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From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet Date: 29 Jul 1996 04:15:12 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4thdsg$ho5@digifix.digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Software, Inc. 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From: ajai@delphi.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Help Header files Date: Tue, 30 Jul 96 16:46:36 -0500 Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice) Message-ID: <JvGuXV8.ajai@delphi.com> Help!!! Does anyone know where I can get the header files necessary to compile?? Files like SYS.h etc. Any ideas where I can ftp them from???? Thanks in advance Ajai Ajai@delphi.com
From: jsowers@plato.sky.bdm.com (James Sowers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: HELP! ATI MACH 64 & NS v3.2 Date: 30 Jul 1996 20:26:52 GMT Organization: BDM International, Inc. Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4tlr6c$6ai@bdmserver.mcl.bdm.com> References: <4t9ibf$bql@ecom2.ecn.bgu.edu> In article <4t9ibf$bql@ecom2.ecn.bgu.edu> uasilvea@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Adrian Silveanu) writes: > > Hello, > > Would anybody please be so kind to tell me if it is > possible to use ATI Graphics Pro Turbo (MACH 64), with NS v3.3 > drivers, with NS v3.2? I have already downloaded the NS v3.3 driver > (1734.compressed) for ATI Graphics Pro Turbo and have tryed to > install it. What happens is that the driver unpacks fine. > It installs. It shows up on the driver list. I select it. Save it > and restart. As I watch the boot, I see the driver load and then > it says it doesn't know what mode to run it in, and > goes back to using standard VGA. Here are a couple of ideas. They are not for the faint hearted, but may solve you problems First, check AutoDetectID of the PCI devices (including the video card) at bootup, and compare them to the autoDetectIDs in the ATI Mach64 driver (using the expert mode in Configure.App) make sure that the AutoDetectID of of the PCI device number that corresponds to your ATI card matches the one of the AutoDetect Numbers in the ATI Mach 64 Driver. I have found that sometimes that the ADIDs will differ by one numeral, and that if I make that change in the Configure, then the driver will work. Be careful though, because you can really hose yourself in expert mode if you do not know what you are doing. If this is not the problem, check to make sure that the bios locations on the ATI video card are fixed, and not relocatatble by the system. This is usually controlled by a jumper on the video card. Check the documentation that came with the card to find the specifics (I cannot be blamed for teh results of randomly changed jumpers or AutoDetectID numbers). HTH -- Jim Sowers | Some mornings, it's just not System Administrator | worth chewing through the <jsowers@plato.sky.bdm.com> | leather straps - Emo Phillips
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: mishka@netcom.com (Michelle Cohen) Subject: FS: ISDN extenders for NeXT! Message-ID: <mishkaDvDo4L.L2t@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 22:36:21 GMT Sender: mishka@netcom.netcom.com For Sale: ISDN extenders for NeXT. NeXT dsp Hayes ISDN devices Perfect for building ISDN Gateway or programmable Voice mail systems. These are Hayes NeXT ISDN extenders that plug directly into the NeXT DSP port. NeXTSTEP 3.0 contained integrated ISDN and voicemail software and there is extensive documentaion in the developers documentation (version 3.0 of course). I've heard that NeXT may release the actual source code for the PhoneKit (the ISDN software in 3.0) to the public domain sometime soon. We sell them for $95. We accept MasterCard, Visa, AMEX and we ship C.O.D. We ship via UPS, or FedEx if desired. Customer pays shipping. If youÕre interested in purchasing, or have questions about any of the above items, please reply to this address (pixel8ed@kaiwan.com), or call Pixelated Technologies at (213)-655-8622 or toll-free at 1-800-PIXEL-ME. -- The mouse ran up the clock...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: mishka@netcom.com (Michelle Cohen) Subject: SALE: NeXT Hardware & SW!!!! Message-ID: <mishkaDvDoCv.Lx4@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 22:41:19 GMT Sender: mishka@netcom.netcom.com NeXT Hardware & Software for sale!!!!!! Everything must go!! Quantities are limited! HARDWARE / PERIPHERALS: **(2) 750 mb hard drives (SCSI) (1) 2 gbyte hard drive We're offering a package deal of $500.00 for all three drives. 2 are new, all are working. We don't knowmuch about the 2 gig drive other than the fact that itÕs brand new and it works. **Sony MP-F40W-14 floppy drive..................................$95 **EPS Toner cartridges................................................$60 **SPECIAL FEATURE: NeXT dsp Hayes ISDN devices Perfect for building ISDN Gateway or programmable Voice mail systems)..........................................................$95 **ADB mouse........................................................ $45.00 ADB keyboard.............................................$35 ADB Sound box...............................................$95 **Memorex 2SED floppy disks (10 packs) ...................$20.00 per pack **1 full-height large hard drive case **Pinnacle Micro 128 mb optical drive...........................................$450.00 ** NeXT Color Station: The pricing of this depends on the configuration. Our tech department can configure it to your needs and you can have your choice of a 17" or 21" monitor. If you'd like to discuss this with us, please let us know. SOFTWARE & OS: **Oracle database and developer system - license transferrable to other platforms: loader v1.0.18 plus v3.0.8, reportv1.1.9, transaction prcessing option v6.0, net tcp/ip v1.2.7, pl/sql v1.0.32 production, bootstrap disk, pro*v1.315, crtv 1.0.8prod, rdbms v6.0.30 1-4 (Transferable) .............................inquire for price. NextStep 3.2 for Next $90.00 Next 3.2 Developer for intel & Next (CD) $150.00 Next Step 3.1 (shrinkwrapped) for Next $30.00 Nextstep Developer 3.1 CD for Intel & Next... $20.00 Nextstep 3.0 for Next $25.00 Appsoft Draw 1.0 $10.00 Super Debugger 3.7 $10.00 Soft PC 2.0 $25.00 Engage $5.00 Equation Builder .9 $15.00 Fiscal Dimension 9.5 and 9 $10.00 floppyworks 2.2 $15.00 MACINTOSH SOFTWARE Cricket Presents (presentation SW for Mac)-$30.00 ****Mach 10 by Tenon ( Unix software for the Mac) $150.00 Grace Lan (shrinkwrapped) SuperPaint 1.0 We will accept reasonable counter-offers on some of the above items since we would like to sell them as quickly as possible. However, there has been a great deal of interest in this sale, and if a customer wishes to purchase at the asking price first, the item will be sold to that customer. We accept MasterCard, Visa, AMEX and we ship C.O.D. We ship via UPS, or FedEx if desired. Customer pays shipping. If youÕre interested in purchasing, or have questions about any of the above items, please reply to this address (pixel8ed@kaiwan.com), or call Pixelated Technologies at (213)-655-8622 or toll-free at 1-800-PIXEL-ME. -- The mouse ran up the clock...
From: bexley@mcs.com Newsgroups: comp.software.testing,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: DejaGNU & Nextstep/Openstep query Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 21:02:36 -0500 Organization: MCSNet Internet Services Message-ID: <31FEBEBC.31F5@mcs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Request for information. Has anyone sucessfully installed/run DejaGNU 1.3 on NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP? When I tried, './configure' appeared to run OK, but the make fails when building /usr/local/lib/expect, on file pty_termios.c: error is: in function 'ttytype' - TCGETA and TCSETA undeclared. 'Configure' tests for the absence of these in the environment, and they are not there, but it appears to not adjust the source/and/or makefile correctly. Other notes on Openstep test tools would also be appreciated. Mark.Kornegay@isl.com or bexley@mcs.com
From: jburne@sprynet.com (John Burnette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: Images of NeXT sales brochures Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 21:25:51 -0800 Organization: Sprynet News Service Message-ID: <jburne-2907962125510001@ad08-046.compuserve.com> References: <dknox-2307961157270001@plato.dissvcs.uga.edu> <4t2tjv$d13@bignews.shef.ac.uk> <31FCD641.48D1@msi.se> In article <31FCD641.48D1@msi.se>, Harald Ellmann <ellmann@msi.se> wrote: > I browsed through the pages and while reading them I got depressed. What is NeXT now > compared to the early 90s? They sell tools instead of a vision. The NeXTstation was > the best computer ever built so far and it will probably take a long time until we see > another "insanely great" thing. > > Harald Personally I'm saving my pennies for a BeBox
From: Zameel Syed <zameels@applix.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: Re: turning on a next station. Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 16:41:14 +0100 Organization: Applix UK Ltd Message-ID: <31FF7E9A.57FD@applix.co.uk> References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960730122231.905A-100000@cycle1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Nick Potkay wrote: > > Folks, > > Forgive my ignorance, but I could not find any information regarding > turning on a nextstation. This machine has been in the closet for who > knows how long and we would like to get rid of it. The keyboard has a > power key on it, but just hitting that key doesnt turn the machine on. > > What is the key sequence to turn on the machine? > > Also - I am pretty sure that the machine has a root passwd, (which I dont > know). How do I go about putting this beast into single user mode? > > Thanks > > -Nick I guess you're talking about "black kit?" plut the monitor in and plug the thing into the mains and hit the power key! Wait for a bit and you should see it come up
From: Zameel Syed <zameels@applix.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Mysterious console messages Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 17:08:53 +0100 Organization: Applix UK Ltd Message-ID: <31FF8515.14F8@applix.co.uk> References: <Dv38zr.80@onevision.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Roland Schwingel wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a question. We have a network of about 30 NextStep computers. > Most of the machines are running NS3.3. The servers are running > NS3.3 witch Patch1 (Improved DNS). > > In recent times I have encountered an increasing number > of these messages in the console of our machines. Especially > on the servers. > > From /usr/adm/messages > .. > Jul 24 09:40:43 dali netmsgserver[28]: port_set_add() returned 4 > Jul 24 09:42:33 dali netmsgserver[28]: port_set_add() returned 4 > Jul 24 09:51:23 dali netmsgserver[28]: port_set_add() returned 4 > Jul 24 09:53:34 dali netmsgserver[28]: port_set_add() returned 4 > .. > > Does anyone know what is the meaning of > "netmsgserver[28]: port_set_add() returned 4" ? > > Also I have encountered another strange behavour. We are currently > starting to upgrade the clients to NS4.0. I don't know whether this > observation is triggered by the upgrade, but I think the network > is slowing down, the more machines are equipped with NS4.0. The > server are still equiped with NS3.3 Patch1. Has anyone made > similar observations ? > > Thanks for your help, > > Roland > > -- > ============================================================================ > Roland Schwingel OneVision GmbH > Developer Zeissstrasse 9 > Email:roland@onevision.de 93053 Regensburg > (NextMail,MIME welcome) Germany > ============================================================================ Interesting you should mention this one, I came across this problem when using NeXTSTEP 3.3 on SPARC talking to a e-mail server using DO. I think it;s got something to do with timeouts in "nmserver". Products which use DO can get there connections knocked out by netmsgserver[28]: port_set_add() returned 4. I've so far seen it on black kit,Intel but mostly on SPARC which seems to suffer particularly badly from the problem. -- *********************************** Zameel Syed Applix Support zameels@applix.co.uk Tel:+44 171 426 0915 Fax:+44 171 426 0916 http://www.applix.com ***********************************
From: Zameel Syed <zameels@applix.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: 3.2 -> 3.3?? Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 17:13:14 +0100 Organization: Applix UK Ltd Message-ID: <31FF861A.5917@applix.co.uk> References: <4t32m5$b2j@epx.cis.umn.edu> <4t5muo$5lq@news.next.com> <DvAn0A.BM@shinto.nbg.sub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thomas Engel wrote: > > Mark_Bessey@next.com (Mark Bessey) wrote: > > Jonathan B. Leffert writes > > > What are the major differences between NeXTSTEP for Intel user > > versions > > > 3.2 and 3.3?? > > > > > .. > > > There are also some bug fixes and performance improvements. Overall, 3.3 > > is "just plain better". On the other hand, if you're running on NeXT > > hardware, most of the improvements won't apply for you. > > > > AND 3.3 delivers Alt-Minimize-Document dragging which is absolutly a reason > to upgrade from 3.2 to 3.3 (or 4.0). > It definilty boosts productivity since you don't have to search for already > open documents inside the workspace. > > Now if it only would work with the Open Panel running modal (during this > period you can't drag this apps document-minimizers :-( ) > > Aloha > Tomi - If memory serves me right you also get MIME compliance in NeXTMail - *********************************** Zameel Syed Applix Support zameels@applix.co.uk Tel:+44 171 426 0915 Fax:+44 171 426 0916 http://www.applix.com ***********************************
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy From: gdkuch@barrow.uwaterloo.ca (Jerry Kuch) Subject: Re: Images of NeXT sales brochures Sender: news@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (news spool owner) Message-ID: <DvEs3s.6w9@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 12:59:52 GMT References: <dknox-2307961157270001@plato.dissvcs.uga.edu> <4tjh0u$dgc@news.onramp.net> <4tkt8k$8t1@pub02.va.pubnix.com> <4tlpdk$306@news.onramp.net> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <4tlpdk$306@news.onramp.net>, Steve Dekorte <dekorte@suite.com> wrote: >Louis A. Mamakos wrote: >> .... > >Louis, you can pick out different features and say 'Apple had this and >Sun had that', but the big deal with the NeXT is that they took all the >cool things and put them in one simple package. > >The NeXT took the Apple GUI and the Sun OS and the PC >affordability on put it in one box while at the same time making >innovations in the GUI and development tools. >That's pretty cool, IMHO. When did black hardware sell with PC affordability? I've always wondered how much better it would have done if the economic realities of the period it was released in would have allowed the machines to go out with more memory and bigger disks. -- Jerry Kuch EMail: gdkuch@mercator.math.uwaterloo.ca, NeXTMail welcome. IMPORTANT NEWS: Scripts for "Godzilla Vs. Desutoroia" had envisaged the monster's main target as the 1996 World City Expo in Tokyo but the idea fell through when Gov. Yukio Aoshima cancelled the event.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Images of NeXT sales brochures Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <DvEwCD.BJM@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 14:31:25 GMT References: <dknox-2307961157270001@plato.dissvcs.uga.edu> <4tkt8k$8t1@pub02.va.pubnix.com> <4tlpdk$306@news.onramp.net> <DvEs3s.6w9@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <DvEs3s.6w9@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>, Jerry Kuch <gdkuch@barrow.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: >In article <4tlpdk$306@news.onramp.net>, >Steve Dekorte <dekorte@suite.com> wrote: >> >>The NeXT took the Apple GUI and the Sun OS and the PC >>affordability on put it in one box while at the same time making >>innovations in the GUI and development tools. >>That's pretty cool, IMHO. > >When did black hardware sell with PC affordability? I've always wondered >how much better it would have done if the economic realities of the period >it was released in would have allowed the machines to go out with more >memory and bigger disks. > When slabs came out at $5k they were a damn good deal. I'd agree that PC affordability is a bit of a stretch, but if you compare this price to that of a Sparc 1, it stands up very well. -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: "Hasssan N. Kelley" <hassan@blackstar.ssnet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Where do I get serial cables for turbo? Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 19:17:28 -0400 Organization: SSNet -- Public Internet Access in Delaware! Message-ID: <31FFE988.1083@blackstar.ssnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 1. Where can I get serial cables for my color turbo? 2. Can I you plain old MAC serial cables? Thanx Hassan
From: ians@cam-ani.co.uk (Ian Stephenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Images of NeXT sales brochures Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 11:16:07 GMT Organization: Cambridge Animation Systems Ltd Sender: news@cam-ani.co.uk Message-ID: <DvGHyw.9qy@cam-ani.co.uk> References: <DvEs3s.6w9@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> In article <DvEs3s.6w9@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> gdkuch@barrow.uwaterloo.ca (Jerry Kuch) writes: > When did black hardware sell with PC affordability? I've always wondered > how much better it would have done if the economic realities of the period > it was released in would have allowed the machines to go out with more > memory and bigger disks. I've got a copy of the PCW issue that reviewed the 68040 range. It gives prices (from memory) starting at about $4,000 for a mono slab 8Meg ram. In the same issue they review a Dell 486 costing $12,000 for 4Meg ram, 14" monitor, text only graphics card. True, the 486 was a new machine at the time, but it's CPU performance would only just be better than a slab. IO performance would be a dog, and the 486 in question came with less ram, and practically no graphics card - let alone a 17" monitor. Compared to Sun's and Mac's NeXT hardware was always a bargain. It's a mistake to compare todays PC price/performance to 1990's NeXT price/performance. Even when you do, if you look at the performance of the WHOLE system it costs a lot of money to match a good NeXT cube (remember to count in ethernet/scsi/graphics card/monitor etc even today thats adding ~$800 to the cost of the machine that looks really cheap in the brouchure). $an
From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-bat.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Networking Windows95 to NeXT Server Date: 1 Aug 1996 11:39:54 GMT Organization: The University of York, UK Message-ID: <4tq52a$8jm@netty.york.ac.uk> References: <4t0n33$nif@crcnis3.unl.edu> rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) writes: > Just to clarify things: Windows 95 has builtin support for TCP/IP. It does > not, however, support NFS, which is alleviated by using the PC-NFS product Hmmm, "alleviated" as long as you can make it work - but PC-NFS can be a right pain in the backside. After running both I'd prefer to use Samba to make UNIX talk smb than to try and make PC's talk UNIX protocols. It's easier to teach a violinist how to play the bongos than it is to teach a bongo player to play the violin :-) -bat.
From: ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr (BongOk Kim (kornet)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NEXTSTEP Virtuoso Works Date: 1 Aug 1996 12:55:40 GMT Organization: KORNET Message-ID: <4tq9gc$p95@usenet.kornet.nm.kr> Here are My Virtuoso Works. http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~ppai/thumnail.html http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~ppai/ Virtuoso is very old Illustration software. But I using Virtuoso then Adobe Illustrator. Virtuoso is very powerful Illustration software still. YoungHoon Kil From South Korea
From: allman@pat.mdc.com (Mark Allman ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Any browsers supporting Javascript? Date: 31 Jul 1996 15:19:57 GMT Organization: McDonnell Douglas, Houston Division Distribution: world Message-ID: <4tntit$b10@cisu2.jsc.nasa.gov> I have a few clients with Javascript projects. Are there any browsers running on a NeXT box that understand Javascript? -- Mark Allman -- Software Consulting (NeXT, Perl, Python, etc.) -- Grad. Student, Physics, Univ. of Houston -- Sr. Engineer, McDonnell Douglas Aerospace, Houston -- ghost@ghost.neosoft.com
From: peter@mathworks.com (Peter Greis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: Images of NeXT sales brochures Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Date: 1 Aug 1996 14:06:04 GMT Organization: The MathWorks, Inc., Natick, MA 01760 Message-ID: <4tqdkc$ssb@turing.mathworks.com> References: <dknox-2307961157270001@plato.dissvcs.uga.edu> <4t2tjv$d13@bignews.shef.ac.uk> <31FCD641.48D1@msi.se> <jburne-2907962125510001@ad08-046.compuserve.com> John Burnette (jburne@sprynet.com) wrote: : In article <31FCD641.48D1@msi.se>, Harald Ellmann <ellmann@msi.se> wrote: : : : > I browsed through the pages and while reading them I got depressed. What : is NeXT now : > compared to the early 90s? They sell tools instead of a vision. The : NeXTstation was : > the best computer ever built so far and it will probably take a long : time until we see : > another "insanely great" thing. : > : > Harald : : Personally I'm saving my pennies for a BeBox Just got one... The Bebox is a Very Cool Thing(tm) -p
From: David Sheffield <y15097@email.mot.com> Newsgroups: comp.software.testing,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: MS Visual Test - How do I record in real time? Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 09:42:00 -0400 Organization: Motorola Canada Message-ID: <31FF62A8.5BD4@email.mot.com> References: <31FEBEBC.31F5@mcs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, We are using MS VT and are trying to get the recorder to recognize the fact that we are holding the mouse dwon in one place for an extended period. VT, however, only seems to see this as a single click. Does anyone know how to achieve this? Thanks in advance ...
From: ronp@sol5.cs.wisc.edu (Ronp) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: Images of NeXT sales brochures Date: 1 Aug 1996 20:30:22 GMT Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Message-ID: <4tr44u$h05@spool.cs.wisc.edu> References: <dknox-2307961157270001@plato.dissvcs.uga.edu> <4tkt8k$8t1@pub02.va.pubnix.com> <4tlpdk$306@news.onramp.net> <DvEs3s.6w9@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> In article <DvEs3s.6w9@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>, Jerry Kuch <gdkuch@barrow.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: >When did black hardware sell with PC affordability? I've always wondered >how much better it would have done if the economic realities of the period >it was released in would have allowed the machines to go out with more >memory and bigger disks. I bought my NeXT slab instead of a Mac, it was earlier than the Quadra and the Quadra was more expensive when it became available. In addition, I saved on the Laser printer. Ron
From: alex@starside.rhein-main.de (Alexander F.E. Seggerman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: CD-R Date: 1 Aug 1996 20:56:54 GMT Organization: Individual Network - Rhein-Main Message-ID: <4tr5mm$4qh@odb.rhein-main.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Do I have to enter a fstag or similar for my new Yamaha CDR102 CD-Writer ?? If I just plug it into the SCSI Bus (yes everything is terminated, unique IDs etc.) it somehow is jamming the SCSI Bus (error msgs: Resetting SCSI Bus ... I/O Timeout) thanks alex -- ____________________________________________________________________ Alexander Seggerman Non Electronic: Electronic: Berger Straße 157 mailto: alex@starside.rhein-main.de D-60385 Frankfurt (NeXTMail & Mime & ASCII) Germany http://www.rhein-main.de/~pstarsid/ Phone: ++49 (69) 468104 FAX: Sorry no FAX
From: dekorte@suite.com (Steve Dekorte) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: BeBox (Was: Images of NeXT sales brochures) Date: 1 Aug 1996 21:38:39 GMT Organization: OnRamp Technologies; ISP; Dallas/Ft Worth/Houston, TX USA Message-ID: <4tr84v$gv0@news.onramp.net> References: <dknox-2307961157270001@plato.dissvcs.uga.edu> <4t2tjv$d13@bignews.shef.ac.uk> <31FCD641.48D1@msi.se> <jburne-2907962125510001@ad08-046.compuserve.com> <4tqdkc$ssb@turing.mathworks.com> Cc: peter@mathworks.com Peter Greis wrote: > Harald Ellmann wrote: > : Personally I'm saving my pennies for a BeBox > > Just got one... The Bebox is a Very Cool Thing(tm) BeBox HW: Neat idea, but for the price of a PC + BeBox dual 66Mhz PPC processor board, I can just buy a 200Mhz Pentuim PC which is faster and will run a ton of OSes and software, including NeXTstep. Neat IO ports though. And X10 libs are cool. BeBox software: No shrinkwrapped app market. Bundled apps don't compare to NeXTstep. Development environment is C++.(ack) What (IMO) would make the BeBox worth buying: HW: ~2 or more times the performance of a Intel box for the same price. (Maybe a 4 PPC board + PC for the price of a 200Mhz Pentium PC) Software: If it had a dynamic OO language (Objective-C, Smalltalk, Self). Needs easy inet connectivity, NeXT quality Email, NewsBrowsers, latest web browser support, latest web servers, etc. -- Steve Dekorte - OpenStep Developer - Anaheim, CA "Fundamentalism isn't about religion. It's about power." - S. Rushdie
From: Dario Ringach <dario@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.lang.postcript Subject: PS to TIFF with antialias? Date: Thu, 01 Aug 1996 15:28:35 -0400 Organization: Center for Neural Science, NYU Message-ID: <32010563.41C6@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: dario@hobson.cns.nyu.edu We have a very nice color printer from Fuji which unfortunately does not take PostScript files. I tried to copy and paste the file contents with different applications to get a TIFF file I can print... Images come out great, but the text is horrible!!! Is there an application that will convert PS to TIFF and at the same time anti-alias the text objects? Thanks in advance... -- Dario -- Dr. Dario Ringach | office: (212) 998-7614 lab: (212) 998-7613 Center for Neural Science | home: (212) 727-9346 fax: (212) 995-4011 New York University | e-mail: dario@cns.nyu.edu New York, NY 10003 | WWW: http://www.cns.nyu.edu/home/dario
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Where do I get serial cables for turbo? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <DvH1nL.opz@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 18:21:21 GMT References: <31FFE988.1083@blackstar.ssnet.com> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <31FFE988.1083@blackstar.ssnet.com>, Hasssan N. Kelley <hassan@blackstar.ssnet.com> wrote: >1. Where can I get serial cables for my color turbo? > Don't know of a place that sells them... >2. Can I you plain old MAC serial cables? > No. You can make them, however, by looking in the online Librarian documetnation (in an appendix--I don't recall the name but it's fairly obvious) or the man page for zs. -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: rworne@primenet.com (Robert Worne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.lang.postcript Subject: Re: PS to TIFF with antialias? Date: 1 Aug 1996 21:31:04 -0700 Organization: The Turbocolor On My Desk Message-ID: <4ts0a8$pkb@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> References: <32010563.41C6@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> Dario Ringach <dario@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> wrote: >We have a very nice color printer from Fuji which unfortunately does not >take PostScript files. I tried to copy and paste the file contents with >different applications to get a TIFF file I can print... Images come out >great, but the text is horrible!!! Is there an application that will >convert PS to TIFF and at the same time anti-alias the text objects? > >Thanks in advance... Two come to mind.... eXTRATIFF from GScorp will do the job nicely, it "prints" to an antialiased TIFF file. For EPS files, I got a pleasant suprise two days ago when I found out TIFFany II decided to make itself the default app for anything with an EPS extension. What it did was ask for a DPI & converted the postscript file into a real nice antialiased TIFF. This software NEVER ceases to amaze me... -- Robert Worne NeXT-OS/2-MacOS Starving CS Undergrad...Sorry, I don't *do* Windows! I'd rather starve... -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/P/S d-?>pu s+:+> a- C++$>++++ UX++++>$ P+>+++ L+ !E !W++ N+++ !o-- !K w--- O++$ M+ V PS>--- !PE+ Y+ !PGP- t@ 5++ X+++ R- tv b+>++ DI !D G e>+++ h--- r++ y+++** ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
From: Tom Mander <tom@proximity.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.lang.postcript Subject: Re: PS to TIFF with antialias? Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 13:40:00 +1000 Organization: Proximity Message-ID: <32017890.794B@proximity.com.au> References: <32010563.41C6@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Dario Ringach <dario@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> Dario Ringach <dario@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> wrote: > We have a very nice color printer from Fuji which unfortunately does not > take PostScript files. I tried to copy and paste the file contents with > different applications to get a TIFF file I can print... Images come out > great, but the text is horrible!!! Is there an application that will > convert PS to TIFF and at the same time anti-alias the text objects? AFAIK PostScript text is not rendered anti-aliased in any system except for in programs like Photoshop. One option for you is to render the file at 2, 3 or 4 times the final resolution (in both dimensions) and scale the final image down to your printing resolution (essentially oversampling). This may need a lot of RAM ;-P Tom ____________________________________________________________________ Tom Mander Proximity Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia Tel +61 2 9810 1115 Fax +61 2 9810 1318 tom@proximity.com.au http://www.proximity.com.au/~tom/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Images of NeXT sales brochures Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <DvHqEI.5Gv@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 03:15:54 GMT References: <DvEs3s.6w9@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> <DvGHyw.9qy@cam-ani.co.uk> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <DvGHyw.9qy@cam-ani.co.uk>, Ian Stephenson <ians@cam-ani.co.uk> wrote: > >I've got a copy of the PCW issue that reviewed the 68040 range. It gives >prices (from memory) starting at about $4,000 for a mono slab 8Meg ram. >In the same issue they review a Dell 486 costing $12,000 for 4Meg ram, >14" monitor, text only graphics card. > Ack! I'd forgotten how expensive PCs once were. >Compared to Sun's and Mac's NeXT hardware was always a bargain. It's a >mistake to compare todays PC price/performance to 1990's NeXT >price/performance. Even when you do, if you look at the performance of >the WHOLE system it costs a lot of money to match a good NeXT cube >(remember to count in ethernet/scsi/graphics card/monitor etc even today >thats adding ~$800 to the cost of the machine that looks really cheap in >the brouchure). > I remember when I had an '030 (yes, really) cube and a Sparc 1 on my desk. They had the same amount of memory and similar disks. The Sparc 1 was faster than the '030 at CPU-bound stuff but the cube smoked the Sparc at I/O. Running a big compile on the Sparc would make it almost useless, while the cube ran at its usual (slow) speed. Shortly after that the cube became an '040 and the Sparc moved. :-) -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: neuss@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de.NOSPAM (Christian Neuss) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: PS to TIFF with antialias? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer Date: 2 Aug 1996 10:32:41 GMT Organization: Fachbereich Informatik, TH Darmstadt, Deutschland Message-ID: <4tslg9$239m@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> References: <32010563.41C6@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> Dario Ringach (dario@hobson.cns.nyu.edu) wrote: > We have a very nice color printer from Fuji which unfortunately does not > take PostScript files. I tried to copy and paste the file contents with > different applications to get a TIFF file I can print... Images come out > great, but the text is horrible!!! Is there an application that will > convert PS to TIFF and at the same time anti-alias the text objects? There is a "eps2tiff" on the archives which probably does what you want.. However, perhaps its a better idea to try out Dots.app (find it on the archives, e.g. peanuts.leo.org) and buy a copy if the results are ok. It's an application that renders PostScript to a bitmap image, thus turning your non-postscript printer into one that can be fed PS. (Newsgroups and followups edited) HTH, Chris -- // Christian Neuss "I ride tandem with a random.." // http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~neuss/ // +49 6151 16-3414 fax: -5472
From: peter@mathworks.com (Peter Greis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: BeBox (Was: Images of NeXT sales brochures) Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Date: 2 Aug 1996 13:35:40 GMT Organization: The MathWorks, Inc., Natick, MA 01760 Message-ID: <4tt07c$mfh@turing.mathworks.com> References: <dknox-2307961157270001@plato.dissvcs.uga.edu> <4t2tjv$d13@bignews.shef.ac.uk> Steve Dekorte (dekorte@suite.com) wrote: : BeBox HW: : : Neat idea, but for the price of a PC + BeBox dual 66Mhz PPC processor board, : I can just buy a 200Mhz Pentuim PC which is faster and will run a ton of OSes : and software, including NeXTstep. : Neat IO ports though. And X10 libs are cool. : : BeBox software: : : No shrinkwrapped app market. : Bundled apps don't compare to NeXTstep. : Development environment is C++.(ack) : : What (IMO) would make the BeBox worth buying: : : HW: : ~2 or more times the performance of a Intel box for the same price. : (Maybe a 4 PPC board + PC for the price of a 200Mhz Pentium PC) : : Software: : If it had a dynamic OO language (Objective-C, Smalltalk, Self). : Needs easy inet connectivity, NeXT quality Email, NewsBrowsers, : latest web browser support, latest web servers, etc. : Yes, but here price is a factor as well... you can buy a 200MHz Pentium with NeXTStep (dev bundle) for $2000 ? Don't get me wrong, I love my cube. Just give the Bebox a fair shake, it hasn't even been offered to the general public yet. -p
From: Zameel Syed <zameels@localhost.localhost> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: test Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 14:04:13 +0100 Organization: Applix, Inc. Message-ID: <3201FCCD.2D71@localhost.localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit test - please ignore
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From: Reto Koradi <kor@spectrospin.ch> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.lang.postcript Subject: Re: PS to TIFF with antialias? Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 11:07:08 +0200 Organization: Spectrospin AG Message-ID: <3201C53C.794B@spectrospin.ch> References: <32010563.41C6@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Dario Ringach <dario@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> Dario Ringach wrote: > Is there an application that will > convert PS to TIFF and at the same time anti-alias the text objects? You could probably put something together with ghostscript 4.0. It's supposed to do anti-aliasing on text (didn't check closely), and can create various image formats. Maybe not TIFF, but you can still add another converter. -- Reto Koradi (kor@mol.biol.ethz.ch, http://www.mol.biol.ethz.ch/~kor)
From: kdb@pegasus.ece.utexas.edu (Kurt D. Bollacker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.lang.postcript Subject: Re: PS to TIFF with antialias? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.lang.postcript Date: 2 Aug 1996 18:52:03 GMT Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Message-ID: <4ttioj$jg6@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> References: <32010563.41C6@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> <3201C53C.794B@spectrospin.ch> Reto Koradi (kor@spectrospin.ch) wrote: : Dario Ringach wrote: : > Is there an application that will : > convert PS to TIFF and at the same time anti-alias the text objects? : You could probably put something together with ghostscript 4.0. : It's supposed to do anti-aliasing on text (didn't check closely), : and can create various image formats. Maybe not TIFF, but you can : still add another converter. : -- : Reto Koradi (kor@mol.biol.ethz.ch, http://www.mol.biol.ethz.ch/~kor) Some years ago I wrote (using Ghostscript) a Postscript to some-arcance-proprietary-format pixmap file converter, in order that we could use a good (but very old) color printer. Writing a perl or shell script should work fine. In our 300DPI case, we needed 8.5*11*300*300 pixels * 24 bits = 25245000 bytes of RAM to render the image. Ghostscript did a very good job on the text, especially after I installed better versions of the fonts than the ones which came with Ghostscript. ...................................................................... : Kurt D. Bollacker University of Texas at Austin : : kdb@pine.ece.utexas.edu P.O. Box 8566, Austin, TX 78713 : :....................................................................:
From: dekorte@suite.com (Steve Dekorte) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: BeBox (Was: Images of NeXT sales brochures) Date: 2 Aug 1996 20:21:58 GMT Organization: OnRamp Technologies; ISP; Dallas/Ft Worth/Houston, TX USA Message-ID: <4tto16$9rv@news.onramp.net> References: <dknox-2307961157270001@plato.dissvcs.uga.edu> <4t2tjv$d13@bignews.shef.ac.uk> <4tt07c$mfh@turing.mathworks.com> Cc: peter@mathworks.com Peter Greis wrote: > Steve Dekorte wrote: > : What (IMO) would make the BeBox worth buying: > : > : HW: > : ~2 or more times the performance of a Intel box for the same price. > : (Maybe a 4 PPC board + PC for the price of a 200Mhz Pentium PC) > : > : Software: > : If it had a dynamic OO language (Objective-C, Smalltalk, Self)... > > Yes, but here price is a factor as well... you can buy a 200MHz Pentium > with NeXTStep (dev bundle) for $2000 ? Don't get me wrong, I love my cube. Well, I don't mind paying as much for the dev tools as I would on Intel. Problem is, the BeBox has no dynamic OO dev tools to offer. > Just give the Bebox a fair shake, it hasn't even been offered to the > general public yet. I'm not trying to put Be down, I like the idea of what they're doing. I'm just suggesting what (IMO) would make their stuff worth buying. -- Steve Dekorte - OpenStep Developer - Anaheim, CA "Fundamentalism isn't about religion. It's about power." - S. Rushdie
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Where do I get serial cables for turbo? Message-ID: <DvIvGt.L2@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <31FFE988.1083@blackstar.ssnet.com> Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 18:02:53 GMT In article <31FFE988.1083@blackstar.ssnet.com> "Hasssan N. Kelley" <hassan@blackstar.ssnet.com> writes: > 1. Where can I get serial cables for my color turbo? > I took my soldering iron and a few parts from the attic... > 2. Can I you plain old MAC serial cables? > Naye, the pinout is different. But ain't that already covered in the FAQ!? -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: andrew@inxpress.net (Andrew M. Priasmoro) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NEXTSTEP on IBM Thinkpad 701. Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 19:38:22 -0400 Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison Message-ID: <andrew-0208961938220001@204.120.5.128> Dear NeXTer, Does anyone know if it's possible to install NEXTSTEP 3.3 on IBM Thinkpad 701 laptop? Thanks in advance. Sincerely, Andrew.
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.lang.postcript Subject: Re: PS to TIFF with antialias? Date: 3 Aug 1996 00:54:22 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-i-65.usc.edu Message-ID: <4tu7vu$j90@usc.edu> References: <32010563.41C6@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> Cc: dario@hobson.cns.nyu.edu In <32010563.41C6@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> Dario Ringach wrote: > We have a very nice color printer from Fuji which unfortunately does not > take PostScript files. I tried to copy and paste the file contents with > different applications to get a TIFF file I can print... Images come out > great, but the text is horrible!!! Is there an application that will > convert PS to TIFF and at the same time anti-alias the text objects? TIFFanyII does just that, as well as letting you determine the dpi. Works terrific with text. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@usc.edu USC-CNTV NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome =============================================================== PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP" --------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
From: mah@ka4ybr.netmha.com (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: HELP! Acrobat to PS ! Date: 3 Aug 1996 01:12:12 -0400 Organization: Mark Horton Associates Message-ID: <4tun3c$2ig@ka4ybr.netmha.com> Hi all! Does anyone know how (without paying Acrobat's blackmail price of around $200.00!) to get these damn .PDF files into something useable like PostScript or DVI? Switching printers over to the Macintosh or [gak!] bringing up Windoze just to print out some manuals and stuff from the net is a real PITA! I suspect that Acrobat, encouraged by NetScape's scheme, is doing the same thing... "The first reader's free...."; just like drug dealers! Once they've conned everyone with web sites to use their stuff then they can go for the millions of consumers' throats. :( I'm hoping somewhere there's something that will convert from PDF to PS so I can use plain old Ghostscript from my *NIX systems to print to my HP-IIID. Or am I just "tinkling up a rope" here? TIA - Mark -- "NeXT - just lightyears ahead of its time..." ------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Horton Associates mah@ka4ybr.netmha.com Systems and Network Performance Tuning mah@ka4ybr.atl.ga.us +1.404.373.2526 : 33 45 31 N / 084 16 59 W
From: för.efternamn@mailbox.swipnet.se (TK Juthberg) Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.emulators.mac.executor,comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine,comp.os.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.apps.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.apps.utilities,comp.os.ms-windows.apps.utilities.win3x,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.software.backoffice,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,comp.os.os2.marketplace,comp.publish.cdrom.software,comp.software-eng,comp.software.testing,comp.sources.wanted,comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.databases,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.windows.misc,comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.apps Subject: Have you got File Maker Pro for sale? Date: 3 Aug 1996 14:14:41 GMT Organization: - Message-ID: <4tvmsh$5sd@mn5.swip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII NNTP-Posting-User: 74aa07ee13d91a755b241dc67afa6fd1 I would be glad if you can help me (a poor student) to find a registered version of FMP. I am running a PC with win 3.1 so I can not run any 32-bits program. Then it have to be a older version like 2.0 or 2.1. If you know anyone who got it, or if you can sell a copy you own please mail me at; tk.juthberg@mailbox.swipnet.se Thanks for all help!!!
From: ehutch@hypnos.norden1.com (E. Hutchinson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,misc.jobs.contract Subject: NEXTSTEP/CONTRACT/DC AREA Date: 3 Aug 1996 19:31:04 GMT Organization: Norden 1 Communications Message-ID: <4u09do$ep7@tofu.alt.net> Programmer/analyst NEXTSTEP Objective C EOF---------------A plus Contract----------Long term Must Be-----------US Citizen or Greencard holder Area--------------Greater DC Area 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: Al Hartman <compexpr@tribeca.ios.com> Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.emulators.mac.executor,comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine,comp.os.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.apps.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.apps.utilities,comp.os.ms-windows.apps.utilities.win3x,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.software.backoffice,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,comp.os.os2.marketplace,comp.publish.cdrom.software,comp.software-eng,comp.software.testing,comp.sources.wanted,comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.databases,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.windows.misc,comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.apps Subject: Re: Have you got File Maker Pro for sale? Date: Sat, 03 Aug 1996 16:00:23 -0700 Organization: Internet Online Services Message-ID: <3203DA07.29A6@tribeca.ios.com> References: <4tvmsh$5sd@mn5.swip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: TK Juthberg <för.efternamn@mailbox.swipnet.se> TK Juthberg wrote: > > I would be glad if you can help me (a poor student) to find a > registered version of FMP. I am running a PC with win 3.1 so I can not > run any 32-bits program. Then it have to be a older version like 2.0 > or 2.1. If you know anyone who got it, or if you can sell a copy you > own please mail me at; tk.juthberg@mailbox.swipnet.se > Thanks for all help!!! You might try Surplus Software at: HTTP://WWW.SURPLUSSOFTWARE.COM They might have a copy at a good price... Al Hartman Computer Expressions
From: pbrown@ashkhabad.berkeley.edu (Paul R. Brown) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NXHost, how to? Date: 3 Aug 1996 23:00:16 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Message-ID: <slrn507m2j.f36.pbrown@ashkhabad.berkeley.edu> How do I use -NXHost to display remote applications (on a NeXT) on my machine? Is there a way to set specific access priviledges as with "xhost + blah"? Paul -- _____________________________________________________________________ Paul Brown Grad student, UCB mathematics (510)-843-7817 pbrown@math.berkeley.edu http://math.berkeley.edu/~pbrown/ NeXTmail preferred. _____________________________________________________________________
From: mah@ka4ybr.netmha.com (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: HELP! Acrobat to PS ! Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Date: 3 Aug 1996 20:18:33 -0400 Organization: Mark Horton Associates Message-ID: <4u0q8p$21i@ka4ybr.netmha.com> References: <4tun3c$2ig@ka4ybr.netmha.com> Thanks for all the responses pointing me to the proper software to accomplish this! I also found one that runs under X (xpdf) if anyone's interested... : Getting xpdf ------------ The latest version is available from: http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/usr/dn0o/xpdf/xpdf.html or: ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/xpdf/ Source code and several precompiled executables are available. -- "Linux! Guerrilla UNIX Development Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus." Regards, Mark ------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Horton Associates mah@ka4ybr.netmha.com Systems and Network Performance Tuning mah@ka4ybr.atl.ga.us +1.404.373.2526 : 33 45 31 N / 084 16 59 W
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NXHost, how to? Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 22:26:00 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <Am10cs200iWRQ4ucwt@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <slrn507m2j.f36.pbrown@ashkhabad.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <slrn507m2j.f36.pbrown@ashkhabad.berkeley.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.misc: 3-Aug-96 NXHost, how to? by Paul R. Brown@ashkhabad. > How do I use -NXHost to display remote applications (on a NeXT) on my > machine? You need to enable "Public Window Server" on the machine which the remote app is being displayed. > Is there a way to set specific access priviledges as with "xhost + > blah"? No. It's one of the major reasons why "Public Window Server" is such a gaping security hole.... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: gdavis@shentel.net (Greg Davis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Where do I get serial cables for turbo? Date: 4 Aug 1996 02:28:08 GMT Organization: Fighter Grafix Message-ID: <gdavis-0308962219320001@eb1ppp9.shentel.net> References: <31FFE988.1083@blackstar.ssnet.com> In article <31FFE988.1083@blackstar.ssnet.com>, hassan@blackstar.ssnet.com wrote: > 1. Where can I get serial cables for my color turbo? > > 2. Can I you plain old MAC serial cables? > > Thanx > > Hassan Mac cables have different pin-outs and will NOT work. I would suggest either Jim Mooseman at: MTECH - James_Moosmann<moose@interpath.com> 5506 Silchester Lane Charlotte, NC 28215 704-598-7141 (Voice) 704-598-7870 (Fax) or Dancing Bear (Tim Griswold) @ 808-875-2456, info@dancingbear.com The cables run about 20 buck + shipping Greg
From: macrae@geo.ucalgary.ca (Andrew MacRae) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: PS to TIFF with antialias? Date: 4 Aug 1996 03:10:42 GMT Organization: The University of Calgary Message-ID: <4u14bi$18n6@ds2.acs.ucalgary.ca> References: <32017890.794B@proximity.com.au> In article <32017890.794B@proximity.com.au> Tom Mander <tom@proximity.com.au> writes: > Dario Ringach <dario@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> wrote: > > We have a very nice color printer from Fuji which unfortunately does .. > > great, but the text is horrible!!! Is there an application that will > > convert PS to TIFF and at the same time anti-alias the text objects? > > AFAIK PostScript text is not rendered anti-aliased in any system except > for in programs like Photoshop. Apparently the newest version of Ghostscript handles anti-aliasing for certain devices, but I do not have the details. > One option for you is to render the file > at 2, 3 or 4 times the final resolution (in both dimensions) and > scale the final image down to your printing resolution (essentially > oversampling). This may need a lot of RAM ;-P This works. 2X in each dimension is plenty, which means 4X the memory requirements for the rendered image. Get the netPBM tools to do the scaling. Something like: tifftopnm < 2x_file.tiff | pnmscale 0.5 | pnmtotiff > antialiased.tiff Works fine. -- -Andrew macrae@geo.ucalgary.ca home page: http://www.geo.ucalgary.ca/~macrae
From: rick@flowbee.interaccess.com (Rick Innis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Wanted: NeXT-friendly ISP, Toronto area Followup-To: poster Date: 3 Aug 1996 22:22:18 -0500 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Message-ID: <4u151a$s1n@flowbee.interaccess.com> Subject line sez most of it. I'm looking for a NeXT-friendly ISP in the T.O area that can provide a reliable PPP connection (like I've never managed to establish with Interaccess.) Recommendations solicited. --Rick.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199608040322.XAA02834@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Sat, 3 Aug 96 23:22:24 -0400 Subject: Email Woes, and NeXT Digests from Sat Aug3 Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com Hello NeXTers My ISP swapped machines yesterday on the machine which mail gets delievered to. Wouldn't be a problem, except that the new machine didn't have procmail installed. That meant that when my mail hit my .forward file (which sends each message to procmail) the forward failed and mail bounced. So if anyone was trying to use my autoresponder, or send me mail from yesterday afternoon until today, it might have failed. The worst thing that I lost was the NeXT digests for today (Sat, Aug 3rd) and was wondering if any of the Digest subscribers would be willing to send me the digests from today (for announce, bugs, hardware, marketplace, misc, software, and sysadmin). Thanks TjL -------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat NeXT info via email: send message with SUBJECT: send-ascii info NeXT Information: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next NeXT Printer Info: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next/printerinfo.html
From: ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr (BongOk Kim (kornet)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Wanted:Virtuoso 2.0 motorolla Version Date: 4 Aug 1996 09:56:10 GMT Organization: KORNET Message-ID: <4u1s3q$fc2@usenet.kornet.nm.kr> Altsys has gone long time ago. I would be glad if you can help me (a poor student) to find a registered version of Virtuoso 2.0 motorolla Version. If you know serial number of Virtuoso 2.0(motorolla Version), please mail me at ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr Thanks for all help! YoungHoon Kil From South Korea.
From: "Hasssan N. Kelley" <hassan@blackstar.ssnet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: PPP on NeXT--How? Date: Sun, 04 Aug 1996 09:10:44 -0400 Organization: SSNet -- Public Internet Access in Delaware! Message-ID: <3204A154.BD5@blackstar.ssnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I do I even begin to set up my NeXTstation Colorturbo to connect to my ISP? Thanx Hassan
From: vdsn@erols.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: Re: turning on a next station. Date: Sun, 04 Aug 1996 16:57:38 -0700 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Distribution: inet Message-ID: <320538F2.7D2C@erols.com> References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960730122231.905A-100000@cycle1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Nick Potkay wrote: > > Folks, > > Forgive my ignorance, but I could not find any information regarding > turning on a nextstation. This machine has been in the closet for who > knows how long and we would like to get rid of it. The keyboard has a > power key on it, but just hitting that key doesnt turn the machine on. > > What is the key sequence to turn on the machine? > > Also - I am pretty sure that the machine has a root passwd, (which I dont > know). How do I go about putting this beast into single user mode? > > Thanks > > -NickThere is only one way (that I have heard of) to turn on a NeXTstation, via the power key, perhaps the keyboard is dead? The hardware password feature can be defeated by removing the lithium battery for a period of 24 hours, but this may also cause the system to lose it's startup default settings. --Single User Mode-- On startup, hold down both command keys, and press the Tilde key (~) on the keypad. Type bsd -s (I'm assuming you start your machine from a SCSI hard disk) from the NeXT> prompt. This will load the system into single-user mode. BTW, to reset the aforementioned system settings, type P at the NeXT prompt, and answer the questions. Post here if I'm forgetting anything.
From: tequila@interlog.com (Mark Eissler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Wanted: NeXT-friendly ISP, Toronto area Date: 4 Aug 1996 22:46:16 GMT Organization: Tequila Films Inc. Message-ID: <tequila-0408961847580001@tequila.interlog.com> References: <4u151a$s1n@flowbee.interaccess.com> In article <4u151a$s1n@flowbee.interaccess.com>, rick@interaccess.com wrote: > Subject line sez most of it. I'm looking for a NeXT-friendly ISP in the > T.O area that can provide a reliable PPP connection (like I've never > managed to establish with Interaccess.) Recommendations solicited. > Have you looked into Interlog (www.interlog.com)? They're not particularly anything-friendly, but they're reliability has been pretty good for the past year even though they now have over 1000 lines and 15000+ subscribers. -- Mark Eissler | I Still have an Acorn Atom tequila@interlog.com | in my closet. One day it http://www.interlog.com/~tequila/ | might be worth something!!
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet Date: 5 Aug 1996 04:15:11 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4u3sgf$31m@digifix.digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Software, 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 - 150+ ISV company pages - 350+ ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - NEXTSTEP User Group Directory - comp.sys.next archives - User Group information - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.stepwise.com/ 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 Software, Inc. WWW site ============================ http://www.next.com comp.sys.next.* newsgroups ========================== news:comp.sys.next.advocacy This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. news:comp.sys.next.announce Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. Archives are available by ftp at ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. news:comp.sys.next.bugs A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT- specific groups as well. news:comp.sys.next.hardware Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. news:comp.sys.next.marketplace NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. news:comp.sys.next.misc For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! news:comp.sys.next.programmer Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. news:comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. news:comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. Related Newsgroups ================== news:comp.soft-sys.nextstep Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. news:comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. news:comp.object Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. Getting the Newsgroups without getting News =========================================== Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are now available as a mailing list digest as well. next-nextstep-d next-advocacy-d next-announce-d next-bugs-d next-hardware-d next-marketplace-d next-misc-d next-programmer-d next-software-d next-sysadmin-d (For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to <digestif@antigone.com>). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's. 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From: GWILLEM@alpha.ntu.ac.sg (Van Schaik Willem Anthon Johan ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: PPP on NeXT--How? Date: 5 Aug 1996 15:23:09 GMT Organization: Nanyang Technological University Message-ID: <4u53kt$moa@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> References: <3204A154.BD5@blackstar.ssnet.com> Hasssan N. Kelley (hassan@blackstar.ssnet.com) wrote: : I do I even begin to set up my NeXTstation Colorturbo to connect to my : ISP? For starters have a look at the ppp code at (now it comes out of my head, so others please correct) http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/ There you will find the PD ppp software. It works and is well documented. Willem
From: ww@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca (Will Waites) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.answers,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software Subject: PLIP on NeXT? Date: 05 Aug 1996 11:32:02 -0400 Organization: McGill University Computing Centre Sender: ww@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca Message-ID: <lwivaxludp.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> Hello, I am trying to connect my Laptop running Linux to my NeXT station using PLIP (Paralell Line IP). It is easy to set this up under Linux but as I am new to NeXTSTEP I don't know where to begin as far as setup under NeXT goes or even if it is possible. Please email with your suggestions, Thanks Will Waites ww@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Suggestion: Pentium Transputer for NeXT Date: 5 Aug 1996 23:02:23 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <4u5uhv$mks@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Hi all creative NeXTers without money: This is to start a (short) discussion on boosting black NeXT hardware performance using as little money as possible. Right now you'd need: PC Motherboard, CPU, RAM, EthernetCard. No disks, no screen, no nothing. Something like a Pentium Transputer connected to a NeXT thru the net. Or like additional motherboards in a NeXT cube. The problem is that right now I would in addition need: HardDisk and a HardDisk controller. And most likely monitor, video card and keyboard. That's why I would like to ask how to avoid the harddisk. I offer the following ideas in return. Thanks, Rudy blazek@stt.msu.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Background: ----------- I am a graduate assistant (i.e. a student) so I have to watch the budget. I use 040 NeXTcube w/ NeXTdimension and NeXTstation Color. I like them a lot for all I do, except for speed of what I use heavily on a daily basis: Mathematica and TeX. What I wanna do: ---------------- Connect a Pentium Pro server to my NeXT and run Mathematica and TeX remotely off the server. Design Ideas: ------------- 1. Take a black NeXT workstation. 2. Put some UNIX in a subdirectory on the NeXT. You might have to use some other PC which already runs the UNIX system. 3. Put Pentium Pro, RAM and Ethernet card in an empty computer case. 4. Convince the PC hardware to boot thru the net off the NeXT. 5. Mount the HardDisks from the NeXT and continue booting the UNIX from the step 2 above. 6. Enjoy, work, compute, fly ... - The UNIX could be either Linux (free, with student version of Mathematica available) or NeXT(Open)Step (not free :-)), but preferred, of course :-))). - The point 2. could be also accomplished by borrowing a disk controller, empty disk, video card, monitor, keyboard for step 3 ... Linux: ------ For starters, Linux would be fine with me, since remote Mathematica kernel and TeX are easy to use from NeXT User Interface no matter what UNIX they run on. Also a whole world of free X-win apps would be at hand. When a minimal installation of Linux and boot-images etc is finished (on the NeXT harddisk), all the files could be put on the FTP archives so that other people don't have to go through the whole process ... They could replace the point 2. above (which could be pretty painful) with: 2'. Untar the minimal Linux supplied here, change configuration files here, etc... PROBLEMS: --------- - Point 4. above ("Convince the PC hardware to boot thru the net off the NeXT."). I don't know how to do that. I saw PC's booting off the net, but I am not sure if it was done by changing CMOS/BIOS parameters (and/or jumpers, switches etc.) on the ethernet card and/or motherboard or if they had some files in the boot sector on the local harddisk. - I know that black NeXTs can boot directly off a NetInfo network, but I am not sure what PC hardware can do. - If you really need a harddisk for booting off the net, then the expenses will grow since in addition to the disk and controller you will most likely need also a monitor and keyboard to resolve crashes etc. Why? The main advantage of the disk-less solution is that there is nothing to break in the PC. The only problem could be hardware failure or a dead CMOS battery which is unlikely. All the files would be on the NeXT, so if anything goes wrong, all you have to do is to restore your backup of the PC's directories on the NeXT and reboot the poor (i.e. stripped) Pentium box ... Please: ------- If you read all the way until here, please comment on my suggestions if you have a point. I really would like to make this happen with as little money as possible. And some other people might be interested, too ... Thanks a lot. Rudy Blazek Michigan State University Dept. of Statistics and Probability
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199608060108.VAA10659@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Mon, 5 Aug 96 21:07:59 -0400 Subject: gzip: file has one other link? Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com What does this mean? gzip: ./Unix/developer/VoiceClass.README has 1 other link -- unchanged -rw-rw-r-- 2 luomat 2469 Apr 3 1993 ./Unix/developer/VoiceClass.README TjL -------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat NeXT info via email: send message with SUBJECT: send-ascii info NeXT Information: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next NeXT Printer Info: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next/printerinfo.html
From: hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (David Hill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: PPP on NeXT--How? Date: 6 Aug 1996 03:24:01 GMT Organization: University of Calgary CPSC Message-ID: <4u6dsh$1bf@linux.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> References: <3204A154.BD5@blackstar.ssnet.com> In article <3204A154.BD5@blackstar.ssnet.com>, Hasssan N. Kelley <hassan@blackstar.ssnet.com> wrote: >I do I even begin to set up my NeXTstation Colorturbo to connect to my >ISP? Visit http://cs.uni-bonn.de/ppp/faq.html david --- -- David R. Hill, CS & Psych Depts., U. Calgary | Imagination is more Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4 Ph: 604-947-9362 | important than knowledge. hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca hill@trillium.ab.ca | (Albert Einstein) http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~hill (^NeXTMail)| Kill your television!
From: hajons@fysparc13.fy.chalmers.se (H}kan Jonsson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: help: WorkSpace error message Date: 4 Aug 1996 02:16:50 GMT Organization: Chalmers University of Technology Message-ID: <4u116i$hdi@nyheter.chalmers.se> Hi! I have a big problem: When I log into my account on my standalone machine running NS/FIP 3.3 I get an errormessage from WorkSpace Manager that forces me to log out: "Try to save file changes in other application before logging out." I have no idea what caused. How can I solve this problem? Yours, Hakan Jonsson
From: benjy@vt.edu (Ben E. Cline) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Performance, Sun vs. Intel Date: 6 Aug 1996 15:03:19 GMT Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Message-ID: <4u7mrn$6u1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> We're trying to decide between a Sparc 20 model 71 and a PCI-based Pentium Pro 200 MHz, both running NeXTStep. We're running a multiple server retrieval system and each of the servers is cthread-based. It appears that the Pentium wins in terms of raw compute power, but Sun has suggested that context switches are slow on a Pentium Pro running NeXTStep. Does anyone have good experience comparing these two, or similar, platforms running NeXTStep? If so, please e-mail me your thoughts. Benjy -- Benjy Cline, AC4XO, Ph.D. Virginia Tech Computing Center benjy@benjy.cc.vt.edu http://benjy.cc.vt.edu:1951/~benjy/
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: gzip: file has one other link? Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 12:09:11 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <km1qsbi00iWW84UW9X@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <199608060108.VAA10659@nerc.com> In-Reply-To: <199608060108.VAA10659@nerc.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.misc: 5-Aug-96 gzip: file has one other link? by "Timothy J. Luoma"@nerc. > What does this mean? > > gzip: ./Unix/developer/VoiceClass.README has 1 other link -- unchanged > > -rw-rw-r-- 2 luomat 2469 Apr 3 1993 > ./Unix/developer/VoiceClass.README It means that there is a link to that file from somewhere else, and gzip will not change this version (since it would change what's referred to by the link) unless you use the -f (--force) option. If you're trying to deal with a directory subtree with complex links, try using 'gnutar zcf archive.tar.gz _files_' instead. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: rupert@blitzen.noir.net (Hans Rupert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Suggestion: Pentium Transputer for NeXT Date: 6 Aug 1996 17:34:50 GMT Organization: Internet Connect, Inc. The Wisconsin ISP 414-476-4266 http://www.inc.net Message-ID: <4u7vnq$4b0@news.inc.net> References: <4u5uhv$mks@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Cc: blazek@stt.msu.edu In <4u5uhv$mks@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Rudolf B. Blazek wrote: Hi all creative NeXTers without money: This is to start a (short) discussion on boosting black NeXT hardware performance using as little money as possible. Right now you'd need: PC Motherboard, CPU, RAM, EthernetCard. No disks, no screen, no nothing. Something like a Pentium Transputer connected to a NeXT thru the net. Or like additional motherboards in a NeXT cube. The problem is that right now I would in addition need: HardDisk and a HardDisk controller. And most likely monitor, video card and keyboard. That's why I would like to ask how to avoid the harddisk. I offer the following ideas in return. Thanks, Rudy blazek@stt.msu.edu _________________ Hmmph. I appreciate your creative, thrifty approach. If you just get a second computer though, your life will be much enhanced. Anything faster than your station will do. If you are only planning on running NeXT binaries, you might try simlifying your approach. Here's how we do "distributed computing" here: We use OpenSesame.app to execute the binary on a different host, and display the results on our workstations. Works like a charm. It's pretty simple to set-up, and you can find a complete run-down in DigitalLibrarian. Look under the SysAdmin.bshlf. - SysAdminManual/03_SetUpNet.rtfd [search contents for OpenSesame.app] If you are running compute intensive apps like TeX and Mathmatica, a PentiumPro with 64+Mb of RAM and a FastEthernet card will knock your socks off. The only thing that really doesn't change is the speed at which your NeXTstation can draw a screen... One note: Read-Up on the security issues of the PublicWindowServer before you use this. Hope that gives you a start - It really does work Bests, -- Hans Rupert <rupert@noir.net> / NeXTmail or MIME encouraged Direktor noir http://www.noir.net
From: nickle@Glue.umd.edu (Michael D. Nickle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Connectix Quickcam Idea Date: 6 Aug 1996 14:04:56 GMT Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park, MD Message-ID: <4u7je8$al@mojo.eng.umd.edu> I was just thinking about how great it would be if I could get video into my slab. Then I remembered that my quickcam has a din-8 connector just like my slab. Does anyone know what would be involved in creating the software (or if anyone has created software) to get these two to work together? Any comments or questions furthering the idea are apprec. -- _____________________________________________________________________________ Michael D. Nickle || Bob Dole sings, are ya listening? nickle@Glue.umd.edu || Step outside, his head is glistening. www.glue.umd.edu/~nickle || We're happy tonight..walking in a Dole || Wonderland.... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: ehutch@hypnos.norden1.com (E. Hutchinson) Newsgroups: misc.jobs.offered,comp.sys.next.misc,misc.jobs.contract,chi.jobs Subject: NEXTSTEP/CONTRACT/LONG TERM Date: 6 Aug 1996 18:21:09 GMT Organization: Norden 1 Communications Message-ID: <4u82el$5qk@tofu.alt.net> Developer NEXTSTEP Objective C EOF------------------A Plus Contract-------------Long term Area-----------------Greater DC Area Must Be--------------US Citizen or Greencard. 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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.lang.postcript From: cko@wald.hnv.icem.de (Carsten Koch) Subject: Re: PS to TIFF with antialias? Sender: cko@icem.de (Carsten Koch) Message-ID: <DvpoIu.159@icem.de> Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 10:16:06 GMT To: Dario Ringach <dario@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <32010563.41C6@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Organization: ICEM Systems GmbH, Germany. In article <32010563.41C6@hobson.cns.nyu.edu>, Dario Ringach <dario@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> writes: > We have a very nice color printer from Fuji which unfortunately does not > take PostScript files. I tried to copy and paste the file contents with > different applications to get a TIFF file I can print... Images come out > great, but the text is horrible!!! Is there an application that will > convert PS to TIFF and at the same time anti-alias the text objects? I have done just that very recently using GhostScript and netpbm (both are free): I scaled the PostScript up by a factor of 2, selected the pnmraw output device for GhostScript, cut out the part that I needed with pnmcut, scaled it down with pnmscale and converted it to the target format (in my case, xpm) with ppmtoxpm. Here is a script that I used. You may be able to modify it for your requirements: gs -sPAPERSIZE=halfletter -sDEVICE=pnmraw -sOutputFile=pnm2 ps2.eps - </dev/null pnmcut 0 434 298 178 pnm2|pnmscale 0.5|ppmtoxpm >xpm Cheers, Carsten. -- +-------------------------------------------------------+ | Carsten Koch E-Mail: Carsten_Koch@icem.de | | ICEM Systems GmbH Fax: +49-4286-1608 | | Waldsiedlung 7 Phone: +49-4286-920001 |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199608070238.WAA15677@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Tue, 6 Aug 96 22:38:10 -0400 Subject: libposix.a for 3.3 patch on ftp.next.com Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com Can anyone give me a good reason why 'libposix.a' isn't compressed with gzip on NeXT's ftp site? 3.3 comes with gzip, and ftp.next.com is so slow (or was tonight) that the difference between 3259060 and 1082899 bytes (a mere 66.7% difference) would have been appreciated. TjL -------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat NeXT info via email: send message with SUBJECT: send-ascii info NeXT Information: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next NeXT Printer Info: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next/printerinfo.html
From: jason@fisher.psych.uh.edu (Jason L. Asbahr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: BeBox (Was: Images of NeXT sales brochures) Date: 6 Aug 96 23:02:42 Organization: C.R.A.S.H. The Computers, Robotics, and Artists Society of Houston Message-ID: <JASON.96Aug6230242@fisher.psych.uh.edu> References: <dknox-2307961157270001@plato.dissvcs.uga.edu> <4t2tjv$d13@bignews.shef.ac.uk> <4tt07c$mfh@turing.mathworks.com> <4tto16$9rv@news.onramp.net> In-reply-to: dekorte@suite.com's message of 2 Aug 1996 20:21:58 GMT Hi! Well, my BeBox is going to sit right next to my NeXT machines. :-) A question: Can I use a NeXT Hitachi monitor (68Hz) or a Sony monitor with the Be, given that I can adjust the monitor settings like a wild man? -- Jason Asbahr 808 Sul Ross Suite 7 Reactive Systems Houston, Texas 77006 jason@reactive.com (713) 942-7937 voice
From: neal@s2.sonnet.com (Joshua B. Neal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Connectix Quickcam Idea Date: 7 Aug 1996 06:29:01 GMT Organization: SONNET Networking - Central Valley & Foothills (800)50-ONLINE Message-ID: <4u9d3d$p4a@sonnet1.sonnet.com> References: <4u7je8$al@mojo.eng.umd.edu> Cc: nickle@Glue.umd.edu In <4u7je8$al@mojo.eng.umd.edu> Michael D. Nickle wrote: > I was just thinking about how great it would be if I could get video into > my slab. Then I remembered that my quickcam has a din-8 connector just > like my slab. Does anyone know what would be involved in creating the > software (or if anyone has created software) to get these two to work > together? Any comments or questions furthering the idea are apprec. > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________________ > Michael D. Nickle || Bob Dole sings, are ya listening? > nickle@Glue.umd.edu || Step outside, his head is glistening. > www.glue.umd.edu/~nickle || We're happy tonight..walking in a Dole > || Wonderland.... > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out http://www.crynwr.com/qcpc/ Some Linux/FreeBSD types have managed to write drivers for the PC version of the QuickCam. -- Josh Neal neal@s2.sonnet.com (NeXTmail, MIME capable) "I can no longer sit back and allow Windows infiltration and indoctrination, Usenet subversion, and the international Microsoft conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids..." (with apologies to Stanley Kubrik)
From: "Hasssan N. Kelley" <hassan@blackstar.ssnet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Monsterscope Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1996 05:24:20 -0400 Organization: SSNet -- Public Internet Access in Delaware! Message-ID: <320860C4.41C1@blackstar.ssnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anyone have Monsterscope. It is a scope/spectrum analyzer piece of software that was with NEXTSTEP 3.2 but not 3.3. If so I sure would like to get it from you. Hassan
From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-bat.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: HELP! Acrobat to PS ! Date: 7 Aug 1996 11:55:38 GMT Organization: The University of York, UK Message-ID: <4ua07q$a99@netty.york.ac.uk> References: <4tun3c$2ig@ka4ybr.netmha.com> mah@ka4ybr.netmha.com (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR) writes: > Does anyone know how (without paying Acrobat's blackmail > price of around $200.00!) to get these damn .PDF files into something > useable like PostScript or DVI? Switching printers over to the use the PDF viewer and just save them from the print panel, work fine for me. -bat.
From: jbevan@actual.com (James Bevan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Win95 Filesystem driver? Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 11:14:11 GMT Organization: Secureactual Limited Sender: news@calculus.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <DvrLvn.7H@calculus.demon.co.uk> I'm running NS3.3 on an Intel machine with Windows95 on another partition. Although NS can still read from/write to the W95 partition, I'm missing out on the long filename functionality, and I'm also occasionally having to fix the filesystem after copying in a file from NS. Has anyone written an updated DOS.fs to get NS3.3 working correctly with the W95 filesystem? Thanks in advance James -- James Bevan jbevan@actual.com NeXTMail & MIME welcome
From: janvg@knoware.nl (Jan van Gils) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Looking for NextStep ! Date: 7 Aug 1996 17:14:43 GMT Organization: Private Message-ID: <4uaiu3$605@news.NL.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Hi, A couple off months back I saw NextStep for the first time and I was trilled by it. Now I am wondering if there is a possibilitie to have a trail version of Next. I want to test the system on a Intel processor in a IntraNetwork environment with : HP-UX, AIX, VMS, Oracle, Progress and Windows NT. My function within the environment is, that I am responsible for all kinds off networking, operating system and database issues. When a trail version is out off the question maybe you can send me a documentation set with prices. With regards Software Productivity Solutions System Engineer J.H. van Gils
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: libposix.a for 3.3 patch on ftp.next.com Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 15:46:14 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <gm2D_6q00iWRI7VnRC@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <199608070238.WAA15677@nerc.com> In-Reply-To: <199608070238.WAA15677@nerc.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.misc: 6-Aug-96 libposix.a for 3.3 patch on.. by "Timothy J. Luoma"@nerc. > Can anyone give me a good reason why 'libposix.a' isn't compressed > with gzip on NeXT's ftp site? Smart ftp daemons understand that if you have a file named 'foo', and you ask for 'foo.gz', the ftp daemon should pipe the file through gzip and then send the compressed version. I don't know how smart ftp.next.com's ftp daemon is, but it may have been worth a try.... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199608071852.OAA02374@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Wed, 7 Aug 96 14:52:20 -0400 Subject: 'find' questions Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com I am looking to find all the files (in my $HOME) which have been changed/created in the past 24 hrs (this will be part of a cronjob run each night at 3am, I want to find all the files which have changed since the last time the cronjob ran). find /Users/luomat -ctime -1 -type f -print is what I have come up with (because -mtime doesn't report new files, perhaps understandably) from the manpage: find recursively descends the directory hierarchy for each pathname in the pathname-list, seeking files that match a boolean (logical) expression written in the primaries given below. In the descriptions, the argument n is used as a decimal integer where +n means more than n, -n means less than n, and n means exactly n. -mtime n True if the file has been modified in n days. -ctime n True if the file has been changed in n days. ``Changed'' means either that the file has been modified or some attribute of the file (its owner, its group, the number of links to it, etc.) has been changed. Now I don't want to see files that have been changed longer than one day ago, so my guess is that '-ctime -1' is correct furthermore, if I wanted to file all the files on the machine which had changed, EXCEPT the files in /Backups, this would be the correct command find / -name Backups -prune -o -ctime -1 -type f -print (IMO there should be a way to tell find not to go onto other filesystems, and I don't just mean '-fstype' because if you have another HD which is also 4.3 then it will go to that one, which isn't what I want) Thanks TjL -------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat NeXT info via email: send message with SUBJECT: send-ascii info NeXT Information: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next NeXT Printer Info: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next/printerinfo.html
From: ww@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca (Will Waites) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: My NeXT station won't boot :( Date: 07 Aug 1996 15:46:29 -0400 Organization: McGill University Computing Centre Sender: ww@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca Message-ID: <lwk9vbnfje.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> Hello, I have a rather irritating problem. I have just bought an old 68040 black nextstation and it won't boot. It gets through most of its kernel startup and then when it looks for the /etc/init files it can't find them and it panics. What could be the problem, and perhaps more im[portantly how can I fix it? Is it possible to boot the NeXT using a boot-root pair of floppies in order to examing the hard drive and fix the problem if its fixable? Thanks in advance for your help, Will Waites ww@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca
From: kyle@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Kyle Hearfield) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Wanted: NeXT-friendly ISP, Toronto area Date: 7 Aug 1996 21:55:17 GMT Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland Message-ID: <4ub3c5$i6l@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> References: <4u151a$s1n@flowbee.interaccess.com> <tequila-0408961847580001@tequila.interlog.com> Hookup Communications has UUCP connections which is helpful for NeXTMail, although this can be overcome with popover, They are fairly friendly too! Mark Eissler (tequila@interlog.com) wrote: : In article <4u151a$s1n@flowbee.interaccess.com>, rick@interaccess.com wrote: : > Subject line sez most of it. I'm looking for a NeXT-friendly ISP in the : > T.O area that can provide a reliable PPP connection (like I've never : > managed to establish with Interaccess.) Recommendations solicited. : > : Have you looked into Interlog (www.interlog.com)? They're not particularly : anything-friendly, but they're reliability has been pretty good for the : past year even though they now have over 1000 lines and 15000+ : subscribers. : -- : Mark Eissler | I Still have an Acorn Atom : tequila@interlog.com | in my closet. One day it http://www.interlog.com/~tequila/ | might be worth something!! -- I don't wan't the world, I just want your half. -Unknown ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kyle D. Hearfield kyle@morgan.ucs.mun.ca ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PGP FINGERPRINT = 8A 3C 24 C9 86 F5 E6 3C 7B 91 D2 B1 CF 32 B7 E9 **finger for public Key**
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Distributed Objects with OpenStep/NT Date: 7 Aug 1996 20:46:37 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <4uavbd$l9k@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com> I'm a little confused about what's needed to enable D.O. between objects on OpenStep/NT hosts. NeXT offers an NT version of PDO. Is this required if OpenStep/NT has been installed? -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@ix.netcom.com Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 CaseServ: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Using results from find in something else? (Was: 'find' questions) Date: 7 Aug 1996 23:23:33 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-f-32.usc.edu Message-ID: <4ub8hl$pfh@usc.edu> Cc: luomat@nerc.com How would I cp to another directory (or any other action) all the results from a find? -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@usc.edu USC-CNTV NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome =============================================================== PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP" --------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
From: mdadgar@auspex.com (Mark Dadgar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Slow FTP server Date: 8 Aug 1996 02:04:13 GMT Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Message-ID: <4ubhut$ap1@alpha1.auspex.com> References: <199608070238.WAA15677@nerc.com> In article <199608070238.WAA15677@nerc.com> writes: > > Can anyone give me a good reason why 'libposix.a' isn't compressed > with gzip on NeXT's ftp site? 3.3 comes with gzip, and ftp.next.com > is so slow (or was tonight) that the difference between 3259060 and > 1082899 bytes (a mere 66.7% difference) would have been > appreciated. > That's pretty funny. NeXT's Internet connection is a DS-3. :) - Mark -- Mark Dadgar - Systems Engineer - Auspex Systems - http://www.auspex.com mark_dadgar@auspex.com - (408) 986-2429 (office) - (408) 980-0121 (fax) " ... men of reason, not of rhyme ... " - Kevin Gilbert, 1966-1996 NeXTMail and MIME happily accepted
From: todd@netten.net (Ronald Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.windows.misc,junk,memphis.for-sale,memphis.general,memphis.networking,misc.forsale.computers.memory,misc.forsale.computers.modems,misc.forsale.computers.monitors,misc.forsale.computers.net-hardware,misc.forsale.computers.other.misc,misc.forsale.computers.other.software,misc.forsale.computers.other.systems,misc.forsale.computers.pc-specific.audio,misc.forsale.computers.pc-specific.cards.misc,misc.forsale.computers.pc-specific.cards.video,misc.forsale.computers.pc-specific.misc,misc.forsale.computers.pc-specific.motherboards,misc.forsale.computers.pc-specific.portables,misc.forsale.computers.pc-specific.software,misc.forsale.computers.pc-specific.systems,misc.misc Subject: Looking for deals on NEW systems, components, notebooks, or anything Date: 8 Aug 1996 02:51:49 GMT Organization: Your Organization Message-ID: <4ubko5$552@pine.netten.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Looking for deals on NEW systems, components, notebooks, or anything else computer related? Check out Cooper Systems, Inc. in Memphis. If we don't have it, we can find it. HUGE selection of notebooks and components in stock. If you're looking for a new PC, ours are built to customer specifications. We've been around longer than any of the giants. Shipping is available. 901-360-9679 Ask for Ron Gray.
From: Evstathios Marinos Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: 4.0: Why is the graphic performance so slow ??? Date: 7 Aug 1996 19:05:48 GMT Organization: MARCON - Evstathios Marinos Consulting, Karlsruhe/Germany Message-ID: <4uapec$pbn@marcon.marcon.de> Hi, does anybody know why the graphic performance of OPENSTEP 4.0 Mach is significant slower than under 3.3. Under NS 3.3 I get a NXBench of about 5.8, under OS 4.0 NXBench is 4.7. The configuration is exactly the same.
From: nickle@Glue.umd.edu (Michael D. Nickle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: My NeXT station won't boot :( Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Date: 8 Aug 1996 12:08:17 GMT Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park, MD Message-ID: <4uclbh$qhp@mojo.eng.umd.edu> References: <lwk9vbnfje.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> Did you try booting in standalone mode (-s option)? Will Waites (ww@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca) wrote: : kernel startup and then when it looks for the /etc/init files it can't : find them and it panics. What could be the problem, and perhaps more : im[portantly how can I fix it? Is it possible to boot the NeXT using a -- _____________________________________________________________________________ Michael D. Nickle || Bob Dole sings, are ya listening? nickle@Glue.umd.edu || Step outside, his head is glistening. www.glue.umd.edu/~nickle || We're happy tonight..walking in a Dole || Wonderland.... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: grehm@cl-ki.uni-osnabrueck.de (Georg Rehm) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.answers,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: PLIP on NeXT? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.answers,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software Date: 8 Aug 1996 08:21:29 GMT Organization: Universitaet Osnabrueck Message-ID: <4uc829$ne8@deimos.rz.uni-osnabrueck.de> References: <lwivaxludp.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> Will Waites (ww@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca) wrote: > I am trying to connect my Laptop running Linux to my NeXT > station using PLIP (Paralell Line IP). It is easy to set this up under > Linux but as I am new to NeXTSTEP I don't know where to begin as far > as setup under NeXT goes or even if it is possible. IMHO this is not possible. I connected my linux-notebook to my slab via a serial cable using dip on the linux side and the slip package on the black side. With an 38400-setting I get about 3.2k/sec which should be enough for ftp and/or telnet sessions or reading news on the balcony with your notebook on your knees ;-) Oh, you said "NeXT station"? My station does not have a parallel port by the way ;-) CU, Gg -- Georg Rehm - Wuestenstrasse 33 - 49080 Osnabrueck - Tel: +49 541 9827762 RFC 822: georg@cl-ki.uni-osnabrueck.de georg@ge.org (NeXTMail / MIME ok)
From: dknox@uga.cc.uga.edu (David K. Knox) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.nextadvocacy Subject: Repost: Images of NeXT Brochures Date: Thu, 08 Aug 1996 10:43:56 -0500 Organization: Disability Services, University of Georgia Message-ID: <dknox-0808961043560001@plato.dissvcs.uga.edu> Greetings NeXT enthusiasts! I have scanned two 1991 NeXT sales brochures and put the images on a site for your edification and enjoyment. They have lots of good pictures and technical specifications. The images are large (around 500K each) in the interests of clarity. I hope you enjoy them. http://iris.dissvcs.uga.edu/~archive/NeXT.html
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: Using results from find in something else? (Was: 'find' questions) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960808111039.7015A-100000@charisma> Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 11:21:21 -0400 References: <4ub8hl$pfh@usc.edu> To: "Matthew N. Reichman" <reichman@usc.edu> In-Reply-To: <4ub8hl$pfh@usc.edu> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hey! I see you 'cc'd me on this post, but your email never got to me! (at least, not yet 11:12am my time on 8 August) On 7 Aug 1996, Matthew N. Reichman wrote: > How would I cp to another directory (or any other action) all the results > from a find? Say you want to find all the files (not dirs) in /some/folder and copy them to /somewhere/else: find /some/folder -type f -exec cp {} /somewhere/else \; - the command goes after the 'exec' and must end with the \; - the {} indicates where the matched filename will be placed in the command - you can't use shell aliases or functions as commands, only those found in the $PATH TjL -------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat NeXT info via email: send message with SUBJECT: send-ascii info NeXT Information: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next NeXT Printer Info: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next/printerinfo.html
From: Mark_Bessey@next.com (Mark Bessey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Using results from find in something else? (Was: 'find' questions) Date: 8 Aug 1996 18:44:38 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <4udcim$sm8@news.next.com> References: <4ub8hl$pfh@usc.edu> Matthew N. Reichman writes > How would I cp to another directory (or any other action) all the \ > results from a find? > > -- > Be well, > use the -exec option... find . -type f -exec cp {} /Backups \; Will recurse the current directory, and copy all the plain files to /Backups. The only tricky part about using find is knowing that the {} will be replaced by the found filename, and that the exec command needs to be followed by an 'escaped' ; Actually, this is all explained in the man page. Of course it's explained in the typical fashion of man pages - it's only understandable if you're already an expert, in which case you wouldn't need the man page... -- Mark Bessey NeXT Software, Inc Software Quality Assurance -->I DON'T SPEAK FOR NeXT <--
From: Mark_Bessey@next.com (Mark Bessey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Distributed Objects with OpenStep/NT Date: 8 Aug 1996 18:47:58 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <4udcou$smf@news.next.com> References: <4uavbd$l9k@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com> Art Isbell writes > I'm a little confused about what's needed to enable D.O. between > objects on OpenStep/NT hosts. NeXT offers an NT version of PDO. Is > this required if OpenStep/NT has been installed? No, DO should work just fine with OPENSTEP/NT. PDO for Windows NT (aka D'OLE) is basically a "proper subset" of OPENSTEP for Windows. -- Mark Bessey NeXT Software, Inc Software Quality Assurance -->I DON'T SPEAK FOR NeXT <--
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Is it possible to buy the Peanuts CDROM ? Message-ID: <Dvu3Fx.1yo@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <172302Z06081996@anon.penet.fi> Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 19:28:45 GMT In article <172302Z06081996@anon.penet.fi> writes: > Hello, > > I wanted to know if it is possible to buy the Peanuts archive CDROM ? > When I log into the FTP servers, they always speak about a CDROM, > but I never found a place where the CD was mentioned as something > that one could buy. > Try the homepage on <peanuts.leo.org>! -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: rencsok@channelu.com (Randall J. Rencsok) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: 'find' questions Date: 8 Aug 1996 21:13:17 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <4udl9d$3o3m@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <199608071852.OAA02374@nerc.com> Cc: luomat@nerc.com In <199608071852.OAA02374@nerc.com> "Timothy J. Luoma" wrote: > > (IMO there should be a way to tell find not to go onto other > filesystems, and I don't just mean '-fstype' because if you have > another HD which is also 4.3 then it will go to that one, which > isn't what I want) -xdev works for me find / -xdev -ctime -1 -type f -print will traverse only the files on the device associated with / and ignore any other mounted file systems printing all files 1 day old. Modify to your own taste. Randy
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Using results from find in something else? (Was: 'find' questions) Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 17:19:25 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <om2ZbRC00iVG87nbo9@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <4ub8hl$pfh@usc.edu> In-Reply-To: <4ub8hl$pfh@usc.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.misc: 7-Aug-96 Using results from find in .. by Matthew N. Reichman@usc. > How would I cp to another directory (or any other action) all the results > from a find? Read 'man xargs'. For example: find . -name '*.c' -print | xargs -i -t cp {} /tmp -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: asoto@wsc.com (Andre L. Soto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Printing in Samba Date: 8 Aug 1996 23:15:16 GMT Organization: WSC Investment Services, Inc. Message-ID: <4udse4$fff@cerberus.wsc.com> Yet another Samba question. I am attempting to print from a Windows NT machine to a NeXTstep 3.3 box running Samba and connected to an HP LaserJet IIISi Postscript printer. In NT, I selected the postscript driver for the HP Laserjet IIISi. When I print instead of received the usual text I get a page or two full of postscript information. I read last week that for Windows 95 a postscript driver is available from Adobe. I do not think that is the case w/ NT since I tried loading that driver and it failed. Any suggestions? Thank you in advance. Andre L. Soto asoto@wsc.com PS - I will summarize.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: Is it possible to buy the Peanuts CDROM ? Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960808212746.7949A-100000@charisma> Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 21:33:27 -0400 References: <172302Z06081996@anon.penet.fi> <Dvu3Fx.1yo@nidat.sub.org> cc: cbaur@informatik.uni-muenchen.de In-Reply-To: <Dvu3Fx.1yo@nidat.sub.org> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I spoke with Christian Baur <cbaur@informatik.uni-muenchen.de> when I was interested in buying them myself. They do take awhile to ship (4-6 weeks?) but as long as you know that it isn't a big deal... It's a great collection, probably the most complete I have seen anywhere... http://www.cdrom.com is another good one.... TjL -------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat My USENET feed is slow and not very reliable NeXT info via email: send message with SUBJECT: send-ascii info NeXT Information: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Peter Nitezki wrote: > In article <172302Z06081996@anon.penet.fi> writes: > > Hello, > > > > I wanted to know if it is possible to buy the Peanuts archive CDROM ? > > When I log into the FTP servers, they always speak about a CDROM, > > but I never found a place where the CD was mentioned as something > > that one could buy. > > > Try the homepage on <peanuts.leo.org>! > -- > Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth > Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and > D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked > GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5 > > >
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Distributed Objects with OpenStep/NT Date: 8 Aug 1996 22:54:20 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <4udr6s$qqe@sjx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com> References: <4uavbd$l9k@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com> <4udcou$smf@news.next.com> Mark_Bessey@next.com (Mark Bessey) wrote: > Art Isbell writes > > I'm a little confused about what's needed to enable D.O. between > > objects on OpenStep/NT hosts. NeXT offers an NT version of PDO. Is > > this required if OpenStep/NT has been installed? > > No, DO should work just fine with OPENSTEP/NT. PDO for Windows NT (aka > D'OLE) is basically a "proper subset" of OPENSTEP for Windows. Thanks for this clarification, Mark. But your answer has raised another question :-) Your answer states that PDO/NT == D'OLE which is good news if I understand what that implies. Since OPENSTEP/NT is a superset of D'OLE, then OPENSTEP/NT apps should be able to communicate with other NT apps using OLE, right? If so, is this accomplished transparently by just using the standard DO API? -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@ix.netcom.com Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 CaseServ: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: mnotting@connect.com.au (Mark Nottingham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Newbie Questions about appropriate use of Next, etc... Date: Fri, 09 Aug 1996 14:06:59 +1000 Organization: connect.com.au Message-ID: <mnotting-0908961406590001@perki.connect.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hello, I have an opportunity to buy a Next cube, upgraded to an '040. I was wondering if anyone could give me any insights as to the suitability of the box for what I want to do. First of all, I'm a graphic designer, with a tiny bit of dos/windoze experience; more Mac experience, both software, hardware, and administration, than you can poke a stick at; and a decently moderate amount of UNIX [Digital Unix & Linux] administration experience. I'm looking at a few possible uses; * what kind of graphics programs are available? Quark/Illustrator/Photoshop? Can Quark, especially, run under Executor? In this respect, I'm just looking for a second mac-type box for my wife to use for design... * How decent of a web server (medium-high load) does it make? I'm aware that apache is available for NeXT. Are there any OS or hardware bottlenecks that I should be aware of? Is the OS as reliable for long-term deployment as UNIX? * Along those lines, is Perl available for Next? How expensive and hard to find are ISDN adapters? * I'm intrigued by the WebObjects, but I'm by no means a programmer [calling me a scripter would be a stretch]. How user-friendly are they? Please, no fanatical, outlandish "it's the best/it's so much better than..." statements. I want to know what kind of problems I'll run into. I don't want to start (yet another) OS war. Thanks for your time, -- Mark Nottingham, Graphic Designer connect.com.au pty ltd Melbourne, Australia
From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Is it possible to buy the Peanuts CDROM ? Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 16:00:59 +0200 Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.95.960809155619.19043C-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <172302Z06081996@anon.penet.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <172302Z06081996@anon.penet.fi> Hello, The CD-ROM set is still available. You can order it by sending an e-mail request to pad@informatik.uni-muenchen.de or directly to cbaur@pst.informatik.uni-muenchen.de You'll find more information about it by accessing our WWW pages at: http://peanuts.leo.org/ The CD set consists of 2 Archive disks and one update CD. We are looking forward to compile a new set if we get enough request. Is there a demand for this? There are currently not too many uploads since the last release half a year ago ... Greetings, Boerny. -- Bernhard Scholz (IRC: Boerny) scholzb@pst.informatik.uni-muenchen.de http://peanuts.leo.org/ http://www.leo.org/~scholz/ > I wanted to know if it is possible to buy the Peanuts archive CDROM ? > When I log into the FTP servers, they always speak about a CDROM, > but I never found a place where the CD was mentioned as something > that one could buy. >
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: 'find' questions Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960809104724.5178C-100000@charisma> Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 10:52:22 -0400 To: "Randall J. Rencsok" <rencsok@channelu.com> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On 8 Aug 1996, Randall J. Rencsok wrote: > In <199608071852.OAA02374@nerc.com> "Timothy J. Luoma" wrote: > > > > (IMO there should be a way to tell find not to go onto other > > filesystems, and I don't just mean '-fstype' because if you have > > another HD which is also 4.3 then it will go to that one, which > > isn't what I want) > > -xdev works for me > > find / -xdev -ctime -1 -type f -print > > will traverse only the files on the device associated with / > and ignore any other mounted file systems printing all files > 1 day old. Modify to your own taste. Thanks for the advice. I am trying to do this, but ignore the files in /private/vm and /private/tmp. I have been trying to do something like this: find / -xdev -ctime -1 -type f -name /private/tmp -o -name /private/vm -o print but that comes back with find: bad option < print > I guess I am mis-using the -o flag? I thought what I had there was saying: if the name does not begin with /private/tmp or /private/vm then print, but no.... TjL
From: justin@stat.ohio-state.edu (Justin Slauson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Need help with new NeXT's Date: Fri, 09 Aug 1996 12:22:38 -0400 Organization: Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University Message-ID: <justin-0908961222380001@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I've inherited three NeXT 25MHz 040 slabs that I need an OS for. I am looking to buy NS 3.3 and any other NeXT software anyone might have. I might even be willing to trade an entire machine (with MegaPixel display) for an extensive software collection. I also have tons of Mac software, so if you happen to have a new Mac, perhaps we can help each other out. I will also welcome suggestions as to what version of NS I should run given the CPU speeds (all 040/25's) and RAM installed (32, 20, and 8). Will any version boot under 2 or 5Mb's? -Justin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: "Eric K. Ringger" <ringger@cs.rochester.edu> Subject: Hungry Processes Message-ID: <199608091606.MAA20631@slate.cs.rochester.edu> Sender: ringger@cs.rochester.edu (Eric K. Ringger) Cc: ringger Organization: University of Rochester Computer Science Dept Date: Fri, 09 Aug 1996 12:06:22 -0400 Hi. After booting up this morning, I logged in to see KPerfMon reporting heavy processor usage. `ps aguxww` reveals that two strange tasks are hungrily chewing up cycles: USER PID %CPU %MEM VSIZE RSIZE TT STAT TIME COMMAND root -1 54.2 0.0 0K 0K ? S < 11:33 <mach-task> root 3 39.2 1.5 3.73M 312K ? R 9:43 /usr/etc/kern_loader -n Any explanations? Thanks, --Eric --- Eric K. Ringger mailto:ringger@cs.rochester.edu Dept. of Computer Science Office: +1-716-275-0922; Lab: +1-716-275-5377 University of Rochester Fax: +1-716-461-2018 Rochester NY 14627-0226 http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/ringger/ ||||| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |||||
From: markm@winternet.com (Mark Miller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Is it possible to buy the Peanuts CDROM ? Date: 9 Aug 1996 17:43:42 GMT Organization: Winternet Corporation, Mpls, MN Message-ID: <4uftce$cmd@blackice.winternet.com> References: <172302Z06081996@anon.penet.fi> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960809155619.19043C-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> In article <Pine.HPP.3.95.960809155619.19043C-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>, Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> wrote: > >We are looking forward to compile a new set if we get enough request. Is >there a demand for this? There are currently not too many uploads since >the last release half a year ago ... I would certainly be interested in purchasing it. It would be convenient to have the latest archive and not have to rely on slow and unreliable connections to Germany. ;) -- Mark Miller | "The things that pass for knowledge I just markm@winternet.com | can't understand." - Steely Dan
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: paulz@olivetti.nl (Paul van der Zwan) Subject: Shared FreeBSD/NS 3.3 filesystem possible. Message-ID: <Dvvxzq.CpL@olivetti.nl> Organization: None Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 19:26:14 GMT Has anybody out there ever used the same disk/filesystem on both NS and FreeBSD ? I have a spare HD I want to put in my PC which has both NS 3.3 and FreeBSD-stable installed on it and I would like to use the disk when running either OS so I can have a shared home directory . I know both systems can read MS-DOS formatted disk but that is not really an option. So the solution would probably involve putting a NS ffs on it and having FreeBSD mount it. Has this been done ???? Or is it time to make my own mods. to FreeBSD ?? Paul -- Paul van der Zwan paulzn@olivetti.nl (NeXT/MIME OK)
From: sturm@mbox.vol.it (Allanon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Connecting to the NET Date: Fri, 09 Aug 1996 22:21:55 GMT Organization: Video On Line Message-ID: <320bb7c2.1460388@nntpserver.vol.it> I'm a new user. I need help to connect NEXT 3.3 to Internet by a modem. I install PPPD taking it from a CD of GESTEL, but then? I read that I have to begin scripting but I have not the Knowledge to do this. Can anybody suggest me location and name of docs or software pakage that can help me? Answer me in the usenet or by e-mail. Thanks!!!!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: Connecting to the NET Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960809215751.4257B-100000@charisma> Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 21:58:07 -0400 References: <320bb7c2.1460388@nntpserver.vol.it> To: Allanon <sturm@mbox.vol.it> In-Reply-To: <320bb7c2.1460388@nntpserver.vol.it> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII The best place to start is probably http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/NeXT_PPP_FAQ.html TjL On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, Allanon wrote: > I'm a new user. I need help to connect NEXT 3.3 to Internet by a > modem. I install PPPD taking it from a CD of GESTEL, but then? I read > that I have to begin scripting but I have not the Knowledge to do > this. > Can anybody suggest me location and name of docs or software pakage > that can help me? > Answer me in the usenet or by e-mail. > Thanks!!!! > > >
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: pascal@burgond.remcomp.fr (Pascal Bourguignon) Subject: Re: Using results from find in something else? (Was: 'find' questions) Message-ID: <DvuHrD.2yt@burgond.remcomp.fr> Sender: pascal@burgond.remcomp.fr (Pascal Bourguignon) Organization: P. Bourguignon Informatique References: <4ub8hl$pfh@usc.edu> Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 00:38:00 GMT In article <4ub8hl$pfh@usc.edu> reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) writes: > How would I cp to another directory (or any other action) all the results > from a find? > > -- > Be well, > > Matthew Reichman > reichman@usc.edu > USC-CNTV > NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k > NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome > > =============================================================== > PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP" > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/ > Several ways: # this copies selected files to a similar hierachy of directories: cd source ; find . -depth {-conditions...} -print | cpio -pdlmuv destination # in some cases (when the list of selected files is not too big), you # may want to use this mode of directory copy: cd source ; tar cf - `find . {-conditions...} -print` \ | ( cd desintation ; tar xvf - ) # this copies selected files all in the same destination directory: find source -type f {-conditions...} -exec cp {} destination \; # another one (some times silly, some times not): cp -r source destination find destination \! \( {-conditions...} \) -exec rm -f {} \; __Pascal Bourguignon__
From: finton@homer.cs.wisc.edu (David Finton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Monsterscope Date: 10 Aug 1996 16:18:10 GMT Organization: University of WI, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept. Message-ID: <4uico2$dln@spool.cs.wisc.edu> References: <320860C4.41C1@blackstar.ssnet.com> "Hasssan N. Kelley" <hassan@blackstar.ssnet.com> writes: >Does anyone have Monsterscope. It is a scope/spectrum analyzer piece of >software that was with NEXTSTEP 3.2 but not 3.3. If so I sure would >like to get it from you. I think it's on the Peanuts archive. Try: ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Developer/demos_nextstep2.1/MonsterScope.2.1.N.b.gnutar.gz Regards, David Finton
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Peanuts update CD (Was: Is it possible to buy the Peanuts CDROM ?) Message-ID: <Dvx4Jx.2DH@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <Pine.HPP.3.95.960809155619.19043C-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 10:45:33 GMT In article <Pine.HPP.3.95.960809155619.19043C-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen. de> Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> writes: > Hello, > > We are looking forward to compile a new set if we get enough request. Is > there a demand for this? There are currently not too many uploads since > the last release half a year ago ... > Facing the peril to kick off a long thread of me toos... ;-) From what I know of the fame and requests Peanuts has got, I can imagine more than just my person to buy another update CD. Why not making an update CD just like the last one (thereby superseding it)? Any reasonable priced CD is better than making Telekom rich. So, put me on your subscription list... Go on Boerny, I love what you do with Peanuts! -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: Jacob Nielsen <jacob@dannug.dk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Is it possible to buy the Peanuts CDROM ? Date: 7 Aug 1996 11:18:17 GMT Organization: Danish NeXT User Group Message-ID: <4u9u1p$12j@jnext.dannug.dk> References: <172302Z06081996@anon.penet.fi> an637484@anon.penet.fi (Ismora) wrote: Hello, I wanted to know if it is possible to buy the Peanuts archive CDROM ? When I log into the FTP servers, they always speak about a CDROM, but I never found a place where the CD was mentioned as something that one could buy. I did:-) Try mailing to: pad@peanuts.leo.org. I'm just wondering when they will make the next CD. Shouldn't it be out by now? Jacob -- Jacob Nielsen jacob@dannug.dk http://www.dannug.dk/~jacob
From: bbum@friday.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: povray 3.0 binary & viewer available Date: 10 Aug 1996 17:40:01 GMT Organization: The ThoughtPort Authority, Inc. Message-ID: <4uihhh$af@chinx10.thoughtport.net> I recently compiled Persistance of Vision version 3.0 for all four architectures of NEXTSTEP. I also wrote a nice little App that can view the resulting images [actually-- it is a fast PNG/JPEG/GIF/XBM/TIFF viewer that uses the image translation framework from Netsurfer to do the conversion. In the near future, it will do display-as-you-render progressive display, as well.]. If anyone is interested, I'll pass along the binary+resources. For those that don't know, POVRAY is an *awesome* freeware ray-tracing package. The feature set is huge, the manual is great, and it is really easy to use. Because it can do fully anti-aliased images with transparency, it can be used to make AWESOME icons-- for example, it is possible to render a piece of bumpy glass into an icon and have the glass be appropriately transparent... The 3.0 release marks a major step in the evolution of the program-- 2.0 was a toy, 3.0 is a *serious* rendering engine. It also supports Radiosity rendering-- something that renderman cannot do [though, BMRT does an excellent-- though slow-- job of radiosity rendering]. b.bum
From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: Newbie Questions about appropriate use of Next, etc... Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Date: 10 Aug 1996 12:58:07 -0400 Organization: Communications Vir, Internet Access Montreal. Message-ID: <4uif2v$rk@Vir.com> References: <mnotting-0908961406590001@perki.connect.com.au> Mark Nottingham (mnotting@connect.com.au) wrote: <snip> : * what kind of graphics programs are available? : Quark/Illustrator/Photoshop? Can Quark, especially, run under Executor? In : this respect, I'm just looking for a second mac-type box for my wife to : use for design... TIFFany II is a great program to manipulate graphic images. I don't know about the Execuor functionality and Quark/Illustrator/Photoshop. : * How decent of a web server (medium-high load) does it make? I'm aware : that apache is available for NeXT. Are there any OS or hardware : bottlenecks that I should be aware of? Is the OS as reliable for long-term : deployment as UNIX? The 040 Cube is old technology and does not run as fast as today's hardware, but the OS is stable and will work well as a low end Web server. : * Along those lines, is Perl available for Next? How expensive and hard to : find are ISDN adapters? You can get Cisco 1003 ISDN router and hook it up via the network connection and this will work well for a dedicated connection to the Internet. : * I'm intrigued by the WebObjects, but I'm by no means a programmer : [calling me a scripter would be a stretch]. How user-friendly are they? You have to know how to program to use Web objects. <snip> stef -- Stefanos Kiakas Travel guide for Montreal, QC, e-Scape Information Systems Inc. Canada --> http://www.uniscape.com stefanos@uniscape.com (NeXTMail OK) NeXTStep Driver Information URL +1 (514) 729 9643 http://www.uniscape.com/NSDrivers
From: apuleius@ix.netcom.com(William Grosso) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: Newbie Questions about appropriate use of Next, etc... Date: 10 Aug 1996 20:28:55 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <4uire7$kns@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com> References: <mnotting-0908961406590001@perki.connect.com.au> <4uif2v$rk@Vir.com> In <4uif2v$rk@Vir.com> stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) writes: > > You have to know how to program to use Web objects. > No. The correct statement is You have to know how to program in order to make full use of WebObjects. This is an important distinction. You have to know how to program to make full use of Perl scripts or any of the other mechanisms that people use to create dynamic web pages. WebObjects is no different. The general maxim is: In order to write computer programs, you must know how to program computers. The question is: How cheaply can you get off ? And how easy is it to bootstrap yourself from a state of zero-knowledge ? WebObjects probably holds a significaant advantage here. You can create static web pages and then add bells and whistles in stages, as you feel comfortable with the technology. Learn as you need to and alla that. The competitors are less friendly to beginners. Cheers, Andy
From: thor@zems.fer.hr (Thor Legvold) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: JetPilot or Dots? Date: 10 Aug 1996 15:52:45 GMT Organization: RITEH Distribution: world Message-ID: <4uib8d$804@bagan.srce.hr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I don't want to start any flame wars or contests about who or which is better. I would simply like email replies from individuals who have one of these products describing why they chose the one they did and if it satifies their needs. I have demo version of both and neither works well for me, which is why I wonder if all these extra options (Dots has printer specific tunings, JetPilot has system tuning for use of VM, etc) are really of any use or not. The replies will only be used for my personal buying decision and will not be publisized or sent to anyone else. Regards, Thor Legvold presently in exile in Croatia
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: JetPilot or Dots? Date: 11 Aug 1996 02:22:48 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-g-15.usc.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ujg5o$6r6@usc.edu> References: <4uib8d$804@bagan.srce.hr> Cc: thor@zems.fer.hr In <4uib8d$804@bagan.srce.hr> Thor Legvold wrote: > I don't want to start any flame wars or contests about who or > which is better. I would simply like email replies from > individuals who have one of these products describing why > they chose the one they did and if it satifies their needs. > > I have demo version of both and neither works well for me, > which is why I wonder if all these extra options (Dots > has printer specific tunings, JetPilot has system tuning > for use of VM, etc) are really of any use or not. > > The replies will only be used for my personal buying > decision and will not be publisized or sent to anyone else. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Are you kidding? What the hell is a newsgroup for!?!?!?!?! I sure hope whoever has anything to say, whether trivial, inflammatory, or actually informative, would post into this group. IMNSHO. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@usc.edu USC-CNTV NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome =============================================================== PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP" --------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
From: ww@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca (Will Waites) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: rmdir !? Date: 10 Aug 1996 22:45:14 -0400 Organization: McGill University Computing Centre Sender: ww@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca Message-ID: <lwsp9uzlj9.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> Hello, I am a longtime user of BSD and Linux and have recently bought a black NeXT station. I am having trouble removing directories. Sometimes rm -rf works, sometimes not. in the cases where it does not rmdir gives me a "File exists" message which makes no sense at all - of course it exists! I want to get rid of it. The only way to actually delete these directories is to go into the viewer and destroy them. Why is this? Should this be happening? If not how can I fix it? Thanks Will ww@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca
From: mycroft@best.com (Alex Currier) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Want to use Cube with OD in Bay Area Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 14:07:30 -0700 Organization: Klaatu Verata Necktie Message-ID: <mycroft-1008961407300001@mycroft.vip.best.com> Hello. I recently purchased a NeXTstation and have four ODs full of software (from a previous cube) which I would like to copy over to my slab. I live in downtown San Francisco and was wondering if anyone in the local area (oakland, berkeley, SF) has a cube with working OD and wouldn't mind me bring over a few ODs and a hard drive and copying my data over (I've got a disk full of shareware and some photographs from wuarch that you'd be welcome to pick through for your trouble). My name is Alex and I can be reached at mycroft@best.com or by phone at 415-834-1843. Some time on the weekend or weekdays after six would be good. I work in SOMA so if you're near South Park that would be even better! Thanks in advance. Alex -- ----------------------------- Alex Currier mycroft@best.com http://www.eden.com/~mycroft/
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: rmdir !? Date: 11 Aug 1996 05:16:26 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-g-15.usc.edu Message-ID: <4ujqba$dib@usc.edu> References: <lwsp9uzlj9.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> Cc: ww@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca In <lwsp9uzlj9.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> Will Waites wrote: > Hello, > I am a longtime user of BSD and Linux and have recently bought > a black NeXT station. I am having trouble removing > directories. Sometimes rm -rf works, sometimes not. in the cases where > it does not rmdir gives me a "File exists" message which makes no > sense at all - of course it exists! I want to get rid of it. The only > way to actually delete these directories is to go into the viewer and > destroy them. Why is this? Should this be happening? If not how can I > fix it? I've never had any problem with rm -r. rmdir will not remove a directory if there's a file in it, as you've found out. Maybe you're either having a permissions problem, or a file is a link or the directory is a link? Don't know. Not much help I guess. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@usc.edu USC-CNTV NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome =============================================================== PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP" --------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
From: GWILLEM@alpha.ntu.ac.sg (Van Schaik Willem Anthon Johan ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Is it possible to buy the Peanuts CDROM ? Date: 11 Aug 1996 05:23:28 GMT Organization: Nanyang Technological University Message-ID: <4ujqog$ik8@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> References: <172302Z06081996@anon.penet.fi> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960809155619.19043C-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <4uftce$cmd@blackice.winternet.com> Mark Miller (markm@winternet.com) wrote: : In article <Pine.HPP.3.95.960809155619.19043C-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>, : Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> wrote: : > : >We are looking forward to compile a new set if we get enough request. Is : >there a demand for this? There are currently not too many uploads since : >the last release half a year ago ... : I would certainly be interested in purchasing it. It would be convenient : to have the latest archive and not have to rely on slow and unreliable : connections to Germany. ;) Same for me. Willem
From: markm@winternet.com (Mark Miller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: rmdir !? Date: 11 Aug 1996 05:34:52 GMT Organization: Winternet Corporation, Mpls, MN Message-ID: <4ujrds$5mk@blackice.winternet.com> References: <lwsp9uzlj9.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> In article <lwsp9uzlj9.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca>, Will Waites <ww@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> wrote: >Hello, > I am a longtime user of BSD and Linux and have recently bought >a black NeXT station. I am having trouble removing >directories. Sometimes rm -rf works, sometimes not. in the cases where >it does not rmdir gives me a "File exists" message which makes no >sense at all - of course it exists! I want to get rid of it. The only >way to actually delete these directories is to go into the viewer and >destroy them. Why is this? Should this be happening? If not how can I >fix it? I have noticed the same thing ever since I started using tcsh (version 6.06). Are you using the same shell? If so, I suspect we might have found a bug which requires some attention. :) -- Mark Miller | "The things that pass for knowledge I just markm@winternet.com | can't understand." - Steely Dan
From: GWILLEM@alpha.ntu.ac.sg (Van Schaik Willem Anthon Johan ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Shared FreeBSD/NS 3.3 filesystem possible. Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Date: 11 Aug 1996 05:35:09 GMT Organization: Nanyang Technological University Message-ID: <4ujred$p9m@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> References: <Dvvxzq.CpL@olivetti.nl> Paul van der Zwan (paulz@olivetti.nl) wrote: : Has anybody out there ever used the same disk/filesystem on both NS and : FreeBSD ? I have the same in mind, but than related to Linux. Would there be a possibility for NS to mount an ext2fs file-system? Willem
From: "Hasssan N. Kelley" <hassan@blackstar.ssnet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: 95 & 3.3 Networking problem Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 09:11:25 -0400 Organization: SSNet -- Public Internet Access in Delaware! Message-ID: <320DDBFD.2112@blackstar.ssnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am having a problem networking my 95/linux box to my NEXTSTEP 3.3 black box. Here are some symptoms of the problem: 1. I can ping my NeXTstation TurboColor from both linux and 95. 2. I can ping my 95/linux box from my NeXTstation TurboColor. 3. I can only ping my 95/linux from my from my NeXTstation TurboColor if I use the the IP address. For example this command will be successful from the NeXTstation TurboColor: ping 205.216.96.168 but this is not: ping blackstar.ssnet.com 4. When I try to ftp or telnet from the 95/linux box to the NeXTstation TurboColor and vice versa nothing happens. The cursors just sits there doing nothing. I haven't waited long enough to see if there was a timeout. Please mail or post solutions, ideas, brainstorms etc. I would be very greatful. Hassan
From: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: rmdir !? Date: 11 Aug 1996 13:57:04 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <4ukorg$83i@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <lwsp9uzlj9.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> <4ujrds$5mk@blackice.winternet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Mark Miller <markm@winternet.com> wrote: : In article <lwsp9uzlj9.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca>, : Will Waites <ww@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> wrote: : >Hello, : > I am a longtime user of BSD and Linux and have recently bought : >a black NeXT station. I am having trouble removing : >directories. Sometimes rm -rf works, sometimes not. in the cases where : >it does not rmdir gives me a "File exists" message which makes no : >sense at all - of course it exists! I want to get rid of it. belly kiwi 3 (~): cd /tmp belly kiwi 4 (/tmp): mkdir foo belly kiwi 5 (/tmp): rmdir foo/ rmdir: foo/: File exists belly kiwi 6 (/tmp): rmdir foo belly kiwi 7 (/tmp): I think it's a bug. Just omit the trailing slash and it works. -- Axel Habermann kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de Fon:+49 30 45478986 Fax:4542296 Die Dateien, in denen die Programmdokumentation enthalten ist, haben normalerweise die Endung ".c", -- Kristian Koehntopp
From: ww@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca (Will Waites) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Termcap entry for Linux? Date: 11 Aug 1996 15:40:45 -0400 Organization: McGill University Computing Centre Sender: ww@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca Message-ID: <lwu3u9d802.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> Hello, Does anyone have the correct termcap entry for a Linux terminal? Whenever I telnet to my NeXT box from my Linux one I get LINUX terminal type unknown. Thanks Will
From: louis@cia.cc.emory.edu (Louis Leon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: povray 3.0 binary & viewer available Date: 12 Aug 1996 00:15:23 GMT Organization: Emory University Message-ID: <4ult2r$h10@lendl.cc.emory.edu> References: <4uihhh$af@chinx10.thoughtport.net> Cc: bbum@friday.com In <4uihhh$af@chinx10.thoughtport.net> bbum@friday.com wrote: > > I recently compiled Persistance of Vision version 3.0 for all four > architectures of NEXTSTEP. I also wrote a nice little App that can view the > resulting images [actually-- it is a fast PNG/JPEG/GIF/XBM/TIFF viewer that > uses the image translation framework from Netsurfer to do the conversion. In > the near future, it will do display-as-you-render progressive display, as > well.]. > > If anyone is interested, I'll pass along the binary+resources. > stuff > b.bum > Yes, I would be interested. Louis -- "Both science and art map experience to symbols. Science symbols reveal the structure of the world. Art symbols add structure to the world. Music is the the sound of math." Bart Kosko Author, futurist, leading expert in the combined area of neural networks and fuzzy systems
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <eric@cdrom.com> Message-ID: <9608120034.AA01194@nebula.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) q;6~]olIY<I\1zLJ.~]53@+A]/}";bKMKAoA3DJn"3Ur/iVngM_b8?1=WhD(,C\OQ`!NPGO6 e04/E9[ec6sDuxxB From: Eric Tremblay <eric@cdrom.com> Date: Sun, 11 Aug 96 17:34:22 -0700 Subject: Re: Is it possible to buy the Peanuts CDROM ? Hi, I'd like to take this opportuntiy to remind everyone that the new version of Nebula Quad-FAT CDROM has just been release last month. It is now a 2 disc set. It's very easy to get and we ship EVERYWHERE around the world. So instead of wanting something that else, I strongly suggest that you get Nebula instead! Thanks for your attention. Eric "E.T." Tremblay Walnut Creek CDROM eric@cdrom.com
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From: markm@winternet.com (Mark Miller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Is it possible to buy the Peanuts CDROM ? Date: 12 Aug 1996 06:46:47 GMT Organization: Winternet Corporation, Mpls, MN Message-ID: <4umk0n$27e@blackice.winternet.com> References: <9608120034.AA01194@nebula.cdrom.com> In article <9608120034.AA01194@nebula.cdrom.com>, Eric Tremblay <eric@cdrom.com> wrote: > >I'd like to take this opportuntiy to remind everyone that the new >version of Nebula Quad-FAT CDROM has just been release last month. >It is now a 2 disc set. Could you provide a list of software which is included on this CDROM? -- Mark Miller | "The things that pass for knowledge I just markm@winternet.com | can't understand." - Steely Dan
From: vhs@nextone.langen.bull.de (Volker Herminghaus) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: 'find' questions Date: 12 Aug 1996 07:35:03 GMT Organization: Bull AG, Langen Message-ID: <4ummr7$6j8@www.langen.bull.de> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960809104724.5178C-100000@charisma> Cc: luomat@nerc.com In <Pine.NXT.3.95.960809104724.5178C-100000@charisma> "Timothy J. Luoma" wrote: > find / -xdev -ctime -1 -type f -name /private/tmp -o -name /private/vm > -o print > > but that comes back with > > find: bad option < print > > > I guess I am mis-using the -o flag? I thought what I had there was > saying: No, you're missing the - before the print. It's -print, not print. Volker
From: fischer@fokus.gmd.de (Robert Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: 'find' questions Date: 12 Aug 1996 09:16:43 GMT Organization: GMD-FOKUS Message-ID: <4umspr$srk@stern.fokus.gmd.de> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960809104724.5178C-100000@charisma> "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> writes > > > find / -xdev -ctime -1 -type f -name /private/tmp -o -name /private/vm > -o print > > but that comes back with > > find: bad option < print > > What about '-print' R. -- ----- - .-. -- -- --- / \ ---- Robert Fischer .-. / \ --- .-. __o .-. @ / \ / \ / \ _`\<,_ / \ GMD-Fokus / \ / \ / \ (*)/ (*) / `-------------- / `---' `-' `-----------'
From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Is it possible to buy the Peanuts CDROM ? Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 13:43:13 +0200 Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.95.960812132250.16272A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <9608120034.AA01194@nebula.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <9608120034.AA01194@nebula.cdrom.com> > > I'd like to take this opportuntiy to remind everyone that the new > version of Nebula Quad-FAT CDROM has just been release last month. > It is now a 2 disc set. > I'd like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that this is a non-commercial usegroup. As far as I know, the Nebula CD is a commercial product, which features quad fat compiled binaries. Peanuts disks are a non-profit CD ROM set (the money is used to press new CDs and update CDs and to support our FTP server) and completely built using our spare time as a service to this community (if you buy the CDs directly from us)! > It's very easy to get and we ship EVERYWHERE around the world. We too. > > So instead of wanting something that else, I strongly suggest that > you get Nebula instead! > I don't like to start a 'My CD-ROM is better than yours' war here, but comparing these two sets isn't fair. I don't think that the Nebula CD would be a good replacement for the Peanuts Disks and vice versa. Anyway why don't you sell the Peanuts Disks on Walnut Creek? Wouldn't this help many people? Your answer on this would be very interesting for me. Did we miss to send you a reseller offer? I believe not; and would you be interested in one for the next release? > Thanks for your attention. > > Eric "E.T." Tremblay > Walnut Creek CDROM > eric@cdrom.com > Best wishes, Bernhard (speaking for myself)
From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: rmdir !? Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 13:48:11 +0200 Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.95.960812134515.16272B-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <lwsp9uzlj9.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> <4ujrds$5mk@blackice.winternet.com> <4ukorg$83i@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4ukorg$83i@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> On 11 Aug 1996, Axel Habermann wrote: > belly kiwi 3 (~): cd /tmp > belly kiwi 4 (/tmp): mkdir foo > belly kiwi 5 (/tmp): rmdir foo/ > rmdir: foo/: File exists > belly kiwi 6 (/tmp): rmdir foo > belly kiwi 7 (/tmp): > > I think it's a bug. Just omit the trailing slash and it works. It's not a bug, it's the way BSD handles files. If you use the trailing slash, you are trying to access a directory as if it was a file. This offers some nice opportunities which might easily lead to big problems :)) Don't know what advantages this behaviour offers... Best wishes, Bernhard.
From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: povray 3.0 binary & viewer available Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 17:13:24 +0200 Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.95.960812171151.9517A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <4uihhh$af@chinx10.thoughtport.net> <4ult2r$h10@lendl.cc.emory.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4ult2r$h10@lendl.cc.emory.edu> On 12 Aug 1996, Louis Leon wrote: > In <4uihhh$af@chinx10.thoughtport.net> bbum@friday.com wrote: > > > > I recently compiled Persistance of Vision version 3.0 for all four > > architectures of NEXTSTEP. I also wrote a nice little App that can view > > > If anyone is interested, I'll pass along the binary+resources. > > > stuff > > b.bum > > > > Yes, I would be interested. > Me, too! Would it be possibly to upload the package to one of the main FTP sites? Thanks in advance, Bernhard. (To contact me personally: scholzb@pst.informatik.uni-muenchen.de)
From: tremblay_michel@tandem.com (Pierre-Michel Tremblay) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Still looking for French.reader Files Date: 12 Aug 1996 15:02:45 GMT Organization: Tandem Computers Message-ID: <4unh2l$2g8@chronicle.mpd.tandem.com> Bonjour all, I'm looking for French.reader Files for the Digital Librarian. I've got some French texts containing diacritic characters that need to be indexed. Unfortunately, Digital Librarian crash everytime I try to index them with the default /NextLibrary/Readers/English.reader. I supposed there might be the proper French reader available somewhere. Thanks. Michel. Pierre-Michel Tremblay | Email: tremblay_michel@tandem.com Tandem Computers Canada Ltd | NS 3.3 FIP. 2000, ave du college McGill | NeXT and MIME mail ok. Bureau 800 | Voice: 514/282-3123 Montreal, Quebec H3A 3H3 | Fax: 514/282-6349
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: rmdir !? Date: 12 Aug 1996 17:06:15 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <4unoa7$d42@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> References: <lwsp9uzlj9.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> <4ujrds$5mk@blackice.winternet.com> <4ukorg$83i@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960812134515.16272B-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> wrote: > > On 11 Aug 1996, Axel Habermann wrote: > > > belly kiwi 3 (~): cd /tmp > > belly kiwi 4 (/tmp): mkdir foo > > belly kiwi 5 (/tmp): rmdir foo/ > > rmdir: foo/: File exists > > belly kiwi 6 (/tmp): rmdir foo > > belly kiwi 7 (/tmp): > > > > I think it's a bug. Just omit the trailing slash and it works. > > It's not a bug, it's the way BSD handles files. If you use the trailing > slash, you are trying to access a directory as if it was a file. This > offers some nice opportunities which might easily lead to big problems :)) > > Don't know what advantages this behaviour offers... Me neither, but similar behavior occurs with rm -rf aDirectory/. With the trailing '/', the contents of aDirectory are removed, but not aDirectory itself. -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@ix.netcom.com Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 CaseServ: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: rmdir !? Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 14:13:03 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Distribution: world Message-ID: <Qm3rEji00iVG45yEdZ@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <lwsp9uzlj9.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> <4ujrds$5mk@blackice.winternet.com> <4ukorg$83i@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960812134515.16272B-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.95.960812134515.16272B-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.misc: 12-Aug-96 Re: rmdir !? by Bernhard Scholz@informat > > belly kiwi 3 (~): cd /tmp > > belly kiwi 4 (/tmp): mkdir foo > > belly kiwi 5 (/tmp): rmdir foo/ > > rmdir: foo/: File exists > > belly kiwi 6 (/tmp): rmdir foo > > belly kiwi 7 (/tmp): > > > > I think it's a bug. Just omit the trailing slash and it works. > > It's not a bug, it's the way BSD handles files. If you use the trailing > slash, you are trying to access a directory as if it was a file. This > offers some nice opportunities which might easily lead to big problems :)) > > Don't know what advantages this behaviour offers... The difference is sometimes meaningful to various commands like 'cp -r', tar, and rm(dir). Using a trailing slash sometimes means "the contents of the directory, but not the directory itself". However, since this behavior is confusing and it does not interact very well with shells that append a slash after filepath/filename completion, newer versions of the commands (ie, the POSIX or GNU versions) appear to behave the same regardless of whether a trailing slash is present. [ Or so a few quick experiments with the BSD 4.3 versions in /bin/ compared to the GNU versions in /usr/local/bin/ seem to indicate. ] -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <eric@cdrom.com> Message-ID: <9608121808.AA02732@nebula.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) q;6~]olIY<I\1zLJ.~]53@+A]/}";bKMKAoA3DJn"3Ur/iVngM_b8?1=WhD(,C\OQ`!NPGO6 e04/E9[ec6sDuxxB In-Reply-To: <9608121117.AA08858@antigone.com> From: Eric Tremblay <eric@cdrom.com> Date: Mon, 12 Aug 96 11:08:08 -0700 Subject: Is it possible to buy the Peanuts CDROM ? Cc: comp-sys-next-misc@antigone.com References: <9608121117.AA08858@antigone.com> >Could you provide a list of software which is included on this >CDROM? Yes, it's big. I can NeXTmail it to you. Eric "E.T." Tremblay Walnut Creek CDROM eric@cdrom.com
From: Nick Potkay <npotkay@integ.micrognosis.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: Re: turning on a next station. (problem solved!!) Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 13:36:06 -0400 Organization: CSK Micrognosis Distribution: inet Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960812133343.654K-100000@cycle1> References: <199608012055.QAA02684@voyager2.newbridge> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <199608012055.QAA02684@voyager2.newbridge> On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Samir Sharma wrote: > Looks like you might have a bigger problem. The power button on the > keyboard is what will power on the machine. There is no special power-on > sequence for the machine. You might want to verify the connection from verified. > locaiton and that sort of thing from there. Sorry about the lack of detail, > as my NeXT has the same problem as yours. All of a sudden the power key > doesn't turn on the maachine. Well it was the internal battery (BR-2/3A 3V). It was dead, I got a new one at radio shack for $8. (CR123). It works fine now. Thanks to everyone who responsed to me with this suggestion. -Nick
From: ehutch@hypnos.norden1.com (E. Hutchinson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,misc.jobs.offered Subject: NEXTSTEP/Contract/Va Date: 12 Aug 1996 19:41:08 GMT Organization: Norden 1 Communications Message-ID: <4uo1cl$cjb@tofu.alt.net> Programmer/analyst/developer NEXTSTEP--------------------Commercial experience Objective C-----------------Commercial experience EOF-------------------------A plus Sybase or Oracle------------A plus Contract--------------------Long term Area------------------------Virginia 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: herding@cs.tu-berlin.de (Bernd Herding) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Termcap entry for Linux? Date: 12 Aug 1996 20:00:33 GMT Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <4uo2h1$6bk@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <lwu3u9d802.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit ww@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca (Will Waites) writes: >Hello, > Does anyone have the correct termcap entry for a Linux >terminal? Whenever I telnet to my NeXT box from my Linux one I get >LINUX terminal type unknown. Did you already try to just copy'npaste your linux termcap entry to your NeXT /etc/termcap? Should work. If needed, change the terminal name entry and TERM value appropriately (e.g. linux| console|con80x25|whatsoever). HTH, Bernd
From: Mark.A.Tarbell@jpl.nasa.gov Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: rmdir !? Date: 12 Aug 1996 22:40:02 GMT Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Pasadena CA Message-ID: <4uobs2$1vc@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> References: <lwsp9uzlj9.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ww@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca In <lwsp9uzlj9.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> Will Waites wrote, in part: > ... Sometimes rm -rf works, sometimes not. in the cases where > it does not rmdir gives me a "File exists" message ... rmdir will complain "File exists" when, for whatever reason, it cannot delete all of the files in a directory. Things to look for are: - Bad files or file entries (perform an fsck on the disk) - Lingering .nfsXXXX files (log onto the nfs server and delete them) - File ownership conflicts (su root or get the owner to delete them) I'm sure there are other scenarios as well. Mark
From: "Hasssan N. Kelley" <hassan@blackstar.ssnet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Is the motorola platform supported under NS 4.0? Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 19:18:30 -0400 Organization: SSNet -- Public Internet Access in Delaware! Message-ID: <320FBBC6.24DB@blackstar.ssnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does NEXTSTEP 4.0 or Openstep have support for the old blackware? Hassan
From: dirk@kalium.physik.TU-Berlin.DE (Dirk Schwarzhans) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Is the motorola platform supported under NS 4.0? Date: 13 Aug 1996 08:38:59 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <4upev3$o4@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <320FBBC6.24DB@blackstar.ssnet.com> In-Reply-To: <320FBBC6.24DB@blackstar.ssnet.com> On 08/13/96, "Hasssan N. Kelley" wrote: >Does NEXTSTEP 4.0 or Openstep have support for the old blackware? > >Hassan > Sure! I already installed it on my black mono station and except for the new OPENSTEP Apps (which are few) it runs as fast or slow as usual. Dirk Schwarzhans
From: mdjam1@mda013.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr Mark James) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NRW?? (and some important questions) Date: 13 Aug 1996 10:16:10 GMT Organization: Monash University Message-ID: <4upkla$bgt@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> Hiya. What's this NRW thing? (gotten from the frogdesign post) Anyway, what's NeXTStep like? (did I get the capitals right?) Can I see screen shots (realistic ones) or demos (in one form or another) anywhere? Given that I have the chance to buy it (for an intel platform) at a 93% discount whilst I'm still a student ($700 instead of $10000), I might take it, even if it's so I can run NeXTStep and do nothing with it. That's mynext question. What can be done with NeXTStep (boy, what a vague question), given that the installed user base is could be described (realistically) as pitiful, what can be done with it? Actually, everything that I want to do could probably be done already I'd want a nice net machine (mail, news, webdrowing (I've tried down loading those brochures, they generally timeout at about 4-10%)), and from what I've seen, objective C is probably worth buying NeXTStep for anyway, I'd be booting to M$-DOS for gaming (until I programmed them for Mr. NeXTStep anyway), and I'm sure I'd be the envy of most of the Uni Geeks with my Quake level editor (are they releasing that?) blah blah blah Why is it that most of myposts are incoherent? BAsically I think I'm after an idea of what software is out there, how much of it is readily available, and how much of it is free. Any takers? bibi Mark James mdjam1@ccds.cc.monash.edu.au http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~beastial now also in a corporate sized package markj@lochard.com.au
From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-bat.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Printing in Samba Date: 13 Aug 1996 11:16:43 GMT Organization: The University of York, UK Message-ID: <4upo6r$p27@netty.york.ac.uk> References: <4udse4$fff@cerberus.wsc.com> asoto@wsc.com (Andre L. Soto) writes: > When I print instead of received the usual text I get a page or two full of > postscript information. I read last week that for Windows 95 a postscript yeah, i get that with most of the HP postscript drivers - just try one of the others, PS is faily much of a muchness really. I think I ended up using the HP laserJestIID-PS driver and that works fine. -bat.
From: Nick Potkay <npotkay@integ.micrognosis.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: 95 & 3.3 Networking problem Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 09:43:22 -0400 Organization: CSK Micrognosis Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960813094151.868H-100000@cycle1> References: <320DDBFD.2112@blackstar.ssnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <320DDBFD.2112@blackstar.ssnet.com> On Sun, 11 Aug 1996, Hasssan N. Kelley wrote: > 1. I can ping my NeXTstation TurboColor from both linux and 95. > 2. I can ping my 95/linux box from my NeXTstation TurboColor. > 3. I can only ping my 95/linux from my from my NeXTstation TurboColor > if I use the the IP address. For example this command will > be successful from the NeXTstation TurboColor: > ping 205.216.96.168 > but this is not: > ping blackstar.ssnet.com Sounds like you have a resolving problem. I assume this is a small network at home and you did not configure a dns server. Just edit /etc/hosts on the next station, and add the ip and hostname of your 95 and linux box.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: Is it possible to buy the Peanuts CDROM ? Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960813083441.11827B-100000@charisma> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 08:39:53 -0400 References: <9608120034.AA01194@nebula.cdrom.com> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960812132250.16272A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> To: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.95.960812132250.16272A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 12 Aug 1996, Bernhard Scholz wrote: > > Anyway why don't you sell the Peanuts Disks on Walnut Creek? > Wouldn't this help many people? Your answer on this would be very > interesting for me. Did we miss to send you a reseller offer? I believe > not; and would you be interested in one for the next release? I would have to agree, this is a very good idea. The CD that one buys is largely a personal choice of what you like & what's available. I think having the peanuts disks available in the USA would be a great idea, because it would cut down significantly on the delivery time (> 1 month) & costs (~$12 US). And anyone who has tried to download from peanuts.leo.org knows that it is difficult/slow (through no fault of the peanuts.leo.org admin!). TjL ps -- to eric: I tried to send you a personal email, but I think it bounced back/timedout/something http://www.cdrom.com/titles/nebula.html was not actually there/accessible last time I went to find it. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat My USENET feed is slow and not very reliable NeXT info via email: send message with SUBJECT: send-ascii info NeXT Information: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: rmdir !? Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960813084625.11827D-100000@charisma> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 08:52:24 -0400 References: <lwsp9uzlj9.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> <4ujrds$5mk@blackice.winternet.com> <4ukorg$83i@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE><Pine.HPP.3.95.960812134515.16272B-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <Qm3rEji00iVG45yEdZ@andrew.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <Qm3rEji00iVG45yEdZ@andrew.cmu.edu> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 12 Aug 1996, Charles William Swiger wrote: > The difference is sometimes meaningful to various commands like 'cp -r', > tar, and rm(dir). Using a trailing slash sometimes means "the contents > of the directory, but not the directory itself". > > However, since this behavior is confusing and it does not interact very > well with shells that append a slash after filepath/filename completion, > newer versions of the commands (ie, the POSIX or GNU versions) appear to > behave the same regardless of whether a trailing slash is present. I like this feature, in a way, at certain times (usually I use it in scripts, but have it turned off in my login shell). In my .LogoutHook I have: /usr/local/bin/Alert "Empty Recycler?" Yes No if [ $? = 0 ] then # Empty Recycler but do not delete folder /bin/rm -rf /Users/luomat/.NeXT/.NextTrash/* fi which pops up a little panel asking me if I want to clean my recycler, but doesn't remove the recycler folder itself. Who cares? I do, because I have the /Users/luomat/.NeXT/.NextTrash/ folder on my WM shelf, and on the shelf in Fiend (which is easier than dragging stuff down to the bottom left corner where the recycler icon gets put if you command-drag it off the dock to free up space for more important icons). If it gets deleted when I clean out my trash, then it gets removed from both places, and I have to go to Unix expert mode, get the folder, and drag it back. TjL -------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat My USENET feed is slow and not very reliable NeXT info via email: send message with SUBJECT: send-ascii info NeXT Information: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: rmdir !? Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960813084256.11827C-100000@charisma> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 08:45:27 -0400 References: <lwsp9uzlj9.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> <4ujrds$5mk@blackice.winternet.com> <4ukorg$83i@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960812134515.16272B-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.95.960812134515.16272B-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > On 11 Aug 1996, Axel Habermann wrote: > > > belly kiwi 3 (~): cd /tmp > > belly kiwi 4 (/tmp): mkdir foo > > belly kiwi 5 (/tmp): rmdir foo/ > > rmdir: foo/: File exists > > belly kiwi 6 (/tmp): rmdir foo > > belly kiwi 7 (/tmp): > > > > I think it's a bug. Just omit the trailing slash and it works. just a note: Using ZSH with the 'setopt auto_remove_slash' (which automatically removes slashes if they appear at the end of the line) solves this problem, and many others, caused by wrong shell behavior if/when the trailing slash is included. TjL -------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat My USENET feed is slow and not very reliable NeXT info via email: send message with SUBJECT: send-ascii info NeXT Information: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: rmdir !? Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 12:08:04 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <8m4_VYG00iWYQ3sUYx@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <lwsp9uzlj9.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> <4ujrds$5mk@blackice.winternet.com> <4ukorg$83i@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE><Pine.HPP.3.95.960812134515.16272B-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <Qm3rEji00iVG45yEdZ@andrew.cmu.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.95.960813084625.11827D-100000@charisma> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960813084625.11827D-100000@charisma> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.misc: 13-Aug-96 Re: rmdir !? by "Timothy J. Luoma"@nerc. >> However, since this behavior is confusing and it does not interact very >> well with shells that append a slash after filepath/filename completion, >> newer versions of the commands (ie, the POSIX or GNU versions) appear to >> behave the same regardless of whether a trailing slash is present. > > I like this feature, in a way, at certain times (usually I use it in > scripts, but have it turned off in my login shell). > > In my .LogoutHook I have: > > /usr/local/bin/Alert "Empty Recycler?" Yes No > > if [ $? = 0 ] > then > # Empty Recycler but do not delete folder > /bin/rm -rf /Users/luomat/.NeXT/.NextTrash/* > fi You could add a "/bin/mkdir /Users/luomat/.NeXT/.NextTrash" before the "fi" line if you had to (ie, if /bin/rm nuked the directory itself as well). -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <eric@cdrom.com> Message-ID: <9608131652.AA06690@nebula.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) q;6~]olIY<I\1zLJ.~]53@+A]/}";bKMKAoA3DJn"3Ur/iVngM_b8?1=WhD(,C\OQ`!NPGO6 e04/E9[ec6sDuxxB From: Eric Tremblay <eric@cdrom.com> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 96 09:52:06 -0700 Subject: Re: Is it possible to buy the Peanuts CDROM ? > I'd like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that > this is a non-commercial usegroup. As far as I know, the > Nebula CD is a commercial product, which features quad fat > compiled binaries. Peanuts disks are a non-profit CD ROM set > (the money is used to press new CDs and update CDs and to > support our FTP server) and completely built using our spare > time as a service to this community (if you buy the CDs > directly from us)! Yes, Nebula is a commercial product. Everything that sells for money is commercial in my eyes. If the Peanuts disk are non-profit as you say why do you retail Peanuts for the same price that we retail our discs? Being it's a service to the community, why don't you price it as such? > I don't like to start a 'My CD-ROM is better than yours' war here, >but comparing these two sets isn't fair. I don't think that the >Nebula CD would be a good replacement for the Peanuts Disks and vice >versa. Why is it not fair? I think Nebula is the best NEXTSTEP CDROM out there, in fact Walnut Creek CDROM offers a full year money back guarantee on all it's products including Nebula. So nobody can lose. I don't see any good reason why Nebula is not a good replacement for Peanuts? >Anyway why don't you sell the Peanuts Disks on Walnut Creek? >Wouldn't this help many people? Your answer on this would be very >interesting for me. We are not interested in Peanuts. We have Nebula. For more then 3 years now. Nebula is in it's 4th edition. Walnut Creek CDROM has always supported NEXTSTEP and we have very loyal customers for our products. I think selling this CDROM is a big service to the community. I get lot's of email of people who enjoy our product and encourage us to hang in there, hopefully the market will grow. >Did we miss to send you a reseller offer? I believe >not; and would you be interested in one for the next release? Not interested thank you. Why don't you resell Nebula instead? We have several German distributors. It would be cheaper then pressing your own disc and you could sell it as a service to the community. You would even help a company that wants to stay in the NEXTSTEP business, stay in business??? Unless you really want all the "commercial" vendors to go bankrupt? Now would that be good or bad for the NEXTSTEP community? It just does not make any sense in my view. Instead of helping commercial vendors stay in business your battleing with us in a public forum. Now that's a great attitude to have! Thank you, Eric "E.T." Tremblay Walnut Creek CDROM eric@cdrom.com
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NRW?? (and some important questions) Date: 13 Aug 1996 18:16:19 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <4uqgpj$6mm@news3.digex.net> References: <4upkla$bgt@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> mdjam1@mda013.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr Mark James) wrote: > Hiya. What's this NRW thing? (gotten from the frogdesign post) It was going to be a RISC based machine. Supposedly built-in video capabilities. I wish some sneaky spy who might have a photo of it, would put it up on the net. It was the NeXT machine that was never released. > Anyway, what's NeXTStep like? (did I get the capitals right?) Can I see screen shots (realistic ones) or demos (in one form or another) anywhere? Given that I have the chance to buy it (for an intel platform) at a 93% discount whilst I'm still a student ($700 instead of $10000), I might take it, even if it's so I can run NeXTStep and do nothing with it. Well, as a student you can get OPENSTEP for Mach 4.0/Intel for $299.00, and WEBOBJECTS enterprise (with WebBuilder I think...) for free. You're talking round abouts $35k of software for $300 bux. Unbelievable deal. And also, take advantage of the Lighthouse educational CD for $99bux. All the software you need to get going, the retail price of which would be some sick figure as well. Pretty great deal.... > That's mynext question. What can be done with NeXTStep (boy, what a vague question), given that the installed user base is could be described (realistically) as pitiful, what can be done with it? Development of incredible apps, and now with OPENSTEP 4.0, you can have those apps run on WinNT. Even though the base is small, I must say that if you discount my presence in the NEXTSTEP community, it is an INCREDIBLE and TALENTED collection of people. The small community has produced some world class products (the WWW being one of them :). You can do just about anything with it, I know I do... Except run ms products natively (which I feel is kinda an added bonus :) although you could run SoftPC_4.1 for all your dos/windows needs.... > Actually, everything that I want to do could probably be done already I'd want a nice net machine (mail, news, webdrowing (I've tried down loading those brochures, they generally timeout at about 4-10%)), and from what I've seen, objective C is probably worth buying NeXTStep for anyway, I'd be booting to M$-DOS for gaming (until I programmed them for Mr. NeXTStep anyway), and I'm sure I'd be the envy of most of the Uni Geeks with my Quake level editor (are they releasing that?) The source code to the Quake editor is out on the archives. NEXTSTEP is, to me, the IDEAL web development, client browsing, and moderate web server platform. Much of the features you that the big boy web browsers get, are gleaned from great innovations by the folks that make OmniWeb (I imagine Omni's search panel idea will be next :), and Netsurfer is great as well. There are plenty of lovely mail and news apps as well. Just an overall internet connectivity machine (of course IMO :). And most of the internet tools are either dirt cheap for students or free. There are a couple of other killer apps under NEXTSTEP that I believe are better than any other apps on any other platforms. Tiffany2 (photoshop but much better), Concurrance (I pray to the Lighthouse folks for this program that makes law school outlining such a pleasure, and can generate the most incredible presentations that probably bumped up my MBA GPA by half a point :) Tailor (edit any postscript image all you like), and Virtuoso 2 (Pretty much like the latest release of Freehand, minus a couple of bells, but much more usable b/c of a great UI...) > BAsically I think I'm after an idea of what software is out there, how much of it is readily available, and how much of it is free. If you get the Lighthouse edu cd for $99bux, you'll get a wordprocessor, two spreadsheets (one traditional, another Quantrix, like Improv, but better IMO), an outlining presentation tool which is second to none, a business project management tool, flat file database with SQL hooks (pretty nice, ala Filemaker), and OmniWeb (which you can dl otherwise for free from the net). After getting that base software, you can do great things with the TONS of free/shareware on the net, a great deal of which comes with full source code. Darn, why do I feel like a used car salesman :) -- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit )^> %^) =^) monoChrome, Inc. | New York Law School NEXTSTEP Developer | Opinions expressed represent me only MIME, SUN, & NeXTmail OK | http://cnj.digex.net/~jkheit mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net | Telepathy...It's coming...
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NRW?? (and some important questions) Date: 13 Aug 1996 19:36:17 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <4uqlfh$7oe@news3.digex.net> References: <4upkla$bgt@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> <4uqgpj$6mm@news3.digex.net> John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> wrote: > > BAsically I think I'm after an idea of what software is out there, how much of it is readily available, and how much of it is free. > If you get the Lighthouse edu cd for $99bux, you'll get a wordprocessor, two spreadsheets (one traditional, another Quantrix, like Improv, but better IMO), an outlining presentation tool which is second to none, a business project management tool, flat file database with SQL hooks (pretty nice, ala Filemaker), and OmniWeb (which you can dl otherwise for free from the net). After getting that base software, you can do great things with the TONS of free/shareware on the net, a great deal of which comes with full source code. Gosh, I forgot to mention a bunch of IMPORTANT apps that come on that Lighthouse Academic CD for 99bux... Diagram, a great, umm, diagramming/drawing program. Wetpaint, a nice simple, yet pretty flexible and powerful paint/photo retouching program. Then there is EquationEditor and Tables.app...One makes nice .eps (insert anywhere) math equations, and Tables makes tables... I'm not sure, but AirMail might be part of the newest CD offering as well (I haven't used it, but I guess it's Mail program :) I'm probably still forgetting something...Overall, an incredible value... > Darn, why do I feel like a used car salesman :) -- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit )^> %^) =^) monoChrome, Inc. | New York Law School NEXTSTEP Developer | Opinions expressed represent me only MIME, SUN, & NeXTmail OK | http://cnj.digex.net/~jkheit mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net | Telepathy...It's coming...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Is the motorola platform supported under NS 4.0? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <Dw2xw1.A77@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 14:07:13 GMT References: <320FBBC6.24DB@blackstar.ssnet.com> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <320FBBC6.24DB@blackstar.ssnet.com>, Hasssan N. Kelley <hassan@blackstar.ssnet.com> wrote: >Does NEXTSTEP 4.0 or Openstep have support for the old blackware? > Yes. -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: svensson@math.ubc.ca (Anders Svensson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: mount NeXT floppies under Linux? Date: 13 Aug 1996 23:16:56 GMT Organization: Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Message-ID: <4ur2d8$2ds@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Does anyone here have any experience mounting NeXT formatted 1.4MB floppies on a Linux box? I'm running a 2.0.11 kernel with ufs filesystem support. When I try mount -t ufs /dev/fd0 /mnt I get the following error. mount: wrong fs type or bad superblock on /dev/fd0 My mount is the one that came with Slackware 3.0. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Anders
From: gdavis@shentel.net (Greg Davis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: HP Jet Direct Plus 3 on Black slab Date: 14 Aug 1996 00:00:01 GMT Organization: Fighter Grafix Message-ID: <gdavis-1308961950400001@eb1ppp25.shentel.net> I just purchased a HP Jet Direct EX Plus 3 for my Turbo Color slab, and when I tried to contact GS Corp to get the eXtraPrint software to run multiple printers, I ran into a snag.. OK guys, this is a two-parter: 1. Has anyone had any luck in configuring such a system to work on a NeXT black hardware, and 2.. What the hey happened to GS Corp?? (Where is John Fox when you need him?) Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
From: levenez@club-internet.fr (Eric Lévénez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Is the motorola platform supported under NS 4.0? Date: 13 Aug 1996 21:02:46 GMT Organization: Grolier Interactive Europe Message-ID: <4uqqhm$omj@speedy.grolier.fr> References: <320FBBC6.24DB@blackstar.ssnet.com> <4upev3$o4@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit dirk@kalium.physik.TU-Berlin.DE (Dirk Schwarzhans) wrote: > On 08/13/96, "Hasssan N. Kelley" wrote: > >Does NEXTSTEP 4.0 or Openstep have support for the old blackware? > > > >Hassan > > > Sure! > > I already installed it on my black mono station and except for the new > OPENSTEP Apps (which are few) it runs as fast or slow as usual. > > Dirk Schwarzhans > But I have read that we need 64 MB of ram, and my NeXTstation has actually 32 MB and it is the maximum. So, must we update to 4.0 ? -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Lévénez : levenez@club-internet.fr The best way to accelerate Windows is at -9.81 m/s2 --------------------------------------------------------------------
From: neuss@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de.NOSPAM (Christian Neuss) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Is it possible to buy the Peanuts CDROM ? Date: 14 Aug 1996 13:24:49 GMT Organization: Fachbereich Informatik, TH Darmstadt, Deutschland Message-ID: <4usk31$nap@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> References: <9608120034.AA01194@nebula.cdrom.com> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960812132250.16272A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <Pine.NXT.3.95.960813083441.11827B-100000@charisma> Timothy J. Luoma (luomat@nerc.com) wrote: > I think having the peanuts disks available in the > USA would be a great idea, because it would cut down significantly on > the delivery time (> 1 month) & costs (~$12 US). And anyone who has > tried to download from peanuts.leo.org knows that it is difficult/slow > (through no fault of the peanuts.leo.org admin!). I'd like to make the point that the perceived bandwidth problem is caused by the overloaded cross atlantic link, and by is no means the fault of either the peanuts admins or their network connection. Downloading from peanuts is actually pretty fast when you're on the right side of the Atlantic. :-) And yes, another release of the Peanuts CD-ROM would be excellent.. I for one will surely buy a copy. Best wishes, Chris -- // Christian Neuss "I ride tandem with a random.." // http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~neuss/ // fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
From: eriko@austin.ibm.com (Erik O'Shaughnessy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Is it possible to buy the Peanuts CDROM ? Date: 14 Aug 1996 10:05:38 -0500 Organization: IBM Austin Sender: eriko@toolbox.austin.ibm.com Message-ID: <ufenlaf1kt.fsf@toolbox.austin.ibm.com> References: <9608131652.AA06690@nebula.cdrom.com> In-reply-to: Eric Tremblay's message of Tue, 13 Aug 96 09:52:06 -0700 [ seemingly angry diatribe by Mr. Tremblay snipped ] I understand loyalty to one's own product line, but I think you took it alittle far. I am not inspired to buy anything from Walnut Creek. regards, ejo -- Erik O'Shaughnessy - AIX Service Development Team - eriko@austin.ibm.com Disclaimer: You know the drill.. all opinions are mine.. blah blah blah. (512) 823-4033 Cognito Ergo Disclaimum T/L 523-4033
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: NRW?? (and some important questions) Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <Dw3trz.A82@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 01:35:59 GMT References: <4upkla$bgt@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <4upkla$bgt@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au>, Mr Mark James <mdjam1@mda013.cc.monash.edu.au> wrote: >Hiya. What's this NRW thing? (gotten from the frogdesign post) > NeXT RISC Workstation. Never produced, much lamented successor to the Motorola hardware. >Anyway, what's NeXTStep like? (did I get the capitals right?) >Can I see screen shots (realistic ones) or demos (in one form or >another) anywhere? NeXT has screen shots on their web site, although I think you may have hunt for them. And it was, until recently, NEXTSTEP. Now it's OPENSTEP for Mach. >Given that I have the chance to buy it >(for an intel platform) at a 93% discount whilst I'm still a student >($700 instead of $10000), I might take it, even if it's so I can >run NeXTStep and do nothing with it. > More like $299 instead of $6k. :-) >That's mynext question. What can be done with NeXTStep (boy, what a >vague question), given that the installed user base is could be >described (realistically) as pitiful, what can be done with it? > Lots of Unix stuff, net stuff (except Java), drawing, publishing, math, spreadsheets....lots of stuff. >BAsically I think I'm after an idea of what software is out there, >how much of it is readily available, and how much of it is free. > Take a look at Stepwise, http://www.stepwise.com/. They have lists of many third-party products. -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: mount NeXT floppies under Linux? Date: 14 Aug 1996 18:00:40 GMT Organization: InterNetNews at News.BelWue.DE (Stuttgart, Germany) Message-ID: <4ut488$cpq@news.BelWue.DE> References: <4ur2d8$2ds@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> svensson@math.ubc.ca (Anders Svensson) wrote: > Does anyone here have any experience mounting NeXT formatted 1.4MB > floppies on a Linux box? I'm running a 2.0.11 kernel with ufs > filesystem support. When I try > > mount -t ufs /dev/fd0 /mnt > > I get the following error. > > mount: wrong fs type or bad superblock on /dev/fd0 > > My mount is the one that came with Slackware 3.0. Can anyone point me > in the right direction? The problem is that the ufs filesystem module that made it in the Linux 2.0 release is not able to read NEXTSTEP ufs' disk labels. If you're able to ftp: on ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/ALPHA/ufs, there should be a quite recent version of the `real' ufs module, which is now called u2fs. This works with NEXTSTEP partitions and floppies (if you get it installed ;-) Gregor -- | Gregor Hoffleit admin MATHInet / contact RhiNO | | MAIL: Mathematisches Institut PHONE: (49)6221 54-5771 | | INF 288, 69120 Heidelberg / Germany FAX: 54-8312 | | EMAIL: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (NeXTmail, MIME) |
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Is it possible to buy the Peanuts CDROM ? Date: 14 Aug 1996 19:05:41 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-f-36.usc.edu Message-ID: <4ut825$ba4@usc.edu> References: <9608131652.AA06690@nebula.cdrom.com> <ufenlaf1kt.fsf@toolbox.austin.ibm.com> Cc: eriko@austin.ibm.com In <ufenlaf1kt.fsf@toolbox.austin.ibm.com> Erik O'Shaughnessy wrote: > > [ seemingly angry diatribe by Mr. Tremblay snipped ] > > I understand loyalty to one's own product line, but I think you took > it alittle far. I am not inspired to buy anything from Walnut Creek. > > regards, > ejo Ouch! -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@usc.edu USC-CNTV NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome =============================================================== PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP" --------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
From: mpaque@pacbell.net (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Is the motorola platform supported under NS 4.0? Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 18:57:35 GMT Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16 Message-ID: <4ut7n2$kn0@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net> References: <320FBBC6.24DB@blackstar.ssnet.com> <4upev3$o4@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <4uqqhm$omj@speedy.grolier.fr> levenez@club-internet.fr (Eric Lévénez) wrote: >dirk@kalium.physik.TU-Berlin.DE (Dirk Schwarzhans) wrote: >> On 08/13/96, "Hasssan N. Kelley" wrote: >> >Does NEXTSTEP 4.0 or Openstep have support for the old blackware? >> > >> >Hassan >> > >> Sure! >But I have read that we need 64 MB of ram, and my NeXTstation has >actually 32 MB and it is the maximum. So, must we update to 4.0 ? Well, you don't NEED 64 Mb of ram. It's nice, but hardly manditory. The machine I do most of my work on in the office is a Turbo NeXTdimension Cube with 24 Mb on the CPU board (16 on the ND board). It's running OPENSTEP for Mach 4.0 (plus stuff under development). I can live with it :-) Mike Paquette I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me. mpaque@pacbell.net Personal E-mail mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
From: alex@starside.rhein-main.de (Alexander F.E. Seggerman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: SCSI BUS Date: 14 Aug 1996 20:10:02 GMT Organization: Individual Network - Rhein-Main Message-ID: <4utbqq$gr4@odb.rhein-main.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi Boys and Girls I just installed a Yamaha CDR-102 (everything correct Termination, ID etc...) and everything works well on the W95 and W-NT side. But not on the Openstep side. Here is a extract of my boot process: -> Jul 27 15:30:46 starside mach: DriverKit version 330 -> Jul 27 15:30:46 starside mach: Adaptec 2940 Host Adapter found at Bus 0 Device 8 -> Jul 27 15:30:46 starside mach: a2940_0: 8 Targets per Bus -> Jul 27 15:30:46 starside mach: Resetting SCSI Bus... -> Jul 27 15:30:46 starside mach: Registering: a2940_0 at 0x6000 -> Jul 27 15:30:46 starside mach: Registering: sc0 at a2940_0 SCSI Bus 0 Target 7 -> Jul 27 15:30:46 starside mach: sd0: IBM DORS-32160 S82C -> Jul 27 15:30:46 starside mach: Registering: sd0 at Target 0 LUN 0 at sc0 -> Jul 27 15:30:46 starside mach: Registering: sd0a -> Jul 27 15:30:46 starside mach: Registering: sd0b -> Jul 27 15:30:46 starside mach: sd0: Device Block Size: 512 bytes -> Jul 27 15:30:46 starside mach: sd0: Device Capacity: 2063 MB -> Jul 27 15:30:46 starside mach: sd0: Disk Label: Disk -> Jul 27 15:30:46 starside mach: sd1: YAMAHA CDR102 1.01 -> Jul 27 15:30:46 starside mach: Registering: sd1 at Target 2 LUN 0 at sc0 -> Jul 27 15:30:46 starside mach: Registering: sd1a -> Jul 27 15:30:46 starside mach: sd1: No Valid Disk Label -> Jul 27 15:30:46 starside mach: sd1: Device Block Size: 2048 bytes -> Jul 27 15:30:46 starside mach: sd1: Device Capacity: 394 MB -> Jul 27 15:30:46 starside mach: sd2: PLEXTOR CD-ROM PX-6XCS 1.02 -> Jul 27 15:30:46 starside mach: Registering: sd2 at Target 4 LUN 0 at sc0 -> Jul 27 15:30:46 starside mach: Registering: sd2a -> Jul 27 15:30:46 starside mach: sd2: No Valid Disk Label -> Jul 27 15:30:46 starside mach: sd2: Device Block Size: 2048 bytes -> Jul 27 15:30:46 starside mach: sd2: Device Capacity: 65 MB -> Jul 27 15:30:46 starside mach: sd3: QUANTUM PD210S 508D -> Jul 27 15:30:46 starside mach: sd3: Illegal request; FATAL. -> Jul 27 15:30:46 starside mach: target:6 lun:0 op:Mode Sense -> Jul 27 15:30:46 starside mach: Registering: sd3 at Target 6 LUN 0 at sc0 -> Jul 27 15:30:46 starside mach: Registering: sd3a -> Jul 27 15:30:46 starside mach: sd3: Illegal request; FATAL. -> Jul 27 15:30:46 starside mach: target:6 lun:0 op:Mode Sense -> Jul 27 15:30:46 starside mach: sd3: No Valid Disk Label -> Jul 27 15:30:46 starside mach: sd3: Device Block Size: 512 bytes -> Jul 27 15:30:46 starside mach: sd3: Device Capacity: 199 MB up to now everything is fine. But later on in the boot process I get the following errors: -!! Jul 27 15:41:35 starside mach: Adaptec2940 timeout -!! Jul 27 15:41:35 starside mach: a2940_0: Resetting SCSI Bus 0 (I/O Timeout)... -!! Jul 27 15:41:35 starside mach: sd0: Bus Reset Detected; Retrying. -!! Jul 27 15:41:35 starside mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Write block:1240624 blockCount:16 -!! Jul 27 15:41:35 starside mach: sd0: Bus Reset Detected; Retrying. -!! Jul 27 15:41:35 starside mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Write block:1765280 blockCount:16 -!! Jul 27 15:41:46 starside mach: sd0: UNIT ATTENTION; Retrying. -!! Jul 27 15:41:46 starside mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Write block:1240624 blockCount:16 My system then just halts (because of a constant resetting) and I can either switchit off or try an halt the system. Since everything works out on the W95 system nothing should be wrong with the Yamaha Drive but for any hints I'd be very grateful. alex -- ____________________________________________________________________ Alexander Seggerman Non Electronic: Electronic: Berger Straße 157 mailto: alex@starside.rhein-main.de D-60385 Frankfurt (NeXTMail & Mime & ASCII) Germany http://www.rhein-main.de/~pstarsid/ Phone: ++49 (69) 468104 FAX: Sorry no FAX
From: Mark_Bessey@next.com (Mark Bessey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Is the motorola platform supported under NS 4.0? Date: 14 Aug 1996 20:35:06 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <4utd9q$o73@news.next.com> References: <4uqqhm$omj@speedy.grolier.fr> Eric L v nez writes > But I have read that we need 64 MB of ram, and my NeXTstation has > actually 32 MB and it is the maximum. So, must we update to 4.0 ? Well, more memory is always better, but: There are *lots* of people at NeXT running 4.0 on systems with 32meg of RAM. -- Mark Bessey NeXT Software, Inc Software Quality Assurance -->I DON'T SPEAK FOR NeXT <--
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: rkr@netcom.com (Roger Roach) Subject: NeXT workstations for sale. Message-ID: <rkrDw5G94.DzL@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 22:39:04 GMT Sender: rkr@netcom11.netcom.com We have the following NeXT hardware for sale. 1x N4001 16 inch color monitor 1x N4006 17 inch color monitor 1x N1200 Color Turbo workstation 32Mb mem, 424Mb disk, flpy 1x N1200 Color Turbo workstation 32Mb mem, 320Mb disk, flpy 2x N2000 400 dpi laser printer 1x N3010 CDRom, external Data Instruments, buys and sells DEC, SUN and SGI hardware. We received this hardware in lieu of payment on an invoice. We are taking the best offer on any or all of the pieces above. Visa, Mastercard, Amex accepted. FOB, Atlanta. Please call Fred at 800-466-1144, or 770-919-2400. Email dii@index.com. Fax: 770-919-2004.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199608150205.WAA14088@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 96 22:05:41 -0400 Subject: can't access 'www.blackwhite.com' Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com I was looking for infomation on NXFax, and my DNS claims not to know the host 'www.blackwhite.com'. Anyone know what's going on/what the IP address is for Black&White Software? Thanks TjL -------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat My USENET feed is slow and not very reliable NeXT info via email: send message with SUBJECT: send-ascii info NeXT Information: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next
From: suckow@bln.sel.alcatel.de (Ralf Suckow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NeXT workstations for sale. Date: 15 Aug 1996 07:14:57 GMT Organization: Alcatel/Bell Distribution: world Message-ID: <4uuiph$222@btmpjg.god.bel.alcatel.be> References: <rkrDw5G94.DzL@netcom.com> Roger Roach writes > We have the following NeXT hardware for sale. > > 1x N4001 16 inch color monitor ??? .. Yours, ------------------------ Ralf.Suckow@bln.sel.alcatel.de | All opinions are mine.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199608151146.HAA29724@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: <199608150205.WAA14088@nerc.com> From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 96 07:46:51 -0400 Subject: Re: can't access 'www.blackwhite.com' Cc: droege@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de References: <199608150205.WAA14088@nerc.com> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com "Timothy J. Luoma" on Wed, 14 Aug 96 wrote: > I was looking for infomation on NXFax, and my DNS claims not to > know the host 'www.blackwhite.com'. > > Anyone know what's going on/what the IP address is for Black&White > Software? Well, someone sent me the IP (thanks!) I can't access it from my machine, but can from my ISP's (which is the machine I use for DNS). This is the first site I've come across that does this, the rest of it works fine. Weird. Anyone think of why this might happen? TjL -------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat My USENET feed is slow and not very reliable NeXT info via email: send message with SUBJECT: send-ascii info NeXT Information: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: can't access 'www.blackwhite.com' Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 12:50:29 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <gm4pJJy00iWXM3nb8B@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <199608150205.WAA14088@nerc.com> <199608151146.HAA29724@nerc.com> In-Reply-To: <199608151146.HAA29724@nerc.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.misc: 15-Aug-96 Re: can't access 'www.black.. by "Timothy J. Luoma"@nerc. > > Anyone know what's going on/what the IP address is for Black&White > > Software? > > Well, someone sent me the IP (thanks!) > > I can't access it from my machine, but can from my ISP's (which is > the machine I use for DNS). This is the first site I've come across > that does this, the rest of it works fine. > > Weird. Anyone think of why this might happen? "nerc.com" (your domain) appears to connect through Sprint. Someone (*) may be filtering /18 or /20 network addresses, which would mean that you cannot route to most of the individually-assigned class-C addresses that InterNIC has given out over the past 18 months or so. Or maybe it's just a local glitch in the routing tables.... :-) Either way, it's something you could ask your ISP about. Try sending email to <noc@sprintlink.net>. -Chuck ------ (*) I seem to recall that Sprint was the first network provider to start filtering network addresses, due to the fact that Sprint's antique routers couldn't deal with the large routing tables needed today. Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: ehutch@hypnos.norden1.com (E. Hutchinson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,misc.jobs.contract Subject: NEXTSTEP/Contract/DC Area Date: 15 Aug 1996 20:49:00 GMT Organization: Norden 1 Communications Message-ID: <4v02fs$5pv@tofu.alt.net> Programmer/analyst/developer NEXTSTEP--------------------Commercial experience Objective C-----------------Commercial experience Contract--------------------Long term EOF-------------------------A plus Must Be---------------------US Citizen or Greencard Area------------------------Virginia 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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199608160247.WAA13711@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: <199608151146.HAA29724@nerc.com> From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 96 22:47:10 -0400 Subject: oops, wrong company (was Re: can't access 'www.blackwhite.com') References: <199608150205.WAA14088@nerc.com> <199608151146.HAA29724@nerc.com> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com > "Timothy J. Luoma" on Wed, 14 Aug 96 wrote: > > I was looking for infomation on NXFax, and my DNS claims not to > know the host 'www.blackwhite.com'. Well, turns out it really doesn't matter, because 'www.blackwhite.com' isn't the company that sells NXFax. The "Black and White" for NXFax is called 'bandw.com' and apparently has no website, at least not one that I could find. But, here agian, I can't ping 'bandw.com' so I don't know what's going on.... TjL -------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat My USENET feed is slow and not very reliable NeXT info via email: send message with SUBJECT: send-ascii info NeXT Information: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next
From: u8221806@cc.nctu.edu.tw (Ted Wang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: executable midi player app? Date: 16 Aug 1996 12:20:54 GMT Organization: National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan Message-ID: <4v1p36$240@netnews.nctu.edu.tw> NNTP-Posting-User: u8221806 I don't have a C compiler, so I cannot use the Mididriver, Is there any executable binary code for midi file play? thanks for help!
From: scholzb@pst.informatik.uni-muenchen.de (Bernhard Scholz) Newsgroups: de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.answers,news.answers Subject: The NeXT-FAQ (Frequently asked questions) Followup-To: de.comp.sys.next Date: 16 Aug 1996 12:53:15 GMT Organization: InternetNews at LMU, University of Munich, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <4v1qvr$fhn@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Summary: Frequently asked questions concerning NeXT related topics. Posted-By: auto-faq 2.4 Archive-name: NeXT-FAQ Last-modified: Tuesday, 9. June 1996 Posting-Frequency: monthly The NEXTSTEP/OpenStep FAQ _________________________________________________________________ THE NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP FAQ OVERVIEW * 1 Introduction * 2 General information * 3 What is ... * 4 Miscellaneous information * 5 Black (NeXT) hardware * 6 White (Intel) hardware * 7 Storage * 8 Printing * 9 Obsolete but still interesting? CONTENTS 1 Introduction 1.1 About this FAQ 1.2 Submissions 1.3 Availability 1.4 Copyright 1.5 Disclaimer 1.6 Thanks 2 General information 2.1 Where to get answers? 2.2 How may I contact NeXT, Inc.? 2.3 FTP servers 2.4 Software on CD 2.5 What is the current status of NEXTSTEP/OpenStep? 2.6 Will there be a public implementation of OpenStep? 2.7 Are there differences between Openstep for Mach and other implementations? 2.8 What information is available by NeXT 2.9 What is the correct spelling? 2.10 How do I start an official NeXT User Group? 2.11 Are there differences in the NEXTSTEP implementations? 2.12 What are the names of the ftp sites that have NeXT-related files? 2.13 Additional information sources 2.14 How to get FTP files via e-mail. 2.15 References on Objective C 2.16 How to contact music interested people. 2.17 How to announce upcoming events 2.18 Can I mix different hardware running NEXTSTEP? 2.19 Can I exchange software running on different hardware? 3 What is ... 3.1 NEXTSTEP 3.2 MACH 3.3 OpenStep 3.4 Objective-C 3.5 NEXTSTEP Developer 3.6 D'OLE 3.7 PDO --- Portable Distributed Objects 3.8 EOF --- Enterprise Objects Framework 3.9 WebObjects 3.10 WWW Browser 3.11 Newsreader 4 Miscellaneous information 4.1 How do I get pictures of people from remote sites to appear in Mail.app and NewsGrazer? 4.2 How to manipulate and examine default settings 4.3 How do I run NextApps remotely? 4.4 Why does UUCP hangs on outgoing connections after sending the password, but other communications software do not have a problem with it? 4.5 How do I access the NeXT's Digital Webster Dictionary from a program? 4.6 How do I get the arrow keys to work in csh? 4.7 What default affects menu location? 4.8 How to get Gourmet to boot up the Mathematica 2.0 kernel? 4.9 Manipulating the Loginwindow 4.10 How does one set UNIX man pages to be viewed in nroff format with DL like the standard manual pages in NS2.x? 4.11 Appending a signature and addition headers to your e-mail 4.12 How can I quickly find a file if I don't know its directory? 4.13 Mail.app suddenly stopped working! 4.14 Recycler doesn't work anymore?! 4.15 How to hear sound from CDPlayer.app thought NEXTSTEP system? 4.16 How do I decompress a file with the extension .compressed? 4.17 How do I change the Workspace compression app? 4.18 console: loginwindow: netinfo problem - No such directory. 4.19 Root login not possible on client machine 4.20 How to boot NEXTSTEP from the second (higher SCSI ID) HD? 4.21 How to make swapfile shrink to the normal size? 4.22 Does netinfo work between machines running NEXTSTEP 2.x and 3.x? 4.23 Why does the console user "own" the external disk filesystem? 4.24 How to limit coredump sizes? 4.25 What is the maximum value of nbuf that I can specify on bootup? 4.26 How can I change the mouse pointer shape and color? 4.27 How do I customize BuildDisk to create a bootable disk of my own configuration? 4.28 Are there any more dwrites useful for the workspace, ...? 4.29 What is the @LongLink message from gnutar all about? 4.30 What stands the file .place3_0.wmd for? 4.31 How to create transparent icons with IconBuilder 4.32 How to access the MAC format of a mixed DOS/MAC CD-ROM 4.33 Is there a PPP for NEXTSTEP 5 Black (NeXT) hardware 5.1 What disk drives will work with the NeXT? 5.2 Will a 68030 NeXT Computer run NEXTSTEP 3.3? 5.3 How do I configure my HP 660 to boot properly? 5.4 What is the procedure for installing a Fujitsu M2263SA/SB SCSI Disk as the NeXT Boot Disk? 5.5 How to mount a corrupted OD that won't automount? 5.6 What non-NeXT CD Players that work with a NeXT? 5.7 What are some other sources of toner cartridges and trays for the NeXT laser printer? 5.8 What printers (laser or otherwise) may be used with a NeXT? 5.9 What can I do to prevent my NeXT printer from running all the time? 5.10 What type of microphones will work with the NeXT? 5.11 How do I connect a modem to the NeXT? 5.12 Are there any alternative sources for the SCSI-II to SCSI-I cable required to attach external SCSI devices to the 040 NeXTs? 5.13 What fax modems will work with the NeXT? 5.14 How may I attach more than two serial ports to the NeXT? 5.15 What is the best and/or cheapest way to connect a NeXT to a thick Ethernet? 5.16 How can I connect my NeXT to the telephone line and use it like an answering Machine? 5.17 What color monitors can I use with the Color NeXT machines? 5.18 Where can I get 13W3 to BNC adapters to connect third party color monitors? 5.19 How may I attach Centronics or 16 bit wide parallel ports to the NeXT? 5.20 Why does an unused serial port consume cpu? 5.21 How to adjust MegaPixel Display brightness and focus? 5.22 I want to emulate a macintosh, how? 5.23 My NeXT laser printer fails to fully eject the sheet - how to fix? 5.24 What are the NeXT mouse connections? 5.25 What type of memory may be installed in a NeXT? 5.26 What is the NeXT SIMM tool? 5.27 Where can I purchase a NeXT machine? 5.28 Where to obtain hardware service? 5.29 What types of NeXT machines were manufactured? 5.30 What can be done about older 030 NeXT cubes that have a fan that turns in the "wrong" direction? 5.31 Can I connect SONY MPX-111N to my 68030 NeXT Computer? 5.32 Why does the OD continually spin up and spin down? 5.33 How many colors can NeXT machines display? 5.34 Why is my machine so slow when I run the monochrome and NeXTdimension displays? 5.35 Where to obtain replacement mouse parts? 5.36 Where to obtain extra batteries? 5.37 How to convert a Turbo system to use ADB? 5.38 68030 board in the same NeXTcube as a 68040 board? 5.39 How to expand DSP memory? 5.40 How to boot a NeXT without a monitor? 5.41 Where can I get black spray paint for my NeXT? 5.42 What makes aged NeXT monitors dim? 5.43 How to use two internal hard drives 6 White (Intel) hardware 6.1 What about support for NeXT Computer specific hardware features such as the DSP? 6.2 Do Multi-Architecture Binaries take a lot of extra disk space? 6.3 How difficult is it to recompile existing NeXT applications over to NEXTSTEP/Intel? 6.4 When developing programs, are there any portability issues I should be aware of? 6.5 What is the difference between the NEXTSTEP/Intel User Environment and Developer Environment? 6.6 If a specific I/O card is not supported by NeXT, can 3rd parties write drivers for NEXTSTEP/Intel? 6.7 How is NEXTSTEP/Intel installed? 6.8 Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on 386 machines? 6.9 Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on the Cyrix 486SLC? 6.10 Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on the future Intel Microprocessors in the x86 family? 6.11 Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on portable computers? 6.12 Will NEXTSTEP/Intel be able to run MS-DOS and Windows programs? 6.13 How will my DOS and Windows applications perform under NEXTSTEP/Intel? 6.14 Is the window I use to run Microsoft Windows applications resizable? 6.15 Will this DOS/Windows compatibility system allow me to run several DOS programs at once? 6.16 Can I cut and paste between DOS/Windows sessions and NEXTSTEP applications? 6.17 Can I use both DOS and NEXTSTEP/Intel partitions on the same hard disk? 6.18 Can NEXTSTEP/Intel read, write, and format DOS and Mac floppies? 6.19 NEXTSTEP/Intel 3.1, DOS, Linux/NT multi-boot system? 6.20 NeXTSTEP on INTEL, KEYBOARD-ERROR ... 6.21 NS 3.2 Tseng ET4000 Video Driver doesn't work. 6.22 Accessing ROM monitor on Intel-System, how? 6.23 Adaptec 2940 Fast and Sync. SCSI explanation... 6.24 Do EIDE-Drives work with NEXTSTEP? 6.25 Anyone have a driver yet that does 8 bit color on an ET4000/w32p card? (Hercules Dynamite Pro VLB) 6.26 Does a Glidepoint pointing device work with NEXTSTEP? 6.27 AppleTalk under NEXTSTEP/Intel? 6.28 Booting hangs with black screen 6.29 Why are the features of my graphic card useless? 6.30 How to use MIDI without the MusicKit? 7 Storage 7.1 Disktab help needed: ST15230N 7.2 Formatting DEC DSP3105 with 1024-byte blocks. 7.3 My formatted disk has much less space then advertised! 7.4 Can't initialise my disk within the Workspace 7.5 Initialing Opticals for NeXT 7.6 How to use a tape drive ? 7.7 How to recover from an partially formatted disk? 7.8 What about the ZIP drive? 8 Printing 8.1 What printers (laser or otherwise) may be used with NEXTSTEP? 8.2 What fonts can I use with NEXTSTEP? 8.3 How can I save my printable documents to a postscript file? 8.4 How can I print only the even or odd pages of a document? 8.5 How do I get banner pages on my printer output? 8.6 How do I get [la]TeX files to print correctly on non-NeXT printers? 8.7 What if I have a PostScript font has not been ported to NEXTSTEP? 8.8 What color printers (laser or otherwise) may be used with NEXTSTEP? 8.9 How can I make the Page Layout default to A4 in all applications? 8.10 /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/pstf: syntax error at line 31: `end of file' unexpected? 8.11 How to get TeX with NEXTSTEP to make proper fonts for a 600 dpi laserwriter? 8.12 How to get printer description files (PPD)? 8.13 What are the Canon part numbers for ink cartridges equivalent to those NeXT's Color Printer uses? 8.14 JetPilot does not work with my JetDirect box, why? 8.15 powering down NeXTprinter during bootup, printer still works 8.16 How to set up the HP LaserJet 4M? 8.17 Laserwriter NTX & NEXTSTEP 8.18 Problems with gray levels in printout 9 Obsolete but still interesting? 9.1 Where can I get NeXT paraphernalia? 9.2 Is there any way to change the text in the title bar of a terminal window? 9.3 I can't get my pictures in OmniWeb 9.4 How do I remap the and | keys on my keyboard? 9.5 How do I stop NeXTMail/Sendmail adding &Mcirc;s onto the end of lines? 9.6 Why does NEXTSTEP 1.0 hang a few seconds after attempting to boot? 9.7 Modem hangs under NS2.0 by incoming calls 9.8 NS2.0 doesn't recognize /LocalApps path _________________________________________________________________ This document was converted from LaTeX using Karl Ewald's latex2html. The NEXTSTEP/OpenStep FAQ ! to the table of contents _________________________________________________________________ 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 About this FAQ These are the frequently asked questions concerning NeXT, NeXTSTEP or any other NeXT related topics. This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the (comp.sys.next and de.comp.sys.next) community. NeXT Software,Inc. is a privately hold company, heading towards software business. It sells NEXTSTEP its award winning OS and several other software packages (most included with NEXTSTEP): EOF, NEXTSTEP Developer, WebObjects, NetInfo, ... With the coming 'open' version of NEXTSTEP, which is named OpenStep and will run not only on top of Mach (as NEXTSTEP does) but also on Solaris, Windows NT, Windows 95, HP-UX. The user of NeXT's software is confronted with a wide range of different software and hardware. To help in the unaware user, this FAQ was founded. But also professional users might find some interesting information, which they didn't knew already. Note the NEXTSTEP and OpenStep questions often concern related topics like Objective-C, UNIX, administration tasks, etc. for which already separate FAQs do exist. See the new.answers newsgroup for additional FAQs, if your problem isn't covered by this FAQ. 1.2 Submissions As with all FAQs the quality of the information provided here is mostly depending on the Usenet community, which in most cases serves for the information resource. Feel free to e-mail the FAQ author to contribute, or send error reports. If you contact the author, use the following subject for submissions: FAQ submission. To report errors use: FAQ error. Additionally you might want to add the chapter where the submission/error report belongs to. 1.3 Availability This FAQ is published monthly in the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups and in the near future news.answer. It may be downloaded via FTP from ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/Documents/faq/. Special additions for redistributors and homeusers do exist. This FAQ may be accessed only through Peanuts as well: http://peanuts.leo.org/ In the near future we want to implement an e-mail service for those who don't have access to news. You may add yourself to the mailinglist by sending an e-mail with subject: FAQ mailme. Note that this service isn't available, yet, and will only beco me available if there is enough request and not before June 1996. 1.4 Copyright This FAQ is copyrighted by Bernhard Scholz. (Internet e-mails: scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de) Mentioned trademarks belong to their holder and are not explicitly listened. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor, but of course we would be happy about each e-mail commenting on the FAQ, about pizzas (lasagne is accepted, too :-) ), postcards, ... Anyway we reserve a copyright on the the published information in this FAQ. Any questions concerning other redistribution should be send to the authors of the FAQ. Reprinting of this FAQ, even in parts, is prohibited without permission by the author except for printings for private use. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. 1.5 Disclaimer Of course there is no warranty in any case using the information provided here. We haven't tested the information to be correct. We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this FAQ. 1.6 Thanks Especially we want to thank the Usenet community for contributing to the FAQ and all the people who have written us. We want to say "thank you" to Nathan, who did a great job on first FAQs. Best wishes to you and your family!!! We want to thank Maximilian Goedel, who did the first reword on the FAQs after Nathan gave up. Thanks also to Karl Ewald, who contributed his latex2html Perl script which replaced the non working original latex2html version. 2 GENERAL INFORMATION General information 2.1 Where to get answers? If you run into a problem, first read the FAQ of course :-) Second you might consider asking NeXT directly through the electronic service: nextanswers@next.com. Send an e-mail with subject: ascii help index to start. If all fails, post to the newsgroups concerning NeXT related topics: comp.sys.next.*, de.comp.sys.next. 2.2 How may I contact NeXT, Inc.? Next, Inc. Contacting NeXT, Inc. Address of NeXT, Inc. NeXT, Inc. can be reached under the following addresses. USA: NeXT, Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 Voice: 800-848-NeXT (Redwood City #) Voice: (415)-366-0900 Japan: NeXT marketing div. of Canon - Japan Phone: (81)-44-549-5295 Fax: (81)-44-549-5462 EUROPE: Munich: Phone: (49)-89-996-5310 UK: Technology House Meadowbank Furlong Road Bourne End Bucks SL8 5AJ Phone: (44)-1628 535222 Fax: (44)-1628 535200 Note: numbers abroad are listed with the country codes first. You will need to dial the international access number of your long distance carrier before proceeding to dialing the country code, area code and phone number. 2.3 FTP servers FTP Software The FAQ mentions a lot of software packages which you might find useful. In general there are two big sites serving Europe and the US. These sites keep most of the software available and do mirror themselves to keep up to date (although the structure of the archive differ). If the software isn't on one of these sites, the appr opriate site is listed in the text. If you get slow connections you might want to consider contacting a mirror of the both sites. For the Peanuts archive (Europe) the WWW pages http://peanuts.leo.org give you links to an updated list of mirrors and other FTP sites. The addresses are: next-ftp.peak.org (formerly the ftp.cs.orst.edu archive) peanuts.leo.org (Peanuts archive in Europe) 2.4 Software on CD There are currently two CD (sets) which serve you with NEXTSTEP/OpenStep software: Nebula. Nebula is published by Walnut Creek and mostly contains actual recompiled software for all supported hardware platforms. It might be the best choice for those who don't own a compiler. A big font collection and a developer section complete t he disk. Peanuts Archive Disks. The Peanuts FTP Archive in Munich distributes their complete NEXTSTEP/OpenStep archive on CD. This currently brings you 3CDs full with software. Although the software isn't compiled for each hardware (it is provided 'as uploaded') it is the most complete software and information resource available on CD. (It includes the NeXTanswers published by NeXT). Fatted Calf CD-ROM. The Fatted Calf CD-ROM is published by Ensuing Technologies, LasVegas, Nevada. Currently I don't know it's special contents. 2.5 What is the current status of NEXTSTEP/OpenStep? status, NEXTSTEP status, OpenStep The third production version 3.3, has been released for Intel Processors (i486 and higher) as well as for NeXT hardware (not manufactured any longer but still supported), HP workstations and Sun workstations. OpenStep versions are announced and will be available this year (1996) for Windows NT, Windows 95, Mach, Solaris and hopefully HP-UX. The status for DEC machines and their OS (OSF/1, OpenVMS) is unknown. At least it is uncertain that there will be a port to OSF/1 or even OpenVMS, because DEC is doing the port alone. At least you can run OpenStep on DEC machines running Windows NT in the near future. For Sun's Solaris systems OpenStep will probably be part of the NeoDesktop. There will be no NEXTSTEP 4.0, because NeXT changed the naming conventions. NEXTSTEP 4.0 (also sometimes referenced as 'Mecca') is now named 'OpenStep for Mach' 2.6 Will there be a public implementation of OpenStep? Yes, there is a project by GNU. The so named GNUStep is available in pre-alpha state from the archive sites. Be aware that it is not fully functional and currently requires Motif. In its current state, GNUStep is on it's way to port the FoundationKit completely. This alone makes it worth to give it a try. 2.7 Are there differences between Openstep for Mach and other implementations? Yes there are. OpenStep for Mach will include all the well known features from NEXTSTEP (Services, Filters, SoundKit, ...) which the other implementations will lack, due to the underlying OS. To get all the benefits which is offered in NEXTSTEP today, you need to go for OpenStep for Mach. 2.8 What information is available by NeXT information NeXT NeXT, Inc. now operates an automatic e-mail response system. Send e-mail to "nextanswers@next.com" with the subject "ascii help index" to start. If you do have access to the world wide web, you even want to try the following URL: http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/. 2.9 What is the correct spelling? NeXT did (and probably will) change their naming conventions a lot. E.g. NEXTSTEP is the current correct spelling for their operating system. With the shipping of OpenStep, there will be no more NEXTSTEP, but OpenStep for Mach/Solaris/HP-UX/Windows95/Wind owsNT. Incorrect spellings are: NeXTSTEP, NeXTstep, NeXTStep. A common shortcut used in the newsgroups is: NS for NEXTSTEP. 2.10 How do I start an official NeXT User Group? NUG user groups NeXT user groups To start a user group, just send e-mail to user_groups@next.com. 2.11 Are there differences in the NEXTSTEP implementations? No, there are no differences beside the DSP, which is a hardware feature of NeXT computers. On other hardware platforms you have to buy additional hardware. 2.12 What are the names of the ftp sites that have NeXT-related files? FTP, servers There are too many to list them all, so are here are just a few. NEXTSTEP: cs.orst.edu ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (peanuts) nova.cc.purdue.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu umd5.umd.edu ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de MIT GNU: aeneas.mit.edu MIT X: export.lcs.mit.edu music: princeton.edu 2.13 Additional information sources Additional information Information, additional Every NeXT machine owner has access to manuals to a degree. Network and System Administration (NSA), for example contains answers to many of the questions asked to comp.sys.next. Some of the important man pages are reproduced in the NSA as appendices. User manuals were shipped with every NeXT. Additional copies available from NeXT (N6002/N6003/N6014/N6026) $25. The following books are available directly from NeXT: * Operating System Software * NeXTstep Concepts * NeXTstep Reference, v. 1 * NeXTstep Reference, v. 2 * Development Tools * Sound, Music, and Signal Processing: Concepts * Sound, Music, and Signal Processing: Reference * Writing Loadable Kernel Servers * Technical Summaries * Supplemental Documentation Unix man pages, which are included in the online docs. BSD unix documentation (MISC, PS1, PS2, SMM, USD). Available from to USENIX site members. A lot of this has been integrated into the NeXT documentation. Some of this is sorely missing. The SMM Unix System Manager's Manual is really useful! USENIX Association 2560 Ninth Street, Suite 215 Berkeley, CA 94710 USA +1 510 528 8649 fax +1 510 548 5738 office@usenix.org * PS1 = Programmer's Supplementary Documents, Volume 1 * PS2 = Programmer's Supplementary Documents, Volume 2 * SMM = System Manager's Manual * USD = User's Supplementary Documents The SMM and the rest of the berkeley documentation are also available directly and for free via anon ftp e.g. from ftp.uu.net /packages/bsd-sources/share/doc. To format them properly for viewing and printing on the NeXT use nroff with the package indicated by the file suffix (e.g. to format the documentation file 0.t use nroff -mt 0.t). Adobe documentation. Available machine-readable by e-mail from ps-file-server@adobe.com. Hardcopy available from Adobe Developer Support Line +1 415 961-4111 for a nominal charge. NeXT last shipped these as part of the 1.0a release; hardcopies appeared in 0.9 Technical Documentation, were omitted in 1.0, and have returned in updated form in Supplemental Documentation of the 2.0 Tech Docs (which is not available on-line). Get NextAnswers for Digital Librarian from NeXT. The current versions are actually on ftp.next.com or available via the mailserver at nextanswers@next.com. Get NeXT Support Bulletin from the archives. It is meant for support centers. Another good source of information is the archives of previously posted notes from the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups. Note that since the split of comp.sys.next, there is a group archive maintained at peanuts.leo.org:/pub/comp/sys/next/. NeXTstep Advantage book is available electronically from the archive servers. The file name is NeXTstepAdvantage.tar.Z; (its compressed size is about 1.3 megabytes; uncompressed, it's about 9.5 megabytes). It is a good introduction to the NeXT programming environment. 2.14 How to get FTP files via e-mail. FTP, e-mail access Some ftp sites are configured as an e-mail archive server. This means you can upload and download files via e-mail. Send mail to: archive-server@cc.purdue.edu ------------- mail-server@cs.tu-berlin.de (with the subject line help and you will get a complete description of this service) Submissions: Mail should be sent to archive-server@cc.purdue.edu with the subject of 'submission' (no ticks) if a person is submitting material to the archives. They need to include a 1-2 sentence description of the submission, the OS release the product runs on, and if it is source, binary, newsletter, etc. 2.15 References on Objective C Objective-C, documents Objective-C and other useful Object-oriented programming references: Budd, Timothy, An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming (Addison-Wesley) [It discusses Smalltalk, Object Pascal, C++ and Objective-C] Cox, Brad J., Object Oriented Programming: An Evolutionary Approach ISBN 0-201-10393-1. (Addison-Wesley) [Note: 2nd edition - ISBN is 0-201-54834-8 and has coauthor A.J. Novobilski] Huizenga, Gerrit, Slides from a short course on Objective-C available via anonymous ftp from: sonata.cc.purdue.edu:/pub/next/docs/ObjC.frame.Z, ObjC.ps.Z, or OldObjC.wn.tar.Z Meyer, Bertrand, Object-Oriented Software Construction (Prentice-Hall). NeXT Technical Documentation Pinson and Weiner, Objective-C: Object-Oriented Programming Techniques (Addison-Wesley). 350 pages, ISBN 0 201 50828 1, paperback. User Reference Manual for Objective-C which is available from Stepstone Corporation. (203)426-1875. Note: There are some differences between Stepstone's Objective-C and NeXT's. 2.16 How to contact music interested people. Music, contacts Since NeXT has become for now the platform of choice for much of the computer music composition and research community, the newsgroup comp.music is one good place to find people with information and interest in music on the NeXT. There is also a mailing list specifically for NeXT music. For posting to the dist list: nextmusic@horowitz.eecs.umich.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change addresses, etc.: nextmusic-request@horowitz.eecs.umich.edu 2.17 How to announce upcoming events Announcements Please send any announcements of upcoming NeXT-related events to next-announce@digifix.com These events will be posted to comp.sys.next.announce. Be sure to send your announcement in plenty of time to have it posted prior to the event. One to two weeks in advance would be a good idea. Since postings will be carried across many networks, commercial announcements may be edited down to reflect network usage policies. Look for current guidelines posted weekly in the newsgroup. 2.18 Can I mix different hardware running NEXTSTEP? NeXT, networking Networking Of course! NEXTSTEP is design to plug and play with existing NeXT installations. NeXT has addressed interoperability between NEXTSTEP systems in the following ways: * NEXTSTEP systems share identical networking capabilities. * NEXTSTEP systems share the same Distributed Objects. * NEXTSTEP systems use the same system and network administration services. * NEXTSTEP systems use the same mass storage format. Yes, you can take a external SCSI drive, removable media (e.g. Bernoulli etc) or floppy disk and use it interchangeably between NeXT Computers running NEXTSTEP. 2.19 Can I exchange software running on different hardware? With the shipping of NEXTSTEP 3.x binaries are distributed FAT. This means, that a binary might include different versions of the executable for each hardware platform NEXTSTEP is running on. On the archive sites you might easily recognize the supported h ardware by a key letter: N = NeXT computers, I=Intel based, H=HP hardware, S=Sun hardware. A FAT binary is runable by every supported hardware listed in the binary file. NeXT ships tools to examine such a fat binary and to add/strip different hardwa re modules to/from a binary. The correct spelling for a fat binary is: MAB binary (multi architecture binary) but most commonly 'fat' is used. With the shipping of OpenStep this will change. OpenStep applications are only sourcecode compatible and have to be recompiled for each architecture. This implies that you need a compiler for future PD/SW/FW-software, although OpenStep for Mach will still support FAT binaries and NEXTSTEP 3.x applications will continue to run under OpenStep for Mach. 3 WHAT IS ... What is ... This chapter tries to give you some overview over NEXTSTEP/OpenStep software and related software. For a detailed description you should contact the producer's WWW server. E.g. for more information about OpenStep contact http://www.next.com/ 3.1 NEXTSTEP NEXTSTEP NEXTSTEP is a complete development and user environment by NeXT it provides an unique GUI (graphical user interface), which currently gets copied by several other OS provider like Microsoft, combined with the currently most advanced and tested OS, named M ACH. NeXT applied several changes to the MACH kernel to add special features which makes NEXTSTEP unique. NEXTSTEP comes with a lot of development kits (bundles of classes to build on), like: Sound Kit, Indexing Kit, 3D Graphics Kit, Database or EOF Kit and Application Kit. This will change with OpenStep. Bundled with NEXTSTEP are several user applications which enhance the daily use dramatically: NeXTMail (a MIME compatible mail application), Edit (a simple but powerful editor), FaxReader (for reading incoming faxes, you are able to send faxes from every application which supports printing), DigitalWebster (Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary and Collegiate Thesaurus), Digital Librarian (indexing and full text search utility, usable over groups of files) Preview (a PostScript and TIFF display utilit y), Terminal (UNIX terminal application for VT100 and TN3270 emulation), TeX (a well known compiler for formatted text), SYBASE and ORACLE adapters (to contact to SYBASE and ORACLE databases within EOF applications). One special thing about NEXTSTEP is the display system. NeXT uses DPS (Display Post Script), which gives you true WYSIWYG on every NEXTSTEP system. The window server supports PostScript Level II, Interactive RenderMan and Photorealistic RenderMan (an dist ributed engine for fast high quality rendering, based on Pixar's RenderMan). To be used in networks, NEXTSTEP supports NFS, NetInfo, Novell Netware (as client only), Ethernet and Token Ring and different filesystems (Mac, DOS, ISO 9660, High Sierra, Rock Ridge). For multimedia purposes NeXT uses Lempel-Ziv compression for text, Audio Transform Compression for Sound (comparable to Sony MiniDisc), JPEG for TIFF and Group 4 for Fax. Of course these are only standard modes and NEXTSTEP is extensible to use other meth ods too. For system administration (remember that NEXTSTEP is using MACH as an UNIX derivate), NeXT supplies several administration applications which make it easy to configure NEXTSTEP as needed, like: SimpleNetworkStarter, UserManager, PrintManager, NFSManager, HostManager, NetInfo Manager, BuildDisk, Upgrader and the complete documentation and manual pages online. 3.2 MACH MACH MACH is the the basic OS layer NeXT uses for NEXTSTEP. It is a micro kernel, which means it is extensible at runtime. Micro kernel often stands for a small kernel size, too, but due to the compatibility to BSD 4.3 MACH is currently about 1MB in size. Features of MACH are: loadable kernel services (extensions during runtime), different scheduling algorithms, an advanced messaging system, an advanced memory allocation mechanism (copy on demand, world wide message broadcasting), true multitasking, multi threading and BSD compatibility. 3.3 OpenStep OpenStep OpenStep is the latest release of NeXT's NEXTSTEP with the ability to be OS independent (NEXTSTEP depends on MACH). OpenStep is currently available for Windows NT and Mach and will get available for Windows 95, Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX and DEC OSF/1. The architecture of OpenStep was made public in late 1995 and since then GNU is working on a public port of OpenStep to e.g. X11 based UNIX systems. To express the new standard, OpenStep for Mach is now the correct spelling for the formerly named NEXTSTEP product by NeXT, but it is known that NeXT itself is still using the same version numbering scheme for at least the Mach product line, so the first release of OpenStep for Mach is equivalent to NEXTSTEP 4.0. OpenStep is supposed to be an industry standard for developing object oriented, system independent, scalable solutions for client/server architectures. It was adopted by Sun, Hewlett Packard and Digital. It provides distributed applications through PDO (Portable Distributed Objects) and D'OLE (Distributed OLE) based on CORBA. The usage of EOF supplies object persistence with traditional relational databases. And finally with WebObjects, objects are accessible through the internet or in your own private ne twork. OpenStep, like NEXTSTEP 3.3 provides several kits for software developers like: Application Kit and Foundation Kit as well as Display PostScript. Applications written for OpenStep are sourcecode compatible to all other architectures running OpenStep, although FAT binaries are only available under OpenStep for Mach. For the NEXTSTEP user OpenStep doesn't take away old known features. In addition with OpenStep for Mach you get Mach enhancements, an enhanced workspace manager, Perl5, TaylerUUCP, PPP and Samba. Old applications will continue to run under OpenStep for Mach and need to be recompiled to run under Windows 95, Windows NT, Solaris, HP-UX and other OpenStep platforms. Because OpenStep was just released there is still some speculation about it's features at the time of this writing. The following are some rumours: * documented NEXTIME library for developing * faster message handling * handling of disks >2GB in partitioning size * relocateable drivers (exchange drivers on the fly, without rebooting) * support for multisession CD-ROMs * limited update availability until 15th July. 3.4 Objective-C Objective-C To develop applications NeXT uses Objective-C as its native programming language. Objective-C is a more strict OO language then C++ but covers C as well as C++. Because NeXT uses the GNU C/C++ compiler, you go with the most spreaded and tested C compiler available for most UNIX platforms today. (Of course you can use Objective-C on every platform on which gcc is available). Objective-C is different to other languages in the way it executes code. Objective-C uses a runtime library to dynamically access objects at runtime. This allows you to change objects at runtime etc. All this goes with nearly no speed penalty, because has hing mechanisms are used to access the different methods of an object. There is also ObjC which is an different product, available as a commercial compiler for different operating systems. Don't mix up things with by using the expression ObjC instead of Objective-C. For shortcut purposes the NeXT community also uses the term ObjC/Obj-C but of course thinks of Objective-C by NeXT. Objective-C isn't standardized, yet. In Objective-C you are able to mix code. E.g. you can use C++ and C in any Objective-C program. Objective-C is a simple and concise object-oriented extension to ANSI-C. It has a runtime messaging facility and offers dynamic binding. Distributed objects are supported and the code is optimized for native compilations. It's syntax and programming technique is much like in SmallTalk. Using Objective-C you can even message objects in other applications, also over a network! 3.5 NEXTSTEP Developer NEXTSTEP Developer NEXTSTEP Developer is currently the only way to develop applications under NEXTSTEP because it includes all the necessary include files and libraries. (Of course you can get any GNU C version precompiled, but it won't help you without the include files and linker libraries). In addition to a precompiled GCC, include files and the linker libraries you will get the famous NeXT developer tools: ProjectBuilder (your commando center for building applications and managing sources), InterfaceBuilder (for designing the application's GUI and making object connections), an graphical addition to GDB (GNU Debugger) integrated in Edit, MallocDebug (for seeking memory leaks), HeaderViewer (access class information in header files and in documented form in a browser), DBModeler (for buildin g data models, based on Database Kit), Yap (an interactive PostScript interpreter and viewer), IconBuilder (a very simple but extensible pixel-based editor for creating icons) and popular UNIX utilities like GNU Emacs, yacc, lex, vi... 3.6 D'OLE D'OLE D'OLE is a shortcut for Distributed OLE. OLE is Microsoft's standard for Object Linking and Embedding and is currently not distributable across platforms. With D'OLE you can distribute OLE objects across the network like e.g. in SOM by IBM. But D'OLE is m ore. It uses NeXT's object model PDO (Portable Distributed Objects) from Unix to Windows platforms and enables OLE objects to communicate with OpenStep objects natively, which means without changing the application. OpenStep objects behave like OLE object s and vice versa. D'OLE also supports EOF which enables a distributed computing environment that provides an infinitely flexible choice of application deployment of application deployment strategies. D'OLE uses the Foundation Framework, Distributed Object Framework and other core classes. It comes bundled with C/Objective-C compiler and GNU make, although Microsoft Visual C++ is required. Further you get a portable nmserver, MACH emulation and on-line documentation. 3.7 PDO --- Portable Distributed Objects PDO PDO is a shortcut for Portable Distributed Objects. In the near future PDO will become CORBA 2.0 compliant. It is the industry's first product to provide a heterogeneous client/server framework on objects. With PDO it is possible to deploy objects on non-NEXTSTEP server machines and therefore deployed anywhere in a network, wherever they are most appropriate fo r a task. PDO encapsulates low-level network protocols, making messaging a remote object as straightforward as messaging a local object. You even don't have to learn new programming tools or techniques, because PDO is a subset of NEXTSTEP tools and objects. Because PDO makes object location completely transparent to the application, the application communicates with every object the same way regardless wether it is local, in the local network or anywhere in the world. Because of the free location of objects, objects may get moved to other locations, e.g. to optimize performance, without modification of the application using it. Because PDO also runs on non-NEXTSTEP servers, it comes with it's own set of classes, libraries and even an Objective-C++ compiler, etc. Neverless you can build, maintain, etc. from any NEXTSTEP client connected to a PDO server. The tools used for buildin g the final objects however are native to the server's OS. PDO comes with Foundation Framework, Distributed Objects Framework, DOEventLoop and other core classes. Bundled tools are: Objective-C++ compiler, GDB, libg++, GNU make, Portable BuildServer, Portable nmserver, Mach Emulation, NEXTSTEP's default system, o n-line documentation. Currently supported platforms are: HP-UX, SunOS, Solaris, Digital UNIX. 3.8 EOF --- Enterprise Objects Framework EOF EOF bridges the gap between objects and relational databases. With EOF you can bring the advantage of object oriented design etc. to applications which use relational databases. (Therefore you don't need an object oriented database!) EOF clarifies many things. It supports a three-tier client/server architecture by separating the user interface, business objects and the database. In fact you can simply exchange the database (by changing the adapter) and still use the same application! Developing under EOF doesn't limit you to e.g. Objective-C. EOF allows the integration of e.g. 4GL code as well as SQL etc. all combined under the advantage of NeXT's developer tools. EOF includes client and server software. It consists of the Enterprise Object Modeler, runtime libraries and adapters for SYBASE and ORACLE (other adapters available from the DBMS producers). It currently runs under HP-UX, SunOS, Solaris, Digital UNIX and always requires PDO. For client use you additionally need NEXTSTEP. 3.9 WebObjects WebObjects WebObjects helps you building dynamic Web pages. It is targeted to the server side of the Web and there mostly to the intranets, also most people might find it very useful for the Internet, too. It is operating system independent and runs under Windows NT , Solaris, HP-UX, Digital UNIX and NEXTSTEP (Windows 95 announced). WebObjects contains development tools to build components for your application logic, as well as a set of reusable components to manage the rendering of your application. Because WebObjects is Java compatible, you even can integrate Java applets in your a pplication today. It supports the standard http servers which have to support CGI or NSAPI interface. WebObjects supports database access to Informix, Oracle, Sybase and DB/2. What's unique about WebObjects is the ability to share the logic of your Web application and your data with other internal applications. It means that you are not required to maintain a dedicated database or write specific application code for your Web ap plication. Currently there are three versions of WebObjects: WebObjects, WebObjects Pro and WebObjects Enterprise. WebObjects itself is freely available to anybody interested in. WebObjects Pro contains PDO and WebObjects Enterprise contains PDO and EOF with a speci al license to connect to the Internet. But because WebObjects is a brand new product, look at http://www.next.com/WebOjects/ for further information. WebObjects is free for academic usage. 3.10 WWW Browser WWW Browser Browser OmniWeb NetSurfer SpiderWoman NetScape Several NEXTSTEP browsers are available for NEXTSTEP. The currently most advanced browser is named 'OmniWeb'. OmniWeb is commercial in the way that you need a license to use it in a network. A single user license is free. OmniWeb seems to be continuesly u pdated and support is known to be good. OmniWeb is also supporting a lot of well known Netscape features. There is also a public domain WWW browser named 'SpiderWoman'. It's plus is the NEXTSTEP look and feel (e.g. you navigate through the Web like you navigate your filesystem with WorkspaceManager). Anyway SpiderWoman is somehow unstable and it seems as if d evelopment stopped. Another commercial browser is NetSurfer. Demos are available on the ftp sites. This browser is preferred by several people because it integrates ftp access very well. Anyway you have to pay for it. Netscape isn't available for NEXTSTEP and is unlikely to be ported. The current state of Netscape seems to become more and more unclear because the latest release with Java support is known to work unstable on most systems. Also Netscape supports a lot of features which other companies are not going to adopt anymore as it was in the early times. Anyway you can use Netscape in the future under the most OpenStep platforms. 3.11 Newsreader Newsreader Alexandra NewsGrazer NewsFlash RadicalNews There are currently four well known newsreaders for NEXTSTEP. First there is Alexandra, a public domain newsreader and second there is NewsGrazer (and unsupported NeXT product). You should test them to get your personal favorite. The only real difference is the support of NEXTSTEP 3.3J (Japanese) and flatfiles in Ne wsGrazer, while the interface in Alexandra seems to be better to many people. NewsFlash is a commercial product which adds several features. As Radical news it supports article threading, automated posting and extraction of multi-part files. Demos are available on the ftp sites. E-mail inquiries should go to support@wolfware.c om. Further info is available at: http://www.wolfware.com/ RadicalNews is a commercial newsreader. It supports true article threadin, quoted text highlighting, japanese and Latin-1 support, URL-support, an interface to Digital Librarian, a sophisticated coloring scheme and much more. Info is available at: ht tp://www.radical.com/. A note to both commercial versions: the community is very splitted about which version is to prefer. In general it seems as if there are no really 'killer features' so it prefers much to personal taste. Demos are available and don't forget to test the fre e versions, too! 4 MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION Misc Various Unsorted 4.1 How do I get pictures of people from remote sites to appear in Mail.app and NewsGrazer? Pictures, in Mail Pictures, in NewsGrazer Mail, remote Pictures Newsgrazer, remote Pictures You can do this in the following ways. * Mail In /LocalLibrary/Images/People put a tiff (64x64) in the form of person@remote.site.domain.tiff (all lowercase). In /LocalLibrary/Images/People/passwd add an entry for the person: person@remote.site.domain:*:-2:-2::/nodir:/noshell (person and sitename need to be all lowercase as well) In the future anytime you get mail from the person their picture should appear. You can include an "aliases" file in /LocalLibrary/Images/People too. This allows you to use the same picture for somebody that might send you mail from accounts on many different sites, or for those people whose letters use several different routings. To do this, you include entries in this local aliases file like so: bkohler@ucrac1.ucr.edu:bkohler.gonzo.ucr.edu gonzo.ucr.edu!bkohler@uupsi2.uucp:bkohler.gonzo.ucr.edu There should then be a .tiff file called bkohler.gonzo.ucr.edu.tiff. There can be no CAPITAL LETTERS in this file. So even if the address in the From: field looks like gonzo.ucr.edu!bkohler@uupsi2.UUCP, keep the letters lowercase in the aliases file. As always, you have to restart Mail before these changes take effect. * NewsGrazer In /LocalLibrary/NewsGrazer/People put a tiff (64x64) in the form of person.remote.site.domain (all lowercase). This is a different naming convention from what Mail uses. There is a large archive of some 4000 or 5000 pictures prepared for this purpose. The name of this archive is Faces3.tar.Z and it is about 4.1 MBytes large. Currently it is available from several anonymous ftp sites (e.g. sonata.cc.purdue.edu in: /pub/next/graphics/Images/icons/people) That image archive also contains a script which automatically creates proper alias and passwd files. 4.2 How to manipulate and examine default settings * A command line utility for examining defaults is available from: sutro.sfsu.edu:/pub/wmdefaults1.0.tar.Z * A PD App, DefaultMgr.app, is available on the NeXT ftp archives. * A more brute approach (done by DefaultMgr.app): Start the application under gdb, and then try the following sequence of commands: break *0x500976a commands 1 silent printf "%s: ", *$a2 output {char *}(4+$a2) echo \n cont end run [Carl Edman ] adds: DefaultMgr.app doesn't any longer work properly under 3.0. It still is able to manipulate defaults but can't any longer "investigate" apps to find out which defaults they use. [eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)] adds: Needs to be revised for 3.x systems. wmdefaults is only for 2.x; it's not needed for 3.0 and later. 4.3 How do I run NextApps remotely? Remote running On the local machine make sure you have public window server access, this is set from the Preferences application. On the foreign NeXT machine run the application from a terminal window with the -NXHost . Both machines should be running the same version of NeXTstep. [shayman@Objectario.com (Steve Hayman)] NeXTSTEP 3.1 and higher includes a demo application called OpenSesame that simplifies this. You can select a program in Workspace and use > Service > Open Sesame > Open on Another Host ...to launch a program on a remote machine. This is a way to run old, non-fat-binary software on new NeXTSTEP/Intel machines. 4.4 Why does UUCP hangs on outgoing connections after sending the password, but other communications software do not have a problem with it? UUCP What is happening is that the remote machine is waiting for you to end your login or password by typing a "Return" (aka &Mcirc; or CR or CARRIAGE RETURN). UUCP ends a line by sending a LineFeed (aka Ĵ or LF). Since UUCP doesn't send the CR, the login sequence is never completed, and you will usually get one of two error messages: wanted "password:" (means that username needs to end with a CR) imsg waiting for SYNC< (means that password needs to end with CR) So how do you get UUCP to send CR, instead of LF? End the send string with the sequence n c. For instance this line in L.sys will send a LF after login, but a CR after password. myfeed Any DIR 9600 cub "" ATTD19095551212 9600 \ "" ogin:--ogin: Unext ssword: secret\n\c 4.5 How do I access the NeXT's Digital Webster Dictionary from a program? Webster Get Jiro Nakamura's define program from the archiver servers: define.tar.Z. This will allow you to access the database from the command line. This program breaks under 3.x. For 3.x there are two other programs which might be useful: Webster.a5 and websterd. 4.6 How do I get the arrow keys to work in csh? csh, arrow keys This is for people who use a terminal app that does vt100 keyboard emulation - pasc First, add these lines to your .cshrc (preferably between the if and endif): set editmode=emacs set macrofiles=.macros Then create a file called .bindings and put in it: bind-to-key ExecuteNamedMacro '\e[' And, next, you need to make a file called ".macros". Using an editor like emacs (which can insert control characters using a &Qcirc; prefix), into this file put: A^@^@^@^A^P B^@^@^@^A^N C^@^@^@^A^F D^@^@^@^A^B where &@circ; means Control-@ and ƒ means Control-A, etc. Also, don't put in the leading spaces. This will set up the left and right arrows to move back and forth on the line, and the up and down arrows will cycle through your history. On Intel machines these sequences are a little different: A^A^@^@^@^P B^A^@^@^@^N C^A^@^@^@^F D^A^@^@^@^B Then source .cshrc and the changes should take effect. 4.7 What default affects menu location? Menu, location Do the following. dwrite GLOBAL NXMenuX <value> dwrite GLOBAL NXMenuY <value> 4.8 How to get Gourmet to boot up the Mathematica 2.0 kernel? Mathematica Login as root, or get root privileges running su, and execute the following five commands: mkdirs /NextApps/Mathematica.app/Kernel/NeXT cd /NextApps/Mathematica.app/Kernel ln -s uuuuu/Mathematica.app/Kernel/Display Utilities cd NeXT ln -s vvvvv/math mathexe where uuuuu is the directory where Mathematica was placed (typically, /LocalApps) and vvvvv is the directory where the executable math was placed (typically, /usr/local/bin) 4.9 Manipulating the Loginwindow loginwindow dwrites There are some for loginwindow: [Jess Anderson writes:] Here, I hope, is the quasi-definitive story on dwrites that affect the loginwindow. I'm indebted to several people, notably Art Isbell, Kristian Koehntopp, Dan Danz, Louie Mamakos, John Kheit, Felix Lugo, and Paul Sears, for some of the information presented here. Remember that dwrites are not supported by NeXT; they may change with any subsequent system release. These I've checked out using 3.0; some or all may work with earlier releases, but I can't vouch for most of them. All these dwrites must be done as root. You can also run as root and use DefaultMgr to set them (which is a whole lot more convenient if you're intending to fiddle with some of them). After setting the things you want, restart the WindowServer by logging out of the current session and typing exit on the login panel. OK, here's what we know (or think we do :-): dwrite loginwindow DefaultUser <login-name> Most new machines have set to me. This dwrite logs in user automatically. User must not have a password set, hence don't use this in a networked environment! dwrite loginwindow HostName "<host_name>" dwrite loginwindow HostName localhost These cause your host name to appear on the login panel. You need quote marks only if there's a space in the name. The first form hard-codes the name into root's defaults database. The second form uses whatever name has been set as localhost in NetInfo, which is convenient for networked machines. The font, size, color, and position of the printed string are not accessible (drat!). dwrite loginwindow ImageFile <path/to/a/suitable.tiff> This uses the tiff image pointed to instead of the standard one (in /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow.app/English.lproj/nextlogin.tiff, .lproj as appropriate for your main language) as the login panel. Be sure you get the pointer right, though, or you'll have to boot single-user to fix it. In practical terms, the image is constrained in various ways I won't detail here. dwrite loginwindow TimeToDim <integer_number> No relation to the dim time set by Preferences. The units are odd, I think. Felix reported them as 1/34 second. However, when I changed it to 1020, I got 15 seconds to dimming, and 680 gives 10 seconds, that I'm sure of. So I think the units are 1/68 second. Maybe Felix just thought it was too damn long! We all know it seems longer when you're not having fun waiting. :-) Whatever, the login screen dims to about half after this length of time. dwrite loginwindow MoveWhenIdle YES This causes the panel to move around approximately in Backspace bouncing-off-the-walls-tiff fashion. The point is to avoid burning the screen phosphors, as a static image would tend to do. The animation is controlled by the next couple dwrites. dwrite loginwindow MovementTimeout <real_number> The units are seconds. The panel starts moving (assuming the preceding is set to YES) after this time. If you set it to be less than the TimeToDim time, the movement starts before the dimming occurs. I did not try zero. I can't stand waiting around for things to happen, so I use 10 seconds for both times. The default appears to be 5 minutes. dwrite loginwindow MovementScale <integer_number> No movement occurs if this is set to 1. But it looks like the units might be approximately pixels for each change of position (the frequency of which is controlled by the next dwrite). If you put a big number here, say 200, the image moves in big jumps, but I don't know if the 200 is divided up somehow between change in x- and y-coordinates. I wouldn't worry about it much, just set it to something you like. Since my image contains readable text, I want it to scroll smoothly around, so I use the apparently minimum value, 2. The default appears to be 10. dwrite loginwindow MovementRate <real_number> The units are seconds. The image jumps by the amount above every this many seconds. The default is 0.0666 seconds. Bigger numbers mean slower motion. Since I don't like things being too jumpy or zooming around, I set this to 0.1 seconds. This makes my image ooze at a pace befitting an elderly person like me. dwrite loginwindow PowerOffDisabled YES This makes it a little harder to turn the machine off; you have to use the monitor or the minimonitor (- ) if it's set, rather than the key. dwrite loginwindow LoginHook <path/to/loginhook/executable> dwrite loginwindow LogoutHook <path/to/logouthook/executable> Pointers to the login and logout hooks, if used. It should be pointed out that some of these things (login/logout hooks, for example) are maybe more logically set where the loginwindow is invoked by the WindowServer, namely /etc/ttys. There are yet others. Here's the full list (thanks, Art): NXGetDefaultValue("loginwindow", "DebugHook") => 0x0 NXGetDefaultValue("loginwindow", "DryRun") => 0x0 NXGetDefaultValue("loginwindow", "WindowServerTimeout") => 0x0 NXRegisterDefaults("loginwindow", 0x16024) KeyMapPath: 0x12d97 "~/Library/Keyboards:/LocalLibrary/Keyboards:/NextLibrary/Keyboards" Keymap: 0x12de1 "/NextLibrary/Keyboards/USA" SwappedKeymap: 0x12e0a "No" LoginHook: 0x0 LogoutHook: 0x0 HostName: 0x0 ImageFile: 0x0 DefaultUser: 0x12e41 "me" PowerOffDisabled: 0x0 TimeToDim: 0x12e69 "2040" MoveWhenIdle: 0x12e0a "No" MovementTimeout: 0x12e8b "300.0" MovementRate: 0x12e9e "0.06666" MovementScale: 0x12eb4 "10" [Christopher J. Kane kane@cs.purdue.edu] Under NeXTSTEP 3.1, the login window has two buttons labeled "Reboot" and "Power" that allow a user to reboot and power down from the login window. In a public lab, this feature may be undesirable. The PowerOffDisabled default can be used to disable the buttons, but they are still shown in the window and push in when clicked (a bad user interface decision, IMHO). The program below patches loginwindow to eradicate the restart and power buttons. It makes the loginwindow's LoginButton class instance method initWithImage:altImage:andString: a no-op (just return nil). This patch has been applied to the machines in the NeXT lab at Purdue (like sonata.cc.purdue.edu for instance), and no adverse effects have been noted. This program must be run as root, since it writes to the file /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow.app/loginwindow. An archive with a compiled executable has been submitted to sonata.cc.purdue.edu. /* * Patches the loginwindow.app to eradicate the restart and power * buttons from the login window. * * Christopher J. Kane (kane@cs.purdue.edu) * Released into public domain; August 13, 1993. */ #include <libc.h> #include <errno.h> void main(int argc, char *argv[]) { unsigned char patch[8] = {0x0, 0x0, 0x42, 0x80, 0x4e, 0x5e, 0x4e, 0x75}; int file = open("/usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow.app/loginwindow", O_WRONLY); if (-1==file) goto error; if (-1==lseek(file, 21170, SEEK_SET)) goto error; if (-1==write(file, patch, 8)) goto error; if (-1==close(file)) goto error; exit(0); error: fprintf(stderr, "%s: %s\n", argv[0], strerror(errno)); exit(1); } FAQ-Authors note: We strongly recommend to do a backup of the loginwindow application, because the patch alters the file directly and will most likely not work on different versions of the OS. 4.10 How does one set UNIX man pages to be viewed in nroff format with DL like the standard manual pages in NS2.x? man pages, NS2.x Beyond looking in the man pages under ixBuild, etc., what you want to do is put a few files (contents listed below file name) the .index directory: .roffArgs: -man displayCommand: tbl %s | nroff -man ixBuildOptions: -fman -Nwhatis -Ncat[1-8ln] -V Other options that people suggested for ixBuildOptions: -fman -Nwhatis -Ncat[1-8] -V /usr/local/man -fman -Nwhatis -V /usr/local/man/man* I don't think you need to explicitly name the directory in the first alternative, but you do in the second unless you want the cat* directories indexed as well. Note: Do NOT leave a trailing return after the line in ixBuildOptions; DL will barf. (I think someone said that, as shipped, the standard man .index/ixBuildOptions had this problem.) [From: Eric D. Engstrom ] Can anyone tell me what the command line for this might be under NEXTSTEP 3.0? Short answer: RTM on ixbuild(1) - specifically the parameter "-g". In addition, I'd like to inform the newsgroup of a simple hack I setup on my own machine to create a unified DL target for all UNIX Manual pages (including system, local, gnu, whatever). This was easier under 2.x because IXBuild (pre IXKit) had more hacks in it... Basically, you need to setup a directory with sym-links to the various man-page directories; For example: (397)basilisk% pwd /LocalLibrary/Documentation/ManPages (398)basilisk% ls -alg total 728 drwxrwxr-x 2 eric wheel 1024 Mar 28 18:03 ./ drwxrwxr-x 11 root wheel 1024 Mar 27 00:41 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 eric wheel 370 Feb 27 22:01 .README -rw-rw-r-- 1 eric wheel 872 Feb 27 17:11 .dir.tiff -rw-rw-r-- 1 eric wheel 20 Feb 27 17:11 .displayCommand -rw-rw-r-- 1 eric wheel 47 Feb 27 17:10 .index.iname -rw-rw-r-- 1 eric wheel 6 Feb 27 17:10 .index.itype -rw-r--r-- 1 eric wheel 729088 Mar 28 18:44 .index.store -rw-rw-r-- 1 eric wheel 5 Feb 27 17:11 .roffArgs lrwxrwxrwx 1 eric wheel 18 Feb 27 17:53 gnu -> /usr/local/gnu/man/@ lrwxrwxrwx 1 eric wheel 14 Feb 27 17:53 local -> /usr/local/man/@ lrwxrwxrwx 1 eric wheel 9 Feb 27 17:53 news -> /news/man/@ lrwxrwxrwx 1 eric wheel 35 Feb 27 17:53 system -> /usr/man/@ Notice that I also copied all the .[a-z]* files from the /usr/man/ directory as well. Then, use ixbuild -gl to (re)build the index. If your any of the links point to directories on other devices, add "d" to "-gl". "-v" will give you verbose output (like my writing style ;-). RTM under ixbuild(1) for more info. Unfortunately, once the index is built, I've never successfully gotten DL to update it correctly. Instead I have to do it by hand using ixbuild -ogldvc (actually, I setup a cron job to reindex weekly.) If you have troubles, try removing the .index.store file and rebuilding the entire database. I've had intermittent problems with ixbuild under 3.0. 4.11 Appending a signature and addition headers to your e-mail .signature signature Mail There is a bundle for Mail to which, beside other features, allows you to add a .signature file to outgoing e-mails: EnhancedMail.bundle. This software package is available by the FTP archive sites. Here are other solutions which might serve you as well: [Carl Edman ] First create a simple text file the following content: #!/bin/sh { if test -r ${HOME}/.add-header; then cat ${HOME}/.add-header; fi cat - if test -r ${HOME}/.signature; then echo "--"; cat ${HOME}/.signature; fi }| /usr/lib/sendmail "$@" A good name for this file would be sendmail-addheader. If you want to and can install it for system-wide use put this file in e.g. /usr/lib. Otherwise your private /Unix/bin directory is also fine. Make certain that this file has execute permission. To set that, use e.g. chmod 755 /usr/lib/sendmail-addheader. Next, open up the preferences panel in Mail. Switch to the expert options. Change the Mailer option from /usr/lib/sendmail (which it should originally be) to /usr/lib/sendmail-addheader (or whatever the name of the file you created is). OK this and you should be set. From now on your file /.signature file should always be appended to all mail sent out with Mail.app. In addition if you have a file called add-header in your home-directory it should automatically be prepended to your outgoing mail. To implement a reply-to line, you would simply give it the following content: Reply-to: My Real Human Name <name@my.real.address> IMPORTANT: Make certain that you have one and exactly one newline at the end of /.add-header. Anything might break outgoing mail. Beware! BUG: The /.signature file is not added properly for NeXT mail containing attachments. The headers will still be added properly. This could be fixed but probably is more of a hassle than it is worth. [From: jbrow@radical1.radical.com (Jim Brownfield)] I have added a Terminal Service to terminal to add a signature file whenever I type "0" (command/zero), and I thought this might be of interest to people who read your FAQ. I have used this technique for over a year with no problems, and it has the advantage of working both with non-NeXT and NeXT Mail. First, you must create a file with your signature containing the characters "--" on the first line (there has been some discussion as to whether this should be "-- " ("--" followed by a blank), but my file only has the "--" as the first line. The rest of the file should contain your normal signature. If you place the file in your home directory, I recommend NOT using the filename ".signature" for this file since it may conflict with other programs (like NewsGrazer). I use the filename ".fullSignature". The file used for the signature should be ascii and not RTF to allow the file to be used for NeXT and non-NeXT mail. You can create a "Get signature" service by launching Terminal and accessing the "Terminal Services" window through the "Info/Terminal Services..." menu item. Then perform the following: 1. Create a new service by clicking on the "New" button. Change the service name to "Get signature". 2. Add the command "cat " and "0" (zero) to the "Command and Key Equivalent" entry. The "0" is obviously arbitrary, but I've found that it doesn't conflict with any of the commands I normally use. 3. De-select any items checked within the "Accept" grouping. Select the "As Input" radio button under the "Use Selection" section. 4. Change the "Execution" popup to "Run Service in the Background". Select the "Return Output" and "No Shell" radio buttons. 5. Click the "Save" button. Now, when you type "0" (actually, from any application), your signature will be added wherever your cursor is located (be careful not to have text selected as it will replace the selected text with your signature). I have found this to be very convenient for adding my .sig to outgoing mail. 4.12 How can I quickly find a file if I don't know its directory? searching, files find The Unix find command on the NeXT has the capability of quickly searching a database of all the files. This database is located in /etc/find.codes and has to be generated periodically. You can automatically generate this database, say twice a week at 3:15 a.m., by adding this line to your file /etc/crontab.local (you might have to create this file). 15 03 * * 2,5 root /usr/lib/find/updatedb > /usr/adm/updatedb.err After this has run, you can quickly find any file from a terminal by typing find where is a part of the file name you want (it is case-sensitive). [Carl Edman ] adds: Find still works under 3.0, but now has to match the entire filename (including the path) for a match to be recognized i.e. where under 2.x you would have find foobar, under 3.0 you have find '*foobar*' (The ' are necessary to prevent the shell from expanding the wildcards itself). [From: Geert Jan van Oldenborgh ] I find the following script in /usr/local/bin very handy to bring back the behavior that God Intended find to have: #!/bin/csh if ( $#argv == 1 ) then /usr/bin/find \*$1\* else set noglob /usr/bin/find $argv[1-] unset noglob endif 4.13 Mail.app suddenly stopped working! Mail, doesn't start When I double-click the Mail.app icon it loads and seems to start but then just terminates. How can I fix this ? Usually the problem is caused by Mail.app being terminated with extreme prejudice such as by a power outage or kill -9. Under those circumstances Mail.app may leave a lock file in your active mailbox. Due to a bug 3.0 Mail.app doesn't ask for permission to override this lock when started up again but just dies. Open a shell and look in /Mailboxes/Active.mbox. If this directory contains a file called .lock you have found the culprit. You can safely remove this file. 4.14 Recycler doesn't work anymore?! Recycler For some reason, after moving my home directory, my recycler no longer works? [From: eric%basilisk@src.honeywell.com (Eric D. Engstrom)] Basically, when you dump a file in the recycler, the workspace manager (attempts) to move it to one of the following locations: (note: no order implied here, because I'm unsure of the actual order used) - $HOME/.NeXT/.NextTrash (Should always exist; unsure what happens if it doesn't) - /tmp/.NextTrash_$USER Automatically created if non-existent) - $MNT-POINT/.NextTrash/$USER (.NextTrash NOT automatically created if non-existent) Also, the workspace requires that the trash directory into which it puts the to-be-deleted file be on the same disk partition that the file originally came from (for speed, I assume). Also, an example of the permissions for the external disk .NextTrash directory (which is not automatically created) should be : ls -aldg /private/mnt2/local/.NextTrash drwxrwxrwt [...] /private/mnt2/local/.NextTrash/ Note: /private/mnt2/local is the mount point. Do chmod 1777 .NextTrash to get the permissions right. Thus, if you moved your home directory from one partition to another, the one you left may not have a "recycler-repository" to use. 4.15 How to hear sound from CDPlayer.app thought NEXTSTEP system? digital audio CDPlayer To hear sound, the following info is important. [Carl Edman ] Hearing the sound directly on the NeXT can be done with the play3401 program from the archives if you have a Toshiba 3401 series drive. Theoretically this can also be done with NEC [78]4-1s and Apple CD 300s, though I know of no NeXT program which supports them. Most other drives (including the NeXT CD-ROM) just don't have the hardware to do it. There is another player available: CD_evil, which is based on play3401 but offers a GUI. FAQ-Authors note: On Intel system it's very easy: just connect the CD-Audio out (internal) to your CD-in of the soundcard (internal). Anyway there are problems with different drives. E.g. we know, that the Toshiba, Sony and Nec drives currently use the same instruction set to access audio data. So be aware that there are drives which simply can't be accessed through CDPlayer. 4.16 How do I decompress a file with the extension .compressed? .compressed compress uncompress gnutar tar gzip gunzip Do this with the following methods. [From: sanguish@digifix.com] .compressed files have been compressed in the Workspace Manager. Basically, they are just .tar.Z files. Even single files are tarred as well as compressed. There are several methods of decompressing these files. 1. They can be decompressed by selecting them in the Workspace, and Selecting uncompress from the file menu. 2. They can be decompressed by selecting them in the Workspace, and bringing up the Workspace Inspector. (You can double click to get there faster) 3. You can rename them to be .tar.Z and handle them the way you do them. FAQ-Authors note: use uncompress to access the .Z files and/or gunzip to access .z/.gz files. Use tar to access .tar files. You might also you gnutar to access both together, e.g. to access a .tar.gz at once. Read the man pages for more information. 4.17 How do I change the Workspace compression app? compress gzip gunzip dwrites Change it with the given method. [Stephen Peters ] You can change the tools that the Workspace uses to create and read its .compressed files by issuing the following commands in a terminal window: dwrite Workspace compress /usr/bin/gzip dwrite Workspace uncompress /usr/bin/gunzip dwrite Workspace AlwaysTarForCompress YES [Reuven M. Lerner reuven@the-tech.mit.edu] This is generally a good thing, except that people might follow your advice and then try to send NeXTmail to someone who is still using compress/uncompress. Changing Workspace/uncompress to gunzip isn't a problem, since it uncompresses all sorts of files, but people should be very careful not to change Workspace/compress to gzip unless they will only be dealing with other gzip-equipped users. 4.18 console: loginwindow: netinfo problem - No such directory. netinfo problem, /keyboard directory is missing. It's benign... but annoying. niutil -create . /keyboard Fixed in 2.1 and up. 4.19 Root login not possible on client machine root login A number of people have complained about the situation where root can log onto the configuration server, but not its clients. Login proceeds normally, then a window with "Workspace error Internal error (signal 10)" pops up. Other users are not affected. This scenario occurs with NetBooted clients that are not permitted root access to / via the server's /etc/exports file, either via an explicit root= option or (the most heinous) anon=0. For security reasons many sites will NOT want to permit such access. Note that what you're up against is only a Workspace Manager misfeature; there's no problem logging in as root on the real UNIX console, or logging in as a non-root user and then using "su" to obtain root privileges. Root access is needed to: * Log in a root Workspace. * Perform BuildDisk on a client. * Run the GuidedTour demo for the first time subsequent invocations will not autologin, but they will run just fine if you log in as NextTour (no password). It is not required to perform updates on the local NetInfo database, for any normal user operations, nor to run programs requiring root access on the server using -NXHost. 4.20 How to boot NEXTSTEP from the second (higher SCSI ID) HD? Boot, from higher SCSI ID Boot, from second drive Use the following command. bsd(1,0,0) -a which will then ask you for the drive to use as the root disk, or still easier, bsd(1,0,0)sdmach rootdev=sd1 In the boot command the name of the bootfile can be replaced by '-'. This is very useful as the length of the bootcommand which can be stored in the permanent memory is very limited (on NeXT machines only). So the only way to eg. increase the number of buffers permanently to 128 in the boot command is to use the following boot command: sd- nbu=128 (sdmach nbu=128 would have been too long). 4.21 How to make swapfile shrink to the normal size? swapfile The swapfile is located in /private/vm. The only current way to make it shrink is to reboot the machine. See the man pages for swaptab for more information. Note, that putting a space after the comma in /etc/swaptab (lowat=,hiwat=) makes swapon ignore the hiwat entry. There is a short trick which seems to work for several people: type exit in the login panel. This will exit the window server and restart it immediatly. If you are lucky, this will reclaim some space. 4.22 Does netinfo work between machines running NEXTSTEP 2.x and 3.x? netinfo Yes. 4.23 Why does the console user "own" the external disk filesystem? filesystem, external You need an entry in /etc/fstab so the disk will be mounted at boot time, rather than being "automounted" when somebody logs in. Automounted disks are owned by whoever logged in, fstab-mounted disks are owned by root. Something like this: /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/sd1a /Disk 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 (assuming the external disk is to be mounted as /Disk) fstab should be niloaded into the Netinfo database if it contains any NFS mounts. 4.24 How to limit coredump sizes? coredump, size limit Limit it by the following command. This will work for apps running from a shell. limit coredumpsize 0 If your dock or workspace apps are dumping core, there's also: dwrite Workspace CoreLimit <bytesize> 4.25 What is the maximum value of nbuf that I can specify on bootup? buffers, ROM I know the ROM monitor only allows twelve characters, but I use something like this: bsd sdmach nbuf=xxx (NeXT machines only) Enter the hardware monitor. Hit 'p' to adjust the configuration parameters. It will respond: Boot command: ? Enter sd- nbu=xxx, where xxx is a number less than 256. 4.26 How can I change the mouse pointer shape and color? Maybe this could point you into the right direction. Pipe it to pft and see what happens.... %!PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF-2.0 %%BoundingBox: 0 0 16 16 %%EndComments 0 0 16 16 Retained window dup windowdeviceround gsave 16 16 scale 16 16 4 [16 0 0 -16 0 16] {< ffffffff00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 ffff0d0fffff0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 ffff0d0f0d0fffff000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 ffff0d0ffd0f0d0fffff00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 fffffd0ffd0ffd0ffd0fffff0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 fffffd0ff50ff50ff50ffd0fffff000000000000000000000000000000000000 fffff50ff50ff50ff50ff50ff50fffff00000000000000000000000000000000 fffff50fd00fd00fd00fd00fd00f908fffff0000000000000000000000000000 ffffd00fd00fd00fd00fd00fd00f908f908fffff000000000000000000000000 ffffd00fd00fd00f908f908fffffffffffffffffffff00000000000000000000 ffff908f908fffff00ff00ffffff000000000000000000000000000000000000 ffff908fffff0000ffff00ff00ffffff00000000000000000000000000000000 ffffffff00000000ffff00ff00ffffff00000000000000000000000000000000 ffff0000000000000000ffff00ff00ffffff0000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000ffff00ff00ffffff0000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000000ffffffff00000000000000000000000000000000 >} false 3 alphaimage grestore gstate nextdict /_NXSharedGrayAlpha get NX_TwelveBitRGB 1 index setwindowdepthlimit windowdeviceround 0 0 16 16 5 4 roll 0 32 Copy composite nulldevice termwindow Maybe somebody wants to write some kind of "pointer editor"? There is also a commercial application named 'MouseMagic' which handles this and custom acceleration modes. 4.27 How do I customize BuildDisk to create a bootable disk of my own configuration? BuildDisk, customization The BuildDisk application is extremely limited in terms of the types of disks configuration it knows how to build. Essentially it "knows" about swapdisks, optical disks, 330 and 660 MB SCSI disks. If you wish to do custom configurations you should look at existing BLD script files in /etc/BLD.* There is a script which you can use to specify which BLD script you are using, which disktab entry, and other useful parameters in /usr/etc/builddisk Some things to note: * the fstab installed on the target disk is specified in the newclient command in the BLD script. standard fstabs are extracted from /usr/template/client/fstab.* * the BLD scripts do not put down a new boot block on the scsi disk, you may want to install one by hand using the /usr/etc/disk program. * some disks boot fine but NeXTstep comes up with a blank window and no login window. This is due sometimes to forgetting to install an accessible /NextLibrary/{Fonts,Sounds}. In general you need quite a lot of things to make a bootable disk. You can build a minimally usable bootable floppy (for crash recovery purposes). There is a modified version of builddisk (to make it support building floppies, a minimal change) and a BLD script to build the boot floppy available at cs.orst.edu in next/sources/Bootfloppy.tar.Z. (I put this together in response to several requests.) A newer version of Bootfloppy for 2.1 is on the archives as next/sources/util/Bootfloppy2.1.tar.Z. Also available from the archives is BootFloopy 3.x (for --- you guessed it --- NEXTSTEP 3.x). I might also add that one can improve on disk usage while enhancing functionality. BuildDisk (which is used by the various BootFloppy scripts) just copies the standard binaries for ls, mv, cp aso. from /bin. These binaries are statically linked as shipped by NeXT which makes them huge. (e.g. /bin/ls is 106496 bytes large. /usr/local/bin/gls with more features is just 16268 bytes). If you replace these binaries by the BSD or GNU equivalents you can save several hundred kBytes on your boot floppy. This extra diskspace can be used for tar, dump and more tools which makes the boot floppy actually usable. Tested. 4.28 Are there any more dwrites useful for the workspace, ...? dwrite, misc There a lot of dwrite useful for you. (self explanatory) dwrite Workspace compress /usr/bin/gzip dwrite Workspace uncompress /usr/bin/gunzip dwrite Workspace AlwaysTarForCompress Yes dwrite Workspace DockOrginX (some number) dwrite Workspace DockOrginY (some number) dwrite Workspace DockOffsetX -1057 (leftmost) dwrite Workspace DockOnTop (0 or 1 for true or false) dwrite appname NXCMYKAdjust YES dwrite Preferences 24HourClock yes 4.29 What is the @LongLink message from gnutar all about? @LongLink gnutar Because gnutar tries to be somewhat compatible to the old tar format, it can't store pathnames longer than 100 chars. In order to store files with longer names, it generates a special file entry containing just the longer filename. These are the long links you see. Nothing to worry about. 4.30 What stands the file .place3_0.wmd for? .place3_0.wmd The Workspace uses it to record the window attributes (sort order, view type, icon positions and so on) Switching the 'UNIX Expert' flag in UNIX Preferences panel off hides all files which start by '.'. 4.31 How to create transparent icons with IconBuilder IconBuilder icon, transparent If you are repainting an icon on the filesystem e.g. .dir.tiff make a copy and remove it first. Then reload the directory (the default icon gets shown). This is needed because the system caches icons. Now here comes how to create transparent backgrounds using IconBuilder: * Select Format->Document Layout (or New document layout) * 'Has alpha' must be checkedus * Open the color inspector * UNcheck 'paint in overlay mode' * Choose any color (I took white) * Set Opacity to 0 * Use Paintbucket to fill the whole icon * Now set Opacity back to 100 * Draw the icon What 'Paint in overlay mode… does, is that when checked, it will use both the alpha (opacity) of the existing pixel and the alpha selected in the color inspector and combine both into a new color. When unchecked the existing pixel will just be replaced with one using color and alpha as selected in the inspector. 4.32 How to access the MAC format of a mixed DOS/MAC CD-ROM Mac DOS CD-ROM Some CD-ROMs are using multiple fileformats to adress more people. This is done by putting two filesystems on the disk. With NEXTSTEP you are able to acess both. But what to do if the Workspace only shows you the DOS side of a disk, while the Mac side is often more convenient (due to e.g. long filenames). The solution is to change the priority the system is searching for a usable filesystem. You need to rearange the filesystems in /usr/filesystems to fit your needs. Here is how: * ls -lR /usr/filesystems shows the actual searching queue. * mv /usr/filesystems /tmp/filesystems to backup things * mkdir /usr/filesystems recreate the directory. * cp -p -r /tmp/filesystems/xx /usr/filesystems copy the filesystems in order of searching back to the default location. * chmod 4755 /usr/filesystems/xx.fs/xx.util reset SUID mode * reset the links in /usr/filesystems/DOS.fs/. 4.33 Is there a PPP for NEXTSTEP PPP There is a commercial PPP and a public domain PPP implementation. For the public domain PPP there is an additional FAQ available at: http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/ The public domain PPP is based on the PPP-2.2 distribution. This distribution offers several enhancements over ppp-2.1.2. Especially noteworty is that it implements BSD packet compression. Using packet compression can lead to higher throughput than you get using compressing modems. The port works on Motorola, Intel (both Mux and NeXT supplied serial drivers), and HP systems running OS 3.2 and 3.3. It also works in conjunction with Black and White's NXFAX software. You may also want to join the mailing list for PPP. This will keep you informed of new releases and will provide an arena for discussing problems with the NeXT specific PPP port. To add yourself to the list (or for any other administrative requests), send an email message to: listproc@listproc.thoughtport.com requesting you be placed on the list. Make sure to include your proper return email address. To send mail to all the participants on the list, address your messages to: nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com 5 BLACK (NEXT) HARDWARE 5.1 What disk drives will work with the NeXT? disk drives There are some situations in which there are problems. Here is a short list which might help you in your disk drive quest: * These drives don't work with NeXT hardware: FUJITSU 2684SAU, SEAGATE ST51080N, IBM IB06H8891 * The SCSI driver for NeXT hardware only accepts asynchronous data transfer. Although every new SCSI-2 drive should support this mode, this isn't true for certain drives. Also sometimes there is a hardware switch (a little jumper on the drive) which switches between synchronous and asynchronous mode. You definitly can only use asynchronous disks! * There are also problems with sync negotiation on NeXT hardware. In general there should be another jumper to toggle this are you might change this with an SCSI utility. There are also problems with the tagged command queuing option. Anyway all these problem can be solved. Most SCSI disk drives will work without modifying /etc/disktab. There are problems with the installation of boot blocks and badly formed fstab generated by BuildDisk of NEXTSTEP 2.0. A disk connected to the NeXT will need to have a NeXT specific label written to it before it can be properly recognized by the system. If you get an error message "Invalid Label..." this indicates that the drive was successfully seen by the NeXT machine but it does not have the proper label, to install a label use the /usr/etc/disk program on the raw disk device that the system assigned to the device and use the label command to write the label onto the disk. [how the NeXT assigns disk devices is explained in the N&SA manual] NEXTSTEP releases 2.0 and up provide a low level disk formatter, sdform, which does not offer much flexibility, but gets the job done. Most drives are already formatted at the factory. You might look for the utility sdformat on the FTP sites as well, which overcomes some problems of sdform supplied by NeXT. 5.2 Will a 68030 NeXT Computer run NEXTSTEP 3.3? NS3.3 and 68030 Yes, but note that NeXTstep 3.3 is be optimized for the 68040 CPUs. NeXTstep 1.0 and 2.x were optimized for the 68030 CPU, 68882 FPU machines. 5.3 How do I configure my HP 660 to boot properly? HP 660, boot boot, HP 660 It has been reported that HP drives fail to autoboot on power on or while other devices are on the scsi bus. The problem seems to be with drives configured to spin-up automatically on power on do not get recognized at boot time. To remedy this problem reliably with HP 660Mb (HP97548) and 1Gbyte (HP 97549) drives remove the auto spinup jumper on the back of the drive. Looking at the disk from the back with the power connector on the lower left, it is the sixth jumper. The official fix was an EPROM change to the HP drive from HP. The HP drives took too long to wait up, so the system wasn't happy with the other drives coming ready first especially when the HP was suppose to be the boot device. (The EPROM is no longer available from NeXT). 5.4 What is the procedure for installing a Fujitsu M2263SA/SB SCSI Disk as the NeXT Boot Disk? Fujitsu M2263SA/SB See Izumi Ohzawa's note in /pub/next/docs/fujitsu.recipe available via anonymous ftp from sonata.cc.purdue.edu. 5.5 How to mount a corrupted OD that won't automount? OD, corrupt OD, mount If you can't automount an OD, and you can't fix it, you can still manually mount it. Log in as root. Type /usr/etc/mount /dev/od0a /FoO. It will ask you to insert the disk. Insert it. It is mounted. This method WILL mount a corrupted OD so you can read its contents. Since it is corrupted, it is not recommended to write to it. You should copy the important files to something else, then reformat it. 5.6 What non-NeXT CD Players that work with a NeXT? CD-ROM, NeXT A USENET survey summary: Apple CD-150 PLI 1035N for NeXT SUN CD-ROM drive (Sony CDU-8012, Rev. 3.1a) NEC 73M and 74 (transfer rates > of 300 KB/sec.) NEC 84 S NEC 4xi NEC 6x speed Apple CD-SC (Sony 541-22 mechanism) Apple CD-300 Apple CD-300+ Chinon CDS-431 (with new drivers) Eclipse CD-ROM from Microtech Toshiba 3201 Toshiba 3301 Toshiba 3401 Toshiba 3501 Toshiba TXM3301E1 Toshiba XM-2200A external Toshiba XM3601 Plextor Quadspeed Plextor PX-63CS (6xspeed) DENON DRD-253 external (data only, no music) HP's LaserROM drive (Toshiba XM-3301TA drive in HP's box) Texel 3024 (required a firmware upgrade to version was 1.11) As with all SCSI devices, they just work. Some drives only get problems with their audio support with CD-Player (due to not standardized SCSI audio commands, but this isn't a NeXT specific problem!) In contrary the question should be: are there SCSI CD-ROMs which don't work together with NEXTSTEP? 5.7 What are some other sources of toner cartridges and trays for the NeXT laser printer? toner, NeXT printer The toner cartridge is a standard EP-S cartridge, the same that fits the HP LaserJet III and some other printers. Any HP LaserJet II or III will fit. HPLJ4mSI cartridges do NOT fit. Any HP LJII or LJIII paper tray will fit. IIISI and 4 trays will not. Confused? Read again :-) 5.8 What printers (laser or otherwise) may be used with a NeXT? printers, on NeXT If you plan to connect an HP LaserJet (II, IIP, III, etc.) you need to make a special cable in order for the NeXT 040 and HP to get the hardware handshaking correct. This is true for whatever version of the OS you are running. NeXT 68040 to HP LaserJet III Cable (not a Null-modem cable): Mini-Din HP DB-25 1 (DTR) nc 2 (DCD) 4 (RTS) 3 (TXD) 3 (RXD) 4 (GND) 7 (GND) 5 (RXD) 2 (TXD) 6 (RTS) 5 (CTS) 7 (RTXC) nc 8 (CTS) 20 (DTR) You may want to use hardware flow control for reliability (ie /dev/ttyfa). If you have problems with other printers, check the cable pinouts in the printer's manual against the one recommended in the zs man-page! Refer to Chapter 13 in Network and System Administration. 5.9 What can I do to prevent my NeXT printer from running all the time? printer, turning off The NeXT 400dpi printer powers up every time you boot up when the print daemon is started (/usr/lib/NextPrinter/npd in /etc/rc). Apart from not running the daemon at boot time (commenting it out and having to run it by hand later), you can add the following lines to /etc/rc.local: if [ -f /usr/etc/nppower ]; then sleep 3 /usr/etc/nppower off (echo 'powering off NeXTprinter') >/dev/console fi Once you queue a print job the printer daemon will automatically power up the NeXT printer for you. The printer daemon will not automatically power off the machine after a print job, you will need to turn off the printer by typing /usr/etc/nppower off. 5.10 What type of microphones will work with the NeXT? microphone, NeXT Some NeXT owners use the RadioShack (Realistic) Tie Clip Microphone ($19.95) cat 33-1052. NeXT Computer, Inc. uses the "Sony Electret Condenser Microphone ECM-K7" in-house (available for $60). Some use Sony Tie-Clip microphone, #ECM-144, which costs around $40. Others have successfully used a WalMart brand microphone (available for $6). 5.11 How do I connect a modem to the NeXT? modem, on NeXT Previously, we suggested that people use Mac modem cables; however, it has come to our attention that there is no one standard Mac modem cable. Since correct modem operation on a NeXT depends upon a correctly wired modem cable, buying a Mac cable is not a good idea. Some Mac cables do not allow dial-in and no Mac cable allows the use of hardware flow control. For these reasons, we are recommending that only cables that meet NeXT specifications be used. [however, if you have a Mac modem cable lying around and don't care about dial-in or hardware flow control, then by all means....] These cables are available commercially from any store, how still sells NeXT stuff, and from Computer Cables and Devices, or can be custom built. Note that no off- the-shelf Mac cable will allow hardware flow control. It is however possible to make a such a cable from an Imagewriter II cable by replacing one of the mini-8 ends with a DB-25 connector. Hardware flow control is absolutely essential for all serial port connections with speeds of 9600 bps and above. Make certain that you cable supports it, your modem is configured to use it and you are using the hardware flowcontrol devices /dev/cuf[ab], /dev/ttydf[ab] and /dev/ttyf[ab], respectively. Most people use tip or kermit to control the modem. SLIP and/or UUCP may also be used (but are more complicated to set up and require the remote machine to also have SLIP and/or UUCP (respectively)). A version of the DOS-program pcomm can be found on ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de The 2.0 Network and System Administration Manual, which is available in hard-copy (shipped with each machine) contains an extensive description of how to use modems with the NeXT machine. Additionally NeXT in their TechSupportNotes series called SerialPortDoc.wn and UUCP for 1.0/1.0a systems . This document is available from most FTP sites that carry NextAnswers. Also, try to obtain the about.modem.Z file by Mark Adler in the pub/next/lore directory on sonata.cc.purdue.edu 5.12 Are there any alternative sources for the SCSI-II to SCSI-I cable required to attach external SCSI devices to the 040 NeXTs? SCSI cable to NeXT Yes. This cable is the same as the one used by Sun SparcStations and DecStation 5000's (but not DecStation 3100's which use 68-pin micro rather than the 50pin micro connector used on NeXT 040, Suns and DecStation 5000). The implication that a Sun SparcStation cable can be used with NeXT peripherals is generally false. NeXT themselves, and DEC, and nearly everyone else who makes SCSI peripherals, puts Telco-50 (centronics) connectors on their devices. Sun in their infinite wisdom uses DD50 which are quite different. Telco-50 is an approved connector type in the SCSI spec. Probably the original point was that the 50-pin microSCSI on the NeXT and Sun and some DecStations was different from the 68-pin microSCSI on the DecStation 5000. But this does not address the other end of the cable. 5.13 What fax modems will work with the NeXT? fax modem, on NeXT Most available modems of today, don't work for with the general fax driver available with NEXTSTEP. In this case you need to perchuse a commercial solution: 'NXFax'. There are demos available. The following information is pretty much old, and might probably be obsolete now: The following fax modems are currently available for the NeXT Computer: Manufacturer, Model Supplier, Type DoveFax for NeXT, Dove Computer, Class 1 HSD FaxMaster, HSD Microcomputer, Class 2* mix fax, i·link GmbH, Class 2** SupraFAXModem V.32bis, Supra Corp., Class 2 (requires DFax driver or NXFax driver) ZyXEL U-1496E/E+/S/S+, ZyXEL USA, Class 2 (requires NXFax driver) Telebit T3000 with fax option Telebit WorldBlazer with fax option (requires NXFax driver) Neuron 1414/1414+ with ZyXEL ROM upgrade (requires NXFax driver) (Neuron 1414 and Neuron 1414+ modems are relabelled ZyXEL modems. Contact ZyXEL USA for ROM upgrades. Neuron modems with 512K ROMs should upgrade their ROMs and ROM sockets to 1 Mb ROMs. People with 1Mb ROMs should just order the new ROMs.) (*) Note that the Class 2 is not yet approved; it is still out for ballot, after having failed in an October 1990 round. The Abaton InterFax 24/96 NX driver supports Class 2 as it was in that draft; there are expected to be very few changes prior to approval. (**) Note that mix fax works with both the October 1990 and October 1991 draft versions of Class 2, especially with the NeXT supplied Class 2 modem driver. Upgrading to an approved version of Class 2 would be a matter of just a software update (holds true for any forthcoming (class 3?) standard, for that matter). In order to use a fax modem with the NeXT Computer, a NeXT compatible fax driver must be available to operate the modem. Modem control procedures may be proprietary or conform to one of the following EIA/TIA standards: Class 1: CCITT T.30 session management and CCITT T.4 image data handling are controlled by the driver. Class 2*: CCITT T.30 session management and image data transport are handled by the modem. CCITT T.4 image data preparation and interpretation are controlled by the driver. Release 2.0 of the NeXT system software includes a Class 2 modem driver which will work with any fax modem which meets the EIA/TIA Asynchronous Facsimile Control standard. Other fax modems must supply a NeXT compatible driver. Note that there's a small bug in 2.0 (fixed in 2.1): a symbolic link is missing for the file Class2_Fax_Modem_Driver in /usr/lib/NextPrinter. The simple fix: create the link; it should reference Interfax_Fax_Modem_Driver, also in the /usr/lib/NextPrinter directory. An alternative workaround for Class 2, especially useful for novices: just use InterFax as the modem type in PrintManager, rather than Class 2*. After installing a fax modem using PrintManager one must repeat setting things in the Fax Options panel in order for them to be stored correctly. In particular, these include the Rings to Answer and Number of Times to Retry. This affects all fax modems being installed. If one uses illegal characters in the Modems Number field in the Fax Options when configuring an InterFax modem then the modem will not answer the phone. Legal characters are digits, spaces, and plus signs. This does not affect the Dove modem. Modems from the german vendor Dr. Neuhaus also work with the internal Fax-Driver. But only the FURY-series does. 5.14 How may I attach more than two serial ports to the NeXT? serial port, >2 on NeXT TTYDSP From Yrrid converts the DSP port into an additional serial port. Yrrid Incorporated 507 Monroe St. Chapel Hill, NC 27516 Voice: 919-968-7858 Fax: 919-968-7856 E-mail: yrrid@world.std.com Unitnet has a device, the SLAT, that will connect to the scsi bus. Uninet Peripherals, Inc. Voice: 714-263-4222 Fax: 714-263-4299 Central Data Corporation makes the scsiTerminal Server family of products. Drivers for NextStep 3.0 and 3.1 are available for both the 68K-based and Intel-based platforms. The products available for NeXT include: Product DESCRIPTION ST-1002+ 2 serial, 1 parallel SP-1003 3 parallel ST-1008+ 8 serial, 1 parallel ST-1016 16 serial You can also mix and match multiple units. Phone: 217/359-8010 Toll-free: 800/482-0315 FAX: 217-359-6904 Email: info@cd.com support@cd.com sales@cd.com Also, one can use an IP terminal server. In a non-Internet environment, inexpensive terminal servers, which don't control access to the network securely, can be used. If your network is an Internet subnet, you must use a terminal server that controls either: (1) who can log into the terminal server, or (2) which machines the terminal server will access. These tend to be more expensive (around $250/port, but in 8-port increments), but it may be quite economical means of sharing ports among many NeXTs (or other computers) on the network. Particularly if one has a NeXT network, an Ethernet terminal server may be the way to go. One that supports Linemode Telnet (such as the Xylogics Annex III) will offer the best performance. 5.15 What is the best and/or cheapest way to connect a NeXT to a thick Ethernet? Ethernet, thick There are many possible solutions. For example, here are three: * The University of Waterloo (Audio Research Group) uses an old door-stop PC XT clone with two Western Digital cards (WD8003E Ethercard Plus, $250 CDN each; you should be able to get them for under $200 (US$)) running Vance Morrison's PCRoute (available from accuvax.nwu.edu). You will also need a thickwire transceiver and a drop cable (about $300). In addition, you will need Internet addresses for the NeXT and both PC Ethernet cards (and a subnet address). The documentation for PCRoute contains quite a bit of information on the performance of this setup. This solution requires two subnets. There is another program called PCbridge that allows the machines on the thin and thick wires to be part of the same subnet. This product also does packet filtering, so that packets destined to machines on the same side of the net do not cross over. * Cabletron sells a MR-2000C Singleport Repeater for $695 that does exactly what you need minus drop cable and transceiver. Their number is (408) 441-9900. * The march 1992 INMAC networking and connectivity products catalog lists thicknet to thinnet converters. Product number Z903071 price $445. Claims full ieee 802.3 compatibility and diagnostic LED's. * NuData (908)-842-5757 (USA) sells AUI10 base-T boxes for about $149. 5.16 How can I connect my NeXT to the telephone line and use it like an answering Machine? answering machine A company that is selling both hardware and software to allow you to do this: SES Computing 13206 Jenner Lane Austin, Texas 78729 Voice: (512) 219-9468 (Demo system number) i.link, a european company, has a combined data/fax modem and telephone answering machine. It uses the DSP port and is implemented mainly in software on the DSP with a little bit of hardware to interface to the phone line. i.link GmbH Nollendorfstrasse 11-12 D-1000 Berlin 30 Germany Tel: +49 30 216 20 48 Fax: +49 30 215 82 74 E-mail: info@ilink.de 5.17 What color monitors can I use with the Color NeXT machines? monitor, color The important specs for the color monitor are: Horz Scan Rate: 61 KHz Vertical Scan Rate: 68 Hz Resolution: 1280x1024 (NeXT uses 1120x832) NON-INTERLACED Displays may require alignment to adjust for the scan rate of NeXT machines. The Nanao T560i 17" color display has been used with NeXTstation Color machines, and seems to work well. Some larger NEC displays have also worked. 5.18 Where can I get 13W3 to BNC adapters to connect third party color monitors? 13W3 to BNC BNC to 13W3 You can get them from:NeXT/Bell Atlantic: part number S4025. NuData in New Jersey carries 13W3 female to 4 BNC male connectors. The price is about $100. NuData Voice: 908-842-5757 DISCLAIMER: I take no responsibility for the following. If you can source the bits yourself here's how it's built. 1 female 13W3 connector 3 Male BNC connectors 3 mini coax ie. the pins to the coaxial are male and the regular pins are female. Looks like this. . o o o o o . . 13W3 FEMALE A1 o o o o o A2 A3 | | | | | | | | | Red Green Blue 3 BNC's That's the coax part. The outer shielding of the coax's are grounded on both pin 10 and the case. 5.19 How may I attach Centronics or 16 bit wide parallel ports to the NeXT? centronics, NeXT parallel port, NeXT Uninet has devices, the SLAT-2 and the SLAT-DRV11, that will connect to the scsi bus. Uninet Peripherals, Inc. Voice: 714-263-4222 Fax: 714-263-4299 zardoz!sales@ics.uci.edu or uunet!ucivax!zardoz!sales 5.20 Why does an unused serial port consume cpu? serial port, cpu power usage Perhaps you've got a (probably fairly long) unshielded serial cable attached to it, with either nothing at the other end or a powered-off device at the other end. EE's call this an antenna. It's probably picking up most of the radio stations in your area, which the serial chip is interpreting as a continuous stream of garbage bytes, which it feeds to getty, which tries to interpret them as login attempts. How do you avoid this problem? * leave the device at the other end switched on (even when it's not transmitting, it will assert a voltage that overrides the noise) * unplug the cable from the next when you're not using it * use 'kill -STOP' & 'kill -CONT' to stop and resume the getty process as needed * buy an adequately shielded serial cable 5.21 How to adjust MegaPixel Display brightness and focus? brightness, MegaPixel focus, MegaPixel Adjust it using the following information. From: Charles William Swiger I have adjusted several monitors with no problems, but make sure you know what you are doing before opening anything. I expressly disclaim responsibility for any ill results that may occur. In order to adjust NeXT's MegaPixel display (called 'the monitor' hereafter), you'll need (a) the NeXTtool (or a 3mm Allen wrench), (b) a plastic adjustment tool (preferred) or a thin bladed screwdriver, and possibly (c) a Phillips-head screwdriver. (NB: A similar procedure will work for color monitors, but you should either know what you're doing or you'll probably be better off letting a pro deal with it.) Turn off the computer. Disconnect all cables to the monitor. Look at the back of the monitor. There will be 4 screws there; use the NeXTtool (or Allen wrench) to remove them. Remove the plastic back of the monitor and put it out of your way. Reconnect the cables and turn the computer back on. As the machine powers up, examine the back of the monitor. You'll see a metallic box (usually silver, though some are black) surrounding the monitor's vitals. This protects you against the dangerous voltages inside, and also insulates the monitor from electromagnetic noise. On the back of this box are several holes for performing adjustments. There are two focus controls (labeled 'focus' and 'dynamic focus'), a brightness control (labeled 'brightness' or possibly 'black level') and several others that adjust various things like screen size and position. Depending on the exact placement of the controls on the circuit board of your specific monitor, some of these controls may be difficult (or impossible) to adjust from the back. If this is the case, I will describe what's necessary below. Otherwise, adjust the appropriate controls using either an adjustment tool or a screwdriver. Be warned that a screwdriver probably will cause some interesting video effects when it enters the case. Ignore this the best you can, or find a plastic adjustment tool, which is what you *really* should be using anyway. Using a flashlight will help you see into the hole so that you can align the business end of the tool correctly. Focus and position controls are fairly obvious. Adjust them slowly until you're happy with the results. Don't muck with anything you don't need to; the factory settings are usually pretty decent. To correctly adjust the brightness, follow this procedure: Turn the brightness of the monitor all the way down using the keyboard. Adjust the brightness control on the back of the monitor until a barely noticeable picture forms. Then turn the brightness down a little so this picture disappears completely. Check that you can get adequate brightness by using the keyboard to brighten the screen. If the display isn't bright enough, adjust the brightness control on the rear of the monitor high enough so that the monitor display is adequate. Note that you won't be able to dim the screen completely from the keyboard...sorry. Once you're finished, shut down the computer, take off the cables, reattach the back of the monitor, and reconnect the cables. You're done. If the control you need to adjust proves to be difficult, you may need to enter the metal case. This happened on one monitor's focus control and another's brightness. WARNING: THE VOLTAGES INSIDE THE MONITOR'S CASE ARE VERY DANGEROUS, EVEN WHEN THE MONITOR IS OFF. BE VERY CAREFUL, OR YOU CAN SERIOUSLY INJURE OR EVEN KILL YOURSELF. DO NOT PERFORM THE NEXT INSTRUCTIONS UNLESS YOU ARE CONFIDENT THAT YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING. You'll have to power off the computer again, and disconnect the cables. Looking at the monitor from the back, notice a section of metallic shielding on the right side of the metal box that extends to the picture tube. This is where the flyback transformer is connected. It shields a wire that is charged to about 25,000 V. WARNING: DO NOT TOUCH THIS WIRE, IT CAN SHOCK YOU THROUGH ITS INSULATION. Being very careful of this, remove the metal case by unscrewing the Philip's head screws that hold the case on. Don't touch the screws that hold the picture tube into the front of the monitor's case. Once you've gotten the metal box off, reconnect the cables. Figure out what control you're going to adjust, and make sure that you can do so without touching anything else inside. Again, *watch out* for the wire that connects to the picture tube on the right side. Power up the computer. I recommend that you use only one hand to make the adjustment, and that your other hand be placed in your pocket (or similar equivalent, if you're wearing clothes lacking pockets). This precaution reduces the chances that you'll make a short circuit between one hand, your heart, and the other hand --- a good idea. Perform the necessary adjustment(s), being very careful not to touch anything inside. Then shut down and reassemble the monitor, following the directions given above. Hopefully, these instructions will prove useful. Once again, please be very careful...I don't want your death and/or injury on my conscience (or a lawsuit, for that matter, either :-) 5.22 I want to emulate a macintosh, how? MacIntosh, emulation emulation, MacIntosh There is a nice way to run macintosh-software on your original black hardware. It works fine with dual-headed cubes and is optimized for the Apple OS - Version 7.5. To get further information about daydream, please contact: QUIX Computerware AG 011-41-41-440-88-28 9 hour differential Luzernerstr.10 6030 Ebikon Switzerland Next software - 011-41-41-34-86-80 quix@applelink.apple.com There is another solution, completely in software: 'Executor' from Ardi does the job, too. (http://www.ardi.com/ 5.23 My NeXT laser printer fails to fully eject the sheet - how to fix? printer, eject, NeXT laser NeXT laser, eject paper Fix it as follows. If you continually get messages like, "sorry, the printer is jammed" and you have to pull each page out the last inch, you probably need to replace the 14 tooth gear in the output stage(fuse ass'y). You can see this gear before you disassemble the printer, so that is a good first step. Then read these instructions all the way through and see if you want to attempt it. Next recommends replacing the entire fuse ass'y ( big bucks) if the gear is damaged, but Chenesko, Inc., of Ronkonkoma, NY sells the gears for $2.31. The part number is RS1-0132. They recommended I also replace the 20 tooth gear, number RS1-0116, but I don't know if it is really necessary. Their phone number is 800-221-3516. PartsNow is also selling laserprint replacement parts. Their part number for the a replacement roller part is RA1-84489-000 000. You might contact them for further details. To examine your gear, open the rear (delivery ) door and undo the screw attaching the strap that keeps the door from opening down all the way. The gear is on the side nearest the power input to the printer. There are two gears on the part of the delivery ass'y that swings down. The suspect gear engages the top one, but is mounted on the fixed portion of the fuse. Ours had several teeth missing and/or damaged. To get the gear off you have to remove the fuse ass'y. To remove the fuse you must open the printer lid fully, so it is straight up. To open the lid fully you must remove the case. To remove the case you must remove the plastic cover on the lid. Are you getting the idea now? This will be a lot of fun, and take most of the afternoon. I hope you have a spacious, well-lit area, because there are a lot of screws, and a lot of them are painted black, so they are hard to see when you drop them, unless you drop them inside of the printer, where you might NEVER see them again. Fortunately, as with all computer equipment, they seem to put lots of extras in, so just make sure there aren't any where they might do damage, like short out the mega KILOVOLT corona power supply, or grind into the REGISTRATION rollers. You do want your printouts to be straight, don't you? So, if you're ready, here we go. * PREPARATION Most mere mortals will want to power down everything and disconnect the cables, etc. Remove the cartridge and paper trays, etc. * REMOVE THE LID COVER open the lid and remove 3 screws. They DO NOT have any red paint on them. * REMOVE THE BACK DOOR there is one screw that holds the strap. When you can swing it clear down, you can squeeze the hinges together and remove the door. * REMOVE THE CASE There are maybe seven screws that hold the case on. Four are right on top. Two are just inside the rear door area. Two are down inside where you store that green cleaning tool. 4 + 2 + 2 = 7, right? Say, who was the last guy that worked on this printer anyway? The case has to be convinced that you really need to remove it, even when it is loose and all the screws are out. * REMOVE THE FUSE ASS'Y You will need a PHILLIPS screwdriver for this, as with the previous steps. But you will need a LONG one this time. Three of the screws are pretty easy to find. Just study the lower part of the fuse, as it is screwed onto the bottom case. Two of the screws are inside. One is under the lid next to the gears, the other near the green cleaning tool. On the outside, in back, there is one on each side. One is under the white wires that connect the fuse to the 10 AMP circuit breaker, which is pretty near that gear, and close to the power input. Unplug that cable. Then remove the small black crew that holds the black plastic gear cover so you will have better access to the last screw. Then you will have to wrestle the fuse out the back of the printer. Be careful with it. * DISASSEMBLE THE FUSE There are several screws and a spring. It's not too hard to take apart. You can see the gear, so you just have to take off the covers on that end of the ass'y to get to it. I should caution you that I had trouble putting them back on, because they have funny shapes and don't make a lot of sense. Plus I was tired, so I went home, ate dinner, played with the dog, went to bed, got up and ate breakfast before I put it back together. You might want to label some parts, make some drawings, etc. to reassure yourself that you can put the parts back just like they were. * REMOVE THE GEAR You can remove the gear pretty easily with a small screwdriver by unspringing the "E"-ring that holds it on the shaft. Try not to bend the e-ring. * PUT EVERYTHING BACK TOGETHER Sorry, I can't help you with this part (HA HA!) I told you you should read the instructions first. Maybe you should buy a new printer, or try to attach some third party printer via the serial port! Well, if you got this far I hope you dropped little crumbs of bread so you can find your way back. I try to save all the little screws by putting them back in the holes they came from, or putting them in some small container. You might clean some of the gears or the paper path while you have it open. You can also install a new OZONE filter. Remember OZONE is hazardous to your health, so you don't want to inhale it. DISCLAIMER: BE CAREFUL IF YOU TRY THIS PROCEDURE. THERE ARE DANGEROUS VOLTAGES PRESENT, AND EVEN IF YOU ARE TOO CHICKEN TO WORK ON IT POWERED UP, YOU COULD CUT YOURSELF, OR DROP THE WHOLE THING ON YOUR FOOT, THUS VOIDING THE WARRANTY. ALSO, THE PRINTER WONÂT WORK WITHOUT THE COVERS, BECAUSE THERE ARE TWO SECRET SWITCHES THAT INFORM THE NEXT CPU THAT SOMEONE "IS FOOLING AROUND WITH THE PRINTER AGAIN." Yet another update to reflect that Jacob Gore received gears for an Apple Laserwriter from Chenesko, which are similar enough to work, but with some modification.Also, if the original gear is in fair condition, it can be reversed on the shaft until a replacement is ordered. 5.24 What are the NeXT mouse connections? mouse, connector Read the following instruction. Thanks to Alvin Austin (austin@cs.USask.Ca) I have the information I need on the NeXT mouse connections. Pin Function 1 +5v 2 X Encoder Phase A 3 X Encoder Phase B 4 Y Encoder Phase A 5 Y Encoder Phase B 6 Right Button 7 Left Button 8 Ground 5.25 What type of memory may be installed in a NeXT? References: NeXTanswers' hardware.620, 92_spring_bulletin "Announcing NeXTstation Turbo and NeXTcube Turbo" NeXT Computer (68030-25MHz/68040-25MHz), NeXTcube (68040-25MHz): Number SIMM slots: 16 SIMM group size: 4 SIMM type: 30-pin low profile> SIMM access rating: 100 ns SIMM capacity: 1, 4 MB (1x8/1x9, 4x8/4x9) Maximum RAM: 64 MB The low-profile vertically mounted 4 MB SIMMs are easier to install in the NeXTcube than the horizontally mounted 4 MB SIMMs because of the small height clearance above the SIMM slots. It is possible to install the horizontally mounted 4 MB SIMMs, but you will be required to slide the CPU board and the center tower in simultaneously. Parity (9-bit) SIMMs can be used in both 68030 and 68040 NeXT machines, but should not be mixed with non-parity SIMMs. Only 68040 boards with ROM levels of 2.2 (v63) and higher can use the parity memory to detect parity errors. It is OK to mix parity and non-parity memory, but the system will not boot unattended. Cubes with early boot ROMs will not work with 4 Mb parity ram, unless at least 3 banks are used. The system gives an exception error on power up. The fix is to get a new boot rom from Next. You can pay $30, or you may be able to squawk and get one for free. I have found Next to be pretty responsive, once I find the right person. The correct version is v66 which was the last or final rev for this series of 040 boards. This version also fixed the problem in the second paragraph. NeXTdimension boards (i860): Number SIMM slots: 8 SIMM group size: 4 SIMM type: 72-pin SIMM access rating: 80 ns SIMM capacity: 1, 4, 8 MB (256Kx32, 1Mx32, 2Mx32) Maximum RAM: 64 MB (32 MB official NeXT) NeXT didn't officially bless the use of 8 MB SIMMs, but they seem to fit and work. NeXTstations (68040-25MHz) serial numbers below ABB 002 6300: Number SIMM slots: 8 SIMM group size: 4 SIMM type: 30-pin SIMM access rating: 100 ns SIMM capacity: 1, 4 MB (1x8/1x9, 4x8/4x9) Maximum RAM: 32 MB Faster SIMMS (70/80 ns) don't make the memory system work any faster than the 100 ns units. NeXTstation Color (68040-25MHz): Number SIMM slots: 8 SIMM group size: 2 SIMM type: 72-pin SIMM access rating: 80 ns5 SIMM capacity: 1, 4 MB (256Kx32/256Kx36, 1Mx32/1Mx36) Maximum RAM: 32 MB NeXTcube Turbo (68040-33MHz), NeXTstation Turbo (68040-33MHz), NeXTstation Color Turbo (68040-33MHz), NeXTstations (68040-25MHz) serial numbers above ABB 002 6300: Number SIMM slots: 4 SIMM group size: 2 SIMM type: 72-pin SIMM access rating: 70/100 ns SIMM capacity: 1, 4 ,8, 16, 32 MB (256Kx32/256Kx36, 1Mx32/1Mx36) Maximum RAM: 128 MB For maximum performance use 70 ns SIMMs: SIMMs rated at 80 or 100 ns will be detected upon powerup and the memory system clock slowed to 100 ns. Faster RAM than 70 ns won't give you a speed increase anymore. In fact it could slow things down again, because some hardware drives 60 ns RAM as 100 ns RAM. NeXT manufacturing introduced the new 25 MHz NeXTstation CPU board into production in late June '92. To verify which SIMM type your machine uses, check the system's memory configuration. You can do this by using the ROM monitor©s print memory configuration command m. Start with your machine powered down. Press the Power key to power on. As soon as the message ªTesting system...º disappears, press command-command-tilde ( on the numeric keyboard). Under these circumstances, this will access the ROM monitor. In the ROM monitor, type m and press return. Turbo-designed boardsÐincluding new 25 MHz NeXTstations and all Turbo systemsÐwill return messages reporting the memory configuration contained in four sockets (sockets 0 -3); old 25 MHz boards will return messages for more than four sockets (usually 8). You can tell a Turbo-designed board, and the accompanying 72 pin, 70 nanosecond SIMMs, by the fact it only reports information for only four sockets. The memory system has programmable memory timing such that the number of processor clocks needed to access a given amount of data can be tailored to the speed of the memory installed. 70 ns memory is just enough faster than 80 ns memory to allow the cpu to access the data with fewer clock cycles. This improves memory system performance. "70 ns" memory is faster than "80 ns" memory in many parameters other than just RAS access time. The faster CAS access time in particular allows the memory system to respond quicker to burst (16 bytes) bus transfers. 5.26 What is the NeXT SIMM tool? SIMM Tool The tool came with 68040 upgrade kits for NeXTcubes. It really makes removing SIMMs easy. It looks like a dental tool: about six inches long with a 1/2" long head offset at 90 degrees. To remove SIMMs, you slip the head into the hole on one side of the SIMM, rest the head on the SIMM socket next to the SIMM you are pulling, and pivot the tool back, using the simple fulcrum to gently pry the SIMM up about 1/8" from the socket on that side. Repeat on the other side, and the SIMM can be then removed by hand. 5.27 Where can I purchase a NeXT machine? Purchase, NeXT NeXT, purchase NeXT discontinued manufacturing hardware in Feb, 1993. Used systems are often advertised in comp.sys.next.marketplace. 5.28 Where to obtain hardware service? service, hardware hardware, service Hardware service can be obtained through the following firms: USA hardware service has been purchased by Bell Atlantic. They will be supporting the Authorized Service Centers and are selling extended warranty contracts. Decision One Voice: 800 499 6398, or 800 848 NeXT Fax: 510 732 3078 For Europe, please contact: SORBUS 40549 Duesseldorf Willstaetter Strasze 13 5.29 What types of NeXT machines were manufactured? NeXT, types of cube section There are two packages: a cube, and a station. * NeXTcube systems: + 68030-25 2-bit grayscale (NeXT Computer) + 68040-25 2-bit grayscale (NeXTcube) + 68040-33 2-bit grayscale (NeXTcube Turbo) + NeXTdimension board adds 32-bit color (i860) to any of above systems Cube systems can use any of the boards. With hacks, multiple independent CPU boards can run in one cube. NeXT Computer systems have room for 2 full-height 5.25" internal devices with a wide slot for an Optical Disk drive(s) in either position. NeXTcube systems also have room for 2 full-height 5.25" internal devices with a wide slot for an Optical Disk drive in the lower position, but have additional mounting holes for 1/2-height devices, and have a floppy slot at the top position. * NeXTstation systems: + 68040-25 2-bit grayscale (NeXTstation) + 68040-33 2-bit grayscale (NeXTstation Turbo) + 68040-25 16-bit color (NeXTstation Color) + 68040-33 16-bit color (NeXTstation Color Turbo) NeXTstation systems have room for two 1/2-height 3.5" devices, with a floppy slot at the side. 5.30 What can be done about older 030 NeXT cubes that have a fan that turns in the "wrong" direction? fan, running wrong The fan on older 030 NeXTs cubes sucks air out of the back of the cube which means that it draws unfiltered air in through the optical disk on the front of the cube. This causes optical disks to succumb to dust must sooner than cubes with the new-style fan which turns in the opposite direction. NeXT has apparently reversed their decision regarding fan reversal in the case of machines that have been upgraded to 040 processor boards. It is now considered okay to reverse the direction of fans in these machines. If you have many third-party cards installed in your cube or an older processor board, you may wish to consider not reversing fan direction (overheating could become a problem). In any case, do not reverse the fan's polarity, only reverse the fan assembly itself. Perhaps the best solution is obtain the cleaning kit and OD filter from NeXT. 5.31 Can I connect SONY MPX-111N to my 68030 NeXT Computer? SONY MPX-111N The SONY MPX-111N internal 2.88 MB floppy drive which was shipped with all the 68040 NeXT machines is not a SCSI device, therefore there is no way of connecting that particular drive internally on a 68030 system. 5.32 Why does the OD continually spin up and spin down? OD, spinning A big problem with the Canon optical drives is that air flows through the drive to cool it. Dust accumulates inside the drive causing it to fail with the continuous spin-up spin-down syndrome. NeXT as part of it's 040 upgrades provided a dust filter to prevent this. If your drive has this problem it usually can be fixed simply by cleaning out dust from the drive. NeXT sold a cleaning kit for both the drives and the optical disks. 5.33 How many colors can NeXT machines display? NeXT, colors The monochrome machines can display 4 gray levels. You can use color apps on a monochrome machine, they will converted into monochrome images and dithered accordingly. Color NeXTstations can combine 4 bits of red, green and blue primaries for a total of 4096 pure colors. The imaging functions dither the image to produce intermediate colors. NeXTdimension can combine 8 bits of red, green and blue for 16,777,216. There are not 16 million points on the display so all can not be displayed at once. Further display technology limits the usable color space. None of the NeXT products support color look up tables where the user can define their own color palette on a per window basis. This feature is useful for displaying images which have adaptive lookup tables, and display pure grayscale images on the color NeXTstation. On the NeXTdimension images can be converted to full 24 bit representation. 5.34 Why is my machine so slow when I run the monochrome and NeXTdimension displays? speed, display display, speed drops There is a bug with the window system in which if you select the monochrome display as your primary display the server will be much much slower. The solution for those wishing to use both displays is to select the color (NeXTdimension) display as the primary display. The most optimal configuration at present with the NeXTdimension is to run only the color display. 5.35 Where to obtain replacement mouse parts? mouse, parts From: jdavidso@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu For those who have need of a new button in their mouse, and don't want to pay for the whole mouse when it is only the button that has gone bad, we have recently discovered a satisfactory replacement for the Omron switch. It is in the Digikey catalog, # 931, Jan-Feb 1993, page 141, under Cherry switches D4, DG, and DH series. Digikey part # CH164-ND, Cherry part # DG1C-B1AA. We ordered one of these, and just received it today. Tried it out, and it seems to be working flawlessly so far. It is also possible to replace mouse buttons from a two button mouse with mouse buttons of the three button mice. 5.36 Where to obtain extra batteries? battery, purchase purchase, battery Battery part number: BR 2/3A 3V Lithium Battery (Panasonic) Source: Engineered Assemblies & Components Corporation 5204 Green's Dairy Road Raleigh, NC 27604 Phone: 919-790-9700 (ask for Debra) 5.37 How to convert a Turbo system to use ADB? ADB, turbo system If ADB equipment are used with older NeXT systems they won't work properly. Here are the ADB requirements: * A Turbo computer. * CPU eprom version 74. * New revision computer to soundbox/monitor cable. The part number is molded at both ends of the connector: Cable NEW OLD (Non ADB) NeXTcube 4534 150 NeXTstation 4535 1532 NeXTstation color 4536 2286 * New revision monitor which uses a vertical scan rate of 72hz instead of 68hz, except on NeXTdimension systems color monitor stays 68hz. Monitor NEW (72hz) OLD (68hz) 17" mono ACX (N4000b) AAA (N4000a \& N4000) 17" color ADF (N4006) ABG (N4001) 21" color ADB (N4005a) ABH (N4005) * ADB soundbox for color systems. S/N prefix ADD instead of ABN. 5.38 68030 board in the same NeXTcube as a 68040 board? DISCLAIMER: THE FOLLOWING PROCEDURE IS NOT SUPPORTED BY NEXT, INC. AND WILL DEFINITELY VOID THE WARRANTY ON YOUR NEXT COMPUTER. FOLLOW IT AT YOUR OWN RISK. I DISCLAIM ALL RESPONSIBILITIES FOR DAMAGES CAUSED BY NEGLIGENCE IN FOLLOWING THE PROCEDURE. THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THAT THE PROCEDURE WILL WORK ON ALL VERSIONS(?) OF THE NEXT CUBE HARDWARE. ALL I KNOW IS THAT IT WORKED ON THE NEXT CUBE I WAS WORKING ON!!!! SO BEWARE. Here we go! I'll first provide a description of the hardware I was using and comment on what I accomplished and how I got the information on how to do it! The hardware included a NeXT cube with 660 MB drive, OD, etc., a 68040 upgrade board, and a 68030 motherboard. I successfully installed both the 68040 and 68030 boards on a SINGLE NeXT cube and linked them together through their ethernet ports. The 68040 was configured as a boot server and the 68030 was used as its client (booting off the network for lack of an additional hard drive). The procedure reconfigures slot #2 on the cube's back-plane as slot #0. This provides two slots configured as #0, required for booting the two motherboards. Once I determined what the slot pin-outs were (thanks to my good friend John Chmielewski), it was a matter of time before the two boards happily co-existed. The procedure: 1. First, follow the procedure on the NeXT User's Reference manual for removing the system board (Appendix C: Opening the Cube, page 291 of the 2.0 manual). 2. Using the NeXT supplied screwdriver, remove the two screws that attach the power-supply housing to the cube (the screws are located on the lower part of the housing) and gently pull the housing out. Set it aside in a safe place (away from kids and nosey friends!) 3. Remove the two plastic grooved plates (used to slide the system boards in) at each side of the inside bottom of the cube. (For each plate, lift the side closest to the rear opening and gently pull them out). Set them aside. 4. Using the NeXT tool, remove three screws holding the back-plane to the cube and then take the back-plane out of the cube. Let the cube rest for a while. Inspect the back-plane. You will see five bus slots (four vertical and one horizontal). The horizontal slot connects the back-plane to the power supply housing. We're only interested in the four vertical slots. From the factory these slots are configured as 6, 2, 0, and 4 (starting from the left and going right with the horizontal slot at the bottom). The system board connects to slot #0 (which you've probably noticed). Each slot contains three columns of 32 pins. Following is an ASCII representation of one of the slots: x y z C B A o-o o 32 . . . o-o o 31 . . . o-o o 30 . . . o-o o 29 . . . 28 . . . . . . 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . . ...where x, y, and z are labeled GND, SID, and VCC, respectively. The GND, SID, and VCC "holes" are used to configure the slot number using simple binary encoding, where GND is logical zero, VCC is logical one, and SID (for Slot-ID I guess) determines the current bit state (one or zero). Notice the four rows of GND, SID, VCC triads; each row is equivalent to one bit position in the slot number, the bottom row bit position 0, the top row bit position 3. This gives a total of four bit positions, or 16 possible slot numbers. To encode a slot number, you need to connect an SID row to its corresponding GND or VCC row. For example, the diagram below shows the configuration of the slots in my cube's back-plane (you'll have to look very closely to see the actual connections): SLOT 6 SLOT 2 SLOT 0 SLOT 4 BIT 3: o-o o o-o o o-o o o-o o BIT 2: o o-o o-o o o-o o o o-o BIT 1: o o-o * o o-o * o-o o o-o o BIT 0: o-o o o-o o o-o o o-o o 5. To reconfigure slot 2 as slot 0, cut the trace between SID and VCC for bit position 1 (see * o o-o * above) and connect SID to GND on the same row. I used the SIMM removal tool supplied by NeXT in the 040 upgrade (talk about multi-purpose) to cut the trace! Very gently, scrape the solder off between the two holes. Take a paperclip, shape it to fit between the holes in SID and GND, and trim it down to an even 1/4 inch (perfect fit)! That's all there is to it. If for some reason you ever want to revert to slot 2, just remove the paperclip from GND-SID and reconnect it to SID-VCC. 6. Now put the cube back together. First, re-install the back-plane using its three connecting screws, then snap on the plastic plates, and finally insert the power-supply housing and secure with its two screws. At this point the cube is ready to take on the two system boards (it is up to you to determine where/how you want to use the two boards; I'll explain how I used mine) ... 7. I installed the 68040 in the original slot 0 and the 68030 in the reconfigured slot 0 (previously slot 2). The 68040 was used as the main processor board. I connected the 660 MB drive, the OD, and the monitor to it. NOTE: Before beginning the procedure, I went into the NeXT Monitor on the 68030 and disabled the Sound out, SCSI tests and verbose test mode and enabled serial port A as a console terminal. I also made "en" the default boot device. I setup the 68040 as a boot server and taught it about the 68030 (which took some time in getting it setup properly). 8. I connected the 68040 to the 68030 using a thin-ethernet cable and I booted. First thing I noticed was that the 030 timed-out a couple of times waiting for the 040 to tell it to boot. But after the 040 was up, the 030 booted nicely. That's all folks. Hope all this made some sense and people find it useful. Comments: * To power off the cube, I have to first shutdown the 030 (I run "halt -p" as root from a telnet connection and wait for the 030 to go down), and I then power-down the 040. If you shut down the 040 before the 030, you'll have to pull the power plug to turn the machine off. The cube will not power off if either of the two boards is providing a load to the power-supply. * Remember, I've only performed this procedure on one system. I do not know what will happen on your system. So make sure you plan ahead what your going to do and that you understand the procedure. * I don't know what problems may arise when you add a board that uses the NeXTbus, such as the NeXTdimension, or how it will behave. If someone is courageous enough to perform the procedure and installs another board, please post your results to the net. Update: To clear up some misunderstandings with the settings in the "p" command of the NeXT monitor (these settings are only required for the system board that doesn't have the NeXT display monitor connected): 1. Sound out test must be "no"; the boot process will not proceed if the monitor isn't connected to the board and this is set to "yes" (the sound out tests will fail, aborting the boot procedure). 2. SCSI tests should be "no" if you don't have SCSI devices attached to the board (SCSI tests will fail otherwise, aborting the boot procedure). 3. Verbose test mode must be "no" for booting from the network. If set to "yes", the boot process will timeout waiting for a BOOTP and you'll be left in the monitor with no means of restarting the board (except pulling the power plug)! This is probably true also for booting from an OD that hasn't been inserted (assuming the OD was attached to the board). 4. Allow serial port A as alternate console if you want to view the boot process (for problems and peace-of-mind). 5. Other settings were not modified from their factory defaults or had no effect on the procedure. There is also a way in using 2 boards plus NeXTDimension board in one Cube. I've run my "screw with the backplane trick" cube with : | <empty> | 32MB-ND | | 64MB-040 | 40MB-030 | without any problems. Using the od got the system warm, but never had a problem. The cool part was having the printer on the 030. One day I tried to dump an 040 into the 030 position, but I couldn't get it to boot. I played for a couple minutes, but put the 030 back in and went on with life... 5.39 How to expand DSP memory? memory, DSP DSP, memory The Speech Recognition Lab at San Francisco State University has developed a DSP memory expansion board for the NeXT computer that provides the maximum memory supported by the DSP56001 processor. We are now offering this board to those whose are interested in high-performance custom DSP development. * The board is a 576KB DSP expansion memory board organized as three non-overlapping 192KB banks: X-data, Y-data and Program. The board uses relatively fast ( * The board is a high-quality, 4-layer board, open-circuit tested prior to assembly. It fits into the DSP memory daughterboard slot on all NeXT machines. * The price will be $600. Please let us know if you are interested. Delivery will be in about 3-4 weeks. * Contact Tom Holton (th@ernie.sfsu.edu). E-mail is preferred. The address is: Tom Holton Division of Engineering San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Avenue San Francisco, CA 94132 415 338 1529 (phone) 415 338 0525 (fax) NOTE: Because we've organized our memory as three separate (non-overlapping) banks (X, Y and P) of 192KB apiece, none of the DSP memory image functionality provided by NeXT with its existing 8K base configuration, or its 96KB DSP expansion module is supported. While we cannot guarantee that every existing DSP application ever written will be plug-and-play compatible with our DSP expansion memory, we are not aware of any existing applications that use the image functionality. The MusicKit, and demo programs that use the DSP, such as Mandlebrot and ScorePlayer, work fine with our memory module. 5.40 How to boot a NeXT without a monitor? The procedure is to just touch pins 6 and GND on the DB-19 NeXT monitor out with a 470 Ohm resistor (450 is the actual resistance, but 470 ohms is more commonly found in resistors). Pin 6 is the power sense, and pins 13-19 (and the DB shell) are the GND. Just say "pin 19", it may be easier. There's a pinout diagram of the DB-19 in the NeXT Users Reference Manual. If you have an old Cube, the power supply needs to have more power drawn from it than an 030 (and 040?) board uses to stay on. So: On the DB-19, attach a Power Resistor (20 Ohm, at least 20 Watt) between pins 12 and GND. (Pin 12 is -12V, pin 13 works well for GND). Then just "touch" the 470 ohm resistor as described above, and you're set. The 20 Ohm resistor draws an old 030 running without monitor in an old CUBE), but it isn't necessary - just don't touch it (*HOT!* ;-) To power off, type "halt -p" as root on the machine (either through a terminal connected to port A, or over the ethernet connection). Also, you have to have the Rom Monitor settings done correctly. The important ones are: Wait until keypress? N Sound out tests? N Port A as alternate Console? Y (if you have one, it's nice) Verbose mode? N (I think this may need to be N to work, don't r emember). 5.41 Where can I get black spray paint for my NeXT? Black, spray paint paint, black spray You can get black spray from the following address. Sprayon Paint Omni-Packblend 4Next-Black (icon black) LAV-16 25216 Call 1-800-777-2966 for the name of a dealer near you. 5.42 What makes aged NeXT monitors dim? monitor, dim The cause of the dimming monitors is the CRT cathode wearing out. The most common type of CRT (and the type used in most NeXT monochrome monitors and all of the NeXT color monitors) uses what is called an oxide cathode. A thin coating of oxide is deposited on the cathode to allow the electronics which form the picture to get off the cathode easily. The oxide gradually boils off the cathode itself, and when the oxide is gone, the CRT goes dim. Typically, the oxide will last from 10,000 to 20,000 power on hours (screen savers don't help the cathode, they only prevent phosphor aging). Unfortunately, the black monochrome monitors fall into the short end of the life range thanks to Toshiba who made the CRT's. The aging is more noticeable in Unix machines because they tend to be left on. Note that there are about 8,000 hours in a year. If you leave your monitor on all the time, all oxide type CRTs will be dim in three years. The other type of CRT cathode is the I-cathode or dispenser type. This type of cathode is porous and continually brings new activation material to the surface. Its lifetime is 40,000 hours or more. The last of the NeXT monochrome monitors (N4000B) used this type of CRT and they don't go dim. There aren't many of that type around because NeXT quit the hardware business after producing only a few thousand. If you can get an N4000B monitor, you won't ever have to worry about a dim monitor. Many manufacturers are going to dispenser cathode type CRTs in their monitors with Panasonic leading the way. The best advice is to turn off the monitor when not in use. If that is impractical, try to purchase one with the long life cathode. Spherical Solutions (smg@orb.com) has a supply of new N4000B long life monitors for sale in either ADB or non-ADB configurations. If you need to repair or replace a monochrome monitor, that is by far the best type to use. If you read this far, you probably know more than you ever wanted to about CRT aging, but I hope this helps. 5.43 How to use two internal hard drives drives, two internal It is possible to fit a second internal hard drive in a NeXT slab, in addition to the floppy drive and the first hard drive. The second drive must be third height, or 1 inch high. There is no room for a half height device. Buy a bracket or make one out of sheet metal for the 1 inch high drive. On 25 MHz mono stations the SIMMs are smaller and the drive doesn't have to go all the way against the back wall. In this case, glue the bracket to the underside of the NextStation cover, centered from side t o side and as far to the back as possible. This is sufficient. On 25 MHz colorstations, however, one must file away a bit of the interior metal on the cover in order to glue the bracket fully to the rear of the cover. Once this modification is done, th e drive will clear the RAM when the cover is closed. Screw the drive into the bracket, with the power and SCSI plugs toward the right hand side of the NextStation so that the cables will reach. Go to your favorite computer store and get both a "dual int ernal SCSI bus cable" and a "dual internal SCSI power cable." Plug in the cables to both internal hard drives and close the cover. This was verified on both a 25 MHz mono and a 25 MHz color NextStation. No power or heating problems occurred. 6 WHITE (INTEL) HARDWARE 6.1 What about support for NeXT Computer specific hardware features such as the DSP? support, specific DSP, support support, DSP NeXT computers offer additional hardware support not commonly available for Intel systems. This includes the DSP. The DSP in a NeXT Computer is used for a variety of functions including ISDN support and real-time audio compression/de-compression. ISDN support for NEXTSTEP/Intel will be provided via an add-on PC card and ISDN adapter. Although the DSP programming feature is missing for NS3.3 on Intel, it is not necessary. The important SoundKit functions are rewritten to emulate an DSP on Intel, but this costs a lot of CPU time. 6.2 Do Multi-Architecture Binaries take a lot of extra disk space? MAB, disk space multi application binary, MAB The concept of NEXTSTEP binaries is different to other platforms. On NEXTSTEP only the real program is compiled and linked in a hardware specific manner. E.g. the GUI and the multilanguage support are usable on any platform running NEXTSTEP and will do so under OPENSTEP. Therefore the real binary part is sometimes really small. Anyway it might be a good choice to thin such a fat binary. NeXT ships tools for this purpose. Look at the manpages for lipo. If an application wasn't installed using the standard NeXT tool Installer, it might also be a good choice to look into the application drawer and delete other languages supported but not used by the application. This additional data is found in the different *.lproj subdirectories in the application's folder. To get there, activate the application's icon and select Open as directory from the Workspace's File menu item. 6.3 How difficult is it to recompile existing NeXT applications over to NEXTSTEP/Intel? compile, re Very easy. Most programs will simply recompile and run, or require few changes. We believe that any application that uses the standard development environment and Object kits provided by NeXT should simply compile and run. Only applications that use architecture specific features or data formats, will require additional time to port. Several developers have already ported applications to NEXTSTEP/Intel. Appsoft Draw simply recompiled and ran, Lighthouse Concurrence took 3 hours, other programs took 1/2 a day to 2 days, and this was all on a very early release of NEXTSTEP/Intel 3.1! Some applications just will refuse to compile, because they are still based on the old 2.0 headers etc. These applications are really rare now and may get ported very easily too, by changing the include path in your developer package. Other applications require additional header files and libraries to properly compile and link. These applications are mostly based on the MiscKit or MusicKit and other PD-Kits. You need to install these Kits first to compile these programs. With the shipping of OpenStep this might change, because it will be possible to produce shared libraries with the NeXT Developer package. This will enable you to not install the complete Kit, but only the shared library and will also reduce your binary no ticeable. 6.4 When developing programs, are there any portability issues I should be aware of? portability Yes. As stated above, any applications that use the standard tools provided by the NEXTSTEP development environment, should just recompile and work. To make sure developers are aware of portability issues, NeXT is producing a guide to address source code portability between different architectures running NEXTSTEP. This guide is available in the online documentation to the NeXT Developer package. 6.5 What is the difference between the NEXTSTEP/Intel User Environment and Developer Environment? user vs. developer developer vs. user The NEXTSTEP/Intel User Environment consists of the entire NEXTSTEP 3.3 environment, minus the developer tools. The Developer Environment includes the developer tools such Interface builder, Project Builder, C compilers, Object Kits, example source code and developer documentation. Although it is possible to just get the latest GNU C compiler as a binary, you can not use it! This is because you won't get the standard libraries needed to produce NeXT applications neither the header files. Also it there is currently no third party com piler shipping. If you want to compile, you are forced to use the NeXT Developer package. The status of compiling a standard UNIX utility without NeXT's headers and just based on the supplied shared libraries is unknown. 6.6 If a specific I/O card is not supported by NeXT, can 3rd parties write drivers for NEXTSTEP/Intel? I/O driver Yes. NEXTSTEP/Intel uses a newly developed object-oriented driver architecture that brings the benefits of object-orientation all the way down to the I/O card driver level. 6.7 How is NEXTSTEP/Intel installed? installation, Intel NEXTSTEP/Intel will come with a boot floppy and a CDROM. To install NEXTSTEP/Intel, the system boots from the floppy, and then installs the minimum NEXTSTEP environment from the CDROM (SCSI CDROM drive). The user may then chose from several optional packages depending on the available disk space and user requirements. 6.8 Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on 386 machines? 386 Intel 386 No. NEXTSTEP/Intel uses several 486 specific features that enhance the performance of NEXTSTEP. NEXTSTEP/Intel will support any 486 with Coprocessor and up. 6.9 Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on the Cyrix 486SLC? 486SLC, Cyrix Cyrix, 486SLC NeXT states: No. The Cyrix chip not a true 486. several other users state: Yes. Slow performance, though. 6.10 Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on the future Intel Microprocessors in the x86 family? x86 Intel, x86 Yes. NEXTSTEP/Intel will not only support them, but will take advantage of any performance enhancements available with future Intel CPU's, just as NeXT has taken advantage of the 486. 6.11 Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on portable computers? portable computers Yes. Many portables and notebooks with 486 CPU's and sufficient system resources (>=8MB RAM and >=120MB hard disk space) are available. Since NEXTSTEP/Intel will support 640x480 VGA displays in grayscale, NEXTSTEP 486 can run on these systems. Do be aware that NEXTSTEP's user interface and applications were not designed for low-resolution screens, and consequently will impose limitations on the use of some applications. 6.12 Will NEXTSTEP/Intel be able to run MS-DOS and Windows programs? MS-DOS Windows MS-Windows Yes. NEXTSTEP/Intel will support a DOS and Windows compatibility package. This software will allow DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1 programs to run within a NEXTSTEP window. Support will include DOS "Protected" mode and Windows 3.1. This package is called SoftPC and comes with every NEXTSTEP system. The software is not free with NEXTSTEP, you have to pay extra. Anyway you are not limited in a 30 day test phase when installing it. Windows 95 and Windows NT are not supported by the emulation software. 6.13 How will my DOS and Windows applications perform under NEXTSTEP/Intel? MS-DOS, performance Windows, performance MS-Windows, performance Very well. The DOS/Windows compatibility package for NEXTSTEP/Intel takes full advantage of the 486 microprocessor. Depending on system hardware configuration and type of DOS/Windows application, performance should vary between 386 and 486 native DOS/Windows performance on Pentium systems. In addition, to enhance the performance of Windows applications, a MS Windows specific Graphics Device Interface (GDI) driver which maps Microsoft Windows calls directly to the NEXTSTEP window server is part of the system. 6.14 Is the window I use to run Microsoft Windows applications resizable? Windows, size MS-Windwos, size Yes. You can set the Windows session to any size you wish up to the maximum screen size available to the NEXTSTEP/Intel system you are using. 6.15 Will this DOS/Windows compatibility system allow me to run several DOS programs at once? MS-DOS, multitasking Yes. Since NEXTSTEP/Intel is a multi-tasking, virtual memory operating environment, several DOS/Windows sessions can be run at once. Hey, did I say Windows? Yes you can do real Windows multitasking with SoftPC. 6.16 Can I cut and paste between DOS/Windows sessions and NEXTSTEP applications? cut&paste, Windows cut&paste, MS-DOS cut&paste, MS-Windows Yes. You can cut and paste text and graphics between DOS/Windows and NEXTSTEP applications. 6.17 Can I use both DOS and NEXTSTEP/Intel partitions on the same hard disk? partitions, NeXT and DOS multi OS setup OS, more than one Yes. NEXTSTEP/Intel will support multiple operating systems on the same local hard disk. When the system boots, the user can chose to boot another operating system (such as DOS) or NEXTSTEP. If the local partition contains DOS, NEXTSTEP/Intel will be able to access the local DOS partition and read/write files to it, with the restriction on primary partitions only. Executive Summary: It is possible to install DOS, Windows NT with NTFS, and NEXTSTEP/Intel on the same disk, and select which partition is booted at boot time. I spent some time experimenting with a 200MB SCSI disk. I wanted to see if the following configuration would be possible: Partition 1 Primary DOS Partition 2 Extended DOS Partition 3 Windows NT NTFS Partition 4 NS/Intel 3.2 Since Windows NT requires at least 70MB for installation, and NS/Intel requires at least 120MB, there wasn't much room for DOS! Ultimately, I only tested a three partition system (DOS, NTFS, NS/Intel), but I have no reason to believe that the extended DOS wouldn't also work. The recipe is as follows: * Preparation. You need a bootable DOS floppy that has FORMAT.COM on it. You need another (blank) floppy for installing NT. * Start with the NS/Intel installation. When it asks you how you want to configure your disk, it gives you three choices, which are basically 1. erase the whole disk and use it all for NS/Intel, 2. save some room for DOS, 3. advanced. Choose the advanced option, which places you in NS/Intel fdisk (not to be confused with DOS FDISK.EXE). * Create three partitions in this order: 1. Primary DOS (if more than 32MB desired, use the "large" FAT option) 2. HPFS (this is a placeholder for NT, and can be any non-DOS format) 3. NEXTSTEP * Proceed with the rest of the NEXTSTEP installation. * When NEXTSTEP is safely installed and tested out, boot DOS from your bootable DOS floppy. * FORMAT the DOS partition (which should be Drive C if you made it the first partition). You want to FORMAT C:/S, to install the boot code to make the DOS partition bootable. * Once DOS is safely formatted and tested out, insert the NT installation floppy and reboot. * Proceed with the NT installation. Tell Setup to install NT in the second partition (which shows up as "Unformatted"). You can select NTFS for FAT format. * Insert the blank floppy when asked. Don't bother to format it, NT unconditionally formats it. * If you select NTFS, there is a scary part of the installation that makes it seem like NT can't reboot. In fact, it is converting the installed files from FAT to NTFS in place. Just let it keep rebooting until it finishes, don't interrupt it like I did. * Finish setting up NT and test it out. It should be able to see the DOS partition in FileManager. * Likewise, there should be a DOS filesystem in / on NS/Intel. If you configured NT for FAT instead of NTFS, there should be two DOS filesystems in /. That's it. When you boot, you see the familiar NS/Intel boot manager. If you select DOS, it boots NT, which in turn offers you a chance to boot DOS or NT (not NS/Intel, of course). Kind of weird that you have this two tiered boot, but it's probably because the bootsector has been modified by NT. I haven't tried setting the active partition to DOS -- that might avoid the two tiers. 6.18 Can NEXTSTEP/Intel read, write, and format DOS and Mac floppies? MacIntosh, r/w floppy MS-DOS, r/w floppy Yes. 6.19 NEXTSTEP/Intel 3.1, DOS, Linux/NT multi-boot system? multi OS boot Linux MS-DOS OS/2 boot manager dual boot The OS/2 boot manager does this nicely. NOTES ON INSTALLING DOS, OS/2 AND NEXTSTEP FOR DUAL BOOT * Boot OS/2 from diskette and press Escape to get to the [A:] command prompt * Run the OS/2 FDISK program and create the following partitions: + 1 MB Boot Manager + 20MB DOS Primary partition (drive C:) + 64MB OS/2 Extended partition (logical drive D:) + 120MB Data Extended partition (logical drive E:) (or 200MB or whatever size) NOTE: LEAVE THE REMAINING 460+MB FREE SPACE UNFORMATTED DO NOT CREATE A PARTITION FOR THE REMAINING SPACE * Re-boot the machine and boot DOS from diskette. * Format drive C: and install DOS on drive C: with the following command: format c: /s /u * Now Re-boot the machine with the OS/2 Installation diskette. * Install OS/2 on Drive D: (the 64 MB logical partition) You will be prompted to install OS/2 on the default drive C: You will need to select the option to change the drive which will throw you into FDISK. Just make drive D: installable and proceed. * After OS/2 has been installed shutdown the system. Do a cold power off boot. * Cold boot the machine with the NEXTSTEP boot diskette. * Proceed with normal NEXTSTEP install and you should get the following disk installation option screen: Type 1 to erase the entire disk and use all 667 MB ... Type 2 to set aside some space for DOS and use the rest ... Type 3 to keep existing partitions and use the 462 MB free space ... Type 4 to use the 184 MB DOS extended partition for NEXTSTEP. Type 5 for advanced options (in English only). ---> Choose option number 3 and proceed with the NEXTSTEP install * After NEXTSTEP has been installed, re-boot the machine and select 'd' from the NEXTSTEP boot manager menu to boot DOS. * When DOS has booted, run the FDISK program to set the active partition to the first partition, the BOOT Manager partition. Then exit fdisk. * Now run the DOS FDISK program again but with the following parameter: fdisk /mbr This command removes the NEXTSTEP boot manager from the DOS partition. * Now re-boot the machine and the boot manager should come up. Select OS/2 * Once OS/2 has booted, run the OS/2 FDISK program and name the NEXTSTEP partition and add it to the boot manager menu. * You should now have a machine with DOS, NEXTSTEP, OS/2 listed in the boot manager menu when the machine starts up. The boot manager defaults to the OS that was last booted. 6.20 NeXTSTEP on INTEL, KEYBOARD-ERROR ... keyboard error, Intel We installed NeXTSTEP for Intel on a P5-Board using an Adaptec A1540 SCSI-Controller. The System boots correctly. After running the kernel the keyboard is without any function. We can't use it anymore. Rebooting doesn't eliminate the error (advise from I-Guide). Well, it seems that the PS/2 Mouse driver interferes with the keyboard driver when installing on some motherboards. You have to remove the PS/2 mouse driver, then reboot, and it will work fine. I destroy the driver on our machines, so that config=Default will work properly as well. You should be able to remove the driver without reinstalling. 6.21 NS 3.2 Tseng ET4000 Video Driver doesn't work. ET4000, NS3.2 TSENG Cards often have different DACs and BIOS-Versions. It is important, that the graphics card do have the original BIOS from TSENG Laps. Otherwise, it is not possible to run NS with the 1024 x 768 resolution. 6.22 Accessing ROM monitor on Intel-System, how? ROM-Monitor, Intel On Intel you just type -s at the boot: prompt. Also try CTRL-C at the point where it hangs it might continue. This gives you single user mode. There simply is no ROM-Monitor on Intel as it is on NeXT. You do have the choice to enter a simple ROM-Debugger by choosing the appropriate option when the system hangs. 6.23 Adaptec 2940 Fast and Sync. SCSI explanation... This message is to clear up the confusion on the issue of whether or not the NEXTSTEP driver for the Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI Host Adapter supports Fast SCSI (i.e., 10 MB/s data transfers). The Adaptec 2940 SCSI Host Adapter Driver supports Synchronous Data Transfer as well as Fast SCSI transfers. In order to enable Synchronous Data Transfer, this feature must be enabled in both the 2940's AutoSCSI program and in the NEXTSTEP Configure application, when configuring the Adaptec 2940 driver. In the AutoSCSI program, this feature is enabled in the SCSI Device Configuration menu, via the "Initiate Sync Negotiation" field. This can be enabled or disabled on a per-target basis. In the Configure application, the "Synchronous" button, if disabled, disables Synchronous Transfers for ALL targets. If enabled, the values selected in the AutoSCSI program are used to determine whether or not Synchronous Transfers occur on a per-target basis. The Synchronous Transfer data rate is determined in the 2940's AutoSCSI program, via the "Maximum Sync Transfer Rate" field in the SCSI Device Configuration menu. "Fast SCSI" Transfers are enabled by selecting a value of 10 (i.e., 10 Megabytes/seconds) for this field. Note that if Synchronous Transfers are disabled, the "Maximum Sync Transfer Rate" field is meaningless. Also note that it is not recommended to select a value higher than 5 for a device which is in an external enclosure and connected to the 2940 via an external SCSI cable. 6.24 Do EIDE-Drives work with NEXTSTEP? EIDE Yes, a driver is included in NEXTSTEP 3.3 6.25 Anyone have a driver yet that does 8 bit color on an ET4000/w32p card? (Hercules Dynamite Pro VLB) ET4000/w32p, 8 Bit color Here's a trick that will work with 3.3 if the driver works with your adapter. You need the latest driver though. Simply select one of the 8-bit gray resolutions in Configure. Save the configuration and quit Configure. Open Instance0.table inside the driver bundle and search for BW:8 and replace it by RGB:256/8. Save the file. Restart your machine and you've got 8-bit color!!! 6.26 Does a Glidepoint pointing device work with NEXTSTEP? Glidepoint It will work nicely under NS as you don't need any driver to make it work and use the nice features that GlidePoint have, like 'double-tap' to replace left-button click and 'double-tap and slide on the pad' to replace the hold the button and move for dragging an object. 6.27 AppleTalk under NEXTSTEP/Intel? AppleTalk, Intel IPT has a product called Partner, which works fine under 3.3 and mounts AppleShare Volumes, supports AT printing etc. (This is true, although IPT states that Partner only runs under 3.3 Black and 3.2 Intel.) 6.28 Booting hangs with black screen Triton Bootoptions On some Triton based boards there seems to be a graphic problem while booting. The solution is to switch off graphic display and always boot with the '-v' option turned on (enter this at the 'boot:' prompt). If you don't get a 'boot:' prompt, or if you just want to fix things forever, you need to enter Default.table and Instance0.table in /usr/Devices/System.config and set 'BootGraphics="No"'. This has the same effect as typing '-v' at the 'boot:' prompt every time. Setting BootGraphics=NO can also be done from the Expert panel in Configure.app 6.29 Why are the features of my graphic card useless? graphic card For the purposes of this discussion, I will limit my response to the manner in which DPS operates as part of the NEXTSTEP window server. DPS sometimes draws directly to the screen and sometimes to offscreen memory (buffered windows). The latter is the most common case. The former occurs only in nonretained windows and visible portions of retained windows. DPS is split into two sections: a device independent kernel and a device dependent driver layer. The driver layer is free to use graphics hardware to do its job; however there are complications. First, most graphics cards only allow you to use the hardware to draw into the framebuffer, not into system memory. This renders the hardware unusable for buffered windows. Second, the hardware must draw the same pixels that the software would draw. Often this is hard to achieve with satisfactory performance results. The DPS device primitives rely on precise pixel layout that often cannot be guaranteed using the hardware in the most straightforward manner. So, while it is theoretically possible to use graphics hardware with DPS in NEXTSTEP, it is not very practical. This should not lead you to the conclusion that all graphics cards are the same when it comes to NEXTSTEP. The speed of the system bus (ISA, EISA, PCI, VLB) is a big determinant of performance, but the internal architecture of the card itself also has a huge impact on the framebuffer memory bandwidth. I won't go into details, but some of the determinants include DRAM vs. VRAM, memory interleaving, and burst access. Other factors also influence the quality of a display card. These include the speed and stability of the RAMDAC and the supported display modes to name jsut two. 6.30 How to use MIDI without the MusicKit? MIDI MusicKit * Be sure you have an MPU-401 compatible MIDI card for the PC. * Get the Music Kit and install it. It's on the ftp servers. * Install the MIDI driver by double clicking on /LocalLibrary/Devices/Mididriver, which will add it to the system. Set the IRQ and IO port in the Configure.app. Then reboot. * If your program does not use the -ObjC flag on its link line, link against /usr/local/lib/libmusickit.a. However, if your program does use the -ObjC flag, extract the following files from libmusickit.a and link against them explicitly: mididriver_replyServer.o mididriverUser.o mididriver_nonMig.o * Add this line as the first line in the C file that accesses the MIDI driver: #import <musickit/midi_driver_compatability.h> Be sure that you do not explicitly import . This file is (conditionally) imported by . The reason for needing a separate API for Intel is that there's a structure size disparity between the 68k and Intel versions of NeXT's libsys_s. So we defined a new set of MIDI functions for the Intel driver. The header file above defines the old names to be the new names. * Change the mididriver port name from mididriver to Mididriver. Example: #if i386 #define MIDIDRIVER_NAME "Mididriver" #else #define MIDIDRIVER_NAME "mididriver" #endif r = netname_look_up(name_server_port, "",MIDIDRIVER_NAME, &driverPort); This is another change to prevent conflict with the NeXT hardware driver. 7 STORAGE 7.1 Disktab help needed: ST15230N disktab ST15230N Seagate, ST15230 This is the /etc/disktab entry for the SEAGATE ST15230N. ST15230N_1024|SEAGATE ST15230N_1024:\ :ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#3992:nt#19:ns#59:ss#1024:rm#5411:\ :fp#160:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\ :os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:hn=localhost:ro=a:\ :pa#0:sa#512000:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#8:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\ :ia:ta=4.3BSD:\ :pb#512000:sb#512000:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#8:db#4096:rb#10:ob=time:\ :ib:tb=4.3BSD:\ :pc#1024000:sc#716800:bc#8192:fc#1024:cc#8:dc#4096:rc#10:oc=time:\ :ic:tc=4.3BSD: \ :pd#1740800:sd#1536000:bd#8192:fd#1024:cd#8:dd#4096:rd#10:od=time:\ :id:td=4.3BSD: \ :pe#3276800:se#1150000:be#8192:fe#1024:ce#8:de#4096:re#10:oe=time:\ :ie:te=4.3BSD: 7.2 Formatting DEC DSP3105 with 1024-byte blocks. DEC, DSP3105 DPS3105, 1024 block size disktab A DEC DSP3160S was reformatted with 1024-byte blocks using the following entry in /etc/disktab (two partitions) # DEC DSP3160S DSP3160S|DEC DSP3160S|DEC DSP3160S w/1024 b/sec as 2 partition:\ :ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#1302:nt#16:ns#75:ss#1024:rm#5403:\ :fp#160:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\ :os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:r0=a:\ :pa#0:sa#744000:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#7:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\ :ia:ta=4.3BSD:\ :pb#744000:sb#818400:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#7:db#4096:rb#10:ob=time:\ :ib:tb=4.3BSD: 7.3 My formatted disk has much less space then advertised! filesystem, overhead disk space space, disk filesystem, space Let's assume you bought a disk drive advertised with 400 MB unformatted capacity. Vendors are not consistent with the MB definition. You may have much less space less than you think you have. Which of the following did you buy? 400 * 1000 * 1000 = 400,000,000 bytes 400 * 1024 * 1000 = 409,600,000 bytes 400 * 1024 * 1024 = 419,430,400 bytes The disk must be formatted. This is often done by the vendor, but occasionally by the user. Formatting maps the disk into sectors. Space is reserved for the disk geometry and bad sectors. Formatting can take 10-20% of the capacity depending on the sector size. Common sector sizes are 512 and 1024. Generally, bigger sectors mean less waste. Once formatted, the UNIX file system must be created. On the NeXT, this is one of the steps performed by the BuildDisk application. It invokes the mkfs command to make a file system. This reserves space for the UNIX file system (e.g., superblocks, inode tables). This overhead can take another 2-3% of the available disk space. If you issue the df command, you may be surprised to see another 10 the available disk space has disappeared. The df command shows the total, used, and available disk space. The df units are in kbytes (1024 bytes). The sum of the used and available numbers will generally be about 10 allow the UNIX file system to be efficient in its storage allocation. If your disk fills up, only the superuser can store files in the remaining 10%. To complete the picture, here's a snapshot of what may occur: Capacity Lost/Used/Reserved Reason (in bytes) (in bytes) 419,430,000 19,430,000 Marketing hype (~5\%) 400,000,000 60,000,000 Formatting (~15\%) 340,000,000 6,800,000 UNIX file system (~2\%) 333,200,000 33,320,000 Efficiency & superuser (~10\%) 299,880,000 For more information, refer to the df and mkfs man pages. 7.4 Can't initialise my disk within the Workspace initializing Sometimes there are problem initializing disks. This only occurs if the disk is already formatted, but in a different format, e.g. the sector size was changed etc. Mostly you can overcome this problem by using the sdformat utility available on the FTP sites. (Not sdform by NeXT, which is incapable to do this). After using sdformat, you should be abel to further format the media within Workspace. 7.5 Initialing Opticals for NeXT OD, NeXT optical disk, OD OD, initializing Do the following: /etc/mkfs /dev/rsd1a 288339 1803 2 8192 1024 12 10 60 4096 t 7.6 How to use a tape drive ? tape drive Using Configure.app add the SCSITape driver to support any SCSI tape drives in the "Others" config. 7.7 How to recover from an partially formatted disk? recover, disk Often people (mostly on Intel) complain about a formatted disk (sometimes partially) due to an installation process error of some other OS. There is a chance to recover most of the data. The following assumes you are on Intel, other hardware user have to handle things much less complicated, but the way is similar: * Prepare a new hard drive for booting * Don't try to repair the broken drive! * On Intel run fdisk to repartition the drive as it was before. If you are not able to do this, you are lost. Delete all evtl. new created partitions. By repartitioning, you won't loose data on the drive. * Run disk on the broken drive e.g. type disk -rsd1h. * Now scan the disk for superblocks by entereing the scan command at the interactive disk command prompt. * If your disk was partially formatted, use a higher superblock number to supply fsck with an new superblock. E.g. if a superblock was found at 3145 use fsck -b3145 -y /dev/sd1a (assuming the first partition is the broken one). * After this run, it is most important to reboot without syncing the drives! E.g. just turn off the computer without shutting down, or use the reboot -n command. * After rebooting the run fsck again, if it isn't done by the system itself. * You should be able to access the drive again now. Recovered files are placed in the /lost+found directory. 7.8 What about the ZIP drive? IOmega, ZIP ZIP drive There are frequently asked questions about the IOmega ZIP drive. One question will be answered here: 'Yes, it works with NEXTSTEP'. For other question I'd like to point you to the ZIP-drive FAQ: http://www.radical.com/TheSolutions/RadicalSolution4.html 8 PRINTING 8.1 What printers (laser or otherwise) may be used with NEXTSTEP? printer, NeXT Adding supported postscript printers is rather simple: * Get a serial cable (e.g., Macintosh to LaserWriter Plus), but check whether that works with your printer * Configure using Print Manager * Configure printer communication according to manufacturer's recommendations. (9600 baud software flow control). A sample printcap entry needs to be loaded into the netinfo database. You can use either niload printcap . , or use NetInfoManager to change the br and lp properties of your LaserJet. Using the default baud rate and /dev/ttya will also work, for most print jobs (if the printer is connected to this port). LaserJet_III: \ :note=LaserJet_III:ty=HP LaserJet III PostScript: \ :sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/LaserJet_III:lp=/dev/ttyfa: \ :lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:af=/usr/adm/lp.acct:br=19200:rw:fc\#0000374: \ :fs\#0000003:xc\#0:xs\#0040040:mx\#0:sf:sb:if=/usr/lib/transcript/psif: \ :of=/usr/lib/transcript/psof:gf=/usr/lib/transcript/psgf: \ :nf=/usr/lib/transcript/psnf:tf=/usr/lib/transcript/pstf: \ :rf=/usr/lib/transcript/psrf:vf=/usr/lib/transcript/psvf: \ :cf=/usr/lib/transcript/pscf:df=/usr/lib/transcript/psdf: HP printer configuration: auto cont = off (doesn't matter) I/O = serial serial=rs-232 (for LJ III only) baud rate = 19200 (or whatever baud rate you have in ni database/printcap) robust xon = on (doesn't matter) dtr polarity = hi startpage = off (doesn't matter) language=english ret = med (you choose for LJ III only) Note that if you modify the printcap this way you cannot reconfigure this particular printer entry with PrintManager. If you are using NEXTSTEP 2.0 and you use remote non-next printers, there is a bug that can be simply corrected by doing "dwrite system PrinterResolution 1" for each user trying to access non-next printers on the network. This not a problem in later NEXTSTEP versions. 8.2 What fonts can I use with NEXTSTEP? fonts Properly packaged Type 1 or 3 PostScript fonts will work with NEXTSTEP, but certain conversions may be necessary to get them to work. Freeware and shareware fonts are available on various ftp archives. There are utilities with NEXTSTEP to download fonts into postscript printers. Freeware and shareware Type 1 and 3 fonts in files Fonts-1.0-free.tar.Z and Fonts-2.0-sw.tar.Z. Each file unpacks into it's own directory. Within each directory is a ReadMe.rtf and a Makefile. See the ReadMe.rtf for more font descriptions and installation instructions. (You may also find comments in the Makefile of interest.) These packages were prepared by Doug Brenner . The same directory contains fonts Shalom (Hebrew and Yiddish in Old Style, Stick and Script typefaces, by Jonathan Brecher, shareware) and CyrillicGothic (san serif, by Jay Sekora). These were packaged by Jacob Gore to work with the Installer application. WSI-Fonts for NEXTSTEP \#1 Abstract Software POB 25045 Seattle, WA 98125-1945 Voice: 206 361 5080 info@abstractsoft.com Some fonts in Type 1 format for NEXTSTEP are also available from Y&Y: Y\&Y, 106 Indian Hill, Carlisle MA 01741 USA Voice: 800 742 4059 Voice: 508 371 3286 Fax: 508 371 2004 71172,524 on CompuServe 71172.524@compuserve.com from InterNet There is a font converter available in the MetroTools package by MetroSoft (info@metrosoft.com). 8.3 How can I save my printable documents to a postscript file? PS to file Select PRINT from the main menu, then select SAVE from the resulting print panel. 8.4 How can I print only the even or odd pages of a document? odd and even pages even and odd pages duplex printing double sided print I wish print on both sides by feeding the paper through twice. We must recommend against re-using laser printed paper in your printers. The reason is that the toner which is used is not very robust, in that when heated again (which happens when you print) it can come off the other side of the paper. This causes a mess to accumulate in your printer, and probably some pretty rude things to happen. psutils from comp.sources.misc is a much better solution, and includes a lot more capabilities, plus it is being updated constantly. 8.5 How do I get banner pages on my printer output? banner There is a sample banner prologue file in /usr/lib/NextPrinter that is sent to the printer before or after the print job depending on what printer attributes are set in NetInfo. Sounds gross, but it isn't. Start up NetInfo on your printer machine. Go to the printer directory, and open up your local printer by double clicking it. Select the append property from Directory menu. Replace the name with BannerAfter (or BannerBefore if you want the banner page printed first). The select the New Value option, and put in the name of the banner prologue file. If you do not wish to do fancy customization of the file, simply put the path to the NeXT sample banner file: /usr/lib/NextPrinter/banner.pro Save out the netinfo modifications. 8.6 How do I get [la]TeX files to print correctly on non-NeXT printers? Latex TeX If you are printing to a non-NeXT printer from NeXT TeX using dvips, make sure you specify the correct resolution (300 dpi, usually), either on the command line with -D300, or in the /usr/lib/tex/config.ps file with a line that looks like : D 300 If you are printing from within TeXView, you will have to choose CustomResolution and enter the correct number (300, usually) because of the way DefaultResolution defaults to 0. 8.7 What if I have a PostScript font has not been ported to NEXTSTEP? PS-Font to NeXT Many PostScript fonts port to NEXTSTEP with little effort. The easiest case is a font generated by Fontographer version 3.2 or above (a comment near the top of the file should say which program generated the font). This version of Fontographer can generate fonts "for NEXTSTEP". This means that no hacking of the font is needed, but you may need to make some adjustments to make it appear in your font panel. Suppose you were porting the font family Shalom, which consists of three faces: Old Style, Stick and Script. Here is the procedure to follow: * In a working folder of yours, create folders called: Shalom-OldStyle.font Shalom-Script.font Shalom-Stick.font Note that the font family name is to the left of the hyphen ("-"), and the typeface name is to the right and with no spaces in it. * Copy the outline font file for each typeface from wherever it is into its folder, and give it the name of the folder minus the ".font". For example, if you are doing this in a Terminal window: cp /Floppy/ShalomOldStyle.NeXT Shalom-OldStyle.font/Shalom-OldStyle cp /Floppy/ShalomScript.NeXT Shalom-Script.font/Shalom-Script cp /Floppy/ShalomStick.NeXT Shalom-Stick.font/Shalom-Stick If you are working in Workspace Manager's File Viewer, double-click on the big fat F icon to open the font directory as a folder, then you'll be able to rename files in it. * Do the same thing with the font metric files, but make the suffix ".afm": cp /Floppy/ShalomOldStyle.AFM Shalom-OldStyle.font/Shalom-OldStyle.afm cp /Floppy/ShalomScript.AFM Shalom-Script.font/Shalom-Script.afm cp /Floppy/ShalomStick.AFM Shalom-Stick.font/Shalom-Stick.afm * If there is a "read me" file with the font, or any other documentation, copy it into the .font folder too. For example, each of the Shalom font folders contains files ReadMe, CheatSheet.wn and Sample.wn specific to the typeface. * Edit the outline and font metric files to make them fit the NeXT AppKit's Font Panel, which is what most NextStep applications use to let you choose your font. + Editing the outline file, e.g., Shalom-OldStyle.font/Shalom-OldStyle: The original used "ShalomOldStyle" as the font's name, full name, and family name. We want the name to be "Shalom-OldStyle", the full name "Shalom Old Style", and family name just "Shalom". First, find the lines: /FullName (ShalomOldStyle) readonly def /FamilyName (ShalomOldStyle) readonly def and change them to: /FullName (Shalom Old Style) readonly def /FamilyName (Shalom) readonly def Then, replace all remaining occurrences of the string "ShalomOldStyle" with "Shalom-OldStyle". + Editing the AFM file, e.g., Shalom-OldStyle.font/Shalom-OldStyle.afm. Find the lines: FullName ShalomOldStyle FamilyName ShalomOldStyle and change them to: FullName Shalom Old Style FamilyName Shalom Replace all remaining occurrences of the string "ShalomOldStyle" with "Shalom-OldStyle". Repeat this procedure for the remaining typefaces. * You now have a font family ready to be installed. If the font family is to be used by your account only, place it in /Library/Fonts (creating it if necessary): mkdirs ~/Library/Fonts mv Shalom-*.font ~/Library/Fonts buildafmdir ~/Library/Fonts If everybody on your system should have access to this font family, place it (as superuser) in /LocalLibary/Fonts: su mkdirs /LocalLibrary/Fonts mv Shalom-*.font /LocalLibrary/Fonts buildafmdir /LocalLibrary/Fonts exit That's all you need to do for fonts generated by Fontographer version 3.2 or above. This will work with all applications that use AppKit's FontPanel. FrameMaker does not, so other changes may need to be done to keep FrameMaker happy [does anybody have something to add here?]. Fonts generated by Fontographer version 3.1 or below don't work in Display PostScript as they are, because they use a memory management trick that screws everything up in a multitasking environment like DPS. However, there is a simple, though kludgy, way to make them work. The problematic trick uses a dictionary with a name like "Fog3.1" ("Casa1" in Casady & Green's fonts) in which most of the font resides. The problem is that Fontographer puts that whole dictionary into dictionary 'userdict' and expects it to stay there. DPS, however, clears out 'userdict' between tasks, including the task that loads the font and the task that uses it. This makes the font useless on the screen, and printable only by prepending the outline font file to the file you want to print and sending the result to print in one task. The fix is to move the troublesome dictionary from 'userdict' into the font dictionary itself (unlike 'userdict', the font dictionary does stick around between tasks). Perform the following changes in the outline font file (the font CyrillicGothic is used as the example): * Find the line "%%EndProlog". It will be followed by the line like this: /\$CyrillicGothic 23 dict def \$CyrillicGothic begin Write down the number before 'dict' (in this case, 23). You will need it in the following step. Delete the dict definition, making the line look like this: \$CyrillicGothic begin * Go back to the beginning of the file. near the top of the font program, find the following lines: userdict/Fog3.1 known\{\{currentfile( )readstring \{(\%\%\%)eq\{exit\}if\}{pop exit\}ifelse\}loop \}if userdict begin/Fog3.1 45 dict def Fog3.1 begin and replace them with these: /\$CyrillicGothic 24 dict def \$CyrillicGothic begin/Fog3.1 45 dict def Fog3.1 begin The number before 'dict' (in this case, 24) is one greater than the number you wrote down in the previous step. * Find the line that defines procedure BuildChar: /BuildChar{Fog3.1/BuildChar get exec}def and change it as follows: /BuildChar{1 index begin Fog3.1/BuildChar get exec end}def * Go to the end of the file. The last line looks like this: /CyrillicGothic findfont/EFN get Fog3.1 begin\{RF\}forall end Delete it (or comment it out by placing one or more " beginning of it). The AFM file requires one adjustment. Change the line EncodingScheme AppleStandard to EncodingScheme AdobeStandardEncoding This concludes conversion of a font generated by Fontographer version 3.1 or lower to work with NEXTSTEP. You may still need to make the changes described for version 3.2 and above, to make the font fit the NEXTSTEP font panel. Short note: under NEXTSTEP 3.3 there is no need to call buildafmdir by hand. It's triggered automatically by the Font panel. 8.8 What color printers (laser or otherwise) may be used with NEXTSTEP? printer, color The (no longer sold) NeXT/Canon SCSI color printer, of course! With Dots Color, the HP DeskJet 500C can print in color today, under NEXTSTEP 2.1, and it costs significantly less than $1000 (in Germany at least). In Germany you can get more information from: d'ART Software GmbH Virchowstr. 17-19 W-2000 Hamburg 50 Germany Voice: +49 40 380 23 0 Fax: +49 40 380 23 290 software@dart.de JetPilot from Interpersonal Computer does this jobs also very well. You can get more information from: interpersonal computing GmbH Oettingenstrasse 2 W-80538 Muenchen Germany Voice: +49 89 22 28 63 Fax: +49 89 22 33 76 info@interpc.de 8.9 How can I make the Page Layout default to A4 in all applications? A4 default size Add "NXPaperType A4" in the "GLOBAL" preferences. 8.10 /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/pstf: syntax error at line 31: `end of file' unexpected? Using lpr -t, or lpr -d causes this problem. eg: [...] cat /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/pstf [...] Christopher Lane has pointed out 3 (three!) errors in the distributed NEXTSTEP 3.0 lpd.comm file The last change is my own. It worked for the 1 (one!) dvi file I tried. tilley\% diff lpd.comm.DIST lpd.comm 11,12c11,12 < while "x\$1" != x do < case "\$1" in --- > while test \$\# != 0 > do case "\$1" in 16c16 < -h) HOST=\$"; shift;; --- > -h) HOST=\$2; shift;; 17a18 > esac 21c22 < PRSERVER="/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/prserver -p \$PRINTER -n \$USER -h HOST -f -" --- > PRSERVER="/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/prserver -p \$PRINTER -n \$USER -h \$HOST -f -" 27c28 < psdf) psbad \$FILTER \$PRINTER \$USER \$HOST | \$PRSERVER;; --- > psdf) dvips -f -D 400 -r | \$PRSERVER ;; 8.11 How to get TeX with NEXTSTEP to make proper fonts for a 600 dpi laserwriter? 600dpi TeX fonts TeX, 600dpi If you upgrade to a 600 dpi laserwriter then the version of TeX that ships with NEXTSTEP (either 2.X or 3.0) does not know about 600 dpi fonts, i.e. does not know how to make them and will instead use scaled 400 dpi ones (which look significantly worse at 600 dpi than they do at 400 dpi). Some simple modifications to a few Metafont files and rebuilding the metafont bases are all that is needed. What to do to get the 600 dpi stuff working is as follows: * Edit /usr/lib/mf/inputs/next.mf and add a laserjetIV mode. Simply copy the entire imagen mode, change the name to laserjetIV, and change the pixels_per_inch to 600. Save the changed file. * Build a new mf.base file by executing the following commands: inimf "plain; input next; dump" (as superuser): cp plain.base /usr/lib/mf/bases/mf.base * Edit /usr/lib/tex/ps/config.ps and change the `D 400' line to `D 600' (you may have `D 300' or something else if you've set up a different printer.) * Edit /usr/bin/MakeTeXPK (as superuser), adding the lines elif test $BDPI = 600 then MODE=laserjetIV right before the second `else' in the file. That should do it! You might have to (depending on how you configure NEXTSTEP for the LaserJet IV) select `custom resolution' and set the gadget to 600 in the TeXview print panel, and save Preferences. These instructions are written for an HP Laserjet IV, but they should also work for a QMS printer just fine. Finally, if you have one of these printers and work in a "mixed" environment with perhaps 400 dpi and/or 300 dpi printers that you also print to on a regular basis then you might want to consider getting Type 1 PS version of the Computer Modern fonts instead. They obviate the need for the instructions above, and the savings in disc space will be considerable since having printer fonts for several printers takes lots of room, and the file sizes for 600 dpi are quite large (the files grow roughly as D logD, where D is the resolution). These fonts are made by Blue Sky Research, and work beautifully. Y&Y software is a reseller for BSR and sells a "NEXTSTEP specific" version of them which comes with appropriate instructions and installation scripts. 8.12 How to get printer description files (PPD)? PPD, where? printer description files, PPD Adobe has a mail server and ftp site where you can get .PPD files. They are: ps-file-server@adobe.com (put "send help" in the mail body) ftp.mv.us.adobe.com 8.13 What are the Canon part numbers for ink cartridges equivalent to those NeXT's Color Printer uses? ink cartridge, Canon Canon, ink cartridge Part Numbers are: Red: BJI-643 M Yellow: BJI-643 Y Blue: BJI-643 C Black: BJI-643 Bk 8.14 JetPilot does not work with my JetDirect box, why? JetPilot, JetDirect JetDirect, JetPilot eXTRAPRINT It seems, that there is a bug in the /etc/rc-script. The bootpd is given with to arguments -a -f, which are not available for the bootpd under 3.3. Make an entry in /etc/bootptab like this: \# \# host htype haddr iaddr bootfile \# printer 1 XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX where * host: your given hostname for the printer (eg. picasso) * haddr: The Ethernet hardware address (Can be seen, if you press the TEST-Key on your JetDirect box. * iaddr: Is the hostaddress for the printer (eg. 192.42.172.1) Entries have to be done also in the Netinfo-database. It's like adding a new host. Insert the following line to your etc/rc.local script: \# \# Starting JetDirect-Printer configuration \# fbshow -B -I "Starting Printer initialization" -z 92 /usr/etc/bootpd -d /etc/bootptab >/dev/console 2>\&1 There is an additional FAQ available at: ftp://ftp.gscorp.com/pub/support/HP_JetDirect_Configuration.rtfd.tar.g z 8.15 powering down NeXTprinter during bootup, printer still works power down, printer printer, printer down Type the following to your rc.local. \#turn off NeXT laser printer. fbshow -B -I "Powering off NeXTprinter" -z 95 if [ -f /usr/etc/nppower ]; then sleep 3 /usr/etc/nppower off (echo 'powering off NeXTprinter') >/dev/console fi This works fine... the printer powers down immediately, and is available for any app which wants it. 8.16 How to set up the HP LaserJet 4M? HP Laserjet 4M I solved the problem by building a serial cable based upon the pinouts supplied by HP in their manual. Please note that the LJIII cable does not work. In particular, pin 1 from the DIN plug must be connected to pin 6 of the DB25. I used 38500 bps on both sides, and the 600 dpi ppd. Emulex offers the NETJet network interface which speaks lpd protocol, unlike the HP unit. 8.17 Laserwriter NTX & NEXTSTEP Laserwriter NTX This are the pin assignments. Eight-pin mini DIN-8 RS-422 Port Pin Signal Description 1,3 SG Signal Ground 4 TxD+ Transmit Data + 5 TxD- Transmit Data - 8 RxD+ Receive Data + 9 RxD- Receive Data - IBM-compatible DB-25 Plug LaserWriter DB-25 Plug Signal Pin Pin Signal Shield 1 ............ 1 Shield TxD 2 ............ 3 RxD RxD 3 ............ 2 TxD RTS 4 ............ 4 RTS CTS 5 ............ 5 CTS DSR 6 ............ 8 DCD GND 7 ............ 7 GND ............ 20 DTR The other aspect is to set the DIP switch on the printer. Here are the DIP switch settings: Switch 1 Switch 2 Meaning UP UP LocalTalk---RS-232 port disabled DOWN UP Serial ports at 1200 Baud UP DOWN Serial ports at 9600 Baud DOWN DOWN RS-232 at 9600 Baud; RS-422 at 0 Baud Switches 3 and 4 can probably be ignored---they're for strange stuff like Diablo 630 and HP LaserJet emulation modes. Switch 5 Switch 6 Meaning DOWN DOWN XON/XOFF UP UP XON/XOFF DOWN UP ETX/ACK UP DOWN DSR 8.18 Problems with gray levels in printout gray levels color space PS Level2 If you have problems with your shades of gray (e.g. light gray is indistinguishable from white) this might be well a problem in the Level2 Color Space calibration of your printer. To ensure, it's a problem of your printer (and not a problem of the printer driver or PPD file) try the following: * Save a printout to a file * Edit the following line in your printout file: /\_NXLevel2 systemdict/languagelevel known {languagelevel 2 ge}{false}i felse \_\_NXdef to: /\_NXLevel2 false \_\_NXdef * Send the modified file directly to the printer using the commandline command lpr. If you still have problem with the shades of gray, the printer driver/PPD file is probably broken, otherwise your printer is broken, which means he has problems with the Level2 color space calibration (The given correction turns PS Level2 off). 9 OBSOLETE BUT STILL INTERESTING? This chapter contains information covered in the early days of the FAQs. It is not updated anymore. Note that with new releases of NEXTSTEP and OpenStep some information might still be useful to those, who e.g. didn't update. 9.1 Where can I get NeXT paraphernalia? Paraphernalia These parts can be ordered. NeXT T-shirts Classic NeXT logo on front $6.95 each (S-XL) 3.1 NEXTSTEP logo on front $7.95 each (M-XXL) NeXT Pencils $20.30 box of 100 NeXT Cross Pen $21.15 each NeXT Decals $75.00 box of 100 NeXT T-shirt $ 5.65 each - sizes S, M, L, XL (pre-shrunk) Turtle Neck $19.20 each - sizes S, M, L, XL NeXT Glass Mug $ 1.70 each Leather Folder $54.50 each NeXT Sweatshirt $19.20 each - sizes S, M, L, XL NeXT Tote-bag $ 6.25 each NeXT Mouse pad $ 9.67 each Orders can be taken 24 hours a day for domestic and overseas orders Contact: Hermann Marketing -------- 1400 North Price Road St. Louis, MO 63132-2308 Phone: 1 800 972 1331, 314 432 1800 Fax: 314 432 1818 Method of payment: Purchase order, check, money order, or credit card 9.2 Is there any way to change the text in the title bar of a terminal window? There is no way of changing the title bar of a Terminal.app window in 2.x; in 3.x there is. Check Preferences (Title Bar): set CustomTitle, type in the title, and hit CR (or Set Window) and voila! [From: andre@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Andre Roberge)] Actually, there is a way to change the title bar of a Terminal window in 2.x (at least in 2.1 which is what I am using). It is somewhat limited but it might be useful to some. The trick is to make a symbolic link between /bin/csh (or whichever shell one wishes to use) and a file in / named "Whatever_you_want_to_appear_in_the_title_bar". Then select this new "shell" in the terminal preference and, voila!, you'll have your terminal window with /Whatever_you..... in the title bar. You can edit Stuart's titlebar interactively from the "Window..." Inspector (Command-3). Stuart provides emulation of certain Operating System Command (OSC) sequences which can be used to modify the titlebar under subprocess control. Stuart can change the title of the current window from the command line. In Stuart is possible to get more descriptive titles by linking /usr/ucb/rsh to /usr/hosts/. Then by adding /usr/hosts to your Stuart ShellPath you can then get the hostname into the title bar: $ dwrite StuartShellPaths <various dirs>:/usr/hosts You should then type in the hostname as the shell to invoke (disable the "Shell reads .login file" for this. You can also add hosts to your .Stuartrc file: Shell=golem.ps.uci.edu SourceDotLogin=NO WinLocX=545 WinLocY=563 Lines=24 | WinLocX=76 WinLocY=833 For the localhost, link /bin/csh to /usr/hosts/, or even better /usr/local/bin/tcsh instead of using rsh. [From: Garance A Drosehn ] For what it's worth, I do this with a script called "telnet_to" and a (bash) function called "telnet_window". The function simply does a local soil_pars="-Lines 32 -Keypad YES -Reverse \ YES -Strict YES -TestExit YES"; soil -Shell "telnet_to $1" $soil_pars and the script is just: #!bin/sh /usr/ucb/telnet $* echo ' ' echo ' --> telnet exited, press enter to close window.' read -r Waste_Var exit 0 This has a number of advantages, not the least of which being that I can pop up a "telnet_window" to anywhere. I don't have to create links for each host (though I do create aliases for the most common hosts), and I can type "telnet_window" (or, e.g., "tel_aix") as a unix command. Also, if I lose the connection suddenly then the window stays around until I get a chance to see what happened. I use telnet instead of rsh because I generally connect to hosts which won't accept rsh's. 9.3 I can't get my pictures in OmniWeb OmniWeb You have to install the OmniImage.service in your /Library/Services or /LocalLibrary/Services (This is also a nice way to get pictures converted in other applications as well. You can ftp this from ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de 9.4 How do I remap the and | keys on my keyboard? Keyboard NeXT introduced a new keyboard configuration with the 040 products. The | keys which had been located on the main keyboard was moved to the numeric keypad. Many users have since complained about it, and a work around is to remap these keys using the demo application Keyboard (/NextDeveloper/Demos/Keyboard), Mike Carlton's keyboardfix program: ftp.cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/sources/next-interface/keyboardfix.tar.Z ...which lets you put these keys on shift-return or shift-delete. One can hope that there will be a choice of keyboards in the future. 9.5 How do I stop NeXTMail/Sendmail adding &Mcirc;s onto the end of lines? Sendmail In /etc/sendmail.cf make this change: [old code] ##### UUCP Mailer specification ##### Muucp, P=/usr/bin/uux, F=msDFMhuU, S=13, R=23, [new code] ##### UUCP Mailer specification ##### Muucp, P=/usr/bin/uux, F=msDFMhuU, S=13, R=23, E=\n, This has been fixed in 3.1, and the default mailhost sendmail is UUCP oriented. 9.6 Why does NEXTSTEP 1.0 hang a few seconds after attempting to boot? Boot hang, NS1.0 Release 1.0 contains a bug that can corrupt the kernel /odmach if a user attempts to launch /odmach from the browser. The solution is to copy a clean /odmach from another NeXT system. Be sure to change the permissions of the newly installed /odmach to remove execute permissions to prevent future occurrences of the same problem. Release 1.0a and beyond do not have this problem. It is possible for the sdmach to get corrupted in the same way. Boot from the OD, copy an uncorrupted version of the kernel to the hard disk, and remove the execute bits from sdmach. 9.7 Modem hangs under NS2.0 by incoming calls modem calls, incoming There is a bug in the serial driver which causes getty to get stuck. The situation arises after a successful uucico connection, subsequent connections via modem will get a connection with the modem, but no login prompt. This is caused by getty hanging. A simple work around is to have a process run in cron to reset the getty every 15 minutes: #! /bin/sh -u PIDS=`ps -ax | bm getty | grep -v bm | awk '{print $1}'` kill -TERM $PIDS Of course trying to connect when the script is running will not allow you to connect, try again a minute later. This fix will not affect on-going UUCP or interactive connections. This will probably be fixed in the next kernel release. This bug is corrected in NEXTSTEP 2.1 and later releases. 9.8 NS2.0 doesn't recognize /LocalApps path /LocalApps, NS2.0 Workspace has its own internal application path. In 2.0 /LocalApps was omitted. Improv needs to have /LocalApps in the Workspace path if you have Improve installed in /LocalApps. The work around in 2.0 only is: dwrite Workspace ApplicationPaths "~/Apps:/LocalApps:/NextApps: \ /NextDeveloper/Apps:/NextAdmin:/NextDeveloper/Demos" This bug is corrected in NEXTSTEP 2.1 and later releases. _________________________________________________________________ This document was converted from LaTeX using Karl Ewald's latex2html. -- -- Bernhard Scholz (IRC: Boerny) scholzb@pst.informatik.uni-muenchen.de http://peanuts.leo.org/ scholz@ve1.rm.op.dlr.de http://www.leo.org/~scholz/
From: dave@turbocat.de (David Wetzel) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Shared FreeBSD/NS 3.3 filesystem possible. Date: 16 Aug 1996 12:53:02 GMT Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany Message-ID: <4v1qve$1am@turbocat.turbocat.de> References: <Dvvxzq.CpL@olivetti.nl> paulz@olivetti.nl (Paul van der Zwan) wrote: > Has anybody out there ever used the same disk/filesystem on both NS and > FreeBSD ? > I have a spare HD I want to put in my PC which has both NS 3.3 and > FreeBSD-stable installed on it and I would like to use the disk when running > either OS so I can have a shared home directory . I know both systems can > read MS-DOS formatted disk but that is not really an option. > So the solution would probably involve putting a NS ffs on it and > having FreeBSD mount it. Has this been done ???? Or is it time > to make my own mods. to FreeBSD ?? No. Write a filesystem LKS for NEXTSTEP. Their fs is terribly slow and ugly compared to the fs of NetBSD 1.1. I guess, the fs of FreeBSD is similar to the one in NetBSD. _ _ _(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development, (_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG, _/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152 (______) dave@turbocat.de (NeXTMail,MIME)
From: shess@parka.winternet.com (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: rmdir !? Date: 16 Aug 1996 09:44:22 -0500 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Sender: shess@parka.winternet.com Message-ID: <ack9uzxubd.fsf@parka.winternet.com> References: <lwsp9uzlj9.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> <4ujrds$5mk@blackice.winternet.com> <4ukorg$83i@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960812134515.16272B-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> In-reply-to: Bernhard Scholz's message of Mon, 12 Aug 1996 13:48:11 +0200 In article <Pine.HPP.3.95.960812134515.16272B-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> writes: On 11 Aug 1996, Axel Habermann wrote: > belly kiwi 5 (/tmp): rmdir foo/ > rmdir: foo/: File exists > belly kiwi 6 (/tmp): rmdir foo > > I think it's a bug. Just omit the trailing slash and it works. It's not a bug, it's the way BSD handles files. If you use the trailing slash, you are trying to access a directory as if it was a file. This offers some nice opportunities which might easily lead to big problems :)) I always thought that the difference was that "foo" refers to the hard link resident in the parent directory, while "foo/" refers to the hard link from "." in the foo directory. Thus, "rmdir foo/" is the same as "rmdir foo/.", and it makes sense not to be able to do "rmdir .". Later, -- scott hess <shess@winternet.com> (WWW to "http://www.winternet.com/~shess/") Work: 12550 Portland Avenue South #121, Burnsville, MN 55337 (612)895-1208 <I want to become so famous that people buy tapes of me reading source code>
From: monty@tbyte.com (Monty Zukowski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NeXTmail -> Microsoft Exchange? Date: Thu, 15 Aug 96 22:39:24 GMT Organization: Trilobyte, Inc. Message-ID: <4v0agq$qda@marvin.tbyte.com> Has anybody out there found a way to move NeXTmail mailboxes over to Microsoft Exchange mailboxes? Please email me with any ideas: monty@tbyte.com Thanks, Monty
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Is it possible to buy the Peanuts CDROM ? Message-ID: <DwAJ9D.3z8@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <9608131652.AA06690@nebula.cdrom.com> Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 16:32:00 GMT In article <9608131652.AA06690@nebula.cdrom.com> writes: ...munch... > We are not interested in Peanuts. We have Nebula. For more then 3 > years now. Nebula is in it's 4th edition. Walnut Creek CDROM has > always supported NEXTSTEP and we have very loyal customers for our > products. I think selling this CDROM is a big service to the > community. I get lot's of email of people who enjoy our product and > encourage us to hang in there, hopefully the market will grow. > > >Did we miss to send you a reseller offer? I believe > >not; and would you be interested in one for the next release? > > Not interested thank you. Why don't you resell Nebula instead? We > have several German distributors. It would be cheaper then pressing > your own disc and you could sell it as a service to the community. > You would even help a company that wants to stay in the NEXTSTEP > business, stay in business??? Unless you really want all the > "commercial" vendors to go bankrupt? Now would that be good or bad > for the NEXTSTEP community? > > It just does not make any sense in my view. Instead of helping > commercial vendors stay in business your battleing with us in a > public forum. Now that's a great attitude to have! > Eric, Boerny, please allow me a blunt statement from a saitisfied customer of both of you (without any higher interest in flame wars :-) This kind of "holier than thou" postings is nothing but plain ol'e NEXTSTEP VAR paranoya, IMHO! Please come to your senses and you will recognize that you're not competitors in an ever shrinking market but standard bearers that both help to keep it alive. I can't think of any reasonable NEXTSTEP user who would not want to have both products and upgrade them both on a regular basis. Walnut Creek CD/ROM is serving the community by compiling high standard CDs and Peanuts is doing so by serving as a "magnet" for the publication of almost any PD and commercial edition of NEXTSTEP software that is still alive and well. I can't see why both services should be in direct competition, even if a snapshot of the Peanuts archive is available on CD/ROM from time to time. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: "Hasssan N. Kelley" <hassan@blackstar.ssnet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: PPP help Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 20:52:59 -0400 Organization: SSNet -- Public Internet Access in Delaware! Message-ID: <3216696B.C23@blackstar.ssnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Please excuse me for being ignorant but I just can't get ppp working on my slab. I don't think there is an installion problem I just don't know what I'm doing. I had the same problem with linux. I haven't gotten to the scripting yet. I am just trying to manually get the link up and going. Here is my situation. 1. TurboColor with Motoral 28.8. 2. Correct serial cable (040). 3. Can dial out with the modem by dumping a modem command into /dev/cufa. 4. Don't have any communication programs so I'm trying to start the link with chat 5. When I issue the following command: chat -v ''ATZ OK ATDT3783586 CONNECT '' ogin: Phassan word: mypasswd ATZ just appears on the command line for about a minute and then times out. What am I doing wrong. I don't have much free time between work, my wife and sleep so please inundate my mailbox with any information to help get me going. Thanx Hassan
From: stephen.rhodes@asa.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Clock on my Portable Date: 18 Aug 1996 13:20:56 GMT Message-ID: <4v75bo$iab@news0-alterdial.uu.net> I have OpenStep running on my Digital HiNote Ultrall beautifully. There is one trivial problem in that when the computer sleeps the clock ceases to update. Is there any way that I can make the clock periodically read the hardware clock other than at boot time? Stephen Rhodes
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet Date: 19 Aug 1996 04:15:12 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4v8pog$uk@digifix.digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Software, Inc. 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From: dirk@kalium.physik.TU-Berlin.DE (Dirk Schwarzhans) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: PostScript performance is 30% down under OPENSTEP 4.0 Date: 19 Aug 1996 08:58:31 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <4v9abn$bk@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> Hello, the PostScript performance seems to be 30% down under OPENSTEP 4.0! Running NXBench yields an NXFactor of 0.7 on a black-white 25MHz-station under OPENSTEP 4.0! Under 3.3 the factor was 1.0. What's going on? Dirk Schwarzhans
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: Is it possible to buy the Peanuts CDROM ? Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960815145643.5457B-100000@charisma> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 15:02:13 -0400 To: Christian Neuss <neuss@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de> In-Reply-To: <4usk31$nap@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On 14 Aug 1996, Christian Neuss wrote: > Timothy J. Luoma (luomat@nerc.com) wrote: > > > I think having the peanuts disks available in the > > USA would be a great idea, because it would cut down significantly on > > the delivery time (> 1 month) & costs (~$12 US). And anyone who has > > tried to download from peanuts.leo.org knows that it is difficult/slow > > (through no fault of the peanuts.leo.org admin!). > > I'd like to make the point that the perceived bandwidth problem is > caused by the overloaded cross atlantic link, and by is no means the > fault of either the peanuts admins or their network connection. Isn't that what I said? At least, that's what I was trying to say. Perhaps you were just reaffirming what I said.... > Downloading from peanuts is actually pretty fast when you're on the > right side of the Atlantic. :-) "right" as opposed to "left" ;-) As far at the release of a new peanuts CD: AFAIK the last version came out in December (or new stuff stopped being accepted for the current CD last December). As much as I would like to see a new CD out, I would have to imagine that the cost of the actual disk which is the physical CD is the highest part of the cost of ordering the CD. If so, I'd like to see the thing chock full to the brim before going to press, because it means that for the cost of that physical disk you are getting as much as possible on it, for no more shipping than if it were only half-full. Just one man's thoughts... TjL -------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat My USENET feed is slow and not very reliable NeXT info via email: send message with SUBJECT: send-ascii info NeXT Information: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next
From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: PostScript performance is 30% down under OPENSTEP 4.0 Date: 19 Aug 1996 15:13:10 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Distribution: world Message-ID: <4va0a6$gmu@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <4v9abn$bk@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> In article <4v9abn$bk@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> dirk@kalium.physik.TU-Berlin.DE (Dirk Schwarzhans) writes: > Hello, > > the PostScript performance seems to be 30% down under OPENSTEP 4.0! > > Running NXBench yields an NXFactor of 0.7 on a black-white > 25MHz-station under OPENSTEP 4.0! > Under 3.3 the factor was 1.0. > > What's going on? Too little info for us to really be sure. It could be that you are seeing the slowdown caused by needing more RAM. If you're paging more than you used to, then it could take longer to execute a given amount of postscript. Or, it could be something else. Hard to say with one data point. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: mpaque@pacbell.net (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: PostScript performance is 30% down under OPENSTEP 4.0 Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 19:14:21 GMT Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16 Message-ID: <4vaeja$p17@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net> References: <4v9abn$bk@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> dirk@kalium.physik.TU-Berlin.DE (Dirk Schwarzhans) wrote: >the PostScript performance seems to be 30% down under OPENSTEP 4.0! >Running NXBench yields an NXFactor of 0.7 on a black-white >25MHz-station under OPENSTEP 4.0! >Under 3.3 the factor was 1.0. >What's going on? The OPENSTEP 4.0 PostScript interpreter is actually slightly faster than the 3.3 interpreter on the same machine. I'd look at your VM statistics and see if you are paging more than under 3.3. (Odds are pretty good you are, as working sets tend to be larger under 4.0 than under 3.3.) Mike Paquette I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me. mpaque@pacbell.net Personal E-mail mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
From: zhao@crl.nmsu.edu (Z. Zhao) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: boot wouldn't load serial-port driver any more Date: 17 Aug 1996 22:37:25 -0600 Organization: Computing Research Lab/New Mexico State University Sender: zhao@sparta.crl.nmsu.edu Message-ID: <yeg20h5nw8q.fsf@sparta.crl.nmsu.edu> After I upgrade win3.1 to win95 in the same system nextstep 3.3 is running, I lost my serial device and got the message getty: /dev/ttydfa no such device cu: /dev/cufa no such device all time. I checked the file /usr/adm/messages or boot in option -v, the SerailPort driver was not loaded when the sysytem is booting up. I have no idea why the booter doesn't load the serail port driver, though the serialport.driver is configured. I tried to change modem from connectting COM1 to COM2. it still doen't load the serialpot.
From: ehutch@hypnos.norden1.com (E. Hutchinson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,misc.jobs.contract Subject: NEXTSTEP/Contract--Long Term/Virginia Date: 19 Aug 1996 19:52:26 GMT Organization: Norden 1 Communications Message-ID: <4vaglq$6c2@tofu.alt.net> Programmer/analyst/developer NEXTSTEP--------------------Commercial experience Objective C-----------------Commercial experience EOF-------------------------A Plus Contract--------------------Long Term Area------------------------Virginia 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: ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Shared FreeBSD/NS 3.3 filesystem possible. Date: 19 Aug 1996 20:47:44 GMT Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA Message-ID: <4vajtg$6t3@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> References: <Dvvxzq.CpL@olivetti.nl> <4v1qve$1am@turbocat.turbocat.de> Cc: dave@turbocat.de > No. Write a filesystem LKS for NEXTSTEP. Their fs is terribly slow and ugly > compared to the fs of NetBSD 1.1. I guess, the fs of FreeBSD is similar to > the one in NetBSD. NeXTStep (excuse me: OpenStep/Mach [?]) as an operating system is dieing fast. Only a few app vendors are left, and most of the Unix tools (incl the file system) are year(s) old. I would not be surprised if NeXT abandoned its OS altogether to concentrate on objects very soon. It makes no sense to invest time on improving their OS any longer. /ivo welch --- Ivo Welch mailto:ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu ---------------------------- Ivo Welch.............. http://next.agsm.ucla.edu/ UCLA AGSM Finance...... http://www.agsm.ucla.edu/finance/ Int'l WWW/Email Dirctry http://next.agsm.ucla.edu/dir/ -- ---------------------------- --
From: tjallen@theory1.physics.wisc.edu (Theodore J. Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: boot wouldn't load serial-port driver any more Date: 20 Aug 1996 00:08:30 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <4vavlu$1bme@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <yeg20h5nw8q.fsf@sparta.crl.nmsu.edu> zhao@crl.nmsu.edu (Z. Zhao) wrote: > After I upgrade win3.1 to win95 in the same system nextstep 3.3 > is running, I lost my serial device and got the message > > getty: /dev/ttydfa no such device > cu: /dev/cufa no such device > > all time. I checked the file /usr/adm/messages or boot in option -v, > the SerailPort driver was not loaded when the sysytem is booting up. > I have no idea why the booter doesn't load the serail port driver, > though the serialport.driver is configured. I tried to change modem > from connectting COM1 to COM2. it still doen't load the serialpot. Go into /dev/ and see if /dev/cufa or /dev/ttydfa are there. If not, then, as root, do a # MAKEDEV std -- Ted Allen, Ph.D. High Energy Physics University of Wisconsin-Madison tjallen@wishep.physics.wisc.edu http://theory2.physics.wisc.edu/~tjallen/
From: kc@criamon.omnigroup.com (Ken Case) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: PostScript performance is 30% down under OPENSTEP 4.0 Date: 20 Aug 1996 00:55:21 GMT Organization: Omni Development, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <4vb2dp$444@gaea.titan.org> References: <4v9abn$bk@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <4va0a6$gmu@usenet.rpi.edu> Garance A. Drosehn (gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu) wrote: : In article <4v9abn$bk@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> : dirk@kalium.physik.TU-Berlin.DE (Dirk Schwarzhans) writes: : > Hello, : > : > the PostScript performance seems to be 30% down under OPENSTEP 4.0! : > : > Running NXBench yields an NXFactor of 0.7 on a black-white : > 25MHz-station under OPENSTEP 4.0! : > Under 3.3 the factor was 1.0. : > : > What's going on? : Too little info for us to really be sure. It could be that you : are seeing the slowdown caused by needing more RAM. If you're : paging more than you used to, then it could take longer to : execute a given amount of postscript. : Or, it could be something else. Hard to say with one data point. Yep, so here's another: a ~30% drop for my P6/200 with 128MB of RAM (and nothing else running, so most of that RAM free). Looks like 4.0's windowserver is simply somewhat slower. My guess is that it's due to Backing Store Compression. From the 4.0 WindowServer release notes: "The WindowServer now uses compression to conserve memory for window backing stores. Windows which have not been recently referenced are compressed. This leads to a slight increase in CPU usage by the WindowServer with the gain of significantly reducing memory requirements for window backing stores." Guess I'd usually rather have the extra memory than the 30% faster video performance, though I wonder if there's a configuration option somewhere... Ken -- Ken Case Omni Development, Inc. kc@omnigroup.com
From: Jacob Nielsen <jacob@dannug.dk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Is it possible to buy the Peanuts CDROM ? Date: 18 Aug 1996 13:41:11 GMT Organization: Danish NeXT User Group Message-ID: <4v76hn$f2@jnext.dannug.dk> References: <9608120034.AA01194@nebula.cdrom.com> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960812132250.16272A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <Pine.NXT.3.95.960813083441.11827B-100000@charisma> "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> wrote: [On the Nebula and Peanuts CD] > The CD that one buys is largely a personal choice of what you like & > what's available. Agreed. The Nebula and Peanuts CDs are two different things. The Peanuts discs have everything on the Peanuts archive (a lot!) while the Nebula includes the things that Walnut Creek believe is interesting and usefull. Which to buy, depends on the amount of time you want to spend testing software, fonts, ... I still find usefull things on the Peanuts discs but some things also gets deleted again because they don't do the things I thought or are downright broken. This takes time. I have seen the index of the new Nebula discs and it looks very nice, especially if you haven't got the 3 Peanuts discs allready. To me the highlights of the Nebula are: - The patches for NEXTSTEP 3.3 from NeXT - NeXTAnswers - Icons (including NeXT-icon@gun.com) (all of which also are on the Peanuts discs) - WebObjects - *Selection* of applications I hope neither Peanuts nor Walnut Creek stops making their NEXTSTEP CDs. IMO, they are targeted at different customers. I prefer getting it all (Peanuts) but I know others who prefers the edited CD edition (Nebula). Having the Peanuts CDs, the FontGarden CD from Walnut Creek still seems like a good offer. It is a far better way of getting new typefaces on your NS machine than testing/installing them off a CD (e.g. from Peanuts) Plus, you get a printed book so you can see what the typeface looks like! That only 81 (out of 500 fonts!) have accented characters is a real shame! (yes, I use those accented characters :-) Regards, Jacob -- Jacob Nielsen NeXT, MIME, SUN Mail: jacob@dannug.dk WWW Home Page: http://www.dannug.dk/~jacob/
From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Is it possible to buy the Peanuts CDROM ? Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 10:26:42 +0200 Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.95.960820101848.21683A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <9608120034.AA01194@nebula.cdrom.com> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960812132250.16272A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <Pine.NXT.3.95.960813083441.11827B-100000@charisma> <4v76hn$f2@jnext.dannug.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4v76hn$f2@jnext.dannug.dk> > I have seen the index of the new Nebula discs and it looks very > nice, especially if you haven't got the 3 Peanuts discs allready. To > me the highlights of the Nebula are: > > - The patches for NEXTSTEP 3.3 from NeXT > - NeXTAnswers > - Icons (including NeXT-icon@gun.com) > (all of which also are on the Peanuts discs) > - WebObjects Hm, I'm wondering about this. Perticularly there must be a special deal. Peanuts once had WebObjects but NeXT told us that this is not allowed. I'm really wondering why there should be a different case for Nebula, maybe they just didn't ask NeXT and NeXT didn't realize it already :) > - *Selection* of applications > Same on this. There are several applications which deny a distribution on CD. If the application are on Peanuts, the Peanuts admins do have written permission to distribute it on CD, I don't know the work the Nebula people invested on this issue ... > I hope neither Peanuts nor Walnut Creek stops making their NEXTSTEP > CDs. IMO, they are targeted at different customers. I prefer getting > it all (Peanuts) but I know others who prefers the edited CD edition > (Nebula). > Good news for you: we are going to compile a new disk set. > Having the Peanuts CDs, the FontGarden CD from Walnut Creek still > seems like a good offer. It is a far better way of getting new > typefaces on your NS machine than testing/installing them off a CD > (e.g. from Peanuts) Plus, you get a printed book so you can see > what the typeface looks like! That only 81 (out of 500 fonts!) have > accented characters is a real shame! (yes, I use those accented > characters :-) > This brings to my mind what nobody actually could answer: Are german Umlauts suppported? I was just porting about 300 Adobe fonts from the Amiga to NEXTSTEP and it was very easy, but I couldn't manage handling e.g. different symbol fonts. NEXTSTEP always falls back to the default Symbol font. And only 81/500 is a terrible bad rate. Greetings, Bernhard
From: dirk@kalium.physik.TU-Berlin.DE (Dirk Schwarzhans) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: PostScript performance is 30% down under OPENSTEP 4.0 Date: 20 Aug 1996 09:07:20 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <4vbv88$259@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <4v9abn$bk@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <4vaeja$p17@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net> In-Reply-To: <4vaeja$p17@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net> On 08/19/96, Mike Paquette wrote: >dirk@kalium.physik.TU-Berlin.DE (Dirk Schwarzhans) wrote: > >I'd look at your VM statistics and see if you are paging more than >under 3.3. (Odds are pretty good you are, as working sets tend to be >larger under 4.0 than under 3.3.) I have 32Megs in my bw NeXTstation. If that isn't enough for such a simple programme as NXBench there is now hope anyway. I don't think that NXBench needs much memory, so it should be ready with paging after a short warmup time, but the NXFactor meassurement is continiously down for every performance check it does. Even on my Intel Pentium 133 machine with 64Megs RAM the NXFactor (=PostScript Performance) dropped by 30% too. Dirk Schwarzhans
From: mrothste@galaxy.csc.calpoly.edu (Mont Egan Rothstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: PostScript performance is 30% down under OPENSTEP 4.0 Date: 20 Aug 1996 08:03:02 -0700 Organization: California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo Message-ID: <4vck36$deo@galaxy.csc.calpoly.edu> References: <4v9abn$bk@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <4vaeja$p17@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net> NNTP-Posting-User: mrothste@galaxy.csc.calpoly.edu In article <4vaeja$p17@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net>, Mike Paquette <mpaque@pacbell.net> wrote: >dirk@kalium.physik.TU-Berlin.DE (Dirk Schwarzhans) wrote: > >>the PostScript performance seems to be 30% down under OPENSTEP 4.0! > >>Running NXBench yields an NXFactor of 0.7 on a black-white >>25MHz-station under OPENSTEP 4.0! >>Under 3.3 the factor was 1.0. > >>What's going on? > >The OPENSTEP 4.0 PostScript interpreter is actually slightly faster >than the 3.3 interpreter on the same machine. > >I'd look at your VM statistics and see if you are paging more than >under 3.3. (Odds are pretty good you are, as working sets tend to be >larger under 4.0 than under 3.3.) > > Mike Paquette > >I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me. >mpaque@pacbell.net Personal E-mail >mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please > I'm sorry but at this point I have to jump in. A speed increase and memory reduction via compression in the window server may have been the intention, but it is definately not the result. Edit.app (and other non- openstep ported apps) is slower. It is slower on my new P133 w/64MB ram under 4.0 than it was on my P100 w/32MB. Something very wrong is going on in 4.0. I don't know what but it is killing speed and eating memory like PacMan. I hope every day that 4.1 will fix this problem. -Mont
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: PostScript performance is 30% down under OPENSTEP 4.0 Date: 20 Aug 1996 15:17:47 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <4vckur$a3n@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> References: <4v9abn$bk@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <4va0a6$gmu@usenet.rpi.edu> gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) wrote: > In article <4v9abn$bk@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> > dirk@kalium.physik.TU-Berlin.DE (Dirk Schwarzhans) writes: > > Hello, > > > > the PostScript performance seems to be 30% down under OPENSTEP 4.0! > > > > Running NXBench yields an NXFactor of 0.7 on a black-white > > 25MHz-station under OPENSTEP 4.0! > > Under 3.3 the factor was 1.0. > > > > What's going on? > > Too little info for us to really be sure. It could be that you > are seeing the slowdown caused by needing more RAM. If you're > paging more than you used to, then it could take longer to > execute a given amount of postscript. > > Or, it could be something else. Hard to say with one data point. That "something else" may be due to my belief that OS 4.0 was a "Microsoft release" - i.e., its timing was driven by marketing or contract requirements (e.g., Merrill-Lynch) rather than by engineering. OS 4.0 just doesn't feel finished, especially the Developer version. Maybe performance tuning just hasn't occurred yet. All of this seems to be common with x.0 releases. Remember 2.0 and 3.0? They were upgraded to much more usable versions rather quickly. I suspect OS 4.1 will be a big improvement and will be available without too much delay. -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@ix.netcom.com Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 CaseServ: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: PostScript performance is 30% down under OPENSTEP 4.0 Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <DwFw6E.2n8@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 13:59:02 GMT References: <4v9abn$bk@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <4va0a6$gmu@usenet.rpi.edu> <4vb2dp$444@gaea.titan.org> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <4vb2dp$444@gaea.titan.org>, Ken Case <kc@criamon.omnigroup.com> wrote: > >My guess is that it's due to Backing Store Compression. From the 4.0 >WindowServer release notes: > >"The WindowServer now uses compression to conserve memory for window >backing stores. Windows which have not been recently referenced are >compressed. This leads to a slight increase in CPU usage by the >WindowServer with the gain of significantly reducing memory >requirements for window backing stores." > >Guess I'd usually rather have the extra memory than the 30% faster >video performance, though I wonder if there's a configuration option >somewhere... > Anyone seen how this affects Dimension machines? Mike Paquette says that the compression is done by the i860, but it would still be interesting to know how it impacts performance. -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: "Martin M. Cron" <martman@u.washington.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Any ideas on root password problem? Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 18:53:42 -0700 Organization: University of Washington Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.92a.960820184611.56453C-100000@homer22.u.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII NNTP-Posting-User: martman Hello, Within a few days I will be getting my hands on a black NeXT cube (exact model unknown) from some people who have *no clue* what the root password is. Currently it is just sitting in storage --which makes me sad-- so the sysadmins of my company decided to let me take a crack at it, if I could get in, it's mine. (I do some digital signal processing as a hobby, and the NeXT machines are great for that) I wonder if anyone else has had this problem and would have any solutions or suggestions? This is not, as it may sound, an attempt to break into a secure system, I am neither a cracker nor malicious, if you find my request for this information inappropriate, I understand. If you think you can help, I would be very appreciative. Thank you, -Martin Cron
From: blazekru@clunix.cl.msu.edu (Rudolf B Blazek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Peanuts mirror Date: 21 Aug 1996 03:13:48 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <4vdutc$gk9@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Summary: Need verbal support for a 'peanuts' mirror Keywords: peanuts, mirror, Hello NeXTers: I would like to ask you for a favor. I have asked our computer center to give us space on an ftp server for a mirror of peanuts. The answers are not coming... Thus, if you find the mirror a good idea, send me a BRIEF e-mail with some arguments. I will use these e-mails to illustrate the demand for such a mirror. It will also give us an idea about the demand, anyway ... Thanks, Rudy blazek@stt.msu.edu
From: ACoder@infoave.net (ACoder) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.pens,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.prime,comp.sys.proteon Subject: Great Shareware Date: 21 Aug 1996 03:50:12 GMT Organization: Info Avenue INTERNET Access Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4ve11k$h7a@news1.sunbelt.net> It's probably the best page on the net. Great Shareware programs written by a totally disabled Vietnam veteran that will make you glad you went there. Acoder's Cave is the site of MamSofCo's shareware programs. Programs on this page are Win3.1 and Win95 compatible. Go to: http://www.mamsofco.com
From: allanmac@blueprint.com (Allan MacKinnon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: PostScript performance is 30% down under OPENSTEP 4.0 Date: 21 Aug 1996 04:07:56 GMT Organization: Channel 1 Communications Message-ID: <4ve22s$94f@news1.channel1.com> References: <4v9abn$bk@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <4vaeja$p17@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net> <4vbv88$259@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> Cc: dirk@kalium.physik.TU-Berlin.DE In <4vbv88$259@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> Dirk Schwarzhans wrote: > On 08/19/96, Mike Paquette wrote: > >dirk@kalium.physik.TU-Berlin.DE (Dirk Schwarzhans) wrote: > > > >I'd look at your VM statistics and see if you are paging more than > >under 3.3. (Odds are pretty good you are, as working sets tend to be > >larger under 4.0 than under 3.3.) > > I have 32Megs in my bw NeXTstation. If that isn't enough for such a > simple programme as NXBench there is now hope anyway. > > I don't think that NXBench needs much memory, so it should be ready > with paging after a short warmup time, but the NXFactor meassurement > is continiously down for every performance check it does. > > Even on my Intel Pentium 133 machine with 64Megs RAM the NXFactor > (=PostScript Performance) dropped by 30% too. > > Dirk Schwarzhans > > I got similar results -- the NXBench NXFactor dropped over 20% on my 48 Meg machine. ASM -- Allan MacKinnon mailto:allanmac@blueprint.com Boston, MA (617) 424-0615
From: jburton@nwu.edu (Joshua W. Burton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Any ideas on root password problem? Date: 21 Aug 1996 03:58:52 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Message-ID: <4ve1hs$87t@news.acns.nwu.edu> References: <Pine.A32.3.92a.960820184611.56453C-100000@homer22.u.washington.edu> "Martin M. Cron" <martman@u.washington.edu> wrote: > Within a few days I will be getting my hands on a black NeXT cube > (exact model unknown) from some people who have *no clue* what > the root password is. Currently it is just sitting in storage > --which makes me sad-- so the sysadmins of my company decided to > let me take a crack at it, if I could get in, it's mine. First thing to try: boot the thing in single user mode, by busting into the ROM monitor (right-COMMAND, right-ALT, and the `/~ key on the keypad, all at once, then type "mon" at the mini-monitor) and typing "bsd -s" (bod -s if you're booting from an oppy). Once you have a root prompt, you can change the root password to anything you like; "man 1 passwd" will tell you how. If the machine asked for a password from the ROM monitor, you are faced with a machine that has a *hardware* password set. You'll have to open it up, remove the lithium battery from the motherboard, and wait a few hours for everything to disappear. Then proceed as above, and everything should be copacetic. I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, +--------------------+ And out of the caverns of rain, | Joshua W. Burton | Like a child from the womb, | (847)677-3902 | like a ghost from the tomb, | jburton@nwu.edu | I arise and unbuild it again. -- Shelley, `The Cloud' +--------------------+
From: jeffh@dnai.com (Jeff Hoekman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: how to decode "_tar.gz" extension? Date: 21 Aug 1996 05:04:11 GMT Organization: DNAI ( Direct Network Access ) Message-ID: <4ve5cb$4om@jupiter.dnai.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I just installed NS 3.3 and downloaded some PPP files (ala Win95) to get my NeXT side online, but can't seem to decompress/decode the files with the '_tar.gz' extension. Can anyone help? Thanks alot, Jeff
From: allanmac@blueprint.com (Allan MacKinnon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: PostScript performance is 30% down under OPENSTEP 4.0 Date: 21 Aug 1996 13:28:19 GMT Organization: Channel 1 Communications Message-ID: <4vf2tj$au6@news1.channel1.com> References: <4v9abn$bk@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <4vaeja$p17@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net> <4vbv88$259@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <4ve22s$94f@news1.channel1.com> Cc: allanmac@blueprint.com In <4ve22s$94f@news1.channel1.com> Allan MacKinnon wrote: > In <4vbv88$259@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> Dirk Schwarzhans wrote: > > On 08/19/96, Mike Paquette wrote: > > >dirk@kalium.physik.TU-Berlin.DE (Dirk Schwarzhans) wrote: > > > > > >I'd look at your VM statistics and see if you are paging more than > > >under 3.3. (Odds are pretty good you are, as working sets tend to be > > >larger under 4.0 than under 3.3.) > > > > I have 32Megs in my bw NeXTstation. If that isn't enough for such a > > simple programme as NXBench there is now hope anyway. > > > > I don't think that NXBench needs much memory, so it should be ready > > with paging after a short warmup time, but the NXFactor meassurement > > is continiously down for every performance check it does. > > > > Even on my Intel Pentium 133 machine with 64Megs RAM the NXFactor > > (=PostScript Performance) dropped by 30% too. > > > > Dirk Schwarzhans > > > > > > I got similar results -- the NXBench NXFactor dropped > over 20% on my 48 Meg machine. > Urrr... sorry, make that 12%. > > ASM > > -- Allan MacKinnon mailto:allanmac@blueprint.com Boston, MA (617) 424-0615
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Any ideas on root password problem? Date: 21 Aug 1996 15:28:35 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <4vf9v3$eno@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com> References: <Pine.A32.3.92a.960820184611.56453C-100000@homer22.u.washington.edu> <4ve1hs$87t@news.acns.nwu.edu> jburton@nwu.edu (Joshua W. Burton) wrote: > "Martin M. Cron" <martman@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > > Within a few days I will be getting my hands on a black NeXT cube > > (exact model unknown) from some people who have *no clue* what > > the root password is. Currently it is just sitting in storage > > --which makes me sad-- so the sysadmins of my company decided to > > let me take a crack at it, if I could get in, it's mine. > > First thing to try: boot the thing in single user mode, by busting > into the ROM monitor (right-COMMAND, right-ALT, and the `/~ key on > the keypad, all at once, then type "mon" at the mini-monitor) and > typing "bsd -s" (bod -s if you're booting from an oppy). The above key sequence isn't correct for NeXT hardware. Try holding down the right Command key and pressing the ~/` numeric keypad key to go directly to the ROM monitor. Holding down both Command keys and pressing ~/` will open the Non-Maskable Interrupt (NMI) monitor from which several commands are available including the "monitor" command to open the ROM monitor. -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@ix.netcom.com Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 CaseServ: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy From: "Eric K. Ringger" <ringger@cs.rochester.edu> Subject: Sun OpenStep Product Page Message-ID: <199608211646.MAA00265@slate.cs.rochester.edu> Sender: ringger@cs.rochester.edu (Eric K. Ringger) Organization: University of Rochester Computer Science Dept Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 12:46:39 -0400 Hi. Check out the following page at Sun: http://www.sun.com/solaris/products/openstep/ Very nice. --Eric --- Eric K. Ringger mailto:ringger@cs.rochester.edu Dept. of Computer Science Office: +1-716-275-0922; Lab: +1-716-275-5377 University of Rochester Fax: +1-716-461-2018 Rochester NY 14627-0226 http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/ringger/ ||||| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |||||
From: Scott Mewett <mewett@mpr.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun OpenStep Product Page Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 11:12:12 -0700 Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd. Message-ID: <321B517B.1F1F@mpr.ca> References: <199608211646.MAA00265@slate.cs.rochester.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Eric K. Ringger wrote: > > Hi. > > Check out the following page at Sun: > > http://www.sun.com/solaris/products/openstep/ > > Very nice. > > --Eric > I must say that i am very impressed with the job that Sun did on those web pages. The really covered alot of ground and alot of questions on the pages rather than leaving everything to speculation. Not that speculation is something that you shouldn't have in a advocacy group. :-) I was surprised to see that openstep is already available for free download from there site. These guys are really on the ball. Scott
From: kzin@arcadia.SJSU.EDU (John Rudd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun OpenStep Product Page Date: 21 Aug 1996 18:27:12 GMT Organization: Information Resources and Technology Message-ID: <4vfke0$e0o@nuke.csu.net> References: <199608211646.MAA00265@slate.cs.rochester.edu> Cc: ringger@cs.rochester.edu In <199608211646.MAA00265@slate.cs.rochester.edu> "Eric K. Ringger" wrote: []Hi. [] []Check out the following page at Sun: [] [] http://www.sun.com/solaris/products/openstep/ [] []Very nice. *Drool* It's _beautiful_. I want it! Now I just have to justify buying it here at work :-)
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun OpenStep Product Page Date: 21 Aug 1996 20:05:15 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <4vfq5r$crr@news4.digex.net> References: <199608211646.MAA00265@slate.cs.rochester.edu> <321B517B.1F1F@mpr.ca> Scott Mewett <mewett@mpr.ca> wrote: > > http://www.sun.com/solaris/products/openstep/ > I was surprised to see that openstep is already available for free download from there site. These guys are really on the ball. Is there a way to ftp these files down? -- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit )^> %^) =^) monoChrome, Inc. | New York Law School NEXTSTEP Developer | Opinions expressed represent me only MIME, SUN, & NeXTmail OK | http://cnj.digex.net/~jkheit mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net | Telepathy...It's coming...
From: dekorte@suite.com (Steve Dekorte) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun OpenStep Product Page Date: 21 Aug 1996 20:12:25 GMT Organization: OnRamp Technologies; ISP; Dallas/Ft Worth/Houston, TX USA Message-ID: <4vfqj9$kdb@news.onramp.net> References: <199608211646.MAA00265@slate.cs.rochester.edu> <4vfke0$e0o@nuke.csu.net> Cc: kzin@arcadia.SJSU.EDU John Rudd wrote: "Eric K. Ringger" wrote: > > http://www.sun.com/solaris/products/openstep/ > > ...Now I just have to justify buying it here at work :-) Maybe buying OpenStep($300) yourself would get your employer interested in the dev tools($6K). Steve
From: Scott Mewett <mewett@mpr.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun OpenStep Product Page Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:51:13 -0700 Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd. Message-ID: <321B92E1.1D69@mpr.ca> References: <199608211646.MAA00265@slate.cs.rochester.edu> <321B517B.1F1F@mpr.ca> <4vfq5r$crr@news4.digex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit John Kheit wrote: > > Scott Mewett <mewett@mpr.ca> wrote: > > > http://www.sun.com/solaris/products/openstep/ > > I was surprised to see that openstep is already available for free > download from there site. These guys are really on the ball. > > Is there a way to ftp these files down? > -- > Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit )^> %^) =^) > > monoChrome, Inc. | New York Law School > NEXTSTEP Developer | Opinions expressed represent me only > MIME, SUN, & NeXTmail OK | http://cnj.digex.net/~jkheit > mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net | Telepathy...It's coming... yup, If you go to here: http://www.sun.com/solaris/products/openstep/ and kill the download button it will step you through a couple of pages where you accept a license agreement and enter in your name and address. Then it takes you to the download page. It is running a cgi script so you can't get there without going through the other pages. There are a lot of individual packages to down load so be prepared to be there for a while. It isn't small at all. Scott
From: deniseh@nntp.best.com (Denise Howard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: how to decode "_tar.gz" extension? Date: 21 Aug 1996 23:27:07 GMT Organization: Best Internet Communications Message-ID: <4vg60b$e2j@nntp1.best.com> References: <4ve5cb$4om@jupiter.dnai.com> Jeff Hoekman (jeffh@dnai.com) wrote: : I just installed NS 3.3 and downloaded some PPP files (ala Win95) to get my : NeXT side online, but can't seem to decompress/decode the files with the : '_tar.gz' extension. Can anyone help? Do you really mean '_tar.gz', or '.tar.gz'? Download Opener.app (v 3.3) from the archives: next-ftp.peak.org:/pub/next/binaries/util/Opener_3.3_MAB.tar.gz and do: gzip -d Opener_3.3_MAB.tar.gz gnutar xpf Opener_3.3_MAB.tar Once you have Opener (it's FREE!) you'll never have to figure out how to uncompress/decode most files ever again. You'll just double-click on the file you've downloaded and Opener will launch and do it for you. Denise -- Denise Howard | PROGRAM, tr. v., An activity similar to Mountain View, CA | banging one's head against a wall, but deniseh@best.com | with fewer opportunities for reward. NeXTMail welcome! | http://www.best.com/~deniseh
From: harts@knoware.nl (Paul Harts) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Question: "Can't make copy of spoolfile" Date: 21 Aug 1996 22:32:52 GMT Organization: Knoware Internet Message-ID: <4vg2qk$ij1@news.knoware.nl> Hi all, I use a black NS, running 3.2. Each time I try to read my post with my Mail.app I get a window stating: "Unable to write Active.mbox. File system error: No such file or directory." and the console says: "MailFetch: Can't make a copy of spoolfile." There is no .lock file in the Mailboxes/Active.mbox as far as I can see. (This sometimes seems to cause problems after an abrupt end of a session.) Has anyone an explanation for this strange behavior, or a workaround on the csh level, so I can at least read my post? All help is greatly appreciated, however, since I cannot read my mail, please respond in this group. Paul. -- ==================================================== | harts@knoware.nl | ' What's a FAQ?' | | the Netherlands | probably is one | | NeXTmail Welcomed! | | ====================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: how to decode "_tar.gz" extension? References: <4ve5cb$4om@jupiter.dnai.com> Organization: Wondiful Wurld Of Dizzy From: <todd@montrose.net> Message-ID: <321ab083.0@news3.paonline.com> Date: 21 Aug 96 06:45:23 GMT jeffh@dnai.com (Jeff Hoekman) wrote: >I just installed NS 3.3 and downloaded some PPP files (ala Win95) to get my >NeXT side online, but can't seem to decompress/decode the files with the >'_tar.gz' extension. Can anyone help? > >Thanks alot, >Jeff > gzcat filename_tar.gz | tar xf - should do the trick. -- Todd Anthony Nathan <todd@montrose.net>
From: nut@xedoc.com.au (Norton Truter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: How do I unload nib section? Date: 22 Aug 1996 06:22:01 GMT Organization: Australian Business Access Pty Ltd Message-ID: <4vgua9$clr@lynx.aba.net.au> G'day sports! OK, consider me a newbie if it will make you feel better but... I know how to load NXBundles, I know how to use loadNibSection and loadNibFile, but how in the hell do I get rid of the things created by loading the nib??? I have found precious little on deleting things in any of the documentation. The only reference that I can recall is to using Zones, loading the nib into the zone and then on deletion scrubbing the zone. Unfortunately there is apparently some problem with this in that DBKit shits itself some time down the track if you have scrubbed a zone containing some module. Am I right in stating that you have to write code to MANUALLY delete all the things created by loading the nib or am I missing some really nice feature of NeXT? I can do this but I have about 60 nibs to modify and I'm looking forward to that like Win97. This is driving me batshit crazy, will somebody please put an end to my misery! -- NUT ====================================================================== Norton Truter, Senior Software Designer, Emerging Technology Pty. Ltd. e-mail: nut@et.com.au | phone: +61-3-9689-2700 | fax: +61-3-9687-8366 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "If a tree falls in the forest | "Shhh, it's only in my head" - and no-one is watching... can | The Counting Crows I turn it into woodchips and +----------------------------------- sell it to the Japanese?" - me | "The end of the world is NOT nigh. ----------------------------------+ You will just have to learn to "I am vengence! I am the night! | cope." - me I AM BATMAN" - The Batman (B:TAS) | ======================================================================
From: "Hasssan N. Kelley" <hassan@blackstar.ssnet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: how to decode "_tar.gz" extension? Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 05:22:23 -0400 Organization: SSNet -- Public Internet Access in Delaware! Message-ID: <321C26CF.5377@blackstar.ssnet.com> References: <4ve5cb$4om@jupiter.dnai.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jeff Hoekman <jeffh@dnai.com> Two options however both require you to have Gnu Zip (gzip). The first option is: 1. type gzip -d filename.tar.gz whith that result type tar xvf filename.tar or just double click on it from the file viewer. the second option is: 2. type gzip -d filename.tar.gz | tar xvf - (1) works for sure. (2) is suppose to work on most Unices. Hope this helps Hassan Jeff Hoekman wrote: > > I just installed NS 3.3 and downloaded some PPP files (ala Win95) to get my > NeXT side online, but can't seem to decompress/decode the files with the > '_tar.gz' extension. Can anyone help? > > Thanks alot, > Jeff
From: "Hasssan N. Kelley" <hassan@blackstar.ssnet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: how to decode "_tar.gz" extension? Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 05:23:11 -0400 Organization: SSNet -- Public Internet Access in Delaware! Message-ID: <321C26FF.3B46@blackstar.ssnet.com> References: <4ve5cb$4om@jupiter.dnai.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Two options however both require you to have Gnu Zip (gzip). The first option is: 1. type gzip -d filename.tar.gz whith that result type tar xvf filename.tar or just double click on it from the file viewer. the second option is: 2. type gzip -d filename.tar.gz | tar xvf - (1) works for sure. (2) is suppose to work on most Unices. Hope this helps Hassan Jeff Hoekman wrote: > > I just installed NS 3.3 and downloaded some PPP files (ala Win95) to get my > NeXT side online, but can't seem to decompress/decode the files with the > '_tar.gz' extension. Can anyone help? > > Thanks alot, > Jeff
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.pens,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.prime,comp.sys.proteon From: dsr@lns598.lns.cornell.edu Sender: ACoder@infoave.net (ACoder) Date: 22 Aug 1996 09:33:44 EDT Control: cancel <4ve11k$h7a@news1.sunbelt.net> Subject: cmsg cancel <4ve11k$h7a@news1.sunbelt.net> Message-ID: <cancel.4ve11k$h7a@news1.sunbelt.net> Spam/MMF cancelled by dsr@lns598.lns.cornell.edu original subject was Great Shareware
From: boz <norman.barsalou@platinum.brooks.af.mil> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Neophyte Problem Date: 22 Aug 1996 16:24:37 GMT Organization: TASC Message-ID: <4vi1k5$fd6@xenon.brooks.af.mil> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello! I have a , what I believe to be a basic problem involving "gzipping" files from a Macintosh on my NeXT. Here goes: I have tried - to download from Next archives various files to my Macintosh, which is "on the web", move the files via sneakernet to my Next, and then try to gzip -d the files on the NeXT, and the NeXT simply does not like the format of the Mac files. The file lengths are the same as the original, and I HAVE SUCESSFULLY used "gzip -d" on PC files moved to my NeXT via sneakernet. Ok so why haven't I done the same with PO files instead of the Mac? - Simple - I do not have access to a PC with a diskette drive that has more than 1.4MB capacity - of course I am trying to "gzip -d" files that are larger than 1.4MB - hence the Macintosh sneakernet attempts. Can anyone help? The file lengths are the same, and if I "gzip -tl" on the Macintosh files on the Next desktop, I get messages that indicate that everthing is ok, get compression percentage, expanded file size etc, but I get errors when attempting to "gzip -d" the Mac files. Is there some essential difference in the Mac files that spoof out or otherwise confuse the gzip I have on the Next? Suggestions - Please! thanks in advance, norm barsalou
From: sanjeev@ee.umr.edu (Sanjeev Agarwal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: TEAC-6x SCSI CD-ROM with NS3.3 ... Date: 22 Aug 1996 18:14:05 GMT Organization: UMR Missouri's Technological University Message-ID: <4vi81d$jd6@hptemp1.cc.umr.edu> Hi, I am having problems with TEAC CD-56S 6x SCSI CD-ROM drive ... I am trying to install NextStep 3.3 on Intel Pentium 133. I have SCSI Adaptec 2940UW PCI Controller, Quantom-ATLAS 3250W 8ms 2.1 GB Ultra-Wide SCSI Hard drive, and TEAC - 6x SCSI CD-ROM drive. while installing I used Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI Adapter (v 3.37) (DEv:19 Func:0 BUS: 0) The boot-up looks something like this .... bla-bla-bla . . Resetting SCSI Bus ... Registering: a2940_0 at 0x6100 Registering: sc0 at a2940_0 SCSI Bus 0 Target 7 sd0: IBM DORS-32160W WA0A Registering: sd0 at Target 0 LUN 0 at sc0 Registering: sd0a sd0: No Valid Disk Label sd0: Device Block Size: 512 bytes sd0: Device Capacity: 2063MB Registering: sg0 at sc0 Registering: sg1 at sc0 Registering: sg2 at sc0 Registering: sg3 at sc0 Registering: event0 Registering: kmDevice0 No CD-ROM drive found ???????????????? use sd%d, hd%d, fd%d, en%d or tr%d I will be grateful for any hints or suggestions .... Sanjeev Agarwal Intelligent Systems Center, University of Missouri, Rolla USA.
From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun OpenStep Product Page Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Date: 22 Aug 1996 02:48:23 -0400 Organization: Communications Vir, Internet Access Montreal. Message-ID: <4vgvrn$ef@Vir.com> References: <199608211646.MAA00265@slate.cs.rochester.edu> <321B517B.1F1F@mpr.ca> <4vfq5r$crr@news4.digex.net> John Kheit (jkheit@cnj.digex.net) wrote: : Scott Mewett <mewett@mpr.ca> wrote: : > > http://www.sun.com/solaris/products/openstep/ : Is there a way to ftp these files down? Yes! I downloaded them earlier today. I'll be installing it on a SPARC 4 in a little while. stef : -- : Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit )^> %^) =^) : monoChrome, Inc. | New York Law School : NEXTSTEP Developer | Opinions expressed represent me only : MIME, SUN, & NeXTmail OK | http://cnj.digex.net/~jkheit : mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net | Telepathy...It's coming... -- Stefanos Kiakas Travel guide for Montreal, QC, e-Scape Information Systems Inc. Canada --> http://www.uniscape.com stefanos@uniscape.com (NeXTMail OK) NeXTStep Driver Information URL +1 (514) 729 9643 http://www.uniscape.com/NSDrivers
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun OpenStep Product Page Date: 22 Aug 1996 17:33:05 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <4vi5kh$a70@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <199608211646.MAA00265@slate.cs.rochester.edu> "Eric K. Ringger" <ringger@cs.rochester.edu> wrote: > Check out the following page at Sun: > > http://www.sun.com/solaris/products/openstep/ > > Very nice. I haven't had a chance to look at this in detail, but from what I've seen this is very encouraging. I'm not sure I'd buy a SPARC to run this, but when this is available for Solaris/Intel or Solaris/PPC then it's extremely likely I'd get solaris for one of those platforms. It wasn't all that long ago that "buying solaris" was about the last thing I'd expect to be doing. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: alvin@cse.ucsc.edu (Alvin Jee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: ObjectWorld West Date: 22 Aug 1996 22:19:26 GMT Organization: UC Santa Cruz CIS/CE Message-ID: <4vimde$qto@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Hello all! Just got back from a quick run through ObjectWorld West's exhibit floor in San Jose, California. Interesting to see that Lighthouse Design's booth was _larger_ (much) than NeXT's booth. But then again, Lighthouse has got a bigger wallet now thanks to Sun--well, it's Sun's wallet too now. Much dissapointment at NeXT's booth. All they were showing was WebObjects. All running on Windows NT. -gack- They were showing the Sharper Image web catalog among other stuff. Interestingly, Netscape Navigator died a horrible death while I was having the Sharper Image stuff demo'd to me. Had to reboot. ouch. The only sign of OpenStep was this little ThinkPad that NeXT had in the booth. Not sure if OpenStep was in the Sun booths... At least the NeXT-person said that most of the company still uses Mach internally--even though most can dual boot their system into NT mode. Hey, maybe we can get NeXT to make a OpenStep/posix-NT version rather than OpenStep/Windows-NT... So, while all the other vendors were showing legacy database connectivity to OLE apps, Java toolkits, Distributed OLE frameworks and stuff, NeXT was only showing WebObjects on the 4 NT machines they had. Ok, whatever, NeXT marketing continues to befuddle... -- -- Alvin Jee alvin@cse.ucsc.edu NeXTMail gleefully accepted!
From: nut@xedoc.com.au (Norton Truter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: How do I unload nib section? DON'T EMAIL A REPLY! Date: 23 Aug 1996 00:41:37 GMT Organization: Australian Business Access Pty Ltd Message-ID: <4viuo1$h39@lynx.aba.net.au> Yo. Yesterday, I wrote: > [some mindless stuff snipped] > I read my posting myself and noticed that the standard return address with the message was "nut@xedoc.com.au". In the unlikely event that you were going to bother to reply DON'T EMAIL to that address! Please use "nut@et.com.au". That number again "nut@et.com.au" and if you call right now you get a free set of steak knives... -- NUT ====================================================================== Norton Truter, Senior Software Designer, Emerging Technology Pty. Ltd. e-mail: nut@et.com.au | phone: +61-3-9689-2700 | fax: +61-3-9687-8366 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "If a tree falls in the forest | "Shhh, it's only in my head" - and no-one is watching... can | The Counting Crows I turn it into woodchips and +----------------------------------- sell it to the Japanese?" - me | "The end of the world is NOT nigh. ----------------------------------+ You will just have to learn to "I am vengence! I am the night! | cope." - me I AM BATMAN" - The Batman (B:TAS) | ======================================================================
From: patj@nntp.best.com (Pat Jensen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: GCC port for NS/OpenStep Date: 23 Aug 1996 05:56:18 GMT Organization: Best Internet Communications Message-ID: <4vjh62$bm@nntp1.best.com> I've just recently purchased OpenStep 4 User, it's pretty great minus the compiler. I was wondering, is there a GCC distribution for NextStep Intel laying around anywhere? I checked peak but there was just bits and pieces.. also are there any good FAQs out on Mach programming? Thanks in advance for any help you can give me. -- O Pat Jensen <|> LL patj@best.com
From: Constantin Szallies <szallies@energotec.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: How do I unload nib section? Date: 23 Aug 1996 09:04:53 GMT Organization: Tech Net GmbH Message-ID: <4vjs7l$fqg@ddfservb.technet.net> References: <4vgua9$clr@lynx.aba.net.au> nut@xedoc.com.au (Norton Truter) wrote: >G'day sports! > >OK, consider me a newbie if it will make you feel better but... > >I know how to load NXBundles, I know how to use loadNibSection and >loadNibFile, but how in the hell do I get rid of the things created >by loading the nib??? You can't. >I have found precious little on deleting >things in any of the documentation. The only reference that I can >recall is to using Zones, loading the nib into the zone and then on >deletion scrubbing the zone. Don't do that. It doesn't work. The only thing you can do is free every object you created in the nib file. I don't know if you really can get rid of everything this way. -- Constantin Szallies, Energotec GmbH szallies@energotec.de 49211-9144018
From: gq (G. Quinonez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: problem with Netinfo server Date: 23 Aug 1996 08:45:18 GMT Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <4vjr2u$3ti@guyana.earthlink.net> Hello. Whenever I try to open either usermanager.app or hostmanager.app I get an error. It states, "Can't contact Netinfo server for local domain". I only have the option to ok it. I cant get in from either my user account or from root. I havent been able to add or remove users. Any help on how to take care of this problem is greatly appreciated. I am running NSFIP 3.3. It used to work before, cant remember what I did to change it. Thanks. Please email responses directly to the address below. Jerry ================================================ G. Quinonez quinonez@ucla.edu quinonez@earthlink.net NeXTMail/Sun/MIME Welcome __ /\__/\ NeXTStep 3.3 FIP \/__\/ http://www.emf.net/~ihouse/Alumni-pages/quinonez ================================================
From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-bat.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun OpenStep Product Page Date: 23 Aug 1996 10:26:20 GMT Organization: The University of York, UK Message-ID: <4vk10c$503@netty.york.ac.uk> References: <199608211646.MAA00265@slate.cs.rochester.edu> "Eric K. Ringger" <ringger@cs.rochester.edu> writes: > Check out the following page at Sun: > http://www.sun.com/solaris/products/openstep/ > Very nice. I did so - and they appear to be giving away version 1.0 for free which is even nicer. Now if only NeXT would do this for their NT stuff... -bat.
From: Patrick Schulz <schulz@freia.inf.tu-dresden.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,de.comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Sun OpenStep Product Page Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 13:16:26 +0200 Organization: University of Technology Dresden, Germany Message-ID: <321D930A.7199@freia.inf.tu-dresden.de> References: <199608211646.MAA00265@slate.cs.rochester.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit For all users in Europe: it's probably a much better idea to use http://www.eu.sun.com/solaris/products/openstep instead of the US server. Have fun downloading... Patrick. -- ---------------------------------------------------------- |Patrick Schulz; Alaunstrasse 21a D-01099 Dresden; Germany | ---------------------------------------------------------- vmunix: panic - no coffee detected, user halted. ---------------------------------------------------------- | email: schulz@freia.inf.tu-dresden.de | ----------------------------------------------------------
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From: bchristi@galaxy.csc.calpoly.edu (Brent A. Christian) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: AppleTalk and NS 3.2 Date: 22 Aug 1996 22:15:06 -0700 Organization: California Polytechnic State Hospital Message-ID: <4vjeoq$a15@galaxy.csc.calpoly.edu> NNTP-Posting-User: @galaxy.csc.calpoly.edu NeXTSTEP 3.2 on Mono NeXTStation. It wants to be hooked up to my AppleTalk/EtherTalk network and I sure can't figure it out... Online SysAdmin docs seem to think its a cinch. There is reference to a couple of daemons in /usr/etc (atalkd and another one, I believe) that don't appear to be present. Couldn't find them on my old 3.0 disk either. Am I missing something ro forget to install something? I thought I did a thorough job. I've also had a pretty good look around peak, also to no avail. Can anyone help? Thanks... -- @}----;------ -Burnt
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: Newbie Questions about appropriate use of Next, etc... Date: 23 Aug 1996 14:39:36 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <4vkfr8$i3@news3.digex.net> References: <mnotting-0908961406590001@perki.connect.com.au> mnotting@connect.com.au (Mark Nottingham) wrote: > * what kind of graphics programs are available? Quark/Illustrator/Photoshop? Can Quark, especially, run under Executor? In this respect, I'm just looking for a second mac-type box for my wife to use for design... Quark is not available under OPENSTEP. FrameMaker is and it's pretty darn good... I don't know if quark will run under executor, but if it does, I would guess it would run REALLY slowly. The better solution is a product called DAYDREAM. It pretty much turns a cube INTO a Mac. It sets aside a partition for mac stuff, and can run just about everything a mac does at quadra speeds... As for other graphic programs, there is Virtuoso2 (Same company that made Freehand made it, and I think it's better). Then there is Tiffany2, which is like Photoshop...however, again I like it better... Finally, there is Tailor, which lets you edit any postscript image. Very useful. Oh, and if you are into 3D, there is solidThinking, a renderman design package, modeling, animation, etc. Excellent. > * How decent of a web server (medium-high load) does it make? I'm aware that apache is available for NeXT. Are there any OS or hardware bottlenecks that I should be aware of? Is the OS as reliable for long-term deployment as UNIX? High loads? No way. High loads I'm thinking you need high power SUN or SGI machines... More of a low to medium range. But very robust...it is a solid internet platform. The main bottle neck is the CPU is only a 25mhz 040... > * Along those lines, is Perl available for Next? How expensive and hard to find are ISDN adapters? Perl is available. As for ISDN, I havent gotten it myself, but I hear the way to go is to get an ISDN box with an e-net adapter and plug in through that connection.... > * I'm intrigued by the WebObjects, but I'm by no means a programmer [calling me a scripter would be a stretch]. How user-friendly are they? Get the free version from NeXT and check it out for yourself. It's not that bad... > Please, no fanatical, outlandish "it's the best/it's so much better than..." statements. I want to know what kind of problems I'll run into. I don't want to start (yet another) OS war. Well, it's the best thing for me. If you really will depend on using Quark, I reccommend you get a mac.... But the best thing to do, is if you can find someone near you, to get a little demo on the kind of things you want to do.... -- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit )^> %^) =^) monoChrome, Inc. | New York Law School NEXTSTEP Developer | Opinions expressed represent me only MIME, SUN, & NeXTmail OK | http://cnj.digex.net/~jkheit mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net | Telepathy...It's coming...
From: scott@bcog.org Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: ObjectWorld West Date: 23 Aug 1996 15:05:57 GMT Organization: BCTEL Advanced Communications Message-ID: <4vkhcl$ri@news.bctel.net> References: <4vimde$qto@darkstar.ucsc.edu> In article <4vimde$qto@darkstar.ucsc.edu> alvin@cse.ucsc.edu (Alvin Jee) writes: > > Hello all! > > Just got back from a quick run through ObjectWorld West's exhibit > floor in San Jose, California. Interesting to see that Lighthouse > Design's booth was _larger_ (much) than NeXT's booth. But then again, > Lighthouse has got a bigger wallet now thanks to Sun--well, it's Sun's > wallet too now. Much dissapointment at NeXT's booth. All they were > showing was WebObjects. All running on Windows NT. -gack- They were > showing the Sharper Image web catalog among other > stuff. Interestingly, Netscape Navigator died a horrible death while I > was having the Sharper Image stuff demo'd to me. Had to > reboot. ouch. The only sign of OpenStep was this little ThinkPad that > NeXT had in the booth. Not sure if OpenStep was in the Sun > booths... At least the NeXT-person said that most of the company still > uses Mach internally--even though most can dual boot their system into > NT mode. Hey, maybe we can get NeXT to make a OpenStep/posix-NT > version rather than OpenStep/Windows-NT... > > So, while all the other vendors were showing legacy database > connectivity to OLE apps, Java toolkits, Distributed OLE frameworks > and stuff, NeXT was only showing WebObjects on the 4 NT machines they > had. Ok, whatever, NeXT marketing continues to befuddle... > > -- > -- > Alvin Jee > alvin@cse.ucsc.edu > NeXTMail gleefully accepted! Steve Jobs should only be in charge of technical developement, he certainly requires a few lessons in marketing.....
From: kruger@cptca.neep.wisc.edu (Scott Kruger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,de.comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Sun OpenStep Product Page Date: 23 Aug 1996 15:51:33 GMT Organization: The unconfigured xvnews people Message-ID: <4vkk25$2810@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <321D930A.7199@freia.inf.tu-dresden.de> Does anyone have an idea on how soon we can expect to see NeXT applications ported over to Solaris/OpenStep? Specifically, I would love to have InstantTeX and Stone's Create running on our Solaris workstation, and wonder what it would take. Scott
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: How do I unload nib section? Date: 23 Aug 1996 15:49:32 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <4vkjuc$9g@sjx-ixn6.ix.netcom.com> References: <4vgua9$clr@lynx.aba.net.au> <4vjs7l$fqg@ddfservb.technet.net> Constantin Szallies <szallies@energotec.de> wrote: > nut@xedoc.com.au (Norton Truter) wrote: > >I know how to load NXBundles, I know how to use loadNibSection and > >loadNibFile, but how in the hell do I get rid of the things created > >by loading the nib??? > You can't. !! Sure you can! Just like you can and should free any object that's no longer needed. But there's no "unloadNib..." because after a nib has been loaded, its objects are indistinguishable from all other objects in the app's memory space. No special "master object" automatically keeps track of all objects loaded from a nib, although careful nib object design can result in an object that, when freed, will result in all other nib objects being freed. > >I have found precious little on deleting > >things in any of the documentation. The only reference that I can > >recall is to using Zones, loading the nib into the zone and then on > >deletion scrubbing the zone. > Don't do that. It doesn't work. Good advice! Many classes include clean up code in their free or dealloc methods that won't be invoked if a zone containing instances is destroyed. > The only thing you can do is free every object you created in the nib file. I > don't know if you really can get rid of everything this way. Sure, all objects unarchived from a nib can be freed, but several gotchas exist. PopUpList's are window subclasses so aren't freed when a window is freed. Only a window's subviews are freed, and a popUpList isn't a subview. So PopUpLists must be freed explicitly. DBModules can be freed, but after doing so, the app will almost certainly crash :-( DBKit's memory management is pretty awful, so run to EOF ASAP. -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@ix.netcom.com Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 CaseServ: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,de.comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Sun OpenStep Product Page Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,de.comp.sys.next Date: 23 Aug 1996 16:54:52 GMT Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany Message-ID: <4vknos$art@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> References: <321D930A.7199@freia.inf.tu-dresden.de> <4vkk25$2810@news.doit.wisc.edu> Scott Kruger (kruger@cptca.neep.wisc.edu) wrote: : Does anyone have an idea on how soon we can expect to see NeXT : applications ported over to Solaris/OpenStep? Specifically, I would love : to have InstantTeX and Stone's Create running on our Solaris workstation, : and wonder what it would take. Well, as the current maintainer of InstantTeX: I'm afraid it would be quite much work to port InstantTeX to OpenStep, but then it could be quite interesting. Well, just pay me an Solaris/Intel license and I'll give it a try! ;-). But it's not only InstantTeX: InstantTeX heavily relies on TeXview's feature to display incoming new pages `on the fly'. Therefore, TeXview must be ported to OpenStep, too, and if you look at the code, I'm afraid this is even more work. Anyway, I'll try to evaluate the possibility. Gregor -- | Gregor Hoffleit admin MATHInet / contact RhiNO | | MAIL: Mathematisches Institut PHONE: (49)6221 54-5771 | | INF 288, 69120 Heidelberg / Germany FAX: 54-8312 | | EMAIL: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (NeXTmail, MIME) |
From: dave@turbocat.de (David Wetzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: GCC port for NS/OpenStep Date: 23 Aug 1996 13:59:10 GMT Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany Message-ID: <4vkdfe$3pb@turbocat.turbocat.de> References: <4vjh62$bm@nntp1.best.com> patj@nntp.best.com (Pat Jensen) wrote: > I've just recently purchased OpenStep 4 User, it's pretty great minus > the compiler. I was wondering, is there a GCC distribution for NextStep > Intel laying around anywhere? > > I checked peak but there was just bits and pieces.. also are there any > good FAQs out on Mach programming? > > Thanks in advance for any help you can give me. You need headers too. These are (C) by NeXT. The developer package contains a lot of examples and docs. _ _ _(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development, (_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG, _/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152 (______) dave@turbocat.de (NeXTMail,MIME)
From: deniseh@nntp.best.com (Denise Howard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: ObjectWorld West Date: 23 Aug 1996 18:35:39 GMT Organization: Best Internet Communications Message-ID: <4vktlr$iu0@nntp1.best.com> References: <4vimde$qto@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Alvin Jee (alvin@cse.ucsc.edu) wrote: : The only sign of OpenStep was this little ThinkPad that : NeXT had in the booth. Not sure if OpenStep was in the Sun : booths... You didn't see the whole show, then! Sun had a whole meeting room (F2) set aside for hands-on demoing of OpenStep Solaris. They walked you through building a simple nib and testing it out. (Keep in mind that it was geared toward people who have never used NEXTSTEP before.) They also had at least one SparcStation 20 running OpenStep on the exhibit floor. Lighthouse's demos of ObjectPlan ran under OpenStep Solaris on a SparcStation 20, too. : So, while all the other vendors were showing legacy database : connectivity to OLE apps, Java toolkits, Distributed OLE frameworks : and stuff, NeXT was only showing WebObjects on the 4 NT machines they : had. Not so! NeXT was showing connectivity as well. They ran a mainframe emulation on a notebook computer and simulated feeding mainframe data to an app running on an OpenStep NT machine. Denise -- Denise Howard | PROGRAM, tr. v., An activity similar to Mountain View, CA | banging one's head against a wall, but deniseh@best.com | with fewer opportunities for reward. NeXTMail welcome! | http://www.best.com/~deniseh
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: GCC port for NS/OpenStep Date: 23 Aug 1996 18:04:10 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <4vkrqq$883@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <4vjh62$bm@nntp1.best.com> patj@nntp.best.com (Pat Jensen) wrote: > I've just recently purchased OpenStep 4 User, it's pretty great > minus the compiler. I was wondering, is there a GCC distribution > for NextStep Intel laying around anywhere? While there are distributions of GCC, they won't do you any good unless you've already bought NeXTSTEP Developer (or OpenStep for Mach Developer, if you prefer). They might be newer versions of GCC, but they don't include all the NeXTSTEP-specific header files or other critical pieces. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: ACoder@infoave.net (ACoder) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.pens,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.prime,comp.sys.proteon Subject: cmsg cancel <4ve11k$h7a@news1.sunbelt.net> Control: cancel <4ve11k$h7a@news1.sunbelt.net> Date: 23 Aug 1996 19:55:46 GMT Organization: Info Avenue INTERNET Access Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4vl2c2$8a8@news1.sunbelt.net> cancel
From: tholland@pars.skidmore.edu (Anthony Holland) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: setting up a www server on a NeXT Date: 23 Aug 1996 22:12:58 GMT Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY 12866 Message-ID: <4vlada$90f@saims.skidmore.edu> Keywords: www server I am trying to set up a NeXTstation turbo color as a www server. I've been told that I need to run some sort of html deamon. Can anybody point me to such a program (freeware ?). Will Omniweb do this ? Thanks A. Holland Skidmore College
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.pens,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.prime,comp.sys.proteon From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein) Subject: Re: Great Shareware Distribution: inet Followup-To: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.pens,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.prime,comp.sys.proteon Sender: usenet@news.put.com (The Root) Organization: Putnam Internet Services Message-ID: <DwLyLu.5nn@news.put.com> References: <4ve11k$h7a@news1.sunbelt.net> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 20:37:06 GMT ACoder (ACoder@infoave.net) wrote: : It's probably the best page on the net. Great Shareware programs written by a : totally disabled Vietnam veteran that will make you glad you went there. : Acoder's Cave is the site of MamSofCo's shareware programs. Programs on this : page are Win3.1 and Win95 compatible. Go to: http://www.mamsofco.com Well,I don't see what relevance this has to comp.sys.northstar, unless someone has found a way to make W*nd*ws run under Northstar DOS.
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Is it possible to buy the Peanuts CDROM ? Date: 24 Aug 1996 10:15:03 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <4vmkn7$p64@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <9608120034.AA01194@nebula.cdrom.com> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960812132250.16272A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <Pine.NXT.3.95.960813083441.11827B-100000@charisma> <4v76hn$f2@jnext.dannug.dk> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960820101848.21683A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> wrote: > > I hope neither Peanuts nor Walnut Creek stops making their > > NEXTSTEP CDs. IMO, they are targeted at different customers. > > I prefer getting it all (Peanuts) but I know others who prefers > > the edited CD edition (Nebula). > > Good news for you: we are going to compile a new disk set. Sounds useful. And before this minor war escalates any further, I'd note that I also have the Nebula set, and I also buy the "Big Green CD" set. Each one has some things on it that have made them worth buying for me. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: zizi zhao <ziziz@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: FYI: sun-ibm <-> java-taligent Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:17:47 -0400 Organization: personal Message-ID: <321F7F8B.36A3@worldnet.att.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sun Java to Use IBM Taligent (8/21) By KOUROSH KARIMKHANY c.1996 Bloomberg Business News why? why not java-openstep?
From: mpaque@pacbell.net (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: PostScript performance is 30% down under OPENSTEP 4.0 Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 14:36:56 GMT Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16 Message-ID: <4vne9m$grm@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net> References: <4v9abn$bk@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <4va0a6$gmu@usenet.rpi.edu> <4vb2dp$444@gaea.titan.org> kc@criamon.omnigroup.com (Ken Case) wrote: >Yep, so here's another: a ~30% drop for my P6/200 with 128MB of RAM >(and nothing else running, so most of that RAM free). Looks like >4.0's windowserver is simply somewhat slower. >My guess is that it's due to Backing Store Compression. From the 4.0 >WindowServer release notes: >"The WindowServer now uses compression to conserve memory for window >backing stores. Windows which have not been recently referenced are >compressed. This leads to a slight increase in CPU usage by the >WindowServer with the gain of significantly reducing memory >requirements for window backing stores." >Guess I'd usually rather have the extra memory than the 30% faster >video performance, though I wonder if there's a configuration option >somewhere... Backing store compression only comes into effect when a backing store is not referenced (read, write, or flushed to the display) for several seconds. NXBench keeps the backing store way too active for it to be compressed. The OPENSTEP 4.0 WindowServer itself benchmarks slightly faster than the 3.3 version for DPS interpretation speed. Blitting and compositing speed are unchanged for a given hardware and driver configuration. I'd look at your hardware configuration. PCI bus timing is set to be relatively conservative in 4.0 to give Intel boxes a fighting chance of working without crashing. (Note the crash reports on many PCI boxes when hot-rodded to max PCI speed using certain 3rd party loadable drivers.) You may be able to speed things up on some PCI boxes by diddling the bus tuning parameters and/or loading the latest BIOS from your hardware vendor. You do so at your own risk, of course. (If yoy get the impression that I have a low opinion of PC hardware, you're right.) Mike Paquette I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me. mpaque@pacbell.net Personal E-mail mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
From: mpaque@pacbell.net (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: PostScript performance is 30% down under OPENSTEP 4.0 Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 14:41:00 GMT Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16 Message-ID: <4vneha$gur@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net> References: <4v9abn$bk@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <4va0a6$gmu@usenet.rpi.edu> <4vb2dp$444@gaea.titan.org> kc@criamon.omnigroup.com (Ken Case) wrote: >Yep, so here's another: a ~30% drop for my P6/200 with 128MB of RAM >(and nothing else running, so most of that RAM free). Looks like >4.0's windowserver is simply somewhat slower. >My guess is that it's due to Backing Store Compression. From the 4.0 >WindowServer release notes: >"The WindowServer now uses compression to conserve memory for window >backing stores. Windows which have not been recently referenced are >compressed. This leads to a slight increase in CPU usage by the >WindowServer with the gain of significantly reducing memory >requirements for window backing stores." >Guess I'd usually rather have the extra memory than the 30% faster >video performance, though I wonder if there's a configuration option >somewhere... Backing store compression only comes into effect when a backing store is not referenced (read, write, or flushed to the display) for several seconds. NXBench keeps the backing store way too active for it to be compressed. The OPENSTEP 4.0 WindowServer itself benchmarks slightly faster than the 3.3 version for DPS interpretation speed. Blitting and compositing speed are unchanged for a given hardware and driver configuration. I'd look at your hardware configuration. PCI bus timing is set to be relatively conservative in 4.0 to give Intel boxes a fighting chance of working without crashing. (Note the crash reports on many PCI boxes when hot-rodded to max PCI speed using certain 3rd party loadable drivers.) You may be able to speed things up on some PCI boxes by diddling the bus tuning parameters and/or loading the latest BIOS from your hardware vendor. You do so at your own risk, of course. (If yoy get the impression that I have a low opinion of PC hardware, you're right.) Mike Paquette I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me. mpaque@pacbell.net Personal E-mail mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
From: andrew@inxpress.net (Andrew M. Priasmoro) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Color QuickCam Driver and Video Conferencing Softwares for NS-3.3 Intel? Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 15:26:41 -0400 Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison Message-ID: <andrew-2408961526410001@204.120.5.128> Hi, Does anyone know if there is a color QuickCam driver for NeXTStep 3.3 running on Intel architecture? Are there also any Video Conferencing and Video Capture softwares available for NeXTStep 3.3 running on Intel architecture that are compatible with color QuickCam camera? Thanks in advance. Andrew.
From: patj@nntp.best.com (Pat Jensen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Color QuickCam Driver and Video Conferencing Softwares for NS-3.3 Intel? Date: 24 Aug 1996 20:56:02 GMT Organization: Best Internet Communications Message-ID: <4vnq92$4ab@nntp1.best.com> References: <andrew-2408961526410001@204.120.5.128> You can probably easily port the FreeBSD xfqcam software or the drivers for CU-SeeMe and compile it.. You'd have to have developer and an X implementation though.. -Pat Andrew M. Priasmoro (andrew@inxpress.net) wrote: : Hi, : Does anyone know if there is a color QuickCam driver for NeXTStep 3.3 : running on Intel architecture? Are there also any Video Conferencing and : Video Capture softwares available for NeXTStep 3.3 running on Intel : architecture that are compatible with color QuickCam camera? Thanks in : advance. : Andrew. -- O Pat Jensen <|> LL patj@best.com
From: sams@best.com (Samuel G. Streeper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: setting up a www server on a NeXT Date: 24 Aug 1996 14:42:28 -0700 Organization: BEST Internet Communications Message-ID: <sams.840922867@shellx> References: <4vlada$90f@saims.skidmore.edu> Keywords: www server tholland@pars.skidmore.edu (Anthony Holland) writes: >I am trying to set up a NeXTstation turbo color as a www server. I've >been told that I need to run some sort of html deamon. Can anybody point >me to such a program (freeware ?). Will Omniweb do this ? One way to start would be with the Apache server; you can get it already built for NeXT if you download NeXT's webObjects demo from www.next.com. It comes with minimal Apache-specific docs but you can get that from www.apache.org. OmniWeb is a client only; it could come in handy for testing your server. cheers, -sam
From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Is it possible to buy the Peanuts CDROM ? Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 10:34:18 +0200 Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.95.960826102929.8833C-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <9608120034.AA01194@nebula.cdrom.com> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960812132250.16272A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <Pine.NXT.3.95.960813083441.11827B-100000@charisma> <4v76hn$f2@jnext.dannug.dk> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960820101848.21683A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <4vkufh$eb@jnext.dannug.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE In-Reply-To: <4vkufh$eb@jnext.dannug.dk> On 23 Aug 1996, Jacob Nielsen wrote: > > And only 81/500 is a terrible bad rate. >=20 > Don't tell me the rate (81/500) is different on Peanuts :-) >=20 > Generally, if the designer has gone to the trouble of defining > accented characters (e.g. =E5, =FC) the full PostScript charset > is there, but in many cases only the characters in US-ASCII are > defined ;-(=20 >=20 Yes the rate is as bad as on Peanuts. I'm looking forward to change this, if I find enough spare time. Surely not on the next CD set. (Maybe, I'll see). As I told, I ported a lot of Adobe-1 fonts to NEXTSTEP and all had umlauts. The problem was, that no fontconverter was able to remap the .afm files accordingly, so I wrote a little perl script, which later on got lost. However I still have the conversion tables... NeXT uses different assignements and just ignures entries like /uumlaut in .afm files and only relies on numbering scheme. I wanted to wait for OS4.0 which should have better font support. Greetings, Bernhard.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: I had to try it! Message-ID: <321FDE41.4E27@my.home.address> From: Mitch <just_ask@my.home.address> Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 23:01:53 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -- Sorry to post this to your newsgroup, but I had to try it! I read this and thought, "What could I lose?" Read through it and maybe you'll like to try it as well! But please be honest. That is how it works. "MAKE-MONEY-FAST" ----- Adapted article by Jody Vining (#4 below) ---------------- Want to make a few bucks? Quick, easy and cheap? Ok ok, we have all heard this before, laughed at it, thought it was stupid, so did I. But one day, I was bored, and wanted to see if this thing really works, the now infamous newsgroup "make-money-fast" routine. And well, to my surprise, it ACTUALLY WORKED. I didn't make $50,000 like some said, but I DID make $3,200 in 1 month. Thats not bad for a $5 investment! So now try it, maybe you'll make less, maybe you'll make more, but its worth a shot right? The procedure is very simple. STEP 1. Write your name and address on 5 separate pieces of paper with the words "PLEASE ADD ME TO YOUR MAILING LIST". Fold a $1 note or money order or bank draft in each of the pieces of paper and mail them to the following five addresses: ---------------------------------------------------------- 1. Sahba Zadeh, 16115 122 Pl. NE, Bothell, WA 98011, USA 2. John England, 570 Vista Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94306, USA 3. Jeannette Bidegain, 2301 Redwood Street, #1406, Las Vegas, NV 89102,USA 4. Jody Vining, 987 Shetland Ave, Winter Springs, FL, 32708 5. Mitch Whiteley, 1026 N. 510 W. Apt. 4A, Logan, UT 84341 --------------------------------------------------------------- STEP 2. Now remove the 1st name on the list, move the other 4 names up (5 becomes 4, 4 becomes 3 etc) and put your name and address as number 5 on the list. You can do this by re-typing this article or simply editing and re-posting it in this or another newsgroup. STEP 3. Post your amended article to at least 200 new groups (there are 17 000 of them). You are now in the Mail Order Investment Business and you will start receiving $1 returns by mail within a week or two. The more newsgroups you post to, the bigger your return will be. You may want to rent a Post Office Box to handle the volume of mail you are likely to receive. If you wish to remain anonymous, you can use a pseudonym such as "The Manager" or "The Investor", but make sure your address is correct! NOW LET ME TELL YOU WHY THIS SYSTEM WORKS! Of every 200 postings I made, I received an average of 5 replies, YES - ONLY 5, each with a $1 bill enclosed. You make $5 for every 200 postings WITH YOUR NAME AT NUMBER 5. Each person who sent you $1, now also makes let's say,only 200 additional postings WITH YOUR NAME AT NUMBER 4, i.e. 1000 postings. On average therefore, 50 people will send you $1 with your name at number 4. You make $50. Your 50 new agents make 200 posting each WITH YOUR NAME AT NUMBER 3 or 10 000 postings - average return 500 at $1 each is $500. They make 200 postings each WITH YOUR NAME AT NUMBER 2 = 100 000 postings = 5 000 returns at $1 each = $5 000. Finally, 5 000 people make 200 postings each WITH YOUR NAME AT NUMBER 1 and you get a return of $50 000 before you name drops off the list. AND THAT'S IF EVERYONE DOWN THE LINE ONLY MAKES 200 POSTINGS! Total income in one cycle = $55 500. From time to time, when your name is no longer on the list, you take the latest posting that is appearing in the newsgroups, SEND OUT ANOTHER $5 TO THE NAMES THAT ARE ON THE LIST, PUT YOUR NAME IN AT NUMBER 5 AND START POSTING AGAIN. Remember, 200 postings is only a guideline. The more you post, the greater the return. Let's review the reasons why you should do this: THE ONLY COST FACTORS ARE 5 STAMPS, 5 ENVELOPES, AND 5 $1 BILLS. Anyone can afford five dollars to put into such an effortless investment with SPECTACULAR RETURNS. Some people have said to me "What happens if the scheme is 'played out' and no one sends me any money"? Big deal! So you lose $5 - but what are the chances of that happening? Do you realise how many Internet Users there are? Do you realise how many times this scheme can be utilised over and over again - with COMPLETELY NEW people participating? There are not HUNDREDS, NOT EVEN THOUSANDS, BUT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF NEW INTERNET USERS EVERY MONTH! Remember, read the instructions carefully and play FAIRLY...that's the only way this will work. Get a printout so you can refer back to this article easily. Try to keep a list of everyone that sends you money and always keep an eye on the newsgroup postings to make sure everyone is playing fairly. You know where your name should be.
From: Eric Jenkinson <ejenkins@cswnet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: BW Interface Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 03:01:27 -0500 Organization: Source Communications Message-ID: <32200857.5303@cswnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am new to the NEXTSTEP OS. I have version 3.3 for Intel Processors, running on a P-133 with 80MB of RAM. I have a Diamond Stealth 64 Graphics 2001 Series card with 2 MB of RAM. My problem is that I can only get 640x480 BW. I have tried all the various settings in the configuration.app but I still get low res BW. Does anyone have an idea to solve my problem. Thanks. Eric Jenkinson ejenkins@cswnet.com
From: jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: AppleTalk and NS 3.2 Date: 25 Aug 1996 12:53:26 GMT Organization: frazer.com Message-ID: <jbf-2508960853570001@news.tiac.net> References: <4vjeoq$a15@galaxy.csc.calpoly.edu> In article <4vjeoq$a15@galaxy.csc.calpoly.edu>, Burnt A. Christian <burnt@ppp110.callamer.com> wrote: > NeXTSTEP 3.2 on Mono NeXTStation. It wants to be hooked up to my > AppleTalk/EtherTalk network and I sure can't figure it out... > > Online SysAdmin docs seem to think its a cinch. There is reference > to a couple of daemons in /usr/etc (atalkd and another one, I believe) that > don't appear to be present. Couldn't find them on my old 3.0 disk either. Look for an AppleTalk package on that old 3.0 disk - it's there. It can be installed with the 3.0 installer - the current installer leaves out the two daemons, so it won't work. It does make the Macs visible in /Net, and their directories can be mounted, but the dialog for unmounting them doesn't seem to work. Barney
From: gcl@sojourn.com (gcl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: datebook/planner SW Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Date: 26 Aug 1996 21:24:55 GMT Organization: Sojourn Systems, Lansing, MI (USA) Message-ID: <4vt4n7$qot@tkhut.sojourn.com> References: <4vsith$bpq@cgl.ucsf.edu> Cristopher Botka (botka@cgl.ucsf.edu) wrote: : Does anyone know a good datebook/daily planner app out there? Preferrably : ported to HPPA. I have seen Cassandra, but have not been able to find a : newer version than 1.5.2, which is a bit old. I tried contacting the author, : but the address I have(jiro@shaman.com) is old and does not work. If there : is anything else out there I'd like to hear about it. I'm in the process of developing one..... Someday I will put it on the sites.... for free... to pay back all those people who developed apps that I use.... 8-) Gary -- ________________________________________________________________ gcl@sojourn.com NeXTmail/LipService is prefered Founder: The NeXTstep for Intel Processors HomeBrew Mailing List Owner: Network with a NeXT '040 Cube #4173 running NeXTstep v3.3 and a Intel i486dx2-66 running NeXTstep for Intel v3.3 _________________________________________________________________
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199608251726.NAA09322@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Sun, 25 Aug 96 13:26:06 -0400 Subject: next-ftp.peak.org: Index isn't being updated Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com Anyone else notice that the index and ls -lR files on next-ftp.peak.org aren't being updated? The copy that's on there now has been there since May 31st. I'd send a message to someone there, but I'm no longer getting login messages there (no, I don't have a - as the first letter in my password) Just curious TjL -------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat My USENET feed is slow and not very reliable NeXT info: EMAIL with SUBJECT: send-ascii info PGP 2.6.2 key: email with SUBJECT: send-ascii pgpkey
From: Jacob Nielsen <jacob@dannug.dk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Is it possible to buy the Peanuts CDROM ? Date: 23 Aug 1996 18:49:21 GMT Organization: Danish NeXT User Group Message-ID: <4vkufh$eb@jnext.dannug.dk> References: <9608120034.AA01194@nebula.cdrom.com> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960812132250.16272A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <Pine.NXT.3.95.960813083441.11827B-100000@charisma> <4v76hn$f2@jnext.dannug.dk> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960820101848.21683A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> wrote: [my highlights of things on Nebula deleted] > > - WebObjects > Hm, I'm wondering about this. Perticularly there must be a special deal. > Peanuts once had WebObjects but NeXT told us that this is not allowed. I'm > really wondering why there should be a different case for Nebula, maybe > they just didn't ask NeXT and NeXT didn't realize it already :) The readme says they have got permission for distributing WebObjects on their CD... (I'm not sure if Nebual holds WO1 or WO2 though.) Given that, I should think Walnut Creek keeps up with permissions for distributing applications on their CD. [deletia] > > Having the Peanuts CDs, the FontGarden CD from Walnut Creek still > > seems like a good offer. It is a far better way of getting new > > typefaces on your NS machine than testing/installing them off a CD > > (e.g. from Peanuts) Plus, you get a printed book so you can see > > what the typeface looks like! That only 81 (out of 500 fonts!) have > > accented characters is a real shame! (yes, I use those accented > > characters :-) > > > This brings to my mind what nobody actually could answer: Are german > Umlauts suppported? I was just porting about 300 Adobe fonts from the > Amiga to NEXTSTEP and it was very easy, but I couldn't manage handling > e.g. different symbol fonts. NEXTSTEP always falls back to the default > Symbol font. Surely you can bring up the FontPanel and get the desired font? If the symbol fonts are accessed via the keyboard (Alternate-some key), you're out of luck -- I think the font name for the "Symbol" font is hardwired into Keyboard.app. > And only 81/500 is a terrible bad rate. Don't tell me the rate (81/500) is different on Peanuts :-) Generally, if the designer has gone to the trouble of defining accented characters (e.g. å, ü) the full PostScript charset is there, but in many cases only the characters in US-ASCII are defined ;-( And if the full charset is defined, the characters are placed in strange places (i.e., where the Mac wants them :-) and/or the spacing is all wrong... Of the free fonts supporting the full PostScript charset I've seen, only very few are really usefull... Regards, Jacob -- Jacob Nielsen [NeXT, MIME, SUN, ASCII] Mail: jacob@dannug.dk Home Page: http://www.dannug.dk/~jacob/
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: datebook/planner SW Date: 26 Aug 1996 21:00:27 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <4vt39b$4ev@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <4vsith$bpq@cgl.ucsf.edu> botka@cgl.ucsf.edu (Cristopher Botka) wrote: > Does anyone know a good datebook/daily planner app out there? > Preferrably ported to HPPA. I have seen Cassandra, but have not > been able to find a newer version than 1.5.2, which is a bit old. > I tried contacting the author, but the address I have > (jiro@shaman.com) is old and does not work. If there is anything > else out there I'd like to hear about it. I think I'm the one doing the most for supporting Cassandra these days. You can find a more recent version (1.7a) at: ftp://eclipse.its.rpi.edu/apps/Cassandra_f/ That is a directory containing four single-architecture archives of Cassandra, and one quad-fat archive. Hmm, probably has a README file and the source code too. I compiled it quad-fat under NS-3.3 (it should run fine under NS-3.x), and fixed a few bugs I tripped across. So, it isn't going to be all that much different than the version you have. I should upload it to the standard archives, just so people can find it, but I have a list of things I'd like to do to it before doing that. Of course, I've had that list for about a year now, and haven't had the time to do any of it... --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: datebook/planner SW Date: 26 Aug 1996 21:02:24 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <4vt3d0$4ev@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <4vsith$bpq@cgl.ucsf.edu> botka@cgl.ucsf.edu (Cristopher Botka) wrote: > Does anyone know a good datebook/daily planner app out there? > Preferrably ported to HPPA. I have seen Cassandra, but have not > been able to find a newer version than 1.5.2, which is a bit old. I should also note that there are some commercial apps available for doing this kind of thing. At the moment I'm tired enough that I can't think of their names, but it is likely that they have more features and more attention than Cassandra has had lately... --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: "The Washington Firm, Ltd." <wafirm@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: biz.jobs.offered,comp.databases.object,comp.jobs,comp.jobs.computer,comp.jobs.offered,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.objective-c,comp.object.corba,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software Subject: AT&T Wireless Services - SEATTLE - SENIOR PROGRAMMER ANALYST FOR DATA MODELING AND SYSTEM DESIGN Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 16:21:17 -0700 Organization: Washington Firm Distribution: inet Message-ID: <01bb93a5.4889d4e0$61629dcc@karen95> SENIOR PROGRAMMER ANALYST FOR DATA MODELING AND SYSTEM DESIGN AT&T Wireless Services currently has an opening for a Senior Programmer Analyst For Data Modeling And System Design. If you think this is an opportunity that may interest you, please send your resume, including the reference # 544APN to: AT&T Wireless Employment Services; Attn: A.P.N. 2 Nickerson, Courtyard Suite; Seattle, WA 98109. By fax: (206) 284-8844 Or you can also submit your resume by email to "kkinared@wafirm.com". If you do, please put it in PLAIN TEXT FORMAT and include in the body of the message.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Sorry: I had to try it! Message-ID: <3220B1FE.6E37@you.probably.already.know> From: Mitch <send@you.probably.already.know> Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 14:05:18 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -- I am really sorry about my SPAM. I didn't realize how wrong it was. Other's articles seemed convincing and legal, but I guess not. Please disregard posting: "I had to try it!" (delete it if your a system administrator). My mistake.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <eric@cdrom.com> Message-ID: <9608252201.AA00954@nebula.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) q;6~]olIY<I\1zLJ.~]53@+A]/}";bKMKAoA3DJn"3Ur/iVngM_b8?1=WhD(,C\OQ`!NPGO6 e04/E9[ec6sDuxxB From: Eric Tremblay <eric@cdrom.com> Date: Sun, 25 Aug 96 15:01:28 -0700 Subject: Object World West 96 Hi, I was at Object World West all week. I was working in the Walnut Creek CDROM booth. So here's my little Object World Report. Lighthouse: They were demoing something called ObjectPlan which is an object oriented analysis and design tool. Also they had something else that is new called AirMail. The lady at the booth told me it was a converter of some sort for HP mail. NeXT: As others have reported NeXT had a small booth. Our booth was almost as big as the NeXT booth! They only had PC's running Windows 95 and demoing WebObjects. I only seen a laptop running OpenStep on it. They told me that their BIG show is next week at Windows NT Solutions at Moscone center in San Fransisco. I'll probably go take a look if I have time, see what's in their booth. Sun: Now, I was truly amazed by them. At their booth they had OpenStep running on SPARC 5's etc... under Solaris. I actually thought they were running the SPARC version of NEXTSTEP. Until the guy click the mouse button and showed me it was Solaris. The OpenStep desktop is the SAME as NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP for MACH. In another place Sun had a bunch of workstations setup with OpenStep developer people went through a 20 minute hands on demo of Interface Builder and Project Builder to built a little stock graphing application. As most of you know by now Sun is giving away FREE on the net OpenStep user. A person at Sun told me that's what the marketing people at Sun thought would make it a success. Give the User and sell the developer. I downloaded OpenStep for Solaris and installed it on a Sun that we have at the office. It works great. The dock it there (The Sun logo instead of NeXT), preview, edit, terminal and NeXTmail. (NeXTmail only has ASCII, MIME and Sun, support. No "NeXTmail" format). I noticed from being an exhibitor for the past 4 years (2 NeXTworlds, 2 Object Worlds) is that there are less and less NEXTSTEP people attending the show. Seems the NEXTSTEP community no longer identifies with this event. Object World is no longer a NEXTSTEP event. NeXTworld is truly missed in my view and Object World does not fill in the void that NeXTworld has left. As for us at Walnut Creek CDROM, I met serveral interesting people and as usual I met the show regulars that I always enjoy seeing again. I hope this little report gave you a little feel of what went on at Object World West. Eric "E.T." Tremblay Walnut Creek CDROM eric@cdrom.com
From: Pohl Longsine <pohl@screaming.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: FYI: sun-ibm <-> java-taligent Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 22:04:40 -0500 Organization: mementech, inc. Message-ID: <322265C8.448D56B3@screaming.org> References: <321F7F8B.36A3@worldnet.att.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit zizi zhao wrote: > Sun Java to Use IBM Taligent (8/21) > why? why not java-openstep? Don't read too much into this press-release. The only part of Taligent that Sun is using is the internationalization classes. Presumably, Sun is not interested in the rest of it.
From: nextsale@ibgi.com (Edmund) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: FOR SALE - 35 + NeXTstations Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 03:18:39 GMT Organization: Internet Business Group, Inc. Message-ID: <4vr1l7$1tp@swifty.cfa.org> Used but NOT ABUSED NeXTstations. Various configurations available. For more information please check out: http://ibgi.com/nextsale.htm or mailto:nextsale@ibgi.com Thank You.
From: Tito <talugtu@slip.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Distorted Display on Station Turbo Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 19:56:48 -0700 Organization: SLIPNET Message-ID: <32211270.7E0F@slip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit HELP!!!! My NeXT Station Turbo is causing the mono monitor to display distorted images ... I tried the monitor and cable to another machine, works fine. Connected a working monitor to my Station turbo, images are distorted. Anybody out their knows what's going on w/ my station? Pls help. Send info to talugtu@slip.net thanx tito
From: Mark Strand <marks@soli.inav.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: setting up a www server on a NeXT Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 22:45:36 -0500 Organization: Internet Navigator, Inc. Message-ID: <32211DE0.614F@soli.inav.net> References: <4vlada$90f@saims.skidmore.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Anthony Holland <tholland@pars.skidmore.edu> Anthony Holland wrote: > > I am trying to set up a NeXTstation turbo color as a www server. I've > been told that I need to run some sort of html deamon. Can anybody point > me to such a program (freeware ?). Will Omniweb do this ? > > Thanks > > A. Holland > Skidmore College Correct, you need a http daemon (httpd) to handle web serving. Omniweb is a web client, for viewing pages, but there needs to be a server at the other end. (The httpd handles those requests you type in the URL: field of your browser) NeXT has a link to the NCSA server and documentation at: http://www.next.com/WebObjects/NCSAServer.html Also, you can check out the Apache server (which I use and runs great on my slab), which is distributed with Web Objects (including the free version).
From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: PostScript performance is 30% down under OPENSTEP 4.0 Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 16:30:54 +0200 Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.95.960826162529.27463A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <4v9abn$bk@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <4va0a6$gmu@usenet.rpi.edu> <4vb2dp$444@gaea.titan.org> <4vneha$gur@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4vneha$gur@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net> On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Mike Paquette wrote: > >Yep, so here's another: a ~30% drop for my P6/200 with 128MB of RAM > >(and nothing else running, so most of that RAM free). Looks like > >4.0's windowserver is simply somewhat slower. > > The OPENSTEP 4.0 WindowServer itself benchmarks slightly faster than > the 3.3 version for DPS interpretation speed. Blitting and > compositing speed are unchanged for a given hardware and driver > configuration. > > I'd look at your hardware configuration. PCI bus timing is set to be > relatively conservative in 4.0 to give Intel boxes a fighting chance > of working without crashing. (Note the crash reports on many PCI > boxes when hot-rodded to max PCI speed using certain 3rd party > loadable drivers.) You may be able to speed things up on some PCI > boxes by diddling the bus tuning parameters and/or loading the latest > BIOS from your hardware vendor. You do so at your own risk, of > course. > ?? Mike I probably got you wrong: All reports state, that they lost performace due to _upgrades_ to OS4.0 not upgrades of the hardware! So I don't see why they should fiddle with their hardware settings if everything was fine and running before the OS4.0 upgrade? If OS4.0 is able to handle PCI bus timing, is it controllable somehow to get back the maximum performance instead of slowing down the system to give some bad configured hardware systems a chance not to crash? Best regards, Bernhard.
From: botka@cgl.ucsf.edu (Cristopher Botka) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: datebook/planner SW Date: 26 Aug 1996 16:21:05 GMT Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab Message-ID: <4vsith$bpq@cgl.ucsf.edu> Does anyone know a good datebook/daily planner app out there? Preferrably ported to HPPA. I have seen Cassandra, but have not been able to find a newer version than 1.5.2, which is a bit old. I tried contacting the author, but the address I have(jiro@shaman.com) is old and does not work. If there is anything else out there I'd like to hear about it. Thanks much, Chris
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: dsr@lns598.lns.cornell.edu Sender: Mitch <just_ask@my.home.address> Date: 27 Aug 1996 09:09:13 EDT Control: cancel <321FDE41.4E27@my.home.address> Subject: cmsg cancel <321FDE41.4E27@my.home.address> Message-ID: <cancel.321FDE41.4E27@my.home.address> Spam/MMF cancelled by dsr@lns598.lns.cornell.edu original subject was I had to try it!
From: francis@az.stratus.com (Francis Hartojo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Freeware compiler for NS3.3? Followup-To: poster Date: 26 Aug 1996 20:06:31 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc. Message-ID: <4vt047$kqu@transfer.stratus.com> Hi all, I'm wondering if there's a pre-compiled development package available for NS3.3? I look at next-ftp.peak.org and found the precompiled compiler and assembler but no linker and header files. Are there free packages for those two? Thank you for any pointers you can give me. Please respond directly to: francis@az.stratus.com. -- +-------------------------+------------------------------------------------+ | Francis Hartojo | [I can't think of a cute disclaimer note, but | | Stratus Computer, Inc. | that's pretty much what's supposed to go in |
From: ehutch@hypnos.norden1.com (E. Hutchinson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,misc.jobs.offered Subject: NEXTSTEP/Contract--Long Term/Virginia Date: 26 Aug 1996 20:11:20 GMT Organization: Norden 1 Communications Message-ID: <4vt0d8$ore@tofu.alt.net> Programmer/analyst/developer NEXTSTEP-------------------Comercial experience Objective C----------------Commercial experience EOF------------------------A Plus Contract-------------------Long Term Area-----------------------Virginia Must Be--------------------US Citizen or Greencard 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: hmoorer@oclc.org (Robin Hermance-Moore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Lighthouse Apps for NT/Solaris (was: ObjectWorld West) Date: 27 Aug 1996 12:43:08 -0400 Organization: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. Message-ID: <4vv8is$pbd@oclc.org> References: <4vimde$qto@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Alvin Jee (alvin@cse.ucsc.edu) wrote: : Hello all! : Just got back from a quick run through ObjectWorld West's exhibit : floor in San Jose, California. Interesting to see that Lighthouse : Design's booth was _larger_ (much) than NeXT's booth. But then again, : Lighthouse has got a bigger wallet now thanks to Sun--well, it's Sun's : wallet too now. <snip: Much dissapointment at NeXT's booth.> : -- : Alvin Jee : alvin@cse.ucsc.edu : NeXTMail gleefully accepted! So, what was Lighthouse showing? Here's what I really want to know: I and the other NeXT users at our company are being forced from NEXTSTEP to Windows NT (due to corporate edict) in about a month. We want to continue using some of our beloved apps - in particular, Diagram! - in the new environment. I've called Lighthouse to ask about availability of new versions of their apps for OPENSTEP/NT (or even Solaris - we have a couple Sun boxes that are still going to be around). As of yesterday, the response was still "Watch our Web page." The Web page says almost nothing helpful - does anyone have any info? Thanks very much, Robin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: AppleTalk and NS 3.2 Message-ID: <DwtAyt.355@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <4vjeoq$a15@galaxy.csc.calpoly.edu> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 19:47:17 GMT In article <4vjeoq$a15@galaxy.csc.calpoly.edu> bchristi@galaxy.csc.calpoly.edu (Brent A. Christian) writes: > NeXTSTEP 3.2 on Mono NeXTStation. It wants to be hooked up to > my AppleTalk/EtherTalk network and I sure can't figure it out... > > Online SysAdmin docs seem to think its a cinch. There is reference > to a couple of daemons in /usr/etc (atalkd and another one, I > believe) that don't appear to be present. Couldn't find them on > my old 3.0 disk either. Am I missing something ro forget to > install something? I thought I did a thorough job. I've also > had a pretty good look around peak, also to no avail. Can anyone > help? Thanks... > If you got a NS 3.0 CD you can partially reanimate some of the AppleTalk features if you use the Installer.app on the NS 3.0 CD to install the AppleTalk.pkg from that same CD... -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <eric@cdrom.com> Message-ID: <9608272149.AA00530@nebula.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) q;6~]olIY<I\1zLJ.~]53@+A]/}";bKMKAoA3DJn"3Ur/iVngM_b8?1=WhD(,C\OQ`!NPGO6 e04/E9[ec6sDuxxB From: Eric Tremblay <eric@cdrom.com> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 96 14:49:40 -0700 Subject: LaTeX and PostScript Hi, I need to output a LaTeX file (or it's related DVI file) to a PostScript file at very high resolution, 2540 DPI (150 line per inch) to be exact. From using the standard TeX package that comes with my NeXT system, it seems that maximum I can go is 400 DPI. Does anyone have experience outputing a TeX document to a higher resolution? Eric "E.T." Tremblay eric@cdrom.com
From: jstella@okeefe.com (Seraphim J. Stella) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Lighthouse Apps for NT/Solaris (was: ObjectWorld West) Date: 28 Aug 1996 00:27:02 GMT Organization: digitalNation Message-ID: <5003om$pqr@news2.dn.net> References: <4vimde$qto@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <4vv8is$pbd@oclc.org> According to the sales rep I talked to on the phone today, Lighthouse is going to be porting all their apps to OpenStep Solaris. They will no longer be supporting OpenStep Mach :( and no word on NT. Josh Stella Director of Programming O'Keefe Interactive
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: setting up a www server on a NeXT Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 22:19:03 -0500 Organization: Illinois State University- Instructional Technology Services Message-ID: <3223BA63.7316@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> References: <4vlada$90f@saims.skidmore.edu> <sams.840922867@shellx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Samuel G. Streeper" <sams@best.com> Samuel G. Streeper wrote: > One way to start would be with the Apache server; you can get > it already built for NeXT if you download NeXT's webObjects > demo from www.next.com. It comes with minimal Apache-specific > docs but you can get that from www.apache.org. Do you know if the Apache 1.1 binary on the www.apache.org site works with NS Intel? They only mention HP and NeXT, not SPARC either... Does anyone have a MAB of the Apache 1.1.1 Server? Thanks, ---------------------------------------- Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ASCII, MIME or NeXT Mail; PGP ok. * PGP public key available, send mail with subj "Send PGP Key" Instructional Technology Services- Illinois State University Understanding is best learned via experience ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY
From: vhs@nextone.langen.bull.de (Volker Herminghaus) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Digital Webster suddenly broken Date: 28 Aug 1996 09:23:40 GMT Organization: Bull AG, Langen Message-ID: <50136s$8rg@www.langen.bull.de> I have been getting extremely strange results using Webster, including an editable result window, missing pictures etc. I reinstalled both the DigitalWebster.pkg and WebsterIllustrations.pkg, but that didn't fix the problem. The console says: Aug 28 11:08:19 nextone Webster[6676]: DPS client library error: PostScript program error, DPSContext 28c98 Aug 28 11:08:19 nextone Webster[6676]: %%[ Error: undefinedresult; OffendingCommand: show ]%% Aug 28 11:08:19 nextone Webster[6676]: DPS client library error: PostScript program error, DPSContext 28c98 Aug 28 11:08:19 nextone Webster[6676]: %%[ Error: undefinedresult; OffendingCommand: show ]%% Aug 28 11:08:21 nextone Webster[6676]: DPS client library error: Invalid tag in returned object, DPSContext 28c98, data 576936 [last message repeated about ten times] Can anyone help me? I am dependent on Webster. Volker My hostinfo: Mach kernel version: NeXT Mach 3.3: Mon May 22 17:34:35 PDT 1995; root(rcbuilder):mk-171.12.obj~11/RC_i386/RELEASE_I386 Kernel configured for a single processor only. 1 processor is physically available. Processor type: I386 (Intel 586) Processor active: 0 Primary memory available: 32.00 megabytes. Default processor set: 63 tasks, 120 threads, 1 processors Load average: 0.13, Mach factor: 0.86
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Lighthouse Apps for NT/Solaris (was: ObjectWorld West) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 13:24:55 +0200 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <32242C87.794B@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <4vimde$qto@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <4vv8is$pbd@oclc.org> <5003om$pqr@news2.dn.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Seraphim J. Stella wrote: > > According to the sales rep I talked to on the phone today, Lighthouse is > going to be porting all their apps to OpenStep Solaris. They will no longer > be supporting OpenStep Mach :( and no word on NT. What was about Solaris/Intel. Is it supported any more ??? -- ______________________________________________________________________ /Stefan Ried, MPI f. Polymerforschung, Postf.3148, 55021 Mainz, F.R.G. \ | ... openstep, the biggest step | | E-Mail ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de (MIME welcome) ...since the invention | | Telefon ++49 6131 379 267 Fax:++49 6131 379 340 ...of the __/___/ | | Project working on pattern-formation in liquid crystals /./\__/\\| | WWW http://www-theory.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~ried ...wheel\_/ \_/| \______________________________________________________________________/
From: joe@TakeFive.co.at (Josef Leherbauer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: looking for fixed-width fonts for NS 3.3 Date: 28 Aug 1996 14:16:18 GMT Organization: TakeFive Software, Salzburg, Austria Message-ID: <501kbi$8uo@news.Austria.EU.net> I'm looking for fixed-width fonts to be used in Terminal because I'm not happy with Ohlfs and Courier. Thanks, -- joe@TakeFive.co.at {MIME,NeXT}Mail welcome
From: ftouhi@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Majid Ftouhi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: C++ compiler Date: 27 Aug 1996 01:32:37 GMT Organization: Universite de Montreal Distribution: world Message-ID: <4vtj7l$f4d@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> Hi there I'm new NextStep user. I had installed NextStep developer release 3.3. I tried to compile this simple program of the file named TEST.cc #include<iostream.h> int main() { cout << "salut"; return 0; } i get the folowing : tiznit> cc++ toto.cc ld: Undefined symbols: ostream::operator<<(char const *) cout I don't know what is the problem? any can help please!! I'm can't begin my work. thanks in advance -- Majid Ftouhi Departement d'Informatique et Recherche Operationnelle Universite de Montreal email: ftouhi@iro.umontreal.ca (MIME & NeXTMail available) ==============================================================
From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Lighthouse Apps for NT/Solaris (was: ObjectWorld West) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 17:16:53 +0200 Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.95.960828171045.29193A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <4vimde$qto@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <4vv8is$pbd@oclc.org> <5003om$pqr@news2.dn.net> <32242C87.794B@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <32242C87.794B@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Stefan Ried wrote: > Seraphim J. Stella wrote: > > > > According to the sales rep I talked to on the phone today, Lighthouse is > > going to be porting all their apps to OpenStep Solaris. They will no longer > > be supporting OpenStep Mach :( and no word on NT. > So OpenStep/Mach is finally dead. The only things which kept it alive for _me_ were the Lighthouse tools. Especially OpenWrite, Diagram, VarioData, OmniWeb and Quantrix. Lighthouse nearly has all the basic business applications one would ever need. If other ports are stopped I see no cause to go ahead with OpenStep/Mach. As I heard Solaris X86 is priced $99 for academic, let's see how the final OpenStep User and Developer versions are priced :-) I definitly want to go with a UNIX system, it needn't be Mach. Greetings, Boerny.
From: jut@ukrv.de (J.-U. Thieme) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Lighthouse Apps for NT/Solaris (was: ObjectWorld West) Date: 28 Aug 1996 16:30:02 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <501s6a$blc@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <4vimde$qto@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <4vv8is$pbd@oclc.org> <5003om$pqr@news2.dn.net> <32242C87.794B@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960828171045.29193A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Cc: scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de In <Pine.HPP.3.95.960828171045.29193A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Bernhard Scholz wrote: > So OpenStep/Mach is finally dead. The only things which kept it alive for > _me_ were the Lighthouse tools. Especially OpenWrite, Diagram, VarioData, > OmniWeb and Quantrix. Lighthouse nearly has all the basic business > applications one would ever need. If other ports are stopped I see no > cause to go ahead with OpenStep/Mach. > > As I heard Solaris X86 is priced $99 for academic, let's see how the > final OpenStep User and Developer versions are priced :-) I definitly want > to go with a UNIX system, it needn't be Mach. Is this Solaris X86 Openstep or only the standard version with X (OpenWindows)? On the Openstep-Page (http://www.eu.sun.com/solaris/products/openstep/) I have read the Minimum System Requirements for Solaris Open- step are a SPARC- or UltraSPARC-processor, but not a X86 ? ! What is correct ? CIAO JUT > > Greetings, > > Boerny. > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------- - Dipl.-Ing. (FH) J.- U. Thieme - -------------------------------------------------------------- - send to : jut@ukrv.de or jut@rz.charite.hu-berlin.de - - -> NeXTMail & PGP welcome <- - - phone : +49 30 450 66127 - - fax: +49 30 450 66937 - -------------------------------------------------------------- - location : virchow-hospital in berlin (germany) - --------------------------------------------------------------
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Lighthouse Apps for NT/Solaris (was: ObjectWorld West) Date: 28 Aug 1996 15:38:04 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <501p4s$ic@sjx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com> References: <4vimde$qto@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <4vv8is$pbd@oclc.org> <5003om$pqr@news2.dn.net> <32242C87.794B@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960828171045.29193A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Stefan Ried wrote: > > > Seraphim J. Stella wrote: > > > > > > According to the sales rep I talked to on the phone today, Lighthouse is > > > going to be porting all their apps to OpenStep Solaris. They will no longer > > > be supporting OpenStep Mach :( and no word on NT. > > > So OpenStep/Mach is finally dead. The only things which kept it alive for > _me_ were the Lighthouse tools. Especially OpenWrite, Diagram, VarioData, > OmniWeb and Quantrix. Lighthouse nearly has all the basic business > applications one would ever need. If other ports are stopped I see no > cause to go ahead with OpenStep/Mach. I caution everyone not to jump to conclusions based on the reports of what a sales rep said. Since when are sales reps definitive sources of information for anything ?-) I was contacted by Lighthouse a couple of days ago about participating in a beta test program. This contact resulted from a question I asked Lighthouse about their plans for a new product. There's no reason for Lighthouse to believe that I'm running Solaris/OpenStep, so I presume they know that I'm running OPENSTEP/Mach. I doubt that Lighthouse would ask me to participate if they didn't plan on supporting OPENSTEP/Mach. But then I have no inside information about Lighthouse's future plans... -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@ix.netcom.com Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 CaseServ: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: Christian Callsen <ccallsen@eng.sun.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: LaTeX and PostScript Date: 28 Aug 1996 10:49:17 -0700 Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Sender: ccallsen@liama Message-ID: <dzt20grcsbm.fsf@eng.sun.com> References: <9608272149.AA00530@nebula.cdrom.com> Eric Tremblay <eric@cdrom.com> writes: > I need to output a LaTeX file (or it's related DVI file) to a > PostScript file at very high resolution, 2540 DPI (150 line per > inch) to be exact. From using the standard TeX package that comes > with my NeXT system, it seems that maximum I can go is 400 DPI. > > Does anyone have experience outputing a TeX document to a higher > resolution? Here's an attempt: 1. under /usr/lib/tex/dvips create a file called config.2540 by copying the file config.ps from the same directory. 2. in config.2540, change the 'D 400' to 'D 2540' (dpi) 3. make sure there is a line 'M LinotypeThreeZeroZeroHi' (METAFONT mode which switches to a Linotronic 300 at high resolution) in the file. 4. make sure that output goes where you want (a line with 'o !lpr -PPostScript' sends things to the printer - if you remove such a line output will go to xxx.ps from xxx.dvi). 5. run 'dvips -P2540 your-document.dvi' (the P tells dvips to use the virtual printer and hence the config file config.2540 from the dvips directory). 6. if METAFONT complains about LinotypeThreeZeroZeroHi being an unknown mode, go to /usr/lib/mf/inputs and grep for 2540 in modes.mf - and look for the name of the mode being defined that contains that line. Then use that mode as the mode in the config.ps file (step 3). Good luck! -Christian -- "The solution used to be to ask everyone on the Net. But then he graduated!?!" "Faced with panic & terror, the solution was to `get connected'..." Christian J. Callsen [ Christian.Callsen@Eng.Sun.COM ] ---- Sm:^le & Be Happy Object Products, SunSoft Inc., 1500 Salado Drive, Mountain View, CA 94043
From: gtaylor@msn.fullfeed.com (Gregory Taylor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Using that ol' Black Cube with a Jaz drive Date: 28 Aug 1996 13:23:06 -0500 Organization: FullFeed Communications (Internet +1.608.246.2701 info) Message-ID: <5022qa$8o9@fullfeed.msn.fullfeed.com> Good [insert time of day here]. I'm wondering if any of you have any experience with using a Jaz drive with Cubes/pizzaboxes/whate'er. I suppose that this may mean driver, or at least a disktab file. Let's do this one by email, and I'll collect and repost the advice I get in a single, easy-to-read-and-cogitate-upon posting. Thanks very much for your help, Gregory -- The arts are the field on which we place our own dreams, thoughts, and desires alongside those of others, so that solitudes can meet, to their joy sometimes, or to their surprise, and sometimes to their disgust.(R. Hughes) Gregory Taylor WORT-FM 89.9 Madison, Wisconsin http://www.msn.fullfeed.com/~gtaylor/RTQE.html
From: Arnold.Creten@ping.be (Arnold Creten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Access to a cd-rom..help Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 03:58:34 GMT Organization: EUnet Belgium, Leuven, Belgium Message-ID: <50222f$q05@news1.Belgium.EU.net> Hallo, I have a NeXT 68030 with a hd and od and recently a Applecd Sc plus. I have no floppy drive and the os is 1.0a... I cannot figure out how to access the cd-rom. Please help Arnold.Creten@ping.be
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From: yucheng@math.arizona.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: C++ compiler Date: 27 Aug 1996 09:45:25 GMT Organization: The University of Arizona Message-ID: <4vug3l$hbi@news.ccit.arizona.edu> References: <4vtj7l$f4d@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> In-Reply-To: <4vtj7l$f4d@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> On 08/26/96, Majid Ftouhi wrote: >Hi there >i get the folowing : > >tiznit> cc++ toto.cc >ld: Undefined symbols: >ostream::operator<<(char const *) >cout > > Try cc toto.cc -lg++ -- ---------------- Yuwen Cheng University of Arizona, Math yucheng@math.arizona.edu
From: tlm@ameslab.gov (Thomas L. Marchioro II) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: LaTeX and PostScript Date: 28 Aug 1996 20:50:54 GMT Organization: Ames Laboratory Message-ID: <502bfe$p03@news.iastate.edu> References: <9608272149.AA00530@nebula.cdrom.com> <dzt20grcsbm.fsf@eng.sun.com> Cc: ccallsen@eng.sun.com Christian Callsen wrote: > > Eric Tremblay <eric@cdrom.com> writes: > > I need to output a LaTeX file (or it's related DVI file) to a > > PostScript file at very high resolution, 2540 DPI (150 line per > > inch) to be exact. From using the standard TeX package that comes > > with my NeXT system, it seems that maximum I can go is 400 DPI. > > > > Does anyone have experience outputing a TeX document to a higher > > resolution? > > Here's an attempt: > <Good Information from Christian Deleted for brevity> Another possibility that you might want to consider given the high resolution you are talking about is using Postscript fonts for your document since these are resolution independent. If the document does not use mathematical formulae (which seems unlikely for TeX, but....) then you can just use a standard PS font like Times for text. If you do make extensive use of all the TeX fonts then you can get them in PS form and install them pretty easily. There are "for sale" versions from Y & Y software and also a fairly new public domain set called something like "BaKoMa" or some such. I have the Y & Y ones since I used to work for them as a consultant and they "just work" and give beautiful output. The 3000 dpi bitmapped font files will be extremely large and will take a pretty good amount of time to generate, and will make for very large PS documetns being piped to the printer. Getting PS versions of the fonts is a good idea in general and would work well here. Hope this proces helpful --- Tom -- Dr. Thomas L. Marchioro II Two-wheeled theoretical physicist Applied Mathematical Sciences 515-294-9779 Ames Laboratory 515-432-9142 (home) Ames, Iowa 50011 tlm@ameslab.gov Project Coordinator: Undergraduate Computational Engineering and Sciences http://uces.ameslab.gov/
From: mpaque@pacbell.net (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: PostScript performance is 30% down under OPENSTEP 4.0 Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 00:23:30 GMT Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16 Message-ID: <502o01$q70@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net> References: <4v9abn$bk@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> dirk@kalium.physik.TU-Berlin.DE (Dirk Schwarzhans) wrote: >the PostScript performance seems to be 30% down under OPENSTEP 4.0! >Running NXBench yields an NXFactor of 0.7 on a black-white >25MHz-station under OPENSTEP 4.0! >Under 3.3 the factor was 1.0. >What's going on? Looks like you found a genuine performance opportunity! While I was on vacation, one of the graphics wizards at NeXT looked into this one. It turned out to be due to changes in the window geometry management code that was new for OPENSTEP for Mach 4.0. The changes introduced overhead in the calculation of visible, obscured, and revealed rectangles that are done every time a window is moved, particulary when the moved window overlaps itself or other windows. As it turns out, NXBench thinks that a good graphics benchmark is to time a series of repeated overlapping window moves, so it displayed the problem nicely! The performance is reduced only for window geometry changes. Drawing speed, blitting, PS language interpretation, and other operations are not impacted by this. Fortunately, the changes to recover the lost performance were straightforward. Now, I can't comment on unannounced products, but I wouldn't lose any sleep over this one if I were you... Mike Paquette -- I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me. mpaque@pacbell.net
From: mpaque@pacbell.net (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Access to a cd-rom..help Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 00:23:40 GMT Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16 Message-ID: <502o0a$q70@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net> References: <50222f$q05@news1.Belgium.EU.net> Arnold.Creten@ping.be (Arnold Creten) wrote: >I have a NeXT 68030 with a hd and od and recently a Applecd Sc plus. >I have no floppy drive and the os is 1.0a... >I cannot figure out how to access the cd-rom. >Please help Ouch! NEXTSTEP 1.0a doesn't understand CD-ROMs. You'll need to upgrade to a more recent version of NEXTSTEP, which will be a trick in itself, as NEXTSTEP 3.0 and later are only supplied on CD-ROM. Your best bet would be to find a friend of contact a user group and see if they could help you upgrade your disk or produce a bootable OD from a recent version CD-ROM. NEXTSTEP 3.X CD-ROMs are often availabe in the comp.sys.next.marketplace group at good prices. Mike Paquette I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me. mpaque@pacbell.net Personal E-mail mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
From: Michael Rousseau <rousseau@csn.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun OpenStep Product Page Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 20:52:30 -0600 Organization: SuperNet Inc. +1.303.296.8202 Denver Colorado Message-ID: <322505EE.6CBC@csn.net> References: <199608211646.MAA00265@slate.cs.rochester.edu> <4vfke0$e0o@nuke.csu.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I just DLed it (on a 28.8 modem, since I work in an Intranet island). It brought back so many fond memories of when 3.2 was just released, of buying our first HP 712 for NS-PA-RISC, of having NS on my Sparc 20. OpenStep on top of Solaris 2.5.1 with CDE runs REALLY slowly. The interface is about half as fast as native NEXTSTEP, imho. But, it is the Dock, Services (which weren't in the beta last year), NeXTMail without NEXTMail operation mode (text and MIME only), color wheels with DnD, even Lip Service! Now, finally, I get to show my coworkers (who have only seen Mac, raw X and Windows 3.1/95) what all the fuss is about! Thank you, Sun! You have made my hollow SysAdmin life tolerable and have almost erased my frustration over NIS+ being mandatory in Solaris 2.4. Now if you would just make an authenticated version of NetInfo with Secure RPC, we'll have a fine future. Mike Rousseau SysAdmin City of Aspen, CO ============================================================= My opinions would reflect those of my employer if they had any NeXT experience. =============================================================John Rudd wrote: > > In <199608211646.MAA00265@slate.cs.rochester.edu> "Eric K. Ringger" wrote: > []Hi. > [] > []Check out the following page at Sun: > [] > [] http://www.sun.com/solaris/products/openstep/ > [] > []Very nice. > > *Drool* It's _beautiful_. I want it! Now I just have to justify buying > it here at work :-)
From: schaub@tamu.edu (Hanspeter Schaub) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: No NeXTeX in OS4.0? Date: 29 Aug 1996 04:46:38 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5037be$q5e@news.tamu.edu> I just finished installing OS4.0 and noticed that there wasn't any NeXTeX package on the OS4.0 CD. Anybody know why NeXT decided to drop TeX with the OS? It is not like they had to do any modification to make the old version work. My old NS3.x installation still works. Maybe they simply forgot to include it in the CD? How strange. HP -- Hanspeter Schaub Ph.D. Graduate Research Assistant Aerospace Engineering Department Texas A&M University http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~schaub schaub@tamu.edu (NeXTmail welcome) We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! WE CAN LEARN TO FLY! -Jonathon Livingston Seagull
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From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Lighthouse Apps for NT/Solaris (was: ObjectWorld West) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 12:34:10 +0200 Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.95.960829123122.9310B-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <4vimde$qto@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <4vv8is$pbd@oclc.org> <5003om$pqr@news2.dn.net> <32242C87.794B@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960828171045.29193A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <501s6a$blc@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <501s6a$blc@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> On 28 Aug 1996, J.-U. Thieme wrote: > In > <Pine.HPP.3.95.960828171045.29193A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> > Bernhard Scholz wrote: > > > As I heard Solaris X86 is priced $99 for academic, let's see how the > > final OpenStep User and Developer versions are priced :-) I definitly want > > to go with a UNIX system, it needn't be Mach. > OpenStep Solaris X86 isn't available, yet. Sun has announced it for Jan 97. I found this somewhere on their WWW pages. The price of $99 for academics was told to me by someone of this newsgroup. OpenStep isn't included so far. Whether furthe OpenStep versions are free isn't certain either, because Sun only states: this version is free. Greetings, Bernhard.
From: Ronnie Doppenberg <rodo@worldonline.nl> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Lighthouse Apps for NT/Solaris (was: ObjectWorld West) Date: 28 Aug 1996 15:37:40 GMT Organization: World Online Message-ID: <501p44$cna@mars.worldonline.nl> jstella@okeefe.com (Seraphim J. Stella) schrijft: > According to the sales rep I talked to on the phone today, Lighthouse is > going to be porting all their apps to OpenStep Solaris. They will no longer > be supporting OpenStep Mach :( and no word on NT. > > Josh Stella > Director of Programming > O'Keefe Interactive
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