independent design and development Database design and development (SQL, Sybase or Oracle) Distributed databases Distributed architectures, Client-Server Graphical User Interface (GUI) design and development Object Oriented Methodology (OOA,OOD and OOP) UNIX Windows 95, NT, OLE NEXTSTEP Objective-C, C++, SmallTalk, Java Duties: Design, engineer, and participate in all stages of the product life-cycle: requirements, design, implementation, testing, documentation, training, and support. Take responsibility for technology insertion, database architectures, performance issues, and provide state-of-the-art solutions right to the desktops of customers. This is an excellent opportunity to be immediately challenged and to be a part of an elite staff. PDH provides excellent vacation, holiday, health, 401K and disability benefits. The work attire is casual, hours are flexible, and refreshments are sponsored. If you would like to be part of our fast-paced, high growth, engineering-focused development team, send your resume to: PDH, Inc. Personnel Department Vox: (408) 428-9596 Fax: (408) 428-9599 E-mail: personnel@pdh.com(NeXT Mail welcome) 2635 North First Street, Suite 224, San Jose, CA 95134-2034 Visit our web site at: http://www.pdh.com PDH, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. US CITIZENSHIP Required for Position
From: Uli Zappe <uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: NEXTTOYOU announces improved international availability Date: 8 Apr 1997 20:04:10 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5ie8bq$r6n$1@news.digifix.com> NEXTTOYOU announces improved international availability For more information: WWW: http://www.nexttoyou.de (subscription is possible on our Web pages) EMAIL: info@nexttoyou.de (for general questions) abo@nexttoyou.de (for subscriptions/orders of single issues) anzeige@nexttoyou.de (for advertisement) NEXTTOYOU, the German NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine, is pleased to announce improved availability in the U.S. Though NEXTTOYOU is written in German, there have been quite a few inquiries from overseas. So far, however, NEXTTOYOU has been very expensive in the U.S. due to exorbitantly high shipping costs. Because of a new distribution channel we are now able to deliver NEXTTOYOU inside the U.S. at realistic prices. NEXTTOYOU appears quarterly at season's start and costs (including shipping): annual single subscription issue US $ 30 $ 8.50 EU DM 46 DM 13 NEXTTOYOU currently is the only printed NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine worldwide. First published in 1994 to provide the NEXTSTEP community with a platform both for neophytes and professionals, it has enjoyed steady growth since then and right now experiences another leap in interest due to the upcoming new Apple operating system based on OPENSTEP technology. NEXTTOYOU also provides a great advertisement opportunity for those companies that want to position themselves early in the newly emerging OPENSTEP/Rhapsody marketplace.
From: Leon von Stauber <leonvs@vishnu.occam.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Austin NEXTSTEP/OpenStep User Group - April 9 Date: 7 Apr 1997 05:26:28 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5ia0i4$521$1@news.digifix.com> AnUG, the Austin NEXTSTEP/OpenStep User Group, is having a meeting on Wednesday, April 9. Make sure you get to this one, because it promises to be a great night! NEXTSTEP and MacOS users, developers, and administrators are enouraged to attend. Dreux Ste. Marie from Apple will show off and talk about new Apple products, including some nifty Mac hardware. We'll also discuss what's in the works for Rhapsody. And as usual, we'll have a couple of NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP systems to play around on. Don't miss the fun! WHEN: Wednesday, April 9, 1997 7 PM - 9ish Refreshments served at 6:30 PM WHERE: offices of PSW Technologies 6300 Bridgepoint Parkway, Bldg. 3 (near the 360 bridge) From Loop 360 (Capital of Texas Hwy.), turn west on Courtyard Dr. (which is the stoplight just north of the bridge). Take the first left onto Bridgepoint Parkway. Take the second driveway to the right, up to the parking garage. The PSW building is down from the garage. PSW Technologies, Inc. is a software services company working on the leading edge of computing technologies. This includes object-oriented development using NEXTSTEP and OpenStep. If you'd like to join the AnUG mailing list, send your request to <owner-anug@pswtech.com> For more information, contact Leon von Stauber <leonvs@occam.com> (512) 342-3311
From: Ralph Zazula <zazula@running-start.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: Running Start Delivers Electronic Commerce Solution for xtension.com Date: 9 Apr 1997 19:50:31 GMT Organization: Running Start, Inc. Message-ID: <5igru7$19f$1@news.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Walt Beisheim Running Start, Inc. 620/661-0805 (5795 FAX) walt@running-start.com http://www.running-start.com RUNNING START DELIVERS ELECTRONIC COMMERCE SOLUTION FOR XTENSION.COM TUCSON AZ., April 9, 1997 Running Start, Inc today announced the deployment of the first website to utilize their on-line catalog and shopping system. The Media-Network site, xtension.com (SM), is a comprehensive sales and information web site for QuarkXTensions and can be accessed via the URL: http://www.xtension.com At xtension.com, customers can browse and view information on a wide selection of QuarkXTensions, add products from multiple vendors to their shopping basket, and make purchases using various forms of payment including on-line credit card transactions. Purchased products are then available for immediate download and/or packaged shipment. Vendors can administer their product offerings and access sales reports remotely using an intuitive web interface. This alleviates the need for extensive content administration by Media-Network. "We are excited by the results of this development effort" said Walt Beisheim, Vice President of Marketing for Running Start. "Our collaboration with the Media-Network has produced a solution focused on solving real-world electronic commerce issues such as multi-vendor support and on-line transaction handling." Running Start?s Commerce System provides a complete underlying framework for the creation of any type of web-based catalog sales application. Its Object-Oriented, modular design based on Apple Computer's WebObjects technology is extensible, scalable and easy to customize and integrate. Applications created using the Commerce System conform to the practices used by an organization instead of forcing the use of new procedures. The system was developed in collaboration with Media-Network to provide a comprehensive set of components to meet all the potential needs of a web commerce application. "Working with Running Start to help define the specifications for their Commerce System was a real benefit for us", said Cloude Porteus, IS Architect at Media-Network. "The system provides all the functionality needed to build complex sites like xtension.com, and the design is flexible enough to support future Media-Network Electronic Commerce products." FEATURES - comprehensive multi-vendor support (cataloging, browsing, administration and reporting) - on-line secure credit card processing and fulfillment - multiple database support (Oracle, Informix, Sybase, SQL Server, ODBC) - object-oriented design makes it easy to extend and integrate with custom solutions MORE INFORMATION On-line information can be found at the following URL: http://www.running-start.com/products/CommerceSystem.html ABOUT RUNNING START Running Start, Inc. was founded in January of 1996 by Ralph Zazula and David Koski, two veteran NeXT developers. Running Start uses industry best-practices to deliver high-quality software designs and implementations to clients such as NeXT Software, The Filoli Information Systems Company, and Koyosha Graphics of America. Copyright 1997 Running Start, Inc. All Rights Reserved ###
From: Paul Tod Rieger <prie@abl.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: NEXTSTEP:atlanta (metamorphosis) Date: 10 Apr 1997 19:40:55 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5ijfo7$nd$1@news.digifix.com> NEXTSTEP:atlanta is becoming a part of AMUG, the Atlanta Macintosh Users Group. We immediately benefit from their high degree of organization: 10 board members, 25 volunteers, and over 800 members. In the future, we will find invaluable their relationships with Apple and its developers. In return, we offer our familiarity with NEXTSTEP/OpenStep/Rhapsody, for which AMUG is enthusiastically welcoming us. While other user groups have viewed NEXTSTEP largely as a curiosity, AMUG views it as a promising and exciting inevitability. They want to see it -- right now. Please attend their general meeting to familiarize yourself with AMUG and help shape the future of NEXTSTEP:atlanta as an AMUG SIG (special interest group). Date: Wednesday, April 16, 1997 Time: 7:00pm Place: Room 206, White Hall Emory University (Atlanta, USA) Cost: free and open to the public http://www.atlmug.org/ Agenda: Adobe presents PageMill and Photoshop LaCie reps discuss the art of scanning informal demo of NEXTSTEP and some new apps Hope to see you there! Directions to White Hall (Emory University) ** maps require fixed-width font ** | (Exit 32) \ ================+===========================+====== I-85 | ^ \ Clairmont Ave ->| | \ | 3.8 miles \ | | || XX <-Emory | | || <- I-285 XX Univ. | V || --------------|------- <- N. Decatur Road || | || |<---1.2---->| miles Get on N. Decatur Road, which goes past the south side of the Emory Campus. There is a 5-points with traffic lights and small shops. Turn north there into the campus by the big church (Dowman Drive). White Hall is the third building on the right. \ <- Dowman Dr. \ \ |x <- White Hall Oxford Rd -> \ | \ / \ / + <- Big Church ----------O----------------- <- N. Decatur Rd Everybody's -> x \ x <- BP station Pizza \ \ Contact: Bert Lindgren Tod Rieger Phone: 404-373-2619 Phone: 770-381-2464 Email: bert@home.net Email: prie@abl.com
From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: muc.archive.update,de.admin.archiv,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (11.4.97) Date: 11 Apr 1997 20:00:05 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <5im585$k89@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> On the Peanuts NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next, [129.187.249.15]): 4022491 Apr 6 20:18 Commercial/text/CedarWord.1.1.NI.b.tar.gz 5103423 Apr 6 19:37 Commercial/text/CedarWord.1.1.NIHS.b.tar.gz 3106 Apr 6 23:31 Commercial/text/CedarWord.1.1.README 2203973 Apr 5 08:06 Tools/calendars/Chronographer.0.891.NIHS.b.tar.gz 5516 Apr 5 07:38 Tools/calendars/Chronographer.0.891.README 1070503 Apr 3 23:01 Tools/performance/Cycles.2.6.NIHS.b.tar.gz 1375262 Apr 5 12:11 Communication/apps/GateKeeper.2.1.Beta.8.NI.b.tar.gz 5451 Apr 5 12:14 Communication/apps/GateKeeper.2.1.Beta.8.README 744233 Apr 5 11:37 Communication/apps/GateKeeper.2.1.Beta.8.s.tar.gz 2791422 Apr 9 07:35 Science/misc/NewHaven.0.92.I.bs.tar.gz 3451 Apr 9 07:35 Science/misc/NewHaven.0.92.README 831 Mar 27 22:36 OpenStep/text/tex/Tex2Eps.1.0.README Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/pub/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-hamburg.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-siegen.de/ France: ftp://ftp.fdn.fr/, ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Switzerland: ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/ UUCP (Germany) wburg.hanse.de (Tel. ++49-40-307 89 06) Mailbox (Germany) (Tel. ++49-8803-61111, ISDN ++49-8803-62149). Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from december 199e. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.leo.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.leo.org)
From: Amy.Yeater@OEinc.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,va.jobs,md.jobs Subject: JOB: OPENSTEP Programmers for DC Area Date: 11 Apr 1997 19:39:06 GMT Organization: Seanet Online Services, Seattle WA Message-ID: <5im40q$8m$1@news.digifix.com> OPENSTEP Programmers for DC Area Object Enterprises Inc. is looking for programmers in the DC area with experience in a variety of sites throughout the OPENSTEP development community. Ideal candidates will have strong OPENSTEP experience, a minimum of 3 years NEXTSTEP/Objective C experience, and currently reside in the DC area. Essential Skills: ƒ Strong knowledge of NEXTSTEP / Objective C ƒ Understanding of EOF 2.0 and its concepts ƒ Good RDBMS skills (Sybase or Oracle preferred) ƒ UNIX skills Desirable Skills: ƒ Java ƒ Exposure to Windows NT ƒ Web related experience ƒ OPENSTEP / Windows NT ƒ Large-scale NEXTSTEP site experience. Please send resume in ascii or RTF along with information on availability, rates, etc. -- Amy Yeater Object Enterprises Incorporated 2608 Second Avenue Suite 119 Seattle WA 98121-1276 206-217-0891 - PHONE Amy.Yeater@OEinc.com www.oeinc.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <28108860302827@digifix.com> Date: 13 Apr 1997 04:00:07 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <15479860904022@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 - ISV company pages - ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.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. 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 next-advocacy next-announce next-bugs next-hardware next-marketplace next-misc next-programmer next-software next-sysadmin object lang-objective-c (For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's. To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying: subscribe where * is the name of the list e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com The ftp sites ============= ftp://ftp.next.peak.org - The main site for North American submissions formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu 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) 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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From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines for comp.sys.next.announce Supersedes: <28110860302830@digifix.com> Date: 13 Apr 1997 04:00:10 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <15481860904025@digifix.com> 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 the past. 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: Tomas Hurka <tom@hukatronic.cz> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Multi!Wav Sound Driver Date: 14 Apr 1997 21:47:04 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5iu8ko$4dv$1@news.digifix.com> Version 1.13 of Multi!Wav Adapter Device Driver for NEXTSTEP Release 3.2 and 3.3 for Intel Processors and OPENSTEP 4.0 /Mach The Harvard Computer Music Center, Rob Poor, and Tomas Hurka announce the first NeXTStep for Intel driver for a professional audio card. Thanks to the amazing work of Tomas Hurka, we have completed a driver for the AdB Digital Multiwav Pro and Multiwav Pro-18 cards. OVERVIEW: Multi!Wav Adapter device driver lets you take advantage of the following adapters: Manufacturer Adapter PC Bus AdB Corp. Multi!Wav Digital PRO ISA AdB Corp. Multi!Wav Digital PRO18 ISA These Multi!Wav ISA cards provide AES/EBU, SPDIF, and TOSLINK input/output to your NeXTStep Intel machine. The Pro-18 card adds an 18 bit digital to analog converter for monitoring. For more information about AdB sound cards see the AdB www home page at http://www.adbdigital.com. Driver supports 32000,44100 and 48000 Hz sampling rates, 16 bit linear sampling in mono or stereo format. The driver makes the card work like a standard audio card, so special software is not needed for digital tranfers, though I recommend Bernhard Scholz's excellent SASound.app for recording. The driver is robust, and provides much better playback that what you might be used to from the Microsoft Sound System, SoundBlaster, or Pro Audio Spectrum. Harvard Computer Music Center are currently using the cards to do direct to DAT transfers, and with Lexicon MXP1s for digital reverberation without leaving the digital realm. They're proven to be a remarkable improvement over our Microsoft Sound System Cards. COPYING: The Multi!Wav adapter device driver is shareware. You can freely distribute without changing or removing any parts of the package. If you found the driver reliable, please, register the driver. For more details see document Registration.rtf inside driver package. Release 1.13 notes: 1. This a first public release of the driver. 2. Only Multi!Wav Digital PRO with XLINK XC4003A is supported. Other two versions (XC4004A and XC4003E) of XLINK can be supported on request. 3. Driver does not use IRQ since Multi!Wav card cannot generate one. The result is this log message when the driver is loaded by Mach OS: "MultiWav at dma channels 6 and 7 irq -268415659" This does no harm, just Sound class does not count with the sound driver without IRQ. AVAILABILITY: The driver has been uploaded to ftp.next.peak.org and placed in the /pub/next/submissions directory. Driver should be moved to the /pub/next/drivers/sound directory. The appropriate files are: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/drivers/sound/MultiWav.1.13.I.b.README ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/drivers/sound/MultiWav.1.13.I.b.tar.gz For more information on the driver, please contact us at: Tomas Hurka Hukatronic (H.C.C.) Kankovskeho 8 182 00 Praha 8 Czech Republic, Europe Email: tom@hukatronic.cz Sean Varah Harvard Computer Music Center Department of Music Harvard University Music Building, North Yard Cambridge, MA 02138 U.S.A. Email:multiwav@mario.harvard.edu
From: "Tim Byars" <tbyars@sprynet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Southern California NeXT Users Group - April 16th Date: 14 Apr 1997 20:00:54 GMT Organization: SCaN Message-ID: <5iu2dm$28p$1@news.digifix.com> Just a reminder, The Southern California NeXT Users Group will be meeting this Wed April 16, at Apple Computer Santa Monica. This will be a short meeting of approximately 1 hour or so to outline the schedule of meetings for the next year, and discuss directions for the group. Topics covered will be: The SCaN WWW site, Possible Name change, Meeting Schedule for the next year, Directions of SCaN in the coming year. We will also be doing a basic NeXTStep 101 demo for any Apple people that happen to be interested. The meeting will start @ 7:30 PM and should wrap up by 9:00 PM. Apple Computer is located at: 2401 Colorado Avenue, Suite 325, 3rd Floor MGM Plaza Santa Monica, CA Directions from the East Take Santa Monica, 10 FWY West, Exit and 26th St/Cloverfield Turn Right on Cloverfield Turn Right on Colorado, Immediately Turn Left into Underground Park under 2401 Bldg. Directions from the West Take Santa Monica, 10 FWY East, Exit on 20th Street, Turn Left on 20th Street Turn Right on Colorado, Past Cloverfield, Immediately Turn Left into Underground Park under 2401 Bldg. Hope to see everyone there. Tim Byars President, SCaN
From: "Frank M. Siegert" <frank@this.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Minimal Media Player release 2 is now available Date: 14 Apr 1997 20:02:10 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5iu2g2$2bu$1@news.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information please contact: Frank M. Siegert, frank@this.net Frank M. Siegert, chief hacker of Area 51 today announced the availability of version 2 of the Minimal Media Player for NEXTSTEP/Intel and OpenStep/Mach on Intel. Minimal Media Player (or MMP in short) is a sound player which can play MPEG I Layer 1, Layer 2 and Layer 3, MIDI, MOD and plain SND files on your local machine or on any NeXT system in your local network. MMP does not need special hardware as all sound file types are 'rendered' to audio data before pumped into your soundcard. It can handle GUS compatible MIDI sound patch files (you can add your own). MMP is a shell for the underlying programs: - 'mpg123' by Michael Hipp, which does the MPEG rendering - 'timidity' by Tuukka Toivonen, which does the MIDI rendering - 'tracker' by Marc Espie, which does the MOD rendering MMP is free for any private or research purpose. Please note the usage guidelines in the application info panel before running the software. As usual you are running at your own risk. PREREQUISITES: You'll need a NeXTSTEP/Intel System (3.3 or OpenStep, untested on 3.1 and 3.2), a soundcard that can handle 16 Bit, 44.1 kHz, Stereo and a fast CPU (at least an AMD 486/133 MHz, Pentium 133 recommended). Maybe a later version will support SPARC and HPPA but the older NeXT m68k hardware is way too slow, sorry. AVAILABILITY: At the moment MMP2.I.b.tar.gz is in the submissions directory on next-ftp.peak.org. It will find its way to the audio player directory and the other NeXT sites in the world in the next days.
From: duncanc@datacom1.com (Duncan Campling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: US-IL-Chicago - NEXTSTEP/Sybase programmer analyst - consultant opportunity Date: 1 Apr 1997 03:48:37 GMT Organization: Datacom Technology Group Inc. Message-ID: <5hq0il$iua$1@news.digifix.com> Our client, a leading investment bank based in the Chicago is currently looking for a consultant NEXTSTEP architect / programmer analyst to work on a major project developing financial applications to support traders and portfolio managers globally. Essential Skills: * Strong NEXTSTEP / Objective C (3-6 years experience required) * Strong RDBMS/SQL skills (Sybase preferred) Desirable Skills: * PDO / EOF (highly desirable) * OPENSTEP / Windows NT (not essential) * Financial / banking experience (not essential) Highly competitive rates ! Contact: Duncan Campling Datacom Technology Group Inc. duncanc@datacom1.com http://www.datacom1.com 212-629-5720 Ext:230 (voice) 212-629-3374 (fax) Please mark all fax correspondence with my name - thank you
From: mhpower@mit.edu (Matt Power) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,news.software.nntp,comp.security.unix Subject: IMPORTANT: (updated) Security problem with ucbmail when used with INN news server Date: 16 Apr 1997 20:23:47 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5j3cgj$16m$1@news.digifix.com> I've found a new security problem with the ucbmail program when used with any version of the INN news server. Please note that this new problem is completely unrelated to the one addressed by the April 4 CERT advisory (ftp://ftp.cert.org/pub/cert_advisories/CA-97.08.innd). Even if you are running INN 1.5.1 and have read and acted on that advisory, your news server may still process certain control messages in a way that allows execution of arbitrary commands by remote users. The problem only affects specific versions of the ucbmail program. The ucbmail behavior that results in the vulnerability has been confirmed only for NEXTSTEP 3.3, NEXTSTEP 3.2, and BSD 4.3 (admittedly it's unlikely that many sites are using BSD 4.3 on their news server). Additionally, on these systems, the vulnerability becomes exploitable if INN's innshellvars file sets the variable MAILCMD to either /usr/ucb/Mail or /usr/ucb/mail. (This is a very common setting.) I think that ISC plans to remove this vulnerability in the next INN release by eliminating INN's dependency on the ucbmail program, or by some other major change to how control messages are processed. In the meantime, those whose news-server machines are currently vulnerable may wish to apply the patch included at the end of this message. This patch is an entirely unsupported temporary workaround. However, I would recommend that anyone using INN on NEXTSTEP apply this patch. I don't know of any harm that would be caused by applying this patch on other platforms, but it hasn't yet been tested on other platforms. The intent of the patch is to prevent any ~ characters from being included in the input that INN's shell scripts present to the ucbmail program. You may notice in the man page the statement "Tilde escapes are only recognized at the beginning of lines." -- however, there's a bug in many versions of ucbmail that makes this statement not strictly true. For this bug to be important in the context of INN, it must also be true that the ucbmail program has the property that it processes tilde escapes even if the return value of isatty(0) is zero. This property is present in a number of versions of ucbmail, apparently including some for which the man page explicitly claims otherwise. [NOTE: the patch below has the same purpose as the patch in the version of this article posted earlier today, except that it now assumes the earlier patch at ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/inn/patches/security-patch.05 has already been applied to the "parsecontrol" file] *** checkgroups.old Tue Dec 17 09:40:40 1996 --- checkgroups Wed Apr 16 02:18:52 1997 *************** *** 23,25 **** echo '-EOF-' ! ) | sed -e 's/^~/~~/' | ${MAILCMD} -s "checkgroups by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} ;; --- 23,25 ---- echo '-EOF-' ! ) | sed -e 's/~/%7e/g' | ${MAILCMD} -s "checkgroups by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} ;; *** default.old Tue Dec 17 09:40:40 1996 --- default Wed Apr 16 02:18:53 1997 *************** *** 12,14 **** mail) ! sed -e 's/^~/~~/' <${ARTICLE} \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "Unknown control message by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} --- 12,14 ---- mail) ! sed -e 's/~/%7e/g' <${ARTICLE} \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "Unknown control message by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} *** ihave.old Tue Dec 17 09:40:40 1996 --- ihave Wed Apr 16 02:18:53 1997 *************** *** 11,13 **** mail) ! sed -e 's/^~/~~/' <${ARTICLE} \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "ihave by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} --- 11,13 ---- mail) ! sed -e 's/~/%7e/g' <${ARTICLE} \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "ihave by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} *** innwatch.old Tue Dec 17 09:40:40 1996 --- innwatch Wed Apr 16 02:18:53 1997 *************** *** 316,318 **** ) 2>&1 \ ! | sed -e 's/^~/~~/' \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "${PROGNAME} warning: messages in ${LOGFILE}" \ --- 316,318 ---- ) 2>&1 \ ! | sed -e 's/~/%7e/g' \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "${PROGNAME} warning: messages in ${LOGFILE}" \ *** news.daily.old Tue Dec 17 09:40:40 1996 --- news.daily Wed Apr 16 02:18:54 1997 *************** *** 345,347 **** MAIL="${MAILCMD} -s \"${MAILSUBJ}\" ${NEWSMASTER}" ! test -s ${TEMP} && cat ${TEMP} | sed -e 's/^~/~~/' | eval ${MAIL} rm -f ${TEMP} --- 345,347 ---- MAIL="${MAILCMD} -s \"${MAILSUBJ}\" ${NEWSMASTER}" ! test -s ${TEMP} && cat ${TEMP} | sed -e 's/~/%7e/g' | eval ${MAIL} rm -f ${TEMP} *** parsecontrol.old Wed Apr 16 05:56:34 1997 --- parsecontrol Wed Apr 16 05:58:41 1997 *************** *** 42,44 **** if $MAILFAILURES; then ! ${SED} -e 's/^~/~~/' < ${ARTICLE} \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "Bad FROM address" ${NEWSMASTER} --- 42,44 ---- if $MAILFAILURES; then ! ${SED} -e 's/~/%7e/g' < ${ARTICLE} \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "Bad FROM address" ${NEWSMASTER} *************** *** 54,56 **** if $MAILFAILURES; then ! ${SED} -e 's/^~/~~/' < ${ARTICLE} \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "Bad REPLY-TO address" ${NEWSMASTER} --- 54,56 ---- if $MAILFAILURES; then ! ${SED} -e 's/~/%7e/g' < ${ARTICLE} \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "Bad REPLY-TO address" ${NEWSMASTER} *************** *** 82,84 **** if $MAILFAILURES; then ! ${SED} -e 's/^~/~~/' < ${ARTICLE} \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "Bad header by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} --- 82,84 ---- if $MAILFAILURES; then ! ${SED} -e 's/~/%7e/g' < ${ARTICLE} \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "Bad header by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} *************** *** 96,98 **** if $MAILFAILURES; then ! ${SED} -e 's/^~/~~/' < ${ARTICLE} \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "Malformed newsgroup name by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} --- 96,98 ---- if $MAILFAILURES; then ! ${SED} -e 's/~/%7e/g' < ${ARTICLE} \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "Malformed newsgroup name by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} *************** *** 108,110 **** if $MAILFAILURES; then ! ${SED} -e 's/^~/~~/' < ${ARTICLE} \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "Unexpected program name by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} --- 108,110 ---- if $MAILFAILURES; then ! ${SED} -e 's/~/%7e/g' < ${ARTICLE} \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "Unexpected program name by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} *** rmgroup.old Tue Dec 17 09:40:40 1996 --- rmgroup Wed Apr 16 02:18:54 1997 *************** *** 27,29 **** echo 'The full article was:' ! sed -e 's/^~/~~/' ${ARTICLE} ) | ${MAILCMD} -s "rmgroup $1 by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} --- 27,29 ---- echo 'The full article was:' ! sed -e 's/~/%7e/g' ${ARTICLE} ) | ${MAILCMD} -s "rmgroup $1 by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} *** sendme.old Tue Dec 17 09:40:40 1996 --- sendme Wed Apr 16 02:18:54 1997 *************** *** 11,13 **** mail) ! sed -e 's/^~/~~/' <${ARTICLE} \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "sendme by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} --- 11,13 ---- mail) ! sed -e 's/~/%7e/g' <${ARTICLE} \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "sendme by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} *** sendsys.old Tue Dec 17 09:40:40 1996 --- sendsys Wed Apr 16 02:18:55 1997 *************** *** 31,33 **** cat ${ARTICLE} ! ) | sed -e 's/^~/~~/' | ${MAILCMD} -s "sendsys by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} ;; --- 31,33 ---- cat ${ARTICLE} ! ) | sed -e 's/~/%7e/g' | ${MAILCMD} -s "sendsys by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} ;; *************** *** 40,42 **** ${MAILCMD} -s "${SUBJECT}" ${REPLYTO} <${NEWSFEEDS} ! sed -e 's/^~/~~/' <${ARTICLE} \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "sendsys by ${FROM}; reply sent" ${NEWSMASTER} --- 40,42 ---- ${MAILCMD} -s "${SUBJECT}" ${REPLYTO} <${NEWSFEEDS} ! sed -e 's/~/%7e/g' <${ARTICLE} \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "sendsys by ${FROM}; reply sent" ${NEWSMASTER} *************** *** 48,50 **** ${MAILCMD} -s "${SUBJECT} for $1" ${REPLYTO} <${TEMP} ! sed -e 's/^~/~~/' <${ARTICLE} \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "sendsys $1 by ${FROM}; reply sent" \ --- 48,50 ---- ${MAILCMD} -s "${SUBJECT} for $1" ${REPLYTO} <${TEMP} ! sed -e 's/~/%7e/g' <${ARTICLE} \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "sendsys $1 by ${FROM}; reply sent" \ *** senduuname.old Tue Dec 17 09:40:40 1996 --- senduuname Wed Apr 16 02:18:55 1997 *************** *** 19,21 **** cat ${ARTICLE} ! ) | sed -e 's/^~/~~/' | ${MAILCMD} -s "senduuname by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} ;; --- 19,21 ---- cat ${ARTICLE} ! ) | sed -e 's/~/%7e/g' | ${MAILCMD} -s "senduuname by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} ;; *** version.old Tue Dec 17 09:40:40 1996 --- version Wed Apr 16 02:18:55 1997 *************** *** 23,25 **** cat ${ARTICLE} ! ) | sed -e 's/^~/~~/' | ${MAILCMD} -s "version by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} ;; --- 23,25 ---- cat ${ARTICLE} ! ) | sed -e 's/~/%7e/g' | ${MAILCMD} -s "version by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} ;; *** writelog.old Tue Dec 17 09:40:40 1996 --- writelog Wed Apr 16 02:18:56 1997 *************** *** 28,30 **** Xmail) ! sed -e 's/^~/~~/' | ${MAILCMD} -s "${MESSAGE}" ${NEWSMASTER} exit 0 --- 28,30 ---- Xmail) ! sed -e 's/~/%7e/g' | ${MAILCMD} -s "${MESSAGE}" ${NEWSMASTER} exit 0
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: NEXTTOYOU wants your MailTIFFs Date: 16 Apr 1997 03:10:34 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5j1fva$a22$1@news.digifix.com> NEXTTOYOU encourages all NEXTSTEP users to submit their MailTIFFs to the NEXTTOYOU MailTIFFs database NEXTTOYOU strongly encourages everybody in the NEXTSTEP community to join its global MailTIFFs database and submit a MailTIFF of her/himself. Your MailTIFF should have a size of 64 x 64 pixel and be LZW compressed. Name it user@address.tiff (where user@address is your email address) and send it via NeXTMail to MailTIFFs@nexttoyou.de If you write from more than one email address, you should also include a so-called aliases file which lists your alternative email addresses. The file must be a plain ASCII file named user@address.aliases (where user@address is exactly the same email address you used to name your MailTIFF). In this file, write your alternative email addresses, one each line, each line finished by Return. If you use no-spam fake addresses in usenet (e.g. user@address.NOSPAM), please remember to include these addresses also as aliases. There is *no* risk for you in doing so, but it allows newsreaders to make use of the MailTIFFS database, too. An example would be: SteveJobs@next.com.tiff SteveJobs@next.com.aliases --> this is an ASCII file including the lines: SteveJobs@advisory.apple.com Steve@microsoft.haters.net SteveJobs@next.com.NOSPAM SteveJobs@advisory.apple.com.NOSPAM Steve@microsoft.haters.net.NOSPAM If you want to update your picture, just send a new MailTIFF of *exactly the same name* to MailTIFFs@nexttoyou.de. It will automatically replace the old one in all people's MailTIFFs databases. If your mail address changes, just send a new aliases file of *exactly the same name* to MailTIFFs@nexttoyou.de. The new aliases it contains will automatically be added to all people's aliases files. The NEXTTOYOU MailTIFFs database consists of a set of programs to be installed on your computer and a global MailTIFFs server provided by NEXTTOYOU. It allows you to automatically administrate MailTIFFs from internet users and get their pictures displayed in Mail.app as well as newsreaders prepared for this mechanism. You can find the programs needed at ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/NeXT/misc/NEXTTOYOU/97.1-Fruehjahr/ MailTIFF.database/MailTIFF.database.1.0.1.b.NIHS.tar.gz NEXTTOYOU is a German NEXTSTEP magazine published by WiNG (Wiesbaden NEXTSTEP Group) to provide the NEXTSTEP community with a platform both for neophytes and professionals. For more information, take a look at http://www.nexttoyou.de.
Control: cancel <5j3crn$16v$1@news.digifix.com> Newsgroups: ba.jobs.offered,comp.sys.next.announce,su.jobs,ucb.jobs,la.jobs From: heimdall@oriole.sbay.org ( GateKeeper - ba.jobs.* cancelbot admins ) Subject: cmsg cancel <5j3crn$16v$1@news.digifix.com> autoresponders: ignore To: usenet@pdh.com Sender: usenet@pdh.com Errors-To: postmaster@oriole.sbay.org Organization: Oriole - A Silicon Valley Community Network Site Message-ID: <cancel.5j3crn$16v$1@news.digifix.com> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 20:43:18 GMT Reason for cancellation: * Crossposted to regional groups outside the Bay Area. Original from: usenet@pdh.com Original subject: CA, SAN JOSE: Software and Database Design Engineers Original newsgroups: ba.jobs.offered,comp.sys.next.announce,su.jobs,ucb.jobs,la.jobs Original first 10 lines of text: >>>>> Career Opportunity<<<<< for an Object Oriented Designer and Developer PDH, Inc. is a leader in client-server systems using NEXTSTEP and soon OpenStep software development environments. These environments permit a 10 to 1 improvement in developer productivity on the first project and up to 25 to 1 on subsequent projects through the use of the tools, OOD, and the robust libraries (classes, palettes, kits). You will develop custom mission critical applications for customers. This posting could have been cancelled for any of the following three reasons: 1. Posted to multiple ba.jobs.groups 2. Posted to regional newsgroups outside of the Bay Area (e.g. la.jobs) 3. This article appears to the moderation bot to be a duplicate of an article already posted to a ba.jobs.* newsgroup within the last 14 days. If you feel that this cancel was in error and that you posted in accordance to the ba.jobs.* posting guidelines, please notify the administrators so that corrective action can be taken. A copy of the charter with the posting guidelines can be found at: ftp://ftp.wco.com/users/oriole/charter.txt We can be reached at the reply-to address on this posting. Thank you. ba.jobs review board.
From: mhpower@MIT.EDU (Matt Power) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,news.software.nntp,comp.security.unix Subject: IMPORTANT: Security problem with ucbmail when used with INN news server Date: 16 Apr 1997 07:04:49 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5j1tmh$eje$1@news.digifix.com> I've found a new security problem with the ucbmail program when used with any version of the INN news server. Please note that this new problem is completely unrelated to the one addressed by the April 4 CERT advisory (ftp://ftp.cert.org/pub/cert_advisories/CA-97.08.innd). Even if you are running INN 1.5.1 and have read and acted on that advisory, your news server may still process certain control messages in a way that allows execution of arbitrary commands by remote users. The problem only affects specific versions of the ucbmail program. The ucbmail behavior that results in the vulnerability has been confirmed only for NEXTSTEP 3.3, NEXTSTEP 3.2, and BSD 4.3 (admittedly it's unlikely that many sites are using BSD 4.3 on their news server). Additionally, on these systems, the vulnerability becomes exploitable if INN's innshellvars file sets the variable MAILCMD to either /usr/ucb/Mail or /usr/ucb/mail. (This is a very common setting.) I think that ISC plans to remove this vulnerability in the next INN release by eliminating INN's dependency on the ucbmail program, or by some other major change to how control messages are processed. In the meantime, those whose news-server machines are currently vulnerable may wish to apply the patch included at the end of this message. This patch is an entirely unsupported temporary workaround. However, I would recommend that anyone using INN on NEXTSTEP apply this patch. I don't know of any harm that would be caused by applying this patch on other platforms, but it hasn't yet been tested on other platforms. The intent of the patch is to prevent any ~ characters from being included in the input that INN's shell scripts present to the ucbmail program. You may notice in the man page the statement "Tilde escapes are only recognized at the beginning of lines." -- however, there's a bug in many versions of ucbmail that makes this statement not strictly true. For this bug to be important in the context of INN, it must also be true that the ucbmail program has the property that it processes tilde escapes even if the return value of isatty(0) is zero. This property is present in a number of versions of ucbmail, apparently including some for which the man page explicitly claims otherwise. *** checkgroups.old Tue Dec 17 09:40:40 1996 --- checkgroups Wed Apr 16 02:18:52 1997 *************** *** 23,25 **** echo '-EOF-' ! ) | sed -e 's/^~/~~/' | ${MAILCMD} -s "checkgroups by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} ;; --- 23,25 ---- echo '-EOF-' ! ) | sed -e 's/~/%7e/g' | ${MAILCMD} -s "checkgroups by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} ;; *** default.old Tue Dec 17 09:40:40 1996 --- default Wed Apr 16 02:18:53 1997 *************** *** 12,14 **** mail) ! sed -e 's/^~/~~/' <${ARTICLE} \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "Unknown control message by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} --- 12,14 ---- mail) ! sed -e 's/~/%7e/g' <${ARTICLE} \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "Unknown control message by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} *** ihave.old Tue Dec 17 09:40:40 1996 --- ihave Wed Apr 16 02:18:53 1997 *************** *** 11,13 **** mail) ! sed -e 's/^~/~~/' <${ARTICLE} \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "ihave by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} --- 11,13 ---- mail) ! sed -e 's/~/%7e/g' <${ARTICLE} \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "ihave by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} *** innwatch.old Tue Dec 17 09:40:40 1996 --- innwatch Wed Apr 16 02:18:53 1997 *************** *** 316,318 **** ) 2>&1 \ ! | sed -e 's/^~/~~/' \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "${PROGNAME} warning: messages in ${LOGFILE}" \ --- 316,318 ---- ) 2>&1 \ ! | sed -e 's/~/%7e/g' \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "${PROGNAME} warning: messages in ${LOGFILE}" \ *** news.daily.old Tue Dec 17 09:40:40 1996 --- news.daily Wed Apr 16 02:18:54 1997 *************** *** 345,347 **** MAIL="${MAILCMD} -s \"${MAILSUBJ}\" ${NEWSMASTER}" ! test -s ${TEMP} && cat ${TEMP} | sed -e 's/^~/~~/' | eval ${MAIL} rm -f ${TEMP} --- 345,347 ---- MAIL="${MAILCMD} -s \"${MAILSUBJ}\" ${NEWSMASTER}" ! test -s ${TEMP} && cat ${TEMP} | sed -e 's/~/%7e/g' | eval ${MAIL} rm -f ${TEMP} *** parsecontrol.old Tue Dec 17 09:40:40 1996 --- parsecontrol Wed Apr 16 02:18:54 1997 *************** *** 56,58 **** if $MAILFAILURES; then ! ${SED} -e 's/^~/~~/' < ${ARTICLE} \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "Bad header by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} --- 56,58 ---- if $MAILFAILURES; then ! ${SED} -e 's/~/%7e/g' < ${ARTICLE} \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "Bad header by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} *************** *** 70,72 **** if $MAILFAILURES; then ! ${SED} -e 's/^~/~~/' < ${ARTICLE} \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "Malformed newsgroup name by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} --- 70,72 ---- if $MAILFAILURES; then ! ${SED} -e 's/~/%7e/g' < ${ARTICLE} \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "Malformed newsgroup name by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} *************** *** 82,84 **** if $MAILFAILURES; then ! ${SED} -e 's/^~/~~/' < ${ARTICLE} \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "Unexpected program name by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} --- 82,84 ---- if $MAILFAILURES; then ! ${SED} -e 's/~/%7e/g' < ${ARTICLE} \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "Unexpected program name by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} *** rmgroup.old Tue Dec 17 09:40:40 1996 --- rmgroup Wed Apr 16 02:18:54 1997 *************** *** 27,29 **** echo 'The full article was:' ! sed -e 's/^~/~~/' ${ARTICLE} ) | ${MAILCMD} -s "rmgroup $1 by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} --- 27,29 ---- echo 'The full article was:' ! sed -e 's/~/%7e/g' ${ARTICLE} ) | ${MAILCMD} -s "rmgroup $1 by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} *** sendme.old Tue Dec 17 09:40:40 1996 --- sendme Wed Apr 16 02:18:54 1997 *************** *** 11,13 **** mail) ! sed -e 's/^~/~~/' <${ARTICLE} \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "sendme by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} --- 11,13 ---- mail) ! sed -e 's/~/%7e/g' <${ARTICLE} \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "sendme by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} *** sendsys.old Tue Dec 17 09:40:40 1996 --- sendsys Wed Apr 16 02:18:55 1997 *************** *** 31,33 **** cat ${ARTICLE} ! ) | sed -e 's/^~/~~/' | ${MAILCMD} -s "sendsys by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} ;; --- 31,33 ---- cat ${ARTICLE} ! ) | sed -e 's/~/%7e/g' | ${MAILCMD} -s "sendsys by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} ;; *************** *** 40,42 **** ${MAILCMD} -s "${SUBJECT}" ${REPLYTO} <${NEWSFEEDS} ! sed -e 's/^~/~~/' <${ARTICLE} \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "sendsys by ${FROM}; reply sent" ${NEWSMASTER} --- 40,42 ---- ${MAILCMD} -s "${SUBJECT}" ${REPLYTO} <${NEWSFEEDS} ! sed -e 's/~/%7e/g' <${ARTICLE} \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "sendsys by ${FROM}; reply sent" ${NEWSMASTER} *************** *** 48,50 **** ${MAILCMD} -s "${SUBJECT} for $1" ${REPLYTO} <${TEMP} ! sed -e 's/^~/~~/' <${ARTICLE} \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "sendsys $1 by ${FROM}; reply sent" \ --- 48,50 ---- ${MAILCMD} -s "${SUBJECT} for $1" ${REPLYTO} <${TEMP} ! sed -e 's/~/%7e/g' <${ARTICLE} \ | ${MAILCMD} -s "sendsys $1 by ${FROM}; reply sent" \ *** senduuname.old Tue Dec 17 09:40:40 1996 --- senduuname Wed Apr 16 02:18:55 1997 *************** *** 19,21 **** cat ${ARTICLE} ! ) | sed -e 's/^~/~~/' | ${MAILCMD} -s "senduuname by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} ;; --- 19,21 ---- cat ${ARTICLE} ! ) | sed -e 's/~/%7e/g' | ${MAILCMD} -s "senduuname by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} ;; *** version.old Tue Dec 17 09:40:40 1996 --- version Wed Apr 16 02:18:55 1997 *************** *** 23,25 **** cat ${ARTICLE} ! ) | sed -e 's/^~/~~/' | ${MAILCMD} -s "version by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} ;; --- 23,25 ---- cat ${ARTICLE} ! ) | sed -e 's/~/%7e/g' | ${MAILCMD} -s "version by ${FROM}" ${NEWSMASTER} ;; *** writelog.old Tue Dec 17 09:40:40 1996 --- writelog Wed Apr 16 02:18:56 1997 *************** *** 28,30 **** Xmail) ! sed -e 's/^~/~~/' | ${MAILCMD} -s "${MESSAGE}" ${NEWSMASTER} exit 0 --- 28,30 ---- Xmail) ! sed -e 's/~/%7e/g' | ${MAILCMD} -s "${MESSAGE}" ${NEWSMASTER} exit 0
From: cmh@tracer.consecol.org (Colin Henein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: SkeyCalc v1.0 Released Date: 16 Apr 1997 06:29:23 GMT Organization: Journal of Conservation Ecology Message-ID: <5j1rk3$dpj$1@news.digifix.com> After much procrastination, I've cleaned up the last few details in my S/Key calculator. SkeyCalc is a graphical S/Key calculator for NEXTSTEP. This program was developed under NEXTSTEP 3.3, but should run under OpenStep as well. SkeyCalc is free to use. A Quad-Fat binary (Next, Intel, HP and Sparc) is provided. The calculator provides MD4 and MD5 S/Key responses. It runs both as an application and as a service. For more information you can visit the web page at: http://www.consecol.org/~cmh/SkeyCalc/ I suggest that you download the rtf README file from this website for more information.
From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: muc.archive.update,de.admin.archiv,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (18.4.97) Date: 18 Apr 1997 19:00:05 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <5j8gbl$4kn@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> On the Peanuts NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next, [129.187.249.15]): 109667 Apr 16 22:42 Audio/player/MMP.2.I.b.tar.gz 569 Apr 16 22:42 Audio/player/MMP2.README 1224 Apr 14 23:28 Graphics/library/diagram/OOD-Dpalettes.README 19741 Apr 14 23:28 Graphics/library/diagram/OOD-Dpalettes.d.tar.gz 0 Apr 18 09:30 PEANUTS.sd2a 0 Apr 18 10:49 Commercial/PEANUTS.sd2b 929267 Apr 15 13:53 Network/filetransfer/Yftp.0.564.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 13154 Apr 15 13:53 Network/filetransfer/Yftp.0.564.README Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/pub/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-hamburg.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-siegen.de/ France: ftp://ftp.fdn.fr/, ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Switzerland: ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/ UUCP (Germany) wburg.hanse.de (Tel. ++49-40-307 89 06) Mailbox (Germany) (Tel. ++49-8803-61111, ISDN ++49-8803-62149). Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from december 199e. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.leo.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.leo.org)
From: "Margaret" <margaret@osgcorp.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXTSTEP Developers and Mentors NEEDED NOW Date: 19 Apr 1997 04:43:06 GMT Organization: OnRamp Technologies, Inc.; ISP Message-ID: <5j9igq$b0a$1@news.digifix.com> NeXTSTEP MENTORS AND DEVELOPERS Object Systems Group is a OO technology-based consultancy that provides assistance to Global 1000 corporations. These clients have already made the commitment to move to objects. That means that we can offer you the opportunity to build robust infrastructures, develop good designs, and direct state of the art implementations for large scale OO projects. Because OSG has a proven successful OO process and a reputation for excellence, we can keep you progressing in OO technology while you are making contractors wages. OSG pays well, offers good benefits, and requires a minimum one year commitment. Please visit our Web Site at http://www.osgcorp.com PROCESS MENTORS Minimum five years total experience with one year NeXTStep or OpenStep. You will participate in the development of Object Models and will perform all the analysis and design functions for your team as well as educate team members in process, methods, and techniques. TECHNICAL MENTORS Minimum three years experience in NeXTSTEP with at least one of those in a Mentoring role. Also must have strong knowledge or experience with one or more OO Methodologies. NeXTSTEP and or OpenStep Developers If you have a minimum of 2 years experience in a NeXTSTEP environment at any level, we want to talk to you. The project is a new development (no legacy issues). All work must be done on-site. Email resume(No NeXTMAIL accepted) and current salary info in Word, TEXT, or ASCII to: margaret@osgcorp.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines for comp.sys.next.announce Supersedes: <15481860904025@digifix.com> Date: 20 Apr 1997 03:59:42 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <26387861508832@digifix.com> 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 the past. 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.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <15479860904022@digifix.com> Date: 20 Apr 1997 03:59:34 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <26385861508830@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 - ISV company pages - ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.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. 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. 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Scott ( eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU ) and Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com ) Additions from: Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com ) Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net ) Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
From: Leon von Stauber <leonvs@vishnu.occam.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Austin NEXTSTEP/OpenStep User Group - April 9 Date: 7 Apr 1997 05:26:28 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5ia0i4$521$1@news.digifix.com> AnUG, the Austin NEXTSTEP/OpenStep User Group, is having a meeting on Wednesday, April 9. Make sure you get to this one, because it promises to be a great night! NEXTSTEP and MacOS users, developers, and administrators are enouraged to attend. Dreux Ste. Marie from Apple will show off and talk about new Apple products, including some nifty Mac hardware. We'll also discuss what's in the works for Rhapsody. And as usual, we'll have a couple of NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP systems to play around on. Don't miss the fun! WHEN: Wednesday, April 9, 1997 7 PM - 9ish Refreshments served at 6:30 PM WHERE: offices of PSW Technologies 6300 Bridgepoint Parkway, Bldg. 3 (near the 360 bridge) From Loop 360 (Capital of Texas Hwy.), turn west on Courtyard Dr. (which is the stoplight just north of the bridge). Take the first left onto Bridgepoint Parkway. Take the second driveway to the right, up to the parking garage. The PSW building is down from the garage. PSW Technologies, Inc. is a software services company working on the leading edge of computing technologies. This includes object-oriented development using NEXTSTEP and OpenStep. If you'd like to join the AnUG mailing list, send your request to <owner-anug@pswtech.com> For more information, contact Leon von Stauber <leonvs@occam.com> (512) 342-3311
From: wsi@spacelab.net (WSI Nationwide) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: JOB: US-NY-212-Nextstep,Objective-C,Web Objects-WSI Date: 23 Apr 1997 03:21:27 GMT Organization: WSI Nationwide Message-ID: <5jjv7n$2qj$1@news.digifix.com> -(All fees are paid by our client companies and all projects are on-site at the locations listed below, 3rd party referrals or agencies, please)----------- I have been asked to identify an independent consultant with strong Nextstep and Objective-C experience with for a long term Wall Street Project Management Tracking project also using Web Objects in New York City for an initial six month contract with no starting rate initially defined, your asking rate will be submitted, after your approval. If you know someone who might qualify (no 3rd party referrals or agencies, please) or is coming to the NYC/NJ/CT/PA area, e-mail a resume to Jay L., perferrably a straight ascii text file, but any attachment is OK, (and please do not return a copy of this announcement with your response) to wsi@spacelab.net, fax to 212-534-3724 or call 212-410-1400. (To insure formatting & print quality, please also mail a copy to me at WSI, 1619 Third Avenue, Box #6415, New York, 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. x1wsix
From: usenet@pdh.com Newsgroups: ba.jobs.offered,comp.sys.next.announce,su.jobs,ucb.jobs,la.jobs Subject: CA, SAN JOSE: Senior Software and Database Design Engineers Date: 24 Apr 1997 05:02:11 GMT Organization: PDH Inc. Message-ID: <5jmpgj$3du$1@news.digifix.com> >>>>> Career Opportunity<<<<< for an experienced Object Oriented Architect and Developer PDH, Inc. is a leader in client-server systems using NEXTSTEP and soon OpenStep software development environments. These environments permit a 10 to 1 improvement in developer productivity on the first project and up to 25 to 1 on subsequent projects through the use of the tools, OOD, and the robust libraries (classes, palettes, kits). NEXTSTEP and OpenStep are available on Motorola, Intel, Sun, HP and DEC workstations now, and will soon be running in Windows/NT and SUN NEO. You will develop custom mission critical applications for customers. Qualifications: Preferably at least 5+ years software/database development experience. Required: BS in Computer Science or related field Willingness to travel within USA Object Oriented Methodology (OOA,OOD and OOP) UNIX Independent design and development Desired: Familiarity with EOF, DBKit, AccessKit Experience in the following: Database design and development (SQL, Sybase or Oracle) Distributed databases Distributed architectures, Client-Server, CORBA Graphical User Interface (GUI) design and development Windows 95, NT, OLE NEXTSTEP Objective-C, C++, SmallTalk, Java Duties: Design, engineer/architect, and participate in all stages of the product life-cycle: requirements, design, implementation, testing, documentation, training, and support. Lead a team of highly creative, qualified engineers/architects through product development providing both the technical and managerial aspects of the project. Take responsibility for technology insertion, database architectures, performance issues, and provide state-of-the-art solutions right to the desktops of customers. This is an excellent opportunity to be immediately challenged and to be a part of an elite staff. PDH provides excellent vacation, holiday, health, 401K and disability benefits. The work attire is casual, hours are flexible, and refreshments are sponsored. If you would like to be part of our fast-paced, high growth, engineering-focused development team, send your resume to: PDH, Inc. Personnel Department Vox: (408) 428-9596 Fax: (408) 428-9599 E-mail: personnel@pdh.com(NeXT Mail welcome) 2635 North First Street, Suite 224, San Jose, CA 95134-2034 Visit our web site at: http://www.pdh.com PDH, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. US CITIZENSHIP Required for Position
From: Serge Thill <serge.thill@coctel.lu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: New Haven 0.92 Date: 24 Apr 1997 05:01:54 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5jmpg2$3ds$1@news.digifix.com> New Haven 0.92 -- First public BETA release A toolkit to create and operate complex stimuli environments for simulations The operative part provides interactive and simultaneous management of several independant high bandwidth input systems running on a network of computers; the information transmitted within this context consists of dynamic data patterns generated on a set of two dimensional surfaces, each of which is chosen from a range of available topologies. The creative part of New Haven is made of a Nextstep library that helps design these input generators and that describes the interaction protocols between input system, simulation system and the management application. This library also provides specialized support for designing cellular automata, who can be then used as stimuli generators. New Haven has grown out of difficulties to stay in control of my neural net simulations. A (non-exhaustive) list of these include: - make concurrent processes work together - ... over computer boundaries - interactive manipulation of system parameters - running several simulations simultaneously - long execution times and persistance - interactive recombination of system components. - keep track of system evolution New Haven is an attempt to throw these and more into a graphical user interface that avoids the mostly negative stress involved with dealing with these problems, and thus brings more fun and creativity into experimentation through managability. It allows to graphically set up and assist simulation systems with complex input paths without becoming involved in the unromantic work of writing the code that makes these components interact. You can focus the attention to the actual input component functionality and are provided with construction material for dynamic and spatially distributed stimuli structures. It provides a standard means of interaction for all applications that conform to New Haven, as well as a graphical event driven interface application that organizes this interaction and offers a set of management features which can be used by these applications. A list with all the features of New Haven does not fit into this place, so please refer to the README.rtf file and to the help panel of the management application for this information. The package contains several example applications and their sources, Intel binaries for the management application, and Intel binaries plus documentation for the library. New Haven is shareware, and information about source code licenses for the library and the management application is available upon registration. Registration also remains valid for future releases. This software has been developed under Nextstep 3.2 and should require at least 3.0 to run. It is still in BETA testing. Therefore it runs at present only on Intel CPUs. You are invited to play with it and post me your reactions (and/or bug reports ;-) Serge Thill -- Email: serge.thill@coctel.lu --- 21 april 1997. New Haven 0.92 can be obtained from: ftp://ftp.crpht.lu/pub/sources/next/newhaven/NewHaven-0.92.README ftp://ftp.crpht.lu/pub/sources/next/newhaven/NewHaven-0.92.I.pkg.tar.gz It has also been submitted to the peanuts archive where it can be found under: ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/Science/misc/NewHaven-0.92.README ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/Science/misc/NewHaven-0.92.I.bs.tar.gz
From: usenet@pdh.com Newsgroups: ba.jobs.offered,comp.sys.next.announce,su.jobs,ucb.jobs,la.jobs Subject: CA, SAN JOSE: Software and Database Design Engineers Date: 24 Apr 1997 05:02:13 GMT Organization: PDH inc. Message-ID: <5jmpgl$3dv$1@news.digifix.com> >>>>> Career Opportunity<<<<< for an Object Oriented Designer and Developer PDH, Inc. is a leader in client-server systems using NEXTSTEP and soon OpenStep software development environments. These environments permit a 10 to 1 improvement in developer productivity on the first project and up to 25 to 1 on subsequent projects through the use of the tools, OOD, and the robust libraries (classes, palettes, kits). You will develop custom mission critical applications for customers. Qualifications: Required: BS in Computer Science or related field Objective-C, C++, SmallTalk, Java Willingness to travel within USA Desired: Familiarity with EOF, DBKit, AccessKit Experience in the following: Independent design and development Database design and development (SQL, Sybase or Oracle) Distributed databases Distributed architectures, Client-Server Graphical User Interface (GUI) design and development Object Oriented Methodology (OOA,OOD and OOP) UNIX Windows 95, NT, OLE NEXTSTEP Objective-C, C++, SmallTalk, Java Duties: Design, engineer, and participate in all stages of the product life-cycle: requirements, design, implementation, testing, documentation, training, and support. Take responsibility for technology insertion, database architectures, performance issues, and provide state-of-the-art solutions right to the desktops of customers. This is an excellent opportunity to be immediately challenged and to be a part of an elite staff. PDH provides excellent vacation, holiday, health, 401K and disability benefits. The work attire is casual, hours are flexible, and refreshments are sponsored. If you would like to be part of our fast-paced, high growth, engineering-focused development team, send your resume to: PDH, Inc. Personnel Department Vox: (408) 428-9596 Fax: (408) 428-9599 E-mail: personnel@pdh.com(NeXT Mail welcome) 2635 North First Street, Suite 224, San Jose, CA 95134-2034 Visit our web site at: http://www.pdh.com PDH, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. US CITIZENSHIP Required for Position
Control: cancel <5jmpgj$3du$1@news.digifix.com> Newsgroups: ba.jobs.offered,comp.sys.next.announce,su.jobs,ucb.jobs,la.jobs From: heimdall@oriole.sbay.org ( GateKeeper - ba.jobs.* cancelbot admins ) Subject: cmsg cancel <5jmpgj$3du$1@news.digifix.com> autoresponders: ignore To: personnel@pdh.com Sender: usenet@pdh.com Errors-To: postmaster@oriole.sbay.org Organization: Oriole - A Silicon Valley Community Network Site Message-ID: <cancel.5jmpgj$3du$1@news.digifix.com> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 05:24:51 GMT Reason for cancellation: * Crossposted to regional groups outside the Bay Area. Original from: usenet@pdh.com Original subject: CA, SAN JOSE: Senior Software and Database Design Engineers Original newsgroups: ba.jobs.offered,comp.sys.next.announce,su.jobs,ucb.jobs,la.jobs Original first 10 lines of text: >>>>> Career Opportunity<<<<< for an experienced Object Oriented Architect and Developer PDH, Inc. is a leader in client-server systems using NEXTSTEP and soon OpenStep software development environments. These environments permit a 10 to 1 improvement in developer productivity on the first project and up to 25 to 1 on subsequent projects through the use of the tools, OOD, and the robust libraries (classes, palettes, kits). NEXTSTEP and OpenStep are available on Motorola, Intel, Sun, HP and DEC workstations If you feel that this cancel was in error and that you posted in accordance to the ba.jobs.* posting guidelines, please notify the administrators so that corrective action can be taken. A copy of the charter with the posting guidelines can be found at: ftp://ftp.wco.com/users/oriole/charter.txt We can be reached at the reply-to address on this posting for technical matters concerning GateKeeper. Policy questions should be posted to ba.news.group. Thank you. ba.jobs review board.
Control: cancel <5jmpgl$3dv$1@news.digifix.com> Newsgroups: ba.jobs.offered,comp.sys.next.announce,su.jobs,ucb.jobs,la.jobs From: heimdall@oriole.sbay.org ( GateKeeper - ba.jobs.* cancelbot admins ) Subject: cmsg cancel <5jmpgl$3dv$1@news.digifix.com> autoresponders: ignore To: personnel@pdh.com Sender: usenet@pdh.com Errors-To: postmaster@oriole.sbay.org Organization: Oriole - A Silicon Valley Community Network Site Message-ID: <cancel.5jmpgl$3dv$1@news.digifix.com> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 05:24:46 GMT Reason for cancellation: * Crossposted to regional groups outside the Bay Area. Original from: usenet@pdh.com Original subject: CA, SAN JOSE: Software and Database Design Engineers Original newsgroups: ba.jobs.offered,comp.sys.next.announce,su.jobs,ucb.jobs,la.jobs Original first 10 lines of text: >>>>> Career Opportunity<<<<< for an Object Oriented Designer and Developer PDH, Inc. is a leader in client-server systems using NEXTSTEP and soon OpenStep software development environments. These environments permit a 10 to 1 improvement in developer productivity on the first project and up to 25 to 1 on subsequent projects through the use of the tools, OOD, and the robust libraries (classes, palettes, kits). You will develop custom mission critical applications for customers. If you feel that this cancel was in error and that you posted in accordance to the ba.jobs.* posting guidelines, please notify the administrators so that corrective action can be taken. A copy of the charter with the posting guidelines can be found at: ftp://ftp.wco.com/users/oriole/charter.txt We can be reached at the reply-to address on this posting for technical matters concerning GateKeeper. Policy questions should be posted to ba.news.group. Thank you. ba.jobs review board.
From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: muc.archive.update,de.admin.archiv,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (25.4.97) Date: 25 Apr 1997 19:00:05 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <5jquvl$d00@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> On the Peanuts NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next, [129.187.249.15]): 1339033 Apr 19 10:46 Network/www/OmniWeb.2.5b6.H.b.tar.gz 1221350 Apr 19 10:48 Network/www/OmniWeb.2.5b6.I.b.tar.gz 1174152 Apr 19 10:49 Network/www/OmniWeb.2.5b6.N.b.tar.gz 3415711 Apr 19 10:44 Network/www/OmniWeb.2.5b6.NIHS.b.tar.gz 1274330 Apr 19 10:50 Network/www/OmniWeb.2.5b6.S.b.tar.gz 0 Apr 24 07:47 PEANUTS.sd2a 0 Apr 24 09:07 Commercial/PEANUTS.sd2b 398707 Apr 16 18:41 Tools/security/SkeyCalc.1.0.NIHS.b.tar.gz 6083 Apr 16 18:39 Tools/security/SkeyCalc.1.0.README Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/pub/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-hamburg.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-siegen.de/ France: ftp://ftp.fdn.fr/, ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Switzerland: ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/ UUCP (Germany) wburg.hanse.de (Tel. ++49-40-307 89 06) Mailbox (Germany) (Tel. ++49-8803-61111, ISDN ++49-8803-62149). Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from december 199e. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.leo.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.leo.org)
From: margaret@osgcorp.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXTSTEP MENTORS AND DEVELOPERS Date: 25 Apr 1997 21:44:53 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5jr8kl$mak$1@news.digifix.com> NeXTSTEP MENTORS AND DEVELOPERS Object Systems Group is a OO technology-based consultancy that provides assistance to Global 1000 corporations. These clients have already made the commitment to move to objects. That means that we can offer you the opportunity to build robust infrastructures, develop good designs, and direct state of the art implementations for large scale OO projects. Our Chief Technical Officer is Bruce Webster who has been involved in software engineering for 20 years and in commercial Object Oriented Development since 1989. Bruce has written numerous articles in technical publications and has also contributed to more than a dozen commerical software products. His most recent books are The Art of Ware and The Pitfalls of Object-Oriented Development. Because OSG has a proven successful OO process and a reputation for excellence, we can keep you progressing in OO technology while you are making contractors wages. OSG pays well, offers good benefits, and requires a minimum one year commitment. Please visit our Web Site at http://www.osgcorp.com PROCESS MENTORS Minimum five years total experience with one year NeXTStep or OpenStep. You will participate in the development of Object Models and will perform all the analysis and design functions for your team as well as educate team members in process, methods, and techniques. TECHNICAL MENTORS Minimum three years experience in NeXTSTEP with at least one of those in a Mentoring role. Also must have strong knowledge or experience with one or more OO Methodologies. NeXTSTEP and or OpenStep Developers If you have a minimum of 2 years experience in a NeXTSTEP environment at any level, we want to talk to you. The project is a new development (no legacy issues). All work must be done on-site. Email resume(No NeXTMAIL accepted) and current salary info in Word, TEXT, or ASCII to: margaret@osgcorp.com
From: ehutch@norden1.com (E. Hutchinson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NEXTSTEP/Contract-Long term/DC Area Date: 26 Apr 1997 20:38:00 GMT Organization: Norden 1 Communications Message-ID: <5jtp38$juf$1@news.digifix.com> Programmer/analyst/developer NEXTSTEP--------------------Commercial experience required Objective C-----------------Commercial experience required EOF-------------------------A Plus Contract--------------------Long tERM Client----------------------Financial--experience a plus Start Date------------------May 1997 To Be Considered------------Fax resume or mail a hard copy. -- ehutch@norden1.com (419) 893-6367 [fax] Omni Search (419) 893-6334 [voice] 1310 Craig Maumee, Ohio 43537
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines for comp.sys.next.announce Supersedes: <26387861508832@digifix.com> Date: 27 Apr 1997 03:59:46 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <25197862113625@digifix.com> 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 the past. 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.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <26385861508830@digifix.com> Date: 27 Apr 1997 03:59:44 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <25195862113623@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 - ISV company pages - ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.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. 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 next-advocacy next-announce next-bugs next-hardware next-marketplace next-misc next-programmer next-software next-sysadmin object lang-objective-c (For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's. To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying: subscribe where * is the name of the list e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com The ftp sites ============= ftp://ftp.next.peak.org - The main site for North American submissions formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu 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) 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. 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From: Steve Nygard <nygard@telusplanet.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Empire for Openstep v0.5 Released Date: 29 Apr 1997 03:32:06 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5k3q3m$shg$1@news.digifix.com> I have submitted Empire for Openstep, version 0.5 to ftp.next.peak.org. It is available at: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/openstep/mach/apps/games/Empire.0.5.README ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/openstep/mach/apps/games/Empire.0.5.m.NIS.b.tar.gz >From the README file: Empire for Openstep Steve Nygard <nygard@telusplanet.net> April 27, 1997. This is the distribution of Empire for Openstep, version 0.5. It has been compiled for for Next, Intel and Sparc, and requires Openstep 4.x. Empire is a network multi-player war game for up to three players Each player begins with one city, and must produce units and explore the world. The world is rectangular, and consists of land, water, cities and units. The object of the game is to destroy your opponents by capturing all of their cities. The game is modelled after "Empire: Wargame of the Century", by Walter Bright and Mark Baldwin. Further information about the game can be found in the online help. Comments and suggestions are welcomed. -- Steve Nygard <nygard@telusplanet.net>
From: personnel@pdh.com Newsgroups: ba.jobs.offered,comp.sys.next.announce,su.jobs,ucb.jobs Subject: CA, SAN JOSE: Software and Database Design Engineers Date: 29 Apr 1997 21:41:08 GMT Organization: PDH Inc. Message-ID: <5k5ptk$l38$1@news.digifix.com> >>>>> Career Opportunity<<<<< for an Object Oriented Designer and Developer PDH, Inc. is a leader in client-server systems using NEXTSTEP and soon OpenStep software development environments. These environments permit a 10 to 1 improvement in developer productivity on the first project and up to 25 to 1 on subsequent projects through the use of the tools, OOD, and the robust libraries (classes, palettes, kits). You will develop custom mission critical applications for customers. Qualifications: Required: BS in Computer Science or related field Objective-C, C++, SmallTalk, Java Willingness to travel within USA Desired: Familiarity with EOF, DBKit, AccessKit Experience in the following: Independent design and development Database design and development (SQL, Sybase or Oracle) Distributed databases Distributed architectures, Client-Server Graphical User Interface (GUI) design and development Object Oriented Methodology (OOA,OOD and OOP) UNIX Windows 95, NT, OLE NEXTSTEP Objective-C, C++, SmallTalk, Java Duties: Design, engineer, and participate in all stages of the product life-cycle: requirements, design, implementation, testing, documentation, training, and support. Take responsibility for technology insertion, database architectures, performance issues, and provide state-of-the-art solutions right to the desktops of customers. This is an excellent opportunity to be immediately challenged and to be a part of an elite staff. PDH provides excellent vacation, holiday, health, 401K and disability benefits. The work attire is casual, hours are flexible, and refreshments are sponsored. If you would like to be part of our fast-paced, high growth, engineering-focused development team, send your resume to: PDH, Inc. Personnel Department Vox: (408) 428-9596 Fax: (408) 428-9599 E-mail: personnel@pdh.com(NeXT Mail welcome) 2635 North First Street, Suite 224, San Jose, CA 95134-2034 Visit our web site at: http://www.pdh.com PDH, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. US CITIZENSHIP Required for Position
From: personnel@pdh.com Newsgroups: ba.jobs.offered,comp.sys.next.announce,su.jobs,ucb.jobs Subject: CA, SAN JOSE: Senior Software and Database Design Engineers Date: 29 Apr 1997 21:41:06 GMT Organization: PDH Inc. Message-ID: <5k5pti$l37$1@news.digifix.com> >>>>> Career Opportunity<<<<< for an experienced Object Oriented Architect and Developer PDH, Inc. is a leader in client-server systems using NEXTSTEP and soon OpenStep software development environments. These environments permit a 10 to 1 improvement in developer productivity on the first project and up to 25 to 1 on subsequent projects through the use of the tools, OOD, and the robust libraries (classes, palettes, kits). NEXTSTEP and OpenStep are available on Motorola, Intel, Sun, HP and DEC workstations now, and will soon be running in Windows/NT and SUN NEO. You will develop custom mission critical applications for customers. Qualifications: Preferably at least 5+ years software/database development experience. Required: BS in Computer Science or related field Willingness to travel within USA Object Oriented Methodology (OOA,OOD and OOP) UNIX Independent design and development Desired: Familiarity with EOF, DBKit, AccessKit Experience in the following: Database design and development (SQL, Sybase or Oracle) Distributed databases Distributed architectures, Client-Server, CORBA Graphical User Interface (GUI) design and development Windows 95, NT, OLE NEXTSTEP Objective-C, C++, SmallTalk, Java Duties: Design, engineer/architect, and participate in all stages of the product life-cycle: requirements, design, implementation, testing, documentation, training, and support. Lead a team of highly creative, qualified engineers/architects through product development providing both the technical and managerial aspects of the project. Take responsibility for technology insertion, database architectures, performance issues, and provide state-of-the-art solutions right to the desktops of customers. This is an excellent opportunity to be immediately challenged and to be a part of an elite staff. PDH provides excellent vacation, holiday, health, 401K and disability benefits. The work attire is casual, hours are flexible, and refreshments are sponsored. If you would like to be part of our fast-paced, high growth, engineering-focused development team, send your resume to: PDH, Inc. Personnel Department Vox: (408) 428-9596 Fax: (408) 428-9599 E-mail: personnel@pdh.com(NeXT Mail welcome) 2635 North First Street, Suite 224, San Jose, CA 95134-2034 Visit our web site at: http://www.pdh.com PDH, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. US CITIZENSHIP Required for Position
From: Tom Hageman <tom@basil.icce.rug.nl> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Carl Edman's mailapp-utilities, version 1.8 Date: 30 Apr 1997 03:15:32 GMT Organization: Warty Wolfs Message-ID: <5k6dgk$rlk$1@news.digifix.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- This is a maintenance release of Carl Edman's mailapp-utilities. These are some command line tools useful in conjunction with Mail.app. `Nextmail' has a command line interface similar to UCB mail but instead of sending the letter it puts it in a Mail.app compose window. `Appnmail' appends messages to the end of Mail.app mailboxes while taking care to properly handle locks, NeXT mail and the table of contents. `Compactmail' compacts Mail.app mailboxes just like the Compact menu item does. In addition, there is also a small utility called `listmail' which lists Mail.app table_of_contents. What's new: * Fixed mbox-locking race condition that caused appnmail to fail to deliver messages in rare circumstances (reported by Tim Luoma <luomat@peak.org>). * Print informational message when starting to wait for mbox lock. * Compactmail bugfix: Mail.app marks some deleted messages with `D', which wasn't understood by compactmail. * Add `-NXHost host' option to nextmail. This contacts Mail.app on the specified host. * "make install" now will _not_ try to recompile the executables; this is done to make installation of the precompiled executables easier. Use "make all install" instead if you want to compile and install in one fell swoop (generally a bad idea anyway:-p) Source code and quad-fat executables are included. See the accompanying README file for more information. It can be found at: <ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/mailapp-utilities.1.8.NIHS.bs.tar.gz> <ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/mailapp-utilities.1.8.README> [It should turn up at ftp://peanuts.leo.org/ in a few days...] Please report any bugs or suggestions to <mailapp-utilities@basil.icce.rug.nl>. Enjoy! Tom Hageman. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: next iQCVAwUBM2Z56jHcGwCnCAFpAQG5owQAoxXgFgiRUVNvCVhHO4jOatWo9KY0Om8u 9ztvaznnrduhZqHa75Em6qDW0dDbKCA2Auy8WlOjwL0jaWVzxMi8Wpxg6e0NU8n0 WRz/Xc1lEkjXugdggKl513JgiXAdzf7xRKgoD8HoI+KRnr+9R6y0f8EBlyhj9Z+t jJLpVw/ml/8= =GiJh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- __/__/__/__/ Tom Hageman <tom@basil.icce.rug.nl> [NeXTmail/Mime OK] __/ __/_/ IC Group <tom@icgned.nl> (work) __/__/__/ "Ed is the standard text editor" __/ _/_/ -- Unix Programmer's Manual
From: support@Radical.Com (Radical Product Support) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: RadicalNews 0.9 Date: 1 May 1997 06:28:01 GMT Organization: Radical System Solutions, Inc. Message-ID: <5k9d5h$1nk$1@news.digifix.com> April 30, 1997 - Anaheim Hills, California. Radical System Solutions, a long-time provider of object oriented expertise to the professional market, is proud to release the latest free beta version of RadicalNews. RadicalNews is an advanced object-oriented newsreader, designed for the discriminating NEXTSTEP marketplace. This release contains the foundation required for the next release of RadicalNews that will provide MIME reading/posting. This version supports displaying of MIME subject lines. RadicalNews is built quad-fat, running on Motorola, Intel, Sparc, and HP platforms with NEXTSTEP 3.2 or later. (NEXTSTEP 3.0/3.1 will work, but are not supported.) The J version requires NEXTSTEP-J. The beta version is free, and will run until December 31, 1997. After the beta period, a license may be purchased. The beta version may be available via anonymous ftp at: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/demos/news/RadicalNews.0.9.NIHS.README ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/demos/news/RadicalNews.0.9.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/demos/news/RadicalNewsJ.0.9.b.NIHS.tar.gz ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/next/Network/news/RadicalNews.0.9.README ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/next/Network/news/RadicalNews.0.9.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/next/Network/news/RadicalNewsJ.0.9.b.NIHS.tar.gz Our web site will have updated information and links to the most current version: http://www.radical.com/ For further information, contact: Radical System Solutions, Inc. mailto:RadicalNews@Radical.Com
From: Van Simmons <Van_Simmons@vnp.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: VNP Software Announces DevMan Acquired by Sun Microsystems Date: 1 May 1997 20:35:34 GMT Organization: VNP Software, Inc. Message-ID: <5kauqm$iju$1@news.digifix.com> Contact: Van Simmons, VNP Software, Inc. Van_Simmons@vnp.com, 617-252-9220 VNP Software Announces DevMan Acquired by Sun Microsystems VNP will work with Sun to transition DevMan technology to Java Cambridge, MA - April 29, 1997 - VNP Software today announced that its DevMan source code control and configuration management software has been acquired by Sun Microsystems, Inc. In addition, VNP Software will work with Sun to bring existing DevMan technology to the Java environment. "DevMan is a powerful SCM tool for Java developers," said Jonathan Schwartz, general manager of Lighthouse Design, a Sun Microsystems, Inc. business. "Making DevMan part of Sun's Java strategy will offer major benefits to our customers, particularly through its integration with JavaPlan, the place Solaris and Windows NT customers start for enterprise Java development." Said Ronald Simmons, president of VNP Software: "VNP Software is very excited to partner with Sun to provide a comprehensive Java based solution to enterprise developers. This is also great news for the customers who have invested in VNP technology. Teaming the solid, Internet-friendly features of DevMan with the strength of Java will result in a powerful, platform-independent SCM tool - enabling widely dispersed teams to work together more efficiently than ever." VNP Software also confirmed that it will continue to honor existing maintenance agreements with DevMan customers through their expiration dates. DevMan, a leading software configuration management package, provides powerful, yet easy-to-use support for development projects of any size. DevMan provides programmers with easy, reliable access to source code control functions, such as synchronizing with and committing changes to shared repositories. In addition, DevMan's powerful configuration map feature allows developers to work on logical sets of repositories as a single unit. Configuration management features provide versioning and recovery capabilities at repository and map levels, with branches enabling source to be managed along parallel lines of development. With DevMan's distributed capabilities, all of this functionality is available to DevMan clients that need to share code across the Internet. Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, "The Network is the Computer (tm)," has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc., (NASDAQ "SUNW"), to its position as a leading provider of hardware, software and services for establishing enterprise-wide intranets and expanding the power of the Internet. With more than $7 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 150 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://www.sun.com. VNP Software offers development tools and consulting expertise to the Java and OPENSTEP communities. Founded in 1990 , VNP Software is headquartered in Cambridge, MA and has offices in Atlanta and Detroit. For more information, contact VNP Software at http://www.vnp.com or 617-252-9220. Sun, Sun Microsystems, Lighthouse Design, Ltd., JavaPlan, Java, Solaris and the Network is the Computer are serviced marks, trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc., in the United States and other countries. VNP, VNP Software, and DevMan are trademarks of VNP Software, Inc.
From: Greg Anderson <greg@afs.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: BETA TEST: Anderson Financial Systems seeks OPENSTEP 4.2 beta testers Date: 1 May 1997 20:36:25 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5kaus9$ik0$1@news.digifix.com> Subject says it all. If you need to know more, you probably won't qualify. 8^) Must be able to test on the 4.2 Mach or NT release. Initial group will be limited to 20 participants. Preference given to prior beta testers and existing users, but others who will have time in late May and June are welcome to apply. OS/NT 4.2 users are especially desirable. Interested? Curious? Dedicated? Contact <greg@afs.com> for details.
From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: muc.archive.update,de.admin.archiv,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (2.5.97) Date: 2 May 1997 19:00:06 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <5kddjm$rte@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> On the Peanuts NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next, [129.187.249.15]): 60668 Apr 27 22:58 Tools/inspectors/MailboxInspector.1.0.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 4027 Apr 27 22:58 Tools/inspectors/MailboxInspector.1.0.README 2549 Apr 27 22:58 Tools/inspectors/MailboxInspector.1.0.README.rtf.gz 174106 Apr 27 22:55 Games/network/MazeWar.2.0.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 1621 Apr 27 22:55 Games/network/MazeWar.2.0.README 4962 Apr 27 22:57 i486/audio/MultiWav.1.13.I.b.README 30790 Apr 27 22:57 i486/audio/MultiWav.1.13.I.b.tar.gz 492262 Apr 27 22:52 Tools/cdrom/OmniCD.0.6.1.NIHS.b.tar.gz 0 Apr 24 07:47 PEANUTS.sd2a 0 Apr 24 09:07 Commercial/PEANUTS.sd2b 1433985 May 1 08:12 Network/news/RadicalNews.0.9.NIHS.b.tar.gz 1527202 May 1 04:12 Network/news/RadicalNewsJ.0.9.b.NIHS.tar.gz 2012 May 1 04:01 Network/news/RadicalNewsJ.0.9.b.README 1965209 Apr 27 22:53 Developer/languages/java/kaffe.0.8.4.NIS.b.tar.gz 4044 Apr 27 22:53 Developer/languages/java/kaffe.0.8.4.README 173076 Apr 27 22:56 Mail/programs/mailapp-utilities.1.8.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 8128 Apr 27 22:56 Mail/programs/mailapp-utilities.1.8.README Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/pub/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-hamburg.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-siegen.de/ France: ftp://ftp.fdn.fr/, ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Switzerland: ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/ UUCP (Germany) wburg.hanse.de (Tel. ++49-40-307 89 06) Mailbox (Germany) (Tel. ++49-8803-61111, ISDN ++49-8803-62149). Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from december 199e. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.leo.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.leo.org)
From: Mike Gabrys <Mike_Gabrys@bang.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: BANG General Meeting: Thursday, May 15, 1997 Date: 3 May 1997 06:39:36 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5kemj8$ef$1@news.digifix.com> **** ANNOUNCEMENT **** Special Mid-month Meeting ! Apple Developers Conference **** ANNOUNCEMENT **** Bay Area NeXT Group Meeting When: Thursday, May 15, 1997, at 7:00 PM Where: Apple Headquarters Town Hall - R&D Building 4 Infinity Loop, Cupertino, California Topic: Create: OPENSTEP's First Application Speaker: Andrew Stone, Founder and CEO of Stone Design Corp The monthly meeting of the Bay Area NeXT Group will be held Thursday, May 15, 1997, at 7:00 PM, at the Apple Headquarters, R&D Building 4, Town Hall, on Infinity Loop in Cupertino. The meeting date, which is earlier than usual, was chosen to coincide with the Apple Developers Conference. Andrew Stone, a 9-year NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP developer, presents the newest version of Create, and shares implementation tricks. He will also discuss cross-platform issues. Create is a high-end drawing package that also lets you explore "design space", with neon, fills, multiple, shadows, skews, and includes advanced capabilities such as autotrace and a PostScript hacking module. Due to the fast-changing nature of the software industry, you'll just have to come to see all the new features for yourself! Join us for announcements, Q&A, Andy Stone's presentation, and a discussion of news and events from the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. After the meeting, join us at a nearby restaurant for dinner. Where to Get More Information: * Information: info@bang.org * World Wide Web: http://www.bang.org/ * Telephone: 1.415.487.6237 * Snailmail: BANG, P.O. Box 1731, Palo Alto, CA 94302 Directions to the Apple Town Hall, Building 4: Apple Computer's R&D facility is located at the corner of De Anza and the 280 freeway in Cupertino. The facility is a group of 6 large four-story buildings that are located on a road called Infinite Loop. Driving North From San Jose on Highway 280: Take the Cupertino exit and turn left. On De Anza, turn left at the first street light -- this is Mariani Blvd. If you keep left, Mariani becomes Infinite Loop. Stay on Infinite Loop until you come to Building 4 (large numbers are posted outside the buildings). Park in the lot outside. Driving South From San Francisco / North Bay on 280: Driving south on 280 from the upper peninsula, take the De Anza exit and turn right. On De Anza, turn left at the first street light -- this is Mariani Blvd. If you keep left, Mariani becomes Infinite Loop. Stay on Infinite Loop until you come to Building 4 (large numbers are posted outside the buildings). Park in the lot outside. Driving South on Highway 101: Take 101 South. Cross over to Cupertino on 85; head south on 280. The first exit will be De Anza; turn right. On De Anza, turn left at the first street light; this is Mariani Blvd. If you keep left, Mariani becomes Infinite Loop. Stay on Infinite Loop until you come to Building 4 (large numbers are posted outside the buildings). Park in the lot outside. ** Entry to Building 4 and Town Hall ** Town Hall is a large auditorium with entrances in the lobby of the R&D 4 building. [Note: If the door is locked, please knock; someone will be there in a moment to let you into the building.] [Special thanks for the directions and venue arrangements go to Carl de Cordova, Internet and Rhapsody Evangelist at Apple Computer, and to everyone who helped arrange this meeting.]
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <25195862113623@digifix.com> Date: 4 May 1997 03:59:04 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <851862718425@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 - ISV company pages - ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.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. 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 next-advocacy next-announce next-bugs next-hardware next-marketplace next-misc next-programmer next-software next-sysadmin object lang-objective-c (For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's. To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying: subscribe where * is the name of the list e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com The ftp sites ============= ftp://ftp.next.peak.org - The main site for North American submissions formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu 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) 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 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 ( eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU ) and Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com ) Additions from: Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com ) Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net ) Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines for comp.sys.next.announce Supersedes: <25197862113625@digifix.com> Date: 4 May 1997 03:59:07 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <853862718427@digifix.com> 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 the past. 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: Stefan Schneider <stefan@ping.at> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: LatinByrd II Date: 5 May 1997 03:45:28 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5kjl4o$nnu$1@news.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Stefan Schneider Software DI Stefan Schneider Lerchenfelder St. 85/6 A-1070 Vienna, Austria, Europe +43-1-523-5834 stefan@ping.at http://members.ping.at/stefan/ ANNOUNCING THE RELEASE OF LATINBYRD II Vienna, May 3, 1997 -- LatinByrd II has been submitted to FTP sites. LatinByrd is an RTF/RTFD to HTML converter, and a TIFF/EPS to GIF/PNG/JPEG image converter. LatinByrd converts RTF documents, RTFD documents, and ASCII documents to web pages in HTML format. LatinByrd converts single documents as well as document trees. In addition, LatinByrd also converts TIFF and EPS images to GIF, PNG, and JPEG graphics formats. LatinByrd is a commercial product. Fully licensable demo. Localized to English, French, and German. NEW IN LATINBYRD II (see below for a general list of features) - conversion of TIFF/EPS images to PNG graphics format - automatic creation of RGBA colormaps for partially transparent PNG images - new "Progressive" JPEG option - selectable maximum amount of output colors (from 256 down to 2) for GIF and PNG images - grayscale GIF images now can be Netscaped and/or Floyded - more zoom steps in the Image Conversion panel - selectable background wallpaper in the Image Conversion panel - selectable background color in the Image Conversion panel - side-by-side image wells in the Image Conversion panel - new menu commands to load/save all preference settings from/to .LBSetup files - HTML code can be embedded directly into documents - CedarWord's .cw extension is recognized - various bug fixes - the Image Conversion functionality can be licensed separately FEATURES Conversion of Documents and Document Trees - converts single RTF, RTFD, and ASCII documents - converts document trees, like an entire NS3.x on-line help - various hands-free, semi-automatic, and manual image conversion strategies available - local sharing of identical images (i.e. per document) - global sharing of identical images (i.e. per document tree) - stores embedded files and folders as .tar/.Z/.gz archive files - cross-ref validation of links - detects damaged documents, missing or damaged images, missing or damaged embedded files/folders, invalid link target docs, invalid link target markers, duplicate marker definitions, and unreachable documents - selectable text and background colors - selectable background image - adjustable mapping of font sizes - customizable conversion rules for special characters - simulates RTF ruler settings with invisible spacer images and invisible HTML3.2 tables - optionally replaces bullet char with selectable bullet image - optionally aligns left margin for minimal use of tables - optionally replaces divider images with <hr> tags - HTML code can be embedded directly into documents - optionally replaces link buttons by anchoring neighboring text - selectable link image for remaining link buttons - automatically turns <URL> text into links Note: LatinByrd is optimized to convert documents which are in NeXT's version of RTF. Converting RTF documents created on other platforms may deliver poor results. Conversion of Images - converts TIFF and EPS images to GIF, PNG, and/or JPEG format - sync-view of both GIF/PNG and JPEG versions, on-the-fly changes of image options are rendered immediately - selectable background color / background wallpaper - zoom factors from 25% to 800% - selectable gamma correction factors - selectable maximum amount of output colors (GIF, PNG) - optionally applies Netscape colormap (GIF) - optionally applies Floyd-Steinberg error distribution (GIF, PNG) - selectable threshold for pure transparency (GIF) - partial transparency is either pre-rendered over the selected background color (GIF, JPEG), or fully preserved by creating an RGBA colormap (PNG) - images can be stored in interlaced/progressive format (default for GIF, optional for PNG and JPEG). Note: For LatinByrd to display the contents of GIF, PNG, and JPEG files in its image wells, you need to have an image filter application installed. ToyViewer.app is strongly recommended, as it can handle the new PNG format as well as ProgressiveJPEG. ToyViewer is freeware - get it now if you still don't have a copy. Other - compiled for Motorola, Intel, HPPA, and sparc - requires NEXTSTEP 3.2 or higher, or NS/OS 4.x for Mach - LatinByrd is localized to English, French, and German - in demo mode, every 8th character is X'd out, and images contain a tiny DEMO string AVAILABILITY LatinByrd II (1.78MB) can be obtained from: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/converters/LatinByrd.II.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/converters/LatinByrd.II.README ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/converters/LatinByrd.II.LIESMICH ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/converters/LatinByrd.II.LISEZMOI PRICE Commercial license: US$ 119 Academic license: US$ 69 Image conversion only: US$ 49 (sorry, no academic discount) FREE time-limited test keys are available. For information on how to purchase a license key for LatinByrd II, please contact Stefan Schneider Software at stefan@ping.at, or visit us at http://members.ping.at/stefan/index.html Upgrade to LatinByrd II is free for registered users of LatinByrd. Please send email to stefan@ping.at to receive your upgrade key. Fuer Bestell-Informationen senden Sie Email an stefan@ping.at, oder besuchen Sie uns auf http://members.ping.at/stefan/gindex.html Pour vous procurer une licence de LatinByrd II, veuillez communiquer avec SCRIBEX COMMUNICATIONS a : ventes@scribex.com, ou visitez notre site http://www.scribex.com
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: TCP Wrappers 7.6 Installer package Date: 7 May 1997 20:05:57 GMT Organization: R&A Message-ID: <5kqnb5$e7b$1@news.digifix.com> Hello World, An Installer package for TCP wrappers (access control facility for internet services, a nice tool if you want to control access to your machine or if yo want to catch intruders) is available from: ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next/Internet It's an installer package with the binaries (NIHS) and the man pages only. I'll add a README later, but the man pages explain everything in detail, so maybe I'll just forget about that (volunteers?). The .asc file contains a signature for the binary package, so if you trust me and you have PGP, you may just install the binary package. The package installs the binaries in /usr/local/etc/tcp_wrappers and the man pages in /usr/local/man. The package contains two example files, one for /etc/hosts.allow and one for /etc/inetd.conf. They are installed in /etc as /etc/hosts.allow.example and /etc/inetd.conf.tcpd.example. If you want the sources to compile it yourself, you can find them at ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/security They'll just compile for NEXTSTEP. I just added the following statement to the Makefile to create MAB binaries: # Make a NEXTSTEP multiple architecture binary next-mab: @make EXTRA_CFLAGS="-arch m68k -arch i486 -arch hppa -arch sparc" next Yours, -- Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl (Gerben Wierda) NEXTSTEP RD242 "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there" Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud. Renee: "Met veel koper maakt men hoempa." (After hearing a Nielsen symphony)
From: Brian Willoughby <brianw@sounds.wa.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Sound Consulting to exhibit at Apple's WWDC '97 Date: 8 May 1997 03:18:20 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5krgls$mv3$1@news.digifix.com> SOUND CONSULTING TO EXHIBIT AT APPLE'S WWDC '97 May 7th, 1997 -- Bellevue, WA, USA -- Sound Consulting announced this week that they will be showing at the Apple World Wide Developers Conference on May 14th through May 16th. Visitors to the NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/Web Objects/Rhapsody Pavilion will be able to see demonstrations of the newly released Audio Driver for the ENSONIQ SoundscapeVIVO sound card under NEXTSTEP 3.2, 3.3 and OPENSTEP 4.x releases, among other custom applications based on NeXT's technology. Sound Consulting's president, Brian Willoughby, will be available to discuss the porting of major MacOS-based applications to Apple's Rhapsody environment. "I look forward to the opportunity to work with major software companies whose products are currently based on the Macintosh operating system, but who would like to make simultaneous delivery of Rhapsody based software when Apple makes their new OS available to the general public," said Brian Willoughby, President of Sound Consulting. "Although emulation should be a viable solution for smaller MacOS based products, Sound Consulting believes that major players in the Macintosh MIDI and Digital Audio arena should begin porting to the OPENSTEP model now in order to take advantage of the advanced technology in Rhapsody." Sound Consulting has been providing quality finished software and object-oriented design services to the NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP community for over five years. Experience covers the full range from low-level devices drivers to high-level user interface object design. A partial client list includes: id Software, Inc., Rogue Entertainment, AT&T Wireless Services, Microsoft Corp., and ENSONIQ Corp. For additional information about Sound Consulting, visit the web pages at http://www.nwlink.com/cyberartists/brianw/sounds.html or send Email to Sound_Consulting@Sounds.wa.com dio Driver for the ENSONIQ AudioPCI sound card is currently under development at Sound Consulting. For additional information on the EnsoniqSoundscape Audio Driver, including pointers to sources for the sound cards, please visit the web pages at http://www.nwlink.com/cyberartists/brianw/ss_nsi.html
From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: muc.archive.update,de.admin.archiv,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (9.5.97) Date: 9 May 1997 19:00:04 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <5kvs7k$kq2@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> On the Peanuts NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next, [129.187.249.15]): 10311115 May 2 22:19 Commercial/developer/apps/JavaPlan.3.03.NIS.b.tar.gz 5333 May 3 22:53 Commercial/network/LatinByrd.II.LIESMICH 5862 May 3 22:54 Commercial/network/LatinByrd.II.LISEZMOI 1864168 May 3 23:14 Commercial/network/LatinByrd.II.NIHS.b.tar.gz 4776 May 3 23:14 Commercial/network/LatinByrd.II.README 0 May 9 11:05 PEANUTS.sd2a 0 May 9 13:18 Commercial/PEANUTS.sd2b Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/pub/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-hamburg.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-siegen.de/ France: ftp://ftp.fdn.fr/, ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Switzerland: ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/ UUCP (Germany) wburg.hanse.de (Tel. ++49-40-307 89 06) Mailbox (Germany) (Tel. ++49-8803-61111, ISDN ++49-8803-62149). Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from december 199e. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.leo.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.leo.org)
From: ctm@ardi.com (Clifford T. Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: ARDI TO DEMO CROSS-PLATFORM TECHNOLOGY AT APPLE WWDC Date: 9 May 1997 20:36:46 GMT Organization: ARDI Message-ID: <5l01su$g8u$1@news.digifix.com> ARDI TO DEMO CROSS-PLATFORM TECHNOLOGY AT APPLE WWDC Albuquerque, NM (USA) -- May 9, 1997 -- ARDI is honored to have been asked to demonstrate its cross-platform technology in the OPENSTEP developer's pavilion at Apple's WorldWide Developers Conference at the convention center in San Jose, California. ARDI Founder Cliff Matthews will be demonstrating and discussing the technology he helped create. He will be present at all three days of the pavilion: Wednesday, May 14 (morning), Thursday (morning) and Friday (afternoon). Now that Apple is publicly endorsing the concept of helping developers write *new* programs that deploy on their new operating system and on Windows 95 and Windows NT, we're grateful for this opportunity to show existing Macintosh developers how they can take their *existing* programs and deploy them on Windows 95, Windows NT, OPENSTEP/Intel, and even Linux. "Our engineers know how to take PowerPC and 68000 applications and move them from a RISC platform to a CISC platform and achieve incredible performance" Cliff exclaims. Visitors to the ARDI booth will be able to see both technology that is already shipping and technology that is still being developed. Members of the press are encouraged to stop by. This is not only an opportunity to see a portable and efficient rewrite of the Mac OS service routines, but also a chance to discuss the implications or implementations with ARDI's founder in an intimate setting. __________________ Abacus Research & Development, Inc. (ARDI) is a privately held Delaware Corporation with primary offices in Albuquerque NM. Founded in 1986, ARDI has rewritten a substantial fraction of the Mac OS and toolbox calls, optimized to run on Intel and Intel compatible CPUs. This unique technology is incorporated in their Macintosh emulator, Executor, and is also the foundation for their porting technology. In addition to the Mac OS rewrite, Executor incorporates an advanced "Just-In-Time" compiler that translates Motorola CPU instructions into Intel CPU instructions. Press Contact Consumer Contact Dealer Contact ctm@ardi.com questions@ardi.com dealer-inquiries@ardi.com ARDI Suite 4-101 1650 University Blvd., NE Albuquerque, NM 87102 http://www.ardi.com/ +1 505 766 9115 Phone +1 505 766 5153 FAX Executor is a registered trademark of ARDI. Apple and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc.
From: Todd Nathan <info@thoughtful.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: HyperSense HyperMedia is FREE of Charge Date: 9 May 1997 20:45:23 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5l02d3$g9a$1@news.digifix.com> Thu May 8 19:48:30 EDT 1997 Announcement: FREE HyperSense Licenses Available Now May 8th, 1997 Thoughtful Software, the pioneer in the NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP hypermedia software market, has announced FREE licenses for their acclaimed HyperSense authoring system. The licenses are for the full development environment and are available to anyone, whether programmer or casual user. HyperSense is the most powerful tool for prototyping and information management available today for NEXTSTEP or OPENSTEP. As Douglas Simons, President of Thoughtful Software said, "We hope everyone in the OPENSTEP market will take advantage of this free offer. As we charge ahead with future development plans, we thought this would be the perfect opportunity to share HyperSense with the OPENSTEP community and ask for your feedback. We're working on some radical new ideas and technology for the next version, and we'd love to hear your ideas, too. With a tool as broad as HyperSense, your input now can help shape the product to meet your needs." To download your free version of HyperSense and supporting documentation, browse to http://www.thoughtful.com/products.html and grab a copy of HyperSense for yourself. License keys are available via email to anyone interested in enabling the product, FREE of charge. Send email to info@thoughtful.com for a license good for 6 months of full use. Hypermedia documents and tools created during the free period will be useful forever, thanks to the HyperSensePlayer which has always been available with a free non-expiring single-user license. Mr. Simons went on to say, "HyperSense will be available to all Rhapsody owners in a native Rhapsody port before they finish reading the release announcement from Apple. We have absolutely every ounce of energy focused on being the premier player in the Rhapsody hypermedia marketplace. We invite everyone to take a look at what we have available today. We are interested in feedback to shape the product to your needs for tomorrow. This gives you a chance to be a key player in the Rhapsody marketplace today. Our product is the ONLY hypermedia product available on NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP today, and will be the first fully functional product available for Rhapsody. See for yourself, take a look with others at the OpenStep/Rhapsody Pavillion at the Apple World Wide Developers Conference in San Jose." We look forward to hearing from you and meeting your authoring tool needs, now and into the future. For more information contact: Mishelle Baun Thoughtful Software 616 Locust Street Fort Collins, Colorado 80524 Web: www.thoughtful.com Voice: +1.970.221.4596 Email: info@thoughtful.com ------------- Enter exactly as you see ----------------- Customer Name: You, Courtesy of Thoughtful Software License Number: 101 License Key: EE-ENACR-BMJFF --------------------------------------------------------
From: Todd Nathan <info@thoughtful.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Thoughtful Software to Display HyperSense at WWDC Date: 9 May 1997 20:46:18 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5l02eq$gg9$1@news.digifix.com> THOUGHTFUL SOFTWARE TO EXHIBIT HYPERSENSE AT APPLE'S WWDC '97 May 8th, 1997 -- Fort Collins, Colorado, USA -- Thoughtful Software announced this week that they will be showing HyperSense at the Apple World Wide Developers Conference on May 14th through May 16th. Visitors to the OPENSTEP/Rhapsody Pavilion will be able to see demonstrations of the premier OPENSTEP hypermedia tool for NEXTSTEP 3.2, 3.3 and OPENSTEP 4.x releases, along with other custom tools and applications built with HyperSense. "I look forward to working with all those folks who have been developing HyperCard stacks and applications in the MacOS," said Douglas Simons, President of Thoughtful Software. "We feel the timing is finally right for a great advancement of 3rd party applications, and what better way for the developer using the MacOS to migrate to OPENSTEP than with our HyperCard-compatible authoring and prototyping tools." Thoughtful Software has been providing quality finished software and object-oriented design services to the NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP community for over eight years. For additional information about HyperSense and how it can decrease your migration time to OPENSTEP, visit, email or call Thoughtful Software at: Web: www.thoughtful.com Voice: +1.970.221.4596 Email: info@thoughtful.com ~hnalgae/HNNews/HNNews.0.95a.README http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~hnalgae/HNNews/HNNews.0.95a.NIHS.b.tar.gz http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~hnalgae/HNNews/HNNews-KJ.0.95a.README http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~hnalgae/HNNews/HNNews-KJ.0.95a.NIHS.b.tar.gz HNNews-KJ version is for Korean, Japanese, and needs NEXTSTEP-J or OPENSTEP-J. If you have suggestion or find bugs, contact to Hayan Nalgae Software at: http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~hnalgae/ --- Hayan Nalgae Software, NEXTSTEP Development. http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~hnalgae/ hnalgae@soback.kornet.nm.kr <Kang Hyun> Hayan Nalgae means White Wing in Korean. NeXT, Mime mail OK.
From: alancook@cyberstore.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: OpenBase SQL Database to be distributed at WWDC97 Date: 10 May 1997 03:16:35 GMT Organization: RE/MAX Crest (Westside) Realty Ltd. Message-ID: <5l0paj$o61$1@news.digifix.com> PRESS RELEASE: OpenBase SQL Database to be distributed at WWDC97 May 9, 1997--OpenBase International, Ltd. announces that it will be distributing single-user evaluation licenses for it's popular OpenBase SQL database at WWDC97. The OpenBase 5.1 licenses will be included in the conference bags so that conference attendees can see the power of OpenBase for themselves. OpenBase will be released on Rhapsody in July. OpenBase SQL database provides high performance and unparalleled ease of use. Along with support for the latest in object-oriented tools, including Enterprise Objects Framework and WebObjects, OpenBase offers graphical tools for designing database schemas, managing user access and viewing database information. OpenBase ODBC drivers will also soon be released for compatibility with existing MacOS and Windows NT applications. If you are attending WWDC97, use your evaluation copy of OpenBase 5.1 to see why it has become the database of choice! Highlighted Features: - Application Notification tells applications when data changes so users always see current information. - Platform Independence allows databases to move seemlessly between operating systems and computer architectures. - Variable Length Record Technology removes blank space to make data files small and compact. - Multi-threaded architecture processes queries simultaneously so client applications never have to wait. The Royal Danish Police NextCenter Danmark, the leading Danish NEXTSTEP system integrator, is using OpenBase for a new state-of-the-art command-and-control system for the Royal Danish Police. "The command-and-control center handles all 911 calls for Copenhagen, the capitol of Denmark, and its vicinities, which in total encompasses approximately 1.5 million people," says Geert B. Clemmensen, Managing Director of NextCenter Danmark. "We selected OpenBase because it is a fast database engine that is fully integrated with the NEXTSTEP environment and Enterprise Objects Framework. OpenBase International, Ltd. has also shown excellent response time in providing service." The new police system automates many functions previously performed manually by the department. It records all communication, stores live video from mobile camera crews, coordinates the positioning of police vehicles, communicates with high-end GIS systems and logs events. Most critical is event logging. Whenever a 911 call comes in, the event logging mechanism helps police officers record all relevant information about the call. Critical databases are automatically transferred to replicated servers eliminating down time due to network or hardware problems. "Going with OpenBase gives you a benefit that no other database vendor gives you: a vendor that listens and is responsive. ", says Geert, "After using OpenBase extensively we recommend the product and the company." About OpenBase International, Ltd. OpenBase International has sold OpenBase database software to customers in 37 foreign countries, spanning over 20 industries. Included are: Adobe Systems, Allegheny College, AT&T, Canon Systems Globalization, Walt Disney, First National Bank of Chicago, MCI, Motorola, NeXT Software, and The Shaper Image. Contact Information: Scott Keith (scott@openbase.com) OpenBase International Ltd. voice: (603) 547-8404 fax: (603) 547-2423 http://www.openbase.com OpenBase is a registered trademark of OpenBase International Ltd. -- Alan Cook alancook@cyberstore.net
From: "Walt Beisheim" <walt@running-start.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Running Start Delivers Version 1.2 and Introduces Web-Hosting Service for Request Resolution System Date: 6 May 1997 19:33:37 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5ko12h$ddt$1@news.digifix.com> RUNNING START DELIVERS VERSION 1.2 AND INTRODUCES WEB-HOSTING SERVICE FOR REQUEST RESOLUTION SYSTEM TUCSON AZ., May 6, 1997 Running Start, Inc today announced the availability of a new and enhanced version of its popular Request Resolution System, version 1.2. In addition to the new version, Running Start also announced the availability of a web-hosting service, "Request Center(SM)" that enables customers to have the benefits of the Request Resolution System provided as a turnkey service maintained by Running Start. Running Start's extensible Request Resolution System provides full life-cycle tracking of requests from both internal and external sources. The system provides distributed access via the world-wide-web and is designed for use by any group or organization that needs to assign, track, manage and generate reports for a high volume of customer requests. Typical uses of the system include tracking software defects, requirements change requests, help desk applications, and system administration requests. "The Request Resolution System has provided customers with a flexible, extensible method of ensuring the highest level of customer support and responsiveness." said Walt Beisheim, VP of Marketing for Running Start. "With the availability of version 1.2 and our Request Center service, not only is the function of the system greatly enhanced, new customers can implement the system quickly for a low monthly charge as a turnkey, web-accessed solution." The Request Resolution System was developed to support the principles of continuous process improvement that are fundamental to quality management efforts. The system can be customized to fit the practices used by an organization instead of forcing the use of new procedures. Organizations can reduce costs by controlling change and monitoring its effects. NEW IN VERSION 1.2 Topic Dependent Parameters - System parameters such as priority, status, and severity can now be defined on a per-topic basis. This allows groups with different terminology or workflow requirements to share a single database. HTML Report Generation - New tools for the generation of on-line information. Export the results of queries as HTML documents including index pages. Command-Line Interface - Command-line tool providing request creation and reporting. This tool can be used to produce period reports, and enables integration with other applications. E-mail Request Processing - Filtering scripts are provided to produce requests from e-mail messages. This is just one example use of the new command-line interface! New Request Submission Tool - Improved web request application to provide better integration for non-OPENSTEP platforms. Improved Windows/NT Support - The Windows/NT release of the application client is significantly improved! REQUEST CENTER PRICING One-time startup cost: $1,295 Cost per concurrent user: $49.95/month 1-10 users $39.95/month 11-100 users $29.95/month 101-1000 user $19.95/month 1001-10000 users $9.95/month 10001+ users MORE INFORMATION On-line information can be found at the following URL: http://www.running-start.com/products/RRS.html or by contacting Walt Beisheim walt@running-start.com Running Start, Inc. 602-661-0805 tel/602-661-5795 fax ABOUT RUNNING START Running Start, Inc. was founded in January of 1996 by Ralph Zazula and David Koski, two veteran NeXT developers. Running Start uses industry best-practices to deliver high-quality software designs and implementations to clients such as NeXT Software, The Filoli Information Systems Company, and Koyosha Graphics of America.
From: mmalcolm crawford <Malcolm_Crawford@plsys.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: P & L SYSTEMS TO EXHIBIT AT APPLE WWDC Date: 7 May 1997 20:00:52 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5kqn1k$e40$1@news.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, contact: Elizabeth Lynch +44 1494 432422 liz@plsys.co.uk URL: http://www.plsys.co.uk/plsys/ P & L SYSTEMS TO EXHIBIT AT APPLE WWDC. May 7th 1997 -- AMERSHAM, UK -- P & L Systems today announced that they will be exhibiting at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference next week. Stand visitors will be able to see, among other products, prerelease versions of Mesa 2 for OpenStep, and a preview of Mesa 2.1 features. Mesa is a fast and highly functional traditional spreadsheet for NeXTSTEP and OpenStep with 1-2-3 and Excel interoperability. Mesa also provides a powerful API used by many of its extensive customer base. "We're delighted to be attending WWDC and to have the opportunity to show Apple developers our OpenStep porting expertise, and share our enthusiasm for the forthcoming operating system," said Matt Ware, Sales Manager of P & L Systems. "When Rhapsody is made available we expect to be able to use our skills to get our OpenStep products ready for the new platform almost immediately." P&L Systems will be exhibiting in the Developer Pavilion on all three days of the Technical Conference. Mesa 2 for NeXTSTEP is available from P & L Systems at ftp://ftp.plsys.co.uk/pub/Products/Mesa2/. P & L Systems is the leading supplier of products and services for OpenStep and NeXTSTEP in the UK. With a complete range of software and hardware products and services, P & L Systems offer full support for customers in the aggressive and sometimes bewildering world of object oriented solutions. Products developed by P & L Systems include Mesa 2; the Oracle Adaptor for Mesa; the QuickBase Adaptor for Mesa; Pager, a flexible application for pagers and beepers; PassKey, a password management tool for administrators; AppManager, a software usage monitoring and license allocation utility; and Informant!, a radical new real-time data feed distribution application for Reuters and other feeds on NeXTSTEP, Solaris and Windows NT. For additional information about P & L Systems and its products and services, contact the company directly at +44 1494 432422, send electronic mail to info@plsys.co.uk, or visit P & L Systems' World Wide Web pages at http://www.plsys.co.uk/plsys/. -- Malcolm Crawford (NeXTmail) malcolm@plsys.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)1494 432422 P & L Systems Fax: +44 (0)1494 432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~malcolm
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <851862718425@digifix.com> Date: 11 May 1997 03:58:28 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <8856863323226@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 - ISV company pages - ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.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. 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. 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From: "Frank M. Siegert" <frank@this.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: CAPer V6 - Appletalk connectivity packet Date: 11 May 1997 03:47:36 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5l3fgo$o0m$1@news.digifix.com> 11. May 1997, Frank Siegert is proud to announce the release of the CAPer Version 6 to the next-ftp.peak.org archive. Instant Appletalk connectivity for NeXTSTEP/OpenStep based on the Columbia Appletalk Package (CAP) pl198 and afpmount 1.7. (for Copyright see the CAPer Information Panel) This is a revised version of the CAPer package which replaces the V4 or older releases, V5 was only a internal beta test version. CAP/afpmount is able to: + export UNIX filesystems to Macintosh machines + export UNIX printer queues to Macintosh machines + allow access to remote LaserWriter printers from you NeXT + import remote Appleshare volumes to your NeXT CAPer is the installer and administrative setup program for CAP on NeXTSTEP/OpenStep. A precompiled and adapted version of CAP/afpmount is part of CAPer. This packet needs root permissions to install and run. It will install itself SUID at the first run but will ask you for the root password on every startup. CAPer can be used free of charge, however certain restrictions apply. Please read the Licence agreement in the Information panel. All trademarks, icons and images are used for identification purpose only and remain property of their owners. The author of CAPer would appreciate to receive a bottle of Scotch Whisky if you really like this software, however you are not obliged in any way. I'd like to thank all people out there who made this package possible. In particular my thanks goes to Suzuki Yoshiaki and Satoshi Adachi for their work on porting CAP to NeXTSTEP and for the Berkeley Packet Filter. Supported hardware: m68k (NS3.[123], OS4.x) , intel (NS3.3, OS4.x) Some network drivers are known to fail under NS/OS Intel, see the CAPer URL for more information. CAPer.V6.I.b.tar.gz is the INTEL only version CAPer.V6.N.b.tar.gz is the M68K only version There is no FAT version. CAPer can be found on the PEAK archive: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/disk/ Changes/Improvents in V6: - Much improved administrative user interface, no mor#################################################################### Path: news.informatik.uni-muenchen.de!lrz-muenchen.de!uni-erlangen.de!news-nue1.dfn.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news.apfel.de!news.maxwell.syr.edu!ott.istar!news.istar.net!tor.istar!east.istar!digifix!not-for-mail From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines for comp.sys.next.announce Supersedes: <853862718427@digifix.com> Date: 11 May 1997 03:58:31 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Lines: 70 Approved: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <8858863323229@digifix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: digifix.digifix.com X-Mailer: Perl5 Mail::Internet v1.23 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 the past. 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: Tom Hageman <tom@basil.icce.rug.nl> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Carl Edman's EnhanceMail 2.0 beta 6 Date: 8 May 1997 20:28:50 GMT Organization: Warty Wolfs Message-ID: <5ktd22$ek9$1@news.digifix.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- This is a bugfix and maintenance release of Carl Edman's EnhanceMail bundle. EnhanceMail extends the capabilities of Mail 3.3 / 4.x by adding quoting, signatures, X face support, a distributed, cached user-image database, full-text indices PGP encryption/decryption/signatures and a number of other features. What's new: (*) `Vanishing signature' bugs fixed (for real this time, hopefully). (*) Add preference (in Options) to delimit unread-mail check in the Mailboxes panel to mailboxes with table_of_contents size smaller than the given value. (Default is 100K, which corresponds to about 1000 messages on average. Set it to 0 to turn off the unread-mail check completely; Set it to -1 to check all mailboxes, regardless of its TOC size.) Attempts to improve performance of unread-mail checks. (*) KANJI-aware quoting should be enabled automatically when Japanese is the user's preferred language. No need to recompile with -DKANJI anymore. (*) Incorporate updated German (by Gerald Erdmann <gerald@stepman.com>, David Andel <david@nexttoyou.de>) and Japanese localization (by Yanagisawa Takeshi <yanagisw@aa.ap.titech.ac.jp>, SHIROYAMA Takayuki <psi@fortune.nest.or.jp>). The online help is only partially translated to Japanese at the time of this release. (*) Incorporate per-compose-window PGP-options patch (by David Schuetz <dschuetz@access.digex.net>). (*) Automatically rebuild index after compacting an indexed mailbox. (based on a patch by Jonathan Adams <jonathan@filoli.com>). (*) XImageURL: HTTP/FTP proxy support now works. Avoid downloading in EnhanceMail.bundle/Images/ by making it read-only. (*) Solved online-help loading clash with Colorizer.bundle. (*) Some more Smilies (just to keep me sane... }-) Source code and a quad-fat binary are included. See the accompanying README file for more information. It can be found at: <ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/bundles/EnhanceMail.2.0b6.README> <ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/bundles/EnhanceMail.2.0b6.NIHS.bs.tar.gz> It is also linked to <ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/latest_versions/EnhanceMail.tar.gz> [I expect it will turn up at ftp://ftp.peanuts.org/ in a few days...] Please report any bugs or suggestions to: <enhancemail@basil.icce.rug.nl> (this is just an alias, _not_ a mailinglist.) Enjoy! Tom Hageman. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: next iQCVAwUBM3IgfDHcGwCnCAFpAQF82wQAr0JF2YhTSXukJuIoHs+I3dCZhvZGpfR6 0h5TqCMOJqav8pMNgwOz4uxqRECuqTNup4a0Lg6L1vRLIfftaogNrJVG9t8c/Jmy HL4nE675LxH4r5YbUDjodPlv+NfRNSlNrHBWlECqUHlGzzLosHZv+eZeh3Lo1LDV SoDK+AVmvcI= =xg8V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- __/__/__/__/ Tom Hageman <tom@basil.icce.rug.nl> [NeXTmail/Mime OK] __/ __/_/ IC Group <tom@icgned.nl> (work) __/__/__/ "Ed is the standard text editor" __/ _/_/ -- Unix Programmer's Manual
From: Tom Hageman <tom@basil.icce.rug.nl> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Carl Edman's EnhanceMail 2.0 beta 6 Date: 8 May 1997 20:27:58 GMT Organization: Warty Wolfs Message-ID: <5ktd0e$eg5$1@news.digifix.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- This is a bugfix and maintenance release of Carl Edman's EnhanceMail bundle. EnhanceMail extends the capabilities of Mail 3.3 / 4.x by adding quoting, signatures, X face support, a distributed, cached user-image database, full-text indices PGP encryption/decryption/signatures and a number of other features. What's new: (*) `Vanishing signature' bugs fixed (for real this time, hopefully). (*) Add preference (in Options) to delimit unread-mail check in the Mailboxes panel to mailboxes with table_of_contents size smaller than the given value. (Default is 100K, which corresponds to about 1000 messages on average. Set it to 0 to turn off the unread-mail check completely; Set it to -1 to check all mailboxes, regardless of its TOC size.) Attempts to improve performance of unread-mail checks. (*) KANJI-aware quoting should be enabled automatically when Japanese is the user's preferred language. No need to recompile with -DKANJI anymore. (*) Incorporate updated German (by Gerald Erdmann <gerald@stepman.com>, David Andel <david@nexttoyou.de>) and Japanese localization (by Yanagisawa Takeshi <yanagisw@aa.ap.titech.ac.jp>, SHIROYAMA Takayuki <psi@fortune.nest.or.jp>). The online help is only partially translated to Japanese at the time of this release. (*) Incorporate per-compose-window PGP-options patch (by David Schuetz <dschuetz@access.digex.net>). (*) Automatically rebuild index after compacting an indexed mailbox. (based on a patch by Jonathan Adams <jonathan@filoli.com>). (*) XImageURL: HTTP/FTP proxy support now works. Avoid downloading in EnhanceMail.bundle/Images/ by making it read-only. (*) Solved online-help loading clash with Colorizer.bundle. (*) Some more Smilies (just to keep me sane... }-) Source code and a quad-fat binary are included. See the accompanying README file for more information. It can be found at: <ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/bundles/EnhanceMail.2.0b6.README> <ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/bundles/EnhanceMail.2.0b6.NIHS.bs.tar.gz> It is also linked to <ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/latest_versions/EnhanceMail.tar.gz> [I expect it will turn up at ftp://ftp.peanuts.org/ in a few days...] Please report any bugs or suggestions to: <enhancemail@basil.icce.rug.nl> (this is just an alias, _not_ a mailinglist.) Enjoy! Tom Hageman. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: next iQCVAwUBM3IgfDHcGwCnCAFpAQF82wQAr0JF2YhTSXukJuIoHs+I3dCZhvZGpfR6 0h5TqCMOJqav8pMNgwOz4uxqRECuqTNup4a0Lg6L1vRLIfftaogNrJVG9t8c/Jmy HL4nE675LxH4r5YbUDjodPlv+NfRNSlNrHBWlECqUHlGzzLosHZv+eZeh3Lo1LDV SoDK+AVmvcI= =xg8V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- __/__/__/__/ Tom Hageman <tom@basil.icce.rug.nl> [NeXTmail/Mime OK] __/ __/_/ IC Group <tom@icgned.nl> (work) __/__/__/ "Ed is the standard text editor" __/ _/_/ -- Unix Programmer's Manual
From: Katie Graunke <katie@stone.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: STONE DESIGN TO EXHIBIT AT APPLE'S WWDC Date: 9 May 1997 04:52:15 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5kuahv$oha$1@news.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, please contact: Katie Graunke katie@stone.com www.stone.com 505-345-4800 STONE DESIGN TO EXHIBIT AT APPLE'S WWDC May 8, 1997 -- ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, USA -- Stone Design Corp. announced today that they will be exhibiting the very latest version of Create at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Jose, California next week. Come visit Stone Design in the OpenStep developers pavilion on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Look for Andrew Stone and Katie Graunke at the WWDC and get your FREE Stone CD Volume 4 -- hot off the press. "We guarantee that you will encounter happy surprises at the WWDC when it comes to Stone Design!" exclaimed Andrew Stone, Chief Executive Hacker at Stone. "If you can't make it live, check out our web site next week for special announcements: www.stone.com." You can also catch Stone Design and Andrew Stone at the BANG General Meeting: Thursday, May 15, 1997 at 7pm at Apple Headquarters: Town Hall - R&D Building 4, Infinity Loop, Cupertino, California. For more information about BANG, please see www.bang.org. =*= Stone Design Corporation of Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 1984, develops a variety of productivity applications for Rhapsody, Java, and OpenStep. 3D Reality, DataPhile, and Create are trademarks of Stone Design Corporation. The Stone Design logotype is copyright Stone Design 1994. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
From: info@stone.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Stone Design Announce Create (HTML) for Rhapsody Date: 13 May 1997 05:17:04 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5l8tgg$p48$1@news.digifix.com> NEWS For Immediate Release For more information, please contact: Katie Graunke info@stone.com 505-345-4800 http://www.stone.com Stone Design Announces Create 4.1 for Rhapsody on Power PC, Windows, Solaris and OpenStep Mach May 12, 1997, San Jose, California -- Stone Design, a longtime leader in the NeXT/OpenStep marketplace, announced Create 4.1 for Rhapsody today. Create is full-featured design, layout and drawing application that has been shipping for 8 years. This version of Create will run on Apple's new operating system code named "Rhapsody", as well as on OpenStep. It will be the first application to ship on Rhapsody. "Macintosh developers and end users will just love Create!" said Andrew Stone, CEO of Stone Design. "Because we ported Create to OpenStep last year, it already runs well on INTEL, SPARC and Motorola architectures. This gave us the head start needed to be the first to market." Create 4.1 adds several new features to the OpenStep and NeXTSTEP versions of Create. Especially useful is ability to turn Create documents into sets of interconnected web pages, instantly. The video tool enables users to run QuickTime videos within a Create document. Create 4.1 can export objects as JPEG, as well as the standard EPS, PS, RTF, TIFF, ASCII and Create formats. "We're excited about the new release and know that our existing customer base can testify that Create is the drawing package to use, for any purpose!" said Katie Graunke, Marketing and Sales director for Stone. "Come visit us at the World Wide Developer Conference in San Jose May 13 - 16 and see for yourself how amazing Create is." This new version has an introductory price of $249. Look for Stone Design at Apple Computer's World Wide Development Conference to get a free CD! Create Features: ---------------- Tools: * Drawing tools include: Line, Straight Line, Curve, Arc, Rectangle, Oval, Rounded Rectangle, Bezier Spline, Spline-Line, Poly Line, Freehand, Brush, Polygon Star, Interface "Box", Video, Rich Text and Super Text. * Other types of graphics include: Text bound to a path, EPS and TIFF images, Groups, Box Groups, Mask Groups, and Date & Page Markers. Effects: Each graphic can contain some or all of the following PostScript effects: * Outline - set the width, color and visibility of the stroke of an object. * Neon - Stone's unique Neon feature makes splashing, 3D lines. * Multiple - each object can be repeated any number of times at any offset. * Skew - torque and twist objects. * Shadow - set the color, direction and offset of the object's shadow. * Shaded Fill - fill objects with blended colors lines: across, down, radially or solar fill. * Pattern Fill - PS Level II patterns that you create with Pattern Editor. * Group - Manage complexity by grouping objects. See also Levels below. * Mask Group - Clip any number of objects to the object on top of them e.g., fill Super Text with a picture of a sunset. * Box Group - a grouping technique which puts an interface box around objects * Flip Horizontal and Flip Vertical. * Scale - set the vertical and horizontal scaling separately or together. * Rotate - Using Stone's rotational slider, precisely rotate objects. * Copy and Paste effects from one graphic to another. * Color blends: transparent colors, CMYK, RGB, HSB, and Grayscales. Precise Design: * Zoom: Unlimited zoom and custom zooms are remembered. You can zoom in on an area with CONTROL-SHIFT drag. * Undo: as many levels of undo and redo as you like - 30 by default. * Object layering: Bring To Front, Bring Closer, Send to Back, Send Further, Lock and Unlock. * Grids: control grid spacing, color, visibility and "snap-to" independently. * Rulers: Work in points, picas, inches or centimeters. * Layers: Each page can be composed of independently nameable, hideable, lockable layers * Layout Guides for easy placement of objects. * Alignment: Align objects to top, bottom, middle, left, center and right. * Distribution: Distribute objects evenly left to right and/or top to bottom. * Nudge: using arrow keys or Nudge inspector, move objects precise amounts. * Each page can have a background image for tracing or presentation. * Define default colors of an object's effects. Text Handling: 2 Text types available: Super Text and Paragraph Text * Paragraph Text has full support for Rich Text Format: multifont, multicolor, multi paragraph text. Sub and superscripting, ligatures, kerning and line spacing. Spell Checking. Underline, italics, bold. * Super Text: can have all of Create's effects applied to it. Instantly place along rose, circle, upper or lower arc. Optional background color. Support for 2-byte fonts, like Kai-Su. Convert Super Text to splines. Place along any path: bind Super Text to Splines or Spline-Lines. * Convert Super Text to Paragraph Text and vice versa. Multiple Pages: * Add, Copy, Paste, Duplicate or Delete pages. * Reorder pages with easy interface. * "Play" (continuously loop through) pages. * Automated pagination with Page Marker. Splines and Lines: * Add and delete handles, Join and separate splines and lines. * Turn objects into splines. Tighten, Loosen and Animate splines. * Reverse path of splines and polylines. Import/Export * Import EPS, PS, JPEG, TIFF, and native file formats. * Autotrace: converts scanned images to editable graphics. * Export as EPS, PS, TIFF, JPEG, Ascii, RTF, HTML, CreateImage and Create. * TIFF export: control bit depth, alpha and compression method. Linking * Embed Create graphics in other documents with Object Linking. * Paste and Link other application's graphics and text into Create. * Exported EPS can be reimported and edited. * True object links with no redundant storage. Automated Web Page Production: * Document can create a single web page or a group of interconnected pages. * Automatically builds graphical Table of Contents. * Creates easy to read HTML which can be edited by hand. * Optional navigation bars on top and/or bottom of web pages. * Set the color of the background, text and links with simple user interface. * Specify a background image URL. * Custom HTML: Document titles can have a custom prefix, such as the site name, and add your own custom header and/or footer to each page. * Set the quality of the JPEG images created for export. * Configure HTML Preferences per document and per page. Online Help, Sample Art and Custom Art: * Context sensitive help * Online Create Manual * Online Tutorial * Sample art provided. * Your custom art and group art gets loaded as menu items. * Entire searchable manual in HTML available at www.stone.com. Expert Features: * Preferences: customizations that control every aspect of Create. * User PostScript Editor - an environment where you can write and execute PostScript programs: Open, execute, modify and save PS files. * Templates: Create new documents from existing ones for stationary, forms, etc. Automatic access to your private and group directories. * Plug-In Tools Add Dynamically Loaded Plug-Ins as they become available Video is an example of a Plug-In. * Animator Module: The animator module allows you to create movies. * Pattern editor: Create PostScript Level II patterns using all of the effects and tools. Embeds patterns in your document for use by others. * And there are probably more features, but we've run out of room! Please visit the Stone Design WWW site to download the software and for more information about Create and other Stone Design software and services: http://www.stone.com -=- Stone Design Corp. in Albuquerque, New Mexico was formed in 1984 and was the first developer to ship a product on NeXT Hardware in 1989 with the release of TextArt. Since then, Stone Design has been a leader in innovative shrinkwrap software in the NEXTSTEP and OpenStep marketplace. Like a rock, Stone is committed to Rhapsody and OpenStep development. Create(TM) is a trademark of Stone Design Corp.
From: info@bifrostworks.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Syntectic Design and Bifrost Workstations Announce Display Driver for Toshiba Tecra 740CDT, Chips and Technologies 6555x chipset Date: 16 May 1997 10:13:33 -0400 Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5lhq2d$dhq$1@news.digifix.com> Synectic Design and Bifrost Workstations Announce Display Driver for Toshiba Tecra 740CDT, Chips & Technologies 6555x chipset. Contact: Synectic Design Eric Brown ericb@synectic.com eric_brown@il.us.swissbank.com 967 Vista Drive Gurnee, IL 60031 Bifrost Workstations, Inc. Jason McNamara jason@bifrostworks.com 10850 Richmond Avenue, Suite 270 Houston, TX 77042 (713) 952-9949 v, (713) 952-9934 f http://www.bifrostworks.com/ CHICAGO / HOUSTON - Synectic Design and BWI are pleased to announce that release 3.32 of display drivers for the Toshiba Tecra 740CDT and Toshiba Portege 660 is shipping NOW. Support is currently provided for NEXTSTEP 3.3 and OpenStep 4.x, including Kanji versions. Users may purchase the laptop preloaded from BWI, or may purchase the driver alone. Site and organization licenses are also available. Though not officially supported, the driver may also work on other laptops with video based on the Chips & Technologies 65550 and 65554 chipsets. Please contact either party if you wish to have official support for such a laptop. The following video modes are supported: * 640 x 480 - 8-bit greyscale, 8-bit color, 16-bit color, 24-bit color (*) * 800 x 600 - 8-bit greyscale, 8-bit color, 16-bit color, 24-bit color (*) * 1024 x 768 - 8-bit greyscale, 8-bit color, 16-bit color * 1280 x 1024 - 8-bit greyscale, 8-bit color (virtual mode) (*) - 24-bit for external display only Both 1280 x 1024 resolutions are supported by providing an 1024 x 768 display that pans around a 1280 x 1024 workspace when the mouse moves off the edge of the screen. Other features include: * P150/166MMX power and a PCI bus * 13.3", 1024x768 Active Matrix LCD capable of 16-bit color * Compatibility with NeXT-certified SCSI & Ethernet PCMCIA cards * Display can be in on-board, external, or SIMULTANEOUS mode * Refresh rates of 75/85Hz for external-only use (65554 chipset). To help support the NEXTSTEP/OpenStep community, Synectic & BWI have again agreed to make the driver available to individuals and educational users for FREE. (Think of it this way: if you use Mach to earn money, then you should pay for the driver.) For corporate users, BWI offers the driver for sale by itself, or bundled with a laptop. The driver is included in the price of a system purchased from BWI. This includes all future upgrades and additional drivers for this laptop. Installation of a valid NS license and all drivers on machines purchased from BWI is, as always, performed free of charge. All drivers (regardless of end-user status) will be licensed through SD and BWI. Audio drivers (incl. an app which enables CDPlayer) will be available shortly on BWI's web page (URL above). Please note that these items will only work in conjunction with an SD/BWI video driver. If you don't have such a driver, don't bother downloading the audio goodies. ABOUT SYNECTIC DESIGN: Synectic Design is a dynamic consulting organization that specializes in NEXTSTEP software development. With a special focus on providing custom enterprise solutions and specialized hardware support, we are commited to providing our customers with quality products and services. ABOUT BIFROST WORKSTATIONS: Bifrost Workstations, Inc. offers one of the most complete lines of hardware focused solely on the NEXTSTEP/OpenStep/WebObjects market (SUN workstations/ servers, several lines of Intel machines, and portables). We provide hardware, software, and networking solutions for the NS market. All trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.
From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: muc.archive.update,de.admin.archiv,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (16.5.97) Date: 16 May 1997 19:00:06 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <5liarm$g0k@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> On the Peanuts NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next, [129.187.249.15]): 0 May 9 11:05 PEANUTS.sd2a 0 May 9 13:18 Commercial/PEANUTS.sd2b Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/pub/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-hamburg.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-siegen.de/ France: ftp://ftp.fdn.fr/, ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Switzerland: ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/ UUCP (Germany) wburg.hanse.de (Tel. ++49-40-307 89 06) Mailbox (Germany) (Tel. ++49-8803-61111, ISDN ++49-8803-62149). Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from december 199e. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.leo.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.leo.org)
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <8856863323226@digifix.com> Date: 18 May 1997 03:57:15 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <16065863928021@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 - ISV company pages - ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.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. 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 next-advocacy next-announce next-bugs next-hardware next-marketplace next-misc next-programmer next-software next-sysadmin object lang-objective-c (For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's. To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying: subscribe where * is the name of the list e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com The ftp sites ============= ftp://ftp.next.peak.org - The main site for North American submissions formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu 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) 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. 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From: margaret@onramp.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXTSTEP MENTORS AND DEVELOPERS Date: 19 May 1997 19:52:58 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5lqb2q$nc8$1@news.digifix.com> NeXTSTEP MENTORS AND DEVELOPERS Object Systems Group is a OO technology-based consultancy that provides assistance to Global 1000 corporations. These clients have already made the commitment to move to objects. That means that we can offer you the opportunity to build robust infrastructures, develop good designs, and direct state of the art implementations for large scale OO projects. Our Chief Technical Officer is Bruce Webster who has been involved in software engineering for 20 years and in commercial Object Oriented Development since 1989. Bruce has written numerous articles in technical publications and has also contributed to more than a dozen commerical software products. His most recent books are The Art of Ware and The Pitfalls of Object-Oriented Development. Because OSG has a proven successful OO process and a reputation for excellence, we can keep you progressing in OO technology while you are making contractors wages. OSG pays well, offers good benefits, and requires a minimum one year commitment. Please visit our Web Site at http://www.osgcorp.com PROCESS MENTORS Minimum five years total experience with one year NeXTStep or OpenStep. You will participate in the development of Object Models and will perform all the analysis and design functions for your team as well as educate team members in process, methods, and techniques. TECHNICAL MENTORS Minimum three years experience in NeXTSTEP with at least one of those in a Mentoring role. Also must have strong knowledge or experience with one or more OO Methodologies. NeXTSTEP and or OpenStep Developers If you have a minimum of 2 years experience in a NeXTSTEP environment at any level, we want to talk to you. The project is a new development (no legacy issues). All work must be done on-site. Email resume(No NeXTMAIL accepted) and current salary info in Word, TEXT, or ASCII to: margaret@osgcorp.com
From: Eric Tremblay <eric@CAM.ORG> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Nebula CDROM Special Offer Date: 20 May 1997 05:21:08 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5lrcc4$669$1@news.digifix.com> PRESS RELEASE SPECIAL OFFER DIRECTLY FROM THE AUTHOR Montreal, Canada, May 14th -- For everyone interested in learning more about Object Oriented programming the Nebula Quad-Fat CDROM offers hundreds of NEXTSTEP applications with full source code. This is a great resource for programmers, permitting them to learn from other peoples source code. The Nebula CDROM also offers more then 750 applications for computers running NEXTSTEP. What on Nebula? It's a collection of Quad-FAT applications. With applications in such categories as utilities, games, astronomy, financial, educational, graphics, mail, etc. They will also find graphics in tiff, PostScript, gif and login panels. Also on the disc is a large collection fonts and sounds plus many other files. Each directory on the disk contains an index listing filename, version, author and a short description of each file. A central index is also included which can be used with Digital Librarian to quickly locate the file your looking for. NEXTSTEP 3.2 or above for Motorola, Intel, PA-RISC or SPARC processors is required to use this disc. For more information Details about the this offer are available at http://www.cam.org/~ericet/special.html. Alternatively, you can send an e-mail to ericet@cam.org. For a limited time only. Special price is $49.95 U.S. for the Nebula Quad-FAT CDROM and included at no extra cost the WebMaster's Toolkit CDROM (A $49.95 savings). Prices do not include shipping (U.S., Canada and international is $5). This offer is only available from the author directly. The publisher will not and does NOT offer this special. Ordering Information: There are several ways you can order directly from the author! By Email at ericet@cam.org , By Fax (514) 281-1037
From: erik@square.nl (Erik Hommersom) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Netherlands - OpenStep Developers Date: 20 May 1997 19:22:08 GMT Organization: Square BV Message-ID: <5lstl0$nht$1@news.digifix.com> Open Positions for OpenStep Developers The Square Development Team are looking for OpenStep Developers on temporary or permanent contract. Your area of software development at Square may become Document Management Solutions, with emphasis on paper to electronic document conversions, involving fully-automated press clipping software, image enhancement and optical character recognition for turn-key projects. Square is a Dutch company, located in Roermond, in the southern part of The Netherlands, at less than 60 kms distance from Maastricht, Eindhoven, Aachen and Dusseldorf. We have a tight and enthusiastic crew that specialise in developing software for Document Management Solutions as well as Service Management Solutions. Currently, the Square team consists of approximately 50 members. Do you have an object-oriented bias towards design and programming? Do you enjoy working in small teams in direct contact with customers? Do you have experiences using object-oriented tools, possibly under OpenStep? Are you interested in cross-platform developments based on OpenStep? Do you want to grow in and along with our company? If you are good at your job and feel triggered by the above, please send us your resume, an email message or give us a ring. We will be happy to provide you with all the details you want! Erik Hommersom Square BV Software Development tel 00-31-475-355-100 daytime tel 00-31-77-354-1156 evening fax 00-31-475-355-199 Buitenop 5 6041 LA Roermond The Netherlands ordering information page at: http://www.take3.com/Ordering/pricing.htm ABOUT TAKE 3 Take 3 has been creating innovative e-mail and news software for the NEXTSTEP platform since 1993. We are a user driven company, committed to responding to the electronic messaging needs of our customers, providing them with leading edge solutions in an increasingly wired world. Eloquent is a trademark of Take 3. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
From: Allan Noordvyk <allan@ali.bc.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Open positions at ALI Technologies, Vancouver, Canada Date: 20 May 1997 19:22:50 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5lstma$nhu$1@news.digifix.com> ALI Technologies has immediate openings for programmers with NeXTSTEP/OpenStep experience. ALI Technologies is a rapidly growing medical imaging software house located in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, just south of the city of Vancouver. Interested individuals should send their resumes to Allan Noordvyk by e-mail (allan@ali.bc.ca, NeXT and MIME mail welcome) or by fax (604-279-5469). More information concerning ALI Technologies can be found by perusing our web page at: http://www.alitech.com/
From: John@targetdev.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Target Development Announces Release 4.3 of ReportPalette OPENSTEP/NT, with synchronized releases for NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP/Mach Date: 20 May 1997 19:50:53 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5lsvat$o6q$1@news.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 4.3 of ReportPalette for OPENSTEP/NT, with synchronized releases for NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP/Mach! LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA - May 19, 1997. Target Development announces the 4.3 release of ReportPalette for OPENSTEP/NT and the Enterprise Objects Framework 2.0. Synchronized releases of ReportPalette (4.03 for NeXTSTEP & EOF 1.1, and 4.2.3 for OPENSTEP/Mach & EOF 2.0) have also just been released! The ReportPalette is a collection of objects that allow you to easily add custom report writing features into your EOF applications. Unlike traditional report writers that directly access database tables, the ReportPalette reports on NSDictionary values from your Enterprise Objects. EOControllers can be used to define the hierarchy of the report, and Interface Builder serves as the medium for page layout. Using the ReportPalette, keys of your EO's can be mapped directly to columns or free-form text fields on the report page. Images and formatted rich text with imbedded keys can also be added graphically. This WYSIWYG reporting tool is capable of reproducing custom forms, generating mailing labels and form letters, and producing on-the-fly hierarchical column-based and free-form reports. The palette also supports auxiliary qualifiers, horizontal pagination, and runtime document archiving. Other ReportPalette Features: + Custom Page Sequences; graphical ordering of static and dynamic pages + Custom page backgrounds; for page header and footer information + Automatic Page Layout control at runtime + Multi-level group headers and footers, including totals + Column Headers and Footers, with totals + Horizontal Pagination + Runtime document archiving + Full support for the Foundation classes, including NSString, NSNumber, NSCalendarDate, NSData for RTF(D), and NSImage objects. + Fully documented API for programmatic customization The ReportPalette ships with several demo applications and NIBs, along with install scripts and EOModels for Sybase, Oracle, Informix, and QuickBase. The example NIBs can be loaded and run using IB's 'Test Interface' mode! That's how easy it is! Example NIBs include a column based report, form letters, mailing labels, a free-form report, and a custom healthcare form. A date licensed version of the palette is available via ftp or directly from Target Development. The product is licensed through June 30, 1997. The product includes the Interface Builder palette, header files, libraries, complete technical documentation, and various demo applications and NIBS. The palette retails for $895.00 per developer seat. No runtime fees apply. Educational, site, and source licenses are also available. The palette can be downloaded from our Web site at: http://www.stepwise.com/Target_Development Select on ReportPalette, and choose the version you wish to demo. Versions are available for NeXTSTEP/EOF 1.1, OpenStep/Mach (EOF 2.0) and OpenStep/NT (EOF 2.0). Download the following files. Installation_README.rtfd.tar.gz ReportPalette.pkg.tar.gz The archived version is compiled quad-FAT for Intel, Motorola, Sparc and HP-PA. Thin versions can be requested by sending email to objects@targetdev.com. Target Development is a Pennsylvania-based object-oriented solutions company, specializing in database productivity objects for NEXTSTEP and OpenStep. We are currently shipping object palettes for the DatabaseKit, AccessKit, and the EOF (versions 1.1, 1.2, and 2.0, Mach & NT). We additionally offer NeXTSTEP and OpenStep consulting and training, and are available for onsight services. 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, NEXTSTEP, and OPENSTEP 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.
From: Eric Tremblay <eric@CAM.ORG> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: ScrollViewExample 2.0 Date: 21 May 1997 03:50:34 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5ltrea$4s9$1@news.digifix.com> ScrollViewExample Version 2.0 by Eric Tremblay (ericet@cam.org) Submitted to: next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/submission ScrollViewExample Version 2.0 by Eric Tremblay Intro: This is simply an example of a working scrollview. With some buttons to print a scrollview and a couple of other features. What's new?: Version 2.0 Ported to OpenStep for MACH. The Package: Version 2.0 comes complete in a tar.gz package. Which includes: - ScrollViewExample.app binary for NeXT, Intel and Sparc hardware - README.TXT This file - Nebula.rtfd Information about the Nebula CDROM - Includes Full Source Code - NeXT, Intel, and SPARC binaries. Compiling: This version includes all the source code necessary to recompile the program from scratch. Comments and suggestions are welcomed: E-mail: ericet@cam.org History: Original NEXTSTEP Version 1.0 June 12, 1993 OpenStep Version 2.0 May 20, 1997 uted architectures, Client-Server, CORBA Graphical User Interface (GUI) design and development Windows 95, NT, OLE NEXTSTEP Objective-C, C++, SmallTalk, Java Duties: Design, engineer/architect, and participate in all stages of the product life-cycle: requirements, design, implementation, testing, documentation, training, and support. Lead a team of highly creative, qualified engineers/architects through product development providing both the technical and managerial aspects of the project. Take responsibility for technology insertion, database architectures, performance issues, and provide state-of-the-art solutions right to the desktops of customers. This is an excellent opportunity to be immediately challenged and to be a part of an elite staff. PDH provides excellent vacation, holiday, health, 401K and disability benefits. The work attire is casual, hours are flexible, and refreshments are sponsored. If you would like to be part of our fast-paced, high growth, engineering-focused development team, send your resume to: PDH, Inc. Personnel Department Vox: (408) 428-9596 Fax: (408) 428-9599 E-mail: personnel@pdh.com(NeXT Mail welcome) 2635 North First Street, Suite 224, San Jose, CA 95134-2034 Visit our web site at: http://www.pdh.com PDH, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. US CITIZENSHIP Required for Position
From: support@Radical.Com (Radical Product Support) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: RadicalNews.0.9.0.2 Date: 21 May 1997 21:43:03 GMT Organization: Radical System Solutions, Inc. Message-ID: <5lvq97$quq$1@news.digifix.com> May 21, 1997 - Anaheim Hills, California. Radical System Solutions, a long-time provider of object oriented expertise to the professional market, is proud to release the latest free beta version of RadicalNews. RadicalNews is an advanced object-oriented newsreader, designed for the discriminating NEXTSTEP marketplace. This release contains more features required for the next release of RadicalNews that will provide MIME reading. - All header encoding types are now supported: ISO-2022-JP "base64", raw JIS, ISO-8859-1 - All appropriate header fields can be decoded. - Posting articles now correctly encodes header fields. - Posting articles now correctly encodes article body. - Removed URL zaps from forwarded articles. Known bugs: - Article editing / saving / archiving uses the encoded header. - Find panel and MIME decoding of the article body are not functional. RadicalNews is built quad-fat, running on Motorola, Intel, Sparc, and HP platforms with NEXTSTEP 3.2 or later. (NEXTSTEP 3.0/3.1 will work, but are not supported.) The J version requires NEXTSTEP-J. The beta version is free, and will run until December 31, 1997. After the beta period, a license may be purchased. The beta version may be available via anonymous ftp at: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/demos/news/RadicalNews.0.9.0.2.NIHS.tar.gz ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/demos/news/RadicalNewsJ.0.9.02.b.NIHS.tar.gz ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/next/Network/news/RadicalNews.0.9.0.2.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/next/Network/news/RadicalNewsJ.0.9.02.b.NIHS.tar.gz Our web site will have updated information and links to the most current version: http://www.radical.com/ For further information, contact: Radical System Solutions, Inc. mailto:RadicalNews@Radical.Com
From: Eric Tremblay <eric@CAM.ORG> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: HousePrice for OpenStep on Windows NT Date: 22 May 1997 05:35:00 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5m0lu4$72l$1@news.digifix.com> HousePrice (The House Shopping Tool) OpenStep Version 2.0 by Eric Tremblay (ericet@cam.org) Submitted to: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/submissions Should end up in: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/windows/apps/financial Intro: ====== The application will permit you to calculate the percentage of your offer on a house in comparision to the asking price and the municipal evaluation. A good tool to have when your bidding on a house. INSTALLATION: ============ WINNT: 1. Unpack the software distribution a. open a "Bourne Shell" window b. change directory to location of distribution, for example, C:\temp cd C:\temp c. gunzip the distribution: gunzip Create_4.w.NT.m.MIS.tar.gz d. untar the resulting uncompressed file: tar xf Create_4.w.NT.m.MIS.tar The Package: ============ Version 2.0 comes complete in a tar.gz package. Which includes: - HousePrice.app binary for OpenStep Intel for Windows NT - README.TXT This file - Nebula.rtfd Information about the Nebula CDROM - FontGarden.rtfd Information about the FontGarden CDROM - Includes Full Source Code - Intel Windows NT binaries. Compiling: ========== This version includes all the source code necessary to recompile the program from scratch on OpenStep 4.0 or above. CONTACT INFO: ============= Comments and suggestions are welcomed: E-mail: ericet@cam.org ments and suggestions are welcomed: E-mail: ericet@cam.org
From: Eric Tremblay <eric@CAM.ORG> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: ScrollViewExample for OpenStep on Windows NT Date: 22 May 1997 05:35:03 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5m0lu7$72m$1@news.digifix.com> ScrollViewExample Version 2.0 by Eric Tremblay (ericet@cam.org) Special thanks to John Markle of the Montreal NeXT Users Group and John C. Randolph for his "Appending test in NSText objects" Usenet post. Submitted to: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/submissions Should end up in: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/windows/sourcelibrary Intro: ====== ScrollViewExample Version 2.0 by Eric Tremblay This is simply an example of a working scrollview. With some buttons to print a scrollview and a couple of other features. What's new?: ============ Version 2.0 Ported to OpenStep for MACH. INSTALLATION: ============= WINNT: 1. Unpack the software distribution a. open a "Bourne Shell" window b. change directory to location of distribution, for example, C:\temp cd C:\temp c. gunzip the distribution: gunzip Create_4.w.NT.m.MIS.tar.gz d. untar the resulting uncompressed file: tar xf Create_4.w.NT.m.MIS.tar The Package: ============ Version 2.0 comes complete in a tar.gz package. Which includes: - ScrollViewExample.app binary for OpenStep Intel for Windows NT - README.TXT This file - Nebula.rtfd Information about the Nebula CDROM - Includes Full Source Code - Intel Windows NT binaries. Compiling: ========== This version includes all the source code necessary to recompile the program from scratch on OpenStep 4.0 or above. CONTACT INFO: ============= Comments and suggestions are welcomed: E-mail: ericet@cam.org History: ======== Original NEXTSTEP Version 1.0 June 12, 1993 OpenStep Version 2.0 May 20, 1997
From: "Andrew P. Lindesay" <apl@charcoal.poot.gen.nz> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Blocks Date: 22 May 1997 21:40:42 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5m2egq$qnk$1@news.digifix.com> Blocks (c) Andrew Lindesay 1997 version 0.01beta (22nd May 1997) Compiled on NeXTSTEP 3.3 NeXT for NeXT & Intel --------------------------------------------------------------------- ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/games/Blocks.0.01b.NI.b.tar.gz ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/games/Blocks.0.01b.README --------------------------------------------------------------------- This application is copyright Andrew Lindesay 1997. Please feel free to distribute this application with any media/distribution channel. The application must be distributed with this README file and must be distributed in the original distribution you obtained. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Blocks is a simple, but nice tetr1s game for NeXTSTEP. I'm planning to extend it in several ways, but this is my primary release to ensure that the tetris engine itself is reasonably stable. I invite you to download it, give it a whirl and get back to me if you have any trouble with it. As soon as I can get hold of NeXTSTEP 4.2 Academic Bundle (and when I figure out who sells it now), I'll move it to OPENSTEP and add the new planned features ad-infinitum. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: Andrew Lindesay apl@kcbbs.gen.nz Fax. 649 356 7107 9 St Benedicts Street Newton Auckland New Zealand ---------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Dwight Everhart <everhart@alterlife.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Chronographer 0.90 Date: 24 May 1997 21:08:56 GMT Organization: Sailor Hardware Message-ID: <5m7ld8$p8h$1@news.digifix.com> Chronographer -- A daily planner application Dwight Everhart everhart@alterlife.com May 24, 1997 UPDATE ====== Chronographer version 0.90 has been released. Features added: o The expire date has been extended to August 1. o Multiple schedule views have been added. In addition to the day view, Chronographer now also features month and year views. A week view will be in the next release. You can select a different view by clicking on the tab for the view. The tabs are located above the schedule view. Each view has its own to-do list associated with it. The day view's list is for items that need to be done that day. The month view's list is for items that need to be done sometime that month but aren't tied down to a particular day. Likewise, the year view's list is for items which need to be done sometime during that year but not in any particular month. In both the year and month views, double clicking on a day selects that day and switches the window to the day view. Currently appointments can only be dragged from or dropped on the day schedule. The month schedule only displays appointments; it can't alter them in any way. The year view doesn't display any appointments, since there's no room. You'll probably need to enlarge your schedule window to provide enough space for the month and year views to display properly. o The month view includes a Filter... button at the bottom of the window. Clicking on it opens a panel which controls which appointments and/or to-do items are displayed in the month view. o A button has been added to the bottom of the schedule window, next to the Now button. It's labeled "Jump To...", and clicking on it opens a panel which allows you to select an arbitrary date to change the schedule to. The panel also includes a control for calculating a new date by adding or subtracting a given number of days, weeks, months, or years. o A new menu called Schedule has been added below the Agenda menu. The first item in this menu is a New command which opens a new schedule window. The second item is a Date submenu which contains commands for changing a schedule's date. The third item is a Detail submenu which contains commands for changing the detail displayed in a schedule. The last item is a Filter... command which runs the filter panel for the month view. o A Complete command as been added to the Agenda menu. Clicking on it causes the selected item or items to be marked as completed. This is equivalent to clicking on the "Completed" checkbox in the inspector panel. If the selected item is already completed, the Complete command is displayed as Uncomplete, and clicking on it causes the selected item or items to be marked as not completed. o A hide button has been added to the button bar. It has a picture of a book being shut. Clicking on it hides Chronographer, just as the Hide menu command does. The print button has been moved to the left one notch so that the hide button could be placed at the edge of the window. Features removed: o The Calendar tool has been removed, since its functionality is provided by the year and month views now. Along with the Calendar tool, the Calendar tool button has been removed. The hide button takes the place of the Calendar tool button on the button bar. Bugs fixed: o Pasting repeating appointments into a schedule outside of their repeat range caused them to not appear in the new schedule. Now, when repeating appointments are pasted, their start date is set to the schedule's date, and their end date is adjusted to be equal to the start date if it would have been earlier. o The "Weeks" unit disappeared from the reminder inspector due to the interface changes being lost in a merge. It's back now. o Dragging an appointment with a reminder to a time which made the new reminder time equal to the current time caused the reminder to occur immediately. The same occurred when an appointment was resized so that it started at the same time. This behavior was silly. Also, in the former case of dragging the appointment with a panel reminder, the reminder was displayed but Chronographer then entered an infinite loop. This behavior was annoying. o The inspector panel did not update its title to match the type of object selected if there was no previous selection. These new features and fixed bugs are also described in Chronographer's release notes. Choose the Info-->Release Notes command to see them. AVAILABILITY ============ Chronographer is being distributed in one, quad-fat package: name: Chronographer.0.90.NIHS.b.tar.gz h/w: NeXT, Intel, HP-PA, SPARC size: 2329617 md5: ca76143789e5239a470e2aabc6f04221 sum32: 4292374772 If you would like a PGP signature of the package, please email me. Chronographer has been submitted to PEAK: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/demos/productivity/Chronographer.0.90.NIHS.b.tar.gz Chronographer has also been submitted to Peanuts: ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/Tools/calendars/Chronographer.0.90.NIHS.b.tar.gz The release is binary-only and includes software for NeXT, Intel, HP-PA, and SPARC hardware. It will run on NEXTSTEP versions 3.2 and later. It might also run on 3.0 and 3.1, but it has not been tested with those versions. If you find that it does run on either of those versions, please let me know. This is the 18th release of Chronographer. It is a beta release. Version 1.00 will be commercial, but this beta release is free and is fully functional, except that it will stop running on August 1. By that time, a newer version will be available. The commercial version will cost US$40 per user.
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines for comp.sys.next.announce Supersedes: <16067863928024@digifix.com> Date: 25 May 1997 03:57:52 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <12799864532836@digifix.com> 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 the past. 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.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <16065863928021@digifix.com> Date: 25 May 1997 03:57:50 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <12797864532834@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 - ISV company pages - ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.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. 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 next-advocacy next-announce next-bugs next-hardware next-marketplace next-misc next-programmer next-software next-sysadmin object lang-objective-c (For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's. To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying: subscribe where * is the name of the list e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com The ftp sites ============= ftp://ftp.next.peak.org - The main site for North American submissions formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu 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) 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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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 ( eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU ) and Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com ) Additions from: Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com ) Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net ) Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
From: Eric Tremblay <eric@CAM.ORG> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: CATax for OpenStep on Windows NT Date: 25 May 1997 20:30:38 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5ma7he$nad$1@news.digifix.com> CATax (The California Tax Tool) OpenStep Version 2.0 by Eric Tremblay (ericet@cam.org) Submitted to: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/submissions Should end up in: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/windows/apps/financial Intro: ====== Very simple app. What's there to say? It calculates the California state tax. Nothing fancy, no bells or anything else. INSTALLATION: ============ WINNT: 1. Unpack the software distribution a. open a "Bourne Shell" window b. change directory to location of distribution, for example, C:\temp cd C:\temp c. gunzip the distribution: gunzip TheApp.w.NT.bs.tar.gz d. untar the resulting uncompressed file: tar xvf TheApp.w.NT.bs.tar The Package: ============ Version 2.0 comes complete in a tar.gz package. Which includes: - CATax.app binary for OpenStep Intel for Windows NT - README.TXT This file - Nebula.rtfd Information about the Nebula CDROM - FontGarden.rtfd Information about the FontGarden CDROM - Includes Full Source Code - Intel Windows NT binaries Compiling: ========== This version includes all the source code necessary to recompile the program from scratch on OpenStep 4.0 or above. CONTACT INFO: ============= Comments and suggestions are welcomed: E-mail: ericet@cam.org WWW: http://www.cam.org/~ericet = Comments and suggestions are welcomed: E-mail: ericet@cam.org WWW: http://www.cam.org/~ericet
From: Eric Tremblay <eric@CAM.ORG> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: WindowExample for OpenStep on Windows NT Date: 25 May 1997 20:30:40 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5ma7hg$nae$1@news.digifix.com> WindowExample Version 2.0 by Eric Tremblay and Rene Guimont (ericet@cam.org) Submitted to: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/submissions Should end up in: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/windows/sourcelibrary WindowExample Version 2.0 by Eric Tremblay and Rene Guimont Intro: ====== Window Example shows you how to use some of the functions of windows. What's new?: ============ Version 2.0 Ported to OpenStep for MACH. Fixed some bugs, added features and made a new icon. INSTALLATION: ============ WINNT: 1. Unpack the software distribution a. open a "Bourne Shell" window b. change directory to location of distribution, for example, C:\temp cd C:\temp c. gunzip the distribution: gunzip TheApp.w.NT.bs.tar.gz d. untar the resulting uncompressed file: tar xvf TheApp.w.NT.bs.tar The Package: ============ Version 2.0 comes complete in a tar.gz package. Which includes: - WindowExample.app binary for OpenStep Intel for Windows NT - README.TXT This file - Nebula.rtfd Information about the Nebula CDROM - Includes Full Source Code - Intel Windows NT binaries. Compiling: ========== This version includes all the source code necessary to recompile the program from scratch. CONTACT INFO: ============= Comments and suggestions are welcomed: E-mail: ericet@cam.org WWW: http://www.cam.org/~ericet
From: Eric Tremblay <eric@CAM.ORG> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: BMI (The Body Mass Index Tool) for OpenStep on Windows NT Date: 25 May 1997 20:30:44 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5ma7hk$naf$1@news.digifix.com> BMI (The Body Mass Index Tool) OpenStep Version 2.0 by Eric Tremblay (ericet@cam.org) Submitted to: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/submissions Should end up in: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/windows/apps/misc Intro: ====== This application will permit you to calculate your Body Mass Index. In other words are you too fat for your weight and height? The U.S. Public Service describes people of ages 20-29 who have a body mass index greater then 27.8 for men and 27.3 for women as overweight. Normal? Normal Body Mass Index is generally betweem 20 and 25. INSTALLATION: ============ WINNT: 1. Unpack the software distribution a. open a "Bourne Shell" window b. change directory to location of distribution, for example, C:\temp cd C:\temp c. gunzip the distribution: gunzip TheApp.w.NT.bs.tar.gz d. untar the resulting uncompressed file: tar xvf TheApp.w.NT.bs.tar The Package: ============ Version 2.0 comes complete in a tar.gz package. Which includes: - BMI.app binary for OpenStep Intel for Windows NT - README.TXT This file - Nebula.rtfd Information about the Nebula CDROM - Includes Full Source Code - Intel Windows NT binaries. Compiling: ========== This version includes all the source code necessary to recompile the program from scratch on OpenStep 4.0 or above. CONTACT INFO: ============= Comments and suggestions are welcomed: E-mail: ericet@cam.org WWW: http://www.cam.org/~ericet
From: Eric Tremblay <eric@CAM.ORG> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: QTax for OpenStep on Windows NT Date: 25 May 1997 20:30:50 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5ma7hq$nag$1@news.digifix.com> QTax (The Quebec Tax Tool) OpenStep Version 2.0 by Eric Tremblay (ericet@cam.org) Submitted to: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/submissions Should end up in: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/windows/apps/financial Intro: ====== This is an OLD app that I "converted". It's NOT EASY the conversion from NEXTSTEP to OpenStep. At least not as easy as we were lead to believe. Even a VERY simple application such as this one does not automatically convert to OpenStep. I can only imagine the work that it takes to convert something like WriteUp or other fancy applications... Very simple app. What's there to say? It calculates the California state tax. Nothing fancy, no bells or anything else. INSTALLATION: ============ WINNT: 1. Unpack the software distribution a. open a "Bourne Shell" window b. change directory to location of distribution, for example, C:\temp cd C:\temp c. gunzip the distribution: gunzip TheApp.w.NT.bs.tar.gz d. untar the resulting uncompressed file: tar xvf TheApp.w.NT.bs.tar The Package: ============ Version 2.0 comes complete in a tar.gz package. Which includes: - QTax.app binary for OpenStep Intel for Windows NT - README.TXT This file - Nebula.rtfd Information about the Nebula CDROM - FontGarden.rtfd Information about the FontGarden CDROM - Includes Full Source Code - Intel Windows NT binaries. Compiling: ========== This version includes all the source code necessary to recompile the program from scratch on OpenStep 4.0 or above. CONTACT INFO: ============= Comments and suggestions are welcomed: E-mail: ericet@cam.org WWW: http://www.cam.org/~ericet
From: Eric Tremblay <eric@CAM.ORG> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Currency for OpenStep on Windows NT Date: 25 May 1997 20:31:11 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5ma7if$nd5$1@news.digifix.com> Currency (The Currency Conversion Tool) OpenStep Version 2.0 by Eric Tremblay (ericet@cam.org) Submitted to: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/submissions Should end up in: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/windows/apps/financial Intro: ====== This is an OLD app that I "converted". It's NOT EASY the conversion from NEXTSTEP to OpenStep. At least not as easy as we were lead to believe. Even a VERY simple application such as this one does not automatically convert to OpenStep. I can only imagine the work that it takes to convert something like WriteUp or other fancy applications... Onces converted it was VERY EASY to port it to Windows NT. Simply a recompile did the trick. Bravo NeXT! Currency is a valuble tool to the people who travel or are going to travel. It permits the user to convert his dollars into any foreign currency. How to I get the lastest rates? Well you can first start out with your local newspaper or on the World Wide Web. Here's my favorite places: http://www.ibm.net/currency.html http://www.olsen.ch/cgi-bin/exmenu http://www.bloomberg.com/cgi-bin/tdisp.sh?markets/fxc.html Other comments: =============== This application is FREE to anyone using OpenStep. If you enjoy it, please write me and email! INSTALLATION: ============ WINNT: 1. Unpack the software distribution a. open a "Bourne Shell" window b. change directory to location of distribution, for example, C:\temp cd C:\temp c. gunzip the distribution: gunzip TheApp.w.NT.bs.tar.gz d. untar the resulting uncompressed file: tar xvf TheApp.w.NT.bs.tar The Package: ============ Version 2.0 comes complete in a tar.gz package. Which includes: - Currency.app binary for OpenStep Intel for Windows NT - README.TXT This file - Nebula.rtfd Information about the Nebula CDROM - Includes Full Source Code - Intel Windows NT binaries. Compiling: ========== This version includes all the source code necessary to recompile the program from scratch on OpenStep 4.0 or above. CONTACT INFO: ============= Comments and suggestions are welcomed: E-mail: ericet@cam.org WWW: http://www.cam.org/~ericet
From: Alvin Jee <alvin@neander.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Beta Version of a Driver for the Connectix Gray-Scale QuickCam is Available Date: 26 May 1997 21:13:57 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5mcuel$nfv$1@news.digifix.com> For Immediate Release: Contact: Neanderthal Design NeanderCam@neander.com Fax: (408) 738-8336 http://www.neander.com PRESS RELEASE: Beta Version of a Driver for the Connectix Gray-Scale QuickCam is Available. 26 May 1997 - Sunnyvale, California Neanderthal Design announces the availability of a beta version of NeanderCam and a driver for the parallel port version of the Connectix gray-scale QuickCam for NeXTSTEP 3.3. NeanderCam is a NeXTSTEP 3.3 application that displays still-frame images that are captured by digital cameras. NeanderCam allows you to save the displayed images as TIFF files. NeanderCam also supports the dragging of images from the "viewfinder" into other applications as TIFF images. NeanderCam allows users to use not only the cameras that are connected to the local machine, but also to cameras that are located on other machines attached to the network. Thus, NeanderCam can be used for remote visual monitoring and primitive video conferencing. NeanderCam makes use of run-time loaded bundles to load drivers for specific camera types. This allows users to use new camera types without requiring a new version of NeanderCam. In conjunction with this beta release of NeanderCam, Neanderthal Design is releasing a beta version of their driver for the parallel port version of the Connectix gray-scale QuickCam camera. While this driver only runs on Intel machines running NeXTSTEP 3.3, NeanderCam can access the QuickCam from any NeXTSTEP 3.3 machine. The Intel version of the driver and the quad-FAT versions of NeanderCam and the driver bundle can be retrieved from our web site http://www.neander.com. These beta versions of the software are free and will expire on 30 Jun 1997. After the beta test period, NeanderCam will remain free and licenses for drivers for specific cameras may be purchased. We welcome any and all comments and constructive criticism that will help us provide better software for the NeXT/Apple community. For more information send e-mail to NeanderCam@neander.com
From: Elmar Ludwig <feludwig@informatik.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: rtfdtohtml 1.3 Date: 28 May 1997 18:43:57 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5mhudd$jig$1@news.digifix.com> rtfdtohtml -- Convert NeXT-rtf and NeXT-rtfd files to HTML version 1.3 (May 16, 1997) Copyright (c) 1997 Elmar Ludwig Copying policy: GNU GPL rtfdtohtml has been submitted to the Peanuts NeXT archive: ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/Text/programs/rtfdtohtml.1.3.README ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/Text/programs/rtfdtohtml.1.3.s.tar.gz This is release 1.3 of the rtfdtohtml program, a command line tool for converting existing documents from the Rich Text Format to HTML. It supports both RTF and RTFD files created on NeXTSTEP or OPENSTEP systems. It is based on (and requires to run) the rtftohtml-filter by Chris Hector. It also requires perl version 4 or 5. rtfdtohtml adds the following features to rtftohtml: o support for the complete NeXT-European character set o different font sizes and colors o conversion of inline images to GIF or PNG format o links and markers o HTML-3.2 tables The program has been tested on Linux, HP-UX, NeXTSTEP 3.3 and OPENSTEP 4.1 (Mach), but it should run on almost any UNIX-like system. (It is not a NeXTSTEP or OPENSTEP application.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact information: By email: feludwig@informatik.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (Elmar Ludwig) The rtfdtohtml homepage: http://ramses.informatik.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE/~feludwig/Local/rtfd/
From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: muc.archive.update,de.admin.archiv,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (30.5.97) Date: 30 May 1997 19:00:05 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <5mn83l$crk@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> On the Peanuts NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next, [129.187.249.15]): 395825 May 24 11:27 Games/action/Blocks.0.01b.NI.b.tar.gz 1274 May 24 11:27 Games/action/Blocks.0.01b.README 17238 May 23 23:00 Developer/objc/appkit/ClassBuilder.subproj.s.tar.gz 703131 May 24 11:29 Mail/bundles/EnhanceMail.2.0b6.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 5440 May 24 11:29 Mail/bundles/EnhanceMail.2.0b6.README 1767385 May 24 11:29 Tools/workspace/FileSpy.1.1.NIHS.b.tar.gz 1411552 May 24 11:32 Unix/shell/GNU_sh-utils.1.16.NIHS.b.tar.gz 1071 May 24 11:32 Unix/shell/GNU_sh-utils.1.16.README 1998349 May 24 11:33 Text/programs/GNU_textutils.1.22.NIHS.bd.tar.gz 1220 May 24 11:33 Text/programs/GNU_textutils.1.22.README 1680595 May 24 11:34 Network/news/HNNews-KJ.0.95.NIHS.b.tar.gz 8099 May 24 11:34 Network/news/HNNews-KJ.0.95.README 1680647 May 24 11:34 Network/news/HNNews-KJ.0.95a.NIHS.b.tar.gz 8221 May 24 11:34 Network/news/HNNews-KJ.0.95a.README 1672649 May 24 11:34 Network/news/HNNews.0.95.NIHS.b.tar.gz 8043 May 24 11:34 Network/news/HNNews.0.95.README 1673028 May 24 11:35 Network/news/HNNews.0.95a.NIHS.b.tar.gz 8165 May 24 11:35 Network/news/HNNews.0.95a.README 51113 May 24 11:38 Tools/inspectors/MailboxInspector.1.1.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 4030 May 24 11:38 Tools/inspectors/MailboxInspector.1.1.README 1487494 May 24 11:39 Network/news/RadicalNews.0.9.0.2.NIHS.tar.gz 13701739 May 17 00:55 .test/SynthBuilderBeta25.pkg.tar.gz 1401006 May 24 11:50 Unix/shell/bash.2.0.NIHS.b.tar.gz 979 May 24 11:50 Unix/shell/bash.2.0.README 1043552 May 24 01:13 Text/etext/demoETFDs.tar.gz 928264 May 24 01:17 Text/etext/eText5-0.93.App.NIHS.tar.gz 589326 May 24 01:18 Text/etext/eText5-0.93.Source.NIHS.tar.gz 36870 May 24 01:18 Text/etext/echtbrief.ps.gz 37148 May 24 01:18 Text/etext/echtdemo.ps.gz 168736 May 24 01:19 Text/etext/echtpaper.ps.gz 1962 May 24 11:30 Developer/languages/c/gcc.2.7.2.2.I.README 8581546 May 24 11:31 Developer/languages/c/gcc.2.7.2.2.I.b.tar.gz 6009912 May 24 11:35 Developer/languages/java/kaffe.0.9.0.I.b.tar.gz 3970 May 24 11:35 Developer/languages/java/kaffe.0.9.0.README 1023602 May 24 01:20 Text/etext/oldDemoDocs.tar.gz Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/pub/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-hamburg.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-siegen.de/ France: ftp://ftp.fdn.fr/, ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Switzerland: ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/ UUCP (Germany) wburg.hanse.de (Tel. ++49-40-307 89 06) Mailbox (Germany) (Tel. ++49-8803-61111, ISDN ++49-8803-62149). Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from december 199e. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.leo.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.leo.org)
From: ovidiu@bx.logicnet.ro (Ovidiu Predescu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION:: libFoundation 0.7.1 Date: 30 May 1997 20:13:39 GMT Organization: None Message-ID: <5mncdj$ko5$1@news.digifix.com> We are pleased to announce you the availability of libFoundation 0.7.1, a free and almost complete implementation of Foundation Kit as defined by the OpenStep specifications, plus more classes that come with the newest releases of OpenStep 4.x. It has completely or almost completely implemented the following classes: NSObject NSString, NSMutableString NSArray, NSMutableArray NSDictionary, NSMutableDictionary NSSet, NSMutableSet NSData, NSMutableData NSValue, NSNumber NSDate, NSCalendarDate, NSTimeZone NSCharacterSet NSEnumerator NSAutoreleasePool NSException NSNotification, NSNotificationCenter NSCoder, NSArchiver, NSUnarchiver NSScanner NSInvocation, NSMethodSignature NSFileManager NSBundle NSProcessInfo NSAccount NSDistributedLock NSPosixFileDescriptor NSTimer NSRunLoop NSThread NSUserDefaults Some extensions to the OpenStep specification are also present. They include an extended exception handling mechanism, a garbage collector based on reference counting and a printf-like formatting class. The exception handling mechanism is very similar with those found in Java and C++ and requires support for nested functions from the compiler. The garbage collector adds the benefits of automatic garbage collecting to the OpenStep programs and it is fully integrated with OpenStep classes. The printf-like formatting class is a general purpose class that can be used to do various operations that require parsing of format strings like in printf(). This class is used for example to do all the formatting jobs from NSString class in libFoundation. These extensions are also available in a separate library for other OpenStep Foundation implementations; the current supported Foundation libraries are gnustep-base and the Foundation library in NeXTStep 3.3. Support for 4.x OpenStep Foundation library is planned. The library requires the 2.7.2.1 GNU Objective-C compiler with the Objective-C patches from Scott Christley <scott@net-community.com>. On NeXTStep machines the library can also be compiled with NeXT Objective-C runtime besides the GNU runtime. The library was ported on the following platforms: - m68k-next-nextstep3 - i386-next-nextstep3 - i386-unknown-linux-gnu - i386-pc-cygwin32 (Windows NT) - sparc-sun-solaris2.5 Preliminary support has been done for HPUX 9.x. The library also runs with GNU runtime on OpenStep 4.x for Mach with the GNU compiler (not the native one). Distributed Objects and Unicode support in NSString are planned. Changes since version 0.7: ========================= * The port to Solaris has been completed thanks to Aleksandr Savostyanov <sav@conextions.com>. * libFoundation was ported to Windows NT; thanks to Jeremy R. Bettis <jeremy@hksys.com>. * Shared library support has been added. New makefile targets exist on systems that support shared libraries (`shared' and `install_shared'). The currently supported systems are Linux ELF, Solaris and OPENSTEP 4.x. * NSRunLoop and NSPosixFileDescriptor classes has been finished. The NSRunLoop API has been changed to work with NSPosixFileDescriptor objects instead of Unix file descriptors. * Delayed execution of methods in NSObject is now working. * The library now works with both 960906 and 970318 Objective-C runtime patches. (You must have either one of these patches applied to the compiler before compiling libFoundation; see the INSTALL file for more info.) * Many bug fixes and improvements in NSInvocation, NSTimer, exception handling without nested functions support, NSString, geometry functions, NSDistributedLock, NSFileManager and NSRunLoop. See the ChangeLog file for a complete list of the changes. Where you can get it? ===================== You can download the source code from ftp://ftp.logicnet.ro:/pub/users/ovidiu/libFoundation-0.7.1.tgz ftp://ftp.net-community.com/pub/Free/libFoundation-0.7.1.tgz ftp://koala.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE:/pub/next/OpenStep/GNUstep/Sources/libFoundation-0.7.1.tgz Happy hacking, Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com> Mircea Oancea <mircea@pathcom.com>
From: wsi@spacelab.net (WSI Nationwide) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: US-NY-212-Nextstep / Openstep,Objective-C,WebObjects-WSI Date: 30 May 1997 20:09:09 GMT Organization: WSI Nationwide Message-ID: <5mnc55$knu$1@news.digifix.com> -(All fees are paid by our client companies and all projects are on-site at the locations listed below, 3rd party referrals or agencies, please)----------- I have been asked to identify either an employee or independent consultant candidate with strong Nextstep / Openstep, Objective-C and WebObjects experience, JAVA & Sybase are pluses. Employees will be a direct hire with the Wall Street company and the consultants be on a long term Wall Street brokerage project developing a JAVA front end for a derivatives trading system also using WebObjects and Sybase in New York City. Employees will be hired at an attractive starting salary with legendary bonuses, full benefits and an exciting professional growth opportunity. Independent consultants will be offered an initial six month+ contract with no starting rate initially defined, your asking rate will be submitted, after your approval. If you know someone who might qualify (no 3rd party referrals or agencies, please) or is coming to the NYC/NJ/CT/PA area, e-mail a resume to Jay L., perferrably a straight ascii text file, but any attachment is OK, (and please do not return a copy of this announcement with your response) to wsi@spacelab.net, or fax to 212-534-3724 or call 212-410-1400. (To insure formatting & print quality, please also mail a copy to me at WSI, 1619 Third Avenue, Box #6415, New York, 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. xwsix
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <12797864532834@digifix.com> Date: 1 Jun 1997 03:57:29 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <26791865137630@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 - ISV company pages - ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.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. 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. 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From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines for comp.sys.next.announce Supersedes: <12799864532836@digifix.com> Date: 1 Jun 1997 03:57:31 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <26793865137633@digifix.com> 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 the past. 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: Juergen Moellenhoff <jurgen@oic.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Sortable NSTableView (Version 1.0) for OpenStep 4.1,4.2/Mach and EOF 2.x Date: 1 Jun 1997 06:46:09 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5mr5rh$2s2$1@news.digifix.com> OICTableView Version 1.0 for OpenStep 4.1,4.2/Mach and EOF 2.x ============================================================== Juergen Moellenhoff (jm@oic.de), 25 May 1997 Description =========== These classes are part of a bigger project and I thought that it is maybe useful for other people, too. OICTableView is a subclass of the NSTableView. With this class it is possible to change the sort order of the TableColumns - in the running program or in the IB test mode - with a simple mouse click. I included a simple inspector for the InterfaceBuilder so that you can change the default sort order and the data Cell (NSTextFieldCell, NSImageCell, NSComboBoxCell) of the TableColumns. There is also an inspector for the data Cell itself included. Btw. this project is also an example for an inspector via the class IBInspectorManager. This software comes without any warranty of any kind. I am not responsible for any damage that may occur as a result of using this software. Please keep in mind that this is a work in progress, and bear with the incomplete nature of this software. The software is currently available via anonymous ftp at: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/openstep/mach/sourcelibrary/OICTableView.1.0.m.NIS.bs.tar.gz or ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/NeXT/developer/libs/classes/OICTableView.1.0.NIS.bs.tar.gz Source code =========== The source code is included, so if you modify the source code, please send a copy of the modifications to me <jm@oic.de>. For the Copyright see below. The source code is - maybe - a little bit ugly, but please remember it is a "quick and dirty" hack... :-)... Architectures ============= ALL Architectures (INTEL, MOTOROLA and SUN). Documentation ============= Sorry, but in the moment I'm to busy to write documentation :-), but I guess the classes are easy to handle :-). The source code is included, so feel free to write the documentation ;-). Contact Information =================== Juergen Moellenhoff OIC - Object Innovation Center Bochum, Germany EMail: jm@oic.de (ASCII, NEXT and MIME-Mail)
From: support@Radical.Com (Radical Product Support) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: MIME Compliant RadicalNews.0.9.1 Date: 3 Jun 1997 05:36:38 GMT Organization: Radical System Solutions, Inc. Message-ID: <5n0ah6$95$1@news.digifix.com> June 2, 1997 - Anaheim Hills, California. Radical System Solutions, a long-time provider of object oriented expertise to the professional market, is proud to release the latest free beta version of RadicalNews. RadicalNews is an advanced object-oriented newsreader, designed for the discriminating NEXTSTEP marketplace. RadicalNews 0.9.1 provides MIME compliant USENET news reading and posting and in-line image displaying of both MIME images and "ordinary" UUENCODED images. Non-image binary data is displayed as an icon and launched on a double-click. To display images other than tiff, you will need to install an appropriate image filter such as OmniImage or ImageViewer. New Features: MIME SUPPORT: - The following MIME types/subtypes are supported on reading: text/plain text/enriched text/html (displayed as icon -- launched via double-click in your web browser) image/<image-type> (displayed in-line if proper image filter is installed) application/<application-type> (displayed as icon) audio/<audio-type> (displayed as icon) video/<video-type> (displayed as icon) multipart/mixed multipart/alternative (message/rfc822 and message/partial will be supported in a future release) - The following MIME types/subtypes are supported for posting: text/plain (with appropriate character set indication) - The following MIME transfer encoding types are supported: base64 quoted-printable x-uuencode 7bit 8bit - The following MIME character sets are supported: us-ascii iso-8859-1 iso-2022-jp (requires RadicalNews-J for Japanese character display) IMAGE DISPLAYING: - UUENCODED or BASE64 images are now displayed in-line if the entire image is contained within one post. - Drag & Drop Images -- Images can be dragged from the news display directly, or launched into your favorite image application with a double-click. - Images are automatically removed on Follow-ups, email forwards, or email replies and replaced with "[***<Image Removed>***]". PROBLEMS FIXED: - Find panel now works properly with MIME and "ordinary" articles. - Article headers are now decoded properly when archived. - "Post and Reply" now encodes email into the character set indicated in the Post Viewer window. KNOWN PROBLEMS: - Printing news articles with embedded images does not print the image. (Work-around: double-click on the image and print it from an image viewer). - Text viewer does not scroll horizontally when image exceeds right text boundary (Work-around: double-click on the image to launch it into an image viewer). RadicalNews is built quad-fat, running on Motorola, Intel, Sparc, and HP platforms with NEXTSTEP 3.2 or later. (NEXTSTEP 3.0/3.1 will work, but are not supported.) The J version requires NEXTSTEP-J. The beta version is free, and will run until December 31, 1997. After the beta period, a license may be purchased. The beta version may be available via anonymous ftp at: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/demos/news/RadicalNews.0.9.1.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/demos/news/RadicalNewsJ.0.9.1.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/next/Network/news/RadicalNews.0.9.1.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/next/Network/news/RadicalNewsJ.0.9.1.NIHS.b.tar.gz Our web site will have updated information and links to the most current version: http://www.radical.com/ For further information, contact: Radical System Solutions, Inc. mailto:RadicalNews@Radical.Com
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Squid-1.1.10 binary distribution Date: 3 Jun 1997 20:02:06 GMT Organization: R&A Message-ID: <5n1t7u$hqf$1@news.digifix.com> Hi, Just a short note to inform you that a binary distribution of Squid-1.1.10 (Internet Object Cache, derived from the Harvest project) for NEXTSTEP has been placed in directory ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next/Internet/ as ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next/Internet/Squid-1.1.10.pkg.tar.gz ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next/Internet/Squid-1.1.10.README It runs on NEXTSTEP 3.3 on m68k and i486. Other versions of NEXTSTEP are untested, but 3.x and 4.x should work. Other hardware platforms (sparc and hppa) are untested too, but they should als work. Squid doesn't come with any documentation worth mentioning, but /usr/local/squid/bin/squid -h will give the options and http://squid.nlanr.net has some links to a bit of documentation. Squid-1.1.9 compiles out of the box, Squid-1.1.10 needs a small patch, which is submitted to the developers and should turn up in the next release. Yours, --- Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl (Gerben Wierda) NEXTSTEP RD242
From: personnel@pdh.com Newsgroups: ba.jobs.offered,comp.sys.next.announce Subject: (CA - San Jose) Senior Software and Database Design Engineers Date: 4 Jun 1997 20:09:22 GMT Organization: PDH Inc. Message-ID: <5n4i1i$hdi$1@news.digifix.com> >>>>> Career Opportunity<<<<< for an experienced Object Oriented Architect and Developer PDH, Inc. is a leader in client-server systems using NEXTSTEP and soon OpenStep software development environments. These environments permit a 10 to 1 improvement in developer productivity on the first project and up to 25 to 1 on subsequent projects through the use of the tools, OOD, and the robust libraries (classes, palettes, kits). NEXTSTEP and OpenStep are available on Motorola, Intel, Sun, HP and DEC workstations now, and will soon be running in Windows/NT and SUN NEO. You will develop custom mission critical applications for customers. Qualifications: Preferably at least 5+ years software/database development experience. Required: BS in Computer Science or related field Willingness to travel within USA Object Oriented Methodology (OOA,OOD and OOP) UNIX Independent design and development Desired: Familiarity with EOF, DBKit, AccessKit Experience in the following: Database design and development (SQL, Sybase or Oracle) Distributed databases Distributed architectures, Client-Server, CORBA Graphical User Interface (GUI) design and development Windows 95, NT, OLE NEXTSTEP Objective-C, C++, SmallTalk, Java Duties: Design, engineer/architect, and participate in all stages of the product life-cycle: requirements, design, implementation, testing, documentation, training, and support. Lead a team of highly creative, qualified engineers/architects through product development providing both the technical and managerial aspects of the project. Take responsibility for technology insertion, database architectures, performance issues, and provide state-of-the-art solutions right to the desktops of customers. This is an excellent opportunity to be immediately challenged and to be a part of an elite staff. PDH provides excellent vacation, holiday, health, 401K and disability benefits. The work attire is casual, hours are flexible, and refreshments are sponsored. If you would like to be part of our fast-paced, high growth, engineering-focused development team, send your resume to: PDH, Inc. Personnel Department Vox: (408) 428-9596 Fax: (408) 428-9599 E-mail: personnel@pdh.com(NeXT Mail welcome) 2635 North First Street, Suite 224, San Jose, CA 95134-2034 Visit our web site at: http://www.pdh.com PDH, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. US CITIZENSHIP Required for Position
From: personnel@pdh.com Newsgroups: ba.jobs.offered,comp.sys.next.announce Subject: (CA - San Jose) Software and Database Design Engineers Date: 4 Jun 1997 20:09:24 GMT Organization: PDH Inc. Message-ID: <5n4i1k$hdj$1@news.digifix.com> >>>>> Career Opportunity<<<<< for an Object Oriented Designer and Developer PDH, Inc. is a leader in client-server systems using NEXTSTEP and soon OpenStep software development environments. These environments permit a 10 to 1 improvement in developer productivity on the first project and up to 25 to 1 on subsequent projects through the use of the tools, OOD, and the robust libraries (classes, palettes, kits). You will develop custom mission critical applications for customers. Qualifications: Required: BS in Computer Science or related field Objective-C, C++, SmallTalk, Java Willingness to travel within USA Desired: Familiarity with EOF, DBKit, AccessKit Experience in the following: Independent design and development Database design and development (SQL, Sybase or Oracle) Distributed databases Distributed architectures, Client-Server Graphical User Interface (GUI) design and development Object Oriented Methodology (OOA,OOD and OOP) UNIX Windows 95, NT, OLE NEXTSTEP Objective-C, C++, SmallTalk, Java Duties: Design, engineer, and participate in all stages of the product life-cycle: requirements, design, implementation, testing, documentation, training, and support. Take responsibility for technology insertion, database architectures, performance issues, and provide state-of-the-art solutions right to the desktops of customers. This is an excellent opportunity to be immediately challenged and to be a part of an elite staff. PDH provides excellent vacation, holiday, health, 401K and disability benefits. The work attire is casual, hours are flexible, and refreshments are sponsored. If you would like to be part of our fast-paced, high growth, engineering-focused development team, send your resume to: PDH, Inc. Personnel Department Vox: (408) 428-9596 Fax: (408) 428-9599 E-mail: personnel@pdh.com(NeXT Mail welcome) 2635 North First Street, Suite 224, San Jose, CA 95134-2034 Visit our web site at: http://www.pdh.com PDH, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. US CITIZENSHIP Required for Position
From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: muc.archive.update,de.admin.archiv,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (6.6.97) Date: 6 Jun 1997 19:00:07 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <5n9mnn$c4o@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> On the Peanuts NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next, [129.187.249.15]): 3526834 Jun 5 14:37 Commercial/mail/AirMail.3.1.5.I.b.tar.gz 1439 Jun 5 14:36 Commercial/mail/AirMail.README 53894 Jun 5 15:58 Developer/objc/appkit/Bezier.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 157615 May 28 13:51 Commercial/hardware/cdrom/CDDesigner-Upgrade1.1.NI.b.tar.gz 480 May 28 13:52 Commercial/hardware/cdrom/CDDesigner-Upgrade1.1.README 3971 Jun 5 15:06 Tools/hack/programs/CronVixie.2.1.N.bs.README 55929 Jun 5 15:06 Tools/hack/programs/CronVixie.2.1.N.bs.tar.gz 43083 Jun 5 14:57 i486/data/DAS.12.1.0.I.bsd.tar.gz 1310 Jun 5 14:57 i486/data/DAS.12.1.README 6919 Jun 5 15:55 Communication/programs/EnhancePNI.NIHS.b.tar.gz 113135 Jun 5 15:59 Graphics/viewer/EnhancedYap.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 9322454 May 30 09:06 Graphics/3d/Geomview.1.5.0.NIHS.b.tar.gz 9233 May 30 09:06 Graphics/3d/Geomview.README 792279 May 30 09:06 Graphics/3d/Geomview.manual.d.tar.gz 2578045 Jun 6 02:45 Graphics/convertors/ImageConverter.1.2.NIHS.b.tar.gz 1337 Jun 6 02:45 Graphics/convertors/ImageConverter.1.2.README 396153 Jun 5 15:24 Tools/dock/LaunchPad.I.bs.tar.gz 12367 Jun 5 15:26 Unix/tools/LogHooks.1.0.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 1435 Jun 5 15:26 Unix/tools/LogHooks.1.0.README 71037 Jun 5 15:54 Developer/objc/mach/Message.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 1012 May 28 09:30 Tools/calculators/MultibaseCalculator.2.1.NIHS.b.README 74397 May 28 09:30 Tools/calculators/MultibaseCalculator.2.1.NIHS.b.tar.gz 565283 Jun 5 14:54 i486/serial/MuxV1.7.I.bs.tar.gz 37616 Jun 5 15:35 Tools/printer/NPoff.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 11902788 Jun 6 01:13 Audio/library/sounds/misc/NeXTPromotion.snd.d.tar.gz 172700 Jun 5 15:40 Tools/printer/NeXTprinterWNT40.I.d.zip 2633 Jun 5 15:40 Tools/printer/NeXTprinterWNT40.README 160213 May 26 03:21 OpenStep/developer/resources/OICTableView.1.0.NIS.bs.tar.gz 3094 May 26 03:20 OpenStep/developer/resources/OICTableView.1.0.README 602416 May 26 09:59 Text/apps/PDFViewer.1.17.NIHS.b.tar.gz 3725 May 26 09:55 Text/apps/PDFViewer.README 114601 Jun 6 02:53 Graphics/vector/PencilTCLClient.NI.bs.tar.gz 28010 Jun 2 00:40 Network/www/PrintExtensions-v1.2.NISH.tar.gz 19457 Jun 5 15:03 Commercial/spreadsheet/QAPI_ExportHTML.1.5.NISH.bs.tar.gz 2252 Jun 5 15:03 Commercial/spreadsheet/QAPI_ExportHTML.1.5.README 1541970 Jun 3 18:17 Network/news/RadicalNews.0.9.1.NIHS.b.tar.gz 1517123 Jun 3 08:21 Network/news/RadicalNewsJ.0.9.1.NIHS.b.tar.gz 3536 Jun 3 08:09 Network/news/RadicalNewsJ.0.9.1.README 13374 Jun 5 15:45 Patches/SoftPC_adb_patch.N.b.tar.gz 966 Jun 5 15:45 Patches/SoftPC_adb_patch.README 446 Jun 5 13:46 Network/programs/www/Squid-1.1.10.README 834448 Jun 5 13:46 Network/programs/www/Squid.1.1.10.NIHS.b.tar.gz 1084892 Jun 5 15:12 Tools/workspace/Stuart.2.6.3.NIHS.b.tar.gz 210716 Jun 5 14:58 i486/video/V-Box.I.b.tar.gz 667 Jun 5 14:58 i486/video/V-Box.readme 184 Jun 5 14:51 Developer/webobjects/extensions/SunOS/WOPerl-lite-1.0e8-SunOS5.README 1414172 Jun 5 14:51 Developer/webobjects/extensions/SunOS/WOPerl-lite-1.0e8-SunOS5.tar.gz 323557 Jun 5 15:30 Tools/screen/WideScreen.0.5.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 48911 Jun 6 02:56 Graphics/3d/WireFrameWorlds.d.tar.gz 2401855 Jun 6 02:47 Graphics/movie/YetAnotherVideo.N.b.tar.gz 1890 Jun 6 02:47 Graphics/movie/YetAnotherVideo.README 852117 Jun 5 15:08 Developer/programs/cvs.1.9.NIHS.b.tar.gz 317 Jun 5 15:08 Developer/programs/cvs.1.9.README 1457 Jun 2 11:51 Developer/objc/appkit/darken.README 347010 Jun 5 15:10 Developer/programs/diff.2.7.NIHS.b.tar.gz 327 Jun 5 15:10 Developer/programs/diff.2.7.README 26185 Jun 6 02:40 Developer/objc/mach/dis.N.bs.tar.gz 2457 Jun 6 02:40 Developer/objc/mach/dis.README 61752 Jun 5 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From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <26791865137630@digifix.com> Date: 8 Jun 1997 03:57:17 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <14012865742421@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 - ISV company pages - ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.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. 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.#################################################################### Path: news.informatik.uni-muenchen.de!lrz-muenchen.de!uni-erlangen.de!chico.franken.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uniol!fu-berlin.de!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!news-xfer.netaxs.com!shelob.afs.com!digifix!not-for-mail From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines for comp.sys.next.announce Supersedes: <26793865137633@digifix.com> Date: 8 Jun 1997 03:57:20 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Lines: 70 Approved: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <14014865742423@digifix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: digifix.digifix.com X-Mailer: Perl5 Mail::Internet v1.23 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 the past. 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 st.com saying: subscribe where * is the name of the list e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com The ftp sites ============= ftp://ftp.next.peak.org - The main site for North American submissions formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu 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) 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 ( eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU ) and Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com ) Additions from: Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com ) Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net ) Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
From: Tom Hageman <tom@basil.icce.rug.nl> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Carl Edman's mailapp-utilities, version 2.0 Date: 10 Jun 1997 02:41:25 GMT Organization: Warty Wolfs Message-ID: <5niesl$ki8$1@news.digifix.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- This is a release of Carl Edman's mailapp-utilities. These are some command line tools useful in conjunction with Mail.app. `Nextmail' has a command line interface similar to UCB mail but instead of sending the letter it puts it in a Mail.app compose window. `Appnmail' appends messages to the end of Mail.app mailboxes while taking care to properly handle locks, NeXT mail and the table of contents. `Compactmail' compacts Mail.app mailboxes just like the Compact menu item does. In addition, there is also a small utility called `listmail' which lists Mail.app table_of_contents. New features since 1.8: * appnmail now knows how to incorporate messages into a mailbox while it is open in Mail.app -- no need to close and re-open the mailbox in order to let appnmail do its job anymore! (This may not work with earlier versions of Mail.app; I think it should work with all 3.x versions, but it is tested only with 3.3 and 4.[012]) * appnmail has been made more robust: it now saves its message to disk as soon as possible, to a temporary mbox if need be, to minimize the chance of losing messages in a system crash. * Installables are now distributed in an Installer package. Source code and quad-fat executables are included. See the accompanying README file for more information. It can be found at: <ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/mailapp-utilities.2.0.NIHS.bs.tar.gz> <ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/mailapp-utilities.2.0.README> [It should turn up at ftp://peanuts.leo.org/ in a few days...] Please report any bugs or suggestions to <mailapp-utilities@basil.icce.rug.nl>. Enjoy! Tom Hageman. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: next iQCVAwUBM5xSMDHcGwCnCAFpAQGU0AP+KyS6L8qlhy6YuGpzmgljdO9VRWO5Jw9L /LdcvfjqDr86ieRioYA5b17hBcs+x5a1CffCbmsPAuvO80kCsdPjQr9Ti04wdpPS +mv/MbHDvxtgBK5OEMGNR9UPaZd+clR2Cs2yMmZ3J9MEqIBGVNLwZSy4bhoq8ppt xZjiPMpXCt8= =LRc0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- __/__/__/__/ Tom Hageman <tom@basil.icce.rug.nl> [NeXTmail/Mime OK] __/ __/_/ IC Group <tom@icgned.nl> (work) __/__/__/ __/ _/_/ Confused? You won't be after the NeXT episode.
From: Eric Tremblay <ericet@CAM.ORG> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: EmptyQ OpenStep Version 2.0 (The mail utility) Date: 10 Jun 1997 03:00:29 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5nig0d$kui$1@news.digifix.com> EmptyQ Version 2.0 by Eric Tremblay (ericet@cam.org) Submitted to: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/submissions Should end up in: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/apps/mail Intro: ====== EmptyQ is an application that will empty your mail queue. Which is usually located at /usr/spool/mqueue. Please note that you need to be "connected" to your internet service provider in order for the mail to be sent. (Your ppp link needs to be active.) EmptyQ simply sends a /usr/lib/sendmail -q command. Which can be also done in a terminal shell. The reason I made this program is that several non-technical people use my computer. This program makes it easy for them to make sure that thier e-mail was sent instantly, once they log on to the ISP. This OpenStep Version was greatly fixed up and simplified compared to Version 1.0 running on NEXTSTEP. As you can see from the source code, the program itself is ONLY 4 lines of code!!! Special thanks to Samy Toutai for his help. I hope that this program will be useful for other people out there in NEXTSTEP/OpenStep land. The Package: ============ Version 2.0 comes complete in a tar.gz package. Which includes: - EmptyQ.app A FAT OpenStep binary for NeXT, Intel and Sparc hardware - README.TXT This file - SpecialOffer Information about a special offer for the Nebula CDROM - Includes Full Source Code - FAT OpenStep binary, NeXT, Intel and SPARC. Compiling: ========== This version includes all the source code necessary to recompile the program from scratch on OpenStep 4.0+ systems. CONTACT INFO: ============= Comments and suggestions are welcomed: E-mail: ericet@cam.org WWW: http://www.cam.org/~ericet
From: Paul Tod Rieger <prie@abl.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Atlanta Rhapsody SIG (Powerbook raffle) Date: 12 Jun 1997 19:40:37 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5npjbl$a7d$1@news.digifix.com> Date: Wednesday, June 18, 1997 Time: 7:00pm Place: Tull Auditorium, Gambrell Hall (Law School building) Emory University (Atlanta, USA) Cost: free and open to the public ($5 per raffle ticket) Agenda: MacSoft demo of some games Apple presents their new line of Powerbooks raffle for a Powerbook 1400cs! While nothing Rhapsody-specific is planned, the chance for a free Powerbook should be Rhapsody enough. Hope to see you there! Directions to Gambrell Hall (Emory University) ** maps require fixed-width font ** | (Exit 32) \ ================+===========================+====== I-85 | ^ \ Clairmont Ave ->| | \ | 3.8 miles \ | | || XX <-Emory | | || <- I-285 XX Univ. | V || --------------|------- <- N. Decatur Road || | || |<--- 1 --->| mile Get on N. Decatur Road, which goes past the south side of the Emory campus. Gambrell Hall is at the intersection with Clifton Rd. There are entrances to parking off both roads. | Clifton Rd -> | | x <- Gambrell Hall ----------+----------------- <- N. Decatur Rd / / / Contact: Tod Rieger Phone: 770-381-2464 Email: prie@abl.com
From: cs@hal.kph.tuwien.ac.at Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: vmount 0.6a Date: 12 Jun 1997 21:00:08 GMT Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria Message-ID: <5npo0o$bqp$1@news.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Version 0.6a of vmount is now available from ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/Unix/disk/vmount* ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/disk/vmount* ftp://hal.kph.tuwien.ac.at/pub/NeXT/tools/vmount/ The files "vmount-Linux-2.0.25.s.gnutar.gz" and "vmount-ntfs-cs.s.gnutar.gz" have not changed! There is no need to waste bandwidth if you have already fetched them with a previous version. * What does vmount do? ====================== vmount allows you to mount non-NeXT filesystems on your NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP machine (Mach/Intel only). You can mount disks formatted with Windows VFAT (long filenames on DOS filesystem), NTFS, Linux EXT 2 and several other filesystems. It also handles multi-session CDs better than NeXT's iso9660 implementation. For integration with Workspace's autmounting mechanism, there is a GUI frontend available. It's called MountMe.app and you can download a time-limited beta version from our web-page at http://www.ObjectiveD.co.at/ObjectiveD/commercial/mountme.htm * What has changed? =================== Changes from 0.4 to 0.5 - Made interface more mount-like (vmount goes to background now) - Added vumount utility to unmount things - Use syslog for error logging because we run as daemon now - Added fixed uid mode - Option -i scans for filesystem types Changes from 0.5 to 0.6 - fixed bug with "fixed UID mode": chmod and chown did not work Changes from 0.6 to 0.6a - increased NFS timeout from 5s to 20s (necessary for floppies) * What do I need to run vmount? =============================== To run vmount: 1.) An i386 based machine (i386 is the CPU-class, not the actual processor). 2.) NEXTSTEP 3.2 or higher (I have only tested on 4.0, however). To compile from the sources: 1.) NEXTSTEP 3.3 Developer or higher. I have also tested with gcc 2.7.2 and NEXTSTEP 3.2 Developer, this works too. gcc 2.2.2, which comes with 3.2 Developer, complains about prototype mismatches for built in functions. This can probably be solved easily, but I have not tried. You should edit the Makefile to reflect the compiler you intend to use. 2.) GNU-make. Openstep 4.0 and higher comes with GNU-make, it is available under the name "gnumake". And, of course, you need the vmount distribution: vmount.0.6a.I.b.gnutar.gz for the binary only distribution vmount.0.6a.I.s.gnutar.gz for the vmount sources vmount-Linux-2.0.25.s.gnutar.gz for the Linux filesystem sources You only need it if you want to build from the sources. This directory contains the "fs" and "include" hierarchy of the Linux kernel sources. "fs" contains only the filesystem specific subdirectories. vmount-ntfs-cs.s.gnutar.gz for the modified ntfs sources * Copyright =========== Vmount is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information please read the README file. -- Christian Starkjohann <cs@hal.kph.tuwien.ac.at> or <cs@ds1.kph.tuwien.ac.at>, finger for PGP Public Key. PGP fingerprint: DF FD 40 60 91 6A 14 1C CD 2C E9 07 38 AE CB 4E
From: cs@hal.kph.tuwien.ac.at Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: BETA TEST: MountMe.app -- free until Sep. 1st, 1997 Date: 12 Jun 1997 21:04:09 GMT Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria Message-ID: <5npo89$c1s$1@news.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ObjectiveD announces the availability of MountMe.app beta. WHAT IS IT? Let me explain it with a simple scenario: You have a drive for removable media, maybe a ZIP or JAZ drive or simply your floppy, you insert an NTFS, EXT2 or VFAT formatted medium and it is automatically mounted by the Workspace Manager. The icon appears in the File Viewer, you perform some file operations on the medium, select Disk/Eject in the Workspace menu and the medium is ejected. That's what MountMe.app (together with vmount) can do for you. Supported filesystems (among others) are: Windows VFAT (long filenames on DOS disks), NTFS (read only), Linux EXT2, Minix, iso9660 (with improved multi-session support) and HPFS (read only). AVAILABILITY Installer packages for both, MountMe.app and vmount, are available from our web site: http://www.ObjectiveD.co.at/ObjectiveD/commercial/mountme.htm Both are compiled for Intel architecture only (_not_ quad fat), because vmount is not available for other architectures (and MountMe requires vmount). You need NEXTSTEP 3.X/Intel or OPENSTEP 4.X/Mach/Intel to run MountMe.app. If you already have vmount, be sure to use at least version 0.6a. PRICE The beta version is free until September 1st, 1997. Licenses will be available for US$49 (but you can always request a free time-limited key for evaluation). Information about ordering and payment will be available from our web site before the expiry date. For more information please contact: ObjectiveD Huppmanngasse 2 A-2500 Baden, Austria, Europe mailto:ObjectiveD@ObjectiveD.co.at http://www.ObjectiveD.co.at/ObjectiveD/ (sorry, not all pages are finished yet)
From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: muc.archive.update,de.admin.archiv,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (13.6.97) Date: 13 Jun 1997 19:00:07 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <5ns5bn$r09@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> On the Peanuts NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next, [129.187.249.15]): 59845 Jun 13 16:18 Developer/objc/fromnext/AddressBook.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 59732 Jun 9 12:03 Tools/screen/backspace/Alarm.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 71088 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/AnalogClock.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 272195 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/Aquarium.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 1009 Jun 13 16:05 OpenStep/tools/calculators/BMI.2.0.README 252759 Jun 13 16:05 OpenStep/tools/calculators/BMI.2.0.m.NIS.bs.tgz 21381 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/BackSpaceLanguages.tar.gz 75336 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/Battle.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 799 Jun 13 16:06 OpenStep/business/CATax.1.0.README 179840 Jun 13 16:06 OpenStep/business/CATax.1.0.m.NIS.bs.tgz 234254 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/Charender.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 15440 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/ChunkScale.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 27910 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/Color.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 230520 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/CreepyFace.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 1561 Jun 13 16:07 OpenStep/tools/calculators/Currency.2.0.README 239091 Jun 13 16:07 OpenStep/tools/calculators/Currency.2.0.m.NIS.bs.tgz 15588 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/Desquamate.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 36024 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/DigitalClock.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 1439 Jun 9 12:43 Mail/apps/EmptyQ.NIHS.README 119762 Jun 9 12:43 Mail/apps/EmptyQ.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 209657 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/Explode.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 71926 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/FireWorks.s.tar.gz 120106 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/Firefly.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 7923 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/Fireworks.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 225327 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/FlippyFloppy.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 175280 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/Fly.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 378837 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/Fortune.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 29920 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/Gradient.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 255778 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/GrayAquarium.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 890 Jun 13 16:03 OpenStep/business/HousePrice.2.0.README 237271 Jun 13 16:03 OpenStep/business/HousePrice.2.0.m.NIS.bs.tgz 58447 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/IconMosaic.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 153600 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/Iko.NI.b.tar.gz 2578045 Jun 6 02:45 Graphics/convertors/ImageConverter.1.2.NIHS.b.tar.gz 1337 Jun 6 02:45 Graphics/convertors/ImageConverter.1.2.README 1873790 Jun 13 14:18 Graphics/programs/ImageMagick.3.8.6.s.tar.gz 8909 Jun 13 14:18 Graphics/programs/ImageMagick.NeXT.README 22162 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/ItJustStopped.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 1618129 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/Ivo.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 74694 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/Lazy.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 87139 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/Life.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 8223 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/Lorenz.NIHS.b.tar.gz 47239 Jun 13 15:36 Mail/apps/MailCall_original.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 354434 Jun 13 15:43 Mail/apps/MailEnclosure.0.15.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 36705 Jun 9 12:44 Mail/apps/MailService.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 7269 Jun 13 15:39 Mail/programs/MailTOC_Dump.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 185484 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/MailWatch.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 181256 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/Mandel.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 111637 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/Martin.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 86306 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/Maze.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 49746 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/MovieShow.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 98907 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/Multi.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 764 Jun 13 16:08 OpenStep/developer/examples/MultipleNIBs.2.0.README 230333 Jun 13 16:08 OpenStep/developer/examples/MultipleNIBs.2.0.m.NIS.bs.tgz 62435 Jun 13 15:28 Network/news/NGService.1.1.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 233821 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/NeXT.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 11902788 Jun 6 01:13 Audio/library/sounds/misc/NeXTPromotion.snd.d.tar.gz 53625 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/Neko.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 154417 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/NickSpace.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 6493 Jun 13 15:19 Tools/cdrom/OmniCD.0.6.1.README 19237 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/Patchwork.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 114601 Jun 6 02:53 Graphics/vector/PencilTCLClient.NI.bs.tar.gz 76123 Jun 13 15:28 Mail/apps/PhoneSlip.3.1.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 41918 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/Planet.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 15469 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/PolyFrogV.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 69732 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/Polyhedra.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 1137 Jun 13 16:02 OpenStep/business/QTax.2.0.README 197345 Jun 13 16:02 OpenStep/business/QTax.2.0.m.NIS.bs.tgz 54898 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/Qix.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 150117 Jun 13 15:47 Communication/apps/Remotes3.0.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 14870 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/Scaled.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 154529 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/School.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 854075 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/SlideShow.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 22950 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/Snakes.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 16867 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/Space2.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 29297 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/SpaceColor.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 74764 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/SparseLife.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 11757 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/Sperm.I.b.tar.gz 71649 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/Spew.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 31628 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/Spheres.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 28873 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/Spin.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 112346 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/Spor.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 1538993 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/StarShip.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 108657 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/Stef.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 1397810 Jun 13 14:21 Games/card/SuperSolitaire.NIHS.b.tar.gz 1183 Jun 13 14:21 Games/card/SuperSolitaire.README 167637 Jun 13 14:21 Games/card/SuperSolitaireModules.NIHS.b.tar.gz 28744 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/Swarm.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 56207 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/TanCircle.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 5785 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/Teapot.I.b.tar.gz 240 Jun 13 15:58 OpenStep/admin/VMPages.1.0.README 30783 Jun 13 15:58 OpenStep/admin/VMPages.1.0.m.I.bs.tgz 76313 Jun 9 12:06 Tools/screen/backspace/WallPaper.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 17687 Jun 9 12:05 Tools/screen/backspace/WanderingPolygon.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 1390 Jun 13 15:59 OpenStep/developer/examples/WhatButton.2.0.README 165793 Jun 13 15:59 OpenStep/developer/examples/WhatButton.2.0.m.NIS.bs.tgz 48911 Jun 6 02:56 Graphics/3d/WireFrameWorlds.d.tar.gz 112634 Jun 9 12:04 Tools/screen/WordsView.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 2401855 Jun 6 02:47 Graphics/movie/YetAnotherVideo.N.b.tar.gz 1890 Jun 6 02:47 Graphics/movie/YetAnotherVideo.README 780710 Jun 13 15:48 Network/filetransfer/Yftp.0.9740.NIHS.b.tar.gz 26185 Jun 6 02:40 Developer/objc/mach/dis.N.bs.tar.gz 2457 Jun 6 02:40 Developer/objc/mach/dis.README 57308 Jun 13 14:24 Unix/database/gdbm-1.7.3.b.SHIN.tar.gz 82379 Jun 13 14:24 Unix/database/gdbm-1.7.3.s.tar.gz 213893 Jun 13 15:41 Mail/programs/mailapp-utilities.2.0.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 8219 Jun 13 15:41 Mail/programs/mailapp-utilities.2.0.README 3560096 Jun 13 14:35 Tools/screen/programs/ncurses.4.1.NIHS.b.tar.gz 794 Jun 13 14:35 Tools/screen/programs/ncurses.4.1.README 1518 Jun 6 02:58 Graphics/programs/nxps2ai.README 26925 Jun 6 02:58 Graphics/programs/nxps2ai.d.tar.gz 723 Jun 6 01:04 Unix/security/portmap.4.README 902827 Jun 13 15:51 Communication/programs/ppp.2.3b3.NIHS.b.tar.gz 22908 Jun 13 15:29 Mail/programs/send.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 17052 Jun 6 02:49 Graphics/programs/squeezeImage.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 330 Jun 6 02:49 Graphics/programs/squeezeImage.README 3008723 Jun 13 15:50 Unix/shell/ssh.1.2.20.NIHS.b.tar.gz 2614907 Jun 13 15:50 Unix/shell/ssh.1.2.20.RSAREF2.NIHS.b.tar.gz 1574 Jun 9 12:50 Mail/programs/stopthatmail.1.1.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 1092 Jun 9 12:50 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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: The PINE suite compiled for NeXTStep Date: 13 Jun 1997 19:22:23 GMT Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Message-ID: <5ns6lf$94l$1@news.digifix.com> I have made the separate pieces of the PINE distribution available for NeXTStep.... ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/pine.3.96.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/pine.3.96.README ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/imapd.README ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/imapd.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/pico.2.9.README ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/pico.2.9.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/pilot.1.1.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/pilot.1.1.README These files must be compiled all at once, but after they are compiled they can be used separately. However, source code has not been included, because it wouldn't make any sense to do so when it would not compile separately. Source code can be found at: ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/pine.tar.gz (that package has source code for all 4 of these) TjL --
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: wu-ftpd-2.4.2-beta-13 compiled QuadFat for NeXTStep Date: 13 Jun 1997 20:20:39 GMT Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Message-ID: <5nsa2n$a74$1@news.digifix.com> wu-ftpd is a much enhanced, more secure version of ftpd. This version was released 6 June 1997. It was compiled for NeXT on 13 Jun 1997. Needless to say, it has not been all that well tested. Actually I have not got the configuration done at my own machine. But I was thinking that whoever might be interested in helping me figure it out would want to know it themselves as well :-) (As with any beta program, there may be bugs, and a new version could be released at any time... However the previous version was 6 mos ago so hopefully this one will be around for awhile!) COMPILING FOR NS: There was only one change necessary to make it work: In 'extensions.c' in the 'src' directory Change this: #ifdef HAVE_REGEX_H #include <regex.h> #endif to this: /*#ifdef HAVE_REGEX_H #include <regex.h> #endif */ (Thanks to Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> who told me how to fix that!) Anyone who gets this up and running, please let me know and you can help me too :-? TjL <luomat@peak.org> ps -- the compiled binaries are in the 'bin' folder. The rest of the distribution is the same as you would get it from ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/packages/wuarchive-ftpd/academ-betas/wu-ftpd-2.4.2-beta-13.tar.gz EXCEPT the 'extensions.c' has been modified as above (the original version has been saved as 'extensions.c.ORIG') You can find them here: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/ftp/wu-ftpd.2.4.2-beta-13.NIHS.bs.tar.gz ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/ftp/wu-ftpd.2.4.2-beta-13.README and linked to ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/new_arrivals/wu-ftpd.2.4.2-beta-13.NIHS.bs.tar.gz ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/new_arrivals/wu-ftpd.2.4.2-beta-13.README -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html sed 's/End\ of\ sig/pithy\ quotation/g'
From: info@starr.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Secure User Access to WebObject Applications with WOAccess Date: 14 Jun 1997 06:30:49 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5ntdqp$lsf$1@news.digifix.com> CONTACT: Rex Riley starr.com 2811 Carleton Street San Diego CA 92106±2739 http://www.Starr.Com/ E-Mail : info@Starr.Com (800)397-7909 ++(619)523-3300 FAX (619) 523-2416 Secure User Access to WebObject Applications with WOAccess WOAccess manages access to all or individually specified components. June 12, 1997 San Diego, CA: Starr.Com, a leading software innovator, today announced a security extension for Apple's WebObjects 3.0 with WOAccess 1.0. Corporate-wide use of WebObjects over the Internet is strengthened through a well integrated authentication and access-control framework. WOAccess provides users seamless and transparent login, authentication and certification services for WebObjects applications. WOAccess addresses WebObjects customer's security needs by: - Dynamic authentication of components (i.e. objects). WebObjects generates "pages" as on-screen elements composed from multiple components. User's requests for access to "pages" returns data built in the form of components. Authenticating WebObject "request components" and "response components" protects who can have access, to what. - Smart Redirects use metadata to intelligently route access denials to more appropriate pages. - Authentication of machines and users. manages unauthorized user access by enforcing mutual authentication on IP address (incl. netmask) or domain name and/or "users" and "groups" files. Authentication is available for access to the application or components. - Certification through WebObject components force user's to identify and authenticate for the application or individual components. - Open API (Application Programming Interface). an extensible framework to integrate WebObjects with legacy systems, databases, etc... The security framework has been well received by systems integrators during the beta test. Online documentation includes programming examples for authenticating from user files, a user database or Apache server file. Example implementations also demonstrate authentication using http or WebObjects components. "Clients need us to look at all the alternatives (RadNet, Sapphire/Web, DynaWeb, ColdFusion, WebObjects) and make a recommendation. The fact that there are add-ons to WebObjects, like WOAccess, will score big points, by proving that the framework is open." --Dave Coyle PhD Cambridge Technology Partners, Frankfurt, Germany Starr.Com will custom develop components for WOAccess to meet customer's requirements. WOAccess is one component from Starr.Com's several WebObjects products developed for secure and confidential Internet use. "Starr.Com is proving the extensibility of WebObjects with their WOAccess product. WOAccess components give customers functionality their web-based applications need, available off-the-shelf." --David Kay, WebObjects Product Line Manager Apple Computer WOAccess 1.0 is available for all WebObjects supported platforms. WOAccess requires a Developer license to program and Machine licenses for deployment. Developer priced at $4950 for unlimited-development includes one (1) Machine license. Deployment pricing is: Machines $/each 1 $ 0 2-10 $ 400 10-25 $ 299 25-50 $ 189 SITE LICENSE $ quote UNLIMITED MACHINES $ call WOAccess 1.0 is available now for Windows NT, Sun Solaris, HP-UX and OPENSTEP 'Mach' platforms. For more information and complete documentation please visit the Starr.Com web site at http://www.starr.com/WOAccess/. Or contact us by email: info@Starr.Com. Starr.Com is a privately held venture committed to providing solutions for secure and private network transactions. For more information call (800) 397-7909, Outside US - (619) 523-3300, FAX (619) 523 2416.
From: Eric Tremblay <ericet@CAM.ORG> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: AstroGC Version 2.0 for OpenStep by Eric Tremblay Date: 15 Jun 1997 03:41:00 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5nvo8c$hcg$1@news.digifix.com> AstroGC Version 2.0 by Eric Tremblay (ericet@cam.org) Submitted to: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/submissions Should end up in: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/apps/misc Intro: ====== Astro GC will give you a short astrological analysis of your character. The "Astro" files are based on a friends astrology notes, she has passed away a while back and this program was made in her memory. This is the OpenStep version of an old Atari ST program I made a long long time ago. This OpenStep version was greatly fixed up. The graphics and and some of the text has been greatly improved. There's lot's of color now. Compared to the NEXTSTEP Black and White version I made in 1994. I hope that you enjoy and find this program useful. Please send me comments!!! The Package: ============ Version 2.0 comes complete in a tar.gz package. Which includes: - AstroGC.app A FAT OpenStep binary for NeXT, Intel and Sparc hardware - README.TXT This file - SpecialOffer Information about a special offer for the Nebula CDROM - Includes Full Source Code - FAT OpenStep binary, NeXT, Intel and SPARC. Compiling: ========== This version includes all the source code necessary to recompile the program from scratch on OpenStep 4.0+ systems. CONTACT INFO: ============= Comments and suggestions are welcomed: E-mail: ericet@cam.org WWW: http://www.cam.org/~ericet
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <14012865742421@digifix.com> Date: 15 Jun 1997 03:57:19 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3108866347221@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 - ISV company pages - ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.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. 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 next-advocacy next-announce next-bugs next-hardware next-marketplace next-misc next-programmer next-software next-sysadmin object lang-objective-c (For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's. To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying: subscribe where * is the name of the list e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com The ftp sites ============= ftp://ftp.next.peak.org - The main site for North American submissions formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu 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) 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 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. 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From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines for comp.sys.next.announce Supersedes: <14014865742423@digifix.com> Date: 15 Jun 1997 03:57:22 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3110866347223@digifix.com> 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 the past. 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: Eric Tremblay <ericet@CAM.ORG> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: WhatButton Version 2.0 for OpenStep Windows NT by Eric Tremblay Date: 16 Jun 1997 19:09:15 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5o430r$43p$1@news.digifix.com> WhatButton Version 2.0 by Eric Tremblay (ericet@cam.org) Submitted to: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/submissions Should end up in: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/windows/sourcelibrary Intro: ====== WhatButton Version 2.0 by Eric Tremblay This is simply an example of how to use radio buttons. What's new?: ============ Version 2.0 Ported to OpenStep for MACH. INSTALLATION: ============= WINNT: 1. Unpack the software distribution a. open a "Bourne Shell" window b. change directory to location of distribution, for example, C:\temp cd C:\temp c. gunzip the distribution: gunzip TheApp.w.NT.tar.gz d. untar the resulting uncompressed file: tar xf TheApp.w.NT.tar The Package: ============ Version 2.0 comes complete in a tar.gz package. Which includes: - WhatButton.app binary for OpenStep Intel for Windows NT - README.TXT This file - Includes Full Source Code - Intel Windows NT binaries. Compiling: ========== This version includes all the source code necessary to recompile the program from scratch on OpenStep 4.0 or above. CONTACT INFO: ============= Comments and suggestions are welcomed: E-mail: ericet@cam.org WWW: http://www.cam.org/~ericet History: ======== Original NEXTSTEP Version 1.0 June 12, 1993 OpenStep Version 2.0 May 20, 1997 ludes: - AstroGC.app binary for OpenStep Intel for Windows NT - README.TXT This file - Includes Full Source Code - Intel Windows NT binaries. Compiling: ========== This version includes all the source code necessary to recompile the program from scratch on OpenStep 4.1 or above. CONTACT INFO: ============= Comments and suggestions are welcomed: E-mail: ericet@cam.org WWW: http://www.cam.org/~ericet
From: "Margaret Schofield" <margaret@onramp.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXTSTEP/OpenStep Developers - Northern Virginia Date: 18 Jun 1997 19:39:53 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5o9di9$1hh$1@news.digifix.com> ATTENTION ALL NeXTSTEP DEVELOPERS!! Be a major contributor to a broad-base Corporate implementation of Object Technology, including, leading-edge efforts in Object Infrastructure and Reuse. Object Systems Group is a OO technology-based consultancy that provides assistance to Global 1000 corporations. These clients have already made the commitment to move to objects. That means that we can offer you the opportunity to build robust infrastructures, develop good designs, and direct state of the art implementations for large scale OO projects. Our Chief Technical Officer is Bruce Webster who has been involved in software engineering for 20 years and in commercial Object Oriented Development since 1989. Bruce has written numerous articles in technical publications and has also contributed to more than a dozen commerical software products. His most recent books are The Art of Ware and The Pitfalls of Object-Oriented Development. Because OSG has a proven successful OO process and a reputation for excellence, we can keep you progressing in OO technology while you are making contractors wages. OSG pays well, offers good benefits, and requires a minimum one year commitment. Please visit our Web Site at http://www.osgcorp.com OO Consultancy needs two NeXTSTEP Developers for a longterm project in Northern Virginia. This project involves porting a product from NeXTSTEP to OpenStep. Candidates must have authorization to work in the US and have two to four years experience on the front end or UI side of NeXTSTEP Development. Please email resume and current salary info in Word, TEXT, or ASCII format(NO NeXTSTEP MAIL ACCEPTED) to: margaret@osgcorp.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Computer Users of the World, Share Your Dreams for Rhapsody Date: 18 Jun 1997 19:45:50 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5o9dte$1lv$1@news.digifix.com> Dear (potential) members of the Rhapsody Community, Hi, my name is Ernie Prabhakar, and on Monday June 9th I will become the Product Marketing Manager for Rhapsody, Apple's NeXT Generation Operating System. I am only filling in for two months while the "real" Product Manager is on sabbatical, after which I intend to resume my normal life of management consultant by day, computer groupie by night. However, before I disappear behind the Silicon Curtain, before I am an Official Apple Employee, I just wanted to share with you my vision of the world I would like to help create. Or rather, a world that I would like you to help create. I am not a professional programmer or computer scientist. I am just a guy who believes computers can be a powerful tool which people can use to change the world. And I want to do what I can to help computers reach their potential, primarily by helping computer -users- reach their potential. Computers are amazing devices in their ability to perform a wide variety of tasks, but all too often this comes at the expense of failing to perform a single task very well - the task that you want it to do! There are many reasons for this mismatch between technology and user needs, but let me focus on one key area where I hope that I - and you - can make a difference. Software development has traditionally been such an expensive, arduous and time consuming process that a) developers had to be experts on technology, not on human problems b) products were designed to satisfy static requirements, not dynamic communities c) the development process largely excluded user involvement Rhapsody, as the only mass-market operating system designed from the ground-up to support object-oriented software development, has the potential to break these compromises and change the rules of software development. If it succeeds, it should provide incredible power and ease of use to end users, developers, and system administrators. I believe Apple has assembled one of the greatest teams of engineers, scientists, and design specialists ever seen in the software industry. I believe they have the tools, support, and vision to pull it off. However, they lack one thing, the one thing that makes the crucial difference between a product that revolutionizes the world and one that merely looks impressive. It is the one thing I most want to give to Apple: You. You, the guy who fights with his mail application, or labors over updating web pages, or dreams of writing a "killer app" that crushes the Big Guys, or merely wants to transform her little corner of the world. I want Rhapsody, along with the tools, programs, and community it engenders, to be the vehicle for making your dreams come true. Not just a dream of how a computer should work, but dreams of community, freedom, learning, love - the stuff people live and die for all over the world. Apple has always been about helping people realize their dreams, and it has made many dreams come true. But in all honesty, Apple was hampered both by its technology, and its culture. Like most great insitutions, it lost sight of its original focus - you, the ultimate consumer - and got caught up in esoteric dreams of greatness. That's changed. Apple has been humbled, and it is reaching out. The acquisition of NeXT, and Apple's commitment to Java and open systems are the signs of a sea change. In a tiny way, bringing in an outsider like myself to work alongside marketing is also a sign of that change. I am no Silicon Valley insider, or hot shot programmer. I'm just like you. I use a computer to balance my checkbook, write love letters, and send email. I've written games for my friends, technical analyses as a student, and mission critical custom apps for a multinational corporation. I've lugged notebooks across the world to share presentations and datafiles with clients, and I've setup PPP and Ethernet networks in my home. And all along, I've often thought: there has to be a better way. If I could, I'd love to sit down with each and every one of you, to hear your dreams for your life and the world, and figure out what small part a computer might play in helping you realize them. But I can't. Even if I had the time, my loyalty is to Apple, to be part of their Voice. I can't be your voice. But, what I can do, what I hope to do, is help you find your voice. To bring people together, where they can fight through the tradeoffs and priorities that are an inevitable part of any democratic community. And then, to be Apple's Eyes and Ears, to see your concerns, hear what you're saying, feel your pain. And then to do whatever I can within Apple, to make sure your voices are heard. To do this, I have asked some friends of mine to setup two mail aliases For developers, devideas@stepwise.com by Don Yacktman, of The Object Foundation For users, userideas@nula.com by Tim Byars of NeXT Users Los Angeles These two have committed to sorting through all the mail that is sent to these lists, and identifying the biggest concerns in those communities. Whether it is a matter of technology, communication, or business. And I have gauranteed them my time and attention to understand those concerns, and my passion and energy to communicate those to the Apple community. I have to be honest with you. Product Managers have no real authority, and as a short-termer and outsider I could very well have less than usual. I am also a realist and a capitalist: Apple has to make money, and soon, and that means shipping a product as quickly as possible, not catering to everyone's hopes and dreams. However, I am enough of an idealist to believe that a company like Apple can only survive if it succeeds in truly understanding its customers. More than almost any other American company, Apple isn't about products, it is about people. It is about changing the world. It did it once with the Apple II, then again with the Macintosh. WIth your help, I believe it may yet have one more revolution in it. I don't know for sure if I can do anything, or even if you can do anything. But I know I have to try. Will you join me? Sincerely, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar Rhapsody Product Manager Designee
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: cmsg cancel <5o9dte$1lv$1@news.digifix.com> Control: cancel <5o9dte$1lv$1@news.digifix.com> Date: 18 Jun 1997 20:39:51 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <cancel.5o9dte$1lv$1@news.digifix.com> Cancelled by comp.sys.next.announce Moderator sanguish@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Computer Users of the World, Share Your Dreams for Rhapsody Date: 18 Jun 1997 20:46:48 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5o9hfo$2u7$1@news.digifix.com> Dear (potential) members of the Rhapsody Community, Hi, my name is Ernie Prabhakar, and on Monday June 9th I will become the Product Marketing Manager for Rhapsody, Apple's NeXT Generation Operating System. I am only filling in for two months while the "real" Product Manager is on sabbatical, after which I intend to resume my normal life of management consultant by day, computer groupie by night. However, before I disappear behind the Silicon Curtain, before I am an Official Apple Employee, I just wanted to share with you my vision of the world I would like to help create. Or rather, a world that I would like you to help create. I am not a professional programmer or computer scientist. I am just a guy who believes computers can be a powerful tool which people can use to change the world. And I want to do what I can to help computers reach their potential, primarily by helping computer -users- reach their potential. Computers are amazing devices in their ability to perform a wide variety of tasks, but all too often this comes at the expense of failing to perform a single task very well - the task that you want it to do! There are many reasons for this mismatch between technology and user needs, but let me focus on one key area where I hope that I - and you - can make a difference. Software development has traditionally been such an expensive, arduous and time consuming process that a) developers had to be experts on technology, not on human problems b) products were designed to satisfy static requirements, not dynamic communities c) the development process largely excluded user involvement Rhapsody, as the only mass-market operating system designed from the ground-up to support object-oriented software development, has the potential to break these compromises and change the rules of software development. If it succeeds, it should provide incredible power and ease of use to end users, developers, and system administrators. I believe Apple has assembled one of the greatest teams of engineers, scientists, and design specialists ever seen in the software industry. I believe they have the tools, support, and vision to pull it off. However, they lack one thing, the one thing that makes the crucial difference between a product that revolutionizes the world and one that merely looks impressive. It is the one thing I most want to give to Apple: You. You, the guy who fights with his mail application, or labors over updating web pages, or dreams of writing a "killer app" that crushes the Big Guys, or merely wants to transform her little corner of the world. I want Rhapsody, along with the tools, programs, and community it engenders, to be the vehicle for making your dreams come true. Not just a dream of how a computer should work, but dreams of community, freedom, learning, love - the stuff people live and die for all over the world. Apple has always been about helping people realize their dreams, and it has made many dreams come true. But in all honesty, Apple was hampered both by its technology, and its culture. Like most great insitutions, it lost sight of its original focus - you, the ultimate consumer - and got caught up in esoteric dreams of greatness. That's changed. Apple has been humbled, and it is reaching out. The acquisition of NeXT, and Apple's commitment to Java and open systems are the signs of a sea change. In a tiny way, bringing in an outsider like myself to work alongside marketing is also a sign of that change. I am no Silicon Valley insider, or hot shot programmer. I'm just like you. I use a computer to balance my checkbook, write love letters, and send email. I've written games for my friends, technical analyses as a student, and mission critical custom apps for a multinational corporation. I've lugged notebooks across the world to share presentations and datafiles with clients, and I've setup PPP and Ethernet networks in my home. And all along, I've often thought: there has to be a better way. If I could, I'd love to sit down with each and every one of you, to hear your dreams for your life and the world, and figure out what small part a computer might play in helping you realize them. But I can't. Even if I had the time, my loyalty is to Apple, to be part of their Voice. I can't be your voice. But, what I can do, what I hope to do, is help you find your voice. To bring people together, where they can fight through the tradeoffs and priorities that are an inevitable part of any democratic community. And then, to be Apple's Eyes and Ears, to see your concerns, hear what you're saying, feel your pain. And then to do whatever I can within Apple, to make sure your voices are heard. To do this, I have asked some friends of mine to setup two mail aliases For developers, devideas@stepwise.com by Don Yacktman, of The Object Foundation For users, userideas@nula.org by Tim Byars of NeXT Users Los Angeles These two have committed to sorting through all the mail that is sent to these lists, and identifying the biggest concerns in those communities. Whether it is a matter of technology, communication, or business. And I have gauranteed them my time and attention to understand those concerns, and my passion and energy to communicate those to the Apple community. I have to be honest with you. Product Managers have no real authority, and as a short-termer and outsider I could very well have less than usual. I am also a realist and a capitalist: Apple has to make money, and soon, and that means shipping a product as quickly as possible, not catering to everyone's hopes and dreams. However, I am enough of an idealist to believe that a company like Apple can only survive if it succeeds in truly understanding its customers. More than almost any other American company, Apple isn't about products, it is about people. It is about changing the world. It did it once with the Apple II, then again with the Macintosh. WIth your help, I believe it may yet have one more revolution in it. I don't know for sure if I can do anything, or even if you can do anything. But I know I have to try. Will you join me? Sincerely, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar Rhapsody Product Manager Designee
From: Stefan Schneider <stefan@ping.at> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ANNOUNCE: LatinByrd III Beta2 Date: 19 Jun 1997 19:15:37 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5oc0gp$snm$1@news.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Stefan Schneider Software Lerchenfelder St. 85/6 A-1070 Vienna, Austria, Europe +43-1-523-5834 stefan@ping.at http://members.ping.at/stefan/ ANNOUNCING THE RELEASE OF LATINBYRD III BETA2 Vienna, June 19, 1997 -- LatinByrd III Beta2 has been made publically available. It contains improvements to LatinByrd III's new Table Inspector, including table and cell background colors and images, plus basic support for re-importing HTML tables into LatinByrd. LatinByrd III b2 is FULLY LICENSED UNTIL July 8, 1997. It can be downloaded from: http://www.noir.net/sss/LatinByrd.IIIb2.NIHS.b.tar.gz (1699672 bytes) http://www.noir.net/sss/LatinByrd.IIIb2.README (5945 bytes) LatinByrd III b2 is compiled quad-fat, requires NEXTSTEP 3.2 or higher - or OPENSTEP 4.x for Mach - and is localized to English and German, including on-line help. French UI and on-line help will be available in LatinByrd III's release version. GENERAL PRODUCT INFO LatinByrd is an RTF/RTFD to HTML converter, and a TIFF/EPS to GIF/PNG/JPEG image converter. LatinByrd converts RTF documents, RTFD documents, and ASCII documents to web pages in HTML format. LatinByrd converts single documents as well as document trees. In addition, LatinByrd also converts TIFF and EPS images to GIF, PNG, and JPEG graphics formats. LatinByrd is a commercial product. Fully licensable demo. PRICE Commercial license: US$ 119 Academic license: US$ 69 Image conversion only: US$ 49 (sorry, no academic discount) FREE time-limited test keys are available. For information on how to purchase a license key for LatinByrd III, please contact Stefan Schneider Software at stefan@ping.at, or visit us at http://members.ping.at/stefan/index.html Upgrade to LatinByrd III is free for registered users of LatinByrd II. Please reuse your current license keys. Fuer Bestell-Informationen senden Sie Email an stefan@ping.at, oder besuchen Sie uns auf http://members.ping.at/stefan/gindex.html Pour vous procurer une licence de LatinByrd II, veuillez communiquer avec SCRIBEX COMMUNICATIONS a : ventes@scribex.com, ou visitez notre site http://www.scribex.com
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMMISION: GSPrintFilter 1.30 Date: 19 Jun 1997 19:17:36 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5oc0kg$sqm$1@news.digifix.com> The following are snippets from GSPrintFilter.1.30.README: GSPrintFilter.1.30.README June 1997 To be (most likely) placed at: http://www.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/printer The GSPrintFilter package contains instructions and documentation on installing/configuring Aladdin ghostscript to be used as a filter, so that one can use a Non-PostScript printer with NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP. FILES GSPrintFilter.1.30.tar.gz: REQUIRED Setup instructions and documentation to install ghostscript as a NEXTSTEP/OpenStep printer filter. ghostscript.5.00.NIHS.b.tar.gz: REQUIRED Aladdin ghostscript version 5.00 binary and associated files. Installation of this package is optional if you already have homebrewed gs binaries, but you will need to modify the setup instructions appropriately to reflect the different installation and locations of files. Includes all output targets/drivers. ghostscriptMin.5.00.NIHS.b.tar.gz: OPTIONAL A minimal build of Aladdin ghostscript version 5.00 and associated files. Includes most printer output targets/drivers and no documentation or examples. ghostscriptPSFonts.5.00.tar.gz OPTIONAL Aladdin ghostscript fonts: CenturySchoolBook, CharterBT, Nimbus*, Shareware-Cyrillic, URW*, Utopia. Extracted from font packages distributed with ghostscript, and translated into native NEXTSTEP-style (.font wrapper) PS fonts. ghostscriptFonts.5.00.tar.gz OPTIONAL Aladdin ghostscript fonts (non-postscript): Hershey. CHANGES 1.30 - Split distribution AGAIN. Sorry. But splitting the ghostscript port from GSPrintFilter makes sense. - Upgrade to Aladdin Ghostscript 5.0. - ghostscript supports file descriptor-based streamed I/O, which should magically cure the "Parallel port driver losing data" problem. - Updated to v1.1 of cdj850 driver. - lpd.filter automatically recognizes and implements device aliases and their corresponding hacks and driver configurations. - Fontmap defs have been split intelligently across separate packages. - Rebuilt most of ghostscript's ps fonts into NeXTSTEP ps fonts. SUPPORTED PRINTERS This version of ghostscript supports primarily Epson, Canon BubbleJet, HP DeskJet, HP LaserJet, HP PaintJet printers. Any printer capable of emulating these types of printers is also naturally supported. Please refer to the ghostscript printer compatibility www page: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html and included documentation in /usr/local/share/ghostscript/5.0/doc for more information. Supports (some as aliases) the following devices/drivers: bj10e (Cannon Bubblejet 10e) bj200 (Cannon BubbleJet 200) bj210 (Cannon BubbleJet 210) bj240 (Cannon BubbleJet 240) bjc600 (Cannon Bubblejet 600) bjc610 (Cannon Bubblejet 610) bjc800 (Cannon Bubblejet 800) bjc4000 (Cannon BubbleJet 4000) bjc4100 (See http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html for info) cdj500 (HP Color Deskjet 500) - DeskJet's with CMY ink cdj540 (HP Color Deskjet 540) cdj550 (HP Color Deskjet 550) - DeskJet's with CMYK ink cdj560 (HP Color Deskjet 560) cdj682 (HP Color Deskjet 682) cdj683 (HP Color Deskjet 683) cdj850 (HP Color Deskjet 850) cdj870 (HP Color DeskJet 870) dj1200c (HP DeskJet 1200C) dj1600c (HP DeskJet 1600C) ljet2p (HP LaserJet II+) ljet3 (HP LaserJet III) ljet4 (HP LaserJet IV) lj4dith (HP LaserJet IV, FS dithering) ljet5l (HP LaserJet 5L) lj5mono (HP PCL5 and PCL6 driver, untested) lj5gray (HP PCL5 and PCL6 driver, untested) pjxl300 (HP PaintJet XL300) stcolor2 (Stylus Color II) st500 (Epson Stylus 500) st800 (Epson Stylus 800) stproxl (Epson Stylus Pro XL) COPYRIGHT Ghostscript is a copyrighted work (Aladdin Enterprises owns the copyright); it is not shareware or in the public domain. Different versions of it are distributed with three different licenses: Versions entitled "Aladdin Ghostscript" are distributed with a license called the Aladdin Ghostscript Free Public License that allows free use, copying, and distribution by end users, but does not allow commercial distribution. You can always get the current version of Aladdin Ghostscript with this license by Internet FTP from ftp.cs.wisc.edu:/ghost/aladdin/ghostscript*NNNN*_ . or /afs/cs.wisc.edu/public/ghost/aladdin/ghostscript*NNNN* where NNNN is the version number. If you do not have convenient access to the Internet, Aladdin Enterprises can send you Aladdin Ghostscript on PC-compatible diskettes for a small fee; please contact Aladdin for more information. The address and phone number are given later on in this document. Please note that this is not "commercial licensing"; you are still getting free software, with no support and no warranty. CREDITS Source Aladdin Enterprises Aladdin Ghostscript http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ cdj850 ghostscript driver http://bonk.ethz.ch/hp850/ Package Creation Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> Computer System Manager Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska Lincoln http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/
From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: muc.archive.update,de.admin.archiv,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (20.6.97) Date: 20 Jun 1997 19:00:06 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <5oejvm$5h5@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> On the Peanuts NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next, [129.187.249.15]): 59845 Jun 13 16:18 Developer/objc/fromnext/AddressBook.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 1009 Jun 13 16:05 OpenStep/tools/calculators/BMI.2.0.README 252759 Jun 13 16:05 OpenStep/tools/calculators/BMI.2.0.m.NIS.bs.tgz 799 Jun 13 16:06 OpenStep/business/CATax.1.0.README 179840 Jun 13 16:06 OpenStep/business/CATax.1.0.m.NIS.bs.tgz 1561 Jun 13 16:07 OpenStep/tools/calculators/Currency.2.0.README 239091 Jun 13 16:07 OpenStep/tools/calculators/Currency.2.0.m.NIS.bs.tgz 890 Jun 13 16:03 OpenStep/business/HousePrice.2.0.README 237271 Jun 13 16:03 OpenStep/business/HousePrice.2.0.m.NIS.bs.tgz 1873790 Jun 13 14:18 Graphics/programs/ImageMagick.3.8.6.s.tar.gz 8909 Jun 13 14:18 Graphics/programs/ImageMagick.NeXT.README 47239 Jun 13 15:36 Mail/apps/MailCall_original.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 354434 Jun 13 15:43 Mail/apps/MailEnclosure.0.15.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 7269 Jun 13 15:39 Mail/programs/MailTOC_Dump.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 764 Jun 13 16:08 OpenStep/developer/examples/MultipleNIBs.2.0.README 230333 Jun 13 16:08 OpenStep/developer/examples/MultipleNIBs.2.0.m.NIS.bs.tgz 62435 Jun 13 15:28 Network/news/NGService.1.1.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 6493 Jun 13 15:19 Tools/cdrom/OmniCD.0.6.1.README 76123 Jun 13 15:28 Mail/apps/PhoneSlip.3.1.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 1137 Jun 13 16:02 OpenStep/business/QTax.2.0.README 197345 Jun 13 16:02 OpenStep/business/QTax.2.0.m.NIS.bs.tgz 150117 Jun 13 15:47 Communication/apps/Remotes3.0.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 1397810 Jun 13 14:21 Games/card/SuperSolitaire.NIHS.b.tar.gz 1183 Jun 13 14:21 Games/card/SuperSolitaire.README 167637 Jun 13 14:21 Games/card/SuperSolitaireModules.NIHS.b.tar.gz 240 Jun 13 15:58 OpenStep/admin/VMPages.1.0.README 30783 Jun 13 15:58 OpenStep/admin/VMPages.1.0.m.I.bs.tgz 1390 Jun 13 15:59 OpenStep/developer/examples/WhatButton.2.0.README 165793 Jun 13 15:59 OpenStep/developer/examples/WhatButton.2.0.m.NIS.bs.tgz 780710 Jun 13 15:48 Network/filetransfer/Yftp.0.9740.NIHS.b.tar.gz 57308 Jun 13 14:24 Unix/database/gdbm-1.7.3.b.SHIN.tar.gz 82379 Jun 13 14:24 Unix/database/gdbm-1.7.3.s.tar.gz 213893 Jun 13 15:41 Mail/programs/mailapp-utilities.2.0.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 8219 Jun 13 15:41 Mail/programs/mailapp-utilities.2.0.README 3560096 Jun 13 14:35 Tools/screen/programs/ncurses.4.1.NIHS.b.tar.gz 794 Jun 13 14:35 Tools/screen/programs/ncurses.4.1.README 902827 Jun 13 15:51 Communication/programs/ppp.2.3b3.NIHS.b.tar.gz 1334 Jun 17 18:20 Audio/programs/rsynth-addon-beep.0.7.README 1695551 Jun 17 18:21 Audio/programs/rsynth-addon-beep.0.7.tar.gz 5574668 Jun 17 18:21 Audio/programs/rsynth-addon-cmudict.tar.gz 22908 Jun 13 15:29 Mail/programs/send.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 3008723 Jun 13 15:50 Unix/shell/ssh.1.2.20.NIHS.b.tar.gz 2614907 Jun 13 15:50 Unix/shell/ssh.1.2.20.RSAREF2.NIHS.b.tar.gz 21049 Jun 13 15:31 Mail/programs/tnextmail.1.0.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 520820 Jun 13 15:13 Graphics/programs/urt.3.0.s.tar.gz 5406 Jun 13 15:13 Graphics/programs/urt.README 170467 Jun 13 14:11 Tools/disk/programs/vmount.0.6a.I.b.tar.gz 16880 Jun 13 14:11 Tools/disk/programs/vmount.0.6a.README 52214 Jun 13 14:11 Tools/disk/programs/vmount.0.6a.s.tar.gz Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/pub/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-hamburg.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-siegen.de/ France: ftp://ftp.fdn.fr/, ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Switzerland: ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/ UUCP (Germany) wburg.hanse.de (Tel. ++49-40-307 89 06) Mailbox (Germany) (Tel. ++49-8803-61111, ISDN ++49-8803-62149). Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from december 199e. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.leo.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.leo.org)
From: stephan@onevision.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: OneVision is looking for software engineers Date: 20 Jun 1997 22:21:11 GMT Organization: OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH, Regensburg, Germany Message-ID: <5oevon$1o4$1@news.digifix.com> The german company OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH is looking for skilled software developers to augment their development team. We are in search of people who enjoy developing software and who like to work in a team. What is OneVision doing ? OneVision is a software company that specialized in digital PrePress and the publishing market. With our products for editing PS and PDF we are one step ahead. Our development division is working with the OpenStep development environment. All new products are meant to work both on Windows/NT and Apple s Rhapsody as a matter of priority. At the moment OneVision employs 40 people, ten of whom are working in the R & D department. Presently, OneVision offers three products:OV-DigiScript, OV-DigiServer, and OV-Imposition. DigiScript allows the import of PDF and PostScript in any form. The content of the document can be edited with publishing tools and afterwards a clean and optimized PostScript or PDF can be produced. DigiServer allows automated processing of PDF, PostScript, etc. With our imposition software OV-Imposition the pages of a document can be arranged on sheets; please also refer to our web page www.onevision.de. OneVision GmbH is based in Regensburg, about 120 km north of Munich. Regensburg has approximately 140.000 inhabitants and the old part of the town is really picturesque. Presently, we are offering the following jobs: Typesetting/word processing: Production and maintenance of typesetting software for our integrated publishing system. PostScript or PDF: Programming regarding every aspect of PostScript and PDF. Technical Documentation: Production of small example programs and technical documentation in English language (for an API) has first priority. For this position native speakers are preferred. Previous experience in one of the above mentioned areas and/or in OpenStep-programming are desirable. As mentioned above, we are looking for motivated team players and not for individual fighters. Presently, we are neither looking for people working freelance nor for developers preferring to work externally. Besides our requirements we also have a lot to offer: OneVision shows an extraordinary working atmosphere. For us, software development in the graphic area means an interesting and challenging job. Our company offers independent work and flexible working hours. We are looking forward to your application. For information requested in advance please do not hesitate to contact Mr. Stephan Schlecht, phone ++49-941-78 00 40, or e-mail: stephan@OneVision.de. OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH Zeiss-Str. 9 93053 Regensburg Germany Tel.: ++49-941-78 00 40 Fax: ++49-941-78 00 449
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <3108866347221@digifix.com> Date: 22 Jun 1997 03:57:06 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <10436866952022@digifix.com> Topics include: Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites NeXTanswers Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites ============================================ The following sites are a sample of the OpenStep related WWW sites available. A comprehensive list is available on Stepwise. Stepwise OpenStep/Rhapsody Information Server http://www.stepwise.com Stepwise has been serving the OpenStep/NEXTSTEP community since March 1993. Some of the many resources on the site include: OpenStep Third Party Software guide, Developer Directory, Mailing List information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites related to OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related Frequently Asked Questions. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. This is the World Wide Web interace to the FTP site. Apple Enterprise Software Group (formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.) http://www.next.com Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software patches. Apple Computer's 'Prelude to Rhapsody' Self Support Site http://devworld.apple.com/dev/prelude.html This site has been constructed to help you help yourself to learn as much as possible about the foundation for Rhapsody, today's OPENSTEP. The site provides an informal collection of pointers, references, and starting points for developers who are using the Prelude to Rhapsody bundle, distributed at this year's Worldwide Developer Conference. OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups ==================================================== COMP.SYS.NEXT.ADVOCACY This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. COMP.SYS.NEXT.ANNOUNCE Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) 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. Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. COMP.SYS.NEXT.BUGS A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-specific groups as well. COMP.SYS.NEXT.HARDWARE Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. COMP.SYS.NEXT.MARKETPLACE NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. COMP.SYS.NEXT.MISC For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! COMP.SYS.NEXT.PROGRAMMER Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. COMP.SYS.NEXT.SOFTWARE This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. ** RELATED NEWSGROUPS ** COMP.SOFT-SYS.NEXTSTEP Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. COMP.LANG.OBJECTIVE-C Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. COMP.OBJECT Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. 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 next-advocacy next-announce next-bugs next-hardware next-marketplace next-misc next-programmer next-software next-sysadmin object lang-objective-c (For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's. To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying: subscribe where * is the name of the list e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites ================================= ftp://ftp.next.peak.org The main site for North American submissions formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: (Peanuts) Located in Germany. Comprehensive archive site. Very well maintained. ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) 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 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 ( eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU ) and Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com ) Additions from: Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com ) Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net ) Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines for comp.sys.next.announce Supersedes: <3110866347223@digifix.com> Date: 22 Jun 1997 03:57:09 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <10438866952025@digifix.com> 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 the past. 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: hnalgae@soback.kornet.nm.kr (Kang Hyun) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: HNNews 0.96 Date: 22 Jun 1997 05:28:21 GMT Organization: Hayan Nalgae Software Message-ID: <5oid5l$78j$1@news.digifix.com> HNNews 0.96 was released. * Introduction - HNNews is powerful multi-tasking USENET newsreader. - HNNews gives you ability of navigating news servers very easily. - HNNews is commercial product. - HNNews works on NeXT, Intel, SUN, HPPA running on NEXTSTEP, OPENSTEP. * HNNews's main feature - Multi Tasking - Graphical environment - Saving downloaded articles to database - Easy to use and fast to navigate - Powerful feature for expert of USENET - Online, Offline newsreader - Multi language support - Internal/External MIME decoding and UUDecode binary articles - Internal mail - Support MailTIFFs database, X-Image-URL * Changes from 0.95 - Support for mail TIFF Database and X-Image-URL header. - The pop-up list entitled with All, Unread, Read was added to Article List View. - Some bugs were fixed. * Download site ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/demos/news/HNNews.0.96.README ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/demos/news/HNNews.0.96.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/demos/news/HNNews-KJ.0.96.README ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/demos/news/HNNews-KJ.0.96.NIHS.b.tar.gz or http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~hnalgae/HNNews/HNNews.0.96.README http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~hnalgae/HNNews/HNNews.0.96.NIHS.b.tar.gz http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~hnalgae/HNNews/HNNews-KJ.0.96.README http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~hnalgae/HNNews/HNNews-KJ.0.96.NIHS.b.tar.gz HNNews-KJ version is for Korean, Japanese, and needs NEXTSTEP-J or OPENSTEP-J. * Contact Info If you have suggestion or find bugs, contact to Hayan Nalgae Software at: http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~hnalgae/
From: Uli Zappe <uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: NEXTTOYOU Summer 1997 is out Date: 24 Jun 1997 04:38:52 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5onj0s$5iu$1@news.digifix.com> Today, the summer issue of NEXTTOYOU, the German NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine, has been published. Excerpts from its contents: NEWS: Neues & Aktuelles p.6 MAC: Die NeXTen Apfel p.12 WWDC-Bericht p.22 Internet World p.26 FACTS: OpenStep im Detail p.30 Unix p.35 What do you want to read today? p.40 APPS: Neues vom Software-Markt p.43 TIPS: Plug and Play p.46 Ne2000-Treiber fur ISA-Karten p.47 MIME fuer News und ueberhaupt p.47 TEST: PaperOut p.48 SafetyNet p.53 HOW: MailTIFFs-Nachlese p.57 LEXTSTEP p.61 Mail.app-Patch, die zweite p.65 MARKT: Gustav p.69 NEXTTOYOU currently is the only printed NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine worldwide. First published in 1994 to provide the NEXTSTEP community with a platform both for neophytes and professionals, it has enjoyed steady growth since then and right now experiences another leap in interest due to the upcoming new Apple operating system based on OPENSTEP technology. NEXTTOYOU also provides a great advertisement opportunity for those companies that want to position themselves early in the newly emerging OPENSTEP/Rhapsody marketplace. NEXTTOYOU appears quarterly at season's start and costs (including shipping): annual single subscription issue US $ 30 $ 8.50 EU DM 46 DM 13 For more information: WWW: http://www.nexttoyou.de (subscription is possible on our Web pages) EMAIL: info@nexttoyou.de (for general questions) abo@nexttoyou.de (for subscriptions/orders of single issues) anzeige@nexttoyou.de (for advertisement)
From: Uli Zappe <uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: MailTIFFs database v1.1 Date: 24 Jun 1997 04:39:09 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5onj1d$5iv$1@news.digifix.com> MailTIFF.database.1.1 has been released and submitted to ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/NeXT/misc/NEXTTOYOU/97.1-Fruehjahr/ MailTIFF.database/MailTIFF.database.1.1.b.NIHS.tar.gz Besides some minor enhancements, the new version of mailDBupdate.in has become much faster due to performance optimizations. Therefore, all users of the MailTIFFs database programs are strongly encouraged to update. NOTE: if this version proves reliable, it will probably be the last release for the users of *NEXTSTEP 3.2* and earlier versions. ----------------------- Applications that are compatible with the NEXTTOYOU MailTIFFs database right now are: Mail.app Alexandra.app (version 0.82.mod) HNNews.app (version >= 0.96) ----------------------- >From the README: The NEXTTOYOU MailTIFFs database consists of a set of programs to be installed on your computer and a global MailTIFFs server provided by NEXTTOYOU. It allows you to automatically administrate MailTIFFs from internet users and get their pictures displayed in Mail.app as well as newsreaders prepared for this mechanism. * mailDBupdate.in is a replacement for NeXT's mailDBupdate for computers which are connected to the internet. mailDBupdate can't handle internet users correctly. mailDBupdate.in automatically * registers MailTIFFs from internet users * registers aliases for these internet users * provides full-internet-address aliases for local users * imports MailTIFFs retrieved by EnhanceMail * deletes outdated MailTIFFs * fetchMailTIFFs automatically updates your local MailTIFFs database with MailTIFFs newly arrived at the global NEXTTOYOU MailTIFFs server. * convertMailTIFFs converts the names of MailTIFFs you may have already stored to the correct format. In addition to MailTIFF.database.1.1.b.NIHS.tar.gz, if * you use NEXTSTEP <3.3 and you don't already have installed the Z shell zsh, you'll need zsh.3.0.2.NIHS.bs.tar.gz * you want to use the MailTIFFs mechanism also for usenet but your current newsreader does not already support the NEXTTOYOU MailTIFFs database format, you'll need either the compiled Alexandra.0.82.mod.NIHS.b.tar.gz or, if you want to recompile Alexandra yourself, Alexandra.TiffPatch.s.tar.gz. If at the time you install the programs there are already archives in ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/NeXT/misc/NEXTTOYOU/MailTIFFs/Archiv, be sure to retrieve them (either the global archive or all quarterly archives) and copy the MailTIFFs they contain into LocalLibrary/Images/People. MailTIFFs in these archives are not accessible separately and cannot be retrieved by fetchMailTIFFs. The NEXTTOYOU MailTIFFs database is described in full detail in NEXTTOYOU 97/1 allowing you to understand how it all works. For those of you who are not able to understand German the package contains brief installation instructions in English. NEXTTOYOU is a German NEXTSTEP magazine published by WiNG (Wiesbaden NEXTSTEP Group) to provide the NEXTSTEP community with a platform both for neophytes and professionals. NEXTTOYOU appears quarterly at season's start and costs (including shipping): annual single subscription issue BRD 40 DM 11,50 DM EU 46 DM 13 DM US 30 $ 8.50 $ For more information, take a look at http://www.nexttoyou.de; there, you may also subscribe to NEXTTOYOU. If you don't have access to the Web or want to ask special questions, please contact the editorial staff; you may also order single issues there via snail mail (please enclose a cheque!). NEXTTOYOU-Redaktion Fon: +49 9195 99 56 45 - Uwe Friedrich - Fax: +49 9195 99 56 43 Sperberweg 10 E-Mail: info@nexttoyou.de for general questions D-91334 Hemhofen abo@nexttoyou.de for subscriptions/ Germany orders for single issues
From: Uli Zappe <uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: NEXTTOYOU asks for your MailTIFF Date: 24 Jun 1997 04:39:11 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5onj1f$5j0$1@news.digifix.com> NEXTTOYOU encourages all NEXTSTEP users to submit their MailTIFFs to the NEXTTOYOU MailTIFFs database NEXTTOYOU strongly encourages everybody in the NEXTSTEP community to join its global MailTIFFs database and submit a MailTIFF of her/himself. !!! Even if you don't use the NEXTTOYOU MailTIFFs database mechanism yourself, please contribute to our effort to make the usenet a less anonymous place and submit your MailTIFF to our database !!! Your MailTIFF should have a size of 64 x 64 pixel and be LZW compressed. Name it user@address.tiff (where user@address is your email address) and send it via NeXTMail to MailTIFFs@nexttoyou.de If you write from more than one email address, you should also include a so-called aliases file which lists your alternative email addresses. The file must be a plain ASCII file named user@address.aliases (where user@address is exactly the same email address you used to name your MailTIFF). In this file, write your alternative email addresses, one each line, each line finished by Return. If you use no-spam fake addresses in usenet (e.g. user@address.NOSPAM), please remember to also include these addresses as aliases. There is *no* risk for you in doing so, but it allows newsreaders to make use of the MailTIFFs database, too. An example for a submission would be: SteveJobs@next.com.tiff SteveJobs@next.com.aliases --> this is an ASCII file including the lines: SteveJobs@advisory.apple.com Steve@microsoft.haters.net SteveJobs@next.com.NOSPAM SteveJobs@advisory.apple.com.NOSPAM Steve@microsoft.haters.net.NOSPAM If you want to update your picture, just send a new MailTIFF of *exactly the same name* to MailTIFFs@nexttoyou.de. It will automatically replace the old one in all people's MailTIFFs databases. If your mail address changes, just send a new aliases file of *exactly the same name* to MailTIFFs@nexttoyou.de. The new aliases it contains will automatically be added to all people's aliases files. The NEXTTOYOU MailTIFFs database consists of a set of programs to be installed on your computer and a global MailTIFFs server provided by NEXTTOYOU. It allows you to automatically administrate MailTIFFs from internet users and get their pictures displayed in Mail.app as well as newsreaders prepared for this mechanism. You can find the programs needed at ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/NeXT/misc/NEXTTOYOU/97.1-Fruehjahr/ MailTIFF.database/MailTIFF.database.1.1.b.NIHS.tar.gz NEXTTOYOU is a German NEXTSTEP magazine published by WiNG (Wiesbaden NEXTSTEP Group) to provide the NEXTSTEP community with a platform both for neophytes and professionals. For more information, take a look at http://www.nexttoyou.de.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: lpr-wrapper in response to CERT advisory Date: 27 Jun 1997 06:06:10 GMT Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Message-ID: <5ovl8i$2ut$1@news.digifix.com> lpr-wrapper: Version: 1.0.1 (first public release) Date: 26 June 1997 A wrapper for /usr/ucb/lpr compiled for NeXT, Intel, HP, and Sparc to protect against an attack whereby a user could run commands as root or possibly gain root access. This is an old bug fixed in OpenStep 4.2, described in a recent advisor by CERT (http://www.cert.org). NOTE: there have been recent episodes of this bug being exploited... it seems to have been "rediscovered". The contents of this .tar.gz file: README This file README-2.rtf More information (including how compiled, etc). CERT-CA-97.19 The CERT advisory lpr-wrapper.pkg Installer.app package to install secure wrapper and close security hole. src/lpr.c The source code used to compile this wrapper src/overflow_wrapper.c The source code lpr.c is based on. Special thanks to Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> who helped me make my first Installer package. He also helped me test and debug it. TjL <luomat@peak.org> The package can be found here: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/lpr-wrapper.1.0.1.NIHS.bs.tar.gz ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/lpr-wrapper.1.0.1.README also linked to ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/new_arrivals/lpr-wrapper.1.0.1.NIHS.bs.tar.gz ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/new_arrivals/lpr-wrapper.1.0.1.README The .tar.gz file has been uploaded to ftp://peanuts.leo.org as well, but for some reason the README would not upload.
From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: muc.archive.update,de.admin.archiv,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (27.6.97) Date: 27 Jun 1997 19:00:05 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <5p12jl$k0n@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> On the Peanuts NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next, [129.187.249.15]): 1677900 Jun 26 00:28 Commercial/hardware/cdrom/CDDesigner.1.2.I.b.tar.gz 1564793 Jun 26 00:33 Commercial/hardware/cdrom/CDDesigner.1.2.N.b.tar.gz 6000688 Jun 26 22:22 Commercial/hardware/cdrom/CDDesigner.1.2.NIHS.b.tar.gz 5801 Jun 26 00:22 Commercial/hardware/cdrom/CDDesigner.1.2.README 192429 Jun 26 00:24 Commercial/hardware/cdrom/CDDesigner.1.2.ps.tar.gz 15420575 Jun 27 13:55 Audio/library/sounds/misc/NeXTPromotion.d.tar.gz 17749 Jun 27 04:39 Unix/printing/lpr-wrapper.1.0.1.NIHS.bs.tar.gz Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/pub/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-hamburg.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-siegen.de/ France: ftp://ftp.fdn.fr/, ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Switzerland: ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/ UUCP (Germany) wburg.hanse.de (Tel. ++49-40-307 89 06) Mailbox (Germany) (Tel. ++49-8803-61111, ISDN ++49-8803-62149). Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from december 199e. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.leo.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.leo.org)
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <10436866952022@digifix.com> Date: 29 Jun 1997 03:56:52 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <1452867556825@digifix.com> Topics include: Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites NeXTanswers Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites ============================================ The following sites are a sample of the OpenStep related WWW sites available. A comprehensive list is available on Stepwise. Stepwise OpenStep/Rhapsody Information Server http://www.stepwise.com Stepwise has been serving the OpenStep/NEXTSTEP community since March 1993. Some of the many resources on the site include: OpenStep Third Party Software guide, Developer Directory, Mailing List information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites related to OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related Frequently Asked Questions. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. This is the World Wide Web interace to the FTP site. Apple Enterprise Software Group (formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.) http://www.next.com Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software patches. Apple Computer's 'Prelude to Rhapsody' Self Support Site http://devworld.apple.com/dev/prelude.html This site has been constructed to help you help yourself to learn as much as possible about the foundation for Rhapsody, today's OPENSTEP. The site provides an informal collection of pointers, references, and starting points for developers who are using the Prelude to Rhapsody bundle, distributed at this year's Worldwide Developer Conference. OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups ==================================================== COMP.SYS.NEXT.ADVOCACY This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. COMP.SYS.NEXT.ANNOUNCE Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) 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. Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. COMP.SYS.NEXT.BUGS A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-specific groups as well. COMP.SYS.NEXT.HARDWARE Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. COMP.SYS.NEXT.MARKETPLACE NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. COMP.SYS.NEXT.MISC For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! COMP.SYS.NEXT.PROGRAMMER Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. COMP.SYS.NEXT.SOFTWARE This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. ** RELATED NEWSGROUPS ** COMP.SOFT-SYS.NEXTSTEP Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. COMP.LANG.OBJECTIVE-C Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. COMP.OBJECT Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. 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 next-advocacy next-announce next-bugs next-hardware next-marketplace next-misc next-programmer next-software next-sysadmin object lang-objective-c (For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's. To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying: subscribe where * is the name of the list e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites ================================= ftp://ftp.next.peak.org The main site for North American submissions formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu ftp://ftp.peanuts.org: (Peanuts) Located in Germany. Comprehensive archive site. Very well maintained. ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next NeGeN/NiNe (NEXTSTEP Gebruikers Nederland/NeXTSTEP in the Netherlands) 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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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 ( eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU ) and Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com ) Additions from: Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com ) Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net ) Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines for comp.sys.next.announce Supersedes: <10438866952025@digifix.com> Date: 29 Jun 1997 03:56:55 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <1454867556828@digifix.com> 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 the past. 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: Ingmar Camphausen <ingmar@aurora.in-berlin.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Berlin NeXT User Group - MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT Date: 30 Jun 1997 19:33:28 GMT Organization: INDIVIDUAL NETWORK BERLIN Message-ID: <5p91m8$cg1$1@news.digifix.com> Berlin NEXTSTEP User Group (BeNG) July meeting ================================================= The BeNG (Berlin NEXTSTEP User Group) will be holding its next meeting on Monday, July 7, 1997, at 8:00 p.m. (MET) in the "Institut fuer Energietechnik" of the Technical University Berlin in Room KT 101 (1st floor), Marchst. 18, D-10587 Berlin, Germany. This time, we have the following topics on our agenda: o OPENSTEP & Notebooks: Everyone who always dreamed of taking his computer with her/him into the holidays should take the opportunity to have a look at OPENSTEP 4.2 on a Toshiba Tecra notebook! o DEVELOPER COURSE, Part III: Following the introduction to ProjectBuilder and InterfaceBuilder in part II of our ongoing introduction to developing with NEXTSTEP/ OPENSTEP, this meeting's focus will be on the Application Kit and its objects: windows, panels, buttons and events. o NEXTTOYOU 97/2 Nearly in time for the (meteorologic ;-) begin of the summer, the newest issue of the NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/Rhapsody magazine "NEXTTOYOU" is available. As usually, the recent issue will be presented and distributed to the participants of the BeNG group subscription. The meeting is open to anyone who is interested in NEXTSTEP, OPENSTEP and RHAPSODY, Apple's future operating system . People seeking for more first hand information about these OS's (especially Mac users), are very welcome, too. The official part of the meeting is scheduled to end at about 10 p.m. After the program, join us for a snack and/or drink at the nearby "Cafe' Campus". Looking forward to seeing you at the meeting! Contact: Gerald Erdmann gerald@stepman.com (NeXTmail welcome) or Ingmar Camphausen ingmar@aurora.in-berlin.de (NeXTmail welcome) BeNG: e-mail beng@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (mailinglist!) WWW http://buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de/~beng FTP ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/NeXT How to get there ---------------- We meet in Room KT 101 on the 1st floor of the "Institut fuer Energietechnik", a building of the Technical University of Berlin. It is located Marchst. 18 on the campus of the TU near the western city-center of Berlin. The entrance to the building is on the left hand side behind a gate at the end of a parking lot. Watch out for the NeXT-logo-like 'BeNG' signs and follow them upstairs to the meeting room! :-) * by bike or public transport: We recommend coming by bicycle or using the public transport (BVG/S-Bahn): You can either take the underground line U2 or bus 145 or bus X9 and leave at 'Ernst-Reuter-Platz' (+ 400m walking), or you choose bus 245 up to Ernst-Reuter-Platz/Marchst. (+ 200m walking). The nearest rapid transit ("S-Bahn") station is "Tiergarten" (~1000 m/ ~10 min walking distance); you get there via the rapid transit lines S3, S5, S7 or S75. * by car - from North (Wedding, Moabit, Reinickendorf, Pankow ...) Main direction is Turmst. or Beusselst. and then "Alt-Moabit" St. Follow them south, crossing the Spree River via the Gotzkowsky Bridge. At the fork keep left into the Franklinst. After crossing the March Bridge and the Einstein St, the "Institut fuer Energietechnik" is located on the left-hand side of the street behind the drive to a parking lot. - all other directions: Head for Ernst-Reuter-Platz via Bismarckst. or Hardenbergst. (from the West-Berlin city center/Zoo) or "Strasse des 17. Juni"/Grosser Stern. From the roundabout Ernst-Reuter-Platz, take the Marchst. exit. About 200 m into the Marchst., right after a blue building and the drive to a parking lot on the right hand side, you'll find the "Institut fuer Energietechnik". There is a limited number of parking lots near the building. All those of you familiar with the geography of Berlin (Germany) can take a look at a map of the meeting location and its environment via the StadtINFO online city map at the URL http://www.kulturbox.de/cgi-bin/k/pixelinfo?PQ=m11&X=96&Y=381&TEXT=BeNG%21 (The "Institut fuer Energietechnik" is marked with a red circle.) * * * The subsequent meeting is scheduled for August 4, 1997. Scheduled is another part of our ongoing lectures on software development under NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP. --- BeNG --- WHO WE ARE --- The Berlin NEXTSTEP User Group (BeNG) exists since 1990 and is a loose "aggregation" of NeXT/NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP enthusiasts. Our participants may be reached via our mailing list. Of course, we are also present in the World Wide Web. In addition, we manage the NeXT/NEXTSTEP FTP archive at the Technical University (TU) Berlin. mailing list mailto:beng@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de WWW http://buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de/~beng FTP ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/NeXT We meet the first Monday each month at 8:00 p.m. (If this coincides with a holiday, the meeting takes place the subsequent week.) We usually have a lecture or presentation; respective suggestions or offers are very welcome and should be directed to our mailing list.
From: Eric Tremblay <ericet@CAM.ORG> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: CreditCardChecker OpenStep Windows NT Version by Eric Tremblay Date: 30 Jun 1997 03:51:17 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5p7afl$n36$1@news.digifix.com> CreditCardChecker Version 2.0 for OpenStep Enterprise Window NT by Eric Tremblay (ericet@cam.org) Submitted to: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/submissions Should end up in: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/windows/apps/financial Intro: ====== CreditCardChecker is an application that will verify the checksum of credit card numbers for various credit cards. It was made to give everyone another safety tool to fight fraud. This OpenStep application is based on the cc_cksum.c program that appeared in the 2600 magazine. (Which issue? I don't know...) All credit card numbers have a checksum number which permits you to verify if the number actually makes sense. Meaning if the number that you have is a possible number. Even if the number passes the checksum test it does not mean it's an actual valid number. So if you can, please verify with the proper authorities for the validity of the number. If you cannot, hopefully this application will help you a bit, but don't count on it... 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. INSTALLATION: ============= WINNT: 1. Unpack the software distribution a. open a "Bourne Shell" window b. change directory to location of distribution, for example, C:\temp cd C:\temp c. gunzip the distribution: gunzip CreditCardChecker.w.NT.m.MIS.tar.gz d. untar the resulting uncompressed file: tar xf CreditCardChecker.w.NT.m.MIS.tar The Package: ============ Version 2.0 comes complete in a tar.gz package. Which includes: - CreditCardChecker.app binary for OpenStep Intel for Windows NT - README.TXT This file - SpecialOffer Information about a special offer for the Nebula CDROM - Includes Full Source Code - Intel Windows NT binaries. Compiling: ========== This version includes all the source code necessary to recompile the program from scratch on OpenStep Enterprise 4.1 or above. CONTACT INFO: ============= Comments and suggestions are welcomed: E-mail: ericet@cam.org WWW: http://www.cam.org/~ericet
From: Katie Graunke <katie@stone.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Stone Design Announces June 1997 Raffle Winner Date: 2 Jul 1997 19:52:44 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5pebic$9l9$1@news.digifix.com> NEWS For immediate release For more information: EMAIL: info@stone.com TEL: Katie Graunke, (505) 345-4800 Albuquerque, NM, July 1, 1997 -- Stone Design Corp, a long time leader in the OpenStep/Rhapsody software marketplace, announced the winner of the June 1997 Raffle for a copy of CheckSum 2.0 and Stone CD Volume 4. The winner is Greg Dinse. Stone Design will raffle software and a CD each month while supplies last. To enter the raffle, please visit our World Wide Web site: http://www.stone.com/ =*= Stone Design Corporation of Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 1984, develops a variety of productivity applications for Rhapsody, Java, and OpenStep. 3D Reality, DataPhile, and Create are trademarks of Stone Design Corporation. CheckSum is a trademark of Sirius Solutions.
From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: muc.archive.update,de.admin.archiv,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (4.7.97) Date: 4 Jul 1997 19:00:04 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <5pjh7k$l2k@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> On the Peanuts NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next, [129.187.249.15]): 6000688 Jun 26 22:22 Commercial/hardware/cdrom/CDDesigner.1.2.NIHS.b.tar.gz 1350803 Jul 3 10:31 Communication/apps/GateKeeper.2.1.NI.b.tar.gz 3087 Jul 3 10:22 Communication/apps/GateKeeper.2.1.README 721786 Jul 3 10:20 Communication/apps/GateKeeper.2.1.s.tar.gz 15420575 Jun 27 13:55 Audio/library/sounds/misc/NeXTPromotion.d.tar.gz 1354867 Jul 3 10:13 Network/www/OmniWeb.2.6b2.H.b.tar.gz 1241460 Jul 3 10:13 Network/www/OmniWeb.2.6b2.I.b.tar.gz 1185712 Jul 3 10:13 Network/www/OmniWeb.2.6b2.N.b.tar.gz 3578402 Jul 3 10:13 Network/www/OmniWeb.2.6b2.NIHS.b.tar.gz 1300074 Jul 3 10:13 Network/www/OmniWeb.2.6b2.S.b.tar.gz 17749 Jun 27 04:39 Unix/printing/lpr-wrapper.1.0.1.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 992 Jul 1 14:42 Unix/printing/lpr-wrapper.1.0.1.README Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/pub/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-hamburg.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-siegen.de/ France: ftp://ftp.fdn.fr/, ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Switzerland: ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/ UUCP (Germany) wburg.hanse.de (Tel. ++49-40-307 89 06) Mailbox (Germany) (Tel. ++49-8803-61111, ISDN ++49-8803-62149). Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from december 199e. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.leo.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.leo.org)
From: Katie Graunke <katie@stone.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Stone Design Announces Free 5 Week Trial Period for Create Date: 4 Jul 1997 19:47:01 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5pjjvl$jj8$1@news.digifix.com> NEWS For Immediate Release For more information, please contact: Katie Graunke info@stone.com 505-345-4800 http://www.stone.com Stone Design Announces Free 5 Week Trial Period for Create(TM) 4.2 Rhapsody July 4, 1997, Philadelphia, PA -- Stone Design, a longtime leader in the NeXT/OpenStep marketplace, announced availability of Create 4.2 PR3 for Rhapsody today. Create is the full-featured design, layout and drawing application, and has been shipping for over 8 years. This version of Create will run on Apple's new Macintosh operating system code named "Rhapsody", as well as on OpenStep. It is the first application to ship for Rhapsody. "Create was designed for the free-thinking Macintosh community" said Andrew Stone, CEO of Stone Design. "Since we believe in try before you buy, we are offering 5 free weeks of Create so you can have the Power yourself!" Current OpenStep users, such as everyone who attended WWDC and received "Prelude to Rhapsody" can use Create now. Otherwise, contact 1-800-TRY-NEXT to acquire OpenStep, or wait for the Developer Release of Rhapsody. To download this version and get your key, visit: http://www.stone.com/Create_4.2/ Create 4.2 adds several new features to the OpenStep and NeXTSTEP versions of Create. The new Create "Effects" are drag and drop instances of the many PostScript effects you can add to any graphic. Especially useful is the ability to turn Create documents into sets of interconnected web pages, instantly. The video tool enables users to run QuickTime videos within a Create document. Create 4.2 can export objects as JPEG and GIF, as well as the standard EPS, PS, RTF, TIFF, ASCII and Create formats. "We're excited about the new release and know that our existing customer base can testify that Create is the drawing package to use, for any purpose!" said Katie Graunke, Marketing and Sales director for Stone. "Download Create and decide for yourself what is marketing hype and what is reality!" This new version has an introductory price of $249. Look for Andrew demoing Create at MacWorld Expo in Boston! Create Features: ---------------- Tools: * Drawing tools include: Line, Straight Line, Curve, Arc, Rectangle, Oval, Rounded Rectangle, Bezier Spline, Spline-Line, Poly Line, Freehand, Brush, Polygon Star, Interface "Box", Video, Rich Text and Super Text. * Other types of graphics include: Text bound to a path, EPS and TIFF images, Groups, Box Groups, Mask Groups, and Date & Page Markers. Effects: Each graphic can contain some or all of the following PostScript effects: * Outline - set the width, color and visibility of the stroke of an object. * Neon - Stone's unique Neon feature makes splashing, 3D lines. * Multiple - each object can be repeated any number of times at any offset. * Skew - torque and twist objects. * Shadow - set the color, direction and offset of the object's shadow. * Shaded Fill - fill objects with blended colors lines: across, down, radially or solar fill. * Pattern Fill - PS Level II patterns that you create with Pattern Editor. * Group - Manage complexity by grouping objects. See also Levels below. * Mask Group - Clip any number of objects to the object on top of them e.g., fill Super Text with a picture of a sunset. * Box Group - a grouping technique which puts an interface box around objects * Flip Horizontal and Flip Vertical. * Scale - set the vertical and horizontal scaling separately or together. * Rotate - Using Stone's rotational slider, precisely rotate objects. * Copy and Paste effects from one graphic to another. * Color blends: transparent colors, CMYK, RGB, HSB, and Grayscales. Precise Design: * Zoom: Unlimited zoom and custom zooms are remembered. You can zoom in on an area with CONTROL-SHIFT drag. * Undo: as many levels of undo and redo as you like - 30 by default. * Object layering: Bring To Front, Bring Closer, Send to Back, Send Further, Lock and Unlock. * Grids: control grid spacing, color, visibility and "snap-to" independently. * Rulers: Work in points, picas, inches or centimeters. * Layers: Each page can be composed of independently nameable, hideable, lockable layers * Layout Guides for easy placement of objects. * Alignment: Align objects to top, bottom, middle, left, center and right. * Distribution: Distribute objects evenly left to right and/or top to bottom. * Nudge: using arrow keys or Nudge inspector, move objects precise amounts. * Each page can have a background image for tracing or presentation. * Define default colors of an object's effects. Text Handling: 2 Text types available: Super Text and Paragraph Text * Paragraph Text has full support for Rich Text Format: multifont, multicolor, multi paragraph text. Sub and superscripting, ligatures, kerning and line spacing. Spell Checking. Underline, italics, bold. * Super Text: can have all of Create's effects applied to it. Instantly place along rose, circle, upper or lower arc. Optional background color. Support for 2-byte fonts, like Kai-Su. Convert Super Text to splines. Place along any path: bind Super Text to Splines or Spline-Lines. * Convert Super Text to Paragraph Text and vice versa. Multiple Pages: * Add, Copy, Paste, Duplicate or Delete pages. * Reorder pages with easy interface. * "Play" (continuously loop through) pages. * Automated pagination with Page Marker. Splines and Lines: * Add and delete handles, Join and separate splines and lines. * Turn objects into splines. Tighten, Loosen and Animate splines. * Reverse path of splines and polylines. Import/Export * Import EPS, PS, JPEG, TIFF, and native file formats. * Autotrace: converts scanned images to editable graphics. * Export as EPS, PS, TIFF, JPEG, Ascii, RTF, HTML, CreateImage and Create. * TIFF export: control bit depth, alpha and compression method. Linking * Embed Create graphics in other documents with Object Linking. * Paste and Link other application's graphics and text into Create. * Exported EPS can be reimported and edited. * True object links with no redundant storage. Automated Web Page Production: * Document can create a single web page or a group of interconnected pages. * Automatically builds graphical Table of Contents. * Creates easy to read HTML which can be edited by hand. * Optional navigation bars on top and/or bottom of web pages. * Set the color of the background, text and links with simple user interface. * Specify a background image URL. * Custom HTML: Document titles can have a custom prefix, such as the site name, and add your own custom header and/or footer to each page. * Set the quality of the JPEG images created for export. * Configure HTML Preferences per document and per page. Online Help, Sample Art and Custom Art: * Context sensitive help * Online Create Manual * Online Tutorial * Sample art provided. * Your custom art and group art gets loaded as menu items. * Entire searchable manual in HTML available at www.stone.com. Expert Features: * Preferences: customizations that control every aspect of Create. * User PostScript Editor - an environment where you can write and execute PostScript programs: Open, execute, modify and save PS files. * Templates: Create new documents from existing ones for stationary, forms, etc. Automatic access to your private and group directories. * Plug-In Tools Add Dynamically Loaded Plug-Ins as they become available Video is an example of a Plug-In. * Animator Module: The animator module allows you to create movies. * Pattern editor: Create PostScript Level II patterns using all of the effects and tools. Embeds patterns in your document for use by others. * And there are probably more features, but we've run out of room! Please visit the Stone Design WWW site to download the software and for more information about Create and other Stone Design software and services: http://www.stone.com -=- Stone Design Corp. in Albuquerque, New Mexico was formed in 1984 and was the first developer to ship a product on NeXT Hardware in 1989 with the release of TextArt. Since then, Stone Design has been a leader in innovative shrinkwrap software in the NEXTSTEP and OpenStep marketplace. Like a rock, Stone is committed to Rhapsody and OpenStep development. Create(TM) is a trademark of Stone Design Corp.
From: fugue@dura.spc.uchicago.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Pinfo 3.0 Date: 7 Jul 1997 18:15:35 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5prbo7$ehr$1@news.digifix.com> Name: pinfo Version: 3.0 Date: Submitted July 6, 1997 Description: PInfo is another curses-based Infocom Z-machine interpreter for the NeXT platform. With pinfo, you can take any Infocom text-adventure game (e.g., Zork I), and play it on your NeXT. Pinfo will play any V1 to V5 Infocom standard games. These standards include such games as Bureaucracy and Beyond Zork, but it does not include V6 standard games, such as their full-graphic games (e.g., Zork Zero). FTP site: peanuts.leo.org Path: (current) ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/next/submissions/pinfo.3.0.N.b.tar.gz Should be placed in /pub/next/unix/games. Platform: Compiled on black hardware under NS 3.2. Mark C. Langston fugue@ceco.ceco.com
From: fugue@dura.spc.uchicago.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Frotz 2.01 Date: 7 Jul 1997 18:15:33 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5prbo5$ehq$1@news.digifix.com> Name: frotz Version: 2.01 Date: Submitted July 6, 1997 Description: Frotz is the most current Infocom Z-machine interpreter available on any platform. With frotz, you can take any Infocom text-adventure game (e.g., Zork I), and play it on your NeXT. Personally, I use it with the 30-game Infocom collection by Activision called "Infocom Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces". Frotz will play any V1 to V5 Infocom standard games. These standards include such games as Bureaucracy and Beyond Zork, but it does not include V6 standard games, such as their full-graphic games (e.g., Zork Zero). FTP site: peanuts.leo.org Path: (current) ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/next/submissions/frotz.2.01.N.b.tar.gz Should be placed in /pub/next/unix/games. Platform: Compiled on black hardware under NS 3.2. Was compiled using a non-POSIX ncurses library. Mark C. Langston fugue@ceco.ceco.com
From: fugue@dura.spc.uchicago.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Newtl 1.8 Date: 7 Jul 1997 18:15:47 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5prboj$ehv$1@news.digifix.com> Name: newtl Version: 1.8 Date: Submitted July 6, 1997 Description: Newtl is a UNIX to Newton PDA connection utility. With newtl, you can now download Newton software packages from your NeXT to your Newton via a serial connection (I have not yet tested this over a network with the Newton connected via LocalTalk). I have ported this software and tested it with my mono black slab and my Newton 120. There are newer versions of newtl available, and I am working on porting them as well. FTP site: peanuts.leo.org Path: (current) ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/next/submissions/newtl.1.8.N.bs.tar.gz Should be placed in /pub/next/unix/tools. Platform: Compiled on black hardware under NS 3.2. Mark C. Langston fugue@ceco.ceco.com
From: fugue@dura.spc.uchicago.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Jug 0.7 Date: 7 Jul 1997 18:15:42 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5prboe$eht$1@news.digifix.com> Name: jug Version: 0.7 Date: Submitted July 6, 1997 Description: Jug is the curses-based version of XJug, a juggling siteswap animation system. With Jug, you can input any siteswap pattern via the command line or a data file, and Jug will animate the juggling pattern for you. This is an excellent tool for exploring new patterns or learning that pattern you just can't seem to get. Jug includes a large sample of data files, including Mill's Mess (Jug supports dymanic hand-positioning). This archive also includes full source for both jug and xjug. However, only jug is compiled. FTP site: peanuts.leo.org Path: (current) ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/next/submissions/jug.0.7.N.bs.tar.gz Should be placed in /pub/next/unix/tools. Platform: Compiled on black hardware under NS 3.2. Mark C. Langston fugue@ceco.ceco.com
From: fugue@dura.spc.uchicago.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Juggle 1.0 Date: 7 Jul 1997 18:15:44 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5prbog$ehu$1@news.digifix.com> Name: juggle Version: 1.0 Date: Submitted July 6, 1997 Description: Juggle is a simple curses-based juggling siteswap animation system. With Juggle, you can input any siteswap pattern via the command line, and Juggle will animate the juggling pattern for you. This is a no-frills, ASCII-based siteswap animator, and does not support things like dynamic hand positioning, necessary for display of those tough tricks like Mill's Mess. Includes source code. FTP site: peanuts.leo.org Path: (current) ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/next/submissions/juggle.1.0.N.bs.tar.gz Should be placed in /pub/next/unix/tools. Platform: Compiled on black hardware under NS 3.2. Mark C. Langston fugue@ceco.ceco.com
From: Operator <root@terra.obsolv.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: GateKeeper 2.1 Date: 10 Jul 1997 20:04:37 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5q3f8l$jke$1@news.digifix.com> SUBMISSION GateKeeper 2.1 GateKeeper is a graphical user interface control for ppp. RELEASE NOTES German localization was updated in the final Beta and has not been tested extensively. 2.1 is the last release which will support the current DNS based Dial on Demand. If you want this feature you must download the DoD version of the 2.0 distribution. Future versions will be integrated with ppp2.3 and employ ppp's demand feature. In future releases GateKeeper will be tightly integrated with ppp2.3 and will therefore not be user configurable as a GUI frontend to other ppp packages. Alternate app icon animation sequences are available courtesy of Mark Sargent at: http://www.marksargent.com/Samples/Scrap/GateKeeper.html SUPPORT While this program is GNU type freeware, support for it is not. Comments and bug reports are always welcome, but if you would like support the following applies: 1. If you are a non-commercial user and are doing some type of FSF GNU or other freeware work for the UNIX community let me know and we'll call it even. The same is true if you provide software free to single non-commercial users or if you have contributed to the creation of GateKeeper. 2. If you would like E-mail support please register for it by sending in a one time registration fee of $20 USD. 3. If you would like telephone support please contact me via E-mail for details. DISTRIBUTION FILES GateKeeper.2.1.s.tar.gz contains a source distribution GateKeeper.2.1.NI.b.tar.gz contains a binary distribution LOCATION ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/ppp/GateKeeper.2.1.s.tar.gz ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/ppp/GateKeeper.2.1.NI.b.tar.gz or ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/next/Communication/apps/GateKeeper.2.1.s.tar.gz ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/next/Communication/apps/GateKeeper.2.1.NI.b.tar.gz OVERVIEW GateKeeper has the following significant features: -- Dial on demand (triggered by NS Apps and UNIX tools) -- GUI options file editor -- Toolbar control -- Inactivity timeout with sound warning. -- Execute and check exit status of a preLink and a preUnLink script prior to the respective operation. -- displays pppStats -- Capable of auto-launching pppd using defaults or using information from a GateKeeper document -- AutoRedial if provider's line is busy. -- Manual Dial and login to a ppp provider without a script. -- Persistent connection will redial and link to your provider if the connection is unexpectedly dropped. -- Compound document format for storing information necessary to access an Internet Service Provider. -- GUI status window. -- App Icon shows session time. -- Tri-state animated icon provides status feedback. -- Preferences editor simplifies editing of ppp2.2 files. -- Provides sound notification. -- Captures and displays connection information Comments, bug reports and suggestions should be sent to: Felipe A. Rodriguez 5315 Colodny St. #7 Agoura Hills, CA 91301 far@ix.netcom.com (NeXTmail preferred) (MIMEmail welcome)
From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: muc.archive.update,de.admin.archiv,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (11.7.97) Date: 11 Jul 1997 19:00:07 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <5q5vrn$pqo@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> On the Peanuts NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next, [129.187.249.15]): 216864 Jul 7 12:20 Commercial/hardware/cdrom/CDDesigner-Drivers.1.21.NI.b.tar.gz 611 Jul 7 11:08 Commercial/hardware/cdrom/CDDesigner-Drivers.README 148394 Jul 7 11:16 Commercial/hardware/cdrom/CDDesigner-Framework.1.21.NI.b.tar.gz 688 Jul 7 12:21 Commercial/hardware/cdrom/CDDesigner-Framework.README 10708868 Jul 7 11:35 Tools/editor/programs/Emacs_for_NeXTstep.4.2beta7.s.tar.gz 1350803 Jul 3 10:31 Communication/apps/GateKeeper.2.1.NI.b.tar.gz 3087 Jul 3 10:22 Communication/apps/GateKeeper.2.1.README 721786 Jul 3 10:20 Communication/apps/GateKeeper.2.1.s.tar.gz 625 Jul 9 20:14 OpenStep/graphics/tools/IconGrabber.README 12483 Jul 9 20:14 OpenStep/graphics/tools/IconGrabber.s.tgz 1354867 Jul 3 10:13 Network/www/OmniWeb.2.6b2.H.b.tar.gz 1241460 Jul 3 10:13 Network/www/OmniWeb.2.6b2.I.b.tar.gz 1185712 Jul 3 10:13 Network/www/OmniWeb.2.6b2.N.b.tar.gz 3578402 Jul 3 10:13 Network/www/OmniWeb.2.6b2.NIHS.b.tar.gz 1300074 Jul 3 10:13 Network/www/OmniWeb.2.6b2.S.b.tar.gz 1419963 Jul 11 13:58 Network/www/OmniWeb2.5J_H.tar.gz 1306022 Jul 11 13:59 Network/www/OmniWeb2.5J_I.tar.gz 1254073 Jul 11 13:59 Network/www/OmniWeb2.5J_N.tar.gz 3534639 Jul 11 13:59 Network/www/OmniWeb2.5J_NIHS.tar.gz 1362244 Jul 11 13:59 Network/www/OmniWeb2.5J_S.tar.gz 105903 Jul 6 19:44 Games/programs/infocom/frotz.2.01.N.b.tar.gz 219 Jul 7 09:28 Games/programs/infocom/frotz.README 105030 Jul 6 19:42 Unix/tools/jug.0.7.N.bs.tar.gz 325 Jul 7 09:30 Unix/tools/jug.README 24067 Jul 6 19:40 Unix/tools/juggle.1.0.N.bs.tar.gz 178 Jul 7 09:31 Unix/tools/juggle.README 158538 Jul 6 19:39 Unix/tools/newtl.1.8.N.bs.tar.gz 153 Jul 7 09:30 Unix/tools/newtl.README 27082 Jul 6 19:35 Games/programs/infocom/pinfo.3.0.N.b.tar.gz 213 Jul 7 09:29 Games/programs/infocom/pinfo.README 28941 Jul 6 19:34 Games/programs/infocom/zip.2.0.N.b.tar.gz 199 Jul 7 09:29 Games/programs/infocom/zip.README Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/pub/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-hamburg.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-siegen.de/ France: ftp://ftp.fdn.fr/, ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Switzerland: ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/ UUCP (Germany) wburg.hanse.de (Tel. ++49-40-307 89 06) Mailbox (Germany) (Tel. ++49-8803-61111, ISDN ++49-8803-62149). Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from december 199e. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.leo.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.leo.org)
From: Greg Anderson <greg@afs.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOBS: AFS seeks programmers for OPENSTEP/Rhapsody applications Date: 11 Jul 1997 19:54:09 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5q6311$jhp$1@news.digifix.com> Anderson Financial Systems Inc., publisher of PasteUp (page layout) and WriteUp (word processing), is preparing to expand the group of programmers responsible for these applications on OPENSTEP and Rhapody. This is your chance to help define the Rhapsody user experience for two of the most important application categories. Yellow Box can make a compelling statement, and killer apps will help lead the way! These are full-time, salaried positions in the Philadelphia suburbs. (Sorry, due to the nature of the work, consultants and/or virtual employees are not possible.) If interested, please contact, Greg Anderson, Founder and CEO <greg@afs.com>. Please include information about previous NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP experience, salary range, possible start dates, and anything else you consider relevant to your qualifications.
From: Greg Anderson <greg@afs.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: AFS seeks additional OPENSTEP beta testers for WriteUp and PasteUp Date: 11 Jul 1997 19:41:57 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5q62a5$ja3$1@news.digifix.com> Anderson Financial Systems Inc., publisher of PasteUp (page layout) and WriteUp (word processing), is soliciting an expanded group to beta test the upcoming "pure OPENSTEP" versions of its products. The current test period is almost a month old, and the third beta iteration is almost ready for release. In preparation for this event, we would like to expand the group from its current size of 20 to about 50. In order to participate, you MUST be running OPENSTEP 4.x on NeXT or Intel hardware. (People who picked up the Prelude To Rhapsody CD from Apple qualify in this regard.) Both Mach and Windows NT/95 releases are available. Current users of AFS products are preferred, but all are welcome to apply. For consideration, please contact Greg Anderson <greg@afs.com> with information about your availability, past experience with beta testing and/or AFS products, and the specific platforms on which you could test the software. Thanks in advance for your interest.
From: Paul Tod Rieger <prie@abl.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Atlanta Rhapsody SIG (July 16) Date: 13 Jul 1997 03:43:56 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5q9its$rf2$1@news.digifix.com> Date: Wednesday, July 16, 1997 Time: 7:00pm Place: Room 206, White Hall Emory University (Atlanta, USA) Cost: free and open to the public http://www.atlmug.org/ Agenda: Laptop Showcase: show us what you've been working on Hope to see you there! Directions to White Hall (Emory University) ** maps require fixed-width font ** | (Exit 32) \ ================+===========================+====== I-85 | ^ \ Clairmont Ave ->| | \ | 3.8 miles \ | | || XX <-Emory | | || <- I-285 XX Univ. | V || --------------|------- <- N. Decatur Road || | || |<---1.2---->| miles Get on N. Decatur Road, which goes past the south side of the Emory Campus. There is a 5-points with traffic lights and small shops. Turn north there into the campus by the big church (Dowman Drive). White Hall is the third building on the right. \ <- Dowman Dr. \ \ |x <- White Hall Oxford Rd -> \ | \ / \ / + <- Big Church ----------O----------------- <- N. Decatur Rd Everybody's -> x \ x <- BP station Pizza \ \ Contact: Bert Lindgren Tod Rieger Phone: 404-373-2619 Phone: 770-381-2464 Email: bert@home.net Email: prie@abl.com
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