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From: pierre@overlord.nova.org Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: US Robotics Fax Driver Date: 31 Dec 1995 05:06:58 GMT Organization: Northern Virginia Internet Access Cooperative Message-ID: <4c55pj$718@hq.hq.af.mil> On 12/30/95, Mark F Trumpbour wrote: >Howdy, > > I've just installed NEXTSTEP on my Dell Pentium, and I can't get my >fax modem to work. Rather, I can't find a driver for my US Robotics >Courier v.34 fax modem. Does anybody know a workaround? > >Thanks, >Mark > This is an answer I got from the folks that sell the software. From: Black and White Sales <sales@bandw.com> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 95 09:28:09 -0400 To: pierre@nova.org Subject: Need help with trying demo Hello, At present NXFax does not support the USR Sportster modem. We are in Beta for support for Class 2.0 which will include support for the USR Sportster. I will notify you when that version of NXFasx is released. --- Best Regards, Susan Marks sales@bandw.com Black & White Software, Inc. NeXTMail OK Bridge Street Marketplace 802-496-8500 Waitsfield, VT 05673-1210 802-496-5112 (fax) Begin forwarded message: From: Thomas Piergallini <uunet!nova.org!pierre> Date: Wed, 9 Aug 95 17:54:14 -0400 To: uunet!bandw.com!nxfax Subject: Need help with trying demo Reply-To: uunet!nova.org!pierre Hello Black and White Software i am trying out NXFAX on a intel platform NextSTEP 3.3 workstation. I am using a USR Sportster 28.8 V.34 Fax Modem. The install went fine. During outbound dialing The system does successfully complete Phase A dialing and does connect to the foreign system Phase B (negotiating) never completes During inbound dialing the system will not achieve a successful negotiation. Using the same modem (USR) with a package like ProCommPlus, or Delrina's Wincomm, successful inbound and outbound faxing is achieved. Is there something special I need from you to make the USR, work? Thanks. pierre Thomas Piergallini pierre@nova.org nextstep mail accepted -- Thomas Piergallini 3Com Primary Access Network Engineer EMail: pierre@3com.com, pierre@nova.org Send me NeXTmail and MIME
From: sanjeev@ee.umr.edu (Sanjeev Agarwal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Help on Objective-C++ Date: 31 Dec 1995 16:15:50 GMT Organization: UMR Missouri's Technological University Message-ID: <4c6cvm$kj7@hptemp1.cc.umr.edu> Hello there, This is my first mail to this news group. I am kind of new to using Objective-C on NextStep machines. I was tring to integrate my C++ code for Vision tasks with existing GUI developed using Next's Interface Builder in Objective-C. I created an interface file which has mixed code (both C++ and Objective C). The header file of this interface file looks something like this @interface OCEdge: Object { // some normal Objective-C instance variable ..... // C++ instance variable... class Edge *anEdge; } // the list of methods @end Now my problem is that when I include (using #import) the complier tells me undefined type: found 'class' Also how do I declare C++ class (Edge in this case) in the above header file. Thanx in advance ... Sanjeev sanjeev@isc.umr.edu
From: sugee@imap2.asu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: US Robotics Fax Driver Date: 1 Jan 1996 10:58:57 GMT Organization: Arizona State University Message-ID: <4c8eph$q5i@news.asu.edu> References: <4c55pj$718@hq.hq.af.mil> I would be curious to find out what the original poster is able to resolve with this. I too made an inquiry about the USR Fax Modem to B+W Software. My inquiry was a bit more recent and the reply I received, or at least the understanding I came away with from it, were substantially different. I will do my best to explain what I have learned about this in particular based on my recent research into fax/modem configurations for NEXTSTEP. Based on the understanding I have from exchanges with B+W Software this past Dec. '95, USR fax/modems are not expressly supported although B+W was in the process at one time of establishing this as the reply to the original poster included below demonstrates. According to what I understand, USR didn't quite provide the necessary cooperation needed by B+W to complete tests to certify support of any USR products. This was also coupled by the fact that B+W customer demand and beta support at the time didn't warrant continuing efforts to specifically add USR support. However, and without expressly offering support of or saying that NXFax 1.04 will work with USR fax modems, it was pointed out that NXFax supports Class 2 fax modems and USR's 28.8 K fax modems are Class 2. Pointing this out while not specifically offering support for the USR line is likely a smart company policy and position I completely understand. Seeing as you seemed to have already purchased a USR fax modem, I would suggest obtaining a demo copy of NXFax 1.04 and installing it if you have not attempted to do so already. Operating it in demo mode will allow you to test to see if you can send a one page fax at a time. Here, read for yourself. <<<>>>>> Demo mode The copy of NXFax you are now using is the complete version of the software; however, until NXFax is installed with a valid password, it runs in Demo mode. You can use NXFax in Demo mode to send as many single page faxes as you like. Multiple page fax calls will terminate after the first page. While in Demo mode, you cannot receive faxes. , If you are evaluating NXFax in Demo mode and have questions or encounter problems, please contact Black & White Technical Support so we can assist you. , If you have been using NXFax in Demo mode and like what you see, contact Black & White to purchase NXFax and receive your password. <<<>>>>> I would think that if you are able to send single page faxes using NXFax, you should have a problem sending more than one page or even receiving them. Where other fax modems and NXFax are concerned, I have heard of cases where all that was required to get the software to work, was a short patch of some type. I think, however, that the majority of these cases were ones where NXFax may have worked with a the 14.4 version of the fax modem but due to some ROM changes in a newer 28.8 K version of the fax modem, the patch is required. After this, though, the users report flawless operation as well as the great support they receive from B+W Software. If you have success with this, reporting to the group would be wonderful and very helpful for the future I am sure. Unless I overlooked it, you didn't mention anything about which USR you have. I think this information would be us great help too. Beyond this, there is something called JollyFax that is shareware as I understand with certain limitations, but have no real knowledge to offer beyond this. I hope this helps! Cheers, Sue pierre@overlord.nova.org wrote: : On 12/30/95, Mark F Trumpbour wrote: : >Howdy, : > : > I've just installed NEXTSTEP on my Dell Pentium, and I can't get my : >fax modem to work. Rather, I can't find a driver for my US Robotics : >Courier v.34 fax modem. Does anybody know a workaround? : > : >Thanks, : >Mark : > : This is an answer I got from the folks that sell the software. : From: Black and White Sales <sales@bandw.com> : Date: Thu, 10 Aug 95 09:28:09 -0400 : To: pierre@nova.org : Subject: Need help with trying demo : Hello, : At present NXFax does not support the USR Sportster modem. We are in Beta for : support for Class 2.0 which will include support for the USR Sportster. I will : notify you when that version of NXFasx is released. : --- : Best Regards, : Susan Marks sales@bandw.com : Black & White Software, Inc. NeXTMail OK : Bridge Street Marketplace 802-496-8500 : Waitsfield, VT 05673-1210 802-496-5112 (fax) : Begin forwarded message: : From: Thomas Piergallini <uunet!nova.org!pierre> : Date: Wed, 9 Aug 95 17:54:14 -0400 : To: uunet!bandw.com!nxfax : Subject: Need help with trying demo : Reply-To: uunet!nova.org!pierre : Hello Black and White Software : i am trying out NXFAX on a intel platform NextSTEP 3.3 workstation. : I am using a USR Sportster 28.8 V.34 Fax Modem. : The install went fine. : During outbound dialing : The system does successfully complete Phase A dialing and does connect : to the foreign system : Phase B (negotiating) never completes : During inbound dialing the system will not achieve a successful negotiation. : Using the same modem (USR) with a package like ProCommPlus, or Delrina's : Wincomm, successful inbound and outbound faxing is achieved. : Is there something special I need from you to make the USR, work? : Thanks. : pierre : Thomas Piergallini : pierre@nova.org : nextstep mail accepted : -- : Thomas Piergallini : 3Com Primary Access Network Engineer : EMail: pierre@3com.com, pierre@nova.org : Send me NeXTmail and MIME
From: sugee@imap2.asu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: US Robotics Fax Driver Date: 1 Jan 1996 11:07:46 GMT Organization: Arizona State University Message-ID: <4c8fa2$q5i@news.asu.edu> References: <4c55pj$718@hq.hq.af.mil> I see now that I did in fact overlooked the that the original poster did specify having a USR Courier v.34. Cheers, Sue pierre@overlord.nova.org wrote: : On 12/30/95, Mark F Trumpbour wrote: : >Howdy, : > : > I've just installed NEXTSTEP on my Dell Pentium, and I can't get my : >fax modem to work. Rather, I can't find a driver for my US Robotics : >Courier v.34 fax modem. Does anybody know a workaround? : > : >Thanks, : >Mark : > : This is an answer I got from the folks that sell the software. : From: Black and White Sales <sales@bandw.com> : Date: Thu, 10 Aug 95 09:28:09 -0400 : To: pierre@nova.org : Subject: Need help with trying demo : Hello, : At present NXFax does not support the USR Sportster modem. We are in Beta for : support for Class 2.0 which will include support for the USR Sportster. I will : notify you when that version of NXFasx is released. : --- : Best Regards, : Susan Marks sales@bandw.com : Black & White Software, Inc. NeXTMail OK : Bridge Street Marketplace 802-496-8500 : Waitsfield, VT 05673-1210 802-496-5112 (fax) : Begin forwarded message: : From: Thomas Piergallini <uunet!nova.org!pierre> : Date: Wed, 9 Aug 95 17:54:14 -0400 : To: uunet!bandw.com!nxfax : Subject: Need help with trying demo : Reply-To: uunet!nova.org!pierre : Hello Black and White Software : i am trying out NXFAX on a intel platform NextSTEP 3.3 workstation. : I am using a USR Sportster 28.8 V.34 Fax Modem. : The install went fine. : During outbound dialing : The system does successfully complete Phase A dialing and does connect : to the foreign system : Phase B (negotiating) never completes : During inbound dialing the system will not achieve a successful negotiation. : Using the same modem (USR) with a package like ProCommPlus, or Delrina's : Wincomm, successful inbound and outbound faxing is achieved. : Is there something special I need from you to make the USR, work? : Thanks. : pierre : Thomas Piergallini : pierre@nova.org : nextstep mail accepted : -- : Thomas Piergallini : 3Com Primary Access Network Engineer : EMail: pierre@3com.com, pierre@nova.org : Send me NeXTmail and MIME
From: asr@itsq8.com (Ahmad Al-rasheedan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Need fonts. Date: 1 Jan 1996 14:06:15 GMT Organization: International Turnkey Systems Message-ID: <4c8pon$fcq@dns.itsq8.com> I bought Create & WetPaint and feel very limited with the options of fonts. I need fonts to work with. Is there anything on the net? Thanx.
From: rjadams@prin.uncg.edu (Robert J. Adams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: I need /usr/include HELP! Date: 2 Jan 1996 04:03:32 GMT Organization: The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Message-ID: <4caaqk$j5e@newton.uncg.edu> HI all! i think i posted this before, but due to an operating system upgrade, i dont think it ever got out.. anyway.. i installed BIND 4.9.3, and ran make install.. well.. it clobbered /usr/include/arpa and a few other things as well.. AND to top it all off there have been -NO- backups of this machine, AND the optical drive is ofically dead. <SIGH> could somone tar up and send me /usr/include off of a NS 2.1 cube please.. I and a few other users would GREATLY appriciate it. tia Robert -- Robert Adams e-mail: Robert_Adams@uncg.edu The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Department of Instructional and Research Computing
From: evol@brian.uni-koblenz.de (Randolf Werner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Install from EIDE CD or SCSI HD ? Date: 2 Jan 1996 10:50:14 GMT Organization: University of Koblenz, Germany Message-ID: <4cb2l6$2jo@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> To: nexus@xs4all.nl In-Reply-To: <4bk28k$atn@news.xs4all.nl> Hello, you can install NeXTStep from EIDE/ATAPI CDROMS. Have a look a the following NeXTAnswers: NeXTAnswers 1933 EIDE/ATAPI Support in NEXTSTEP 3.3 1839 EIDE Driver Overview 1838 EIDE Driver 1977 Beta EIDE Driver 1921 Creating Floppies from images under NeXTStep and Dos During installation you have to attach CDROM and hardisk to the primary EIDE controller. You also have to create an additional drivers floppy image for installation (NeXTAnswers 1921). Randolf Werner --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: "Eric K. Ringger" <ringger@cs.rochester.edu> Subject: Flow Control Problem Message-ID: <199601021710.MAA20159@slate.cs.rochester.edu> Sender: ringger@cs.rochester.edu (Eric K. Ringger) Organization: University of Rochester Computer Science Dept Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 12:10:23 -0500 Hi. CONTEXT: I usually use Kermit for TTY connections from my NeXTstation at home through an Annex terminal server to Sun workstations at school. On the remote Sun, I usually run a shell and emacs. More specifically, I'm running C-Kermit 5A(188) from within a Terminal.app window and NEXTSTEP 3.2 on a gray-scale, pre-ADB, 25MHz 68040 NeXTstation at home. The modem on my NeXTstation is a Zyxel U-1496 (I think that's the right number -- I'm at school now); I don't know the Modem's EPROM version number off-hand. At school, we run SunOS 4.1.3, and I use tcsh 6.?, and emacs 19.28.1. (I don't know the Annex hardware or software info., but I could find out.) I believe I'm using hardware flow-control, since I'm using /dev/cufa (as opposed to /dev/cua). This means that the device driver is using the extra line in my modem cable for controlling flow, right? I checked my modem manual, and it is configured by default to use hardware flow-control, so I don't do anything involving flow-control in my .kermrc file, such as in the modem initialization string or using the Kermit flow-control variable. PROBLEM: When running Emacs and moving up or down through large buffers, I sometimes get extraneous pairs of control-S and control-Q. This is XON/XOFF (or software-based) flow-control, as far as I can tell. (Emacs then interprets these bytes as input from me.) I think that Kermit is generating this garbage, because when I connect using PPP and telnet, emacs never exhibits this behavior, as far as I can recall. Any suggestions from Kermit experts? Suggested methods for diagnosing my problem would be most appreciated. Thanks, and Happy New Year. --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: bkmoore@aldebaran.oac.uci.edu (Brian Moore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Removing Printers Date: 2 Jan 96 18:28:16 GMT Organization: University of California, Irvine Message-ID: <bkmoore.820607296@aldebaran.oac.uci.edu> I have an Epson Action Laser 1500. Since this is a non-postscript printer, I have been experimenting with third party printer drivers. One of the drivers that I tried (eXTRAPRINT) has left a printer entry in my PrintManager.app that I cannot remove. When I load PrintManager and try to modify the printer, I get the following message: "Unrecognizable Print Entry Format." I would like to be ablle to delete this printer so I may be able to use the name again. Does any one know how the printers are stored on the drive? Which file should I erase? Also, Has anyone experience printing with the above mentioned printer? Would the Laser Jet III PS driver work if I added a post script cartridge? Thank you -- Brian Moore And yes we do take NeXT Mail
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Andrej Sali <sali> Subject: (no subject) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <DKKMHE.8LH@rockyd.rockefeller.edu> Sender: notes@rockyd.rockefeller.edu (News Administrator) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Rockefeller University Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 20:34:26 GMT Hi, I would like to connect via ethernet a PC running Windows95 and a NeXTstation running NeXTstep 3.2 so that I can ftp, telnet, and rcp between them. Windows95 reports that the following items are installed properly on the PC: ethernet adapter (NE2000 compatible), NE2000 TCP/IP protocol, and there are also ping, ftp, telnet, arp, netstat, and route programs in the \WINDOWS directory (I unpacked them from Windows95 as distributed by COMPAQ, using add/remove software). A complication is that both the NeXTstation and the PC already use the same dialup PPP account from an Internet service provider (not at the same time of course); I have a single permanent IP address for both machines. On the NeXT, I have the ppp 2.02 software and on a PC, I use Netscape. What do I have to do on the PC and the NexTstation to make the ethernet connection working? How do I assign the IP address to a PC (there is a \WINDOWS\HOSTS file; I already have another unique IP number)? What are the network interface names on a PC (the PC arp does not recognize 127.0.0.1)? How do I deal with dual dialup and ethernet interfaces on the PC and the NeXTstation? Do they get assigned different IP addresses? Any hints about any part of the problem will be very much appreciated (please respond to my email address: sali@rockvax.rockefeller.edu). Best wishes, Andrej -- Andrej Sali The Rockefeller University, Box 270 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021-6399 voice (212) 327 7550; fax (212) 327 7540 e-mail sali@rockvax.rockefeller.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Subject: Re: Flow Control Problem In-Reply-To: "Eric K. Ringger"'s message of Tue, 02 Jan 1996 12:10:23 -0500 Message-ID: <RDL.96Jan2183818@world.std.com> Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <199601021710.MAA20159@slate.cs.rochester.edu> Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 23:38:18 GMT Did you try putting "set flow none" in your ~/.kermrc? Also, there's a newer version of kermit on ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant Boston, MA Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com In article <199601021710.MAA20159@slate.cs.rochester.edu> "Eric K. Ringger" <ringger@cs.rochester.edu> writes: Xref: world comp.sys.next.misc:45970 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: world!news.kei.com!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!cornellcs!rochester!ringger From: "Eric K. Ringger" <ringger@cs.rochester.edu> Sender: ringger@cs.rochester.edu (Eric K. Ringger) Organization: University of Rochester Computer Science Dept Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 12:10:23 -0500 Lines: 47 Hi. CONTEXT: I usually use Kermit for TTY connections from my NeXTstation at home through an Annex terminal server to Sun workstations at school. On the remote Sun, I usually run a shell and emacs. More specifically, I'm running C-Kermit 5A(188) from within a Terminal.app window and NEXTSTEP 3.2 on a gray-scale, pre-ADB, 25MHz 68040 NeXTstation at home. The modem on my NeXTstation is a Zyxel U-1496 (I think that's the right number -- I'm at school now); I don't know the Modem's EPROM version number off-hand. At school, we run SunOS 4.1.3, and I use tcsh 6.?, and emacs 19.28.1. (I don't know the Annex hardware or software info., but I could find out.) I believe I'm using hardware flow-control, since I'm using /dev/cufa (as opposed to /dev/cua). This means that the device driver is using the extra line in my modem cable for controlling flow, right? I checked my modem manual, and it is configured by default to use hardware flow-control, so I don't do anything involving flow-control in my .kermrc file, such as in the modem initialization string or using the Kermit flow-control variable. PROBLEM: When running Emacs and moving up or down through large buffers, I sometimes get extraneous pairs of control-S and control-Q. This is XON/XOFF (or software-based) flow-control, as far as I can tell. (Emacs then interprets these bytes as input from me.) I think that Kermit is generating this garbage, because when I connect using PPP and telnet, emacs never exhibits this behavior, as far as I can recall. Any suggestions from Kermit experts? Suggested methods for diagnosing my problem would be most appreciated. Thanks, and Happy New Year. --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/ ||||| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |||||
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Subject: Re: UUCP problems..... In-Reply-To: art@cubicsol.com's message of 30 Dec 1995 20:01:04 GMT Message-ID: <RDL.96Jan2222035@world.std.com> Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <4b5pbq$3he@news.greatbasin.net> <RDL.95Dec20001042@world.std.com> <4bend5$i4v@emerald.oz.net> <RDL.95Dec28175836@world.std.com> <4c45q0$q57@emerald.oz.net> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 03:20:35 GMT Art, It was not my intention to discount your experiences with the kernel panics. Instead, I was providing contradictory evidence of several successful installations. After talking with another user, I found that there was a problem (that I was unaware of) with older NeXT m68k systems that may have been related to faulty DMA hardware. I don't know if this is the case or not with your problem - you tell me. What I do know is that the majority of NS systems are no longer NeXT/m68k. There are more Intel, HP and Sun systems which should not be affected by this. There are many NeXT m68k systems that are not affected by this either. > So, in general, most sites don't want someone to come in and replace > sendmail, uucp, and many other utilities for which there are GNU versions > available, no matter how much better they *might* be, because when something > breaks, it's much more difficult to figure out what the problem is. Please don't make statements like this. Berkeley's new sendmail, for example, is far better supported, understandable and easier to debug than NeXT's version. You can go to your local technical bookstore and buy a book on it, it's actively supported by UCB, and there are a number of sendmail consultants available. On the other hand, you won't be able to find much documentation on any NeXT software or hardware. Lastly, I think it's a cost/benefit question that is best left to individual sites. If a site doesn't care about the security and/or performance of their network, they can choose to go with the NeXT versions. If security isn't an issue but convenience is, they can stick with whatever NeXT supplies. Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant Boston, MA Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com In article <4c45q0$q57@emerald.oz.net> art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell) writes: Xref: world comp.sys.next.misc:45960 Path: world!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news.oz.net!news From: art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Date: 30 Dec 1995 20:01:04 GMT Organization: Sense Networking Seattle (www.oz.net) Lines: 42 Distribution: world References: <4b5pbq$3he@news.greatbasin.net> <RDL.95Dec20001042@world.std.com> <4bend5$i4v@emerald.oz.net> <RDL.95Dec28175836@world.std.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: aisbell.got.net X-Newsreader: Alexandra.app (Version 0.81) rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) wrote: > I disagree. I have run Taylor UUCP and NXFax on several different 3.3 systems > and have not experienced kernel panics. When there was a kernel panic it was > due to an old version of NXFax that used a LKS loadable kernel server. B&W > has since corrected that. And think about what you are saying - UUCP is > causing kernel panics? Nothing should cause a kernel panic. The only things > that might cause one are (a) bugs in kernel servers / drivers, (b) bugs in the > kernel, and (c) faulty or misconfigured hardware. Again, I haven't seen > any code in Taylor that may trigger a bug in the kernel. I have done quite > a bit of work with Taylor so I'm surprised that I haven't seen it. NXFax > is another story. > Just because you haven't experienced kernel panics using NS 3.3 black, NXFax 1.04, and Taylor UUCP 1.05 doesn't mean that others won't, so please don't discount the very real experience of several people at different sites. When NS 3.3 was first released, kernel panics began happening immediately. People from NeXT, Black and White (NXFax), and those experiencing the panics spent a lot of time trying to determine the nature of the problem. You were not involved, so you don't know what was done to try to figure this out. If you choose to ignore this very real problem, then you're not being responsible to your clients. I was merely trying to alert people to a serious problem that can occur when 3rd-party software is used in place of software supplied with the OS. NeXT cannot possibly support 3rd-party software. If you substitute 3rd-party software for software included with any OS, you're always running a risk of exercising an undiscovered bug in the OS, which appears to be the case here. So, in general, most sites don't want someone to come in and replace sendmail, uucp, and many other utilities for which there are GNU versions available, no matter how much better they *might* be, because when something breaks, it's much more difficult to figure out what the problem is. -- Art Isbell NeXT & MIME Mail: art@cubicsol.com NeXT Registered Consultant Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 Trego Systems Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 CaseServ: NEXTSTEP managed care US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442 contract and case management solutions
From: otto@olcs.com (Otto Lind) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: US Robotics Fax Driver Date: 3 Jan 1996 06:41:18 GMT Organization: Otto Lind Consulting Services Message-ID: <4cd8ee$b1b@olcs.olcs.com> References: <4c55pj$718@hq.hq.af.mil> <4c8eph$q5i@news.asu.edu> sugee@imap2.asu.edu wrote: : However, and without expressly offering support of or saying that : NXFax 1.04 will work with USR fax modems, it was pointed out that NXFax : supports Class 2 fax modems and USR's 28.8 K fax modems are Class : 2. There is a difference between "Class 2" and "Class 2.0" fax modems. The USR Sportster supports "Class 2.0". Black and White software seems to be having a very long beta period for 2.0 support (I asked them about this in the beginning of August, and got the "in beta" response). I ended up installing mgetty+sendfax and ps2g3 to support incoming and outgoing faxes with my sportster. The only downside I have come across is that FaxReader.app doesn't work. Otto -- Otto Lind Otto Lind Consulting Services otto@olcs.com 4890 Ashley Lane #311, Inver Grove Hts, MN 55077 skypoint!olcs!otto voice:(612)457-1080 fax:(612)457-0761
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org (Thomas Engel) Subject: Re: color coded text editor for writing code? Message-ID: <DKLLC2.D1@shinto.nbg.sub.org> Sender: news@shinto.nbg.sub.org Organization: STEPeople's home (A NUGI member) References: <4bvhla$nfk@tofu.alt.net> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 09:07:14 GMT In article <4bvhla$nfk@tofu.alt.net> kwanguhu@connectus.com writes: > Is there, or are there plans of making available a color coded code editor like Codewright (under MS Windows). As far as you are doing Objective-C development you might also try Eval.app or ClassEditor.app. Both use the same Code-coloring TextView. You might also take that TextView class and set up your own editor...which is quite simple as long as your editor is not suposed to have tons of features. Aloha Tomi -- _________________________________________________________ (tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org) Thomas Engel Neptunstr. 9 NeXTMail welcome D - 90522 Oberasbach Germany
From: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: UUCP problems..... Date: 3 Jan 1996 10:31:20 GMT Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd. Message-ID: <4cdlto$bmj@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <RDL.96Jan2222035@world.std.com> In article <RDL.96Jan2222035@world.std.com> rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) writes: [and Art ISbell wrote this, but Robert lost the attribution:] > > So, in general, most sites don't want someone to come in and replace > > sendmail, uucp, and many other utilities for which there are GNU versions > > available, no matter how much better they *might* be, because when something > > breaks, it's much more difficult to figure out what the problem is. > > Please don't make statements like this. Berkeley's new sendmail, for example, > is far better supported, understandable and easier to debug than NeXT's > version. You can go to your local technical bookstore and buy a book on it, > it's actively supported by UCB, and there are a number of sendmail consultants > available. On the other hand, you won't be able to find much documentation on > any NeXT software or hardware. Lastly, I think it's a cost/benefit question > that is best left to individual sites. If a site doesn't care about the > security and/or performance of their network, they can choose to go with the > NeXT versions. If security isn't an issue but convenience is, they can stick > with whatever NeXT supplies. In my experience, most commercial sites would prefer to stick with a standard version of sendmail, bind etc. The reason is that they can get support from a single source (NeXT), and that they can easily get updates as they are released by NeXT. Your statement that NeXT don't provide any support isn't true, for these sites. The hassle factor of having to get in a consultant every time that a change happens that might affect one of these components is considerable. Having said this, we have installed better and newer versions of software, where the site understands the impact this will have, and require the additional benefits it brings. We never do it just because a one line sendmail.cf change might be required in NeXT's standard sendmail. It is a cost/benefit analysis: if a site understands and requires the changes, and the cost of supporting these changes in the future, then they are worth making. Otherwise, not. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.co.uk Tel: (01494)432422 P & L Systems Fax: (01494)432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Subject: Re: Removing Printers In-Reply-To: bkmoore@aldebaran.oac.uci.edu's message of 2 Jan 96 18:28:16 GMT Message-ID: <RDL.96Jan3075219@world.std.com> Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <bkmoore.820607296@aldebaran.oac.uci.edu> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 12:52:19 GMT The printer information is kept in NetInfo. Use NetInfoManager.app to delete that entry. Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant Boston, MA Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com In article <bkmoore.820607296@aldebaran.oac.uci.edu> bkmoore@aldebaran.oac.uci.edu (Brian Moore) writes: Xref: world comp.sys.next.misc:45971 Path: world!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!drivel.ics.uci.edu!news.service.uci.edu!aldebaran.oac.uci.edu!bkmoore From: bkmoore@aldebaran.oac.uci.edu (Brian Moore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Date: 2 Jan 96 18:28:16 GMT Organization: University of California, Irvine Lines: 21 NNTP-Posting-Host: aldebaran.oac.uci.edu X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #6 (NOV) I have an Epson Action Laser 1500. Since this is a non-postscript printer, I have been experimenting with third party printer drivers. One of the drivers that I tried (eXTRAPRINT) has left a printer entry in my PrintManager.app that I cannot remove. When I load PrintManager and try to modify the printer, I get the following message: "Unrecognizable Print Entry Format." I would like to be ablle to delete this printer so I may be able to use the name again. Does any one know how the printers are stored on the drive? Which file should I erase? Also, Has anyone experience printing with the above mentioned printer? Would the Laser Jet III PS driver work if I added a post script cartridge? Thank you -- Brian Moore And yes we do take NeXT Mail
From: Jan Ermatinger <jan.ermatinger@ubs.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: ZyXEL U1496 LCD and NS 3.3 ?? Date: 3 Jan 1996 13:29:43 GMT Organization: CLiMATiCS Message-ID: <4ce0c7-1em@svstch.ubs.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I want to install NS3.3 to my Intel machine. Is my Zyxel-Modem supported by NS? If not, is there an ftp where i can get a driver ? Tanx,
From: mmccullo@usit.net (Michael McCulloch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Gamma correction of images Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 14:35:56 GMT Organization: United States Internet, Inc. Message-ID: <4ce47m$shp@news.usit.net> References: <4avia0$q5s@firehose.mindspring.com> <4b73c2$e0i@news.next.com> mpaque@next.com (Mike Paquette) wrote: >In article <4avia0$q5s@firehose.mindspring.com> smj@jhk.com (Scott M. >Jones) writes: >> What I'd like to know is whether NextStep is doing the gamma >> correction or if it's the monitor. The NS system is a 486 running >> 3.3 with an ATI ultra pro (2MB) and a Sony Trinitron 17se. The >> office PC is running Warp and has an NEC XV15. >> >> I'd also like to know if there's any free software for NS 3.3 that >> changes the gamma of an image. >NEXTSTEP does the gamma correction for you by programming the gamma >correction into the RAMDAC's hardware palette. For all NeXT color >hardware, and other systems that happen to be running in video modes that >support a palette, the NeXT DPS extension operator >'setframebuffertransfer' can be used to adjust gamma correction. Isn't the issue of the display of *converted images* such as GIFs and JPEGs really more related to the linear color model used by DPS? Calibrating your monitor to correct for an image produced on a PC running Windows would result in everything else under NS appearing too dark. In fact, you later stated: >NeXT's WindowServer assumes that the framebuffer values >are directly proportional to screen brightness. This is important >for the accuracy of dithering, compositing, and similar calculations. Other OS's apparently compensate for the fact that the brightness curves of computer monitors are not linear. These other "color models" do not assume nor require a linear relationship between framebuffer values and screen brightness. It seems to me that applying a gamma factor at image conversion time is a much more sensible way to go about handling the specific problem of converted image display in a web browser. Also, if you are designing Web pages under NS and then converting your images to GIFs or JPEGs, you should consider that the converted image from NS will appear much darker on a PC or Mac running Netscape or similar app. You might wish to apply a gamma factor before/during the conversion to a GIF or JPEG. Michael McCulloch mmccullo@usit.net
From: zachary@willis.cis.uab.edu (John Zachary) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Learing the Hard Way - Crash! Date: 3 Jan 1996 09:45:57 -0600 Organization: Dept of CIS, Univ. of Al at Birmingham Message-ID: <4ce8bl$a0l@dave.cis.uab.edu> Well, I was playing around with NS/Intel last night and locked the machine up completely - the Workspace Manager was locked, so I couldn't call up Processes to kill the rogue process. Also, the keyboard switch (I am using the NextUSA keyboard layout) to turn the computer off wouldn't work. So I just hit the reset button, hoping nothing bad would happen. After restarting, the machine checked the disk (like I expected) and then restarted (again expected). After the second reboot, the machine hung at setting up network services (it's a standalone). Uh, oh. I rebooted with config-Default and after the check disk / reboot sequence, I did the same. The machine hung again at the same place with the message "netinfod failed" and bad number 153. Well, after gnashing my teeth some, I reinstalled from scratch and spent last night reconfiguring and redownloading (luckily, I had just saved some important stuff to floppy). Questions: 0) What happened? 1) How could I could have fixed it without reinstalling the whole OS? 2) How do you get out of the locked situation I was in in the first place? Something tells me I should get the System Adminstrator's Guide. -John -- John Zachary UAB GRAIL zachary@cis.uab.edu
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Learing the Hard Way - Crash! Date: 3 Jan 1996 17:28:05 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc. Message-ID: <4ceeb5$e8p@news4.digex.net> References: <4ce8bl$a0l@dave.cis.uab.edu> zachary@willis.cis.uab.edu (John Zachary) wrote: > 2) How do you get out of the locked situation I was in in the > first place? > Something tells me I should get the System Adminstrator's Guide. Often times you can to a safe restart by hitting Cmnd-NumLock together (on your keyboard, the Cmnd key might either be labled Alt or Ctrl). This will bring up a window that will allow you to do a restart. -- Thanks, take care, later, John Kheit )^> %^) =^) monoChrome, Inc. | New York Law School NEXTSTEP Developer | Opinions expressed represent me only... Telepathy, It's coming | MIME & NeXTmail OK--PPP (3P) jkheit@cnj.digex.net | http://cnj.digex.net/~jkheit
From: Dan Nichols <dan@kypris.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Reading DOS-formatted Zip disks? Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 11:57:21 -0600 Organization: Bell Northern Research Message-ID: <30EAC381.5123@kypris.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all. There was a flurry of posts a while back about DOS-formatted Zip disks on the NeXT. Did anyone ever solve this problem? I am running NS3.3 on Black hardware, I also have the mentioned patch from NextAnswers installed (did that prior to 3.3 upgrade) When I pop in a DOS disk, it tells me it's unitialized, do I want to initialize it? It offers me DOS as an option, but dies if I select DOS, says it isn't supported. Why can't it read the disk to start with? It is already formatted and has files on it. HAS ANYONE SOLVED THIS??? -- Daniel A. Nichols Voice: (214) 790-7255 2905 Lawrence St. Fax: (214) 790-2950 Irving TX 75061-6645 Email: dan@kypris.com LP 40,45,64 NeXTMail welcome! Web:<http://rampages.onramp.net/~dan>
From: Robert Worne <rworne@primenet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Reading DOS-formatted Zip disks? Date: 3 Jan 1996 14:32:01 -0700 Organization: A Big Black Cube Sender: root@primenet.com Message-ID: <4ceskh$36d@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> References: <30EAC381.5123@kypris.com> Dan Nichols <dan@kypris.com> wrote: > Hi all. > There was a flurry of posts a while back about DOS-formatted Zip disks > on the NeXT. > > Did anyone ever solve this problem? > > I am running NS3.3 on Black hardware, I also have the mentioned patch > from NextAnswers installed (did that prior to 3.3 upgrade) > > When I pop in a DOS disk, it tells me it's unitialized, do I want to > initialize it? It offers me DOS as an option, but dies if I select DOS, > says it isn't supported. > > Why can't it read the disk to start with? It is already formatted and > has files on it. > > HAS ANYONE SOLVED THIS??? Now this is wierd, I run a patched NS 3.3 as well, and mine reads & writes DOS formatted ZIPS fine, however, it will not format them. They usually show up as a NeXT OD icon with a 'DOS' or the "apple" superimposed on them. A NeXT-formatted ZIP shows up with a SCSI Icon. Although I have no trouble with DOS formats, I usually use mine to transfer data easily between my Daydream and NeXT sessions (Mac-formatted). NeXT will only format these cartridges as NeXT or Mac, never DOS. You need a DOS machine to format a ZIP as DOS, or, format it as NeXT & dump it in a Mac & select dos format. -- Robert Worne NeXT-OS/2-MacOS Starving CS Undergrad...Sorry, I don't *do* Windows! I'd rather starve... -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/P/S d-?>pu s+:+> a- C++$>++++ 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: wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolfram) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mount LINUX partition from NEXTSTEP Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 3 Jan 1996 16:25:37 GMT Organization: PRZ/TU-Berlin Message-ID: <4ceam1$bpq@sandmann.prz.tu-berlin.de> References: <4bugau$d3d@ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> <4c01lm$npn@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> <4c471v$brn@gate.seicom.net> Hi, Frank M. Siegert (frank@this.net) wrote: ... > This is without any warranty. It works fine for me (kernel version > 1.3.23, at the moment) with NEXTSTEP 3.2 and 3.3 partitions on two > SCSI disks. There seem to be problems with symbolic links on UFS > filesystems. Sometime ago I found the bug and fixed it anf reported it to the authors. Look for ufs-0.3.1.2 or whatever it's named now. Thomas -- Thomas Wolfram email: wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de PRZ/EANTC, Technical University of Berlin voice: +49 30 314 21171 http://www.prz.tu-berlin.de/~wolf fax: +49 30 314 25986 _____________________________________________________________________________ _____S__I__C____T__R__A__N__S__I__T____G__L__O__R__I__A____M__U__N__D__I_____
From: woodward@onramp.net (John Woodward) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Learing the Hard Way - Crash! Date: 4 Jan 1996 04:15:03 GMT Organization: On-Ramp; Individual Internet Connections; Dallas/Ft Worth/Houston, TX USA Message-ID: <4cfk87$jtn@news.onramp.net> References: <4ceeb5$e8p@news4.digex.net> In article <4ceeb5$e8p@news4.digex.net> John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> writes: > Often times you can to a safe restart by hitting Cmnd-NumLock > together (on your keyboard, the Cmnd key might either be labled > Alt or Ctrl). This will bring up a window that will allow you to > do a restart. The key is "Often times". I just crashed my Intel a few hours ago. I was remote-logged in from my Cube when it went down. It would respond to pings until I hit the cmd-numlock combination. Then it froze solid (before bringing up the NMI panel). Sigh. Not the first time, & probably not the last. At least my NeXTSTEP-based machines go down much less often than the SGI's I work on. john -- ===================================================================== John W. Woodward, PhD. voice: (214)348-1457 10223 Lanshire Dr. email: woodward@onramp.net Dallas, TX 75238 NeXTMail welcome! =====================================================================
From: crb@orchid.Princeton.EDU (Curtis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: PDD Date: 4 Jan 1996 05:56:01 GMT Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <4cfq5h$d2a@cnn.Princeton.EDU> Keywords: macintosh anyone know how I can view macintosh PDD (portable digital document) format files on the next? thanks Curtis Bahn crb@music.princeton.edu
From: Shaun Foy (sfoy@zoology.ubc.ca) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmers Subject: Compiling WU-FTPD - missing authuser.h Date: 4 Jan 1996 08:33:37 GMT Organization: The University of British Columbia Message-ID: <4cg3d1$gsu@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Anyone compiled wu-ftpd recently? I try and get an exit 1 saying the authuser.h file is not present. Is that file supposed to be distributed with wu-ftpd or is it supposed to be on my machine? [NS3.2developer] Ciao and thanks in advance, Shaun. -- \ o / o __| \ / |__ o \ o / | -/\ ___\o \ o | o / o/___ /\- | / \ | \ /) | ( \ /o\ / ) | (\ / | / \ <A HREF="http://philos.resnet.ubc.ca/~sfoy">sfoy@zoology.ubc.ca</A>
Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc From: MULLC@platinum.com (Craig S. Mullins) Subject: Re: OOA/OOD tools wanted Message-ID: <MULLC.241.000D80E0@platinum.com> Sender: nobody@gateway.platinum.com Organization: PLATINUM technology, inc. Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 18:30:06 GMT References: <4b6a4a$g9c@sarajevo.seitz.de> In article <4b6a4a$g9c@sarajevo.seitz.de> adnan@seitz.de (Adnan Mumbasic) writes: >From: adnan@seitz.de (Adnan Mumbasic)>Subject: OOA/OOD tools wanted >Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 12:16:31 GMT >Hello, >stuff deleted< >For OOA/OOD we haven´t anything decided. The only thing is the method >should (must not) be Booch. Does anyone have an idea which tool >supports Booch, is good and capable to handle a large project. The >tool should at the end produce C++ header files which we could use in >OpenStep (NeXTStep) as input. >more stuff deleted< Adnan, Please consider PLATINUM Paradigm Plus. Paradigm Plus is a powerful object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD) tool that supports Enterprise Component Modeling (ECM), code generation, and reverse engineering. Using ECM, companies can identify business requirements, model and build reusable application components and manage information systems over the long term. Paradigm Plus makes ECM possible through its support for all leading object-oriented methodologies, incorporation of a powerful distributed object repository for large teams of concurrent users and automatic synchronization of models, source code, and documentation. Using methods such as OMT, Fusion, Martin/Odell OOIE, Booch and others extended to support Jacobson's Use Case modeling, Paradigm Plus automates all leading object-oriented methods in a single solution. Automatic generation of C, C++, Smalltalk, Ada, and ODBMS and RDBMS schema definitions increases productivity. Built-in consistency checks ensure quality and reduce maintenance costs, while a powerful script consistency checks ensure quality and reduce maintenance costs, while a powerful script language allows custom reporting, checking, and code generation. Reverse engineering capabilities preserve your investment in legacy software and enable iterative development. For more information: E-Mail: info@platinum.com WWW: http://www.platinum.com -AND- http://www.protosoft.com PLATINUM technology, inc. 1815 South Meyers Road Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181 1-800-442-6861 -or- 708/620-5000
From: tim@vcl.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Getting started with Sybase Date: 28 Dec 1995 14:00:22 GMT Organization: Voyager Information Networks, Inc. Message-ID: <4bu7tm$jqp@vixa.voyager.net> References: <ov68f4g64z.fsf@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu> Paul J. Sanchez wrote: > I have a set of floppies with the Sybase Limited Server (v4.1) from > way back (NS 2? NS 1?), which I have never used but would now like > to. Two questions - 1) Will it work with NS 3.3? and 2) Can anyone > recommend any good reading material for someone such as myself who > used relational database technology fifteen years ago but has never > used Sybase or SQL? The on-line docs seem to assume a hefty amount of > prior knowledge about Sybase, and I'm not at all sure where to start. Yes Sybase works with NS 3.3. However, when 3.0 came out something in the Sybase Administrator application broke. They released a patch diskette with a new Administrator program. The only thing you really ever use the Administrator for is loading the master database but, you will need the patch. There is a book about Sybase that you can buy. I believe it was published by Addison Wesley. I have a copy but it's at work and I am at home at the moment. Also, you can buy the docs from Sybase directly. They are expensive (around $250) for a 4 book set but, they are an absolute must if you intend to do any serious Sybase work on NS. Feel free to contact me directly with questions. Tim Jeltema Valley City Linen 10 Diamond Ave. S.E. Grand Rapids, MI 49506 616 459-6922 tim@vcl.com
From: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mount LINUX partition from NEXTSTEP Date: 5 Jan 1996 13:56:35 GMT Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany Message-ID: <4cjamk$t0h@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> References: <4bugau$d3d@ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> <4c01lm$npn@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> <4c471v$brn@gate.seicom.net> <4ceam1$bpq@sandmann.prz.tu-berlin.de> Thomas Wolfram (wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de) wrote: : Frank M. Siegert (frank@this.net) wrote: : > This is without any warranty. It works fine for me (kernel version : > 1.3.23, at the moment) with NEXTSTEP 3.2 and 3.3 partitions on two : > SCSI disks. There seem to be problems with symbolic links on UFS : > filesystems. : Sometime ago I found the bug and fixed it anf reported it : to the authors. Look for ufs-0.3.1.2 or whatever it's named : now. Indeed. You'll find the last recently released version of ufs on sunsite.unc.edu mirrors in /pub/Linux/ALPHA/ufs. Since neither Yossi Gottlieb nor Bruno Haible seem to have any time to continue development, I decided to take over maintenance for the time. The last release is ufs-0.3.1.2, ran with Linux 1.3.12 and already incorporates (I hope so ;-) Thomas' sym-link patch. This version doesn't compile for recent 1.3.x kernels (like .42) Just before putting a release for 1.3.45 on sunsite, I noticed that this introduced severe problems that could result in system panics. I wasn't able to reproduce these problems now, so this is a real problem ;-). Gregor -- | Gregor Hoffleit admin MATHInet / contact RhiNO | | MAIL: Mathematisches Institut PHONE: (49)6221 56-5771 | | INF 288, 69120 Heidelberg / Germany FAX: 56-3812 | | EMAIL: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (NeXTmail, MIME) |
From: yiannis@prologos.nrl.navy.mil (John Michopoulos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: seeking flex & bison for NEXTSTEP? Date: 5 Jan 1996 14:50:29 GMT Organization: Naval Research Laboratory Message-ID: <4cjdrl$aep@ra.nrl.navy.mil> Where can I find flex & bison compiled for NEXTSTEP? ftp.cs.orst.edu does not have them and the ones I picked up from aeneas.mit.edu gnu archive do not compile well! So, before I go into solving this problems I though I should look for compiled versions. Thanks all for your help --y ------------------------------------------------------------------- | Dr.John Michopoulos (yanni)| Tel: (202) 767-2165 or -2189 | | Naval Research Laboratory | Fax: (202) 767-9181 | | Code 6380 |e-mail: yiannis@prologos.nrl.navy.mil| | Washington DC 20375-5000 | michopoulos@anvil.nrl.navy.mil|
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hhoff@flop.lb.bawue.de (Holger Hoffstaette) Subject: Re: Reading DOS-formatted Zip disks? Message-ID: <DKpLHG.1H1@flop.lb.bawue.de> Sender: news@flop.lb.bawue.de Organization: home References: <30EAC381.5123@kypris.com> <4ceskh$36d@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 13:00:52 GMT Robert Worne wrote: > Dan Nichols <dan@kypris.com> wrote: > ..various problems re-initializing DOS media.. I have a Syquest 270 drive and exactly the same problem. The easy solution: get Brian Willoughby's <brianw@sounds.wa.com> most excellent sdformat utility and use this to do a low-level format of the medium. After that, Workspace will initialize with DOS just fine. The only problem is that you have to do this as root, since WS grabs the inserted medium and locks it.. -holger
From: art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Getting started with Sybase Date: 5 Jan 1996 16:14:31 GMT Organization: Sense Networking Seattle (www.oz.net) Distribution: world Message-ID: <4cjip7$9rt@emerald.oz.net> References: <ov68f4g64z.fsf@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu> <4bu7tm$jqp@vixa.voyager.net> tim@vcl.com wrote: > Also, you can buy the docs from Sybase directly. They are expensive (around > $250) for a 4 book set but, they are an absolute must if you intend to do > any serious Sybase work on NS. > These docs are included with Sybase, but are in xroff format which cannot be printed perfectly with NS' ptroff. However, a reasonable job of printing these documents is possible if one is willing to make the effort. -- Art Isbell NeXT & MIME Mail: art@cubicsol.com NeXT Registered Consultant Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 Trego Systems Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 CaseServ: NEXTSTEP managed care US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442 contract and case management solutions
From: David Pascua <pascua+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.psion,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NeXT <---> Psion S3a Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 11:15:27 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <gkvIuTK00YWnE1TVRt@andrew.cmu.edu> Hello all, I hope everyone is having a good year so far... Sometime in the last 6 months, someone posted something about connecting his/her NeXT to a Psion S3a. I thought I saved the post, but I can't seem to find it. Anyway, if anyone has any idea what I'm talking about, please reply to me! Thx! -Dave pascua@andrew.cmu.edu
From: tlm@ameslab.gov (Tom Marchioro) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Compiling WU-FTPD - missing authuser.h Date: 5 Jan 1996 16:27:05 GMT Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Distribution: world Message-ID: <4cjjgp$ag0@news.iastate.edu> References: <4cg3d1$gsu@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> sfoy@zoology.ubc.ca writes > Anyone compiled wu-ftpd recently? I try and get an exit 1 saying > the authuser.h file is not present. Is that file supposed to be > distributed with wu-ftpd or is it supposed to be on my machine? > [NS3.2developer] > > Ciao and thanks in advance, > The file is in the distribution, it just seems to be in the "wrong place" in the default distribution, i.e., it's in the "support" subdirectory. Just copy it over to the src directory and remake it. (I believe that's all it takes, this is from memory over a year later, but I remember there being a problem with that file and the solution being quite trivial). If for some reason you *don't* have authuser.h send me mail and I'll post you a copy. Hope this helps --- Tom -- Dr. Thomas L. Marchioro II Two-wheeled theoretical physicist Applied Mathematical Sciences 515-294-9779 Ames Laboratory 515-432-9142 (home) Ames, Iowa 50011 tlm@ameslab.gov Project Coordinator:
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.psion,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NeXT <---> Psion S3a Date: 5 Jan 1996 19:28:31 GMT Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Sender: reichman@comserv-f-45.usc.edu Message-ID: <4cju4v$t7o@usc.edu> References: <gkvIuTK00YWnE1TVRt@andrew.cmu.edu> In <gkvIuTK00YWnE1TVRt@andrew.cmu.edu> David Pascua wrote: > Sometime in the last 6 months, someone posted something about connecting > his/her NeXT to a Psion S3a. I thought I saved the post, but I can't > seem to find it. Anyway, if anyone has any idea what I'm talking about, > please reply to me! Here's a repost: =================================================================== Path: usc!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: oc@hukatronic.cz (Ondra Cada) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Psion Link Date: 19 Apr 1995 16:32:44 -0500 Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway Lines: 54 Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu Message-ID: <9504192143.AA07677@ocs.hukatronic.cz> References: <9504160843.AA03535@envirolink.org> Reply-To: ocs@earn.cvut.cz NNTP-Posting-Host: news.cs.utexas.edu Hi all of you, must say I'm surprised - and delighted as well - how many of you are interested... Well, just now is my application in early Alpha version. Seeing such an interest I'll work hard to prepare final (or at least beta) ASAP, omitting some luxury for the sake of time and scheduling it to next version. So, S3Link 1.0 _surely_ will - be available before June (very probably before May, but this date I cannot promise); - allow file transfer to and from SIBO machines (almost surely including MC line - I'll try to dig out some of these neat laptops to test); - support simple incremental backup; - be somewhat about $20-$40 shareware; and _probably_ will - convert Word format to NeXT RTF and back; - translate characters >128 via user defined table; - support one-command backup/format/restore for Flash SSD S3Link 1.0 _surely_ will _not_ - support reconnection (once connection broken, S3Link 1.0 must be restarted); - offer API to prepare custom applications which communicate with PSION; - allow drag&drop file transfer; - support remote printing from PSION on NEXTSTEP printer; - ensure automatic sync of Data on PSION to Addresses on NS; - auto convert any file type using installable bundle converters (with public API to create these); These (and other) features, including your suggestions, I would like to include to S3Link 2.0, scheduled to sometimes about QIII '95. I'm not sure still if it will be licensed or shareware (let's see how shareware 1.0 will do). I am looking forward email at <ocs@earn.cvut.cz> from those who would like to beta test the application, and from those who would like to localize it (original version will have English and Czech .lprojs) FYI, we are opening a big project here: Objective C based cross SDK for PSIONs, featuring GUI resource editor, debugger with software emulator and/or remote debugging facilities and so on. This project is in _very_ early stage, and first working alpha won't occur before '96. -- Ondra Cada ocs@earn.cvut.cz NeXTMAIL and MIME OK (please do not reply to hukatronic.cz) ================================================================= -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@scf.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: pbrown@asparagus.berkeley.edu (Paul Robert Brown) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: seeking flex & bison for NEXTSTEP? Date: 5 Jan 1996 19:37:31 GMT Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department. Message-ID: <4cjulr$8fg@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <4cjdrl$aep@ra.nrl.navy.mil> In article <4cjdrl$aep@ra.nrl.navy.mil>, John Michopoulos <yiannis@prologos.nrl.navy.mil> wrote: >Where can I find flex & bison compiled for NEXTSTEP? ftp.cs.orst.edu does >not have them and the ones I picked up from aeneas.mit.edu gnu archive do >not compile well! So, before I go into solving this problems I though I >should look for compiled versions. I downloaded the GNU bison sources from gatekeeper.dec.com, compiled them with NeXT cc and GNU make (available at ftp.cs.orst.edu), and had no troubles. (I then used bison and GNU make to compile gcc 2.7.2.) I don't know about flex. Paul
From: rjadams@prin.uncg.edu (Robert J. Adams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: I need /usr/include HELP! Date: 5 Jan 1996 21:16:21 GMT Organization: The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Message-ID: <4ck4f5$bb8@newton.uncg.edu> Noone?? Well it is me again. as it stands I'm stuck, I clobbered /usr/include and my optical drive is dead. (this is on a NS 2.1 Black Cube) would some one _please_ send me /usr/include.. it is only one command, and you dont even have to be root: tar cf - /usr/include | gzip -9 | uuencode includes.tar.gz | \ mail -s"here you go" rjadams@next.uncg.edu (assuming you dont have gnutar) and yes.. i am begging.. :^( please help Robert
From: vbragin@mercury.uucp (Victoria Bragin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Unable to print with JetPilot+HP DeskJet850C Date: 6 Jan 1996 03:41:36 GMT Organization: Information Resources and Technology Message-ID: <4ckr1g$4rl@nuke.csu.net> I purchased JetPilot as a driver for the HP Deskjet 850C. I installed the temporary license given to me, the printer is attached to the parallel port, and my system is a Pentium. However, I am unable to print. An alert panel appears: "Some or all pages in your print request could not be printed." The console reads: Server:Color_Printer[247]: Cannot open output device '/dev/pp0': No such file or directory. I have tried the following to no avail: (1) Deinstalled the parallel port driver and reinstalled it using Configure.ap. I even rebooted the system -- no success! (2) Tried "makedev" in a shell - again, no success. Any ideas on what I could try next would be greatly appreciated. Vicki Bragin
From: rwilson@gate.net (Robert K. Wilson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Compiling SLiRP on NeXT Date: Sat, 06 Jan 1996 03:48:21 GMT Organization: Darkstar Systems Message-ID: <30edef68.6716558@199.227.0.16> I just downloaded the latest source to SLiRP, a SLIP/PPP emulation program which is supposed to complile cleanly on NS 3.3. Unfortunately, I get a fatal error of: memcap.o -lposix ld: Undefined sysmbols: _putenv I thought that the putenv patch was taken care of when I installed SATAN a while back. BTW I am running NS 3.3 with the User 3.3 patch... Thanks for any help or even the binaries.. -Rob rwilson@gate.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: "Eric K. Ringger" <ringger@cs.rochester.edu> Subject: SUMMARY: Flow Control Problem Message-ID: <199601060535.AAA09721@slate.cs.rochester.edu> Sender: ringger@cs.rochester.edu (Eric K. Ringger) Cc: ringger Organization: University of Rochester Computer Science Dept Date: Sat, 06 Jan 1996 00:35:44 -0500 Hi. Thanks to all those who responsed to my original query about a flow control problem. My Kermit configuration was in error. A simple "show parameters" command (at the Kermit prompt) revealed that, by default, Kermit uses XON/XOFF flow-control. The solution is to "set flow none" in my .kermrc. My original query is included below for reference. Corrections include the fact that I'm running Kermit 5A(190) and am using a ZyXEL U-1496E modem (with a suitably wired cable for hardware flow control). Thanks again. --Eric ------------------------ Begin Original Message ------------------------ To: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Flow Control Problem Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 12:10:23 -0500 From: "Eric K. Ringger" <ringger@cs.rochester.edu> Hi. CONTEXT: I usually use Kermit for TTY connections from my NeXTstation at home through an Annex terminal server to Sun workstations at school. On the remote Sun, I usually run a shell and emacs. More specifically, I'm running C-Kermit 5A(188) from within a Terminal.app window and NEXTSTEP 3.2 on a gray-scale, pre-ADB, 25MHz 68040 NeXTstation at home. The modem on my NeXTstation is a Zyxel U-1496 (I think that's the right number -- I'm at school now); I don't know the Modem's EPROM version number off-hand. At school, we run SunOS 4.1.3, and I use tcsh 6.?, and emacs 19.28.1. (I don't know the Annex hardware or software info., but I could find out.) I believe I'm using hardware flow-control, since I'm using /dev/cufa (as opposed to /dev/cua). This means that the device driver is using the extra line in my modem cable for controlling flow, right? I checked my modem manual, and it is configured by default to use hardware flow-control, so I don't do anything involving flow-control in my .kermrc file, such as in the modem initialization string or using the Kermit flow-control variable. PROBLEM: When running Emacs and moving up or down through large buffers, I sometimes get extraneous pairs of control-S and control-Q. This is XON/XOFF (or software-based) flow-control, as far as I can tell. (Emacs then interprets these bytes as input from me.) I think that Kermit is generating this garbage, because when I connect using PPP and telnet, emacs never exhibits this behavior, as far as I can recall. Any suggestions from Kermit experts? Suggested methods for diagnosing my problem would be most appreciated. Thanks, and Happy New Year. --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/ ||||| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ||||| ------------------------ End Original Message ------------------------
From: art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: OOA/OOD tools wanted Date: 6 Jan 1996 16:06:15 GMT Organization: Sense Networking Seattle (www.oz.net) Distribution: world Message-ID: <4cm6ln$q1t@emerald.oz.net> References: <4b6a4a$g9c@sarajevo.seitz.de> <MULLC.241.000D80E0@platinum.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <4b6a4a$g9c@sarajevo.seitz.deadnan@seitz.de (Adnan Mumbasic) writes: > For OOA/OOD we haven´t anything decided. The only thing is the method > should (must not) be Booch. Does anyone have an idea which tool > supports Booch, is good and capable to handle a large project. The > tool should at the end produce C++ header files which we could use in > OpenStep (NeXTStep) as input. I just noticed an Iconix ad in the Jan 96 issue of _Object Magazine_ promoting PowerTools, a series of 10 tools, training CD-ROM's, etc. that run under NEXTSTEP in addition to most other OS's. For more info, see their Web site (http://www.biap.com/iconix/), send email to iconix@eworld.co, or phone them at (310)458-0092. Would anyone like to comment on PowerTools? They aren't inexpensive and they don't seem to output Objective-C. -- Art Isbell NeXT & MIME Mail: art@cubicsol.com NeXT Registered Consultant Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 Trego Systems Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 CaseServ: NEXTSTEP managed care US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442 contract and case management solutions
From: bhardwaj@cuug.ab.ca (6486) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: (no subject) Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 6 Jan 1996 00:19:40 -0700 Organization: Calgary UNIX Users' Group Message-ID: <4cl7qc$dna@hp715.cuug.ab.ca> References: <DKKMHE.8LH@rockyd.rockefeller.edu> I, too, am interested in configuring my machines in a similar manner once I have installed a NIC in my Intel machine. Could you post any suggestions to this group or copy me on the email? Thanks. Andrej Sali (sali) wrote: : Hi, : I would like to connect via ethernet a PC running Windows95 and a : NeXTstation running NeXTstep 3.2 so that I can ftp, telnet, and : rcp between them. : Windows95 reports that the following items are installed properly on : the PC: ethernet adapter (NE2000 compatible), NE2000 TCP/IP protocol, : and there are also ping, ftp, telnet, arp, netstat, and route programs : in the \WINDOWS directory (I unpacked them from Windows95 as : distributed by COMPAQ, using add/remove software). : A complication is that both the NeXTstation and the PC already use the : same dialup PPP account from an Internet service provider (not at the : same time of course); I have a single permanent IP address for both : machines. On the NeXT, I have the ppp 2.02 software and on a PC, I : use Netscape. : What do I have to do on the PC and the NexTstation to make the ethernet : connection working? How do I assign the IP address to a PC (there is a : \WINDOWS\HOSTS file; I already have another unique IP number)? What are : the network interface names on a PC (the PC arp does not recognize : 127.0.0.1)? How do I deal with dual dialup and ethernet interfaces on : the PC and the NeXTstation? Do they get assigned different IP addresses? : Any hints about any part of the problem will be very much appreciated : (please respond to my email address: sali@rockvax.rockefeller.edu). : Best wishes, Andrej : -- : Andrej Sali : The Rockefeller University, Box 270 : 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021-6399 : voice (212) 327 7550; fax (212) 327 7540 : e-mail sali@rockvax.rockefeller.edu -- -- Dharam Bhardwaj | E-mail: bhardwaj@cuug.ab.ca | Fax: 403-282-8969 |
From: kurt@frsvnsvn.vip.best.com (Kurt Werle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Learing the Hard Way - Crash! Date: 06 Jan 1996 15:44:07 -0800 Organization: Best Internet Communications Sender: kurt@caliban Message-ID: <x7ka3428jc.fsf@caliban> References: <4ce8bl$a0l@dave.cis.uab.edu> In-reply-to: zachary@willis.cis.uab.edu's message of 3 Jan 1996 09:45:57 -0600 In article <4ce8bl$a0l@dave.cis.uab.edu> zachary@willis.cis.uab.edu (John Zachary) writes: From: zachary@willis.cis.uab.edu (John Zachary) Well, I was playing around with NS/Intel last night and locked the machine up completely ... Well, after gnashing my teeth some, I reinstalled from scratch and spent last night reconfiguring and redownloading (luckily, I had just saved some important stuff to floppy). Questions: 0) What happened? You trashed some files on your machine (maybe). 1) How could I could have fixed it without reinstalling the whole OS? If you had booted single user mode (-s at the boot prompt), you may have been able to mount your CDROM and copy the damaged files. 2) How do you get out of the locked situation I was in in the first place? CMD-` (the ` is the numlock key on the NeXTUSA keyboard) Something tells me I should get the System Adminstrator's Guide. or cruised NeXTAnswers... --- Kurt kurt@frsvnsvn.vip.best.com I do not represent NeXT.
From: cdubuque@cadaver.acm.ndsu.NoDak.edu (Chadwick A. Dubuque) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Compiling SLiRP on NeXT Date: 6 Jan 1996 20:50:37 GMT Organization: Chaos. Try it. I think you'll like it. Message-ID: <4cmnat$a96@daily-planet.nodak.edu> References: <30edef68.6716558@199.227.0.16> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In article <30edef68.6716558@199.227.0.16>, Robert K. Wilson <rwilson@gate.net> wrote: >I just downloaded the latest source to SLiRP, a SLIP/PPP emulation >program which is supposed to complile cleanly on NS 3.3. > >Unfortunately, I get a fatal error of: memcap.o -lposix ld: Undefined >sysmbols: _putenv > >I thought that the putenv patch was taken care of when I installed >SATAN a while back. > >BTW I am running NS 3.3 with the User 3.3 patch... > >Thanks for any help or even the binaries.. The author and I are working on this; contact him if you would like to help. It's a shame that NS doesn't have a lot of the things tha most other UNIXes do, like putenv() and so on. -- Chadwick A. Dubuque cdubuque@cadaver.acm.ndsu.NoDak.edu http://www.acm.ndsu.NoDak.edu/~cdubuque/ finger for PGP pub. key postal:USA/58105-5164/ND/Fargo/IACC 258 NDSU Box 5164/Chad Dubuque
From: par@MCS.COM (Peter Richardson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Reading DOS-formatted Zip disks? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 6 Jan 1996 23:06:32 -0600 Organization: MCSNet Services Message-ID: <4cnkco$6cc@Venus.mcs.com> References: <30EAC381.5123@kypris.com> Dan Nichols (dan@kypris.com) wrote: : Hi all. : There was a flurry of posts a while back about DOS-formatted Zip disks : on the NeXT. : Did anyone ever solve this problem? I do this ALL the time. It would kill me if this didn't work. So I'll ask a question that may prompt some response. What size disks are you using? From what I've been able to tell, NS only supports 1.44M disks not 720K. Peter Richardson
From: mustreboot@aol.com (MustReboot) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Viewing Next tiffs on a Mac Date: 7 Jan 1996 18:23:49 -0500 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <4cpkm5$7s2@newsbf02.news.aol.com> anyone with an idea as how to do this I try with all the image converters I have (That's quite a few) . The files had tiff.tar.z as an extension. I used suntar and unstuffit on the mac to uncompress the file now i have a .tiff extension only but nothing would get into it. The most info came from Gifconverter which couldn't open it because it's (2bitsper sample) whatever that means. Maybe there is a NeXt2Mac converter that I don't know about please feel free to email me about it
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Viewing Next tiffs on a Mac Date: 8 Jan 1996 00:19:51 GMT Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Sender: reichman@comserv-j-46.usc.edu Message-ID: <4cpnv7$rf5@usc.edu> References: <4cpkm5$7s2@newsbf02.news.aol.com> In <4cpkm5$7s2@newsbf02.news.aol.com> MustReboot wrote: > anyone with an idea as how to do this > I try with all the image converters I have (That's quite a few) . The > files had tiff.tar.z as an extension. Why did they have a "tar.Z" extension. That's usually for directories. I'm not even sure it's economical for tiff's. > I used suntar and unstuffit on the > mac to uncompress the file now i have a .tiff extension only but nothing > would get into it. The most info came from Gifconverter which couldn't > open it because it's (2bitsper sample) whatever that means. Maybe there > is a NeXt2Mac converter that I don't know about > please feel free to email me about it Question: how are you creating/saving tiffs on NeXT? PixelMagician can save in nonNeXT Tiff format. If you are creating these tiffs I'd be suprised if the program was not able to save in another format. I don't know if there's a free converter out there, but I think there is. PM is extremely reliable and worth the $$ and can to batch conversions. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@scf.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: frank@this.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: seeking flex & bison for NEXTSTEP? Date: 7 Jan 1996 23:21:59 GMT Organization: my own Message-ID: <4cpkin$4t4@gate.seicom.net> References: <4cjdrl$aep@ra.nrl.navy.mil> yiannis@prologos.nrl.navy.mil (John Michopoulos) wrote: > Where can I find flex & bison compiled for NEXTSTEP? ftp.cs.orst.edu does > not have them and the ones I picked up from aeneas.mit.edu gnu archive do > not compile well! So, before I go into solving this problems I though I > should look for compiled versions. Well, gnu flex-2.5.2 compiles without an error here on NS 3.3 / Dev. 3.2. I think bison1.24 works too (at least I have a binary in /usr/local/bin, so I must have compiled it some time ago...) Could you please specify your problem? - Frank --- Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] -- Home Page http://hades.tue.schwaben.de/~frank NeXTSTEP & PostScript Guy "In cantonese C++ is called C ga ga"
From: wombat@smartt.com (Shea Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Printing with Ghostscript under NS 3.3 Intel...anyone successful? Date: 8 Jan 1996 01:28:52 GMT Organization: KTK Commmunications Ltd. (SmarttNet) Message-ID: <4cps0k$i2v@ktk2.smartt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Greetings, I am running NS 3.3 on an Intel Pentium system. I have an HP DeskJet 660C printer which I have thus far been unable to print to from NS. I understand that the commercial solutions available are Dots and JetPilot. I also came across Ghostscript, a package which allows printing on non-Postscript printers from a variety of environments. I compiled the package successfully, but I have yet to get any output from my printer. I believe I have all the most recent patches for my platform, but perhaps others have had a similar problem? Any suggestions (by email) would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Shea Phillips.
From: cortesr@alleg.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Defaults Date: 8 Jan 1996 02:59:00 GMT Organization: Allegheny College Message-ID: <4cq19k$98h@speering.alleg.edu> Does anyone know how to dremove all the defaults of an application instead of removing them one by one? Thanks, Ricardo -- Ricardo Cortes Allegheny College cortesr@alleg.edu (NeXTMail OK) http://ace.alleg.edu/~cortes
From: marks@soli.inav.net (Mark Strand) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Reading DOS-formatted Zip disks? Date: 8 Jan 1996 03:15:39 GMT Organization: INAV Message-ID: <4cq28r$hdn@composer.inav.net> References: <30EAC381.5123@kypris.com> <4cnkco$6cc@Venus.mcs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 In article <4cnkco$6cc@Venus.mcs.com>, par@MCS.COM says... > >Dan Nichols (dan@kypris.com) wrote: >: Hi all. >: There was a flurry of posts a while back about DOS-formatted Zip disks >: on the NeXT. > >: Did anyone ever solve this problem? > >I do this ALL the time. It would kill me if this didn't work. So >I'll ask a question that may prompt some response. > >What size disks are you using? From what I've been able to tell, >NS only supports 1.44M disks not 720K. > He said ZIP disks, not floppies. ZIP disks are 25M and 100M. And I've used DOS-formatted ZIP disks on my slab and NSI with no problems whatsoever. Works just as well as with NeXTSTEP-formatted ZIP disks.... >Peter Richardson >
From: mike@hobbs.chem.usu.edu (Michael Emmel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Running a second terminal on intel? Date: 8 Jan 1996 03:14:11 GMT Organization: SouthWind Internet Access, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <4cq263$n3p@opal.southwind.net> Hello unfortunatly my wife has become very intrested in learning to use Nextstep. Can anyone tell me how to hook up either and Xterm or another Keybord/Mouse/terminal to and Intel macine. If it is possible I would like to see what the price of this would be vs buying a used Nextstation. I want my computer back : ( Thanks mike@hobbs.chem.usu.edu Mike
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Viewing Next tiffs on a Mac Date: 8 Jan 1996 05:28:16 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc. Message-ID: <4cqa1g$alv@news4.digex.net> References: <4cpkm5$7s2@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <4cpnv7$rf5@usc.edu> reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) wrote: > I don't know if there's a free converter out there, but I think > there is. PM is extremely reliable and worth the $$ and can to > batch conversions. I agree, PixelMagician is great. -- Thanks, take care, later, John Kheit )^> %^) =^) monoChrome, Inc. | New York Law School NEXTSTEP Developer | Opinions expressed represent me only MIME & NeXTmail OK--PPP | http://cnj.digex.net/~jkheit jkheit@cnj.digex.net | Telepathy...It's coming...
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: 8 Jan 1996 05:15:12 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4cq990$l0k@digifix.digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. 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From: New the Bie <newbie@startext.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Unable to print with JetPilot+HP DeskJet850C Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 23:35:11 -0600 Organization: StarText department of the Fort Worth Star Telegram Message-ID: <Pine.Sola.3.91.960107233245.8000A-100000@lepton> References: <4ckr1g$4rl@nuke.csu.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4ckr1g$4rl@nuke.csu.net> Did you use the printmanager to create the printer? I believe it creates some files in the /dev/pp0 directory. It sounds to me that you need to add the printer in printmanager any of the drivers prefixed with JP can be used. --griz On 6 Jan 1996, Victoria Bragin wrote: > > I purchased JetPilot as a driver for the HP Deskjet 850C. I installed the > temporary license given to me, the printer is attached to the parallel port, > and my system is a Pentium. However, I am unable to print. An alert panel > appears: "Some or all pages in your print request could not be printed." > The console reads: Server:Color_Printer[247]: Cannot open output device > '/dev/pp0': No such file or directory. > > I have tried the following to no avail: > (1) Deinstalled the parallel port driver and reinstalled it using Configure.ap. > I even rebooted the system -- no success! > (2) Tried "makedev" in a shell - again, no success. > > Any ideas on what I could try next would be greatly appreciated. > > Vicki Bragin > >
From: fischer@fokus.gmd.de (Robert Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Defaults Date: 8 Jan 1996 08:24:12 GMT Organization: GMD-FOKUS Message-ID: <4cqkbc$a4o@stern.fokus.gmd.de> References: <4cq19k$98h@speering.alleg.edu> cortesr@alleg.edu writes > Does anyone know how to dremove all the defaults of an application instead of > removing them one by one? > dread -o appname | dremove Robert. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Fischer @ GMD-Fokus -------- __o ------- _`\<,_ fischer@fokus.gmd.de ------- (*)/ (*) ## NeXT-Mail welcome ## -----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: neuss@sun10 (Christian Neuss) Newsgroups: comp.sys.psion,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NeXT <---> Psion S3a Followup-To: comp.sys.psion,comp.sys.next.misc Date: 8 Jan 1996 11:31:36 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Systemarchitektur, TH Darmstadt, Germany Message-ID: <4cqvao$l5g@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> References: <gkvIuTK00YWnE1TVRt@andrew.cmu.edu> David Pascua (pascua+@andrew.cmu.edu) wrote: : Sometime in the last 6 months, someone posted something about connecting : his/her NeXT to a Psion S3a. I thought I saved the post, but I can't : seem to find it. Anyway, if anyone has any idea what I'm talking about, : please reply to me! S3Link, by Ondra Cada (ocs@earn.cvut.cz) Should be in ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/comm Hope this helps, Chris -- // Christian Neuss "I ride tandem with a random.." // neuss@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de // http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~neuss/ // +49 6151 16-3414 fax: -5472
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Defaults Date: 8 Jan 1996 15:15:25 GMT Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc. Message-ID: <4crced$3dr@news.its.com> References: <4cq19k$98h@speering.alleg.edu> cortesr@alleg.edu wrote: > Does anyone know how to dremove all the defaults of an application instead > of removing them one by one? dread -o _Application_ | xargs -l dremove ...appears to work. Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc. --------------------------------+--------------------------------------- CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: specht@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM (Ralf Specht) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: booting NS from second SCSI drive? Date: 8 Jan 1996 13:17:20 GMT Organization: Daimler-Benz AG Message-ID: <4cr5h0$iru@news.sns-felb.debis.de> Hi all, is is possible to boot NS3.3/Intel from the second scsi drive? I use DOS/Windows on the first drive and want to install NS on the second one without installing a DOS partition on it. .Ralf -- Ralf Specht Daimler-Benz AG, Research Center Ulm Department of Text Understanding Systems P.O. Box 23 60 89013 Ulm, Germany e-mail: specht@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM phone: +49 731 505-2356 fax: +49 731 505-4113
From: fordp@polaris.net (Perrone Ford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Backups: Time to move on after OD died Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Date: 12 Jan 1996 23:10:43 -0500 Organization: Polaris Network, Inc. Message-ID: <4d7bc3$duf@nexus.polaris.net> References: <4d720i$10pb@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Stephen J. Perkins (perkins@cps.msu.edu) wrote: : Well... the MOD in my cube finally died. :( It is now time to move on and : get a real backup system. I'm soliciting info regarding the cheapest way to : provide decent backups for my machines. I have just a few words to say to you... Get a Zip or a JAZ drive... Considering your concern for money, I would say get yourself the Zip. It is plug&play for NS3.3. They hold 96MB per cartridge. The drive costs about $200 and the disks cost $20 each. If you buy them in more numbers then they are cheaper. I have been paying $150 for 10 (a GIG) and $50 for 3 disks. It is external, SCSI, and rugged. I would not trade it for the WORLD!!! The jaz uses similar technology, but the drive costs ~$600 and the disks are ~$100. BUT they hold a GIG each. Both are fast enough to run applications from (I do) and they almost as small as a 3.5" disk. GOOD LUCK!!! : Stephen J. Perkins | mailto:perkins@cps.msu.edu -- <-----------------------------------------------------------> Perrone Ford 1320 Terrace St. HighTime Web Development Tallahassee, FL 32303 (904) 222-0620 or 681-6322 hightime@polaris.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Subject: Re: Backups: Time to move on after OD died In-Reply-To: perkins@cps.msu.edu's message of 13 Jan 1996 01:30:58 GMT Message-ID: <RDL.96Jan13002147@world.std.com> Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <4d720i$10pb@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 05:21:47 GMT It's not a good idea to backup a HD to another HD. The Iomega Zip (3.5" magnetic) will be your lowest cost solution ($200 for the drive $15 per 100MB disk) It is very popular. The Fujitsu DynaMO (3.5" MO) is a better but more expensive solution ($450 plus $20 per 230MB optical) The Iomega Jaz drive is another option $599?? + $80 per 1GB diskette) It was just released so all the bugs may not be worked out yet. Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant Boston, MA Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com In article <4d720i$10pb@msunews.cl.msu.edu> perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins) writes: Xref: world comp.sys.next.hardware:23637 comp.sys.next.misc:46064 Path: world!news.mtholyoke.edu!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!msunews!news From: perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Date: 13 Jan 1996 01:30:58 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Lines: 33 NNTP-Posting-Host: pm102-14.dialip.mich.net X-Newsreader: RadicalNews (TM) v0.7 Beta Well... the MOD in my cube finally died. :( It is now time to move on and get a real backup system. I'm soliciting info regarding the cheapest way to provide decent backups for my machines. I have 2 machines on a LAN. The machine of most importance is an Intel with 1.5+G of SCSI disk space. I used to just manually back these babies up over the ethernet to the MOD. No can do now. I'm looking for a low cost backup solution that can move with me as my machines change. I'm guessing some type of external SCSI drive. As I understand it, SaftyNet is the software of choice so the solution should probably work well with that. I would also like it to work well under the M$ tOyS in case I'm ever forced out of the NS market (because of pricing). Thoughts and experiences on a backup mechanism? I could just get a huge SCSI disk drive, or I could get a tape backup (thoughts on tape type appreciated), or I could get a removable cartridge disk drive. Again, being a student with little money, I'm looking for a very low cost solution (the one provided by OpenSource was $1000+, way out of my league). I'd sincerely appreciate hearing about your experiences. Regards, Steve -- ============================================================== Stephen J. Perkins | mailto:perkins@cps.msu.edu Dept. of Comp. Science | NeXT, MIME, finger for PGP Michigan State University | NeXT OS 3.3 using PPP-2.3 NeXT PPP-2.2 info at http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
From: yann-abed oudghiri <oudghiri@ensibm.imag.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: /// prices of a nextStation ?? /// Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 17:48:36 +0000 (CUT) Message-ID: <199601091748.RAA49116@ensibm.imag.fr> Content-Type: text Content-Length: 623 what the prices for a NeXTStation like that: 16 Mb RAM 400 Mb Hard Drive 17" screen Monochrome NeXTSTEP 3.3 user+Developer other question: what are the hardware specs for such a comp ?? -- ---------- -------------------- --- oudghiri yann,abed ------- ------ ENSIMAG 2eme annee, Option INFO --- -- Grenoble,FRANCE ----- ------------------- ------------ -- e-mail: yann-abed.oudghiri@ensimag.imag.fr - ---- ----------
From: npratt@xmission.xmission.com (Nevin Pratt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: IPT uSHARE Anybody got it? Date: 9 Jan 1996 22:10:50 -0700 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <4cvhoq$m2u@xmission.xmission.com> IPT used to make a uSHARE product that transformed the black NeXT into a Mac Appleshare / PrintShare server. Is that package still available? Anybody got it? You wanna sell it? Please let me know via email, as I rarely visit these groups anymore. Nevin
From: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: FAQ ? Date: 10 Jan 1996 14:39:36 GMT Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany Message-ID: <4d0j38$sdc@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> Hmm, once again this question: Wasn't there somebody working on a revised version of the FAQ for these newsgroups ? I remember that there was a discussion here and we had in fact too many people who wanted to work on a new FAQ. Now it's some months later and I can't see even an update on the old FAQ. Gregor -- | Gregor Hoffleit admin MATHInet / contact RhiNO | | MAIL: Mathematisches Institut PHONE: (49)6221 56-5771 | | INF 288, 69120 Heidelberg / Germany FAX: 56-3812 | | EMAIL: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (NeXTmail, MIME) |
From: cortesr@alleg.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Defaults Date: 11 Jan 1996 21:58:21 GMT Organization: Allegheny College Message-ID: <4d415t$n6o@speering.alleg.edu> References: <4cq19k$98h@speering.alleg.edu> <4d09or$3lj@papoose.quick.com> Thanks to all who responded to my post about removing defaults for a specific application, Ricardo Cortes -- Ricardo Cortes Allegheny College cortesr@alleg.edu (NeXTMail OK) http://ace.alleg.edu/~cortes
From: adnan@seitz.de (Adnan Mumbasic) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: OO development system needed Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 08:10:47 GMT Organization: Seitz GmbH Message-ID: <4d2ga1$726@sarajevo.seitz.de> Hello, we are searching for a object oriented development system for our new project which is funded by the German goverment. We (90% of us) have decided to use OpenStep, but I am asking you is there any alternative to OpenStep or even a much better system? For any sugesstion thnx a lot Adnan Mumbasic
From: steve@tweedledee.ucsb.edu (Steve Trainoff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: IPT uSHARE Anybody got it? Date: 13 Jan 1996 02:33:58 GMT Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara Distribution: world Message-ID: <4d75mm$gia@yuggoth.ucsb.edu> References: <30F595D3.41C67EA6@cert.ucr.edu> In article <30F595D3.41C67EA6@cert.ucr.edu> Ron Wood <ron@cert.ucr.edu> writes: > Nevin Pratt wrote: > There's another product, NFS/Share, by Intercon, which runs on a Mac and > allows for NFS mounting disks from the NeXT (or any unix box running > NFS) to the Mac, which I found much more useful. But then I didn't need > a print server, either. It costs about $200 or so, and they'll set you > up with a 30 free trial demo if you request it. I demo'd it for the > university I work for, which decided they didn't want it, but I wish I > could have purchased it myself, and I may yet if Uncle Sam gives me any > tax return this year. I have played with the demo version and can report that it works great. Of course this is a perfect example of the "extra cost" of using a MAC. You have to pay for utilities that are bundled in every unix machine. On the other hand they have a 60% edu discount so it ended up being $78/copy. -- ..STeve ------------------------------------ Insert pithy maxim here... steve@tweedledee.ucsb.edu (NeXT mail)
From: al@lala.cam.org (Andre Lalonde) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: ZyXEL U1496 LCD and NS 3.3 ?? Date: 12 Jan 1996 20:58:25 GMT Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada Message-ID: <4d6i1h$ido@tandem.CAM.ORG> References: <4ce0c7-1em@svstch.ubs.ch> In <4ce0c7-1em@svstch.ubs.ch> Jan Ermatinger wrote: > Hi, > > I want to install NS3.3 to my Intel machine. > > Is my Zyxel-Modem supported by NS? > > If not, is there an ftp where i can get a driver ? > > > Tanx, > > Jan, You might want to check with Black & White Software. They can be reached at <nxfax@bandw.com> (NeXTMail) My ZyXEL and NXFax1.04 work flawlessly on Black for sure. Hope this helps. -AndrÝ
From: ctorlins@crl.com (Christoph Torlinsky) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Nextstep on Laptop? Date: 13 Jan 1996 17:07:36 -0800 Organization: CRL Network Services (415) 705-6060 [Login: guest] Message-ID: <4d9l0o$ls2@crl.crl.com> Does Nextstep run on Intel based laptop pc's? and what are the models and brands that work well? Toshiba? Dell? Gateway? IBM? Thanks chris ps: do you have to spend a fortune on the laptop ($4000+) or can you get away with a color,1gig,75mhz P5,24mb RAM unit? Thanks
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Subject: Re: Nextstep on Laptop? In-Reply-To: ctorlins@crl.com's message of 13 Jan 1996 17:07:36 -0800 Message-ID: <RDL.96Jan13215951@world.std.com> Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <4d9l0o$ls2@crl.crl.com> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 02:59:51 GMT You will have to spend a fortune (>$4,000). While you can run NS at 640x480, it isn't usuable. 800x600 is barely usuable and some of the virtual screen packages improve on that. 1024x768 isn't yet mainstream. Our portable options will significantly improve by the end of the year. Intel is getting into the portable motherboard market which will cut prices dramatically and 1024x768 screens will start appearing from NEC. Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant Boston, MA Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com In article <4d9l0o$ls2@crl.crl.com> ctorlins@crl.com (Christoph Torlinsky) writes: Xref: world comp.sys.next.misc:46069 Path: world!news.mtholyoke.edu!uhog.mit.edu!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!crl.crl.com!not-for-mail From: ctorlins@crl.com (Christoph Torlinsky) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Date: 13 Jan 1996 17:07:36 -0800 Organization: CRL Network Services (415) 705-6060 [Login: guest] Lines: 13 NNTP-Posting-Host: crl.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Does Nextstep run on Intel based laptop pc's? and what are the models and brands that work well? Toshiba? Dell? Gateway? IBM? Thanks chris ps: do you have to spend a fortune on the laptop ($4000+) or can you get away with a color,1gig,75mhz P5,24mb RAM unit? Thanks
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Subject: Re: Reboot problem on NSFIP... In-Reply-To: Lynn LeBaron's message of Wed, 10 Jan 1996 10:53:45 -0700 Message-ID: <RDL.96Jan13220131@world.std.com> Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <30F3FD29.D35@fiber.net> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 03:01:31 GMT Are there any error messages in /usr/adm/messages? Are you on a network? What is your configuration? Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant Boston, MA Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com In article <30F3FD29.D35@fiber.net> Lynn LeBaron <lynn@fiber.net> writes: From: Lynn LeBaron <lynn@fiber.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 10:53:45 -0700 Organization: fiber.net I'm running NS 3.3 (with patches) for Intel. Things start up and run fine. I can get work done, etc. However, when I go to shut down I get the "waiting for system to shutdown..." with spinning cursor, and then I wait, and wait, etc. It appears to be accessing the hard drive periodically (every few seconds), but never finishes whatever it's doing. I've tried doing the shutdown from Terminal and it hangs during the 'halt' operation. Any similar experiences, pointers, etc. would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks, + Lynn:
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Subject: Re: NeXT editor blues In-Reply-To: smcdowall@globalmt.com's message of 8 Jan 1996 23:03:20 GMT Message-ID: <RDL.96Jan13220249@world.std.com> Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <4cs7ro$88a@wavefront.wavefront.com> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 03:02:49 GMT Look at Keyboard.app in /NextDeveloper/Demos. Also, AFS WriteUp supports PageUp/PageDown, etc... Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant Boston, MA Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com In article <4cs7ro$88a@wavefront.wavefront.com> smcdowall@globalmt.com writes: Xref: world comp.sys.next.misc:46023 comp.sys.next.software:24363 Path: world!news.mtholyoke.edu!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!mr.net!news.mr.net!wavefront.com!usenet From: smcdowall@globalmt.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Date: 8 Jan 1996 23:03:20 GMT Organization: WaveFront Communications, Inc. Lines: 25 NNTP-Posting-Host: wf-1-8.wavefront.com X-Newsreader: SPRY News 3.03 (SPRY, Inc.) Esxcuse me if this is in a FAQ, but I haven't seen a FAQ in a few weeks and this is kinda buggine me.. Anyway, is there a way in the NeXT Editor to define the behaviour of keys? Ie: re-map some of my keys on ye olde IBM PC 101 keyboard to do some nice behaviour? to whit, I would like the END key to go to the end of the line, the PgUp/PgDn to page up down, the delete key to delete a character i am at, etc. etc. If there is doc on how to do this I can't find it... Thanks! -STeve p.s. no NeXT mail to this email.. Next Mail is okay to : sjm@mcaltd.com --- Steven J. McDowall | email: smcdowall@globalMT.com global MAINTECH, inc. | voice: 612.944-0400 6468 City W. Pkwy | fax: 612.944-3311 Eden Praire MN 55344 |
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Backups: Time to move on after OD died Date: 14 Jan 1996 06:39:50 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc. Message-ID: <4da8fm$3gq@news4.digex.net> References: <4d720i$10pb@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <RDL.96Jan13002147@world.std.com> rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) wrote: > It's not a good idea to backup a HD to another HD. The Iomega > Zip (3.5" magnetic) will be your lowest cost solution ($200 for > the drive $15 per 100MB disk) It is very popular. The Fujitsu > DynaMO (3.5" MO) is a better but more expensive solution ($450 > plus $20 per 230MB optical) The Iomega Jaz drive is another > option $599?? + $80 per 1GB diskette) It was just released so > all the bugs may not be worked out yet. Yea, I too have gone with the DynaMO... Magnetic material tends to 'fade' and for me, become unusable at the most inappropriate times (like restoring a backup !-)... That's one great thing about optical media, the shelf life. Plus the DynaMO has been a tank for me about a year. -- Thanks, take care, later, John Kheit )^> %^) =^) monoChrome, Inc. | New York Law School NEXTSTEP Developer | Opinions expressed represent me only MIME & NeXTmail OK--PPP | http://cnj.digex.net/~jkheit jkheit@cnj.digex.net | Telepathy...It's coming...
From: anomaly@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Adrian Silveanu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: Where are Voice Alert files for Print Manager? Date: 14 Jan 1996 06:41:40 GMT Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Distribution: usa Message-ID: <4da8j4$5a0@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> Hello! Would somebody please tell me the location of the Voice Alert sound files in NeXTStep for the Print Manager? Thank you, Adrian Silveanu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: jpmeia@netcom.com (McCann) Subject: Re: Nextstep on Laptop? Message-ID: <nntpuserDL6I2z.69w@netcom.com> Sender: netnews@mork.netcom.com Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) References: <4d9l0o$ls2@crl.crl.com> <RDL.96Jan13215951@world.std.com> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 16:06:34 GMT We use VirtSpace on our old (E model, 486/50 ) Versa which makes the small screen bearable. PCMCIA fax/modem works very well, even on cellular phones. But the prices *are* way to high, and 1024x768 will be not only necessary but way cool to those of us who've been waiting so long for mobile NS. In <RDL.96Jan13215951@world.std.com> Robert La Ferla wrote: > You will have to spend a fortune (>$4,000). While you can run NS at 640x480, > it isn't usuable. 800x600 is barely usuable and some of the virtual screen > packages improve on that. 1024x768 isn't yet mainstream. > > Our portable options will significantly improve by the end of the year. Intel > is getting into the portable motherboard market which will cut prices > dramatically and 1024x768 screens will start appearing from NEC. > > Robert La Ferla > Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant > Boston, MA > Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 > Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 > E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com > >
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.soft-sys.nextstep From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Subject: Re: Where are Voice Alert files for Print Manager? In-Reply-To: anomaly@expert.cc.purdue.edu's message of 14 Jan 1996 06:41:40 GMT Message-ID: <RDL.96Jan14141046@world.std.com> Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <4da8j4$5a0@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 19:10:46 GMT They are in /usr/lib/NextPrinter/*.lproj Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant Boston, MA Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com In article <4da8j4$5a0@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> anomaly@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Adrian Silveanu) writes: Hello! Would somebody please tell me the location of the Voice Alert sound files in NeXTStep for the Print Manager? Thank you, Adrian Silveanu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Subject: Re: Nextstep on Laptop? In-Reply-To: jpmeia@netcom.com's message of Sun, 14 Jan 1996 16:06:34 GMT Message-ID: <RDL.96Jan14141206@world.std.com> Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <4d9l0o$ls2@crl.crl.com> <RDL.96Jan13215951@world.std.com> <nntpuserDL6I2z.69w@netcom.com> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 19:12:06 GMT I've heard that there may even be some 1280x1024 LCDs as well. That would be way cool... Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant Boston, MA Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com In article <nntpuserDL6I2z.69w@netcom.com> jpmeia@netcom.com (McCann) writes: We use VirtSpace on our old (E model, 486/50 ) Versa which makes the small screen bearable. PCMCIA fax/modem works very well, even on cellular phones. But the prices *are* way to high, and 1024x768 will be not only necessary but way cool to those of us who've been waiting so long for mobile NS. In <RDL.96Jan13215951@world.std.com> Robert La Ferla wrote: > You will have to spend a fortune (>$4,000). While you can run NS at 640x480, > it isn't usuable. 800x600 is barely usuable and some of the virtual screen > packages improve on that. 1024x768 isn't yet mainstream. > > Our portable options will significantly improve by the end of the year. Intel > is getting into the portable motherboard market which will cut prices > dramatically and 1024x768 screens will start appearing from NEC. > > Robert La Ferla > Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant > Boston, MA > Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 > Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 > E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com > >
From: netvamp@community.net (Matthew Richmond) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Emulator Question... Date: 14 Jan 1996 23:34:26 GMT Organization: Digital America Message-ID: <4dc3u3$q3c@oracle.damerica.net> Is there any way to play Mac CD-ROM games on a Color Slab? -- FreeBSD and NetBSD are like cigarrettes...They taste the same, it is simply an issue of which package you think is prettier...Linux however, is about as stable as a drunken crack junkie on a pogo stick... -Matthew Richmond <netvamp@odin.community.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.soft-sys.nextstep From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Subject: Re: Where are Voice Alert files for Print Manager? In-Reply-To: rdl@world.std.com's message of Sun, 14 Jan 1996 19:10:46 GMT Message-ID: <RDL.96Jan14191313@world.std.com> Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <4da8j4$5a0@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> <RDL.96Jan14141046@world.std.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 00:13:13 GMT Anyone get these to work with non-NeXT printers and NS/Intel? Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant Boston, MA Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com In article <RDL.96Jan14141046@world.std.com> rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) writes: Xref: world comp.soft-sys.nextstep:949 comp.sys.next.misc:46076 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Path: world!rdl From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <4da8j4$5a0@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 19:10:46 GMT Lines: 20 They are in /usr/lib/NextPrinter/*.lproj Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant Boston, MA Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com In article <4da8j4$5a0@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> anomaly@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Adrian Silveanu) writes: Hello! Would somebody please tell me the location of the Voice Alert sound files in NeXTStep for the Print Manager? Thank you, Adrian Silveanu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Subject: Re: Need advice about Intel HW config In-Reply-To: sb6fb@sb636.rivm.nl's message of Fri, 12 Jan 1996 17:07:12 GMT Message-ID: <RDL.96Jan14192501@world.std.com> Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <DL2vK0.BH1@rivm.nl> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 00:25:01 GMT Don't get the Matrox. There have been problems with it and the 2940. You are better off with the Imagine 128. Also, the Sony 17SE is a great monitor. The sound will work - in fact it supposed to be the best sound system around. The Toshiba XM3601 (4.4X) or XM3701 (6.7X) are much better CD-ROM drives than the Sony. The Sony is terribly slow. As far as disk goes, if you have the money get the Seagate 12150N. Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant Boston, MA Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com In article <DL2vK0.BH1@rivm.nl> sb6fb@sb636.rivm.nl (Francois Bourgeois) writes: From: sb6fb@sb636.rivm.nl (Francois Bourgeois) Keywords: Intel hardware compatibility Sender: news@rivm.nl Reply-To: F.Bourgeois@rivm.nl Organization: Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieuhygiene, Bilthoven, NL I am going to buy an Intel configuration for NEXTSTEP 3.3, also for software development. I planned the configuration described below and I would appreciate any comments and advice from you out there. Questions are preceeded with 'Q:'. # Mainboard Intel 'Endeavour' Advanced/EV, 4xPCI and 3xISA slots. Triton chipset, AMI/iNTEL flashbios, Zif socket 7, 256 kB Pipelined Burst cache fixed on board, on board 16-bits SoundBlaster chip. Q: Any compatibility problems? Q: Will the sound chip work with NEXTSTEP? # Processor: Intel Pentium 120 MHz # RAM: 32 Mb (not EDO) # SCSI controller Adaptec AHA-2940 PCI-to-Fast SCSI (SCSI-2). I am not sure Wide SCSI is worth the price and I heard you'll have to use different cables and connectors (?). Besides, I already have this adapter. # Floppy drive: 1.44 Mb Sony # Disk HP C3725 SureStore 2000LP 2.1 Gb Fast SCSI-2. Just because the shop supplies this one. I heard it is a 5400 rpm disk and know it's not leading edge technology. I thought about a 4 Gb (Quantum) disk but some people say you have to be very careful cooling it properly and besides: 2 Gb seems enough for now. Q: Should I pay more and get a Qantum Atlas (or others) ? # Video I haven't decided about: = Number Nine 128 bits Imagine 4Mb RAM, or: = Matrox Millennium 4 Mb WRAM Think I prefer the Number Nine. The price difference here in the Netherlands (at least in the shop I know) is about $125. Q: Does anybody know the performance difference between these two? # Monitor Must be 17". I saw some good 20" en 21" ones but the price difference is huge. Lots of options in 17" ones of course, but I listed: = Philips Brilliance 17A = Samsung SyncMaster GLi = Iiyama MF 8617A Vision Master (.26dp) Because I already have worked with it (very satisfied) I prefer the Philips, although it will be probably $150-$200 more expensive than the others. # Tape: Sony SDT-5000, 4-16 Gb DDS-2 # CD-ROM: Sony quadra speed CDU-76S (SCSI) Any comments are welcome. -- RIVM - National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection Francois Bourgeois, postbak 15 | e-mail: F.Bourgeois@rivm.nl Risk Assessment Division | NeXTmail & MIME is OK P.O.Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven | voice : +31 30 2742962 The Netherlands | fax : +31 30 2280174
From: wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolfram) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.ethernet,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.networking,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.win95,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,de.comp.sys.next Subject: Compex ENET32 PCI - SEEKING INFOS Date: 15 Jan 1996 01:37:49 GMT Organization: PRZ/TU-Berlin Message-ID: <4dcb5d$k69@sandmann.prz.tu-berlin.de> Summary: Compex ENET32 PCI - SEEKING INFOS Keywords: Compex, ENET32, Ethernet, PCI Hi, I'm seeking infos about the following PCI ethernet card: Compex ENET32 PCI/Combo It seems that Compex has no Web site. As far as I know it uses the Digital DEC21040 or DEC21041 chip. Is this true? If yes, does anyone know whether the generic DEC2104x drivers of: - NEXTSTEP 3.3 (no hints in NeXTanswers found) - Linux 1.2.x and/or 1.3.x (no hints in Ethernet HOWTO found) work with the ENET32 PCI card? And is this card supported by - Windows NT 3.51 - Windows 95 (e.g. via generic DEC2104x drivers?) as well or comes with drivers for them? I'm also interested in all infos and opinions about this card (like PCI compatibilty, performance). Or is there a similar priced PCI ethernet (list $125) card which works with all of the 4 above mentioned O/S? Thank you in advance, Thomas -- Thomas Wolfram email: wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de PRZ/EANTC, Technical University of Berlin voice: +49 30 314 21171 http://www.prz.tu-berlin.de/~wolf fax: +49 30 314 25986 _____________________________________________________________________________ _____S__I__C____T__R__A__N__S__I__T____G__L__O__R__I__A____M__U__N__D__I_____
From: buzz@marvin.isdn.cs.TU-Berlin.DE (Bastian Schlueter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Need advice about Intel HW config Date: 14 Jan 1996 15:37:24 GMT Organization: Marvins home, a small place in Universe Message-ID: <4db7vk$2de@marvin.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <DL2vK0.BH1@rivm.nl> sb6fb@sb636.rivm.nl (Francois Bourgeois) wrote: > I am going to buy an Intel configuration for NEXTSTEP 3.3, also for > software development. I planned the configuration described below and I > would appreciate any comments and advice from you out there. > Questions are preceeded with 'Q:'. > > # Mainboard > Intel 'Endeavour' Advanced/EV, 4xPCI and 3xISA slots. Triton chipset, > AMI/iNTEL flashbios, Zif socket 7, 256 kB Pipelined Burst cache fixed on > board, on board 16-bits SoundBlaster chip. > Q: Any compatibility problems? No. I have one and it just works. > Q: Will the sound chip work with NEXTSTEP? Yes. cu Bastian -- Bastian Schlueter TEL.: +49 030 / 44 34 01 35 Fehrbellinerstr. 39 D-10119 Berlin e-mail: buzz@cs.TU-Berlin.DE Germany buzz@marvin.isdn.cs.TU-Berlin.DE RRR100R --------====### legal notice ###====-------------------------------------- Microsoft Network is prohibited from redistributing this work in any form, in whole or in part. License to distribute this post is available to Microsoft for $499. Posting without permission constitutes an agreement to these terms.
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet Date: 15 Jan 1996 05:15:10 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4dcnsu$m5@digifix.digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site comp.sys.next newsgroups related newsgroups comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list ftp sites NeXTanswers Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site =============================================== This online community resource includes - 188+ ISV company pages - 433+ ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - NEXTSTEP User Group Directory - comp.sys.next archives - User Group information - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.stepwise.com/ Additionally there is a Mail Server available. 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Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.ethernet,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.networking,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.win95,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,de.comp.sys.next From: ipaschke@xlan.hil.de (Ingo Paschke) Subject: Re: Compex ENET32 PCI - SEEKING INFOS Message-ID: <DL7wM0.GM@xlan.hil.de> Keywords: Compex, ENET32, Ethernet, PCI Organization: private References: <4dcb5d$k69@sandmann.prz.tu-berlin.de> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 10:18:00 GMT Hi! wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolfram) writes: >I'm seeking infos about the following PCI ethernet card: > Compex ENET32 PCI/Combo >It seems that Compex has no Web site. >As far as I know it uses the Digital DEC21040 or DEC21041 chip. >Is this true? Yes. It has the DEC21040 Chip... >If yes, does anyone know whether the generic DEC2104x drivers >of: > - NEXTSTEP 3.3 (no hints in NeXTanswers found) The driver for this card can be found in NeXTanswer #2069: Driver Name / Installer .pkg: DECchip21040NetworkDriver.config Driver Type: Networking Driver Scope: Generic-Chipset Component Supported: 21040 Component Manufacturer: Digital PC Bus / Interface Supported by Driver*: PCI Runs like a charm with ftp-throughput > 800kb/sec. I think that this card has the best performance/price-ratio of all supported network-cards for Nextstep... > - Linux 1.2.x and/or 1.3.x (no hints in Ethernet HOWTO found) dunno, but the card runs fine with FreeBSD ;). >And is this card supported by > - Windows NT 3.51 Yes, they supply a driver for NT. Seems to run fine. > - Windows 95 Although I haven't tried, the card should be supported by Win95... >(e.g. via generic DEC2104x drivers?) as well or comes with drivers >for them? As a rule of thumb: Generic drivers for the DEC-Chipset work with the Compex-card. Compex supplies drivers for: dos (odi, mslanman, ndis2) os/2 (mslanman) netware (3.11, 3.12, 4.x) sco-unix windows (wfw 3.1, wfw 3.11, NT) Ciao, Ingo.
From: dimiter@zeus.phys.chemie.tu-muenchen.de (Dimiter Georgiev) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NSI instalation problem Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 14:16:51 GMT Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany) Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ddn8m$g0l@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de> Hallo NeXTSteppers ! I have troubles installing Nextstep 3.2 on Intel based PC. During the instalation there apears a Kernel Panc Exception. Please help with this. Any help will be appreshiated ! My configuration: ASUS T55XE board @120MHz NCR SCSI Controller EIDE Hard Drive NEC CDR 222 SCSI-2 CD Rom drive, (as dev 1 on the scsi, and as sc0 for NS) I got the SCSI device driver for the NCR adapter from the ASUStek ftp server. It was secified as NS3.3 driver but loaded succesfully. So i start with the instalation, load the SCSI driver from the aditional disk, go through partititioning menues, was asked on which disk i would like to have the NS instaled, (HD0). The inatalation starts copiing the boot, boot1 etc. files ... and interrupts sudently with the message: /private/tmp/mnta: bad dir into 12288 at offset 0: mangled entry mode=0101701, inum=12291,fs=/private/tmp/mnta panic: (Cpu 0) ialloc:dup alloc panic: NeXT Mach 3.2 : Mon Okt 18 22:08:07: PDT 1993; root(rcbuilder):mk-149.30.15.obj~2/RC_i386/RELEASE_I386 Kernel panic exception (6,3,1) Does anybody know what is the problem here? Is there an original SCSI device Driver for NCR controler for NS 3.2? Thanx for the help Dimiter --------------------------------------- Dimiter Georgiev dimiter@zeus.phys.chem.tu-muenchen.de
From: ugk9@rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Dennis Luemkemann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Q: NS & OS/2 Bootmanager Date: 15 Jan 1996 16:01:08 GMT Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany Message-ID: <4ddto4$q75@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-User: ugk9 Has anyone tried to install NextStep on a computer with DOS/Win on one partition and OS/2 on another one, with the OS/2 Bootmanager running? Can NS be installed on a secondary-IDE-channel-master-drive? (I wish I had never started this IDE business...) Pls reply via email. Ciao/2 Dennis -- Dennis Luemkemann *** eMail ugk9@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
From: Robert Worne <rworne@primenet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Emulator Question... Date: 15 Jan 1996 20:06:01 -0700 Organization: A Big Black Cube Sender: root@primenet.com Message-ID: <4df4mp$pvn@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> References: <4dc3u3$q3c@oracle.damerica.net> netvamp@community.net (Matthew Richmond) wrote: > Is there any way to play Mac CD-ROM games on a Color Slab? > Yes and no, if you have a Daydream box, you can, however there will be no sound capability. You also need a Mac CDROM hooked up as well, or get the FWB CDROM toolkit for the MacOS and use a 3rd party CDROM. I can run practically anything with my setup (mono cube w/Daydream). -- Robert Worne NeXT-OS/2-MacOS Starving CS Undergrad...Sorry, I don't *do* Windows! I'd rather starve... -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/P/S d-?>pu s+:+> a- C++$>++++ 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: Robert Mueller <rmueller@duchesse.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: DOS-emulators for NeXTStep Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 13:48:41 +0100 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960116134739.2254B-100000@duchesse.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hallo, I am looking for DOS-emulators for NeXTStep. In particular, this emulator should have the following features: a) it should have an API (Application Programmers Interface). In particular, it should be possible to tell the stupid emulator via API to launch a stupid DOS/Window-Programme (The Win-program by launching Windows from the emulator) b) If the DOS/Window-programm running on the DOS-emulator runs some network commands like telnet, it should be able to get net-access. Probably such a emulator does not exist, but may somebody knows an answer Any pointers to ftp/www-sites or companies are welcome Thank you very much in advance Robert Mueller rmueller@duchesse.zdv.uni-mainz.de
From: eugene@ottrmain.uah.ualberta.ca (Eugene Mah) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Printing w/ TI microLaser Pro 600 Date: 16 Jan 1996 22:43:19 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <4dh9m7$25o4@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Hi, I've got a TI microLaser Pro 600 attached to an Intel NEXTSTEP machine running 3.3 via the parallel port, and I'm running into some problems printing documents with graphics. The printer either doesn't spit anything out, or spits out a page saying ERROR: configurationerror OFFENDING COMMAND: setpagedevice STACK: I'm at a bit of a loss to figure this out. Printing from something like Edit or Terminal works fine. Simple text only pages print from OmniWeb, but printing something from Pages just completely stuffs up the printer. And if there are graphics involved, the darned printer takes forever to spit out a page. I've tried both the ppd files from the CD, and even downloaded the ppd's from Adobe's FTP site. According to the printer status report, it's supposed to be Adobe Postscript 2. I really just don't know what's going on here. Any suggestions would be greaty appreciated. Thanks Eugene Mah -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene Mah eugene@raddi.uah.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail) OTTR Systems Administrator "For I am a Bear of Very Little Liver Transplant Program Brain, and long words Bother University of Alberta Hospitals me." Winnie the Pooh Edmonton, Alberta, Canada http://raddi.uah.ualberta.ca/~eugene/
From: ascarsy@jever.cis.uni-muenchen.de (Guido Eiben) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: MusikKit and Soundblaster Date: 17 Jan 1996 00:30:45 GMT Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany) Distribution: world Message-ID: <4dhfvl$re@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de> Hi there, I have some problems making the MusicKit work. I can install ist ok, but when I start the MIDI player, there is no sound. Well, that's not much of a suprise if you look at the preferences. There You can choose one of the DSP and MIDI devices. Well, but for me there are no devices for choice. So I thought, maybe I gotta install a MIDI driver. But when I do this, it tells me a Interrupt (oops - yes I'm on Intel:) conflict with my soundcard. Well, that's because my soundcard is a Soundblaster AWE, which is MPU401 compatible. Does anybody have some installation hints for me? I got: 486DX/50 (running NeXTSTEP 3.3) Soundblaster AWE (MPU401) I try to install the MusicKit, so I can use the MIDI functionality of my soundcard. help is really appreciated. thanx -----guido (Ascarsy) -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Guido Eiben, Computer Scientist Ottobrunner Str. 15, 81737 Munich, Germany email: ascarsy@cis.uni-muenchen.de =========PGP=KEY==================================================== -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6 mQCNAjD45JAAAAEEALRQimgaciwJ2YI7hp6Q7rPiOFrOr2prp8rE/l+8g1aXc9bB LrnG4qq/ie3U/zVB0nmOkn2w8rYNgtsHOuPDeY+0i5oRhevqcxEatANrrIegz3DT JaapdaL4+dT+jt8EHrSsflYXaQP9+Ik50vb9HzOeQr3HKHn+yIpen1ESwbRJAAUR tDNHdWlkbyBFaWJlbiA8YXNjYXJzeUBqZXZlci5wcHAuY2lzLnVuaS1tdWVuY2hl bi5kZT4= =BuqR -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
From: edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Unable to print with JetPilot+HP DeskJet850C Date: 17 Jan 1996 00:31:45 +0100 Organization: University of Bergen Message-ID: <4dhch1$a9e@alf.uib.no> References: <4ckr1g$4rl@nuke.csu.net> <4d60o0$3jt@netty.york.ac.uk> Just a thought... At boot time (before NeXTStep starts) go into BIOS setup and confirm that the parelell port is indeed at the adresses specified in Configure, and that it is configured as a normal (not EPP or similar) parelell port. If everything is correct, I would begin suspecting a bad board or bad port... but then I'm not any expert... Regards, -- Thor Legvold | This is the strangest life NorNeXT User Group leader | I've ever known... University of Bergen | - Jim Morrison, The Doors Norway | edmtl@edb.uib.no (NeXTmail)
From: edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Need advice about Intel HW config Date: 16 Jan 1996 01:13:17 +0100 Organization: University of Bergen Message-ID: <4deqit$c6a@alf.uib.no> References: <DL2vK0.BH1@rivm.nl> <RDL.96Jan14192501@world.std.com> In article <RDL.96Jan14192501@world.std.com>, Robert La Ferla <rdl@world.std.com> wrote: >Don't get the Matrox. There have been problems with it and the 2940. This is interesting - what problems? I haven't seen any here on c.s.n.h. I own a Matrox and chose it over the Imagine based on posts here and magazine reviews and have been very satisfied with it - it seems to be an excellent graphics controller. What is a 2940? >You are better off with the Imagine 128. Also, the Sony 17SE is a great I own a Phillips 17A Brilliance - it too is a great monitor. Some prefer trinitron (SE version) ubes, but they cost much more. >monitor. The sound will work - in fact it supposed to be the best sound >system around. The Toshiba XM3601 (4.4X) or XM3701 (6.7X) are much better I see - then I'm disappointed as to NeXTs Intel sound support - it's good, but I think the cube was better (sigh...;-) >Robert La Ferla Regards, -- Thor Legvold | This is the strangest life NorNeXT User Group leader | I've ever known... University of Bergen | - Jim Morrison, The Doors Norway | edmtl@edb.uib.no (NeXTmail)
From: perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: SUMMARY: Backups: Time to move on after OD died Date: 17 Jan 1996 16:34:08 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <4dj8e0$193j@msunews.cl.msu.edu> I wanted to thank everybody for their comments regarding my query about backup mechanisms. I wanted to write a brief summary of what I heard and what I did. To recap, my problem was that my MOD died on my cube and I needed a new mechanism for backups. My needs are not severe. I require backups of an Intel with 1.5G of disk space and a cube that is basically a support server and doesn't have much in the way of backup needs. Quite a few people recommended DAT tape backups. Unfortunately for me, most of those systems cost $800 and up. Way out of my league and way overkill for my needs. Also mentioned were: Iomega Zip drives. These drives are cheap (around $200). They don't hold much data (100M) but are fast and random access (versus a tape). You can run applications off these drives. Media costs are about $20 per cartridge. Syquest EZ135 drives. These drives cost about the same as the zip drive but are faster and hold more (135M). Media costs are about the same as the zip drives. Further, these drives can use any SCSI ID while the zip drives are limited to ID 5 or 6. A new technology (that is not really well established yet) is the Jazz drive. These drives (will??) cost around $600. However, each cartridge holds 1 gig. I decided not to try them because they sounded too new. I'll wait for second generation. The Fujitsu DynaMO is a 3.5" MO. It holds around 230 M (for an approx $20 cartridge). However, the drive costs a bit more (around $500). When I asked about this drive I was told that it had a special controller card and required special drivers. Windows drivers were supplied. After hearing this, I decided not to even look further on this. However, further followup might show this to be an inaccurate statement. At least one person said they were using this disk but they didn't state if it was specifically on NeXTStep. For Software, all I know about is SafetyNet. However, after speaking with Brian at Systemix it appears that this application works best with tape drives and not Disks. Apparently, the appliacation would not do multi-volume backups properly with zip (or equavelent) drive. I opted not to purchase it but may reconsider. I decided to get the Syquest EZ135. I paid $220 (plus had to get a different SCSI cable for $15). The drive came with one cartridge and I ordered 2 more for $21 apiece. I plugged the drive in and it "just worked". The disks come preformatted with a Macintosh file system and the system brought it right up. I then reformatted to a NeXT file system and it shows 116M free. Now all I need to do is to figure out a good backup strategy that uses tar. If anybody has some good scripts, I would appreciate a copy! Thanks again to all those who responded! - Steve -- ============================================================== Stephen J. Perkins | mailto:perkins@cps.msu.edu Dept. of Comp. Science | NeXT, MIME, finger for PGP Michigan State University | NeXT OS 3.3 using PPP-2.3 NeXT PPP-2.2 info at http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
From: ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.text.tex Subject: L2e Installation on NeXTStep Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Date: 17 Jan 1996 18:51:05 GMT Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA Message-ID: <4djgep$lp@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> I have grabbed the L2e distribution from CTAN (ftp.shsu.edu, in the base directory), and proceeded to start the installation on my NS/FIP. (Oddly, I seem to have some previous distributions in both /usr/local/lib, and some in /NeXTLibrary/TeX, but I am making sure to replace new files in both for now.) I succeed running initex to unpack files, and putting files where they should be (except the .ist files; where do they belong?), but I fail at "GETTING a WORKING LaTeX. There seems to be no <system>.txt file for my system in the distribution. Trying $ latex ltxcheck.tex This is CTeX, NeXT Version 3.141 (ltxcheck.tex ! Undefined control sequence. l.77 \NeedsTeXFormat {LaTeX2e} ? Trying any other file gives me > latex draft.tex This is CTeX, NeXT Version 3.141 (draft.tex LaTeX Version 2.09 <25 March 1992> (/usr/lib/tex/inputs/article.sty ! Undefined control sequence. l.92 \NeedsTeXFormat {LaTeX2e} which is odd, because the files with "typeout{LaTeX Version 2.09 <25 March 1992>}" have been moved to be no longer accessible. It is almost as if this stuff is compiled already, but I do not know how to recompile it. What does one do here? /ivo welch --- Ivo Welch ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu Assoc Prof of Finance Anderson GSM at UCLA -- Ivo Welch ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu Assoc Prof of Finance Anderson GSM at UCLA
From: pbrown@asparagus.berkeley.edu (Paul Robert Brown) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: L2e Installation on NeXTStep Date: 17 Jan 1996 20:25:09 GMT Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department. Message-ID: <4djlv5$ac2@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <4djgep$lp@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> > [latex209 won't die...] It sounds like you need to remove your old latex 2.09 format file. (The one you compiled with initex once upon a time.) If the latex 209 compiled file is further down in the directory tree than the new latex.fmt or whatever it's called, then virtex will pick that one instead. Best, Paul
From: jacques.garbi@colombus.ch (Jacques Garbi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: pppd ran as daemon Date: 17 Jan 1996 21:34:12 GMT Organization: Colombus Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <4djq0k$1e7@news.petrel.ch> Company: Colombus Inc. Hi, Being recently connected to the Net through a leased line, I'd like to be able to start a PPP connection as soon as the computer is turned on. So far I used GateKeeper 1.0 to help me out through a dial-up connection, but it means I have to logged in first. Is there a way to automatically start a PPP connection (I need to login into my provider host with username and password for security reason) ? If the PPP connection fail at one time or another, will it affect other applications, or the system itself ? Is it possible to automatically restart a PPP negotiation (including username and password) if the PPP connection fail ? To retrieve my mail, so far I used PopOver.app. Is there any other app I could use ran as a daemon that would automatically and seamlessly retrieve my mail from a Pop server ? Thanks for all your help --- Jacques GARBI Colombus Inc. Av. de France 33 1004 Lausanne Switzerland Phone : 011 41 21 661 16 76 Fax : 011 41 21 661 16 73 NeXTMail or MIME : jacques.garbi@colombus.ch
From: perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: pppd ran as daemon Date: 18 Jan 1996 02:59:26 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Distribution: world Message-ID: <4dkd2e$rmr@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <4djq0k$1e7@news.petrel.ch> In <4djq0k$1e7@news.petrel.ch> Jacques Garbi wrote: > Is there a way to automatically start a PPP connection (I need to login into my > provider host with username and password for security reason) ? > If the PPP connection fail at one time or another, will it affect other > applications, or the system itself ? > Is it possible to automatically restart a PPP negotiation (including username > and password) if the PPP connection fail ? > To retrieve my mail, so far I used PopOver.app. Is there any other app I could > use ran as a daemon that would automatically and seamlessly retrieve my mail Hmmm... I believe that PopOver.app comes with a command line version that you can call from cron. Further, you can write a pppup script that will log you in using 'chat'. This could be placed in /etc/rc.local to start PPP when the system boots. Further, if you have an intel system, get the latest serial drivers. I believe they have a special device /dev/cudfa or /dev/cudfb that will enable the system to detect hangups. When you use these devices along with the 'persist' option, pppd will try to redial if it gets disconnected. Hope this helps. - Steve -- ============================================================== Stephen J. Perkins | mailto:perkins@cps.msu.edu Dept. of Comp. Science | NeXT, MIME, finger for PGP Michigan State University | NeXT OS 3.3 using PPP-2.3 NeXT PPP-2.2 info at http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
From: katzlbt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Thomas Katzlberger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: Re: There MUST be a way to use sz and rz with tip! Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Date: 18 Jan 1996 00:08:46 GMT Organization: a black NeXT Distribution: usa Message-ID: <4dk32e$q4o@news.vanderbilt.edu> References: <4d48m1$lmg@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> Adrian Silveanu (anomaly@expert.cc.purdue.edu) wrote: : Hello again, : I still haven't found a way to use sz and rz with tip. : Currently there is a method to use sz and rz with tip, except : it doesn't work for me and I don't know why. This method : was figured out by Eric K. Ringger (ringger@cs.rochester.edu): : 1. At remote shell prompt (%), do: : % sz foo.txt : 2. Escape back to tip. : 3. At tip prompt (?), do: : ? ~!rz < /def/cufa > /dev/cufa : This allows for rz to temporarily speak directly to the serial port : (/dev/cufa). You may need to replace the port name with /dev/cua, /dev/cub, : or /dev/cufb, depending on which one you use. : This also works when using kermit, as I usually do. : --------END OF METHOD----------- : Here is a little description of my computer: : Running NeXTStep for Intel v3.2 : I am using Mux drivers in order to use Com3 (or in NS Serial C). : The serial port has a high speed serial chip 16550. : Connected to the serial port is Purdue's DOV (Data Over Voice) : Unit. It isn't anything like ISDN. It is top data rate is 19200 Baud : (1920 cps). : The flow control used by the DOV is Xon/Xoff (Software) : So, is there any thing missing from the above method to : get it to work with tip? I know the above should be changed : to cuc or cufc and I know the difference between the two. My personal experience is that there is NO way to use tip with rz/sz tip just provides a ONE WAY pipe (as far as I saw when messing with the sourcecode) and rz/sz need a full-duplex connection to work. It is even a hard thing to test rz/sz on one host as you have to substitute a socket for one connection of and a pipe for the other. Maybe there were different versions of sz/rz but I never got one that was able to work half duplex. I ended up using uuencode and cat ! Then I switched to ppp. Cat. -- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ Thomas Katzlberger _/_/ _/_/ katzlbt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu _/_/ _/_/ @aWhiteNeXT.called.garfield _/_/ _/_/ http://www.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/~katzlbt/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish." _/_/ _/_/ UNIX man page for tunefs. _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
From: pierre@overlord.nova.org Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Q: NS & OS/2 Bootmanager Date: 18 Jan 1996 05:29:00 GMT Organization: Northern Virginia Internet Access Cooperative Message-ID: <4dklqs$54b@news.nova.org> On 01/15/96, Dennis Luemkemann wrote: >Has anyone tried to install NextStep on a computer with DOS/Win on one >partition and OS/2 on another one, with the OS/2 Bootmanager running? >Can NS be installed on a secondary-IDE-channel-master-drive? >(I wish I had never started this IDE business...) >Pls reply via email. >Dennis Luemkemann *** eMail ugk9@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de > Yes. My current config is SCSI Drive 1 400 MB DOS 600 MB NS 1 MB OS/2 Boot Manager SCSI Drive 2 1000 MB Nextstep SCSI Drive 3 500 MB OS/2 Warp (a FAT partition) As to your ide question, if NS is to be on the second IDE drive you will need a small nextstep partition on you first drive, to point to the second IDE for booting purposes. NeXTAnswers has a tech tip on how to do this. -- Thomas Piergallini 3Com Primary Access Network Engineer EMail: pierre@3com.com, pierre@nova.org Send me NeXTmail and MIME
From: dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: cmsg cancel <4dlbs9$jo@turbocat.snafu.de> Control: cancel <4dlbs9$jo@turbocat.snafu.de> Date: 18 Jan 1996 12:48:46 GMT Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany Message-ID: <4dlfje$qu@turbocat.snafu.de> cancel
From: ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: L2e Installation on NeXTStep Date: 18 Jan 1996 18:59:59 GMT Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA Message-ID: <4dm5bf$bbj@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> I am a step farther now. I used to invoke latex with tex \&lplain ltxcheck.tex but apparently, this is what screwed up my L2e installation. Instead, I seem to need to use tex \&latex ltccheck.tex I still get one error, but basically everything works now. Here is the error for those of you interested. ltxcheck now gives me >rticle.cls appears to be in current directory! > >If this is the case, install article.cls into a >`standard input directory' >and copy ltxcheck.tex to another directory before >processing with LaTeX. > >If article.cls is not in the current directory, >then you need to edit texsys.cfg. >Read the comments in that file. If nothing else works, add: >\let\@currdir\@empty > >! BAD: This file should not be run in a `standard input directory'. >\reserved@a ...ticleClassFoundInCurrentDirectory } > >l.221 {} although the article.cls style is not in my directory, and my TEXINPUTS variable is defined appropriately to point to it. /ivo welch -- Ivo Welch ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu Assoc Prof of Finance Anderson GSM at UCLA
From: ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: dc fonts on NS ? Date: 18 Jan 1996 19:11:38 GMT Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA Message-ID: <4dm61a$bbj@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> Has anyone installed the "dc fonts" that the Latex2e installation recommends? If so, where there any problems? /ivo welch -- Ivo Welch ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu Assoc Prof of Finance Anderson GSM at UCLA
From: mitroo@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Varun Mitroo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Need advice about Intel HW config Date: 19 Jan 1996 06:21:38 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <4dnd9i$sa5@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> References: <DL2vK0.BH1@rivm.nl> <RDL.96Jan14192501@world.std.com> In article <RDL.96Jan14192501@world.std.com>, Robert La Ferla <rdl@world.std.com> wrote: >Don't get the Matrox. There have been problems with it and the 2940. Let me restate the above comment: _YOU_ have had problems with the Matrox and the Adaptec 2940. I, and others, have not. In fact, both my video and SCSI have been rock solid under NEXTSTEP for the past 4 months with both the Matrox Millennium and the Adaptec 2940. Please qualify statements like this and give an explanation. Here's an example: the Diamond Stealth 64 and PCI versions of DPT cards don't work together. The Diamond Stealth 64 allocates a large portion of memory for its own bios, and this conflicts with the PCI DPT SCSI cards which can only use memory starting from c8000 for its bios. (The ISA and EISA DPT cards could be configured to use memory at d8000 and don't have this problem.) >You are better off with the Imagine 128. Yes, except for the fact that it is at least $100 more expensive, has slower memory transfer rates, and has significantly poorer performance under DOS. Oh, it also has slightly worse performance under Windows than the Matrox. There also are no options for 2 meg versions of the Imagine 128 which can be upgraded to the 4 or 8 meg versions like the Millennium. There are also no daughterboard options for the Imagine 128 like there are for the Millennium. So aside from the above facts, your observation is correct ;-). Varun > >Robert La Ferla >Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant >Boston, MA >Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 >Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 >E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com > >In article <DL2vK0.BH1@rivm.nl> sb6fb@sb636.rivm.nl (Francois Bourgeois) writes: > > From: sb6fb@sb636.rivm.nl (Francois Bourgeois) > Keywords: Intel hardware compatibility > Sender: news@rivm.nl > Reply-To: F.Bourgeois@rivm.nl > Organization: Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieuhygiene, Bilthoven, NL > > I am going to buy an Intel configuration for NEXTSTEP 3.3, also for > software development. I planned the configuration described below and I > would appreciate any comments and advice from you out there. > Questions are preceeded with 'Q:'. > > # Mainboard > Intel 'Endeavour' Advanced/EV, 4xPCI and 3xISA slots. Triton chipset, > AMI/iNTEL flashbios, Zif socket 7, 256 kB Pipelined Burst cache fixed on > board, on board 16-bits SoundBlaster chip. > Q: Any compatibility problems? > Q: Will the sound chip work with NEXTSTEP? > > # Processor: Intel Pentium 120 MHz > # RAM: 32 Mb (not EDO) > # SCSI controller > Adaptec AHA-2940 PCI-to-Fast SCSI (SCSI-2). I am not sure Wide SCSI is > worth the price and I heard you'll have to use different cables and > connectors (?). Besides, I already have this adapter. > > # Floppy drive: 1.44 Mb Sony > # Disk > HP C3725 SureStore 2000LP 2.1 Gb Fast SCSI-2. Just because the shop > supplies this one. I heard it is a 5400 rpm disk and know it's not > leading edge technology. I thought about a 4 Gb (Quantum) disk but some > people say you have to be very careful cooling it properly and besides: > 2 Gb seems enough for now. > Q: Should I pay more and get a Qantum Atlas (or others) ? > > # Video > I haven't decided about: > = Number Nine 128 bits Imagine 4Mb RAM, or: > = Matrox Millennium 4 Mb WRAM > Think I prefer the Number Nine. The price difference here in the > Netherlands (at least in the shop I know) is about $125. > Q: Does anybody know the performance difference between these two? > > # Monitor > Must be 17". I saw some good 20" en 21" ones but the price difference is > huge. Lots of options in 17" ones of course, but I listed: > = Philips Brilliance 17A > = Samsung SyncMaster GLi > = Iiyama MF 8617A Vision Master (.26dp) > Because I already have worked with it (very satisfied) I prefer the > Philips, although it will be probably $150-$200 more expensive than the > others. > > # Tape: Sony SDT-5000, 4-16 Gb DDS-2 > # CD-ROM: Sony quadra speed CDU-76S (SCSI) > > Any comments are welcome. > -- > RIVM - National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection > Francois Bourgeois, postbak 15 | e-mail: F.Bourgeois@rivm.nl > Risk Assessment Division | NeXTmail & MIME is OK > P.O.Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven | voice : +31 30 2742962 > The Netherlands | fax : +31 30 2280174 >
From: sugee@imap2.asu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Contacting PLI - Peripheral Land Incorporated? Date: 19 Jan 1996 00:40:21 GMT Organization: Arizona State University Message-ID: <4dmp9l$8gp@news.asu.edu> Keywords: Computer Hardware & Peripherals Does anyone have any information that would help me to contact PLI or Peripheral Land Incorporated. Telephone numbers, fax numbers, or E-mail information would be dearly appreciated. I have a CD-ROM made by them, but can't reach them through the older numbers they have listed. Thank you for any help. Have a wonderful week! Regards, Sue
From: godwin@unixg.ubc.ca (Godwin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Contacting PLI - Peripheral Land Incorporated? Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 08:36:53 GMT Organization: Black Fish Soft Message-ID: <4dnk9p$8lb@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> References: <4dmp9l$8gp@news.asu.edu> sugee@imap2.asu.edu wrote: > Does anyone have any information that would help me to contact >PLI or Peripheral Land Incorporated. Telephone numbers, fax numbers, or >E-mail information would be dearly appreciated. I have a CD-ROM made by >them, but can't reach them through the older numbers they have listed. > Thank you for any help. Have a wonderful week! Try Plextor I think they changed names a while back. >Regards, >Sue #include <Standard_Disclamer_Blah_Blah_Blah.h> Godwin Membership Affairs Chair of Vancouver Regional Freenet. Chair, Sierra Club (BC) OnLine Services Commitee. It's funny how we feel so much.... cannot say a word... We are screaming inside and can't be heard. - Sarah McLachlan
From: antoine.gautier@fsa.ulaval.ca (Antoine Gautier) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.text.tex Subject: Re: L2e Installation on NeXTStep Date: 19 Jan 1996 16:31:53 GMT Organization: Universite Laval Message-ID: <4doh1p$c4s@athena.ulaval.ca> References: <4djgep$lp@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) wrote: ..... > should be (except the .ist files; where do they belong?), but I fail at > "GETTING a WORKING LaTeX. There seems to be no <system>.txt file for my > system in the distribution. Trying > $ latex ltxcheck.tex > This is CTeX, NeXT Version 3.141 Seems to me you have to say "tex ltxcheck.tex" instead of "latex ... ". Makes sense, when installing latex. I have installed l2e several times on NS without problems. A. Gautier.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: scott@ee.ucla.edu (Ryan Scott) Subject: Re: Contacting PLI - Peripheral Land Incorporated? Sender: news@seas.ucla.edu (News Daemon) Message-ID: <DLFwEG.Jso@seas.ucla.edu> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 17:54:16 GMT To: sugee@imap2.asu.edu References: <4dmp9l$8gp@news.asu.edu> Organization: UCLA, Department of Electrical Engineering Keywords: Computer Hardware & Peripherals In article <4dmp9l$8gp@news.asu.edu>, sugee@imap2.asu.edu writes: |> Does anyone have any information that would help me to contact |> PLI or Peripheral Land Incorporated. Telephone numbers, fax numbers, or |> E-mail information would be dearly appreciated. I have a CD-ROM made by |> them, but can't reach them through the older numbers they have listed. |> Thank you for any help. Have a wonderful week! |> |> Regards, |> Sue |> |> Here is some info to try: Phone: (800)288-8754 (1994) Fax: (510) 683-9713 (1993) Service Phone: (800)517-6466 (1995) The years are the last time I actually called these numbers. I am not sure if they are still current. Hope this helps. Ryan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: "Eric K. Ringger" <ringger@cs.rochester.edu> Subject: Re: Do you know how to use rz and sz with tip? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Jan 1996 19:20:18 EST." <199601120020.TAA03035@expert.cc.purdue.edu> Message-ID: <199601192044.PAA27282@slate.cs.rochester.edu> Sender: ringger@cs.rochester.edu (Eric K. Ringger) Cc: comp.sys.next.misc, ringger Organization: University of Rochester Computer Science Dept Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 15:44:01 -0500 Hi. Let me make a final attempt to clarify what it takes to let tip work with sz and rz. Below is a message from Dick Silbar, who had the same question in 1993, and who explained his working solution. The comment about "going to local command mode with '~$'" combined with my earlier suggestion (repeated in Dick's message) appear to be the relevant magic. Good luck. --Eric ------------------------ Begin Forwarded Message ------------------------ >From: silbar@cantina.lanl.gov (Dick Silbar)Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: how to sz with tip? -- INTERIM REPORT (long) Date: 17 Nov 1993 19:09:32 -0600 Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway NNTP-Posting-Host: news.cs.utexas.edu Re: how to sz with tip? -- INTERIM REPORT (long) In comp.sys.next.misc article <9311122306.AA07647@cantina.lanl.gov> I wrote: > Probably about as naive a question as I can imagine, but how do you > use zmodem with tip? Simply typing 'sz foobar' at the remote machine does > not initiate rz on the local machine (as I was hoping). > > I thought I ought to be able to pipe the output to the local > machine with '~|rz', but csh then complains I don't have permission. > Escaping to a shell on the local machine with '~!' and typing 'rz' > also doesn't work, as I can't get back. > > So, stymied for simple things... Thanks in advance. Well, many people replied. Most folks' suggestions actually didn't solve my problem about how to transfer (large) binary files over a ZyXel modem to the standalone machine that I am now presently working on. However, Eric Ringger <ringger@cs.rochester.edu> did show me a way that, while not exactly elegant, works just fine. More on his solution in a bit... Several people suggested that I needed to use a 'rz -1' after going to local command mode with '~$' (not '~!'). [The list included sali@tammy.harvard.edu <Andrej>, robert@steffi.demon.co.uk, and scott hess <scott@nic.gac.edu>.] These remarks also said there should be a .tiprc file in the home directory which contains SHELL=/bin/sh rc=^+ <--- what does THIS do? and also mentioned calling 'sz -1 filename' to start it. The -1 option has to do with choosing file descriptor 1 for the ioctls and reads instead of 0. (Please don't ask me what that last sentence means -- I just read it in the man page.) That didn't work for me because the sz and rz I have on my machines don't support that option. These versions are circa 1989; I got them from the ORST archive (/pub/next/sources/comm/NeXT.rzsz0525.FAT.README and associated tar.Z file, I believe). Jason Fosback <jfosback@darkwing.uoregon.edu>, who put them there, thought the '-1' option was in fact present, but the executables simply bomb out with it present. So I went to look for a more recent version of zmodem, finding one on ftp.uu.net. I haven't been able to compile this version yet, however. (On an NS/Intel machine, in case that makes any difference.) [It seems unable to find an include file of some sort, but comparing the old and new codes, I can't see just where that happens.] So, I've been so far unsuccessful in getting a rz that can take a -1 option. Some others, notably Michal Jaegermann (yes, Christian, I HAVE spelled his name correctly!), suggested using tipx, which has zmodem built in. Or, Pedja Bogdanovich's TipTop -- ditto, and a shareware bargain. With both, so far, for reasons I haven't understood yet, things just haven't worked for me, despite Peter Kron's remark that, with TipTop, "zmodem is a no-brainer". Somehow I'm not getting the "magic header" sent back and forth over the phone line between the two machines. Yet others suggested using Kermit. Yes, I tried that too. (There is a compiled version of Kermit for NS/Intel machines on the ftp.cc.columbia.edu archive.) The problem here seems to be that I can transfer an ASCII file fine, using 'send foobar' and escaping back to give the 'receive' command. But, it is VERY SLOW. (Jim Redman tells me that is because of the MMP protocol the ZyXels use interfering with the block size used by kermit, but I'm not sure I understand that statement exactly.) However, trying to use Kermit for binary files, even when I 'set file type binary', the 'receive' command just gave me about 12 'N' characters and then quit, saying "Too many NAK's". Somehow it ain't supposed to work that way, but I haven't understood yet why not. Kermit in ASCII mode CAN actually solve the problem of sending large binary files. All one needs to do is uuencode them (which makes them even larger). Thus, for example, sending over the Mesa spreadsheet demo.tar file (4.5 MB or so) was done successfully this way last Saturday night. It only took from 8:00 PM to 1:30 AM, but it check-summed out fine. Thankfully, it was only a local call. Finally, back to Eric Ringger's suggestion, which I quote without permission: I'm not completely familiar with 'tip', but perhaps I can offer some help. I use 'kermit' quite frequently. Kermit allows you to escape back to your local Kermit prompt (similar to Telnet) and to access the shell below using the common '!' prefix. Once I have executed 'sz' on the remote host, I can escape back to Kermit and execute the following command: !rz </dev/cufa >/dev/cufa My version of 'rz' requires easy access to the serial port across which the data is coming (in this case /dev/cufa). Perhaps a similar sequence of steps will work for you. This works just fine, except that in my case I had assigned ttya instead of cufa. (It seems preferable to use the hardware flow control in the modem, so I will soon change the .kermrc to /dev/cufa.) After the fact, of course, I finally understand an additional remark made by Michal earlier: From what I hear, some variants of sz/rz will read/write stdin/stdout, and some won't (like mine, for example). So this redirection stuff may work for some people, but not for you. PENULTIMATE LINE: it shouldn't have been this hard to figure out, but... BOTTOM LINE: it works this way. Thanks to all who have helped me on this! Dick Silbar ------------------------ End Forwarded Message ------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Subject: Re: Need advice about Intel HW config In-Reply-To: mitroo@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu's message of 19 Jan 1996 06:21:38 GMT Message-ID: <RDL.96Jan19154940@world.std.com> Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <DL2vK0.BH1@rivm.nl> <RDL.96Jan14192501@world.std.com> <4dnd9i$sa5@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 20:49:40 GMT Admittedly, I am no Matrox expert since I have never used one much like you are no expert when it comes to manners. Robert From: Joe Freeman <Joe@FreemanSoft.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Asus settings/SCSI not found problem Date: Sun, 07 Jan 1996 20:02:17 -0500 Organization: FreemanSoft Inc. To: robert@steffi.accessone.com > I'm guessing but try swapping the slots of the Adaptec and the video > card. > > At least check that they are slotted in correctly. Matrox and Adaptec > have been problematic and in some cases swapping the order of the PCI > cards helped. > > -- > "For I am Costanza, lord of the Idiots" > (PGP key: send email with Subject: request pgp key) -- FreemanSoft Inc. NEXTSTEP, OPENSTEP and WebObjects Now located somewhere in the Peoples Republic of Maryland Matrox Millenium Video card, 2M ram $300 NCA (they price matched another local dealer, their number is in any major computer mag) This card has the fastest video I've seen under NeXTstep, though I have what seems to be a temperature related VRAM glitch as it warms up. NCA was good about replacing the first card with the problem. The new one shows the same symptoms, though the problem manifests itself at a different rate; the first one cured itself after about 10 minutes, this one cures itself after a resolution change (or reboot). Time to call matrox! In article <4dnd9i$sa5@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> mitroo@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Varun Mitroo) writes: From: mitroo@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Varun Mitroo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Date: 19 Jan 1996 06:21:38 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University In article <RDL.96Jan14192501@world.std.com>, Robert La Ferla <rdl@world.std.com> wrote: >Don't get the Matrox. There have been problems with it and the 2940. Let me restate the above comment: _YOU_ have had problems with the Matrox and the Adaptec 2940. I, and others, have not. In fact, both my video and SCSI have been rock solid under NEXTSTEP for the past 4 months with both the Matrox Millennium and the Adaptec 2940. Please qualify statements like this and give an explanation. Here's an example: the Diamond Stealth 64 and PCI versions of DPT cards don't work together. The Diamond Stealth 64 allocates a large portion of memory for its own bios, and this conflicts with the PCI DPT SCSI cards which can only use memory starting from c8000 for its bios. (The ISA and EISA DPT cards could be configured to use memory at d8000 and don't have this problem.) >You are better off with the Imagine 128. Yes, except for the fact that it is at least $100 more expensive, has slower memory transfer rates, and has significantly poorer performance under DOS. Oh, it also has slightly worse performance under Windows than the Matrox. There also are no options for 2 meg versions of the Imagine 128 which can be upgraded to the 4 or 8 meg versions like the Millennium. There are also no daughterboard options for the Imagine 128 like there are for the Millennium. So aside from the above facts, your observation is correct ;-). Varun
From: zachary@willis.cis.uab.edu (John Zachary) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: NS3.3 for sale Date: 19 Jan 1996 15:40:09 -0600 Organization: Dept of CIS, Univ. of Al at Birmingham Message-ID: <4dp33p$mp2@dave.cis.uab.edu> I would like to sell the following: NS 3.3 Academic Bundle (includes Developer Tools and EOF) (I can provide the EIDE drivers and Stealth64 drivers) _Developing_NeXTstep_Applications_ by Backlin _NeXTStep_Development_Tools_and_Techniques_ Make offer. Respond to zachary@cis.uab.edu -John -- John M. Zachary <A HREF="http://www.cis.uab.edu/info/grads/jmz/be.html">Unofficial Be Page</A>
From: dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Will NS 4.0 support ISDN? Date: 19 Jan 1996 11:44:22 GMT Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany Message-ID: <4do06m$9g@turbocat.snafu.de> Hi! Will OpenStep for Mach support ISDN on Intel hardware? Are there any ISDN tool available for Intel (3.3) jet? PhoneConnector (mentioned in /etc/rc) is not on my disk. Thanks. _ _ _(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development, (_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG, _/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152 (______) dave@turbocat.snafu.de (NeXTMail)
From: gq (G. Quinonez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: kermit and volume control Date: 20 Jan 1996 19:18:59 GMT Organization: University of California, Los Angeles Message-ID: <4drf73$c0a@saba.info.ucla.edu> Can anyone tell me how I can lower or turn off the volume of my modem using kermit. I am using a USR 28.8 internal with the latest version of kermit and the latest version of ppp. Thank you gerry quinonez@ucla.edu (NeXTMail welcome)
From: wjabi@umich.edu (Wassim M. Jabi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: SUBMISSION: New Version (0.6) of WebMapper Date: 21 Jan 1996 02:45:05 GMT Organization: University of Michigan Message-ID: <4ds9bh$f9m@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> URL: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wjabi/ Hi: I just finished fixing a few bugs in WebMapper. The latest version (0.6 - January 20, 1996) can be found on http://libra.caup.umich.edu/Software/ I'm working on and off on it so, you might want check back in a week or two for a new version. I'll announce a newer version when I get polygons to work. Do not use Netsurfer to download it. It chokes on it. Instead, use OmniWeb (1.x or 2.x Beta). Please read the README file first. Here is an excerpt: What is new? v 0.6 Now should run on NEXSTEP version 3.2 and 3.3. v 0.6 On-line help. v 0.6 Does not crash if file contains a single # on a line by itself. v 0.6 Background image displayed when pathname typed in Inspector. v 0.6 Some Code cleanup. What is WebMapper? WebMapper is an application that allows one to create clickable imagemaps for a World-Wide Web server (NCSA and CERN so f#################################################################### Path: news.informatik.uni-muenchen.de!lrz-muenchen.de!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!Germany.EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!newstf01.news.aol.com!newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: mustreboot@aol.com (MustReboot) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Can someone with a NeXT, please assist Date: 21 Jan 1996 06:55:07 -0500 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Lines: 25 Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <4dt9ir$mrv@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Reply-To: mustreboot@aol.com (MustReboot) I don't have a NeXt I only have a mac If you could can you convert these to a mac format like eps or mac tiff or gif and send it to me or post them at an ftp site, I'll go get them. I have had absolutely no luck in converting them. I would really really appreciate it. The following files are located in the FTP sites, Peanuts and CS.ORST.EDU in the graphics/icons or misc/icons directory. DirIcons.tar.z Sp_Icons.tar.z Icons.tiff.tar.z They appear to be an extensive collection of the NeXtstep Icons from the black platform. Or if you have an extensive collection of NeXTstep Icons this also would work. The ones posted in mac sites are awful, pixelated, low res images, they look like some one scanned them with a fax machine and do no justice the elegance of NeXTstep. If you can send them to me or post them on an FTP site I would come get them. Just tell me where. Again thanks for all you help if you could help, they relativly small files it would take anyone all of 10 mins, but I would really appreciate it. Mike McKinney
From: Edwin TAM <edwintam@hkstar.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: PPP-2.2 client to NT ppp server ? Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 16:07:47 +0800 Organization: Unorganized Message-ID: <3101F453.E7E@hkstar.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I just installed the NeXT-PPP-2.2 and got successfully connected to all of my ISP providing UNIX style logins. However, I am not able to connect to a Windows/NT ppp server which is set to use Authentiation (i.e. without any UNIX like login prompts). Both the MacPPP and Windows95 client connect perfectly on that NT server, but not the NeXT-PPP. I read the ReadME, FAQ but nothing is mention against a Win/NT server. I suppose there is a twist somewhere, could anybody point me the light ? Many thanks, Edwin -- #include <stddisclaimer.h> #ifdef 0 I am speaking for myself and myself only, my company or my Nation might not necessary agree with what I said but "I don't give a damn!" This is my rights. #endif
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Accessing CD-ROM from other systems on network Message-ID: <1996Jan21.121702.1362@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <4d6otg$re5@moons.corp.es.com> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 12:17:02 GMT In article <4d6otg$re5@moons.corp.es.com> panzitta@moons.corp.es.com (Mike Panzitta) writes: > I have two NeXTcubes, one with a CD-ROM drive. They access one > another via NFS through the /Net directory. However, when I > automount a CD-ROM on the one machine, I cannot access it from > the other (unless I get in and try to change /exports, blah blah > blah...a real pain). Is there any easier way of doing this? > The same problem would exist for floppies, too, but since both > machines have floppy drives.... > No way as long as you want to use automounting. If you mount the CD by hand to a known mount point all's well. Just one of the cases where you can't keep the cake and eat it simultaneously ;-) -- 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 | pgp, MIME, NeXTmail # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: wjabi@umich.edu (Wassim M. Jabi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: SUBMISSION: New Version (0.6) of WebMapper Date: 21 Jan 1996 22:39:40 GMT Organization: University of Michigan Message-ID: <4dufbc$bdg@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> URL: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wjabi/ Thanks to Steve Hayman, a bug has been fixed in WebMapper. You can download the latest version (0.6 January 21, 1996) from: http://libra.caup.umich.edu/Software/ >-- >Wassim M. Jabi >Doctoral Program in Architecture >University of Michigan >2000 Bonisteel Blvd >Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2069 >wjabi@umich.edu (Text/MIME/NeXTMail) >http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wjabi/ -- Wassim M. Jabi Doctoral Program in Architecture University of Michigan 2000 Bonisteel Blvd Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2069 wjabi@umich.edu (Text/MIME/NeXTMail) http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wjabi/
From: wjabi@umich.edu (Wassim M. Jabi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: SUBMISSION: New Version (0.6) of WebMapper Date: 21 Jan 1996 22:48:33 GMT Organization: University of Michigan Message-ID: <4dufs1$bdg@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> URL: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wjabi/ One more thing: You should now be able to use any Web browser to download the software. The directory contains the following: WebMapper.README.rtf WebMapper.pkg.0.6.tar.gz (Quad-Binary ~ 3MBytes) WebMapper.app.0.6.N.tar.gz (Motorola binary ~500KBytes) WebMapper.app.0.6.I.tar.gz (Intel binary ~500KBytes) WebMapper.app.0.6.H.tar.gz (HP-PA binary ~500KBytes) WebMapper.app.0.6.S.tar.gz (SPARC binary ~500KBytes) The location is: http://libra.caup.umich.edu/Software/ -- Wassim M. Jabi Doctoral Program in Architecture University of Michigan 2000 Bonisteel Blvd Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2069 wjabi@umich.edu (Text/MIME/NeXTMail) http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wjabi/
From: john@ablecom.net (John Stytz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: SUMMARY: Backups: Time to move on after OD died Date: 21 Jan 1996 23:49:45 GMT Organization: Able Technical Services Message-ID: <4dujep$hbu@srv1.sj.ablecom.net> On 01/17/96, Stephen J. Perkins wrote: >I wanted to thank everybody for their comments regarding my query >about backup mechanisms. [snip] >The Fujitsu DynaMO is a 3.5" MO. It holds around 230 M (for an approx >$20 cartridge). However, the drive costs a bit more (around $500). >When I asked about this drive I was told that it had a special >controller card and required special drivers. Windows drivers were >supplied. After hearing this, I decided not to even look further on >this. However, further followup might show this to be an inaccurate >statement. At least one person said they were using this disk but >they didn't state if it was specifically on NeXTStep. > [snip] >- Steve > >-- >============================================================== >Stephen J. Perkins | mailto:perkins@cps.msu.edu >Dept. of Comp. Science | NeXT, MIME, finger for PGP >Michigan State University | NeXT OS 3.3 using PPP-2.3 > NeXT PPP-2.2 info at http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/ > > Hi Stephen, ust wanted to add my 2 cents worth concerning the 230MO drive. I am using a Fujitsu DynaMO 230MO drive, both on white and black hardware. It requires absolutely no drivers or configuration and is recognized by Next right out of the box. A custom disktab entry is ideal to get mode inodes than /etc/disk provides (which I've included at the end of this post, with thanks to Willem van Schaik), but is not required. It can format/read/write both Next and Mac filesystems, and can read/write DOS filesystems. In short, I can't image life without mine (I've had it about a week). ___________________________________ From: GWILLEM@alpha.ntu.ac.sg (Van Schaik Willem Anthon Johan ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: SOLUTION: more I-nodes on Fujitsu MO 230Mb Organization: Nanyang Technological University Hi, Here is the solution I promised for creating more I-nodes on a Fujitsu MO2412A type MO-drive. You can either include an additional entry in your disktab, or initialize the disks manually. Bye, Willem Formatting and initializing FUJITSU MO2512A --------------------------------------------- /etc/disktab entry: # # Magneto Optical removable SCSI drives # m2512a|M2512A|FUJITSU M2512A|Fujitsu M2512A:\ :ty=removable_rw_scsi:nc#80:nt#2:ns#1394:ss#1024:rm#3600:\ :fp#160:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\ :os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:ro=a:rw=b:\ :pa#0:sa#223002:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#2:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\ :ia:aa:ta=4.3BSD: --------------------------------------------- what WorkSpace Initialize does: /usr/etc/disk -i -h localhost -l "Removable" /dev/rsd2a disk name: FUJITSU M2512A disk type: removable_rw_scsi writing disk label Writing /usr/standalone/boot creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd2a /usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd2a /etc/mkfs /dev/rsd2a 223002 1394 2 8192 1024 2 10 60 4096 t Warning: 38 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated /dev/rsd2a: 223002 sectors in 80 cylinders of 2 tracks, 1394 sectors 228.4Mb in 40 cyl groups (2 c/g, 5.71Mb/g, 1344 i/g) super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at: 16, 6992, 11168, 18144, 22320, 29296, 33472, 40448, 44624, 51600, 55776, 62752, 66928, 73904, 78080, 85056, 89232, 96208, 100384, 107360, 111536, 118512, 122688, 129664, 133840, 140816, 144992, 151968, 156144, 163120, 167296, 174272, 178448, 185424, 189600, 196576, 200752, 207728, 211904, 218880, initialization complete --------------------------------------------- using /etc/disk: disk -F /dev/rsd2a disk -i -l "Removable" /dev/rsd2a disk -e /dev/rsd2a --------------------------------------------- manual step-by-step solution (when no /etc/disktab entry): disk -F /dev/rsd2a disk -L "Removable" /dev/rsd2a /usr/etc/newfs -n -v -c 2 -m 10 /dev/rsd2a or: (-c 2 is for number of cylinders per group) /etc/mkfs /dev/rsd2a 223002 1394 2 8192 1024 2 10 60 4096 t fsck /dev/sd2a disk -e /dev/rsd2a ---------------------------------------------- localhost:1# disk /dev/rsd2a disk name: FUJITSU M2512A disk type: removable_rw_scsi Disk utility disk> label label information: print, write? p current label information on disk: disk label version #3 disk label: Removable disk name: FUJITSU M2512A-512 disk type: removable_rw_scsi ncyls 80 ntrack 2 nsect 1394 rpm 3600 sector_size 1024 front_porch 160 back_porch 0 ngroups 0 ag_size 0 ag_alts 0 ag_off 0 boot blocks: #1 at 32 #2 at 96 bootfile: sdmach host name: localhost root partition: a read/write partition: b part base size bsize fsize cpg density minfree newfs optim automount type a 0 223002 8192 1024 16 4096 10% yes time yes 4.3BSD disk> eject disk> quit ---------------------------------------------- /etc/mkfs /dev/rsd2a 223002 1394 2 8192 1024 2 10 60 4096 t t = time optimization 4096 = nbpi 60 = rps 10 = minfree 2 = ncpg 1024 = fragsize 8192 = blksize 2 = ntrack 1394 = nsect 223002 = special size The optional arguments allow fine tune control over the parameters of the file system: nsect specify the number of sectors per track on the disk. ntrack specify the number of tracks per cylinder on the disk. blksize gives the primary block size for files on the file system. It must be a power of two, currently selected from 4096 or 8192. fragsize gives the fragment size for files on the file system. The fragsize represents the smallest amount of disk space that will be allocated to a file. It must be a power of two currently selected from the range 512 to 8192. ncpg specifies the number of disk cylinders per cylinder group. This number must be in the range 1 to 32. minfree specifies the minimum percentage of free disk space allowed. Once the file system capacity reaches this threshold, only the super-user is allowed to allocate disk blocks. The default value is 10%. If a disk does not revolve at 60 revolutions per second, the rps parameter may be specified. If a file system will have more or less than the average number of files the nbpi (number of bytes per inode) can be specified to increase or decrease the number of inodes that are created. Space or time optimization preference can be specified with opt values of ``s'' for space or ``t'' for time. ---------------------------------------------- W i l l e m v a n S c h a i k ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- Gintic - Singapore gwillem@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg -- John Stytz john@ablecom.net, NeXTmail welcome
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: 22 Jan 1996 05:15:11 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4dv6gv$7oi@digifix.digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site comp.sys.next newsgroups related newsgroups comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list ftp sites NeXTanswers Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site =============================================== This online community resource includes - 188+ ISV company pages - 433+ 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 Computer, Inc. WWW site ============================ http://www.next.com comp.sys.next.* newsgroups ========================== news:comp.sys.next.advocacy This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. news:comp.sys.next.announce Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. Archives are available by ftp at ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. news:comp.sys.next.bugs A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT- specific groups as well. news:comp.sys.next.hardware Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. news:comp.sys.next.marketplace NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. news:comp.sys.next.misc For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! news:comp.sys.next.programmer Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. news:comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. news:comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. Related Newsgroups ================== news:comp.soft-sys.nextstep Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. news:comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. news:comp.object Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. Getting the Newsgroups without getting News =========================================== Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are now available as a mailing list digest as well. next-nextstep-d next-advocacy-d next-announce-d next-bugs-d next-hardware-d next-marketplace-d next-misc-d next-programmer-d next-software-d next-sysadmin-d (For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to <digestif@antigone.com>). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's. 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From: gq (G. Quinonez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Copying DOS download file to DOS formatted disk under NS3.3 Date: 22 Jan 1996 06:40:48 GMT Organization: University of California, Los Angeles Message-ID: <4dvbhg$p36@saba.info.ucla.edu> Hello everyone. Ive been getting a message that reads: File error for /diamond/gtw.exe: Invalid argument Diamond is the name of the DOS formatted disk under NSFIP. I formatted this diskette with the workspace manager using initialize and named it Diamond. The file that I downloaded(using OmniWEB beta 2) from the net was a DOS executable file called GTW.EXE and initially opens as ascii file using Edit.app. Then I try to use "save as" from the Edit menu and try to save it to the diskette and I get the message as above. Then, I saved the file to the hard drive, and tried to drag it to the DOS diskette and I got the Processes panel and said again... File error for /diamond/gtw.exe: Invalid argument Then STOP and Proceed buttons appear. I choose stop of course. Can anyone show me the correct way to download a DOS or Mac file in NeXTStep3.3 FIP and save it to a respectively formatted disk under NeXT. Thanks to whoever responds. Please email to my address quinonez@ucla.edu ==================================================== G. Quinonez NeXTStep 3.3 FIP __ "I'm not sure we understand everything /\__/\ we know about this." \/__\/ Charles M. Abernathy, Sr. ==================================================== NeXTMail/MIME: quinonez@ucla.edu (preferred) Plain text only: gquinonez@medstudent.medsch.ucla.edu MIME & Plain text: gquinonez@mem.po.com ====================================================
From: Dan Nichols <dan@kypris.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Dialing into Black hardware from Windows95??? Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 11:10:08 -0600 Organization: Bell Northern Research Message-ID: <3103C4F0.4A9D@kypris.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Can anyone possibly help me? I would like to be able to dial-in to my NeXT (Turbo color Station) from Windows95. I've setup the getty correctly (according to the manuals) and have a 28800 modem on both ends. When I dialin, using hyperTerminal, for example, the connection is made, but I get a bunch of garbage spit out to the Windows95 terminal and immediate disconnect. Can anyone tell me what to change, look at, etc. to be able to do this? Thanks, Dan -- Daniel A. Nichols Voice: (214) 790-7255 2905 Lawrence St. Fax: (214) 790-2950 Irving TX 75061-6645 Email: dan@kypris.com LP 40,45,64 NeXTMail welcome! Web:<http://rampages.onramp.net/~dan>
From: chin@bznet.com (Bill Chin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Will NS 4.0 support ISDN? Date: 22 Jan 1996 22:50:30 GMT Organization: BIZNET Internet Services Message-ID: <4e14bm$fjd@HAL.bznet.com> References: <4do06m$9g@turbocat.snafu.de> dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel) wrote: >Will OpenStep for Mach support ISDN on Intel hardware? The big question is, why? The most efficient means of hooking up ISDN to workstation is through the ethernet card... the workstation works with packets as big as 1524 bytes at a time, instead of one bit at a time through the serial port. We just started using Ascend Pipeline 25's with our NEXTSTEP boxes and it works like a charm. They were $620 US each (with built in NT1) and with one on each side, it bridged over two 64kbps B channels with MPP. There are additional options including routing, STAC compression, etc. and competing products. The price range is typically $600-$1500. Most cheaper units can interface over the serial line and behave like a modem... AT strings and all. So you should be able to use a Motorola Bitsurfer (~$275 US) or equivalent on any NEXTSTEP release on any NEXTSTEP capable machine. However, 128kbps is a pretty hefty interrupt load on the machine... I would guess that at best you can do 57.6kbps. Of course, with a NeXT machine and TTYDSP + PNI, one can do 115kbps or so with a moderate amount of CPU utilization. The only un-supported items are the ISDN cards that have their own communications protocol - which I would tend to avoid like the plague. While they may have better throughput than the serial only variety, they are proprietary - instead of bugging NeXT, bug the vendor to either a) present a standard for communications b) write their own driver for NEXTSTEP. If NeXT isn't forthcoming with DriverKit information, then bug NeXT. Even Microsoft doesn't write all their own Windows drivers. I'm wondering if NeXT is working on EPP/ECP/bi-directional parallel port drivers that allow tty support so that one can talk to a parallel port modem or ISDN adapter at a decent rate (at least it's 8 bits at a time and with EPP and ECP, reduced overhead) -- Bill Chin - chin@bznet.com - NeXTmail welcomed
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: gerald@kurt.in-berlin.de (Gerald Erdmann) Subject: Re: Will NS 4.0 support ISDN? Message-ID: <1996Jan22.134118.1023@kurt.in-berlin.de> Sender: news@kurt.in-berlin.de References: <4do06m$9g@turbocat.snafu.de> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 13:41:18 GMT dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel) wrote: > Hi! > > Will OpenStep for Mach support ISDN on Intel hardware? > > Are there any ISDN tool available for Intel (3.3) jet? > PhoneConnector (mentioned in /etc/rc) is not on my disk. Hi David! NO! Bad news. NeXT said (in September) they don't need it and you should use an external solution (e. G. DOS router). Gerald -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | GERALD ERDMANN | email: gerald @ kurt.in-berlin.de (NeXTmail welcome) | voice: +49 30 372 43 10 (Germany - Berlin) | crypt: pgp2 public key available |
From: titanide@Mlink.NET (Patrick O'Connell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Seek PC program: .WAV --> NeXT .SND Date: 22 Jan 1996 19:09:58 -0500 Organization: Mlink Internet, Montreal, Canada Message-ID: <4e190m$634@zinc.Mlink.NET> Hi, In order to better be able to send a NeXT-owning friend sound files that I only have in .WAV format (the native format of MS Windoze). I have tried a DOS program, hardly a brand-new one, called SOX but the .SND files it produces don't seem to be 100% kosher -- the speed is screwed up when my friend plays them after receiving them from me. Any suggestions for a DOS or Windows-based program are welcome -- I'm not fascistic about either, and am not running Windoze 95. And yes, we know about GISO -- he has the sources but has not compiled them yet. Thanks, Pat O'Connell titanide@mlink.net / titanide@micro.org
From: hugues@precipice.fdn.fr (Hugues RICHARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Will NS 4.0 support ISDN? Date: 21 Jan 1996 19:00:01 GMT Organization: Individual - France Message-ID: <4du2fh$ig@precipice.fdn.fr> References: <4do06m$9g@turbocat.snafu.de> dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel) wrote: >Hi! > >Will OpenStep for Mach support ISDN on Intel hardware? > >Are there any ISDN tool available for Intel (3.3) jet? >PhoneConnector (mentioned in /etc/rc) is not on my disk. PhoneConnector was aimed to be used in the 3.0 good old days... You can probably forget about it, since there won't be any upgrade of the mach kernel... Hugues. -------------------------------------------------------------------- hugues@precipice.fdn.fr - France (small NeXTMail OK) ------------ NS3.2 ------------ NS3.0J ------------ :-) ------------
From: Kir Royale Limited <kiroyale@kiroyale.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: UK NeXT work Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 12:38:34 GMT Organization: Kir Royale Limited Distribution: world Message-ID: <218554598wnr@kiroyale.demon.co.uk> If you are interested in working in the UK on either a contract or a permanent basis then we *must* talk. I am looking for a large number of NeXTSTEP developers for four separate clients based in and around central London. All candidates must have at least 18 months NeXT experience. I am also looking for between 8 and 10 Analysts to work in the UK travelling and implementing systems throughout Europe. Contact: Duncan Campling All resumes/messages in plain text or uuencoded Word 6 formats only. Kir Royale Tel: +44 (0)181 224 6868 Fax: +44 (0)181 224 6767 E-Mail: kiroyale@kiroyale.demon.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Subject: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Message-ID: <RDL.96Jan23112233@world.std.com> Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 16:22:33 GMT As reported by CNN moments ago, Sun is very close to purchasing Apple Computer. The deal is estimated at 4 billion dollars. This could have interesting ramifications for OpenStep and Steve Jobs. Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant Boston, MA Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
From: Leon von Stauber <leonvs@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Date: 23 Jan 1996 20:17:26 GMT Organization: University of Texas Computation Center Message-ID: <4e3fom$689@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> References: <RDL.96Jan23112233@world.std.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) wrote: >As reported by CNN moments ago, Sun is very close to purchasing >Apple Computer. The deal is estimated at 4 billion dollars. > >This could have interesting ramifications for OpenStep and Steve Jobs. WOW! Please let this be true! A future marriage of decently evolving OS and HW technology to a nice interface with wider industry acceptance... this could be the thing that makes leaving NeXT's products less than agonizing for me! It probably won't beat M$, but at least it'll be superior to Windoze, and it'll be nice to use (assuming strong OpenStep/MacOS influences, emphasis on the OpenStep). And, people I work with would know what the hell I was talking about. ("NeXT? So what do you do, now that they're out of business?") Being an early adopter was fun and all, but it gets old. (...he says, as he plans his purchase of a computer system that, as of yet, exists only in his own mind. ;) ) __________________________________________________________________________ Leon von Stauber http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~leonvs/ University of Texas Computation Center <leonvs@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu> Zilker Internet Park <leonvs@zilker.net> "We have not come to save you, but you will not die in vain!"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple In-Reply-To: rdl@world.std.com's message of Tue, 23 Jan 1996 16:22:33 GMT Message-ID: <RDL.96Jan23173613@world.std.com> Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <RDL.96Jan23112233@world.std.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 22:36:13 GMT At the close of business today, Apple's CEO said that Apple was not for sale. Sun's stock went down 4 pts. We'll see if HP makes a bid now... Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant Boston, MA Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com In article <RDL.96Jan23112233@world.std.com> rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) writes: As reported by CNN moments ago, Sun is very close to purchasing Apple Computer. The deal is estimated at 4 billion dollars. This could have interesting ramifications for OpenStep and Steve Jobs.
From: Leon von Stauber <leonvs@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Date: 23 Jan 1996 23:19:06 GMT Organization: University of Texas Computation Center Message-ID: <4e3qda$dhh@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> References: <RDL.96Jan23112233@world.std.com> <RDL.96Jan23173613@world.std.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) wrote: >At the close of business today, Apple's CEO said that Apple was not for sale. >Sun's stock went down 4 pts. We'll see if HP makes a bid now... Damn! There goes that idea. __________________________________________________________________________ Leon von Stauber http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~leonvs/ University of Texas Computation Center <leonvs@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu> Zilker Internet Park <leonvs@zilker.net> "We have not come to save you, but you will not die in vain!"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: pemmerik@solair1.inter.NL.net (P.J.L. van Emmerik) Subject: When is OpenStep available on Windows NT/95? Message-ID: <DLoCyI.87q@inter.NL.net> Sender: news@inter.NL.net (News at news) Organization: Holec Projects Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 08:29:07 GMT Is there any information about availabilitry of OpenStep on different platforms? I am specially interested in availability on Windows NT on DEC-alpha. Please Email to: pemmerik@solair1.inter.NL.net
From: dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Date: 24 Jan 1996 09:41:33 GMT Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany Message-ID: <4e4usd$aj@turbocat.snafu.de> References: <RDL.96Jan23112233@world.std.com> <RDL.96Jan23173613@world.std.com> rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) wrote: > At the close of business today, Apple's CEO said that Apple was not for sale. > Sun's stock went down 4 pts. We'll see if HP makes a bid now... > That looks like Commodore. They also said C= is not for sale. To see what happend look at http://www.amiga.de. (Escom bought them) It would be nice if I could enable the "PPC" checkmark in ProjectBuilder and build my apps for NeXT, Intel, SUN, HP and PPC. (That win95 thing cannot be source-compatible in topics like serial ports etc) _ _ _(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development, (_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG, _/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152 (______) dave@turbocat.snafu.de (NeXTMail)
From: heller@attila.imo.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Helmut Heller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: Re: There MUST be a way to use sz and rz with tip! Date: 24 Jan 1996 13:00:06 GMT Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany) Distribution: world Message-ID: <4e5agm$5rh@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de> References: <4dk32e$q4o@news.vanderbilt.edu> In article <4dk32e$q4o@news.vanderbilt.edu> katzlbt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Thomas Katzlberger) writes: > Adrian Silveanu (anomaly@expert.cc.purdue.edu) wrote: > : Hello again, > > : I still haven't found a way to use sz and rz with tip. > > My personal experience is that there is NO way to use tip with rz/sz Well, as far as I know, the tip that comes with NS is unusable with rz/sz, however, there is a modified tip that does work (I used it myself on a balck NeXtstation!). Look at the peanuts archive (ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de) for tipx. /pub/comp/platforms/next/Unix/communication/zm_tip_modified.NI.bs.tar.gz From the readme file: modified the lock file directory to the correct position for NeXT HH 1993 A big effort was done to make everything compile under -Wall. tipx does compile already, but tiprz/sz still needs more work. made PULSE dial the default in hayes.c Tested the z-modem receive. It now works under NS3.2 (did not before, gave Floating point exception error). I have included fat binaries for i386 and m68k. HH 1995-01-21 -- Servus, Helmut (DH0MAD) ______________NeXT-mail welcome_________________ FAX: +49-89-2394-4607 "Knowledge must be gathered and cannot be given" heller@attila.imo.physik.uni-muenchen.de ZEN, one of BLAKES7 Phone: +49-89-2394-4565 ------------------------------------------------ Helmut Heller, Ludwig Maximilians University | G i b D O S | Institute for Medical Optics, Theoretical Biophysics Group | k e i n e |
From: henry@trilithon.com (Henry McGilton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 09:50:41 -0700 Organization: Trilithon Software Message-ID: <henry-2401960950410001@trilithon.com> References: <RDL.96Jan23112233@world.std.com> <4e3fom$689@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> In article <4e3fom$689@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>, Leon von Stauber <leonvs@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu> wrote: * WOW! Please let this be true! A future marriage of decently evolving OS * and HW technology to a nice interface with wider industry acceptance... * this could be the thing that makes leaving NeXT's products less than * agonizing for me! * It probably won't beat M$, but at least it'll be superior to Windoze, * and it'll be nice to use (assuming strong OpenStep/MacOS influences, * emphasis on the OpenStep). I must be the only one in the entire Valley here who thinks a Sun buyout of Apple would be the kiss of death for Apple, Macintosh, and everything. Just imagine, the Mac GUI on top of X-Windoze --- your PowerMac performing like a PC-XT, but at least the X-Windoze propellor heads will get the familiar flashing colours they love so much. Just wait until the ``ease of use'' team get their mitts on the GUI. You'll have a blend of Mac GUI. OpenLook, and CDE. Oh boy---MS-DROSS will look good in comparison. Perish the Thought. ........ Henry
From: mark_bessey@next.com (Mark Bessey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Copying DOS download file to DOS formatted disk under NS3.3 Date: 24 Jan 1996 17:51:16 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <4e5rik$3i4@news.next.com> References: <4dvbhg$p36@saba.info.ucla.edu> G. Quinonez writes > Hello everyone. > Ive been getting a message that reads: > > File error for /diamond/gtw.exe: Invalid argument > file called GTW.EXE and initially opens as ascii file using > Edit.app. Then I try to use "save as" from the Edit menu and try > to save it to the diskette and I get the message as above. > > Then, I saved the file to the hard drive, and tried to drag it to the > DOS diskette and I got the Processes panel and said again... > File error for /diamond/gtw.exe: Invalid argument > The problem is in NEXTSTEP's handling of DOS filenames. If you rename the file from GTW.EXE to gtw.exe before copying the file, it should work fine. Hope this helps. -Mark -- Mark Bessey NeXT Software, Inc Software Quality Assurance -->I DON'T SPEAK FOR NeXT <--
From: viggo@diku.dk (Allan Kim Schougaard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: ps2pcl, any success ? Date: 24 Jan 1996 18:47:40 GMT Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen Sender: viggo@tyr.diku.dk Message-ID: <4e5usc$lr3@odin.diku.dk> Hi All I've tried to install ps2pcl on my no-network Intelbox, and haven't gotten anything thru yet. The PrintManager also crashes when I try to edit the printer setups. Any help would be appreciated. --Allan --viggo@diku.dk
From: dsi@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com (George Wu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Looking for BBS software for NEXTSTEP Date: 24 Jan 1996 15:01:31 -0800 Organization: KAIWAN Internet (310-527-4279,818-756-0180,909-785-9712,714-638-4133,805-294-9338) Message-ID: <4e6dob$781@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> Does anyone know of any public domain BBS software that runs on NEXTSTEP ? George
From: mcgredo@crl.com (Donald R. McGregor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Date: 24 Jan 1996 16:58:33 -0800 Organization: Universal Export Message-ID: <4e6kjp$k7e@crl8.crl.com> References: <RDL.96Jan23112233@world.std.com> <RDL.96Jan23173613@world.std.com> <4e4usd$aj@turbocat.snafu.de> >> At the close of business today, Apple's CEO said that Apple was not for >sale. WSJ says a person close to the deal says this means the company isn't being shopped around to several potential buyers, but that the right deal from Sun might be accepted. -- Don McGregor |"Scribble, scribble, eh Mr. Gibbon?" mcgredo@crl.com |
From: matti@peirce.dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM (Matthias Oberlaender) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Indexes for Digital Librarian Date: 25 Jan 1996 09:27:04 GMT Organization: Daimler-Benz AG Message-ID: <4e7id8$clg@news.sns-felb.debis.de> 1) I have the problem (presumably others too) that Librarian performs a full squential search on every file although an index file exists. It does not matter whether the (indexed) search has resulted in a hit or not. It seems that this cumbersome behavior only occours with privately created indexes. Obviously it does not happen with the standard targets, i.e. NextDev, etc. What is the reason behind and what can I do against it? 2) When building an index for a target is there a way to filter out certain file types (e.g. object files or#################################################################### Path: news.informatik.uni-muenchen.de!lrz-muenchen.de!uni-erlangen.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!herding From: herding@cs.tu-berlin.de (Bernd Herding) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Indexes for Digital Librarian Date: 25 Jan 1996 11:37:08 GMT Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4e7q14$bsf@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <4e7id8$clg@news.sns-felb.debis.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: cachalot.cs.tu-berlin.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit matti@peirce.dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM (Matthias Oberlaender) writes: >1) I have the problem (presumably others too) that Librarian performs a full >squential search on every file although an index file exists. It does not >matter whether the (indexed) search has resulted in a hit or not. It seems >that this cumbersome behavior only occours with privately created indexes. >Obviously it does not happen with the standard targets, i.e. NextDev, etc. >What is the reason behind and what can I do against it? Yep. There are others that had this problem ;-) Librarian seems to perform indexing via ixbuild without option -s. If you create the database manually with option -s, you will get built indexes for a static collection which avoids searching in a way of find(1). Perhaps you should look at ixbuild(1) for creating the database yourself. >2) When building an index for a target is there a way to filter out certain >file types (e.g. object files or all backup file having a "~" character)? >Are there other applications besides Librarian that can index a directory in >a more controllable way?. There is. Again, refer to manpage of ixbuild and look especially for the keywords .index.itype and .index.iname. These are files in which you can support information about filtering. Hope that helps. Gruesze, Bernd
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Indexes for Digital Librarian Date: 25 Jan 1996 11:19:52 GMT Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Sender: reichman@comserv-g-25.usc.edu Message-ID: <4e7p0o$81u@usc.edu> References: <4e7id8$clg@news.sns-felb.debis.de> In <4e7id8$clg@news.sns-felb.debis.de> Matthias Oberlaender wrote: > 1) I have the problem (presumably others too) that Librarian performs a full > squential search on every file although an index file exists. It does not > matter whether the (indexed) search has resulted in a hit or not. It seems > that this cumbersome behavior only occours with privately created indexes. > Obviously it does not happen with the standard targets, i.e. NextDev, etc. > What is the reason behind and what can I do against it? > > 2) When building an index for a target is there a way to filter out certain > file types (e.g. object files or all backup file having a "~" character)? > Are there other applications besides Librarian that can index a directory in > a more controllable way?. Your timely post is somewhat ironic. (as I had posted and then figured out my own question). What you want to use is "ixbuild" - see the man pages. You can do everything you asked for above. #1 is done with the flag "-s" which creates static index files that Librarian will not attempt to update. #2 is done with two files ".index.ftype" and ".index.itype". The former defines types of files while the latter references the former and is used by ixbuild as an avoid list. The man pages are quite adequate to get you rolling. Just remember - if you want to exclude files you need BOTH of the afore-mentioned files in your directory. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@scf.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: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Newsgroups: de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: The NeXT-FAQ available! (Part I) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 15:29:31 +0100 Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960125152023.13612C-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello, It's a long story how I get there, where I am now: First I tried to contact Nathan Janette for over one year now, trying to help him with the FAQs. He told me, he doesn't need any help. But a half year later he stopped his work on the FAQs Maximilian Goedel was next who took over the FAQs. I tried to help him working on the FAQs and we went pretty far. But again after half a year he stopped, too. Now I'm left with an unfinished version of the FAQs but since I'm now the only responsible for them, I can't keep them away from you any longer. Here is the first unfinished release of the new FAQs which will from now on get updated regularly. Of course my time is limited, too, so I depend on your contributions and comments, as well as corrections. Please don't comment on this first release, I even didn't had the time to reread the text! But here is how to get them: Official WWW site: http://peanuts.leo.org/FAQ/NeXTFAQ.toc.html Official FTP site: peanuts.leo.org:/pub/comp/platforms/next/Documents/FAQ/ Regular postings in de.comp.sys.next and comp.sys.next.misc Happy nexting, Boerny. -- Bernhard Scholz (IRC: Boerny) scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de http://peanuts.leo.org/ scholz@ve1.rm.op.dlr.de http://www.leo.org/~scholz/
From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Newsgroups: de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: The NeXT-FAQ available! (Part II) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 15:31:59 +0100 Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960125152937.13612D-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE The NeXTSTEP/OpenStep FAQ =20 =20 _________________________________________________________________ =20 THE NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP FAQ =20 OVERVIEW =20 * 1 General informations * 2 Miscellaneous informations * 3 Black (NeXT) hardware * 4 White (Intel) hardware * 5 Storage * 6 Printing =20 =20 =20 CONTENTS =20 0.1 Disclaimer =20 1 General informations 1.1 How may I contact NeXT, Inc.? 1.2 How do I start an official NeXT User Group? 1.3 What are the names of the ftp sites that have NeXT-related files? 1.4 Where can I get NeXT paraphernalia? 1.5 Additional information sources 1.6 How to get FTP files via e-mail. 1.7 References on Objective C 1.8 How to cantact music interested people. 1.9 How to announce upcoming events =20 2 Miscellaneous informations 2.1 Is there any way to change the text in the title bar of a terminal window? 2.2 I can't get my pictures in OmniWeb. 2.3 How do I get pictures of people from remote sites to appear in Mail.app and NewsGrazer? 2.4 How to manipulate and examine default settings 2.5 How do I run NextApps remotely? 2.6 Why does UUCP hangs on outgoing connections after sending the password, but other communications software do not have a problem with it? 2.7 How do I access the NeXT's Digital Websters Dictionary from a program? 2.8 How do I remap the and | keys on my keyboard? 2.9 How do I stop NeXTMail/Sendmail adding &Mcirc;s onto the end of lines? 2.10 How do I get the arrow keys to work in csh? 2.11 What default affects menu location? 2.12 How to get Gourmet to boot up the Mathematica 2.0 kernel? 2.13 Manipulating the Loginwindow 2.14 How does one set UNIX man pages to be viewed in nroff format with DL 2.15 Appending a signature and addition headers to your e-mail 2.16 How can I quickly find a file if I don't know its directory? 2.17 Mail.app suddenly stopped working! 2.18 Receycler doesn't work anymore?! 2.19 How to hear sound from CDPlayer.app thought NEXTSTEP system? 2.20 How do I decompress a file with the extension .compressed? 2.21 How do I change the Workspace compression app? 2.22 Why does NEXTSTEP 1.0 hang a few seconds after attempting to boot? 2.23 console: loginwindow: netinfo problem - No such directory. 2.24 Modem hangs under NS2.0 by incoming calls 2.25 NS2.0 doesn't recognize /LocalApps path 2.26 Root login not possible on client machine 2.27 How to boot NEXTSTEP from the second (higher SCSI ID) HD? 2.28 How to make swapfile shrink to the normal size? 2.29 Does netinfo work between machines running NEXTSTEP 2.x and 3.x? 2.30 Why does the console user "own" the external disk filesystem? 2.31 How to limit coredump sizes? 2.32 What is the maximum value of nbuf that I can specify on bootup? 2.33 How can I change the mouse pointer shape and color? 2.34 How do I customize BuildDisk to create a bootable disk of my own configuration? 2.35 Are there any more dwrites useful for the workspace, ...? 2.36 What is the @LongLink message from gnutar all about? 2.37 What stands the file .place3_0.wmd for? =20 3 Black (NeXT) hardware 3.1 What disk drives will work with the NeXT? 3.2 Will a 68030 NeXT Computer run NEXTSTEP 3.3? 3.3 Does a FUJITSU MO (256 MB) works with NeXT original Hardware? 3.4 Can I run my SCSI-2 disks in synchronous mode? 3.5 How do I configure my HP 660 to boot properly? 3.6 What is the procedure for installing a Fujitsu M2263SA/SB SCSI Disk as the NeXT Boot Disk? 3.7 How to mount a corrupted OD that won't automount? 3.8 What non-NeXT CD Players that work with a NeXT? 3.9 What are some other sources of toner cartridges and trays for the NeXT laser printer? 3.10 What printers (laser or otherwise) may be used with a NeXT? 3.11 What can I do to prevent my NeXT printer from running all the time? 3.12 What type of microphones will work with the NeXT? 3.13 How do I connect a modem to the NeXT? 3.14 Are there any alternative sources for the SCSI-II to SCSI-I cable required to attach external SCSI devices to the 040 NeXTs? 3.15 What fax modems will work with the NeXT? 3.16 How may I attach more than two serial ports to the NeXT? 3.17 What is the best and/or cheapest way to connect a NeXT to a thick Ethernet? 3.18 How can I connect my NeXT to the telephone line and use it like an answering Machine? 3.19 What color monitors can I use with the Color NeXT machines? 3.20 Where can I get 13W3 to BNC adapters to connect third party color monitors? 3.21 How may I attach Centronics or 16 bit wide parallel ports to the NeXT? 3.22 Why does an unused serial port consume cpu? 3.23 How to adjust MegaPixel Display brightness and focus? 3.24 I want to emulate a macintosh, how? 3.25 My NeXT laser printer fails to fully eject the sheet - how to fix? 3.26 What are the NeXT mouse connections? 3.27 What type of memory may be installed in a NeXT? 3.28 What is the NeXT SIMM tool? 3.29 Where can I purchase a NeXT machine? 3.30 Where to obtain hardware service? 3.31 What types of NeXT machines were manufactured? 3.32 What can be done about older 030 NeXT cubes that have a fan that turns in the "wrong" direction? 3.33 Can I connect SONY MPX-111N to my 68030 NeXT Computer? 3.34 Why does the OD continually spin up and spin down? 3.35 How many colors can NeXT machines display? 3.36 Why is my machine so slow when I run the monochrome and NeXTdimension displays? 3.37 Where to obtain replacement mouse parts? 3.38 Where to obtain extra batteries? 3.39 How to convert a Turbo system to use ADB? 3.40 68030 board in the same NeXTcube as a 68040 board? 3.41 How to expand DSP memory? 3.42 How to boot a NeXT without a monitor? 3.43 Where can I get black spray paint for my NeXT? 3.44 What makes aged NeXT monitors dim? =20 4 White (Intel) hardware 4.1 What is the current status of NEXTSTEP/Intel? 4.2 What references are available for NEXTSTEP/Intel? 4.3 How does NEXTSTEP/Intel differ from NEXTSTEP on NeXT Computers? 4.4 What about support for NeXT Computer specific hardware features such as the DSP? 4.5 Can I use NEXTSTEP/Intel systems with my existing NeXT Computers? 4.6 How do I use applications compiled for both NeXT Computers and NEXTSTEP/Intel on the same network? 4.7 Do Multi-Architecture Binaries take a lot of extra disk space? 4.8 How difficult is it to recompile existing NeXT applications over to NEXTSTEP/Intel? 4.9 When developing programs, are there any portability issues I should be aware of? 4.10 What is the difference between the NEXTSTEP/Intel User Environment and Developer Environment? 4.11 If a specific I/O card is not supported by NeXT, can 3rd parties write drivers for NEXTSTEP/Intel? 4.12 How is NEXTSTEP/Intel installed? 4.13 Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on 386 machines? 4.14 Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on the Cyrix 486SLC? 4.15 Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on the future Intel Microprocessors in the x86 family? 4.16 Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on portable computers? 4.17 Will NEXTSTEP/Intel be able to run Microsoft DOS and Windows programs? 4.18 Will DOS and Windows compatibility be included with NEXTSTEP/Intel? 4.19 How will my DOS and Windows applications perform under NEXTSTEP/Intel? 4.20 Is the window I use to run Microsoft Windows applications resizable? 4.21 Will this DOS/Windows compatibility system allow me to run several DOS programs at once? 4.22 Can I cut and paste between DOS/Windows sessions and NEXTSTEP applications? 4.23 Can I use both DOS and NEXTSTEP/Intel partitions on the same hard disk? 4.24 Can NEXTSTEP/Intel read, write, and format DOS and Mac floppies? 4.25 Does anyone know if NS/Intel will run on the AMD 486 chips or on the NextGen 586 chips? 4.26 NSI 3.1, DOS, Linux/NT multi-boot system? 4.27 NeXTSTEP on INTEL, KEYBOARD-ERROR ... 4.28 NS 3.2 Tseng ET4000 Video Driver doesn't work. 4.29 Accessing ROM monitor on Intel-System, how? 4.30 Adaptec 2940 Fast and Sync. SCSI explanation... 4.31 Do EIDE-Drives work with NEXSTEP? 4.32 Anyone have a driver yet that does 8 bit color on an ET4000/w32p card? (Hercules Dynamite Pro VLB) 4.33 Does a Glidepoint pointing device works with NEXTSTEP? 4.34 AppleTalk under NSIP? =20 5 Storage 5.1 Disktab help needed: ST15230N 5.2 Formatting DEC DSP3105 with 1024-byte blocks. 5.3 How much disk space is lost due to formatting and file system overhead? 5.4 Initialing Opticals for NeXT 5.5 How to install Tandberg streamer on Intel? =20 6 Printing 6.1 What printers (laser or otherwise) may be used with NEXTSTEP? 6.2 What fonts can I use with NEXTSTEP? 6.3 How can I save my printable documents to a postscript file? 6.4 How can I print only the even or odd pages of a document? 6.5 How do I get banner pages on my printer output? 6.6 How do I get [la]TeX files to print correctly on non-NeXT printers? 6.7 What if I have a PostScript font has not been ported to NEXTSTEP? 6.8 What color printers (laser or otherwise) may be used with NEXTSTEP? 6.9 How can I make the Page Layout default to A4 in all applications? 6.10 /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/pstf: syntax error at line 31: `end of file' unexpected? 6.11 How to get TeX with NEXTSTEP to make proper fonts for a 600 dpi laserwriter? 6.12 How to get printer description files (PPD)? 6.13 What are the Canon part numbers for ink cartridges equivalent to those NeXT's Color Printer uses? 6.14 JetPilot does not work with my JetDirect box, why? 6.15 powering down NeXTprinter during bootup, printer still works 6.16 How to set up the HP LaserJet 4M? 6.17 Laserwriter NTX & NEXSTEP =20 The NeXTSTEP/OpenStep FAQ =20 =20 0.1 Disclaimer THIS COLLECTION IS A VERY PRILIMINARY VERSION OF THE NEXTFAQS AND NOT REVISED IN ANY WAY.=20 WE EXCUSE ALL THE MISTAKES STILL INCLUDED IN THE FAQ, BUT WE THOUGHT THE FAQS (EVEN IN THIS EARLY STATE) MIGHT BE A GOOD RESOURCE FOR YOU ANYWAY. =20 These are the frequently asked questions concerning NeXT, NeXTSTEP or any other NeXT related topics. =20 This FAQ is copyrighted by Bernhard Scholz and Maximilian Goedel. (Internet e-mails: scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de and mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de ) =20 Of course there is no warranty in any case using the information provided here. We haven't tested the information to be correct. =20 We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this FAQ. If you have any submissions, ideas, thanks, pizza write to: Bernhard Scholz or Maximilian Goedel. =20 This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the (comp.sys.next) community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. =20 We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in conection with this endeavor. Anyway we reserve a copyright on the the published informations in this FAQ. Any questions concerning other redistribution should be send to the authors of the FAQ. =20 We want to say "thank you" to Nathan, who did a great job on first FAQs. Best wishes to you and your family!!! =20 =20 =20 1 GENERAL INFORMATIONS =20 General informations =20 1.1 How may I contact NeXT, Inc.? Next, Inc. Contacting NeXT, Inc. Adress of NeXT, Inc. =20 NeXT, Inc. can be reached under the following addresses. =20 USA: NeXT, Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 Voice: 800-848-NeXT (Redwood City #) Voice: (415)-366-0900 NeXT marketing div. of Canon - Japan Phone: 81-44-549-5295 Fax: 81-44-549-5462 EUROPE: Munich: 49-89-996-5310 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. =20 1.2 How do I start an official NeXT User Group? NUG user groups NeXT user groups To start a user group, just send email to user_groups@next.com. =20 1.3 What are the names of the ftp sites that have NeXT-related files? FTP, servers =20 There are too many to list them all, so are here are just a few. =20 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 =20 MIT GNU: aeneas.mit.edu MIT X: export.lcs.mit.edu music: princeton.edu =20 =20 1.4 Where can I get NeXT paraphernalia? Paraphernalia =20 These parts can be ordered. =20 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 =20 =20 Orders can be taken 24 hours a day for domestic and overseas orders =20 Contact: Hermann Marketing -------- 1400 North Price Road St. Louis, MO 63132-2308 Phone: 1 800 972 1331, 314 432 1800 Fax: 314 432 1818 =20 =20 Method of payment: Purchase order, check, money order, or credit card =20 1.5 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. =20 User manuals were shipped with every NeXT. Additional copies available from NeXT (N6002/N6003/N6014/N6026) $25. =20 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 =20 =20 =20 Unix man pages, which are included in the online docs. =20 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! =20 USENIX Association 2560 Ninth Street, Suite 215 Berkeley, CA 94710 USA +1 510 528 8649 fax +1 510 548 5738 office@usenix.org =20 =20 * PS1 =3D Programmer's Supplementary Documents, Volume 1 * PS2 =3D Programmer's Supplementary Documents, Volume 2 * SMM =3D System Manager's Manual * USD =3D User's Supplementary Documents =20 =20 =20 The SMM and the rest of the berkeley documentation are also available directly and for free via anon ftp e.g. from =20 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). =20 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). =20 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. =20 Get NeXT Support Bulletin from the archives. It is meant for support centers. =20 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 ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de:/pub/comp/sys/next/. =20 NeXTstep Advantage book is available electronically from the archive servers: =20 cs.orst.edu: pub/next/documents/NeXT/ sonata.cc.purdue.edu: ? etlport.etl.go.jp: pub/NeXT/documents/NeXTstepAdvantage/ ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de: /pub/NeXT/documents/next =20 =20 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. =20 1.6 How to get FTP files via e-mail. FTP, e-mail access Some ftp sites are configured as an email archive server. This means you can upload and download files via email. =20 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) =20 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. =20 1.7 References on Objective C Objective-C, documents Objective-C and other useful Object-oriented programming references: =20 Budd, Timothy, An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming (Addison-Wesley) [It discusses Smalltalk, Object Pascal, C++ and Objective-C] =20 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] =20 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 =20 Meyer, Bertrand, Object-Oriented Software Construction (Prentice-Hall). =20 NeXT Technical Documentation =20 Pinson and Weiner, Objective-C: Object-Oriented Programming Techniques (Addison-Wesley). 350 pages, ISBN 0 201 50828 1, paperback. =20 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. =20 1.8 How to cantact music interested people. Music, contacts =20 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. =20 There is also a mailing list specifically for NeXT music. For posting to the dist list: nextmusic@horowitz.eecs.umich.edu =20 To subscribe, unsubscribe, change addresses, etc.: nextmusic-request@horowitz.eecs.umich.edu =20 1.9 How to announce upcoming events Announcments 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. =20 Since postings will be carried across many networks, commercial announcements may be edited down to reflect network usage policies. =20 Look for current guidelines posted weekly in the newsgroup. =20 2 MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATIONS =20 Misc Various Unsorted =20 2.1 Is there any way to change the text in the title bar of a terminal wind= ow? =20 =20 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! =20 [From: andre@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Andre Roberge)] =20 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. =20 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. =20 You can edit Stuart's titlebar interactively from the "Window..." Inspector (Command-3). =20 Stuart provides emulation of certain Operating System Command (OSC) sequences which can be used to modify the titlebar under subprocess control. =20 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: =20 $ 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: =20 Shell=3Dgolem.ps.uci.edu SourceDotLogin=3DNO WinLocX=3D545 WinLocY=3D563 Lines=3D24 | WinLocX=3D76 WinLocY=3D833 =20 =20 For the localhost, link /bin/csh to /usr/hosts/, or even better /usr/local/bin/tcsh instead of using rsh. =20 [From: Garance A Drosehn ] =20 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 =20 local soil_pars=3D"-Lines 32 -Keypad YES -Reverse \ YES -Strict YES -TestExit YES"; soil -Shell "telnet_to $1" $soil_pars =20 =20 and the script is just: =20 #!bin/sh /usr/ucb/telnet $* echo ' ' echo ' --> telnet exited, press enter to close window.' read -r Waste_Var exit 0 =20 =20 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. =20 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. =20 2.2 I can't get my pictures in OmniWeb. OmniWeb, Images =20 You have to install the OmniImage.service in your /Library/Services or /LocalLibrary/Services =20 You can ftp this from ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de =20 2.3 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 =20 You can do this in the following ways. =20 * 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: =20 person@remote.site.domain:*:-2:-2::/nodir:/noshell =20 =20 (person and sitename need to be all lowercase as well) In the future anytime you get mail from the person their picture should appear. =20 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. =20 To do this, you include entries in this local aliases file like so: =20 bkohler@ucrac1.ucr.edu:bkohler.gonzo.ucr.edu gonzo.ucr.edu!bkohler@uupsi2.uucp:bkohler.gonzo.ucr.edu =20 =20 There should then be a .tiff file called bkohler.gonzo.ucr.edu.tiff. =20 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. =20 * NewsGrazer =20 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. =20 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) =20 That image archive also contains a script which automatically creates proper alias and passwd files. =20 =20 =20 2.4 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 =20 * A PD App, DefaultMgr.app, is available on the NeXT ftp archives. =20 * A more brute approach (done by DefaultMgr.app): =20 Start the application under gdb, and then try the following sequence of commands: =20 break *0x500976a commands 1 silent printf "%s: ", *$a2 output {char *}(4+$a2) echo \n cont end run =20 =20 [Carl Edman ] adds: =20 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. =20 [eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)] adds: =20 Needs to be revised for 3.x systems. wmdefaults is only for 2.x; it's not needed for 3.0 and later. =20 2.5 How do I run NextApps remotely? Remote running =20 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. =20 [shayman@Objectario.com (Steve Hayman)] =20 NeXTSTEP 3.1 includes a demo application called OpenSesame that simplifies this. You can select a program in Workspace and use > Service > Open Sesame > Open on Another Host ...to launch a program on a remote machine. This is a way to run old, non-fat-binary software on new NeXTSTEP/Intel machines. =20 2.6 Why does UUCP hangs on outgoing connections after sending the password,= but other communications software do not have a problem with it? UUCP =20 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: =20 wanted "password:" (means that username needs to end with a CR) imsg waiting for SYNC< (means that password needs to end with CR) =20 =20 So how do you get UUCP to send CR, instead of LF? =20 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. =20 myfeed Any DIR 9600 cub "" ATTD19095551212 9600 \ "" ogin:--ogin: Unext ssword: secret\n\c =20 =20 2.7 How do I access the NeXT's Digital Websters Dictionary from a program? Webster =20 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. =20 2.8 How do I remap the and | keys on my keyboard? Keyboard =20 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 =20 ...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. =20 2.9 How do I stop NeXTMail/Sendmail adding &Mcirc;s onto the end of lines? Sendmail =20 In /etc/sendmail.cf make this change: =20 [old code] ##### UUCP Mailer specification ##### Muucp, P=3D/usr/bin/uux, F=3DmsDFMhuU, S=3D13, R=3D23, [new code] ##### UUCP Mailer specification ##### Muucp, P=3D/usr/bin/uux, F=3DmsDFMhuU, S=3D13, R=3D23, E=3D\n, =20 =20 This has been fixed in 3.1, and the default mailhost sendmail is UUCP oriented. =20 2.10 How do I get the arrow keys to work in csh? csh, arrow keys =20 This is for people who use a terminal app that does vt100 keyboard emulation - pasc =20 First, add these lines to your .cshrc (preferably between the if and endif): =20 set editmode=3Demacs set macrofiles=3D.macros =20 =20 Then create a file called .bindings and put in it: =20 bind-to-key ExecuteNamedMacro '\e[' =20 =20 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: =20 A^@^@^@^A^P B^@^@^@^A^N C^@^@^@^A^F D^@^@^@^A^B =20 =20 where &@circ; means Control-@ and =83 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. =20 On Intel machines these sequences are a little different: =20 A^A^@^@^@^P B^A^@^@^@^N C^A^@^@^@^F D^A^@^@^@^B =20 =20 Then source .cshrc and the changes should take effect. =20 2.11 What default affects menu location? Menu, location Do the following. =20 dwrite GLOBAL NXMenuX <value> dwrite GLOBAL NXMenuY <value> =20 =20 2.12 How to get Gourmet to boot up the Mathematica 2.0 kernel? Mathematica =20 Login as root, or get root privileges running su, and execute the following five commands: =20 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 =20 =20 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) =20 2.13 Manipulating the Loginwindow loginwindow dwrites =20 There are some for loginwindow: =20 [Jess Anderson writes:] =20 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. =20 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. =20 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). =20 After setting the things you want, restart the WindowServer by logging out of the current session and typing exit on the login panel. =20 OK, here's what we know (or think we do :-): =20 dwrite loginwindow DefaultUser <login-name> =20 =20 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! =20 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. =20 The font, size, color, and position of the printed string are not accessible (drat!). =20 dwrite loginwindow ImageFile <path/to/a/suitable.tiff> =20 =20 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. =20 dwrite loginwindow TimeToDim <integer_number> =20 =20 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 @emphseems longer when you're not having fun waiting. :-) Whatever, the login screen dims to about half after this length of time. =20 dwrite loginwindow MoveWhenIdle YES =20 =20 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. =20 dwrite loginwindow MovementTimeout <real_number> =20 =20 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. =20 dwrite loginwindow MovementScale <integer_number> =20 =20 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. =20 dwrite loginwindow MovementRate <real_number> =20 =20 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. =20 dwrite loginwindow PowerOffDisabled YES =20 =20 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. =20 dwrite loginwindow LoginHook <path/to/loginhook/executable> dwrite loginwindow LogoutHook <path/to/logouthook/executable> =20 =20 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. =20 There are yet others. Here's the full list (thanks, Art): =20 NXGetDefaultValue("loginwindow", "DebugHook") =3D> 0x0 NXGetDefaultValue("loginwindow", "DryRun") =3D> 0x0 NXGetDefaultValue("loginwindow", "WindowServerTimeout") =3D> 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" =20 =20 [Christopher J. Kane kane@cs.purdue.edu] =20 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). =20 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. =20 This program must be run as root, since it writes to the file /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow.app/loginwindow. =20 An archive with a compiled executable has been submitted to sonata.cc.purdue.edu. =20 /* * 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. */ =20 #include <libc.h> #include <errno.h> =20 void main(int argc, char *argv[]) { unsigned char patch[8] =3D {0x0, 0x0, 0x42, 0x80, 0x4e, 0x5e, 0x4= e, 0x75}; int file =3D open("/usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow.app/loginwindow", O_WRONLY); if (-1=3D=3Dfile) goto error; if (-1=3D=3Dlseek(file, 21170, SEEK_SET)) goto error; if (-1=3D=3Dwrite(file, patch, 8)) goto error; if (-1=3D=3Dclose(file)) goto error; exit(0); error: fprintf(stderr, "%s: %s\n", argv[0], strerror(errno)); exit(1); } =20 =20 FAQ-Authors note: We strongly recommand 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. =20 2.14 How does one set UNIX man pages to be viewed in nroff format with DL man pages, NS2.x =20 like the standard manual pages in 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: =20 .roffArgs: -man displayCommand: tbl %s | nroff -man ixBuildOptions: -fman -Nwhatis -Ncat[1-8ln] -V =20 =20 Other options that people suggested for ixBuildOptions: =20 -fman -Nwhatis -Ncat[1-8] -V /usr/local/man -fman -Nwhatis -V /usr/local/man/man* =20 =20 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. =20 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.) =20 [From: Eric D. Engstrom ] =20 Can anyone tell me what the command line for this might be under NEXTSTEP 3.0? =20 Short answer: RTM on ixbuild(1) - specifically the parameter "-g". =20 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... =20 Basically, you need to setup a directory with sym-links to the various man-page directories; For example: =20 (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 .displayComman= d -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/@ =20 =20 Notice that I also copied all the .[a-z]* files from the /usr/man/ directory as well. =20 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. =20 Unfortunantly, once the index is built, I've never successfully gotten DL to update it correctly. Instead I have to do it by hand using ixbuild -ogldvc (actualy, I setup a cron job to reindex weekly.) =20 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. =20 2.15 Appending a signature and addition headers to your e-mail .signature signature Mail [Carl Edman ] =20 First create a simple text file the following content: =20 #!/bin/sh { if test -r ${HOME}/.add-header; then cat ${HOME}/.add-header; fi cat - if test -r ${HOME}/.signature; then echo "--"; cat ${HOME}/.signatu= re; fi }| /usr/lib/sendmail "$@" =20 =20 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. =20 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. =20 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: =20 Reply-to: My Real Human Name <name@my.real.address> =20 =20 IMPORTANT: Make certain that you have one and exactly one newline at the end of /.add-header. Anything might break outgoing mail. Beware! =20 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. =20 [From: jbrow@radical1.radical.com (Jim Brownfield)] =20 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. =20 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. =20 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: =20 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. =20 =20 =20 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. =20 2.16 How can I quickly find a file if I don't know its directory? searching, files find =20 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). =20 15 03 * * 2,5 root /usr/lib/find/updatedb > /usr/adm/updatedb.= err =20 =20 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). =20 [Carl Edman ] adds: =20 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 neccessary to prevent the shell from expanding the wildcards itself). =20 [From: Geert Jan van Oldenborgh ] =20 I find the following script in /usr/local/bin very handy to bring back the behaviour that God Intended find to have: =20 #!/bin/csh if ( $#argv =3D=3D 1 ) then /usr/bin/find \*$1\* else set noglob /usr/bin/find $argv[1-] unset noglob endif =20 =20 2.17 Mail.app suddenly stopped working! Mail, doesnt start =20 When I double-click the Mail.app icon it loads and seems to start but then just terminates. How can I fix this ? =20 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. =20 2.18 Receycler doesn't work anymore?! Receycler =20 For some reason, after moving my home directory, my recyler no longer works? =20 [From: eric%basilisk@src.honeywell.com (Eric D. Engstrom)] =20 Basically, when you dump a file in the recycler, the workspace manager (attempts) to move it to one of the following locations: =20 (note: no order implied here, 'cause I'm unsure of the actual order used) =20 - $HOME/.NeXT/.NextTrash (Should always exist; unsure what happens if it doesn't) =20 - /tmp/.NextTrash_$USER Automatically created if non-existent) - $MNT-POINT/.NextTrash/$USER (.NextTrash NOT automatically created if non-existent) =20 =20 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). =20 Also, an example of the permissions for the external disk .NextTrash directory (which is not automatically created) should be : =20 ls -aldg /private/mnt2/local/.NextTrash drwxrwxrwt [...] /private/mnt2/local/.NextTrash/ =20 =20 Note: /private/mnt2/local is the mount point. Do chmod 1777 .NextTrash to get the permissions right. =20 Thus, if you moved your home directory from one partition to another, the one you left may not have a "recycler-repository" to use. =20 2.19 How to hear sound from CDPlayer.app thought NEXTSTEP system? digital audio CDPlayer =20 To hear sound, the following info is important. =20 [Carl Edman ] =20 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. =20 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). =20 Anyway there are problems with different drives. E.g. we know, that the Toshiba, Sony and Nec drives @emphcurrently use the same instruction set to access audio data. So be aware that there are drives which simply can't be accessed through CDPlayer. =20 2.20 How do I decompress a file with the extension .compressed? .compressed compress uncompress gnutar tar gzip gunzip =20 Do this with the following methods. =20 [From: sanguish@digifix.com] =20 .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. =20 =20 =20 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 informations. =20 2.21 How do I change the Workspace compression app? compress gzip gunzip dwrites =20 Change it with the given method. =20 [Stephen Peters ] =20 You can change the tools that the Workspace uses to create and read its .compressed files by issueing the following commands in a terminal window: =20 dwrite Workspace compress /usr/bin/gzip dwrite Workspace uncompress /usr/bin/gunzip dwrite Workspace AlwaysTarForCompress YES =20 =20 [Reuven M. Lerner reuven@the-tech.mit.edu] =20 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. =20 2.22 Why does NEXTSTEP 1.0 hang a few seconds after attempting to boot? Boot hang, NS1.0 =20 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. =20 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. =20 2.23 console: loginwindow: netinfo problem - No such directory. netinfo problem, /keyboard directory is missing. It's benign... but annoying. =20 niutil -create . /keyboard =20 =20 Fixed in 2.1 and up. =20 2.24 Modem hangs under NS2.0 by incoming calls modem calls, incoming =20 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. =20 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: =20 #! /bin/sh -u PIDS=3D`ps -ax | bm getty | grep -v bm | awk '{print $1}'` kill -TERM $PIDS =20 =20 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. =20 This bug is corrected in NEXTSTEP 2.1 and later releases. =20 2.25 NS2.0 doesn't recognize /LocalApps path /LocalApps, NS2.0 =20 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: =20 dwrite Workspace ApplicationPaths "~/Apps:/LocalApps:/NextApps: \ /NextDeveloper/Apps:/NextAdmin:/NextDeveloper/Demos" =20 =20 This bug is corrected in NEXTSTEP 2.1 and later releases. =20 2.26 Root login not possible on client machine root login =20 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. =20 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=3D option or (the most heinous) anon=3D0. For security reasons many sites will NOT want to permit such access. =20 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. =20 Root access is needed to: =20 * 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). =20 =20 =20 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. =20 2.27 How to boot NEXTSTEP from the second (higher SCSI ID) HD? Boot, from higher SCSI ID Boot, from second drive =20 Use the following command. =20 bsd(1,0,0) -a =20 =20 which will then ask you for the drive to use as the root disk, or still easier, =20 bsd(1,0,0)sdmach rootdev=3Dsd1 =20 =20 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=3D128 (sdsdmach nbu=3D128 would have been too long). =20 2.28 How to make swapfile shrink to the normal size? swapfile =20 The swapfile is located in /private/vm. The only current way to make it shrink is to reboot the machine. =20 See the man pages for swaptab for more informations. Note, that putting a space after the comma in /etc/swaptab (lowat=3D,hiwat=3D) make= s swapon ignore the hiwat entry. =20 2.29 Does netinfo work between machines running NEXTSTEP 2.x and 3.x? netinfo =20 Yes. =20 2.30 Why does the console user "own" the external disk filesystem? filesystem, external =20 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: =20 /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/sd1a /Disk 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 =20 =20 (assuming the external disk is to be mounted as /Disk) =20 fstab should be niloaded into the Netinfo database if it contains any NFS mounts. =20 2.31 How to limit coredump sizes? coredump, size limit =20 Limit it by the following command. =20 This will work for apps running from a shell. =20 limit coredumpsize 0 =20 =20 If your dock or workspace apps are dumping core, there's also: =20 dwrite Workspace CoreLimit <bytesize> =20 =20 2.32 What is the maximum value of nbuf that I can specify on bootup? buffers, ROM =20 I know the ROM monitor only allows twelve characters, but I use something like this: =20 bsd sdmach nbuf=3Dxxx =20 =20 (NeXT machines only) Enter the hardware monitor. Hit 'p' to adjust the configuration parameters. It will respond: Boot command: ? Enter sd- nbu=3Dxxx, where xxx is a number less than 256. =20 2.33 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.... =20 %!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 =20 =20 Maybe somebody wants to write some kind of "pointer editor"? =20 2.34 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 =20 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. =20 =20 =20 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 3.0 (for --- you guessed it --- NEXTSTEP 3.0). I might also add that one can improve on disk usage while enhancing functionality. BuildDisk (which is used by the various BootFloppy scripts) just copies the standard binaries for ls, mv, cp aso. from /bin. These binaries are statically linked as shipped by NeXT which makes them huge. (e.g. /bin/ls is 106496 bytes large. /usr/local/bin/gls with more features is just 16268 bytes). If you replace these binaries by the BSD or GNU equivalents you can save several hundred kBytes on your boot floppy. This extra diskspace can be used for tar, dump and more tools which makes the boot floppy actually usable. Tested. =20 2.35 Are there any more dwrites useful for the workspace, ...? dwrite, misc =20 There a lot of dwrite useful for you. (self explainatory) =20 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 (ganz links) dwrite Workspace DockOnTop (0 or 1 for true or false) =20 dwrite appname NXCMYKAdjust YES dwrite Preferences 24HourClock yes =20 =20 2.36 What is the @LongLink message from gnutar all about? @LongLink gnutar =20 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. =20 2.37 What stands the file .place3_0.wmd for? .place3_0.wmd =20 The Workspace uses it to record the window attributes (sort order, view type, icon positions and so on) =20 Switching the 'UNIX Expert' flag in UNIX Preferences panel off hides all files which start by '.'. =20 3 BLACK (NEXT) HARDWARE =20 3.1 What disk drives will work with the NeXT? disk drives =20 Most SCSI disk drives will work without modifying /etc/disktab. =20 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] =20 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. =20 3.2 Will a 68030 NeXT Computer run NEXTSTEP 3.3? NS3.3 and 68030 =20 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. =20 3.3 Does a FUJITSU MO (256 MB) works with NeXT original Hardware? FUJITSU MO =20 Yes, they do =20 3.4 Can I run my SCSI-2 disks in synchronous mode? SCSI-2, synchronous synchronous mode =20 Quick answer is: No. The reason is that the NeXT does not support synchronous transfers from the SCSI bus. It does support SCSI-2 disks running in asynchronous mode, which all SCSI-2 disks must do. =20 3.5 How do I configure my HP 660 to boot properly? HP 660, boot boot, HP 660 =20 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. =20 The offical fix was an EPROM change to the HP drive from HP. The HP drives took too long to wait up, so the system wasn't happy with the other drives coming ready first especially when the HP was suppose to be the boot device. (The EPROM is no longer available from NeXT). =20 3.6 What is the procedure for installing a Fujitsu M2263SA/SB SCSI Disk as = the NeXT Boot Disk? Fujitsu M2263SA/SB =20 See Izumi Ohzawa's note in /pub/next/docs/fujitsu.recipe available via anonymous ftp from sonata.cc.purdue.edu. =20 3.7 How to mount a corrupted OD that won't automount? OD, corrupt OD, mount =20 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. =20 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. =20 3.8 What non-NeXT CD Players that work with a NeXT? CD-ROM, NeXT =20 A USENET survey summary: =20 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) =20 =20 As with all SCSI devices, they just work. Some drives only get problems with ther audio support with CD-Player (due to not standardized SCSI audio commands, but this isn't a NeXT specific problem!) =20 In contrary the question should be: are there SCSI CD-ROMs which don't work together with NEXTSTEP? =20 3.9 What are some other sources of toner cartridges and trays for the NeXT laser printer? toner, NeXT printer =20 The toner cartridge is a standard EP-S cartridge, the same that fits the HP LaserJet III and some other printers. =20 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 :-) =20 3.10 What printers (laser or otherwise) may be used with a NeXT? printers, on NeXT =20 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. =20 NeXT 68040 to HP LaserJet III Cable (not a Null-modem cable): =20 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) =20 =20 You may want to use hardware flow control for reliability (ie /dev/ttyfa). =20 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. =20 3.11 What can I do to prevent my NeXT printer from running all the time? printer, turning off =20 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: =20 if [ -f /usr/etc/nppower ]; then sleep 3 /usr/etc/nppower off (echo 'powering off NeXTprinter') >/dev/console fi =20 =20 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. =20 3.12 What type of microphones will work with the NeXT? microphone, NeXT =20 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). =20 3.13 How do I connect a modem to the NeXT? modem, on NeXT =20 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. =20 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....] =20 These cables are available commercially from any store, how still sells NeXTstuff, 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. =20 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. =20 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)). =20 A version of the DOS-programm pcomm can be found on ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de =20 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 =20 3.14 Are there any alternative sources for the SCSI-II to SCSI-I cable requ= ired to attach external SCSI devices to the 040 NeXTs? SCSI cable to NeXT =20 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). =20 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. =20 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. =20 3.15 What fax modems will work with the NeXT? fax modem, on NeXT =20 The following fax modems are currently available for the NeXT Computer: =20 Manufacturer, Model Supplier, Type DoveFax for NeXT, Dove Computer, Class 1 HSD FaxMaster, HSD Microcomputer, Class 2* mix fax, i=B7link 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) =20 =20 (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.) =20 (*) 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. =20 (**) 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). =20 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: =20 Class 1: CCITT T.30 session management and CCITT T.4 image data handling are controlled by the driver. =20 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. =20 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. =20 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. =20 An alternative workaround for Class 2, especially useful for novices: just use InterFax as the modem type in PrintManager, rather than Class 2*. =20 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. =20 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. =20 Modems from the german vendor Dr. Neuhaus also work with the internal Fax-Driver. But only the FURY-series does. =20 3.16 How may I attach more than two serial ports to the NeXT? serial port, >2 on NeXT =20 TTYDSP From Yrrid converts the DSP port into an additional serial port. =20 Yrrid Incorporated 507 Monroe St. Chapel Hill, NC 27516 Voice: 919-968-7858 Fax: 919-968-7856 Email: yrrid@world.std.com =20 =20 Unitnet has a device, the SLAT, that will connect to the scsi bus. =20 Uninet Perhipherals, Inc. Voice: 714-263-4222 Fax: 714-263-4299 =20 =20 Central Data Corporation makes the scsiTerminal Server family of products. =20 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: =20 Product DESCRIPTION =20 ST-1002+ 2 serial, 1 paralllel SP-1003 3 parallel ST-1008+ 8 serial, 1 parallel ST-1016 16 serial =20 =20 You can also mix and match multiple units. =20 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. =20 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. =20 3.17 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: =20 * 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. =20 * 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. =20 * The march 1992 INMAC networking and connectivity products catalog lists thicknet to thinnet convertors. Product number Z903071 price $445. Claims full ieee 802.3 comaptibility and diagnostic LED's. =20 =20 =20 3.18 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: =20 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. =20 i.link GmbH Nollendorfstrasse 11-12 D-1000 Berlin 30 Germany Tel: +49 30 216 20 48 Fax: +49 30 215 82 74 Email: info@ilink.de =20 =20 3.19 What color monitors can I use with the Color NeXT machines? monitor, color =20 The important specs for the color monitor are: =20 Horz Scan Rate: 61 KHz Vertical Scan Rate: 68 Hz Resolution: 1280x1024 (NeXT uses 1120x832) NON-INTERLACED =20 =20 Displays may require alignment to adjust for the scan rate of NeXT machines. =20 The Nanao T560i 17" color display has been used with NeXTstation Color machines, and seems to work well. =20 Some larger NEC displays have also worked. =20 3.20 Where can I get 13W3 to BNC adapters to connect third party color monitors? 13W3 to BNC BNC to 13W3 =20 You can get them from:NeXT/Bell Atlantic: part number S4025. =20 NuData in New Jersey carries 13W3 female to 4 BNC male connectors. The price is about $100. =20 NuData Voice: 908-842-5757 =20 =20 DISCLAIMER: I take no responsiblity for the following. If you can source the bits yourself here's how it's built. =20 1 female 13W3 connector 3 Male BNC connectors 3 mini coax ie. the pins to the coaxials are male and the regular pins are fema= le. Looks like this. . o o o o o . . 13W3 FEMALE A1 o o o o o A2 A3 | | | | | | | | | Red Green Blue 3 BNC's =20 =20 That's the coax part. The outer shielding of the coax's are grounded on both pin 10 and the case. =20 3.21 How may I attach Centronics or 16 bit wide parallel ports to the NeXT? centronics, NeXT parallel port, NeXT =20 Uninet has devices, the SLAT-2 and the SLAT-DRV11, that will connect to the scsi bus. =20 Uninet Peripherals, Inc. Voice: 714-263-4222 Fax: 714-263-4299 zardoz!sales@ics.uci.edu or uunet!ucivax!zardoz!sales =20 =20 3.22 Why does an unused serial port consume cpu? serial port, cpu power usage =20 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. =20 How do you avoid this problem? =20 * 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 =20 =20 =20 3.23 How to adjust MegaPixel Display brightness and focus? brightness, MegaPixel focus, MegaPixel =20 Adjust it using the following informations. =20 From: Charles William Swiger =20 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. =20 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. =20 (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.) =20 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. =20 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. =20 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. =20 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. =20 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. =20 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. =20 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. =20 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. =20 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. =20 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. =20 WARNING: DO NOT TOUCH THIS WIRE, IT CAN SHOCK YOU THROUGH ITS INSULATION. =20 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. =20 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. =20 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. =20 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. =20 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 :-) =20 3.24 I want to emulate a macintosh, how? MacIntosh, emulation emulation, MacIntosh =20 There is a nice way to run macintosh-software on your original black hardware. =20 It works fine with dual-headed cubes and is optmized for the Apple OS - Version 7.5. To get further informations about daydream, please contact: =20 QUIX Computerware AG 011-41-41-34-88-28 9 hour differential Luzernerstr.10 6030 Ebikon Switzerland Next software - 011-41-41-34-86-80 quix@applelink.apple.com =20 =20 3.25 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. =20 If you continually get messages like, "sorry, the printer is jammed" and you have to pull each page out the last inch, you probably need to replace the 14 tooth gear in the output stage(fuser ass'y). =20 You can see this gear before you disassemble the printer, so that is a good first step. Then read these instructions all the way through and see if you want to attempt it. Next recommends replacing the entire fuser assy ( big bucks) if the gear is damaged, but Chenesko, Inc., of Ronkonkoma, NY sells the gears for $2.31. The part number is RS1-0132. They recommended I also replace the 20 tooth gear, number RS1-0116, but I don't know if it is really necessary. Their phone number is 800-221-3516. =20 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. =20 There are two gears on the part of the delivery ass'y that swings down. The suspect gear engages the top one, but is mounted on the fixed portion of the fuser. Ours had several teeth missing and/or damaged. To get the gear off you have to remove the fuser ass'y. To remove the fuser you must open the printer lid fully, so it is straight up. To open the lid fully you must remove the case. To remove the case you must remove the plastic cover on the lid. =20 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. =20 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? =20 So, if you're ready, here we go. =20 * PREPARATION Most mere mortals will want to power down everything and disconnect the cables, etc. Remove the cartridge and paper trays, etc. =20 * REMOVE THE LID COVER open the lid and remove 3 screws. They DO NOT have any red paint on them. =20 * 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. =20 * 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 =3D 7, right? Say, who was the last guy that worked on this printer anyway? =20 The case has to be convinced that you really need to remove it, even when it is loose and all the screws are out. =20 * REMOVE THE FUSER ASS'Y You will need a PHILLIPS screwdriver for this, as with the previous steps. But you will need a LONG one this time. Three of the screws are pretty easy to find. Just study the lower part of the fuser, as it is screwed onto the bottom case. Two of the screws are inside. One is under the lid next to the gears, the other near the green cleaning tool. On the outside, in back, there is one on each side. One is under the white wires that connect the fuser to the 10 AMP circuit breaker, which is pretty near that gear, and close to the power input. Unplug that cable. Then remove the small black 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 fuser out the back of the printer. Be careful with it. =20 * DISASSEMBLE THE FUSER There are several screws and a spring. It's not too hard to take apart. You can see the gear, so you just have to take off the covers on that end of the ass'y to get to it. I should caution you that I had trouble putting them back on, because they have funny shapes and don't make a lot of sense. Plus I was tired, so I went home, ate dinner, played with the dog, went to bed, got up and ate breakfast before I put it back together. You might want to label some parts, make some drawings, etc. to reassure yourself that you can put the parts back just like they were. =20 * 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. =20 * 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! =20 =20 =20 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. =20 DISCLAIMER: BE CAREFILE IF YOU TRY THIS PROCEDURE. THERE ARE DANGEROUS VOLTAGES PRESENT, AND EVEN IF YOU ARE TOO CHICKEN TO WORK ON IT POWERED UP, YOU COULD CUT YOURSELF, OR DROP THE WHOLE THING ON YOUR FOOT, THUS VOIDING THE WARRANTY. ALSO, THE PRINTER WON=C2T WORK WITHOUT THE COVERS, BECAUSE THERE ARE TWO SECRET SWITCHES THAT INFORM THE NEXT CPU THAT SOMEONE "IS FOOLING AROUND WITH THE PRINTER AGAIN." =20 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. =20 3.26 What are the NeXT mouse connections? mouse, connector Read the following instruction. =20 Thanks to Alvin Austin (austin@cs.USask.Ca) I have the information I need on the NeXT mouse connections. =20 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 =20 =20 3.27 What type of memory may be installed in a NeXT? References: NeXTanswers' hardware.620, 92_spring_bulletin "Announcing NeXTstation Turbo and NeXTcube Turbo" =20 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 =20 =20 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. =20 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. =20 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. =20 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. =20 =20 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. =20 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) =20 =20 NeXT didn't officially bless the use of 8 MB SIMMs, but they seem to fit and work. =20 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 =20 =20 Faster SIMMS (70/80 ns) don't make the memory system work any faster than the 100 ns units. =20 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 =20 =20 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. =20 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=A9s print memory configuration command m. Start with your machine powered down. Press the Power key to power on. As soon as the message =AATesting system...=BA 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 boards=D0including new 25 MHz NeXTstations and all Turbo systems=D0will 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. =20 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. =20 "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. =20 3.28 What is the NeXT SIMM tool? SIMM Tool The tool came with 68040 upgrade kits for NeXTcubes. =20 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. =20 3.29 Where can I purchase a NeXT machine? Perchuse, NeXT NeXT, perchuse =20 NeXT discontinued manufacturing hardware in Feb, 1993. Used systems are often advertized in comp.sys.next.marketplace. =20 3.30 Where to obtain hardware service? service, hardware hardware, service =20 Hardware service can be obtained through the following firms: =20 USA hardware service has been purchased by Bell Atlantic. They will be supporting the Authorized Service Centers and are selling extended warranty contracts. =20 Bell Atlantic Computing Technology Services Voice: 800 499 6398, or 800 848 NeXT Fax: 510 732 3078 =20 =20 For Europe, please contact: =20 SORBUS 40549 D=F6sseldorf Willstaetter Strasse 13 =20 =20 3.31 What types of NeXT machines were manufactured? NeXT, types of cube section =20 There are two packagings: a cube, and a station. =20 * 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 =20 =20 Cube systems can use any of the boards. With hacks, multiple independent CPU boards can run in one cube. =20 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. =20 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. =20 * 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. =20 =20 =20 3.32 What can be done about older 030 NeXT cubes that have a fan that turns= in the "wrong" direction? fan, running wrong =20 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. =20 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. =20 Perhaps the best solution is obtain the cleaning kit and OD filter from NeXT. =20 3.33 Can I connect SONY MPX-111N to my 68030 NeXT Computer? SONY MPX-111N =20 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. =20 3.34 Why does the OD continually spin up and spin down? OD, spinning =20 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. =20 3.35 How many colors can NeXT machines display? NeXT, colors =20 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. =20 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. =20 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. =20 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. =20 3.36 Why is my machine so slow when I run the monochrome and NeXTdimension displays? speed, display display, speed drops =20 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. =20 3.37 Where to obtain replacement mouse parts? mouse, parts =20 From: jdavidso@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu =20 For those who have need of a new button in their mouse, and don't want to pay for the whole mouse when it is only the button that has gone bad, we have recently discovered a satisfactory replacement for the Omron switch. It is in the Digikey catalog, # 931, Jan-Feb 1993, page 141, under Cherry switches D4, DG, and DH series. Digikey part # CH164-ND, Cherry part # DG1C-B1AA. We ordered one of these, and just received it today. Tried it out, and it sems to be working flawlessly so far. =20 3.38 Where to obtain extra batteries? battery, perchuse perchuse, battery =20 Battery part number: BR 2/3A 3V Lithium Battery (Panasonic) Source: Engineered Assemblies & Components Corporation =20 5204 Green's Dairy Road Raleigh, NC 27604 Phone: 919-790-9700 (ask for Debra) =20 =20 3.39 How to convert a Turbo system to use ADB? ADB, turbo system =20 If ADB equipment are used with older NeXT systems they won't work properly. Here are the ADB requiments: =20 * A Turbo computer. * CPU eprom version 74. * New revision computer to soundbox/monitor cable. =20 The part number is molded at both ends of the connector: =20 Cable NEW OLD (Non ADB) =20 NeXTcube 4534 150 NeXTstation 4535 1532 NeXTstation color 4536 2286 =20 =20 * New revision monitor which uses a vertical scan rate of 72hz instead of 68hz, except on NeXTdimension systems color monitor stays 68hz. =20 Monitor NEW (72hz) OLD (68hz) =20 17" mono ACX (N4000b) AAA (N4000a \& N4000) 17" color ADF (N4006) ABG (N4001) 21" color ADB (N4005a) ABH (N4005) =20 =20 * ADB soundbox for color sytems. S/N prefix ADD instead of ABN. =20 =20 =20 3.40 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. =20 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! =20 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). =20 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. =20 The procedure: =20 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). =20 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!) =20 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. =20 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. =20 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). =20 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: =20 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 . . . =20 =20 ...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). =20 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): =20 SLOT 6 SLOT 2 SLOT 0 SLO= T 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 =20 =20 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)! =20 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. =20 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. =20 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) ... =20 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. =20 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). =20 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. =20 =20 =20 That's all folks. Hope all this made some sense and people find it useful. =20 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. =20 * 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. =20 =20 * I don't know what problems may arise when you add a board that uses the NeXTbus, such as the NeXTdimension, or how it will behave. If someone is courageous enough to perform the procedure and intalls another board, please post your results to the net. =20 =20 =20 Update: =20 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): =20 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). =20 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). =20 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)! =20 This is probably true also for booting from an OD that hasn't been inserted (assuming the OD was attached to the board). =20 4. Allow serial port A as alternate console if you want to view the boot process (for problems and peace-of-mind). =20 5. Other settings were not modified from their factory defaults or had no effect on the procedure. =20 =20 =20 There is also a way in using 2 boards plus NeXTDimension board in one Cube. =20 I've run my "screw with the backplane trick" cube with : =20 | <empty> | 32MB-ND | | 64MB-040 | 40MB-030 | =20 =20 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... =20 3.41 How to expand DSP memory? memory, DSP DSP, memory =20 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. =20 * 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. =20 * The price will be $600. Please let us know if you are interested. Delivery will be in about 3-4 weeks. =20 * Contact Tom Holton (th@ernie.sfsu.edu). E-mail is prefered. The address is: =20 Tom Holton Division of Engineering San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Avenue San Francisco, CA 94132 415 338 1529 (phone) 415 338 0525 (fax) NOTE: Because we've organized our memory as three separate (non-overlapping) banks (X, Y and P) of 192KB apiece, none of the DSP memory image functionality provided by NeXT with its existing 8K base configuration, or its 96KB DSP expansion module is supported. While we cannot guarantee that every existing DSP application ever written will be plug-and-play compatable with our DSP expansion memory, we are not aware of any existing applications that use the image functionality. The MusicKit, and demo programs that use the DSP, such as Mandlebrot and ScorePlayer, work fine with our memory module. =20 =20 =20 3.42 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. =20 There's a pinout diagram of the DB-19 in the NeXT Users Reference Manual. =20 If you have an old Cube, the power supply needs to have more power drawn from it than an 030 (and 040?) board uses to stay on. So: On the DB-19, attach a Power Resistor (20 Ohm, at least 20 Watt) between pins 12 and GND. (Pin 12 is -12V, pin 13 works well for GND). Then just "touch" the 470 ohm resistor as described above, and you're set. The 20 Ohm resistor draws an old 030 running monitorless in an old CUBE), but it isn't necessary - just don't touch it (*HOT!* ;-) =20 To power off, type "halt -p" as root on the machine (either through a terminal connected to port A, or over the eithernet connection). =20 Also, you have to have the Rom Monitor settings done correctly. The important ones are: =20 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). =20 =20 3.43 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. =20 Sprayon Paint Omni-Packblend 4Next-Black (icon black) LAV-16 25216 =20 =20 Call 1-800-777-2966 for the name of a dealer near you. =20 3.44 What makes aged NeXT monitors dim? monitor, dim =20 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. =20 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. =20 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. =20 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. =20 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. =20 If you read this far, you problably know more than you ever wanted to about CRT aging, but I hope this helps. =20 4 WHITE (INTEL) HARDWARE =20 4.1 What is the current status of NEXTSTEP/Intel? status, Intel The third production version 3.3, has been released. =20 4.2 What references are available for NEXTSTEP/Intel? references, Intel NeXT, Inc. now operates an automatic email responce system. Send email to "nextanswers@next.com" with the subject =20 "ascii help index" =20 =20 to start. =20 4.3 How does NEXTSTEP/Intel differ from NEXTSTEP on NeXT Computers? Intel, differences NeXT, differences =20 It doesn't. NEXTSTEP/Intel is a complete port of the NEXTSTEP software environment to Intel-based Computers. NEXTSTEP/Intel has the same User Interface, Development Environment, Applications, Networking (NFS, Novell), State of the Art Color, Mach UNIX, Display Postscript, 3D Renderman etc, etc. =20 4.4 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. =20 4.5 Can I use NEXTSTEP/Intel systems with my existing NeXT Computers? NeXT Intel =20 Of course! NEXTSTEP/Intel is design to plug and play with existing NeXT installations. NeXT has addressed interoperability between NEXTSTEP systems in the following ways: =20 * NEXTSTEP systems share identical networking capabilities. * NEXTSTEP systems share the same Distributed Objects. * NEXTSTEP systems use the same system and network administration services. * NEXTSTEP systems use the same mass storage format. Yes, you can take a external SCSI drive, removable media (ie Bernoulli etc) or floppy disk and use it interchangeably between NeXT Computers and NEXTSTEP/Intel systems. =20 =20 =20 4.6 How do I use applications compiled for both NeXT Computers and NEXTSTEP/Intel on the same network? Net, mixed apps, on dif. platforms =20 Simply. NEXTSTEP 3.1 includes a new feature called Multi-Architecture Binaries (so called "Fat" binaries). This capability allows developers to compile NEXTSTEP applications on multiple system architectures, and combine them into a single package. When an application is run, NEXTSTEP will extract the appropriate instructions for the local system, and run the application. This operation is completely transparent to the user, it just works! Most of the NEXTSTEP applications in the future will be delivered as Multi-Architecture Binaries. Tools are also provided to "Slim" binaries for use in a one architecture environment. =20 4.7 Do Multi-Architecture Binaries take a lot of extra disk space? MAB, disk space multi application binary, MAB =20 No. Most applications consist of one or more executable programs (with architecture dependent machine instructions) and a lot of text and data. This machine independent data is typically data files used by the application, help files, examples, internationalization etc. Since only the actual machine dependent portion of the application is duplicated, a two architecture application typically takes only about 20 If disk space is tight, tools are provided to "Slim" binaries for use in a single architecture environment. =20 As NEXSTEP is now also avaible for HP and SUN-Workstations, quadro-binaries do need more space than usal. Tools for deleting not used arch-code is included in the NEXTSTEP-environment. =20 4.8 How difficult is it to recompile existing NeXT applications over to NEXTSTEP/Intel? compile, re =20 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! =20 4.9 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 should be available in November. =20 4.10 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. =20 4.11 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. =20 4.12 How is NEXTSTEP/Intel installed? installation, Intel =20 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. =20 4.13 Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on 386 machines? 368 Intel 368 No. NEXTSTEP/Intel uses several 486 specific features that enhance the performance of NEXTSTEP. NEXTSTEP/Intel will support any true 486. =20 4.14 Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on the Cyrix 486SLC? 468SLC, Cyrix Cyrix, 468SLC NeXT states: No. The Cyrix chip not a true 486. several other users state: Yes. Slow performance, though. =20 4.15 Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on the future Intel Microprocessors in the x86 family? x68 Intel, x68 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. =20 4.16 Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on portable computers? portable computers =20 Yes. Many portables and notebooks with 486 CPU's and sufficient system resources (8+MB RAM and 120+MB hard disk space) are available. Since NEXTSTEP/Intel will support 640x480 VGA displays in grayscale, NEXTSTEP 486 can run on these systems. Do be aware that NEXTSTEP's user interface and applications were not designed for low-resolution screens, and consequently will impose limitations on the use of some applications. Also, typical battery management systems do not work with multi-tasking operating systems. Future versions of NEXTSTEP/Intel will provide driver support for portable-oriented peripherals such as pocket Ethernet, SCSI and Sound adapters and PC/MCIA cards. We expect additional device drivers for portable peripherals to be available in Q3-Q4 1993. Until drivers are available for portable SCSI adapters, NEXTSTEP/Intel can be installed on portables by using a docking station with SCSI adapter and CDROM. The docking station can then be used for a local area network card. NeXT is investigating future Intel microprocessors that may provide battery management support for advanced operating systems such as NEXTSTEP. =20 4.17 Will NEXTSTEP/Intel be able to run Microsoft DOS and Windows programs? MS-DOS Windows MS-Windows =20 Yes. NEXTSTEP/Intel will support a DOS and Windows compatibility package. This software will allow DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1 programs to run within a NEXTSTEP window. Support will include DOS "Protected" mode and Windows 3.1 "Standard" mode (Win-16). Support for Win-32 applications is planned for the second half of 1993. =20 4.18 Will DOS and Windows compatibility be included with NEXTSTEP/Intel? MS-DOS Windows MS-Windows A demo of SoftPC will be included with NEXTSTEP/Intel 3.2. =20 4.19 How will my DOS and Windows applications perform under NEXTSTEP/Intel? MS-DOS, performance Windows, performance MS-Windows, performance =20 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 will be part of the system. =20 4.20 Is the window I use to run Microsoft Windows applications resizable? Windows, size MS-Windwos, size =20 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. =20 4.21 Will this DOS/Windows compatibility system allow me to run several DOS programs at once? MS-DOS, multitasking =20 Yes. Since NEXTSTEP/Intel is a multi-tasking, virtual memory operating environment, several DOS/Windows sessions can be run at once. =20 4.22 Can I cut and paste between DOS/Windows sessions and NEXTSTEP applications? cut&paste, Windows cut&paste, MS-DOS cut&paste, MS-Windows =20 Yes. You can cut and paste text and graphics between DOS/Windows and NEXTSTEP applications. =20 4.23 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 =20 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. =20 Executive Summary: It is possible to install DOS, Windows NT with NTFS, and NEXTSTEP/FIP on the same disk, and select which partition is booted at boot time. =20 I spent some time experimenting with a 200MB SCSI disk. I wanted to see if the following configuration would be possible: =20 Partition 1 Primary DOS Partition 2 Extended DOS Partition 3 Windows NT NTFS Partition 4 NS/FIP 3.2 =20 =20 Since Windows NT requires at least 70MB for installation, and NS/FIP requires at least 120MB, there wasn't much room for DOS! Ultimately, I only tested a three partition system (DOS, NTFS, NS/FIP), but I have no reason to believe that the extended DOS wouldn't also work. =20 The recipe is as follows: =20 * Preparation. You need a bootable DOS floppy that has FORMAT.COM on it. You need another (blank) floppy for installing NT. =20 * Start with the NS/FIP installation. When it asks you how you want to configure your disk, it gives you three choices, which are basically 1. erase the whole disk and use it all for NS/FIP, 2. save some room for DOS, 3. advanced. Choose the advanced option, which places you in NS/FIP fdisk (not to be confused with DOS FDISK.EXE). * Create three partitions in this order: 1. Primary DOS (if more than 32MB desired, use the "large" FAT option) 2. HPFS (this is a placeholder for NT, and can be any non-DOS format) 3. NEXTSTEP * Proceed with the rest of the NEXTSTEP installation. =20 * When NEXTSTEP is safely installed and tested out, boot DOS from your bootable DOS floppy. =20 * 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. =20 * Once DOS is safely formated and tested out, insert the NT installation floppy and reboot. * Proceed with the NT installation. Tell Setup to install NT in the second partition (which shows up as "Unformatted"). You can select NTFS for FAT format. =20 * Insert the blank floppy when asked. Don't bother to format it, NT unconditionally formats it. =20 * 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. =20 * Finish setting up NT and test it out. It should be able to see the DOS partition in FileManager. =20 * Likewise, there should be a DOS filesystem in / on NS/FIP. If you configured NT for FAT instead of NTFS, there should be two DOS filesystems in /. =20 =20 =20 That's it. When you boot, you see the familiar NS/FIP multibooter. If you select DOS, it boots NT, which in turn offers you a chance to boot DOS or NT (not NS/FIP, of course). Kinda weird that you have this two tiered boot, but it's probably because the bootsector has been modified by NT. I haven't tried setting the active partition to DOS -- that might avoid the two tiers. =20 4.24 Can NEXTSTEP/Intel read, write, and format DOS and Mac floppies? MacIntosh, r/w floppy MS-DOS, r/w floppy Yes. =20 4.25 Does anyone know if NS/Intel will run on the AMD 486 chips or on the NextGen 586 chips? AMD 468 468, AMD NextGen, 586 586, NextGen =20 AMD 486 chips do work fine with NEXTSTEP. =20 4.26 NSI 3.1, DOS, Linux/NT multi-boot system? mulit OS boot Linux MS-DOS OS/2 boot manager dual boot =20 The OS/2 boot manager does this nicely. Below is our in-house procedure developed by Richard Low, here at Duke. =20 NOTES ON INSTALLING DOS, OS/2 AND NEXTSTEP FOR DUAL BOOT =20 * Boot OS/2 from diskette and press Escape to get to the [A:] command prompt =20 * 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 REAMAINING 460+MB FREE SPACE UNFORMATTED DO NOT CREATE A PARATITION FOR THE REAMAINING SPACE =20 * Re-boot the machine and boot DOS from diskette. =20 * Format drive C: and install DOS on drive C: with the following command: format c: /s /u =20 * Now Re-boot the machine with the OS/2 Installation diskette. =20 * 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. =20 * After OS/2 has been installed shutdown the system. Do a cold power off boot. =20 * Cold boot the machine with the NEXTSTEP boot diskette. =20 * Proceed with normal NEXTSTEP install and you should get the following disk installation option screen: =20 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). =20 ---> =20 =20 Choose option number 3 and proceed with the NEXTSTEP install =20 * After NEXTSTEP has been installed, re-boot the machine and select 'd' from the NEXTSTEP boot manager menu to boot DOS. =20 * When DOS has booted, run the FDISK program to set the active partition to the first partition, the BOOT Manager partition. Then exit fdisk. =20 * 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. =20 * Now re-boot the machine and the boot manager should come up. Select OS/2 =20 * Once OS/2 has booted, run the OS/2 FDISK program and name the NEXTSTEP partition and add it to the boot manager menu. =20 * 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. =20 =20 =20 4.27 NeXTSTEP on INTEL, KEYBOARD-ERROR ... keyboard error, Intel =20 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 dosn't eleminate the error (advise from I-Guide). =20 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=3DDefault will work properly as well. You should be able to remove the driver without reinstalling. =20 4.28 NS 3.2 Tseng ET4000 Video Driver doesn't work. ET4000, NS3.2 =20 TSENG Cards often have different DACs and BIOS-Versions. It is important, that the GraphicsCard do have the original BIOS from TSENG Laps. Otherwise, it is not possible to run NS with the 1024 x 768 resolution. =20 4.29 Accessing ROM monitor on Intel-System, how? ROM-Monitor, Intel On Intel you just type -s at the boot: prompt. (the instructions in the docs are for black hardware). Also try ctl-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. =20 4.30 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). =20 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. =20 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. =20 4.31 Do EIDE-Drives work with NEXSTEP? EIDE =20 Yes, a driver is included in NEXTSTEP 3.3 =20 4.32 Anyone have a driver yet that does 8 bit color on an ET4000/w32p card? (Hercules Dynamite Pro VLB) ET4000/w32p, 8 Bit color =20 Here's a trick that will work with 3.3 if the driver works with your adapter. You need the latest driver though. =20 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!!! =20 4.33 Does a Glidepoint pointing device works with NEXTSTEP? Glidepoint =20 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. =20 4.34 AppleTalk under NSIP? AppleTalk, Intel IPT has a product called Partner, which works fine under 3.3 and mounts AppleShare Volumes, supports AT printing etc. =20 5 STORAGE =20 5.1 Disktab help needed: ST15230N disktab ST15230N Seagate, ST15230 =20 This is the /etc/disktab entry for the SEAGATE ST15230N. =20 ST15230N_1024|SEAGATE ST15230N_1024:\ :ty=3Dfixed_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=3Dsdmach:z0#32:z1#96:hn=3Dlocalhost:ro=3Da:\ :pa#0:sa#512000:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#8:da#4096:ra#10:oa=3Dtime:\ :ia:ta=3D4.3BSD:\ :pb#512000:sb#512000:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#8:db#4096:rb#10:ob=3Dtime:\ :ib:tb=3D4.3BSD:\ :pc#1024000:sc#716800:bc#8192:fc#1024:cc#8:dc#4096:rc#10:oc=3Dtime:= \ :ic:tc=3D4.3BSD: \ :pd#1740800:sd#1536000:bd#8192:fd#1024:cd#8:dd#4096:rd#10:od=3Dtime= :\ :id:td=3D4.3BSD: \ :pe#3276800:se#1150000:be#8192:fe#1024:ce#8:de#4096:re#10:oe=3Dtime= :\ :ie:te=3D4.3BSD: =20 =20 5.2 Formatting DEC DSP3105 with 1024-byte blocks. DEC, DSP3105 DPS3105, 1024 block size disktab =20 A DEC DSP3160S was reformatted with 1024-byte blocks using the following entry in /etc/disktab (two partitions) =20 # DEC DSP3160S DSP3160S|DEC DSP3160S|DEC DSP3160S w/1024 b/sec as 2 partition:\ :ty=3Dfixed_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=3Dsdmach:z0#32:z1#96:r0=3Da:\ :pa#0:sa#744000:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#7:da#4096:ra#10:oa=3Dtime:\ :ia:ta=3D4.3BSD:\ :pb#744000:sb#818400:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#7:db#4096:rb#10:ob=3Dtime:\ :ib:tb=3D4.3BSD: =20 =20 5.3 How much disk space is lost due to formatting and file system overhead? filesystem, overhead disk space space, disk filesystem, space =20 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? =20 400 * 1000 * 1000 =3D 400,000,000 bytes 400 * 1024 * 1000 =3D 409,600,000 bytes 400 * 1024 * 1024 =3D 419,430,400 bytes =20 =20 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. =20 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. =20 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%. =20 To complete the picture, here's a snapshot of what may occur: =20 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 =20 =20 For more information, refer to the df and mkfs man pages. =20 5.4 Initialing Opticals for NeXT OD, NeXT optical disk, OD OD, initializing =20 Do the following: =20 /etc/mkfs /dev/rsd1a 288339 1803 2 8192 1024 12 10 60 4096 t =20 =20 5.5 How to install Tandberg streamer on Intel? Tandberg, streamer streamer, Tandber streamer, Intel =20 Using Configure.app add the SCSI streamer support driver in the "Others" config. =20 6 PRINTING =20 6.1 What printers (laser or otherwise) may be used with NEXTSTEP? printer, NeXT =20 Adding supported postscript printers is rather simple: =20 * 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). =20 =20 =20 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). =20 LaserJet_III: \ :note=3DLaserJet_III:ty=3DHP LaserJet III PostScript: \ :sd=3D/usr/spool/NeXT/LaserJet_III:lp=3D/dev/ttyfa: \ :lf=3D/usr/adm/lpd-errs:af=3D/usr/adm/lp.acct:br=3D19200:rw:fc\#000= 0374: \ :fs\#0000003:xc\#0:xs\#0040040:mx\#0:sf:sb:if=3D/usr/lib/transcript= /psif: \ :of=3D/usr/lib/transcript/psof:gf=3D/usr/lib/transcript/psgf: \ :nf=3D/usr/lib/transcript/psnf:tf=3D/usr/lib/transcript/pstf: \ :rf=3D/usr/lib/transcript/psrf:vf=3D/usr/lib/transcript/psvf: \ :cf=3D/usr/lib/transcript/pscf:df=3D/usr/lib/transcript/psdf: =20 =20 HP printer configuration: =20 auto cont =3D off (doesn't matter) I/O =3D serial serial=3Drs-232 (for LJ III only) baud rate =3D 19200 (or whatever baud rate you have in ni database/printcap) robust xon =3D on (doesn't matter) dtr polarity =3D hi startpage =3D off (doesn't matter) language=3Denglish ret =3D med (you choose for LJ III only) =20 =20 Note that if you modify the printcap this way you cannot reconfigure this particular printer entry with PrintManager. =20 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. =20 6.2 What fonts can I use with NEXTSTEP? fonts =20 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. =20 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 . =20 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. =20 WSI-Fonts for NEXTSTEP \#1 Abstract Software POB 25045 Seattle, WA 98125-1945 Voice: 206 361 5080 info@abstractsoft.com =20 =20 Trilithon Software is an Adobe-authorised reseller for Adobe Type 1 fonts. =20 Trilithon Software, Two Ohlone Portola Valley, California 94028. Telephone: (415) 325-0767 FAX: (415) 325-0768 E-mail: info@trilithon.com =20 =20 Some fonts in Type 1 format for NEXTSTEP are also available from Y&Y: =20 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 =20 =20 Trilithon Software supplies utilities to convert and install Macintosh or PC fonts to NEXTSTEP format. =20 * MacToPfa: a Mac to NeXT font converter and installer. * PfbToPfa: a PC to NeXT font converter and installer. =20 =20 =20 6.3 How can I save my printable documents to a postscript file? PS to file =20 Select PRINT from the main menu, then select SAVE from the resulting print panel. =20 6.4 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 =20 I wish print on both sides by feeding the paper through twice. =20 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. =20 psutils from comp.sources.misc is a much better solution, and includes alot more capabilities, plus it is being updated constantly. =20 6.5 How do I get banner pages on my printer output? banner =20 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: =20 /usr/lib/NextPrinter/banner.pro =20 =20 Save out the netinfo modifications. =20 6.6 How do I get [la]TeX files to print correctly on non-NeXT printers? Latex TeX =20 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 =20 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. =20 6.7 What if I have a PostScript font has not been ported to NEXTSTEP? PS-Font to NeXT =20 Many PostScript fonts port to NEXTSTEP with little effort. =20 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. =20 Suppose you were porting the font family Shalom, which consists of three faces: Old Style, Stick and Script. Here is the procedure to follow: =20 =20 * In a working folder of yours, create folders called: =20 Shalom-OldStyle.font Shalom-Script.font Shalom-Stick.font =20 =20 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. =20 * 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: =20 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 =20 =20 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. =20 * Do the same thing with the font metric files, but make the suffix ".afm": =20 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 =20 =20 * 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. =20 * 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: =20 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". =20 First, find the lines: =20 /FullName (ShalomOldStyle) readonly def /FamilyName (ShalomOldStyle) readonly def and change them to: =20 /FullName (Shalom Old Style) readonly def /FamilyName (Shalom) readonly def =20 =20 Then, replace all remaining occurrences of the string "ShalomOldStyle" with "Shalom-OldStyle". =20 + Editing the AFM file, e.g., Shalom-OldStyle.font/Shalom-OldStyle.afm. =20 Find the lines: =20 FullName ShalomOldStyle FamilyName ShalomOldStyle and change them to: =20 FullName Shalom Old Style FamilyName Shalom Replace all remaining occurrences of the string "ShalomOldStyle" with "Shalom-OldStyle". =20 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): =20 mkdirs ~/Library/Fonts mv Shalom-*.font ~/Library/Fonts buildafmdir ~/Library/Fonts =20 =20 If everybody on your system should have access to this font family, place it (as superuser) in /LocalLibary/Fonts: =20 su mkdirs /LocalLibrary/Fonts mv Shalom-*.font /LocalLibrary/Fonts buildafmdir /LocalLibrary/Fonts exit =20 =20 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?]. =20 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. =20 =20 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. =20 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). =20 Perform the following changes in the outline font file (the font CyrillicGothic is used as the example): =20 =20 =20 * Find the line "%%EndProlog". It will be followed by the line like this: =20 /\$CyrillicGothic 23 dict def \$CyrillicGothic begi= n =20 =20 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: =20 \$CyrillicGothic begin =20 =20 * Go back to the beginning of the file. near the top of the font program, find the following lines: =20 userdict/Fog3.1 known\{\{currentfile( )readstring \{(\%\%\%)eq\{exit\}if\}{pop exit\}ifelse\}= loop \}if userdict begin/Fog3.1 45 dict def Fog3.1 begin =20 =20 and replace them with these: =20 /\$CyrillicGothic 24 dict def \$CyrillicGothic begin/Fog3.1 45 dict def Fog3.1 be= gin =20 =20 The number before 'dict' (in this case, 24) is one greater than the number you wrote down in the previous step. =20 * Find the line that defines procedure BuildChar: =20 /BuildChar{Fog3.1/BuildChar get exec}def and change it as follows: =20 /BuildChar{1 index begin Fog3.1/BuildChar get exec end}def =20 =20 * Go to the end of the file. The last line looks like this: =20 /CyrillicGothic findfont/EFN get Fog3.1 begin\{RF\}forall e= nd Delete it (or comment it out by placing one or more " beginning of it). =20 The AFM file requires one adjustment. Change the line =20 EncodingScheme AppleStandard to =20 EncodingScheme AdobeStandardEncoding =20 =20 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. =20 6.8 What color printers (laser or otherwise) may be used with NEXTSTEP? printer, color =20 The (no longer sold) NeXT/Canon SCSI color printer, of course! =20 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). =20 You can get more information from: =20 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 =20 =20 JetPilot from Interpersonal Computer does this jobs also very well. You can get more information from: =20 interpersonal computing GmbH Oettingenstrasse 2 W-80538 Muenchen Germany Voice: +49 89 22 28 63 Fax: +49 89 22 33 76 info@interpc.de =20 =20 6.9 How can I make the Page Layout default to A4 in all applications? A4 default size =20 Add "NXPaperType A4" in the "GLOBAL" preferences. =20 6.10 /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/pstf: syntax error at line 31: `end of fil= e' unexpected? =20 =20 Using lpr -t, or lpr -d causes this problem. eg: =20 [...] cat /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/pstf [...] =20 =20 Christopher Lane has pointed out 3 (three!) errors in the distributed NEXTSTEP 3.0 lpd.comm file =20 The last change is my own. It worked for the 1 (one!) dvi file I tried. =20 tilley\% diff lpd.comm.DIST lpd.comm 11,12c11,12 < while "x\$1" !=3D x do < case "\$1" in --- > while test \$\# !=3D 0 > do case "\$1" in 16c16 < -h) HOST=3D\$"; shift;; --- > -h) HOST=3D\$2; shift;; 17a18 > esac 21c22 < PRSERVER=3D"/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/prserver -p \$PRINTER -n = \$USER -h HOST -f -" --- > PRSERVER=3D"/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 ;; =20 =20 6.11 How to get TeX with NEXTSTEP to make proper fonts for a 600 dpi laserwriter? 600dpi TeX fonts TeX, 600dpi =20 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: =20 * 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. =20 * Build a new mf.base file by executing the following commands: =20 inimf "plain; input next; dump" (as superuser): cp plain.base /usr/lib/mf/bases/mf.base =20 =20 * 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.) =20 * Edit /usr/bin/MakeTeXPK (as superuser), adding the lines =20 elif test $BDPI =3D 600 then MODE=3DlaserjetIV right before the second `else' in the file. =20 =20 =20 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. =20 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. =20 6.12 How to get printer description files (PPD)? PPD, where? printer description files, PPD =20 Adobe has a mail server and ftp site where you can get .PPD files. They are: =20 ps-file-server@adobe.com (put "send help" in the mail body) ftp.mv.us.adobe.com =20 =20 6.13 What are the Canon part numbers for ink cartridges equivalent to those NeXT's Color Printer uses? ink cartridge, Canon Canon, ink cartridge =20 Part Numbers are: =20 Red: BJI-643 M Yellow: BJI-643 Y Blue: BJI-643 C Black: BJI-643 Bk =20 =20 6.14 JetPilot does not work with my JetDirect box, why? JetPilot, JetDirect JetDirect, JetPilot =20 It seems, that there is a bug in the /etc/rc-script. The bootpd is given with to arguments -a -f, which are not avaible for the bootpd under 3.3. =20 Make an entry in /etc/bootptab like this: =20 \# \# host htype haddr iaddr bootfile \# printer 1 XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX =20 =20 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) =20 =20 =20 Entries have to be done also in the Netinfo-database. It's like adding a new host. =20 Insert the following line to your etc/rc.local script: =20 \# \# Starting JetDirect-Printer configuration \# fbshow -B -I "Starting Printer initialisation" -z 92 /usr/etc/bootpd -d /etc/bootptab >/dev/console 2>\&1 =20 =20 6.15 powering down NeXTprinter during bootup, printer still works power down, printer printer, printer down =20 Type the following to your rc.local. =20 \#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/conso= le fi =20 =20 This works fine... the printer powers down immediately, and is availible for any app which wants it. =20 6.16 How to set up the HP LaserJet 4M? HP Laserjet 4M =20 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. =20 Emulex offers the NETJet network interface which speaks lpd protocol, unlike the HP unit. =20 6.17 Laserwriter NTX & NEXSTEP Laserwriter NTX =20 This are the pin assignments. =20 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 =20 =20 The other aspect is to set the DIP switch on the printer. Here are the DIP switch settings: =20 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 =20 =20 Switches 3 and 4 can probably be ignored---they're for strange stuff like Diablo 630 and HP LaserJet emulation modes. =20 Switch 5 Switch 6 Meaning DOWN DOWN XON/XOFF UP UP XON/XOFF DOWN UP ETX/ACK UP DOWN DSR --=20 Bernhard Scholz (IRC: Boerny) =20 scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de http://peanuts.leo.org/ =20 scholz@ve1.rm.op.dlr.de http://www.leo.org/~scholz/
From: Matthias Imhof <mgi@ERL.MIT.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: wanted: paradigm shift / david briggmann Date: 25 Jan 1996 16:31:52 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Message-ID: <4e8b9o$9rb@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> hello, i am trying to contact paradigm shift or david briggmann does anyone out there have a recent address or telephone number? yours, matthias imhof -- ************************************************************************** * Matthias G.Imhof phone: (617) 253 7835 * * MIT Earth Resource Lab E34/370 fax: (617) 253 6385 * * 42 Carlton St email: mgi@erl.mit.edu * * Cambridge MA 02142-1324 http://www-erl.mit.edu/~mgi/homepage.html * * There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark * **************************************************************************
From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Newsgroups: de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: The NeXT-FAQ available! (Addendum) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 20:16:18 +0100 Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960125201037.7370A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII One thing I missed in my previous Part I posting: You can get even more FAQ access by using the following link: http://peanuts.leo.org/further/NeXTMisc.html It includes links to download the FAQs, get postscript versions etc. For mirror sites, I decided to put a complete mirror of this HTML section on our FTP site: peanuts.leo.org:/pub/comp/platforms/next/Documents/NeXTFAQ-html/* Greetings, Boerny. -- Bernhard Scholz (IRC: Boerny) scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de http://peanuts.leo.org/ scholz@ve1.rm.op.dlr.de http://www.leo.org/~scholz/
From: yut@ecn.purdue.edu (Greg Yut) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Indexes for Digital Librarian Date: 25 Jan 1996 18:02:04 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <4e8gis$ae4@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <4e7q14$bsf@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> I have what I think is a different problem with Digital Librarian. After many months (or years) of trouble-free use, the indices for the standard NeXT targets are no longer visible. That is, I can not see "the circle with the I inside" adjacent to the target icon. Yes, the .index.store files are still there and are visible to root and other users, but not to one particular user account. Re-indexing the targets with a variety of different flags doesn't seem to solve the problem. After some trial and error, the "fix" is to make the index.store file writable by group and others. I must have munged something in this account, but I can't figure out what. Anybody know what's going on? If it matters, I'm running NS 3.2 on a mono NeXTstation. Thanks for any help. Greg
From: briman101@aol.com (BriMan101) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: US-CA - Senior NeXT Developers and NeXT Developers - to 90k + Date: 25 Jan 1996 13:45:50 -0500 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <4e8j4u$fff@newsbf02.news.aol.com> My client currently uses NEXTSTEP as its major development environment for mission critical financial systems. Due to continues company growth my client current needs several NeXT professionals to fill key positions in their top development group. *Project Leader * Architect, design, develop and enhance large NeXT applications using O-O design methods. Must have a 4 to 5 years experience in NeXTSTEP, Objective-C, Sybase or Oracle. B.S or M.S degree and a strong technology background. Authority to work in the U.S *NeXT Developers* Design and develop small and large NeXT based systems. Must have a minimum of two years NeXTSTEP experience, with good Objective-C and some Sybase or Oracle skills. B.S degree Authority to work in the U.S All candidates will receive an excellent salary package that will include base + benefits + 96' bonus. Contact: Brian Mitchell Datacom Technology Group Inc 212-629-5720 212-629-3374(FAX)
From: Puchau Jara <cur3n83> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: (no subject) Date: 25 Jan 1996 16:32:15 GMT Organization: Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain Message-ID: <4e8baf$c0f@acebo.sdi.uam.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I am a spanish new NeXTStation owner with a very few programs and I wonder if someone can tell me where can I find free software (ftp´s,WWW,etc...) like C++ compilators (gnu,...) and information (¿How can I find drivers for the ethernet card it includes?). Mail me to Alejandro.Puchau@neptuno1.ii.uam.es Thanks.
From: nickl@mit.edu (J. Nicholas Laneman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Booting Single User? NeXT Computer, NS 1.0? Date: 25 Jan 1996 21:09:55 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Message-ID: <4e8rj3$f6g@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> We have an old NeXT Computer running NS 1.0 (I think, certainly not 3.3 or anything like that). There's something wrong with the configuration, and the boot gets stuck with the message "Starting System Services." I know there is some key combination to bring up the monitor program, allowing me to boot in single user. Can anyone tell me this key combination, and what commands to type to boot single user? Thanks very much, Nick Laneman Digital Signal Processing Group MIT
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: mimencode(1) program / Nathaniel Borenstein's metamail package. Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 09:50:48 -0500 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960125094256.4443R-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Procmail Mailing List <procmail@informatik.rwth-aachen.de> 'man procmailex' has a reference to mimencode which it claims I can get as part of Mathaniel Borenstein's 'metamail' package. Anyone know where I can find this? Anyone in the NeXT world have it compiled for m68k? thanks TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Swapfile and Swapdisk FAQ available via email! Send email with subject: 'send_info' for more info or with subject 'send_swapfaq' to receive the FAQ. NeXT PPP Mailing List: nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com
From: Technical Options <toi@mcs.com> Newsgroups: tx.jobs,pdaxs.jobs.computers,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,chi.jobs Subject: So. Cal: (619) Next Objective C S/W Developers Date: Thu, 25 Jan 96 04:29:26 PDT Organization: MCSNet Internet Services Message-ID: <NEWTNews.31559.822574780.Postmaster@toi.mcs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Multiple positions: S/W Engineers to S/R S/W Engineers Salary commenurate with experience, 40-90K Plus bonus. Desired Skills: Nextstep, Objective C, Sybase, Interface Builder & Next development tools The candidate should have 2-5 years plus experience. Eligible candidate should have the following skills: 1) Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously 2) Ability to work under pressure in time critical situations 3) Problem solving and analytical capabilities Knowledge of one of the following: - Financial Derivatives Business - Currency Options Pricing - Risk Management - Interest Rate Derivatives Contact Mike Hartnett for more information; Technical Options, Inc P-708.357.9400 toi@mcs.com F-708.357.9411
From: fordp@polaris.net (Perrone Ford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Booting Single User? NeXT Computer, NS 1.0? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Date: 25 Jan 1996 18:44:28 -0500 Organization: Polaris Network, Inc. Message-ID: <4e94ks$ftr@nexus.polaris.net> References: <4e8rj3$f6g@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> J. Nicholas Laneman (nickl@mit.edu) wrote: : We have an old NeXT Computer running NS 1.0 (I think, certainly not : 3.3 or anything like that). There's something wrong with the : configuration, and the boot gets stuck with the message "Starting : System Services." I know there is some key combination to bring up the : monitor program, allowing me to boot in single user. Can anyone tell : me this key combination, and what commands to type to boot single : user? you need to get into the nmi monitor....which you do by pressing the RIGHT "command" key and the ~ key on the numberic keypad. Once there .. the command to boot single user is b -s things you should know.. When in the Monitor your prompt will be "NeXT>" NeXT> b <- This will boot from the normal boot device NeXT> b -s <- This will boot single user mode from the normal boot device NeXT> bsd <- This will boot from the first SCSI disk NeXT> bsd(1,0,0) <- This will boot from the second SCSI disk.. Need more info?? Drop a line... -- <-----------------------------------------------------------> Perrone Ford 1320 Terrace St. HighTime Web Development Tallahassee, FL 32303 (904) 222-0620 or 681-6322 hightime@polaris.net
From: fordp@polaris.net (Perrone Ford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Seek PC program: .WAV --> NeXT .SND Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Date: 25 Jan 1996 18:56:00 -0500 Organization: Polaris Network, Inc. Message-ID: <4e95ag$gsf@nexus.polaris.net> References: <4e190m$634@zinc.Mlink.NET> Patrick O'Connell (titanide@Mlink.NET) wrote: : Hi, : Any suggestions for a DOS or Windows-based program are welcome -- I'm not : fascistic about either, and am not running Windoze 95. And yes, we know : about GISO -- he has the sources but has not compiled them yet. Tell your bud that he can get a "compiled version of GISO from ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/sound/GISO.MAB.v3.3.tar.gz no muss, no fuss. And it works like a charm... -- <-----------------------------------------------------------> Perrone Ford 1320 Terrace St. HighTime Web Development Tallahassee, FL 32303 (904) 222-0620 or 681-6322 hightime@polaris.net
From: blazek@entropy2.stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: HELP: Dim NeXT mono monitor Date: 26 Jan 1996 00:49:53 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <4e98fh$1re8@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Hi all, would anybody know what to do with a dim mono monitor for my NeXT cube? I don't know if it is ADB or not, not even what that means. I just need to have it fixed or replaced. Is there someone who fixes those? Does anybody have their good monitor for sale? Or is there a way haw I could fix that by myself (like adjusting some resitance somewhere inside) ? Any help would be really appreciated since my eyes are getting hurt ... Thanks, have a nice day. Rudy Blazek blazek@stt.msu.edu
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: mimencode(1) program / Nathaniel Borenstein's metamail package. Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 12:33:01 -0500 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960125123224.9893C-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960125094256.4443R-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960125094256.4443R-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> On Thu, 25 Jan 1996, Timothy J. Luoma wrote: > > 'man procmailex' has a reference to mimencode which it claims I can get > as part of Mathaniel Borenstein's 'metamail' package. > > Anyone know where I can find this? > > Anyone in the NeXT world have it compiled for m68k? OOps, actually this I'd like for Intel, not m68k. Anyone? TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Swapfile and Swapdisk FAQ available via email! Send email with subject: 'send_info' for more info or with subject 'send_swapfaq' to receive the FAQ. NeXT PPP Mailing List: nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com
From: michal@gortel.phys.ualberta.ca (Michal Jaegermann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: pppd ran as daemon Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Date: 26 Jan 1996 04:29:43 GMT Organization: Disorganized Bits Distribution: world Message-ID: <4e9lbn$1bo0@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <4djq0k$1e7@news.petrel.ch> Jacques Garbi (jacques.garbi@colombus.ch) wrote: : Being recently connected to the Net through a leased line, I'd like to be able : to start a PPP connection as soon as the computer is turned on. ... : If the PPP connection fail at one time or another, will it affect other : applications, or the system itself ? For that how 'bout running it from /etc/ttys instead of getty on this port? 'init' will take care of it. --mj
From: clkeele@honors.uoregon.edu (Clifford Keele) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: Re: HELP: Dim NeXT mono monitor Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 04:24:17 GMT Organization: Robert D. Clark Honors College Message-ID: <clkeele.308.31085771@honors.uoregon.edu> References: <4e98fh$1re8@msunews.cl.msu.edu> In article <4e98fh$1re8@msunews.cl.msu.edu> blazek@entropy2.stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) writes: >From: blazek@entropy2.stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek)>Subject: HELP: Dim NeXT mono monitor >Date: 26 Jan 1996 00:49:53 GMT >Hi all, > would anybody know what to do with a dim mono monitor for my NeXT cube? I >don't know if it is ADB or not, not even what that means. I just need to >have it fixed or replaced. > Is there someone who fixes those? Does anybody have their good monitor for >sale? Or is there a way haw I could fix that by myself (like adjusting some >resitance somewhere inside) ? > Any help would be really appreciated since my eyes are getting hurt ... >Thanks, have a nice day. >Rudy Blazek >blazek@stt.msu.edu Check out the FAQ page for NeXT hardware http://peanuts.leo.org/NeXTFAQ.073.html http://peanuts.leo.org/NeXTFAQ.094.html These should give you info on the problem, and a possible method for at least improving it.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.soft-sys.nextstep From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby) Subject: Re: There MUST be a way to use sz and rz with tip! Message-ID: <DLs61E.AtM@sounds.wa.com> Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA References: <4d48m1$lmg@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> <4dk32e$q4o@news.vanderbilt.edu> Distribution: usa Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 08:53:38 GMT In article <4dk32e$q4o@news.vanderbilt.edu>, Thomas Katzlberger <katzlbt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu> wrote: >My personal experience is that there is NO way to use tip with rz/sz >tip just provides a ONE WAY pipe (as far as I saw when messing with >the sourcecode) and rz/sz need a full-duplex connection to work. >It is even a hard thing to test rz/sz on one host as you have to >substitute a socket for one connection of and a pipe for the other. > >Maybe there were different versions of sz/rz but I never got one >that was able to work half duplex. Yes, there are different versions of sz/rz - I have m68k binaries which work with tip as shipped by NeXT. I tried the modified tip sources that are available, but I had no luck in getting that to work (surprisingly, since I've been able to get everything else like this to work :-() Basically, there is an extra argument "-1" which you must provide on the command line when calling rz or sz from tip. It works like a charm. There might even be sources for this, but I haven't had to think about it since '92. -- Brian Willoughby Software Design Engineer, BSEE from NCSU NeXTmail welcome Sound Consulting: Software Design and Development BrianW@SoundS.WA.com Bellevue, WA <http://nwlink.com/cyberartists/brianw/brianw.html>
From: filip@filtronix.eunet.be (Filip Lingier) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: mimencode(1) program / Nathaniel Borenstein's metamail package. Date: 26 Jan 1996 20:22:37 GMT Organization: Filtronix Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ebd6d$bu@andromeda.filtronix.eunet.be> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960125123224.9893C-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> In article <Pine.NXT.3.91.960125123224.9893C-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> writes: > On Thu, 25 Jan 1996, Timothy J. Luoma wrote: >> 'man procmailex' has a reference to mimencode which it claims I >> can get as part of Mathaniel Borenstein's 'metamail' package. >> Anyone know where I can find this? >> Anyone in the NeXT world have it compiled for m68k? > OOps, actually this I'd like for Intel, not m68k. Maybe if one of you two included a pointer to the original sources? Filip -- ---------------------------- FILTRONIX ----------------------------- |-- --- \ / Software Development - OpenStep|Windows|X11 |- | X Web Design & Development - HTML|CGI|WOF|JAVA | | / \ ---> info@filtronix.eunet.be
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: gerold@ariel.infodesign.ch (Gerold Rupprecht) Subject: Re: Copying DOS download file to DOS formatted disk under NS3.3 Message-ID: <DLt5vH.A19@eunet.ch> Sender: usenet@eunet.ch Organization: A customer of EUnet AG, Switzerland References: <4dvbhg$p36@saba.info.ucla.edu> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 21:47:40 GMT In article <4dvbhg$p36@saba.info.ucla.edu> gq (G. Quinonez) writes: > Hello everyone. > > Ive been getting a message that reads: > > File error for /diamond/gtw.exe: Invalid argument > > Diamond is the name of the DOS formatted disk under NSFIP. I formatted this > diskette with the workspace manager using initialize and named it Diamond. > The file that I downloaded(using OmniWEB beta 2) from the net was a DOS > executable file called GTW.EXE and initially opens as ascii file using > Edit.app. Then I try to use "save as" from the Edit menu and try to save > it to the diskette and I get the message as above. > > Then, I saved the file to the hard drive, and tried to drag it to the DOS > diskette and I got the Processes panel and said again... > File error for /diamond/gtw.exe: Invalid argument > > Then STOP and Proceed buttons appear. I choose stop of course. > > Can anyone show me the correct way to download a DOS or Mac file in > NeXTStep3.3 FIP and save it to a respectively formatted disk under NeXT. > Thanks to whoever responds. > Please email to my address quinonez@ucla.edu > ==================================================== > G. Quinonez NeXTStep 3.3 FIP > __ "I'm not sure we understand everything > /\__/\ we know about this." > \/__\/ Charles M. Abernathy, Sr. > ==================================================== > NeXTMail/MIME: quinonez@ucla.edu (preferred) > Plain text only: gquinonez@medstudent.medsch.ucla.edu > MIME & Plain text: gquinonez@mem.po.com > ==================================================== > This is the DOS gotcha. DOS file names are 8.3 all in lower case... try again, and it should work... Best regards, Gerold Rupprecht Geneva, Switzerland >
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: rfenney@netcom.com (Robert J. Fenney) Subject: Re: US-CA - Senior NeXT Developers and NeXT Developers - to 90k + Message-ID: <rfenney-260196161550@rfenney.slip.netcom.com> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Sender: netnews@mork.netcom.com Organization: FenTek References: <4e8j4u$fff@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 00:20:55 GMT In article <4e8j4u$fff@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, briman101@aol.com (BriMan101) wrote: Brian, I have 10+ years C++, 2-3 years Smalltalk, and 2-3 years NeXTSTEP. I would like to know were in CA the company is located and if they will consider a contractor. I would be happy to send you a copy of my resume if you are interested. Robert
From: bill@markov.math.mcgill.ca (bill anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: how to set up as a ppp server? Date: 27 Jan 1996 00:39:02 GMT Organization: McGill University Computing Centre Message-ID: <4ebs76$2p8@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> I have a NeXT at work on the 'Net and a Mac at home. I would like to set up my NeXT as a PPP server or SLIP server, but only for myself at home. Could someone point me in the right direction as to how to do this? For example, where to find the appropriate software. I'm sure this has been asked before, so maybe point me to the pertinent FAQ. Thanks in advance, Bill -- Bill Anderson Department of Mathematics and Statistics McGill University (bill@markov.math.mcgill.ca)
From: perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: how to set up as a ppp server? Date: 27 Jan 1996 02:02:25 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <4ec13h$ofs@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <4ebs76$2p8@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> In <4ebs76$2p8@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> bill anderson wrote: > I have a NeXT at work on the 'Net and a Mac at home. I would like to set > up my NeXT as a PPP server or SLIP server, but only for myself at home. > Could someone point me in the right direction as to how to do this? For > example, where to find the appropriate software. I'm sure this has been > asked before, so maybe point me to the pertinent FAQ. > Hi Bill, Please check out: http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/ - Steve -- ============================================================== Stephen J. Perkins | mailto:perkins@cps.msu.edu Dept. of Comp. Science | NeXT, MIME, finger for PGP Michigan State University | NeXT OS 3.3 using PPP-2.3 NeXT PPP-2.2 info at http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
From: Ravi Mendis <lady0098@sable.ox.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 01:27:35 +0000 Organization: Oxford University Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960127010219.32595A-100000@sable.ox.ac.uk> References: <RDL.96Jan23112233@world.std.com> <4e3fom$689@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4e3fom$689@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> On 23 Jan 1996, Leon von Stauber wrote: > rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) wrote: > >As reported by CNN...Sun is very close to purchasing > >Apple Computer. > > WOW! Please let this be true! Why? The only reason i can think of for a Sun-Apple synergy (and a good one at that) is a for a JAVA-Mac OS. As a technology provider, Sun could very well establish Java as its "bread winner". However, it is a client environment. Sun's Solaris makes a better Server than a a client, while what it really needs is an established client OS to embedd JAVA. Steve Jobs, in his WIRED interview did say that the Web throws the doors open to new UI-metaphors. (I won't be surprised if NeXT and its OPENSTEP partners persue this...using OPENSTEP Objects of course. If NeXT doesn't, then i'm sure Sun will..try) Heard of Sun's "JOE" technology that's to ship with Solaris NEO? Well, its supposed to employ Java "ORB-lets" instead of applets, to distribute front ends to object applications: OPENSTEP objects on the network!? Now, JOE on the Mac would be a delicious offering...especially, if the front ends were loyal to the Mac interface and GUI. That would be the start. Lord, only knows how and what other elements evolve into the new "Web Desktop". Otherwise, the Mac will be pushed into some niche market and Apple along with it. Sun will be dependent on Windows for developing a new UI for the Web Desktop...recall how bullish Microsoft can be?!?! However, PowerPC must be in Sun's face! Mac hardware will need to find a new home...which won't be too difficult. IBM knows how much it owes its PowerPC success to the Macintosh. I'm sure it'll find a good home there, at worst. At best, Compaq or another efficient PC manufacturer might well do the Mac some good! That's the "business sense" of the deal. As for the "cultural sense"... ravi
From: btipping@ix.netcom.com (roybatty) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NeXTSTEP and Gateway laptop Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 19:10:48 GMT Organization: Daugherty Systems, Inc. Message-ID: <4ediq0$2aj@speedy.daugherty.com> I have a Gateway S120 (120 Pentium, 24MB RAM, 1.2 GB, 256 PB-cache). Does anyone have any experience loading NeXTSTEP 3.3 on a Gateway? If so, what problems did you encounter? Thanks in advance... btipping@ix.netcom.com
From: wilker@math.purdue.edu (Clarence W. Wilkerson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Filesystem on NExt cdroms? Date: 27 Jan 1996 21:02:08 GMT Organization: "Purdue University Department of Mathematics" Message-ID: <4ee3sg$dmr@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> What's the format on the Next cdrom? I can't seem to read one with normal iso9660 settings on my linux box. -- Clarence Wilkerson \ HomePage: http://www.math.purdue.edu/~wilker Prof. of Math. (topology)\ Internet: wilker@math.purdue.edu Dept. of Mathematics \ Messages: (317) 494-1903, FAX 494-0548 Purdue University, \ Office: (317) 494-1955 (voice) W. Lafayette, Indiana 47907 \ Rm. 738 Math. Sci. Bldng.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <eric@wcarchive.cdrom.com> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 13:47:52 -0800 From: Eric Trembly <eric@wcarchive.cdrom.com> Message-ID: <199601272147.NAA26255@wcarchive.cdrom.com> Subject: Announcing a New NEXTSTEP, OPENSTEP and Pixar WWW Page Announcing a New NEXTSTEP / OPENSTEP / Pixar WWW Page at: http://www.cam.org/~ericet/nextstep/index.html This is a page dedicated to NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP information for the general public. It's also the page for Information about Pixar Animation Studios. There you will find, stock information about Pixar. Including a MESA spreadsheet containing all the stock quotes from the very first day of trading till today and also charts of the closing price and volume traded for the Pixar stock. Take a look at it! Eric Tremblay e-mail: erictremblay@genie.geis.com http://www.cam.org/~ericet/nextstep/index.html
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.bbs.misc Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software,comp.bbs.misc From: Russell_Schulz@locutus.ofB.ORG (Russell Schulz) Subject: Re: Looking for BBS software for NEXTSTEP Message-ID: <960127.203941.5u1.rnr.w164w@locutus.ofB.ORG> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 20:39:41 -0700 References: <4e6dob$781@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> Organization: Private System, Edmonton, AB, Canada dsi@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com (George Wu) writes: > Does anyone know of any public domain BBS software that runs on NEXTSTEP ? taking advantage of the NeXTstep interface? none that I know of, but there are a handful of generic Unix front-ends. c.bbs.m should know. -- Russell_Schulz@locutus.ofB.ORG Shad 86c
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple In-Reply-To: Ravi Mendis's message of Sat, 27 Jan 1996 01:27:35 +0000 Message-ID: <RDL.96Jan28152442@world.std.com> Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <RDL.96Jan23112233@world.std.com> <4e3fom$689@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> <Pine.OSF.3.91.960127010219.32595A-100000@sable.ox.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 20:24:42 GMT Analysts have said that Sun would gain better (cheaper) manufacturing and larger market share. Robert In article <Pine.OSF.3.91.960127010219.32595A-100000@sable.ox.ac.uk> Ravi Mendis <lady0098@sable.ox.ac.uk> writes: Why? The only reason i can think of for a Sun-Apple synergy (and a good one at that) is a for a JAVA-Mac OS. As a technology provider, Sun could very well establish Java as its "bread winner". However, it is a client environment. Sun's Solaris makes a better Server than a a client, while what it really needs is an established client OS to embedd JAVA. Steve Jobs, in his WIRED interview did say that the Web throws the doors open to new UI-metaphors. (I won't be surprised if NeXT and its OPENSTEP partners persue this...using OPENSTEP Objects of course. If NeXT doesn't, then i'm sure Sun will..try) Heard of Sun's "JOE" technology that's to ship with Solaris NEO? Well, its supposed to employ Java "ORB-lets" instead of applets, to distribute front ends to object applications: OPENSTEP objects on the network!? Now, JOE on the Mac would be a delicious offering...especially, if the front ends were loyal to the Mac interface and GUI. That would be the start. Lord, only knows how and what other elements evolve into the new "Web Desktop". Otherwise, the Mac will be pushed into some niche market and Apple along with it. Sun will be dependent on Windows for developing a new UI for the Web Desktop...recall how bullish Microsoft can be?!?! However, PowerPC must be in Sun's face! Mac hardware will need to find a new home...which won't be too difficult. IBM knows how much it owes its PowerPC success to the Macintosh. I'm sure it'll find a good home there, at worst. At best, Compaq or another efficient PC manufacturer might well do the Mac some good! That's the "business sense" of the deal. As for the "cultural sense"... ravi
From: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Filesystem on NExt cdroms? Date: 28 Jan 1996 23:01:57 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <4egv95$c5b@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <4ee3sg$dmr@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> Clarence W. Wilkerson (wilker@math.purdue.edu) wrote: : What's the format on the Next cdrom? I can't seem to read one with normal : iso9660 settings on my linux box. BSD4.3 Big Endian. -- Axel Habermann kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de Fon:+49 30 45478986 Fax:4542296 Die Dateien, in denen die Programmdokumentation enthalten ist, haben normalerweise die Endung ".c", -- Kristian Koehntopp
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet Date: 29 Jan 1996 05:15:19 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4ehl57$e8t@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. 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Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. news:comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. news:comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. Related Newsgroups ================== news:comp.soft-sys.nextstep Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. news:comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. news:comp.object Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. Getting the Newsgroups without getting News =========================================== Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are now available as a mailing list digest as well. next-nextstep-d next-advocacy-d next-announce-d next-bugs-d next-hardware-d next-marketplace-d next-misc-d next-programmer-d next-software-d next-sysadmin-d (For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to <digestif@antigone.com>). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's. To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying: SUB Listname YourName Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe The ftp sites ============= ftp://next-ftp.peak.org: The main site for North American submissions (formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu) ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: (Peanuts) Located in Germany. ftp://ftp.dn.net/pub/next Peanuts mirror in the US ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next/ eduStep ftp://ftp.next.com: See below ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com ===================================== [from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help] Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system! This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and other software, which are then sent to you automatically. 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Scott (mailto:eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU) and Scott Anguish (mailto:sanguish@digifix.com) Additions from: Greg Anderson (mailto:Greg_Anderson@afs.com) Michael Pizolato (mailto:alf@epix.net) Dan Grillo (mailto:dan_grillo@next.com)
From: "Rolf Behrsing (Super-User)" <rolf@sandman.als.lbl.gov> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Error installing EOF 1.1 Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 11:32:58 -0800 Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley CA Message-ID: <310D20EA.7E7C@sandman.als.lbl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I recently picked up a copy of NEXTSTEP 3.3 User/Developer (Academic Edition) which included EOF. I was able to install both User and Developer without any problems. When I got to EOF I installed the User Patch followed by the EOUser, but when I tried loading EOdeveloper I got the following error: Errors while installing The log read as follows: . . . Running installation program... checking compiler ...OK Precompiling /NextDeveloper/Headers/eoaccess/eoaccess.h... /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/machine/stdarg.h:1 Warning: nondigits in number and not hexadecimal (This message along with other similar ones occur multiple times) . . . /NextDeveloper/Headers/eoaccess/eoaccess.h: cannot preparse I tried the installation multiple time, but to no avail. Has this error been reported before? Could it be that I have a corrupted CD-ROM? I followed the installation instructions verbatim included with the 3 CDs. Thanks, Rolf Behrsing RHBehrsing@lbl.gov
From: john@gscorp.com (John C. Fox) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Filesystem on NExt cdroms? Date: 30 Jan 1996 02:02:48 GMT Organization: North Bay Network, Inc. news server - not responsible for content Message-ID: <4eju88$lku@miwok.nbn.com> References: <4ee3sg$dmr@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> In <4ee3sg$dmr@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> Clarence W. Wilkerson wrote: > What's the format on the Next cdrom? I can't seem to read one with normal > iso9660 settings on my linux box. > > Hi There: NeXT uses RockRidge format CD ROMS (I believe since version 3.0). John
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: mimencode(1) program / Nathaniel Borenstein's metamail package. Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 15:16:00 -0500 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960129151346.11443C-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960125123224.9893C-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <4ebd6d$bu@andromeda.filtronix.eunet.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4ebd6d$bu@andromeda.filtronix.eunet.be> it can be found at: ftp://ftp.bellcore.com/pub/nsb TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Swapfile and Swapdisk FAQ available via email! Send email with subject: 'send_info' for more info or with subject 'send_swapfaq' to receive the FAQ. NeXT PPP Mailing List: nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com
From: alex (Alexander F.E. Seggerman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Metafont to Next Font Date: 29 Jan 1996 18:28:46 GMT Organization: Omnilink --- your link to the Net Message-ID: <4ej3ku$lja@gazette.omnilink.net> Does anybody know how to convert Metafont files to Nextstep font files ? If yes how do I do it?? -- ________________________________________________________________ Alexander Seggerman | Alexander.Seggerman@frankfurt.netsurf.de Berger Str. 157 | (NeXTMail & MIME gladly accepted) 60385 Frankfurt | Tel: ++49-(0)69-468104 Germany | Fax: Sorry no FAX
From: petitmermet@biocomp.mat.ethz.ch (Marc Petitmermet) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: postscript filter/utility Date: 30 Jan 1996 14:47:00 GMT Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ) Sender: -Not-Authenticated-[7380] Distribution: world Message-ID: <4elb14$kt5@elna.ethz.ch> Xdisclaimer: No attempt was made to authenticate the sender's name. I am looking for a utility for NEXTSTEP, MacOS, IRIX (SGI) or Solaris (Motif) to reduce the size of the printed output from postscript files to 71%: original postscript file (100%) -utility/filter-> new postscript file (71%) Thanks for any hint. Marc M. Petitmermet petitmermet@biocomp.mat.ethz.ch
From: cpesch@stoch.fmi.uni-passau.de (Christoph Pesch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Metafont to Next Font Date: 30 Jan 1996 17:15:07 +0100 Organization: University of Passau, Germany Sender: cpesch@stoch.fmi.uni-passau.de Message-ID: <izf7my9oe0k.fsf@stoch.fmi.uni-passau.de> References: <4ej3ku$lja@gazette.omnilink.net> In-reply-to: alex's message of 29 Jan 1996 18:28:46 GMT "Alexander" == Alexander F E Seggerman <alex> writes: In article <4ej3ku$lja@gazette.omnilink.net> alex (Alexander F.E. Seggerman) writes: > Does anybody know how to convert Metafont files to Nextstep font > files ? If yes how do I do it?? There is a program called metapost which converts Metafont to postscript fonts. I never used it and can not say if and how metaposts output can be used to get Nextstep fonts. But it may be worth trying it. If anyone succeeds in trying metapost please tell me. (archie says you can find metapost on ftp.dante.de in /tex-archive/graphics/metapost/metapost.tar.gz) Bye, Christoph -------------------------------------------------------------------- (Christoph Pesch --- cpesch@markov.fmi.uni-passau.de)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Filesystem on NExt cdroms? Message-ID: <1996Jan29.215525.580@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <4ee3sg$dmr@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 21:55:25 GMT In article <4ee3sg$dmr@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> wilker@math.purdue.edu (Clarence W. Wilkerson) writes: > What's the format on the Next cdrom? I can't seem to read one > with normal iso9660 settings on my linux box. > It is Berkley fast filesystem, just like on a hard disk. Unfortunately it is incompatible to a plain, unaltered Linux. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | pgp, MIME, NeXTmail # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: hwr@pilhuhn.de (Heiko W.Rupp) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.mis Subject: Re: NeXTBSD - 4.4BSD For NeXTstep machines ? Date: 31 Jan 1996 06:05:33 GMT Organization: The Home Of The Pilhuhn Message-ID: <slrn4gu1ld.egn.hwr@snert.pilhuhn.de> References: <4e84c1$m0n@axl02it.ntc.nokia.com> In article <4e84c1$m0n@axl02it.ntc.nokia.com>, Alan Barclay wrote: >is already compatible with m68k architecture and Plan 9 sources, from AT&T, >contain the specific hardware information required to implement low level Plan 9 only supports Cube and MonoStations, no color. I guess der Mouse who wrote Mouse X and who hangs around the NetBSD mailinglists, could perhaps help for the display. -- Heiko W.Rupp hwr@pilhhuhn.de INN FAQ can be found in ftp://ftp.xlink.net/pub/news/docs/
From: Joe Pompei <pompei@audia.music.nwu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: How to convert .snd -> .wav or .aiff Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:11:25 -0600 Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Message-ID: <310F94AD.41C6@audia.music.nwu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm trying to convert NeXT .snd files to .wav or .aiff files, but it seems like NeXT's .snd filetype is a little different from the 'standard' (mac) .snd. Therefore, most converters (sox) won't convert it properly. This must have been done by someone out here... I was suprized not to see it in the FAQ. Thanks.. Joe
From: strebel2@cage.mpibpc.gwdg.de (Stephan Trebels ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: postscript filter/utility Date: 31 Jan 1996 17:47:41 GMT Organization: GWDG, Goettingen Distribution: world Message-ID: <STREBEL2.96Jan31184741@cage.mpibpc.gwdg.de> References: <4elb14$kt5@elna.ethz.ch> In-reply-to: petitmermet@biocomp.mat.ethz.ch's message of 30 Jan 1996 14:47:00 GMT Wie waere es mit 0.71 0.71 scale im Setup des Dokuments? Ciao, Stephan p.s. wenn das zu umstaendlich ist, dann eben per perl/awk/sed skript -- Task: System Administration Unix (HP-UX, Linux, FreeBSD) Email: Stephan Trebels <strebel2@cage.mpibpc.gwdg.de> Mail: Abt. 081, MPI bpC, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany Tel: +49 551 201 1 454
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.mis From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: NeXTBSD - 4.4BSD For NeXTstep machines ? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (system PRIVILEGED account) Message-ID: <DM1y1q.H9p@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 15:37:02 GMT References: <4e84c1$m0n@axl02it.ntc.nokia.com> <slrn4gu1ld.egn.hwr@snert.pilhuhn.de> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <slrn4gu1ld.egn.hwr@snert.pilhuhn.de>, Heiko W.Rupp <hwr@pilhuhn.de> wrote: >In article <4e84c1$m0n@axl02it.ntc.nokia.com>, Alan Barclay wrote: > >>is already compatible with m68k architecture and Plan 9 sources, from AT&T, >>contain the specific hardware information required to implement low level > >Plan 9 only supports Cube and MonoStations, no color. > >I guess der Mouse who wrote Mouse X and who hangs around the NetBSD >mailinglists, could perhaps help for the display. > He likely could. Course, us Dimension people are once again out of luck (unless someone really likes hacking i860 binaries with otool. :-)) -- 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: Dmichael@rumah.rumah.pc.my (Michael Olan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Q: uucp addressing Date: 31 Jan 1996 09:31:07 GMT Organization: Unconfigured Message-ID: <4encsr$ddg@jaring.my> I am using a dial up to a local internet service provider. I must use uucp style addressing for my email. For example, using the local myhost to send to abc@xxx.edu means I must address as: myhost!xxx.edu!abc Anyone know how to get NS to translate for me? I didn't understand the sendmail docs on this, so if someone could provide an example I'd appreciate it. -- Michael Olan Email: michael@rumah.pc.my (NeXT Mail OK) Lecturer - Computer Science michael@ppp.itm.my American Degree Program Institut Teknologi MARA Section 17, Shah Alam, Malaysia
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: How to convert .snd -> .wav or .aiff Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (system PRIVILEGED account) Message-ID: <DM25CH.D04@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 18:14:41 GMT References: <310F94AD.41C6@audia.music.nwu.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <310F94AD.41C6@audia.music.nwu.edu>, Joe Pompei <pompei@audia.music.nwu.edu> wrote: >I'm trying to convert NeXT .snd files to .wav or .aiff files, but it >seems like NeXT's .snd filetype is a little different from the >'standard' (mac) .snd. Therefore, most converters (sox) won't convert >it properly. > SOX will handle it, but you have to say "-t au" near the input file. GISO.app is a nice front-end to sox that'll do it with some clicking. -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: jmeacham@ants.jlc.net (The Rev. James D. Meacham) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: TeX (LaTeX) conversion utilities needed Date: 31 Jan 1996 15:39:49 GMT Organization: JLC-net, Milford NH Message-ID: <4eo2g5$fem@mozart.jlc.net> Hi All, I have a NeXT machine without developer tools, and I'm looking for translation/ conversion utilities pre-compiled. I'm looking for stuff like latex2html, latex2rtf, rtf2latex, etc. Does anyone know where I can find such things. Peace, James -- _____________________________________________________________________ | The Rev. James David Meacham | | First Unitarian Congregational Society of Wilton Center | | e-mail:jmeacham@meacham.jlc.net | | jmeacham@ants.ci.net | | 603-654-9518 (Church) 603-654-9590(Home) | -------------------------------------------------------------------- Whirlpools whirl, Dragnets drag, Hell is not the fire, Hell is your belief In yourself as the higher---Peter Murphy
From: jmeacham@ants.jlc.net (The Rev. James D. Meacham) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: TeX (LaTeX) conversion utilities needed Date: 31 Jan 1996 15:39:55 GMT Organization: JLC-net, Milford NH Message-ID: <4eo2gb$fem@mozart.jlc.net> Hi All, I have a NeXT machine without developer tools, and I'm looking for translation/ conversion utilities pre-compiled. I'm looking for stuff like latex2html, latex2rtf, rtf2latex, etc. Does anyone know where I can find such things. Peace, James -- _____________________________________________________________________ | The Rev. James David Meacham | | First Unitarian Congregational Society of Wilton Center | | e-mail:jmeacham@meacham.jlc.net | | jmeacham@ants.ci.net | | 603-654-9518 (Church) 603-654-9590(Home) | -------------------------------------------------------------------- Whirlpools whirl, Dragnets drag, Hell is not the fire, Hell is your belief In yourself as the higher---Peter Murphy
From: Eric Dubiel <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: AppleTalk Client from 3.0 on 3.3? Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 15:08:23 -0600 Organization: Illinois State University Message-ID: <310FDA47.4FD7@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Can anyone tell me if I can run the AppleTalk Client from 3.0 on 3.3? I'm interested in getting it to try. Please email me. Thanks to all, Eric ------------------------------------------------ Eric Dubiel; http://138.87.201.11 mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu PEACE LOVE UNITY RESPECT "Understanding is best learned via experience." "Follow our instinct, not a trend. Go against the grain until the end." Unknown ....
From: phil@cnam.fr (Tech. advisor for OOT) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: ZyXEL U1496 LCD and NS 3.3 ?? = NO PROBLEM ! Date: 31 Jan 1996 21:45:30 GMT Organization: Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, Paris, France Message-ID: <4eontq$nbr@sheckley.cnam.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <4d6i1h$ido@tandem.CAM.ORG>, you wrote: >In <4ce0c7-1em@svstch.ubs.ch> Jan Ermatinger wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I want to install NS3.3 to my Intel machine. >> >> Is my Zyxel-Modem supported by NS? >> >> If not, is there an ftp where i can get a driver ? >> >> >> Tanx, >> >> >Jan, ZyXel modems are very well supported under NEXTSTEP, no problems. As you will see if you download the NEXTppp.pkg from ftp.thoughtport.com a ZyXel "option"file is available for Zyxel modems. I personaly tested the U1496 E+. no pro blem. Philippe Evolution --- ====================================================================== Provost Philippe MIME-NeXTMail: phil@cnam.fr ____ /\ \ PGP/RSA Public Key available on request / \____\ Technical Advisor for OOTechnologies \ / / \/____/
From: tlm@ameslab.gov (Tom Marchioro) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Metafont to Next Font Date: 31 Jan 1996 22:55:20 GMT Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Distribution: world Message-ID: <4eos0o$o0u@news.iastate.edu> References: <4ej3ku$lja@gazette.omnilink.net> Alexander F.E. Seggerman writes > Does anybody know how to convert Metafont files to Nextstep font files ? If > yes how do I do it?? > I think what you are asking for is how to get Postscript versions of the Computer Modern etc. fonts. There are a couple of possibilities: 1) Go with a commercial version. If you have the $ I strongly suggest you get the commercial version of these fonts from Y & Y software. They have the full computer modern set, the Lucida Bright set, MathTimes (for use with Times-Roman), the LaTeX fonts, etc. etc. A few years ago I wrote a collection of NeXT specific font installation scripts for them, so the fonts should install fairly straightforwardly on NeXTstep, and be usable both by TeX and by all other NeXTstep applications. Last time I checked cost was about $195 for the full CM set, $99 or so for LBR set (which I actually prefer). Do not have the contact information for Y&Y handy, but can provide it if you are interested. 2) Get a public domain PS version of the CM fonts. This should be available somewhere off of the CTAN archives, try ftp ftp.shsu.edu and poke around there. Basically, some time ago someone wrote a Metafont to PS convertor. The initial results were fairly awful, as you might guess a mechanistic "language translator" would be. The whole point of good PS fonts is that they are hinted, contain ligatures and kerning, etc. The convertor missed all of this, so the fonts looked good only at fairly high resolution (at least 300 dpi, so okay for printing but terrible on screen). However, some good souls went to work and have cleaned up these fonts, including, as I understand it, adding some hinting to them. While I've not seen the latest version (already have all of the PS fonts due to my work with Y&Y :) I'm told they are much improved and are even reasonably readable on screen. They certainly won't come with NeXT specific install scripts, but the NeXT font scheme is relatively straightorward to this might be what you want, particularly if $ are a constraint. Hope this proves 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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Subject: Re: Q: uucp addressing In-Reply-To: michael@rumah.rumah.pc.my's message of 31 Jan 1996 09:31:07 GMT Message-ID: <RDL.96Jan31195106@world.std.com> Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <4encsr$ddg@jaring.my> Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 00:51:06 GMT Taylor UUCP and sendmail 8.7.3 allow you to use domain style addressing over a UUCP transport. You can hack around with NeXT UUCP and NeXT sendmail 5.67 but you'll be better off with the former. Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant Boston, MA Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com In article <4encsr$ddg@jaring.my> Dmichael@rumah.rumah.pc.my (Michael Olan) writes: Xref: world comp.sys.next.misc:46191 Path: world!news.mtholyoke.edu!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!jaring.my!usenet From: Dmichael@rumah.rumah.pc.my (Michael Olan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Date: 31 Jan 1996 09:31:07 GMT Organization: Unconfigured Lines: 13 NNTP-Posting-Host: j4.brf7.jaring.my X-Newsreader: Alexandra.app (Version 0.81) I am using a dial up to a local internet service provider. I must use uucp style addressing for my email. For example, using the local myhost to send to abc@xxx.edu means I must address as: myhost!xxx.edu!abc Anyone know how to get NS to translate for me? I didn't understand the sendmail docs on this, so if someone could provide an example I'd appreciate it. -- Michael Olan Email: michael@rumah.pc.my (NeXT Mail OK) Lecturer - Computer Science michael@ppp.itm.my American Degree Program Institut Teknologi MARA Section 17, Shah Alam, Malaysia
From: tjallen@theory1.physics.wisc.edu (Theodore J. Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Metafont to Next Font Date: 1 Feb 1996 01:04:27 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <4ep3ir$176i@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <4ej3ku$lja@gazette.omnilink.net> <4eos0o$o0u@news.iastate.edu> tlm@ameslab.gov (Tom Marchioro) wrote: > 2) Get a public domain PS version of the CM fonts. This should be > available somewhere off of the CTAN archives, try > > ftp ftp.shsu.edu > > and poke around there. Basically, some time ago someone wrote a Metafont > to PS convertor. The initial results were fairly awful, as you might guess > a mechanistic "language translator" would be. The whole point of good PS > fonts is that they are hinted, contain ligatures and kerning, etc. The > convertor missed all of this, so the fonts looked good only at fairly high > resolution (at least 300 dpi, so okay for printing but terrible on > screen). However, some good souls went to work and have cleaned up these > fonts, including, as I understand it, adding some hinting to them. While > I've not seen the latest version (already have all of the PS fonts due to > my work with Y&Y :) I'm told they are much improved and are even > reasonably readable on screen. They certainly won't come with NeXT > specific install scripts, but the NeXT font scheme is relatively > straightorward to this might be what you want, particularly if $ are a > constraint. > > Hope this proves 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 There is a set of fonts (the so-called BaKoMa postscript computer modern fonts) that I converted to NeXT format and packaged on the archives (both next-ftp.peak.org and the peanuts archive) called BaKoMaFontsI.pkg.tar.gz, BaKoMaFontsII.pkg.tar.gz, and BaKoMaFontsIII.pkg.tar.gz. (ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/fonts/BaKoMaFontsI.pkg.tar.gz etc.) I also made a package to use Bitstream's 500 Fonts for Windows fonts (after conversion) with any NeXT app and with TeX on NEXTSTEP. I included a conversion script with the package. The only caveats there are that some of the ultra weight fonts aren't usable because vptovf choked on their .vpl files, and dvips has to be recompiled because its string space is too small to have 500 fonts loaded at once. Oh, and you still must fork over the $40 or so to purchase the CD with the Windows fonts. I didn't include them. :-) (Bitsteam's Optima and Melior are wonderful. There are so many extremely good fonts on the CD that anyone who loves fonts and TeX should jump at the chance to use them! I recommend the CD highly.) -- Ted Allen Ph.D. High Energy Physics University of Wisconsin-Madison tjallen@wishep.physics.wisc.edu http://theory2.physics.wisc.edu/~tjallen/
From: tm8025a@mailhost.soc.american.edu (Torrey McMahon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: AppleTalk Client from 3.0 on 3.3? Date: 1 Feb 1996 02:24:37 GMT Organization: American University, Washington DC Message-ID: <4ep895$g9@paladin.american.edu> References: <310FDA47.4FD7@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> In article <310FDA47.4FD7@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Eric Dubiel <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> writes: :Can anyone tell me if I can run the AppleTalk Client from :3.0 on 3.3? I'm interested in getting it to try. Please :email me. : :Thanks to all, :Eric I tired installing it but it wouldn't work at all. If someone figures it out please inform me also. -- Torrey McMahon
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: How to convert .snd -> .wav or .aiff Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 13:02:29 -0500 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960131125941.10681D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <310F94AD.41C6@audia.music.nwu.edu> On Wed, 31 Jan 1996, Joe Pompei wrote: > I'm trying to convert NeXT .snd files to .wav or .aiff files, but it > seems like NeXT's .snd filetype is a little different from the > 'standard' (mac) .snd. Therefore, most converters (sox) won't convert > it properly. > > This must have been done by someone out here... I was suprized not to > see it in the FAQ. This is a pretty common operation, or so I thought, it comes up quite a bit and I don't remember hearing about problems with sox before -- which doesn't mean they don't exist, but might explain why it wasn't in the FAQ. TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Swapfile and Swapdisk FAQ available via email! Send email with subject: 'send info' for more info or with subject 'send swapfaq' to receive the FAQ. NeXT PPP Mailing List: nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com
From: schwett@aimnet.com (Mark Schwettmann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Generating escape sequences in Terminal : ??? Date: 1 Feb 1996 11:15:55 GMT Organization: Aimnet Information Services Message-ID: <4eq7db$671@news2.aimnet.com> Arg. How does one generate the vt100 escape character in terminal? I wish to try out the following feature in Terminal.app > The VT100 smooth scrolling mode (available via Escape codes) has been > added, though the window reverts to jump scrolling if display fallsbehind. From what I gather, it should be ESC [?4h - but how do I generate that "ESC" Thanks thanks Mark Schwettmann
From: strebel2@cage.mpibpc.gwdg.de (Stephan Trebels ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: cmsg cancel <STREBEL2.96Jan31184741@cage.mpibpc.gwdg.de> Control: cancel <STREBEL2.96Jan31184741@cage.mpibpc.gwdg.de> Date: 01 Feb 1996 11:24:26 GMT Organization: GWDG, Goettingen Distribution: world Message-ID: <STREBEL2.96Feb1122426@cage.mpibpc.gwdg.de> -- Task: System Administration Unix (HP-UX, Linux, FreeBSD) Email: Stephan Trebels <strebel2@cage.mpibpc.gwdg.de> Mail: Abt. 081, MPI bpC, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany Tel: +49 551 201 1 454
From: Robert Mueller <rmueller@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Interfacing SoftPC Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 16:39:52 +0100 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960201163928.577D-100000@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I have a question concerning SoftPC: I tried out to start SoftPC and let it execute a list of dos-commands with /LocalApps/SoftPC.app/SoftPC -NXOpen /softpc.hdf -c "some dos commands", and it worked fine. However, is there a possibility to tell a RUNNING SoftPC-application to execute a dos-command (as starting SoftPC takes quite a long time)? Thank you very much in advance ... Robert ___________________________________________________________ Robert Mueller Tel. (+49) (0) 6131 17 68 52 (or 17 20 22) Medical Informatics Fax. (+49) (0) 6131 17 29 68 Institut fuer Medizinische Statistik und Dokumentation Universitaetskliniken Mainz 55101 Mainz, Germany email: rmueller@duchesse.zdv.uni-mainz.de homepage: http://www.Uni-Mainz.DE/FB/Medizin/IMSD/TheMPO/mueller.html
From: kiwi@ariane.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Generating escape sequences in Terminal : ??? Date: 1 Feb 1996 16:19:38 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <4eqp6q$auv@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <4eq7db$671@news2.aimnet.com> Mark Schwettmann (schwett@aimnet.com) wrote: : Arg. : How does one generate the vt100 escape character in terminal? : I wish to try out the following feature in Terminal.app : > The VT100 smooth scrolling mode (available via Escape codes) has been : > added, though the window reverts to jump scrolling if display fallsbehind. : From what I gather, it should be ESC [?4h - but how do I generate that : "ESC" enter the following echo "<CTRL-v><ESC>[?4h" Where <CTRL-v> and <ESC> are the corresponding keystrokes. Don't enter < or > -- Axel Habermann kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de Fon:+49 30 45478986 Fax:4542296 Die Dateien, in denen die Programmdokumentation enthalten ist, haben normalerweise die Endung ".c", -- Kristian Koehntopp
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From: sams@shellx.best.com (Samuel G. Streeper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Generating escape sequences in Terminal : ??? Date: 1 Feb 1996 10:46:37 -0800 Organization: Best Internet Communications Message-ID: <4er1qd$avc@shellx.best.com> References: <4eq7db$671@news2.aimnet.com> schwett@aimnet.com (Mark Schwettmann) writes: >How does one generate the vt100 escape character in terminal? >> The VT100 smooth scrolling mode (available via Escape codes) has been >> added, though the window reverts to jump scrolling if display fallsbehind. >From what I gather, it should be ESC [?4h - but how do I generate that >"ESC" If you have the gnu command line printf, then from the shell: printf "\033[?4h" works fine. Another alternative is to create a file containing the sequence using emacs, and then cat the file from the shell. To get the ESC in the file in emacs, you type "control-q ESC" (that's just 2 keystrokes...) There are other ways, but these strike me as the easiest. cheers, -sam
From: michal@gortel.phys.ualberta.ca (Michal Jaegermann) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: TeX (LaTeX) conversion utilities needed Followup-To: comp.text.tex,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Date: 1 Feb 1996 20:41:30 GMT Organization: Disorganized Bits Message-ID: <4er8hq$jg8@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <4eo2g5$fem@mozart.jlc.net> The Rev. James D. Meacham (jmeacham@ants.jlc.net) wrote: : I have a NeXT machine without developer tools, and I'm looking for : translation/ conversion utilities pre-compiled. I'm looking for stuff like : latex2html, latex2rtf, rtf2latex, etc. Does anyone know where I can find : such things. Peace, ftp.shsu.edu although a version of latex2html with a pretty old one there. A newer one should be somewhere on llanl.gov computers; easy to find on Web with yahoo or alta_vista search engines. Michal
From: peer@gaia.hanse.de (Peer Sandtner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: EPS-file with included fonts Date: 31 Jan 1996 11:28:30 GMT Organization: private SiTE Message-ID: <4enjou$2bq@gaia.hanse.de> Hello! Is there any possibility to generate an EPS-file with included fonts? It would be great if I don't have to do it by hand. Peer --- Peer Sandtner peer@gaia.hanse.de "Yes, it [still] will." Jahnstrasse 18 MIME, NeXTmail -- PasteUp T-shirt 21465 Reinbek v: +49 40 727 30 117 (... have a place in my dock) Germany f: +49 40 727 30 118 How long with three dots?
From: burt@binah.cc.brandeis.edu Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: TeX (LaTeX) conversion utilities needed Date: 1 Feb 1996 23:02:43 GMT Organization: Brandeis University Message-ID: <4ergqj$a9q@news.cc.brandeis.edu> References: <4eo2g5$fem@mozart.jlc.net> In article <4eo2g5$fem@mozart.jlc.net>, jmeacham@ants.jlc.net (The Rev. James D. Meacham) writes: I'm looking for stuff like >latex2html, latex2rtf, rtf2latex, etc. Does anyone know where I can find >such things. Peace, James: I've seen the rtf utilities you mention at jumbo, which you may see being maligned on this list. What I saw there were mac versions, but if there are unix programs at all on Jumbo (which I don't know) you might be in luck there. p.s. Thanks for sending me your newsletter, and best to Jen! John
From: gcl@sojourn1.sojourn.com (gcl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Optical Drive Question Date: 2 Feb 1996 01:48:42 GMT Organization: Sojourn Systems. Lansing, MI (USA) Message-ID: <4erqhq$uoj@tkhut.sojourn.com> How do you use a second OD cartridge on a system that only has an OD drive, running NSv1.0 ? I want to look at the other cartridge (it's not bootable) and I'm a clueless v3.3 Intel user.... Thanks! Gary -- __________________________________________________________________ gcl@sojourn.com NeXTmail is prefered! Proud owner of: NeXT Cube #4173 running NeXTstep v1.0 NeXT Cube #0143 running NeXTstep v3.0 Intel 486DX2-66 running NeXTstep for Intel v3.3 Founder of the NeXTstep for Intel Processors HomeBrew Mailing List __________________________________________________________________
From: harts@paulharts.knoware.nl (Paul Harts) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Previewing Postscript? Date: 1 Feb 1996 22:29:36 GMT Organization: Knoware Internet Distribution: world Message-ID: <4eresg$f6l@news.knoware.nl> References: <4elb14$kt5@elna.ethz.ch> Hi, Each time I want to see a .ps file on the screen, for example with using TaskMaster or Diagram2!, the opener.app pops up with the message couldn't open '/tmp/.preview12345.ps'. The displayed icon shows 'ps?' What do I have to install where, in order to be able to preview postscript? Thanks for reading this far, Paul. ==================================================== | harts@knoware.nl | ' What's a FAQ?' | | the Netherlands | probably is one | | NeXTmail Welcomed! | | ====================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: pemmerik@solair1.inter.NL.net (P.J.L. van Emmerik) Subject: HP712/60 Freezes, Help! Message-ID: <DM37ps.Is@inter.NL.net> Sender: news@inter.NL.net (News at news) Organization: Holec Projects Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 08:59:42 GMT Has anyone experience with NEXT on HP 712/60 workstations. I have the problem that the freeze up, and just stop responding to any external events (i.e. keyboard etc). The only thing i can do in such a case is pul the (power)plug. The system freezes up real fast when it is connected to our corporate network, wich has a very havy load (Ethernet, up to 30 % utilization). =============================================================== Configuration used: Server System: informatie => Processor revision: 2.3 60MHz Instruction Cache Size: 32768 Data Cache Size: 32768 Memory Size 32 Mb Built in floating point coprocessor Board Serial Number 40SM7X1138 BootRom Version 1.6 auto boot on auto search on fastboot off Primary boot path: scsi.6.0 Alternate boot path: lan.000000.000000.0.0 Console path: graphics LAN Station Adresses: 080009-6DF59C 080009-6DF59D monitor => current monitor type is 5 1280x1024 60Hz diagnostic_boot on Chassis codes of secure of NEXT.Configure.app => HP Graphics Subsystem Expert Boot Driver Yes Bus Type HPPA Display Mode Width:1024 Height:1280 Refresh:72 Hz Family Display Instance 0 Version 1.1 PS/2 - style mouse (v1.0) Expert Bus Type HPPA Driver Name PS2Mouse Family Pointing Device Instance 0 Resolution 100 HP Advanced Ethernet (v1.0) IRQ 8 Expert Boot Driver Yes Bus Type HPPA Driver Name eci596 Family Network IRQ levels 8 Instance 0 Valid IRQ levels 8 Version 1.0 HP Advanced Digital Audio (v3.30) IRQ 13 Expert Bus Type HPPA Driver Name HPAdvancedAudio Driver Version PROGRAM:HPAdvancedAudio Family Audio IRQ levels 13 Location Server Name HPAdvancedAudio Title HP Advanced Digital Audio Valid IRQ levels 13 Version 3.30 PS/2 Style Keyboard (v1.0) Expert Boot Driver Yes Bus Type HPPA Driver Name PS2Keyboard Family Keyboard Handler ID 0 IRQ levels 26 Instance 0 Interface 3 Valid IRQ levels 26 On-board Serial Ports (v.3.30) Expert Driver Name HPSerial Family Serial Instance 0 Location System Baseboard Path 0 /dev/ttya Path 0 CTS /dev/ttyfa Path 0 IN /dev/ttyda Path 0 IN CTS /dev/ttydfa Path 0 OUT /dev/cua Path 0 OUT CTS /dev/cufa Path 1 /dev/ttyb Path 1 CTS /dev/ttyfb Path 1 IN /dev/ttydb Path 1 IN CTS /dev/ttydfb Path 1 OUT /dev/cub Path 1 OUT CTS /dev/cufb Port Count 2 Support CTS Yes Support Dialin Yes Support Dialout Yes Title System Serial Version 3.30 System Floppy Controller (v1.0) IRQ 8 13 Expert Block Major 1 Bus Type HPPA Character Major 41 Class Name FloppyController FloppyDisk Driver Name Floppy Driver Version PROGRAM: Floppy Family Disk IRQ levels 20 Instance 0 Location Server Name Floppy Title Floppy Valid IRQ levels 20 Version 1.0 Client-1 72523-2 Client System: informatie => Processor revision: 2.3 60MHz Instruction Cache Size: 32768 Data Cache Size: 32768 Memory Size 8 Mb Built in floating point coprocessor Board Serial Number 40SM7T4298 BootRom Version 1.6 auto boot on auto search on fastboot off Primary boot path: scsi.6.0 Alternate boot path: lan.000000.000000.0.0 Console path: graphics LAN Station Adresses: 080009-6DAD90 080009-6DAD91 monitor => current monitor type is 5 1280x1024 60Hz Please Email to: pemmerik@solair1.inter.NL.net
From: perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: HP DeskJet 500 printing off-center Date: 2 Feb 1996 05:29:52 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <4es7gg$m0n@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Hi all! I have a quick question that can hopefully be cleared up quickly. For years I have had an HP DeskJet500 connected to my computer. First it was on an 040 cube and now it is on an Intel (OS 3.3). I run the free djf driver and it works beautifully. However, as you guessed, there is a small but.... I have always noticed that the printing is never centered on the page. After running the 'testpage.tex' output I come to find that the text is exactly 1/4" to the right and 3/8" up from being centered. I can correct for this by adding: \setlength{\hoffset}{-0.25in} \setlength{\voffset}{0.375in} to my TeX document. However, it then gets off center on the previewer or any other printer I use. This happens to any document that I print (not just TeX documents). Does anybody know how I can correct my printer/OS/configuration so that the offsets will be applied automatically? TIA for any thoughts, Steve P.S. BTW, I briefly glanced at the DJF sources and didn't see anything obvious. -- ============================================================== Stephen J. Perkins | mailto:perkins@cps.msu.edu Dept. of Comp. Science | NeXT, MIME, finger for PGP Michigan State University | NeXT OS 3.3 using PPP-2.3 NeXT PPP-2.2 info at http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
From: Gerald McMullon <mcmullgf@info.bt.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Special: P133 NEXTSTEP Workstations Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1996 12:54:37 +0000 Organization: currently at BT Labs Message-ID: <3112098D.E8@info.bt.co.uk> References: <4eqsv3$n5q@news.cais.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Very nice - NeXTSTEP needs more than 16MB for color!! I wouldn't wont to run NT for long with only 16Mb RAM either. Gerald McMullon Systemworks wrote: ;> ;> We specialize in custom PC's and workstations for the NEXTSTEP, ;> Windows NT & 95, NetWare and UNIX operating systems. All systems ;> come fully configured, tested and loaded with the desired software and ;> carry our 2 year warranty on parts and labor. NEXTSTEP systems also ;> include the required drivers and we can also load your NEXTSTEP license ;> for free. ;> ;> We only use high-quality, brand-name components, known for their ;> durability and performance. All systems are designed with extra capacity ;> for expansion and are easily upgradeable when new processor or ;> motherboard technology becomes available. ;> ;> NEXTSTEP Workstation $3099 ;> ;> Case: Midtower case with (3) 5.25" external bays, (2) 3.5" ;> external bays, (2) internal 3.5" bays, 220W power ;> supply, FCC B certified ;> Motherboard: Asus P55TP4XE, accepts P75/90/100/120/133/150MHz CPU's, ;> Intel Triton chipset, 256k cache, (2) Onboard PCI Bus Master ;> IDE Ports, Onboard floppy, parallel (EPP/ECP) and serial ;> (16550 Fast UART) ports, Includes 3 PCI, 3 ISA and 1 Asus ;> MediaBus slot ;> CPU: Intel Pentium 133mhz with cooling fan ;> Memory: 16mb (2 - 2x32 60ns Fast-Page SIMM's) ;> Hard Drive: Quantum 1gb SCSI-2 ;> Controller: Adaptec 2940 PCI ;> Video: Diamond Stealth 64 PCI, 2mb VRAM ;> Monitor: 17", .26mm, 1280x1024, NI, digital, green ;> CD-ROM: Sony 4x internal SCSI ;> Soundcard: Soundblaster 16 compatible ;> Speakers: Labtec LCS-800 ;> Floppy: TEAC or Mitsumi 3.5" 1.44mb ;> Mouse: PS/2 style ;> Keyboard: Focus Enhanced 101-key ;> ______________________________________________________ ;> Total $3099 ;> ;> Options for NEXTSTEP Workstation: ;> ;> Upgrade to full tower case $45 ;> Upgrade to 4mb VRAM, Diamond Stealth 64 $165 ;> Upgrade to 32mb, 60ns Fast-Page RAM $490 ;> Upgrade to 6x internal SCSI CD-ROM $140 ;> Upgrade to Soundblaster AWE 32 $75 ;> Substitute Asus SC200 PCI SCSI controller (NCR) -$150 ;> Substitute 17", 1280x1024, .28 OEM Monitor -$130 ;> Downgrade to P120 -$25 ;> P100 -$110 ;> P90 -$110 ;> P75 -$200 ;> ;> Please note that there are many other components and additional options ;> available. If you desire a specifc component, please let us know and we ;> will try to accommodate your request. ;> ;> * Price includes insured, UPS Ground shipping charges ;> * Prices subject to change. ;> * Equipment based upon availability ;> * VISA/MC/Discover accepted, no surcharge ;> * Sales tax of 4.5% applicable to shipments in Virginia ;> * One year on-site technical support available ;> * Quantity discounts apply to orders of 2 or more systems ;> -- ;> --------------------------------------------------------- >; Systemworks, Inc. > Full range of custom workstations for NEXTSTEP, NT ..... > 703-450-7429 > sysworks@cais.com > ---------------------------------------------------------
From: rabbit@tygra.Michigan.COM (Roger Rabbit) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: How to get The MORTIMER Story Message-ID: <14754@tygra.Michigan.COM> Date: 2 Feb 96 12:04:43 GMT Organization: Shut Up Blair This posting was made automatically by machine. It will appear once every minute or so. Direct any questions to rabbit@Buster.Michigan.COM ------- The MORTIMER story can be retreived from a special archive server (the Mort-Server) To request a part of the MORTIMER story, send mail to one of the addresses below. Put your request on the Subject: line of your message. Requests are can be the in the following form: ALL - (in upper case) will cause the entire story to be sent to you. n - (where n is an integer) will cause part one to be sent n,m... - (where n and m, etc are integers) will cause parts n, m and so forth, to be sent. You may send your request to any of the following addresses: MORTIMER@Buster.Michigan.COM MORTIMER@Babs.Michigan.COM MORTIMER@Plucky.Michigan.COM MORTIMER@Hamton.Michigan.COM MORTIMER@McLoon.Michigan.COM MORTIMER@Elmyra.Michigan.COM If you send off a request and don't get a response within 5 days, send e-mail to the sysop here (NOT ME!!). His address is: ARCHIVER@Michigan.COM -- >>> BAN: Nuclear Power, US Intervention in The Gulf, Toxic Waste, >>> rdc, carasso, Trash Incinerators, Nuclear Weapons, Poverty, KiBoIsM >>> Racism, Kent Paul Dolan, Specieism, etc... Write: Rabbits for a Better >>> Hutch, Roscommon, MI 48653 E-MAIL: rabbit@Buster.Michigan.COM
From: janwillem@idsys.nl (JanWillem) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Date: 2 Feb 1996 11:00:39 GMT Organization: ID Systems/Toegepaste Informatica Message-ID: <janwillem-0202961200590001@huisie-ppp0.knoware.nl> References: <RDL.96Jan23112233@world.std.com> <4e3fom$689@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> <Pine.OSF.3.91.960127010219.32595A-100000@sable.ox.ac.uk> In article <Pine.OSF.3.91.960127010219.32595A-100000@sable.ox.ac.uk>, Ravi Mendis <lady0098@sable.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > > Steve Jobs, in his WIRED interview did say that the Web throws the doors > open to new UI-metaphors. (I won't be surprised if NeXT and its OPENSTEP > partners persue this...using OPENSTEP Objects of course. If NeXT doesn't, > then i'm sure Sun will..try) > > Heard of Sun's "JOE" technology that's to ship with Solaris NEO? Well, > its supposed to employ Java "ORB-lets" instead of applets, to distribute > front ends to object applications: OPENSTEP objects on the network!? > Now, JOE on the Mac would be a delicious offering...especially, if the > front ends were loyal to the Mac interface and GUI. That would be the > start. Lord, only knows how and what other elements evolve into the new > "Web Desktop". > > Otherwise, the Mac will be pushed into some niche market and Apple along > with it. Sun will be dependent on Windows for developing a new UI for the > Web Desktop...recall how bullish Microsoft can be?!?! > Please gentlemen. Have a look at Apple's webpages about Cyberdog aka the internet pathfinder. Talking about companies going out of business! I think cyberdog will stop all of the hype about Netscape if introduced properly. > However, PowerPC must be in Sun's face! Mac hardware will need to find a > new home...which won't be too difficult. IBM knows how much it owes its > PowerPC success to the Macintosh. I'm sure it'll find a good home there, > at worst. At best, Compaq or another efficient PC manufacturer might well > do the Mac some good! > > > That's the "business sense" of the deal. As for the "cultural sense"... > I'm sorry to say so Ravi, but this is not the business sense of the deal. The truth of the matter is that Apple as a company is worth a lot more than Sun would ever be able to spend on a takeover. The stockswap discussed in the context of a merger with Sun probably would heart McNeally's position in such a way that he would end up in not being top-dog anymore in the merged company. Apple has had net-profits of $424million in fiscal 95, a raise of 37% compared to fiscal 94. Cash-on-hand in the amount of $1.3 billion. A takeover, well sir my allowance falls a little short, otherwise I would personally have a go at it. One thing is for sure, I'll be buying Apple stock in the amount of several thousand dollars.
From: pgeiss@giotto.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (Peter Geissler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: would like to see extended dos partitions Date: 2 Feb 1996 18:11:11 GMT Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <4etk3v$3e9@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> Hi everyone, how can I mount extended DOS partitions from external DOS formatted harddisks. Workspace manager mounts primary partions by itself, but seems not to see the extended ones. Is there a driver which allows to read/write Windows95 long filenames from NextStep ? Thanx, Peter Geissler pgeiss@giotto.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de ====== NeXT Mail welcome =====
From: mrozek@eecs.umich.edu (Eric M. Mrozek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: How to convert .snd -> .wav or .aiff Date: 2 Feb 1996 18:10:15 GMT Organization: University of Michigan EECS Message-ID: <4etk27$a5g@news.eecs.umich.edu> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960131125941.10681D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> In article <Pine.NXT.3.91.960131125941.10681D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> writes: > On Wed, 31 Jan 1996, Joe Pompei wrote: > > > I'm trying to convert NeXT .snd files to .wav or .aiff files, but it > > seems like NeXT's .snd filetype is a little different from the > > 'standard' (mac) .snd. Therefore, most converters (sox) won't convert > > it properly. > > > > This must have been done by someone out here... I was suprized not to > > see it in the FAQ. > > This is a pretty common operation, or so I thought, it comes up quite a > bit and I don't remember hearing about problems with sox before -- which > doesn't mean they don't exist, but might explain why it wasn't in the > FAQ. Apparently the real problem is that Joe is running sox on a mac. Sox compiles with different default settings depending on the platform. Macs have their own .snd format that is different from NeXT's .snd (basically the same as Sun's .au). So when you want to convert a NeXT .snd using a mac binary of sox you have to use the "-t au" option (as was pointed out in another post). You should also be aware that for .snd, sox only supports data that is encoded as 8-bit mu-law, or 8 or 16-bit signed integers. This is not usually a problem since the other formats are rarely used. Eric
From: rlarson@semlab5.sbs.sunysb.edu (Richard K. Larson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Netware Bugs Date: 2 Feb 1996 17:34:02 GMT Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Message-ID: <4ethua$hec@abel.cc.sunysb.edu> Are there known bugs with NeXT's NetwareManager.app? I have been trying to use it to transfer files within our university. The target site is a Novell server. When I attempt to drag and drop into the directory structure of the server I get an error message saying: permission denied. The system admninistrators say this is an error in our netware: that there is write permission to the appropriate files. They ask embarassing things like: "Are you sure yon't you have a machine running DOS?" Anyone else had trouble of this kind? More to the point, did you find a solution? Please reply be email. Thanks Richard Larson Dept. of Linguistics SUNY - SB
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: AppleTalk Client from 3.0 on 3.3? Message-ID: <1996Feb2.202252.2232@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <4ep895$g9@paladin.american.edu> Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 20:22:52 GMT In article <4ep895$g9@paladin.american.edu> tm8025a@mailhost.soc.american.edu (Torrey McMahon) writes: > In article <310FDA47.4FD7@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Eric Dubiel > <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> writes: > :Can anyone tell me if I can run the AppleTalk Client from > :3.0 on 3.3? I'm interested in getting it to try. Please > :email me. > : > :Thanks to all, > :Eric > > I tired installing it but it wouldn't work at all. If someone figures it > out please inform me also. > The transition from 3.0 to 3.1 was crucial (same as for Windooze :-) Most of the link libs was incompatible to previous versions. Almost no old apps did it without recompile. AppleTalk Client being no exception. I guess you'll have to cough up the money for a copy of 'Partners' by IPT. -- 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 | pgp, MIME, NeXTmail # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: mitroo@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Varun Mitroo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: AppleTalk Client from 3.0 on 3.3? Date: 3 Feb 1996 04:44:54 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <4eup86$81e@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> References: <4ep895$g9@paladin.american.edu> <1996Feb2.202252.2232@nidat.sub.org> In article <1996Feb2.202252.2232@nidat.sub.org>, Peter Nitezki <Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org> wrote: >In article <4ep895$g9@paladin.american.edu> >tm8025a@mailhost.soc.american.edu (Torrey McMahon) writes: >> In article <310FDA47.4FD7@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Eric Dubiel >> <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> writes: >> :Can anyone tell me if I can run the AppleTalk Client from >> :3.0 on 3.3? I'm interested in getting it to try. Please >> :email me. >> : >> :Thanks to all, >> :Eric >> >> I tired installing it but it wouldn't work at all. If someone figures it >> out please inform me also. >> >The transition from 3.0 to 3.1 was crucial (same as for Windooze :-) >Most of the link libs was incompatible to previous versions. Almost no >old apps did it without recompile. AppleTalk Client being no exception. > >I guess you'll have to cough up the money for a copy of 'Partners' by IPT. I have contacted IPT about Partner. It will allow the NeXT to work as a AppleShare server as well as a network printer on an Apple network. Unfortunately, it will only work with NEXTSTEP 3.2, and IPT does not plan on updating it to support 3.3. Their explanation was that there simply isn't enough 3rd party NeXT market to justify the expense of updating it. In addition, an unlimited, educational license, without the ability to share NeXT printers, is over $1200! Maybe NeXT should consider reviving their appletalk support for NEXTSTEP, because at this time, there is no way to connect to AppleTalk networks in NEXTSTEP 3.3. Varun
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple In-Reply-To: janwillem@idsys.nl's message of 2 Feb 1996 11:00:39 GMT Message-ID: <RDL.96Feb2232910@world.std.com> Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <RDL.96Jan23112233@world.std.com> <4e3fom$689@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> <Pine.OSF.3.91.960127010219.32595A-100000@sable.ox.ac.uk> <janwillem-0202961200590001@huisie-ppp0.knoware.nl> Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 04:29:10 GMT NEWSFLASH: Apple CEO Michael Spindler has resigned. A former CEO of Intel (and it's the not Andy Grove) has taken over. We may very well see a takeover. But let's hope it's not Sun. IBM would be the best choice. Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant Boston, MA Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
From: "Jonathan W. Hendry" <steeldrv@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 00:21:52 -0500 Organization: Steel Driving Software, Inc. Message-ID: <3112F0F0.4770@ix.netcom.com> References: <RDL.96Jan23112233@world.std.com> <4e3fom$689@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> <Pine.OSF.3.91.960127010219.32595A-100000@sable.ox.ac.uk> <janwillem-0202961200590001@huisie-ppp0.knoware.nl> <RDL.96Feb2232910@world.std.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Robert La Ferla wrote: > > NEWSFLASH: > > Apple CEO Michael Spindler has resigned. A former CEO of Intel (and > it's the not Andy Grove) has taken over. We may very well see a takeover. > > But let's hope it's not Sun. IBM would be the best choice. Don't be so sure. Look what happened with Taligent... Look how badly they've muffed OS/2 (especially OS/2 for PPC). IBM would be the kiss of death for Apple. -- Jonathan W. Hendry Steel Driving Software, Inc. Delphi and NeXTSTEP consulting and software development. Cincinnati, Ohio
From: pbrown@asparagus.berkeley.edu (Paul Robert Brown) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: White vs. Black. Date: 3 Feb 1996 04:35:57 GMT Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department. Distribution: na Message-ID: <4euond$h4a@agate.berkeley.edu> I'm the happy owner of some of the classic black hardware, a mono slab (since '91!) and a color slab, and I couldn't be happier with the machines. When I make a move to new hardware, I'm hoping that I can stay with NeXTstep, but I'm not sure just what I want. HP-PA would be my first choice, but a P5 or P6 would be more affordable. (I can always send a big job off to some huge ring of workstations running PVM anyhow...) So, for those of you who know, what's the rub? Is running NS on white just a different motor, or is it really a different beast altogether? (btw, I'd be tempted to shell out the dough (from a grant... :) for something like an HP-PA or UltraSparc just to avoid the piecemeal hardware problems rampant in PCs... "No Frankensteins".) Paul
From: Scribe <scribe@netcom.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Date: 3 Feb 1996 10:23:23 GMT Organization: ScribeIS Message-ID: <4evd2r$dlo@cloner2.ix.netcom.com> References: <RDL.96Jan23112233@world.std.com> <4e3fom$689@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> <Pine.OSF.3.91.960127010219.32595A-100000@sable.ox.ac.uk> <janwillem-0202961200590001@huisie-ppp0.knoware.nl> <RDL.96Feb2232910@world.std.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Somehow Apple believes that yet another reorganization will save the day for the company. But as a person who does Mac-based con- sulting and often sales, my customers are telling me otherwise. Newsweek, Time, Business Week, The Economist and most major mags for business and general news, plus most major daily newspapers around the world have come down heavily on Apple, and not just for its current losses (and projected Q2 losses). Thes articles represent a loss of faith in Apple. Not - and I emphasize the NOT - with the Mac, but with Apple the corporation. A consumer interviewed by Business Week said it best when asked why she crossed Apple off her list for one of two home computers (the other being a PC for brought home office work - understandable in the context); she said that given the investment to be made, she could not trust a company that recently reported a loss in a booming computer market. And she is correct. Even the graphics pros and publishers and SOHO and student users I am trying to sell to are balking at buying a Mac. They read the papers and mags, they know the implications of investing thousands of dollars and hours in a computer, mastering the learning curve, only to be orphaned by the possible demise of a company with a very shaky outlook. I can't argue with this. The customer is right. The customer is convincing ME that an Apple product might not be in their best interest. Apple, by firing Spindler etc., seems to be undertaking yet another of its endless reorganizations. But what my customers are saying is that they like the Mac, but cannot trust Apple alone to deliver stability in the long term for their investment. My customers are the market. They are clearly spooked by Apple's lack of leverage in the industry and they are voting their displeasure with their dollars. Apple does not need another reorganization. Apple needs a third party to reorganize Apple. I am in favour of Sun or another worthy corporation acquiring Apple. It would be best for the long- term survival of the MacOS.
From: Luke Howard <lukeh@auswired.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: mSQL, EOF Date: 3 Feb 1996 10:55:48 GMT Organization: AusWired, Melbourne, Australia. Message-ID: <4evevk$48j@news.mel.aone.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This is a long shot, and probably a silly question given the relative nature of the two products, but I don't suppose there's an EOF adaptor for the shareware mSQL database? Not that I'm crazy enough to attempt it, but is there any documentation (apart from the header files) on writing EO Adaptors? l.
From: schaub@tamu.edu (Hanspeter Schaub) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: some NeXTTeX questions... Date: 3 Feb 1996 14:46:09 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Message-ID: <4evsfh$bqp@news.tamu.edu> I am running NS3.2 and installed NeXTTeX recently. After surfing the web for help manuals and tutorials on TeX and LaTeX, I am wondering what version of TeX or LaTeX comes with NS3.2? (Latex 2.09 or Latex2e) - if not Latex2e, would it be worth to upgrade to Latex2e? Whatever is there right now seems to run fine for me. - if it is worth to upgrade, where and how would one proceed to do this? Thanks for any answers, helps, hints to the above questions. You can reach me at schaub@tamu.edu. Blue Skies, 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
From: icardena@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu (Ian Patrick Cardenas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: mSQL, EOF Date: 3 Feb 1996 17:30:40 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Message-ID: <4f0640$dil@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <4evevk$48j@news.mel.aone.net.au> Luke Howard <lukeh@auswired.net> writes: >This is a long shot, and probably a silly question given the relative >nature of the two products, but I don't suppose there's an EOF adaptor for >the shareware mSQL database? > There are both DB and EOF adaptors for mSQL available at: ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Vendors/M_Onyschuk_and_Associates_Inc/ >Not that I'm crazy enough to attempt it, but is there any documentation >(apart from the header files) on writing EO Adaptors? > There might be something in NeXT's new EOF Developers Guide. Has anyone bought this book? Check out: http://www.next.com/Pubs/Documents/EOF/EOF.html for more information. -- Ian P. Cardenas (icardena@uiuc.edu) CCSO NeXT System Administrator, CCSO Sites Technical Support "Are they as successful as who,Microsoft? Only drug lords from South America are as successful as Microsoft." -Tim Byars, on the success of NeXT Computer, Inc.
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Special: P133 NEXTSTEP Workstations Date: 3 Feb 1996 02:38:39 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <4euhrf$1f2@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <4eqsv3$n5q@news.cais.com> <3112098D.E8@info.bt.co.uk> Gerald McMullon <mcmullgf@info.bt.co.uk> wrote: > Very nice - NeXTSTEP needs more than 16MB for color!! > I wouldn't want to run NT for long with only 16Mb RAM either. So buy into the option for more RAM, or buy RAM somewhere that you can get it cheaper (if this price is too much). That's a pretty easy issue to solve. It's certainly painful to see how much cheaper this 133Mhz Pentium PCI system is compared to the 60Mhz Pentium I bought just about 20 months ago. It's more than twice as fast, and half the price... Proving once again: Don't buy computer hardware as an investment! --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple In-Reply-To: "Jonathan W. Hendry"'s message of Sat, 03 Feb 1996 00:21:52 -0500 Message-ID: <RDL.96Feb3155717@world.std.com> Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <RDL.96Jan23112233@world.std.com> <4e3fom$689@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> <Pine.OSF.3.91.960127010219.32595A-100000@sable.ox.ac.uk> <janwillem-0202961200590001@huisie-ppp0.knoware.nl> <RDL.96Feb2232910@world.std.com> <3112F0F0.4770@ix.netcom.com> Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 20:57:17 GMT First off, I should point out an error in my post. The new Apple CEO was from National Semiconductor not Intel. Secondly, Sun has NO software! IBM has Lotus and a hell of lot more resources than Sun. IBM is not the corporation it used to be. It's a lot more aggressive. I agree with you that they have made mistakes and have room to improve. But the facts are that Apple is going nowhere without productivity apps. Microsoft will surely pull the plug on Office soon if they haven't already. Having 123, Notes, etc.. for MacOS with IBM support would be a great thing for the Apple and industry. There are a few things that IBM would have to do: Drop OS/2 and make MacOS run on Intel. Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant Boston, MA Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com In article <3112F0F0.4770@ix.netcom.com> "Jonathan W. Hendry" <steeldrv@ix.netcom.com> writes: Xref: world comp.sys.mac.advocacy:100871 comp.sys.next.advocacy:38809 comp.sys.next.misc:46221 Path: world!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!apollo.hp.com!lf.hp.com!news.dtc.hp.com!col.hp.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netnews From: "Jonathan W. Hendry" <steeldrv@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 00:21:52 -0500 Organization: Steel Driving Software, Inc. Lines: 18 References: <RDL.96Jan23112233@world.std.com> <4e3fom$689@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> <Pine.OSF.3.91.960127010219.32595A-100000@sable.ox.ac.uk> <janwillem-0202961200590001@huisie-ppp0.knoware.nl> <RDL.96Feb2232910@world.std.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ix-cin1-03.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NETCOM-Date: Fri Feb 02 9:24:08 PM PST 1996 X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (Win95; I) Robert La Ferla wrote: > > NEWSFLASH: > > Apple CEO Michael Spindler has resigned. A former CEO of Intel (and > it's the not Andy Grove) has taken over. We may very well see a takeover. > > But let's hope it's not Sun. IBM would be the best choice. Don't be so sure. Look what happened with Taligent... Look how badly they've muffed OS/2 (especially OS/2 for PPC). IBM would be the kiss of death for Apple. -- Jonathan W. Hendry Steel Driving Software, Inc. Delphi and NeXTSTEP consulting and software development. Cincinnati, Ohio
From: mbk@jt3ws1.etd.ornl.gov (Kennel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Followup-To: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Date: 4 Feb 1996 02:58:24 GMT Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN Message-ID: <4f17cg$n1e@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> References: <RDL.96Jan23112233@world.std.com> <4e3fom$689@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> <RDL.96Feb2232910@world.std.com> Robert La Ferla (rdl@world.std.com) wrote: > NEWSFLASH: > Apple CEO Michael Spindler has resigned. A former CEO of Intel (and > it's the not Andy Grove) has taken over. We may very well see a takeover. > But let's hope it's not Sun. IBM would be the best choice. True. Sun wouldn't know what to do with Apple. IBM does, of course: Ruin the rest of Apple with that magic Taligent touch. (which deep-sixed Pink and the hope for the Mac getting a real OS.) What makes sense for Sun? The right Grand Alliance of Everybody Who Hasn't Yet Gone Senile Or Given In To The Dark Side: Sun, NeXT, Borland and Oracle plus some multimedia company. > Robert La Ferla > Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant > Boston, MA > Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 > Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 > E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
From: tlm@ameslab.gov(Dr. T. L. Marchioro II) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: 3.2 versus 3.3 versus 3.3 patched on black HW Date: 4 Feb 1996 04:02:44 GMT Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Message-ID: <4f1b54$123@news.iastate.edu> Hi: Have some good old black hardware here at the office (still amazing to me how these things have stood the test of time. For many tasks it's still far superior to my brand new Indy, although I prefer surfing the WEB in color:) Anyway.... it's running 3.2, because when 3.3 was installed on some of the other black machines here (particularly the ND) it seemed noticeably slower and more trouble prone. However, more and more applications are coming out that require 3.3 or EOF, and there have been these "patches" to 3.3 for black posted at NeXT FTP site (and the possibility of an NS 4.0 seems to be questionable) so I am wondering if it isn't time to upgrade without or without the patches. Am seeking comments from people who've done this, if things are better with the patches, etc. etc. Would rather have the machine run well than be able to run SpiderWoman or OmniWeb 2.0, but if 3.3 (patched or not) is as good or better than 3.2 on black I would like to make the change. Thanks in advance --- Tom ==================================================================== Dr. Thomas L. Marchioro II Two-wheeled theoretical physicist Applied Mathematical Sciences 515-294-9779 Ames Laboratory 515-432-9142 (home) Ames, Iowa 50011 tlm@ameslab.gov
From: skellener@aol.com (Skellener) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Date: 4 Feb 1996 04:47:06 -0500 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <4f1vaq$cp5@newsbf02.news.aol.com> References: <RDL.96Feb3155717@world.std.com> >Drop OS/2 and make MacOS run on Intel. Yes Yes! With NeXT and MacOS on intel who needs Windows?
From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: NPipe Game Date: 4 Feb 1996 05:15:33 -0500 Organization: Communications Vir, Internet Access Montreal. Message-ID: <4f2105$fi5@Vir.com> Hello, I just uploaded the code to a game I wrote few years ago. I originally released it as shareware, but I have no time to maintain it, so I'm releasing the source code under the GNU copyleft license. Any comments or suggestions (not that I have the time to add new features to the game) should be sent to stefanos@uniscape.com The file currently resides at ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/NPipe.tar.gz I'm posting here because, this does not realy merit a formal announcement, although I could be wrong. Enjoy, Stefanos Kiakas e-Scape Information Systems Inc. stefanos@uniscape.com (NeXTMail, MIME, ASCII) <- work stefanos@vir.com (ASCII) From the read me file: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer This software comes as is. Use it at your own risk. Although a great deal of care has been taken to insure the program works with no adverse side effects, there may still be some bugs in it. ( No way! :) Copyright (C) Copyright 1994, Stefanos Kiakas. All rights reserved. This program is released subject to the GNU copyleft license. Original version by Stefanos Kiakas. Comment and suggestion may be sent to (no promise is made for providing timely updates or replies.) stefanos@uniscape.com Object of game The object of the game is to join the different pipe pieces to form a path for the water to flow . The bottom pipe piece on the right is the next pipe piece which will be placed in the square selected by the player. The Speed up flow menu selection will speed up the flow. Once the flow has been sped up you may not insert any more pieces or pause the water flow. The Pause menu selection will allow you to pause the water flow. Pressing it again will resume the water flow. Scoring 20 Points are added for each pipe piece in which the water flow starts. 30 Points are added for each unidirectional pipe piece in which the water flow starts. 40 Points are added for each intersecting pipe piece in which the water flow has started in both axes. 10 Points are subtracted for each unused pipe piece at the end of each level. End of level The level ends when it is no longer possible for the water flow to continue. End of game The game ends when the water flow cannot continue anymore and the number of remaining pieces is greater than zero.
From: louie@va.pubnix.com (Louis A. Mamakos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXTBSD - 4.4BSD For NeXTstep machines ? Date: 4 Feb 1996 09:49:18 -0500 Organization: Pubnix Access Systems (Virginia) Message-ID: <4f2h1e$jo9@pub02.va.pubnix.com> References: <4e84c1$m0n@axl02it.ntc.nokia.com> Keywords: NeXT, Plan9 In article <4e84c1$m0n@axl02it.ntc.nokia.com>, Alan Barclay <escribe@dial.pipex.com> wrote: >Infact, this would not work immediately because of the fact that NeXTs >4.3BSD is really MACH. However there is a version of 4.4BSD for MACH called >4.4BSD LITES (produced at Helsink Uni) - (Slightly strange coincidence is that >Linux comes out of Helsink too!). Perhaps these sources offer the possibility >of running native OPENSTEP libraries and binaries on an upto date UNIX (for >those people who really want OPENSTEP on UNIX rather than on NT/W95). > >I accept that there are hurdles to overcome, not least of which might be the >fact that LITES is based on a version of MACH later than that which NeXT >used or that new code to support the NeXT MAB executable file formats >would be required. I am interested in your comments on this. Again, I'd reiterate that I'd love to run a modern OS on my black next hardware. There is no requirement, for me at least, that it run existing NeXTSTEP applications, or host OPENSTEP. All I'm looking for is a stock 4.4BSD based OS, like NetBSD. louie
From: Mark Crispin <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXTBSD - 4.4BSD For NeXTstep machines ? Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 13:00:51 -0800 Organization: Networks & Distributed Computing Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960204125419.17765B-100000@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> References: <4e84c1$m0n@axl02it.ntc.nokia.com> <4f2h1e$jo9@pub02.va.pubnix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII NNTP-Posting-User: dma In-Reply-To: <4f2h1e$jo9@pub02.va.pubnix.com> On 4 Feb 1996, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > Again, I'd reiterate that I'd love to run a modern OS on my black next > hardware. There is no requirement, for me at least, that it run > existing NeXTSTEP applications, or host OPENSTEP. All I'm looking for > is a stock 4.4BSD based OS, like NetBSD. I second this. It'd be awfully nice if there was /dev/audio support to make the DSP do its thing, but it isn't really necessary. NeXT's software offerings are completely uninteresting. It would also open up the possibility of running real Web browsers, instead of trash like OmniWeb. When a dinky 68030 Mac PowerBook 165c does a better job on the Web than an "insanely great" NEXTSTEP system, that says something very sad. -- Mark -- DoD #0105, R90/6 pilot, FAX: (206) 685-4045 ICBM: N 47 39'35" W 122 18'39" Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate.
From: cavery@cais.cais.com (Cavery) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: P133 NEXTSTEP Workstations Date: 4 Feb 1996 22:09:26 GMT Organization: Capital Area Internet Service info@cais.com 703-448-4470 Message-ID: <4f3aqm$b7v@zippy.cais.net> I recently looked at a P133 system running NextStep and I couldn't see any difference in speed between that and my 25Mhz black cube. I guess it does mandelbrot faster or something????
From: Eric Dubiel <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: sci.crypt,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: CryptorBundle for NEXTSTEP 3.3 mail.app Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1996 17:01:23 -0600 Organization: Illinois State University Message-ID: <31153AC3.7A17@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am trying to locate CryptoBundle for the NEXTSTEP operating system. I have read it is available via FTP from a German site, however my attempts at locating it have been unsuccessful. If anyone has information, please email me. Thank You, Eric SUPPORT FREE SPEECH ON THE 'NET! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Dubiel; http://138.87.201.11 Network User Services mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu Illinois State University PEACE LOVE UNITY RESPECT "Understanding is best learned via experience." "Follow our instinct, not a trend. Go against the grain until the end." Unknown .... VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE ENTIRELY MY OWN
From: yucheng@math.arizona.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: P133 NEXTSTEP Workstations Date: 5 Feb 1996 01:26:20 GMT Organization: University of Arizona Mathematics Department Message-ID: <4f3mbt$qno@amethyst.math.arizona.edu> References: <4f3aqm$b7v@zippy.cais.net> In <4f3aqm$b7v@zippy.cais.net> Cavery wrote: > I recently looked at a P133 system running NextStep and I couldn't see > any difference in speed between that and my 25Mhz black cube. I guess it > does mandelbrot faster or something???? > "couldn't see any difference"??? I doubt you've really tried one well-equipped P133 machine. Of course, if your only work is for typing, the difference is not big. But if you've ever tried to do some computation or programming, you'll find the difference. The speed improvement is not slight but dramatic. Note the speed comparision should go like this. 68040 25MHz <---> 80486 50MHz 33MHz <---> 66MHz Then P133 is at least 3 to 5 times faster than 486 66MHz. I like black machine (compact, solid, elegant). But we have to admit it is aged. You can see those speed chart from www.intel.com -- Best Regards Yuwen Cheng P.O. Box 43692 Tucson, AZ 85733 Tel: (520) 881-4314 Fax: (520) 881-4314 ``It is a modem connection. Voice confirms first'' "If I understood the man page, I wouldn't have asked the question." "I'm the one that's going to have to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to." "Shoot me in a dream, you'd better wake up and apologize." "I have won, and you have lost. The question is, why?"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Message-ID: <1996Feb4.054449.73149@cc.usu.edu> From: lddenys@valkyry.ece.usu.edu (Larry Denys) Date: 4 Feb 96 05:44:49 MDT References: <RDL.96Feb3155717@world.std.com> <4f1vaq$cp5@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Distribution: world Organization: CSOIS |> >Drop OS/2 and make MacOS run on Intel. If Apple would have done this 3-4 years ago, they would probably have around 30-40% of the Intel market, or more. This is something I really don't understand. Why didn't Sculley or Spindler look up north to Microsoft and see that MS was making truckloads of money, not making hardware, but making software, OSes. Why didn't the CEO's of Apple decide they could cash in on the Intel market by making their OS run on PCs? LDDenys
From: veakblad@Glue.umd.edu (David T. Wang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Followup-To: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Date: 5 Feb 1996 05:36:01 GMT Organization: University of Maryland College Park Distribution: world Message-ID: <4f4501$114@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> References: <RDL.96Feb3155717@world.std.com> <4f1vaq$cp5@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <1996Feb4.054449.73149@cc.usu.edu> Larry Denys (lddenys@valkyry.ece.usu.edu) wrote: : |> >Drop OS/2 and make MacOS run on Intel. : : If Apple would have done this 3-4 years ago, they would probably : have around 30-40% of the Intel market, or more. : This is something I really don't understand. Why didn't Sculley : or Spindler look up north to Microsoft and see that MS was making : truckloads of money, not making hardware, but making software, OSes. : Why didn't the CEO's of Apple decide they could cash in on the Intel : market by making their OS run on PCs? Washington post had an interesting snippet about the Mac30 project, project to grab 30% of the marketshare by porting MacOS, (like NeXT), but it was killed for some reason . What reason? I don't know either. : LDDenys
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 Feb 1996 05:15:09 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4f43ot$t3j@digifix.digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Software, Inc. WWW site comp.sys.next newsgroups related newsgroups comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list ftp sites NeXTanswers Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site =============================================== This online community resource includes - 150+ ISV company pages - 350+ ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - NEXTSTEP User Group Directory - comp.sys.next archives - User Group information - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.stepwise.com/ Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise, please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com. eduSTEP WWW site ================ http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/ eduStep aims to provide up-to-date information on: - NextStep tools and projects for scientists. - Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist). - A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with customers in the educational community. - Conferences, meetings, workshops - Major projects, such as SciTools, EMBL's project to develop a NextStep scientific work environment - Status reports on GNUStep, a freely-available implementation of OpenStep now being developed NeXT Software, Inc. 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From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: sci.crypt,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: CryptorBundle for NEXTSTEP 3.3 mail.app Date: 5 Feb 1996 10:25:09 GMT Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Sender: reichman@comserv-j-27.usc.edu Message-ID: <4f4lu5$h3s@usc.edu> References: <31153AC3.7A17@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> According to Lycos's search engine: 1) Cryptor-Bundle [1.0000, 2 of 2 terms, adj 1.0] Abstract: Cryptor-Bundle ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/pub/utils/ (0k) -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@scf.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: gibraltar!wiley (Wiley S. Hodges) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Solution to OmniWeb Expiring (new beta 3) Date: 5 Feb 1996 19:51:15 GMT Organization: Lighthouse Design, Ltd. Distribution: world Message-ID: <4f5n3j$3f8@lighthouse.lighthouse.com> Keywords: OmniWeb, expire, beta We've been inundated with phone calls and e-mails at Lighthouse concerning the expiration of licenses for the old OmniWeb betas. First, I should say that there is a new beta version available from the following two sites: temporarily: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/OmniWeb-2.0-beta-3b.app. tar.gz and at an alternate site: ftp://eclipse.its.rpi.edu/NeXT/web/OmniWeb_f/02-BETA/OmniWeb-2.0b3b_N IHS.tar.gz Second, these beta versions will themselves expire. We've had people say some very nasty things about expiring software in the past few days, but it's very important that these expire so that the feedback we get always reflects the most recent version of the app, rather than something which is over a month old. Thanks for your support, and we look forward to hearing your feedback at omniweb@lighthouse.com
From: asr@itsq8.com (Ahmad Al-rasheedan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: How to make use of *.ico on NeXT? Date: 5 Feb 1996 22:40:08 GMT Organization: Gulfnet Kuwait Message-ID: <4f6108$lhe@gulfa.kuwait.net> Hi, I just bought a CD-ROM with zillion of .ico files. NeXTSTEP treates them as ASCII files by launching the editor. Is there a converter of some sort? Thanx.
From: christw@meaddata.com (Christopher C. Wood) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Date: 5 Feb 1996 22:50:01 GMT Organization: LEXIS-NEXIS, Dayton OH Message-ID: <4f61ip$4mq@meaddata.lexis-nexis.com> References: <RDL.96Feb3155717@world.std.com> <4f1vaq$cp5@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <1996Feb4.054449.73149@cc.usu.edu> <4f4501$114@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> In article <4f4501$114@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>, veakblad@Glue.umd.edu (David T. Wang) writes: |> Larry Denys (lddenys@valkyry.ece.usu.edu) wrote: |> : |> >Drop OS/2 and make MacOS run on Intel. |> : If Apple would have done this 3-4 years ago, they would probably |> : have around 30-40% of the Intel market, or more. |> : This is something I really don't understand. Why didn't Sculley |> : or Spindler look up north to Microsoft and see that MS was making |> : truckloads of money, not making hardware, but making software, OSes. |> : Why didn't the CEO's of Apple decide they could cash in on the Intel |> : market by making their OS run on PCs? |> Washington post had an interesting snippet about the Mac30 project, |> project to grab 30% of the marketshare by porting MacOS, (like NeXT), but |> it was killed for some reason . What reason? I don't know either. Apple developed MacOS on Intel a couple of years back. Code name "Star Trek". Shopped around for software and computer vendors, couldn't get any support. So they dropped it. Copland on Intel, that might do some good. Chris -- Speaking only for myself, of course. Chris Wood christw@lexis-nexis.com ChrisCWood@eworld.com
From: christw@meaddata.com (Christopher C. Wood) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Date: 5 Feb 1996 22:51:43 GMT Organization: LEXIS-NEXIS, Dayton OH Message-ID: <4f61lv$4mq@meaddata.lexis-nexis.com> References: <RDL.96Feb3155717@world.std.com> <4f1vaq$cp5@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <1996Feb4.054449.73149@cc.usu.edu> In article <1996Feb4.054449.73149@cc.usu.edu>, lddenys@valkyry.ece.usu.edu (Larry Denys) writes: |> |> >Drop OS/2 and make MacOS run on Intel. |> If Apple would have done this 3-4 years ago, they would probably |> have around 30-40% of the Intel market, or more. Already happened, and they didn't. Search MacWeek archives for code name "Star Trek." No software or computer vendors were interested in supporting the platform. A platform without software is DEAD. Chris -- Speaking only for myself, of course. Chris Wood christw@lexis-nexis.com ChrisCWood@eworld.com
From: gwu@dataspec.com (George Wu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: SoftPC 3.1 and Visio 4.0 Date: 5 Feb 1996 23:25:42 GMT Organization: The Loop Distribution: world Message-ID: <4f63lm$g5e@dobie.loop.com> I recently installed Visio Technical 4.0 on my NEXTSTEP 3.2 Intel system for SoftPC 3.1. Whenever I try to add a graphical object by dragging it on to the canvas SoftPC hangs. Has anyone seen this problem ? If so, any work-around ? Does the problem exist under SoftPC 4 ? Any help is greatly appreciated. George
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: franc@xenicos.fdn.fr (Francois BIENTZ) Subject: Re: mSQL, EOF Message-ID: <1996Feb5.220347.1996@xenicos.fdn.fr> Sender: franc@xenicos.fdn.fr Organization: Individual. References: <4evevk$48j@news.mel.aone.net.au> Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 22:03:47 GMT In article <4evevk$48j@news.mel.aone.net.au> Luke Howard <lukeh@auswired.net> writes: > This is a long shot, and probably a silly question given the relative > nature of the two products, but I don't suppose there's an EOF adaptor for > the shareware mSQL database? > > Not that I'm crazy enough to attempt it, but is there any documentation > (apart from the header files) on writing EO Adaptors? > There's an EOF adaptor for the shareware mSQL database ! You can find the msql 1.07 version patched for NEXTSTEP and the EOF adaptor on : ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Vendors/M_Onyschuk_and_Associates_Inc franc
From: wilker@math.purdue.edu (Clarence W. Wilkerson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Difference between NeXT ffs and NetBSD ffs Date: 6 Feb 1996 01:50:01 GMT Organization: "Purdue University Department of Mathematics" Message-ID: <4f6c49$gbf@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> Where can I find detailed docs on the variant of ffs used by NeXT? My big endian NetBSD ffs reports "superblock in wrong place" when I try to read the NS 3.3 developer CDROM under NetBSD 1.1 . -- Clarence Wilkerson \ HomePage: http://www.math.purdue.edu/~wilker Prof. of Math. (topology)\ Internet: wilker@math.purdue.edu Dept. of Mathematics \ Messages: (317) 494-1903, FAX 494-0548 Purdue University, \ Office: (317) 494-1955 (voice) W. Lafayette, Indiana 47907 \ Rm. 738 Math. Sci. Bldng.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple In-Reply-To: veakblad@Glue.umd.edu's message of 5 Feb 1996 05:36:01 GMT Message-ID: <RDL.96Feb5212634@world.std.com> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <RDL.96Feb3155717@world.std.com> <4f1vaq$cp5@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <1996Feb4.054449.73149@cc.usu.edu> <4f4501$114@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 02:26:34 GMT It was killed off because of three reasons: (a) Motorola (b) Microsoft and (c) Third parties. Robert In article <4f4501$114@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> veakblad@Glue.umd.edu (David T. Wang) writes: Xref: world comp.sys.mac.advocacy:101336 comp.sys.next.advocacy:38847 comp.sys.next.misc:46238 Path: world!blanket.mitre.org!sed.psrw.com!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!haven.umd.edu!cville-srv.wam.umd.edu!vdal5.eng.umd.edu!veakblad From: veakblad@Glue.umd.edu (David T. Wang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Followup-To: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Date: 5 Feb 1996 05:36:01 GMT Organization: University of Maryland College Park Lines: 19 Distribution: world References: <RDL.96Feb3155717@world.std.com> <4f1vaq$cp5@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <1996Feb4.054449.73149@cc.usu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: vdal5.eng.umd.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Larry Denys (lddenys@valkyry.ece.usu.edu) wrote: : |> >Drop OS/2 and make MacOS run on Intel. : : If Apple would have done this 3-4 years ago, they would probably : have around 30-40% of the Intel market, or more. : This is something I really don't understand. Why didn't Sculley : or Spindler look up north to Microsoft and see that MS was making : truckloads of money, not making hardware, but making software, OSes. : Why didn't the CEO's of Apple decide they could cash in on the Intel : market by making their OS run on PCs? Washington post had an interesting snippet about the Mac30 project, project to grab 30% of the marketshare by porting MacOS, (like NeXT), but it was killed for some reason . What reason? I don't know either. : LDDenys
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Subject: Re: P133 NEXTSTEP Workstations In-Reply-To: cavery@cais.cais.com's message of 4 Feb 1996 22:09:26 GMT Message-ID: <RDL.96Feb5214605@world.std.com> Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <4f3aqm$b7v@zippy.cais.net> Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 02:46:05 GMT Did you turn it on? :-) Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant Boston, MA Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com In article <4f3aqm$b7v@zippy.cais.net> cavery@cais.cais.com (Cavery) writes: I recently looked at a P133 system running NextStep and I couldn't see any difference in speed between that and my 25Mhz black cube. I guess it does mandelbrot faster or something????
From: clparker@mail1.sas.upenn.edu (Crystal L Parker) Message-ID: <cancel.4f6ir0$bgn@netnews.upenn.edu> Control: cancel <4f6ir0$bgn@netnews.upenn.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: cmsg cancel <4f6ir0$bgn@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 6 Feb 1996 3:54:56 GMT Cancelled by jem@xpat.com. 823578896 MMFsubo This posting is spam - thousands of these have been posted. This posting is also a chain-letter. Chain-letters are illegal. If you don't believe this, see: http://www.usps.gov/websites/depart/inspect/chainlet.htm
From: kennel@msr.epm.ornl.gov (Matt Kennel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Followup-To: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Date: 6 Feb 1996 04:17:03 GMT Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN Distribution: world Message-ID: <4f6knv$3j6@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> References: <RDL.96Feb3155717@world.std.com> <4f1vaq$cp5@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <1996Feb4.054449.73149@cc.usu.edu> Larry Denys (lddenys@valkyry.ece.usu.edu) wrote: > |> >Drop OS/2 and make MacOS run on Intel. > > > If Apple would have done this 3-4 years ago, they would probably > have around 30-40% of the Intel market, or more. > This is something I really don't understand. Why didn't Sculley > or Spindler look up north to Microsoft and see that MS was making > truckloads of money, not making hardware, but making software, OSes. > Why didn't the CEO's of Apple decide they could cash in on the Intel > market by making their OS run on PCs? Really, would it have worked? Could Apple have done the same illegal preload garbage on PCs as MS did? (No there wasn't a DOS stick to beat them with) Could Apple have strongarmed the perepherial manufacturers into writing MacOS drivers for every skanky piece of hardware to waft across the ISA bus? > LDDenys
From: kennel@msr.epm.ornl.gov (Matt Kennel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Followup-To: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Date: 6 Feb 1996 04:23:44 GMT Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN Message-ID: <4f6l4g$3j6@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> References: <RDL.96Feb3155717@world.std.com> <4f1vaq$cp5@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <1996Feb4.054449.73149@cc.usu.edu> <4f4501$114@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <4f61ip$4mq@meaddata.lexis-nexis.com> Christopher C. Wood (christw@meaddata.com) wrote: > Apple developed MacOS on Intel a couple of years back. Code name > "Star Trek". Shopped around for software and computer vendors, > couldn't get any support. So they dropped it. My scenario. Microsoft applied major illegal HEAT, making it clear that any company who dared to preload MacOS would instantly lose their big bulk discounts for Windows and Office. It's easy when the bulk price is a tiny fraction of the retail price. Given the fierce competition among PC vendors this would instantly make any company who tried this immediately uncompetitive for Windows. So, anybody who wanted to do this would have to immediately give up 100% of their existing revenue for an unproven OS with no software from a company who historically has seen them as an enemy and whose committement to the intel platform is quite reasonably questionable. Nobody still in the business will dare talk. > Copland on Intel, that might do some good. > Chris > -- > Speaking only for myself, of course. > Chris Wood christw@lexis-nexis.com ChrisCWood@eworld.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: hans@onevision.de(Hans Stoeger) Subject: Re: AppleTalk Client from 3.0 on 3.3? Message-ID: <DMAwCB.1BD@onevision.de> Sender: usenet@onevision.de Organization: OneVision GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <4eup86$81e@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 11:38:35 GMT In article <4eup86$81e@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> mitroo@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Varun Mitroo) writes: > In article <1996Feb2.202252.2232@nidat.sub.org>, > Peter Nitezki <Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org> wrote: > >In article <4ep895$g9@paladin.american.edu> > >tm8025a@mailhost.soc.american.edu (Torrey McMahon) writes: > >> In article <310FDA47.4FD7@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Eric Dubiel > >> <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> writes: > >> :Can anyone tell me if I can run the AppleTalk Client from > >> :3.0 on 3.3? I'm interested in getting it to try. Please > >> :email me. > >> : > Unfortunately, it will only work with NEXTSTEP 3.2, and IPT does not plan > on updating it to support 3.3. Their explanation was that there simply The point is more that they don t support it on 3.3. It runs very well under 3.3 (read: at lleast as good as with 3.2). The rumor is they dont have NS 3.3... -- ====================================================================== Hans Stoeger OneVision GmbH Support Florian-Seidl-Strasse 11 Email: hans@onevision.de D-93053 Regensburg (NeXTMail and MIME welcome) Germany
From: bayleyp@slip.net (bayleyp) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Date: 6 Feb 1996 07:24:20 GMT Organization: me Message-ID: <bayleyp-0502962335510001@slip208.ucs.orst.edu> References: <RDL.96Feb3155717@world.std.com> <4f1vaq$cp5@newsbf02.news.aol.com> In article <4f1vaq$cp5@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, skellener@aol.com (Skellener) wrote: > >Drop OS/2 and make MacOS run on Intel. > > > > Yes Yes! > > With NeXT and MacOS on intel who needs Windows? Who cares about porting to little endian 8086?
From: fischer@fokus.gmd.de (Robert Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: How to make use of *.ico on NeXT? Date: 6 Feb 1996 10:21:31 GMT Organization: GMD-FOKUS Message-ID: <4f7a3b$6al@stern.fokus.gmd.de> References: <4f6108$lhe@gulfa.kuwait.net> Ahmad Al-rasheedan writes > Hi, > > I just bought a CD-ROM with zillion of .ico files. NeXTSTEP treates > them as ASCII files by launching the editor. > OmniImage (from different servers) says its an image file! Maybe you have'nt set the default application properly? What icon is shown on your workspace? Robert. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Fischer @ GMD-Fokus -------- __o ------- _`\<,_ fischer@fokus.gmd.de ------- (*)/ (*) ## NeXT-Mail welcome ## -----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Clifford T. Matthews <ctm@ardi.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Date: 06 Feb 1996 06:22:20 -0700 Organization: ARDI Sender: ctm@ftp.ardi.com Message-ID: <ufag2w8u7n.fsf@ftp.ardi.com> References: <RDL.96Feb3155717@world.std.com> <4f1vaq$cp5@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <1996Feb4.054449.73149@cc.usu.edu> <4f4501$114@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> In-reply-to: veakblad@Glue.umd.edu's message of 5 Feb 1996 05:36:01 GMT >>>>> "David" == David T Wang <veakblad@Glue.umd.edu> writes: In article <4f4501$114@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> veakblad@Glue.umd.edu (David T. Wang) writes: Larry> Larry Denys (lddenys@valkyry.ece.usu.edu) wrote: : |> >Drop Larry> OS/2 and make MacOS run on Intel. : : If Apple would have Larry> done this 3-4 years ago, they would probably : have around Larry> 30-40% of the Intel market, or more. : This is something I Larry> really don't understand. Why didn't Sculley : or Spindler Larry> look up north to Microsoft and see that MS was making : Larry> truckloads of money, not making hardware, but making Larry> software, OSes. : Why didn't the CEO's of Apple decide Larry> they could cash in on the Intel : market by making their OS Larry> run on PCs? David> Washington post had an interesting snippet about the Mac30 David> project, project to grab 30% of the marketshare by porting David> MacOS, (like NeXT), but it was killed for some reason . David> What reason? I don't know either. My understanding is that their plan required ISVs to modify their sources and recompile. The underlying OS and toolbox calls would be present, but there would not be a 68k emulator, so unlike the transition to PPC, where almost all pre-existing Mac software would run on the new platform, the Intel based MacOS would initially have no software and the steps that developers would have to take would be decidedly non-trivial in many cases. However, I was not there and I have no inside knowledge of these events. I have inferred the above from what I read in the press during the time Apple was considering the port (known as "StarTrek", I believe). David> : LDDenys --Cliff ctm@ardi.com
From: Clifford T. Matthews <ctm@ardi.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Date: 06 Feb 1996 06:17:34 -0700 Organization: ARDI Sender: ctm@ftp.ardi.com Message-ID: <ufbunc8ufk.fsf@ftp.ardi.com> References: <RDL.96Feb3155717@world.std.com> <4f1vaq$cp5@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <1996Feb4.054449.73149@cc.usu.edu> In-reply-to: lddenys@valkyry.ece.usu.edu's message of 4 Feb 96 05:44:49 MDT >>>>> "Larry" == Larry Denys <lddenys@valkyry.ece.usu.edu> writes: In article <1996Feb4.054449.73149@cc.usu.edu> lddenys@valkyry.ece.usu.edu (Larry Denys) writes: Larry> |> >Drop OS/2 and make MacOS run on Intel. If Apple would Larry> have done this 3-4 years ago, they would probably have Larry> around 30-40% of the Intel market, or more. This is Larry> something I really don't understand. Why didn't Sculley or Larry> Spindler look up north to Microsoft and see that MS was Larry> making truckloads of money, not making hardware, but making Larry> software, OSes. Why didn't the CEO's of Apple decide they Larry> could cash in on the Intel market by making their OS run on Larry> PCs? My understanding is they looked into it internally and decided the only way to do it and get acceptable performance would be to do it as a source compatible OS, rather than a binary compatible OS. In fact, I think they did a proof-of-concept work, but forcing ISVs to recompile is bad, since there would have had to have been considerable changes to each app in order for them to recompile. I think they concluded that such an OS would be still-born -- no apps from day one and only lukewarm, if best, support from developers. The alternative, supporting binary compatibility on the x86 was considered technically infeasible due to the substantial differences between the m68k and x86 processors (notably big endian vs. little endian and sixteen registers vs. fewer than 8 registers). The above Apple history is what I've pieced together from reading the trade magazines. If I am mistaken, I welcome anyone with first-hand experience to correct me. Our Macintosh emulator, Executor, gets around these differences, so it can be done. The heart of Executor is currently "Syn68k", a synthetic CPU that runs m68k code fairly efficiently on x86 machines. Syn68k is described in ftp://ftp.ardi.com/pub/SynPaper More about Executor can be found on our web site http://www.ardi.com/. --Cliff ctm@ardi.com
From: heller@attila.imo.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Helmut Heller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: talk problem Date: 6 Feb 1996 15:53:38 GMT Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany) Distribution: world Message-ID: <4f7ti2$hkt@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de> Keywords: talk, control address Recently my talk on my black NeXTStation stopped working and I don't know why!! It used to work, for sure, so it must have been me who inadvertedly broke s.th., but now I have no idea where to look. Can a kind soul with more knowledge than me help, please? Whenever I try to talk (either to myself on that machine, another person on the machine, or via PPP to another computer) I get this message: [Couldn't bind to control socket : Can't assign requested address (49)] I checked the binary: -rwxr-sr-x 1 root tty 32768 Oct 19 1994 /usr/ucb/talk and the permissions are fine. I checked /etc/services: talk 517/udp ntalk 518/udp and netinfo/services: talk 517/udp ntalk 518/udp I disabled GateKeepers new named (useing the old one again), but this didn't help either. I am completely clueless as to what might cause this behaviour. Any ideas? Any pointers? Suggestions? Hints? Please respond by e-mail! Thanks in advance Helmut -- Servus, Helmut (DH0MAD) ______________NeXT-mail welcome_________________ FAX: +49-89-2394-4607 "Knowledge must be gathered and cannot be given" heller@attila.imo.physik.uni-muenchen.de ZEN, one of BLAKES7 Phone: +49-89-2394-4565 ------------------------------------------------ Helmut Heller, Ludwig Maximilians University | G i b D O S | Institute for Medical Optics, Theoretical Biophysics Group | k e i n e |
From: Mark Suggitt <suggm@sasknet.sk.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 07:41:27 -1100 Organization: BFS Media Group Inc. Message-ID: <3117A0D7.4BC8@sasknet.sk.ca> References: <RDL.96Jan23112233@world.std.com> <4e3fom$689@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> <Pine.OSF.3.91.960127010219.32595A-100000@sable.ox.ac.uk> <janwillem-0202961200590001@huisie-ppp0.knoware.nl> <RDL.96Feb2232910@world.std.com> <4evd2r$dlo@cloner2.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Newsweek, Time, Business Week, The Economist and most major mags > for business and general news, plus most major daily newspapers > around the world have come down heavily on Apple, and not just for > its current losses (and projected Q2 losses). Thes articles represent > a loss of faith in Apple. Not - and I emphasize the NOT - with the > Mac, but with Apple the corporation. A consumer interviewed by > Business Week said it best when asked why she crossed Apple off > her list for one of two home computers (the other being a PC for > brought home office work - understandable in the context); she said > that given the investment to be made, she could not trust a company > that recently reported a loss in a booming computer market. I don't believe media outlets in general know what they are reporting and they're doing some damage as a result. With all due respect to broadcast media professionals in general, the media's handling (describing, explaining, delivering of all relevent facts, etc,) of this Apple situation reminds me of how they handle reports on *cyberspace* and the *information superhighway*. In other words damn poorly and with all the traits of amateurs trying to be experts. I can barely tolerate the level of reporting in Newsweek, Time, Business Week, The Economist and most major mags. The worst is that it's the media who have adversely compounded Apples image, not the competition. I have some faith that beyond a few individuals, the market will still be there for Apple, and if they do good, it will grow for them. -- ______________________________________________________ Mark msuggitt@bfsmedia.com http://www.bfsmeda.com ______________________________________________________ ps: I'd like to see a few of the writers and anchors take part in a newsgroup discussion to see how they hold up.
From: Mark Suggitt <suggm@sasknet.sk.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 07:43:51 -1100 Organization: BFS Media Group Inc. Message-ID: <3117A167.59EF@sasknet.sk.ca> References: <RDL.96Jan23112233@world.std.com> <4e3fom$689@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> <Pine.OSF.3.91.960127010219.32595A-100000@sable.ox.ac.uk> <janwillem-0202961200590001@huisie-ppp0.knoware.nl> <RDL.96Feb2232910@world.std.com> <4evd2r$dlo@cloner2.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: msuggitt@bfsmedia.com > Newsweek, Time, Business Week, The Economist and most major mags > for business and general news, plus most major daily newspapers > around the world have come down heavily on Apple, and not just for > its current losses (and projected Q2 losses). Thes articles represent > a loss of faith in Apple. Not - and I emphasize the NOT - with the > Mac, but with Apple the corporation. A consumer interviewed by > Business Week said it best when asked why she crossed Apple off > her list for one of two home computers (the other being a PC for > brought home office work - understandable in the context); she said > that given the investment to be made, she could not trust a company > that recently reported a loss in a booming computer market. I don't believe media outlets in general know what they are reporting and they're doing some damage as a result. With all due respect to broadcast media professionals in general, the media's handling (describing, explaining, delivering of all relevent facts, etc,) of this Apple situation reminds me of how they handle reports on *cyberspace* and the *information superhighway*. In other words damn poorly and with all the traits of amateurs trying to be experts. I can barely tolerate the level of reporting in Newsweek, Time, Business Week, The Economist and most major mags. The worst is that it's the media who have adversely compounded Apples image, not the competition. I have some faith that beyond a few individuals, the market will still be there for Apple, and if they do good, it will grow for them. -- ______________________________________________________ Mark msuggitt@bfsmedia.com http://www.bfsmeda.com ______________________________________________________ ps: I'd like to see a few of the writers and anchors take part in a newsgroup discussion to see how they hold up.
From: Mark Suggitt <suggm@sasknet.sk.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 07:43:35 -1100 Organization: BFS Media Group Inc. Message-ID: <3117A157.3DFC@sasknet.sk.ca> References: <RDL.96Jan23112233@world.std.com> <4e3fom$689@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> <Pine.OSF.3.91.960127010219.32595A-100000@sable.ox.ac.uk> <janwillem-0202961200590001@huisie-ppp0.knoware.nl> <RDL.96Feb2232910@world.std.com> <4evd2r$dlo@cloner2.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Newsweek, Time, Business Week, The Economist and most major mags > for business and general news, plus most major daily newspapers > around the world have come down heavily on Apple, and not just for > its current losses (and projected Q2 losses). Thes articles represent > a loss of faith in Apple. Not - and I emphasize the NOT - with the > Mac, but with Apple the corporation. A consumer interviewed by > Business Week said it best when asked why she crossed Apple off > her list for one of two home computers (the other being a PC for > brought home office work - understandable in the context); she said > that given the investment to be made, she could not trust a company > that recently reported a loss in a booming computer market. I don't believe media outlets in general know what they are reporting and they're doing some damage as a result. With all due respect to broadcast media professionals in general, the media's handling (describing, explaining, delivering of all relevent facts, etc,) of this Apple situation reminds me of how they handle reports on *cyberspace* and the *information superhighway*. In other words damn poorly and with all the traits of amateurs trying to be experts. I can barely tolerate the level of reporting in Newsweek, Time, Business Week, The Economist and most major mags. The worst is that it's the media who have adversely compounded Apples image, not the competition. I have some faith that beyond a few individuals, the market will still be there for Apple, and if they do good, it will grow for them. -- ______________________________________________________ Mark msuggitt@bfsmedia.com http://www.bfsmeda.com ______________________________________________________ ps: I'd like to see a few of the writers and anchors take part in a newsgroup discussion to see how they hold up.
From: Mark Suggitt <suggm@sasknet.sk.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 07:44:11 -1100 Organization: BFS Media Group Inc. Message-ID: <3117A17B.73EB@sasknet.sk.ca> References: <RDL.96Jan23112233@world.std.com> <4e3fom$689@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> <Pine.OSF.3.91.960127010219.32595A-100000@sable.ox.ac.uk> <janwillem-0202961200590001@huisie-ppp0.knoware.nl> <RDL.96Feb2232910@world.std.com> <4evd2r$dlo@cloner2.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: msuggitt@bfsmedia.com > Newsweek, Time, Business Week, The Economist and most major mags > for business and general news, plus most major daily newspapers > around the world have come down heavily on Apple, and not just for > its current losses (and projected Q2 losses). Thes articles represent > a loss of faith in Apple. Not - and I emphasize the NOT - with the > Mac, but with Apple the corporation. A consumer interviewed by > Business Week said it best when asked why she crossed Apple off > her list for one of two home computers (the other being a PC for > brought home office work - understandable in the context); she said > that given the investment to be made, she could not trust a company > that recently reported a loss in a booming computer market. I don't believe media outlets in general know what they are reporting and they're doing some damage as a result. With all due respect to broadcast media professionals in general, the media's handling (describing, explaining, delivering of all relevent facts, etc,) of this Apple situation reminds me of how they handle reports on *cyberspace* and the *information superhighway*. In other words damn poorly and with all the traits of amateurs trying to be experts. I can barely tolerate the level of reporting in Newsweek, Time, Business Week, The Economist and most major mags. The worst is that it's the media who have adversely compounded Apples image, not the competition. I have some faith that beyond a few individuals, the market will still be there for Apple, and if they do good, it will grow for them. -- ______________________________________________________ Mark msuggitt@bfsmedia.com http://www.bfsmeda.com ______________________________________________________ ps: I'd like to see a few of the writers and anchors take part in a newsgroup discussion to see how they hold up.
From: Clifford T. Matthews <ctm@ardi.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Date: 06 Feb 1996 09:14:53 -0700 Organization: ARDI Sender: ctm@ftp.ardi.com Message-ID: <uf4tt48m82.fsf@ftp.ardi.com> References: <RDL.96Feb3155717@world.std.com> <4f1vaq$cp5@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <bayleyp-0502962335510001@slip208.ucs.orst.edu> In-reply-to: bayleyp@slip.net's message of 6 Feb 1996 07:24:20 GMT >>>>> "bayleyp" == bayleyp <bayleyp@slip.net> writes: In article <bayleyp-0502962335510001@slip208.ucs.orst.edu> bayleyp@slip.net (bayleyp) writes: bayleyp> In article <4f1vaq$cp5@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, bayleyp> skellener@aol.com (Skellener) wrote: >> >Drop OS/2 and make MacOS run on Intel. >> >> >> >> Yes Yes! >> >> With NeXT and MacOS on intel who needs Windows? bayleyp> Who cares about porting to little endian 8086? We do. It's tricky, but it's doable. Below is an extract from ftp://ftp.ardi.com/pub/SynPaper which describes Syn68k, the synthetic CPU that Executor, our Macintosh emulator users. More information on Executor can be found on http://www.ardi.com/. By using dynamic recompilation, a lot of byte swapping can be avoided, since constants can be byte-swapped once during the recompilation pass (as in the pea example), and the recompiler can recognize that a load from memory will initially be byte-swapped but may possibly be usable directly in this swapped format (for instance, loading d0 with the contents of one memory location, then loading d1 with the contents of another memory location, anding d0 and d1 and then storing it in another location requires no byte swapping at all, rather than byte swapping after each load and before the store). --Cliff ctm@ardi.com ============================================================================== Syn68k: ARDI's dynamically compiling 68LC040 emulator Mat Hostetter <mat@ardi.com> ... V. Native code ... Three major problems make translating 680x0 code to 80x86 code difficult: 1) The 80x86 has only 8 registers, while the 680x0 has 16. 2) The 80x86 is little endian, while the 680x0 is big endian. 3) The 80x86 does not have general-purpose postincrement and predecrement operators, which are used frequently in 680x0 code. On the other hand, several factors make the job easier: 1) The 80x86 has all of the CISC addressing modes commonly used in 680x0 code. 2) The 80x86 has CC bits that map directly to their 680x0 counterparts (except for the 680x0's X bit). 3) The 80x86 supports 8-, 16- and 32-bit operations, (although it can only support 8 bit operations on four of its registers). 4) The 80x86 and 680x0 have analogous conditional branch instructions. 5) The 80x86 allows unaligned memory accesses without substantial overhead. ... The 80x86 register set is treated as a cache for recently used 680x0 registers, and the 80x86 CC bits are used as a cache for the 680x0 CC bits. At any particular point within a block, each 680x0 register is either sitting in its memory home or is cached in an 80x86 register, and each live 680x0 CC bit is either cached in its 80x86 equivalent or stored in its memory home. Cached registers may be in canonical form, may be byte swapped, may have only their low two bytes swapped, or may be offset by a known constant from their actual value. Each 680x0 instruction can require that 680x0 registers be cached in particular ways; the compilation engine generates the minimal code needed to satisfy those constraints and then calls a sequence of routines to generate the native code. As each 680x0 instruction is processed, each 680x0 register's cache status is updated. Dirty registers are canonicalized and spilled back to memory at the end of each block (or when we run out of 80x86 registers and we need to make room). We allow 680x0 registers to be cached with varying byte orders and offsets so that we can perform the optimizations of lazy byte swapping and lazy constant offsetting. If the 680x0 program loads a register from memory and then ends up writing it out later, we avoid unnecessary byte swaps by not canonicalizing the value immediately. Lazy constant offsetting mitigates the overhead of postincrement and predecrement side effects. For example, this 680x0 code: pea 0x1 pea 0x2 pea 0x3 pea 0x4 ... becomes this 80x86 code: movl _a7,%edi movl $0x01000000,-4(%edi) ; "push" big-endian constant movl $0x02000000,-8(%edi) movl $0x03000000,-12(%edi) movl $0x04000000,-16(%edi) ... <more uses of a7 may follow, and they'll use %edi> subl $16,%edi movl $edi,_a7 ... As mentioned above, we use the 80x86 condition code bits as a cache for the real 680x0 CC bits. Although live cached CC bits are occasionally spilled back to memory because some 80x86 instruction is about to clobber them, this trick almost always works. Using 80x86 CC bits, we can frequently get away with extremely concise code sequences; for example, a 680x0 compare and conditional branch becomes an 80x86 compare and conditional branch.
From: Mark Suggitt <suggm@sasknet.sk.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 07:43:29 -1100 Organization: BFS Media Group Inc. Message-ID: <3117A151.144C@sasknet.sk.ca> References: <RDL.96Jan23112233@world.std.com> <4e3fom$689@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> <Pine.OSF.3.91.960127010219.32595A-100000@sable.ox.ac.uk> <janwillem-0202961200590001@huisie-ppp0.knoware.nl> <RDL.96Feb2232910@world.std.com> <4evd2r$dlo@cloner2.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Newsweek, Time, Business Week, The Economist and most major mags > for business and general news, plus most major daily newspapers > around the world have come down heavily on Apple, and not just for > its current losses (and projected Q2 losses). Thes articles represent > a loss of faith in Apple. Not - and I emphasize the NOT - with the > Mac, but with Apple the corporation. A consumer interviewed by > Business Week said it best when asked why she crossed Apple off > her list for one of two home computers (the other being a PC for > brought home office work - understandable in the context); she said > that given the investment to be made, she could not trust a company > that recently reported a loss in a booming computer market. I don't believe media outlets in general know what they are reporting and they're doing some damage as a result. With all due respect to broadcast media professionals in general, the media's handling (describing, explaining, delivering of all relevent facts, etc,) of this Apple situation reminds me of how they handle reports on *cyberspace* and the *information superhighway*. In other words damn poorly and with all the traits of amateurs trying to be experts. I can barely tolerate the level of reporting in Newsweek, Time, Business Week, The Economist and most major mags. The worst is that it's the media who have adversely compounded Apples image, not the competition. I have some faith that beyond a few individuals, the market will still be there for Apple, and if they do good, it will grow for them. -- ______________________________________________________ Mark msuggitt@bfsmedia.com http://www.bfsmeda.com ______________________________________________________ ps: I'd like to see a few of the writers and anchors take part in a newsgroup discussion to see how they hold up.
From: Mark Suggitt <suggm@sasknet.sk.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 07:45:57 -1100 Organization: BFS Media Group Inc. Message-ID: <3117A1E5.13AC@sasknet.sk.ca> References: <RDL.96Jan23112233@world.std.com> <4e3fom$689@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> <Pine.OSF.3.91.960127010219.32595A-100000@sable.ox.ac.uk> <janwillem-0202961200590001@huisie-ppp0.knoware.nl> <RDL.96Feb2232910@world.std.com> <4evd2r$dlo@cloner2.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: msuggitt@bfsmedia.com > Newsweek, Time, Business Week, The Economist and most major mags > for business and general news, plus most major daily newspapers > around the world have come down heavily on Apple, and not just for > its current losses (and projected Q2 losses). Thes articles represent > a loss of faith in Apple. Not - and I emphasize the NOT - with the > Mac, but with Apple the corporation. A consumer interviewed by > Business Week said it best when asked why she crossed Apple off > her list for one of two home computers (the other being a PC for > brought home office work - understandable in the context); she said > that given the investment to be made, she could not trust a company > that recently reported a loss in a booming computer market. I don't believe media outlets in general know what they are reporting and they're doing some damage as a result. With all due respect to broadcast media professionals in general, the media's handling (describing, explaining, delivering of all relevent facts, etc,) of this Apple situation reminds me of how they handle reports on *cyberspace* and the *information superhighway*. In other words damn poorly and with all the traits of amateurs trying to be experts. I can barely tolerate the level of reporting in Newsweek, Time, Business Week, The Economist and most major mags. The worst is that it's the media who have adversely compounded Apples image, not the competition. I have some faith that beyond a few individuals, the market will still be there for Apple, and if they do good, it will grow for them. -- ______________________________________________________ Mark msuggitt@bfsmedia.com http://www.bfsmeda.com ______________________________________________________ ps: I'd like to see a few of the writers and anchors take part in a newsgroup discussion to see how they hold up.
From: seanl@carmi.cs.umd.edu (Sean Luke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Followup-To: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Date: 6 Feb 1996 17:42:18 GMT Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Message-ID: <4f83tq$82o@mimsy.cs.umd.edu> References: <RDL.96Jan23112233@world.std.com> <4e3fom$689@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> <3112F0F0.4770@ix.netcom.com> Jonathan W. Hendry (steeldrv@ix.netcom.com) wrote: >Robert La Ferla wrote: >> Apple CEO Michael Spindler has resigned. A former CEO of Intel (and >> it's the not Andy Grove) has taken over. We may very well see a takeover. >> >> But let's hope it's not Sun. IBM would be the best choice. > >Don't be so sure. Look what happened with Taligent... Look how badly they've >muffed OS/2 (especially OS/2 for PPC). IBM would be the kiss of death >for Apple. This calls to mind the old joke thrown about when Taligent came out: QUESTION: What do you get when you cross Apple with IBM? ANSWER: IBM. _____________________________________________________________________________ Sean Luke "I've discovered that P==NP, but the proof is too U Maryland at College Park small to fit in the margins of this signature." seanl@cs.umd.edu URL: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~seanl/
From: AnalogKid@temple.com (Analog Kid) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 09:39:12 -0800 Organization: Syrinx Message-ID: <AnalogKid-0602960939120001@treasure-d33.sierra.net> References: <RDL.96Feb3155717@world.std.com> <4f1vaq$cp5@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <1996Feb4.054449.73149@cc.usu.edu> <4f4501$114@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <4f61ip$4mq@meaddata.lexis-nexis.com> <4f6l4g$3j6@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> In article <4f6l4g$3j6@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>, kennel@msr.epm.ornl.gov (Matt Kennel) wrote: > Christopher C. Wood (christw@meaddata.com) wrote: > > > Apple developed MacOS on Intel a couple of years back. Code name > > "Star Trek". Shopped around for software and computer vendors, > > couldn't get any support. So they dropped it. > > My scenario. Microsoft applied major illegal HEAT, making it clear that > any company who dared to preload MacOS would instantly lose their big bulk > discounts for Windows and Office. It's easy when the bulk price is a tiny > fraction of the retail price. > > Given the fierce competition among PC vendors this would instantly make > any company who tried this immediately uncompetitive for Windows. So, > anybody who wanted to do this would have to immediately give up 100% of > their existing revenue for an unproven OS with no software from a company > who historically has seen them as an enemy and whose committement to the > intel platform is quite reasonably questionable. > > Nobody still in the business will dare talk. > > > Copland on Intel, that might do some good. > > > Chris > > -- I doubt it happened that way. I don't doubt Microsoft would do it, hell, they already did when OS/2 came out! Ak
From: lavin@canit.se (Johan Björk) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.acorn.misc,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sun.misc Subject: Please Answer! Date: 6 Feb 1996 16:52:22 GMT Organization: CanIt Public Access, Stockholm Message-ID: <589.6610T1082T265@canit.se> I have been ordered to make some digrams and stuff in school, so I need some numbers. Can everyone reading this *PLEASE* answer in a netmail to: lavin@canit.se OR lavin@karkis.canit.se! I really need your help to get approved. Questions: 1. What computer is your main one? (i.e. the one you use most) (e.g. Amiga, PC, Mac, Atari...) 2. When did you get this computer? 3. When did you get your FIRST computer ever? 4. What computer do you like most? (Maybe you have an Mac, but you would prefer having an Atari.) So PLEASE answer in a NETMAIL. Thanks! // Johan Björk
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXTBSD - 4.4BSD For NeXTstep machines ? Date: 5 Feb 1996 09:29:45 GMT Organization: Academic Computing Services, Sheffield University Message-ID: <4f4im9$9jt@bignews.shef.ac.uk> References: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960204125419.17765B-100000@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> <4e84c1$m0n@axl02it.ntc.nokia.com>?<4f2h1e$jo9@pub02.va.pubnix.com>?0 In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960204125419.17765B-100000@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> On 02/04/96, Mark Crispin wrote: > It would also open up the possibility of running real Web browsers, > instead of trash like OmniWeb. When a dinky 68030 Mac PowerBook 165c does > a better job on the Web than an "insanely great" NEXTSTEP system, that > says something very sad. > Umm, Mark, which version of OmniWeb are you running? IMHO version 2 (albeit in beta) blows away NetScape for elegance, robustness and general ease of use -- the chaps from Lighthouse/Omni even seemed to have frames working properly before NetScape. Best wishes, mmalc. --
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.acorn.misc,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sun.misc Subject: Re: Please Answer! Date: 6 Feb 1996 18:18:44 GMT Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Sender: reichman@comserv-d-55.usc.edu Message-ID: <4f8624$fc0@usc.edu> References: <589.6610T1082T265@canit.se> In <589.6610T1082T265@canit.se> Johan Björk wrote: > So PLEASE answer in a NETMAIL. What's a netmail??? -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@scf.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: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Followup-To: alt.conspiracy Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 14:38:17 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <Il5usdS00iV987YbEl@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <RDL.96Feb3155717@world.std.com> <4f1vaq$cp5@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <1996Feb4.054449.73149@cc.usu.edu> <4f4501$114@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <4f61ip$4mq@meaddata.lexis-nexis.com> <4f6l4g$3j6@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> <4f87ff$m50@meaddata.lexis-nexis.com> In-Reply-To: <4f87ff$m50@meaddata.lexis-nexis.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.advocacy: 6-Feb-96 Re: Sun Microsystems is buy.. by Christopher C. Wood: > Or maybe MS offered a deal to the government: if you want to use our > operating system, you must agree to never sue us about anything, ever > again. Doesn't this belong in alt.conspiracy? Followups redirected. :-) -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: christw@meaddata.com (Christopher C. Wood) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Date: 6 Feb 1996 18:42:55 GMT Organization: LEXIS-NEXIS, Dayton OH Message-ID: <4f87ff$m50@meaddata.lexis-nexis.com> References: <RDL.96Feb3155717@world.std.com> <4f1vaq$cp5@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <1996Feb4.054449.73149@cc.usu.edu> <4f4501$114@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <4f61ip$4mq@meaddata.lexis-nexis.com> <4f6l4g$3j6@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> In article <4f6l4g$3j6@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>, kennel@msr.epm.ornl.gov (Matt Kennel) writes: |> Christopher C. Wood (christw@meaddata.com) wrote: |> > Apple developed MacOS on Intel a couple of years back. Code name |> > "Star Trek". Shopped around for software and computer vendors, |> > couldn't get any support. So they dropped it. |> My scenario. Microsoft applied major illegal HEAT, making it clear |> that any company who dared to preload MacOS would instantly lose |> their big bulk discounts for Windows and Office. It's easy when |> the bulk price is a tiny fraction of the retail price. Hmmm. I don't know about such blatently illegal acts (can you say Sherman Act, boys and girls?) But Microsoft's per-processor licensing deals at the time would have meant pay MS _and_ Apple to load a copy of Apple's OS. DoJ couldn't put together a solid enough case. Bummer. Or maybe MS offered a deal to the government: if you want to use our operating system, you must agree to never sue us about anything, ever again. Chris -- Speaking only for myself, of course. Chris Wood christw@lexis-nexis.com ChrisCWood@eworld.com
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: How to convert .snd -> .wav or .aiff Date: 4 Feb 1996 15:09:22 GMT Organization: Academic Computing Services, Sheffield University Message-ID: <4f2i72$o1m@bignews.shef.ac.uk> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960131125941.10681D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960131125941.10681D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> On Wed, 31 Jan 1996, Joe Pompei wrote: > I'm trying to convert NeXT .snd files to .wav or .aiff files, but it > seems like NeXT's .snd filetype is a little different from the > 'standard' (mac) .snd. Therefore, most converters (sox) won't convert > it properly. > Umm, what standard Mac ".snd"...? If you're using a Mac, I *think* that you should be using .aiff as your "standard" format. sox, and GISO.app (the excellent app wrappped round sox) should work fine... *As far as I'm aware*, a .snd is a .snd -- the only difference may be that some systems don't natively support playback of some formats (e.g. NEXTSTEP doesn't play back Sun's ADPCM-compressed files). Best wishes, mmalc. --
From: rsww@quanta.com (Ross Walker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXTBSD - 4.4BSD For NeXTstep machines ? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Date: 6 Feb 1996 21:10:53 GMT Organization: Quanta Communications, Inc. Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4f8g4t$2dh@news.quanta.com> References: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960204125419.17765B-100000@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> <4e84c1$m0n@axl02it.ntc.nokia.com>?<4f2h1e$jo9@pub02.va.pubnix.com>?0 <4f4im9$9jt@bignews.shef.ac.uk> mmalcolm crawford (m.crawford@shef.ac.uk) wrote: : On 02/04/96, Mark Crispin wrote: : > It would also open up the possibility of running real Web browsers, : > instead of trash like OmniWeb. When a dinky 68030 Mac PowerBook 165c does : > a better job on the Web than an "insanely great" NEXTSTEP system, that : > says something very sad. : > : Umm, Mark, which version of OmniWeb are you running? : IMHO version 2 (albeit in beta) blows away NetScape for elegance, robustness : and general ease of use -- the chaps from Lighthouse/Omni even seemed to : have frames working properly before NetScape. It would just be nice to have 64bit filesystems. But a new NFS, and Kerberos would also be neat (nee-t-o). Most extras are sugar candy. Cheers, Ross Walker
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: AppleTalk Client from 3.0 on 3.3? Message-ID: <1996Feb5.214710.926@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <4eup86$81e@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 21:47:10 GMT In article <4eup86$81e@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> mitroo@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Varun Mitroo) writes: > In article <1996Feb2.202252.2232@nidat.sub.org>, Peter Nitezki > <Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org> wrote: > >In article <4ep895$g9@paladin.american.edu> > >tm8025a@mailhost.soc.american.edu (Torrey McMahon) writes: > >> In article <310FDA47.4FD7@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Eric Dubiel > >> <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> writes: :Can anyone tell me if > >> I can run the AppleTalk Client from :3.0 on 3.3? I'm interested > >> in getting it to try. Please :email me. : :Thanks to all, > >> :Eric > >> > >> I tired installing it but it wouldn't work at all. If someone > >> figures it out please inform me also. > >> > >The transition from 3.0 to 3.1 was crucial (same as for Windooze > >:-) Most of the link libs was incompatible to previous versions. > >Almost no old apps did it without recompile. AppleTalk Client > >being no exception. > > > >I guess you'll have to cough up the money for a copy of 'Partners' > >by IPT. > > I have contacted IPT about Partner. It will allow the NeXT to work > as a AppleShare server as well as a network printer on an Apple > network. > > Unfortunately, it will only work with NEXTSTEP 3.2, and IPT does > not plan on updating it to support 3.3. Their explanation was that > there simply isn't enough 3rd party NeXT market to justify the > expense of updating it. > > In addition, an unlimited, educational license, without the ability > to share NeXT printers, is over $1200! > > Maybe NeXT should consider reviving their appletalk support for > NEXTSTEP, because at this time, there is no way to connect to > AppleTalk networks in NEXTSTEP 3.3. > It is just the case that NeXT sold off this technology to IPT some years ago. Now it seems lost, what a shame :-( Just recently I've heard about rumours of a PD server implementation from Cornell. But I have nothing substantial about it. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | pgp, MIME, NeXTmail # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: mnb20@cam.ac.uk (Mark Baker) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.acorn.misc,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sun.misc Subject: Re: Please Answer! Date: 7 Feb 1996 01:14:39 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, England Message-ID: <4f8udv$gui@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> References: <589.6610T1082T265@canit.se> <4f8624$fc0@usc.edu> In article <4f8624$fc0@usc.edu>, reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) writes: >> So PLEASE answer in a NETMAIL. > >What's a netmail??? On fidonet (and other networks using the same protcols) the word netmail is used for private mail, to distinguish it from public messages (sometimes called echomail). The word comes from some bulletin boards where you had to choose different menu options for local mail and network mail. So what he means is a private email, not a message in the newsgroup.
From: wjs@omnigroup.com (William Shipley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXTBSD - 4.4BSD For NeXTstep machines ? Date: 7 Feb 1996 04:42:59 GMT Organization: Omni Development, Inc. Message-ID: <4f9akj$2co@gaea.titan.org> References: <4e84c1$m0n@axl02it.ntc.nokia.com> <4f2h1e$jo9@pub02.va.pubnix.com> <Pine.NXT.3.92.960204125419.17765B-100000@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> Mark Crispin <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU> wrote: >>All I'm looking for is a stock 4.4BSD based OS, like NetBSD. >It would also open up the possibility of running real Web browsers, >instead of trash like OmniWeb. When a dinky 68030 Mac PowerBook 165c does >a better job on the Web than an "insanely great" NEXTSTEP system, that >says something very sad. I'd find it easier to accept your criticism of OmniWeb if (a) it were more specific in its complaints, (b) you weren't self-admittedly someone who wants to leave NEXTSTEP for BSD, or (c) you didn't have an old vendetta against me and my company dating from back when we were stuck at the UW as well. Calling OmniWeb "trash" gives me nothing I can fix to please you, and thus makes it clear that all you really want is to be heard whining. If you don't like a piece of free software, and feel you must complain, couldn't you at least be specific? Most people love OmniWeb, many customers prefer it to Netscape. OmniWeb 2.0 is the ONLY browser in existence on any platform that implements all the functionality that Netscape 2.0 has (well, besides Netscape), and we have a search panel and bookmarks that no other browser has. If you can find another browser that supports frames, tables, in-line JPEGs, true multi-threading, loadable bundles, side-aligned images, and everything else we do, I invite you to compare it to OmniWeb and let us know how we come out. -Wil
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: AppleTalk Client from 3.0 on 3.3? Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 00:56:41 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1996Feb7.005641.4940@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <DMAwCB.1BD@onevision.de> In article <DMAwCB.1BD@onevision.de> hans@onevision.de(Hans Stoeger) writes: > In article <4eup86$81e@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> > mitroo@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Varun Mitroo) writes: > > Unfortunately, it will only work with NEXTSTEP 3.2, and IPT does not > plan > > on updating it to support 3.3. Their explanation was that there > simply > > The point is more that they don t support it on 3.3. It runs very well > under 3.3 (read: at lleast as good as with 3.2). The rumor is they dont > have NS 3.3... More precisely, IPT support 3.3 on black hardware, but only 3.2 on Intel. I, too, can confirm that it works fine on Intel 3.3. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: rankin@ewl.uky.edu (David W. Rankin Jr.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXTBSD - 4.4BSD For NeXTstep machines ? Date: 7 Feb 1996 06:29:29 GMT Organization: UK Microlabs -- Engineering Workstation Laboratory Message-ID: <4f9gs9$n0d@t3.mscf.uky.edu> References: <4e84c1$m0n@axl02it.ntc.nokia.com> <4f2h1e$jo9@pub02.va.pubnix.com> <Pine.NXT.3.92.960204125419.17765B-100000@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> contents of this message do not represent the opinions of the University of Kentucky, UK Microlabs, UKMSCF, or UKCC. In article <Pine.NXT.3.92.960204125419.17765B-100000@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU>, Mark Crispin <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU> wrote: }On 4 Feb 1996, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: }> Again, I'd reiterate that I'd love to run a modern OS on my black next }> hardware. There is no requirement, for me at least, that it run }> existing NeXTSTEP applications, or host OPENSTEP. All I'm looking for }> is a stock 4.4BSD based OS, like NetBSD. }I second this. It'd be awfully nice if there was /dev/audio support to }make the DSP do its thing, but it isn't really necessary. NeXT's software }offerings are completely uninteresting. }It would also open up the possibility of running real Web browsers, }instead of trash like OmniWeb. When a dinky 68030 Mac PowerBook 165c does }a better job on the Web than an "insanely great" NEXTSTEP system, that }says something very sad. It's also mean that people with 030 boxen could actually get REAL use out of their hardware, and those of us who like the other M68k architectures (like myself, a mac68k user) could have another binary-compatable alternative. Also, non-gui binary support for all of the m68k machines would be nothing to sneeze at. ;) In fact, I've seen this thread going on just about enough to suspect a critical mass of people to start a porting effort. If you are willing to put some amount of time and/or resources into a NetBSD/next68k port, Email me at rankin@ewl.uky.edu, and let me know. If enough people who can code will, we might just get the thing off the ground. :) Also, if anyone is already working on a port, please let me know. David -- David W. Rankin, Jr. Technical Support, Engineering Workstation Laboratory rankin@ewl.uky.edu PGP Key via http://www.ewl.uky.edu/rankin/key.asc Alphanumeric Pager: rankin-pager@ewl.uky.edu or (606) 330-4922 Seen on a California license plate on a VW Beetle recently: "FEATURE"
From: rankin@ewl.uky.edu (David W. Rankin Jr.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: cmsg cancel <4f9gs9$n0d@t3.mscf.uky.edu> Control: cancel <4f9gs9$n0d@t3.mscf.uky.edu> Date: 7 Feb 1996 07:01:21 GMT Organization: University of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences Message-ID: <4f9io1$nhi@t3.mscf.uky.edu> <4f9gs9$n0d@t3.mscf.uky.edu> was cancelled from within trn. -- David W. Rankin, Jr. Technical Support, Engineering Workstation Laboratory rankin@ewl.uky.edu PGP Key via http://www.ewl.uky.edu/rankin/key.asc Alphanumeric Pager: rankin-pager@ewl.uky.edu or (606) 330-4922 Seen on a California license plate on a VW Beetle recently: "FEATURE"
From: rankin@ewl.uky.edu (David W. Rankin Jr.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: cmsg cancel <4f9gs9$n0d@t3.mscf.uky.edu> Control: cancel <4f9gs9$n0d@t3.mscf.uky.edu> Date: 7 Feb 1996 07:02:38 GMT Organization: University of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences Message-ID: <4f9iqe$nhr@t3.mscf.uky.edu> <4f9gs9$n0d@t3.mscf.uky.edu> was cancelled from within trn. -- David W. Rankin, Jr. Technical Support, Engineering Workstation Laboratory rankin@ewl.uky.edu PGP Key via http://www.ewl.uky.edu/rankin/key.asc Alphanumeric Pager: rankin-pager@ewl.uky.edu or (606) 330-4922 Seen on a California license plate on a VW Beetle recently: "FEATURE"
From: rankin@ewl.uky.edu (David W. Rankin Jr.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXTBSD - 4.4BSD For NeXTstep machines ? Date: 7 Feb 1996 07:19:17 GMT Organization: UK Microlabs -- Engineering Workstation Laboratory Message-ID: <4f9jpl$nnh@t3.mscf.uky.edu> References: <4e84c1$m0n@axl02it.ntc.nokia.com> <4f2h1e$jo9@pub02.va.pubnix.com> <Pine.NXT.3.92.960204125419.17765B-100000@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> contents of this message do not represent the opinions of the University of Kentucky, UK Microlabs, UKMSCF, or UKCC. In article <Pine.NXT.3.92.960204125419.17765B-100000@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU>, Mark Crispin <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU> wrote: }On 4 Feb 1996, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: }> Again, I'd reiterate that I'd love to run a modern OS on my black next }> hardware. There is no requirement, for me at least, that it run }> existing NeXTSTEP applications, or host OPENSTEP. All I'm looking for }> is a stock 4.4BSD based OS, like NetBSD. }I second this. It'd be awfully nice if there was /dev/audio support to }make the DSP do its thing, but it isn't really necessary. NeXT's software }offerings are completely uninteresting. }It would also open up the possibility of running real Web browsers, }instead of trash like OmniWeb. When a dinky 68030 Mac PowerBook 165c does }a better job on the Web than an "insanely great" NEXTSTEP system, that }says something very sad. I'm a NetBSD bigot myself, so I can't really say TOO much about OmniWeb, except that ANYTHING is better than Nutscape. :) Even so, NetBSD/next68k would be a win for a lot of people, esp. those who have another NetBSD/m68k box in their clutches. I for one like the idea of a NetBSD/next68k port because it'd allow me to use the same binaries as my Mac IIsi uses. Plus, black box hardware can't be easily beaten. :) In fact, I've seen this thread going on enough in NetBSD areas to suspect a critical mass of people exists for starting a porting effort. If you are willing to put some amount of time and/or resources into a NetBSD/next68k port, Email me at rankin@ewl.uky.edu, and let me know. If enough people who can code will, we might just get the thing off the ground. :) Also, if anyone is already working on a port, please let me know. David -- David W. Rankin, Jr. Technical Support, Engineering Workstation Laboratory rankin@ewl.uky.edu PGP Key via http://www.ewl.uky.edu/rankin/key.asc Alphanumeric Pager: rankin-pager@ewl.uky.edu or (606) 330-4922 Seen on a California license plate on a VW Beetle recently: "FEATURE"
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Solution to OmniWeb Expiring (new beta 3) Date: 7 Feb 1996 06:12:20 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <4f9fs4$sej@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <4f5n3j$3f8@lighthouse.lighthouse.com> Wiley S. Hodges of Lighthouse Design wrote: > > > We've been inundated with phone calls and e-mails at Lighthouse > concerning the expiration of licenses for the old OmniWeb betas. > > First, I should say that there is a new beta version available > from .... > > and at an alternate site: > ftp://eclipse.its.rpi.edu/NeXT/web/OmniWeb_f/02-BETA/OmniWeb-2.0b3b_N > IHS.tar.gz Note that this site actually has the beta version available in five different archives. There's four single-architecture archives, in addition to the quad-fat one listed above. So, I generally tell people to use a URL of: ftp://eclipse.its.rpi.edu/NeXT/web/OmniWeb_f/02-BETA/ and then see which file they want once they get there. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA lipse.its.rpi.edu ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: mnb20@cam.ac.uk (Mark Baker) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.acorn.misc,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sun.misc Subject: Re: Please Answer! Date: 7 Feb 1996 14:10:19 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, England Message-ID: <4fabsb$gse@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> References: <589.6610T1082T265@canit.se> <4f8624$fc0@usc.edu> <4f8udv$gui@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <4f8vt6$iem@usc.edu> In article <4f8vt6$iem@usc.edu>, reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) writes: >> In article <4f8624$fc0@usc.edu>, >> reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) writes: >> >> >> So PLEASE answer in a NETMAIL. >> > >> >What's a netmail??? .. >First of all $@!*&%^$# >I didn't say > >> So PLEASE answer in a NETMAIL.!!!!!!! >Goddamn misquotes!!! No misquote at all. Look more carefully and count the >s
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.acorn.misc,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sun.misc Subject: Re: Please Answer! Date: 7 Feb 1996 19:47:14 GMT Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Sender: reichman@comserv-i-10.usc.edu Message-ID: <4favk2$jik@usc.edu> References: <589.6610T1082T265@canit.se> <4f8624$fc0@usc.edu> <4f8udv$gui@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <4f8vt6$iem@usc.edu> <4fabsb$gse@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> In <4fabsb$gse@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Mark Baker wrote: > In article <4f8vt6$iem@usc.edu>, > reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) writes: > > >> In article <4f8624$fc0@usc.edu>, > >> reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) writes: > >> > >> >> So PLEASE answer in a NETMAIL. > >> > > >> >What's a netmail??? > .. > >First of all $@!*&%^$# > >I didn't say > >> So PLEASE answer in a NETMAIL.!!!!!!! > >Goddamn misquotes!!! > > No misquote at all. > > Look more carefully and count the >s Aaha! That might be true if you had also included the reference line, no? (I can see someone besides me has made too much time for themselves) -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@scf.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: Leon von Stauber <leonvs@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 15:48:05 -0600 Organization: University of Texas Computation Center Message-ID: <31191E15.663C@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu> References: <RDL.96Jan23112233@world.std.com> <4e3fom$689@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> <Pine.OSF.3.91.960127010219.32595A-100000@sable.ox.ac.uk> <janwillem-0202961200590001@huisie-ppp0.knoware.nl> <RDL.96Feb2232910@world.std.com> <3112F0F0.4770@ix.netcom.com> <RDL.96Feb3155717@world.std.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Robert La Ferla wrote: > > Secondly, Sun has NO software! IBM has Lotus and a hell of lot more resources ? Are you saying Sun itself makes no software? Of course not: Solaris, the NEO product series, and some other things argue against that. Are you saying that SunOS/Solaris doesn't have much software running on it? True, but wouldn't that be part of the point in buying Apple? IMHO, I still think Sun would make a pretty good buyer for Apple. They're aggressive, on top of new technology, strongly associated with OpenStep, and Apple can provide them (maybe) with the one thing they don't have: some measure of mass market consumer support. (But they might eventually get this with the announcement of Java-optimized microprocessors.) __________________________________________________________________________ Leon von Stauber http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~leonvs/ University of Texas Computation Center <leonvs@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu> Zilker Internet Park <leonvs@zilker.net> "We have not come to save you, but you will not die in vain!"
From: jsn@audiospeech.ubc.ca (John Nicol) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: OpenStep for Mach release date? Date: 8 Feb 1996 00:54:41 GMT Organization: The University of British Columbia Message-ID: <4fbhkh$s1c@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Is the release of OpenStep for Mach imminent? I have read reports of a second-quarter 1996 release and of NEXTSTEP 4.0 (aka OpenStep for Mach?) running on beta testers' systems. This information would be quite useful in planning purchases for a software budget. One can only guess as to a possible price :). John Nicol School of Audiology and Speech Sciences University of British Columbia
From: hugues@precipice.fdn.fr (Hugues RICHARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: cmsg cancel <3117A0D7.4BC8@sasknet.sk.ca> Control: cancel <3117A0D7.4BC8@sasknet.sk.ca> Date: 7 Feb 1996 21:27:48 GMT Organization: Individual - France Message-ID: <4fb5gk$85@precipice.fdn.fr> cancel
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Truly Odd Transparent Image Behaviour Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (system PRIVILEGED account) Message-ID: <DMFpFx.IBt@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 01:57:33 GMT Organization: University of Waterloo This is bizzaire. Go to http://hiram-sun.lanl.gov/cs/intro.html using OmniWeb (either 1.0 or 2.0b3) and Cmd-drag the Calvin image to the File Viewer. The background does some strange things as you drag it. Now, load this image into OmniImage and click and drag on the background. Neat, eh? Why is what I want to know... -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: bruce@evolution.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: External sound source on black hardware? Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 04:06:18 GMT Organization: Phantom Access Technologies, Inc. / MindVox Message-ID: <960207230618.8766AADqO.bruce@lamarck> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII I haven't been able to get my NeXTstation to record sound from the output of a portable stereo which I connected it to with a standard stereo ("walkman") cable. Am I missing something? Please respond thru email. Thanks Bruce
From: dunham@cs.tulane.edu (Andrea Dunham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: TeXmenu2.2b.tar Date: 8 Feb 1996 06:45:21 GMT Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA Message-ID: <4fc661$rqe@rs10.tcs.tulane.edu> Hi All, I'm running a v2.2 (black) NeXTstation. Do you know where I can find Harald Schlangmann's shareware TeXmenu2.2b.tar? * AndREa * (dunham@cs.tulane.edu)
From: Mark Crispin <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXTBSD - 4.4BSD For NeXTstep machines ? Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 00:44:03 -0800 Organization: Networks & Distributed Computing Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960207232551.25734A-100000@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> References: <4e84c1$m0n@axl02it.ntc.nokia.com> <4f2h1e$jo9@pub02.va.pubnix.com> <Pine.NXT.3.92.960204125419.17765B-100000@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> <4f9akj$2co@gaea.titan.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII NNTP-Posting-User: den To: William Shipley <wjs@omnigroup.com> In-Reply-To: <4f9akj$2co@gaea.titan.org> On 7 Feb 1996, William Shipley wrote: > (c) you didn't have an old vendetta against me and my company dating from > back when we were stuck at the UW as well. I have no idea what you are talking about. The best that I can guess is that maybe you were some student who flamed me because we didn't support Mail.app or some such. If you honestly believe that I would remember you for that, you have an excessively high opinion of yourself. > couldn't you at least be specific? I only used Omniweb once, and the experience was such an incredible exercise in frustration that I gave up. Here are some specifics for you: I tried to paste a URL from an email message into the "Open URL" panel. It beeped at me. I had to type it in manually. [No, I can't reproduce it now, but it was solid then.] When it got to the URL, I was hit by a barrage of model error panels complaining about the GIF images. It took a while before I realized that for some reason it decided to call an external program to resolve the GIF images and it was that program that was blatting out these panels. I didn't even know that program did GIF (it's a special purpose image resolution tool for a completely different application). I could find no way to tell Omniweb not to use that program, other than removing it. Netscape lets you configure this. But I plodded through, until I got to filling in a form and hit the submit button. It pressed, but did nothing. It was at that point ther I gave up and ran Netscape. I just tried it now, with a URL that displays perfectly well with Netscape, Mosaic, and eWorld's browser. I was rewarded with: "Fatal Error (#500) Can't Access Document http://icons/ftp.gif Reason: Can't locate remote host icons." The maintainer of that URL said, and I quote, "Your browser doesn't handle relative pointers right, common bug in old code". He also pointed out that <LI> entries weren't displaying bullets, and that lines which are delimited by <BR> had bogus doublespaces. "Fatal Error (#404)" when trying to open bookmarks, well golly gee, couldn't it have looked to find the Mosaic bookmarks in the well-known filename? Why does every dinky Web browser think that it has to have its own private bookmarks file? The fact that others get this wrong too doesn't excuse Omniweb. Plus, it should have offered to make a new file instead of saying "Fatal Error (#404)". "Open URL..." sometimes forces you to click in the TextCell for no apparent reason. To reproduce, first up OmniWeb and immediately type Command-Shift-O (which, by the way, is a terrible choice since Command-o is also used -- consider Command-l which is more-or-less standard). At other times, the cursor appears in the TextCell without requiring the mouse. "Open URL..." opens a new window, even though the Preference to do this is unchecked. I tried the URL that gave me the frustration before and all the same things happened, including the submit button doing nothing at all. As far as I could tell, it first collects the images, then invokes the external program. It seems to do this in lockstep, with no attempt to thread the gathering from the net with image resolution. This makes image display much slower than Netscape (especially Netscape 2.0 which just flies), even when the image resolver is the right program. This slowness is quite frustrating, particularly with URLs with lots of images; it reminds me of the way Mosaic used to perform. Try as I might, I was unable to find any international character support other than for Western Europe (ISO-8859-1). So much for using any URLs in East Asia. Nor did there seem to be any way to set fonts. I have no idea what version of Omniweb it is; I didn't install it. Maybe it is an old buggy version. The version number in the Info Panel is unreadable; don't you test things in monochrome (or is it your attitude that monochrome users shouldn't be using your software)? The latest file date seems to be February 3, 1995, if that helps. -- Mark -- DoD #0105, R90/6 pilot, FAX: (206) 685-4045 ICBM: N 47 39'35" W 122 18'39" Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: markus g <tm@burrow.muc.de> Subject: Re: talk problem In-Reply-To: heller@attila.imo.physik.uni-muenchen.de's message of 6 Feb 1996 15:53:38 GMT Message-ID: <7x91ieck6z.fsf@burrow.muc.de> To: heller@attila.imo.physik.uni-muenchen.de Sender: tm@burrow.muc.de Organization: hardly any... References: <4f7ti2$hkt@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de> Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 08:09:41 GMT >>>>> "HH" == Helmut Heller <heller@attila.imo.physik.uni-muenchen.de> writes: HH> Recently my talk on my black NeXTStation stopped working and I HH> don't know why!! It used to work, for sure, so it must have HH> been me who inadvertedly broke s.th., but now I have no idea HH> where to look. Can a kind soul with more knowledge than me HH> help, please? HH> [Couldn't bind to control socket : Can't assign requested HH> address (49)] is your host set-up clean? try playing around with it (within reasonable limits). in many cases the bug's there. general hint (doesn't seem to apply to the posters problem since he said that talk worked before): use 'ytalk' it handles different protocols in a better way than talk and ntalk. markus g a/k/a tm -- / . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . __ __/ __ __ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . the mole / / / / . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . tm@burrow.muc.de __/ __/ __/ __/ . . . . . . . . . . . . http://www.muc.de/~mgloede/
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: weird prob with 'man' and 'less' Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 09:55:10 -0500 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960208095155.554A-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Important data: - using zsh (2.6-beta1 or 2.6-beta13) - using Stuart v 2.441 or v 2.6.1 or Terminal Problems: - 'man' and 'less' if 'man' produces an output which exceeds the bottom of the Stuart/terminal window, it stops. No error messages, no output, nothing. if 'less' scrolls off the screen, it quits and the next prompt shows up about an inch from the bottom of the screen. Really weird part: I've got my zsh initialization file (.zshenv) setup to 'source' my other files (ie one for aliases, one for functions, one for bindkeys, etc). IF I _do_not_ have .zshenv source my functions _on_startup_ then everything is good and the problems do not ha ppen. If I source it by hand, the problems do not happen. It is only when it is sourced automatically that the problems occur. I've got 700+ lines in my functions file, and I really don't know why this is happening now... I make new functions several times a week (but they are alphabetized so I can't tell which are the new ones just by looking). I know it's abstract, but can anyone tell me what types of things I should be looking for that might be causing these problems? Anyone tell me why the difference between source-ing by hand vs source-ing in the .zshenv? please help... I've got no clue where I should begin to look for the problem, and sourcing by hand for every shell I open is getting to be a pain. -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> NeXTStep Swapfile and Swapdisk FAQ: send mail with subject 'send swapfaq' Other info-via-email available, send mail with subject 'send info' For information on PPP under NeXTStep <nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com>
From: Michael Branton <mgb@thoth.stetson.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: test post;please ignore Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 01:23:02 -0500 Organization: totally connected Message-ID: <3116F3C6.3CB8@thoth.stetson.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit only a test.
From: ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: OmniWeb Date: 8 Feb 1996 21:49:28 GMT Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA Message-ID: <4fdr58$ojc@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> References: <4e84c1$m0n@axl02it.ntc.nokia.com> <4f2h1e$jo9@pub02.va.pubnix.com> <Pine.NXT.3.92.960204125419.17765B-100000@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> <4f9akj$2co@gaea.titan.org> In-Reply-To: <4f9akj$2co@gaea.titan.org> For the record: OmniWeb is a terrific program. Works as advertised. Much better than netscape/win in my opinion. And I have no connection with Lighthouse Design. The price is terrific, too, on such a low distribution platform as NS. /ivo --- Ivo Welch ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu Assoc Prof of Finance Anderson GSM at UCLA 110 Westwood Plaza, Box 951481, LA CA 90095-1481 -- Ivo Welch ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu Assoc Prof of Finance Anderson GSM at UCLA 110 Westwood Plaza, Box 951481, LA CA 90095-1481
From: jragosta@dca.net (Joe Ragosta) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 17:02:25 -0500 Organization: Graver Chemical Message-ID: <jragosta-0802961702250001@ppp-1001.dca.net> References: <RDL.96Feb3155717@world.std.com> <4f1vaq$cp5@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <1996Feb4.054449.73149@cc.usu.edu> <4f4501$114@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <4f61ip$4mq@meaddata.lexis-nexis.com> <4f6l4g$3j6@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> <4f87ff$m50@meaddata.lexis-nexis.com> In article <4f87ff$m50@meaddata.lexis-nexis.com>, christw@meaddata.com (Christopher C. Wood) wrote: > Hmmm. I don't know about such blatently illegal acts (can you say > Sherman Act, boys and girls?) But Microsoft's per-processor licensing > deals at the time would have meant pay MS _and_ Apple to load a copy > of Apple's OS. DoJ couldn't put together a solid enough case. > Bummer. > > Or maybe MS offered a deal to the government: if you want to use our > operating system, you must agree to never sue us about anything, ever > again. > > Chris Actually, I'm a bit confused. I thought MS _did_ agree to sign an agreement ending per-processor licensing deals. If they are still using them, the DOJ is even wimpier than I thought. -- Regards, Joe Ragosta Copyright Joseph M. Ragosta, 1996. Non-exclusive, royalty free license to distribute this post granted to any service provider except Microsoft. By posting this, Microsoft agrees to pay $1,000 per posting.
From: tseifert@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Tim Seifert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NewsGrazer or other news reader Date: 9 Feb 1996 00:04:26 GMT Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland Message-ID: <4fe32a$53d@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> Hello, I am trying to find a news reader for my NeXT. I am currently running NeXTStep 2.1 on a NeXTStation. I tried downloading NewsGrazer75 from the ftp sit next-ftp.peak.org. I managed to uncompress the file, but I am left with a unix shell icon and a programme that does not run. Any suggestions that you may have for a neophyte are appreciated. T. Seifert tseifert@plato.ucs.mun.ca
From: vrgr@taz.ho.att.com (-V.RAO) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Windows on IDE and NS on SCSI, How? Date: 9 Feb 1996 04:15:37 GMT Organization: AT&T NSD, Holmdel, NJ Message-ID: <4fehp9$7o0@nntpb.cb.att.com> Hi, Is it possible to have Windows 95 or 3.1 installed on an IDE hard drive and NS on a SCSI hard drive in the same computer, My daughter has an Intel Plato based computer that currently runs just the NS from a 1G SCSI drive. She also has a 486 which runs windows. It just bit the dust. I would like to take the IDE hard drive out of that, hook it to the Plato and run windows on it, while keeping the NS on the SCSI. Is it possible? Appreciate any pointers on how to do this and any and all information will be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance rao
From: pecora@zoltar.nrl.navy.mil (Louis M. Pecora) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Date: 5 Feb 1996 14:59:58 GMT Organization: Naval Research Laboratory Distribution: world Message-ID: <pecora-0502961001370001@lou-pecora.nrl.navy.mil> References: <RDL.96Feb3155717@world.std.com> <4f1vaq$cp5@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <1996Feb4.054449.73149@cc.usu.edu> In article <1996Feb4.054449.73149@cc.usu.edu>, lddenys@valkyry.ece.usu.edu (Larry Denys) wrote: > |> >Drop OS/2 and make MacOS run on Intel. > > > If Apple would have done this 3-4 years ago, they would probably > have around 30-40% of the Intel market, or more. > This is something I really don't understand. Why didn't Sculley > or Spindler look up north to Microsoft and see that MS was making > truckloads of money, not making hardware, but making software, OSes. > Why didn't the CEO's of Apple decide they could cash in on the Intel > market by making their OS run on PCs? > Well Bill Gates recently made the comment that Apple makes great, innovative technology, but they don't get it to market fast enough. He could have added with enough force (i.e. marketing). There's some truth to that. -- Louis M. Pecora pecora@zoltar.nrl.navy.mil /* My views and opinions are not those of the U.S. Navy. If you want those, you have to start a war. */
From: dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Features of OPENSTEP for Mach 4.0? Date: 8 Feb 1996 12:11:07 GMT Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany Message-ID: <4fcp8r$ah@turbocat.snafu.de> Hello! What will change from NEXTSTEP 3.3 with OPENSTEP for Mach 4.0? Will this "just" be compatible with the OPENSTEP spec? Will there be more modem drivers? _ _ _(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development, (_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG, _/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152 (______) dave@turbocat.snafu.de (NeXTMail)
From: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher A. Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Windows on IDE and NS on SCSI, How? Date: 9 Feb 1996 12:42:51 GMT Organization: WolfWare (http://www.wolfware.com) Message-ID: <4fffgb$qu7@shellx.best.com> References: <4fehp9$7o0@nntpb.cb.att.com> In-Reply-To: <4fehp9$7o0@nntpb.cb.att.com> On 02/08/96, -V.RAO wrote: >Hi, > >Is it possible to have Windows 95 or 3.1 installed on >an IDE hard drive and NS on a SCSI hard drive in the >same computer, PCs will always try to boot from the IDE drive if there are both IDE and SCSI devices available. There are two solutions: 1) Disable the IDE hard-drive from the PCs BIOS whenever you want to boot NS from the SCSI drive. 2) Install a tiny (7 meg) NeXTSTEP boot partition on the IDE drive which will then transfer control to the SCSI device very early in the boot process. There is a NeXTanswer on this entitled "Booting from an alternative hard disk." which provides complete instructions. -- Christopher Wolf - WolfWare - cwolf@wolfware.com (NeXTmail & MIME accepted) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsFlash Version 2 - a threaded NeXTSTEP Usenet newsreader - is now available. Visit http://www.wolfware.com for details!
From: windemut@cumbnd.bioc.columbia.edu (Andreas Windemuth) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: OmniWeb Date: 9 Feb 1996 16:21:13 GMT Organization: Columbia University Message-ID: <4ffs9p$m5f@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> References: <4e84c1$m0n@axl02it.ntc.nokia.com> <4f2h1e$jo9@pub02.va.pubnix.com> <Pine.NXT.3.92.960204125419.17765B-100000@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> <4f9akj$2co@gaea.titan.org> <4fdr58$ojc@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) wrote: > >For the record: OmniWeb is a terrific program. Works as advertised. Much >better than netscape/win in my opinion. And I have no connection with >Lighthouse Design. The price is terrific, too, on such a low distribution >platform as NS. > I second that. OmniWeb 2.0 blows Netscape out of the water. --- Andreas Windemuth +-------------------------------------------------------------------- |Columbia University, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics |630 West 168th St. BB-221 | tel: (212)-305-6884, fax: 6926, NeXTmail |New York, NY 10032 | email: windemut@cumbnd.bioc.columbia.edu +--------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: OpenStep for Mach release date? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (system PRIVILEGED account) Message-ID: <DMIoHu.4FH@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 16:29:54 GMT References: <4fbhkh$s1c@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <4fbhkh$s1c@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>, John Nicol <jsn@audiospeech.ubc.ca> wrote: >Is the release of OpenStep for Mach imminent? I have read reports of a >second-quarter 1996 release and of NEXTSTEP 4.0 (aka OpenStep for Mach?) >running on beta testers' systems. This information would be quite useful in >planning purchases for a software budget. One can only guess as to a >possible price :). > I don't know anything more than those reports...Q296 is what I've been consistently hearing too, which means 11:59:59 PDT June 31st, I think. :-) -- 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: rangmj@camiller (Moon Jeong Rang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: ED Floppy Diskette Date: 9 Feb 1996 23:57:03 GMT Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas Message-ID: <4fgn0f$p1b@larry.rice.edu> I am using a NeXTcube and have some ED diskette (2.88 MB) of NeXT softwares. Is there any way to install these software to a Intel machine having a 1.44 M floppy disk drive ( The Intel machine is installed NeXT User 3.3 and Developer 3.2) ? Thanks.
From: beckwith@orchid.icd.teradyne.com (Bob Beckwith ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: OpenStep for Mach release date? Date: 9 Feb 1996 22:20:15 GMT Organization: Teradyne, Inc. Boston MA Message-ID: <4fghav$8of@steadfast.teradyne.com> References: <4fbhkh$s1c@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <DMIoHu.4FH@novice.uwaterloo.ca> In article <DMIoHu.4FH@novice.uwaterloo.ca> dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) writes: > > I don't know anything more than those reports...Q296 is what I've been >consistently hearing too, which means 11:59:59 PDT June 31st, I think. :-) One would hope you mean June 30th. At least I could mark that date on my calendar. :-) --Bob
From: "C. Knight" <knight@arsenal.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: OmniWeb Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 02:28:18 -0600 Organization: Knight Productions, Inc. Message-ID: <311C5722.76AB@arsenal.com> References: <4e84c1$m0n@axl02it.ntc.nokia.com> <4f2h1e$jo9@pub02.va.pubnix.com> <Pine.NXT.3.92.960204125419.17765B-100000@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> <4f9akj$2co@gaea.titan.org> <4fdr58$ojc@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> <4ffs9p$m5f@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit windemut@cumbnd.bioc.columbia.edu (Andreas Windemuth) writes: >I second that. OmniWeb 2.0 blows Netscape out of the water. Who are you kidding? Netscape 2.0 b6 clobbers OmniWeb. Later, - C
From: devan2m@imap2.asu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP'er in Hong Kong? Date: 10 Feb 1996 09:22:56 GMT Organization: Arizona State University Message-ID: <4fho5g$38u@news.asu.edu> Keywords: NEXTSTEP, Advocates, Hong Kong Hello All, First, I was wondering whether there are any NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP advocates in Hong Kong and who they might be? I know that there used to be a listing for a user group there, but I don't know how current this is. Secondly, would anybody also know about Internet access in Hong Kong? Any and all assistance would be dearly appreciated. Regards-
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: ED Floppy Diskette Date: 10 Feb 1996 15:02:06 GMT Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc. Message-ID: <4fic1e$32b@news.its.com> References: <4fgn0f$p1b@larry.rice.edu> rangmj@camiller (Moon Jeong Rang) wrote: > I am using a NeXTcube and have some ED diskette (2.88 MB) of NeXT > softwares. Is there any way to install these software to a Intel > machine having a 1.44 M floppy disk drive ( The Intel machine is > installed NeXT User 3.3 and Developer 3.2) ? A 1.44 MB disk drive cannot read floppy disks formatted to 2.88 MB. Copy the package onto a NeXT machine and move the .pkg file via the network to the Intel machine. Or talk to whoever made the software in question for alternative media. -Chuck Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc. --------------------------------+--------------------------------------- CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: filip@filtronix.eunet.be (Filip Lingier) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: OpenStep for Mach release date? Date: 9 Feb 1996 20:55:00 GMT Organization: Filtronix Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <4fgcb4$93@andromeda.filtronix.eunet.be> References: <4fbhkh$s1c@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> In article <4fbhkh$s1c@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> jsn@audiospeech.ubc.ca (John Nicol) writes: > Is the release of OpenStep for Mach imminent? I have read > reports of a second-quarter 1996 release and of NEXTSTEP 4.0 > (aka OpenStep for Mach?) running on beta testers' systems. > This information would be quite useful in planning purchases > for a software budget. One can only guess as to a possible > price :). Openstep for MachOS is still a few months away and still in the midst of beta-testing. I don't expect much difference in the prices for the new release but as always for a yet-to-be-released product: price to be announced:-) Filip -- ---------------------------- FILTRONIX ----------------------------- |-- --- \ / Software Development - OpenStep|Windows|X11 |- | X Web Design & Development - HTML|CGI|WOF|JAVA | | / \ ---> info@filtronix.eunet.be
From: kkwan@cs.hku.hk (Kelvin Kwan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP'er in Hong Kong? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer Date: 10 Feb 1996 15:35:37 GMT Organization: Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong Message-ID: <4fie09$96q@ns.cs.hku.hk> References: <4fho5g$38u@news.asu.edu> devan2m@imap2.asu.edu wrote: : Hello All, : First, I was wondering whether there are any NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP : advocates in Hong Kong and who they might be? I know that there used to be a : listing for a user group there, but I don't know how current this is. : Secondly, would anybody also know about Internet access in Hong : Kong? Any and all assistance would be dearly appreciated. I live in Hong Kong. I live on NEXTSTEP. Email me. -Kelvin
From: art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: OmniWeb Date: 10 Feb 1996 22:05:08 GMT Organization: Sense Networking Seattle (www.oz.net) Distribution: world Message-ID: <4fj4qk$ebp@emerald.oz.net> References: <4e84c1$m0n@axl02it.ntc.nokia.com> <4f2h1e$jo9@pub02.va.pubnix.com> <Pine.NXT.3.92.960204125419.17765B-100000@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> <4f9akj$2co@gaea.titan.org> <4fdr58$ojc@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> <4ffs9p$m5f@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> <311C5722.76AB@arsenal.com> "C. Knight" <knight@arsenal.com> wrote: > windemut@cumbnd.bioc.columbia.edu (Andreas Windemuth) writes: > >I second that. OmniWeb 2.0 blows Netscape out of the water. > > Who are you kidding? Netscape 2.0 b6 clobbers OmniWeb. Is that the version of Netscape that crashed Windows 95 during Steve Jobs' Webmania demo, apparently because he ignored some sort of Netscape alert panel? Pretty serious penalty for ignoring an alert panel :-) OmniWeb has never crashed NEXTSTEP since I've been using it. -- Art Isbell NeXT & MIME Mail: art@cubicsol.com NeXT Registered Consultant Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 Trego Systems Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 CaseServ: NEXTSTEP managed care US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442 contract and case management solutions
From: Eric Dubiel <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: NEXTSTEP OOUI remote on MAC OS? Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 19:05:13 -0600 Organization: Illinois State University- Network Services Message-ID: <311D40C9.6FC2@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anyone know if there's a way to do the NEXTSTEP OOUI remotely on a MAC OS box? Sort of like an X Window session- except showing the NS user interface with control of the NS box. This could be a prodct similar to Timbuktu Pro. Also, is there ANY solution to get AppleTalk on NS currently? Please email and post Thanks, Eric SUPPORT FREE SPEECH ON THE 'NET! -----------------------------------------------------------------------Eric A. Dubiel; http://138.87.201.11 Network User Services mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu Illinois State University PEACE LOVE UNITY RESPECT "Understanding is best learned via experience." "Follow our instinct, not a trend. Go against the grain until the end." Unknown .... VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE ENTIRELY MY OWN
From: Eric Dubiel <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Application Memory handling in NS Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 19:17:00 -0600 Organization: Illinois State University- Network Services Message-ID: <311D438C.5EA@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does NEXTSTEP allow for minimum and maximum memory chunks that a program can take up? Is it similar to the way the MAC OS allows you to configure the memory chunks per application? If so, how is it done? Thanks, Eric SUPPORT FREE SPEECH ON THE 'NET! ------------------------------------------------------------------------Eric A. Dubiel; http://138.87.201.11 Network User Services mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu Illinois State University PEACE LOVE UNITY RESPECT "Understanding is best learned via experience." "Follow our instinct, not a trend. Go against the grain until the end." Unknown .... VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE ENTIRELY MY OWN
From: dguthrie@iisys.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NeXT Black won't boot! Date: 11 Feb 1996 04:57:39 GMT Message-ID: <4fjt03$131d@ns.RezoNet.NET> Keywords: boot poweron grey screen I have a NeXT Black machine that was working until earlier today. Now when I poweron the machine I just get a grey screen. I can see the keyboard and CDROM lights flicker as the machine checks out these devices but nothing appears on the screen. I've tried hitting Command-~ to no avail, however if I do the following Hit PowerOff key, type 'Y' followed by carriage return (ENTER), the machine powers off properly. What happens if the lithium battery in the cube dies (it's now 5 years old)? What might be causing my problem with getting the NeXT to boot again? Any help is greatly appreciated. Don dguthrie@iisys.com
From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: OmniWeb Date: 11 Feb 1996 10:06:01 GMT Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes. Distribution: world Message-ID: <MICHAELV.96Feb11020601@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> References: <4e84c1$m0n@axl02it.ntc.nokia.com> <4f2h1e$jo9@pub02.va.pubnix.com> <Pine.NXT.3.92.960204125419.17765B-100000@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> <4f9akj$2co@gaea.titan.org> <4fdr58$ojc@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> <4ffs9p$m5f@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> <311C5722.76AB@arsenal.com> <4fj4qk$ebp@emerald.oz.net> In-reply-to: art@cubicsol.com's message of 10 Feb 1996 22:05:08 GMT In article <4fj4qk$ebp@emerald.oz.net> art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell) writes: "C. Knight" <knight@arsenal.com> wrote: > windemut@cumbnd.bioc.columbia.edu (Andreas Windemuth) writes: > >I second that. OmniWeb 2.0 blows Netscape out of the water. > Who are you kidding? Netscape 2.0 b6 clobbers OmniWeb. Is that the version of Netscape that crashed Windows 95 during Steve Jobs' Webmania demo, apparently because he ignored some sort of Netscape alert panel? Pretty serious penalty for ignoring an alert panel :-) OmniWeb has never crashed NEXTSTEP since I've been using it. I'm not a proponent of either browser, but you might note that the "b" up there means "beta"... Believe it or not, beta software has bugs in it... And, don't blame all Win95 crashes on the software running under Win95. ;-) -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4, DEC PMAX (MIPS), DEC Alpha, PC532 NetBSD ports in progress: VAX, Atari 68k, others... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
From: warnerr@mahler ( richard warner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Any good NS stat pkgs available? Date: 11 Feb 1996 18:51:43 GMT Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 Message-ID: <4fldrv$3au8@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> Hi - Trying to find a good pkg to run locally on my NEXT box. Have tried xspss and xbmdp but the user interfaces are lousy and the performance over a phone line is even worse (even with high-speed modem). Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. Rich P.S. Would be helpful to email me directly and I'll post results to net.
From: wongj@alum01.its.rpi.edu (Jasper Y. Wong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP'er in Hong Kong? Date: 11 Feb 1996 08:10:08 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Message-ID: <4fk890$as5@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <4fho5g$38u@news.asu.edu> Keywords: NEXTSTEP, Advocates, Hong Kong In article <4fho5g$38u@news.asu.edu>, <devan2m@imap2.asu.edu> wrote: >Hello All, > > First, I was wondering whether there are any NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP >advocates in Hong Kong and who they might be? I know that there used to be a >listing for a user group there, but I don't know how current this is. > Secondly, would anybody also know about Internet access in Hong >Kong? Any and all assistance would be dearly appreciated. > >Regards- > > I'm not sure if there still exists a user group in Hong Kong or not, even though I've heard one of the newsfeed provider in HK runs his operation with NeXT stations....I can't confirm it though. Anyways, I'm now working in Hong Kong with my two Cubes....so I would like to join a local users group here as well if one exists.... Jasper -- --< NeXT >--< BeBox >--< Amiga >---< SGI >--< Sparc >--< PowerMac >-- Homepage forever under construction... IRC's nick (mizzle@#amiga) Penhold/Globe999/Friendship755 wongj@rpi.edu jyw@jasper.hko.net --< Table Tennis >--< MIDI >--< Volleyball >---| NeXTMail Welcome |--
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: NewsGrazer or other news reader Message-ID: <1996Feb10.143712.2396@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <4fe32a$53d@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 14:37:12 GMT In article <4fe32a$53d@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> tseifert@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Tim Seifert) writes: > Hello, > I am trying to find a news reader for my NeXT. I am currently running > NeXTStep 2.1 on a NeXTStation. I tried downloading NewsGrazer75 from > the ftp sit next-ftp.peak.org. I managed to uncompress the file, but I > am left with a unix shell icon and a programme that does not run. Any > suggestions that you may have for a neophyte are appreciated. > NS 2.1 is way too old to be safely operated by a neophyte ;-) Now earnestly, most of the software on the public archives now requires at least NS 3.1 to run. NG75 might be just an example. Try to locate NG72 which might work on your system. Upgrading your system might be better choice, though. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | pgp, MIME, NeXTmail # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: thrall@serv.net (Dean Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: OmniWeb Date: 11 Feb 1996 23:28:24 GMT Organization: ServNet Internet Services Message-ID: <4flu2o$q5q@brockman.serv.net> References: <4e84c1$m0n@axl02it.ntc.nokia.com> <4f2h1e$jo9@pub02.va.pubnix.com> <Pine.NXT.3.92.960204125419.17765B-100000@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> <4f9akj$2co@gaea.titan.org> <4fdr58$ojc@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> <4ffs9p$m5f@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> <311C5722.76AB@arsenal.com> <4fj4qk$ebp@emerald.oz.net> <MICHAELV.96Feb11020601@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> In-Reply-To: <MICHAELV.96Feb11020601@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> On 02/10/96, Michael L. VanLoon wrote: >In article <4fj4qk$ebp@emerald.oz.net> art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell) writes: > > "C. Knight" <knight@arsenal.com> wrote: > > windemut@cumbnd.bioc.columbia.edu (Andreas Windemuth) writes: > > > >I second that. OmniWeb 2.0 blows Netscape out of the water. > > > Who are you kidding? Netscape 2.0 b6 clobbers OmniWeb. > > Is that the version of Netscape that crashed Windows 95 during Steve > Jobs' Webmania demo, apparently because he ignored some sort of Netscape > alert panel? Pretty serious penalty for ignoring an alert panel > :-) OmniWeb has never crashed NEXTSTEP since I've been using it. The alert panel is not a Netscape problem; it is Windows NT. If you ignore an alert panel for longer than NT thinks you should, it locks up your next action and you have to reboot. I wish it was a Netscape problem, since OPENSTEP is going to be on NT. Kinda scary to me :) -- NeXTmail Please | More computer stuff! | thrall@serv.net | - My wife |
From: "TOMMY K. HWANG" <thwang@home.mysolution.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: OmniWeb Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 22:34:38 -0500 Organization: INTERNET SOLUTIONS INC. Message-ID: <311EB54E.104F@home.mysolution.com> References: <4e84c1$m0n@axl02it.ntc.nokia.com> <4f2h1e$jo9@pub02.va.pubnix.com> <Pine.NXT.3.92.960204125419.17765B-100000@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> <4f9akj$2co@gaea.titan.org> <4fdr58$ojc@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> <4ffs9p$m5f@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> <311C5722.76AB@arsenal.com> <4fj4qk$ebp@emerald.oz.net> <MICHAELV.96Feb11020601@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > >I second that. OmniWeb 2.0 blows Netscape out of the water. > > > Who are you kidding? Netscape 2.0 b6 clobbers OmniWeb. OmniWeb 2.0b4h has problems that has been acknowledged by the company (like the bug associated with fixed frames). Also, the lack of JAVA support makes my home page look funny... http://www.mysolution.com/ The UNIX and the Win32 version of NetScape, or NetScape Gold, currently are better, IMHO, than OmniWeb. > :-) OmniWeb has never crashed NEXTSTEP since I've been using it. You are lucky. But then, it is Beta 4.0h > And, don't blame all Win95 crashes on the software running under > Win95. ;-) I only use NT (in terms of modern MS OS), so no comment here.
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet Date: 12 Feb 1996 05:15:17 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4fmid5$2m3@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. To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying: SUB Listname YourName Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe The ftp sites ============= ftp://next-ftp.peak.org: The main site for North American submissions (formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu) ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: (Peanuts) Located in Germany. ftp://ftp.dn.net/pub/next Peanuts mirror in the US ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next/ eduStep ftp://ftp.next.com: See below ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com ===================================== [from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help] Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system! This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and other software, which are then sent to you automatically. 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Scott (mailto:eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU) and Scott Anguish (mailto:sanguish@digifix.com) Additions from: Greg Anderson (mailto:Greg_Anderson@afs.com) Michael Pizolato (mailto:alf@epix.net) Dan Grillo (mailto:dan_grillo@next.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL Subject: Newton MP110 connectivity to either NEXTSTEP 3.3 or Windows/NT 3.51 Message-ID: <DMo6w0.BC9@RnA.NL> Sender: gerben@RnA.NL (Gerben Wierda) Organization: G.R.O.S.S. Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 15:55:11 GMT (Not all groups are carried here, please respond by email. I'll make a summary if something comes up) Actually, the subject says it all. Does connectivity between Newton MP 110 and either one (NEXTSTEP / Windows NT) exist? I have a Newton but I am reluctant to really start using it, unless I have a connectivity solution that will enable me to upload/download the Newton stuff for backup/restore. Yours, -- Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl (Gerben Wierda) NEXTSTEP RD242 "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there" Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
From: Lorenzo Stella <stella@paros.caspur.it> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help for X11 for NeXT Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 11:51:13 +0100 Organization: CASPUR Consortium for the Supercomputing Applications Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960212113919.7794A-100000@paros.caspur.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Dear netters, I am not very familiar with Unix, and, as my first experience, I have to=20 fight with a NeXTstation. My problem now is to install X11R6, to be able t= o use my NeXTStation as a graphic terminal to connect to other computers. Has anyone of you compiled X11R6 for NeXT? Up to now I have been able to find on the net only an old X11R5 for monochromatic monitors. I would be deeply grateful if you could tell me where I can find a precompiled version of X11R6 for NeXT, or otherwise what should I do to compile it on my system (if it is possible). I thank you in advance for your help. Please, if possible, reply by mail to the address below, since I can=A9t usually check these newsgroups. I will post a summary of the answers I receive. Lorenzo =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Lorenzo Stella University of Rome "La Sapienza" Department of Biochemical Sciences STELLA2@VAXROM.ROMA1.INFN.IT Tel.:++39-6-49910957 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=20
From: christw@meaddata.com (Christopher C. Wood) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Date: 12 Feb 1996 21:23:22 GMT Organization: LEXIS-NEXIS, Dayton OH Message-ID: <4fob4a$cq0@meaddata.lexis-nexis.com> References: <RDL.96Feb3155717@world.std.com> <4f1vaq$cp5@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <1996Feb4.054449.73149@cc.usu.edu> <4f4501$114@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <4f61ip$4mq@meaddata.lexis-nexis.com> <4f6l4g$3j6@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> <4f87ff$m50@meaddata.lexis-nexis.com> <jragosta-0802961702250001@ppp-1001.dca.net> In article <jragosta-0802961702250001@ppp-1001.dca.net>, jragosta@dca.net (Joe Ragosta) writes: |> In article <4f87ff$m50@meaddata.lexis-nexis.com>, christw@meaddata.com |> (Christopher C. Wood) wrote: [ MS coercion keeping system vendors from pre-loading competing OS, in this case, "Star Trek", the MacOS port to Intel... ] |> > Hmmm. I don't know about such blatently illegal acts (can you |> > say Sherman Act, boys and girls?) But Microsoft's per-processor |> > licensing deals at the time would have meant pay MS _and_ Apple |> > to load a copy of Apple's OS. DoJ couldn't put together a solid |> > enough case. Bummer. |> > Or maybe MS offered a deal to the government: if you want to use our |> > operating system, you must agree to never sue us about anything, ever |> > again. |> > Chris |> Actually, I'm a bit confused. I thought MS _did_ agree to sign an |> agreement ending per-processor licensing deals. Yes, MS and DoJ did "settle". MS promised never to be bad anymore, and DoJ agreed not to prosecute any past illegalities. Wouldn't it be nice if one had enough clout to get the local constabulary to agree that they wouldn't procecute you, if you promised that you wouldn't speed any more? Chris -- Speaking only for myself, of course. Chris Wood christw@lexis-nexis.com ChrisCWood@eworld.com
From: Ken Overton <kov@jhu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NeXT Black won't boot! Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 21:20:51 -0500 Organization: HCF - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Message-ID: <311FF583.2781@jhu.edu> References: <4fjt03$131d@ns.RezoNet.NET> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit dguthrie@iisys.com wrote: > > I have a NeXT Black machine that was working until earlier today. > > Now when I poweron the machine I just get a grey screen. I can see > the keyboard and CDROM lights flicker as the machine checks out these > devices but nothing appears on the screen. > > I've tried hitting Command-~ to no avail, however if I do the > following > > Hit PowerOff key, type 'Y' followed by carriage return (ENTER), the > machine powers off properly. > > What happens if the lithium battery in the cube dies (it's now 5 > years old)? What might be causing my problem with getting the NeXT > to boot again? > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > Don > dguthrie@iisys.com Eerily enough, this happened to me as well today. I assumed it was because the monitor is dead. I assume this because I was doing ROM monitor commands that got predictable responses in disk activity etc. (as you have) but nothing from the monitor. If it's just the battery I'd happily replace that before the monitor. However, in the event that the monitor Is dead, what are my options for a Cube, 040? I'm sure you've all heard this n times (where n is a _very_ large number) but I have yet to see any FAQ which definitively answers the following question: can I hook up a monochrome PC monitor to my cube? Why or why not? All answers, flames, and non-sequitors gratefully accepted, - kov
From: sl7nk@cc.usu.edu (Benjamin A. Thomson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NEXTSTEP on PPC? Message-ID: <1996Feb10.125330.73745@cc.usu.edu> Date: 10 Feb 96 12:53:30 MDT Organization: Utah State University Is NEXTSTEP being ported to the (CHRP) PowerPC platform?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Subject: Re: Newton MP110 connectivity to either NEXTSTEP 3.3 or Windows/NT 3.51 In-Reply-To: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL's message of Mon, 12 Feb 1996 15:55:11 GMT Message-ID: <RDL.96Feb13013219@world.std.com> Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <DMo6w0.BC9@RnA.NL> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 06:32:19 GMT If you're running NewtonOS 2.0, you can use the free Newton Backup Utility from Apple (ftp.apple.com or whatever it is) to backup/restore your data and install new packages. If you're running earlier versions of the OS, you can purchase Newton Connection Kit. Here in the states, you can purchase the Connection Kit for $5 dollars since stores are dumping it as it is old software. As for a NS solution, try slurpee. Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant Boston, MA Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com In article <DMo6w0.BC9@RnA.NL> Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL writes: Xref: world comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc:113383 comp.sys.newton.misc:54013 comp.sys.next.misc:46323 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc Path: world!news.mtholyoke.edu!news.umass.edu!caen!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!rna-nl!gerben From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL Sender: gerben@RnA.NL (Gerben Wierda) Reply-To: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL Organization: G.R.O.S.S. Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 15:55:11 GMT Lines: 15 (Not all groups are carried here, please respond by email. I'll make a summary if something comes up) Actually, the subject says it all. Does connectivity between Newton MP 110 and either one (NEXTSTEP / Windows NT) exist? I have a Newton but I am reluctant to really start using it, unless I have a connectivity solution that will enable me to upload/download the Newton stuff for backup/restore. Yours, -- Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl (Gerben Wierda) NEXTSTEP RD242 "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there" Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
From: Aristophanes <scribe@netcom.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 01:23:11 +0000 Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <311FE7FF.651E@netcom.ca> References: <RDL.96Feb3155717@world.std.com> <4f1vaq$cp5@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <1996Feb4.054449.73149@cc.usu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Larry Denys wrote: > > |> >Drop OS/2 and make MacOS run on Intel. > > > If Apple would have done this 3-4 years ago, they would probably > have around 30-40% of the Intel market, or more. > This is something I really don't understand. Why didn't Sculley > or Spindler look up north to Microsoft and see that MS was making > truckloads of money, not making hardware, but making software, OSes. > Why didn't the CEO's of Apple decide they could cash in on the Intel > market by making their OS run on PCs? > > LDDenys Sun, Silicon Graphics, Digital, IBM, and a slew of other smaller companies make combined hardware/software systems. Microsoft and Intel (Wintel) are so closely linked they might as well be one company. Making the MacOS run on the Intel architecture would have taken years and would have been a technological effort costing millions. It would have made Apple dependent on the same processor company who provides MS with its instruction set. Much of the OS would have to run in emulated mode, partly due to the "big-endian" structure of the addressing. Microsoft was also moving to a non-Intel Windows NT, which runs faster on RISC systems than it does on the Pentium.
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Application Memory handling in NS Date: 13 Feb 1996 14:25:03 GMT Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc. Message-ID: <4fq6vv$71u@news.its.com> References: <311D438C.5EA@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Eric Dubiel <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> wrote: > Does NEXTSTEP allow for minimum and maximum memory chunks that a program > can take up? Is it similar to the way the MAC OS allows you to > configure the memory chunks per application? If so, how is it done? You can configure the maximum size if you wish, although it's rare that you would need to do so. The minimum is adjusted automatically and I can't think of any circumstances when someone would need to set that. The system command is documented in "man setrlimit"; normally one uses the 'limit' command built into many shells, including csh, to control the size of subprocesses spawned from that shell. -Chuck Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc. --------------------------------+--------------------------------------- CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: glen@prosoft.com (Glen Biagioni) Subject: Re: Battery for NeXT Cube (Black) Message-ID: <DMq1A4.3L1@prosoft.com> Sender: usenet@prosoft.com Organization: ProSoft Solutions, Inc. References: <4flb9o$2hl@gypsy.iisys.com> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 15:49:15 GMT dguthrie@iisys.com writes > Where can I get a replacement battery for my NeXT cube? > Who sells these lithium batteries? I've tried Radio Shack but they don't have an exact > match in their catalogue. Is there an equivalent that I can order from Radio Shack > or elsewhere? > > Don I used a Panasonic CR123A (3V) with no problems so far(1 year). Available at the camera counter of a local drugstore. (I removed a Panasonic BR-2/3A). -- Glen Biagioni ProSoft Solutions Inc. glen@prosoft.com (NeXTmail Welcome) Bus:(604)324-3311 Fax:(604)324-9431
From: ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Easy to install Web Server? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 13 Feb 1996 17:03:34 GMT Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA Message-ID: <4fqg96$hm4@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> Is there a simple-to-install Webpage server? I am new to this area, but I have somehow managed to figure out basic HTML, and would like to give the outside world access. /ivo welch -- Ivo Welch ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu Assoc Prof of Finance Anderson GSM at UCLA 110 Westwood Plaza, Box 951481, LA CA 90095-1481
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: OmniWeb Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 12:14:12 -0500 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960213121117.1161J-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> References: <4e84c1$m0n@axl02it.ntc.nokia.com> <4f2h1e$jo9@pub02.va.pubnix.com> <Pine.NXT.3.92.960204125419.17765B-100000@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> <4f9akj$2co@gaea.titan.org> <4fdr58$ojc@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> <4ffs9p$m5f@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> <311C5722.76AB@arsenal.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <311C5722.76AB@arsenal.com> On Sat, 10 Feb 1996, C. Knight wrote: > windemut@cumbnd.bioc.columbia.edu (Andreas Windemuth) writes: > >I second that. OmniWeb 2.0 blows Netscape out of the water. > > Who are you kidding? Netscape 2.0 b6 clobbers OmniWeb. Oh I beg you not to start this again.... not "you" specifically, but "you" as in anyone who thinks they are going to change anyone's mind when it comes to GUI/workability of one app versus another... Can't we just agree that some people prefer one and some people prefer others? It'd save a lot of bandwidth. Anyway, if you do decide to followup on this, please remove csn-misc from the list, and keep it in *advocacy. TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> NeXTStep Swapfile and Swapdisk FAQ: send mail with subject 'send swapfaq' Other info-via-email available, send mail with subject 'send info' For information on PPP under NeXTStep <nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com>
From: NEXTSTEP@PI.NET (Niels Doornhein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Internet software Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 20:56:44 GMT Organization: Planet Internet Message-ID: <4fqtqc$1kv@neptunus.pi.net> I've got an intel standalone machine with nextstep 3.3. I'm trying to connect it to the internet, but haven't succeded yet!! I want to use a PPP connection. What software do i need to connect to the internet, and how must i configure it??? Thanks in advance! Niels
From: philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Windows on IDE and NS on SCSI, How? Date: Tue, 13 Feb 96 21:20:46 GMT Organization: LakeHaven, Toronto Message-ID: <4fqvb4$kmd@sunburst.ccs.yorku.ca> References: <4fehp9$7o0@nntpb.cb.att.com> <4fffgb$qu7@shellx.best.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII In article <4fffgb$qu7@shellx.best.com>, cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher A. Wolf) wrote: >On 02/08/96, -V.RAO wrote: >>Hi, >> >>Is it possible to have Windows 95 or 3.1 installed on >>an IDE hard drive and NS on a SCSI hard drive in the >>same computer, > >PCs will always try to boot from the IDE drive if there are both IDE and SCSI >devices available. There are two solutions: > >1) Disable the IDE hard-drive from the PCs BIOS whenever you want to boot NS >from the SCSI drive. > >2) Install a tiny (7 meg) NeXTSTEP boot partition on the IDE drive which will >then transfer control to the SCSI device very early in the boot process. >There is a NeXTanswer on this entitled "Booting from an alternative hard >disk." which provides complete instructions. Or simply use the neat OS-BS program. That way you don't need the 7 meg partition. I used to have NS+win on IDE+SCSI, IDE+IDE, SCSI only, etc...In fact the hardest situation was the one where you have 3 or more scsi drives and try to fdisk them under NS! Philip McDunnough LakeHaven, where sheep may safely graze... philip@utstat.toronto.edu
From: veakblad@Glue.umd.edu (David T. Wang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Followup-To: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Date: 14 Feb 1996 01:25:41 GMT Organization: University of Maryland College Park Message-ID: <4frdml$bqh@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> References: <RDL.96Feb3155717@world.std.com> <4f1vaq$cp5@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <1996Feb4.054449.73149@cc.usu.edu> <311FE7FF.651E@netcom.ca> Aristophanes (scribe@netcom.ca) wrote: : Larry Denys wrote: : > : > If Apple would have done this 3-4 years ago, they would probably : > have around 30-40% of the Intel market, or more. : > This is something I really don't understand. Why didn't Sculley : > or Spindler look up north to Microsoft and see that MS was making : > truckloads of money, not making hardware, but making software, OSes. : > Why didn't the CEO's of Apple decide they could cash in on the Intel : > market by making their OS run on PCs? : > : > LDDenys : Sun, Silicon Graphics, Digital, IBM, and a slew of other smaller : companies make combined hardware/software systems. Microsoft and Intel : (Wintel) are so closely linked they might as well be one company. : Making the MacOS run on the Intel architecture would have taken years : and would have been a technological effort costing millions. It would : have made Apple dependent on the same processor company who provides MS : with its instruction set. Much of the OS would have to run in emulated : mode, partly due to the "big-endian" structure of the addressing. : Microsoft was also moving to a non-Intel Windows NT, which runs faster : on RISC systems than it does on the Pentium. From what I understand, Apple already had the Mac30 project going, and Sun ported Solaris to X86, as did NeXTStep. As those operating systems have shown, if you write good software, you and provide OS that is truely platform independent. Also, WinNT seems to be quite speedy on the X86 boxes as well.
From: vrgr@taz.ho.att.com (-V.RAO) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Windows on IDE and NS on SCSI, How? Date: 14 Feb 1996 05:57:35 GMT Organization: AT&T NSD, Holmdel, NJ Message-ID: <4frtkf$9ed@nntpb.cb.att.com> References: <4fehp9$7o0@nntpb.cb.att.com> <4fffgb$qu7@shellx.best.com> <4fqvb4$kmd@sunburst.ccs.yorku.ca> In article <4fqvb4$kmd@sunburst.ccs.yorku.ca>, Philip McDunnough <philip@utstat.toronto.edu> wrote: > >Or simply use the neat OS-BS program. That way you don't need the 7 meg >partition. I used to have NS+win on IDE+SCSI, IDE+IDE, SCSI only, etc...In >fact the hardest situation was the one where you have 3 or more scsi drives >and try to fdisk them under NS! > > > >Philip McDunnough >LakeHaven, where sheep may safely graze... >philip@utstat.toronto.edu Forgive me, but what is a OS-BS program? And, where can one get it? rao
From: Aristophanes <scribe@netcom.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 01:36:04 +0000 Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <31213C84.E21@netcom.ca> References: <RDL.96Feb3155717@world.std.com> <4f1vaq$cp5@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <1996Feb4.054449.73149@cc.usu.edu> <311FE7FF.651E@netcom.ca> <4frdml$bqh@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit David T. Wang wrote: > > Aristophanes (scribe@netcom.ca) wrote: > : Larry Denys wrote: > : > > : > If Apple would have done this 3-4 years ago, they would probably > : > have around 30-40% of the Intel market, or more. > : > This is something I really don't understand. Why didn't Sculley > : > or Spindler look up north to Microsoft and see that MS was making > : > truckloads of money, not making hardware, but making software, OSes. > : > Why didn't the CEO's of Apple decide they could cash in on the Intel > : > market by making their OS run on PCs? > : > > : > LDDenys > > : Sun, Silicon Graphics, Digital, IBM, and a slew of other smaller > : companies make combined hardware/software systems. Microsoft and Intel > : (Wintel) are so closely linked they might as well be one company. > > : Making the MacOS run on the Intel architecture would have taken years > : and would have been a technological effort costing millions. It would > : have made Apple dependent on the same processor company who provides MS > : with its instruction set. Much of the OS would have to run in emulated > : mode, partly due to the "big-endian" structure of the addressing. > : Microsoft was also moving to a non-Intel Windows NT, which runs faster > : on RISC systems than it does on the Pentium. > > From what I understand, Apple already had the Mac30 project going, and Sun > ported Solaris to X86, as did NeXTStep. As those operating systems have > shown, if you write good software, you and provide OS that is truely platform > independent. Also, WinNT seems to be quite speedy on the X86 boxes as well. and let's not forget the PowerPC 615 chip which can supposedly run both x86 code as well as the full PPC architecture (question is, how well?.
From: khiebert@wimsey.com (Kevin Hiebert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Easy to install Web Server? Date: 14 Feb 1996 07:51:53 GMT Organization: I represent myself, thank you. Distribution: world Message-ID: <4fs4ap$phs@angate.disc-net.com> References: <4fqg96$hm4@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) wrote: >Is there a simple-to-install Webpage server? I am new to this area, but I >have somehow managed to figure out basic HTML, and would like to give the >outside world access. I just set up the Apache version advocated by NeXT at: ftp://ftp2.next.com/pub/SoftwareDownloads/SV.Apache.NS.tar ftp://ftp.thoughtport.com/pub/SoftwareDownloads/SV.Apache.NS.tar It is a little unusual in that it doesn't reside in the place most other programs expect the httpd daemon to be (/usr/local/etc/httpd), but the .pkg installer is a big help. Enjoy! -- Kevin Hiebert <khiebert@wimsey.com> http://www.wimsey.com/~khiebert/ * MIME/NeXTmail welcome * PGP public key available for secure messages *
From: otto@olcs.com (Otto Lind) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Application Memory handling in NS Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Date: 14 Feb 1996 07:59:00 GMT Organization: Otto Lind Consulting Services Message-ID: <4fs4o4$9o8@olcs.olcs.com> References: <311D438C.5EA@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> <4fq6vv$71u@news.its.com> Chuck Swiger (chuck@its.com) wrote: : The system command is documented in "man setrlimit"; normally one uses the : 'limit' command built into many shells, including csh, to control the size of : subprocesses spawned from that shell. setrlimit() has never worked in NeXTStep for limiting memory (e.g. RLIMIT_DATA). Nor does "limit" from within a shell. I think this was due to a limitation in the Mach version NeXTStep is built on; otherwise I would have assumed that NeXT would have fixed it a long time ago. The big pain in this is that a stupid error in a utility program (say rnews) can bring down your server by filling up swap space :-( I ended up hacking malloc/free wrappers which keep track of allocations and aborts if a predefined limit is reached. Otto -- Otto Lind Otto Lind Consulting Services otto@olcs.com 4890 Ashley Lane #311, Inver Grove Hts, MN 55077 skypoint!olcs!otto voice:(612)457-1080 fax:(612)457-0761
From: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Kai S. Wong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Features of OPENSTEP for Mach 4.0? Date: 14 Feb 1996 19:20:17 GMT Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland Message-ID: <4ftclh$tmg@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> References: <4fcp8r$ah@turbocat.snafu.de> dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel) writes: Also, with bsd4.4 and new interfaces. --KAI-- >Hello! >What will change from NEXTSTEP 3.3 with OPENSTEP for Mach 4.0? >Will this "just" be compatible with the OPENSTEP spec? >Will there be more modem drivers? > _ _ > _(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development, >(_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG, > _/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152 > (______) dave@turbocat.snafu.de (NeXTMail) -- email: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca url: http://web.cs.mun.ca/~kwong/
From: Bob Lunney - Imonics Development <bob.lunney@imonics.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Solaris equivalent to WorkSpace Manager compression? Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 16:59:07 -0500 Organization: Imonics Corporation Message-ID: <31225B2B.6C3A@imonics.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Is there a Solaris equivalent to WorkSpace Manager file compression? Alternately, is there a way to decompress a .compressed file from a terminal session on a NeXT? Thanks in advance... -- Bob Lunney | Building tomorrow's legacy Imonics, Inc. | systems today. (tm) bob.lunney@imonics.com | #include <std_disclaimer.h>
From: christw@meaddata.com (Christopher C. Wood) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Date: 14 Feb 1996 23:12:09 GMT Organization: LEXIS-NEXIS, Dayton OH Message-ID: <4ftq89$5sv@meaddata.lexis-nexis.com> References: <RDL.96Feb3155717@world.std.com> <4f1vaq$cp5@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <1996Feb4.054449.73149@cc.usu.edu> <311FE7FF.651E@netcom.ca> In article <311FE7FF.651E@netcom.ca>, Aristophanes <scribe@netcom.ca> writes: |> Larry Denys wrote: |> > |> >Drop OS/2 and make MacOS run on Intel. |> > If Apple would have done this 3-4 years ago, they would probably |> > have around 30-40% of the Intel market, or more. Apple _did_ do this 3 - 4 years ago, and couldn't get any hardware or software vendors interested in it. May have something to do with Microsoft's less-than-legal licensing practices... Look in a MacWeek index for articles about "Star Trek". |> > This is something I really don't understand. Why didn't Sculley |> > or Spindler look up north to Microsoft and see that MS was making |> > truckloads of money, not making hardware, but making software, OSes. |> > Why didn't the CEO's of Apple decide they could cash in on the Intel |> > market by making their OS run on PCs? They tried. |> Making the MacOS run on the Intel architecture would have taken years |> and would have been a technological effort costing millions. Probably not that much. Chris -- Speaking only for myself, of course. Chris Wood christw@lexis-nexis.com ChrisCWood@eworld.com
From: gwu@dataspec.com (George Wu) Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.browsers.misc,comp.emacs,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Emacs-W3 and emacs 19.28 problem Date: 14 Feb 1996 23:59:20 GMT Organization: The Loop Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ftt0o$8hm@dobie.loop.com> I recently installed Emacs-W3 2.3.28 and emacs 19.28 on my NEXTSTEP 3.2 system. Everytime I try to run Emacs-W3 I get the following error: Signalling: (wrong-type-argument stringp [:family ("serif") :weight nil :style 0 :size nil :registry nil :encoding nil]) set-face-attribute-internal(10 font [:family ("serif") :weight nil :style 0 :size nil :registry nil :encoding nil] #<frame Error 0x1c0090>) internal-set-face-1(\(\[:family\ \(serif\)\ :weight\ nil\ :style\ 0\ :size\ nil\ :registry\ nil\ :encoding\ nil\]\ nil\ nil\) font [:family ("serif") :weight nil :style 0 :size nil :registry nil :encoding nil] 3 #<frame Error 0x1c0090>) internal-set-face-1(\(\[:family\ \(serif\)\ :weight\ nil\ :style\ 0\ :size\ nil\ :registry\ nil\ :encoding\ nil\]\ nil\ nil\) font [:family ("serif") :weight nil :style 0 :size nil :registry nil :encoding nil] 3 nil) w3-handle-emphasis(nil) w3-handle-single-tag(html nil) w3-preparse-buffer(#<buffer *URL*>) w3-prepare-buffer() w3-pass-to-viewer() w3-sentinel(#<buffer Error>) w3-fetch("file:/SharedApps/OmniWeb/Start.html") w3() * call-interactively(w3) execute-extended-command(nil) call-interactively(execute-extended-command) Does anyone know what's going on here ? Any help is greatly appreciated. George
From: jcnc@maxwell.eppet.pt (Joao Neves Cabral) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: OmniWeb and NeXTStep 3.0 Date: 14 Feb 1996 19:55:34 +0100 Organization: EPPET Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4ftb76$31l@maxwell.eppet.pt> First let me apologize for my ignorance on NeXT related stuff. I just aquired my first NeXT station Turbo Color, and I know very few things of the NeXT world. My box has NeXTStep 3.0 and I just downloaded the beta OmniWeb 2.0 for NeXT architechtures. When I try to run it the icon disapears after a few seconds. I've tried to launch it from UNIX and I get a message saying that an error ocurred with a shered library. So, my questions are: - Should OmniWeb 2.0 run on my system, or do I need a higher version of NeXTStep ? - What are the existent higher versions of NeXTStep ? Should I upgrade my system ? Is it worth ? If so, where can I buy a recent version of the OS ? Any information on these issues would be apreciated, Thanks in advance, Joao.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: pascal@burgond.remcomp.fr (Pascal Bourguignon) Subject: .macros in NSFIP Message-ID: <DMp9tA.rs@burgond.remcomp.fr> Sender: pascal@burgond.remcomp.fr (Pascal Bourguignon) Organization: P. Bourguignon Informatique Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 05:55:57 GMT I have a .macros and .bindings setting that works perfectly on NS/Motorola, but it won't work on NS/FIP. How could this happen? I tried to swap some bytes in the .macros file (big/little endian-wise) without result. What is the exact format of the .macros file? Is there anything special to do to make it work on NS/FIP? __Pascal Bourguignon__
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: OmniWeb and NeXTStep 3.0 Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <DMsqtz.Fqv@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 02:56:23 GMT Distribution: inet References: <4ftb76$31l@maxwell.eppet.pt> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <4ftb76$31l@maxwell.eppet.pt>, Joao Neves Cabral <jcnc@maxwell.eppet.pt> wrote: > >First let me apologize for my ignorance on NeXT related stuff. I just >aquired my first NeXT station Turbo Color, and I know very few things of the >NeXT world. > We were all there once... >My box has NeXTStep 3.0 and I just downloaded the beta OmniWeb 2.0 for >NeXT architechtures. When I try to run it the icon disapears after a >few seconds. I've tried to launch it from UNIX and I get a message >saying that an error ocurred with a shered library. > >So, my questions are: > > - Should OmniWeb 2.0 run on my system, or do I need a higher > version of NeXTStep ? > The simple answer, yes. It will run under 3.3, 3.2+EOF 1.1, or 3.2 plus the FoundationUserPatch included with WebObjects. I have no idea if this combo will fly under 3.0, though. > - What are the existent higher versions of NeXTStep ? Should I upgrade > my system ? Is it worth ? If so, where can I buy a recent version of > the OS ? > You can buy the OS from NeXT or Object Technologies for the academic version. Whether it's worth it is hard to say--many new apps won't work with 3.0. If you qualify for the academic bundle, it's $299 US which is pretty nice. If not, then $799 for user and $4999 for developer makes one think a little longer. -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: jens@necromancer.pop-frankfurt.com (Jens Kleemann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Windows on IDE and NS on SCSI, How? Date: 14 Feb 1996 23:37:44 GMT Organization: IPf.net - Frankfurt, Germany Message-ID: <4ftro8$c1b@main.ipf.net> References: <4fqvb4$kmd@sunburst.ccs.yorku.ca> <4fehp9$7o0@nntpb.cb.att.com>?<4fffgb$qu7@shellx.best.com>? In-Reply-To: <4fqvb4$kmd@sunburst.ccs.yorku.ca> >>>Is it possible to have Windows 95 or 3.1 installed on >>>an IDE hard drive and NS on a SCSI hard drive in the >>>same computer, >> >>PCs will always try to boot from the IDE drive if there are both IDE and SCSI >>devices available. There are two solutions: >> >>1) Disable the IDE hard-drive from the PCs BIOS whenever you want to boot NS >>from the SCSI drive. >> >>2) Install a tiny (7 meg) NeXTSTEP boot partition on the IDE drive which will >>then transfer control to the SCSI device very early in the boot process. Solution 3.) For Triton Boards use MR-BIOS Now you can leave IDE and SCSI on, but you can boot from SCSI while IDE drive is active. Never tried it myself, but a friend of mine which uses Next (but no IDE) told me about this BIOS and that feature - and i know it's true!!! Here's the URL - Enjoy YOU never have to turn IDE OFF again. http://www.mrbios.com/mr_share.html
From: jens@necromancer.pop-frankfurt.com (Jens Kleemann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Windows on IDE and NS on SCSI, How? Date: 14 Feb 1996 23:43:37 GMT Organization: IPf.net - Frankfurt, Germany Message-ID: <4fts39$c1s@main.ipf.net> References: <4fqvb4$kmd@sunburst.ccs.yorku.ca> <4fehp9$7o0@nntpb.cb.att.com>?<4fffgb$qu7@shellx.best.com>? In-Reply-To: <4fqvb4$kmd@sunburst.ccs.yorku.ca> Here are some details for MR-BIOS ( sorry i wrote, then surfed ) ƒ Plug 'n Play card support Auto resource steering Win95 compatible ƒ PCI and Bridge support Auto resource steering DEC PCI-PCI bridges _Cogent PCI-PCI Ethernet_ ƒ Energy Star power management APM for Windows and DOS VESA DPMS video management SMI and STPCLK, all X86's Timewarp correction ƒ Fast-ATA support ATA Mode 4/5 (to 20 MB/S) Built-in IDE drivers (ADI2, CMD, OPTi, more) ƒ Enhanced IDE support LBA and CHS translations EDPT Table support IBM/Microsoft INT13 extensions 8 discs max, each to 137 GByte Name any disc C: Boot SCSI (ahead of IDE) ƒ _RAID-0 Disc Striping_ Interleave 2-8 IDEs for astonishing throughput ƒ Atapi and Removable IDE CD-ROM recognition SyQuest and Ejectable media ƒ Enhanced Floppy support 4 Floppy/tape-drives max Name any floppy A: ƒ Enhanced Parallel Port SPP, Bidir, EPP and ECP modes ƒ Upper Memory Blocks (UMB) Compact runtime core approx 24K Available runtime space approx 100K (of 128K) Compact total binary near 64K ƒ Password Security ƒ Anti-Virus Protection ƒ PS/2 Mouse support ƒ Flash-ROM support ƒ Instant! Boot
From: dguthrie@iisys.com (Don Guthrie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: WANTED - NeXTStep 3.2 or 3.3 developer Date: 15 Feb 1996 03:42:19 GMT Organization: insanely interactive systems, Canada Distribution: world Message-ID: <4fua2r$117@gypsy.iisys.com> Keywords: wanted developer 3.3 I'm looking to purchase NeXTStep 3.2 or 3.3 developer upgrade or full package. I already have NeXTStep 3.3 User but require the developer package in order to compile and run gcc (I don't do any NeXT GUI based development). Send me your info and asking price with your location (US, Canada etc...) Don Guthrie
From: jburton@nwu.edu (Joshua W. Burton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: OmniWeb and NeXTStep 3.0 Date: 15 Feb 1996 05:21:22 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Message-ID: <4fufsi$pvo@news.acns.nwu.edu> References: <4ftb76$31l@maxwell.eppet.pt> jcnc@maxwell.eppet.pt (Joao Neves Cabral) wrote: > First let me apologize for my ignorance on NeXT related stuff. > I just aquired my first NeXT station Turbo Color, and I know very > few things of the NeXT world. Welcome to our eclectic little world. Better late than never! > My box has NeXTStep 3.0 and I just downloaded the beta OmniWeb 2.0 for > NeXT architechtures. When I try to run it the icon disapears after a > few seconds. I've tried to launch it from UNIX and I get a message > saying that an error ocurred with a shered library. This generally implies that the application was compiled with a newer version of the operating system. NeXT keeps backward compatibility by supplying old shlibs with each new release, but the forward compatibility (even between minor releases) is hopeless. And the new features (in this case, EOF) are so attractive to programmers that incompatible software begins appearing almost at once after a new release. Such is life. > So, my questions are: > > - Should OmniWeb 2.0 run on my system, or do I need a higher > version of NeXTStep ? OmniWeb 1.0 runs fine on 3.2 without /usr/shlib/libFoundation_s.E.shlib, but OmniWeb 2.0, SpiderWoman, and some other recent apps require it. There are several legal ways to come by a copy of this shared library, of which the easiest is upgrading to NS 3.3. Many apps that run on 3.2 will also run on 3.0, if you strip out multiple-architecture support, which 3.0 does not understand. There is a command-line utility called 'jenny' on the FTP sites that will do this for you. Getting things to run with a still earlier (2.x) version of NS is a losing proposition these days, although I survived that way until about 18 months ago, and older versions of most applications still exist. No graphical web browser works without at least 3.0, however. A better Mail.app and the Foundation class library are the main reasons to do 3.2 -> 3.3. Support of fat binaries, improved speed, and general stability are among the advantages of 3.0 -> 3.2. From your point of view, 3.1 is a buggy beta of 3.2. > - What are the existent higher versions of NeXTStep ? Should I upgrade > my system ? Is it worth ? If so, where can I buy a recent version of > the OS ? If you're entitled to an academic license, $300 will get you up to 3.3 in one stroke---I think it's worth it if you've paid for the machine in the first place. Licenses for 3.1 and 3.2 appear on the marketplace group with some regularity, and are often very good deals. Be advised that all later versions, unlike 3.0, are split into a User and Developer part. Lots of important stuff (including emacs and cc!) live on the Developer side, so you probably want to own both. Commercial prices have gone up steadily, and are now astronomical ($700+ User, and thousands for the Developer package), but sometimes used licenses go for the academic price or less. Good luck finding an upgrade! Mirrors have one limitation: you can't +-------------------------------+ Either by hook or by crook, | Joshua W Burton 847/677-3902 | Use them to see how you look when you aren't | jburton@nwu.edu | Looking to see how you look. -- Piet Hein +-------------------------------+
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: OmniWeb and NeXTStep 3.0 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 07:41:38 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Distribution: inet Message-ID: <1996Feb15.074138.2159@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <4ftb76$31l@maxwell.eppet.pt> In article <4ftb76$31l@maxwell.eppet.pt> jcnc@maxwell.eppet.pt (Joao Neves Cabral) writes: > My box has NeXTStep 3.0 and I just downloaded the beta OmniWeb 2.0 for > NeXT architechtures. When I try to run it the icon disapears after a > few seconds. I've tried to launch it from UNIX and I get a message > saying that an error ocurred with a shered library. > > So, my questions are: > > - Should OmniWeb 2.0 run on my system, or do I need a higher > version of NeXTStep ? OmniWeb 2.0 requires FoundationKit to run. To get this, you must have 3.2 of NeXTSTEP or better. > - What are the existent higher versions of NeXTStep ? Should I upgrade > my system ? Is it worth ? If so, where can I buy a recent version of > the OS ? It is probably worth upgrading to 3.3; there is a price to upgrade which is cheaper than buying a full new release (approx $225 for User, and $1200 for Developer). Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Solaris equivalent to WorkSpace Manager compression? Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 18:30:04 -0500 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960214182844.16117B-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <31225B2B.6C3A@imonics.com> On Wed, 14 Feb 1996, Bob Lunney - Imonics Development wrote: > Is there a Solaris equivalent to WorkSpace Manager file > compression? Alternately, is there a way to decompress a > .compressed file from a terminal session on a NeXT? > bob.lunney@imonics.com | #include <std_disclaimer.h> I believe that NeXT .compressed can be exchanged for .tar.Z (although for some small reason .tar.Z isn't exactly the same as .tar.Z) so the files can be renamed and unarchived as usual. TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> NeXTStep Swapfile and Swapdisk FAQ: send mail with subject 'send swapfaq' Other info-via-email available, send mail with subject 'send info' For information on PPP under NeXTStep <nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com>
From: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: .macros in NSFIP Date: 15 Feb 1996 09:35:33 GMT Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd. Message-ID: <4fuup5$a26@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <DMp9tA.rs@burgond.remcomp.fr> In article <DMp9tA.rs@burgond.remcomp.fr> pascal@burgond.remcomp.fr (Pascal Bourguignon) writes: > I have a .macros and .bindings setting that works perfectly on NS/Motorola, but > it won't work on NS/FIP. How could this happen? > I tried to swap some bytes in the .macros file (big/little endian-wise) without > result. > What is the exact format of the .macros file? Is there anything special to do > to make it work on NS/FIP? A .macros for Intel used to be in the FAQ. The instructions are: 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 ^Q prefix), into this file put: A^@^@^@^A^P B^@^@^@^A^N C^@^@^@^A^F D^@^@^@^A^B where ^@ means Control-@ and ^A means Control-A, etc. Also, don't put in the leading spaces. [From: Dick Silbar <silbar@cantina.lanl.gov>] On Intel machines these sequences are a little different: A^A^@^@^@^P B^A^@^@^@^N C^A^@^@^@^F D^A^@^@^@^B If anyone has worked these out for HP and SPARC, I'd like to know. Of course, the alternative suggestion is that csh is obsolete, and you should be using tcsh (or zsh, bash, etc). Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.co.uk Tel: (01494)432422 P & L Systems Fax: (01494)432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: Aristophanes <scribe@netcom.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems is buying Apple Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 02:10:03 +0000 Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <312295FB.15EF@netcom.ca> References: <RDL.96Feb3155717@world.std.com> <4f1vaq$cp5@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <1996Feb4.054449.73149@cc.usu.edu> <311FE7FF.651E@netcom.ca> <4ftq89$5sv@meaddata.lexis-nexis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Christopher C. Wood wrote: > > In article <311FE7FF.651E@netcom.ca>, Aristophanes <scribe@netcom.ca> writes: > |> Larry Denys wrote: > > |> > |> >Drop OS/2 and make MacOS run on Intel. > > |> > If Apple would have done this 3-4 years ago, they would probably > |> > have around 30-40% of the Intel market, or more. > > Apple _did_ do this 3 - 4 years ago, and couldn't get any hardware or > software vendors interested in it. May have something to do with > Microsoft's less-than-legal licensing practices... Look in a MacWeek > index for articles about "Star Trek". Some companies like Compaq went to Apple curious about licensing the MacOS, and Apple went to Acer in 1992. The problem was always that the Apple sales staff nixed these ideas due to fear of market enroachment. They complained that they could not take competition. also, Apple reportedly was asking 3-5x as much for the OS (without the ROM's or ASICS) as Microsoft was for DOS/Win 3.1. Apple's response was apparently "if you say no to this, you don't know what you're missing." As well, Apple imposed strict marketing conditions such as making licensees stay away from education and publishing markets and forcing them to focus on the low-end. The editor of one magazine says that Apple's licensing efforts make it look as if Apple wants all licensees to lose as much money on the low-end as Aple has, with no opportunity to recoup losses through more vertical or consolidated markets. Apple's smug greed has come back to haunt it. Delays to Win95 and Compaq's very public row with Intel created an opportunity that was missed, possibly forever.
From: neuss@sun39 (Christian Neuss) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Solaris equivalent to WorkSpace Manager compression? Date: 15 Feb 1996 13:23:14 GMT Organization: Fachbereich Informatik, TH Darmstadt, Deutschland Message-ID: <4fvc42$1f7i@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> References: <31225B2B.6C3A@imonics.com> Bob Lunney - Imonics Development (bob.lunney@imonics.com) wrote: : Is there a Solaris equivalent to WorkSpace Manager file : compression? Alternately, is there a way to decompress a : .compressed file from a terminal session on a NeXT? Of course, there's always "open file.compressed" :-) But you can simply zcat<file.compressed | tar -xfv - Compressed is simpy a different name for .tar.Z (with a nice GUI around it). Cheerio, Chris -- // Christian Neuss "I ride tandem with a random.." // neuss@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de // http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~neuss/ // +49 6151 16-3414 fax: -5472
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Windows on IDE and NS on SCSI, How? Date: 15 Feb 1996 15:20:16 GMT Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc. Message-ID: <4fvivg$irc@news.its.com> References: <4fehp9$7o0@nntpb.cb.att.com> <4fffgb$qu7@shellx.best.com> <4fqvb4$kmd@sunburst.ccs.yorku.ca> philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough) wrote: > Or simply use the neat OS-BS program. That way you don't need the 7 meg > partition. I used to have NS+win on IDE+SCSI, IDE+IDE, SCSI only, etc...In > fact the hardest situation was the one where you have 3 or more scsi > drives and try to fdisk them under NS! Where can one find this "OS-BS" booter? Thanks, -Chuck Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc. --------------------------------+--------------------------------------- CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: blazek@entropy2.stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: Disk for Cube Date: 15 Feb 1996 15:45:04 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <4fvke0$1edc@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Hi all, I have bought an internal disk for my cube (040 processor). The disk is Seagate ST51080N (1GB, Fast SCSI-2), but the cube doesn't want to accept it. The message from /etc/disk is that the boot sector cannot be found (written into). I tried write a disktab entry for the disk, didn't work either. So we exchanged the disk. The same result with the new one. I put an old 100MB disk inside the cube to see if the controller has a problem. The old disk (Fujitsu, originally from NeXTstation) works just fine. Now the questions are: 1. Am I doing something wrong? Somebody suggested to me that the disk might have problem with my cube's SCSI-1 controller. 2. Well, if that is the case, we would go for a different choice. The disk we are looking at are listed below. Do you have any experience regarding their compatibility with NeXT cube (040 processor)? Fujitsu FJ1606S Quantum QUFB1080S (Both 1GB, SCSI-2) Thank you very much, I appreciate any help. Rudy Blazek Dept. of Statistics and Prob. Michigan St. Univ. blazek@stt.msu.edu
From: Kjell.Lundesten@computer.se Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Renaming a DBModel file Date: 15 Feb 1996 16:16:13 GMT Organization: Telegate Se Message-ID: <4fvm8d$n9i@mozart.telegate.se> Keywords: DBKit, dbmodel Renaming a DBModel file. We have created a lot of instance connections from a dbmodel file in some nib files, using Interface Builder. Now we need to rename the actual dbmodel file to different name. Doing so will (I assume) loose the connections from DBTableViews etc. to the dbmodel file, since the actual name of the dbmodel file seems to be hard typed into the nib's binary file. How to rename a dbmodel file without loosing the instance connections. Any help is really appreciated. Yours sincerely, Kjell Lundesten Computer - NeXTcenter Kungstensgatan 14 S-113 57 Stockholm, Sweden Tel. +46 8 673 70 70 Mobile +46 70 715 80 60 Fax. +46 8 612 89 96 E-mail: Kjell.Lundesten@computer.se (NeXTmail, MIMEmail OK) -----------------------------------------------------------
From: lin@lorien.umd.edu (Lin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: OmniWeb and NeXTStep 3.0 Date: 16 Feb 1996 08:23:24 GMT Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Message-ID: <4g1ets$raq@hecate.umd.edu> References: <4ftb76$31l@maxwell.eppet.pt> <4fufsi$pvo@news.acns.nwu.edu> Joshua W. Burton (jburton@nwu.edu) wrote: : jcnc@maxwell.eppet.pt (Joao Neves Cabral) wrote: : > First let me apologize for my ignorance on NeXT related stuff. ..... : A better Mail.app and the Foundation class library are the main : reasons to do 3.2 -> 3.3. Support of fat binaries, improved speed, : and general stability are among the advantages of 3.0 -> 3.2. From : your point of view, 3.1 is a buggy beta of 3.2. But I read in the past that TranSys PNI will not work in 3.3. Now that the author of Transys PNI are not supporting this package anymore, there's no hope getting an upgrade that will work in 3.3.
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: PRINTER CARTRIDGE:WHAT KIND? Date: 16 Feb 1996 18:50:12 GMT Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Sender: reichman@comserv-d-14.usc.edu Message-ID: <4g2jl4$t69@usc.edu> References: <4g02fb$2jt@mark.ucdavis.edu> In <4g02fb$2jt@mark.ucdavis.edu> Operator wrote: > I have a NexT Laser printer and don't know > the number of the HP cartridge to buy to replace? HP LaserJet II and III cartridges are fine. So are compatible Apple catridges. Many stores have compatability lists. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@scf.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: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NextStep/OpenStep Support Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 06:33:04 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1996Feb18.063304.5460@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960216115314.28786F-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> In article <Pine.NXT.3.91.960216115314.28786F-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> writes: > On Thu, 15 Feb 1996, Bruce Montegani wrote: > > > Does anyone know whether NeXT is going to support applications written for > > Nextstep 3.3 or previous when OpenStep for Mach is released in June. The > > reason I am asking is that SafetyNet backup software will not be ported to > > OpenStep. > > If I understand your question, you want to know if you can use your > SafetyNet program under 4.0 without having to upgrade. That is my understanding also. > As I understand the answer is that it WILL (should?) work, although it > may look a little strange since 4.0 has a new GUI supposedly. I think that 4.0 should update the GUI on old apps to match any enhancements in frame and menu style. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Solaris equivalent to WorkSpace Manager compression? Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 06:35:31 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1996Feb18.063531.5525@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <1996Feb16.190651.1034@oasis.enmu.edu> In article <1996Feb16.190651.1034@oasis.enmu.edu> Jacob Gore <jacob.gore@math.enmu.edu> writes: > Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> writes > > NeXT's compressed files are gnutar.Z, so they'll handle long > > filenames better than regular tar.Z. So, you'd want to untar > > them using some recent version of gnu's tar. > > Are you sure it's compatible with gnu tar? They certainly don't use gnu tar > directly: > > jacob@blackbox> gnutar --version > GNU tar version 1.11.2 > jacob@blackbox> /NextAdmin/Installer.app/installer_tar --version > tar: e: unknown option We were talking about Workspace compressions, which seems as if it uses gnutar in 3.3. Installaer is something different. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: clkeele@honors.uoregon.edu (Clifford Keele) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: WANTED - NeXTStep 3.2 or 3.3 developer Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 23:41:25 -0800 Organization: UO Honors College Distribution: world Message-ID: <clkeele-1702962341250001@honors-labmac4.uoregon.edu> References: <4fua2r$117@gypsy.iisys.com> In article <4fua2r$117@gypsy.iisys.com>, dguthrie@iisys.com (Don Guthrie) wrote: > I'm looking to purchase NeXTStep 3.2 or 3.3 developer upgrade or full > package. > > I already have NeXTStep 3.3 User but require the developer package in order > to compile and run > gcc (I don't do any NeXT GUI based development). > > Send me your info and asking price with your location (US, Canada etc...) > > Don Guthrie If all you need is gcc, you might try getting it from ftp: next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/pub/next /pub/next/binaries/programming/gcc-2.6.0.tar.gz There is actually a lot of stuff on the machine. You should be able to find the necessary files to start with.
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Difficulties with "talk" Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 10:00:54 -0500 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960219095943.3046G-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4g78g4$49d@emf.emf.net> goto ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/wide-area-info/ and get a version of 'ytalk' that suits your hardware (running NeXTStep). That usually works. TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> NeXTStep Swapfile and Swapdisk FAQ: send mail with subject 'send swapfaq' Other info-via-email available, send mail with subject 'send info' For information on PPP under NeXTStep <nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com>
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet Date: 19 Feb 1996 05:15:12 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4g9110$6nk@digifix.digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Software, Inc. 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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Tricks of the Trade Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 19:31:38 -0500 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960219192739.820G-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII { submitted to: ftp://next-ftp.peak.edu/pub/next/submissions/tricks.1.0.gz } { should move to: ftp://next-ftp.peak.edu/pub/next/documents/tricks.1.0.gz } Author: Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Last Update: 18 Feb 1996 To Receive: send email with subject "ascii nexttricks" or ftp (see above) Version: 1.0.0 This is a compilation of various bits and pieces of information I've collected. Some of them I discovered, some were told to me by others. Where I remember the names of those who told me, I have cited them herein. These have been collected since 1992, so some of them may not work with all the versions of the OS. And of course, there's no guarantee that any of this will remain in OPENSTEP 4.0. All of these do work with NS 3.2 on NeXT hardware (what I have), unless noted. PLEASE: if you know of any other "tricks" or shortcuts which are not mentioned in this document, send them to me via email. I'll add them to future versions and cite your name which will be remembered for generations. Plus, you'll receive, at no extra charge, my gratitute. ALSO: I'm still on the hunt for those mystery/undocumented dwrites. I'll be submitting a list of those too soon. Stay tuned.... TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> NeXTStep Swapfile and Swapdisk FAQ: send mail with subject 'send swapfaq' Other info-via-email available, send mail with subject 'send info' For information on PPP under NeXTStep <nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com>
From: patricia@cco.caltech.edu (Patricia M. Schwarz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: HELP - init exited with 2, can't boot the NS partition Date: 20 Feb 1996 03:56:16 GMT Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Message-ID: <4gbgp0$o76@gap.cco.caltech.edu> I actually had to set up the HyperTerminal on Windows 95 to post this because the NeXTstep side of my P133 is no longer starting up. It starts to boot then stops after the kmDevice is registered and gives me init exited with 2 and hangs. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I AM NEXTLESS IN SIX YEARS :( :( :( :( Waahhhhh. I'm not ashamed to cry. Please help. :-) -a loyal community member PS I have no NeXTmail now, for obvious reasons. :-{ I'm not on any networks. I do have the Dial-Up Networking installed in the WinDoze side. -- there must be something i can dream tonight -patti smith
From: ronald@trace.com.tw (Ronald Wiplinger) Message-ID: <cancel.728708Au4639to52132@news.trace.com.tw> Control: cancel <728708Au4639to52132@news.trace.com.tw> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: cmsg cancel <728708Au4639to52132@news.trace.com.tw> Date: 20 Feb 1996 11:18:55 GMT Cancelled by jem@xpat.com. 824815135 NEWYEAR Original Subject was: *+* Happy New Lunar Year *+*
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: Fabien_Roy@free.fdn.org Subject: Re: Help: Disk for Cube Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Message-ID: <1996Feb20.095504.20867@free.fdn.org> Sender: news@free.fdn.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: Fabien Roy Consultant, Paris, France References: <9602161445.AA03268@conextions.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 09:55:04 GMT Asynchronous bus transfers are MANDATORY in the SCSI specs which are covered by the ANSI standard. So if it is true the IBM Deskstar supports only synchronous SCSI bus transfers I think that you could sue IBM for refering to the SCSI standard. However the real problem on the black hardware is on supporting *TARGET INITIATED SYNC NEGTIATION* which on most drives is an option which can be turn off by a jumper or a modeselect command. Also there is an other option problem on black: support for TAGGED COMMAND QUEUING (which I don‚t remember if it‚s supported or not). Hope that helps. Fabien Annard Brouwer <abrouwer@conextions.com> wrote: > blazek@entropy2.stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) wrote on 15 Feb 1996 > 15:45:04 GMT: > > I have bought an internal disk for my cube (040 processor). The > > disk is > > Seagate ST51080N (1GB, Fast SCSI-2), but the cube doesn't want to > > accept it. The message from /etc/disk is that the boot sector cannot > > be found (written into). > > > > This is a problem with NeXT's black scsi driver. I had the same problem > with an IBM Deskstar. I called IBM tech-support and they told me that > their new drives only support synchronous SCSI bus transfers and this is > not supported by the OS on black hardware. When I hooked the drive to > an Intel box it worked without any problems. > So anybody with black hardware please inquire when you're planning to > buy a new harddisk if it can support asynchronous bus transfers. > > Good luck, > Annard > --- > Annard Brouwer, Software Engineer > Advanced Engineering Center Conextions, Inc. > North Andover, MA > Only I am responsible for what I've said... -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Fabien_Roy@free.fdn.org (NextMail/MIME accepted) Fabien Roy Consultant NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/EOF Consultant, SYBASE DBA 10 rue de la DEFENSE 93100 MONTREUIL, France Tel: 33 1 45 28 32 23 Fax: 33 1 48 55 09 90
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NextStep/OpenStep Support Date: 20 Feb 1996 10:12:36 GMT Organization: Academic Computing Services, Sheffield University Message-ID: <4gc6qk$b1k@bignews.shef.ac.uk> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960216115314.28786F-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <1996Feb18.063304.5460@seer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1996Feb18.063304.5460@seer.demon.co.uk> On 02/18/96, Paul Lynch wrote: > > As I understand the answer is that it WILL (should?) work, although > > it may look a little strange since 4.0 has a new GUI supposedly. > > > I think that 4.0 should update the GUI on old apps to match any > enhancements in frame and menu style. > Hmm, I've wondered about this... Maybe Paul knows better (this is usually the case! :-) but I got the clear impression as of a couple of months ago that there would be a distinct difference between the looks of pre-4.0 and 4.0 apps (libraries would be provided to support 3.x apps, giving them their "traditional" look and feel). This was, however, before the rumoured dropping of a whole new UI for 4.0, so maybe circumstances have changed? It'd be good to know: this was one aspect of 4.0 I thought had been badly planned... (maybe it's been possible to rewrite the 3.x libraries to give the new look -- if there is one?) Best wishes, mmalc. --
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: How to create miniature image??? Date: 20 Feb 1996 10:15:23 GMT Organization: Academic Computing Services, Sheffield University Message-ID: <4gc6vr$b49@bignews.shef.ac.uk> References: <4g7084$coa@news.ccit.arizona.edu> In-Reply-To: <4g7084$coa@news.ccit.arizona.edu> On 02/18/96, Ruei-wun Tu wrote: > I surf to GSCorp's home page and found that they have some very > clear(Well...I don't know how to exactly describe that) miniature screen > shot. Does anyone know how to make that? > Check out GifOMatic 1.1, recently uploaded. This now supports a wide range of filtering, and for most purposes is all you need for converting TIFFs to GIFs for the Web. Many, many thanks to ipc and Stefan Seel for this. Best wishes, mmalc. --
From: marcelor@acs.bu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Fortran M (Anyone got it working on White ?) Date: 20 Feb 1996 18:24:11 GMT Organization: Boston University Message-ID: <4gd3kb$ec9@news.bu.edu> Hello, I am interested on Fortran M (http://www.mcs.anl.gov/fortran-m .) The installation instructions mention that it can be compiled for White but the makefiles and such do not seem to ( at least not the sources from the site that I got it from. ) On another vein, has anyone gotten G77 to work on that same platfom ? Also would like to hear any positive/negative comments on Absoft's FORTRAN compiler. Thanks, Marcelo
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Fax Cover Pages Date: 20 Feb 1996 19:05:42 GMT Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Sender: reichman@comserv-i-52.usc.edu Message-ID: <4gd626$dig@usc.edu> References: <4gd48p$1d51@msunews.cl.msu.edu> In <4gd48p$1d51@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <NO AUTHOR> wrote: > Howdy, > I am running NS 3.2 on black HW. I have put a file Cover.draw into > ~/Library/Fax so I have a custom cover sheet for my outgoing faxes. > The question is the following. On the FAX panel there is "Edit Cover" > button. When I click that, I can get into a panel where I can add a comment > to the cover sheet. I can also see a selector for selecting various cover > sheetts. So: Where do I put the files in order to be able to select from a > bunch of cover pages? > I looked everywhere but couldn't find it. Same place as Cover.draw. Just name them something besides "Cover". That's all. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@scf.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/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Subject: Re: Changing path to man pages In-Reply-To: blazek@stt.msu.edu's message of 20 Feb 1996 18:37:52 GMT Message-ID: <RDL.96Feb20195820@world.std.com> Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <4gd4e0$1d51@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 00:58:20 GMT Try: setenv MANPATH=/usr/local/man:/usr/man Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant Boston, MA Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Fax Cover Pages Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 22:53:26 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1996Feb20.225326.2143@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <4gd48p$1d51@msunews.cl.msu.edu> In article <4gd48p$1d51@msunews.cl.msu.edu> blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) writes: > Howdy, > I am running NS 3.2 on black HW. I have put a file Cover.draw into > ~/Library/Fax so I have a custom cover sheet for my outgoing faxes. > The question is the following. On the FAX panel there is "Edit Cover" > button. When I click that, I can get into a panel where I can add a comment > to the cover sheet. I can also see a selector for selecting various cover > sheetts. So: Where do I put the files in order to be able to select from a > bunch of cover pages? > I looked everywhere but couldn't find it. Put a .draw file in any of /NextLibrary/Fax/English.lproj, /LocalLibrary/Fax or ~/Library/Fax. The name you give the draw file will be added to the popup. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: deniseh@shellx.best.com (Denise Howard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Changing path to man pages Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 20 Feb 1996 18:42:59 -0800 Organization: Best Internet Communications Message-ID: <4ge0rj$o8s@shellx.best.com> References: <4gd4e0$1d51@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Rudolf B. Blazek (blazek@stt.msu.edu) wrote: : Hi all, : I am running NS 3.2 on black HW. I tried to change the path to my new : man pages, but wihout success (e.g /usr/local/man... or ~/Unix/man...). Not : even the -M option for man worked for me. : Am I doing something silly or is there a problem with 'man' under NS : 3.2? Don't forget to run catman with the -M option; perhaps you were confusing this with man -M? Denise -- Denise Howard | PROGRAM, tr. v., An activity similar to Mountain View, CA | banging one's head against a wall, but deniseh@best.com | with fewer opportunities for reward. NeXTMail welcome! | http://www.best.com/~deniseh
From: <Jeffrey Maxwell@NULL> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Password protected NextStation Date: 21 Feb 1996 04:09:24 GMT Organization: CompuServe Incorporated Message-ID: <4ge5tk$nab@dub-news-svc-1.compuserve.com> Content-Type: text/plain Keywords: Password Content-length: 0
From: <Jeffrey Maxwell@NULL> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Password protected NextStation Date: 21 Feb 1996 04:18:50 GMT Organization: CompuServe Incorporated Message-ID: <4ge6fa$nab@dub-news-svc-1.compuserve.com> Content-Type: text/plain Keywords: Password Content-length: 587 To any with information on clearing a password protected workstation. I bought the workstation through my employer (Providnce Health Systems) during a recent warehouse sale. Unaware of its condition, it had no memory. Once I resolved this issue, I discovered it had been password protected prior to removing. None of the examples from the operating manual worked. I'm new to the Unix and Next operating systems, so any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm asking for any assistance someone has to offer. I can be reach via email at Jeffrey_Maxwell@ccmgate.phsor.org Thanks.
From: xinwei@leland.stanford.edu (Sha Xin Wei) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: EPS (Encapsulated Postscript) Date: 21 Feb 1996 02:36:42 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <4ge0fq$ar1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> References: <3117A17B.73EB@sasknet.sk.ca> Hello, How can I create an EPS (Encapsulated Postscript) file from a ps or tiff file under NeXTSTEP 3.3? Please respond directly to me by email: xinwei@leland.stanford.edu thanks! Xin Wei
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: fuguen@paris.fdn.fr (Francois UGUEN) Subject: Re: Looking for a Virtual Desktop app. Message-ID: <Dn4GA2.M6@paris.fdn.fr> Sender: news@paris.fdn.fr Organization: Individual - PARIS - Francois UGUEN References: <4gd0sm$ec9@news.bu.edu> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 10:39:38 GMT In <4gd0sm$ec9@news.bu.edu> marcelor@acs.bu.edu wrote: > I am searching for an application that will let me extend my desktop > so that I can pan through a larger window. I have seen a few references > to such an app, every once in a while, but have never been able to locate > one in the usual ftp sites. Any leads much appreciated. > M.R Try TopDesk 1.01 from http://www-scope.imag.fr/~arrouye/ -- Francois Uguen NeXT-mail : fuguen@paris.fdn.fr
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: File synchronization Linux/Next ? Date: 22 Feb 1996 07:33:49 -0500 Organization: PHCS Message-ID: <4ghnrd$761@papoose.quick.com> References: <4ggbbt$qpu@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> In article <4ggbbt$qpu@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>, Ivo Welch <ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu> wrote: (munch) >However, I need a package to "synchronize" two directory structures (i.e. >replace older with newer files, and make sure that alterations on files on >both machines are recognized). Is there a good generic unix-based utility >that works on both systems? Try rdist(1). It will enable you to synchronise sets of directory trees among groups of hosts. One drawback is that it cannot do compression to reduce network bandwidth, but it's there and it's free. -- ___ ___ | James E. Quick jq@quick.com / / / | Private HealthCare Systems NeXTMail O.K. \_/ (_\/ | Systems Integration Group (617) 895-3343 ) | - My other car has a mouse.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: Fabien_Roy@free.fdn.org Subject: Re: How to create miniature image??? Message-ID: <1996Feb22.080746.1848@free.fdn.org> Sender: news@free.fdn.org Organization: Fabien Roy Consultant, Paris, France References: <4g7084$coa@news.ccit.arizona.edu> <4g7p9c$8en@shellx.best.com> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 08:07:46 GMT cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher A. Wolf) wrote: > Check out Zoom.app version 3.0. It does an excellent job of image scaling. > Should be available from most of the major NeXT archive sites. > > -- > Christopher Wolf - WolfWare - cwolf@wolfware.com (NeXTmail & MIME accepted) > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > NewsFlash Version 2 - a threaded NeXTSTEP Usenet newsreader - > is now available. Visit http://www.wolfware.com for details! > I could not find it with Archie :-( Could you post the adress of the archive. Thanks Fabien -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Fabien_Roy@free.fdn.org (NextMail/MIME accepted) Fabien Roy Consultant NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/EOF Consultant, SYBASE DBA 10 rue de la DEFENSE 93100 MONTREUIL, France Tel: 33 1 45 28 32 23 Fax: 33 1 48 55 09 90
Newsgroups: comp.emulators.misc,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software From: ian.stephenson@insignia.co.uk Subject: RELEASE: Owl1.0 - BBC emulator Message-ID: <Dn6JH8.6n4@isltd.insignia.com> Sender: news@isltd.insignia.com Organization: Insignia Solutions plc Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 13:43:56 GMT Owl A BBC Emulator for NeXTStep Release1.0 Owl emulates an Acorn BBC Micro, model B(ish). It includes almost complete emulation of the hi-res video modes,teletext, 6522via's and the keyboard. A simple read-only file system is also provided. It can more or less run a number of arcade games, at almost full speed (on my machine - your millage may vary). I've just uploaded version1.0 to pitcher.peak.org. This release is a vast improvement on 0.1, and should work on all (NeXT! - don't ask me for a DOS version!) hardware platforms. Software to run on the emulator may obtained from http://www.idt.unit.no/~robert/bbc/bbc.html. Ian
From: tralala@cam.org Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Fax Cover Pages Date: 22 Feb 1996 22:46:37 GMT Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada Message-ID: <4girod$58l@tandem.CAM.ORG> References: <4gd48p$1d51@msunews.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <4gd48p$1d51@msunews.cl.msu.edu> On 02/20/96, Rudolf B. Blazek wrote: >Howdy, > I am running NS 3.2 on black HW. I have put a file Cover.draw into >~/Library/Fax so I have a custom cover sheet for my outgoing faxes. > The question is the following. On the FAX panel there is "Edit Cover" >button. When I click that, I can get into a panel where I can add a comment >to the cover sheet. I can also see a selector for selecting various cover >sheetts. So: Where do I put the files in order to be able to select from a >bunch of cover pages? > I looked everywhere but couldn't find it. > > >Thanks a lot, have a nice day. > > >Rudy Blazek >blazek@stt.msu.edu > Put your different cover pages in /NextLibrary/Fax/language.lpro/your_files.draw (where language.lproj is either English.lproj or French.lproj or German.lproj, etc.) -Andre
From: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher A. Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: How to create miniature image??? Date: 23 Feb 1996 07:45:02 GMT Organization: WolfWare (http://www.wolfware.com) Message-ID: <4gjr9u$5a2@shellx.best.com> References: <4g7084$coa@news.ccit.arizona.edu> <4g7p9c$8en@shellx.best.com> <1996Feb22.080746.1848@free.fdn.org> In-Reply-To: <1996Feb22.080746.1848@free.fdn.org> On 02/21/96, Fabien_Roy@free.fdn.org wrote: >cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher A. Wolf) wrote: >> Check out Zoom.app version 3.0. It does an excellent job of image scaling. >> Should be available from most of the major NeXT archive sites. >I could not find it with Archie :-( >Could you post the adress of the archive. Currently at: ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/0/Zoom.3.0.NIHS.b.t ar.gz or one of the equivalent mirror sites. -- Christopher Wolf - WolfWare - cwolf@wolfware.com (NeXTmail & MIME accepted) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsFlash Version 2 - a threaded NeXTSTEP Usenet newsreader - is now available. Visit http://www.wolfware.com for details!
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NS/FIP User 3.3 & NS/FIP Developer 3.1 together? Date: 22 Feb 1996 21:25:45 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <4gin0p$e2a@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <4ggu7t$58m@uwm.edu> burback@alumni.cs.uwm.edu (Daniel M Burback) wrote: > Is it possible to use NS/FIP 3.3 User with the NS/FIP 3.1 > Developer package? I know that its an odd combination, > but I am just curious... No, it is not possible. You can use NS-3.2 developer with NS-3.3 user, but not NS-3.1 developer. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: How to create miniature image??? Date: 23 Feb 1996 13:01:17 GMT Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria Message-ID: <4gkdqt$pd@news.tuwien.ac.at> References: <4g7084$coa@news.ccit.arizona.edu> <4g7p9c$8en@shellx.best.com> On 02/18/96, Ruei-wun Tu wrote > >To be more specifically, for example, if you have a large size screen shot >and you want to put it on your Web site, you simply don't want it to fill >out the entire page. Then, what you could do may be just minimize the size >of the image. After you shrink the image, you might see an blurred picture >and everything seems messing together. I just don't know what kind of tool >can shrink a large scale image and still keep it clear. If you feed your scaled-down images through a sharpen-filter, it improves the visual quality of the images. In WetPaint you can use the following filters to get an adequate sharpening effect: Matrix - Average / Add / Laplace 3x3 or 5x5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Robert F. Tobler - tel:+43(1)58801-4585,fax:5874932 Institute of Computer Graphics - mailto:rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at Vienna University of Technology - http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~rft ------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: soren@zeus.datashopper.dk (Soren Mathiasen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: GUS drvier Date: 23 Feb 1996 13:47:15 +0100 Organization: DataShopper Danmark, Copenhagen, Denmark Message-ID: <+sSLxcm0fB4U089yn@zeus.datashopper.dk> Hello.... Are there someone who has a GravisUltraSound Driver for NeXTSTEP Intel 3.3 Thanks ...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: senip@j51.com (Greg Stritmater) Subject: Re: GUS drvier Organization: TZ-Link Internet: Our System Can Kick Your System's Ass Message-ID: <Dn8HoE.I16@news2.new-york.net> References: <+sSLxcm0fB4U089yn@zeus.datashopper.dk> Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 15:00:14 GMT In article <+sSLxcm0fB4U089yn@zeus.datashopper.dk>, Soren Mathiasen wrote: > >Hello.... > >Are there someone who has a GravisUltraSound Driver for NeXTSTEP Intel 3.3 > >Thanks ... > God, I only wish! I really hope that someone is working on one (NeXT!!) Well, I can dream i guess :) Btw, does anyone have any info on NS 4.0? My main wish for that would be a nice PPP stack built-in ala Win95. That has been the only thing that I've had any trouble with. (well execpt my cdrom, but that's not supported :) ) Greg --
From: sl@skynet.oph.rwth-aachen.de (Stefan Leuker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help for X11 for NeXT Date: 23 Feb 1996 13:22:45 GMT Organization: RWTH -Aachen / Rechnerbetrieb Informatik Message-ID: <4gkf35$36h@news.rwth-aachen.de> References: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960212113919.7794A-100000@paros.caspur.it> Copyright: This message is Copyright (C) 1996 by Stefan Leuker Lorenzo Stella <stella@paros.caspur.it> wrote: <DEL> >=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > Lorenzo Stella Get a better signature! Try http://www-users.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~leuker/Xnext/ Xnext is a shareware X11R6 system. Stefan
From: maxadam@usa.pipeline.com(maxadam) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: ascii nexttricks Date: 23 Feb 1996 19:02:38 GMT Organization: Pipeline USA Message-ID: <4gl30e$1t7@news1.usa.pipeline.com> please send tricks --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: jpanico@netcom.com (Joe Panico) Subject: TApe drives under NS 3.3 Intel. Message-ID: <jpanicoDn907A.Jtw@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 21:40:22 GMT Sender: jpanico@netcom11.netcom.com Hi, The only mention of tape drives I can find in NextAnswers is: General Overview notes: This is a SCSI Tape peripheral driver. It supports most SCSI tape drives that use the generic SCSI command set for Tape Devices. A SCSI Host Adapter and associated NEXTSTEP driver are required in order to use this driver Are any of the non-SCSI tape drives supported? Which SCSI tape drives are known to work? Are there any price $500 or less? Thanks for any info. -- Joe Panico NeXTStep/OpenStep Developer BLaCKSMITH Inc. jpanico@netcom.com /* Please no NeXTMail, I can't read it at this address */
From: stimpy@sojourn1.sojourn.com (gcl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: GUS drvier Date: 23 Feb 1996 23:38:59 GMT Organization: Sojourn Systems. Lansing, MI (USA) Message-ID: <4glj6j$53t@tkhut.sojourn.com> References: <+sSLxcm0fB4U089yn@zeus.datashopper.dk> Soren Mathiasen (soren@zeus.datashopper.dk) wrote: : Hello.... : Are there someone who has a GravisUltraSound Driver for NeXTSTEP Intel 3.3 : Thanks ... No, but the MediaTrix AudioTrix Pro uses Wav tables and FM synth, and has an OPL4 Yamaha chip... check out the MediaTrix web site... get the free Demo CD (I got mine and it's cool...) It is NeXTstep compatible, using the Microsoft Sound System Drivers. Gary -- ________________________________________________________________ gcl@sojourn.com NeXTmail/LipService is prefered Founder: The NeXTstep for Intel Processors HomeBrew Mailing List Owner: Network with a NeXT '040 Cube #4173 running NeXTstep v3.3 and a Intel i486dx2-66 running NeXTstep for Intel v3.3 _________________________________________________________________
From: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher A. Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: TApe drives under NS 3.3 Intel. Date: 24 Feb 1996 05:21:36 GMT Organization: WolfWare (http://www.wolfware.com) Message-ID: <4gm790$r5m@shellx.best.com> References: <jpanicoDn907A.Jtw@netcom.com> In-Reply-To: <jpanicoDn907A.Jtw@netcom.com> On 02/23/96, Joe Panico wrote: >Hi, > >The only mention of tape drives I can find in NextAnswers is: > >Are any of the non-SCSI tape drives supported? > No. >Which SCSI tape drives are known to work? I haven't heard of any in particular which don't work but I also haven't been keeping track in particular. >Are there any price $500 or less? Check out JEM Computers at http://www.jemcomputers.com/biz/bargains. They occasionall have great deals on factory refurbed Archive DAT drives. I bought oine from them about 3 years ago and it's been working great ever since. Here's some prices from their most recent mailing: $469 Archive 4350XP Ext SCSI-2, 4mm DAT, 2g, 11MB/min $499 Archive 4522 Int SCSI-2, 4mm DAT, 2-4g, 22MB/min $569 Archive 4352XP Ext SCSI-2, 4mm DAT, 2-4g, 22MB/min $699 Conner 4584NP Int SCSI-2, 4mm DAT w/4 tape autoloader, 8-16g, 22MB/min $100 12 cassette magazine (up to 48gb) for above drive -- Christopher Wolf - WolfWare - cwolf@wolfware.com (NeXTmail & MIME accepted) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsFlash Version 2 - a threaded NeXTSTEP Usenet newsreader - is now available. Visit http://www.wolfware.com for details!
Date: 24 Feb 1996 11:17:23 GMT From: left@www4.clever.net (EXPERT SPORTS) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Message-ID: <cancel.4gmj0n$19a5@hearst.cac.psu.edu> Control: cancel <4gmj0n$19a5@hearst.cac.psu.edu> Subject: cmsg cancel <4gmj0n$19a5@hearst.cac.psu.edu> EMP/ECP (aka SPAM) cancelled by jem@xpat.com. See news.admin.net-abuse.announce, report 19960224.04 for further details
From: strebel2@rihm.mpibpc.gwdg.de (Stephan Trebels ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Preferrable X server for NeXTSTEP Date: 24 Feb 1996 15:01:40 GMT Organization: GWDG, Goettingen Message-ID: <STREBEL2.96Feb24160140@rihm.mpibpc.gwdg.de> Hi, I'd like to know, which X server is considered to be the best choice, up to now. (Commercial is ok, if it has some educational discount). I know MouseX, but Xfe crashes much too often, so this is no longer an option. I tried the demos of co-Xist and cubx, but I wanted to know about the everyday limitations of these two products. Also I'd like to know the academic pricing of cubx, they never answered the email... Thanks, Stephan -- Task: System Administration Unix (HP-UX, Linux, FreeBSD) Email: Stephan Trebels <strebel2@cage.mpibpc.gwdg.de> Mail: Abt. 081, MPI bpC, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany Tel: +49 551 201 1 454
From: David Pascua <pascua+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.psion Subject: Psion S3a <--> NeXT Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 16:30:39 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <QlBAZzu00YWn42Oo0z@andrew.cmu.edu> Hello all, I'm trying to connect my Psion S3a to my Color NeXTStation and I have a some questions about the physical cabling. I know that I need a special NeXT serial cable to hook up my NeXT to a modem. I also need Psion's 3Link serial cable to hook up my S3a to a PC or Mac. So the question is, do I need to use both cables to make the connection? The 3Link has a 9-pin connector, but the NeXT cable has a 25-pin connector. Is there a generic serial 25-to-9 pin converter that I can purchase? From where? Or maybe I don't use the NeXT cable and get a converter to connect the 3Link straight into the round serial connector on the NeXTStation? Please help!!!!! -Dave PS I guess the another option is to sell the NeXTStation and buy a PC that will run NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP...
From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-bat.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NS/HP 4.0: You are pissed off!? Date: 28 Feb 1996 12:49:51 GMT Organization: The University of York, UK Message-ID: <4h1j1f$pmh@netty.york.ac.uk> References: <4guq3g$kil@stern.fokus.gmd.de> fischer@fokus.gmd.de (Robert Fischer) writes: > This moment I got my Openstep 4.0 prerelease 2 package. It's for NeXT, Intel > and Sparc, but nothing for HP! yeah, it s a shame - but look on the birhgt side, it gives the lie to all those rumours that 4.0 wouldn't support black hardware... even if HP is missing. I would guess an HP port is somewhat mopre difficult given my experiences of trying to get code which works fine everywhere else to run. -bat.
From: sumner@tiac.net (Sumner Paine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Steve Jobs' email address? Date: 26 Feb 1996 02:47:56 GMT Organization: The Internet Access Company Message-ID: <sumner-2502962151550001@sumner.tiac.net> Does anyone know Steve Jobs' email address? (I want to quote him in a research paper). If you know, please email me at sumner@tiac.net. Thanks, Sumner
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Fax Cover Pages Date: 25 Feb 1996 00:31:09 GMT Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Sender: reichman@comserv-g-22.usc.edu Message-ID: <4goakd$okc@usc.edu> References: <4girod$58l@tandem.CAM.ORG> <4go9r7$tp8@gidora.kralizec.net.au> In <4go9r7$tp8@gidora.kralizec.net.au> Greg Shaw wrote: > I actually prefer not to put anything into /Next... as this is what I > consider for the use of the system alone and not for installation specific > files like cover sheets. The location I think you are looking for is > /LocalLibrary/Fax. I use this successfully, I do not know why > ~/Library/Fax does not work. It should. I'd further suggest that personal fax covers should be placed in ~/Library/Fax and only say standard business cover sheets should be placed in /LocalLibrary/Fax since that is where shared libraries reside. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@scf.usc.edu USC-CNTV NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome =============================================================== PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP" --------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
From: patricia@cco.caltech.edu (Patricia M. Schwarz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: No Sound on DOS partition Date: 25 Feb 1996 23:58:39 GMT Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Message-ID: <4gqt3f$lh6@gap.cco.caltech.edu> I have the SoundBlaster16 driver running whatever card OpenSource uses and it works now on the NeXT half of my life :-) It's at IRQ 10 with DMA channels 1 and 5. But Windows 95 keeps giving me errors when I try to install any of their drivers. The one that self-installed insists that I use IRQ 7 and DMA 1. And it never worked anyway. Is there some fundamental incompatibility here? The NS parallel port wants very much to have IRQ 7. Could I duck this problem by putting in a Soundblaster PnP board in some other slot and make Windows95 use that? I'll be grateful for any wisdom here. Thank you, -patricia -- there must be something i can dream tonight -patti smith
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Searching through Vast Archives (should I use DL?) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 13:01:32 -0500 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960228125711.24553D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I've got archives of all the posts from all the (NeXT) newsgroups from 1989-1993, each year in its own folder and each post in its own file (ASCII). I want to search through and find references to various topics (ie 'dwrite', 'swapfile', 'swapdisk' etc) but don't know how to do this most effectively. Usually I would use 'grep' or some other commandline/UNIX means, but they have all failed with 'line too long' or similar. Does anyone have a suggestion on the best way to do this? I've thought about using Digital Librarian, but I've never made my own indexes (yes I know it should be 'indecies' but I don't like that formation) with DL before, and am not sure how to go about it. Any help welcome. Thanks TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> NeXT Info Available via email on: PPP under NeXTStep, swapfiles, swapdisks, hidden dwrites, NeXTStep tricks and shortcuts, NeXTStep FAQ, and more... For details, send message with subject 'send info'
From: Sandeep Kochhar <kochhar@watson.ibm.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: telnet to outside firewall? Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 11:05:14 -0500 Organization: IBM T.J.Watson Research Center Message-ID: <3131DA3A.15FB@watson.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm using PPP 2.2 on my Nextstation at home (NS 3.2) to dial into my LAN at work. I can telnet to any machine inside the firewall (so name resolution is OK), but I can't telnet to machines outside the firewall. What's the procedure to configure the NeXT to use the firewall machine as a gateway? (I looked at HostManager, but it didn't seem to offer much.) thanks. -- ---------------------------- Sandeep Kochhar IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Tel: 914-945-2150, Fax: 914-945-3242 P.O. Box 218 (Rte 134) Email: kochhar@watson.ibm.com Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 http://www.research.ibm.com/people/k/kochhar
From: Dirk Koeppen <dirk@incom.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,de.comp.sys.next Subject: Modem does not pass 8 bits with new serial driver 3.33 Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 19:00:13 +0100 Organization: Dirk Koeppen EDV-Beratungs-GmbH Message-ID: <3135E9AD.5443@incom.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: dirk@incom.de Hi, I changed to the latest serial driver (3.33), the port server (3.33) and the mouse driver (3.33) which are working fine except one thing. When somebody logs in over the modem, the "login:" is displayed as specified in /etc/gettytab: NXFaxB:dx:zp:p8:im=NeXT Mach (%h) (%t)\r\n:sp#38400: But the "Password:" prompt can not be seen as the parity is changed. It looks like the 8th bit is not passed. This problem immediatly disappears, when I switch back to the old drivers. Does somebody have a solution how to use the new drivers with 8 bit and no parity ? Thanks, dirk -- Dirk Koeppen EDV-Beratungs-GmbH Holzwiesenweg 22, D-63073 Offenbach, Germany Phone: +49 69 893000 Fax: +49 69 893004 http://www.incom.de/incom/ 1024/CF1B8A9D 1996/02/20 Dirk Koeppen <dirk@incom.de>
From: mpaque@aol.com (Mpaque) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Librarian: Why does a fully indexed target go through file-by-file look? Date: 28 Feb 1996 14:23:43 -0500 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <4h2a3v$stb@newsbf02.news.aol.com> References: <4gvg02$s52@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> In article <4gvg02$s52@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>, ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) writes: >I have fully indexed about 7MB of various news article. There is a "I" >next to the target. Yet, when I click to search, it takes a very long time >and I can see zillions of filenames whizzing by, as if it were not indexed >at all. Any ideas? The default indices built by Digital Librarian are not static. After checking the index, the files are also examined to see if additional hits can be found. You can avoid this behavior by building a static index, using 'ixbuild -s'. The -s flag to ixbuild forces it to build a static index. Where you have collections of data that may change periodically (e.g., net news), but still prefer the static index, you might want to look into setting up an entry in /etc/crontab.local to periodically re-index your collections. Mike Paquette -- I don't speak for NeXT Software, Inc., and they don't speak for me. mpaque@pbinet.com NeXTMail OK mpaque@aol.com (old address) ASCII only please "Hacking fine code for over 20 years."
From: jburton@nwu.edu (Joshua W. Burton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Librarian: Why does a fully indexed target go through file-by-file look? Date: 28 Feb 1996 22:45:45 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Message-ID: <4h2lup$iok@news.acns.nwu.edu> References: <4gvg02$s52@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> <4h2a3v$stb@newsbf02.news.aol.com> mpaque@aol.com (Mpaque) wrote: > In article <4gvg02$s52@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>, ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu > (Ivo Welch) writes: > > >I have fully indexed about 7MB of various news article. There > >is a "I" next to the target. Yet, when I click to search, it > >takes a very long time and I can see zillions of filenames > >whizzing by, as if it were not indexed at all. Any ideas? > > The default indices built by Digital Librarian are not static. > After checking the index, the files are also examined to see if > additional hits can be found. I already asked this in c.s.n.software, but since I didn't learn the answer, and since a related thread is going on here.... How do you get ixbuild to descend into .mbox directories when building a static index? I've RTFM F&B, but I still can't figure out where it looks up the file type "mbox" and decides to skip it completely. I've even tried searching the binary for the string "mbox": nothing. Has anyone indexed their mailboxes? I tried to draw my own |==================================================== shadow, but the right arm | Joshua W. Burton (847)677-3902 jburton@nwu.edu wouldn't hold still. |====================================================
From: gshaw@zeta.org.au (Greg Shaw) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Fax Cover Pages Date: 25 Feb 1996 00:17:43 GMT Organization: Kralizec Dialup Internet Sydney, +61-2-837-1183 V.32bis Message-ID: <4go9r7$tp8@gidora.kralizec.net.au> References: <4girod$58l@tandem.CAM.ORG> In article <4girod$58l@tandem.CAM.ORG> tralala@cam.org writes: > On 02/20/96, Rudolf B. Blazek wrote: > >Howdy, > > I am running NS 3.2 on black HW. I have put a file > Cover.draw into > >~/Library/Fax so I have a custom cover sheet for my outgoing > faxes. > > The question is the following. On the FAX panel there is > "Edit Cover" > >button. When I click that, I can get into a panel where I can > add a comment > >to the cover sheet. I can also see a selector for selecting > various cover > >sheetts. So: Where do I put the files in order to be able to > select from a > >bunch of cover pages? > > I looked everywhere but couldn't find it. > > > > > >Thanks a lot, have a nice day. > > > > > >Rudy Blazek > >blazek@stt.msu.edu > > > > Put your different cover pages in > /NextLibrary/Fax/language.lpro/your_files.draw > > (where language.lproj is either English.lproj or French.lproj or > German.lproj, etc.) > > -Andre I actually prefer not to put anything into /Next... as this is what I consider for the use of the system alone and not for installation specific files like cover sheets. The location I think you are looking for is /LocalLibrary/Fax. I use this successfully, I do not know why ~/Library/Fax does not work. It should. Cheers, Greg Shaw.
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Librarian: Why does a fully indexed target go through file-by-file look? Date: 29 Feb 1996 00:36:43 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: world Message-ID: <4h2ser$4a@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <4h2lup$iok@news.acns.nwu.edu> In article <4h2lup$iok@news.acns.nwu.edu> jburton@nwu.edu (Joshua W. Burton) writes: >mpaque@aol.com (Mpaque) wrote: >> In article <4gvg02$s52@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>, ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu >> (Ivo Welch) writes: >> >> >I have fully indexed about 7MB of various news article. There If these are usenet news articles NewsGrazer folders, you might want to use my old NewsIndex filter available as (source+NIbin): ftp://pinoko.berkeley.edu/pub/next/sources/NewsIndex.compressed It will give you "sane" descriptions in the list of search results in DL, like: 94-01-23: Re: DigitalLibrarian indexing service --- Ivo Welch > >I already asked this in c.s.n.software, but since I didn't learn >the answer, and since a related thread is going on here.... > >How do you get ixbuild to descend into .mbox directories when >building a static index? I've RTFM F&B, but I still can't figure >out where it looks up the file type "mbox" and decides to skip >it completely. I've even tried searching the binary for the >string "mbox": nothing. Has anyone indexed their mailboxes? I think I know the answer to that. You have to stop Mail.app from claiming .mbox as its document. Easiest way to do it is to move Mail.app from /NextApps to another directory which Workspace does not search for Apps. Unless you need to startup Mail.app by double clicking on *.mbox document folders, this won't affect any of its functionality. Or you could hack the iconheader with segedit. I had to do the same thing for *.nfold directory for NewsGrazer.app. (Though I don't see much benefit of DL for those huge *.mbox/mbox files.) -- Izumi Ohzawa <izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu> [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ] USMail: Univ. of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-2020 Tel: 510-642-6440, Fax: -3323, Web: http://totoro.berkeley.edu/~izumi/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: senip@j51.com (Greg Stritmater) Subject: Re: GUS drvier Organization: TZ-Link Internet: Our System Can Kick Your System's Ass Message-ID: <DnG10J.5sn@news2.new-york.net> References: <Dn8HoE.I16@news2.new-york.net> <4gqf23$db@andromeda.filtronix.eunet.be> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 16:41:07 GMT In article <4gqf23$db@andromeda.filtronix.eunet.be>, Filip Lingier wrote: >In article <Dn8HoE.I16@news2.new-york.net> senip@j51.com (Greg Stritmater) >writes: > > Btw, does anyone have any info on NS 4.0? My main wish for that > > would be a nice PPP stack built-in ala Win95. That has been the only > > thing that I've had any trouble with. > >What kind of trouble are you having with the PPP available for NS? > It was just minor stuff, but anoying. It works now, but it would just be nice to have an easy install feature like everything else in NS. >Filip >-- >---------------------------- FILTRONIX ----------------------------- >|-- --- \ / Software Development - OpenStep|Windows|X11 >|- | X Web Design & Development - HTML|CGI|JAVA|WebObjects >| | / \ ---> info@filtronix.eunet.be --
From: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher A. Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: No Sound on DOS partition Date: 26 Feb 1996 02:20:12 GMT Organization: WolfWare (http://www.wolfware.com) Message-ID: <4gr5cs$23u@shellx.best.com> References: <4gqt3f$lh6@gap.cco.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <4gqt3f$lh6@gap.cco.caltech.edu> On 02/25/96, Patricia M. Schwarz wrote: >I have the SoundBlaster16 driver running whatever card OpenSource >uses and it works now on the NeXT half of my life :-) > >It's at IRQ 10 with DMA channels 1 and 5. > >But Windows 95 keeps giving me errors when I try to install any of >their drivers. The one that self-installed insists that I use >IRQ 7 and DMA 1. And it never worked anyway. > >Is there some fundamental incompatibility here? This is going to sound wierd - but I've got a setup where the SB is configured for DIFFERENT IRQs under DOS and NEXTSTEP. This is necessary because I've got a lot of cards I use under NeXTSTEP and the only possible free IRQ for the SB is 10. Under DOS many games don't work right with the SB at IRQ 10, BUT I don't need my printer under DOS, so I can put the SB at IRQ 7. Use Configure.app to setup the SB IRQs the way you want them under NEXTSTEP. Under DOS use a line like this in yoru Config.sys to reconfigure the SB (I=IRQ #, D=low DMA, H=high DMA, A=IO address): DEVICE=C:\SB16\DRV\CTSB16.SYS /UNIT=0 /BLASTER=A:220 I:7 D:1 H:5 And add a line like this to your Autoexec.bat: SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 H5 P330 E620 T6 Now I know this is for DOS and you asked about Win95 but something similar should be possible I would think. This surprisingly enough works fine for me... only glitch is that occasionally I need to do a hard reboot when switching from DOS to NEXTSTEP in order to make sure sound is working properly. -- Christopher Wolf - WolfWare - cwolf@wolfware.com (NeXTmail & MIME accepted) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsFlash Version 2 - a threaded NeXTSTEP Usenet newsreader - is now available. Visit http://www.wolfware.com for details!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc From: mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld) Subject: SoundBlaster 16 Value PnP unrecognized by NS 3.3 Organization: CYANTIC Systems Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 21:46:01 GMT Message-ID: <1996Feb28.214601.20122@cyantic.com> We have just acquired two SB 16 cards (ISA). When installed in a Dell 100 Mhz GL Pentium box, the card cannot be recognized by the latest Sound Blaster driver (3.32) from NextAnswers. The old driver does not work either. The system works perfectly when booted under Windows NT, and we know there is no HW conflict. The PnP in the name of the card indicates Plug 'n Play. Does PnP get in the way of the NS driver interface? Any help is appreciated. Email please. -- Mark T. Dornfeld, Cyantic Systems Corporation 1 Eva Road Suite 301 Etobicoke, Ontario, M9C 4Z5 CANADA Voice: (416) 621-6166 Fax: (416) 621-6212 Email: mark@cyantic.com -- -- Mark T. Dornfeld, Cyantic Systems Corporation Voice: (416) 621-6166 1 Eva Road Suite 301 Facsimile: (416) 621-6212 Etobicoke, Ontario, M9C 4Z5 CANADA Email: mark@cyantic.com
From: fischer@fokus.gmd.de (Robert Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NS/HP 4.0: You are pissed off!? Date: 27 Feb 1996 11:32:00 GMT Organization: GMD-FOKUS Message-ID: <4guq3g$kil@stern.fokus.gmd.de> This moment I got my Openstep 4.0 prerelease 2 package. It's for NeXT, Intel and Sparc, but nothing for HP! Does this mean, that my HP 725 will be running NS3.3 for the next years? Maybe its only during the prerelease program, but ... Robert. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Fischer @ GMD-Fokus -------- __o ------- _`\<,_ fischer@fokus.gmd.de ------- (*)/ (*) ## NeXT-Mail welcome ## -----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: "Tony C." <greenboy@ucla.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Wanted: USED NS 3.+ ON INTEL!!!!! Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 20:49:50 -0800 Organization: University of California, Los Angeles Message-ID: <3135306E.647B@ucla.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anyone have a copy of NeXTSTEP 3.0+, Intel platform, for sale? I know I'm not supposed to use this group but I'm desperate! I'm about to shell out $300 for the full version, so I'm willing to pay $100 for the used one.
From: allan@ali.bc.ca (Allan Noordvyk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: telnet to outside firewall? Date: 26 Feb 1996 20:38:47 GMT Organization: ALI Message-ID: <4gt5on$331@cetus.ali.bc.ca> References: <3131DA3A.15FB@watson.ibm.com> In comp.sys.next.misc Sandeep Kochhar wrote: > I'm using PPP 2.2 on my Nextstation at home (NS 3.2) to dial into my LAN > at work. I can telnet to any machine inside the firewall (so name resolution > is OK), but I can't telnet to machines outside the firewall. What's the > procedure to configure the NeXT to use the firewall machine as a gateway? > > (I looked at HostManager, but it didn't seem to offer much.) Add the following lines to /etc/rc.local echo "Setting up route to the internet ..." >> /dev/console /etc/route add default xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 1 Where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of the router attached to the Internet. You might also want to add the lines: echo "Setting domain name to ibm.com ..." >> /dev/console /bin/domainname ibm.com -- Allan Noordvyk, Software Artisan e-mail: allan@ali.bc.ca ALI Technologies Voice: 604.279.5422 x 317 Richmond, Canada Fax: 604.279.5468 * NeXT and MIME mail welcome *
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet Date: 26 Feb 1996 05:15:09 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4grfkt$iv@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. 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From: audience@soback.kornet.nm.kr (JoongSub Lee (kornet)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Is this system reasonable? Date: 27 Feb 1996 00:47:30 GMT Organization: KORNET (Korea Telecom) Message-ID: <4gtkb2$s3a@usenet.kornet.nm.kr> Hi. I have a Compaq Contura410C(8mb,540mb -150mb:win95 & rest:Linux), Adaptec SlimSCSI PCMCIA card, IBM 3D PCMCIA sound card & Panasonic PD. I remembered someone said good notebook(NEC??) had to have 40mb,1giga hdd and $$$... Of course I'd like to get. I used to NextStep 3.3 under P75,16mb,2mb vga and 2.7giga scsi hdd but I felt it was not so fast. Am I speedy? Back to my real world, I think operation speed is not a important thing to me. :( It is ok the NextStep is slower than Win95. What I really want to know is is it possible to use NextStep under my system? Can I use IBM 3D Soundcard? PD is recognized? Ah, I want to use PD as its primary partion. Of course I will allocate 20-30Mb for booting. Or I will push Win95 into PD :) Any info by e-mail is much appreciated. Thanks for reading. -- From Seoul, Sub
From: filip@filtronix.eunet.be (Filip Lingier) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: GUS drvier Date: 25 Feb 1996 19:58:59 GMT Organization: Filtronix Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <4gqf23$db@andromeda.filtronix.eunet.be> References: <Dn8HoE.I16@news2.new-york.net> In article <Dn8HoE.I16@news2.new-york.net> senip@j51.com (Greg Stritmater) writes: > Btw, does anyone have any info on NS 4.0? My main wish for that > would be a nice PPP stack built-in ala Win95. That has been the only > thing that I've had any trouble with. What kind of trouble are you having with the PPP available for NS? Filip -- ---------------------------- FILTRONIX ----------------------------- |-- --- \ / Software Development - OpenStep|Windows|X11 |- | X Web Design & Development - HTML|CGI|JAVA|WebObjects | | / \ ---> info@filtronix.eunet.be
From: steved@ec.bankone.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NS/HP 4.0: You are pissed off!? Date: 28 Feb 1996 00:36:22 GMT Organization: Bank One Distribution: world Message-ID: <4h0826$3m4@ec.bankone.com> References: <4guq3g$kil@stern.fokus.gmd.de> In article <4guq3g$kil@stern.fokus.gmd.de> fischer@fokus.gmd.de (Robert Fischer) writes: > This moment I got my Openstep 4.0 prerelease 2 package. It's for NeXT, Intel > and Sparc, but nothing for HP! > > Does this mean, that my HP 725 will be running NS3.3 for the next years? Maybe > its only during the prerelease program, but ... You didn't get the letter,eh? "HP and NeXT have decided to expand and evolve the partnership to address the needs of a broader market. Based on market surveys and customer input, Hewlett-Packard and NeXT have concluded that the best way to serve our joint customers is to focus on OPENSTEP for Windows clients ...." "With the increased focus on Hewlett Packard's Intel-based Vectra PCs on the client-side, NeXTSTEP Release 3.3 is the final release of the PA-RISC platform." Another orphan. Steve
From: steved@ec.bankone.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NS/HP 4.0: You are pissed off!? Date: 28 Feb 1996 00:42:48 GMT Organization: Bank One Distribution: world Message-ID: <4h08e8$3m5@ec.bankone.com> References: <4guq3g$kil@stern.fokus.gmd.de> In article <4guq3g$kil@stern.fokus.gmd.de> fischer@fokus.gmd.de (Robert Fischer) writes: > This moment I got my Openstep 4.0 prerelease 2 package. It's for NeXT, Intel > and Sparc, but nothing for HP! > > Does this mean, that my HP 725 will be running NS3.3 for the next years? Maybe > its only during the prerelease program, but ... > One further thought. I got the letter announcing the demise of NS/HPPA over a week ago. I woulda thought it would spark an outcry. Guess the silence is indicative of the apathy surrounding the NS/OS/name du jour market. Guess the party's over and I'm one of the last one's emptying the keg. But no longer! I'm gonna buy me an Intel machine and learn to love Win 95. Anyone want 3 712/60s? HP will offer $1,500 for a fully loaded (1 gig, 32 meg) 712/60 - "it's all they're worth". Steve
From: white@entropy3.stt.msu.edu (Alexander K. White) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Q: Spanish Speller Dictionary Date: 1 Mar 1996 00:18:53 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <4h5fpd$15kn@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Howdi NeXTperts, This is my first time posting on the newsgroup. I am interested in finding a Spanish dictionary to use with the Next Speller engine. I installed the Spanish.pkg from the system software and everything spoke spanish except for the Speller dictionary. Does anyone know where I can get, buy, borrow, or steal one? Alex White MSU white@entropy3.msu.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
From: ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Librarian: Why does a fully indexed target go through file-by-file look? Date: 27 Feb 1996 17:45:38 GMT Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA Message-ID: <4gvg02$s52@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> I have fully indexed about 7MB of various news article. There is a "I" next to the target. Yet, when I click to search, it takes a very long time and I can see zillions of filenames whizzing by, as if it were not indexed at all. Any ideas? /ivo welch -- Ivo Welch ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu Assoc Prof of Finance Anderson GSM at UCLA 110 Westwood Plaza, Box 951481, LA CA 90095-1481 UCLA AGSM Finance Faculty Homepage: HTTP://next.agsm.ucla.edu/
From: pbrown@asparagus.berkeley.edu (Paul Robert Brown) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NS/HP 4.0: You are pissed off!? Date: 1 Mar 1996 09:21:11 GMT Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department. Message-ID: <4h6fi7$mrb@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <4guq3g$kil@stern.fokus.gmd.de> <4h08e8$3m5@ec.bankone.com> In article <4h08e8$3m5@ec.bankone.com>, <steved@ec.bankone.com> wrote: >Guess the party's over and I'm one of the last one's emptying the keg. But no >longer! I'm gonna buy me an Intel machine and learn to love Win 95. > >Anyone want 3 712/60s? HP will offer $1,500 for a fully loaded (1 gig, 32 meg) >712/60 - "it's all they're worth". Don't feel too bad, Steve. I dropped $5,000 on a NeXT back in 1991 as a young grad student, 25 MHz just before NeXT put the turbo's out. Despite the moderate ill will I feel toward NeXT, I did get my money's worth out of the machine, and that's about all I can ask for. When I think about people poking fun at my aging black hardware, I think about the fact that it still makes me more productive than whatever they're running... I also think about the Apple II that I lavished love and attention on many years ago, and the fact that it seemed like heaven to have a 5Mb HD and 128K of RAM... Paying for OS updates is what hurts my feelings. Computers aren't investments, but I do think you got screwed. At least NS 3.3 is fully functional, and at least you didn't buy an Apollo! pb
From: magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca (Francois Magnan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Help: Quantum Fireball FB1080S for cube? Date: 25 Feb 1996 19:45:49 GMT Organization: Universite de Montreal Distribution: world Message-ID: <4gqe9d$qou@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> References: <4gdc2m$1bap@msunews.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <4gdc2m$1bap@msunews.cl.msu.edu> On 02/20/96, Rudolf B. Blazek wrote: >Hallo everybody. > >1st we bought a Seagate drive for our cube. Then we replaced it with another, >but neither worked. Then I asked here what was wrong. And asked about the >compatibility of Fujitsu drives with a NeXT cube. > >The Fujitsu drives are discontinued. So I asked about the compatibility of >IBM drives. I was warned not to buy them. > >So, I would like to ask for help again. Does anybody have any experience with >Quantum Fireball FB1080S. It should be a SCSI-3 drive. > >My boss doesn't like to spend money on shipping, so I really would like to >order a disk which will work with our cube. > >I tried to call Quantum tech support, but the phone is busy all the time. >Please, help ... > >Thanks, Rudy. > >blazek@stt.msu.edu > I am using exactly that model in my cube. It really is plug and play. You have nothing to change on it except the SCSI number. Of course, you will need some kind of adaptor to install it in the cube because the drive is so much smaller than the original Maxtor drives. If your old drive was a 3.5in you already have such an adaptor. Francois Magnan -- ______________________________________________________ Francois Magnan Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques Universite de Montreal email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
From: kschulz@ba-stuttgart.de (Kay Schulz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NS4.0/HP Date: 1 Mar 1996 10:43:16 GMT Organization: Berufsakademie Stuttgart Message-ID: <4h6kc4$rvf@news.BelWue.DE> I just made a demo at the European Commission and showed them my private NeXTSTEP especially for WebObjects and the Interface Builder for Java and I told them that the best hardware would be HP SHIT I am really pissed by this IDIOT called CEo of NeXT I get more and more convinced that Bill Gates is a wonderful guy who loves the money and knows how to sell shit product son the market S. Jobs seems to be so ill that he can't sell a good project to a mass. With this behavior of NeXT I loose my passion step by step for Next I was always fighting for it everywhere but how can I convince the deciders to follow a company who acts like rubbish I am disappointed by Next Give a man a fish: feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish: feed him for life. Teach a hundred men to fish: empty the lake of fish. Kay Schulz kay@cordis.lu
From: Sandeep Kochhar <kochhar@watson.ibm.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: OmniWeb problems Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 10:57:09 -0500 Organization: IBM T.J.Watson Research Center Message-ID: <3131D855.794B@watson.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hi! I'm using PPP 2.2 from my home NextStation to connect to my LAN at work, and trying to run OmniWeb 1.0. It works fine for machines behind the firewall, but since I couldn't access sites outside the firewall, I needed to set something (proxy/gateway) to allow OmniWeb to go outside the firewall. At work, I use Netscape and all I need to do is set the SOCKS_NS environment variable to <firewall>'s IP address and SOCKS SERVER option in netscape to <firewall:<port>. I don't need to set any proxy/gateway settings, and accessing sites outside the firewall (including ftp, gopher, etc.) work fine. What is the equivalent setting in NextStep 3.2 and/or OmniWeb to get the above behavior? I tried adding a proxy in OmniWeb as http://<firewall>:<port>, and made some progress. Basically, now I can connect to an outside side (i.e., it recognizes them), but the connection is closed immediately. Same problem with gateway instead of proxy. (What's the difference anyway?) So, any ideas/suggestions? thanks. -- ---------------------------- Sandeep Kochhar IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Tel: 914-945-2150, Fax: 914-945-3242 P.O. Box 218 (Rte 134) Email: kochhar@watson.ibm.com Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 http://www.research.ibm.com/people/k/kochhar
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Librarian: Why does a fully indexed target go through file-by-file look? Date: 27 Feb 1996 21:01:52 GMT Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Sender: reichman@comserv-h-68.usc.edu Message-ID: <4gvrg0$9if@usc.edu> References: <4gvg02$s52@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> In <4gvg02$s52@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> Ivo Welch wrote: > > I have fully indexed about 7MB of various news article. There is a "I" > next to the target. Yet, when I click to search, it takes a very long > time and I can see zillions of filenames whizzing by, as if it were not > indexed at all. Any ideas? You need to do a static index build with "ixbuild" command. This tells Librarian not to touch the .index.store file or check for anything different, which is what it is doing. This is the command I inserted into my crontab file so that the whole thing happened on a daily and regular interval: /usr/bin/ixbuild -vcdsfglu /Users/reichman/ -T/Users/reichman/.index.itype Read the man page for "ixbuild". Good luck. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@scf.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: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Searching through Vast Archives (should I use DL?) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 15:33:16 +0100 Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960301153048.29579B-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960228125711.24553D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960228125711.24553D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> On Wed, 28 Feb 1996, Timothy J. Luoma wrote: > > I've got archives of all the posts from all the (NeXT) newsgroups from > 1989-1993, each year in its own folder and each post in its own file (ASCII). > > I want to search through and find references to various topics (ie > 'dwrite', 'swapfile', 'swapdisk' etc) but don't know how to do this most > effectively. Usually I would use 'grep' or some other commandline/UNIX > means, but they have all failed with 'line too long' or similar. Does > anyone have a suggestion on the best way to do this? I've thought about > using Digital Librarian, but I've never made my own indexes (yes I know > it should be 'indecies' but I don't like that formation) with DL before, > and am not sure how to go about it. > The best way is to obtain the PAD (Peanuts Archive Disks). They come with all the newsgroups archived on CD (each mail compressed using gzip) and indexed for DigitalLibrarian. Therefore you can use DL for easy searching and displaying the news. News are sorted by year and newsgroup. Greetings, Boerny. -- Bernhard Scholz (IRC: Boerny) scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de http://peanuts.leo.org/ scholz@ve1.rm.op.dlr.de http://www.leo.org/~scholz/
From: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NS/HP 4.0: You are pissed off!? Date: 1 Mar 1996 09:45:51 GMT Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd. Message-ID: <4h6h0f$f86@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <4h6e0k$ipm@digifix.digifix.com> In article <4h6e0k$ipm@digifix.digifix.com> sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) writes: > On 02/27/96, steved@ec.bankone.com wrote: > >One further thought. I got the letter announcing the demise of > NS/HPPA over a > >week ago. I woulda thought it would spark an outcry. Guess the > silence is > >indicative of the apathy surrounding the NS/OS/name du jour market. > > I think its more likely indicative of the number of HP seats > out there... Most likely indicative of how many HPPA customers were actually sent the letter... Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.co.uk Tel: (01494)432422 P & L Systems Fax: (01494)432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: js@euler.hnv.icem.de (Juergen Sell) Subject: Re: File synchronization Linux/Next ? Message-ID: <DnG92y.Gx@euler.hnv.icem.de> Sender: js@euler.hnv.icem.de (Juergen Sell) Organization: Ink Unknown References: <4ggbbt$qpu@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 19:35:22 GMT Ivo Welch writes > > I am running linux on my notebook and NS on my desktop (close to optimal > arrangement, especially once I can get the ufs filesystem for linux to > run). > > However, I need a package to "synchronize" two directory structures (i.e. > replace older with newer files, and make sure that alterations on files on > both machines are recognized). Is there a good generic unix-based utility > that works on both systems? FileMerge.app is not fitting your needs? Juergen --- Fon +49 511 4406-88 NeXTMail welcome No Mime Fax +49 511 4406-17 = What time do we live in when revolution reminds us of soap powder, = when spontaneity and freedom get associated with instant coffee, = when a politician's idea of social change is changing names = when a country posing as super know-how factory cuts expenses on education?
From: stefan.boehringer@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Stefan Boehringer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: font of java-spec? Date: 1 Mar 1996 06:49:25 GMT Organization: Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Rechenzentrum Message-ID: <4h66ll$5j9@sun168.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Where can I get the Palatino-font used in the java specification? Using Nextstep and a Times-font as replacement leaves whitespace of varying size in the middle of words. TIA -stefan
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NS/HP 4.0: You are pissed off!? Date: 1 Mar 1996 08:54:44 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <4h6e0k$ipm@digifix.digifix.com> References: <4guq3g$kil@stern.fokus.gmd.de> <4h08e8$3m5@ec.bankone.com> In-Reply-To: <4h08e8$3m5@ec.bankone.com> On 02/27/96, steved@ec.bankone.com wrote: >In article <4guq3g$kil@stern.fokus.gmd.de> fischer@fokus.gmd.de (Robert >Fischer) writes: >> This moment I got my Openstep 4.0 prerelease 2 package. It's for NeXT, Intel >> and Sparc, but nothing for HP! >> >> Does this mean, that my HP 725 will be running NS3.3 for the next years? >Maybe >> its only during the prerelease program, but ... >> > > >One further thought. I got the letter announcing the demise of NS/HPPA over a >week ago. I woulda thought it would spark an outcry. Guess the silence is >indicative of the apathy surrounding the NS/OS/name du jour market. > I think its more likely indicative of the number of HP seats out there... -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions) http://www.stepwise.com/ (Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server)
From: rpierce@bdm.com (Bob Pierce) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Searching through Vast Archives (should I use DL?) Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 13:49:36 GMT Organization: BDM International, Inc. Message-ID: <4h729h$2m6@news.mcl.bdm.com> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960228125711.24553D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> wrote: >I've got archives of all the posts from all the (NeXT) newsgroups from >1989-1993, each year in its own folder and each post in its own file (ASCII). >I want to search through and find references to various topics (ie >'dwrite', 'swapfile', 'swapdisk' etc) but don't know how to do this most >effectively. Usually I would use 'grep' or some other commandline/UNIX >means, but they have all failed with 'line too long' or similar. Does >anyone have a suggestion on the best way to do this? I've thought about >using Digital Librarian, but I've never made my own indexes (yes I know >it should be 'indecies' but I don't like that formation) with DL before, >and am not sure how to go about it. >Any help welcome. Well, personally, I would use Folio Corp.'s Folio Views product for this purpose, but it's not a NeXT application. However, it is a *great* full-text search and retrieval tool, one of the fastest and most flexible around. I've seen it used to index years of CompuServe posts, help desk reports, and simliar things. Just my $0.02. -- Bob P.
From: elitman@nxstep.com (Eric Litman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Mail 2 - what ever came of it? Date: 1 Mar 1996 16:51:42 GMT Organization: Viaduct, Inc. Message-ID: <4h79uu$1ui@news4.digex.net> In '92 when I was w/ NeXT I saw *very* early copies of Mail 2 which impressed the hell out of me. Anyone know what ever became of that project? Is it going to rear its head w/ 4.0? </eal> -- Eric A. Litman, CEO, Viaduct, Inc. http://www.viaduct.com/ Internet security and commerce consulting. PCS: (301) 254-0200
From: dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov (Gregg E. Dinse) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Poste.app, Kevin Berg, or Bruce Webster Date: 1 Mar 1996 15:44:31 GMT Organization: The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Message-ID: <4h760v$o5b@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov> Hi, I am trying to locate either a version of Poste.app that will run on NSFIP or else its author, Kevin Berg. I sent a message to the net about 10 days ago, but only got one reply. This person thought Kevin was working for Bruce Webster and he gave me an email address for Bruce (bwebster@bwfa.com), but mail to that address bounced. Before that, I had tried an old email address for Kevin (tyche@milton.u.washington.edu), but that also bounced. So now my search widens a bit. Does anyone either (1) have a version of Poste.app for NSFIP, (2) know how to contact Kevin Berg, (3) know how to contact Bruce Webster, or (4) know someone else who might be able to help? If so, please let me know. The name of Kevin's company, back in 1991 when he wrote Poste.app, was Willow Technologies, if that helps at all. Thanks, Gregg Dinse 919-541-4931 dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov
From: Brian Carter <bcarter@clark.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NS/HP 4.0: You are pissed off!? Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 22:29:34 -0500 Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc. Message-ID: <3133CC1E.2CC@clark.net> References: <4guq3g$kil@stern.fokus.gmd.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Robert Fischer wrote: > > This moment I got my Openstep 4.0 prerelease 2 package. It's for NeXT, Intel > and Sparc, but nothing for HP! > > Does this mean, that my HP 725 will be running NS3.3 for the next years? Maybe > its only during the prerelease program, but ... > > Robert. > > -- > -----------------------------------------------------------------------> Robert Fischer @ GMD-Fokus -------- __o > ------- _`\<,_ > fischer@fokus.gmd.de ------- (*)/ (*) ## NeXT-Mail welcome ## > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- One of our folks, who has an HP workstation for a home machine, got a letter saying that NeXT is no longer going to support PA-RISC boxes. No OPENSTEP for PA-RISC 8-(. Brian Carter BLaCKSMITH, Inc.
From: ricardo@pswtech.com (Ricardo Parada) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: What's the fastest 4MB VRAM graphics card? Date: 1 Mar 1996 21:23:06 GMT Organization: PSW Technologies Message-ID: <4h7prq$mgi@digdug.pswtech.com> Hi - I'm getting a Pentium Pro and I was wondering which graphics card has the fastest framebuffer. The card should have 4MB to run at 1280x1024 in 16-bit color. The card should have a driver for OPENSTEP 4.0 and Windows NT. The machine I'm getting comes with the Imagine 128-bit with 4MB VRAM. Thanks, Ricardo
From: ricardo@pswtech.com (Ricardo Parada) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: What's the fastest 4MB VRAM graphics card? Date: 1 Mar 1996 21:23:19 GMT Organization: PSW Technologies Message-ID: <4h7ps7$qit@digdug.pswtech.com> Hi - I'm getting a Pentium Pro and I was wondering which graphics card has the fastest framebuffer. The card should have 4MB to run at 1280x1024 in 16-bit color. The card should have a driver for OPENSTEP 4.0 and Windows NT. The machine I'm getting comes with the Imagine 128-bit with 4MB VRAM. Thanks, Ricardo
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: UPDATE: NeXT info via email: dwrites, tricks, and more Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 13:47:34 -0500 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960229134551.2784A-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960227131604.10439H-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960227131604.10439H-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> A very important fact that a lot of people are missing, so I'm reposting it: email requests must be made in the SUBJECT line (the body of the message is ignored) and only one file can be requested at a time. I wish this wasn't so, but I don't know procmail well enough to figure it out. TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> NeXT Info Available via email on: PPP under NeXTStep, swapfiles, swapdisks, hidden dwrites, NeXTStep tricks and shortcuts, NeXTStep FAQ, and more... For details, send message with subject 'send info'
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Searching through Vast Archives (should I use DL?) Date: 1 Mar 1996 23:00:49 GMT Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc. Message-ID: <4h7vj1$sm6@news.its.com> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960228125711.24553D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> wrote: > I want to search through and find references to various topics (ie > 'dwrite', 'swapfile', 'swapdisk' etc) but don't know how to do this most > effectively. Usually I would use 'grep' or some other commandline/UNIX > means, but they have all failed with 'line too long' or similar. Does > anyone have a suggestion on the best way to do this? Install the GNU versions of such things as grep, or use Perl. Neither should have problems dealing with arbitrarily long lines. > I've thought about using Digital Librarian, but I've never made my own > indexes (yes I know it should be 'indecies' but I don't like that > formation) with DL before, and am not sure how to go about it. 'indices', actually. :-) Read "man ixbuild". -Chuck Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc. --------------------------------+--------------------------------------- CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Subject: Re: What's the fastest 4MB VRAM graphics card? In-Reply-To: ricardo@pswtech.com's message of 1 Mar 1996 21:23:06 GMT Message-ID: <RDL.96Mar1214949@world.std.com> Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <4h7prq$mgi@digdug.pswtech.com> Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 02:49:49 GMT Stick with the Imagine 128. Under Windows, you'll be able to take advantage of the 128 bit hardware. All other cards are 64-bit. Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant Boston, MA Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com In article <4h7prq$mgi@digdug.pswtech.com> ricardo@pswtech.com (Ricardo Parada) writes: Hi - I'm getting a Pentium Pro and I was wondering which graphics card has the fastest framebuffer. The card should have 4MB to run at 1280x1024 in 16-bit color. The card should have a driver for OPENSTEP 4.0 and Windows NT. The machine I'm getting comes with the Imagine 128-bit with 4MB VRAM. Thanks, Ricardo
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: What the heck? (loosely tied to: Re: Librarian: Why does a fully indexed target go through file-by-file look? ) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 12:00:48 -0500 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960301115455.13181D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-Reply-To: <4h2ser$4a@agate.berkeley.edu> On 29 Feb 1996, Izumi Ohzawa wrote: > In article <4h2lup$iok@news.acns.nwu.edu> jburton@nwu.edu (Joshua W. Burton) writes: > >mpaque@aol.com (Mpaque) wrote: > >> In article <4gvg02$s52@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>, ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu > >> (Ivo Welch) writes: > >> > >> >I have fully indexed about 7MB of various news article. There > > If these are usenet news articles NewsGrazer folders, you might > want to use my old NewsIndex filter available as (source+NIbin): > ftp://pinoko.berkeley.edu/pub/next/sources/NewsIndex.compressed > > It will give you "sane" descriptions in the list of search results > in DL, like: > > 94-01-23: Re: DigitalLibrarian indexing service --- Ivo Welch > > > > >I already asked this in c.s.n.software, but since I didn't learn > >the answer, and since a related thread is going on here.... > > > >How do you get ixbuild to descend into .mbox directories when > >building a static index? I've RTFM F&B, but I still can't figure > >out where it looks up the file type "mbox" and decides to skip > >it completely. I've even tried searching the binary for the > >string "mbox": nothing. Has anyone indexed their mailboxes? > > I think I know the answer to that. > > You have to stop Mail.app from claiming .mbox as its document. > Easiest way to do it is to move Mail.app from /NextApps to another > directory which Workspace does not search for Apps. Unless you > need to startup Mail.app by double clicking on *.mbox document folders, > this won't affect any of its functionality. > > Or you could hack the iconheader with segedit. > > I had to do the same thing for *.nfold directory for NewsGrazer.app. > > (Though I don't see much benefit of DL for those huge *.mbox/mbox > files.) > > -- > Izumi Ohzawa <izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu> [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ] > USMail: Univ. of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-2020 > Tel: 510-642-6440, Fax: -3323, Web: http://totoro.berkeley.edu/~izumi/ > > sorry to quote this whole long thing, but I was wondering why reading the post through PINE 3.91 via telnet screwed up the characters of my entire connection. Are there some sort of escape codes or something involved? It turned all the characters into little boxes. Just so this can be some type of legit followup, I'd also like to add that I used the NewsIndex service last night and it worked absolutely great. TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> NeXT Info Available via email on: PPP under NeXTStep, swapfiles, swapdisks, hidden dwrites, NeXTStep tricks and shortcuts, NeXTStep FAQ, and more... For details, send message with subject 'send info'
From: Carl Edman <cedman@princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Librarian: Why does a fully indexed target go through file-by-file look? Date: 1 Mar 1996 01:30:28 GMT Organization: Princeton University Distribution: world Message-ID: <4h5jvl$8ql@cnn.Princeton.EDU> References: <4h2lup$iok@news.acns.nwu.edu> <4h2ser$4a@agate.berkeley.edu> In <4h2ser$4a@agate.berkeley.edu> Izumi Ohzawa wrote: > (Though I don't see much benefit of DL for those huge *.mbox/mbox > files.) An unreleased version of EnhanceMail transparently integrates per-message IXKit indexing into Mail.app. That way I've found all messages in a 35 MByte, 10k+ messages mbox containing a certain word within less than a second. If I ever get around to modifying the find panel to automatically use this index (when available), I'll release it. So far the user interface to that functionality is to run Mail.app under gdb and calling the relevant methods manually. :) Carl Edman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL Subject: What is DayDream and will it work with my ND system? Message-ID: <Dnn64o.2Ky@RnA.NL> Sender: gerben@RnA.NL (Gerben Wierda) Organization: G.R.O.S.S. Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 13:14:48 GMT I have seen various posts on Daydream which seems to be a Mac-on-your-NeXT. That sounds OK but will it: a) support the serial ports on my Turbo 040 system? b) use the NeXTDimension? c) run side by side with NEXTSTEP or take over the machine? d) cost me a fortune? A curious mind likes to know... -- Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl (Gerben Wierda) NEXTSTEP RD242 "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there" Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
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From: hal@alfred.sims.berkeley.edu (Hal Varian) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Librarian: Why does a fully indexed target go through file-by-file look? Date: 2 Mar 1996 15:33:06 GMT Organization: University of Michigan Distribution: world Message-ID: <4h9pni$91g@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <4h2lup$iok@news.acns.nwu.edu> <4h2ser$4a@agate.berkeley.edu> <4h5jvl$8ql@cnn.princeton.edu> In article <4h5jvl$8ql@cnn.princeton.edu> Carl Edman <cedman@princeton.edu> writes: > >In <4h2ser$4a@agate.berkeley.edu> Izumi Ohzawa wrote: >> (Though I don't see much benefit of DL for those huge *.mbox/mbox >> files.) > >An unreleased version of EnhanceMail transparently integrates per-message >IXKit indexing into Mail.app. That way I've found all messages in a 35 >MByte, 10k+ messages mbox containing a certain word within less than a >second. If I ever get around to modifying the find panel to automatically >use this index (when available), I'll release it. So far the user interface >to that functionality is to run Mail.app under gdb and calling the relevant >methods manually. :) Another solution that is available now is to use the WAIS search engine, which automatically recognizes mbox structures. I still use the old WAIS with the NeXT interface to index my old mail---it runs via cron everynight---and I consult it about once a day on average. Very, very handy. (Though Carl's EnhanceMail will probably be even nicer...) -- Hal Varian, Dean voice: 510-642-9980 SIMS, 102 South Hall fax: 510-642-5814 University of California hal@sims.berkeley.edu Berkeley, CA 94720-4600 http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal
From: perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Database selection for NeXTSTEP Date: 2 Mar 1996 15:39:48 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <4h9q44$lej@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Keywords: Database, programmer API Hi all! Recently I've been searching for some apps that I am finding will be critical to my running a small business. However, I've run into a wall with the database problem. I was always thinking that NeXTSTEP was geared towards database connectivity. My main requirements are: 1) There is a programming API that will allow me to programatically access (save and retreive) the data. 2) There is a nice GUI that will allow me to create/save/access the information without using straight SQL. The commercial Oracle and Sybase servers are too expensive for my purposes. Minirva (mSQL) is free and runs well, but it doesn't have a GUI (although the free adaptor seems to work). VarioData Pro says it will interface with SQL servers, but I've been unable to get it to interface with mSQL. Seems it only understands Sybase and a few others. If I understood the interface to Sybase, seems I could extend mSQL to "look like Sybase" just enough to fool VarioData Pro. Anybody done this? I don't own DataPhile, but I perused the documentation and it didn't appear to have a programmer API. What alternatives to I have for a low cost database? I really would like something like VarioDataPro or DataPhile but one that includes the programmer API. Almost makes me think I would have a Win by using NT and MS Access... Thoughts? Please respond by email and I'll summarize. TIA, Steve --- ============================================================== Stephen J. Perkins | mailto:perkins@cps.msu.edu Dept. of Comp. Science | NeXT, MIME, finger for PGP Michigan State University | NeXT OS 3.3 using PPP-2.2 NeXT PPP-2.2 info at ¬http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
From: jburton@nwu.edu (Joshua W. Burton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Librarian: Why does a fully indexed target go through file-by-file look? Date: 2 Mar 1996 16:11:50 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Message-ID: <4h9s06$jc0@news.acns.nwu.edu> References: <4h2lup$iok@news.acns.nwu.edu> <4h2ser$4a@agate.berkeley.edu> <4h5jvl$8ql@cnn.Princeton.EDU> Carl Edman <cedman@princeton.edu> wrote: > An unreleased version of EnhanceMail transparently integrates > per-message IXKit indexing into Mail.app. Thank you, Carl! If I can do a GR or E&M problem set for you to give you time to get this up and running, just let me know. (Not sure if you're still in coursework---I remember you were taking those notorious Princeton physics generals a while ago....) Creativity is what happens |================================================ when you suddenly run out | Joshua W Burton (847)677-3902 jburton@nwu.edu of stupidity. -- Ed Land |================================================
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From: paul@amber.umsl.edu (Paul J. Sanchez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Emacs 4.12 available quad-fat for NS3.3p1 Date: 02 Mar 1996 10:27:17 -0600 Organization: Me, organized? You must be joking. Sender: paul@amber.umsl.edu Message-ID: <x6ohqfsboa.fsf@amber.umsl.edu> It's been more than a week since I sent the announcement to comp.sys.next.announce, and I've seen no sign of it so I'm posting here. Emacs.app v4.12, the latest version of Carl Edman's NextStep native port of emacs, is available at next-ftp.peak.org. It was still in the submissions directory last I saw. I noticed it's also been copied to peanuts. This release is quad fat, but works ONLY for NS3.3 patch 1 - if you're running a different version of NextStep, haven't applied NeXT's 3.3 patch, or have other specialized needs (as described in the README file), you'll have to build your own copy from the sources or find someone to do it for you. The distribution is huge, so I strongly suggest looking at the README file before you download the package. -- --paul http://www.umsl.edu/~psanchez/ [L(aB)FFoDM # {WAL(1,t):t\in(0.5,1]}] ================================================================= Any father who thinks he's all important should remind himself that this country honors fathers only one day a year while pickles get a whole week. =================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: What is DayDream and will it work with my ND system? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <Dnnx7J.L6w@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 22:59:43 GMT References: <Dnn64o.2Ky@rna.nl> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <Dnn64o.2Ky@rna.nl>, <Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL> wrote: >I have seen various posts on Daydream which seems to be a Mac-on-your-NeXT. >That sounds OK but will it: > a) support the serial ports on my Turbo 040 system? Think so. > b) use the NeXTDimension? Yes. > c) run side by side with NEXTSTEP or take over the machine? It takes over the machine. > d) cost me a fortune? It's $699 US List, I think. -- 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: Carl Edman <cedman@princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Searching through Vast Archives (should I use DL?) Date: 2 Mar 1996 15:57:02 GMT Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <4h9r4e$1sh@cnn.Princeton.EDU> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960228125711.24553D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <4h7vj1$sm6@news.its.com> In <4h7vj1$sm6@news.its.com> Chuck Swiger wrote: > "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> wrote: > > I want to search through and find references to various topics (ie > > 'dwrite', 'swapfile', 'swapdisk' etc) but don't know how to do this most > > effectively. Usually I would use 'grep' or some other commandline/UNIX > > means, but they have all failed with 'line too long' or similar. Does > > anyone have a suggestion on the best way to do this? > > Install the GNU versions of such things as grep, or use Perl. > Neither should have problems dealing with arbitrarily long lines. Unfortunately not. This is not a problem which the called program can fix. Rather, there is a kernel limitation on the total size of the parameters passed to the exec* family of functions. The limit is given by the NCARGS macro. In the case of NeXTstep it is 40 kBytes which is actually fairly large by UN*X standards, but there is no way to change it short of recompiling the kernel. One alternative is to call grep separately on each file, but that involves a lot of overhead as you need to create a process for each file. The solution since times immemorial has been to use xargs which splits up the argument list into handy 40 kByte chunks and invokes the command once for each chunk. Carl Edman
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Poste.app, Kevin Berg, or Bruce Webster Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 14:38:11 -0500 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960302143314.20884F-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4h760v$o5b@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov> 8 listings match your query. 1. Name: Kevin M Berg E-mail: 808007@LITTLE-BOBBY.BYU.EDU Last update: 11/08/95 Organization: Brigham Young University Address: Provo, UT 84602 2. Name: Kevin Sven Berg E-mail: ksberg@cts.com Last update: 09/01/95 Service Provider: CTS Network Services 3. Name: Kevin Berg E-mail: k_berg@paul.spu.edu Last update: 11/11/95 Organization: Seattle Pacific University Address: 3307 3rd Ave W Seattle, WA 98119 4. Name: Kevin Berg E-mail: kberg@oz.net Last update: 03/01/95 Service Provider: Sense 5. Name: Kevin Berg E-mail: kberg@wolfe.net Last update: 06/01/95 Service Provider: Wolfe Internet Access, L.L.C. 6. Name: Kevin Berg E-mail: k_berg@spu.edu Last update: 08/01/94 Organization: Seattle Pacific University Address: 3307 3rd Ave W Seattle, WA 98119 7. Name: Kevin J Berg E-mail: kevin.berg@cyberstore.ca Last update: 01/01/95 8. Name: Kevin Sven Berg E-mail: kevin@pages.com Last update: 05/01/95 Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc. Address: 500 West Madison St., Suite 2210 Chicago, IL 60661 9 listings match your query. 1. Name: Bruce F Webster E-mail: bwebster@ELECTRICITI.COM Last update: 12/02/95 Service Provider: ElectriCiti, Inc. 2. Name: Bruce Webster E-mail: bruce.webster@graphicsbbs.com Last update: 05/01/94 Organization: Graphics Unlimited BBS Address: 3335 East 20th ST. Highland, CA 92346 3. Name: Bruce Webster E-mail: misc2854@csc.canterbury.ac.nz Last update: 08/01/95 Organization: ? 4. Name: Bruce Webster E-mail: bruce@insane.apana.org.au Last update: 11/13/95 5. Name: Bruce Webster E-mail: misc2854@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz Organization: university of canterbury Last update: 01/17/96 Organization: ? 6. Name: Bruce Webster E-mail: bruce@netspace.net.au Last update: 11/10/95 7. Name: Bruce F. Webster Alt. Name: Bruce F Webster Location: CA, United States E-mail: bwebster@bfwa.com URL: http://www.bfwa.com/~bwebster Organization: Bruce F. WEbster and Associates, Inc. Last update: 01/24/96 Organization: Bruce F. Webster and Associates, Inc. Address: P.O. Box 500750 San Diego, CA 92150-0750 8. Name: Bruce F. Webster Alt. Name: Bwebster On Bix Location: CA, United States E-mail: bwebster@BIX.com URL: http://www.bfwa.com/~bwebster Organization: Bruce F. WEbster and Associates, Inc. Last update: 01/24/96 Organization: BIX - Byte Information Exchange Address: 1030 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 9. Name: Bruce F. Webster Location: CA, United States E-mail: bwebster@arinc.com URL: http://www.bfwa.com/~bwebster Organization: Bruce F. WEbster and Associates, Inc. Last update: 01/24/96 Organization: ARINC Address: 2551 Riva Road Annapolis, MD 21401 All this information was gathered using: http://www.iaf.net/ "The Internet Address Finder" I have no idea if any of these people are the ones you are looking for. I've never heard of Poste.app for Intel existing. TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> NeXT Info Available via email on: PPP under NeXTStep, swapfiles, swapdisks, hidden dwrites, NeXTStep tricks and shortcuts, NeXTStep FAQ, and more... For details, send message with subject 'send info'
From: us001703@interramp.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: What's the fastest 4MB VRAM graphics card? Date: Sun, 03 Mar 96 06:54:24 GMT Organization: PSI Public Usenet Link Message-ID: <N.030396.015424.64@DELL> References: <4h7prq$mgi@digdug.pswtech.com> <RDL.96Mar1214949@world.std.com> I second the choice. I am using the Imagine 128 w/Win95...Winnt351 sp3....and NextStep 3.3 > Stick with the Imagine 128. Under Windows, you'll be able to take > advantage of the 128 bit hardware. All other cards are 64-bit. > > Robert La Ferla > Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant > Boston, MA > Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 > Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 > E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com > > > In article <4h7prq$mgi@digdug.pswtech.com> ricardo@pswtech.com (Ricardo Parada) writes: > > Hi - > > I'm getting a Pentium Pro and I was wondering which graphics card has the > fastest framebuffer. The card should have 4MB to run at 1280x1024 in > 16-bit color. The card should have a driver for OPENSTEP 4.0 and Windows > NT. > > The machine I'm getting comes with the Imagine 128-bit with 4MB VRAM. > > Thanks, > Ricardo
From: steved@ec.bankone.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NS/HP 4.0: You are pissed off!? Date: 1 Mar 1996 12:15:53 GMT Organization: Bank One Distribution: world Message-ID: <4h6ppp$5ag@ec.bankone.com> References: <4h6h0f$f86@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> In article <4h6h0f$f86@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) writes: > In article <4h6e0k$ipm@digifix.digifix.com> sanguish@digifix.com (Scott > Anguish) writes: > > On 02/27/96, steved@ec.bankone.com wrote: > > >One further thought. I got the letter announcing the demise of > > NS/HPPA over a > > >week ago. I woulda thought it would spark an outcry. Guess the > > silence is > > >indicative of the apathy surrounding the NS/OS/name du jour market. > > > > I think its more likely indicative of the number of HP seats > > out there... > > Most likely indicative of how many HPPA customers were actually sent the > letter... I think Scott's probably right. But then I'm not sure anyone's tuned in to this channel anymore, either (csn*). Postings are down, not much passion about things anymore. Remember the furor when black hardware was dropped? The silence here surrounding the passing of HPPA support is absolutely deafening! Hey, my Cube's now in the basement, and this NS/HPPA I'm using at the moment is gonna get replaced by a Wintel machine running '95 real soon now. I don't code, so Nextstep/openstep obviously ain't for me - NeXT has been successful in getting that message out - I'm just in the "slow learner" camp! (didn't dump the HPPA machines early enough) Steve
From: harts@paulharts.knoware.nl (Paul Harts) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: CDROM player works only for ROOT? Date: 3 Mar 1996 15:06:55 GMT Organization: Knoware Internet Distribution: world Message-ID: <4hccif$764@news.knoware.nl> References: <4h6ppp$5ag@ec.bankone.com> Hi, Because I had little room left on my harddisk, I recently removed /NextDeveloper. This included the removal of /NextDeveloper/Demos/CDPayer.app. Later on I reinstalled the package (only the CDPlayer.app),but since then it only runs propperly when I log on as root. If I log on with my own name, I receive the following message, after activating CDPlayer.app myself: Software Version 3.2 (Lightning5S) cdutil: findDrive: Ioctl SGIOCSTL failed: 4 cdutil: findDrive: Permission denied cdutil: findDrive: Ioctl SGIOCSTL failed: 7 cdutil: findDrive: Permission denied If logged on as ROOT, there is no problem at all. I already changed the permissions of /dev to read&write for all, but that didn't help. What files are locked that shouldn't be locked? Regards, Paul. ==================================================== | harts@knoware.nl | ' What's a FAQ?' | | the Netherlands | probably is one | | NeXTmail Welcomed! | |
From: indy@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (weintz steven cortelou) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: What is DayDream and will it work with my ND system? Date: 3 Mar 1996 16:44:50 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Message-ID: <4hcia2$ccv@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <Dnn64o.2Ky@rna.nl> <Dnnx7J.L6w@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Daydream is Way Cool for black hardware owners. Release 2.11 (the current one, I think) supports the serial ports (though not AppleTalk), the NeXTdimension and multiple monitors, and is about the cost of a cheap Mac. (US$ 699.00) If you can get a cheap Mac with a lot of memory and disk space, then you might want to go that route; however, I like having everything in one box :-). The only two drwabacks are 1) no sound support and 2) the need for an external drive to move files back and forth between NeXT and Mac. I use an old Bernoulli 150 MB; I write stuff i want to use on both platforms to it, and it mounts on either system. Very stable, very nice; I only really use it for apps like Fractal Design Poser or Adobe TextureScape, for which there's no NeXT equivalent. Oh, and PPP and Netscape work fine. -- Steve Weintz * Partner, New Media, Ltd. P.O. Box 742 * Urbana, IL 61801 steve@dave-world.net * 217.344.5303 * 217.344.8981 fax Staff Visioneer, Beckman Institute Visualization Facility * indy@uiuc.edu
From: indy@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (weintz steven cortelou) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Database selection for NeXTSTEP Date: 3 Mar 1996 16:59:36 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Message-ID: <4hcj5o$d0u@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <4h9q44$lej@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Keywords: Database, programmer API Hi! Based on some looking around I did for a project a little while ago, I think you want QuickBase from SofDesign. It's a real SQL relational databaseNEXTSTEP-based, with some bundled GUI tools, and it's something like US$895 for a 3-user package. don't have their contact info handy, but a search of the standard sources should get you started... -- Steve Weintz * Partner, New Media, Ltd. P.O. Box 742 * Urbana, IL 61801 steve@dave-world.net * 217.344.5303 * 217.344.8981 fax Staff Visioneer, Beckman Institute Visualization Facility * indy@uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NS/HP 4.0: You are pissed off!? Message-ID: <1996Mar3.134413.75696@cc.usu.edu> From: hcole@spanky.idec.sdl.usu.edu (Howard R. Cole) Date: 3 Mar 96 13:44:13 MDT References: <4guq3g$kil@stern.fokus.gmd.de> <4h08e8$3m5@ec.bankone.com> Distribution: world In <4h08e8$3m5@ec.bankone.com> steved@ec.bankone.com wrote: > One further thought. I got the letter announcing the demise of NS/HPPA over a > week ago. I woulda thought it would spark an outcry. Guess the silence is > indicative of the apathy surrounding the NS/OS/name du jour market. > > Guess the party's over and I'm one of the last one's emptying the keg. But no > longer! I'm gonna buy me an Intel machine and learn to love Win 95. > I came *this* close to getting an HP to run NEXTSTEP last summer. But then I looked at my ND cube, which it was going to replace, and I hesitated. Steve Jobs has made a habit of starting things he doesn't follow through on. So I re-read all the recent statements from NEXT and decided the only platform they can be trusted to support is Intel/Windows. So I went with the Pentium. Whew! It looks like I dodged a bullet by doing so. I would have been sorely upset to have bought an HP to run NS, and then have support dropped for it six months later. It still upsets me that I came so close to being left up the creek by NEXT again. I would dump them so fast if they didn't have such an enjoyable software environment to use and program with. Oh, well. - HRC -
From: kschulz@ba-stuttgart.de (Kay Schulz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NS/HP 4.0: You are pissed off!? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc Date: 4 Mar 1996 07:56:35 GMT Organization: Berufsakademie Stuttgart Message-ID: <4he7nj$5li@news.BelWue.DE> References: <4guq3g$kil@stern.fokus.gmd.de> Dear Guys I was very un nice in my last posting. But I was angry because I lost my face to my company and my bosses when I suggested to buy NeXTSTEP and HP machines. I apologize my rough words. I didn't have enough information to act like this Sorry Give a man a fish: feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish: feed him for life. Teach a hundred men to fish: empty the lake of fish. Kay Schulz kay@cordis.lu
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: 4 Mar 1996 05:15:10 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4hdu8u$2c0@digifix.digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Software, Inc. 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From: fischer@fokus.gmd.de (Robert Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NS/HP 4.0: You are pissed off!? Date: 4 Mar 1996 08:45:17 GMT Organization: GMD-FOKUS Distribution: world Message-ID: <4heait$24b@stern.fokus.gmd.de> References: <4h0826$3m4@ec.bankone.com> steved@ec.bankone.com writes > > You didn't get the letter,eh? No! But maybe it's on the way. Sitting here in Germany I often get mail which say something like: Join this meeting! Come to S.F. You are 2 days too late!!! > > Another orphan. > What about foundation of an orphanage? ;-) Robert. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Fischer @ GMD-Fokus -------- __o ------- _`\<,_ fischer@fokus.gmd.de ------- (*)/ (*) ## NeXT-Mail welcome ## -----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: dcoyle@goanna.mpi-hd.mpg.de (David A. Coyle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NS/HP 4.0: You are pissed off!? Date: 4 Mar 1996 09:51:36 GMT Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany Message-ID: <4heef8$fhr@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> References: <4h6h0f$f86@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> In article <4h6h0f$f86@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) writes: > In article <4h6e0k$ipm@digifix.digifix.com> sanguish@digifix.com (Scott > Anguish) writes: > > On 02/27/96, steved@ec.bankone.com wrote: > > >One further thought. I got the letter announcing the demise of > > NS/HPPA over a > > >week ago. I woulda thought it would spark an outcry. Guess the > > silence is > > >indicative of the apathy surrounding the NS/OS/name du jour market. > > > > I think its more likely indicative of the number of HP seats > > out there... > > Most likely indicative of how many HPPA customers were actually sent the > letter... It appears that no edu customers got this letter. Sh*t, there are half a dozen of these 712's within spitting distance of where I'm sitting. To think that now there's _NO_WAY_ for me to move to OpenStep here at work ('cause NS-HP is *all *we *have) really sucks. It just plain sucks. "...Hewlett-Packard and NeXT have concluded that the best way to serve our joint customers is to focus on OPENSTEP for Windows clients ...." And why should HP care anyway? Or is there some secret agreement WRT OpenStep for HP-UX that we aren't privy to??? Something's fishy here... Dammit, who's ready to send mass mail to Steve to bitch about this? (not that it will help, of course...) Dave Modify as needed. Don't forget to request a read receipt! <-------- clip here ----------> To: sjobs@next.com Subj: No NextStep 4.0 for HP-PA Dear Steve: I really love my HP, and I love NextStep running on it. And I was really looking forward to moving up to OpenStep/Mach as soon as possible. Now [I'm told][I hear on the news] that it's not gonna happen. Well, I'm mad as hell about this. I don't care if NeXT puts me on an electronic shit-list now, because my feeling is that NeXT have done that already by dropping NS4.0/HP. This move <choose one> ( ) is shortsighted ( ) sucks ( ) really screws my business/organization ( ) other (please specify): because <choose one> ( ) we've invested a lot of time, effort and money in HP hardware ( ) we have nothing but HP hardware, and know nothing about HP-UX (and don't want to learn) ( ) We just plain like the software/hardware mix, and had plans to continue/expand our use of it. ( ) you could've given us a bit of warning. ( ) other (please specify): your now-questionably-loyal NeXT customer, <insert name here>
From: doyle@zeke.lanl.gov Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Searching through Vast Archives (should I use DL?) Date: 2 Mar 1996 05:38:30 GMT Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Message-ID: <4h8msn$6e9@newshost.lanl.gov> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960228125711.24553D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <4h7vj1$sm6@news.its.com> chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger) wrote: > 'indices', actually. :-) Actually indexes is just as acceptable (even preferred in current usage) when talking about this kind of index. (Indices is prefered for math tensor indices and other usages). From the OED: Index (i'ndeks), sb. Pl. indexes (also 7 index's) and indices (i'ndisiz). <snip> In current usage the plural is indices in senses 8, 9, and usually in other senses except 5, in which indexes is common. <snip> The senses are numbered as follows with whether indexes/indices was used in the quotes that used the word in the plural. The word originated in the 16th century: 1. fore-finger (now chiefly Anatomical) (1644: indexes) 2. Pointer/arm of surveying instrument. (1667/1712: indexes) 3. hand of a clock (now rare)/nose (slang) (1822: indices) 4. guiding principle/sign (1747: indexes 1889/1677,1887: indices) 5. Table of contents (obsolete)/alphabetical list/reference list (obsolete) (OED says `one work may have several indexes, e.g. an index of names of persons and places, of subjects, of words, etc.', (1606: indexes 1699: index's 1663: indices) 6. short of `Index librorum prohibitorum'/`Index expurgatorius'(not naturalized) (no use of plural in quotations. OED refers to a title Regulae Indicis/Indices expurgatorius, but that is latin.) 7. Same as a meaning of `direct' (music, obsolete) / as a meaning of `hand' (printing, obsolete) 8. sub or superscript (math)/characteristic of logarithm (math)/characteristic number associated with (math) (1674,1859/1828: indices 1748: indexes) 9. property (optics)/(craniometry)/(crystallography)/(dynamics) (1871//1868,1878: indices) 10. various forms in combination or attributive Cheers, Mark
From: neuss@sun38 (Christian Neuss) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: CDROM player works only for ROOT? Date: 4 Mar 1996 14:03:35 GMT Organization: Fachbereich Informatik, TH Darmstadt, Deutschland Distribution: world Message-ID: <4het7n$f1m@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> References: <4h6ppp$5ag@ec.bankone.com> <4hccif$764@news.knoware.nl> Paul Harts (harts@paulharts.knoware.nl) wrote: : Later on I reinstalled the package (only the CDPlayer.app),but since then : it only runs propperly when I log on as root. If I log on with my own : name, I receive the following message, after activating CDPlayer.app : myself: Check out the searchable NeXTanswers archive at www.next.com. I seem to remember there was a CDPLayer startup problem that could be fixed by setting the program setuid root (it didn't fix _my_ startup problem though, but I've found that starting CDPlayer.app a second time normally does the job). Cheers, Chris -- // Christian Neuss "I ride tandem with a random.." // neuss@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de // http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~neuss/ // +49 6151 16-3414 fax: -5472
From: "Yufeng Tsui" <tsui@cs.indiana.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: What's the fastest 4MB VRAM graphics card? Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 10:27:47 -0500 (EST) Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University Message-ID: <15267@825953271> References: <4h7prq$mgi@digdug.pswtech.com> <RDL.96Mar1214949@world.std.com> I have a micron-p5 133 and I found DiamondStealth has a higher NXBench score. I was surprised but not sure whay. Maybe NeXT has upgraded there drivers? Maybe 4.0 will be different? I am running 3.3 --yufeng In article <RDL.96Mar1214949@world.std.com>, Robert La Ferla <rdl@world.std.com> wrote: >Stick with the Imagine 128. Under Windows, you'll be able to take >advantage of the 128 bit hardware. All other cards are 64-bit. > >Robert La Ferla >Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant >Boston, MA >Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 >Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 >E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com > > >In article <4h7prq$mgi@digdug.pswtech.com> ricardo@pswtech.com (Ricardo Parada) writes: > > Hi - > > I'm getting a Pentium Pro and I was wondering which graphics card has the > fastest framebuffer. The card should have 4MB to run at 1280x1024 in > 16-bit color. The card should have a driver for OPENSTEP 4.0 and Windows > NT. > > The machine I'm getting comes with the Imagine 128-bit with 4MB VRAM. > > Thanks, > Ricardo
From: kiwi@ariane.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: CDROM player works only for ROOT? Date: 4 Mar 1996 16:41:07 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <4hf6f3$9v3@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <4h6ppp$5ag@ec.bankone.com> <4hccif$764@news.knoware.nl> Paul Harts (harts@paulharts.knoware.nl) wrote: : Hi, : Because I had little room left on my harddisk, I recently removed : /NextDeveloper. This included the removal of : /NextDeveloper/Demos/CDPayer.app. : Later on I reinstalled the package (only the CDPlayer.app),but since then : it only runs propperly when I log on as root. If I log on with my own : name, I receive the following message, after activating CDPlayer.app : myself: [...] CDPlayer must be installed setuid-root Do the following as root: cd /NextDeveloper/Demos chown -R root CDPlayer.app chmod u+s CDPlayer.app/CDPlayer -- 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: kelley@mudpot.ATMOS.ColoState.Edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NS/HP 4.0: You are pissed off!? Date: 4 Mar 1996 16:58:27 GMT Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 Message-ID: <4hf7fj$2kh0@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> References: <4h6e0k$ipm@digifix.digifix.com> <4h6h0f$f86@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> >> I think its more likely indicative of the number of HP seats >> out there... >Most likely indicative of how many HPPA customers were actually sent the >letter... DING! I've got a bunch of HPs ranging from 715's to 735's running NS 3.3 and I didnt get any kind of letter! Thanks NeXT, HP. You guys are REAL special. Hello Sun and the cray f90 compiler. kelley wittmeyer dept of atmospheric science colorado state university
From: suckow@bln.sel.alcatel.de (Ralf Suckow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Librarian: Why does a fully indexed target go through file-by-file look? Date: 29 Feb 1996 15:58:27 GMT Organization: Alcatel/Bell Distribution: world Message-ID: <4h4if4$l1l@btmpjg.god.bel.alcatel.be> References: <4gvg02$s52@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> Ivo Welch writes > I have fully indexed about 7MB of various news article. There is a "I" > next to the target. Yet, when I click to search, it takes a very long time > and I can see zillions of filenames whizzing by, as if it were not indexed > at all. Any ideas? Maybe you have selected Within, Literal, or Expression instead of Word or Prefix? Yours, -- Ralf Suckow |------------------------ suckow@bln.sel.alcatel.de | All opinions are mine.
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Q: How about NeXTstep for SUN Date: 4 Mar 1996 19:24:13 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <4hfg0t$h95@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Howdy, I just read that there is going to be no NeXTstep 4.0 for SUN. And that there only will be something called Solaris NEO 1.0 and WorkShop NEO, which should be compliant with OpenStep. Does anybody know any details? Thanks, Rudy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.next.misc From: David Fulton <dfulton> Subject: System Development Survey Message-ID: <1996Mar4.204245.54412@ucl.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 20:42:45 GMT Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Organization: University College London System Development Survey Dear Reader, This survey is part of a PhD research study looking at the links between the organisational context in which a system is developed, the problem being tackled and the system development strategy utilised. Currently, knowledge of the type of pressures and problems faced by developers is fragmented across case studies particular to individual disciplines (HCI, Safety-related etc). I am looking for input from system development professionals from a range of disciplines in order that parallels (and contrasting interpretations) across different areas of system development can be drawn. Those of you with form-compatible WWW browsers are cordially invited to contribute to this research by accessing a survey web-page at: http://boom.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/dfulton/survey.html For those who are interested in the research but do not have form-compatible web browsers, a text version follows which can be returned to: dfulton@cs.ucl.ac.uk Many thanks! David Fulton -------------------------------------------------- Please fill in all sections in as much detail as possible. The form should take around 10-15 minutes to complete. Personal details are only recorded so that we can get back to you - if required. Otherwise, individuals remain anonymous and your input is kept confidential. Your name: Organisation: Email Addr: 1: The Project You are asked to complete this questionnaire in relation to a recent (or current) project with which you are familiar. 1.1) What was the title of the project? 1.2) Please give a brief description of the project? (if possible): 1.3) What system characteristics did the product incorporate? (more than one of the options can be ticked by marking them with an 'X'): ___ Interactive ___ Safety-Related * ___ Real-Time ___ Embedded * ___ Defence * Safety-related projects being developments where safety (in whatever form) is an important non-functional requirement. Embedded projects being software systems that are used to run hardware 2: Focus of Analysis/Initial Statement of Objectives 2.1) Please mark the development paradigm used by the project: ___ In-house development- for another part of the company ___ Contract-based development- for an outside client ___ Generic/Shrink-Wrap development- for general use 2.2) Which of the following most closely describe the starting point for the project? ___ The project started out without a clear view of the system to be developed, or of the underlying problem to be tackled ___ The project started out with an explicit problem to tackle but without a clear definition of the expected application ___ The project started with an explicit problem to ameliorate and a clear definition of the expected application ___ The project started with an explicit problem to solve and a clear definition of the expected application. In addition, the client has set the acceptance criteria for the project, and penalty provisions if criteria were not met 3: Development Pressures 3.1) Was the system to be developed designed to replace an existing manual or automated organisational system? ___ Yes? ___ No? 3.2) Which of the following describes the development pressures (in generating and using requirements) faced by the project? NB: Only make a choice here if the system was to be used by a user/operator and had an identifiable user population. ___ Users/Representatives had little or no experience with a system of this kind. As a result, they were unable to offer tangible requirements or ideas until a concrete representation (prototype) was available ___ Users/Representatives had some experience with similar systems in the past and they were able to put forward ideas and requirements for future systems The next section looks at the skills of developers and the degree to which their familiarity with the application being developed contributed to their knowledge of a suitable definition. 3.3) Which of the following, in your opinion, describes the degree to which developers (in general) were experienced in this type of development? ___ Developers had limited experience in developing a system of this kind and some experimentation was required to evaluate technical options ___ Developers had some experience of developing similar systems in the past and had a limited ability to predict changes or other types of uncertainty ___ Developers were experts in a particular problem domain and had a clearer understanding of technical options and possible solutions 4: The Organisational Context In considering the organisational context, we are really looking at the context within which the project is based, and are therefore looking at the structures and processes (specific to the project) within the developer organisation, the client organisation (if the two differ), and developer/client communication. 4.1: Structure of the project 4.1.1) Which of the following most closely describe the job roles within the project? ___ Responsibilities and job roles were explicitly defined. No-one on the project could carry out tasks for which they did not have authorisation ___ While there were notional job roles and responsibilities, project personnel tended to carry out a range of tasks when they were required to do so 4.1.2) Which of the following most closely describes the manner in which changes or requests for verification were addressed? ___ All requests for changes had to be routed via the project manager or to personnel at a higher level in the project structure. ___ Possible changes would generally be discussed by the appropriate parties before action was decided (on an informal basis). 4.2: Processes within the project 4.2.1) Which of the following describe the degree of stability in project-related processes? ___ Processes were largely stable. Interaction between stakeholders in the project occured at pre-determined times. ___ Processes were subject to change. Interaction between stakeholders in the project was random - occured as and when needed. 5: System Development Strategy 5.1) In your opinion, which of the following points most closely summarise the system development strategy that was taken? ___ The emphasis was on a constantly changing specification, adaptive code and minimal use of design documentation. ___ The emphasis was on the use of experimental methods, including evolutionary or iterative prototyping. ___ The emphasis was on producing a robust design and implementation, but allowing limited flexibility and ability to react to change. ___ The emphasis was on the production of error-free code and an accurate transformation of the specification into design material. 5.2) Which of the following most closely match the model of development used? ___ Stage-based models of development: A variation on the waterfall software life-cycle model is used ___ Iterative models of development: Spiral or iterative build models of development are utilised 5.3) Which of the following most closely match the emphasis of the development strategy? ___ Emphasis on high-level design: Design activities are closely regulated and monitored ___ Emphasis on a mixture of high and low-level design: Although some procedural restrictions may be in place, low-level design tasks are largely unregulated ___ Emphasis on low-level design: There was little regulation of day to day practice 6: Outstanding issues 6.1) As far as you can recollect, what forms of changing requirements had a particular impact on the project and what was the extent of that impact? Answers on the bi-polar scale refer to how confident you are with options at each end of the scale. If you feel that there is a 'major impact' choose the option on the far right. If you felt there was some impact, but you don't feel you could define it using either of the opposing labels, then choose one of the options in-between 6.1.1) Mutable Requirements: Changes brought about by changing organisational goals and environmental turbulence eg. change because of organisational restructuring mid-way through the project Negligable impact 1 2 3 4 5 Major impact 6.1.2) Consequential Requirements: Changes brought about as a consequence of particular design decisions, or through the testing of prototypes eg. change when users discover new ways of working etc, change when technical staff discover a new way of solving a technical problem Negligable impact 1 2 3 4 5 Major impact 6.1.3) Migration Requirements: Changes when there are difficulties in moving from the current state to the desired state eg, change when considerations have to be made for the technical platforms the working version will have to work on, data management etc Negligable impact 1 2 3 4 5 Major impact 6.1.4) Emergent Requirements: Changes when participants slowly develop a better understanding of what they really want eg, Users clarifying what they really want and negating previous requirements Negligable impact 1 2 3 4 5 Major impact 6.2) Was a method or methodology used in order to aid the analysis and design of the system? ___ Yes? ___ No? 6.3) If the answer to the last question was 'Yes', which method(ology) was used? ___ Information Engineering ___ SSADM ___ Yourdon (or SA/SD) ___ A Systems approach (SSM, ETHICS etc) ___ An Object-Oriented Method ___ Jackson Structured Design or other (please specify) 6.4) if the answer to question 6.2 was 'yes'- Was the method used in its entirety? ___ Yes? ___ No? If not, what aspects of the method were not used, and why? 6.5) Which of the following tools or techniques were used on the project? (A number of selections can be made) ___ Structure Charts ___ Data Flow Diagrams ___ Entity-Life Histories ___ Brainstorming ___ JAD Workshops ___ Prototyping Reviews ___ Entity-Relationship Models ___ Rich Pictures ___ Flow-Charts ___ Class diagrams ___ State Transition Diagrams ___ Storyboarding or other (please specify) 7.1.1) New requirements or changing requirements were coming in at too fast a rate for us to cope effectively Not Applicable 1 2 3 4 5 Very Applicable 7.1.2) It would have been nice if we could get together with the user representatives on a more regular basis, as it was, we were just getting too little feedback Not Applicable 1 2 3 4 5 Very Applicable 7.1.3) We had a number of difficulties in fitting the approach we took with the quality assurance procedures that we had to follow Not Applicable 1 2 3 4 5 Very Applicable 7.1.4) Turnover of staff (with connections to the project) was a major problem and distrupted the project. Not Applicable 1 2 3 4 5 Very Applicable 7.1.5) Too much attention was paid to user interface issues and not enough to the underlying functionality of the system Not Applicable 1 2 3 4 5 Very Applicable 7.1.6) Getting agreement on changes was a time-consuming process, even when the change seemed to be very minor. Not Applicable 1 2 3 4 5 Very Applicable 8: General Comments Are there any other aspects of development practice that you feel are particularly important and haven't been covered within this survey? Are there any other points that you would like to make? 9: On completion of this survey would you like a summary of results? ___ Yes? ___ No? Many thanks for taking the time to fill in this form! David Fulton Department of Computer Science University College London
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL Subject: Is it official? No NS/HP 4.0 Message-ID: <DnrFtA.8tK@RnA.NL> Sender: gerben@RnA.NL (Gerben Wierda) Organization: G.R.O.S.S. References: <4heef8$fhr@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 20:34:22 GMT Just wondering. Is it official? Or just a rumour? -- Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl (Gerben Wierda) NEXTSTEP RD242 "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there" Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
From: rwgk@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Q: NextStep future Date: 04 Mar 1996 22:52:55 GMT Organization: HHMI & MB&B Distribution: world Message-ID: <RWGK.96Mar4175255@kepler.csb.yale.edu> Hi, simple question: all talk about the new OpenStep release. Will there be new NextStep releases as well? Or is NextStep *replaced* by OpenStep? Unfortunately, I was not able to find this information at www.next.com. They just write how fantastic both NextStep and OpenStep are. But no word on the future of NextStep in the documents I found. Thank you! Ralf
From: magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca (Francois Magnan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: What is DayDream and will it work with my ND system? Date: 4 Mar 1996 23:27:05 GMT Organization: Universite de Montreal Distribution: world Message-ID: <4hfu89$i4p@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> References: <Dnn64o.2Ky@RnA.NL> In-Reply-To: <Dnn64o.2Ky@RnA.NL> On 03/02/96, Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL wrote: >I have seen various posts on Daydream which seems to be a Mac-on-your-NeXT. >That sounds OK but will it: > a) support the serial ports on my Turbo 040 system? > b) use the NeXTDimension? > c) run side by side with NEXTSTEP or take over the machine? > d) cost me a fortune? > >A curious mind likes to know... > >-- >Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl (Gerben Wierda) NEXTSTEP RD242 >"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there" >Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud. > > Hi, a) Daydream supports the serial ports. You need a normal NeXT Serial cable. b) It works perfectly with the NeXTDimension c) It takes over the machine. You can boot in any of the two modes. d) It costs 650$ new and aroud 400$ used. Francois Magnan P.S.: The only incompatibilities are: 1) No sound support. 2) Games that must switch the video mode do not work. -- ______________________________________________________ Francois Magnan Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques Universite de Montreal email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
From: MaRK_BeSSeY@next.com (Mark Bessey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Q: NextStep future Date: 5 Mar 1996 00:26:32 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <4hg1no$8ff@news.next.com> References: <RWGK.96Mar4175255@kepler.csb.yale.edu> Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve writes > Hi, > > simple question: all talk about the new OpenStep release. > > Will there be new NextStep releases as well? > > Or is NextStep *replaced* by OpenStep? > OpenStep for Mach 4.0 *is* NEXTSTEP 4.0 Hope this helps, -Mark -- Mark Bessey NeXT Software, Inc Software Quality Assurance -->I DON'T SPEAK FOR NeXT <--
From: Eric Dubiel <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Sound with Canon object.station 41 and 95 Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 21:46:36 -0600 Organization: Illinois State University Message-ID: <3133D01C.6FB7@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a similar with a Canon object.station 41 and 95. The Microsoft compatible sound system drivers don't function properly. Does anyone know the proper settings? Thanks, Eric SUPPORT FREE SPEECH ON THE 'NET! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric A. Dubiel; http://138.87.201.11 Network User Services mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu Illinois State University PEACE LOVE UNITY RESPECT "Understanding is best learned via experience." "Follow our instinct, not a trend. Go against the grain until the end." Unknown .... VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE ENTIRELY MY OWN
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: UPDATE: NeXT info via email: dwrites, tricks, and more Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 13:24:36 -0500 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960227131604.10439H-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII It started out small, and has grown and grown and ... well, enough already. Each of these files can be retrieved by sending me a message with subject: send filename ascii filename (for an ASCII version of the file) nextmail filename (for the file as NeXTMail attachment) mime filename (for the file as a MIME attachment) where 'filename' is one of the names from below: Note: for each 'file', there is a 'file.README' which might give some useful information also. For more informatiom see the file 'info' info - a file outlining this mailservice more completely overview - this file dwrites - a list of little-known dwrites kill-click - instructions to kill an app with a mouseclick nextfaq - the NeXTStep FAQ next-resources - Scott Anguish's post on NeXTStep Resources on the 'net ppp - my ppp mailbox under pine pppfaq - ascii version of the "PPP under NS" FAQ pppfaq.html - html version of the "PPP under NS" FAQ printerinfo - some info for NeXTPrinter (fixing jams, toner, etc) scsi-for-black - SCSI drives compatible with NeXT hardware swapfaq - The Swapdisk and Swapfile FAQ swapwatch.sh - a /bin/sh script for watching the swap size tricks - an assortment of NeXTStep tricks and shortcuts zsh - my zsh mailbox under pine To get any file, send a message to <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> with subject 'send file'. For example, to get the info file, send a message with subject 'send info'. NOTE: the file 'tricks' has recently been updated. To received the update alone, send message 'send tricks-new' to receive just the update. Any questions, please email me... with any subject you want, as long as it doesn't begin with ascii/send/nextmail/mime !! TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> NeXTStep Swapfile and Swapdisk FAQ: send mail with subject 'send swapfaq' Other info-via-email available, send mail with subject 'send info' For information on PPP under NeXTStep <nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com>
From: hugues@precipice.fdn.org (Hugues RICHARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NS/HP 4.0: You are pissed off!? Date: 4 Mar 1996 22:08:14 GMT Organization: Individual - France Distribution: world Message-ID: <4hfpke$8i2@precipice.fdn.fr> References: <1996Mar3.134413.75696@cc.usu.edu> In article <1996Mar3.134413.75696@cc.usu.edu> writes: > I would dump them so fast if they didn't have such an enjoyable > software environment to use and program with. Oh, well. Une simple histoire d'amour... (just a love story) Hugues. (me too) -------------------------------------------------------------------- hugues@precipice.fdn.fr - France (small NeXTMail OK) ------------ NS3.2 ------------ NS3.0J ------------ :-) ---------
From: dorfsmay@cuug.ab.ca (Yves Dorfsman,, 403 228-5339,) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Next FAQ Date: 4 Mar 1996 21:57:44 -0700 Organization: Calgary UNIX Users' Group Message-ID: <4hghk8$jno@cuugnet.cuug.ab.ca> Hi, I'm new to NexT... So I went to rtfm.mit.edu but couldn't find a FAQ there. Is there one ? (Shall we create one ?) So here's a few questions: I understand balck boxes are not made anymore... Is it possible to by them second hand ? What are they worth ? If I do buy one, can I upgrade the OS ? Will NexT carry on giving release of its OS for the blackbox ? For how long ? How much does it cost to upgrade ? Thanks a lot, Yves. -- ---- Yves Dorfsman dorfsmay@cuug.ab.ca "C++ also supports the notion of `friends': cooperative classes that are permitted to see each other's private parts." (Grady Booch)
From: steve@brillig.ucsb.edu (Steve Trainoff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Librarian: Why does a fully indexed target go through file-by-file look? Date: 28 Feb 1996 09:03:43 GMT Organization: University of California at Santa Barbara, Physics program Message-ID: <STEVE.96Feb28010343@brillig.ucsb.edu> References: <4gvg02$s52@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> In-reply-to: ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu's message of 27 Feb 1996 17:45:38 GMT In article <4gvg02$s52@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) writes: I have fully indexed about 7MB of various news article. There is a "I" next to the target. Yet, when I click to search, it takes a very long time and I can see zillions of filenames whizzing by, as if it were not indexed at all. Any ideas? /ivo welch Use the command line ixbuild -s This builds a "static" index. If you let the DL do the indexing, it neglects the -s option. When you search a non-static index, I believe it first searches the index and then checks the dates on each file in the archive to see if it is later than the index. If it is, it searches the file. That way you will complete your searchs even when the index isn't completely current. However, I find that it is so much slower this way, it is almost always better to use the static option and rebuild the index periodically. -- ...STeve ------------------------------------ Insert pithy maxim here... steve@tweedledee.ucsb.edu (NeXT mail)
From: bruceb@mincom.com (Bruce Blackshaw) Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.misc,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Dual Boot NT/NeXtStep Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 16:05:47 +1000 Organization: Mincom Pty. Ltd. Message-ID: <4hgp4l$cov@cygnus.mincom.oz.au> Has anyone successfully had a machine with Windows NT & Nextstep both installed, able to boot either OS? I have a PC with NT on one partition and NextStep on the other. Nextstep was originally on the PC, but when I installed NT it didn't like something else in the MBR. I had to fdisk /mbr to get NT to boot. Any ideas or advice? thanks Bruce Mincom Pty Ltd
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org (Thomas Engel) Subject: Re: NS/HP 4.0: You are pissed off!? Message-ID: <DnrIru.Bu@shinto.nbg.sub.org> Sender: tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org (Thomas Engel) Organization: STEPeople's home (A NUGI member) References: <4heef8$fhr@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 21:38:16 GMT In article <4heef8$fhr@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> dcoyle@goanna.mpi-hd.mpg.de (David A. Coyle) writes: > And why should HP care anyway? Or is there some secret agreement WRT > OpenStep for HP-UX that we aren't privy to??? Something's fishy here... > Yup. It really is the only thing I could imagine that HP would't move OpenStep on top of HP/UX if there was a competing product called NS/HP. Since OpenStep 4.0 was said to _not_ include an updated Mach Kernel I can't really imagine that they would have to change to HP dependant portion of OpenStep 4.0 /HP compared to NS 3.3. So supporting one more ... and IMHO one of the hottest... OpenStep plattfroms couldn't be really hard work. Since OpenStep 4.0/HP would not support multiprocessors like maybe the OpenStep/HPUX system would (which also would use X) I really don't see them being competing products. ObjectWorld'95 comes to my mind where I have see one of the coolest machines..the NEC flatpanel-Gecko..and the guy telling me: "...get rid of your Dimension as fast as you can...Openstep won't run on black no matter what they are telling you" Now it seems like his cool trader-workstation won't run NeXTSTEP 4.0---no matter they they told him :-( aloha Tomi
From: dcoyle@goanna.mpi-hd.mpg.de (David A. Coyle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Spilled Milk (was: NS/HP 4.0: You are pissed off!?) Date: 5 Mar 1996 08:36:52 GMT Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <4hguf4$if8@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> References: <4hfpke$8i2@precipice.fdn.fr> Let's not cry over it. We have three realistic options here: 1) Do nothing. We've been doing this and it's not getting us anywhere. (I include this bacause, though not preferred, it is realistic) 2) NeXT releases OpenStep developer and user patches for 3.3 on HP. Then at least, we're not obsolete. I gather from all the hype that the implementation is high-level for them (and they've already done most of Foundation) so I can't see this a problem. We can all see the benefits. So, we don't get a fancy new Workspace. I can live with that. 3) GNU OpenStep. Get going guys, here's your chance to get a "product" "shipping", and soon. NS 3.3 on HP would become the reference implementation for GNUStep, and you don't have to worry about implementing DPS. Sure, DPS is not "free", but anyone with 3.3 has already paid for it, so even Richard Stallman can't object. Or can he? ;-) Of the above, 2) is my preference, but I'll settle for 3). Let's not get stuck with 1), though! My thoughts, what are yours? Dave
From: kay@cordis.lu (Kay Schulz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NS on Ultra Sparc Date: 5 Mar 1996 11:17:07 GMT Organization: Infopartners S.A. Luxembourg Message-ID: <4hh7rj$kms@oops.ip.lu> Hi is Next and Sun willing to port NS to UltraSparcs? -- Braun's definition of a crash project? Trying to make a baby in one month, by getting nine women pregnant. Kay Schulz k.schulz@cordis.lu
From: neuss@sun38 (Christian Neuss) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NS/HP 4.0: You are pissed off!? Date: 5 Mar 1996 12:56:02 GMT Organization: Fachbereich Informatik, TH Darmstadt, Deutschland Message-ID: <4hhdl2$13lh@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> References: <4guq3g$kil@stern.fokus.gmd.de> <4he7nj$5li@news.BelWue.DE> Kay Schulz (kschulz@ba-stuttgart.de) wrote: : I was very un nice in my last posting. : But I was angry because I lost my face to my company and my bosses : when I suggested to buy NeXTSTEP and HP machines. Well, many of us got burned I guess. I for instance lost my face (and I mean that) when NeXT went out of the hardware business, a short time after I managed to convince my (now Ex-)boss of purchasing NeXT Hardware. Such is life.. if you want to stay on the safe side, purchase Mircosoft Wares and Intel HW (yuck). The computer business is fast moving, any innovative decision can be risky. Does that mean we're doomed to stick with stone age technology? I think not. Besides, I'd rather laugh with the sinners then cry with the saints ;-) : I apologize my rough words. I didn't have enough information : to act like this Just use a little nicer language in the future :-) Best wishes, Chris -- // Christian Neuss "I ride tandem with a random.." // neuss@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de // http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~neuss/ // +49 6151 16-3414 fax: -5472
From: fischer@fokus.gmd.de (Robert Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.software Subject: CFP (2): Save OPENSTEP for HP-PA Date: 5 Mar 1996 13:43:58 GMT Organization: GMD-FOKUS Message-ID: <4hhgeu$36l@stern.fokus.gmd.de> To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin, comp.sys.next.misc, comp.sys.next.advocacy, de.comp.sys.next, comp.sys.next.software CFP: Save OPENSTEP for HP-PA Dear colleagues, I repeat my call for participation in a petition to NeXT and HP. Several sources has proved true, that NeXT will not support the HP platform anymore. So send me your remarks and electronic business card to forward it to NeXT! The first draft of the covering letter to NeXT and to HP could be find at the end of this posting. Any help is appreciated to correct it or make it even better ;-) I'll collect all replies by March 15. What do you think is the best e-mail or postal address to send the petition to? Robert. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Robert Fischer, GMD-Fokus, Berlin GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology FOKUS - Research Institute for Open Communication Systems fischer@fokus.gmd.de ## NeXT-Mail welcome ## http://www.fokus.gmd.de/ovma/employees/fischer/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ ========= Petition for saving OPENSTEP/HP-PA =========== Dear Madams and Sirs, all rumours that NeXT don't want to support the HP-PA platform seem to become true. All the signatories of this petition beg you to think over this decision one more time. We all think this is an extremely poor decision on the part of NeXT. It may be penny wise, but it is certainly pound foolish, because it shows a lack of an extremely important quality for a corporation --- integrity. Integrity always involves some sacrifice on the micro-scale, but serves to promote macro-scale qualities --- e.g. trust and solidity. NeXT probably figured out that supporting HP-PA wasn't worth the revenue it would generate. That's the micro-scale. But dropping HP support undermines trust in making any kind of resource commitment toward NeXT --- NeXT appears to lack integrity towards its users. Sure, the day will come, when *the* NeXT computer will not be supported anymore but this hardware has had its best days. The HP platform is powerful and 'up-to-date' and will be built and supported the next years at least. Many of the signatories have invested in this platform or are planning to do so. They will switch to another hardware or --- to another software platform, which couldn't be in your interests. Moreover many of us will loose not even money, but - which will be of more importance at all - we will loose our confidence in NeXT. Best regards, - all the signatories - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: NS on Ultra Sparc Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <Dnsxr4.FM9@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 15:59:28 GMT References: <4hh7rj$kms@oops.ip.lu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <4hh7rj$kms@oops.ip.lu>, Kay Schulz <k.schulz@cordis.lu> wrote: >Hi >is Next and Sun willing to port NS to UltraSparcs? > A while ago it was suggested that this won't happen. Micro-II and Super only. -- 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: Gerald McMullon <mcmullgf@info.bt.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.misc,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Dual Boot NT/NeXtStep Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 18:18:09 +0000 Organization: currently at BT Labs Message-ID: <313C8561.47A0@info.bt.co.uk> References: <4hgp4l$cov@cygnus.mincom.oz.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bruce Blackshaw wrote: > Has anyone successfully had a machine with Windows NT & Nextstep both > installed, able to boot either OS? > I have a PC with NT on one partition and NextStep on the other. > Nextstep was originally on the PC, but when I installed NT it didn't > like something else in the MBR. I had to fdisk /mbr to get NT to > boot. I installed Win95, NT 3.51 and NexTSTEP 3.3 on a 4Gb hard disk. I had to FDISK to Next after installing NT but it was okay after that. Gerald McMullon
From: napplega@freenet.vcu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NeXT Step Books...What's your favorite?? Date: 5 Mar 1996 12:35:17 -0500 Organization: Central Virginia's Free-Net Distribution: world Message-ID: <4hhu0l$q9f@freenet.vcu.edu> Hello! As the subject said...What are your favorite NeXT Step books? I'm looking for something along the lines of System Admin/Usage and Begining Developers type stuff...Thanks! Nick A. -- Nicholas C. Applegate MIS Manager-Omni Richmond Hotel (My opinions only!) "Engage!" - J. L. Picard "Runaway!" - M. Python "Daddy, push buttons!" - my 2 year old son
From: lusty@aimnet.com (Lusty Wench) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NT display driver for Canon ObjectStation? Date: 5 Mar 1996 13:31:19 -0800 Organization: Aimnet Corp. Message-ID: <4hibr7$dc9@aimnet.aimnet.com> Does anybody know what display driver you should use with Windows NT for the C&T video card that comes in the Canon ObjectStation? Windows 95 has a driver for this card, but NT doesn't appear to. Lusty
From: godwin@unixg.ubc.ca (Godwin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NS on Ultra Sparc Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 22:43:42 GMT Organization: Black Fish Soft Message-ID: <4hiftd$du5@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> References: <4hh7rj$kms@oops.ip.lu> <Dnsxr4.FM9@novice.uwaterloo.ca> dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) wrote: >In article <4hh7rj$kms@oops.ip.lu>, Kay Schulz <k.schulz@cordis.lu> wrote: >>Hi >>is Next and Sun willing to port NS to UltraSparcs? >> Well doesn't NEO Desktop suppose to the same thing as OPENSTEP/Mach do? being OPENSTEP complaint same GUI etc etc === #include <Standard_Disclaimer_Blah_Blah_Blah.h> Godwin Chair, Sierra Club OnLine Services. Feet on Ground, Heart in Hand, Facing Forward, Be Youself. -- Jann Arden
From: "Tony C." <greenboy@ucla.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: What's the fastest 4MB VRAM graphics card? Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 17:41:27 -0800 Organization: University of California, Los Angeles Message-ID: <313CED47.7C7D@ucla.edu> References: <4h7prq$mgi@digdug.pswtech.com> <RDL.96Mar1214949@world.std.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Robert La Ferla <rdl@world.std.com> Imagine may have a wider bandwidth but Millenium has twice the clock speed, in addition to its faster WRAM (running at 60 MHz). That equalizes its 128-bit advantage. Under Windows at least. By the way, are you saying that you can't take advantage of 128-bit or 64-bit hardware under NeXTSTEP? Robert La Ferla wrote: > > Stick with the Imagine 128. Under Windows, you'll be able to take > advantage of the 128 bit hardware. All other cards are 64-bit. > > Robert La Ferla > Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant > Boston, MA > Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 > Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 > E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com > > In article <4h7prq$mgi@digdug.pswtech.com> ricardo@pswtech.com (Ricardo Parada) writes: > > Hi - > > I'm getting a Pentium Pro and I was wondering which graphics card has the > fastest framebuffer. The card should have 4MB to run at 1280x1024 in > 16-bit color. The card should have a driver for OPENSTEP 4.0 and Windows > NT. > > The machine I'm getting comes with the Imagine 128-bit with 4MB VRAM. > > Thanks, > Ricardo
From: frank@this.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NS on Ultra Sparc Date: 6 Mar 1996 01:14:45 GMT Organization: my own Message-ID: <4hiou5$jo6@gate.seicom.net> References: <4hh7rj$kms@oops.ip.lu> kay@cordis.lu (Kay Schulz) wrote: > Hi > is Next and Sun willing to port NS to UltraSparcs? I don't think so. Maybe OpenStep/Solaris but not NS/Sparc. (This is an educated guess only) - Frank --- Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] -- Home Page http://hades.tue.schwaben.de/~frank NeXTSTEP, Linux & PostScript Guy "In cantonese C++ is called C ga ga"
From: Jeff_Sickel@sickel.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: NS/HP 4.0: You are pissed off!? Date: 6 Mar 1996 03:39:20 GMT Organization: Charm.Net Baltimore Internet Access, Hon (410) 558-3900 Message-ID: <4hj1d8$383@canton.charm.net> References: <4h6e0k$ipm@digifix.digifix.com> <4h6h0f$f86@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> <4hf7fj$2kh0@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> kelley@mudpot.ATMOS.ColoState.Edu wrote: >>> I think its more likely indicative of the number of HP seats >>> out there... > >>Most likely indicative of how many HPPA customers were actually sent the >>letter... > > > >DING! I've got a bunch of HPs ranging from 715's to 735's running >NS 3.3 and I didnt get any kind of letter! > >Thanks NeXT, HP. You guys are REAL special. > >Hello Sun and the cray f90 compiler. > >kelley wittmeyer >dept of atmospheric science >colorado state university Yep, goodbye NEXT/OpenStep, hello SGI/Cray (I wish), Linux. I sure won't be running that 2 user HP-UX license on the box. And I currently figure that the best way to recoop having a really nice workstation, is to let the machine become a render/file server on the network. Anyone heard of any monitor problems using the HP A4033A with other machines? The docs lead one to believe that it shouldn't matter. jas
From: Alex Blakemore <alex@genoa.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Poste.app, Kevin Berg, or Bruce Webster Date: 6 Mar 1996 00:52:06 GMT Organization: Genoa Software Systems Message-ID: <4hinjm$1ci@saturn.genoa.com> References: <4h760v$o5b@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In <4h760v$o5b@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov> Gregg E. Dinse wrote: > I am trying to locate ... a version of Poste.app that will run on NSFIP You could instead buy a copy of one of the good address book programs such as SBook from Sarrus or In Touch (name may be slightly different). Both print envelopes, labels, dial phones, search for addresses etc. -- Alex Blakemore alex@genoa.com NeXT, MIME and ASCII mail accepted
From: Greg Howland <gregory@shore.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: NS/HP 4.0: You are pissed off!? Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 02:28:25 -0500 Organization: Shore.Net/Eco Software, Inc; (info@shore.net) Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960306022629.6514O-100000@northshore.shore.net> References: <4h6e0k$ipm@digifix.digifix.com> <4h6h0f$f86@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> <4hf7fj$2kh0@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <4hj1d8$383@canton.charm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4hj1d8$383@canton.charm.net> Isn't HP developing the P7 jointly with Intel? Could that be their way to OpenStep? --Greg
From: apuleius@ix.netcom.com(William Grosso) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: NS/HP 4.0: You are pissed off!? Date: 6 Mar 1996 08:36:05 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <4hjipl$1ha@cloner4.netcom.com> References: <4h6e0k$ipm@digifix.digifix.com> <4h6h0f$f86@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> <4hf7fj$2kh0@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <4hj1d8$383@canton.charm.net> <Pine.SUN.3.91.960306022629.6514O-100000@northshore.shore.net> In <Pine.SUN.3.91.960306022629.6514O-100000@northshore.shore.net> Greg Howland <gregory@shore.net> writes: > >Isn't HP developing the P7 jointly with Intel? >Could that be their way to OpenStep? > Now there's a baroque master plan. HP executives, fuming over being snubbed by NeXT and being totally left out of the OpenStep juggernaut, join forces with Intel to produce the P7. Why ? So that OpenStep/NT will run on their machines. Cheers, Andy
From: tuparev@mailserver.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE (Georg Tuparev) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NS/HP 4.0: You are pissed off!? Date: 6 Mar 1996 11:20:06 GMT Organization: EMBL Heidelberg Distribution: world Message-ID: <4hjsd6$8fh@lion.embl-heidelberg.de> References: <4heef8$fhr@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> In article <4heef8$fhr@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> dcoyle@goanna.mpi-hd.mpg.de (David A. Coyle) writes: > Sh*t, there are half a dozen of these 712's within spitting distance of > where I'm sitting. To think that now there's _NO_WAY_ for me to move to > OpenStep here at work ('cause NS-HP is *all *we *have) really sucks. > It just plain sucks. Yes! Big sh*t indeed! Well, one reason more to work hard on GNUstep. I hope at least FSF is more serious 'company' then NeXT Inc. I still remember the talks when the guys of NeXT-Germany tried to convince us that NS on HP is what EMBL needs! What a luck that only our group bought HP's! Otherwise I had to be killed now :-( I'm really very, very pissed off! -- Georg Tuparev EMBL / Protein Design Phone: +49 - 6221 - 387437 Meyerhofstr. 1 FAX: +49 - 6221 - 387517 D-69117 Heidelberg Germany Tuparev@EMBL-Heidelberg.de (NeXT-mail)
From: jens@mail.pop-frankfurt.com (Jens Kleemann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: What's the fastest 4MB VRAM graphics card? Date: 6 Mar 1996 13:21:19 GMT Organization: IPf.net - Frankfurt, Germany Message-ID: <4hk3gf$86c@main.ipf.net> References: <313CED47.7C7D@ucla.edu> <4h7prq$mgi@digdug.pswtech.com>?<RDL.96Mar1214949@world.std.com>?r12 In-Reply-To: <313CED47.7C7D@ucla.edu> On 03/06/96, "Tony C." wrote: >Imagine may have a wider bandwidth but Millenium has twice the clock >speed, in addition to its faster WRAM (running at 60 MHz). That >equalizes its 128-bit advantage. Under Windows at least. > >By the way, are you saying that you can't take advantage of 128-bit or >64-bit hardware under NeXTSTEP? > >Robert La Ferla wrote: >> >> Stick with the Imagine 128. Under Windows, you'll be able to take >> advantage of the 128 bit hardware. All other cards are 64-bit. >> >> Robert La Ferla >> Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant >> Boston, MA >> Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 >> Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 >> E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com >> >> In article <4h7prq$mgi@digdug.pswtech.com> ricardo@pswtech.com (Ricardo Parada) writes: >> >> Hi - >> >> I'm getting a Pentium Pro and I was wondering which graphics card has the >> fastest framebuffer. The card should have 4MB to run at 1280x1024 in >> 16-bit color. The card should have a driver for OPENSTEP 4.0 and Windows >> NT. >> >> The machine I'm getting comes with the Imagine 128-bit with 4MB VRAM. >> >> Thanks, >> Ricardo > Why is everybody talking about cards they don't have in use or just want to buy, i'm tired to read posts like "use a galaxis 4 WRAM - it is a great card and supports 456-bit transfers. It should be fast as hell". Please post NXBench-results with detailed system info. Here is an example: NXBENCH 2.0 Ergebnisse fuer: Pentium 90 auf Intel Plato Motherboard 256 KB async Cache 64 MB RAM (70ns) + ELSA WINNER 2000 PRO (444) Mode (1152x864 83Hz): NXFactor 1.828659 line 1.94331 arc/bezier 1.93443 fill 1.30083 transform 3.10720 composite 1.35910 userpath 2.96577 text 1.13341 window 0.88518 (555) Mode (1152x864 83Hz): NXFactor 1.486497 line 1.20847 arc/bezier 1.24156 fill 1.03843 transform 2.98464 composite 0.99387 userpath 2.76378 text 0.96510 window 0.69609 8-Bit Farbe (1152x864 83Hz): NXFactor 1.972518 line 1.64088 arc/bezier 1.62083 fill 1.59994 transform 3.53133 composite 1.3959 userpath 3.08073 text 1.72276 window 1.18774 Pentium 90 auf ASUS P55TP4-XE 256 KB async Cache 32 MB RAM (70ns) + ELSA WINNER 2000 PRO (444) Mode (1152x864 83Hz): NXFactor 1.876123 line 2.00302 arc/bezier 2.01593 fill 1.31676 transform 3.35784 composite 1.42820 userpath 2.90736 text 1.15892 window 0.82092 (555) Mode (1152x864 83Hz): NXFactor 1.473319 line 1.23479 arc/bezier 1.23058 fill 1.03457 transform 2.83641 composite 1.01175 userpath 2.77578 text 0.97526 window 0.68738 (888) Mode (800x600 75Hz): NXFactor 1.807803 line 1.47840 arc/bezier 1.42995 fill 1.12338 transform 3.34314 composite 0.93307 userpath 3.23663 text 1.97128 window 0.74654 8-Bit Farbe (1152x864 83Hz): NXFactor 2.127195 line 1.81610 arc/bezier 1.78319 fill 1.70786 transform 3.73686 composite 1.56120 userpath 3.16047 text 1.84113 window 1.41072 If you are tired of my ELSA WINNER post's - we're even !!! Please post your results !!!! CU Jens Kleemann
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Librarian: Why does a fully indexed target go through file-by-file look? Date: 6 Mar 1996 20:32:17 GMT Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Sender: reichman@comserv-h-56.usc.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <4hksoh$9h3@usc.edu> References: <4h2lup$iok@news.acns.nwu.edu> <4h2ser$4a@agate.berkeley.edu> <4h5jvl$8ql@cnn.princeton.edu> <4h9pni$91g@agate.berkeley.edu> In <4h9pni$91g@agate.berkeley.edu> Hal Varian wrote: > In article <4h5jvl$8ql@cnn.princeton.edu> Carl Edman <cedman@princeton.edu> writes: > > > >In <4h2ser$4a@agate.berkeley.edu> Izumi Ohzawa wrote: > >> (Though I don't see much benefit of DL for those huge *.mbox/mbox > >> files.) > > > >An unreleased version of EnhanceMail transparently integrates per-message > >IXKit indexing into Mail.app. That way I've found all messages in a 35 > >MByte, 10k+ messages mbox containing a certain word within less than a > >second. If I ever get around to modifying the find panel to automatically > >use this index (when available), I'll release it. So far the user interface > >to that functionality is to run Mail.app under gdb and calling the relevant > >methods manually. :) > > Another solution that is available now is to use the WAIS > search engine, which automatically recognizes mbox structures. > I still use the old WAIS with the NeXT interface to index > my old mail---it runs via cron everynight---and I consult > it about once a day on average. Very, very handy. (Though > Carl's EnhanceMail will probably be even nicer...) I hope Carl releases his enhanced EnhanceMail.bundle! -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@scf.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: walkup@dimension.nhn.uoknor.edu (John Walkup) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Help: Screen too dark. Date: 6 Mar 96 21:10:24 GMT Organization: The University of Oklahoma (USA) Message-ID: <walkup.826146624@dimension> Summary: none Keywords: next,computer I'm having a big problem with my screen being too dark. The monitor is a NextStation Monochrome. And it won't adjust any brighter with the controls they give me on the keyboard. Has anybody else had this trouble? Is there an internal adjustment? (I have pegged the brightness control in the preferences.) Sorry to burden this group, but there is no comp.sys.next.hardware group available AFAIK. E-mail is fine. Thanks. John
From: paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu (Paulus Adisoemarta) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NS/HP 4.0: You are pissed off!? Date: 7 Mar 1996 00:33:43 GMT Organization: Petroleum Engineering Dept, U of Texas, Austin Distribution: world Message-ID: <4hlat7$b37@brazos.pe.utexas.edu> References: <4h6h0f$f86@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> <4h6ppp$5ag@ec.bankone.com> Cc: In article <4h6ppp$5ag@ec.bankone.com>, <steved@ec.bankone.com> wrote: > >I think Scott's probably right. But then I'm not sure anyone's tuned in to >this channel anymore, either (csn*). Postings are down, not much passion about I am still here, still use my cubes, but not much as I'm still struggling with school and research :( >things anymore. Remember the furor when black hardware was dropped? The >silence here surrounding the passing of HPPA support is absolutely deafening! I'm just glad that I didn't shell out the money 2 years ago to buy a HPPA and just stick with the old cubes. > >Hey, my Cube's now in the basement, and this NS/HPPA I'm using at the moment is >gonna get replaced by a Wintel machine running '95 real soon now. I don't Win95 ? been there, done that, and now back to Win31 (I don't have enough reasons to upgrade my apps to justify running win95 and with the extra memory and/or cpu power that the machine needs to put back the speed back to when it was running Win31). thanks for listening, Paulus (just another poor slave labor, oops "grad student" I meant ;) ps: Anybody has an 040 board forsale ? I need one. -- Paulus Suryono Adisoemarta, N5SNN / YG1QN yono@parokinet.org n5snn@mail.utexas.edu paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Help: Screen too dark. Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <DnvFCB.2n@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 00:14:35 GMT References: <walkup.826146624@dimension> Organization: University of Waterloo Keywords: next,computer In article <walkup.826146624@dimension>, John Walkup <walkup@dimension.nhn.uoknor.edu> wrote: > >I'm having a big problem with my screen being too dark. >The monitor is a NextStation Monochrome. >And it won't adjust any brighter with the controls they >give me on the keyboard. Has anybody else had this trouble? >Is there an internal adjustment? (I have pegged the brightness >control in the preferences.) > You have the famous monitor-dimming problem. There is an internal adjustment which is discussed in the big FAQ posted recently to c.s.n.announce. However, it is a somewhat temporary measure. You'll be fine for another few years, and then it will begin to dim again. >Sorry to burden this group, but there is no comp.sys.next.hardware >group available AFAIK. > There is one, but perhaps you don't get it. -- 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: filip@filtronix.eunet.be (Filip Lingier) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Dual Boot NT/NeXtStep Date: 5 Mar 1996 17:40:25 GMT Organization: Filtronix Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <4hhua9$ak@andromeda.filtronix.eunet.be> References: <4hgp4l$cov@cygnus.mincom.oz.au> In article <4hgp4l$cov@cygnus.mincom.oz.au> bruceb@mincom.com (Bruce Blackshaw) writes: > Has anyone successfully had a machine with Windows NT & Nextstep both > installed, able to boot either OS? Yes, I have Windows-NT Server and Nextstep installed on the same machine. There is even a third OS, namely Linux. I use the Linux Loader (LILO) to choose between the three of them. > I have a PC with NT on one partition and NextStep on the other. > Nextstep was originally on the PC, but when I installed NT it didn't > like something else in the MBR. I had to fdisk /mbr to get NT to > boot. Over time I have installed NT Server 3.5 , the Step-up to 3.51 and upgraded to 4.0 (beta1) with NT complaining about the MBR. Filip -- ---------------------------- FILTRONIX ----------------------------- |-- --- \ / Software Development - OpenStep|Windows|X11 |- | X Web Design & Development - HTML|CGI|JAVA|WebObjects | | / \ ---> info@filtronix.eunet.be
From: tseifert@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Tim Seifert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NeXT internet tools for NeXTStation Date: 7 Mar 1996 14:02:19 GMT Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland Message-ID: <4hmq9b$1hq@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> Is there an ftp site for programmes that are compiled for the older versions of NEXTSTEP. I have been trying to connect to sonata.cc.purdue.edu which used to have lots of good stuff, but I keep getting "host not found" messages. Any suggestions or recommendations are appreciated. T. Seifert tseifert@plato.ucs.mun.ca
From: tseifert@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Tim Seifert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Upgrade to NeXTSTEP 3.2 Date: 7 Mar 1996 15:03:08 GMT Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland Message-ID: <4hmtrc$tjc@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> If I upgrade my NeXTStation to use NEXTSTEP 3.2 (or the latest version) will I be able to run my v2.1 apps, especially Improv and Adobe Illustrator? Will I still be able to acess my Documents written in WriteNow? Or will I be starting anew? Thanks for any help you may offer. Tim Seifert tseifert@plato.ucs.mun.ca
From: tralala@cam.org Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Question: DayDream email address Date: 7 Mar 1996 13:05:19 GMT Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada Message-ID: <4hmmuf$3ir@tandem.CAM.ORG> References: <Dnn64o.2Ky@rna.nl> <Dnnx7J.L6w@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <4hcia2$ccv@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <4hcia2$ccv@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Does anyone have an email address for Daydream? Thanks, -André
From: hartley@purdue.edu (Dan Hartley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NeXT internet tools for NeXTStation Date: 7 Mar 1996 15:13:39 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <4hmuf3$sb4@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <4hmq9b$1hq@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> In <4hmq9b$1hq@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> Tim Seifert wrote: > Is there an ftp site for programmes that are compiled for the older > versions of NEXTSTEP. I have been trying to connect to > sonata.cc.purdue.edu which used to have lots of good stuff, but I keep > getting "host not found" messages. Any suggestions or recommendations > are appreciated. Both sonata.cc.purdue.edu and the NeXT archive server nova.cc.purdue.edu have been decommissioned. -- Daniel E. Hartley Purdue University Computing Center Internet: hartley@purdue.edu 1408 Mathematical Sciences Building Voice (317)494-1787 Fax (317)494-0566 West Lafayette, IN 47907-1408
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Upgrade to NeXTSTEP 3.2 Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <Dnwnyr.CEw@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 16:18:27 GMT References: <4hmtrc$tjc@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <4hmtrc$tjc@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>, Tim Seifert <tseifert@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> wrote: >If I upgrade my NeXTStation to use NEXTSTEP 3.2 (or the latest version) >will I be able to run my v2.1 apps, especially Improv and Adobe >Illustrator? Will I still be able to acess my Documents written in >WriteNow? Or will I be starting anew? > I've run Improv and WriteNow under 3.2 with no problems. Illustrator should work too. I think the only thing that doesn't work is "Icon". -- 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: randall@redfish.ATMOS.ColoState.Edu (Dave Randall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NS/HP 4.0: You are pissed off!? Date: 7 Mar 1996 17:52:11 GMT Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 Message-ID: <4hn7ob$154e@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> References: <4heef8$fhr@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> <DnrIru.Bu@shinto.nbg.sub.org> tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org (Thomas Engel) wrote: > In article <4heef8$fhr@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> > dcoyle@goanna.mpi-hd.mpg.de (David A. Coyle) writes: > > And why should HP care anyway? Or is there some secret agreement WRT > > OpenStep for HP-UX that we aren't privy to??? Something's fishy here... > > > Yup. It really is the only thing I could imagine that HP would't move > OpenStep on top of HP/UX if there was a competing product called NS/HP. > I would prefer OpenStep on top of HP-UX to OpenStep on top of Mach, because if it is on HP-UX then there is a whole world of software that I can run that would not be accessible if it is on Mach.
From: dkramer@onramp.net (Daniel L. Kramer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Dual Boot NT/NeXtStep Date: 7 Mar 1996 20:43:54 GMT Organization: On-Ramp; Individual Internet Connections; Dallas/Ft Worth/Houston, TX USA Message-ID: <4hnhqa$9p2@news.onramp.net> References: <4hgp4l$cov@cygnus.mincom.oz.au> Bruce Blackshaw writes > >Has anyone successfully had a machine with Windows NT & Nextstep both >installed, able to boot either OS? > Sure! Shouldn't be too much of a problem. >I have a PC with NT on one partition and NextStep on the other. >Nextstep was originally on the PC, but when I installed NT it didn't >like something else in the MBR. I had to fdisk /mbr to get NT to >boot. If you could be a bit more specific I might be able to diagnose the problem. You do need to use the 'advanced' installation section of NT, just to make sure it's going to the right partition. > >Any ideas or advice? If you now set the NS partition to 'active' using fdisk, the machine will go directly to NS (without boot choices). Then, simply use /usr/etc/disk -b /dev/rsd0h (for a SCSI disk) to reinstall the NS bootmanager. The 'd for DOS' option will lead you to the NT 'boot manager'. I haven't had any trouble with FAT or NTFS NT partitions. If you have any further problems, feel free to e-mail me! > Cheers! Dan --- Daniel L. Kramer Bifrost Workstations, Inc. 10850 Richmond Ave., Suite 270 Houston, TX 77042 (713) 952-9949 voice (713) 952-9934 fax dkramer@onramp.net
From: Paul R. Brown <pbrown@math.berkeley.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Upgrade to NeXTSTEP 3.2 Date: 8 Mar 1996 00:10:58 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Message-ID: <4hntui$2nq@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <4hmtrc$tjc@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> > If I upgrade my NeXTStation to use NEXTSTEP 3.2 (or the > latest version) will I be able to run my v2.1 apps, > especially Improv and Adobe Illustrator? Will I still be > able to acess my Documents written in WriteNow? Or will I be > starting anew? Illustrator works fine. Paul
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NeXT internet tools for NeXTStation Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 11:11:49 -0500 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960307111052.298M-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> References: <4hmq9b$1hq@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4hmq9b$1hq@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> On 7 Mar 1996, Tim Seifert wrote: > Is there an ftp site for programmes that are compiled for the older > versions of NEXTSTEP. I have been trying to connect to > sonata.cc.purdue.edu which used to have lots of good stuff, but I keep > getting "host not found" messages. Any suggestions or recommendations > are appreciated. > > tseifert@plato.ucs.mun.ca sonata is no more. Your best bet is probably to find an old CD banging around somewhere... TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> NeXT Info Available via email on: PPP under NeXTStep, swapfiles, swapdisks, hidden dwrites, NeXTStep tricks and shortcuts, NeXTStep FAQ, and more... For details, send message with subject 'send info'
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: tzulun@Hawaii.Edu (Tzu-Lun Lin) Subject: Color NeXT Systems Message-ID: <DnxBIG.GLC@news.hawaii.edu> Sender: news@news.hawaii.edu Organization: University of Hawaii Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 00:47:04 GMT Is NeXTDimension the only way to get a Color Cube?
From: pmartin@asylum (pat martin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: WHAT CARTRIDGE for NEXT PRINTER? Date: 7 Mar 1996 19:14:47 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <4hncj7$haf@mark.ucdavis.edu> do you know the HP printer cartridge #? thanks
From: next0@informatik.uni-bremen.de (Peer-Olaf Sack) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.bugs Subject: rfs_mountroot: cannot mount root Date: 8 Mar 1996 10:25:27 GMT Organization: Zentrum fuer Netze, Universitaet Bremen Sender: next0@s32 (Peer-Olaf Sack) Message-ID: <4hp1un$kdi@gina.zfn.uni-bremen.de> Win95-Defrag crashed my system. After reboot the hardware-manager shows two more drives (D: and E: but they are unaccesable). The bad thing is, that on this drives my NeXTStep is intalled. So, when I boot NeXTStep it ended with ---------------------------------------------------------------- sd0a: Read attempt with no valid label vfs_mountroot: error=5 panic: (cpu0) rfs_mountroot: cannot mount root ---------------------------------------------------------------- The only possible thing now is to reboot. The kernel and drivers are still loaded from my hard-disk, so the files may be still intact. I guess, only the partition-table is damaged. Booting from CD starts the install routine. Making my 2nd HD the rootdev ended with the same message as above. (I cannot start in single-user, also). How can I rescue my files and/or start NeXTStep again? Configuration: P90 Adaptec2940 2 SCSI-HDs SCSI CD ZIP-Drive 1 IDE-HD NeXTStep3.3 (maybe still alive) Win95 (no comment)
From: Gerald McMullon <mcmullgf@info.bt.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Q: Behaviour of mouse in NS! Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 10:41:33 +0000 Organization: currently at BT Labs Message-ID: <31400EDD.185F@info.bt.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Every now and again the mouse cursor shoots to the bottom right hand corner of the screen and in trying to locate where it has disappeared to I get apparently random opening of minimised apps, highlighting entries in the browser until I stop moving the mouse and let the system settle down. Is this a 'common' feature? Any idea what is happening? It is not major, but I would prefer it not to do it. The system is Intel P5 100, Diamond Stealth 64 1152x768, Adeptec 2940, Hawk 2G (1Gb Windows, 1Gb NS). Thanks Gerald McMullon
From: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.bugs Subject: Re: rfs_mountroot: cannot mount root Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.bugs Date: 8 Mar 1996 11:44:17 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <4hp6ih$ln7@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <4hp1un$kdi@gina.zfn.uni-bremen.de> Peer-Olaf Sack (next0@informatik.uni-bremen.de) wrote: : Win95-Defrag crashed my system. After reboot the hardware-manager shows : two more drives (D: and E: but they are unaccesable). I recently fixed a similar problem caused by the unfriendly MS-DOS 6.22 installer which intentionally formats all devices it can get hold of. I took the starting 80 kilobytes from a NeXTSTEP partition of exactly the same size from another machine and copied it over to the raw device of the broken drive. Luckily I had this other machine with identical partition layout. The 80 K is an arbitrarily chosen value after looking at the disk contents via Edit. Hmm. There were some problems to get the data over as NeXT chose not to include the floppy disk driver in it's boot disk/driver disk. So I had to copy this onto the driver disk first to get the broken machine booted with floppy support. I don't know how different partition schemes may affect the data in the disk label, but I think it's worth having a look at it. By comparing the starting blocks from the broken drive to those from a working NeXTSTEP partition you might be able to find out how to fix it. Maybe it's enough to take only some sectors. -- 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: dwright1@voicenet.com (Darren Wright) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: What is DayDream and will it work with my ND system? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware Date: 8 Mar 1996 08:46:31 -0500 Organization: Voicenet - Internet Access - (215)674-9290 Message-ID: <4hpdnn$ipv@omni1.voicenet.com> References: <Dnn64o.2Ky@RnA.NL> Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL wrote: : I have seen various posts on Daydream which seems to be a Mac-on-your-NeXT. : That sounds OK but will it: : a) support the serial ports on my Turbo 040 system? : b) use the NeXTDimension? : c) run side by side with NEXTSTEP or take over the machine? : d) cost me a fortune? : A curious mind likes to know... The Daydream is a DSP box that contains MAC LC ROMS. It turns your NeXt into a MAC. a. It will support the Serial Ports, but only Serial, not appletalk. b. It sure does use the Dimension!!! I have 2 monitors, and it uses both, in 2bit B&W and 24bit color.... c. It takes over the machine. d. I think it runs about $500, the price of a cheap MAC. But with the memory and HD installed already, it runs alot faster than any mac you could get for $500. -Darren
From: hmausle <hmausle@ids2.idsonline.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Dos FileSystem on NextStep-Partition Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 09:06:52 -0500 Organization: Capital Area Internet Service info@cais.com 703-448-4470 Message-ID: <31403EFC.20C0@ids2.idsonline.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, who knows how to fix the following problem. After a new Installation of NextStep I have full access to the Dos-Partition. I don't know why this disappears sooner or later nor do I have any idea how to fix it. Please email me if you can help me: Thank you hmausle@ids2.idsonline.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: ian.stephenson@insignia.co.uk Subject: Re: Upgrade to NeXTSTEP 3.2 Message-ID: <DnyF70.2uo@isltd.insignia.com> Sender: news@isltd.insignia.com Organization: Insignia Solutions plc References: <4hmtrc$tjc@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 15:04:11 GMT > Improv and Adobe > Illustrator? > WriteNow? All work fine under 3.2 (though you might want to hide WriteNow in case the upgrade decides to delete it!) Ian
From: tlm@ameslab.gov (Tom Marchioro) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Upgrade to NeXTSTEP 3.2 Date: 8 Mar 1996 18:46:18 GMT Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Distribution: world Message-ID: <4hpv9q$h5@news.iastate.edu> References: <4hmtrc$tjc@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> Tim Seifert writes > If I upgrade my NeXTStation to use NEXTSTEP 3.2 (or the latest version) > will I be able to run my v2.1 apps, especially Improv and Adobe > Illustrator? Will I still be able to acess my Documents written in > WriteNow? Or will I be starting anew? > > Thanks for any help you may offer. About the only applications that will break are Icon (and let's face it, with Icon it would be hard to tell :) and parts of Scene, in particular, the wonderful little movies in Scene will no longer play. I do kind of miss those at times.... But one nice feature of Scene does still work, and that is it will still open EPS files and, on printing, give you the "center on page" and "scale to fit" options. Wish there was another NeXT EPS application with those options, as I often need it for scientific illustrations. so definitely upgrade to 3.2 or 3.3 (but if you go to 3.3 make sure you get the patches from NeXT, without them 3.3, particularly on networked black machines, has some problems). Hope this helps --- tom PS: I remember that someone even took the time to make "patches" so that Scene and Icon could run under 3.X. They should be available on the archives. -- 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: toddw@radium.ca (Todd White) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Database selection for NeXTSTEP Date: 6 Mar 1996 01:04:28 GMT Organization: ftn Internet Message-ID: <4hioas$r0m@master.ftn.net> References: <4h9q44$lej@msunews.cl.msu.edu> In <4h9q44$lej@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Stephen J. Perkins wrote: > > What alternatives to I have for a low cost database? I really would like > something like VarioDataPro or DataPhile but one that includes the programmer > API. > > Almost makes me think I would have a Win by using NT and MS Access... > > Thoughts? Please respond by email and I'll summarize. > > TIA, > > Steve Steve: Quickbase is an excellent choice for database work under NS. It is quick, provides full access to its functionality via EOF and you can avoid SQL if you wish, or get into the depths of it - your choice. -- ===================================== Todd White RADium Technology Centre (Canada) Todd_White@RADium.ca NeXT and MIME mail gladly accepted =====================================
From: iscmiramar_a@ppp.com(iscMiramar Associates) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: isc...Renters .... Buy a Home with No $$ Downisc Date: 9 Mar 1996 04:30:39 GMT Organization: adnc.com Message-ID: <4hr1hf$5tl@taurus.adnc.com> WOULD YOU CONVERT YOUR CURRENT RENTAL PAYMENTS INTO MORTGAGE PAYMENTS ON A NEW HOME IF THE DOWN PAYMENT AND CLOSING COSTS WERE TAKEN CARE OF FOR YOU?................................................. IF YOUR EMPLOYER GAVE YOU AN INCREASE IN YOUR TAKE HOME PAY TO COVER THE LEASE PAYMENTS ON A NEW CAR WOULD YOU TRADE YOUR OLD CAR AND LEASE A NEW ONE?............................................ If you answered YES to both questions I have a program which can make this a reality for you...................NOW................ NEW HOME - What may be the most fantastic government give-away began in March 1994 when the Clinton Administration expanded the FHA 203K loan program. This loan permits investors, like the company I represent, to buy a home, that you select, and acquire a government backed loan greater than the cost of the property. This loan can be assumed by qualified buyer with no down payment required. Yes, that's right, the investor can buy the home, add a modest profit and sell it to you with no out of pocket costs and sell it to you at the bank appraised value. NEW CAR - This company has added a unique twist which allows you the opportunity to lease a new car and also receive an increase in your take home pay to cover the payments. The increase does not cost your employer a dime. EARN MORE MONEY - You can become a representative, like myself, and communicate this incredible program to others and earn a small fortune. MORE INFORMATION - I am just one of several thousand independent contractors through out the United States and I would like to send you this nationally recognized company's promotional package on how you can buy a home, trade your old car and lease a new one, increase your take home pay and have the opportunity to make more money. To cover my costs for the package with shipping and handling, please send $5.00 in cash, personal check or money order to I apologize if you feel that this post is not in the proper place, but, we're looking for you! People that are renting, and don't know how to buy a new home are the people that need us the most. We're real....we close residential real estate transactions across the United States daily. The next one can be yours. MIRAMAR ROAD ASSOCIATES 6920 Miramar Road Ste. 207 San Diego, CA 92121.2641 Name ________________________________ Address ________________________________ City ________________________________ State ______________ Zip ___________ Telephone (opt) ______________________________ No salesperson will call. Your information will be held strictly confidential.
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: sdformat: changing block size on 105meg slab--possible? Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 13:08:40 -0500 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960308130700.11468J-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII can sdformat be used on my 105meg slab (/dev/sd1a) to set the blocks to 1024? I tried, using 'sdformat Version 1.3' but it gave me some error message indicating that sdformat didn't think it would work. Has anyone else done this? Thanks TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> NeXT Info Available via email on: PPP under NeXTStep, swapfiles, swapdisks, hidden dwrites, NeXTStep tricks and shortcuts, NeXTStep FAQ, and more... For details, send message with subject 'send info'
From: iscmiramar_a@ppp.com(iscMiramar Associates) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Date: 09 Mar 1996 10:37:29 EST Control: cancel <4hr1hf$5tl@taurus.adnc.com> Subject: cmsg cancel <4hr1hf$5tl@taurus.adnc.com> Message-ID: <cancel.4hr1hf$5tl@taurus.adnc.com> Spam cancelled by dsr@lns598.lns.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Color NeXT Systems Message-ID: <1996Mar9.111340.16341@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <DnxBIG.GLC@news.hawaii.edu> Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 11:13:40 GMT In article <DnxBIG.GLC@news.hawaii.edu> tzulun@Hawaii.Edu (Tzu-Lun Lin) writes: > Is NeXTDimension the only way to get a Color Cube? > Naye. NeXTDimension is a frame grabber making a Qube video data stream aware. There are "simple" Color Qubes that just have "simple" color displays. -- 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 | pgp, MIME, NeXTmail # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.misc.advocacy Subject: cmsg cancel <4ht7kt$1jg@Vir.com> Control: cancel <4ht7kt$1jg@Vir.com> Date: 9 Mar 1996 19:30:50 -0500 Organization: Communications Vir, Internet Access Montreal. Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ht7rq$aso@Vir.com> Article cancelled from within tin [v1.2 PL2]
From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: Spilled Milk (was: NS/HP 4.0: You are pissed off!?) Date: 9 Mar 1996 19:33:00 -0500 Organization: Communications Vir, Internet Access Montreal. Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ht7vs$97u@Vir.com> References: <4hfpke$8i2@precipice.fdn.fr> <4hguf4$if8@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> David A. Coyle (dcoyle@goanna.mpi-hd.mpg.de) wrote: : Let's not cry over it. [snip] : 3) GNU OpenStep. Get going guys, here's your chance to get a "product" : "shipping", and soon. NS 3.3 on HP would become the reference [snip] : Dave I think GNUstep is the way to go. NeXT is abandoning the reason they became what they are today. In some ways it seems like they are losing their soul, and are becomming a me too type of company. The vision of creating the best user environment is gone. I purchased my first product from NeXT in 1991 (a NeXTstation), when they dropped the hardware and promoted OPENSTEP, that was cool! One envirnment across multiple architectures. Great! No one else has anything like that. I love using NeXTSTEP, the synergy, the elegance, the ... I could go on but I'm sure every one gets the point. OPENSTEP without the environment is just another development tool. There's nothing unique about it. Other tools will do the work, and some, are less expensive as well. Like people have pointed out. I can't figure NeXT out. They have the best product out there and a loyal following. Yet they continually seem to readjust their focus. First, they stop making hardware, now they're getting out of the operating system, in a year they'll probably get out of OPENSTEP and a year later they'll probably dump WebObjects as well. I'm realy saddened by the way things are going. I will continue to use NeXTSTEP (or OPENSTEP for Mach) and I hope GNUstep will evolve to have the same qualities I'm fond of in NeXTSTEP. That's all for now. stef
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Subject: Re: Q: Behaviour of mouse in NS! In-Reply-To: Gerald McMullon's message of Fri, 08 Mar 1996 10:41:33 +0000 Message-ID: <RDL.96Mar9220425@world.std.com> Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <31400EDD.185F@info.bt.co.uk> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 03:04:25 GMT What mouse do you have? Is it serial, PS/2 or bus? I assume you're running NS 3.3? Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant Boston, MA Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
From: dywilson@scf.usc.edu (Donald Wilson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: PPP Help Date: 10 Mar 1996 05:03:41 GMT Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Sender: dywilson@comserv-h-71.usc.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <4htnrd$n39@usc.edu> I'm (completely) new to Next Step and Unix and would like to use ppp to connect to my internet provider. Can someone point me in the direction of a very basic faq which would help (please reply by email). Thanks in advance, Donald Wilson.
From: gdavis@shentel.net (Greg Davis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NeXT driver for IBM/Lexmark Optra? Date: 10 Mar 1996 17:55:13 GMT Organization: Fighter Grafix Message-ID: <gdavis-1003961254180001@eb3ppp22.shentel.net> Apologies in advance if this has been asked before OR shows up in a FAQ-- but does anyone know if a driver has been written that would support the Optra series of laser printers on the NeXT? Seems like a 1200dpi resolution would be most awesome!! I seem to recall reading through some of the NeXT licensing material about a restriction against printing anything greater than 900 (?) dpi resolution on the NeXT computer. Any info would be appreciated.. Thanx
From: rwakeman (Robert Wakeman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Those Canon ObjectStations ver 2 Date: 11 Mar 1996 02:15:49 GMT Organization: The ThoughtPort Authority, Inc. Message-ID: <4i02cl$9g0@chinx4.thoughtport.net> To replace the first version. I understand that Canon no longer sells those beautiful Canon ObjectStations. According to OpenSource, those Object Stations were really specifically designed to run NS. At any rate, sales were beginning to increase. Canon couldn't keep up with the demand. Orders for 10's, 50's, even 100's were coming in! Then all of a sudden, Canon stopped production. Which is usually the case when a company starts to get more involved with Next. Maybe Canon was told in advance that NextStep 4.0 might be the last release. And that NT would eventually run Openstep apps anyway. According to OpenSource, one drawback for new buyers was, the chipset Canon used for the ObjectStation. It is not compatible with Windows 95. This would be a concern for owners who wanted to run NS and Windows 95. I Notice that the Canon Web support site is silent about the ObjectStation support. I wonder why? Now I notice Canon is again selling Computers. But this time they are the generic ugly-looking boxes for the NT and PC crowds. I have some questions: 1. Can the chipset be upgraded to one that does support Windows 95 for those who want to run both, especially when NS will run with Windows 95 D'OLE? 2. What kind of problems has anyone had with these ObjectStations? 4. Can you set those monitors for various degrees of colors and resolutions? 5. I would be interested to know, if anyone has asked Canon if their new line of computers support and run NS? And, why their ObjectStations were designed so beautiful, with the CD and floppy drives on the side like those Sun and other unix computers, and their new line, which look like any run-of-the-mill PC boxes. 6. Does anyone know who still sells these beautiful Object Stations, I would assume that they would be sold at reduced prices, since it's obvious that the rest of the computer world does not want them? Since there seems to be a sudden rush of black hardware for sale these days, I wonder what kind of computers are replacing them? Robert Wakeman
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: 11 Mar 1996 05:15:09 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4i0cst$fs8@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. 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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: PPP Help Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 14:01:19 -0500 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960311135958.9619D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4htnrd$n39@usc.edu> On 10 Mar 1996, Donald Wilson wrote: > I'm (completely) new to Next Step and Unix and would like to use ppp to > connect to my internet provider. Can someone point me in the direction of a > very basic faq which would help (please reply by email). > http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/NeXT_PPP_FAQ.html that is also the site to get PPP for NS TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> NeXT Info Available via email on: PPP under NeXTStep, swapfiles, swapdisks, hidden dwrites, NeXTStep tricks and shortcuts, NeXTStep FAQ, and more... For details, send message with subject 'send info'
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: dmurray@music.glas.ac.uk (Duncan Murray(EMU92)) Subject: Re: No Sound on DOS partition Message-ID: <Do4Jo1.JHs@udcf.gla.ac.uk> Sender: news@udcf.gla.ac.uk (News) Organization: Glasgow University Computing Service References: <4gqt3f$lh6@gap.cco.caltech.edu> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 22:26:23 GMT In article <4gqt3f$lh6@gap.cco.caltech.edu> patricia@cco.caltech.edu (Patricia M. Schwarz) writes: > I have the SoundBlaster16 driver running whatever card OpenSource > uses and it works now on the NeXT half of my life :-) > > It's at IRQ 10 with DMA channels 1 and 5. > > But Windows 95 keeps giving me errors when I try to install any of > their drivers. The one that self-installed insists that I use > IRQ 7 and DMA 1. And it never worked anyway. You should be able to change the IRQ of the Soundblaster under Settings/ControlPanel off the start menu in win95. There is a little box to click which lets you specify your own settings. (if you try and change them it complains unless you stop using the Default configuration, I think its in a little list under the parameters you can change - I havent done this for a while!!). If windows insists that you use the detected configuration then run diagnose.exe under DOS and change your IRQ and DMA's with that, then reboot. Windows should find the new settings (you may have to uninstall the SB under Add/Remove Hardware and then let windows detect it on the next startup.) It should work fine at IRQ 10, I ran it like that for a while. By the way, Anyone out there using Midi with the NeXTStep MusicKit and a Soundblaster AWE32??? Config.app wont let me play audio and use midi because of an address conflict caused by the Soundcard and Midi driver. is the only round it to change the Soundcard address with the jumpers??? Id rather avoid that as it'll screw up my DOS apps. Cheers, Duncan. dmurray@music.gla.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Subject: Re: NeXT driver for IBM/Lexmark Optra? In-Reply-To: gdavis@shentel.net's message of 10 Mar 1996 17:55:13 GMT Message-ID: <RDL.96Mar11230135@world.std.com> Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <gdavis-1003961254180001@eb3ppp22.shentel.net> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 04:01:35 GMT I have an Lexmark Optra L running off a NS/Intel system. Works great. I'll mail you (and anyone else who wants it) the PPD. Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant Boston, MA Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
From: domingod@cs.ucdavis.edu (Dennis Reyes Domingo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: PPP Help Date: 11 Mar 1996 19:33:45 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Distribution: world Message-ID: <4i1v6p$8c0@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <4htnrd$n39@usc.edu> Donald Wilson (dywilson@scf.usc.edu) wrote: : I'm (completely) new to Next Step and Unix and would like to use ppp to : connect to my internet provider. Can someone point me in the direction of a : very basic faq which would help (please reply by email). : Thanks in advance, : Donald Wilson. I have the same question as DOn.... CAn someone help with this...?? please respond with email. thank you. Dennis R. Domingo
From: fischer@fokus.gmd.de (Robert Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: ** Final Sprint ** : Save OPENSTEP for HP-PA Date: 12 Mar 1996 08:22:08 GMT Organization: GMD-FOKUS Message-ID: <4i3c7g$6ov@stern.fokus.gmd.de> Dear colleagues, up to now (March 12, 9:00 MST) I've got 87 responses to be included in my petition which I will sent to NeXT and HP shortly after March 15. To be remembered: Several sources has proved true, that NeXT will not support the HP platform anymore. So: NO OPENSTEP for Mach for HP-PA NO OPENSTEP for HP-UX NO more NeXTSTEP for our HP-PA Boxes If you want to partipipate in this petition as a signatory, please send me your business card (ASCII) and write some comments. Thanks to all who have yet participated and to those, who will join NOW! Robert. ========= Petition for saving OPENSTEP/HP-PA =========== Dear Madams and Sirs, all rumours that NeXT don't want to support the HP-PA platform seem to become true. All the signatories of this petition beg you to think over this decision one more time. We all think this is an extremely poor decision on the part of NeXT. It may be penny wise, but it is certainly pound foolish, because it shows a lack of an extremely important quality for a corporation --- integrity. Integrity always involves some sacrifice on the micro-scale, but serves to promote macro-scale qualities --- e.g. trust and solidity. NeXT probably figured out that supporting HP-PA wasn't worth the revenue it would generate. That's the micro-scale. But dropping HP support undermines - AGAIN - trust in making any kind of resource commitment toward NeXT --- NeXT appears to lack integrity towards its users. The people who have made big investments in HP hardware with the purpose of running and developing NS (of which there are some big customers) are very likely to drop NeXT as a viable company and might suggest everyone to do similar or will at least make very bad publicity of NeXT. The people who haven't made these investments yet but follow the whole scene, aren't very likely to commit with a company that sells an OS on a specific hardware platform on only 1 or 2 point-releases (NS3.2-NS3.3) and drop it immediately afterwards. The HP platform is powerful and 'up-to-date' and will be built and supported the next years at least (not like the black hardware of some years ago). It would also be a good alternative of developing OpenStep on a powerful Risc platform, so that people have a choice besides Sparc. Besides, which other fully featured - OO Operating System can claim that it runs on that many platforms without any major problems ? Isn't this a major marketing point, being the only one on the market, or is marketing not important for NeXT ? Moreover many of us will loose not even money, but - which will be of more importance at all - we will loose our confidence in NeXT. Best regards, - all the signatories - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Thanks to Lee Altenberg and Stefan Bossuwe for their phrasings and suggestions to this draft) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Fischer @ GMD-Fokus -------- __o ------- _`\<,_ fischer@fokus.gmd.de ------- (*)/ (*) ## NeXT-Mail welcome ## Initiative for OPENSTEP/HP-PA: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/ovma/employees/fischer/SaveOPENSTEP-HP.html -----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: james@young-ray.hinet.net (James C. Lin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Easiest way to make a Mac connection? Date: 12 Mar 1996 14:17:36 GMT Organization: HiNet, Taiwan Message-ID: <4i4121$edk@serv.hinet.net> Hello, I need to connect a PB170 with a nextcube to do some file transfering. Can anyone suggest me a quick method? I know of the null modem connection method, (connecting the two serial ports) but what kind of speed can I achive in this case? Is there an easier and also higher speed method? Thanks and best regards, -- James C. Lin MAIL: P.O.Box 122 INTERNET:james@young-ray.hinet.net Fengyuan 42099 Taiwan, Rep. of China PHONE: 886-4-522-6650 FAX: 886-4-527-5264
From: Dmichael@rumah.rumah.pc.my (Michael Olan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: mouse is dying Date: 12 Mar 1996 13:27:30 GMT Organization: Unconfigured Message-ID: <4i3u42$gs6@jaring.my> The mouse on my blackbox is dying a slow death. It only responds to sliding part of the time. Sometimes I need to take out the ball, and twiddle the rollers by hand, even after a major clean-up. My question, is there a compatable replacement? Mac maybe? I probably own the only blackbox in the country, so there's no chance of finding an original. -- Dr. Michael Olan Email: michael@rumah.pc.my (NeXT Mail OK) Lecturer - Computer Science michael@ppp.itm.my American Degree Program Institut Teknologi MARA Section 17, Shah Alam, Malaysia ----------------------------------------------------------- "To see the universe as it is, you must step beyond the net. It is not hard to do so, for the net is full of holes." -- Sri Nisargadatta -----------------------------------------------------------
From: Ÿdjb1@dstir.ac.uk (Donald J Baird) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Question: DayDream email address Date: 12 Mar 1996 16:30:45 GMT Organization: University of Stirling Message-ID: <4i48rl$k1s@lorne.stir.ac.uk> References: <Dnn64o.2Ky@rna.nl> <Dnnx7J.L6w@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <4hcia2$ccv@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4hmmuf$3ir@tandem.CAM.ORG> they have a Web Page: http://www.quix.ch/ --- Donald Baird Phone : +44 1786 467926 Environment Group Fax : +44 1786 472133 Institute of Aquaculture Email : djb1@stir.ac.uk Stirling University Web : http://dee02.stir.ac.uk/ Scotland FK9 4LA * * * * * * * * * * * NeXT / MIME Mail Welcome! * * * * * * * * * * *
From: Rony Daher Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Sendmail Config Date: 12 Mar 1996 22:54:26 GMT Organization: Cleveland State University Message-ID: <4i4vb2$k1@csu-b.csuohio.edu> Greetings, I'm currently running NEXTSTEP 3.3/Intel and have net access through PPP 2.2.0.4.6. While under the link, I cannot seem to send mail to an aliased email address. For example, I CAN send mail to r.daher@popmail.csuohio.edu, but I CANNOT send mail to r.daher@csuohio.edu. I've made the necessary sendmail mods as illustrated in some of the PPP docs, but for some reson, mailing to the aliased addresses won't work. Any help is appreciated, Rony Daher
From: michael@localhost.204.57.139 (Michael F. DeMan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NT/NS dual boot Date: 12 Mar 1996 22:09:36 GMT Organization: Network Access Services, Inc. Message-ID: <4i4sn0$kek@barad-dur.nas.com> Yes, I've got both NT and NS on my system. NT came first and I installed NS on the second partition afterwards. It does the standard NS dual boot startup where you can specify any partition. I've heard about NT causing havoc with the NS partition before. I'm actually going to move NT to a completely different (slower) drive because I don't use it. Simply fdisk two partitions, install NT, then install NS. You should be fine if you do it in that order. - Mike (PS wrong e-mail here, it is michael@fortress.cs.wwu.edu)
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: mouse is dying Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 10:30:35 -0500 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960312102624.16994I-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> References: <4i3u42$gs6@jaring.my> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4i3u42$gs6@jaring.my> On 12 Mar 1996 michael@rumah.pc.my wrote: > The mouse on my blackbox is dying a slow death. It only responds to sliding > part of the time. Sometimes I need to take out the ball, and twiddle the > rollers by hand, even after a major clean-up. My question, is there a > compatable replacement? Mac maybe? I probably own the only blackbox in the > country, so there's no chance of finding an original. > Dr. Michael Olan Email: michael@rumah.pc.my (NeXT Mail OK) see: http://www.dancingbear.com/contact.htmd/TXT.html and ask them for one of their few remaining logitech bus mice for the NeXT hardware. They have an adaptor to make it work with the NeXT. They are not making them any more, so this will be an unsupported piece of hardware just like the rest of your NeXT (and mine). I got one about 2 weeks ago. It works very well, very smooth. Occasionally it will send 2 clicks instead of 1, but such is life. TjL ps to Dr Olan: you need to fix your "From:" in Alexandra.app -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> NeXT Info Available via email on: PPP under NeXTStep, swapfiles, swapdisks, hidden dwrites, NeXTStep tricks and shortcuts, NeXTStep FAQ, and more... For details, send message with subject 'send info'
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: PPP Help Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 10:24:40 -0500 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960312102348.16994H-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4i1v6p$8c0@mark.ucdavis.edu> On 11 Mar 1996, Dennis Reyes Domingo wrote: > Donald Wilson (dywilson@scf.usc.edu) wrote: > : I'm (completely) new to Next Step and Unix and would like to use ppp to > : connect to my internet provider. Can someone point me in the direction of a > : very basic faq which would help (please reply by email). > > : Thanks in advance, > > : Donald Wilson. > > I have the same question as DOn.... > > CAn someone help with this...?? http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/ There you will find the FAQ and the newest FREE version of PPP for NS. TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> NeXT Info Available via email on: PPP under NeXTStep, swapfiles, swapdisks, hidden dwrites, NeXTStep tricks and shortcuts, NeXTStep FAQ, and more... For details, send message with subject 'send info'
From: allan@ali.bc.ca (Allan Noordvyk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NeXT driver for IBM/Lexmark Optra? Date: 13 Mar 1996 17:24:24 GMT Organization: ALI Message-ID: <4i70c8$h4b@cetus.ali.bc.ca> References: <gdavis-1003961254180001@eb3ppp22.shentel.net> <RDL.96Mar11230135@world.std.com> In comp.sys.next.misc Robert La Ferla wrote: > I have an Lexmark Optra L running off a NS/Intel system. Works great. > I'll mail you (and anyone else who wants it) the PPD. We've also been very happy with the Optra. I just wish that the PPD file had some darkness control options like some other printers. I've found that certain light grays come out indistinguishable from white. -- Allan Noordvyk, Software Artisan e-mail: allan@ali.bc.ca ALI Technologies Voice: 604.279.5422 x 317 Richmond, Canada Fax: 604.279.5468 * NeXT and MIME mail welcome *
From: mrozek@eecs.umich.edu (Eric M. Mrozek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: multiple swapfiles? Date: 13 Mar 1996 19:20:27 GMT Organization: University of Michigan EECS Message-ID: <4i775r$pl3@news.eecs.umich.edu> In some of the hosts I work with, there is only one swapfile. In others, I see two swapfiles: /private/vm/swapfile /private/vm/swapfile.front Why is there a difference on different hosts? What is the difference between the two files? Is there a way to clean out the swapfile other than rebooting? Eric
From: Dick Phillips <rlp@lanl.gov> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NeXT Linotype service bureau? Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 10:17:53 -0700 Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Message-ID: <31470341.4C28@lanl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Folks: I need the services of an organization that can take Postscript files from my NeXT and produce 2400 dpi film output. I once used Light Printing in New York for this, but they seem to have gone out of business. If you know of any service bureaus that have this capability, please send me email. Thanks for any help. Dick Phillips rlp@lanl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: as@asci.fdn.fr (Antoine Schmitt) Subject: Re: Easiest way to make a Mac connection? Message-ID: <1996Mar13.130431.3576@asci.fdn.fr> Sender: as@asci.fdn.fr Organization: Antoine Schmitt - Paris, France. References: <4i4121$edk@serv.hinet.net> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 13:04:31 GMT In article <4i4121$edk@serv.hinet.net> james@young-ray.hinet.net (James C. Lin) writes: > > Hello, > > I need to connect a PB170 with a nextcube to do some file transfering. Can > anyone suggest me a quick method? > > I know of the null modem connection method, (connecting the two serial ports) > but what kind of speed can I achive in this case? Is there an easier and also > higher speed method? The best: plug an Apple scsi external drive to your next cube. It will be recognized as an apple drive and mount seamlessly. Then put back the disk on your Mac. This works fine, and is very fast. (dont forget to cleanly shutdown your machines before un/plugging the disk!). Second best (I guess): Ethernet with a some software (NFS of Mac or AppleShare on NeXT) which I dont know were to find. Antoine -- ________________________________________________________ Antoine Schmitt, ASCI - Paris, France as@asci.fdn.fr - NeXT and MIME mail welcome PROTECT FREE SPEECH ON THE NET
From: gossett@tinuviel.bethel.edu (Eric Gossett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: White background on NeXTStation Date: 13 Mar 1996 21:23:03 GMT Organization: Bethel College, MN Distribution: world Message-ID: <4i7ebn$q5c@homer.acs.bethel.edu> One of our NeXTStations has started to exhibit a strange behavior. It has a white background and displays icons with an almost "reverse video" look. The white background appears as soon as the machine is powered on, so it seems unlikely that it is due to a software setting. We have swapped monitors and that does not change the behavior. We also unplugged the machine and pulled the lithium battery for 24 hours. That did not help either. Has anyone else experienced this behavior? Does anyone know the cause (and more importantly, the cure)? Eric Gossett gossett@bethel.edu
From: windemut@cumbnd.bioc.columbia.edu (Andreas Windemuth) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Help: Screen too dark. Date: 13 Mar 1996 19:52:36 GMT Organization: Columbia University Message-ID: <4i7924$db9@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> References: <walkup.826146624@dimension> In <walkup.826146624@dimension> John Walkup wrote: > > I'm having a big problem with my screen being too dark. > The monitor is a NextStation Monochrome. > And it won't adjust any brighter with the controls they > give me on the keyboard. Has anybody else had this trouble? > Is there an internal adjustment? (I have pegged the brightness > control in the preferences.) > You can open the Monitor and adjust some screws inside. Careful, there is high voltage! This can usually give you an additional six months or so. Then you need a new monitor. -- Andreas Windemuth +-------------------------------------------------------------------- |Columbia University, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics |630 West 168th St. BB-221 | tel: (212)-305-6884, fax: 6926, NeXTmail |New York, NY 10032 | email: windemut@cumbnd.bioc.columbia.edu +--------------------------------------------------------------------
From: windemut@cumbnd.bioc.columbia.edu (Andreas Windemuth) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: mouse is dying Date: 13 Mar 1996 20:06:51 GMT Organization: Columbia University Message-ID: <4i79sr$db9@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> References: <4i3u42$gs6@jaring.my> In <4i3u42$gs6@jaring.my> <NO AUTHOR> wrote: > The mouse on my blackbox is dying a slow death. It only responds to sliding > part of the time. Sometimes I need to take out the ball, and twiddle the > rollers by hand, even after a major clean-up. My question, is there a > compatable replacement? Mac maybe? I probably own the only blackbox in the > country, so there's no chance of finding an original. > Yes there is. Try Bell Atlantic, they should still have NeXT replacements. -- Andreas Windemuth +-------------------------------------------------------------------- |Columbia University, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics |630 West 168th St. BB-221 | tel: (212)-305-6884, fax: 6926, NeXTmail |New York, NY 10032 | email: windemut@cumbnd.bioc.columbia.edu +--------------------------------------------------------------------
From: hong@csulb.edu (Vision) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Mouse dies on 486-NS3.3 Date: 13 Mar 1996 22:13:46 GMT Organization: Cal State Long Beach Sender: hong@wren.acs.csulb.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <yavvik83alj.fsf@wren.acs.csulb.edu> I am running ten NS3.3 on INTEL486 DX2-66 with 32 MRAM and am using Logitech bus mouse. Seems like mouse dies quite often and have not found to be able to be the mouse back to life. The only thing I can do is "Rebooting". Is this very normal symptom for INTEL based NS3.3? Jason
From: scp@sonia.math.ucla.edu (S. Port) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NeXT Linotype service bureau? Date: 14 Mar 1996 01:31:19 GMT Organization: UCLA Mathematics Department Message-ID: <4i7st7$du0@saba.info.ucla.edu> References: <31470341.4C28@lanl.gov> In article <31470341.4C28@lanl.gov> Dick Phillips <rlp@lanl.gov> writes: >Folks: > >I need the services of an organization that can take Postscript >files from my NeXT and produce 2400 dpi film output. I once used >Light Printing in New York for this, but they seem to have gone >out of business. If you know of any service bureaus that have >this capability, please send me email. Thanks for any help. > >Dick Phillips >rlp@lanl.gov I run the morning side of a busy service bureau in Los Angeles. I have sent Next PostScript files to our Linotype-Hell 330 imagesetter for lino output and our 630 for film output. I have also sent them to AGFA SelectSet 5000 output and CG9600. None of the RIPs attached to these devices will accept the Next Postscript. A variety of postscript errors are returned. I believe it is due to the nature of Display Postscript as opposed to whatever PostScript the Mac generates - probably Postscript Level 1. There are more knowledgeable people who read this newsgroup. Maybe they have had a different experience. On the other hand I did find a workaround for my typesetting. I bought FrameMaker for Next and found that the FrameMaker Interchange Format worked like a charm when I imported it into Macintosh FrameMaker. Some fount names needed to be altered, but that was all. One obvious factor in this success was that I created all of my Next fonts from the identical Adobe Mac fonts - so width tables were consistent. Also, I bought the Daydream box and now do most of my typesetting with that. One of the few unmentioned incompatibilities of the DayDream is that you cannot print to disk for any output device. The DD driver only handles printers attached to your system. Charlie Dvorak cdvorak@pepperdine.edu + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Graduate School of Psychology at Pepperdine "Computers are useless, they only give you answers." - Pablo Picasso .
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NeXT driver for IBM/Lexmark Optra? Date: 14 Mar 1996 01:31:45 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: world Message-ID: <4i7su1$i97@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <4i70c8$h4b@cetus.ali.bc.ca> In article <4i70c8$h4b@cetus.ali.bc.ca> allan@ali.bc.ca (Allan Noordvyk) writes: >In comp.sys.next.misc Robert La Ferla wrote: >> I have an Lexmark Optra L running off a NS/Intel system. Works great. >> I'll mail you (and anyone else who wants it) the PPD. > >We've also been very happy with the Optra. I just wish that the >PPD file had some darkness control options like some other >printers. I've found that certain light grays come out indistinguishable >from white. You should be aware that it may not be something that is adjustable via such control options. It may be due to some incompatibilites in NS and printer's ideas of Level-2 Color Space calibration. I had the same exact problem with HPLJ4M/PS with all versions NS3.x when trying to use density plots. To see if this is a factor. Save your PS from PrintPanel to a file. Edit that file as follows, and send it directly via "lpr" command to the printer. Change the line: /_NXLevel2 systemdict /languagelevel known {languagelevel 2 ge}{false}ifelse __N Xdef to: /_NXLevel2 false __NXdef If your light gray suddenly show up correctly, you have this incompatibility problem of level-2 color space calibration. The change above turns off Level 2 features. Izumi Ohzawa
From: buckley@mayo.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: mouse is dying Date: 14 Mar 1996 04:30:06 GMT Organization: BBS Systems - San Francisco Message-ID: <4i87ce$a8o@cyberE.creative.net> References: <4i3u42$gs6@jaring.my> <Pine.NXT.3.91.960312102624.16994I-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960312102624.16994I-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> On 03/11/96, "Timothy J. Luoma" wrote: |On 12 Mar 1996 michael@rumah.pc.my wrote: | |> The mouse on my blackbox is dying a slow death. you are not alone I probably own the only blackbox in the |> country, Not so! I have my hands on a lot of other computers during the day but I still wouldn't take this black toolbox off my desk. |http://www.dancingbear.com/contact.htmd/TXT.html Also try ComputerActive for their logitech alternative http://www.computeractive.on.ca/cAi/products/ -- _________________________________________ Paul Buckley 555 Clayton St., #25 San Francisco, CA 94117 Email: buckley.paul@mayo.edu Tel: 415-558-9381 _________________________________________
From: kay@cordis.lu (Kay Schulz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,de.comp.sys.next Subject: What PC configuration Date: 14 Mar 1996 08:32:49 GMT Organization: Infopartners S.A. Luxembourg Message-ID: <4i8lji$r9u@oops.ip.lu> Dear netters since there won't be any NS4.0/HPPA I have to choose another machine. I decided for a Pentium PC. But I used an HP 712 so I don't know much about PCs. I don't need a monitor or Harddisks, I can use the things from my Gecko. But I want to know want motherboard, what Processor, what controller, what graphicscard. I think 64 MB Ram would be ok But what processor? I read so much about chipsets not working or processors with a special chipset not working. What about a real fast scsi controller? Nomally I would say it doesn't matter the drivers from next are so poor (also for PCs???)? And I want a graphicscard as good as what I have now, which means 32 Bit, 1280x1024 76 hz Any hints? The limit is 10.000 DM or 7000 US $ -- With sports, the body lasts longer. With thoughts, the mind lasts longer. I hope my body dies first. Kay Schulz k.schulz@cordis.lu
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NeXT Linotype service bureau? Date: 14 Mar 1996 08:19:15 GMT Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Sender: reichman@comserv-j-47.usc.edu Message-ID: <4i8kq3$s6n@usc.edu> References: <31470341.4C28@lanl.gov> <4i7st7$du0@saba.info.ucla.edu> In <4i7st7$du0@saba.info.ucla.edu> S. Port wrote: > In article <31470341.4C28@lanl.gov> Dick Phillips <rlp@lanl.gov> writes: > >Folks: > > > > I need the services of an organization that can take Postscript files > > from my NeXT and produce 2400 dpi film output. I once used Light Printing > > in New York for this, but they seem to have gone out of business. If you > > know of any service bureaus that have this capability, please send me > > email. Thanks for any help. > > I run the morning side of a busy service bureau in Los Angeles. I have sent > Next PostScript files to our Linotype-Hell 330 imagesetter for lino output > and our 630 for film output. I have also sent them to AGFA SelectSet 5000 > output and CG9600. None of the RIPs attached to these devices will accept > the Next Postscript. A variety of postscript errors are returned. I believe > it is due to the nature of Display Postscript as opposed to whatever > PostScript the Mac generates - probably Postscript Level 1. My experience has been using Virtuoso postscript and eps files to a Linotype-Hell 330. I made sure to include the proper ppd definition in the ps file and have had no problems whatsoever. I just put that ps file onto something formatted for the mac or dos and give it over to Electric Pencil in Hollywood, CA and everything is just fine. I haven't tried FrameMaker or other apps, though. But if Virtuoso can handle it, then why can't others (because I think the clue is that one can specify the printer in question). Another route, instead of Macintilizing one's NeXT baby, Tailor probably can convert NeXT ps files to whatever is needed. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@scf.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: hiroomi-tky@umin.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Hiroomi Gamo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Easiest way to make a Mac connection? Date: 14 Mar 1996 07:16:17 GMT Organization: RI Central Labo@Univ of Tokyo Message-ID: <hiroomi-tky-1403961615380001@130.69.66.169> References: <4i4121$edk@serv.hinet.net> In article <4i4121$edk@serv.hinet.net>, james@young-ray.hinet.net (James C. Lin) wrote: > Hello, > > I need to connect a PB170 with a nextcube to do some file transfering. Can > anyone suggest me a quick method? Hello,Lin-san. If you have NeXT Step 3.0 CD,there is an apple talk client software package(AppleShare.pkg or something,I don't remember correctly) in it. The software itself is a preference file which is needed to access to the file system of PB170 via ether net. So you have to configure the IP address of PB170(in "Mac TCP" control panel),cube(by using Simple Network Starter) and once the IP addresses are properly set, you can log into the file system of PB170 which is mounted and appears in /Net/Apple Share/name of PB170. -- Hiroomi Gamo RI Central Labo Univ of Tokyo hiroomi-tky@umin.u-tokyo.ac.jp GAA01451@niftyserve.or.jp
From: lusty@aimnet.com (Lusty Wench) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: A Blast From the Past Date: 14 Mar 1996 06:49:44 -0800 Organization: Aimnet Corp. Message-ID: <4i9bm8$5sj@aimnet.aimnet.com> Anybody remember SEF from his glory days on comp.sys.next.*? Apparently he's still making enemies everywhere he goes... Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix From: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) Subject: What happened to me during UseNIX in San Diego Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 19:20:48 GMT The following is a message I wrote on Thursday, January 25th; the events described happened the day before, on Wednesday (the first day of the conference). After that is a letter that I sent to Ellie Young of the UseNIX Association. Part One: The Event -------------------- It was lunchtime. I was getting hungry, so I decided to walk down to the Planet Hollywood (never been there, it was close, was billed as having "american" food [I was in the mood for a cheeseburger, actually]). As was usual, I was barefoot. The restaurant was in an open-air mall called the Horton Plaza. By "Open-air," I mean that I was always outside, until I would have gone *into* a store -- and I had my shoes in my napsack, and was planning on putting them on once I actually *found* the restaurant and made sure there was room for me. I stopped at the plaza directory; a (female) security guard came up to me and said, "You have to wear shoes." That being obviously untrue (I mean, I wasn't wearing shoes, and I hadn't died or anything...), I just said, "No, I don't," and kept looking at the directory. After I found the restaurant, I started walking towards it. Then a big male security guard stepped in my way and said something like, "You're not going anywhere." I tried to turn (either away or just to get around him, wasn't sure at the time), and he grabbed me. *Hard*. (My arm and my shirt.) I stared at him and said, "That is assault and battery. Take your hands off me." He let go of the shirt, but kept holding my arm. I told him again to take his hands off me. He didn't, so I repeated it once more. He didn't, again, so I twisted my arm to get his hand off me. It worked. Then he grabbed me again, and, again, I twisted. After that it gets a bit fuzzy; I remember him grabbing both shoulders and trying to throw me to the ground, but he wasn't able to; I also remember seeing another security person with handcuffs, so I crosst my wrists so they couldn't put them on (how that came to me, I don't know). Next thing I remember is four or five of them grabbing me, and trying to throw me to the ground or twist my arms around me or whatever they could think of, and then someone was spraying me with what I first misidentified as mace (but was really pepperspray). Somewhere along the way, my glasses had come off, as well. At that point, I let them put the cuffs on me (yes, *let*: I could have kept struggling; I also could have hurt them pretty badly at any point, although it would have escalated from there). They then dragged/pushed me to their basement parking level, to "the cage," where I stayed for 2.5 hours until the police came, who then took their statements, put more painful handcuffs on me, and took me to the police station, where I stayed for over three hours; then I got taken down to the city jail where I was processed, and jailed. I spent half of yesterday in cuffs, and I spent nearly all of it in prison of some form or another. As near as I and others can figure it, they mall folks took me for a homeless person, and decided to get rid of me. I have been charged with misdemeanor tresspassing on an open-to-the-public space; no assault charges. My bail was $135, which I could have written a check for, but nobody was willing to tell me so, so I had to use a bailbondsman, who then picked me up, after charging it, and other fees, to my credit card. (I don't mind, though -- she was very nice to pick me up from the jail and take me back to the hotel.) That's the basics of it. There's more, mostly what the security folks were saying as they pushed me around, but I can't remember much from then too clearly. I have a court date, down here, of Feb 22, at 8AM. I will probably have to hire an attorney to go in for me. Part Two: The Lawyers ---------------------- I spoke with three different attorneys; two in San Diego, and one in Los Angeles (who had an associate in San Diego). The first one was willing to take on my case, and do his best to get it dismissed; he also wanted $1200, although he was willing to go down to "only" $800 because he felt pity for me. (This would not cover any costs should it go to trial.) The second one, the one in L.A., thought I was a foold, should have known better, and was willing to take $500 to have his associate go to court and plead guilty and throw me on the mercy of the court, and, with luck, I would get off with a fine and a year or two of probation. Needless to say, I decided not to go with this person. THe third lawyer was also in San Diego; he wanted $650 to deal with it, excluding any trial costs. Because time was running short, I went with him. Part Three: The Conclusion --------------------------- This is (an edited) part of the letter I sent to Ellie Young yesterday. UseNIX, through her, had offered to write a letter to my lawyer explaining that I was a conference attendee, etc., if it were necessary. It, obviously, never was: On my attorney's advice, I am pleading guilty to an infraction count of trespassing (bargained down from a misdemeanor charge of trespassing). I will have a fine of $150, but no probation, jail time, community service, or criminal record. However, and I state this as a UseNIX Association member and ask that you pass it on to whoever should get it: I will never again attend a UseNIX Conference in San Diego, until such time as I get an apology (and preferably renumeration for the nearly $1000 in costs I have incurred throughout this ordeal) from one or more of the parties involved (Horton Plaza, their security, the San Diego Police Department, and/or the City of San Diego). I will never again visit or pass through San Diego; I shall do my best to avoid dealings with any person, company, or agency in San Diego. I will shortly be posting my story to the net (comp.org.usenix at the least), and inviting others to do the same. Regardless of my appearance or whether or not I was correct in my attitude of ignoring the first security person who confronted me, assault, handcuffs, and pepper spray go far beyond acceptable response. And I cannot begin to express how angry I am at the fact that I had to accept a plea bargain, or at the fact that this effectively eliminates any chance I may have had at a civil suit.
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Easiest way to make a Mac connection? Date: 14 Mar 1996 15:56:19 GMT Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc. Message-ID: <4i9fj3$eda@news.its.com> References: <4i4121$edk@serv.hinet.net> james@young-ray.hinet.net (James C. Lin) wrote: > I know of the null modem connection method, (connecting the two serial > ports) but what kind of speed can I achive in this case? Is there an easier > and also higher speed method? Null modem might give you 38 or 56 kBps. Try using ethernet to connect the machines-- it's 10 MBps, roughly 200 times faster. -Chuck Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc. --------------------------------+--------------------------------------- CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: Janaka v Goonasekera <sci40131@leonis.nus.sg> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: Spilled Milk (was: NS/HP 4.0: You are pissed off!?) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 17:41:54 +0800 Organization: National University of Singapore Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960314171529.30967B-100000@leonis.nus.sg> References: <4hfpke$8i2@precipice.fdn.fr> <4hguf4$if8@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> <4ht7vs$97u@Vir.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4ht7vs$97u@Vir.com> On 9 Mar 1996, Stefanos Kiakas wrote: > I can't figure NeXT out. They have the best product out there and a loyal > following. Yet they continually seem to readjust their focus. First, > they stop making hardware, now they're getting out of the operating system, > in a year they'll probably get out of OPENSTEP and a year later they'll > probably dump WebObjects as well. You had never thought of this continual soul-searching as a good thing? NeXT realised that they couldn't 'change the world' with their black box so they dropped it and focused on NEXSTEP. Then they realised that wasn't all that revolutionary either so they re-focus' on OPENSTEP. Now that they've realised that the NeXT big thing is going to be on the Web, WebObjects and its siblings is the way to go. This clearly demonstrates that NeXT *IS* in fact persuing its dreams and ideals, but is no longer dogmatic, stubborn or inflexible. This is clear sign of maturity on Steve Job's part. NeXT is trying to find 'a way' out there in what has been a saturated IT landscape, so it is natural that they will not instantaneously stumble upon the goldmine. Trying to mold their technology and 'cause' into the 'NeXT big thing' is a great idea. With the advent of the Web, the technology, the applications, the hype and the confusion is exactly what NeXT has been waiting for, i guess. I'd *LOVE* to see into what NeXT evolves OPENSTEP, as a Web technology...and i'm not talking about WebObjects here!!! (Steve did say that the Web 'throws the door open' to new UI metaphors. He must have had some idea?!) OPENSTEP for Java? WEBSTEP? Yes, please, NeXT.
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NeXT Linotype service bureau? Date: 14 Mar 1996 16:58:24 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: world Message-ID: <4i9j7g$ai8@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <4i8kq3$s6n@usc.edu> In article <4i8kq3$s6n@usc.edu> reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) writes: >Another route, instead of Macintilizing one's NeXT baby, Tailor probably can >convert NeXT ps files to whatever is needed. Before Tailor, we had a lot of problems with NS generated PostScript sent to non-Adobe PS RIPs. But after importing into Tailor and just saving it back produces a structurally simplified PS that nearly all wimpy RIPs can take without problems. If you have to print PS on non-Adobe level-2 RIPs, Tailor is a must (though I think Linotype is Adobe interpreter). -- Izumi Ohzawa <izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu> [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ] USMail: Univ. of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-2020 Tel: 510-642-6440, Fax: -3323, Web: http://totoro.berkeley.edu/~izumi/
From: walkup@dimension.nhn.uoknor.edu (John Walkup) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: A Blast From the Past Date: 14 Mar 96 23:56:36 GMT Organization: The University of Oklahoma (USA) Message-ID: <walkup.826847796@dimension> References: <4i9bm8$5sj@aimnet.aimnet.com> Did he ever get his cheeseburger?
From: font@MCS.COM (Font) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: WM: How to make shelf folder cwd in another File Viewer? Date: 14 Mar 1996 18:59:30 -0600 Organization: MCSNet Services Message-ID: <4iafdi$os@Venus.mcs.com> Is there an easy way to make a shelf folder in one File Viewer the current directory in another File Viewer in one easy step? I know I could click on the shelf folder, grab it from the current FV directory, put it on the second FV shelf, and then click it there, but then I lose the current directory in the FV whose shelf the desired directory comes from. What a mess. -- font@mcs.net Wishes are like dishes.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Subject: Re: NeXT Linotype service bureau? In-Reply-To: Dick Phillips's message of Wed, 13 Mar 1996 10:17:53 -0700 Message-ID: <RDL.96Mar14203457@world.std.com> Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <31470341.4C28@lanl.gov> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 01:34:57 GMT Graphics Express in Boston, MA does 3600 DPI film output. Last time I was there (a couple years back) they had a NeXT cube. Any service bureau will take Zip, Syquest and DynaMO disks... Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant Boston, MA Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com In article <31470341.4C28@lanl.gov> Dick Phillips <rlp@lanl.gov> writes: Xref: world comp.sys.next.misc:46607 Path: world!coopnews.coop.net!csnews!boulder!csn!nntp-xfer-2.csn.net!csn!news-1.csn.net!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uchinews!ncar!newshost.lanl.gov!usenet From: Dick Phillips <rlp@lanl.gov> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 10:17:53 -0700 Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 10 NNTP-Posting-Host: sunset.lanl.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (WinNT; I) Folks: I need the services of an organization that can take Postscript files from my NeXT and produce 2400 dpi film output. I once used Light Printing in New York for this, but they seem to have gone out of business. If you know of any service bureaus that have this capability, please send me email. Thanks for any help. Dick Phillips rlp@lanl.gov
From: deniseh@nntp.best.com (Denise Howard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: A Blast From the Past Date: 15 Mar 1996 03:04:09 GMT Organization: Best Internet Communications Message-ID: <4iamn9$bnm@nntp1.best.com> References: <4i9bm8$5sj@aimnet.aimnet.com> Sounds like if the city of San Diego stays quiet they won't ever have to deal with his presence again! Denise -- Denise Howard | PROGRAM, tr. v., An activity similar to Mountain View, CA | banging one's head against a wall, but deniseh@best.com | with fewer opportunities for reward. NeXTMail welcome! | http://www.best.com/~deniseh
From: frank@this.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NeXT Linotype service bureau? Date: 15 Mar 1996 00:11:27 GMT Organization: Seicom GmbH, Reutlingen, Germany, Europe Message-ID: <4iacjf$kik@gate.seicom.net> References: <31470341.4C28@lanl.gov> <4i7st7$du0@saba.info.ucla.edu> <4i8kq3$s6n@usc.edu> In <4i7st7$du0@saba.info.ucla.edu> S. Port wrote: > In article <31470341.4C28@lanl.gov> Dick Phillips <rlp@lanl.gov> writes: > >Folks: > > > > I need the services of an organization that can take Postscript files > > from my NeXT and produce 2400 dpi film output. I once used Light Printing > > in New York for this, but they seem to have gone out of business. If you > > know of any service bureaus that have this capability, please send me > > email. Thanks for any help. > > I run the morning side of a busy service bureau in Los Angeles. I have sent > Next PostScript files to our Linotype-Hell 330 imagesetter for lino output > and our 630 for film output. I have also sent them to AGFA SelectSet 5000 > output and CG9600. None of the RIPs attached to these devices will accept > the Next Postscript. A variety of postscript errors are returned. I believe > it is due to the nature of Display Postscript as opposed to whatever > PostScript the Mac generates - probably Postscript Level 1. Not true. If you use the propper PPD file or write as Device Independent PostScript file it should work on your lino system (guess your 330 is connected to a RIP30 or 40 and the 630 has a RIP50 or a RIP60 attached?). The same applies for the Agfa RIP. I did quite a lot of NeXT work on Lino RIP60, RIP30 and Agfa StarRIPs. -- Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] -- Home Page http://hades.tue.schwaben.de/~frank NeXTSTEP, Linux & PostScript Guy "In cantonese C++ is called C ga ga"
From: kris@xmission.com (Kristopher Magnusson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Those Canon ObjectStations ver 2 Followup-To: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Date: 15 Mar 1996 04:36:10 GMT Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <4ias3q$h7p@news.xmission.com> References: <4i02cl$9g0@chinx4.thoughtport.net> Robert Wakeman (rwakeman) wrote: : According to OpenSource, one drawback for new buyers was, the chipset : Canon used for the ObjectStation. It is not compatible with Windows 95. : This would be a concern for owners who wanted to run NS and Windows 95. : : 1. Can the chipset be upgraded to one that does support Windows 95 for those : who want to run both, especially when NS will run with Windows 95 D'OLE? Yes--just slap in an ISA-based video card. : 4. Can you set those monitors for various degrees of colors and resolutions? Yes. : 5. I would be interested to know, if anyone has asked Canon if their new line : of : computers support and run NS? And, why their ObjectStations were designed : so beautiful, with the CD and floppy drives on the side like those Sun and : other unix computers, and their new line, which look like any run-of-the-mill : PC boxes. Because customers who were used to the fit-and-finish of a black slab wanted something similar in a NEXTSTEP PC. Customers who weren't, don't. : 6. Does anyone know who still sells these beautiful Object Stations, I would : assume that they would be sold at reduced prices, since it's obvious that the : rest of the computer world does not want them? You just missed it. Ian Stewart of NYRO Technics just unloaded a bunch of them. Also, Drew Davidson was selling an Intel GX, which came close to becoming NeXT's very own branded Intel offering. He may still have it. The video isn't as nice as the Canon Wingine, but it runs Win32 with no hassles and has decent integration of components. : Since there seems to be a sudden rush of black hardware for sale these days, : I wonder what kind of computers are replacing them? I built a NEXTSTEP PC from parts available from the corner PC vendor that is more stable than my color slab and twice as fast at compiles. Pretty much any PC on the market these days is a good NEXTSTEP machine. Just pick the flavor you like. OTOH, Bifrost is keeping up the tradition of offering rocket-fast, bulletproof NEXTSTEP-optimized PCs. I highly recommend their skills and enthusiasm. (I worked closely with them in one of my former incarnations.) ....................kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Subject: Re: A Blast From the Past In-Reply-To: lusty@aimnet.com's message of 14 Mar 1996 06:49:44 -0800 Message-ID: <RDL.96Mar15005906@world.std.com> Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <4i9bm8$5sj@aimnet.aimnet.com> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 05:59:06 GMT All I remember is getting a copy of every RTF post that anyone ever posted on comp.sys.next mailed to my Lotus ATG account. I also remember Simson asking, "So what are we going to do to him?" which caused an uproar... Then there was Jayson who added a devilish icon in NewsGrazer that showed up when ever there was a post by sef. Robert
From: ottog@futon.sfsu.edu (Otto Grajeda) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: fax via command line Date: 15 Mar 1996 07:45:08 GMT Organization: Sirius Connections Message-ID: <4ib764$ovh@sun.sirius.com> Hello I looked thru the FAQs and searched thru NeXT Answers and could not find any info on faxing via the command line. Does anyone have any info on how to fax via command line ? -- ____________________________________________________________________________ __ | Otto R. Grajeda | __ /\_\ | "do you know what an ISDN card looks like @ the CO" | /\_\ \/_/ | otto@sirius.com | \/_/ NeXTSTEP! | NeXTmail and MIME are not welcomed | !OPENSTEP ____________________________________________________________________________
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: jpanico@netcom.com (Joe Panico) Subject: Re: NT/NS dual boot Message-ID: <jpanicoDoBB71.Mx6@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) References: <4i4sn0$kek@barad-dur.nas.com> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 14:06:36 GMT Sender: jpanico@netcom20.netcom.com Michael F. DeMan (michael@localhost.204.57.139) wrote: : Yes, : : I've got both NT and NS on my system. NT came first and I : installed NS on the second partition afterwards. It does the standard NS : dual boot startup where you can specify any partition. OK, but is it possible to install a boot manager (Next's, LILO or OS/2) that will allow you to dynamically select an OS (NT, NS, WIN95) to boot that resides on another drive (SCSI id > 0)? I'm looking for some kind scheme that will allow me to put NS on the boot drive, NT and 95 on another drive, and select any of them for boot at power up. Any info appreciated. Thanks. -- Joe Panico NeXTStep/OpenStep Developer BLaCKSMITH Inc. jpanico@netcom.com /* Please no NeXTMail, I can't read it at this address */
From: kelley@mudpot.ATMOS.ColoState.Edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: A Blast From the Past Date: 15 Mar 1996 15:23:52 GMT Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 Message-ID: <4ic228$1op2@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> References: <4i9bm8$5sj@aimnet.aimnet.com> <RDL.96Mar15005906@world.std.com> rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) wrote: > All I remember is getting a copy of every RTF post that anyone ever posted > on comp.sys.next mailed to my Lotus ATG account. I also remember Simson > asking, "So what are we going to do to him?" which caused an uproar... > Then there was Jayson who added a devilish icon in NewsGrazer that showed > up when ever there was a post by sef. > > Robert ha! even the old app RUsers.app had a special devil tiff in the app wrapper for sef+. i just remember watching him flame everybody and then one day i made the mistake of responding via post to something, trying to help, and he sent me a "seething" email about how stupid i was. so i fired one back at him and got his "your mail is no longer being read by this person yadda yadda yadda". i must admit, i hardly ever post replies anymore because of that. just use email. kelley
From: Scott McSpadden <scottmcs@visi.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Wanted: UpgradePrep.app Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 18:24:39 -0800 Organization: Vector Internet Services Inc. Message-ID: <3148D4E7.725@visi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a NeXTCube without a floppy drive (only an optical drive) and have been happily running NeXTSTEP 2.0. But, recently I have decided to upgrade to NeXTSTEP 3.3. I found that I either need to get my hands on a floppy drive or find a copy of the application UpgradePrep.app. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: A Blast From the Past Date: 15 Mar 1996 17:58:30 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <4icb46$ho7@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <4i9bm8$5sj@aimnet.aimnet.com> <RDL.96Mar15005906@world.std.com> rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) wrote: > All I remember is getting a copy of every RTF post that anyone > ever posted on comp.sys.next mailed to my Lotus ATG account. I > also remember Simson asking, "So what are we going to do to > him?" which caused an uproar... Then there was Jayson who added > a devilish icon in NewsGrazer that showed up when ever there was > a post by sef. I remember him as the only person that I've used the "kill by author" feature on. That's in about 15 years of various forms of computer-mediated communication. Still, this incident (his adventures in San Diego) are pretty obnoxious. I mean, that security guard couldn't have known it was SEF, so this is something that could have happened to anyone who dared to (GASP) walk barefoot. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: edx@cc.usu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: A Blast From the Past Message-ID: <1996Mar15.115553.76623@cc.usu.edu> Date: 15 Mar 96 11:55:53 MDT References: <4i9bm8$5sj@aimnet.aimnet.com> Organization: Utah State University In article <4i9bm8$5sj@aimnet.aimnet.com>, lusty@aimnet.com (Lusty Wench) writes: > Anybody remember SEF from his glory days on comp.sys.next.*? Apparently > he's still making enemies everywhere he goes... > [... story of police harassment snipped ... ] I used to think he was a jerk. Now he's my hero! - HRC - :-)
From: gil@atlantic (Gil Rivlis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Chap 7 of SQLUG corrupted. Anyone has a copy? Date: 16 Mar 1996 01:05:50 GMT Organization: Ohio State University Physics Department Message-ID: <4id45e$3e@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu> I have one of those old Sybase distribution that I inherited with my computer. However, chapter 7 of the SQLUG (the SQL user guide) was/is corrupted. Can some kind soul be able to give me a copy? It is for Sybase version 4 (or 4.6). If someone can do it, please drop me an email, and I'll just select one person. The sys-admin wouldn't like the mailbox to get flooded with many copies. Thansks, Gil
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: multiple swapfiles? Date: 16 Mar 1996 00:54:51 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <4id3gs$ske@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <4i775r$pl3@news.eecs.umich.edu> mrozek@eecs.umich.edu (Eric M. Mrozek) wrote: > In some of the hosts I work with, there is only one swapfile. > In others, I see two swapfiles: > /private/vm/swapfile > /private/vm/swapfile.front > Why is there a difference on different hosts? What is the difference > between the two files? Is there a way to clean out the swapfile > other than rebooting? The machines which have only /private/vm/swapfile are configured so they do *not* do swapfile compression. The machines with that and /private/vm/swapfile.front are setup to do swapfile compression. Note that the "default" for swapfile compression switched. It used to be "nocompress" by default, now it's "compress". So, you may see the difference based on what version of NeXTSTEP you are running. If not, check /etc/swaptab the different systems. When compression is on (and you have the two files showing up in 'ls'), there really is only one file there. The file which is actually getting written to the hard disk (and using up space there) is /private/vm/swapfile. This is the compressed version of the swapfile. /private/vm/swapfile.front is the uncompressed version, but it's a virtual file system. It's not really on the disk. If you do the 'df' unix command, you'll see that /private/vm/swapfile is mounted at /private/vm/swapfile.front. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: multiple swapfiles? Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 10:28:02 -0500 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960314095543.11363G-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4i775r$pl3@news.eecs.umich.edu> On 13 Mar 1996, Eric M. Mrozek wrote: > In some of the hosts I work with, there is only one swapfile. In others, > I see two swapfiles: > /private/vm/swapfile > /private/vm/swapfile.front > Why is there a difference on different hosts? What is the difference > between the two files? Some of them have 'nocompress' option turned on. Some of them do not (these are the ones with the 'swapfile.front') Check out /etc/swaptab to see the options set for swapping. For a detailed explanation of this, check out this NeXTAnswer (1020) http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1020.htmld/1020.html > Is there a way to clean out the swapfile other than rebooting? Try: logout, login as 'Exit' (or 'exit', I can never remember which one). That might help. Probably not much. Seems like NeXT has never really gotten the swapping down right, so the pages are never released when no longer in use. The only way to do it is to reboot. Now, you can use 'shutdown -r +1' via cron to do this for you late at night or something... For more info in the swapfile under NeXTStep, check out: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/documents/Swapfile_and_Swapdisk_FAQ_Version_1.0 .tar.gz or send me an email with the SUBJECT 'send swapfaq' (without the ' marks) TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> NeXT Info Available via email on: PPP under NeXTStep, swapfiles, swapdisks, hidden dwrites, NeXTStep tricks and shortcuts, NeXTStep FAQ, and more... For details, send message with subject 'send info'
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: multiple swapfiles? -- part 2 Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 10:31:15 -0500 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960314102825.11363H-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> References: <4i775r$pl3@news.eecs.umich.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4i775r$pl3@news.eecs.umich.edu> On 13 Mar 1996, Eric M. Mrozek wrote: > In some of the hosts I work with, there is only one swapfile. In others, > I see two swapfiles: > /private/vm/swapfile > /private/vm/swapfile.front > Why is there a difference on different hosts? What is the difference > between the two files? Is there a way to clean out the swapfile other than > rebooting? Sorry, I didn't answer your middle question "What is the difference between the two files?" The file with the .front added on is the compressed swapfile. This file does not really exist on your computer, so don't worry about it too much. Or at all.... pretend it isn't there TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> NeXT Info Available via email on: PPP under NeXTStep, swapfiles, swapdisks, hidden dwrites, NeXTStep tricks and shortcuts, NeXTStep FAQ, and more... For details, send message with subject 'send info'
From: Dario Ringach <dario@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: SoundBlaster Driver for NS 3.2? Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 10:55:55 -0500 Organization: Center for Neural Science, NYU Message-ID: <314AE48B.41C6@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: dario@cns.nyu.edu I saw there is a SoundBlaster driver for NS 3.3 on NeXT ftp site... Is there a driver for 3.2 somewhere? Thanks in advance... -- Dr. Dario Ringach | office: (212) 998-7614 lab: (212) 998-7730 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 |
From: art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Color NeXT Systems Date: 17 Mar 1996 17:12:15 GMT Organization: Sense Networking Seattle (www.oz.net) Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ihh5f$led@emerald.oz.net> References: <DnxBIG.GLC@news.hawaii.edu> <1996Mar9.111340.16341@nidat.sub.org> Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) wrote: > In article <DnxBIG.GLC@news.hawaii.edu> tzulun@Hawaii.Edu (Tzu-Lun Lin) > writes: > > Is NeXTDimension the only way to get a Color Cube? > > > Naye. NeXTDimension is a frame grabber making a Qube video data stream > aware. There are "simple" Color Qubes that just have "simple" color > displays. Huh?! Maybe I don't understand what you're saying, but I've never heard of a NeXTcube Color that didn't include a NeXTdimension card. The 12" x 12" Cube board geometry was apparently too small to add color hardware when Cubes were being manufactured, so NeXT never sold a Cube without a NeXTdimension card that could display color as far as I know. Please correct me if I'm wrong. -- Art Isbell NeXT & MIME Mail: art@cubicsol.com NeXT Registered Consultant Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 Trego Systems Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 CaseServ: NEXTSTEP managed care US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442 contract and case management solutions
From: "Kevin J. Kumpf" <kkumpf@whatsoft.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Those Canon ObjectStations ver 2 Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 16:37:30 -0800 Organization: WHAT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <314CB04A.45AF@whatsoft.com> References: <4i02cl$9g0@chinx4.thoughtport.net> <4ias3q$h7p@news.xmission.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In regards to the issue of the new Canon hardware running NEXTSTEP, the answer is no. WHAT Software, Inc. asked Canon a few weeks ago about the new hardware. From a corporate standpoint Canon is only focusing on the Windows NT market. The staff from the Object group was released about 6 months ago (the end of the Object station). Canon has no real interest in the market. Kevin J. Kumpf Director of Marketing WHAT Software, Inc. p.s. There is alot more to it, but that is the bottom line.
From: mpaque@pbinet.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: A Blast From the Past Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 00:04:35 GMT Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services Message-ID: <4ii9fe$t78@SNFC21_SRVR_WWW.PBI.net> References: <4i9bm8$5sj@aimnet.aimnet.com> <RDL.96Mar15005906@world.std.com> <4icb46$ho7@usenet.rpi.edu> Ah, SEF... It looks like he tried to apply all those finely honed social skills he's developed on USENET to the Real World. It doesn't look like they've mapped very well.... Mike Paquette Mike Paquette I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me. mpaque@pbinet.com Personal E-mail mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
From: doroin@cobber.cord.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: what are these files for: /usr/lib/sound/*.snd Date: 18 Mar 1996 02:19:36 GMT Organization: CyberGate, Inc. Message-ID: <4iih7o$pl8@news.gate.net> I can't play the sounds so I'm not sure they are soundfiles. I'm just curious what they are for. -r--r--r-- 1 root 792 May 25 1992 booter.snd -r--r--r-- 1 root 1764 May 25 1992 codec.snd -r--r--r-- 1 root 1224 May 25 1992 decodemulawsquelch.snd -r--r--r-- 1 root 1264 May 25 1992 derecord22m.snd -r--r--r-- 1 root 1256 May 25 1992 dsprecord.snd -r--r--r-- 1 root 1736 May 25 1992 encodemulawsquelch.snd -r--r--r-- 1 root 4652 Jul 10 1992 hostcompress.snd -r--r--r-- 1 root 16300 Jul 12 1992 hostcompressatc.snd -r--r--r-- 1 root 4500 May 25 1992 hostdecompress.snd -r--r--r-- 1 root 16956 Jul 12 1992 hostdecompressatc.snd -r--r--r-- 1 root 940 May 25 1992 mono.snd -r--r--r-- 1 root 968 May 25 1992 monobyte.snd -r--r--r-- 1 root 1800 May 25 1992 mulawcodec.snd -r--r--r-- 1 root 2080 May 25 1992 mulawcodecsquelch.snd -r--r--r-- 1 root 4516 May 25 1992 sndoutdecompress.snd -r--r--r-- 1 root 17016 Jul 12 1992 sndoutdecompressatc.snd -r--r--r-- 1 root 4028 May 25 1992 ssicompress.snd -r--r--r-- 1 root 1548 May 25 1992 ssiplay.snd -Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jon Doroin | (((NeXTSTEP POWER))) doroin@cobber.cord.edu | NeXTSTEP|RenderMan|solidThinking
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Subject: Re: Those Canon ObjectStations ver 2 In-Reply-To: "Kevin J. Kumpf"'s message of Sun, 17 Mar 1996 16:37:30 -0800 Message-ID: <RDL.96Mar17222940@world.std.com> Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <4i02cl$9g0@chinx4.thoughtport.net> <4ias3q$h7p@news.xmission.com> <314CB04A.45AF@whatsoft.com> Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 03:29:40 GMT I could never understand the rationale behind why anyone would like the Canon ObjectStations. Canon (like Compaq) consistently produce hardware that is a generation behind everyone else. If you want a great Intel system, you'll need to find a NEXTSTEP systems integrator that will build one for you with an Intel or ASUS motherboard or purchase a Dell/DEC/Micron. Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant Boston, MA Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
From: cortesr@alleg.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NeXTSTEP for sparcstation Date: 18 Mar 1996 05:24:19 GMT Organization: Allegheny College Message-ID: <4iis23$i18@speering.alleg.edu> Hello: I have a couple of(sparc related) questions: 1. How come my Fonts will not show up in their usual manner on a sparcstation5 running NextStep 3.3? 2. Does anyone know if Paula.app (for playing mods) is compiled FAT for sparc? Thanks, Ricardo -- Ricardo Cortes Allegheny College cortesr@alleg.edu (NeXTMail OK) http://ace.alleg.edu/~cortes
From: cortesr@alleg.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: One more ? Date: 18 Mar 1996 05:24:36 GMT Organization: Allegheny College Message-ID: <4iis2k$i18@speering.alleg.edu> I guess i have one more that has been in my mind for awhile: 1. Is there anyway of knowing if someone has placed a receipt on a NeXTMail message? -- Ricardo Cortes Allegheny College cortesr@alleg.edu (NeXTMail OK) http://ace.alleg.edu/~cortes
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: 18 Mar 1996 05:15:10 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4iirgu$bqa@digifix.digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Software, Inc. 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Scott (mailto:eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU) and Scott Anguish (mailto:sanguish@digifix.com) Additions from: Greg Anderson (mailto:Greg_Anderson@afs.com) Michael Pizolato (mailto:alf@epix.net) Dan Grillo (mailto:dan_grillo@next.com)
From: ed@FirstLink.com (Ed DeBolt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Digital Camera's and NS Date: 17 Mar 1996 00:10:29 GMT Organization: Denver Online Distribution: USA Message-ID: <4ifl9l$o7o@axil.DenverOnline.com> I was checking out this new casio digital camera. It is very cool. Has an LCD on the back as a viewfinder. It holds 92 images and comes with windows and mac software. It looks like you connect it to a machine via a com port. Has anyone tried to interface this with NS. I guess I could use SoftPC but NS would be much better. -- Ed DeBolt 303-818-8492 (voice) First Link Consulting 303-417-1517 (fax) 875 7th Street ed@firstlink.com Boulder CO 80302 NEXT/MIME OK
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: One more ? Date: 18 Mar 1996 09:56:33 GMT Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Sender: reichman@comserv-i-36.usc.edu Message-ID: <4ijc0h$k24@usc.edu> References: <4iis2k$i18@speering.alleg.edu> In <4iis2k$i18@speering.alleg.edu> cortesr@alleg.edu wrote: > I guess i have one more that has been in my mind for awhile: > > 1. Is there anyway of knowing if someone has placed a receipt on a NeXTMail > message? dwrite Mail ReadReceipt YES dwrite Mail ReadReceipt NO dwrite Mail ReadReceipt ASK -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@scf.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: fischer@fokus.gmd.de (Robert Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.software Subject: ** Save OPENSTEP/HPPA **: It's on the track! Date: 18 Mar 1996 13:34:25 GMT Organization: GMD-FOKUS Message-ID: <4ijop1$3id@stern.fokus.gmd.de> Keep your fingers crossed! I've posted the petition to save OPENSTEP/HPPA to NeXT and HP (each Europe and USA). The final standing: ~140 people representing ~200 HP workstations have participated. Thanks to all who responded with their signature and comments. Keep it locked, crew! Robert. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Fischer @ GMD-Fokus -------- __o ------- _`\<,_ fischer@fokus.gmd.de ------- (*)/ (*) ## NeXT-Mail welcome ## Initiative for OPENSTEP/HP-PA: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/ovma/employees/fischer/SaveOPENSTEP-HP.html ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/incoming/petition -----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Gerald McMullon <mcmullgf@info.bt.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,de.comp.sys.next Subject: Re: What PC configuration Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 15:15:06 +0000 Organization: currently at BT Labs Message-ID: <314D7DFA.3B40@info.bt.co.uk> References: <4i8lji$r9u@oops.ip.lu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: k.schulz@cordis.lu Kay Schulz wrote: > > Dear netters > since there won't be any NS4.0/HPPA I have to choose another machine. I > decided > for a Pentium PC. > But I used an HP 712 so I don't know much about PCs. > I don't need a monitor or Harddisks, I can use the things from my Gecko. But > I want to know want motherboard, what Processor, what controller, what > graphicscard. > I think 64 MB Ram would be ok > But what processor? I read so much about chipsets not working or processors > with a special chipset not working. > What about a real fast scsi controller? Nomally I would say it doesn't matter > the drivers from next are so poor (also for PCs???)? > And I want a graphicscard as good as what I have now, which means 32 Bit, > 1280x1024 76 hz > Any hints? > The limit is 10.000 DM or 7000 US $ > With sports, the body lasts longer. > With thoughts, the mind lasts longer. > I hope my body dies first. > Kay Schulz k.schulz@cordis.lu I went for an Intel P5 133 Endoeavour motherboard with 32Mb RAM, 4Gb Hawk (partitioned 500Mb win95, 1.5Gb Nt, 2Gb NeXTSTEP), Adaptec 2940 SCSI, Videologic GrafixStar 700 4Mb VRAM SVGA and Plextor 6x CD-ROM (sound is on the motherboard). The videologic gtrafixstar 700 is not a good choice for NS or NT - lack of driver support for S3 968. The Diamond Stealth 64 4Mb is great on a 17 monitor at 1152x768 in true colour. I am hoping to get a Number Nine Imagine 128 Series II (3D chip version out 1st May in USA for $599 with 4Mb RAM). The 8Mb version of this card will run NS at 1600x1200 in true colour (the only Intel system to do this). If I bought today I would go for P5 166 and EDO RAM (now cheaper than my 5 month old P5 133 standard RAM system). I don't think NS 3.3 makes good use of P6 chips - but I am not sure about this. Gerald McMullon
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: what are these files for: /usr/lib/sound/*.snd Date: 18 Mar 1996 17:54:41 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ik811$2b0@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <4iih7o$pl8@news.gate.net> In article <4iih7o$pl8@news.gate.net> doroin@cobber.cord.edu writes: > >I can't play the sounds so I'm not sure they are soundfiles. I'm just >curious what they are for. > >-r--r--r-- 1 root 792 May 25 1992 booter.snd >-r--r--r-- 1 root 1764 May 25 1992 codec.snd >-r--r--r-- 1 root 1224 May 25 1992 decodemulawsquelch.snd >-r--r--r-- 1 root 1264 May 25 1992 derecord22m.snd > .... These are all Motorola 56001 DSP code (abosolute load image) files, and not sound files. Run "sndinfo" on these files. These are usually created by "sndconvert -d *.lod", where *.lod are Motorola DSP load files in ascii format, produced by 56001 assembler asm56000. -- Izumi Ohzawa <izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu> [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ] USMail: Univ. of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-2020 Tel: 510-642-6440, Fax: -3323, Web: http://totoro.berkeley.edu/~izumi/
From: stevemi@ix.netcom.com(Steve Michaels) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: USA-NJ: NeXT WORKSTATION SPECIALIST Date: 18 Mar 1996 18:42:15 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <4ikaq7$7d@dfw-ixnews1.ix.netcom.com> TRECOM Business Systems, Inc. of Atlanta has a position immediately available in NJ for a NeXT Workstation Specialist. MUST LIVE IN NJ. SALARY: $45K to $52K, depending upon level of experience. TRECOM IS NOT A HEADHUNTING FIRM OR PERSONNEL AGENCY! TRECOM offers a competitive salary with excellent benefits to include HMO, 401K (with rollover plan), 10 paid holidays, 6 paid personal/sick days, 2 weeks paid vacation, tuition reimbursement assistance and more. To apply for any of these positions, please FAX an in-depth, chronological resume to ATTN: STEVE MICHAELS/NETCOM at 1-770-939-0310. If you choose, you may E-mail your resume in an MS-Word format or a DOS Text format to Steve at trecomsm@aol.com. Should you have any questions please contact Steve Michaels at 1-800-621-0310.
From: tfs@gravity.science.gmu.edu ( Tim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: mouse is dying Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Date: 18 Mar 1996 19:05:08 GMT Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax Va. Sender: tfs@gravity.science.gmu.edu Message-ID: <4ikc54$lhb@portal.gmu.edu> References: <4i3u42$gs6@jaring.my> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Summary: it's the cable After hearing numerous people talk about the demise of their mice, my luck ran out finally, and I ended up with 2 black dead mice. I needed to get a usable mouse 'right now' when the second one died, and as a result of that, and watching how they died, I found out what the problem is with these puppies. Least with 2 of mine, and it correlates with what's been posted by other people. Basicly the situation is this; The primaryt stress on the mouse hardware beyond internal ball & wheel stuff, which as it turns out is built out of pretty robust stuff, is the mouse cord. What I've found is that the cords on my 2 mice developed odd shorts right near where the cord goes into the mouse itself. We're talikg about an area that's under 2 inches of wire. I was able to use what cord that went from the rubber boot to the white connector, and what remained of the cord after chopping the 2 offending inches off to put together a working mouse. It takes a bit of time, and you need some degree of dexterity & the right tools to deal with wires that are hair thin, but it can be fixed w/o a problem if yo uhave the time or need. The test I used to determin this problem was to hold the cord tight to the mouse in a "working" position, and go though a full range of motion, and then movethe cord till the mouse started losing functionality. It's pretty obvious once you know what to look for. Tim Scanlon
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Macintosh networking and NEXTSTEP Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 17:56:42 -0600 Organization: Illinois State University, Instructional Technology Services Message-ID: <314DF83A.6EB3@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit It's still available folks! It's NEXTSTEP 3.3 compatible too. Macintosh networking and NEXTSTEP Q: I want to network a machine running NEXTSTEP to a Macintosh or Macintosh network. What software is available to do this? A: Several third party products are available for doing NEXTSTEP to Appletalk or Mac to TCP/IP networking, including printer sharing. Partner uShare IPT (Information Presentation Technologies, Inc.) (805) 541-3000 (805) 541-3037 (fax) 555 Chorro Street, Suite A San Luis Obispo, CA 93405 NFS/Share InterPrint Planet X InterCon Systems Corporation (703) 709-5500 (703) 709-5555 email: info@intercon.com WWW: http://www.intercon.com/ 950 Herndon Parkway, Suite 420 Herndon, VA 22070 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric A. Dubiel; http://138.87.201.11 Instructional mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu Technology PEACE LOVE Services UNITY RESPECT Illinois State University "Understanding is best learned via experience." "Follow our instinct, not a trend. Go against the grain until the end." Unknown .... VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE ENTIRELY MY OWN
From: art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: what are these files for: /usr/lib/sound/*.snd Date: 19 Mar 1996 00:23:41 GMT Organization: Sense Networking Seattle (www.oz.net) Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ikuqd$cm8@emerald.oz.net> References: <4iih7o$pl8@news.gate.net> <4ik811$2b0@agate.berkeley.edu> izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) wrote: > In article <4iih7o$pl8@news.gate.net> doroin@cobber.cord.edu writes: > >I can't play the sounds so I'm not sure they are soundfiles. I'm just > >curious what they are for. > > > >-r--r--r-- 1 root 792 May 25 1992 booter.snd > >-r--r--r-- 1 root 1764 May 25 1992 codec.snd > >-r--r--r-- 1 root 1224 May 25 1992 decodemulawsquelch.snd > >-r--r--r-- 1 root 1264 May 25 1992 derecord22m.snd > > .... > These are all Motorola 56001 DSP code (abosolute load image) files, > and not sound files. Run "sndinfo" on these files. > These are usually created by "sndconvert -d *.lod", where *.lod are > Motorola DSP load files in ascii format, produced by 56001 assembler > asm56000. And since NS 3.1, hostcompress, hostcompressatc, hostdecompressatc, and sndoutdecompressatc seem to be broken. The only way I'm able to hear, for example, the wonderful jungle sounds in the DarkForest Info panel was to replace these files with their NS 3.0 versions. Am I totally confused about why these sounds won't play otherwise? -- Art Isbell NeXT & MIME Mail: art@cubicsol.com NeXT Registered Consultant Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 Trego Systems Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 CaseServ: NEXTSTEP managed care US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442 contract and case management solutions
From: mcnichol@mailbox.syr.edu (Brendan Thomas McNichols) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Company selling NeXT laser printers? Date: 19 Mar 1996 03:04:18 GMT Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY (USA) Message-ID: <4il87i$nqg@newstand.syr.edu> Hi áll¬ É óeeí to reíeíâer receiöiîç á öoótcárä iî tèe íáil áâoõt ±0 or óo íoîtèó áço froí á coíöáîù óelliîç NeØÔ láóer öriîteró. Ôèeù were óelliîç tèeí át ároõîä $350 or $²50 if ùoõ èáä áî õóeä láóer öriîter to tráäe iî. Uîfortõîátelù¬ É toóóeä tèát öoótcárä áîä woõlä îow liëe to çet iî toõcè witè tèió coíöáîù. Doeó áîùoîe reíeíâer receiöiîç tèe óáíe cárä? Do tèeù ótill exiót? Aîùâoäù ëîow èow to coîtáct tèeí? Ôèáîëó öer íõcè iî áäöáîce for áîù èelö. Breîäáî --- Breîäáî Ô. McNicèoló ícîicèolÀíáilâox.óùr.eäõ âícîicèolóÀqõeótrá.coí
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,de.comp.sys.next From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Subject: Re: What PC configuration In-Reply-To: Gerald McMullon's message of Mon, 18 Mar 1996 15:15:06 +0000 Message-ID: <RDL.96Mar19003148@world.std.com> Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <4i8lji$r9u@oops.ip.lu> <314D7DFA.3B40@info.bt.co.uk> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 05:31:48 GMT Actually, the current Number Nine Imagine 128 (8MB) as well as the Elsa Winner (8MB) can do true color in 1600x1280. The P6 will soon be the best choice for NEXTSTEP 3.3 and 4.0. Unfortunately, a bug in the Intel Orion PCI chipset in most P6 motherboards has severely crippled video and to a lesser extent other I/O performance. A revised chipset that may even add new features like Universal Serial Bus (like ADB), SDRAM, etc... should be out shortly. These will be incredible systems. Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant Boston, MA Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
From: craig@rainbow.rmii.com (Craig Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: modem login problem Date: 19 Mar 1996 13:56:53 GMT Organization: Rocky Mountain Internet Inc. Message-ID: <4imef5$7iq@natasha.rmii.com> I have been unable to establish a dialin login to NextStep 3.3 on Intel hardware. The modem connects, the login and password prompt are seen but there is no response to typing the password. The following process is seen. login -p craig Can anyone explaing what is wrong? Craig Anderson craig@rmii.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: ganek@apollo.hp.com (Daniel Ganek) Subject: WriteNow file format? NeXT On-disk File Structure? Sender: usenet@apollo.hp.com (Usenet News) Message-ID: <DoIqnJ.2Lz@apollo.hp.com> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 14:23:43 GMT Organization: Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Chelmsford, MA I selling my NeXTStation and have alot of WriteNow files (.wn) that I want to save but don't want to convert to RTF or ASCII right now. So, 1) Is the .wn data format the same as any other word processor's? I have AmiPro and it does not appear to be able to convert it. 2) Can I set up a csh script to do conversions to rtf automatically? 3) Is NeXT's on-disk UNIX file structure readable by any other UNIX box? or other NeXT system (intel? HP?, etc). 4) Can UNIX boxes read Macintoch file structure? 5) Can Mac's write Windoze95 long-file name floppies? 6) Can I tell the NeXT to automatically shorten file names when writing a DOS floppy? Does anyone have a csh script to do it? 7) any other ideas? It currently appears that I have to manually convert files and shorten the file names to be compatible DOS. /dan
From: robert@justine.elastica.com (Robert Nicholson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: A Blast From the Past Date: 16 Mar 1996 11:10:27 -0500 Organization: x Message-ID: <erautm32k.fsf@justine.elastica.com> References: <4i9bm8$5sj@aimnet.aimnet.com> <RDL.96Mar15005906@world.std.com> <4icb46$ho7@usenet.rpi.edu> To: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> writes: >rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) wrote: >>All I remember is getting a copy of every RTF post that anyone >>ever posted on comp.sys.next mailed to my Lotus ATG account. I >>also remember Simson asking, "So what are we going to do to >>him?" which caused an uproar... Then there was Jayson who added >>a devilish icon in NewsGrazer that showed up when ever there was >>a post by sef. >I remember him as the only person that I've used the "kill by >author" feature on. That's in about 15 years of various forms >of computer-mediated communication. >Still, this incident (his adventures in San Diego) are pretty >obnoxious. I mean, that security guard couldn't have known it >was SEF, so this is something that could have happened to anyone >who dared to (GASP) walk barefoot. Ah the SEF myster. I remember he last year posting here when I posted "Heeeeeeeeeee's Baaaaaaack" I believe he hangs out in the free unix groups these days. I seen him in either the freebsd group or the bsdi mailing list. >-- "Under the circumstances I will sit down." (PGP key: send email with Subject: request pgp key)
From: robert@justine.elastica.com (Robert Nicholson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NT/NS dual boot Date: 16 Mar 1996 11:19:03 -0500 Organization: x Message-ID: <epwadm2o8.fsf@justine.elastica.com> References: <4i4sn0$kek@barad-dur.nas.com> <jpanicoDoBB71.Mx6@netcom.com> To: jpanico@netcom.com (Joe Panico) <jpanico@netcom.com> writes: >Michael F. DeMan (michael@localhost.204.57.139) wrote: >: Yes, >: >: I've got both NT and NS on my system. NT came first and I >: installed NS on the second partition afterwards. It does the standard NS >: dual boot startup where you can specify any partition. >OK, but is it possible to install a boot manager (Next's, LILO or OS/2) that >will allow you to dynamically select an OS (NT, NS, WIN95) to boot that >resides on another drive (SCSI id > 0)? I'm looking for some kind scheme >that will allow me to put NS on the boot drive, NT and 95 on another drive, >and select any of them for boot at power up. System Commander by V Communication will let you do that providing the OS allows you to boot it off another drive. It's an OS dependent things. NeXTSTEP for instance _cannot_... Window's NT can ... V have a web page at http://wwww.v-comm-com I think... It has detail on System Commander. I currently have it and use it on two drives. I have DOS Win NT on an IDE drive and DOS NeXTSTEP FreeBSD on my internal 4GIG. SCSI. NOTE: these two drives are never active together. However, the table below shows what can be done with other OS's. If anybody knows the entry for FreeBSD I'd like to see it. I'm not currently booting of another drive because I have no need to. I chose to keep all "dogey" operating systems on the IDE drive and my important unix's on my internal 4GIG. System Commander's manual is very well written and explains all the multi-OS issues. Here's the release notes abstract that summarizes which OS can do what. Boot Logical minimum OS Name Vendor Drives partition size notes DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD DDDDDDDDDDDDDD DDDDDDD DDDDDDDDD DDDDDDD DDDDD AIX IBM 0 only no BSDI Unix Berkely Softw 0 only no Coherent Unix Mark Williams any no 15 MB CTOS Unisys 0 only no DOS all 0 only no 1 MB DOS/V IBM/Microsoft 0 only no 3 MB Interactive Unix SunSoft 0 only no 20 MB Linux all 0 or 1 yes 15 MB 8 Netware v2 Novell 0 only no 20 MB NetWare v3 & v4 Novell 0 only no 55 MB 2 NextStep Next 0 only no 120 MB NT v3.1 Microsoft any yes 90 MB 1, 3 NT v3.5 Microsoft any yes 100 MB 1, 3 Open Server SCO 0 only no 100 MB 5 OS/2 v1.x IBM 0 only no 20 MB 1 OS/2 v2.x, Warp IBM any yes 40 MB 1, 4 Pick Pick Systems 0 only no 1 QNX QNX Software 0 only no Solaris SunSoft any no 70 MB 7 Theos Theos Software 0 only no 10 MB UnixWare Novell 0 only no 80 MB 5 Venix Venturcom 0 only no 100 MB Windows 95 Microsoft 0 only no 40 MB 1, 6 notes: 1 - OS can be installed in the DOS partition. 2 - This OS is launched after DOS is booted. Information is stored in a separate non-bootable partition. 3 - A portion of the NT boot software is installed in the DOS partition. 4 - If installed outside the DOS partition, OS/2 requires IBM's boot manager to be installed in a separate partition during installation. Boot manager is not required once OS/2 is installed, when using System Commander. 5 - The installation may move partitions around, causing problems for other OSs. In addition, when partitions are moved like this, System Commander may replace your OS descriptions with generic names. Menu names are associated with the physical partition number and not the data in the partition. No data is lost, but you may want to go through and update each OS description under the Setup option, and verify Local special options are set correctly for each OS choice. 6 - The boot portion is similar to a standard DOS, but significant portions of the OS can be installed on other drives. 7 - Solaris documentation indicates it only supports booting from a diskette when installed on any drive other than drive 0, but System Commander will properly boot Solaris from any IDE drive, without a Solaris boot diskette. Some SCSI controller/drive combinations may not allow anything other than booting Solaris from the first disk. 8 - Source code can be changed to support booting off of other drives. It's a nice program and the staff a V are very helpful. I've had them work around two problems recently with no trouble whatsoever. Make sure you get version 2.26 or above if you want to use FreeBSD. >Any info appreciated. >Thanks. >-- >Joe Panico >NeXTStep/OpenStep Developer >BLaCKSMITH Inc. >jpanico@netcom.com >/* Please no NeXTMail, I can't read it at this address */ >-- "Under the circumstances I will sit down." (PGP key: send email with Subject: request pgp key)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: murao@kobe-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: Digital Camera's and NS Sender: news@icluna.kobe-u.ac.jp (news-admin) Message-ID: <murao.96Mar2012511@methuss.in.kobe-u.ac.jp> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 16:25:11 GMT Distribution: comp Content-Type: text/plain References: <4ifl9l$o7o@axil.DenverOnline.com> <DoG4v8.A3@nx1.westminster.ca.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Organization: Computer and Systems Engineering, KOBE University, JAPAN Hi, There is FAQ in Japanese for QV-10. I don't know if English version is also available. Though, Japanese version will be still helpful to whom wanting to get URL's contains UNIX freeware. I've never heard that there are any version with NEXTSTEP GUI. However, many of them is available with source code. I hope, this will help you to develop native NEXTSTEP application to cope with QV10. You can get the latest FAQ at http://www.st.rim.or.jp/~kimu/palm/qv10faq.html --- Hajime MURAO <murao@kobe-u.ac.jp> NeXT/MIME mail bienvenu! A professional? No, I am not professional. I am an amateur. "Amateur" comes from the latin "amare":to love. If you do not love what you do, you do not deserve to do it.
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: One more ? Date: 19 Mar 1996 19:13:15 GMT Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc. Message-ID: <4in10b$822@news.its.com> References: <4iis2k$i18@speering.alleg.edu> cortesr@alleg.edu wrote: > 1. Is there anyway of knowing if someone has placed a receipt on a > NeXTMail message? Sure. Look at the full message headers; if you see a line like: Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.118.2.RR) ...with the ".RR", then someone asked for a read-receipt. -Chuck Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc. --------------------------------+--------------------------------------- CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: WM: How to make shelf folder cwd in another File Viewer? Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 12:34:01 -0500 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960319122347.9470a-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> References: <4iafdi$os@Venus.mcs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4iafdi$os@Venus.mcs.com> On 14 Mar 1996, Font wrote: > Is there an easy way to make a shelf folder in one File Viewer the > current directory in another File Viewer in one easy step? I know I > could click on the shelf folder, grab it from the current FV > directory, put it on the second FV shelf, and then click it there, but > then I lose the current directory in the FV whose shelf the desired > directory comes from. What a mess. If I understand you correctly, then YES (nearly) This is what I think you mean: You have some folder (let's call it "/LocalApps") on the shelf to the file viewer. The file viewer itself is selected on some other folder (lets call it "/some/long/path/somewhere/else"). You want to open /LocalApps in another file viewer, without losing /some/long/path/somewhere/else. 1) alt-doubleClick on /LocalApps on your shelf will open it in its own viewer. Now this isn't an entirely new File Viewer exactly, but it is functionally the same for most purposes. I am assuming you want to quickly reference something in /LocalApps and then go back to /some/long/path/somewhere/else and would likely just close the /LocalApps window after seeing it. 2) with TickleServices: write a service which will call an 'open' panel. Select the path you want to open, click OK. Set that path = a variable (ie newpath) and have TickleServices do: exec /usr/bin/open $newpath/. (I've done this myself, but I'm not at my NeXT right now... I'll post the TickleServices code next time I'm on.) TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> NeXT Info Available via email on: PPP under NeXTStep, swapfiles, swapdisks, hidden dwrites, NeXTStep tricks and shortcuts, NeXTStep FAQ, and more... For details, send message with subject 'send info'
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: One more ? Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 12:41:32 -0500 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960319123623.9470c-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4ijc0h$k24@usc.edu> On 18 Mar 1996, Matthew N. Reichman wrote: > In <4iis2k$i18@speering.alleg.edu> cortesr@alleg.edu wrote: > > > > 1. Is there anyway of knowing if someone has placed a receipt on a > > NeXTMail message? > > dwrite Mail ReadReceipt YES > dwrite Mail ReadReceipt NO > dwrite Mail ReadReceipt ASK 'ask' is the one you probably want. It will pop-up a panel when you first read a message with a read receipt on it. This is a new feature with Mail.app under 3.3. For older versions of NS you can use: ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/pub/next/Unix/mail/receiptfilter.README ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/pub/next/Unix/mail/receiptfilter.s.tar.gz If you just want to know, check out the header line: Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.100.RR) has a read receipt, whereas Received: by NeXT Mailer (1.100) does not. (the numbers may be different... I got this off an old message). TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> NeXT Info Available via email on: PPP under NeXTStep, swapfiles, swapdisks, hidden dwrites, NeXTStep tricks and shortcuts, NeXTStep FAQ, and more... For details, send message with subject 'send info'
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: WriteNow file format? NeXT On-disk File Structure? Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 13:05:54 -0500 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960319124706.9470e-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> References: <DoIqnJ.2Lz@apollo.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <DoIqnJ.2Lz@apollo.hp.com> On Tue, 19 Mar 1996, Daniel Ganek wrote: > I selling my NeXTStation and have alot of WriteNow files (.wn) > that I want to save but don't want to convert to RTF or ASCII > right now. So, > > 1) Is the .wn data format the same as any other word processor's? > I have AmiPro and it does not appear to be able to convert it. MSWord and WordPerfect have always choked on it, in my experience > 2) Can I set up a csh script to do conversions to rtf automatically? you could, but why? /bin/sh is much better. Like this: #!/bin/sh # # I don't know where you have the binary which does WriteNow-RTF # it has to be in the $PATH or use the full path to it. # I am assuming it is called 'wn2rtf' name=`basename $0` for i in $* do shortname=`basename $i .wn` echo -n "$name: converting $i to $shortname.rtf..." # make sure to use the full path to wn2rtf if needed wn2rtf $i > $shortname.rtf && \ echo " made $shortname.rtf" && \ # # use this line if you want to remove the WN file when done # /bin/rm -f $i # # use this line if you want to be asked if you want to remove # each file when done # /bin/rm -i $i echo "" done exit 0 # this is the end of the script You'll have to tell the script where the binary is, and what it is called > 3) Is NeXT's on-disk UNIX file structure readable by any other UNIX box? > or other NeXT system (intel? HP?, etc). NS on other platforms will read NeXT formatted disks. > 4) Can UNIX boxes read Macintoch file structure? not that I know of > 5) Can Mac's write Windoze95 long-file name floppies? no idea > 6) Can I tell the NeXT to automatically shorten file names when writing > a DOS floppy? Does anyone have a csh script to do it? I have one somewhere... I'll send it as soon as I find it... if you don't hear in a day or two, drop a note & remind me > It currently appears that I have to manually convert files and shorten > the file names to be compatible DOS. no no no. Can't have that. You can use the script above with a few modifications to convert from WN 2 rtf. Just plug in the path to the binary (if you have questions, email me). And the NeXT filenames -> DOS file names is already done.. I just have to look for it when I get home. TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> NeXT Info Available via email on: PPP under NeXTStep, swapfiles, swapdisks, hidden dwrites, NeXTStep tricks and shortcuts, NeXTStep FAQ, and more... For details, send message with subject 'send info'
From: mcnichol@mailbox.syr.edu (Brendan Thomas McNichols) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Company selling NeXT laser printers? Date: 20 Mar 1996 03:03:27 GMT Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY (USA) Message-ID: <4inshv$nkc@newstand.syr.edu> (Sorry about the screwed up post yesterday!) Hi all, I seem to remember receiving a postcard in the mail about 10 or so months ago from a company selling NeXT laser printers. They were selling them at around $350 or $250 if you had a used laser printer to trade in. Unfortunately, I tossed that postcard and would now like to get in touch with this company. Does anyone remember receiving the same card? Does the company still exist? Anybody know how to contact them? Thanks VERY much in advance for any help. Brendan --- Brendan T. McNichols mcnichol@mailbox.syr.edu bmcnichols@questra.com
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: WM: How to make shelf folder cwd in another File Viewer? Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 15:00:21 -0500 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960319145629.14385B-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> References: <4iafdi$os@Venus.mcs.com> <Pine.NXT.3.91.960319122347.9470a-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960319122347.9470a-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> This is the tickleservice: set filename [dirpanel -directory $HOME -title "Open Folder" -return ] exec open $filename/. I forgot to check what needs to be set as far as the types of pasteboards, etc. It is the same as 'Copy Path' (usually command-!) tickleservice. I called this 'Workspace/OpenFolder' and gave it the key command 'F', so I do command-shift-f and a panel comes up (starting at my $HOME). Whatever folder I select is opened as a folder in WM. Hope this helps TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> NeXT Info Available via email on: PPP under NeXTStep, swapfiles, swapdisks, hidden dwrites, NeXTStep tricks and shortcuts, NeXTStep FAQ, and more... For details, send message with subject 'send info'
From: Paul R. Brown <pbrown@math.berkeley.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: international voice alerts? Date: 20 Mar 1996 05:15:02 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Message-ID: <4io48m$1df@agate.berkeley.edu> I'd like to multi-nationalize my printer. I'm running 3.2, but I only installed English from the CD-ROM. Can someone (legally?) mail me the German and French or other exotic phrases from the /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Language.lproj files? I don't want to install the languages, just mix and match the voice alerts. Thanks in advance. NeXTmail is great. Paul
From: Paul R. Brown <pbrown@math.berkeley.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Company selling NeXT laser printers? Date: 20 Mar 1996 05:11:27 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Message-ID: <4io41v$1df@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <4inshv$nkc@newstand.syr.edu> mcnichol@mailbox.syr.edu (Brendan Thomas McNichols) wrote: >I seem to remember receiving a postcard in the mail about 10 or >so months ago from a company selling NeXT laser printers. They >were selling them at around $350 or $250 if you had a used laser >printer to trade in. Unfortunately, I tossed that postcard and >would now like to get in touch with this company. Does anyone >remember receiving the same card? Does the company still exist? >Anybody know how to contact them? You're thinking of PrinterWorks over in Hayward, CA. Their phone number is (510)-887-6116. If I got the phone number wrong (it's from memory), just use Yahoo or something equivalent and look them up on the WWW. It's $295 for a NeXT laser with trade-in. Paul
From: haasd@ubaclu.unibas.ch (Daniel Haas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: WriteNow file format? NeXT On-disk File Structure? Message-ID: <1996Mar20.094121.46166@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> Date: 20 Mar 96 09:41:21 MET References: <DoIqnJ.2Lz@apollo.hp.com> Distribution: world Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland In article <DoIqnJ.2Lz@apollo.hp.com>, ganek@apollo.hp.com (Daniel Ganek) writes: > I selling my NeXTStation and have alot of WriteNow files (.wn) > that I want to save but don't want to convert to RTF or ASCII > right now. So, > > 1) Is the .wn data format the same as any other word processor's? > I have AmiPro and it does not appear to be able to convert it. > If I remember correct, ClarisWorks for the Mac can read NeXT Write Now files, though it has some problems with extended characters like german umlauts, but the rest works fine Daniel *************************************************************** Daniel Haas Physikalisches Institut Universitaet Basel email: haasd@ubaclu.unibas.ch (no NeXT- or MIME-mail please) smail: D. Haas, Kreuzstrasse 150, D-79540 Loerrach, Germany *************************************************************** Waehrend manche noch ueber den Verfall der Schriftkultur klagen lebt im Netz das Schreiben auf. Niemand wuerde wegen einer witzigen Formulierung einen Papierbrief nach Asien fliegen lassen. Email dagegen ermuntert zum Ferntransport des Kleinen und Feinen. Natuerlich werden dabei auch unglaubliche Mengen an Schwachsinn um den Globus bewegt. Aber es liegen Nuggets im Schlamm. Peter Glaser - Spiegel special 3/96 ***************************************************************
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: Oscar S. Alonso Subject: Re: Digital Camera's and NS Message-ID: <DoG4v8.A3@nx1.westminster.ca.us> Keywords: CASIO QV10 NEXTSTEP DIGITAL CAMERA Sender: root@nx1.westminster.ca.us (Oscar S. Alonso) Organization: Oscar S. Alonso Software Enginnering. References: <4ifl9l$o7o@axil.DenverOnline.com> Distribution: USA Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 04:37:56 GMT Ed DeBolt writes > > > I was checking out this new casio digital camera. It is very cool. Has an LCD > on the back as a viewfinder. It holds 92 images and comes with windows and > mac software. It looks like you connect it to a machine via a com port. Has > anyone tried to interface this with NS. I guess I could use SoftPC but NS > would be much better. > Regarding the QV-10... It contains many evil engineering flaws. If the battery runs out while an image is being transfered from it local RAM to FLASH RAM the unit hangs, and cannot be reset by the user. You will have to sent it back to Casio for repair. I don't have the URL which contains the QV-10 FAQ, however it could change your mind about the QV-10. I agree a NeXTStep application sure would be nice. Oscar S. Alonso
From: mcconnel@hydra.syr.edu (Terry R. McConnell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Company selling NeXT laser printers? Date: 20 Mar 1996 14:19:30 GMT Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse Message-ID: <4ip45i$95m@newstand.syr.edu> References: <4inshv$nkc@newstand.syr.edu> In article <4inshv$nkc@newstand.syr.edu>, Brendan Thomas McNichols <mcnichol@mailbox.syr.edu> wrote: > >I seem to remember receiving a postcard in the mail about 10 or >so months ago from a company selling NeXT laser printers. They >were selling them at around $350 or $250 if you had a used laser >printer to trade in. Unfortunately, I tossed that postcard and >would now like to get in touch with this company. Does anyone >remember receiving the same card? Does the company still exist? >Anybody know how to contact them? Try: The Printer Works 3481 Arden Road Hayward CA 94545 1-800-225 -6116 -- ************************************************************************ Terry R. McConnell Mathematics/215 Carnegie/Syracuse, N.Y. 13244-1150 trmcconn@syr.edu http://barnyard.syr.edu/~tmc ************************************************************************
From: i455@stio1 (Bergmann Winfried) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: modem login problem Date: 20 Mar 1996 15:03:11 GMT Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany Message-ID: <4ip6nf$lgn@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> References: <4imef5$7iq@natasha.rmii.com> Craig Anderson (craig@rainbow.rmii.com) wrote: : I have been unable to establish a dialin login to : NextStep 3.3 on Intel hardware. : The modem connects, the login and password prompt are seen : but there is no response to typing the password. : The following process is seen. : login -p craig Your line parameters are wrong. Try 7E1 in your terminal software (7 databits, even parity, 1 stopbit). I think this is the default configuration for nextstep. The other way would be to add a new entry in /etc/gettydefs with your line settings and to add this entry in /etc/ttys. I'm not working with nextstep at the moment, so I can't give you a more precise answer right now. : Can anyone explaing what is wrong? : Craig Anderson : craig@rmii.com -- ========================================================================== Winfried Bergmann | Germany - 91478 Ulsenheim 14 | I read it in the paper i455@stio1.sari.fh-wuerzburg.de | There's death on every page bergmann@rz-ppp-12.fh-wuerzburg.de|
From: james@young-ray.hinet.net (James C. Lin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Clock synchronization Date: 20 Mar 1996 15:55:42 GMT Organization: DCI HiNet Message-ID: <4ip9pu$mu8@netnews.hinet.net> Hello everyone, My NeXTcube clock is drifting and like to find a program to synchronize the clock with my network server. Can anyone suggest me a utility? -- Many thanks in advance and best regards, =========================================================================== James C. Lin MAIL: P.O.Box 122 Qingdao Huan Hai Woodentech Co., Ltd. Fengyuan 42099 Xishan Cun, Luiting Town Taiwan, Rep. of China Chengyang Dist. Qingdao, PRC 266108 PHONE: 886.4.522.6650 86.532.481.6540 FAX: 886.4.527.5264 86.532.481.5154 INTERNET: james@young-ray.hinet.net NeXTmail & MIME support
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda) Subject: Looking for a "refurbished" B&W Monitor Message-ID: <DoKspw.7K3@AWT.NL> Sender: news@AWT.NL Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 17:03:31 GMT I am looking for either Someone who wants to sell me a refurbished B&W monitor, cheap Someone who knows who sells refurbished monitors, or who refurbishes monitors and is willing to sell me the CRT so I can refurbish mine myself Someone who knows what CRT is used in a refurbished monitor so I can try to find it and refurbish mine myself. So, if you own a refurbished monitor you can help me by opening the thing and telling me what's inside. I have been unable to locate Bell Atlantic people to ask this to them. Using the Bell Atlantic service through resellers in Europe is hideously expensive as transport cost across the atlantic is added twice. I'd like to upgrade my monitor, but I don't want to pay $1500. Thanks, -- Gerben Wierda, Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid. Javastraat 42, 's-Gravenhage, The Netherlands Tel (+31) 70 3639922 Fax (+31) 70 3608992
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Clock synchronization Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <DoKw3C.16B@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 18:16:23 GMT References: <4ip9pu$mu8@netnews.hinet.net> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <4ip9pu$mu8@netnews.hinet.net>, James C. Lin <james@young-ray.hinet.net> wrote: > > >Hello everyone, > > My NeXTcube clock is drifting and like to find a program to >synchronize the clock with my network server. Can anyone suggest me a >utility? > ntp(8) does just what you want. The man page should be enough to get you started. -- 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: mpaque@pbinet.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Color NeXT Systems Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 20:48:23 GMT Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services Message-ID: <4ipr41$7hv@SNFC21_SRVR_WWW.PBI.net> References: <DnxBIG.GLC@news.hawaii.edu> <1996Mar9.111340.16341@nidat.sub.org> Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) wrote: >In article <DnxBIG.GLC@news.hawaii.edu> tzulun@Hawaii.Edu (Tzu-Lun Lin) >writes: >> Is NeXTDimension the only way to get a Color Cube? >> >Naye. NeXTDimension is a frame grabber making a Qube video data stream >aware. There are "simple" Color Qubes that just have "simple" color >displays. This turns out not to be the case. 1) The NeXTDimension board is the only way to get a color Cube. 2) The NeXTDimension board supports an 1120 x 832 pixel 24 bit full color frame buffer nicely integrated with the NeXTSTEP operating system and workspace. 3) The board also supports NTSC or PAL (depending on the model you get) video input from two composite video or an SVHS jacks, and can display the video feed live in a window. Frame grabbing is also supported. 4) The board can also send part of the display (a 640 x 480 piece on NTSC, slightly wider on PAL) out the composite video or SVHS outputs, or can loop video through to these outputs from the inputs. 5) No other color products for the Cube were produced. Mike Paquette I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me. mpaque@pbinet.com Personal E-mail mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc From: gerald@kurt.in-berlin.de (Gerald Erdmann) Subject: Re: SoundBlaster 16 Value PnP unrecognized by NS 3.3 Message-ID: <1996Mar21.114924.841@kurt.in-berlin.de> Sender: news@kurt.in-berlin.de References: <1996Feb28.214601.20122@cyantic.com> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 11:49:24 GMT In <1996Feb28.214601.20122@cyantic.com> Mark T. Dornfeld wrote: > We have just acquired two SB 16 cards (ISA). When installed > in a Dell 100 Mhz GL Pentium box, the card cannot be recognized > by the latest Sound Blaster driver (3.32) from NextAnswers. The > old driver does not work either. > > The system works perfectly when booted under Windows NT, and > we know there is no HW conflict. > > The PnP in the name of the card indicates Plug 'n Play. Does > PnP get in the way of the NS driver interface? Hi! The latest NEXTSTEP drivers for SB 16 don't support PnP. NeXT knows the problem so hopefully they will be release a new version. Gerald -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | GERALD ERDMANN | email: gerald @ kurt.in-berlin.de (NeXTmail welcome) | voice: +49 30 397 31 400 (Germany - Berlin) | crypt: pgp2 public key available |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: jgloede@interpc.de (Jens Ch. Gloede) Subject: Re: Digital Camera's and NS Message-ID: <DoMB06.4z3@interpc.de> Sender: usenet@interpc.de Organization: interpersonal-computing GmbH References: <4ifl9l$o7o@axil.DenverOnline.com> Distribution: USA Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 12:36:06 GMT Ed DeBolt writes > I was checking out this new casio digital camera. It is very cool. Has an LCD > on the back as a viewfinder. It holds 92 images and comes with windows and > mac software. It looks like you connect it to a machine via a com port. Has > anyone tried to interface this with NS. I guess I could use SoftPC but NS > would be much better. > Writing the software would be easy (we already did something like that). But the different cameras uses different types of compression. We already tried to talk to Apple and Canon, but they don't give any access or documentation to that vendor specific compression. All they do is offering a boring developer Kit for Windos and Macs. No chance! so long, jens ch. gloede -- ____________________________________________________________ interpersonal-computing Imagination. Made in Europe. NeXT Center Munich Jens Ch. Gloede - CEO ipc - Oettingenstrasse 2 http://www.ipc.de 80538 Munich Tel.: ++49 (0)89 2233 75 GERMANY / Bavaria Fax.: ++49 (0)89 2233 76 E-Mail: jens@interpc.de NeXT & MIME Mail ok (int.< 1 MB)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Subject: Re: WriteNow file format? NeXT On-disk File Structure? In-Reply-To: ganek@apollo.hp.com's message of Tue, 19 Mar 1996 14:23:43 GMT Message-ID: <RDL.96Mar21144844@world.std.com> Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <DoIqnJ.2Lz@apollo.hp.com> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 19:48:44 GMT Purchase a copy of WriteUp from AFS (info@afs.com). It is an excellent NEXTSTEP word processor that can read WriteNow files in addtion to WordPerfect, MS Word, etc... Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant Boston, MA Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
From: sysworks@cais.com (Systemworks, Inc) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: SoundBlaster 16 Value PnP unrecognized by NS 3.3 Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 21:54:24 EST Organization: Capital Area Internet Service (CAIS) Message-ID: <sysworks.8.0541B6B0@cais.com> References: <1996Feb28.214601.20122@cyantic.com> <1996Mar21.114924.841@kurt.in-berlin.de> In article <1996Mar21.114924.841@kurt.in-berlin.de> gerald@kurt.in-berlin.de (Gerald Erdmann) writes: >From: gerald@kurt.in-berlin.de (Gerald Erdmann)>Subject: Re: SoundBlaster 16 Value PnP unrecognized by NS 3.3 >Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 11:49:24 GMT >In <1996Feb28.214601.20122@cyantic.com> Mark T. Dornfeld wrote: >> We have just acquired two SB 16 cards (ISA). When installed >> in a Dell 100 Mhz GL Pentium box, the card cannot be recognized >> by the latest Sound Blaster driver (3.32) from NextAnswers. The >> old driver does not work either. >> >> The system works perfectly when booted under Windows NT, and >> we know there is no HW conflict. >> >> The PnP in the name of the card indicates Plug 'n Play. Does >> PnP get in the way of the NS driver interface? >Hi! >The latest NEXTSTEP drivers for SB 16 don't support PnP. NeXT knows the >problem so hopefully they will be release a new version. >Gerald Actually, you need to download the latest EISABus driver from NeXTanswers. It's under the 3.3 drivers, I believe 'released'. After you install this and go into Configure, there's an check box to disable PnP. Disable PnP and reboot and it should find the card no problem. We have this working with both the SB 16 PnP and the AWE 32, not to mention some other generic SB compatible cards. Good luck! -Bob ------------------------------------------------------------------- Systemworks, Inc. Custom workstations for NEXTSTEP, NT & 95 sysworks@cais.com 703-450-7429 -------------------------------------------------------------------
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NeXT monitor Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 10:27:41 -0500 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960321102630.12422I-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> References: <960319101152.207AAFgE.wayne@keizai2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <960319101152.207AAFgE.wayne@keizai2> On Tue, 19 Mar 1996 joerd@wsunix.wsu.edu wrote: > I am looking for a software utility that will turn off the monitor attached > to a NeXTStation (motorola) after a while and then turn it back on if the > keyboard is touched. I'm not looking for a screen saver, I actually want > the monitor to be turned off to reduce heat generation from a very seldom > used monitor. There isn't anything to do this available. The subject comes up quite often, but there just isn't. Wish there was, but there isn't. TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> NeXT Info Available via email on: PPP under NeXTStep, swapfiles, swapdisks, hidden dwrites, NeXTStep tricks and shortcuts, NeXTStep FAQ, and more... For details, send message with subject 'send info'
From: jmosher@think.com (Jessica Mosher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Company selling NeXT laser printers? Date: 21 Mar 1996 17:17:27 GMT Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA Message-ID: <4is2v7$fc@bone.think.com> References: <4inshv$nkc@newstand.syr.edu> <4ip45i$95m@newstand.syr.edu> I've tried contacting the Printer Works at least three times in the last six months. Each time I've left them a nice message explaining what I need, etc. They've never called back. Not even when I lived in Oakland. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jessica L. Mosher Thinking Machines Corporation Systems Support Engineer c/o American Express
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc From: wave@ml.media.mit.edu (Michael B. Johnson) Subject: Re: Company selling NeXT laser printers? Message-ID: <1996Mar21.200323.13526@media.mit.edu> Sender: news@media.mit.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Pixar Animation Studios (East Coast Office) References: <4inshv$nkc@newstand.syr.edu> <4ip45i$95m@newstand.syr.edu> <4is2v7$fc@bone.think.com> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 20:03:23 GMT In article <4is2v7$fc@bone.think.com> jmosher@think.com (Jessica Mosher) writes: >> >>I've tried contacting the Printer Works at least three times in >>the last six months. Each time I've left them a nice message >>explaining what I need, etc. >> >>They've never called back. Not even when I lived in Oakland. >> Hmm, I sent them mail, they responded promptly, I bought a printer and am happy. And I live in New York City... -- --> Michael B. Johnson, SMVS, Ph.D. -- wave@media.mit.edu|wave@pixar.com --> http://wave.www.media.mit.edu/people/wave/ --> alumnus, MIT Media Lab, Computer Graphics & Animation Group --> Media Arts Technologist, Pixar Animation Studios (East Coast Office)
From: tygris@wam.umd.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Putting a background image on NeXTstation Date: 22 Mar 1996 20:14:26 GMT Organization: University of Maryland College Park Message-ID: <4iv1n2$cts@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> Originator: tygris@next00epsl.wam.umd.edu Is there a way to put a background image behind all the windows on a NeXT computer? -- -> Read the WAM FAQ at http://physics.umd.edu/~kprice/wamfaq (any browser) // . Kelly "STriker" Price - STriker Labs @ UMCP //| |\ tygris@umd5.umd.edu http://www.wam.umd.edu/~tygris /| | /| \ Netscape|PGP mail to tygris@glue.umd.edu
From: rbeer@jaguar.cris.com () Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NS 3.2 Intel questions Date: 22 Mar 1996 19:28:10 GMT Organization: Concentric Internet Services Message-ID: <4iuv0a$7tj@tribune.cris.com> Hello, please forgive me in advance if this is inappropriate for this newsgroup. I have been wanting to play with NeXTStep for a long time (<92), and purchased 3.2 Intel User+Dev a few days ago. After some hellacious hardware incompatabilities (such as it not being able to use >500mb IDE drives), I am using it fairly successfully. I am impressed overall with the OS. I have several questions (I have checked NextAnswers first): Most importantly, I have an internal cheap-o 14.4k faxmodem. I set up /etc/remote, added an entry to use this device at 19.2 with hardware flow control. I go into 'tip', everything works fine. I can send AT* commands to the modem. Great. I dial a system, connect to it, and all of the sudden (I guess once DCD goes high), 1/2 of the keys on my keyboard are not sent to the remote system properly, i.e., 'r' is sent, but 'b' isn't. ENTER isn't sent, but CTRL-J is, and so on. Very bizarre. Once I drop connection with '+++' ATH0 (which appear to work fine :)), the keys re-echo. I have not had any problems with this modem in the past with other Unix OS's. Does anything have a clue here? I am guessing something in the kernel's serial driver detects DCD high and sets up some type of strange translations for that device (I believe I am using /dev/cufb). I've hacked with /etc/remote pretty well and am fairly sure this is not the problem. Are there any alternative comm apps than 'tip'? I am using a Pioneer DRM-602X 6-disc changer cd-rom drive. I like how it detects new discs being placed into the drive, however, with the disc changer, it is fairly inefficient. For example, when I insert the disc cartridge (which holds 6 CDroms) into the player, my NeXTSTEP session freezes, and it scans Disc1, Disc2, .. and so on, and sometimes jumps back to Disc1 (etc) before I am given control back. Is there a way to optimize this? Along the same lines, an audio-CD player application pops up sometimes, even if I do not have audio CD disc in the unit. This application causes serious problems. My "hack" solution was to find the player, which appears to be in the /NextDeveloper tree, and set the permissions to a-rx. Is there a better way? Why did it pop up automatically? Several times the OS has froze completely due to CDROM access, usually related to the Audio-CD player -- the solution is to turn off and turn on the CD rom drive, which unfreezes things. I am fairly sure that my SCSI device chain is set up properly, as I have been using it successfully with other (Unix) OSs without problems. Any assistance/tips would definitely be helpful! Thanks! Rich -- RC Beerman, Jr. / Sr. Software Engineer / #include <std/disclaimer.h> PGP encrypted mail preferred. Finger rbeer@jaguar.cris.com for public key. Greatest moments in Rock history: 1973,1976,1978,1981,1987, -?-
From: wjabi@umich.edu (Wassim M. Jabi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: One more ? Date: 22 Mar 1996 22:05:32 GMT Organization: University of Michigan Message-ID: <4iv87c$l1a@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960319123623.9470c-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960319123623.9470c-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> URL: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wjabi/ I have a related question: Does read receipt work with other Mail systems (other than NeXTMail)? Thanks. -- Wassim M. Jabi Doctoral Program in Architecture University of Michigan 2000 Bonisteel Blvd Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2069 wjabi@umich.edu (Text/MIME/NeXTMail) http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wjabi/
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: WriteNow file format? NeXT On-disk File Structure? Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 21:05:57 -0600 Organization: Illinois State University, Instructional Technology Services Message-ID: <31536A95.3BEB@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> References: <DoIqnJ.2Lz@apollo.hp.com> <Pine.NXT.3.91.960319124706.9470e-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Timothy J. Luoma wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Mar 1996, Daniel Ganek wrote: > > > 3) Is NeXT's on-disk UNIX file structure readable by any other UNIX box? > > or other NeXT system (intel? HP?, etc). > > NS on other platforms will read NeXT formatted disks. > > > 4) Can UNIX boxes read Macintoch file structure? > > not that I know of yes with MAE: http://www.mae.apple.com/ > > 5) Can Mac's write Windoze95 long-file name floppies? > > no idea there are utilities to do this. Eric --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Eric A. Dubiel; http://138.87.201.11 Instructional mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu Technology PEACE LOVE Services UNITY RESPECT Illinois State University "Understanding is best learned via experience." "Follow our instinct, not a trend. Go against the grain until the end." Unknown .... VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE ENTIRELY MY OWN
From: yucheng@math.arizona.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Putting a background image on NeXTstation Date: 23 Mar 1996 03:14:42 GMT Organization: The University of Arizona Message-ID: <4ivqb2$9gm@news.ccit.arizona.edu> References: <4iv1n2$cts@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> In <4iv1n2$cts@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> tygris@wam.umd.edu wrote: > Is there a way to put a background image behind all the windows on a NeXT > computer? > > Either Background.app or Fiend.app can do the job. -- Best Regards Yuwen Cheng ,,, (. .) +--oOO--(_)--OOo---------------------------------------------------+ Yuwen Chen | yucheng@math.arizona.edu University of Arizona, MATH | NeXTMail welcome P.O. Box 43692 | (520) 881-4314 Tucson, AZ 85733 | (520) 881-4314 (fax) +------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: grio@next.com (Dan Grillo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: oraperl for NEXTSTEP 3.3? Date: 23 Mar 1996 05:52:32 GMT Organization: Information Services, NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <4j03j0$gnf@news.next.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Versions: dmail 2.0d/makemail 2.8g Does anyone have oraperl for NEXTSTEP, or pointers to it? Thanks, --Dan -- Dan Grillo dan@next.com 415 780-2963 MIME, NeXTmail accepted
From: david@onestep.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Digital Camera's and NS Date: 21 Mar 1996 09:33:09 GMT Organization: PSINet UK Public Usenet Site Distribution: comp Message-ID: <4ir7ol$gc2@pub.news.uk.psi.net> References: <murao.96Mar2012511@methuss.in.kobe-u.ac.jp> Hi, On a slightly different tilt, we have got a command line utility for the Kodak DC40/50 series of cameras. We will have a GUI version end of April for full release. --- Regards David Knight OneStep Solutions plc | UK phone: 01702 551010 | Vendors of NS/OS 351-359 London Road | fax: 01702 551515 | MCCAs, Hardware Hadleigh | Int'l prefix: +44 1702 | Apps, Networks Essex | | ISDN, Training SS7 2BT | Email: david@onestep.co.uk | Maintenance England | (NeXTMail/MIME ok) | and Support
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Putting a background image on NeXTstation Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 11:50:09 -0500 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960323114644.10972K-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> References: <4iv1n2$cts@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4iv1n2$cts@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> On 22 Mar 1996 tygris@wam.umd.edu wrote: > Is there a way to put a background image behind all the windows on a NeXT > computer? I think that these will: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/screen/Background3.2.compressed ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/screen/background.tar.gz I know this will: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/util/Fiend1.4.1.NIHS.tar.gz If you don't know, Fiend also has a great number of other features, including being a dock extender, meta-shelf (ala MonsterShelf), and will run Backspace. All for the low-low price of $10 shareware. The app on the FTP sites is NOT disabled, so you can try it before you buy it. But you'll want it, I'd say. It's one of the most useful, stable apps I've seen, and David Lambert has beene excellent about making improvements and bug fixes. TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> NeXT Info available via email! Send message with SUBJECT 'send info' Please: No NeXTMail, use MIME for attachments
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: One more ? Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 11:51:50 -0500 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960323115036.10972L-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960319123623.9470c-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <4iv87c$l1a@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4iv87c$l1a@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> On 22 Mar 1996, Wassim M. Jabi wrote: > I have a related question: Does read receipt work with > other Mail systems (other than NeXTMail)? Thanks. As far as I know, No. The read-receipt will only work if the message is read through Mail.app (and even then only if the person doesn't have a filter). TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> NeXT Info available via email! Send message with SUBJECT 'send info' Please: No NeXTMail, use MIME for attachments
From: maddog@blkbox.com (Mad Dog) Newsgroups: biz.marketplace.computers.other,biz.comp.hardware,misc.forsale.computers.memory,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NeXT Cube for Sale Date: 23 Mar 1996 17:16:53 GMT Organization: Mad Dog Productions Distribution: inet Message-ID: <maddog-2303961118010001@maddog.blkbox.com> $200.00 Takes it. NeXT Product No. 152.00 -- Mad Dog Productions 713-685-0133 We have the Best Prices on 4 Color Printing Door Hangers, Trading Card Distrb., Multi-Media, WebMasters, etc..... Member: Greater Houston Convention Bureau; Richmond Avenue Merchants Assoc.
From: Stephen Shiboski <steve@biostat.ucsf.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: News URLs in OmniWeb 2.0 Date: 23 Mar 1996 18:33:07 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Message-ID: <4j1g53$d6l@agate.berkeley.edu> Originator: stephen@stat.Berkeley.EDU Can one read newsgroups with OmniWeb2.0? Maybe I'm missing something, but this worked in version 1.0 and seems to be broken (or omitted) in 2.0. I liked this feature, since it allowed quick scanning of news without starting up a separate program. -- Stephen Shiboski <steve@biostat.ucsf.edu> Division of Biostatistics University of California, San Francisco
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: One more ? Date: 23 Mar 1996 20:48:16 GMT Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Sender: reichman@comserv-d-37.usc.edu Message-ID: <4j1o2g$q3i@usc.edu> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960319123623.9470c-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <4iv87c$l1a@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.92.960323115036.10972L-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> In <Pine.NXT.3.92.960323115036.10972L-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> "Timothy J. Luoma" wrote: > On 22 Mar 1996, Wassim M. Jabi wrote: > > > I have a related question: Does read receipt work with > > other Mail systems (other than NeXTMail)? Thanks. > > As far as I know, No. The read-receipt will only work if the message is > read through Mail.app (and even then only if the person doesn't have a > filter). So how can one stay all requests for receipts? -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@scf.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: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: One more ? Date: 23 Mar 1996 22:43:42 GMT Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc. Message-ID: <4j1uqu$kmj@news.its.com> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960319123623.9470c-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <4iv87c$l1a@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> wjabi@umich.edu (Wassim M. Jabi) wrote: > > I have a related question: Does read receipt work with > other Mail systems (other than NeXTMail)? Thanks. Generally not. In my opinion, read-receipts are intrusive and they do not provide any meaningful information (ie, getting a read-receipt back does not necessarily mean that the person in question has actually read that message). Some people like to leave read-receipt on all the time, so clearly some people like them. Fortunately, there are filters available that can disable returning read-receipts-- I use one. :-) -Chuck Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc. --------------------------------+--------------------------------------- CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: sams@shellx.best.com (Samuel G. Streeper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: One more ? Date: 23 Mar 1996 23:06:46 -0800 Organization: Best Internet Communications Message-ID: <sams.827650796@shellx> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960319123623.9470c-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <4iv87c$l1a@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.92.960323115036.10972L-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <4j1o2g$q3i@usc.edu> reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) writes: >So how can one stay all requests for receipts? If you are lazy, you could try: dwrite Mail ReadReceipt NO dwrite Mail ReadReceiptOption Ask I've always believed that my apps should work as my agents, and not so much for others... 8^) cheers, -sam
From: gcasa@wam.umd.edu (Gregory John Casamento) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Question about ND board Date: 24 Mar 1996 16:59:20 GMT Organization: University of Maryland College Park Message-ID: <4j3v18$3ak@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> Hi, I am wondering if it is possible for me to use the NeXTDimension board without a color monitor. I have one and I am simply wondering if I would be able to use the board at all. Will it be possible to use the NeXTTv application on the B&W monitor? Also, If anyone has a color monitor they would like to sell, please let me know. Thanks, -- Gregory John Casamento -- gcasa@wam.umd.edu (c) G. Casamento -- Permission to distribute on MS network denied!!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Question about ND board Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <DosG49.o5w@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 20:12:08 GMT References: <4j3v18$3ak@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <4j3v18$3ak@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>, Gregory John Casamento <gcasa@wam.umd.edu> wrote: >Hi, I am wondering if it is possible for me to use the NeXTDimension >board without a color monitor. I have one and I am simply wondering >if I would be able to use the board at all. Will it be possible to >use the NeXTTv application on the B&W monitor? > Nope--you have to plug a monitor into the ND's monitor connector to do anything useful with it (unless you're really good at estimating mouse distances blind. :-)) -- 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: jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Looking for a "refurbished" B&W Monitor Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 18:12:00 -0500 Organization: The Internet Access Company Message-ID: <jbf-2403961812000001@frazer.com> References: <DoKspw.7K3@AWT.NL> In article <DoKspw.7K3@AWT.NL>, G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda) wrote: > I am looking for either ... > Someone who knows what CRT is used in a refurbished monitor so I can > try to find it and refurbish mine myself. > > So, if you own a refurbished monitor you can help me by opening the thing and > telling me what's inside. I have been unable to locate Bell Atlantic people > to ask this to them. Using the Bell Atlantic service through resellers in > Europe is hideously expensive as transport cost across the atlantic is added > twice. From the dark ages the following USENET posts: ********* 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. ******* There are no fuses inside the Megapixel, but there are several components that are measured so that they work as a fuse. This is a real pain. In my experience, D1 (diode) is one of the first components to get burned when something funny happens. Then there's a resistor right after it (can't remember the part number, R something anyway) which is located right above the diode. These are the two components that burn very easily. There's a lame illustration of the boards and the place of the components: _______________ | _____________ | || @@ # || || @@ # || || || || ### || < the board that handles the || R ### || picture generation || D1 || ||_____________|| / ____________ / / / / / < the board that takes care of / /___________/ / volume, brightness, keyboard/mouse, /_______________/ etc (SMD) @@ @@ = high voltage transformer ## = passive cooling elements When you open the monitor, you'll have to disconnect the high voltage cable to the tube and loose some screws and you'll able to pull this L shaped rack with two boards out. D1 and the R are located as shown in the figure. When board is functioning, there's about 50 V around the diode and the resistor. Check the diode and if it's burned, just replace it. I couldn't find the same diode as a service part in Finland, so I replaced it with Motorola 70 V/5A very fast diode. Can't remember the type, but browse a Motorola diode catalog, it should be easy to find. If the resistor is burned, don't replace it with a heavier one, because that way it will loose its function in working as a fuse. I've burned 3 separate Megapixels and each time it has been one of those two components. ********** Here are the answers to your questions (I hope!). I took of the back of my NeXT greyscale monitor and determined the model number of the cathode ray tube. It is a TOSHIBA E8168B4-TCO2HT (but please verify the model number on your own crt). The company which claims to carry replacement tubes for this model is RICHARDSON ELECTRONICS 6185 Tomken Road, Units 3-5 Mississauga, Ontario L5T1X6 Tel:1-800-363-1323 You could talk to Claude Monast there. This is their Canadian headquarters (it's near Toronto). However, they seem to be an American company with main office in Chicago. They may have a European office as well. They say that if one calls the number 1-800-348-5580, one will be given the closest Richardson office. At present, I have one of these tubes on order. The Canadian price is $195.45. Since I managed to improve the brightness to normal level by adjusting the white level potentiometer at the back of the monitor, I probably won't install the new tube until the present one gets dim. So if any of you buys one of these Richardson tubes, I would appreciate hearing details about installation and how it works. ******** That's about all the info there is, other than the usual instructions on adjusting brightness, which won't really sole the problem. My company had NeXT repairmen, but they were not provided with any info regarding monitor repair. Bad monitors were said to be returned to Sony (not NeXT) for repair. Barney
From: parker@itsnet.com (Parker Garlitz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Company selling NeXT laser printers? Date: Sun, 24 Mar 96 21:19:03 GMT Organization: Galaxy Mall Distribution: world Message-ID: <4j4oup$i9d@itchy.itsnet.com> References: <4inshv$nkc@newstand.syr.edu> <4ip45i$95m@newstand.syr.edu> <4is2v7$fc@bone.think.com> Summary: asdfa Keywords: asdf jmosher@think.com (Jessica Mosher) wrote: I've tried contacting the Printer Works at least three times in the last six months. Each time I've left them a nice message explaining what I need, etc. They've never called back. Not even when I lived in Oakland. Try System Technology Inc. They have always been responsive to me. 1800-220-TONR **************************** Parker Garlitz parker@galaxymall.com http://www.galaxymall.com
From: kykim@tenteus.com (Kevin Kim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Powerglove connection to NeXT system? Date: 25 Mar 1996 03:46:20 GMT Organization: Express Access Online Communications, USA Message-ID: <4j54uc$grn@news4.digex.net> Hello all, I'm trying to find the relevant files about connecting a Nintendo Powerglove to a NeXT system. There is a README in next-ftp.peak.org, but no file :-(. Does anyone have an idea where I can find these files? Thanks, -kevin -- Kevin Kim kykim@access.digex.net
From: lozinski@cup.portal.com (Christopher A Lozinski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Nextstep Newsletter Date: 24 Mar 1996 21:00:05 -0800 Organization: The Portal System (TM) Sender: pccop@unix.portal.com Distribution: world Message-ID: <151154@cup.portal.com> 1.SUN PRIORITIZES INTERNET TOOLS OVER OPENSTEP 2.WEB NEWS 3.MICROSOFT EMBRACES NEXT 4.NEXT, SUN, NETSCAPE ALLIANCE WEAKENED 5.MICROSOFT CONQUERS WORLD MARKETS 6.MICROSOFT DECLARES WAR ON NETSCAPE AND SUN 7.NETSCAPE PUSHES ON VERY FAST 8.JAVA LOOKS HOT 9.BASIC INTERNET PUBLISHING 10.NEXTSTEP DEVELOPERS AVAILABLE 11. SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO 12.ERRATTA 13.MULTIHOMED NEXTSTEP SERVERS 14.BPG NEWS 15.HOW TO SUBSCRIBE 1.SUN PRIORITIZES INTERNET TOOLS OVER OPENSTEP Sun Microsystems has decided to focus their marketting and technical resources on their internet related products acknowledging that they are no longer being driven by a strong demand for OPENSTEP. You may recall my Feb 1st article entitled SUN WILL SOON SHIP OPENSTEP. I called it wrong big time. My apologies. Although OPENSTEP is still part of their official strategy, they are just not focussed on it. Internally they are debating pricing and bundling strategies. It sounds like Sun does not have a clear plan. I can think of some very large companies that invested heavily in Sun Microsystems on the promise of OPENSTEP. I know some vendors who stuck with NeXT on the promise of Sun Solaris OPENSTEP. They will all have to wait until this internet thing cools down, and objects become hot again. Officially Sun says that OPENSTEP will ship in the middle of this year. I don't know about that. At least they haven't laid off any of their OPENSTEP developers. Can anyone help me out in understanding what is going on at SUN? 2.WEB NEWS Starting with this issue, there is a section on Web News, covering the new and enhanced Web Sites of interest to the NEXTSTEP community. I hope you like it. NeXT user Group International shuts its doors. See: <http://xent.w3.org/%7Ekhare/NugiDirge.htmld/index.html> GS corp announces an upgraded website. See: ,http://www.gscorp.com> Tip Top ships a new release of Web objects PERL, Objective-TCL, and Objective-Browser. This stuff is Cool Object Technology. They leverage the Objective-C run-time system very elegantly. Check them out at: <http://www.tiptop.com> NeXT releases 3Dkit and the Indexing kit to be included in misckit. See: http://www.misckit.com/press_kits.html (HTML copy of the press release) http://www.misckit.com/faq/NXKits.html (FAQ giving more info) 3.MICROSOFT EMBRACES NEXT Steve Jobs was the keynote speaker at the Microsoft Developers Conference. I have never seen so many developers in one room. Half of Moscone Center's Large Hall was filled to the brim. And they all listened to Steven Jobs demo Web Objects for 20 glorious minutes. Although Microsoft is endorsing many internet products, only Steven Jobs made it up to the podium. Even more amazing, most of the audience cut dinner short to come back in the evening to hear the details. The market looks white hot for NeXT. Do you want to see how strong the demand is? Watch the counter of total WebObjects downloads at http://wofapps1.next.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Betatron It was at about 1250 when Steven Jobs did the presentation. 4.NEXT, SUN, NETSCAPE ALLIANCE WEAKENED. If this was published two weeks ago, I would have run the lead story that NeXT, Sun and Netscape were in a strategic alliance to break Microsoft's control of the desktop architecture. They planned to push a portable client browser with a language that Microsoft did not control: JAVA. They wanted to get control of the server development environment with JAVAScript for the server. NeXT was key, because they would bring this technology onto NT, with Microsoft willing or not. Microsoft saw this as a loosing battle, and decided to officially embrace the technology, while really pushing for Visual Basic to be the language of choice. So Microsoft invited NeXT in, offering them an endorsement. On its part NeXT will be giving priority to their visual basic interface. NeXT will also be giving priority to the Microsoft Internet Server API (ISAPI) for Web Objects. But NeXT will continue to develop the Netscape Navigator API to Web Objects. And they will expand their Java Offering. Did I mention that the Common GateWay (CGI) interface to Web Objects is being deemphasized? Who needs open standards anymore, Microsoft and Netscape rule. Fortuneately, Next is able to cooperate with both Netscape and with Microsoft. NeXT even demoed their application on NETSCAPE browser in the evening at the Microsoft Conference. The NeXT demo included a Java applet, so they had to use Netscape. 5.MICROSOFT CONQUERS WORLD MARKETS While the other companies are battling for the US market, Microsoft is quietly conquering the rest of the world. Bill Gates is meeting with heads of state from around the world, gathering tremendous local publicity for free, and ensuring them that if they use Windows 95, they will be technically up to par with the whole US. Microsoft paid for foreign editors to come to the Microsoft Developers Conference. Great Cheap publicity. However, Bill is doing some good. He is encouraging the leaders of these countries to provide less expensive internet access as a top priority. 6.MICROSOFT DECLARES WAR ON NETSCAPE AND SUN Microsoft came late to the internet, and they lost significant opportunity to NETSCAPE, but now Microsoft is in full swing planning on reestablishing control. They have closed down their interactive TV group, and are focussing on the internet. The Microsoft Internet Browser now integrates the local desktop with the remote internet. Looks very nice. They want to make sure that they achieve market dominance. They want to make sure that Visual Basic becomes the scripting language of choice. They believe that they can leverage Windows control into Internet control. Of course they still have NETSCAPE to contend with. 7.NETSCAPE PUSHES ON VERY FAST. The Netscape Nasvigator 2.0 Java enabled browser is now shipping. They shipped it early, and the first users found a few security holes and some bugs. I presume that they are now patched. Netscape is now starting to work on Web for home television sets. Macintosh released Pippin, a scaled down Macintosh that displays to a home TV and runs NETSCAPE browser. It is being pushed heavily in Japan, and the Palo Alto Cable Coop is testing it. While Microsoft is trying to regain control of the desktop computer environment, Netscape is trying to win control of the much larger Television market. Meanwhile Sun has released chips that run Java natively. This should help the low-cost television market. Furthermore Sun and Netscape are working on JOE, a combination of Java and NEO which will allow Netscape clients to talk to CORBA servers. This will allow for mainstream three-tier client-sever architectures. Watch for the Sun announcements at the upcoming Interop conference. 8.JAVA LOOKS HOT. Java is an interpreted language designed to provide secure downloadable applets. It looks very intelligently designed. See <http://www.pinpub.com> They have a publication "OLE, JAVA or BOTH" with a good synopsis of the language and its history. Java looks very promising. It has Sun and Netscape marketting behind it. It has the internet developers freely sharing and growing the code base. It is a shared platform for everyone that dislikes Microsoft. The developers love it, and optimized incremental compilers are being created for it. At the Microsoft Developers Conference there was a late addition press release, that Microsoft had licensed Java from Sun. I wonder when Microsoft will be shipping Java in their browser??? 9.BASIC INTERNET PUBLISHING The majority of the internet publishing market is static publishing. It has become increasingly clear that the platform of choice for static Web Publishing is Page Mill on the Macintosh by Adobe for $100 street-price. It is a real WYSIWYG HTML editor with excellent reviews, and the other macintosh publishing products to work with it. Do not believe the hackers who say that hand-coded HTML is still the best way to go. We just do not have enough time to hand-code all the HTML the world needs. Page Mill even toggles between editing and browsing mode. Of course when you get to the point that you need dynamic pages then NeXT Web Objects looks like a good additive. In the meantime, I believe that it is possible to dual boot your black hardware as a macintosh using a product called daydream. Has anyone done this? 10.NEXTSTEP DEVELOPERS AVAILABLE Here is a quick survey of the NEXTSTEP developers who have asked me to find them positions. 2 Neophytes 19 With 6 Months experience 13 With One year Experience 11 With Two Years Experience 9 With Three Years Experience 5 With Four Years Experience 1 With Five Years Experience 1 With Six Years Experience 1 With Seven Years experience. For more info on any of these people send email to jobs@bpg.com. 11. SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO One of my readers inside NeXT recently unsubscribed saying: "I find that in the midst of the useful information in the newsletter, there tends to be one or two glaring inaccuracies or wild rumors. Sometimes the falsehoods are so flagrant that they seem to have been put there just to generate a hubbub, possibly in the hope that real information surfaces." His insight is remarkable. Of course he gets the accurate information, because he has the advantage of working within NeXT, which the rest of us do not. I apologize for this, but you have to understand that it is the nature of the newsletter. For me to pass through the important information and not filter it too tightly, it is inevitable that I also publish incorrect information. Someone invariably corrects me, the correction is published the next month,and we all benefit. Sometime I go with my hunch at what is happening. The SUN PRIORITIZES INTERNET TOOLS OVER OPENSTEP story is such an example. Certainly it is not based on a Sun announcement. Rather it is based on bits of information which have flowed to me. With that story, the pieces fit. Whatever the truth, the story is not that far from accurate. Even if I get it a little wrong, the correct news surfaces. What amazes me is how often my articles are correct, how often I call it right, given the scarcity of information in this NEXT market. Anyhow, I am taking steps to improve the quality of the information content. Thanks for the feedback. 12ERRATTA Linux is being expanded to include multithreading and multiprocessors. Two more Internet Server Development products I missed in the previous list. Tango, a mac product: <http://www.everyware.com/Tango_Info/> and Cold Fusion, an NT/95 thingy: <http://www.allaire.com/cgi-shl/dbml.exe?template=/allaire/p oducts/cf15/overv iew.dbm> 13.MULTIHOMED NEXTSTEP SERVERS My error, it turns out that it is possible to support multiple home pages and IP addresses on NEXTSTEP. It relies on the PPP kernel module. Izumi Ohzawa <izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu> writes: There are two parts to the PPP distribution packagefor NS. One is a module loaded into kernel at boot time via /etc/rc.local, and the other is the actual PPP daemon "pppd". Multiple virtual IP address stuff uses only the former. Pppd hooks modems to the net via the loaded kernel module, but the kernel module part is more general and is not necessarily tied to any specific interface such as modems. Therefore, it can be used to implement multiple virtual IP addresses on the Ethernet. In this use, pppd part is never used. Manuel Alberto Ricart <alberto@smartsoft.com> ,http://www.SmartSoft.COM> adds: You will need to get the source and the NeXT specific changes for the ppp software. Once you ftp them and merge them together, grep for '#define NUM_PPP' and change the number there to the number of interfaces you need. On the versio n I pulled, this #define was located in pppd/pppd.h but this may change on a future release (the other UNIX sources pull this #define from the Makefile, and for some unknown reason, the porters of the NEXTSTEP version moved it). After this, all you need to do is recompile. Welcome to Multi-homing heaven. The only remaining issue is that you cannot surf websites you multi-host on the multi-homed machine. If anyone knows how to resolve this, it would be a great step towards doing a few things (yeah, I know we are not supposed to use the server - tell that to my SysAdm). 14BPG NEWS My apologies that this newsletter is being published a week late. I have been flooded with companies looking for developers, and developers looking for positions. Everyone gets the attention that they need to achieve their objectives. If the newsletter had gone out last friday, I would not have been able to help each person fully. I am trying to make the necessary process changes here to stick to the schedule. Realistically the next issue should go out April 7th. Taxes are due April 15th, so I the following issue will be May 1st. 15HOW TO SUBSCRIBE This newsletter is published twice a month, about the 1st and 15th of each month. Subscriptions are provided free. If you would like to subscribe, please send email to newsletter@bpg.com. To make my job easier, please left justify your name and email address, one line each as follows: Christopher Lozinski lozinski@bpg.com BPG 35032 Maidstone Court Newark, CA 94560 I am also very interested in posting this newsletter to email distribution list s. Feel free to subscribe a friend. Please specify whether you prefer NeXTMAIL or ASCII mail. Please tell me a little about how you are using NEXTSTEP.
From: edwintam@webhk.com (Edwin TAM) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Possible ? Read Japanese on 3.3 Date: 25 Mar 1996 09:37:59 GMT Message-ID: <4j5phn$qt1@hkt001.hkt.net> Dear dear, Is it possible to display Japanese characters on (English) 3.3 ?? I need it for OmniWeb to browse the Japanese sites. Any pointers appreciated very much, (Let's hope that the price for NS4.0J will not be as steep...) Edwin TAM edwintam@webhk.com
From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: One more ? Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 14:19:23 +0100 Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960325141610.15587B-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960319123623.9470c-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <4iv87c$l1a@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.92.960323115036.10972L-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960323115036.10972L-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> On Sat, 23 Mar 1996, Timothy J. Luoma wrote: > On 22 Mar 1996, Wassim M. Jabi wrote: > > > I have a related question: Does read receipt work with > > other Mail systems (other than NeXTMail)? Thanks. > > As far as I know, No. The read-receipt will only work if the message is > read through Mail.app (and even then only if the person doesn't have a > filter). Sorry, but this is wrong. Read-Receipts work with other systems as well. Just hack in the following header line in your outgoing mail: RCPT-TO: <your e-mail> I don't know wether there is a RFC on this (there surely is one, but I don't know the number). Anyway I can assure it works, because we used it on our NoSD project with about 1500 adresses on non NEXTSTEP computers. Greetings, Boerny.
From: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: VFAT support in OpenStep/Mach ? Date: 25 Mar 1996 14:45:14 GMT Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany Message-ID: <4j6bhq$4ir@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> Development of applications for deployment on OpenStep/Win seems to be one of the main fields for OpenStep/Mach. Will there be support for VFAT filesystems with long filenames ? Wouldn't it be nice to have an API for adding NEW.fs's to /usr/filesystems ? 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: everhart@alterlife.com (Dwight Everhart) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Clock synchronization Date: 25 Mar 1996 19:41:04 GMT Organization: IntelliNet-ISP, LLC. 1-800-290-7677 Message-ID: <4j6ssg$8rj@zeus.intellinet.com> References: <4ip9pu$mu8@netnews.hinet.net> In <4ip9pu$mu8@netnews.hinet.net> James C. Lin wrote: > My NeXTcube clock is drifting and like to find a program to >synchronize the clock with my network server. Can anyone suggest me a >utility? NTP is a standard part of NEXTSTEP and should do what you need. It works over a LAN and over the Internet. I use it to set my computer's clock to the Navy's atomic clock every time I bring up my PPP link. Search for NTP in Librarian for more info. -- Dwight Everhart "Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments Ex Nicole Bobek Coach give lustre, and many more people see than weigh." Bella Vista, Arkansas -- Lord Chesterfield everhart@alterlife.com
From: David Hinz <dhinz@dna406.dna.mci.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Services when logged in as root? Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 14:53:58 -0700 Organization: MCI Message-ID: <315715F6.167E@dna406.dna.mci.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On my NS/FIP system I don't get any Services when I am logged in as root. Under my normal user account the Services menu is fully populated with the usual Services. Any ideas on what could be wrong? Also, yesterday I downloaded and installed the OmniImageFilter service into /LocalLibrary/Services. But it never shows up on the Services menu. I've tried logging out and back in (didn't help), looked on the Preferences Service window (it isn't listed). Do I need to do something special to get it to show up on the menu? (This happens when I'm logged in as root or a "normal" user.) -- David Hinz E-mail: dhinz@dna406.dna.mci.com Phone: (303) 291-6108
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: what are these files for: /usr/lib/sound/*.snd Date: 25 Mar 1996 22:21:07 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <4j768j$pec@bignews.shef.ac.uk> References: <4iih7o$pl8@news.gate.net> In-Reply-To: <4iih7o$pl8@news.gate.net> On 03/18/96, doroin@cobber.cord.edu wrote: > > I can't play the sounds so I'm not sure they are soundfiles. I'm just > curious what they are for. > > -r--r--r-- 1 root 792 May 25 1992 booter.snd > -r--r--r-- 1 root 1764 May 25 1992 codec.snd [...] > If I understand correctly, they're code for the DSP. Best wishes, mmalc. --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: rfenney@netcom.com (Robert J. Fenney) Subject: Re: Powerglove connection to NeXT system? Message-ID: <rfenney-250396131651@rfenney.slip.netcom.com> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Sender: netnews@mork.netcom.com Organization: FenTek References: <4j54uc$grn@news4.digex.net> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 21:14:43 GMT In article <4j54uc$grn@news4.digex.net>, kykim@tenteus.com (Kevin Kim) wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm trying to find the relevant files about connecting a Nintendo Powerglove > to a > NeXT system. There is a README in next-ftp.peak.org, but no file :-(. > > Does anyone have an idea where I can find these files? > > Thanks, > -kevin > -- > Kevin Kim > kykim@access.digex.net Try either the Nebula or Peanuts CDs. I know I just saw it but I can't remember on which. Robert
From: peisch@news.cfa.org (Peter Eisch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Q: HP 3.2 Panics repeatedly, help? Date: 25 Mar 1996 20:42:08 -0600 Organization: Communicating for America Network Services Message-ID: <4j7li0$3i0@swifty.cfa.org> Can you help me? I'm getting this message logged by syslog about a second before the host locks up (no auto-reboot either) with: ... hostname mach: zone "kernel map entries" rempty The box is a 712/80 with 32MB primary and a Micropolis 1GB (HP's part) internal. It typically sits at the loginwindow performing TCP services. The same software is running on other 712's that I manage and can do so for weeks on end. Any answers or reasonable guesses appreciated. I haven't been around these parts much recently. Is it reasonable for NeXT proffer an expert answer in an amazingly quick time if the price were right? If so, what's the best method to approach them with? peter -- Always looking for a handy place to nap... peisch@cans.com (Peter Eisch) peter@etude.com
From: peisch@news.cfa.org (Peter Eisch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q: HP 3.2 Panics repeatedly, help? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 25 Mar 1996 20:50:20 -0600 Organization: Communicating for America Network Services Message-ID: <4j7m1c$3tv@swifty.cfa.org> References: <4j7li0$3i0@swifty.cfa.org> Following up myself...sorry...but I (peisch@news.cfa.org) wrote: : Can you help me? I'm getting this message logged by syslog about a : second before the host locks up (no auto-reboot either) with: : ... hostname mach: zone "kernel map entries" rempty Here are the two events from today. Mar 25 19:08:34 host mach: Expanding zone pmap Mar 25 19:20:03 host mach: Expanding zone pmap Mar 25 20:11:59 host mach: NeXT Mach 3.2: Tue Jul 12 18:26:52 PDT 1994; root(rcbuilder):Objects/mk-150.0.0.55.obj~2/RELEASE_HPPA ... and then... Mar 25 20:28:33 ny mach: Expanding zone pmap Mar 25 21:11:12 ny mach: Expanding zone pmap Mar 25 21:22:02 ny mach: Expanding zone kernel map entries Mar 25 21:26:07 ny mach: zone "kernel map entries" rempty Mar 25 21:37:18 ny mach: NeXT Mach 3.2: Tue Jul 12 18:26:52 PDT 1994; root(rcbuilder):Objects/mk-150.0.0.55.obj~2/RELEASE_HPPA Mar 25 21:37:18 ny mach: physical memory = 64.00 megabytes. ... Does this help at all? -- Always looking for a handy place to nap... peisch@cans.com (Peter Eisch) peter@etude.com
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Services when logged in as root? Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 08:05:50 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1996Mar26.080550.10284@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <315715F6.167E@dna406.dna.mci.com> In article <315715F6.167E@dna406.dna.mci.com> David Hinz <dhinz@dna406.dna.mci.com> writes: > On my NS/FIP system I don't get any Services when I am logged in as > root. Under my normal user account the Services menu is fully populated > with the usual Services. Any ideas on what could be wrong? This sometimes happens if ~/.NeXT/services is corrupted, or has wrong permissions. Check that UserManager shows the home of root to be /, a bug causes it to be set to /Users/root in some circumstances. If all looks OK, then run make_services in Terminal. > Also, yesterday I downloaded and installed the OmniImageFilter service > into /LocalLibrary/Services. But it never shows up on the Services menu. > I've tried logging out and back in (didn't help), looked on the > Preferences Service window (it isn't listed). Do I need to do something > special to get it to show up on the menu? (This happens when I'm logged > in as root or a "normal" user.) OmniImageFilter is a file service; it doesn't have a services menu entry. If you have a gif file around, try dropping it into an Edit or Mail Compose window. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: birdrock@well.sf.ca.us (Brian Dear) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NEXTSTEP & Firewalls: Possible? Date: 26 Mar 1996 16:08:06 GMT Organization: The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA Message-ID: <4j94p6$olf@nkosi.well.com> Has anyone configured a machine running NEXTSTEP to serve as a firewall on the Internet? Is it even possible? Is it ludicrous? Could some public-domain GNU-style source be compiled and integrated into a NEXTSTEP environment to give one the functionality of a firewall? I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who's thought about, or better yet, actually implemented such a thing. Thanks. -- brian
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q: HP 3.2 Panics repeatedly, help? Date: 26 Mar 1996 17:40:55 GMT Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc. Message-ID: <4j9a77$7ml@news.its.com> References: <4j7li0$3i0@swifty.cfa.org> peisch@news.cfa.org (Peter Eisch) wrote: [ ... ] > I haven't been around these parts much recently. Is it reasonable for > NeXT proffer an expert answer in an amazingly quick time if the price > were right? If so, what's the best method to approach them with? Yes. You can pay some $20-30K per year for "Premium Technical Support", or you can pay by the question. Look on http://www.next.com for info about technical support; email is ask-next@next.com. Your mileage with their support may vary-- some people have said that they're very happy with NeXT's support; others have done less well. -Chuck Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc. --------------------------------+--------------------------------------- CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: One more ? Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 10:51:13 -0500 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960326104922.8773E-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960319123623.9470c-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <4iv87c$l1a@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.92.960323115036.10972L-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <Pine.HPP.3.91.960325141610.15587B-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960325141610.15587B-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> On Mon, 25 Mar 1996, Bernhard Scholz wrote: > Sorry, but this is wrong. Read-Receipts work with other systems as well. > Just hack in the following header line in your outgoing mail: > RCPT-TO: <your e-mail> > > I don't know wether there is a RFC on this (there surely is one, but I > don't know the number). Anyway I can assure it works, because we used it > on our NoSD project with about 1500 adresses on non NEXTSTEP computers. Um. Ok, I thought this was a _delivery_ receipt, not a _read_ receipt. What's the difference between RCPT-TO and Return-Receipt-To? Thanks TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> NeXT Info available via email! Send message with SUBJECT 'send info' >>>> Please: No NeXTMail, use MIME for attachments <<<<
From: rthrford@Glue.umd.edu (Reginald Rutherford) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NeXT mh installation Date: 26 Mar 1996 16:54:36 GMT Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park, MD Message-ID: <4j97gc$2ts@mojo.eng.umd.edu> Hiya I'm trying to install mh 6.8.3 on a NeXT Cube running NeXTStep 3.2 and I'm running into trouble. Any help at all would be appreciated! The makefile will make with no errors (but a bunch of warnings), but when I try to run "inc" I get the error message: inc: unable to lock and fopen /usr/spool/mail/rthrford Here's the conf/MH file: # NeXTStep 3.2 bin: /usr/local/src/mh/bin chown: /etc curses: -lcurses -ltermlib editor: /usr/ucb/vi etc: /usr/local/src/mh/lib/mh ldoptions: -s mail: /usr/spool/mail mandir: /usr/local/src/mh/man manuals: local mts: sendmail options ATTVIBUG BIND BSD42 BSD43 LOCKF options NORUSERPASS NTOHLSWAP RENAME UNISTD VSPRINTF ZONEINFO options MHRC MIME ranlib: on remove: mv -f Note: I have tried using both the "LOCKF" and "FLOCK" options, both with and without "UNISTD." I have used all four of these combinations with both the "BDS42" option and with "BSD42 BDS43", and I always get the same error with "inc". Thank you very much! -- Rick Rutherford rthrford@sirius.umd.edu The above opinions are mine. "It seems to me that the nearer painting approaches sculpture the better it is, and that sculpture is the worse the nearer it approaches painting." -- Michelangelo
From: mcconnel@hydra.syr.edu (Terry R. McConnell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Mouse X on a turbo Date: 26 Mar 1996 13:24:12 GMT Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse Distribution: na Message-ID: <4j8r5s$qgm@newstand.syr.edu> A colleague of mine has a finite element program he needs to run on his NeXT but it is an X-windows application. Several of us run McGill's X server ("Mouse X") on our black (non-turbo) NeXTs with no problems, but we haven't been able to get it to run on a turbo. Is this a known problem? Anybody have a fix? TIA -- ************************************************************************ Terry R. McConnell Mathematics/215 Carnegie/Syracuse, N.Y. 13244-1150 trmcconn@syr.edu http://barnyard.syr.edu/~tmc ************************************************************************
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: 25 Mar 1996 05:15:09 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4j5a4t$cj0@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. 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From: Eugene Mah <eugene@raddi.uah.ualberta.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Formatting HDs w/ 1024 byte block size Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 15:47:01 -0700 Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960326154208.1694A-100000@raddi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII A while ago there was some discussion about formatting hard drives using a 1024 byte block size. At the time I tried it out on one of my slabs, and it seemed to work fine. Now I've got an opportunity to try it out on some white hardware with a Micropolis 4221-09 1128RA drive. Problem is, I've forgotten what the procedure for doing this was or if it was even applicable to white hardware. The entire disk is dedicated to NS, so there's no need to worry about DOS. Any memory refreshing tips would be much appreciated Many thanks Eugene ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene Mah eugene@raddi.uah.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail) Systems Administrator "For I am a Bear of Very Little Department of Radiology Brain, and long words Bother University of Alberta Hospitals me." Winnie the Pooh Edmonton, Alberta, Canada http://raddi.uah.ualberta.ca/~eugene/ PGP KeyID = 1F9779FD ----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: cvanbus@tcs.tulane.edu (_chris_) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NS 3.2 Intel questions Date: 26 Mar 1996 19:25:16 GMT Organization: Tulane University Message-ID: <cvanbus-2603961324460001@dialup69.tcs.tulane.edu> References: <4iuv0a$7tj@tribune.cris.com> In article <4iuv0a$7tj@tribune.cris.com>, rbeer@jaguar.cris.com () wrote: > Hello, please forgive me in advance if this is inappropriate for this > newsgroup. > > I have been wanting to play with NeXTStep for a long time (<92), and purchased > 3.2 Intel User+Dev a few days ago. After some hellacious hardware > incompatabilities (such as it not being able to use >500mb IDE drives), I > am using it fairly successfully. I am impressed overall with the OS. Have you used other types of UNIX? Compare them with next. I'm looking at a preconfigured system from apache. thanks.... -- Chris Van Buskirk Tulane University http://studentweb.tulane.edu/~cvanbus
From: james@young-ray.hinet.net (James C. Lin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: HELP: PowerBook 170 & NeXTcube connection Date: 27 Mar 1996 01:00:33 GMT Organization: DCI HiNet Message-ID: <4ja3vh$t2o@netnews.hinet.net> Hi everyone, Is it possible to connect a powerbook 170 to a NextCube via only the serial port. What do I need to make the connection? I have connected the PB 170 modem port and the NeXTCube serial port B with a serial port cable. I then tried with kermit but do not know how to configure the program. Do I need to configure the Cube as a server and PB 170 as a client? How? Scripts? Any suggestion? Many thanks in advance? -- Thanks and Best Regards, james@young-ray.hinet.net
From: tm8025a@american.edu (Torrey McMahon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP & Firewalls: Possible? Date: 27 Mar 1996 01:28:57 GMT Organization: American University, Washington DC Message-ID: <4ja5kp$eoa@paladin.american.edu> References: <4j94p6$olf@nkosi.well.com> In <4j94p6$olf@nkosi.well.com> Brian Dear wrote about firewalls > I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who's thought about, or better yet, > actually implemented such a thing. Thanks. > Well I have only though about it. The major problem, at least that I saw, was that you couldn't dual-home a NeXT system. That would allow for a faster speed through certain types of firewalls. External ---> Ethernet IN ---> Filter/Bus Speed/CPU --->Ethernet Out--->Internal as opposed to External ---> Ethernet IN ---> Filter/Bus Speed/CPU --->Ethernet Out--->Internal Gateway ---> Filter/Bus Speed/CPU --->Ethernet Out--->Internal BUT perhaps the PPP loadable kernal module can fix that. I know it allows you to dual-home a host but I don't know about the above. I should test it out. Hmmmm.......... I do know that the PD firewall stuff, SOCKS, tcp wrappers etc., compile under NEXTSTEP. I may be able to provide such tools after the 15th of April. (Sooner if someone wants to do my taxes!) The cool thing about a NeXT setup would be the ease to create management apps. That would be cool indeed. -- Torrey McMahon
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Formatting HDs w/ 1024 byte block size Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <DowKJ4.2yJ@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 01:37:52 GMT References: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960326154208.1694A-100000@raddi> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <Pine.NXT.3.92.960326154208.1694A-100000@raddi>, Eugene Mah <eugene@raddi.uah.ualberta.ca> wrote: >A while ago there was some discussion about formatting >hard drives using a 1024 byte block size. At the time >I tried it out on one of my slabs, and it seemed to work fine. >Now I've got an opportunity to try it out on some white >hardware with a Micropolis 4221-09 1128RA drive. >Problem is, I've forgotten what the procedure for doing >this was or if it was even applicable to white hardware. >The entire disk is dedicated to NS, so there's no need >to worry about DOS. > The way I understand it, if you set the sector size fo 1024 on white hardware you will no longer be able to boot from the disk. It will mount and run fine under NS, though. As for how to do it, you'd need to use "sdformat" or whatever the name of the enhanced SCSI formatter is that's around on the FTP sites. -- 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: peisch@news.cfa.org (Peter Eisch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP & Firewalls: Possible? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Date: 26 Mar 1996 20:47:54 -0600 Organization: Communicating for America Network Services Message-ID: <4jaa8q$slm@swifty.cfa.org> References: <4j94p6$olf@nkosi.well.com> <4ja5kp$eoa@paladin.american.edu> There are two quotes that come to mind: "A rock makes a better firewall than a router." "A dual-homed host can never be a firewall." A router and a single-homed host running tcp_wrappers, quite a bit of time to plan things out and set things up if you haven't done it before, and someone committed to maintaining and modifying the whole config according to the whims of company policies are about all you need. I've set up a slab in such a config and it works fine. The only situation that I've seen a black or ISA white hardware come up short is in the ethernet thruput arena. Black hardware peaks around 400Kb/sec (from memory -- have no numbers handy) and ISA numbers are about the same. HP workstations work swell and I would probably imagine as Sun would too. These trinkets can swamp an ethernet pretty handily so all that's left to consider would be what logging of sessions your i/o can support while proxying or caching/forwarding. Torrey McMahon (tm8025a@american.edu) wrote: : In <4j94p6$olf@nkosi.well.com> Brian Dear wrote about firewalls : > I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who's thought about, or better yet, : > actually implemented such a thing. Thanks. : > : Well I have only though about it. The major problem, at least that I saw, was : that you couldn't dual-home a NeXT system. That would allow for a faster : speed through certain types of firewalls. : BUT perhaps the PPP loadable kernal module can fix that. I know it allows you : to dual-home a host but I don't know about the above. I should test it out. : Hmmmm.......... : I do know that the PD firewall stuff, SOCKS, tcp wrappers etc., compile under : NEXTSTEP. I may be able to provide such tools after the 15th of April. : (Sooner if someone wants to do my taxes!) The PPP interfaces come in handy for quite a few things like virt hosting of ftp and http services -- which is something that you may want on your bastion, but they really belong on a bastard server (one where the disk space may disappear or where you want to create/manage different types of logins). The bastion should have minimal/no logins. I'm rambling... peter -- Always looking for a handy place to nap... peisch@cans.com (Peter Eisch) peter@etude.com
Subject: Re: NeXT Cube for Sale References: <maddog-2303961118010001@maddog.blkbox.com> Newsgroups: biz.marketplace.computers.other,biz.comp.hardware,misc.forsale.computers.memory,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc Distribution: inet From: Keith@nesbbx.rain.COM (Keith Colbaugh) Message-ID: <Keith.0zpe@nesbbx.rain.COM> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 96 11:42:09 PST Organization: NESBBX Bulletin Board System In <maddog-2303961118010001@maddog.blkbox.com>, maddog@blkbox.com (Mad Dog) writes: > $200.00 Takes it. > NeXT Product No. > 152.00 > > -- > Mad Dog Productions > 713-685-0133 > We have the Best Prices on 4 Color Printing > Door Hangers, Trading Card Distrb., Multi-Media, WebMasters, etc..... > Member: Greater Houston Convention Bureau; Richmond Avenue Merchants Assoc. Dog Mad: What Cpu, what memory, what OS, etc?
From: mitroo@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Varun Mitroo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Setting up PPP for a network of machines Date: 27 Mar 1996 05:33:24 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <4jajv4$ptt@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> I have been trying to get PPP working over a group of machines running NEXTSTEP without much success. Here are the details: 4 machines, intel and motorola, that connect to the internet through one machine (a NeXT cube - the server) over a modem connection to a local provider. The cube server, which has the modem attached to it, works fine for internet access. The machines all have fixed ip addresses, contiguous numbers ranging from 234 to 237 as the last number of the ip address (for sake of argument, ip numbers 222.222.222.234 - 222.222.222.237). No problem, you say. Well, slight catch is that the provider's gateway is ip address 222.222.222.1, so the computers get confused about which network interface to use, ethernet or ppp. To correct for this, I tried changing the netmask of the network from the default 255.255.255.0 to something like 255.255.255.248. Changing this on the server works fine. I am able to ping machines on the internet as well as on the local network. The problem is for the other machines on the network. I am using automatic host configuration, and this hangs the machines on bootup when I change the netmask to anything other than 255.255.255.0. Has anybody encountered a similar problem? Will I have to manually give each machine its ip address and hostname and skip automatic configuration, and will that solve the problem? I'm sort of new to this sort of network administration, and if anybody has any experience with a similar setup, please send me some e-mail. I have downloaded the excellent PPP FAQ which gives solutions to a lot of networking issues. Thanks in advance, Varun
From: cbaur@blabel.ppp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de (Christian Baur) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Powerglove connection to NeXT system? Date: 27 Mar 1996 12:02:03 +0100 Organization: Home of BlackLabel Message-ID: <4jb77b$rfp@blabel.ppp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> References: <4j54uc$grn@news4.digex.net> <rfenney-250396131651@rfenney.slip.netcom.com> rfenney@netcom.com (Robert J. Fenney) writes: >In article <4j54uc$grn@news4.digex.net>, kykim@tenteus.com (Kevin Kim) >wrote: >> I'm trying to find the relevant files about connecting a Nintendo Powerglove >> to a >> NeXT system. There is a README in next-ftp.peak.org, but no file :-(. >> >> Does anyone have an idea where I can find these files? >> >Try either the Nebula or Peanuts CDs. I know I just saw it but I can't >remember on which. > You can find these files on the Peanuts Archive (or the Peanuts CD) in the directory Developer/hardware/powerglove: NeXTPowerGlove.2.01.N.bsa.tar.gz NeXTPowerGlove.README PGlove.N.bs.tar.gz PGlove.README PowerGlove.N.bs.tar.gz PowerGloveInspector.0.3.N.bs.tar.gz PowerGloveInspector.README next-dsp.txt.gz (Peanuts is ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/next) Regards cb -- [ Christian Baur,Muenchen-Germany | God has a sense ] [ cbaur@leo.org(NeXTmail) | of humour... ]
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Canon object.station 41 AUDIO & Windoze 95 Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 05:11:56 -0600 Organization: Illinois State University, Instructional Technology Services Message-ID: <3159227C.3E08@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> References: <4ikgke$l0h@mimsy.cs.umd.edu> <1996Mar19.204945.2813@seer.demon.co.uk> <4inee0$207@digifix.digifix.com> <4iubfg$opc@bignews.shef.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Oak Technologies has a new driver 2.6.5 released December 95 and WILL allow audio to work with Windoze 95. httP://www.oaktech.com The driver is called: 601f265.zip you MUST install this in MS-DOS mode, and it looks like 95 won't recognize it, but it will work. Although now after installing it, my networking doesn't seem to work...more later.. Here's the direct link to the file: http://www.oaktech.com/zipfiles/601f265.zip --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric A. Dubiel; http://138.87.201.11 Instructional mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu Technology PEACE LOVE Services UNITY RESPECT Illinois State University "Understanding is best learned via experience." "Follow our instinct, not a trend. Go against the grain until the end." Unknown .... VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE ENTIRELY MY OWN
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Formatting HDs w/ 1024 byte block size Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 20:19:11 -0500 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960326201825.12773B-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> References: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960326154208.1694A-100000@raddi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Eugene Mah <eugene@raddi.uah.ualberta.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960326154208.1694A-100000@raddi> On Tue, 26 Mar 1996, Eugene Mah wrote: > A while ago there was some discussion about formatting > hard drives using a 1024 byte block size. At the time > I tried it out on one of my slabs, and it seemed to work fine. > Now I've got an opportunity to try it out on some white > hardware with a Micropolis 4221-09 1128RA drive. > Problem is, I've forgotten what the procedure for doing > this was or if it was even applicable to white hardware. > The entire disk is dedicated to NS, so there's no need > to worry about DOS. > you want sdformat ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/util/sdformat_1.3.MIHS.tar.gz TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> NeXT Info available via email! Send message with SUBJECT 'send info' >>>> Please: No NeXTMail, use MIME for attachments <<<<
From: suzawa@suzawa.anatomy.emory.edu (Satoru Uzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Formatting HDs w/ 1024 byte block size Date: 27 Mar 1996 18:19:36 GMT Organization: Emory University Message-ID: <4jc0ro$ptu@moe.cc.emory.edu> References: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960326154208.1694A-100000@raddi> To set the block size to 1024 on white hard, you need to boot from another hard drive or floppy with modification in System.config/Instance0.table file. Some people including me are using such configuration with booting from an IDE drive and have set rootdev to SCSI hard. If you are interested in this topic please e-mail me for more detail protocol. The point whether you want the speed inprovement and disk size increase with draw back of more difficulty in maintenance of the machine. Good luck! Satoru Uzawa, suzawa@unix.cc.emory.edu (NeXTMail welcome) Eugene Mah (eugene@raddi.uah.ualberta.ca) wrote: : A while ago there was some discussion about formatting : hard drives using a 1024 byte block size. At the time : I tried it out on one of my slabs, and it seemed to work fine. : Now I've got an opportunity to try it out on some white : hardware with a Micropolis 4221-09 1128RA drive. : Problem is, I've forgotten what the procedure for doing : this was or if it was even applicable to white hardware. : The entire disk is dedicated to NS, so there's no need : to worry about DOS. : Any memory refreshing tips would be much appreciated : Many thanks : Eugene : ---------------------------------------------------------------------- : Eugene Mah eugene@raddi.uah.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail) : Systems Administrator "For I am a Bear of Very Little : Department of Radiology Brain, and long words Bother : University of Alberta Hospitals me." Winnie the Pooh : Edmonton, Alberta, Canada http://raddi.uah.ualberta.ca/~eugene/ : PGP KeyID = 1F9779FD : ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Satoru Uzawa, suzawa@unix.cc.emory.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
From: tm8025a@american.edu (Torrey McMahon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP & Firewalls: Possible? Date: 27 Mar 1996 22:00:40 GMT Organization: American University, Washington DC Message-ID: <4jcdq8$po5@paladin.american.edu> References: <4j94p6$olf@nkosi.well.com> <4ja5kp$eoa@paladin.american.edu> <4jaa8q$slm@swifty.cfa.org> In <4jaa8q$slm@swifty.cfa.org> Peter Eisch wrote: > "A dual-homed host can never be a firewall." > Well lets just say this. It is a really bad firewall. One I would never use but one I have seen in operation. (I tried to tell them...they wouldn't listen.) -- Torrey McMahon
From: colinj@math.math.unm.edu (Colin Eric Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: parity/non-parity SIMM combinations in black hardware Date: 27 Mar 1996 20:16:47 GMT Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Distribution: world Message-ID: <4jc7nf$klm@lynx.unm.edu> I've checked the FAQ for details on combining parity and non-parity SIMMS in black hardware (040 cube in this case). From what I have read this would only cause a problem at boot time such that the machine will not boot unattended. Is this the only danger of mixing SIMM types? Can someone bring me up to speed on why this is a problem and what else it might break? Any insight is appreciated. -- "As Jun [Murai] explains it, `I can go to the bar and drink beer. I go to a phone and ping my routers, and if they are still working, I go back and drink more beer.'" Carl Malamud _Exploring_the_Internet_ Colin Johnson | colinj@unm.edu | http://www.unm.edu/~colinj/
From: mpaque@pbinet.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Question about ND board Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 00:20:49 GMT Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services Message-ID: <4jcm7b$l0g@nntp.snfc21.pbi.net> References: <4j3v18$3ak@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> gcasa@wam.umd.edu (Gregory John Casamento) wrote: >Hi, I am wondering if it is possible for me to use the NeXTDimension >board without a color monitor. I have one and I am simply wondering >if I would be able to use the board at all. Will it be possible to >use the NeXTTv application on the B&W monitor The NeXTDimension NTSC?PAL Video I/O hardware can only write and read memory on board the NeXTDimension board. This means that the 'video in a window' implemented by NXLiveVideoView and used by NeXTTV is restricted to the NeXTDimension board. If you were to fire up NeXTTV on a two-headed system and drag the video window onto the monochrome head, you wouldn't see anything (except for the black rectangle where video would otherwise be...) Mike Paquette I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me. mpaque@pbinet.com Personal E-mail mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
From: Rick Vazquez <vazquezr@physics.ucla.pedu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Dump Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 17:13:50 -0800 Organization: UCLA Physics Message-ID: <3159E7CE.7389@physics.ucla.pedu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Can someone helpme restore my hard disk, I used the following command to backup my hard disk dump -0uf /dev/rmt0 can someone tell me how to use restore to put my hard disk back to normal again. Thanks Rick
From: jacob@dannug.dk (Jacob Nielsen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: One more ? Date: 27 Mar 1996 21:25:08 GMT Organization: Danish NeXT User Group Message-ID: <4jcbnk$q0@jnext.dannug.dk> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960319123623.9470c-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <4iv87c$l1a@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.92.960323115036.10972L-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> In <Pine.NXT.3.92.960323115036.10972L-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> "Timothy J. Luoma" wrote: > On 22 Mar 1996, Wassim M. Jabi wrote: > > > I have a related question: Does read receipt work with > > other Mail systems (other than NeXTMail)? Thanks. > > As far as I know, No. The read-receipt will only work if the message is > read through Mail.app (and even then only if the person doesn't have a > filter). > Hmm, my NeXT generates read-receipts when some MS-Mail user sends me mail and requests a read-reciept. Why shouldn't it work the other way round? Regards, Jacob -- Jacob Nielsen Maintainer of NEXTSTEP Software Reviews http://www.dannug.dk/jacob & My own home page :-) http://www.dannug.dk/~jacob NeXTMail, MIMEMail and SUNMail jacob@dannug.dk
From: robin@pswtech.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NS 3.2 Intel questions Date: 28 Mar 1996 02:32:40 GMT Organization: PSW Technologies Message-ID: <4jcto8$jj3@digdug.pswtech.com> References: <4iuv0a$7tj@tribune.cris.com> <cvanbus-2603961324460001@dialup69.tcs.tulane.edu> cvanbus@tcs.tulane.edu (_chris_) wrote: : In article <4iuv0a$7tj@tribune.cris.com>, rbeer@jaguar.cris.com () wrote: : > Hello, please forgive me in advance if this is inappropriate for this : > newsgroup. : > : > I have been wanting to play with NeXTStep for a long time (<92), and purchased : > 3.2 Intel User+Dev a few days ago. After some hellacious hardware : > incompatabilities (such as it not being able to use >500mb IDE drives), I : > am using it fairly successfully. I am impressed overall with the OS. : Have you used other types of UNIX? Compare them with next. I'm looking at : a preconfigured system from apache. I have. I have used (supported from IBM's defect support group) AIX, SunOS, Solaris, HPUX, Ultrix, Linux, and sundry lesser Unix systems... Frankly, I think they all pale in comparison to NEXTSTEP on Mach. NEXTSTEP is easier to configure, easier to manage and much more "user friendly". To top that, it is the _best_ development platform in the business (by an order of magnitude). Of course, that's all just my opinion -- and counts for little in your world. But if given the chance to try NEXTSTEP -- I'd suggest you jump at it. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** These are my opinions... Mine! All Mine! Minemineminemineminemine! *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin D. Wilson robin@pswtech.com PSW Technologies 701 Canyon Bend Dr. 9050 Capital of Texas Hwy Pflugerville, TX 78660 Austin, TX 78759 (512) 251-1737 (512) 343-6666
From: Robert Worne <rworne@primenet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: parity/non-parity SIMM combinations in black hardware Date: 27 Mar 1996 22:30:01 -0700 Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet Sender: root@primenet.com Message-ID: <4jd84p$r0q@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> References: <4jc7nf$klm@lynx.unm.edu> colinj@math.math.unm.edu (Colin Eric Johnson) wrote: >I've checked the FAQ for details on combining parity and non-parity >SIMMS in black hardware (040 cube in this case). From what I have read >this would only cause a problem at boot time such that the machine >will not boot unattended. > >Is this the only danger of mixing SIMM types? > >Can someone bring me up to speed on why this is a problem and what >else it might break? > >Any insight is appreciated. First you need (probably, wouldn't hurt) the latest Rom Rev (v66) I had 8 4x9 70ns parity RAM installed in slots 0-7, and 8 1x8 100ns non-parity (orig NeXT memory) installed on 8-15, with the parity checking option off. Worked fine on the SECOND boot, the first boot reported an exception error of some sort. After an Alt-Command-*, it subsequently ran fine. The order of SIMM placement is important, I guess. -- Robert Worne NeXT-OS/2-MacOS Starving CS Undergrad...Sorry, I don't *do* Windows! I'd rather starve... -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/P/S d-?>pu s+:+> a- C++$>++++ 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: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: One more ? Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 13:26:53 +0100 Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960328132436.22437A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960319123623.9470c-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <4iv87c$l1a@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.92.960323115036.10972L-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <Pine.HPP.3.91.960325141610.15587B-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <Pine.NXT.3.92.960326104922.8773E-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960326104922.8773E-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> On Tue, 26 Mar 1996, Timothy J. Luoma wrote: > On Mon, 25 Mar 1996, Bernhard Scholz wrote: > > I don't know wether there is a RFC on this (there surely is one, but I > > don't know the number). Anyway I can assure it works, because we used it > > on our NoSD project with about 1500 adresses on non NEXTSTEP computers. > > Um. Ok, I thought this was a _delivery_ receipt, not a _read_ receipt. > Hm, I have to revise my answer. I mixed up delivery receipt and read receipt. Unfortunately we were using Return-Receipt-To: Sorry, Boerny. -- Bernhard Scholz (IRC: Boerny) scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de http://peanuts.leo.org/ scholz@ve1.rm.op.dlr.de http://www.leo.org/~scholz/
From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-bat.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NT/NS dual boot Date: 28 Mar 1996 12:25:56 GMT Organization: The University of York, UK Message-ID: <4je0gk$6uc@netty.york.ac.uk> References: <epwadm2o8.fsf@justine.elastica.com> robert@justine.elastica.com (Robert Nicholson) writes: > System Commander by V Communication will let you do that providing the > OS allows you to boot it off another drive. It's an OS dependent > things. NeXTSTEP for instance _cannot_... Window's NT can ... This is not true. You can boot NeXTStep off any SCSi drive you feel like... but bear in mind that when you install you will have to edit /etc/fstab to say where the root device is. NeXT seem to have a habit of making statements like this... e.g. the HP documentation says that the boot drive has to have the highest SCSI ID as it must boot off the first drive. Again this isn't true and a simple edit to /etc/fstab makes it work fine. This works fine for us on the Hp and I don't see why it wouldn't work on Intel. -bat.
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Suggestion: Upgrade from Black to B&W Date: 28 Mar 1996 15:52:47 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <4jeckf$k9a@msunews.cl.msu.edu> From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) Organization: Michigan State University Subject: Suggestion: Upgrade from Black to B&W Date: 28 Mar 1996 15:49:53 GMT Hi NeXTusers, the following thought was sitting in my head for a while now. The story goes like this: I like NeXTstep, I like my black slab (the box, monitor, keyboard, mouse) and I like the NeXT laser printer. I don't like the speed though. So, I was dreaming about an upgrade. 1. Find a Pentium or P6 motherboard that fits the station box, has SCSI, serial/parallel ports, sound and graphics on board. 2. The graphics should be compatible with the NeXT monitors. There are SVGA card that can do that, but on the motherboard?? 3. Make the keyboard talk to the motherboard. It might be necessary to use only the mechanical part of the keyboard and put new electronics into the keyboard. I just like the feel of the keys. 4. Connect the onboard sound to DSP connector, if the sound chip is compatible. I.e. the chip ought to be compatible with some good standard, if not with the old DSP. 5. Connect the serial ports to A and B connectors. 6. The most difficult part seems to be the laser printer. Somebody really experienced could be able to handle it ... We'd need HW and SW work done here. Why am I posting it here? I was thinking that if we found a large group of NeXT users that would like to get involved in this, we could maybe convince some small company to help us with such a project. Tell me what you think. Thanks, Rudy Blazek blazek@stt.msu.edu
From: allan@zen.ali.bc.ca (Allan Noordvyk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q: HP 3.2 Panics repeatedly, help? Date: 28 Mar 1996 16:59:28 GMT Organization: ALI Message-ID: <4jeghg$c0f@cetus.ali.bc.ca> References: <4j7li0$3i0@swifty.cfa.org> <4j7m1c$3tv@swifty.cfa.org> In <4j7m1c$3tv@swifty.cfa.org> Peter Eisch wrote: > Can you help me? I'm getting this message logged by syslog about a > second before the host locks up (no auto-reboot either) with: >... > Mar 25 19:08:34 host mach: Expanding zone pmap > Mar 25 19:20:03 host mach: Expanding zone pmap > Mar 25 20:11:59 host mach: NeXT Mach 3.2: Tue Jul 12 18:26:52 PDT 1994; > root(rcbuilder):Objects/mk-150.0.0.55.obj~2/RELEASE_HPPA I encountered similar entries and behaviour when I had a bug in a program which called free() for some memory which it got from a low-level mach message. It should have been calling vm_deallocate(), and thus was causing the kernel to slowly leak memory over time. Hope this helps. -- Allan Noordvyk, Software Artisan e-mail: allan@ali.bc.ca ALI Technologies Voice: 604.279.5422 x 317 Richmond, Canada Fax: 604.279.5468 * NeXT and MIME mail welcome *
From: wanke2266@aol.com (Wanke2266) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Q: Canon laptop 486 - NS for Intel? Date: 28 Mar 1996 13:50:15 -0500 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <4jen17$cqt@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Question: Can I put NextStep on this laptop? It is a Intel-based 486SX Canon InnovaBook 10 sub-notebook. I can upgrade the ram, HD, whatever it takes. What will get me started? Thanks, Wanke2266@aol.com
From: Robert Worne <rworne@primenet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Mouse X on a turbo Date: 28 Mar 1996 11:24:01 -0700 Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet Sender: root@primenet.com Message-ID: <4jelg1$5vc@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> References: <4j8r5s$qgm@newstand.syr.edu> mcconnel@hydra.syr.edu (Terry R. McConnell) wrote: >A colleague of mine has a finite element program he needs to run on his >NeXT but it is an X-windows application. Several of us run McGill's X server >("Mouse X") on our black (non-turbo) NeXTs with no problems, but we haven't >been able to get it to run on a turbo. Is this a known problem? Anybody >have a fix? > Is the Turbo a color machine? If so, there is a different executable you need to link to X. If it is just a plain turbo, or a turbo color, there is a preferences switch that allows operation under a turbo machine. -- 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------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Question about ND board Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <DozLzL.Ano@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 17:02:09 GMT References: <4j3v18$3ak@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <4jcm7b$l0g@nntp.snfc21.pbi.net> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <4jcm7b$l0g@nntp.snfc21.pbi.net>, Mike Paquette <mpaque@pbinet.com> wrote: > >The NeXTDimension NTSC?PAL Video I/O hardware can only write and read >memory on board the NeXTDimension board. This means that the 'video >in a window' implemented by NXLiveVideoView and used by NeXTTV is >restricted to the NeXTDimension board. > This reminds me of a question I had. When you have an NXLiveVideoView, does the ND do A/D on the incomming video, stuff it in its local RAM (the VRAM or the main DRAM?), and then display it as normal pixels? Or does it do some sort of key-based overlaying? -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: wjabi@umich.edu (Wassim M. Jabi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: OmniWeb Sighting in MacWorld Date: 28 Mar 1996 18:59:58 GMT Organization: University of Michigan Message-ID: <4jenje$kq0@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> URL: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wjabi/ Lighthouse Design's OmniWeb was mentioned in the latest issue of MacWorld on page 130 for its ability to display Progressive JPEG. Check it out! :-) -- Wassim M. Jabi Doctoral Program in Architecture University of Michigan 2000 Bonisteel Blvd Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2069 wjabi@umich.edu (Text/MIME/NeXTMail) http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wjabi/
From: woo@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Remote Login versus from Console Date: 29 Mar 1996 13:13:35 GMT Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN Distribution: world Message-ID: <4jgnlv$dn0@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> How can I tell in the .login script if my session is coming from the console running Terminal or from a remote connection? $TERM seems to be vt100 in both cases. -- - - - - - - - - - J. W. Wooten
From: asr@itsq8.com (Ahmad Al-rasheedan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Install off SB CD-ROM Date: 29 Mar 1996 15:39:11 GMT Organization: International Turnkey Systems Message-ID: <4jh06v$lb1@info.itsq8.com> Can I install NeXTSTEP off a soundblaster CD-ROM combination. Next answer says there is a driver, but not too sure if the installation is supported from soundblaster. Thanx.
From: Gianluca Faletti <glf287@sinet.it> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Italian users of NS Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 22:25:19 +0100 Organization: Staff Message-ID: <315B03BF.2257@sinet.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I'm searching for Italian users of NS. Please mail me. thanks Gian Luca
From: mcconnel@hydra.syr.edu (Terry R. McConnell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Remote Login versus from Console Date: 29 Mar 1996 18:12:06 GMT Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse Message-ID: <4jh95m$ij6@newstand.syr.edu> References: <4jgnlv$dn0@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> In article <4jgnlv$dn0@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>, John W. Wooten <woo@ornl.gov> wrote: >How can I tell in the .login script if my session is coming from the console >running Terminal or from a remote connection? $TERM seems to be vt100 in both Get a recent version of the tcsh (e.g. 6.05). It sets a shell variable called remotehost which you can test in .login. -- ************************************************************************ Terry R. McConnell Mathematics/215 Carnegie/Syracuse, N.Y. 13244-1150 trmcconn@syr.edu http://barnyard.syr.edu/~tmc ************************************************************************
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: python for NeXT (m68k)? Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 13:56:24 -0500 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960328135355.4531F-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: PPP Mailing List <nextppp@chinx1.thoughtport.com> Someone mentioned (either on the NeXT newsgroups or the PPP mailing list) something called 'python'. I've found the website, but was wondering if anyone already had it (ver 1.3) compiled for NeXT hardware (m68k)? And if so if they would share it with me (via MIME mail, or NeXTMail if necessary) Thanks -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> NeXT Info available via email! Send message with SUBJECT 'send info' >>>> Please: No NeXTMail, use MIME for attachments <<<<
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: python for NeXT (m68k)? Date: 29 Mar 1996 23:26:52 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <4jhrjs$9mo@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960328135355.4531F-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> wrote: > > Someone mentioned (either on the NeXT newsgroups or the PPP > mailing list) something called 'python'. > > I've found the website, but was wondering if anyone already had > it (ver 1.3) compiled for NeXT hardware (m68k)? And if so if > they would share it with me (via MIME mail, or NeXTMail if > necessary) Actually I'd be interested in a NeXTSTEP version of python too, assuming I ever have some spare time to use it... Python seems like an interesting language/shell/whatever. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Remote Login versus from Console Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 18:19:43 -0500 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960329180510.18402C-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> References: <4jgnlv$dn0@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: woo@ornl.gov In-Reply-To: <4jgnlv$dn0@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> On 29 Mar 1996, John W. Wooten wrote: > How can I tell in the .login script if my session is coming from the console > running Terminal or from a remote connection? $TERM seems to be vt100 in both > cases. Well, I think that .login is csh (unless you've changed your login shell, which you should, but that is another post) Anyway, in csh-style, try this in .login set user=`whoami` set console=`who | /bin/grep console | /bin/awk '{print $1}'` if ( "$console" == "$user" ) then echo $user is on console else echo $user is not on console endif I am not sure why you want to know this (although it is useful). If you want more specifics I might be able to help more. My csh syntax isn't great because I don't use csh anymore, but the above code worked for me If your login shell is sh or ZSH(!) then it would look something like this: user=`whoami` console=`who | /bin/grep console | /bin/awk '{print $1}'` if [ "$console" = "$user" ] then echo $user is on console else echo $user is not on console fi exit Although I do not know if sh or zsh actually reads the .login file... you could use this in .profile for sh or .zlogin for ZSH!!! feel free to email me for more help... I maintain two accounts, one just telnet and the other one console, so I've gotten used to dual-mindedness. TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> NeXT Info available via email! Send message with SUBJECT 'send info' >>>> Please: No NeXTMail, use MIME for attachments <<<<
From: michael@rumah.pc.my (Michael Olan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: HP Laserjet 5L to Nextstation Date: 30 Mar 1996 08:11:42 GMT Organization: Unconfigured Message-ID: <4jiqbu$31k@jaring.my> I am thinking of getting the new HP Laserjet 5L. Looks like a nice little printer. I'm wondering about connecting it to a blackbox running NS3.2. I've got ghostscript which will hopefully drive it, but my main question is the interface. Do I have to get a serial printer? Connect to the printer port, com port, Ethernet, SCSI? TIA for any info from someone who has done it or knows how. -- Dr. Michael Olan Email: michael@rumah.pc.my (NeXT Mail OK) Lecturer - Computer Science michael@ppp.itm.my American Degree Program Institut Teknologi MARA Section 17, Shah Alam, Malaysia
From: bediger@csn.net (Bruce Ediger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: parity/non-parity SIMM combinations in black hardware Date: 30 Mar 1996 19:07:01 -0700 Organization: Federal Orgone Energy Regulatory Commission Distribution: world Message-ID: <4jkpc5$gnn@teal.csn.net> References: <4jc7nf$klm@lynx.unm.edu> Colin E. Johnson <colinj@unm.edu> wrote: :I've checked the FAQ for details on combining parity and non-parity :SIMMS in black hardware (040 cube in this case). From what I have read :this would only cause a problem at boot time such that the machine :will not boot unattended. : :Is this the only danger of mixing SIMM types? : :Can someone bring me up to speed on why this is a problem and what :else it might break? I can add a bit to this. I have a 25MHz color slab. It has 26 Mbytes of memory: 24 meg in six 4Mb parity sticks, 2 meg in two 1 Mb non-parity sticks. The first trick is to set the boot PROM to ignore parity memory even if it's present. I can't recall the PROM option setting thing, but use the '?' command at the PROM's '>' prompt. The second trick is to put the non-parity memory in the slots closest to the power supply. I think the PROM refers to these with the lowest numbers. The third trick is to boot the kernel such that it fits in the 2 meg of non-parity memory. This means using a smallish number for the PROM "nbuf=" parameter. It will boot even if it uses memory over the 2 meg limit, but sooner or later the on-screen display becomes corrupted. I'm writing the above from memory - if you want more exact configuration stuff, I'll have to open the case to double check SIMM size, type and placement.
From: Joaquin_Menchaca@quickmail.apple.com (Joaquin Menchaca) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NeXT Compression? Date: 31 Mar 1996 02:15:19 GMT Organization: Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, California Message-ID: <Joaquin_Menchaca-3003961815180001@a17-221-40-250.apple.com> I noticed two extensions: 1 - .compressed 2 - .pkg I later discovered that .compressed is the same as .Z. I don't understand why everyone has to use the .compressed name. There's too many characters. For .pkg, I thought this may be a carry over of some obsolete Apple standard, so I tried to uncompress files with AppleLink program. No success. Where can I find out more for .pkg files. Is there a DOS program or UNIX sources that will allow me to uncompress .pkg files on other platforms?
From: Joaquin_Menchaca@quickmail.apple.com (Joaquin Menchaca) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Using drivers from .pkg.compressed files Date: 31 Mar 1996 02:19:32 GMT Organization: Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, California Message-ID: <Joaquin_Menchaca-3003961819310001@a17-221-40-250.apple.com> OK, I'm trying to install NeXTStep 3.2 onto my system. Yeah I know it's old, but that's what I have for the next month, the resellers can't get me 3.3 in time. Anyways, I'm trying to install this package, but I have a 2940 SCSI card that NeXTStep doesn't recognize. I managed to uncompress the file on my Mac, but I cannot figure out how to get around this .pkg format. If I have a floppy (DOS FAT) with a .pkg file containing the need drivers, what do I do when the installation program prompts me to insert a disk with the driver. Is it smart to unpack .pkg files? Can it read DOS FAT disks? I'll give this a try, but if it doesn't work, what do I need to do to have the appropiate disk for the prompt? Any help would be most appreciated. - Joaquin
From: Joaquin_Menchaca@quickmail.apple.com (Joaquin Menchaca) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NT/NS dual boot Date: 31 Mar 1996 02:40:48 GMT Organization: Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, California Message-ID: <Joaquin_Menchaca-3003961840380001@a17-221-40-250.apple.com> References: <4i4sn0$kek@barad-dur.nas.com> <jpanicoDoBB71.Mx6@netcom.com> <epwadm2o8.fsf@justine.elastica.com> > > System Commander by V Communication will let you do that providing the > OS allows you to boot it off another drive. It's an OS dependent > things. NeXTSTEP for instance _cannot_... Window's NT can ... > > V have a web page at http://wwww.v-comm-com I think... It has detail > on System Commander. Beutiful utility, I highly recommend this gem. > System Commander by V Communication will let you do that providing the > OS allows you to boot it off another drive. It's an OS dependent > things. NeXTSTEP for instance _cannot_... Window's NT can ... Are you sure? I thought System Commander can boot any partition by resetting the active bit and rebooting? I boot to Solaris fine, but then, Solaris is getting really good with hardware support. > > on my internal 4GIG. SCSI. > Wow, I've been having partitioning problems with a 4gig. What's you strategy. I later exchanged the 4gig for 2x2gigs. > AIX IBM 0 only no Is this still a real product? I never here about the x86 version anymore. What does 0 only mean? SCSI ID 0? Good chart BTW. I have a question for those partitioning nuts. I wish to install the following OSes across my 2x2gig drives: OS/2, WinNT, PCDOS/Win311, Win95, MSDOS/Win311, Linux, Solaris, NeXTStep, and UnixWare I thought of doing this 500megs 500megs 500megs 500megs Drive 1 -> | NeXTStep | UnixWare | Solaris | DOS/Win95 | <- primary partions Drive 2 -> | OS/2 | WinNT |Linux |swp| DOS Ext | <- logical drives +- Linux Swap I have Solaris crashing in its appropiate partition, and PCDOS, MSDOS, SysCommander, and Win311 in partition 1. I want to move them over to partition 4, but I'm having problems with the OEM tags and DOS wanting to use all these partions. Problems: o I need to retag Partitions 1 and 2 (if I can) or delete them. o I'm trying to install OS/2 into the logical drive, but it wants the stupid BootManager thingy installed first. o Linux's fdisk and installer (from Caldera/RedHat) won't install into the appropiate partition due to some bug. If anyone has any suggestions for this mess, let me know. thanks for being cool, Joaquin PS - Anyone know the partition id tags for UnixWare and/or NeXTStep. If I get the new linux fdisk working, I want to tag them before any installs.
From: robert@amo.mit.edu(Robert Lutwak) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Why are there two copies of AppFinder.tool on login? Date: 30 Mar 1996 17:33:21 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Message-ID: <4jjr91$qrh@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> References: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960328135802.5197A-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> In article <Pine.NXT.3.92.960328135802.5197A-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> writes: > > Quite often when I login, I can see two different copies (two unique PIDs) > of Workspace.app's AppFinder.tool. It seems to be sucking quite a bit of > CPU. Anyone know anything about this? Sorry I don't know the answer but... I wonder if this is the reason I occasionally get the console message: workspace: Somebody else is already making services. Robert -- Robert Lutwak robert@amo.mit.edu MIT Atomic Resonance and Spectroscopy Laboratory ---- NeXTmail always welcome ----
From: tyf@sirius.com (Tin-Yau Fung) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NeXT Compression? Date: 31 Mar 1996 05:12:09 GMT Organization: Sirius Connections Message-ID: <4jl479$30g@sun.sirius.com> References: <Joaquin_Menchaca-3003961815180001@a17-221-40-250.apple.com> In-Reply-To: <Joaquin_Menchaca-3003961815180001@a17-221-40-250.apple.com> On 03/30/96, Joaquin Menchaca wrote: >I noticed two extensions: > 1 - .compressed > 2 - .pkg > >I later discovered that .compressed is the same as .Z. I don't understand >why everyone has to use the .compressed name. There's too many characters. > Nope. .compressed = .tar.Z As to too many characters, obviously you're not used to UNIX ....heheh ... >For .pkg, I thought this may be a carry over of some obsolete Apple >standard, so I tried to uncompress files with AppleLink program. No >success. Where can I find out more for .pkg files. Is there a DOS program >or UNIX sources that will allow me to uncompress .pkg files on other >platforms? .pkg is a folder - a collection of compressed programs and scripts to be run by the NeXT installer. You can just cd into the *.pkg folder to see the files within. > -- --------------------------- Tin-Yau Fung @ UC Berkeley : tyf@ucsee.eecs.berkeley.edu. MIME / NeXT mail welcome! http://www-ucsee.eecs.berkeley.edu/~tyf
From: GWILLEM@alpha.ntu.ac.sg (Van Schaik Willem Anthon Johan ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NeXT logo in eps Date: 31 Mar 1996 06:38:28 GMT Organization: Nanyang Technological University Message-ID: <4jl994$sh1@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> References: <4jks4p$r68@news.be.innet.net> allenlee@innet.be wrote: : I'm looking for an eps of the NeXT logo (like the one in the Workspace : Dock). If I remember correctly someone posted the PS code somewhere : in comp.sys.next.* : Can you please repost it or tell an ftp site where I can find it. That was me. But ooops, where did I keep it. If I find it, I will post it again. Willem gwillem@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg
From: nextjet@ids.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: looking for new next color printer driver. Date: Sat, 30 Mar 96 18:10:01 +500 Organization: IDS World Network Internet Access Service, (800)IDS-1680 Message-ID: <4jkf0d$37t@paperboy.ids.net> does anyone remember were the site is that contains this driver.
From: nextjet@ids.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: looking for new next color printer driver. Date: Sat, 30 Mar 96 18:14:40 +500 Organization: IDS World Network Internet Access Service, (800)IDS-1680 Message-ID: <4jkf93$37t@paperboy.ids.net> does anyone remember were the site is that contains this driver.
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: looking for new next color printer driver. Date: 30 Mar 1996 23:21:48 GMT Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Sender: reichman@comserv-j-42.usc.edu Message-ID: <4jkfmc$e2f@usc.edu> References: <4jkf0d$37t@paperboy.ids.net> In <4jkf0d$37t@paperboy.ids.net> nextjet@ids.net wrote: > does anyone remember were the site is that contains this driver. Maybe you are thinking of ExtraPDF or something like that from GSCorp.? -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@scf.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/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Subject: Re: Using drivers from .pkg.compressed files In-Reply-To: Joaquin_Menchaca@quickmail.apple.com's message of 31 Mar 1996 02:19:32 GMT Message-ID: <RDL.96Mar30231627@world.std.com> Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <Joaquin_Menchaca-3003961819310001@a17-221-40-250.apple.com> Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 04:16:27 GMT The Adaptec 2940 is supported in 3.3 and is NOT supported under 3.2. Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant Boston, MA Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Subject: Re: NeXT Compression? In-Reply-To: Joaquin_Menchaca@quickmail.apple.com's message of 31 Mar 1996 02:15:19 GMT Message-ID: <RDL.96Mar30231450@world.std.com> Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <Joaquin_Menchaca-3003961815180001@a17-221-40-250.apple.com> Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 04:14:50 GMT .compressed is actually a file that has been archived (TAR) and compressed (compress) e.g. If you compress a folder, it becomes folder.compressed .pkg contains a tar'ed and compressed file as well. However, the version of "tar" that NeXT uses is somewhat proprietary. It's some variant of GNU tar. Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant Boston, MA Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com In article <Joaquin_Menchaca-3003961815180001@a17-221-40-250.apple.com> Joaquin_Menchaca@quickmail.apple.com (Joaquin Menchaca) writes: I noticed two extensions: 1 - .compressed 2 - .pkg I later discovered that .compressed is the same as .Z. I don't understand why everyone has to use the .compressed name. There's too many characters. For .pkg, I thought this may be a carry over of some obsolete Apple standard, so I tried to uncompress files with AppleLink program. No success. Where can I find out more for .pkg files. Is there a DOS program or UNIX sources that will allow me to uncompress .pkg files on other platforms?
From: allenlee@innet.be Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NeXT logo in eps Date: 31 Mar 1996 02:54:17 GMT Organization: INnet NV (post doesn't reflect views of INnet NV) Message-ID: <4jks4p$r68@news.be.innet.net> I'm looking for an eps of the NeXT logo (like the one in the Workspace Dock). If I remember correctly someone posted the PS code somewhere in comp.sys.next.* Can you please repost it or tell an ftp site where I can find it. Thanks, allen
From: Scott@localhost.ios.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: looking for new next color printer driver. Date: 31 Mar 1996 06:52:52 GMT Organization: Internet Online Services Message-ID: <4jla44$crj@news.ios.com> References: <4jkf93$37t@paperboy.ids.net> In <4jkf93$37t@paperboy.ids.net> nextjet@ids.net wrote: > does anyone remember were the site is that contains this driver. > > GS CORP http://www.gscorp.com and the product is called eXTRAPRINT and its on sale now for $200.00 bucks. Scott Turner FirstSight INc. 1stsight@worldweb.net
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Clock synchronization (automatically?) Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 19:31:36 -0500 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960331193015.1754D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> References: <4ip9pu$mu8@netnews.hinet.net> <4j6ssg$8rj@zeus.intellinet.com> <4jk5br$p1r@zeus.intellinet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Dwight Everhart <everhart@alterlife.com> In-Reply-To: <4jk5br$p1r@zeus.intellinet.com> Well, I am glad you posted this, because I was going to ask you as well. I am wondering if there is a way to have the clock's drift fixed automatically (If I am reading your post correctly, then all it does is report the drift, not correct it). TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> NeXT Info available via email! Send message with SUBJECT 'send info' >>>> Please: No NeXTMail, use MIME for attachments <<<<
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: 1 Apr 1996 05:15:10 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4jnoou$2or@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. 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From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.programmer.tools,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.oop.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.software-eng,comp.programming,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.linux.development.system,isu.isunix Subject: OpenDoc with Corba and OPENSTEP/NEXTSTEP licensing... Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 00:29:23 -0600 Organization: Illinois State University, Instructional Technology Services Distribution: inet Message-ID: <315F77C3.4AC9@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Well now that OMG is integrating Corba with OpenDoc, wouldn't it make sense for NeXT to integrate OpenDoc? Also Sun has OpenDoc as being the #1 most requested feature for Java... NeXT is supposed to be integrating Corba connectivity, so perhaps OpenDoc is inevitable. Then all we need is OPENSTEP on MAC OS Power PC, but that will probably come from GNU rather than NeXT. (It will probably be ported to PowerPC Linux too) It seems the name of the game is cooperation and interoperability, not dominance with a single OS or set of tools. Companies should realize this (NeXT are you listening?) The more people can interoperate (make connections) with software they have, they will be more prone to using those tools. I'm trying to get my two object-oriented professors at my university (Dr. Bee Lee Lim mailto:bllim@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu and Dr. Tibor Gyires mailto:tbgyires@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu) to take a look at what OPENSTEP/NEXTSTEP can do for the software world, and I'm having a dificult time convincing them that this is worthwhile as course curiculum. Dr. Gyires is interested in SmallTalk (which I understand is VERY similar to Objective-C) and has watched 2 NeXT videos (one on NS and another on WebObjects and D'OLE.), and I found that Dr. Lim is only interested in OPENSTEP and its relation to Java after talking to him, his concern is that much of the software industry and companies DON'T USEOPENSTEP/NEXTSTEP. I need assistance in getting this institution (Illinois State University) to adopt some OPENSTEP curiculum because I feel these development tools are great, and they get me excited about software. If anyone has any valid arguments I can make, please email me or the two professors. Thanks all ------------------------------------------------ Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie Instructional mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu Technology PEACE LOVE Services UNITY RESPECT Illinois State University "Understanding is best learned via experience." "Follow our instinct, not a trend. Go against the grain until the end." VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE ENTIRELY MY OWN
From: franke@boehme.dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM (Juergen Franke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Arabic Character Code Palette Date: 1 Apr 1996 09:31:22 GMT Organization: debis Network Services GmbH Message-ID: <4jo7pa$ff7@news.sns-felb.debis.de> How and where do I get an arabic charcter code palette for Keyboard.app? -- Jörgen Franke Text Understanding Department F3M/T Daimler-Benz AG, Research Center Ulm P.O. Box 2360 89013 Ulm Germany Telephone Germany 731 505 2355 Fax Germany 731 505 4113 e-mail: franke@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM
From: jacob@dannug.dk (Jacob Nielsen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Formatting HDs w/ 1024 byte block size Date: 31 Mar 1996 20:40:40 GMT Organization: Danish NeXT User Group Message-ID: <4jmqk9$te@jnext.dannug.dk> References: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960326154208.1694A-100000@raddi> In <Pine.NXT.3.92.960326154208.1694A-100000@raddi> Eugene Mah wrote: > A while ago there was some discussion about formatting > hard drives using a 1024 byte block size. At the time > I tried it out on one of my slabs, and it seemed to work fine. > Now I've got an opportunity to try it out on some white > hardware with a Micropolis 4221-09 1128RA drive. > Problem is, I've forgotten what the procedure for doing > this was or if it was even applicable to white hardware. > The entire disk is dedicated to NS, so there's no need > to worry about DOS. > > Any memory refreshing tips would be much appreciated kheit@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit) posted this in comp.sys.next.hardware on 30 Jun 1995: hoff@darmstadt.gmd.de (Holger Hoffstaette) writes: >Not quite: the boot partition for NS/I -has- to be formatted with >512 byte sectors; other partitions can have 1024 bytes/sector. >Soem stupid BIOS limitation, I think.. >So to rdl's original question: no, you can't. Well, not quite... Maybe this should be put into the FAQs since it seems to pop up every once in a while. There is a way to get NS to use a 1024b/s boot drive. Below is a copy of an earlier post telling how to go about it: Booting on 1024b/s HD's on Intel Hardware Solved! THIS IS DANGEROUS! DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK. I DIDN'T POST THIS ;-) Well, more or less :-) You can get this going if you have the proper setup. I'm NOT making any guarantees as to how this will work for you, and you will do this at your own risk. However, I know that others have been trying to get their hard drives to work using 1024b/s (or bigger) block sizes rather than 512b/s that Intel machines seem inherently limited to using. 1) NOTE. Before you start you should be familiar with SCSI stuff, and in particular NextAnswers 1487_Booting_From_An_Alternative_Hard_Disk_Drive.rtf. You will have to set up one of the drives to be a 'Kick' disk via NA 1487 procedure. Also, I did all of this with NEXTSTEP 3.2. I don't know how NS 3.3 will work. Also, BE REALLY CAREFUL DOING ANYTHING. ALL OF THE BELOW REQUIRES THAT YOU WORK UNDER THE ROOT ACCOUNT. YOU CAN REALLY SMUSH THINGS UP!!! MAKE A BACKUP BEFORE YOU START ANYTHING!!! AND REMEMBER, YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN. IF THINGS GET MESSED UP I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY. I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS PROCEDURE TO ANYONE. (Well, enough covering my ass ;-) 2) NOTE. Is this trip really necessary? Under NS, you could always mount a data disk formatted at 1024b/s after you booted from a 512b/s drive. So, if you don't mind booting and having your active system located on the 512b/s drive, you can have a second 1024b/s drive for other things. 3) NOTE. I don't know how well this will work on various combinations of hardware and OS versions. So be wary, hardware differences, especially SCSI controllers, might make a big difference. 4) NOTE. There is a difference between what an sd and a SCSI ID is. You should know this difference. Again if your not sure what your doing, just say NO to this whole thing :-) 5) NOTE. NS_SD is how NS reports SCSI devices (i.e. sd0a, sd1a, rsd0a, rsd1a etc.). DPT/DOS_SD is how DOS (using my DPT 2122 SCSI controller) reports usable SCSI devices. 6) NOTE. Again, I've only tried this on my set up: NS_SD DPT/DOS_SD SCSI-ID Drive_Type Byte/Sector Drive_Contents 0 0 1 100meg 512b/s Kick_Disk**NA#1487..rtf 1 - 2 1.4gig 1024b/s Main_NS_Drive 2 - 3 CD ROM 3 1 4 230meg 512b/s Small_NS_Drive READ THROUGH THIS ENTIRE PROCEDURE _BEFORE_ YOU ATTEMPT TO DO IT!!!! STEP 1.** The first step is to follow NA#1487 and make yourself a Kick_Disk. Do everything the way its outlined in the NA#1487 BEFORE you format your main drive for 1024b/s use. Make sure you can boot up and 'Kick' over to you Main_NS_Drive, which at this point is still formatted using 512b/s. STEP 2. If you don't already have one, you must build a Small_NS_Drive. That drive must be a 512b/s formatted drive. For me that was a 230meg Fujitsu OD disk. I used BuildDisk.app to make myself an emergency boot disk in case anything ever went wrong. This should work with a Small Fixed Hard Drive as well. You will need at least an 80meg drive to use BuildDisk.app to make a Small_NS_Drive.*** You're going to need to reset the SCSI_ID of this drive a couple of times, so, hopefully, you will have easy access to SCSI jumpers. STEP 3. Make sure you copy a low level formatting utility like SDFORMAT onto your Small_NS_Drive. You will need it to reformat your main drive to 1024b/s (or bigger). STEP 4. Set the SCSI_ID to 0 on the Small_NS_Drive so the machine will boot up on that drive, Small_NS_Drive, and will allow you to re-format your Main_NS_Drive to 1024b/s. STEP 5. After you've booted up on the Small_NS_Drive and SDFORMAT has finished reformatting your Main_NS_Drive, you might need to reboot. This is because SDFORMAT overestimates the amount of time it needs to lock your Main_NS_Drive for formatting and you can't work with it until the time elapses --so it's just easier to reboot. STEP 6. After you reboot, and log into root, WM will ask to initialize your Main_NS_Drive--the one you just reformatted to 1024b/s. You can go ahead and let it do so, or cancel. It doesn't matter which. STEP 7. Now you must run BuildDisk.app on the Main_NS_Drive to put NS on the now 1024b/s formatted drive. Just put a basic NS OS on it for starters (don't put all the developer stuff on etc.). This way you won't have to wait too long. You can go back and install the rest after you finish the rest of these procedures. After the BuildDisk.app is done logout and back into root. Your Main_NS_Drive will mount up and you will see it. STEP 8. Edit the /etc/fstab file on your Main_NS_Drive as you would do in NA#1487. In my case it looks like so: '/dev/sd1a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1' STEP 9. Power down your machine and reset the SCSI_ID from 0 to 4 on Small_NS_Drive. STEP 10. Reboot and marvel at the double kick procedure that ends up with your Main_NS_Drive booting NS on intel hardware at 1024b/s !!!! WHAT'S GOING ON HERE? So why all these flaming hoops? Well, because intel machines are stupid, they don't boot off of 1024b/s drives. But because they are stupid, we can pull the carpet out from under their feet and shove in a more plush 1024b/s drive without the machine knowing what's going on. How you may ask... HERE'S HOW The NeXTSTEP boot program that tries to kick NS, initially starts out like a regular DOS program. The first instance0.table it loads is done BEFORE the mach_kernel is loaded. Unfortunately, it is in this instance0.table file that we told the NS to boot to another sd(x). Namely, in the scenario above it's to sd(1)mach_kernel. We did this via the NA#1487 procedure. Now since we are still in DOS mode, because the mach_kernel has yet to be loaded, when the instance0.table line of 'sd(1)mach_kernel' gets executed it looks to DOS_sd(1). But the important thing is, who's counting, NS or DOS? Since the mach_kernel has yet to run, DOS is keeping count of the sd's. And because DOS is stupid, it only counts available 512b/s devices as valid sd's. So DOS_sd(1) is your Small_NS_Drive and NOT your Main_NS_Drive@1024b/s! So, now the mach_kernel is loaded from your Small_NS_Drive. However, now that Path: jnext.dannug.dk!news From: jacob@dannug.dk (Jacob Nielsen) Newsgroups: dk.forbruger Subject: Re: Telefonsalg Date: 31 Mar 1996 21:04:48 GMT Organization: Danish NeXT User Group Lines: 31 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4jms1g$te@jnext.dannug.dk> References: <3272670.22395140@online.pol.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.dannug.dk X-Newsreader: RadicalNews (TM) v0.8.1 Beta In <3272670.22395140@online.pol.dk> Peer Eske Jensen wrote: [Om tandlaege der "udsaettes" for telefonsalg] > Denne gang af et firma der ville saelge hende en optagelse i deres telefonbog > med tilhoerende service og en telefonbog. Hun har aabenbart i sin distraktion > indvilget i at faa tilsendt dette, men har pΠintet tidspunkt skrevet under > paa noget. > > Firmaet sender hende saa en opkraevning og en tyk telefonbog, samt et > abonnement paa en oplysningsservice hun kan ringe til og faa oplyst diverse > erhvervstelefonnumre til en billigere takst end den Tele Danmark kraever. Det er faktisk lovligt at lave telefonsalg til firmaer. Jeg tvivler dog paa at de kan *kraeve* at der skal betales for deres ydelse uden en skriftlig tilmeldelse (NB: jeg er *ikke* jurist !) Gudskelov er privatpersoner beskyttede mod den slags -- ok, der er nogle faa undtagelser men dem kan man overleve. Mvh, Jacob -- Jacob Nielsen Maintainer of NEXTSTEP Software Reviews http://www.dannug.dk/jacob & My own home page :-) http://www.dannug.dk/~jacob NeXTMail, MIMEMail and SUNMail jacob@dannug.dk
From: haasd@ubaclu.unibas.ch (Daniel Haas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: HP Laserjet 5L to Nextstation Message-ID: <1996Apr1.165631.46233@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> Date: 1 Apr 96 16:56:31 MET References: <4jiqbu$31k@jaring.my> Distribution: world Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland In article <4jiqbu$31k@jaring.my>, michael@rumah.pc.my (Michael Olan) writes: > I am thinking of getting the new HP Laserjet 5L. Looks like a nice little > printer. I'm wondering about connecting it to a blackbox running NS3.2. I've > got ghostscript which will hopefully drive it, but my main question is the > interface. Do I have to get a serial printer? Connect to the printer port, > com port, Ethernet, SCSI? > TIA for any info from someone who has done it or knows how. You will surely not need ghostscript (Nextstep uses Displaypostscript, so why should you use GS). If the HP 5 L is a Postscript Printer (I guess it is, cause you mention GS) you can simply hook it to the serial port of your Nextstation (I guess you need a null-modem cable, not quite sure for this, check the manual for details). I think, that Nextstep is supporting PCL2,3 or 5 type printers too, but I don't remember if this is in 3.2 or 3.3. If this is not supported, but you need it, you can get DOTS as a printer driver (I have used it before 3.0 and am still using it drive my PCL3 type printer). You should also be able to hook up your printer to the ethernet port without any trouble (I haven't done this yet) which will probably speed up things for larger postscripts. I guess that scsi is possible too, but I guess you need some additional tools and drivers, so your best way to start is serial port and/or ethernet for speed. There are some hardwareboxes for parallel support around too, but I don't think it is worth the price if you have builtin ethernet in the printer hope this helps and hope it's correct Daniel *************************************************************** Daniel Haas Physikalisches Institut Universitaet Basel email: haasd@ubaclu.unibas.ch (no NeXT- or MIME-mail please) smail: D. Haas, Kreuzstrasse 150, D-79540 Loerrach, Germany ***************************************************************
From: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: python for NeXT (m68k)? Date: 1 Apr 1996 15:48:40 GMT Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany Message-ID: <4jotso$q6g@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> References: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960328135355.4531F-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <4jhrjs$9mo@usenet.rpi.edu> Garance A Drosehn (gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu) wrote: : "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> wrote: : > : > Someone mentioned (either on the NeXT newsgroups or the PPP : > mailing list) something called 'python'. : > : > I've found the website, but was wondering if anyone already had : > it (ver 1.3) compiled for NeXT hardware (m68k)? And if so if : > they would share it with me (via MIME mail, or NeXTMail if : > necessary) : Actually I'd be interested in a NeXTSTEP version of python : too, assuming I ever have some spare time to use it... : Python seems like an interesting language/shell/whatever. Python's homepage is http://www.python.org, just for the records... I've put quad-FAT binaries on our ftp server, ftp://zarquon.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de/pub/NeXT/Developer/Languages. Please give me a hint if they worked for you, and I'll put them on the big archives! Gregor -- | Gregor Hoffleit admin MATHInet / contact RhiNO | | MAIL: Mathematisches Institut PHONE: (49)6221 54-5771 | | INF 288, 69120 Heidelberg / Germany FAX: 54-8312 | | EMAIL: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (NeXTmail, MIME) |
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Clock synchronization (automatically?) Date: 1 Apr 1996 18:05:07 GMT Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Sender: reichman@comserv-f-14.usc.edu Message-ID: <4jp5sj$rrs@usc.edu> References: <4ip9pu$mu8@netnews.hinet.net> <4j6ssg$8rj@zeus.intellinet.com> <4jk5br$p1r@zeus.intellinet.com> <Pine.NXT.3.92.960331193015.1754D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <4jnbra$avv@cnn.Princeton.EDU> > In <4jnbra$avv@cnn.Princeton.EDU> Carl Edman wrote: > ntpd(8) > > % man ntpd | man2tjl > Use ntpd to automatically continuously adjust the clock. This is > preferable to running ntp periodically because (a) it will softly speed up > and slow down the system clock as required rather than jumping backward and > forward in time which may confuse some programs and (b) it remembers the > typical drift of your system clock and will continue to adjust the clock > even if for some period it can't access the external ntp servers. Use > HostManager.app Network/Network Time Configuration... to set your ntp > servers for ntpd. (DIS_CLAIMER - I have read the ntp and ntpd man pages.) Is this the preferred method for a dial-in ppp connection that is not always up? (E.G. subpoint (b))? Would you be kind enough to list the specific steps to set this up on a standalone with a dial-in ppp connection? I read the man page for ntpd, but am not exactly clear on whether I need to create new host entries in HostMgr Network/Network Time Config with the name of various ntp servers (like the navy), and whether I should be creating an entry there for something on my machine as well (? doesn't sound right) I'm also wondering if I should be changing HostMgr / Local / Time Standard / Ignore Network Time to HostMgr / Local / Time Standard / Use Network Time Anyway, I'm a bit confused and don't relish going into a weird boot mode right now if I screw up. Any help (designed for the blind) would be much appreciated. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@scf.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: waiming@cs.ust.hk (Chan Wai Ming) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: mounting dos partitions Date: 1 Apr 1996 17:37:35 GMT Organization: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Message-ID: <4jp48v$r3n@ustsu10.ust.hk> Hello, I have got a strange problem. It is related to mounting DOS partition. I have a hard disk with the following partitions. NeXT fdisk v1.02 Device: /dev/rhd0h Type Start Size Status -------------------------------------------- OS/2 Boot Mgr 0 2 Active DOS, 16 bit FAT 2 301 - NEXTSTEP 303 734 - I encounter the situation that when the NEXTSTEP partition is mounted at boot time. (with an entry in fstab) I will not be able to use "mount" to mount the DOS partition. However, if I don't mount the NEXTSTEP partition at boot time (i.e. don't put an entry about that partition in fstab), the dos and the NEXTSTEP partition will be automatically mounted when I login. Could someone tell me what is the magic behind ? I really want to mount the DOS and the NEXTSTEP partition at fixed location during boot time. Could anybody teach me how to do ? Thank you very much for your help ! yours waiming P.S. 1. I have another hard disk for booting up the whole NS. The above one is for data storage. 2. My machine is running NS 3.3 (patched) for Intel. -- After working with DOS, Windows, OS/2, Linux, SunOS, NT, 95 .... I find myself like NEXTSTEP most. A Happy NS user waiming@cs.ust.hk
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Clock synchronization (automatically?) Date: 1 Apr 1996 18:43:29 GMT Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Sender: reichman@comserv-f-14.usc.edu Message-ID: <4jp84h$rrs@usc.edu> References: <4ip9pu$mu8@netnews.hinet.net> <4j6ssg$8rj@zeus.intellinet.com> <4jk5br$p1r@zeus.intellinet.com> <Pine.NXT.3.92.960331193015.1754D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <4jnbra$avv@cnn.Princeton.EDU> Re my previous post for detailed information. Okay, now I've read the relevant (I think) NextAdmin on-line stuff, so I guess I can make a stab at it, but I'd still like to know first if it's okay to activate ntpd with a dial-in ppp connection and will that have the desired effect as per subpoint (b) in the man page? -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@scf.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: sahirns@menger.stevens-tech.edu (Sahir N. Siddiqui) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Playing audio cds on external player Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software Date: 01 Apr 1996 17:48:42 GMT Organization: EE/CS Department, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ Distribution: world Message-ID: <SAHIRNS.96Apr1124842@menger.stevens-tech.edu> I have a NeXTstation TurboColor (Motorola). I just hooked up an external cd player to it, and was wondering how to get it to play audio cds through the speaker box. The CDplayer has L & R audio-outs and a headphone out, but the speaker box only has microphone-in and L & R audio-outs. How do I connect the cdplayer to the speakerbox? -s -- Sahir N. Siddiqui Res: (201) 217-0952 PO Box 5176, Hoboken NJ 07030 )))) oo-) Email: sahirns@menger.eecs.stevens-tech.edu :_/
From: david@hundred.acre.wood.net (David R. Perry) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NeXT newbie questions... Date: 1 Apr 1996 19:01:27 GMT Organization: USF InfoTech Message-ID: <david-0104961107560001@tiggr.usfca.edu> I'm about to become a proud 030 cube owner and have some questions: 1) can I run PPP under NS2.1? 2) if not, what disadvantages will I encounter installing 3.0 (which I have on CD) the cube has 12Mb of memory 3) the OD seems to work OK, but can I clean it with compressed air? will that damage it in any way? thanks! David... __ _-==-=_,-. ----------------------------------------------------------- /--`' \_O-O.--< David R. Perry - perry@usfca.edu `--'\ \ <___/. Knowledge Worker - University of San Francisco \ \\ " / w:415/666-2899 f:415/666-6929 >=\\_/`< http://wood.net/~david/ /= | \_/| "Garrarumph! Playing on the 'net is what Tiggers do best!" _/=== \___/ -----------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: NeXT newbie questions... Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <Dp7FJE.GI0@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 22:23:37 GMT References: <david-0104961107560001@tiggr.usfca.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <david-0104961107560001@tiggr.usfca.edu>, David R. Perry <david@hundred.acre.wood.net> wrote: >I'm about to become a proud 030 cube owner and have some questions: > >1) can I run PPP under NS2.1? I don't think so. >2) if not, what disadvantages will I encounter installing 3.0 (which I >have on CD) the cube has 12Mb of memory It will be very slow--1/2 the response time, or thereabouts. You'll definately want 16MB, and likely an '040. FWIW, 3.2 is faster than 3.0. >3) the OD seems to work OK, but can I clean it with compressed air? will >that damage it in any way? > Possibly. I'd carefully disassemble the drive and clean it with Kim Wipes or something similar. -- 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: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Clock Sync w/ PPP? (was Re: Clock synchronization (automatically?)) Date: 2 Apr 1996 00:33:14 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc. Message-ID: <4jpska$k6b@news4.digex.net> References: <4ip9pu$mu8@netnews.hinet.net> <4j6ssg$8rj@zeus.intellinet.com> <4jk5br$p1r@zeus.intellinet.com> <Pine.NXT.3.92.960331193015.1754D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> I'd like to have the internal clock sync to one of the hyper sensitive clocks available on the net everytime I connect via PPP. Has anyone figured out how to do this? Thanks... -- 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: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Clock Sync w/ PPP? (was Re: Clock synchronization (automatically?)) Date: 2 Apr 1996 00:55:50 GMT Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Sender: reichman@comserv-j-43.usc.edu Message-ID: <4jptum$9vj@usc.edu> References: <4ip9pu$mu8@netnews.hinet.net> <4j6ssg$8rj@zeus.intellinet.com> <4jk5br$p1r@zeus.intellinet.com> <Pine.NXT.3.92.960331193015.1754D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <4jpska$k6b@news4.digex.net> In <4jpska$k6b@news4.digex.net> John Kheit wrote: > > I'd like to have the internal clock sync to one of the hyper sensitive > clocks available on the net everytime I connect via PPP. > > Has anyone figured out how to do this? From the recent threads, it looks like using ntpd is better than ntp because it will make the changes slowly. I gather to effect this one must 1) create a FQDN for the net time server; 2) select it in HostMgr (Network->Network Time Config) and mark the FQDN net time server as a Master time server, while marking your machine as a Clone; 3) make appropriate change in Local to instantiate Network Time. man ntpd states that it will still function during periods when it cannot reach the network. I don't know if the above is correct, and I am trying to figure out if it is before I go ahead and do it. So if anyone knows what the right procedure is I'd love to hear it. I would also know if one should be using (A) multiple network time servers, and if so then should they all be labelled as masters in HostMgr; and (B) network timeservers that are in your specific timezone. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@scf.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: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NeXT Compression? Date: 1 Apr 1996 23:01:45 GMT Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc. Message-ID: <4jpn8q$ef3@news.its.com> References: <Joaquin_Menchaca-3003961815180001@a17-221-40-250.apple.com> <RDL.96Mar30231450@world.std.com> rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) wrote: > .pkg contains a tar'ed and compressed file as well. However, the version > of "tar" that NeXT uses is somewhat proprietary. It's some variant of > GNU tar. That does not appear to be true. For one thing, 'strings /NextAdmin/Installer.app/installer_bigtar' reveals: @(#) Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @(#)tar.c 1.3 88/07/05 4.0NFSSRC SMI For another, NeXT would be required to provide the source to their modified version of tar if they used GNU tar, just as they have to provide the source for gdb, emacs, gcc, and so forth. -Chuck Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc. --------------------------------+--------------------------------------- CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Clock synchronization (automatically?) Date: 2 Apr 1996 04:48:48 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <4jqbjg$hpu@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <4ip9pu$mu8@netnews.hinet.net> <4j6ssg$8rj@zeus.intellinet.com> <4jk5br$p1r@zeus.intellinet.com> <Pine.NXT.3.92.960331193015.1754D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <4jnbra$avv@cnn.Princeton.EDU> <4jp84h$rrs@usc.edu> In <4jp84h$rrs@usc.edu> Matthew N. Reichman wrote: > Re my previous post for detailed information. > > > Okay, now I've read the relevant (I think) NextAdmin on-line stuff, so I > guess I can make a stab at it, but I'd still like to know first if it's okay > to activate ntpd with a dial-in ppp connection and will that have the desired > effect as per subpoint (b) in the man page? ntpd works fine over PPP. I actually prefer xntpd which I run. However, configuration is a pain so its just as well to use the one time '/usr/etc/ntp -sf'. My clock never needs adjusting more than a few miliseconds each time I bring up the link. If I'm within 20 seconds of the "real time" I'm happy. In order that the log file doesn't overflow with connection error messages when the link is down, I started xntpd in /etc/ppp/ip-up and killed it in /etc/ppp/ip-down. - Steve --- ============================================================== Stephen J. Perkins | mailto:perkins@cps.msu.edu Dept. of Comp. Science | NeXT, MIME, finger for PGP Michigan State University | NeXT OS 3.3 using PPP-2.2 NeXT PPP-2.2 info at http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Clock synchronization (automatically?) Date: 2 Apr 1996 07:06:49 GMT Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Sender: reichman@comserv-j-63.usc.edu Message-ID: <4jqjm9$o1@usc.edu> References: <4ip9pu$mu8@netnews.hinet.net> <4j6ssg$8rj@zeus.intellinet.com> <4jk5br$p1r@zeus.intellinet.com> <Pine.NXT.3.92.960331193015.1754D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <4jnbra$avv@cnn.Princeton.EDU> <4jp84h$rrs@usc.edu> <4jqbjg$hpu@msunews.cl.msu.edu> In comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc you wrote: > ntpd works fine over PPP. I actually prefer xntpd which I run. However, > configuration is a pain so its just as well to use the one time > '/usr/etc/ntp -sf'. My clock never needs adjusting more than a few > miliseconds each time I bring up the link. If I'm within 20 seconds of the > "real time" I'm happy. > > In order that the log file doesn't overflow with connection error messages > when the link is down, I started xntpd in /etc/ppp/ip-up and killed it in > etc/ppp/ip-down. Well, I just set up like this: I used tick..... from the navy and set it up as a FQDN via NetInfo Then in HostMgr I made it a Master, and my machine a Client Then in HM -> Local I changed to Use Network Time I see what you mean by error messages when I'm down. I also noticed " %> Local_Fax_Modem: /dev/cufa is locked " in console when I'm PPP-upped, which leads me to think the thing isn't working. In any case, I'd prefer to not have all those ntpd error messages when I'm not linked up. Would you mind mailing me the exact lines you use to bring up ntpd and bring it down. Should I keep all the stuff I configured (as per above) MINUS the Local -> Use Network Time? Finally, will ntpd, as you've set it up, report what it's doing in the console? Thanks very much in advance for any answers to the above! BTW what is xntpd ? And why do you like it better?
From: Ayis T. Pyrros <ayis@esg.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Clock Sync w/ PPP? (was Re: Clock synchronization (automatically?)) Date: 2 Apr 1996 08:51:21 GMT Organization: University of Delaware Message-ID: <4jqpq9$kgf@news.udel.edu> References: <4ip9pu$mu8@netnews.hinet.net> <4j6ssg$8rj@zeus.intellinet.com> <4jk5br$p1r@zeus.intellinet.com> <Pine.NXT.3.92.960331193015.1754D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <4jpska$k6b@news4.digex.net> The most common method of time synchronization over the internet is ntp. ntp or network time protocol contacts a server of your choice over the internet and accounts of the transmission delay to synchronize your clock. * To setup ntp with ppp you first need to launch HostManger.app in /NextAdmin. * Login as root go to the menu Network and click on Network Time Configuration. * A panel will appear asking you to select the NetInfo Domain, select the root domain or the '/' in the left column. * Another window will now appear listing the machines under the root domain, select your machine. Check the box next to Time Service Enabled. Click set and ignore the master and clone settings, unless you have a network of computers and you wish to setup a time server for them. * Quit, HostManager.app and launch NetInfo.app, once again select the root domain by going to Domain/Open and selecting '/.' * Now go to locations/ntp there should be a directory labeled server, if not go to Directory/Insert Value and now enter your ntp server name. To select a server, if you don't know one, visit http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/clock1.html, this page contains a list of public primary and secondary servers. Please read and note the "Rules of Engagement." On boot up ntp will display a message that it cannot contact your timeserver. This occurs, obviously, because you have not launched ppp yet. Additionally, in the Preferences.app you will no longer be able to set the clock by hand, unless you are root. Instead a synchronize button and a message stating that you are running network time daemon will appear for the Date & Time Preferences. By clicking the synchronize button you invoke ntp and synchronize your clock, a message will also appear in the console log. Since connection times through ppp can vary greatly I suggest that the following line be added to your crontab.local: 5,20,35,50 * * * * root /bin/sh `/usr/etc/ntp -F your.time.server > /dev/console` This will insure that your clock will be set when you are connected for at least 15 minutes. I hope that helps. Ayis //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Ayis Theseas Pyrros E-Mail: ayis@esg.com 5 Deer Track Lane Newark, DE 19711 Phone: (302) 239-1868 NeXT, MIME, and PGP Mail Welcomed \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
From: heller@attila.imo.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Helmut Heller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Clock Sync w/ PPP? (was Re: Clock synchronization (automatically?)) Date: 2 Apr 1996 11:45:34 GMT Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany) Distribution: world Message-ID: <4jr40u$k4o@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de> References: <4jqpq9$kgf@news.udel.edu> In article <4jqpq9$kgf@news.udel.edu> Ayis T. Pyrros <ayis@esg.com> writes: > Since connection times through ppp can vary greatly I suggest that the > following line be added to your crontab.local: > > 5,20,35,50 * * * * root /bin/sh `/usr/etc/ntp -F your.time.server > > /dev/console` > In my PPP machine, I wrote /usr/etc/ntp -F in my /etc/ppp/ip-up file, so that time is synchronized every time PPP is brought up. If you *disable* the network time, then you won't get the error message at boot-up. -- Servus, Helmut (DH0MAD) ______________NeXT-mail welcome_________________ FAX: +49-89-2394-4607 "Knowledge must be gathered and cannot be given" heller@attila.imo.physik.uni-muenchen.de ZEN, one of BLAKES7 Phone: +49-89-2394-4565 ------------------------------------------------ Helmut Heller, Ludwig Maximilians University | G i b D O S | Institute for Medical Optics, Theoretical Biophysics Group | k e i n e |
From: scholzb@pst.informatik.uni-muenchen.de (Bernhard Scholz) Newsgroups: de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.answers Subject: The NeXT-FAQ (Frequently asked questions) Followup-To: de.comp.sys.next Date: 2 Apr 1996 13:32:45 GMT Organization: InternetNews at LMU, University of Munich, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <NeXTFAQ-1-828451960@pst.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Summary: Frequently asked questions concerning NeXT related topics. Originator: scholzb@peanuts Posted-By: auto-faq 2.4 Archive-name: NeXTFAQ Last-modified: Tuesday, 2. March 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 Copyright 1.4 Disclaimer 1.5 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 Does a FUJITSU MO (256 MB) works with NeXT original Hardware? 5.4 Can I run my SCSI-2 disks in synchronous mode? 5.5 How do I configure my HP 660 to boot properly? 5.6 What is the procedure for installing a Fujitsu M2263SA/SB SCSI Disk as the NeXT Boot Disk? 5.7 How to mount a corrupted OD that won't automount? 5.8 What non-NeXT CD Players that work with a NeXT? 5.9 What are some other sources of toner cartridges and trays for the NeXT laser printer? 5.10 What printers (laser or otherwise) may be used with a NeXT? 5.11 What can I do to prevent my NeXT printer from running all the time? 5.12 What type of microphones will work with the NeXT? 5.13 How do I connect a modem to the NeXT? 5.14 Are there any alternative sources for the SCSI-II to SCSI-I cable required to attach external SCSI devices to the 040 NeXTs? 5.15 What fax modems will work with the NeXT? 5.16 How may I attach more than two serial ports to the NeXT? 5.17 What is the best and/or cheapest way to connect a NeXT to a thick Ethernet? 5.18 How can I connect my NeXT to the telephone line and use it like an answering Machine? 5.19 What color monitors can I use with the Color NeXT machines? 5.20 Where can I get 13W3 to BNC adapters to connect third party color monitors? 5.21 How may I attach Centronics or 16 bit wide parallel ports to the NeXT? 5.22 Why does an unused serial port consume cpu? 5.23 How to adjust MegaPixel Display brightness and focus? 5.24 I want to emulate a macintosh, how? 5.25 My NeXT laser printer fails to fully eject the sheet - how to fix? 5.26 What are the NeXT mouse connections? 5.27 What type of memory may be installed in a NeXT? 5.28 What is the NeXT SIMM tool? 5.29 Where can I purchase a NeXT machine? 5.30 Where to obtain hardware service? 5.31 What types of NeXT machines were manufactured? 5.32 What can be done about older 030 NeXT cubes that have a fan that turns in the "wrong" direction? 5.33 Can I connect SONY MPX-111N to my 68030 NeXT Computer? 5.34 Why does the OD continually spin up and spin down? 5.35 How many colors can NeXT machines display? 5.36 Why is my machine so slow when I run the monochrome and NeXTdimension displays? 5.37 Where to obtain replacement mouse parts? 5.38 Where to obtain extra batteries? 5.39 How to convert a Turbo system to use ADB? 5.40 68030 board in the same NeXTcube as a 68040 board? 5.41 How to expand DSP memory? 5.42 How to boot a NeXT without a monitor? 5.43 Where can I get black spray paint for my NeXT? 5.44 What makes aged NeXT monitors dim? 5.45 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 Initialing Opticals for NeXT 7.5 How to use a streamer ? 7.6 How to recover from an partially formatted disk? 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 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 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,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. 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 become available if there is enough request and not before June 1996. 1.3 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. 1.4 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. 1.5 Thanks 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. Especially we want to thank the Usenet community for contributing to the FAQ and all the people who have written us. 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 NeXT marketing div. of Canon - Japan Phone: 81-44-549-5295 Fax: 81-44-549-5462 EUROPE: Munich: 49-89-996-5310 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 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 o r 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. There will be no NEXTSTEP 4.0, because NeXT changed the naming conventions. NEXTSTEP 4.0 (also sometimes referenced as 'Mekka') 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. 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. 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 MACH. 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 utility), 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 distributed 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 methods 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 will be the next release of NeXT's NEXTSTEP with the ability to be OS independent (NEXTSTEP depends on MACH). Therefore OpenStep will run on Windows 95, Windows NT, MACH, 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 network. 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 will get MACH enhancements and a new GUI as an option as well as all the known advantages of OpenStep itself. 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 isn't already released, this section is just speculating and based on information from the usenet community. OpenStep is sheduled for quarter two 1996. 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 hashing 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 building 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 more. 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 objects 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 for 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 building 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, on-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 application 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 application. 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 special license to connect to the Internet. But because WebObjects is a brand new product, look at http://www.next.com/WebOjects/ for further information. 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 updated 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 development 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 NewsGrazer, 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.com. 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: http://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 free 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. 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"? 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 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. 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 Does a FUJITSU MO (256 MB) works with NeXT original Hardware? FUJITSU MO Yes, they do 5.4 Can I run my SCSI-2 disks in synchronous mode? SCSI-2, synchronous synchronous mode Quick answer is: No. The reason is that the NeXT does not support synchronous transfers from the SCSI bus. It does support SCSI-2 disks running in asynchronous mode, which all SCSI-2 disks must do. 5.5 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). 5.6 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. 5.7 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. 5.8 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? 5.9 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 :-) 5.10 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. 5.11 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. 5.12 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). 5.13 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 5.14 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. 5.15 What fax modems will work with the NeXT? fax modem, on NeXT 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. 5.16 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. 5.17 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 US Dollar. 5.18 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 5.19 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. 5.20 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. 5.21 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 5.22 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 5.23 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 :-) 5.24 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 5.25 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. 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. 5.26 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 5.27 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. 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. 5.28 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. 5.29 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. 5.30 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. Bell Atlantic Computing Technology Services Voice: 800 499 6398, or 800 848 NeXT Fax: 510 732 3078 For Europe, please contact: SORBUS 40549 Dösseldorf WillstÙtter Straûe 13 5.31 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. 5.32 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. 5.33 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. 5.34 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. 5.35 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. 5.36 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. 5.37 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. 5.38 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) 5.39 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. 5.40 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... 5.41 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. 5.42 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). 5.43 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. 5.44 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. 5.45 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? 368 Intel 368 No. NEXTSTEP/Intel uses several 486 specific features that enhance the performance of NEXTSTEP. NEXTSTEP/Intel will support any 468 with Coprocessor and up. 6.9 Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on the Cyrix 486SLC? 468SLC, Cyrix Cyrix, 468SLC 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? x68 Intel, x68 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. 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. 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. 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 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 7.5 How to use a streamer ? streamer Using Configure.app add the SCSI streamer support driver in the "Others" config. 7.6 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. 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 Trilithon Software supplies utilities to convert and install Macintosh or PC fonts to NEXTSTEP format. * MacToPfa: a Mac to NeXT font converter and installer. * PfbToPfa: a PC to NeXT font converter and installer. 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. 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). 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 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 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 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 $PIDS Of course trying to connect when the script is running will not allow you to connect, try again a minute later. This fix will not affect on-going UUCP or interactive connections. This will probably be fixed in the next kernel release. This bug is corrected in NEXTSTEP 2.1 and later releases. 9.8 NS2.0 doesn't recognize /LocalApps path /LocalApps, NS2.0 Workspace has its own internal application path. In 2.0 /LocalApps was omitted. Improv needs to have /LocalApps in the Workspace path if you have Improve installed in /LocalApps. The work around in 2.0 only is: dwrite Workspace ApplicationPaths "~/Apps:/LocalApps:/NextApps: \ /NextDeveloper/Apps:/NextAdmin:/NextDeveloper/Demos" This bug is corrected in NEXTSTEP 2.1 and later releases.
From: sl@skynet.oph.rwth-aachen.de (Stefan Leuker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Color NeXT Systems Date: 2 Apr 1996 14:34:42 GMT Organization: RWTH -Aachen / Rechnerbetrieb Informatik Message-ID: <4jrdu2$ce9@news.rwth-aachen.de> References: <DnxBIG.GLC@news.hawaii.edu> <1996Mar9.111340.16341@nidat.sub.org> <4ihh5f$led@emerald.oz.net> Copyright: This message is copyrighted (c) by Stefan Leuker art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell) wrote: > > Naye. NeXTDimension is a frame grabber making a Qube video data stream > > aware. There are "simple" Color Qubes that just have "simple" color > > displays. > Huh?! Maybe I don't understand what you're saying, but I've never heard > of a NeXTcube Color that didn't include a NeXTdimension card. The 12" x 12" > Cube board geometry was apparently too small to add color hardware when Cubes > were being manufactured, so NeXT never sold a Cube without a NeXTdimension > card that could display color as far as I know. > > Please correct me if I'm wrong. According to the carton my cube came in, it's a NeXTcube color. (NeXT did that with later cubes that included a NeXTdimension board - just like NeXTstation color). Stefan ----------------------------------------------------------------- Mia: Is that a fact? Vince: No, it's just what I heard; just what I heard. (pf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: jgloede@interpc.de (Jens Ch. Gloede) Subject: Re: NeXT Compression? Message-ID: <Dp8HnF.Fnq@interpc.de> Sender: usenet@interpc.de Organization: interpersonal-computing GmbH References: <Joaquin_Menchaca-3003961815180001@a17-221-40-250.apple.com> Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 12:06:50 GMT Joaquin Menchaca writes > I noticed two extensions: > 1 - .compressed > 2 - .pkg > > I later discovered that .compressed is the same as .Z. I don't understand > why everyone has to use the .compressed name. There's too many characters. > > For .pkg, I thought this may be a carry over of some obsolete Apple > standard, so I tried to uncompress files with AppleLink program. No > success. Where can I find out more for .pkg files. Is there a DOS program > or UNIX sources that will allow me to uncompress .pkg files on other > platforms? pkg is only a wrapper. If take a look inside you will discover a *.tar.Z! so long, jens ch. gloede -- ____________________________________________________________ interpersonal-computing Imagination. Made in Europe. NeXT Center Munich Jens Ch. Gloede - CEO ipc - Oettingenstrasse 2 http://www.ipc.de 80538 Munich Tel.: ++49 (0)89 2233 75 GERMANY / Bavaria Fax.: ++49 (0)89 2233 76 E-Mail: jens@interpc.de NeXT & MIME Mail ok (int.< 1 MB)
From: clarke@acme.ist.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: How to Upgrade NeXT Cube to 3.x?? Date: 2 Apr 1996 19:18:15 GMT Organization: University of Central Florida Message-ID: <4jruhn$5kg@news.cc.ucf.edu> I use an original 68040 Nextcube still running NeXTstep 2.0 for mail and other net chores. Could see no reason to upgrade. Lately, I've been wanting to put a web browser on it and I have discovered that all the browsers need 3.x. Can anyone point me to an ftp site or other source for a 3.x upgrade for a 68040 cube? We used to have to go through Florida State in Tallahassee for stuff, but they long ago lost interest. Thanks. Tom Clarke Hoarder of NeXT cube spare parts.
From: brian@wintermute (RHS Linux User) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: parity/non-parity SIMM combinations in black hardware Date: 2 Apr 1996 22:01:31 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <4js83r$120v@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <4jc7nf$klm@lynx.unm.edu> <4jkpc5$gnn@teal.csn.net> Do NEXTS take 'normal' memory? eg. I have 4 mgs 30pin left over, could I just pop them in? thanks. In article <4jkpc5$gnn@teal.csn.net>, Bruce Ediger wrote: >Colin E. Johnson <colinj@unm.edu> wrote: >:I've checked the FAQ for details on combining parity and non-parity >:SIMMS in black hardware (040 cube in this case). From what I have read >:this would only cause a problem at boot time such that the machine >:will not boot unattended. >: >:Is this the only danger of mixing SIMM types? >: >:Can someone bring me up to speed on why this is a problem and what >:else it might break? > >I can add a bit to this. I have a 25MHz color slab. It has 26 Mbytes >of memory: 24 meg in six 4Mb parity sticks, 2 meg in two 1 Mb non-parity >sticks. > >The first trick is to set the boot PROM to ignore parity memory even if it's >present. I can't recall the PROM option setting thing, but use the '?' >command at the PROM's '>' prompt. > >The second trick is to put the non-parity memory in the slots closest to the >power supply. I think the PROM refers to these with the lowest numbers. > >The third trick is to boot the kernel such that it fits in the 2 meg >of non-parity memory. This means using a smallish number for the PROM >"nbuf=" parameter. It will boot even if it uses memory over the 2 meg >limit, but sooner or later the on-screen display becomes corrupted. > >I'm writing the above from memory - if you want more exact configuration >stuff, I'll have to open the case to double check SIMM size, type and >placement.
From: wdeng@arc.unm.edu (Ward Deng) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: HP Laserjet 5L to Nextstation Date: 2 Apr 1996 15:04:20 -0700 Organization: Albuquerque Resource Center, HPCERC Message-ID: <4js894$1085@taos.arc.unm.edu> References: <4jiqbu$31k@jaring.my> <1996Apr1.165631.46233@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> haasd@ubaclu.unibas.ch (Daniel Haas) writes: >In article <4jiqbu$31k@jaring.my>, michael@rumah.pc.my (Michael Olan) writes: >> I am thinking of getting the new HP Laserjet 5L. Looks like a nice little >> printer. I'm wondering about connecting it to a blackbox running NS3.2. I've >> got ghostscript which will hopefully drive it, but my main question is the >> interface. Do I have to get a serial printer? Connect to the printer port, >> com port, Ethernet, SCSI? >> TIA for any info from someone who has done it or knows how. >You will surely not need ghostscript (Nextstep uses Displaypostscript, >so why should you use GS). If the HP 5 L is a Postscript Printer >(I guess it is, cause you mention GS) you can simply hook it to the I guess the original one meant PCL printer. HP PostScript printers have names like M/MV, etc. Ghostscript is able to convert PS files to PCL printers. [snip] --ward -- ______________________________________________________________________ / Ward Deng / Maui Project Office / U. of New Mexico / / E-mail: / 1601 Central Ave. NE / Albuquerque, NM 87131 / \__wdeng@arc.unm.edu_/\___(505)277-8339______/\__(505)277-8235(fax)__/
From: stimpy@sojourn1.sojourn.com (gcl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: parity/non-parity SIMM combinations in black hardware Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Date: 2 Apr 1996 23:28:37 GMT Organization: Sojourn Systems Ltd. Distribution: world Message-ID: <4jsd75$8rt@tkhut.sojourn.com> References: <4jc7nf$klm@lynx.unm.edu> Colin Eric Johnson (colinj@math.math.unm.edu) wrote: : I've checked the FAQ for details on combining parity and non-parity : SIMMS in black hardware (040 cube in this case). From what I have read : this would only cause a problem at boot time such that the machine : will not boot unattended. I have a NeXT Computer (early Cube), with a '040 board, and rev v66, and I have slots 1-12 with 100ns 1x8 SIMMS and slots 13-16 with 70ns 1x9 SIMMS. All 28 megs are recognized and used.. works for me... 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 _________________________________________________________________
From: Scott Mewett <mewett@mpr.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Color NeXT Systems Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 17:04:51 -0800 Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd. Message-ID: <3161CEB3.360B@mpr.ca> References: <DnxBIG.GLC@news.hawaii.edu> <1996Mar9.111340.16341@nidat.sub.org> <4ihh5f$led@emerald.oz.net> <4jrdu2$ce9@news.rwth-aachen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Stefan Leuker wrote: > > According to the carton my cube came in, it's a NeXTcube color. > (NeXT did that with later cubes that included a NeXTdimension board > - just like NeXTstation color). > > Stefan > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Mia: Is that a fact? > Vince: No, it's just what I heard; just what I heard. (pf) That's news to me ... I don't remember that even being listed in the FAQ on Next hardware. I also always thought that no matter how new your cube was it was mono unless you put a ND in it. Same here.. Correct me if I am Wrong. -- Scott Mewett MPR Teltech Ltd. Burnaby, B.C. mewett@mpr.ca ASCII Only mewett@van.ark.com NeXTMail OK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Subject: Quantrix Message-ID: <RDL.96Apr2223025@world.std.com> Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 03:30:25 GMT As a former Lotus engineer (on Improv), I just wanted to say that Lighthouse Design did a superb job with their latest Quantrix spreadsheet. If you want to see a really cool NEXTSTEP user interface, look no further than it. I believe the latest version is 2.2. Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant Boston, MA Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
From: everhart@alterlife.com (Dwight Everhart) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Clock synchronization Date: 30 Mar 1996 20:25:31 GMT Organization: IntelliNet-ISP, LLC. 1-800-290-7677 Message-ID: <4jk5br$p1r@zeus.intellinet.com> References: <4ip9pu$mu8@netnews.hinet.net> <4j6ssg$8rj@zeus.intellinet.com> In <4j6ssg$8rj@zeus.intellinet.com> I wrote: > In <4ip9pu$mu8@netnews.hinet.net> James C. Lin wrote: > > > My NeXTcube clock is drifting and like to find a program to > >synchronize the clock with my network server. Can anyone suggest me a > >utility? > > NTP is a standard part of NEXTSTEP and should do what you need. It works > over a LAN and over the Internet. I use it to set my computer's clock to > the Navy's atomic clock every time I bring up my PPP link. Search for NTP > in Librarian for more info. I have received a couple of requests for details about how to use NTP over the Internet, so here they are: There are several hosts on the Internet that provide NTP service. To synchronize your clock with the Navy's clock, just execute the following command after bringing up your PPP link: /usr/etc/ntp -sf tick.usno.navy.mil It will say something like this: tick.usno.navy.mil: delay:0.409510 offset:30.225530 Sat Mar 30 13:45:47 1996 The delay is how long the network lag is between your computer and the NTP server. In this example, it was almost half a second. NTP automatically takes this delay into account when setting the time. The offset amount is how much your clock was adjusted. In this example, it was 30 seconds slow. If the offset amount is negative, your clock was fast. The time printed at the end is the new, correct time. You can also use tock.usno.navy.mil for the hostname. The Navy runs two servers at that site. There are also other NTP servers on the Internet. For a list of them and for more information on network time synchronization, see http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/ntp.html. There are other commands for synchronizing clocks, but they're not as sophisticated as ntp. One of them is rdate, which you can use like this: /usr/ucb/rdate tycho.usno.navy.mil If you are using the free PPP for NEXTSTEP, you can put the ntp command in your /etc/ppp/ip-up script so that it's executed every time your PPP link is brought up. If you want to see the output from the command, you'll need to view in on the console: /usr/etc/ntp -sf tick.usno.navy.mil 2>&1 >>/tmp/console.log -- Dwight Everhart "The avalanche has already begun. Ex Nicole Bobek Coach It is too late for the pebbles to vote." Bella Vista, Arkansas -- Ambassador Kosh, _Babylon 5_ everhart@alterlife.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: How to Upgrade NeXT Cube to 3.x?? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <Dp9y0E.82@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 06:57:50 GMT References: <4jruhn$5kg@news.cc.ucf.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <4jruhn$5kg@news.cc.ucf.edu>, Thomas Clarke <clarke@acme.ist.ucf.edu> wrote: >Can anyone point me to an ftp site or other source for a 3.x >upgrade for a 68040 cube? We used to have to go through >Florida State in Tallahassee for stuff, but they long ago >lost interest. > You'll have to buy it from NeXT, through, I believe, Object Technologies (or whatever they now call themselves.) It's $299 Academic. >Hoarder of NeXT cube spare parts. Smart thing to do. ;-) -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: haasd@ubaclu.unibas.ch (Daniel Haas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: parity/non-parity SIMM combinations in black hardware Message-ID: <1996Apr3.102540.46241@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> Date: 3 Apr 96 10:25:40 MET References: <4jc7nf$klm@lynx.unm.edu> <4jkpc5$gnn@teal.csn.net> <4js83r$120v@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Distribution: world Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland In article <4js83r$120v@msunews.cl.msu.edu>, brian@wintermute (RHS Linux User) writes: > Do NEXTS take 'normal' memory? eg. I have 4 mgs 30pin left over, could I just > pop them in? > thanks. > I think so, cause I did the other way and gave some 30pin 1mgs to a PC friend of mine years ago, and it worked without any problems (and for the old nonturbo machines, times of 100ns are enough to work with)... Daniel *************************************************************** Daniel Haas Physikalisches Institut Universitaet Basel email: haasd@ubaclu.unibas.ch (no NeXT- or MIME-mail please) smail: D. Haas, Kreuzstrasse 150, D-79540 Loerrach, Germany ***************************************************************
From: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NeXT Compression? Date: 3 Apr 1996 09:51:58 GMT Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd. Message-ID: <4jthnu$9sb@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <Joaquin_Menchaca-3003961815180001@a17-221-40-250.apple.com> <Dp8HnF.Fnq@interpc.de> In <Dp8HnF.Fnq@interpc.de> Jens Ch. Gloede wrote: > Joaquin Menchaca writes > > I noticed two extensions: > > 1 - .compressed > > 2 - .pkg > > pkg is only a wrapper. If take a look inside you will > discover a *.tar.Z! Unfortunately, normal tar or gnutar doesn't understand it. You have to use the one from the Installer app wrapper. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.co.uk Tel: (01494)432422 P & L Systems Fax: (01494)432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: sahirns@menger.stevens-tech.edu (Sahir N. Siddiqui) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: parity/non-parity SIMM combinations in black hardware Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Date: 03 Apr 1996 15:18:14 GMT Organization: EE/CS Department, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ Distribution: world Message-ID: <SAHIRNS.96Apr3101814@menger.stevens-tech.edu> References: <4jc7nf$klm@lynx.unm.edu> <4jsd75$8rt@tkhut.sojourn.com> In-reply-to: stimpy@sojourn1.sojourn.com's message of 2 Apr 1996 23:28:37 GMT In article <4jsd75$8rt@tkhut.sojourn.com> stimpy@sojourn1.sojourn.com (gcl) writes: Colin Eric Johnson (colinj@math.math.unm.edu) wrote: : I've checked the FAQ for details on combining parity and non-parity : SIMMS in black hardware (040 cube in this case). From what I have read : this would only cause a problem at boot time such that the machine : will not boot unattended. I have a NeXT Computer (early Cube), with a '040 board, and rev v66, and I have slots 1-12 with 100ns 1x8 SIMMS and slots 13-16 with 70ns 1x9 SIMMS. All 28 megs are recognized and used.. works for me... Gary --- Yes, we had a similar configuration - one of our NeXTstations was popped open and memory stolen. For a while we had it running on a combination of parity and non-parity 1M and 4M simms. -s -- Sahir N. Siddiqui Res: (201) 217-0952 PO Box 5176, Hoboken NJ 07030 )))) oo-) Email: sahirns@menger.eecs.stevens-tech.edu :_/
From: ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: latex2html Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Date: 3 Apr 1996 17:54:52 GMT Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA Message-ID: <4jue1c$fv4@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> Has someone put together a latex2html distribution for NeXT? I get it basically working, but I do have some problems (such as missing gs [what does one do here?], missing various graphics translators, and odd error messages [Generating postscript images using dvips ... This is dvipsk 5.58f Copyright 1986, 1994 Radical Eye Software dvips: ! DVI file can't be opened.] /ivo welch -- Ivo Welch ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu Assoc Prof of Finance Anderson GSM at UCLA 110 Westwood Plaza, Box 951481, LA CA 90095-1481 UCLA AGSM Finance Faculty Homepage: HTTP://next.agsm.ucla.edu/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Color NeXT Systems Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <DpArKB.5o1@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 17:36:11 GMT References: <DnxBIG.GLC@news.hawaii.edu> <4ihh5f$led@emerald.oz.net> <4jrdu2$ce9@news.rwth-aachen.de> <3161CEB3.360B@mpr.ca> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <3161CEB3.360B@mpr.ca>, Scott Mewett <mewett@mpr.ca> wrote: >Stefan Leuker wrote: > >> >> According to the carton my cube came in, it's a NeXTcube color. >> (NeXT did that with later cubes that included a NeXTdimension board >> - just like NeXTstation color). >> >> Stefan >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> Mia: Is that a fact? >> Vince: No, it's just what I heard; just what I heard. (pf) > >That's news to me ... I don't remember that even being listed in the FAQ >on Next hardware. Right. But, apparently, if you bought your cube with an ND installed then the carton would say "Color" on it. >I also always thought that no matter how new your cube was it was mono >unless you put a ND in it. > >Same here.. Correct me if I am Wrong. > Nope--I think you're right. >-- >Scott Mewett >MPR Teltech Ltd. Burnaby, B.C. >mewett@mpr.ca ASCII Only >mewett@van.ark.com NeXTMail OK -- 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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Ghostscript Message-ID: <316319CF.7D89@uwyo.edu> From: "W.T. Grandy, Jr." <wtg@uwyo.edu> Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 17:37:35 -0700 Distribution: world Organization: University of Wyoming MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit For reasons that have to do with another app, I've been trying to install Ghostscript on my NeXTSTEP/Intel system, using the gnu package 2.6.2. I've followed the make instructions for Unix systems, including the few changes recommended for NeXT, but have failed completely to achieve a successful make -- though I do have long lists of errors. Does anyone have any suggestions about how to make ghostscript 2.6.2 (or 2.6.1, for that matter) on NS/Intel? Thanks in advance. Tom Grandy wtg@uwyo.edu
From: im@stokes.Stanford.EDU (Hong Geun Im) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,commp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help! - Network problem with my Next Date: 3 Apr 1996 18:29:10 GMT Organization: Stanford University Distribution: world Message-ID: <4jug1m$apt@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Dear NeXT gurus: I have a Next machine with OS version 2.0 in my office. It has been working fine so far. Suddenly, since yesterday, I cannot log into any other machines on the net, and it's totally isolated. I can still log into my machine from outside, but it takes quite long to get in. when I reboot my Next, I noticed a message showing something like "can't find my address". Any idea? Please help me out. Hong -- =============================================================== Hong G. Im, Center for Turbulence Research, Bldg. 500 Stanford, CA 94305-3030 im@stokes.stanford.edu ===============================================================
From: edwintam@webhk.com (Edwin TAM) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Clock synchronization (automatically?) Date: 3 Apr 1996 09:32:32 GMT Message-ID: <4jtgjg$nqa@hkt001.hkt.net> References: <4ip9pu$mu8@netnews.hinet.net> <4j6ssg$8rj@zeus.intellinet.com> <4jp84h$rrs@usc.edu> reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) wrote: >Re my previous post for detailed information. > > >Okay, now I've read the relevant (I think) NextAdmin on-line stuff, so I >guess I can make a stab at it, but I'd still like to know first if it's okay >to activate ntpd with a dial-in ppp connection and will that have the desired >effect as per subpoint (b) in the man page? I tried on a machine which is PPP'ed to the Net without success, the ntpd just quit immediately. Another machine which is LAN'ed to the Net works fine. NeXT-PPP 2.2 if it does matter. Edwin > >-- >Be well, > >Matthew Reichman >reichman@scf.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/ > -- Edwin #ifdef 1 Everything I expressed here has nothing to do with my Company, the Service Provider, or any Government, Nation. They might not necessary agree with me but I don't gove a damn, 'cause this is my rights. #endif "Free speech on the Net, and human rights, democracy is not what the Chinese government think is - she is just a brain damaged piece of shi#y^5C@*Tg NO CARRIER
From: Ray Ryan <rjrjr@lighthouse.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Quantrix Date: 3 Apr 1996 18:10:51 GMT Organization: Lighthouse Design, Ltd. Message-ID: <4juevb$qc6@nntp1.best.com> References: <RDL.96Apr2223025@world.std.com> The Quantrix team scuffs its collective toe, blushes, and says, "Gee, thanks!" rjrjr -- Ray Ryan, Lighthouse Design, Ltd. rjrjr@lighthouse.com +1-415-570-7736 x14 http://www.lighthouse.com/~rjrjr/
From: woo@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: latex2html Date: 3 Apr 1996 20:45:29 GMT Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN Distribution: world Message-ID: <4juo19$q2q@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> References: <4jue1c$fv4@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> In article <4jue1c$fv4@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) writes: > > Has someone put together a latex2html distribution for NeXT? I get it > basically working, but I do have some problems (such as missing gs [what > does one do here?], missing various graphics translators, and odd error > messages [Generating postscript images using dvips ... > This is dvipsk 5.58f Copyright 1986, 1994 Radical Eye Software > dvips: ! DVI file can't be opened.] > Thanks for posting this. I haven't gotten it working on my NeXT either! -- - - - - - - - - - J. W. Wooten
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Clock synchronization (automatically?) Date: 4 Apr 1996 00:07:22 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <4jv3rq$1ead@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <4ip9pu$mu8@netnews.hinet.net> <4j6ssg$8rj@zeus.intellinet.com> <4jp84h$rrs@usc.edu> <4jtgjg$nqa@hkt001.hkt.net> edwintam@webhk.com (Edwin TAM) wrote: >> >>Okay, now I've read the relevant (I think) NextAdmin on-line stuff, so I >>guess I can make a stab at it, but I'd still like to know first if it's okay >>to activate ntpd with a dial-in ppp connection and will that have the >desired >>effect as per subpoint (b) in the man page? > >I tried on a machine which is PPP'ed to the Net without success, the ntpd >just quit immediately. Another machine which is LAN'ed to the Net works fine. > >NeXT-PPP 2.2 if it does matter. > Put the enclosed line into our /etc/ppp/ip-up file. It will adjust the time just once every time you connect using PPP. It will get the time from two primary time servers (NASA and US Army atomic clock). You must replace these adresses with some time servers in your local area as soon as you can so that these primary servers don't get overloaded - that is their policy. People connected via etherned can put the line into /private/adm/daily so that the system clock gets updated once a day. Just a note. I got these answers from good people in these newsgroups (except for the primary time servers). Thanks goes to them. Good luck, Rudy blazek@stt.msu.edu Here is the line: /usr/etc/ntp -s norad.arc.nasa.gov tick.usno.navy.mil
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Summary: SCSI devices (disks :-)) for black hardware. Date: 4 Apr 1996 03:14:30 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <4jveqm$hj4@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Howdy, here is a new version of the 'SCSI disks for black HW' compilation. If you have some new success or disaster stories, please let me know. Also, what about other SCSI devices for black? Scanners? Etc ... Software available for those? Thanks, good luck and a nice day to all. And special thanks to all who contributed. Rudy Blazek blazek@stt.msu.edu Summary of responses from news://comp.sys.next.hardware ======================================================= (SCSI devices for black NeXT hardware - mostly harddisks) Harddisks NOT compatible with black NeXT hardware ------------------------------------------------ FUJITSU 2684SAU (I have had two and on both the drives displayed media errors immediately after re-sectoring to 1024-byte sectors and performing a BuildDisk) SEAGATE ST51080N (I tried two of them, none could be initialized properly (/etc/disk) in a NeXT cube. The message was that the boot sector couldn't be found. Low level reformatting didn't help (sdformat - see below). Sector size change to 1024 bytes failed (sdformat). Not even a disktab entry helped.) IBM IB06H8891 (Fast SCSI-2, 512 Cache, 10ms, 1GB) (I had a lot of problems with this drive on black hardware. I.e. don't buy it! According to IBM tech support, all new IBM drives only support synchronous bus transfers.) Compatible Harddisks -------------------- (not sure if what works with a cube works also in a slab and vice versa) Cube (040): ----------- FUJITSU M1606SAU Fujitsu part # : CA01310-B161 FUJITSU M1606S-1024 Rev 6234 FUJITSU M2684S-1024 Rev 2039 Seagate Hawk 2GB (Improved performance) Micropolis 2217 (1.7 GB) QUANTUM FIREBALL 1080S (couldn't reformat to 1024B/sector using sdformat :-(( ) NeXT station (040) ------------------ SEAGATE ST32430N-1024 (2.1GB, Hawk 2LP) (NS 3.2 needs a disktab entry - available from blazek@stt.msu.edu) QUANTUM FIREBALL 1080S Both, NeXTstation and Cube -------------------------- FUJITSU M1603S-1024 FUJITSU M2624F-1024 FUJITSU M2694ES-1024 FUJITSU M2909S-1024 FUJITSU M2263S-1024 CD-ROM and removable disks compatible with black NeXT HW -------------------------------------------------------- SONY CD-ROM CDU-76S Rev 1.1c IOMEGA ZIP 100 Rev C.19 SYQUEST EZ135 SyQuest 270 Removable Drive (Even ejects via software) Advice for harddisk installation (quotations) --------------------------------------------- Is there a hardware jumper setting on the Seagate to disable synchronous transfers? The old Fujitsu drives required this setting before they would boot properly on the Cubes and Stations. There is a SCSI formatting tool located at the the following site: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/util/sdformat_1.3.MIHS.tar.gz You could use this program to attempt to format the Seagate drive. (Low-level formatting with optional change of sector size) Other quotations ---------------- Quotation No. 1 --------------- DO *NOT* use quantum SCSI with next. we have NOTHING but problems.. continuous segmentation faults. we have the same I/O panics on a freebsd machine also running a quantum SCSI drive. as a rough estimate to compile bash 1.14.6 this morning it took 6 attempts. the cc-obj1 kept dropping on signal 11 A REPLY: A lot of people seem to be very happy with them. Some other people seem to complain after a year of use ... But it applies to Seagate too. Quotation No. 2 --------------- I have bought an internal disk for my cube (040 processor). The disk is Seagate ST51080N (1GB, Fast SCSI-2), but the cube doesn't want to accept it. The message from /etc/disk is that the boot sector cannot be found (written into). A REPLY: This is a problem with NeXT's black scsi driver. I had the same problem with an IBM Deskstar. I called IBM tech-support and they told me that their new drives only support synchronous SCSI bus transfers and this is not supported by the OS on black hardware. When I hooked the drive to an Intel box it worked without any problems. So anybody with black hardware please inquire when you're planning to buy a new harddisk if it can support asynchronous bus transfers. A FOLLOW UP: Asynchronous bus transfers are MANDATORY in the SCSI specs which are covered by the ANSI standard. So if it is true the IBM Deskstar supports only synchronous SCSI bus transfers I think that you could sue IBM for referring to the SCSI standard. However the real problem on the black hardware is on supporting *TARGET INITIATED SYNC NEGOTIATION* which on most drives is an option which can be turn off by a jumper or a modeselect command. Also there is an other option problem on black: support for TAGGED COMMAND QUEUING (which I don't remember if it is supported or not).
From: "Gerard T. Curd" <gcurd@tricon.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: How to Upgrade NeXT Cube to 3.x?? Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 22:58:29 -0800 Organization: Tri-Cities Connection Message-ID: <31637315.5E93@tricon.net> References: <4jruhn$5kg@news.cc.ucf.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thomas Clarke wrote: > > I use an original 68040 Nextcube still running NeXTstep 2.0 for > mail and other net chores. Could see no reason to upgrade. > Lately, I've been wanting to put a web browser on it and I have > discovered that all the browsers need 3.x. > > Can anyone point me to an ftp site or other source for a 3.x > upgrade for a 68040 cube? We used to have to go through > Florida State in Tallahassee for stuff, but they long ago > lost interest. > > Thanks. > > Tom Clarke > Hoarder of NeXT cube spare parts. Tom, Lighthouse in California is selling 3.2 User for $25 and developer for $100. According to lighthouse these are upgradable to 3.3 when you need to. Hope it helps. GTC
From: neuss@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Christian Neuss) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Clock synchronization (automatically?) Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Date: 2 Apr 1996 12:47:09 GMT Organization: Fachbereich Informatik, TH Darmstadt, Deutschland Message-ID: <4jr7kd$1gjq@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> References: <4ip9pu$mu8@netnews.hinet.net> <4j6ssg$8rj@zeus.intellinet.com> <4jqjm9$o1@usc.edu> Matthew N. Reichman (reichman@scf.usc.edu) wrote: > I see what you mean by error messages when I'm down. > I also noticed " %> Local_Fax_Modem: /dev/cufa is locked " in console when > I'm PPP-upped, which leads me to think the thing isn't working. Nope, to my knowledge, thats a harmless diagnostic message resulting froim running the fax modem and the ppp modem from the same physical (but not logical) interface. "/dev/cufa is locked", well, yes, it is of course, since the modem is in use. No problem. Terminate PPP, and you'll be able to fax again. Just ignore it, or filter it out (is there a news Spy.app that supports filters BTW?). All the best, Chris -- // Christian Neuss "I ride tandem with a random.." // neuss@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de // http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~neuss/ // +49 6151 16-3414 fax: -5472
From: Dominik Westner <dominik@gowest.ppp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Clock synchronization (automatically?) Date: 4 Apr 1996 16:56:58 GMT Organization: TeDoc, Munich, Germany Message-ID: <4k0v0q$9g@cube.ppp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> References: <4ip9pu$mu8@netnews.hinet.net> <4j6ssg$8rj@zeus.intellinet.com> <4jqjm9$o1@usc.edu> Hi, well, for dial-up connections I think ntp is a bit too oversized. I use rdate <any Internet host> which I call everytime I log in, within my ppp-up script (rdate must be run as root). There is also a small command tool, I think it's name is correctclock. With this programm you can correct your clock if your system clock is too slow/fast and you don't have access to the internet. Usually you call it once a day by cron. You can find it for example at http://peanuts.leo.org/ (I don't remember the exact url) so long -- Dominik --- Dominik Westner "Everything is possible in an infinite universe" _____________________________________Willi, the painter Munich, Germany (NOT :-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc From: gdkuch@barrow.uwaterloo.ca (Jerry Kuch) Subject: Re: Summary: SCSI devices (disks :-)) for black hardware. Sender: news@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (news spool owner) Message-ID: <DpCpID.717@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 18:47:01 GMT References: <4jveqm$hj4@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <4jveqm$hj4@msunews.cl.msu.edu>, Rudolf B. Blazek < blazek@stt.msu.edu> wrote: >Howdy, here is a new version of the 'SCSI disks for black HW' compilation. > >A REPLY: > This is a problem with NeXT's black scsi driver. I had the same >problem with an IBM Deskstar. I called IBM tech-support and they told me that >their new drives only support synchronous SCSI bus transfers and this is not >supported by the OS on black hardware. When I hooked the drive to an Intel >box it worked without any problems. Some Deskstars have a jumper that allows synchronous/asynchronous to be selected in hardware. -- 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.
From: kris@xmission.com (Kristopher Magnusson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Clock synchronization (automatically?) Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Date: 4 Apr 1996 20:18:38 GMT Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <4k1aqu$mps@news.xmission.com> References: <4ip9pu$mu8@netnews.hinet.net> <4j6ssg$8rj@zeus.intellinet.com> <4jp84h$rrs@usc.edu> <4jtgjg$nqa@hkt001.hkt.net> Edwin TAM (edwintam@webhk.com) wrote: : reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) wrote: : >Re my previous post for detailed information. : > : > : >Okay, now I've read the relevant (I think) NextAdmin on-line stuff, so I : >guess I can make a stab at it, but I'd still like to know first if it's okay : >to activate ntpd with a dial-in ppp connection and will that have the : desired : >effect as per subpoint (b) in the man page? : : I tried on a machine which is PPP'ed to the Net without success, the ntpd : just quit immediately. Another machine which is LAN'ed to the Net works fine. : : NeXT-PPP 2.2 if it does matter. : : Edwin I have entered a value for an ntp server in NetInfo "/locations/ntp" and time synchronization works just fine with a PPP connection. Of course it doesn't synchronize when the PPP link is down. =) -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
From: tm8025a@american.edu (Torrey McMahon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,commp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help! - Network problem with my Next Date: 4 Apr 1996 21:50:02 GMT Organization: American University, Washington DC Distribution: world Message-ID: <4k1g6a$aie@paladin.american.edu> References: <4jug1m$apt@nntp.Stanford.EDU> In <4jug1m$apt@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Hong Geun Im wrote: > > when I reboot my Next, I noticed a message showing something like > "can't find my address". > Well first, are you running stand alone or in a network setup? If you're running stand alone then make sure /etc/hostconfig is set up correctly If you're in a network then check with your sysadmin and see if your IP number has been removed, or changed, in netinfo or YP. -- Torrey McMahon American University School of Communication System Administrator, WebMaster, and Security Consultant NeXT, MIME, SUN and ASCII
From: jsn@audiospeech.ubc.ca Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: apache 1.0.3 and WebObjects Date: 5 Apr 1996 03:07:44 GMT Organization: The University of British Columbia Message-ID: <4k22q0$14h@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> NeXT ships a modified apache HTTP server in conjunction with its WebObjects release 1.0. Should one use the latest apache server release (1.0.3) with WebObjects or use the server supplied by NeXT? Thanks for your help. ... John John Nicol School of Audiology and Speech Sciences University of British Columbia -- John Nicol School of Audiology and Speech Sciences University of British Columbia Electronic mail: jsn@audiospeech.ubc.ca (NeXTmail welcome)
From: mow@navigator.de (Markus Wenzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Quantrix Date: 4 Apr 1996 08:53:31 GMT Organization: Navigator Message-ID: <4k02mb$90@marsu.navigator.schwaben.com> References: <RDL.96Apr2223025@world.std.com> <4juevb$qc6@nntp1.best.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In <4juevb$qc6@nntp1.best.com> Ray Ryan wrote: > The Quantrix team scuffs its collective toe, blushes, and says, "Gee, > thanks!" Quantrix is a fine piece of software, indeed. The only thing I miss badly is a way to copy an entire table with all data and formatting options within the table browser. Will this feature arrive in 2.3? _______________________________________________________________ Navigator Markus Wenzel IT Consulting & System administration Silberberger Weg 11 Fon: +49 * (0)7159 * 92 79 56 D-71272 Renningen, Germany Fax: +49 * (0)7159 * 92 79 57 _______________________________________________________________
From: osg@onramp.net (Glenda ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NeXT AND WWW Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 23:42:56 GMT Organization: On-Ramp; Individual Internet Connections; Dallas/Ft Worth/Houston, TX USA Message-ID: <4k1fne$pbg@news.onramp.net> NeXT AND WWW DEVELOPER Object Systems Group is a OO technology-based consultancy that provides assistance to Global 1000 corporations. These clients have already made the commitment to move to objects. That means that we can offer you the opportunity to build robust infrastructures, develop good designs, and direct state of the art implementations for large scale OO projects. Because OSG has a proven successful OO process and a reputation for excellence, we can keep you progressing in OO technology while you are making contractors wages. We currently have an assignment in the NE for the following area: NeXT AND WWW Minimum 2+ years total experience with extensive Objective C on a NeXT platform. Individual will be working in a team of developers for a application which is NeXT based, and will be responsible for the development of the WWW portion of that project. If you or someone you know might be interested in cutting edge work, please contact me either by e-mail or sending your resume to osg@onramp.net, US mail your resume to Object Systems Group, Inc., Attn: Glenda Maddox, 3048 Infomart, 1950 Stemmons Freeway, Dallas, Tx. 75207, or fax it to 214-742-5847.
From: Joerg von Frantzius <frantziu@inf.fu-berlin.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Windows 95 and NS 3.3? Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 14:50:00 -0800 Organization: organized? Message-ID: <3165A398.4E53@inf.fu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Having read a NextAnswer concerning installing Windows 95 _after_ NS 3.3 and getting back a dual boot afterwards, my question ist: Does this _really_ work? These are the steps I'd follow after installing Windows95: (http://www.next.com/OpenStep/Products/NEXTSTEP/NSIntel/Windows95.html) 1. Boot into Windows95. 2. Launch a DOS shell and type fdisk. 3. Set the NEXTSTEP partition (non-DOS partition) to be the active partition. 4. Reboot the system; the system now will boot into NEXTSTEP. 5. As the user root, type this command in a Terminal window: disk -B0 /usr/standalone/i386/boot0 /dev/rsd0a If you're using an IDE disk, substitute /dev/rhd0a for /dev/rsd0a. 6. As the user root, type this command in a Terminal window: fdisk /dev/rsd0h -setNeXTActive I mean, before I eventually shoot my NS partition unrecoverably by installing Windows 95, I wanted to be sure about that. Thanks, Joerg.
From: robert@justine.elastica.com (Robert Nicholson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NT/NS dual boot Date: 31 Mar 1996 20:14:18 -0500 Organization: x Message-ID: <e4tr4hhjp.fsf@justine.elastica.com> References: <epwadm2o8.fsf@justine.elastica.com> <4je0gk$6uc@netty.york.ac.uk> To: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-bat.) <pete@ohm.york.ac.uk> writes: >robert@justine.elastica.com (Robert Nicholson) writes: >>System Commander by V Communication will let you do that providing the >>OS allows you to boot it off another drive. It's an OS dependent >>things. NeXTSTEP for instance _cannot_... Window's NT can ... >This is not true. You can boot NeXTStep off any SCSi drive you feel like... >but bear in mind that when you install you will have to edit /etc/fstab >to say where the root device is. NeXT seem to have a habit of making >statements like this... e.g. the HP documentation says that the boot drive >has to have the highest SCSI ID as it must boot off the first drive. Again >this isn't true and a simple edit to /etc/fstab makes it work fine. This >works fine for us on the Hp and I don't see why it wouldn't work on Intel. One word BIOS. http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1487.htmld/1487.html http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1951.htmld/1951.html NeXT claim that you need to configure a small filesystem on device 0 to point to another device. Device 0 also has to have what boot drivers you need also.. In general boot0,boot1 and boot2 don't aupport directly booting from another device. Actually, I'm not 100% about this. I was told that the author of the boot code tried to leave whatever information in the registers was necessary (Undocumented DOS feature) in order for boot0 boot1 and boot2 to know what device you're booting off. He mentioned that it wasn't tested though so I assume the only way to boot off another device number is to use the bogus 7meg partition technique which I've got no time for. I welcome any other comment on this. >-bat. >-- "Under the circumstances I will sit down." (PGP key: send email with Subject: request pgp key)
From: robert@justine.elastica.com (Robert Nicholson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Light hearted fun. (PC Games) Date: 31 Mar 1996 20:19:31 -0500 Organization: x Message-ID: <e3f6ohhb0.fsf@justine.elastica.com> Hey, took NeXTSTEP off line last night and installed FIFA 96 football and let me say it's superb. I love it. Anybody interested in football (the world game) take a look at this game. The camera angles and game play are really cool especially with a GRAVIS PC gamepad. Anybody got any other cool games they recommend to relax? Anybody seen Virtua Fighter on a 3D Edge yet? -- "Under the circumstances I will sit down." (PGP key: send email with Subject: request pgp key)
From: tm8025a@american.edu (Torrey McMahon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: apache 1.0.3 and WebObjects Date: 5 Apr 1996 18:02:01 GMT Organization: American University, Washington DC Message-ID: <4k3n6p$4g1@paladin.american.edu> References: <4k22q0$14h@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> In <4k22q0$14h@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> jsn@audiospeech.ubc.ca wrote: > NeXT ships a modified apache HTTP server in conjunction with its > WebObjects release 1.0. > > Should one use the latest apache server release (1.0.3) with > WebObjects or use the server supplied by NeXT? > I talked to someone at NeXT and they said that, if they remember correctly, it was just vanilla Apache 1.00. I replaced it with 1.0.3 and it works fine. No problems reported. In time I'll post 1.0.3 with a bunch of linked in modules and a NeXT specific fix. Hopefully right after tax time. There is also talk of Apache 1.1 coming out soon so I may wait for it. -- Torrey McMahon American University School of Communication System Administrator, WebMaster, Security Consultant NeXT, MIME, SUN, and ASCII --- PGP Key available via finger and home page. GCM d- s:- a-- C++ UX++++ P+ L+ E---- W+++ N+++ K- w-- !O M V-- PS+ PE- Y+ PGP+ t+ 5++ X+ !R tv- b+ DI++ D++ G e++ h* r++ y+
From: Kurt Deding <deding@u.washington.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: PPP on NeXTstation Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 16:16:01 -0800 Organization: University of Washington Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.92a.960405160950.158323B-100000@homer07.u.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII NNTP-Posting-User: deding I am looking for a PPP package, preferably a freeware, to run on a NeXT. If anyone has information on this, would you please tell me how and where I can get it? Many thanks in advance. Sincerely yours, Kurt
From: niteowl@u.washington.edu ('Jamie' W. Jamison) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Using a NeXT as an AppleShare server Date: 6 Apr 1996 04:10:07 GMT Organization: University of Washington Message-ID: <4k4qqv$1a1@nntp5.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-User: niteowl I recently inherited a very nice NeXT slab and was wondering if it would be possible to use it as an AppleShare server? Has NetAtalk been ported to the NeXT? Are there other solutions available? If so where would I find them? Jamie Jamison jamie@apl.washington.edu -- DISCLAIMER: My opinions are mine and mine alone and do not in any way represent the opinions of the University of Washington. CAVEAT: I reserve the full right to dispose of e-mail sent to me in response to usenet postings in any way that I see fit to include posting.
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: apache 1.0.3 and WebObjects Date: 5 Apr 1996 22:54:31 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <4k48b7$sks@digifix.digifix.com> References: <4k22q0$14h@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> In-Reply-To: <4k22q0$14h@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> On 04/04/96, jsn@audiospeech.ubc.ca wrote: >NeXT ships a modified apache HTTP server in conjunction with its >WebObjects release 1.0. > >Should one use the latest apache server release (1.0.3) with >WebObjects or use the server supplied by NeXT? > >Thanks for your help. > >.... John > I'm using NCSA with it, and have had no problems What makes you think NeXT modified Apache for WO? I'm pretty sure its just a compiled version. -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions) http://www.stepwise.com/ (Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server)
From: cjones (Carl Jones) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Wacom Tablet Question Date: 6 Apr 1996 15:22:52 GMT Organization: Wellesley College Message-ID: <4k628c$9d1@charlotte.wellesley.edu> I'm considering the purchase of an artpad for use with TIFFanyII. In addition, seeking relief from early carpal tunnel symptoms, I'm also very curious as to how well they perform as general mouse replacements? Thanks. Carl -- cjones@wellesley.edu cjones@haakon.wellesley.edu (NeXTmail/MIME Welcome)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Subject: Re: PPP on NeXTstation Message-ID: <DpGs9A.F8I@news2.new-york.net> References: <Pine.A32.3.92a.960405160950.158323B-100000@homer07.u.washington.edu> Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 23:36:45 GMT Kurt Deding <deding@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > I am looking for a PPP package, preferably a freeware, to run on > a NeXT. If anyone has information on this, would you please tell > me how and where I can get it? Try: ftp://ftp.thoughtport.com/pub/next/ppp/ (which gets you to a directory with ppp-related stuff in it). --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: bkwan@direct.ca (Barrow Hon-Kai Kwan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Can I install NS3.3 in JaZ Drive Date: Wed, 03 Apr 96 19:30:26 GMT Organization: Suba Communications Message-ID: <4k77no$14o@suba01.suba.com> Hi, As the title said, Thanks in advance Barrow
From: dblakele@acpub.duke.edu (Dean Blakeley MD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Need .pkg files for Improv and Presentation Builder Date: 7 Apr 1996 00:03:07 -0500 Organization: Duke University, Durham, NC, USA Message-ID: <4k7iab$4j4@news.duke.edu> Howdy do! I've recently run across the fact that I've lost my .pkg files for Improv and Presentation Builder when I rebuilt my hard drive last year. (Dumb me forgot to get them from NextLibrary/Receipts) My original diskettes have become corrupted and I can't restore them from that source. I was wondering if there would still be a way to get them from Lotus or from any other friendly source. I've got all the executables installed, but I wanted their receipts to be complete in the event I need to back up my drive again. Oh, I'm running NS on black hardware, but I doubt that's relevant since I don't believe they ever ported it to NS-FIP. Peace -- | Dean D Blakeley, MD \\// This ain't no party, this ain't no disco | | Jones St Family Medicine _\/_ This ain't no fooling around - D. Byrne | | 618 West Jones Street \\// Office Tel # (919) 755-1888 | | Raleigh NC 27603 \/ #include <disclaim.whsi.h> |
From: far@ix.netcom.net(Felipe A. Rodriguez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: PPP on NeXTstation Date: 6 Apr 1996 19:29:16 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <4k6gmc$8vf@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> References: <Pine.A32.3.92a.960405160950.158323B-100000@homer07.u.washington.edu> In article <Pine.A32.3.92a.960405160950.158323B-100000@homer07.u.washington.edu> Kurt Deding <deding@u.washington.edu> writes: > >I am looking for a PPP package, preferably a freeware, to run on a NeXT. >If anyone has information on this, would you please tell me how and where >I can get it? >Many thanks in advance. > >Sincerely yours, >Kurt > Go to: http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/ -- Felipe A. Rodriguez # ...it cannot be called ingenuity to Agoura Hills, CA # kill one's fellow citizens, to betray # friends, to be without faith, without far@ix.netcom.com # mercy, without religion; by these means (NeXTmail preferred) # one can acquire power but not glory. (MIMEmail welcome) # --Nicolo Machiavelli
From: jburton@nwu.edu (Joshua W. Burton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Need .pkg files for Improv and Presentation Builder Date: 7 Apr 1996 15:06:22 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Message-ID: <4k8lle$cgn@news.acns.nwu.edu> References: <4k7iab$4j4@news.duke.edu> dblakele@acpub.duke.edu (Dean Blakeley MD) wrote: > Howdy do! > > I've recently run across the fact that I've lost my .pkg files > for Improv and Presentation Builder when I rebuilt my hard drive > last year. I haven't got them, either, and I've been pretty careful to keep all my receipts as I've upgraded over the years. Are you absolutely sure that Improv was distributed in .pkg form? Should your outgo exceed |=================================================== your income, your upkeep | Joshua W Burton (847)677-3902 jburton@nwu.edu will be your downfall. |===================================================
From: tm8025a@american.edu (Torrey McMahon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Need .pkg files for Improv and Presentation Builder Date: 7 Apr 1996 16:15:52 GMT Organization: American University, Washington DC Message-ID: <4k8pno$rbs@paladin.american.edu> References: <4k7iab$4j4@news.duke.edu> <4k8lle$cgn@news.acns.nwu.edu> In <4k8lle$cgn@news.acns.nwu.edu> Joshua W. Burton wrote: > > I haven't got them, either, and I've been pretty careful to keep all > my receipts as I've upgraded over the years. Are you absolutely > sure that Improv was distributed in .pkg form? > I have an Improv.pkg in my /NextLibrary/Receipts. Who needs it and for what, again? -- Torrey McMahon American University School of Communication System Administrator, WebMaster, Security Consultant NeXT, MIME, SUN, and ASCII --- PGP Key available via finger and home page. GCM d- s:- a-- C++ UX++++ P+ L+ E---- W+++ N+++ K- w-- !O M V-- PS+ PE- Y+ PGP+ t+ 5++ X+ !R tv- b+ DI++ D++ G e++ h* r++ y+
From: skrans@winternet.com (Steve Krans) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Configure.app question Date: 7 Apr 1996 19:43:04 GMT Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc Message-ID: <4k95s8$pve@blackice.winternet.com> Can someone give me a brief explanation of what the expert setting "Install Mode" is, and what is its default value? -- Steve Krans, Minneapolis MN skrans@winternet.com
From: jsn@audiospeech.ubc.ca Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: apache 1.0.3 and WebObjects Date: 7 Apr 1996 23:52:48 GMT Organization: The University of British Columbia Message-ID: <4k9kgg$5fs@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> References: <4k22q0$14h@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <4k48b7$sks@digifix.digifix.com> In-Reply-To: <4k48b7$sks@digifix.digifix.com> On 04/05/96, Scott Anguish wrote: >On 04/04/96, jsn@audiospeech.ubc.ca wrote: >>NeXT ships a modified apache HTTP server in conjunction with its >>WebObjects release 1.0. >> > I'm using NCSA with it, and have had no problems > > What makes you think NeXT modified Apache for WO? I'm pretty >sure its just a compiled version. > >-- >- Scott Anguish - >sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) >next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions) >http://www.stepwise.com/ (Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server) > > I read that NeXT had modified Apache for WO in some WO description on the Web or is some README file. Of course, now when I search for this statement, I can no longer find it. I have been running Apache 1.0.2 with no problems and I just wondered whether the NeXT version contained some fixes specific to the WO implementation. ... John -- John Nicol School of Audiology and Speech Sciences University of British Columbia Electronic mail: jsn@audiospeech.ubc.ca (NeXTmail welcome)
From: sdonovan@odin.cair.du.edu (Steven Donovan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Instalation Problem Date: 8 Apr 1996 03:37:44 GMT Organization: University of Denver Message-ID: <4ka1m8$fsn@hermes.cair.du.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am attempting to install NeXTStep for Intel. After the initial instalation, when rebooting to configure, it hangs when trying to configure the EIDE driver. I have tried the suggestions from NeXTAnswers in the "Overcoming Instalation Hurdles," but with no success. The only thing that stands out as an obvious possibility for the problem is that the hard drive that I have is 850mb and NeXTStep thinks it is 812mb. I read that it could cause problems if your bios doesn't know the correct size of the drive, but it seems to know the size (and has the correct cylinders, heads, sectors). I don't know why this discrepency exists, or how to correct it. Any info/suggestion are greatly appreciated. -- A closed mouth gathers no foot. sdonovan@diana.cair.du.edu
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: 8 Apr 1996 04:15:10 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4ka3se$mta@digifix.digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Software, Inc. 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From: chanhong@igate.iohk.com (Chan Hong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Netinfo Error help! Date: 8 Apr 1996 13:11:24 GMT Organization: Internet OnLine HK Ltd. Message-ID: <4kb39s$934@ibridge.iohk.com> Hello, I'm running NeXTSTEP 3.3 user on a standalone intel machine. Right now I have some problem after launching the PPP connection to my ISP. The problem is: After making a PPP connection to my ISP by 'pppd', the Netinfo Manager and OmniWeb cannot launch. Consol prompted me 'Time out Netinfo connect to local domain, XXXX sleep.' - some sort like this. But I can launch them without any problem before the PPP session. Right now I'm using loopback IP address (127.0.0.1). Can anyone help me to get it work? B.R. Chan Hong
From: stimpy@sojourn1.sojourn.com (gcl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: How to Upgrade NeXT Cube to 3.x?? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Date: 8 Apr 1996 13:24:42 GMT Organization: Sojourn Systems Ltd. Message-ID: <4kb42q$9gp@tkhut.sojourn.com> References: <4jruhn$5kg@news.cc.ucf.edu> <31637315.5E93@tricon.net> Gerard T. Curd (gcurd@tricon.net) wrote: : Thomas Clarke wrote: : > : > I use an original 68040 Nextcube still running NeXTstep 2.0 for : > mail and other net chores. Could see no reason to upgrade. : > Lately, I've been wanting to put a web browser on it and I have : > discovered that all the browsers need 3.x. : > : > Can anyone point me to an ftp site or other source for a 3.x : > upgrade for a 68040 cube? We used to have to go through : > Florida State in Tallahassee for stuff, but they long ago : > lost interest. : > : > Thanks. : > : > Tom Clarke : > Hoarder of NeXT cube spare parts. : Tom, : Lighthouse in California is selling 3.2 User for $25 and developer for $100. According to : lighthouse these are upgradable to 3.3 when you need to. Hope it helps. : GTC -- ________________________________________________________________ gcl@sojourn.com NeXTmail/LipService is prefered Founder: The NeXTstep for Intel Processors HomeBrew Mailing List Owner: Network with a NeXT '040 Cube #4173 running NeXTstep v3.3 and a Intel i486dx2-66 running NeXTstep for Intel v3.3 _________________________________________________________________
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda) Subject: Can NEXTSTEP do 115200 bps on a serial port on a PC? Message-ID: <DpG8AA.4vq@AWT.NL> Sender: news@AWT.NL Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 16:25:18 GMT I am getting worried. I was planning to use a ZyXEL 2864i with Morningstar PPP over ISDN via a serial port on intel hardware. I know the hardware can do 115kbps, but it looks like NEXTSTEP cannot. Is this true? This is totally unexpected. Oh boy, do I hope I am wrong. -- Gerben Wierda, Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid. Javastraat 42, 's-Gravenhage, The Netherlands Tel (+31) 70 3639922 Fax (+31) 70 3608992
From: ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: pdf and archives Date: 8 Apr 1996 15:13:18 GMT Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA Message-ID: <4kbaee$en8@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> I remember seeing a post for a pdf viewer, but I did not save it. I also do not know where the archives are kept (if they are; are they?). Could someone please tell me where I can get the pdf viewer? Regards, /ivo welch -- Ivo Welch ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu Assoc Prof of Finance Anderson GSM at UCLA 110 Westwood Plaza, Box 951481, LA CA 90095-1481 UCLA AGSM Finance Faculty Homepage: HTTP://next.agsm.ucla.edu/
From: Stefano Pagiola <spagiola@worldbank.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: pdf and archives Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 10:57:56 -0400 Organization: worldbank Message-ID: <31692974.6553@worldbank.org> References: <4kbaee$en8@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ivo Welch wrote: > > I remember seeing a post for a pdf viewer, but I did not save it. I also > do not know where the archives are kept (if they are; are they?). > > Could someone please tell me where I can get the pdf viewer? Try http://peanuts.leo.org/peanuts/ Stefano
From: art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Clock Sync w/ PPP? (was Re: Clock synchronization (automatically?)) Date: 8 Apr 1996 16:11:46 GMT Organization: Sense Networking Seattle (www.oz.net) Distribution: world Message-ID: <4kbds2$dpb@emerald.oz.net> References: <4jqpq9$kgf@news.udel.edu> <4jr40u$k4o@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de> heller@attila.imo.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Helmut Heller) wrote: > In my PPP machine, I wrote > > /usr/etc/ntp -F > > in my /etc/ppp/ip-up file, so that time is synchronized every time PPP is > brought up. This is just one of several similar suggestions, so I'm not picking on Helmut specifically. But do most users really need to synchronize their system clocks every time PPP is brought up? I doubt it. We've heard that those maintaining NTP servers in the U.S. are concerned about their servers being overloaded with time synchronization requests. New servers are actively being sought to try to deal with the load. Abusing these servers by polling them every time PPP is brought up adds unnecessarily to the problem. The solution is simple, so everyone should be responsible enough to implement it. If you'd like to synchronize your clock daily, add a command to /usr/adm/daily that merely touches a "marker" file. I've chosen syncClock in /usr/local/etc/ppp where I keep other PPP files: touch /usr/local/etc/ppp/syncClock Then add something like this to ip-up where $ntp is your favorite NTP server: if [ -f /usr/local/etc/ppp/syncClock ]; then if /usr/etc/ntp -sf $ntp; then rm -f /usr/local/etc/ppp/syncClock fi fi If the marker file exists and ntp succeeds, the marker file is removed, so clock synchronizing will occur only once daily. Permissions issues shouldn't be a problem because the "daily" script is run as root by cron, and pppd and thus ip-up should be running as root, also. If weekly clock synchronization is sufficient, then use /usr/adm/weekly. Other periods are easily supported using a crontab entry. -- Art Isbell NeXT & MIME Mail: art@cubicsol.com NeXT Registered Consultant Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 Trego Systems Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 CaseServ: NEXTSTEP managed care US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442 contract and case management solutions
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Clock Sync w/ PPP? (was Re: Clock synchronization (automatically?)) Date: 8 Apr 1996 17:35:33 GMT Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Sender: reichman@comserv-i-49.usc.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <4kbip5$r9@usc.edu> References: <4jqpq9$kgf@news.udel.edu> <4jr40u$k4o@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de> <4kbds2$dpb@emerald.oz.net> In <4kbds2$dpb@emerald.oz.net> Art Isbell wrote: [snip] > The solution is simple, so everyone should be responsible enough to > implement it. If you'd like to synchronize your clock daily, add a command > to /usr/adm/daily that merely touches a "marker" file. I've chosen syncClock > in /usr/local/etc/ppp where I keep other PPP files: > > touch /usr/local/etc/ppp/syncClock > > Then add something like this to ip-up where $ntp is your favorite NTP > server: > > if [ -f /usr/local/etc/ppp/syncClock ]; then > if /usr/etc/ntp -sf $ntp; then > rm -f /usr/local/etc/ppp/syncClock > fi > fi That sounds like a sound suggestion & recipe for "non-overloadedness" to me. Thanks. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@scf.usc.edu USC-CNTV NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome =============================================================== PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP" --------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
From: droege@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Detlev Droege) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NeXT Compression? Date: 9 Apr 1996 13:25:52 GMT Organization: University Koblenz / Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <4kdoh0$pjc@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> References: <4jthnu$9sb@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> In article <4jthnu$9sb@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) writes: > In <Dp8HnF.Fnq@interpc.de> Jens Ch. Gloede wrote: > > > > pkg is only a wrapper. If take a look inside you will > > discover a *.tar.Z! > > Unfortunately, normal tar or gnutar doesn't understand it. You have to use > the one from the Installer app wrapper. Not quite: It depends on the "LongFilenames" flag in the *.info file inside the .pkg wrapper. If it is set to "NO" it is really just a "usual" .tar.Z file, to be unpacked e.g. with gnutar -xvzf *.tar.Z or uncompress < *.tar.Z | tar xvf - or gunzip < *.tar.Z | tar xvf - If however "LongFilenames" is YES, NeXTs special tar must be used (apparently this was to come around the 100 byte file name length limit in tar, but it has other extensions too). So if the flag says "YES", try: gunzip < *.tar.Z | /NextAdmin/Installer.app/installer_bigtar xvf - Detlev -- Detlev Droege, Uni Koblenz, FB Informatik, Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany Tel:+49 261 9119-421,Fax:-497,NeXT/MIME/Email:droege@informatik.uni-koblenz.de C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good. --Bertrand Meyer
From: Timo Janhunen <dc999a17@pandora.senecac.on.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Netinfo Error help! Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 10:41:20 -0400 Organization: Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.91.960409103545.31104C-100000@pandora.senecac.on.ca> References: <4kb39s$934@ibridge.iohk.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4kb39s$934@ibridge.iohk.com> On 8 Apr 1996, Chan Hong wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running NeXTSTEP 3.3 user on a standalone intel machine. Right now I have > some problem after launching the PPP connection to my ISP. > > The problem is: After making a PPP connection to my ISP by 'pppd', the > Netinfo Manager and OmniWeb cannot launch. Consol prompted me 'Time out > Netinfo connect to local domain, XXXX sleep.' - some sort like this. But > I can launch them without any problem before the PPP session. > > Right now I'm using loopback IP address (127.0.0.1). > > Can anyone help me to get it work? It sounds like your machine is trying to find a domain which it can't. Check your /etc/hostconfig file, if the YPDOMAIN entry has anything other than -NO-, set YPDOMAIN to "-NO-". Also, make sure you have 'Local Network Only' enabled in your HostManager. I ran into this problem with my black NS 3.2 a while back when setting up my connection as well. The machine expects you to be connected, and queries to find the domain ... which it can't when your PPP connection isn't up yet. Regards, Timo Janhunen (tpjanhun@learn.senecac.on.ca)
From: patrick@opensource.com (Patrick Giagnocavo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Screen Manager Date: 9 Apr 1996 15:16:10 GMT Organization: OpenSource Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <4kduvq$agq@trane.opensource.com> References: <4kd8f4$4iu@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> In article <4kd8f4$4iu@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> pgeiss@cezanne.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (Peter Geissler) writes: > > Hi everybody, > > i am looking for a virtual screen manager running under > NeXTStep 3.3 on Intel PC's and for a tool for changing > screen resolution and/or color depth without rebooting. > Do such nice things exists out there on the Net ???? > > Thanx in advance 4 any help There is no way that I am aware of to change color depths and resolution without rebooting under NEXTSTEP. There is however, the VirtSpace virtual screen manager for NEXTSTEP systems. VirtSpace is a "virtual window manager" that allows the user to have a workspace several times the size of the available screen space. VirtSpace is a must for anyone running NEXTSTEP on a portable or a low-resolution 15" monitor. Runs on all architectures (68K, Intel, HP-PA, SPARC). More information at: http://www.opensource.com/Software/Utilities/VirtSpace.html Cordially -- Patrick Giagnocavo, Account Executive, email:patrick@opensource.com OpenSource, Inc. 1776 Lincoln Street, Suite 1012 Denver, CO 80203 Check us out on the WWW at http://www.opensource.com (303).861.4411 Fax: (303).861.2393 1-800-TRY-OPEN (879-6736)
From: scholzb@pst.informatik.uni-muenchen.de (Bernhard Scholz) Newsgroups: de.comp.sys.next,news.answers,comp.answers,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: The NeXT-FAQ (Frequently asked questions) Followup-To: de.comp.sys.next Date: 9 Apr 1996 17:00:28 GMT Organization: InternetNews at LMU, University of Munich, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ke53c$je2@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. Originator: scholzb@peanuts Posted-By: auto-faq 2.4 Archive-name: NeXTFAQ Last-modified: Tuesday, 2. March 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 Copyright 1.4 Disclaimer 1.5 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 Does a FUJITSU MO (256 MB) works with NeXT original Hardware? 5.4 Can I run my SCSI-2 disks in synchronous mode? 5.5 How do I configure my HP 660 to boot properly? 5.6 What is the procedure for installing a Fujitsu M2263SA/SB SCSI Disk as the NeXT Boot Disk? 5.7 How to mount a corrupted OD that won't automount? 5.8 What non-NeXT CD Players that work with a NeXT? 5.9 What are some other sources of toner cartridges and trays for the NeXT laser printer? 5.10 What printers (laser or otherwise) may be used with a NeXT? 5.11 What can I do to prevent my NeXT printer from running all the time? 5.12 What type of microphones will work with the NeXT? 5.13 How do I connect a modem to the NeXT? 5.14 Are there any alternative sources for the SCSI-II to SCSI-I cable required to attach external SCSI devices to the 040 NeXTs? 5.15 What fax modems will work with the NeXT? 5.16 How may I attach more than two serial ports to the NeXT? 5.17 What is the best and/or cheapest way to connect a NeXT to a thick Ethernet? 5.18 How can I connect my NeXT to the telephone line and use it like an answering Machine? 5.19 What color monitors can I use with the Color NeXT machines? 5.20 Where can I get 13W3 to BNC adapters to connect third party color monitors? 5.21 How may I attach Centronics or 16 bit wide parallel ports to the NeXT? 5.22 Why does an unused serial port consume cpu? 5.23 How to adjust MegaPixel Display brightness and focus? 5.24 I want to emulate a macintosh, how? 5.25 My NeXT laser printer fails to fully eject the sheet - how to fix? 5.26 What are the NeXT mouse connections? 5.27 What type of memory may be installed in a NeXT? 5.28 What is the NeXT SIMM tool? 5.29 Where can I purchase a NeXT machine? 5.30 Where to obtain hardware service? 5.31 What types of NeXT machines were manufactured? 5.32 What can be done about older 030 NeXT cubes that have a fan that turns in the "wrong" direction? 5.33 Can I connect SONY MPX-111N to my 68030 NeXT Computer? 5.34 Why does the OD continually spin up and spin down? 5.35 How many colors can NeXT machines display? 5.36 Why is my machine so slow when I run the monochrome and NeXTdimension displays? 5.37 Where to obtain replacement mouse parts? 5.38 Where to obtain extra batteries? 5.39 How to convert a Turbo system to use ADB? 5.40 68030 board in the same NeXTcube as a 68040 board? 5.41 How to expand DSP memory? 5.42 How to boot a NeXT without a monitor? 5.43 Where can I get black spray paint for my NeXT? 5.44 What makes aged NeXT monitors dim? 5.45 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 Initialing Opticals for NeXT 7.5 How to use a streamer ? 7.6 How to recover from an partially formatted disk? 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 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 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,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. 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 become available if there is enough request and not before June 1996. 1.3 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. 1.4 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. 1.5 Thanks 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. Especially we want to thank the Usenet community for contributing to the FAQ and all the people who have written us. 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 NeXT marketing div. of Canon - Japan Phone: 81-44-549-5295 Fax: 81-44-549-5462 EUROPE: Munich: 49-89-996-5310 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 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 o r 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. There will be no NEXTSTEP 4.0, because NeXT changed the naming conventions. NEXTSTEP 4.0 (also sometimes referenced as 'Mekka') 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. 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. 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 MACH. 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 utility), 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 distributed 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 methods 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 will be the next release of NeXT's NEXTSTEP with the ability to be OS independent (NEXTSTEP depends on MACH). Therefore OpenStep will run on Windows 95, Windows NT, MACH, 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 network. 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 will get MACH enhancements and a new GUI as an option as well as all the known advantages of OpenStep itself. 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 isn't already released, this section is just speculating and based on information from the usenet community. OpenStep is sheduled for quarter two 1996. 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 hashing 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 building 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 more. 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 objects 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 for 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 building 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, on-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 application 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 application. 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 special license to connect to the Internet. But because WebObjects is a brand new product, look at http://www.next.com/WebOjects/ for further information. 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 updated 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 development 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 NewsGrazer, 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.com. 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: http://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 free 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. 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"? 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 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. 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 Does a FUJITSU MO (256 MB) works with NeXT original Hardware? FUJITSU MO Yes, they do 5.4 Can I run my SCSI-2 disks in synchronous mode? SCSI-2, synchronous synchronous mode Quick answer is: No. The reason is that the NeXT does not support synchronous transfers from the SCSI bus. It does support SCSI-2 disks running in asynchronous mode, which all SCSI-2 disks must do. 5.5 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). 5.6 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. 5.7 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. 5.8 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? 5.9 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 :-) 5.10 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. 5.11 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. 5.12 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). 5.13 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 5.14 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. 5.15 What fax modems will work with the NeXT? fax modem, on NeXT 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. 5.16 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. 5.17 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 US Dollar. 5.18 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 5.19 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. 5.20 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. 5.21 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 5.22 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 5.23 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 :-) 5.24 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 5.25 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. 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. 5.26 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 5.27 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. 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. 5.28 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. 5.29 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. 5.30 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. Bell Atlantic Computing Technology Services Voice: 800 499 6398, or 800 848 NeXT Fax: 510 732 3078 For Europe, please contact: SORBUS 40549 Dösseldorf WillstÙtter Straûe 13 5.31 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. 5.32 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. 5.33 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. 5.34 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. 5.35 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. 5.36 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. 5.37 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. 5.38 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) 5.39 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. 5.40 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... 5.41 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. 5.42 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). 5.43 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. 5.44 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. 5.45 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? 368 Intel 368 No. NEXTSTEP/Intel uses several 486 specific features that enhance the performance of NEXTSTEP. NEXTSTEP/Intel will support any 468 with Coprocessor and up. 6.9 Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on the Cyrix 486SLC? 468SLC, Cyrix Cyrix, 468SLC 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? x68 Intel, x68 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. 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. 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. 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 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 7.5 How to use a streamer ? streamer Using Configure.app add the SCSI streamer support driver in the "Others" config. 7.6 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. 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 Trilithon Software supplies utilities to convert and install Macintosh or PC fonts to NEXTSTEP format. * MacToPfa: a Mac to NeXT font converter and installer. * PfbToPfa: a PC to NeXT font converter and installer. 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. 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). 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 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 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 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 $PIDS Of course trying to connect when the script is running will not allow you to connect, try again a minute later. This fix will not affect on-going UUCP or interactive connections. This will probably be fixed in the next kernel release. This bug is corrected in NEXTSTEP 2.1 and later releases. 9.8 NS2.0 doesn't recognize /LocalApps path /LocalApps, NS2.0 Workspace has its own internal application path. In 2.0 /LocalApps was omitted. Improv needs to have /LocalApps in the Workspace path if you have Improve installed in /LocalApps. The work around in 2.0 only is: dwrite Workspace ApplicationPaths "~/Apps:/LocalApps:/NextApps: \ /NextDeveloper/Apps:/NextAdmin:/NextDeveloper/Demos" This bug is corrected in NEXTSTEP 2.1 and later releases.
From: scholzb@monet.pst.informatik.uni-muenchen.de (Bernhard Scholz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,de.comp.sys.next Subject: The NeXT-FAQ addendum Date: 9 Apr 1996 17:17:02 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ke62e$jtk@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> Hello community, Due to a server failure on Peanuts, the last issue of the NeXT-FAQ got spooled for more than a week. I thought this was a bug and the posting got lost, so I did repost the FAQs. I'm sorry for those who have downloaded the latest issue twice and had to realize that the latest 2 issues are equal. I just realized it too late, that the posting was successful after one week of delay. Sorry for the inconvenience, Bernhard -- 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: Scott Mewett <mewett@mpr.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Instalation Problem Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 10:19:41 -0700 Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd. Message-ID: <316A9C2D.7EEF@mpr.ca> References: <4ka1m8$fsn@hermes.cair.du.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Steven Donovan wrote: > I read that it could cause problems if your bios doesn't know the > correct size of the drive, but it seems to know the size (and has > the correct cylinders, heads, sectors). I don't know why this > discrepency exists, or how to correct it. > You will want to check that your motherboard supports LBA Mode. It must support this if you want to use NS with an IDE drive over 504MB. -- Scott Mewett MPR Teltech Ltd. Burnaby, B.C. mewett@mpr.ca ASCII Only mewett@van.ark.com NeXTMail OK
From: steffi@dgs.dgsys.com (Robert Nicholson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Faxing Win Word postscript files? Date: 9 Apr 1996 13:36:00 -0400 Organization: Digital Gateway Systems Message-ID: <4ke760$h3m@DGS.dgsys.com> NeXT apparently does some funky stuff when converting the postscript to g3 fax files. I think they use an NXImage subclass to do this. Anyway, if I take the postscript generated under windows and preview it in Preview.app everything comes out fine. However, if you try to fax it it doesn't convert. Perhaps because of the MS printing machinery?
From: Norm N Adams <nicholas@earthlink.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: MAC SYSOPS-MAC USERS/BECOME EXCLUSIVE EARTHWIDE HUB YOUR AREA Date: 10 Apr 1996 07:48:29 GMT Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <4kfp4d$7a7@ecuador.it.earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit If you are a Mac Sysop or mac user and would like to, BECOME THE EXCLUSIVE EARTHWIDE HUB IN YOUR AREA FOR PROFIT AND FUN, we have (4) four Excellent, low cost, Sysop programs to choose from.
From: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Screen Manager Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Date: 10 Apr 1996 13:22:34 GMT Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <4kgcmq$2tp@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> References: <4kd8f4$4iu@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> <4kduvq$agq@trane.opensource.com> Patrick Giagnocavo (patrick@opensource.com) wrote: : There is no way that I am aware of to change color depths and resolution : without rebooting under NEXTSTEP. AFAIK, Elsa's display driver does this (or was it ATI ?)! The window server has to be restarted, but you don't need to reboot the system. For sure, this has to be supported by the display driver! 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: edx@cc.usu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: CORBA compliant? Message-ID: <1996Apr10.102624.77968@cc.usu.edu> Date: 10 Apr 96 10:26:24 MDT Organization: Utah State University Are NeXT Distributed Objects CORBA compliant? Where can I read more about how well NeXT Distributed Objects can peacefully coexist with other kinds of Distributed Objects? Thanks for any useful discussion on the matter. - HRC - hcole@spanky.idec.sdl.usu.edu
From: Haibo Chen <haiboc@bnr.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: windows 95 to NeXTCube Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 12:39:20 -0400 Organization: Hi-Wave Research (HWR) Message-ID: <316BE438.4249@bnr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: haiboc@bnr.ca Hi! I would like to seek the help from all of you: I'd like to build a LAN between WINDOWS 95 (PC) to NeXTCube for sharing the NeXT printer. I am facing the workgroup configuration problem in windows 95 network configuration, which workgroup I should specify for NeXT? Any more information and help would appreciated. Thanks a lot. Haibo Chen haiboc@bnr.ca
From: gjdz@zeelandnet.nl (Gert-jan de Zeeuw) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.acorn.misc,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sun.misc Subject: Re: Please Answer! Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 16:13:52 GMT Organization: ZeelandNet, Kamperland, the Netherlands Message-ID: <4kgmr4$faq@news.zeelandnet.nl> References: <589.6610T1082T265@canit.se> lavin@canit.se (Johan Björk) wrote: >I have been ordered to make some digrams and stuff in school, so I need >some numbers. Can everyone reading this *PLEASE* answer in a netmail to: >lavin@canit.se OR lavin@karkis.canit.se! I really need your help to get >approved. >Questions: >1. What computer is your main one? (i.e. the one you use most) > (e.g. Amiga, PC, Mac, Atari...) >2. When did you get this computer? >3. When did you get your FIRST computer ever? >4. What computer do you like most? (Maybe you have an Mac, but you would > prefer having an Atari.) >So PLEASE answer in a NETMAIL. >Thanks! > // Johan Björk 1.I have a atari mega ste4 and a 486 dx4 75. the main one is the 486 because there is the most software available. 2. The 486 last year. 3. A Sillycon Graphics. Good luck.
From: hs283@bard.edu (Hans Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer, Subject: Re: Anyone want a SLIP up/down app? Date: 10 Apr 1996 21:19:36 GMT Organization: Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504 Message-ID: <4kh8l8$1gf1@core.bard.edu> References: <DpK90w.Gzp@waldo.com> I was wondering what SLIP package you are using. I have a Next/intel machine that I would like to run SLIP on, but Mamakos' SLIP_904??? package is for black hardware. Know of any quad-fat, or at least intel SLIP's for Next? Thanks in advance...HC -- (C)Copyright Hans-Christoph Steiner. Permission for use of this material is freely granted to all except Microsoft. Microsoft can secure distribution rights for US$1000. Use of this material without permission constitutes an agreement to these terms. Report violations to me and postmaster@microsoft.com
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NEXTSTEP Java Porting Issues-mailing list! Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 17:19:41 -0500 Organization: Illinois State University, Instructional Technology Services Message-ID: <316C33FD.308C@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NEXTSTEP Java Porting Issues Sponsor: Bill Bumgarner (bbum@friday.com) next-java@friday.com An open mailing list for for discussion of porting and integration esoteria that are unique to the NeXT platform. To subscribe, send the word "subscribe" in the BODY of a message to next-java-request@friday.com. ------------------------------------------------ Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie Instructional mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu Technology PEACE LOVE Services UNITY RESPECT Illinois State University "Understanding is best learned via experience." "Follow our instinct, not a trend. Go against the grain until the end." VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE ENTIRELY MY OWN
From: Ravi Mendis <lady0098@sable.ox.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: WebObjects' transaction integrity? Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 17:59:57 +0100 Organization: Oxford University Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960410174843.10337B-100000@sable.ox.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII What mechanism is in place that ensures information (transactions) aren't lost over the Web? (We all know that sometime our Web pages don't download properly: sometimes with errors; images in particular tend to 'get lost') Isn't this a commonly asked question by NeXT customers? They wouldn't want to implement business critical applications otherwise. On the plus side, WebObjects' client/SERVER (Server intense) approach has an edge over CLIENT/SERVER strategies like Sun's JOE, looking at things from the perspective of better transaction integrity. But still, i have found little information on NeXT's WebSite regarding this issue. And i'm not refering to transaction security! ravi
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Remote Login versus from Console Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 10:31:07 -0400 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960409102108.11311D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Mark Booth <markb@asysa.demon.co.uk> cc: woo@ornl.gov In-Reply-To: <9604031502.AA23510@asysa.demon.co.uk> Ok, I think I have figured out a way to do this, at least for t/csh and zsh. The zsh way is probably a little hack-ish, but it works: # # for t/csh # # THIS SHOULD ALL BE ONE CONTINUOUS LINE --- USING \ DOES NOT WORK set APPNAME=`/bin/ps -axlcw | awk '{ pid=$3; ppid[pid]=$4;name[pid]=$NF; } END { pid='$$';while (name[pid]==name[ppid[pid]]) pid=ppid[pid];print name[ppid[pid]]; }'` # END OF ONE CONTINUOUS LINE if ( "$APPNAME" == "rshd" || \ # for use with 'rsh' "$APPNAME" == "telnetd" || \ # for use with 'telnet' "$APPNAME" == "inetd" ) \ # for use with 'RBrowser' then # do stuff for remote login else # do stuff for console login endif OR, for ZSH: APPNAME=`/bin/ps -axlcw | awk '{ pid=$3; ppid[pid]=$4; \ name[pid]=$NF; } END { pid='$$';\ while (name[pid]==name[ppid[pid]]) pid=ppid[pid]; \ print name[ppid[pid]]; }'` ############### # define the variable 'remotes' to be the value which APPNAME # might have for any NON-console logins # # telnetd = for telnet # rshd = for rsh # inetd = for RBrowser remotes="telnetd inetd rshd" ############### # a little trick to see if this login matches any of those test=`echo $remotes | grep $APPNAME ` if [ "$test" = "" ] then # do stuff for console login else # do stuff for remote login fi # end I can't stress enough that for t/csh that 'set' line has to be one continuous line with no breaks (ie carriage returns). For some reason, using \ doesn't work (probably one of the reasons people don't like t/csh) Any questions, feel free to email me. TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> USENET: Please CC this address on replies to my posts, things vanish fast. NeXT Info available via email! Send message with SUBJECT 'send info' >>>> Please: No NeXTMail, use MIME for attachments <<<<
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: Anyone want a SLIP up/down app? Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 12:20:16 -0400 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960409121121.12749C-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> References: <DpK90w.Gzp@waldo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Matthew Hocker <hocker@waldo.com> In-Reply-To: <DpK90w.Gzp@waldo.com> I don't use SLIP, so I don't know what exactly you have to go through to turn it on once you have it all setup. For PPP it is as easy as typing 'pppup' in a Shell. If SLIP is the same way, then I see this as a time for TickleServices. Say you have to do 'slipup' or 'slipdown'. In TickleServices, you can write a Service which will do this as easily as: exec /usr/local/bin/slipup name it 'SLIP connect' (or whatever) save, and check the 'services' part of the menus. Click on 'SLIP connect' and it will execute 'slipup'. The same thing is possible with bringing the connection down. I don't say this to mean "Geez, you should have done this before making an entire app". If you can program (which you obviously can) and you have the developer tools, that's great. TickleServices is available to those of us who can't program, and to those who do not have the developer/compiling tools needed. It also allows you to do these little tasks without needing a separate application running (the main TickleServer.daemon runs on login). I'd encourage people to check it out. See the most excellent Scott Hess' Home Page http://www.winternet.com/~shess and TickleServices page http://www.winternet.com/~shess/TickleServices.html TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> USENET: Please CC this address on replies to my posts, things vanish fast. NeXT Info available via email! Send message with SUBJECT 'send info' >>>> Please: No NeXTMail, use MIME for attachments <<<<
From: scholzb@pst.informatik.uni-muenchen.de (Bernhard Scholz) Newsgroups: de.comp.sys.next,news.answers,comp.answers,comp.sys.next.advocay,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: The NeXT-FAQ (Frequently asked questions) Followup-To: de.comp.sys.next Date: 11 Apr 1996 08:10:33 GMT Organization: InternetNews at LMU, University of Munich, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <NeXTFAQ-1-829210229@pst.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: NeXTFAQ Last-modified: Tuesday, 2. March 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 Copyright 1.4 Disclaimer 1.5 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 Does a FUJITSU MO (256 MB) works with NeXT original Hardware? 5.4 Can I run my SCSI-2 disks in synchronous mode? 5.5 How do I configure my HP 660 to boot properly? 5.6 What is the procedure for installing a Fujitsu M2263SA/SB SCSI Disk as the NeXT Boot Disk? 5.7 How to mount a corrupted OD that won't automount? 5.8 What non-NeXT CD Players that work with a NeXT? 5.9 What are some other sources of toner cartridges and trays for the NeXT laser printer? 5.10 What printers (laser or otherwise) may be used with a NeXT? 5.11 What can I do to prevent my NeXT printer from running all the time? 5.12 What type of microphones will work with the NeXT? 5.13 How do I connect a modem to the NeXT? 5.14 Are there any alternative sources for the SCSI-II to SCSI-I cable required to attach external SCSI devices to the 040 NeXTs? 5.15 What fax modems will work with the NeXT? 5.16 How may I attach more than two serial ports to the NeXT? 5.17 What is the best and/or cheapest way to connect a NeXT to a thick Ethernet? 5.18 How can I connect my NeXT to the telephone line and use it like an answering Machine? 5.19 What color monitors can I use with the Color NeXT machines? 5.20 Where can I get 13W3 to BNC adapters to connect third party color monitors? 5.21 How may I attach Centronics or 16 bit wide parallel ports to the NeXT? 5.22 Why does an unused serial port consume cpu? 5.23 How to adjust MegaPixel Display brightness and focus? 5.24 I want to emulate a macintosh, how? 5.25 My NeXT laser printer fails to fully eject the sheet - how to fix? 5.26 What are the NeXT mouse connections? 5.27 What type of memory may be installed in a NeXT? 5.28 What is the NeXT SIMM tool? 5.29 Where can I purchase a NeXT machine? 5.30 Where to obtain hardware service? 5.31 What types of NeXT machines were manufactured? 5.32 What can be done about older 030 NeXT cubes that have a fan that turns in the "wrong" direction? 5.33 Can I connect SONY MPX-111N to my 68030 NeXT Computer? 5.34 Why does the OD continually spin up and spin down? 5.35 How many colors can NeXT machines display? 5.36 Why is my machine so slow when I run the monochrome and NeXTdimension displays? 5.37 Where to obtain replacement mouse parts? 5.38 Where to obtain extra batteries? 5.39 How to convert a Turbo system to use ADB? 5.40 68030 board in the same NeXTcube as a 68040 board? 5.41 How to expand DSP memory? 5.42 How to boot a NeXT without a monitor? 5.43 Where can I get black spray paint for my NeXT? 5.44 What makes aged NeXT monitors dim? 5.45 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 Initialing Opticals for NeXT 7.5 How to use a streamer ? 7.6 How to recover from an partially formatted disk? 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 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 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,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. 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 become available if there is enough request and not before June 1996. 1.3 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. 1.4 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. 1.5 Thanks 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. Especially we want to thank the Usenet community for contributing to the FAQ and all the people who have written us. 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 NeXT marketing div. of Canon - Japan Phone: 81-44-549-5295 Fax: 81-44-549-5462 EUROPE: Munich: 49-89-996-5310 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 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 o r 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. There will be no NEXTSTEP 4.0, because NeXT changed the naming conventions. NEXTSTEP 4.0 (also sometimes referenced as 'Mekka') 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. 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. 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 MACH. 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 utility), 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 distributed 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 methods 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 will be the next release of NeXT's NEXTSTEP with the ability to be OS independent (NEXTSTEP depends on MACH). Therefore OpenStep will run on Windows 95, Windows NT, MACH, 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 network. 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 will get MACH enhancements and a new GUI as an option as well as all the known advantages of OpenStep itself. 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 isn't already released, this section is just speculating and based on information from the usenet community. OpenStep is sheduled for quarter two 1996. 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 hashing 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 building 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 more. 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 objects 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 for 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 building 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, on-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 application 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 application. 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 special license to connect to the Internet. But because WebObjects is a brand new product, look at http://www.next.com/WebOjects/ for further information. 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 updated 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 development 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 NewsGrazer, 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.com. 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: http://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 free 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. 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"? 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 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. 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 Does a FUJITSU MO (256 MB) works with NeXT original Hardware? FUJITSU MO Yes, they do 5.4 Can I run my SCSI-2 disks in synchronous mode? SCSI-2, synchronous synchronous mode Quick answer is: No. The reason is that the NeXT does not support synchronous transfers from the SCSI bus. It does support SCSI-2 disks running in asynchronous mode, which all SCSI-2 disks must do. 5.5 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). 5.6 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. 5.7 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. 5.8 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? 5.9 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 :-) 5.10 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. 5.11 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. 5.12 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). 5.13 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 5.14 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. 5.15 What fax modems will work with the NeXT? fax modem, on NeXT 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. 5.16 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. 5.17 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 US Dollar. 5.18 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 5.19 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. 5.20 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. 5.21 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 5.22 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 5.23 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 :-) 5.24 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 5.25 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. 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. 5.26 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 5.27 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. 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. 5.28 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. 5.29 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. 5.30 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. Bell Atlantic Computing Technology Services Voice: 800 499 6398, or 800 848 NeXT Fax: 510 732 3078 For Europe, please contact: SORBUS 40549 Dösseldorf WillstÙtter Straûe 13 5.31 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. 5.32 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. 5.33 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. 5.34 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. 5.35 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. 5.36 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. 5.37 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. 5.38 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) 5.39 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. 5.40 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... 5.41 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. 5.42 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). 5.43 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. 5.44 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. 5.45 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? 368 Intel 368 No. NEXTSTEP/Intel uses several 486 specific features that enhance the performance of NEXTSTEP. NEXTSTEP/Intel will support any 468 with Coprocessor and up. 6.9 Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on the Cyrix 486SLC? 468SLC, Cyrix Cyrix, 468SLC 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? x68 Intel, x68 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. 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. 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. 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 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 7.5 How to use a streamer ? streamer Using Configure.app add the SCSI streamer support driver in the "Others" config. 7.6 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. 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 Trilithon Software supplies utilities to convert and install Macintosh or PC fonts to NEXTSTEP format. * MacToPfa: a Mac to NeXT font converter and installer. * PfbToPfa: a PC to NeXT font converter and installer. 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. 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). 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 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 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 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. -- -- 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: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Anyone want a SLIP up/down app? Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 08:18:42 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1996Apr11.081842.4008@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <4kh8l8$1gf1@core.bard.edu> In comp.sys.next.misc article <4kh8l8$1gf1@core.bard.edu> you wrote: > I was wondering what SLIP package you are using. I have a Next/intel > machine that I would like to run SLIP on, but Mamakos' SLIP_904??? > package is for black hardware. Know of any quad-fat, or at least intel > SLIP's for Next? Louis also wrote TransSys PNI SLIP, which was for both blakc and white hardware. Last version was 1.133, I think, although it is no longer supported. I'd prefer to use PPP in almost all circumstances, though. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: Vincent Minder <vmin@urba.ulg.ac.be> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.emulators.mac.executor Subject: Executor/NEXTSTEP Disappointing news! :( Followup-To: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.emulators.mac.executor Date: 11 Apr 96 10:38:31 Organization: Université de Liège Distribution: world Message-ID: <vmin.96Apr11103831@darkstar> References: <3169C51A.5319@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Eric A. Dubiel wrote on comp.sys.next.advocacy, comp.sys.next.misc, comp.sys.mac.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.comm > It looks like the MAC OS emulator is coming to its end on NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP. > If anyone else is disappointed, please write Ardi! > See http://www.ardi.com [I have added comp.emulators.mac.executor to Eric©s list] Well, Last time I discussed this with Melissa at Ardi, she said they weren©t sure about the future of Executor under OpenStep (NS4). According to your message, it looks like they©ve made up their mind :-( One can©t really blame them for concentrating on the DOS/Windows market (that©s where the money is, isn©t it ?) On the other hand I thought that Ardi©s plans included multiplatform concern (as long as their revenue allows such developments of course) -Cliff has mentionned several times a DEC/Alpha port that they©ve been working on some time ago. Anyway I am thankful that they©ve kept on developing Executor/NEXTSTEP up to now (version 1.99q12) and I hope they©ll be delivering an Interceptor-aware 2.0 version to us as promised. (I©d prefer a non-Interceptor-aware 2.0 version than nothing, though). They might reconsider trashing NEXTSTEP development if (what©s left of) the NeXT community massively orders Executor/NS licences (still at pre-beta prices but not for long) and shows interest on the comp.emulators.mac.executor newsgroup. Really, any NEXTSTEP user with interest towards Mac emulation should do so (I did). Well, it is still unclear whether we©ll be forced out of NS (OS-Mach) to NT :-( ... but if this happens, Executor will probably be running there :-/ Vincent
From: dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov (Gregg E. Dinse) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: networking my NeXT and my PC Date: 11 Apr 1996 15:00:40 GMT Organization: The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Message-ID: <4kj6qo$jmb@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov> Hi, Well, I finally bought a PC for home. It is set up as a dual-boot system, with NEXTSTEP and WindowsForWorkGroups. Also, I have a NeXT cube and a NeXT laser printer. While I'm an accomplished novice :) with respect to NS, I'm completely naive about WFWG (and DOS and Win95). That is, I've used NS for years, but I've only used WFWG for a few hours. I'd like to network my NeXT and my PC. Can some kind soul give me some step-by-step guidance? I should be able to use NetInfoManager and NFSManager to communicate between NS on the PC and NS on the NeXT. The part I know nothing about is communicating between WFWG on the PC and NS on the NeXT. The main thing I'd like to do is to print from the PC to the NeXT printer. Sharing files would be nice, but is secondary to the printing issue. The PC has a Cogent EM960 combo card, so I guess I can run either a "crossover" twisted pair wire or a coaxial cable between the two systems. Is one better than the other? What software do I need? I've heard people mention SAMBA, but I don't know anything about it. What do I need and where can I get it? Is it free? We are in the process of ordering some PCs for work, which also will be dual-boot systems. Again we will want to use NeXT workstations as print servers for NeXT printers, so this info will be useful at work as well. Thank you in advance for any help. I really appreciate it. Bye, Gregg Dinse 919-541-4931 dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld) Subject: Loginwindow error - bootstrap_register failed Organization: CYANTIC Systems Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 16:48:52 GMT Message-ID: <1996Apr11.164852.10674@cyantic.com> We have been getting this error message on an Dell 466/66 machine running NS 3.3: loginwindow[204]: bootstrap-register failed--102 The message occurs each time the user logs in to the system. The login is successful, but we have been seeing an abnormal number of system "freeze-ups" on this machine. Has anyone seen this? Please reply by email. Thanks -- -- Mark T. Dornfeld, Cyantic Systems Corporation Voice: (416) 621-6166 1 Eva Road Suite 301 Facsimile: (416) 621-6212 Etobicoke, Ontario, M9C 4Z5 CANADA Email: mark@cyantic.com
From: Dominic Hopton <Dombo@darkhors.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Will this run NeXT Step... Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 21:23:02 Organization: Dark Horse Communications Ltd Message-ID: <257653588wnr@darkhors.demon.co.uk> What is the latest and greatest OS from NeXT? Also, would the above run on this system: 16meg Adaptec 1542cf scsi card 486dx266 2x500 meg HD's (scsi)(segate) SB 16 Nec Atapi 1.2 Compatible CD-rom USR v34 modem Cirrus Logic 5426 VLB Gfx card, with 1 meg Mem, could upgrade to 2 meg. Ami bios 14 inch, 1152x864 insensible refresh rate monitor (but not on this gfx card. If anything, what of the above would i have to change, the system doesnt have to be a SPEED demon, just usable for web/net stuff, also a bit of wordproc, dtp, LIGHT gfx, MAYBE light programming. Also what ver sion should i get? Developer? User? Also how much does it cost? Wheres the FAQ? Also, can i triple boot nt4/win95/NeXT? Where can i get hold of it in the UK? BYe! -- Dom... zipping along at V.34+
From: schaub@tamu.edu (Hanspeter Schaub) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Color Scanner + Scanning Software Date: 11 Apr 1996 20:09:28 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Message-ID: <4kjoto$679@news.tamu.edu> I'm looking for some feedback on different color scanners and scanning software for an intel workstation running NS3.3. Do any manufacturers provide bundles? How well does the scanner/software work, etc... many thanks, 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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Subject: Re: python for NeXT (m68k)? Message-ID: <Dppv8p.H69@news2.new-york.net> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 21:19:37 GMT [this is about my 10th attempt to post this, our usenet hub is in a sad state right now. One of my previous attempts may have actually worked, but I kinda doubt it] flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit) writes: > Python's homepage is http://www.python.org, just for the records... > I've put quad-FAT binaries on our ftp server, > ftp://zarquon.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de/pub/NeXT/Developer/Languages > > Please give me a hint if they worked for you, and I'll put them > on the big archives! > > 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) | Thanks. It seems to work fine on NS/Intel, based on a few minutes of testing. I need to learn more of python before I could know enough to really test it. All of a sudden I have a friend of mine (on a linux box) who is sending me some python scripts, so it looks like I'll be getting the opportunity to learn it... This MAB version will be helpful to have. Thanks for putting it together. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Canon NEXTSTEP Developer Support-Japan Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 17:27:39 -0500 Organization: Illinois State University, Instructional Technology Services Message-ID: <316D875B.6E2C@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Has anyone seen the Canon NEXTSTEP Developer Support web pages in Japan? http://www.cnds.canon.co.jp/Japanese_EUC/WelcomeJ.html I can't understand the attitude of American Canon VS. Japanese Canon. I wish the two would truly work together and also fully translate the web pages to English and provide object.station driver downloads/updates! I am suprised that a company like Canon would drop a product that was so expensive and leave users to fend for themselves...It's so hard to put faith in companies- people too for that matter since they make up companies. Although, I have MUCH MORE RESPECT for the Japanese divisions due to their greater attention to quality and support (my opinions). side note: Has anyone also noticed that a lot of new activity/apps are coming out of Germany lately? There seems to be a lot of interest there... I would really appreciate feedback from NeXT users and Canon (although they've been completely unresponsive) ------------------------------------------------ Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie Instructional mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu Technology PEACE LOVE Services UNITY RESPECT Illinois State University "Understanding is best learned via experience." "Follow our instinct, not a trend. Go against the grain until the end." VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE ENTIRELY MY OWN
From: lynne@lighthouse.com (Lynne Fitzpatrick Angeloro) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.admin Subject: NEXTSTEP is not available from Lighthouse Design Date: 11 Apr 1996 22:53:02 GMT Organization: Best Internet Communications Distribution: world Message-ID: <4kk2ge$l2m@nntp1.best.com> Keywords: NEXTSTEP, NS 3.3 Hi all, Sorry to say, but this isn't true, unless there are two "Lighthouse in California": > In comp.sys.next.misc article <4kb42q$9gp@tkhut.sojourn.com> > Gerard T. Curd (gcurd@tricon.net) wrote: > : Tom, > > : Lighthouse in California is selling 3.2 User for $25 and developer for $100. According to > : lighthouse these are upgradable to 3.3 when you need to. Hope it helps. > > : GTC Not sure where it got started but Lighthouse Design doesn't resell NEXTSTEP. NEXTSTEP is only available through NeXT Software Inc. (800-Try-next or trynext@next.com) or one of their resellers. Best Regards, Lynne Fitzpatrick Angeloro Manager, Customer Care Lighthouse Design, Ltd., 2929 Campus Drive, San Mateo, CA 94403-2534 415.570.7736 x34 :voice 415.570.7787 :fax Lynne@Lighthouse.com :email http://www.lighthouse.com/ :web page ---
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NS VIDEO CONFERENCING SERVER Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:24:26 -0500 Organization: Illinois State University, Instructional Technology Services Message-ID: <316DF71A.417D@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Use your NEXTSTEP box to serve as a videoconferencing server for MAC and WIN, two options I know of are: QuickTime Conferencing Internet Reflector http://www.devtools.apple.com/qtc/ The Reflector is a one-to-many program which distributes QTC audio and video streams over the Internet. It is a temporary solution to the lack of wide MBone deployment. In the absence of a multicast protocol, the Reflector is the best way to alleviate the network load on a QTC media source. Currently, qtcd runs on the following dialects of Unix: Solaris, SunOS 4.3, Irix, AIX, Linux, FreeBSD, and NeXTStep. It is little-endian friendly. If you have a platform you'd like to see the reflector run on, send mail. Also: White Pine CU-SEEME Video Conferencing Reflectors http://goliath.wpine.com/reflectdemo.htm and/or http://cu-seeme.cornell.edu/#Reflector Download a demo version of White Pine's Enhanced CU-SeeMe Reflector software. White Pine's unique Reflector technology accepts multiple CU-SeeMe connections and reflects the video, audio, and additional data to multiple participants concurrently -- providing an environment for group videoconferencing, document sharing, large audience broadcasts or just plain chat. Available soon for Windows NT. * NEXT OS Version 3.2 (reflector-4.0-b3-next.tar.Z) ftp://ftp.wpine.com/pub/product/demo/reflector/4.0B3/reflector-4.0-b3-next.tar.Z or ftp://gated.cornell.edu/pub/video/Reflector/4.00b3.dist/reflector-4.0-b3-next.tar.Z ------------------------------------------------ Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie Instructional mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu Technology PEACE LOVE Services UNITY RESPECT Illinois State University "Understanding is best learned via experience." "Follow our instinct, not a trend. Go against the grain until the end." VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE ENTIRELY MY OWN
From: dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Can NEXTSTEP do 115200 bps on a serial port on a PC? Date: 11 Apr 1996 16:17:39 GMT Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany Message-ID: <4kjbb3$lr@turbocat.snafu.de> References: <DpG8AA.4vq@AWT.NL> G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda) wrote: > I am getting worried. I was planning to use a ZyXEL 2864i with Morningstar > PPP over ISDN via a serial port on intel hardware. I know the hardware can do > 115kbps, but it looks like NEXTSTEP cannot. Is this true? This is totally > unexpected. You are not wrong. You can do 2 things: 1) Use an external router (or el-cheapo pc with free unix or router sw) and ISDN card. 2) Use a spacial serial card that makes the serial speed *4 (You say 38400 to NEXTSTEP and get 153600 baud) But this card and the ZyXEL are more expensive than the 1st solution. _ _ _(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development, (_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG, _/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152 (______) dave@turbocat.snafu.de (NeXTMail)
From: dirk@.object-factory.com (Dirk Olmes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Can NEXTSTEP do 115200 bps on a serial port on a PC? Date: 10 Apr 1996 05:50:55 GMT Organization: Object Factory GmbH (Germany) Message-ID: <4kfi7v$rts@isabella.object-factory.com> References: <DpG8AA.4vq@AWT.NL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda) wrote: > I am getting worried. I was planning to use a ZyXEL 2864i with Morningstar > PPP over ISDN via a serial port on intel hardware. I know the hardware can do > 115kbps, but it looks like NEXTSTEP cannot. Is this true? This is totally > unexpected. > > Oh boy, do I hope I am wrong. Well, you are partially wrong :-) The original NeXT Serial drivers don't seem to work at higher speed (I do not know about the latest ones) You have to get the MUX serial drivers from your favourite ftp archive. You can configure these drivers to work at 115k. I never tried these high speeds but the driverr worked for me with 56k for a long time without problems. Hope it helps, -dirk --- _____________________________________________________________________ Dirk Olmes OBJECT FACTORY Gesellschaft für Informatik und Datenverarbeitung mbH Lohbachstraße 12, 58239 Schwerte, Germany Telephon +49 (0) 2304 945 220 Telefax +49 (0) 2304 945 226 dirk@object-factory.com
From: patrick@monk.opensource.com (Patrick Giagnocavo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Color Scanner + Scanning Software Date: 12 Apr 1996 13:47:54 GMT Organization: OpenSource Inc. Message-ID: <4klmua$812@trane.opensource.com> References: <4kjoto$679@news.tamu.edu> In-Reply-To: <4kjoto$679@news.tamu.edu> On 04/11/96, Hanspeter Schaub wrote: >I'm looking for some feedback on different color scanners and scanning >software for an intel workstation running NS3.3. Do any manufacturers >provide bundles? How well does the scanner/software work, etc... > >many thanks, > >HP The ScanOmatic software works pretty well, and supports many popular scanners, such as the HP ScanJet line, the Epsons, and Umax. The cheapest way to go seems to be to buy the scanner through Computer Shopper or other mass-market ads, since scanners are such a commodity item. Then get the software for it separately - I doubt that you will find a company that will bundle in a NEXTSTEP application with the scanner that will be cheaper than buying the two items separately. More information on ScanOmatic: http://www.opensource.com/Software/Input-Output/ScanOmatic.html Cordially -- Patrick Giagnocavo, Account Executive, email:patrick@opensource.com OpenSource, Inc. 1776 Lincoln Street, Suite 1012 Denver, CO 80203 Check us out on the WWW at http://www.opensource.com (303).861.4411 Fax: (303).861.2393 1-800-TRY-OPEN (879-6736)
From: gcasa@wam.umd.edu (Gregory John Casamento) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Turning the fan around Followup-To: poster Date: 12 Apr 1996 15:54:56 GMT Organization: University of Maryland College Park Message-ID: <4klucg$1jp@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> Hi, I have been having problems with my OD drive as of late. One recommendation that has been made to me was to turn the fan in my cube around so that the air is being drawn from the rear of the cube and exits in front instead of being drawn from the front of the cube and exiting in the rear. I believe that the accumulation of dust in my drive is because the air has been being pulled through the OD drive and dust has accumulated on the lens. Turning the fan around would correct this problem. This recommendation was made to me by the people at Decision one (NeXT hardware support). Has anyone had any problems with this?? Is the airflow sufficient to keep the cube cool?? Thanks. -- Gregory John Casamento -- gcasa@wam.umd.edu (c) G. Casamento -- Permission to distribute on MS network denied!!
From: rlpowelljr@aol.com (Bob Powell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: Executor Disappointing news! :( Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 18:27:18 GMT Organization: Naval Research Laboratory Message-ID: <4km7ab$7ru@ra.nrl.navy.mil> References: <3169C51A.5319@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> in <3169C51A.5319@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> wrote: >It looks like the MAC OS emulator is coming to its end on NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP. That may say more about the future of NextStep (however they capitalize NeXt, or nEXt, these days) than about the Mac or MacOS. Any other NextStep developers falling off that bandwagon? >Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie Instructional >mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu Technology >PEACE LOVE Services >UNITY RESPECT Illinois State University Bob Powell
Date: 13 Apr 1996 15:30:58 GMT From: David@Cetex.zynet.co.uk (David De la Haye) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Message-ID: <cancel.4ko1f3$ngq@sol.zynet.net> Control: cancel <4ko1f3$ngq@sol.zynet.net> Subject: cmsg cancel <4ko1f3$ngq@sol.zynet.net> EMP/ECP (aka SPAM) cancelled by jem@xpat.com. See news.admin.net-abuse.announce, report 19960413.23 for further details
From: washburn@hnc.net (Jason Hong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: PPP on NeXTstation Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 08:42:27 GMT Organization: HNC Internet Service (HIS) Message-ID: <316f685c.5964692@news> References: <Pine.A32.3.92a.960405160950.158323B-100000@homer07.u.washington.edu> On Fri, 5 Apr 1996 16:16:01 -0800, Kurt Deding <deding@u.washington.edu> wrote: > >I am looking for a PPP package, preferably a freeware, to run on a NeXT. >If anyone has information on this, would you please tell me how and where >I can get it? >Many thanks in advance. > >Sincerely yours, >Kurt > > There is a PPP package for NeXTSTEP. Try find the PPP 2.2..and GateKeeper. If you want to try dial-up networking, this is a good solution. PPP 2.2 homepage in the Yahoo, software, NeXTSTEP... Have a good surf!!!! Jason Hong <washburn@hnc.net>
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Can NEXTSTEP do 115200 bps on a serial port on a PC? Date: 12 Apr 1996 20:02:22 GMT Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc. Message-ID: <4kmcse$n9b@news.its.com> References: <DpG8AA.4vq@AWT.NL> G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda) wrote: > I am getting worried. I was planning to use a ZyXEL 2864i with Morningstar > PPP over ISDN via a serial port on intel hardware. I know the hardware > can do 115kbps, but it looks like NEXTSTEP cannot. Is this true? This is > totally unexpected. In my opinion, you really don't want to try and connect an ISDN link directly to your computer. I'd strongly recommend getting an Ascend Pipeline 50 (or thereabouts) instead, and using it as a router for a local ethernet LAN. This configuration is easily expandable and will offer better performance. -Chuck Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc. --------------------------------+--------------------------------------- CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: js@euler.han.de (Juergen Sell) Subject: Re: Anyone want a SLIP up/down app? Message-ID: <Dpt8GG.wJ@euler.han.de> Sender: js@euler.han.de (Juergen Sell) Organization: Ink Unknown References: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960409121121.12749C-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 16:57:52 GMT "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> writes > Say you have to do 'slipup' or 'slipdown'. In TickleServices, you can > write a Service which will do this as easily as: I used to use TS for such a thing once: (Save following into slip.ts ) # Begin TickleServices Version 1.1 Data "Divider" = "155.000000"; "Menu Item" = "!Initialization!"; "Tcl" = "\ # Services initialization code. # # preset vars - later need to write/read # the defaults-database, # finger the slip-config-files to get the actual # hostnames... # # slipnummer contains strings like slip0/slip1 ... set slipNumbers {} # slipname contains the corresponding hostname set slipNames {} foreach i {0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9} { catch [ concat exec grep -e \"^slip$i\" /usr/dialupip/config/diald.c\ onf | cut -d: -f2 ] res if {$res !=\"\" } { lappend slipNumbers slip$i lappend slipNames $res } } # the default - current ones if {[llength slipNumbers] >=0} { set slipNummer [lindex $slipNumbers 0] set slipName [lindex $slipNames 0] } else { set slipNummer slip0 set slipName \"Unknown - Sorry\" } # slip-commander shell-script to sui-root duioctl calls. set slipCmd duioctl # slip-command # duioctl # what to do with a slip-interface set slipCommands { ENABLECALL DISABLECALL BRINGUP BRINGDOWN GATIMEO GWTIMEO CLRERR GSOFTFLAGS GDEBUG GMTU CLEARQ FAILCALL AUTOCOMP COMPINFO } # Reads the specified file and returns the text. proc nreadfile {filename {hexcode 0}} { set fileId [open $filename r] if {$hexcode} { set ret [read -hexcode $fileId] } else { set ret [read -nonewline $fileId] } close $fileId return $ret } proc getlog {fn} { set input [ nreadfile $fn ] set neu {} foreach line [split $input \"\\n\"] { lappend neu $line } return $neu } # show a listpanel proc showPanel {lines message title other alt default} { set len [llength $lines] set select [incr len -1] #puts \"select->$select<-\" return [listpanel -empty -message $message -select [list \"#$select\"\ ] $title $lines $default $alt $other] } # # ask for host to perform slip whatever action on. # (this is a cludge, as tickles cannot dynamically # update menu-item strings from tcl strings) # proc selectHost {} { global slipNummer slipNumbers slipName slipNames set name [ listpanel -message \"current interface $slipNummer corres\ ponds to remote host $slipName\" -select $slipName {SLIP known remote\ hosts :} $slipNames ] if { [set ind [lsearch $slipNames $name]] >=0 } { set slipNummer [lindex $slipNumbers $ind] set slipName [lindex $slipNames $ind] } } # Pass \"arguments\" as arguments to \"command\". The arguments # are reformed into a list not containing newlines, since # otherwise newlines would separate commands. Thus, passargs # can be used as a convenience to make scripts easier to read. proc passargs {command arguments} { return [uplevel $command [join [split $arguments]]] } # Attempt to find the cmdName command and return the path to # it. It is cached in the global Command$cmdName variable for # future uses and in the default TickleServices Command$cmdName # for future runs. proc findcmd {cmdName} { set varname Command$cmdName global $varname env # I have to say [set $varname] to get the value of $varname, # because $$varname won't do it (that attempts to get the # value of the variable \"$varname\" instead). This works # because the $varname substitution happens _before_ set # is called. if {[info exists $varname] && [file executable [set $varname]]} { return [set $varname] } # Get location from defaults. set cmd [defaults read TickleServices $varname \"\"] # If it's not set or not there, try to find it. if {$cmd==\"\" || ![file executable $cmd]} { set cmd \"\" # Attempt to find the user's path. This is so bizarre # because you want to get the PATH from the user's # command-line shell, note TickleServer's PATH, which # was inherited from Workspace and is not sufficient # to our needs. if {[info exists env(SHELL)]} { set shell $env(SHELL) } else { set shell /bin/csh } # This has only been verified to work with these six # shells. If the user isn't using one of them, try # csh as a last resort under the assumption that their # shell won't work, or might even do something discourteous # like never exit. Let me know if other shells work. if {[lsearch [file tail $shell] {bash csh rc sh tcsh zsh}]==-1} { set shell /bin/csh } # The @/: crud is to differentiate the echo'ed output # from anything the shell puts out in the course of # starting up. In other words, it is a hack. if {![catch {exec $shell -c \"echo \\\"@@:@@:@@\\$PATH@:@@@@:@\\\"\"\ } path]} { if {[regexp \"@@:@@:@@(\\[^#\\]*)@:@@@@:@\" $path barf path]} { set path [split $path \":\"] foreach dir $path { if {[file executable $dir/$cmdName]} { set cmd $dir/$cmdName break } } } } # Still didn't find it. Go look in the TickleServices.app # wrapper. if {$cmd==\"\"} { set apppaths [defaults read Workspace ApplicationPaths {}] if {$apppaths==\"\"} { set apppaths { ~/Apps /LocalApps /NextApps /NextDeveloper/Apps /NextAdmin /NextDeveloper/Demos } } else { set apppaths [split $apppaths \":\"] } foreach path $apppaths { if {[file executable $path/TickleServices.app/$cmdName]} { set cmd $path/TickleServices.app/$cmdName break } } } # Still didn't find it. Go look in the TickleServices # ServicesPaths directories. if {$cmd==\"\"} { set servicespaths [defaults read TickleServices ServicesPaths {}\ ] if {$servicespaths==\"\"} { set servicespaths { ~/Library/TickleServices /LocalLibrary/TickleServices } } else { set servicespaths [split $servicespaths \":\"] } foreach path $servicespaths { if {[file executable $path/$cmdName]} { set cmd $path/$cmdName break } } } # If we've found something, ask the user for verification. if {$cmd!=\"\" && [file executable $cmd]} { case [alertpanel \"Find $cmdName executable\" \"Use `$cmd' for $\ cmdName?\" \"OK\" \"Choose\" \"Cancel\"] { 0 {set cmd \"\"} -1 return } } # If we haven't found it yet, ask the user about it. if {$cmd==\"\" || ![file executable $cmd]} { set cmd [passargs openpanel { -title \"Select $cmdName executable\" -prompt \"Name:\" }] } # If we've got it, write it to the defaults database. if {$cmd!=\"\" && [file executable $cmd]} { defaults write TickleServices $varname $cmd } else { return } } set $varname $cmd return $cmd } "; "Window Size" = "{ 744.000, 434.000}"; | "Menu Item" = "SLIP/duioctl ..."; "Send Type" = "NXAsciiPboardType"; "Send Type" = "NXFilenamePboardType"; "Send Type" = "NXFontPboardType"; "Send Type" = "NXPostScriptPboardType"; "Send Type" = "NXRTFPboardType"; "Send Type" = "NXRulerPboardType"; "Send Type" = "NXTIFFPboardType"; "Send Type" = "NXTabularTextPboardType"; "Tcl" = "\ # Services initialization code. # # execute one or more commands to the current # slipnummer/slipname (or other, if selected) selectHost # Uses shell-script set cmdPath [findcmd $slipCmd] if {$cmdPath==\"\"} { error $slipCmd } else { # Get last used command from defaults. set cmd [defaults read TickleServices slipCmd \"\"] set cmd [ listpanel -multiple -message \"interface $slipNummer corr\ esponds to remote host $slipName\" -select $cmd {SLIP duioctl Paramet\ ers :} $slipCommands ] if {$cmd!=\"\"} { defaults write TickleServices slipCmd $cmd } # finally do the stuff ! # catch { exec $cmdPath $slipNummer $cmd > /dev/console } catch { exec $cmdPath $slipNummer $cmd > /dev/console } } "; | "Enabled" = "NO"; "Menu Item" = "SLIP/select host ..."; "Send Type" = "NXAsciiPboardType"; "Send Type" = "NXFilenamePboardType"; "Send Type" = "NXFontPboardType"; "Send Type" = "NXPostScriptPboardType"; "Send Type" = "NXRTFPboardType"; "Send Type" = "NXRulerPboardType"; "Send Type" = "NXTIFFPboardType"; "Send Type" = "NXTabularTextPboardType"; "Tcl" = "\ # select the slip host on which subsequent commands work. # # as a consequence, set slipName, slipNummer selectHost "; | "Menu Item" = "SLIP/syslog, call, trans"; "Send Type" = "NXAsciiPboardType"; "Send Type" = "NXFilenamePboardType"; "Send Type" = "NXFontPboardType"; "Send Type" = "NXPostScriptPboardType"; "Send Type" = "NXRTFPboardType"; "Send Type" = "NXRulerPboardType"; "Send Type" = "NXTIFFPboardType"; "Send Type" = "NXTabularTextPboardType"; "Tcl" = "\ # log stat debug in listpanel chain. # start set files {\"/usr/dialupip/log/syslog\" \"/usr/dialupip/log/call.log\"\ \"/usr/dialupip/log/trans\"} set titles {\"SLIP - syslog \" \"SLIP - call.log \" \"SLIP - trans \ \"} set nexts {\"call.log\" \"trans\" \"syslog\"} set ind 0 set logmessage \"call.log -> syslog -> trans -> call.log ...\" while {1} { set logfile [lindex $files $ind] set logtitle [concat [lindex $titles $ind] $logfile] set next [lindex $nexts $ind] # -1 0 1 set res [showPanel [getlog $logfile] $logmessage $logtitle $next \"C\ ancel\" \"Re-Read\"] #puts $res case [lindex $res 0] { 0 { return } -1 { if \"[incr ind] > 2\" {set ind 0} } } } #set TSInhibitReactivate {} "; # End TickleServices Data Hope it helps someone. Juergen --- Fon +49 511 4406-88 NeXTMail welcome No Mime Fax +49 511 4406-17 = What time do we live in when revolution reminds us of soap powder, = when spontaneity and freedom get associated with instant coffee, = when a politician's idea of social change is changing names = when a country posing as super know-how factory cuts expenses on education?
From: Robert Worne <rworne@primenet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: Canon NEXTSTEP Developer Support-Japan Date: 13 Apr 1996 13:00:03 -0700 Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet Sender: root@primenet.com Message-ID: <4kp143$dfv@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> References: <316D875B.6E2C@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> wrote: >Has anyone seen the Canon NEXTSTEP Developer Support web pages in Japan? > >http://www.cnds.canon.co.jp/Japanese_EUC/WelcomeJ.html > >I can't understand the attitude of American Canon VS. Japanese Canon. I wish the two >would truly work together and also fully translate the web pages to English and provide >object.station driver downloads/updates! That's nothing... did you see they supply drivers for the Canon Laser/Bubblejets for the Japanese version of NS? For free? These drivers supposedly are for the Japanese versions of these printers, and probably will not work with the American/European versions, but the mind boggles. >I am suprised that a company like Canon would drop a product that was so expensive and >leave users to fend for themselves...It's so hard to put faith in companies- people too for >that matter since they make up companies. Although, I have MUCH MORE RESPECT for the >Japanese divisions due to their greater attention to quality and support (my opinions). The Japanese seem quite fond of computers/OS's that support their native language. OS/2 does quite well over there, for instance. -- 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: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Can NEXTSTEP do 115200 bps on a serial port on a PC? Date: 13 Apr 1996 18:54:12 GMT Organization: J. W. Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt/Main Message-ID: <4kot8k$12d@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <DpG8AA.4vq@AWT.NL> <4kmcse$n9b@news.its.com> chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger) wrote: > In my opinion, you really don't want to try and connect an ISDN > link directly to your computer. Don't you need to fax and access BBS's via ISDN? > This configuration is easily expandable and will offer better > performance. My TCP/IP throughput always gets limited by internet speed, not by my serial port... Bye Uli -- _____________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe Lorscher Strasse 5 D-60489 Frankfurt Germany Phone: +49 (69) 9784 0007 E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail - Mime - ASCII) PGP: public key on request Member of WiNG (Wiesbaden NEXTSTEP Group) _____________________________________________________________________
From: Sharon Morenz <Sharon-H> Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.acorn.misc,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sun.misc Subject: Re: Please Answer! Date: 13 Apr 1996 23:55:09 GMT Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <4kpest$cmf@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> References: <589.6610T1082T265@canit.se> <4kgmr4$faq@news.zeelandnet.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gjdz@zeelandnet.nl 1. 486 IBM Compatable 2. March 15th, 1996 3. March 15th, 1996 4. This one since I haven't used any others Hope this information helps, Sharon
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: 15 Apr 1996 04:15:12 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4ksigg$hur@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. 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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: Todd Tanber <todd@netval.com> Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.acorn.misc,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sun.misc Subject: Need CHAT room Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 11:34:14 -0700 Organization: NetValue Sales Group Message-ID: <3173E826.49C6@netval.com> References: <589.6610T1082T265@canit.se> <4kgmr4$faq@news.zeelandnet.nl> <4kpest$cmf@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm looking for chat room software that will run off my NT server and not require the client to download any type of s/w. One that is also very fast too. Thanks, -- Todd Tanber todd@netval.com NetValue Sales Group (805)374-6042
From: david@hundred.acre.wood.net (David R. Perry) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Looking for a NeXT user in San Francisco! Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 18:33:15 -0700 Organization: USF InfoTech Message-ID: <david-1504961833160001@tiggr.usfca.edu> I have a CD I'd like to read on my 030 cube. It comes with software on a 3.5" disk. I do not have a floppy drive, nor can any machine I have read that disk (I've tried a Mac, PC and SPARCStation) Is anyone in the San Francisco area willing to give me fifteen minutes of their time on a NeXTStation or cube w/ floppy so that I may read this thing?!! or does anyone have a better suggestion: It's the NS Release 3.0 package that I wanted to install on my cube... David... __ _-==-=_,-. ----------------------------------------------------------- /--`' \_O-O.--< David R. Perry - perry@usfca.edu `--'\ \ <___/. Knowledge Worker - University of San Francisco \ \\ " / w:415/666-2899 f:415/666-6929 >=\\_/`< http://wood.net/~david/ /= | \_/| "Garrarumph! Playing on the 'net is what Tiggers do best!" _/=== \___/ -----------------------------------------------------------
From: cdl@proxima.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: CDrom bit rot Date: 17 Apr 1996 00:51:43 GMT Organization: The University of California at San Diego Message-ID: <4l1fav$oqt@news1.ucsd.edu> I was looking for some older stuff, and got out my NeXTstep 3.1 User and Developer CDroms. They both have turned milky-white in splotches on the normally clear bottom surface, Completely unreadable by the CD drive. Went to look at another set and found the 3.1 User OK, but the Developer had gone in the same way. Two different 3.0 Gold CDs seem to be OK, and 3.2 and 3.3 also. But there was definitely a problem around the time of NS3.1. -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego clowenstein@ucsd.edu
From: scp@sonia.math.ucla.edu (S. Port) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Next OD woes Date: 16 Apr 1996 03:37:53 GMT Organization: UCLA Mathematics Department Distribution: la Message-ID: <4kv4mh$jaa@saba.info.ucla.edu> I have a Next client here in Los Angeles, who has a hosed Next Optical Drive. He doesn't want to replace it, but is will to pay to recover the contents of a single 256meg Next optical. Is there someone in LA willing to hook my 230 SCSI MO up and dump the contents of this disk to one of my mo's? Payment should be below the cost of a new optical. Thanks Charlie Dvorak 310-454-8091 cdvorak@pepperdine.edu
From: monty@kelvin.optimal-object.com (Monty Gabrys) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: Using a NeXT as an AppleShare server Date: 19 Apr 1996 22:01:23 GMT Organization: SuperNet Inc. +1.303.296.8202 Denver Colorado Message-ID: <4l92fj$2l6@news-2.csn.net> References: <4k4qqv$1a1@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <3169BF78.6F29@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> In-Reply-To: <3169BF78.6F29@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> On 04/08/96, "Eric A. Dubiel" wrote: >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > >--------------1DCC6F5C19D4 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >'Jamie' W. Jamison wrote: >> I recently inherited a very nice NeXT slab and was wondering if it >> would be possible to use it as an AppleShare server? Has NetAtalk been >> ported to the NeXT? Are there other solutions available? If so where would >> I find them? > >IPT has what you want. They're at 805-541-3000 and FAX is 805-541-3000 Their product >does file sharing and printing. It's called Partner. It's also available from OpenSource: >http://www.opensource.com > >Partner > > The Premier Solution for Networking NEXTSTEP and Macintosh Computers > >Partner provides NEXTSTEP users with the only available bidirectional file-sharing and >printing product on the market. If cross-platform connectivity and interoperability >concern you, Partner is your best solution. Partner gives NEXTSTEP users access to >AppleShare volumes and published Macintosh System 7 volumes. Simply select the >NET directory, AppleTalk, the desired AppleTalk Zone, and finally the desired >Macintosh volume. Macintosh files will appear as just another folder. > >With Partner Plus, a NEXTSTEP computer can function as an AppleShare file server, >and printing is bidirectional. In addition, Macintosh print jobs are spooled to the >NEXTSTEP computer, allowing the Macintosh to get back to work quickly. Partner Plus >provides a simple e-mail interface, allowing the Macintosh to reach out to anywhere >the NEXTSTEP computer will reach. With Partner's optional PrintQMgr, Macintosh users >can view the different printer queues on your network; obtain print status; and >delete, suspend, and resubmit print jobs. > > > >Runs on: >Motorola >Intel > >------------------------------------------------ >Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie Instructional >mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu Technology >PEACE LOVE Services >UNITY RESPECT Illinois State University >"Understanding is best learned via experience." >"Follow our instinct, not a trend. Go against the grain until the end." >VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE ENTIRELY MY OWN > >--------------1DCC6F5C19D4 >Content-Type: image/gif >Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 >Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Partner.gif" > >R0lGODlhMAAwAIEAAP///wAAAFVVVf///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAAwADAAQAL/hI+py50RR Jyy >xiHDo9wKDC2Q14XMWFqaw7YbZJ5pB64GHAz4vsskaVPwhkFXzCUs+mbAzW+mROAAU+S0i jwc >HTpiT8QsFXddcjmqhVHVxm6WxX6n0ckJLkO/oe5xZ1jiJvU3ESj19CRyWNIwCKcoIRfJK KmX >90LUAoO3hwZx5hWF8phzRAbqOSA0agEG0zXwuWUYBuf5RYmbq7v7gttnFLIiyxisV7s6L Bqm >NFgB8oD8ATm7+kz9Zy2IHNqc3M29fYLMOE6swmGprM7L3p75697KEwkvc2pZSWXMGOu1N DrG >1j1Z3aQFwdEP07VH2SqR8gKL4Dd5nyLeShOOosUhEuIaEXt40ZwddJnOxLOC7ySuAgA7 >--------------1DCC6F5C19D4-- > > We also carry the above mentioned package. Feel free to give me a ring or e-mail query. Monty Gabrys CNA Sales Optimal-Object Supporting NEXTSTEP solutions, hardware configs and SparcStation Servers for WEBOBJECTS monty@optimal-object.com 1-800-452-7608
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Audio 4 95 on object.station Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 02:45:02 -0500 Organization: Illinois State University, Instructional Technology Services Message-ID: <317895FE.6BBA@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Monday Oak Technologies will finally have the 32-bit Win 95 audio driver on their web site for object.stations http://www.oaktech.com ------------------------------------------ Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu Instructional Technology Services- Illinois State University PEACE, LOVE, UNITY, RESPECT (PLUR) The onus is on us to determine whether free societies in the twenty-first century will conduct electronic communication under the conditions of freedom established for the domain of print through centuries of struggle, or whether that great achievement will become lost in a confusion of new technologies. --Ithiel de Sola Pool ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY
From: robin@pswtech.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Can NEXTSTEP do 115200 bps on a serial port on a PC? Date: 20 Apr 1996 16:15:26 GMT Organization: PSW Technologies Message-ID: <4lb2iu$mt3@digdug.pswtech.com> References: <DpG8AA.4vq@AWT.NL> <4kmcse$n9b@news.its.com> <Dpwzu4.FH1@tigadmin.ml.com> <4l5qt0$csh@usc.edu> reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) wrote: : In <Dpwzu4.FH1@tigadmin.ml.com> M Carling wrote: : > chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger) wrote: : > >In my opinion, you really don't want to try and connect an ISDN link : > directly : > >to your computer. I'd strongly recommend getting an Ascend Pipeline 50 : (or : > >thereabouts) instead, and using it as a router for a local ethernet LAN. : > : > I agree, except that everyone I know who has bought an Ascend has regretted : > it. I would recommend looking at other brands. : What were the problems? And do you have any recommendations? We've got 6 of them. They seem to work great. What have you experienced? We also got terrific support from Ascend on helping us set them up (even dialed-in and checked the config for us! -- and that was when we only had 2 of them...) I've got two people dialing in from New Jersey, one guy from Virginia, and a couple of people about to start connecting locally (from thier homes). The biggest problems we've had have been with the phone companies killing the lines (Bell Atlantic has been pretty bad, SWBell has been 'mediocre'...) I'd recommend the Ascends quite strongly. (Your milage may vary...) -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** These are my opinions... Mine! All Mine! Minemineminemineminemine! *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin D. Wilson robin@pswtech.com PSW Technologies 701 Canyon Bend Dr. 9050 Capital of Texas Hwy Pflugerville, TX 78660 Austin, TX 78759 (512) 251-1737 (512) 343-6666
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <posey@posey.reg.olemiss.edu> Message-ID: <9604201756.AA04006@posey.reg.olemiss.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3risc v118.3) In-Reply-To: <9604201117.AA05549@antigone.com> From: "Columbus H. Posey" <posey@posey.reg.olemiss.edu> Date: Sat, 20 Apr 96 11:56:24 -0600 Subject: Re: NextInLine magazine References: <9604201117.AA05549@antigone.com> I received one issue, then a letter that htere would be no more, then a very nice refund check. this was at least a year ago, but it seems that the check came from Nashville, TN. --- ******************************************************************* Columbus H. Posey Vox: 601-232-7226 Registrar Fax: 601-232-7803 University of Mississippi University, MS 38655 E-mail: posey@posey.reg.olemiss.edu URL: http://www.olemiss.edu ********************************************************************
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Does a NEXTSTEP aware version of EMACS exist? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc Date: 20 Apr 1996 18:25:38 GMT Organization: computerActive Inc Message-ID: <4lba72$igc@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> References: <4l66mc$38p@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> <3177EDF7.41C6@fa.disney.com> Tal Lancaster (tlan@fa.disney.com) wrote: : > Would anybody please tell me where may I find a NEXTSTEP aware : > version of EMACS for my NEXTSTEP v3.2 (INTEL)? I got used to using a version : Regular emacs can be found on your NeXT-CD. Actually, I prefer using Not in NS 3.2. Emacs was part of the Developer Tools package, and it was only the terminal version. Emacs for NeXTSTEP 4.1 can be found on the archives, which is an excellent port of Emacs 19.28 to the NeXTSTEP window system. --Chris Chris Saldanha, Software Analyst -------------------------------------- computerActive, Inc |"The telephone was not invented by | chris@computerActive.on.ca (NeXTMail) | Alexander Graham Unitel" -Bell Ad | http://www.mae.carleton.ca/~csaldanh --------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware From: m@ml.com (M Carling) Subject: Re: Can NEXTSTEP do 115200 bps on a serial port on a PC? Message-ID: <Dpwzu4.FH1@tigadmin.ml.com> Sender: usenet@tigadmin.ml.com (News Account) Organization: ml.com References: <DpG8AA.4vq@AWT.NL> <4kmcse$n9b@news.its.com> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 17:42:03 GMT chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger) wrote: >In my opinion, you really don't want to try and connect an ISDN link directly >to your computer. I'd strongly recommend getting an Ascend Pipeline 50 (or >thereabouts) instead, and using it as a router for a local ethernet LAN. I agree, except that everyone I know who has bought an Ascend has regretted it. I would recommend looking at other brands. M Carling
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Can NEXTSTEP do 115200 bps on a serial port on a PC? Date: 18 Apr 1996 16:33:36 GMT Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Sender: reichman@comserv-g-41.usc.edu Message-ID: <4l5qt0$csh@usc.edu> References: <DpG8AA.4vq@AWT.NL> <4kmcse$n9b@news.its.com> <Dpwzu4.FH1@tigadmin.ml.com> In <Dpwzu4.FH1@tigadmin.ml.com> M Carling wrote: > chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger) wrote: > >In my opinion, you really don't want to try and connect an ISDN link > directly > >to your computer. I'd strongly recommend getting an Ascend Pipeline 50 (or > >thereabouts) instead, and using it as a router for a local ethernet LAN. > > I agree, except that everyone I know who has bought an Ascend has regretted > it. I would recommend looking at other brands. What were the problems? And do you have any recommendations? -- 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: johnkel@xtreme2.acc.iit.edu (kelvin johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Western digital wd7296 wide/fast/ultra scsi-3 adapter and NeXT Step Date: 21 Apr 1996 03:19:46 GMT Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology Message-ID: <4lc9gi$8qe@condor.acc.iit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hello to all, I am looking for a SCSI adapter for my system. The WD7296 adapter caught my attention. One thing, it is not listed as being supprted by NeXT. Is there a driver for this adapter that I just don't know about? Can someone help me? TIA Kelvin
From: kris@xmission.com (Kristopher Magnusson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Can NEXTSTEP do 115200 bps on a serial port on a PC? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware Date: 18 Apr 1996 21:14:58 GMT Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <4l6bci$1m3@news.xmission.com> References: <DpG8AA.4vq@AWT.NL> <4kmcse$n9b@news.its.com> <Dpwzu4.FH1@tigadmin.ml.com> Hi, M--how's it going? There's a new product called WebRamp that was designed as a combination ISDN adapter, router, and 10Base-T hub. It costs $695 for five 10Base-T connections, and $995 for (I believe) ten connections. WebRamp is high on my list of products to try out. ............................kris M Carling (m@ml.com) wrote: : chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger) wrote: : >In my opinion, you really don't want to try and connect an ISDN link : directly : >to your computer. I'd strongly recommend getting an Ascend Pipeline 50 (or : >thereabouts) instead, and using it as a router for a local ethernet LAN. : : I agree, except that everyone I know who has bought an Ascend has regretted : it. I would recommend looking at other brands. : : M Carling -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
From: Peter.D.Clark@eng.sun.com (Pete Clark) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Can NEXTSTEP do 115200 bps on a serial port on a PC? Date: 19 Apr 1996 00:05:07 GMT Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA Distribution: world Message-ID: <4l6lbj$9la@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> References: <4l6bci$1m3@news.xmission.com> In article <4l6bci$1m3@news.xmission.com> kris@xmission.com (Kristopher Magnusson) writes: > There's a new product called WebRamp that was designed as a combination > ISDN adapter, router, and 10Base-T hub. It costs $695 for five 10Base-T > connections, and $995 for (I believe) ten connections. Hi Kris: Who's the manufacturer? > M Carling (m@ml.com) wrote: > : I agree, except that everyone I know who has bought an Ascend has regretted > : it. I would recommend looking at other brands. Just to add a positive data point, I've had an Ascend P50 at home (hooked to a '040 cube) for almost a year, and I love it dearly. I've had no problems with it whatsoever. Best, Pete -- *************************************************************************** Pete Clark | The thinking man looks at the world and SunSoft Enterprise Dist. Objects | sees a comedy. The feeling man looks Peter.D.Clark@eng.sun.com (NeXTMail) | at the world and sees a tragedy. ***************************************************************************
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Subject: Re: Does a NEXTSTEP aware version of EMACS exist? In-Reply-To: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca's message of 20 Apr 1996 18:25:38 GMT Message-ID: <u41n346gjys.fsf@world.std.com> Sender: rdl@world.std.com Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <4l66mc$38p@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> <3177EDF7.41C6@fa.disney.com> <4lba72$igc@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 06:38:35 GMT Speaking of emacs, GNU's latest version 19.30 totally rocks! Don't know if you can easily compile it quad-fat yet... Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant Boston, MA Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: Canon NEXTSTEP Developer Support-Japan Date: 21 Apr 1996 13:26:28 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <4ldd24$e3f@bignews.shef.ac.uk> References: <316D875B.6E2C@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> In-Reply-To: <316D875B.6E2C@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> On 04/12/96, "Eric A. Dubiel" wrote: > Has anyone seen the Canon NEXTSTEP Developer Support web pages in Japan? > > http://www.cnds.canon.co.jp/Japanese_EUC/WelcomeJ.html > > I can't understand the attitude of American Canon VS. Japanese > Canon. I wish the two would truly work together and also fully > translate the web pages to English and provide object.station driver > downloads/updates! > Just as the pages was loading, I thought to myself, I wonder if this is Toru-san's work... ... and sure enough: WWW Server Maintained by Toru Sato I suspect that Toru-san is putting in bit more effort on this than his employers pay for. He's an excellent chap, and totally dedicated. If Canon ATO had had him in charge, I'm sure the Oregon shop would still be open, and would be making big profits. If you're listening, Toru, it was a pleasure to meet you (heavens, 18 months ago now), and I hope maybe I will again one day. Maybe you could come over for the NeXT Expo Europe?! ;-) Best wishes, mmalc. --
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet Date: 22 Apr 1996 04:15:10 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4lf14e$mva@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. 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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: vhs@langen.bull.de (Volker Herminghaus) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: 640 KB limit in NeXTSTEP - Tell me it's not true! Date: 22 Apr 1996 09:59:37 GMT Organization: Bull AG, Langen Message-ID: <4lfla9$ins@www.langen.bull.de> I recently stumbled over what I think might be really embarassing for NeXT if it is true. When I boot up my 32MB Intel system, the boot message says something like: Apr 19 19:08:41 nextone mach: using 81 buffers containing 0.63 megabytes of memory However, when I boot with 'nbuff=254', which I know from my cube, it says: Apr 19 19:08:41 nextone mach: using 254 buffers containing 0.63 megabytes of memory The same amount of memory for more than three times the buffers? So I see three possibilities what could be happening here: - either the switch is a no-op which only changes the output of the boot process, but does nothing whatsoever to the actual buffer allocation, which is still calculated by the boot monitor/kernel only, or - The kernel actually allocates much more memory (for 254 buffers) but outputs an erroneous memory usage, or - There is a hard 640KB-limit in the NEXTSTEP kernel. ACK!!! Which one is it? Any other ideas? Volker
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: kelman@ncifcrf.gov (David Kelman) Subject: Re: 640 KB limit in NeXTSTEP - Tell me it's not true! Message-ID: <Dq9Kys.2HB@ncifcrf.gov> Organization: Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center References: <4lfla9$ins@www.langen.bull.de> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 12:49:39 GMT In article <4lfla9$ins@www.langen.bull.de> vhs@langen.bull.de (Volker Herminghaus) writes: >I recently stumbled over what I think might be really embarassing for NeXT if >it is true. When I boot up my 32MB Intel system, the boot message says >something like: >Apr 19 19:08:41 nextone mach: using 81 buffers containing 0.63 megabytes of >memory > >However, when I boot with 'nbuff=254', which I know from my cube, it says: >Apr 19 19:08:41 nextone mach: using 254 buffers containing 0.63 megabytes of >memory > >The same amount of memory for more than three times the buffers? > >So I see three possibilities what could be happening here: > - either the switch is a no-op which only changes the output of the boot >process, but does nothing whatsoever to the actual buffer allocation, which >is >still calculated by the boot monitor/kernel only, or > - The kernel actually allocates much more memory (for 254 buffers) but >outputs an erroneous memory usage, or > - There is a hard 640KB-limit in the NEXTSTEP kernel. ACK!!! > >Which one is it? Any other ideas? It isn't #3. My Station with 32MB boots up with something like 208 buffers, using 1.63 MB. No 640KB limit. David Kelman kelman@ncifcrf.gov
From: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: 640 KB limit in NeXTSTEP - Tell me it's not true! Date: 22 Apr 1996 14:44:16 GMT Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd. Message-ID: <4lg600$lbo@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <4lfla9$ins@www.langen.bull.de> <Dq9Kys.2HB@ncifcrf.gov> In <Dq9Kys.2HB@ncifcrf.gov> David Kelman wrote: > In article <4lfla9$ins@www.langen.bull.de> vhs@langen.bull.de (Volker Herminghaus) writes: > >I recently stumbled over what I think might be really embarassing for NeXT if > >it is true. When I boot up my 32MB Intel system, the boot message says > >something like: > >Apr 19 19:08:41 nextone mach: using 81 buffers containing 0.63 megabytes of > >memory > > > >However, when I boot with 'nbuff=254', which I know from my cube, it says: > >Apr 19 19:08:41 nextone mach: using 254 buffers containing 0.63 megabytes of > >memory > > > >The same amount of memory for more than three times the buffers? > > > >So I see three possibilities what could be happening here: > > - either the switch is a no-op which only changes the output of the boot > >process, but does nothing whatsoever to the actual buffer allocation, which > >is > >still calculated by the boot monitor/kernel only, or > > - The kernel actually allocates much more memory (for 254 buffers) but > >outputs an erroneous memory usage, or > > - There is a hard 640KB-limit in the NEXTSTEP kernel. ACK!!! > > > >Which one is it? Any other ideas? > > It isn't #3. My Station with 32MB boots up with something like 208 > buffers, using 1.63 MB. No 640KB limit. I believe I saw a posting from a NeXT person a while back saying that the nbuf flag is now ignored in 3.3 (and possibly 3.2 as well). Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.co.uk Tel: (01494)432422 P & L Systems Fax: (01494)432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: schaub@tamu.edu (Hanspeter Schaub) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: color laser printer for nextstep Date: 22 Apr 1996 19:51:22 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Message-ID: <4lgnvq$mvl@news.tamu.edu> What would be a reasonably prized color laster system (~600 dpi) that could be used on a intel workstation running Nextstep. What drivers would be needed to run this, if any? Thanks for any info... 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
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc From: pavneet@cyantic.com (Pavneet Arora) Subject: dvi to RTF needed please Organization: CYANTIC Systems Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 14:09:55 GMT Message-ID: <1996Apr22.140955.10526@cyantic.com> Sorry if this has come up before. I am in urgent need of a dvi to RTF converter. Does such a beast exist? If so, could someone point me to where I can find it. The reason for my need is that I have become comfortable doing all my documentation using LaTeX (under NEXTSTEP), but our company's internal online documentation utilizes NeXT's Digital Librarian application to index the material --- this app can handle straight text, or RTF. So if I want to continue using LaTeX I have to produce RTF :-(. I'd also be grateful if responses could be cc'd to me via e-mail in, addition to posting, as our site has an aggressive aging schedule on news and I wouldn't want to miss the responses. Many advTHANKSance. -- Cheers, - pavneet ................................................................. Pavneet Arora -- pavneet@cyantic.com ------------ Cyantic Systems
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) Subject: Re: color laser printer for nextstep In-Reply-To: schaub@tamu.edu's message of 22 Apr 1996 19:51:22 GMT Message-ID: <u41n343zqm5.fsf@world.std.com> Sender: rdl@world.std.com Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <4lgnvq$mvl@news.tamu.edu> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 01:16:50 GMT You have three options: Lexmark Optra C, HP Color LaserJet 5, and the Tektronix Phaser 550. The Phaser is probably the best, followed by Lexmark and then HP. However, I haven't carefully looked at these so check the magazine reviews. Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant Boston, MA Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
From: Gianluca Faletti <glf287@sinet.it> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NS and VideoblasterSE100 Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 23:29:03 +0200 Organization: Staff Message-ID: <317BFA1F.3DA1@sinet.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi All, ther's no way to use VideoBlaster with NS3.3 on intel. Thanks' mailme glf287@sinet.it no nextmail
From: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: color laser printer for nextstep Date: 23 Apr 1996 10:02:47 GMT Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd. Message-ID: <4li9s7$lbo@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <4lgnvq$mvl@news.tamu.edu> <u41n343zqm5.fsf@world.std.com> In <u41n343zqm5.fsf@world.std.com> Robert La Ferla wrote: > You have three options: Lexmark Optra C, HP Color LaserJet 5, and the > Tektronix Phaser 550. The Phaser is probably the best, followed by Lexmark > and then HP. However, I haven't carefully looked at these so check the > magazine reviews. I've used the Phaser (and earlier models), and it is a really excellent printer; I don't have experience of the others. The price is about $6,000+. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.co.uk Tel: (01494)432422 P & L Systems Fax: (01494)432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: vhs@nextone.langen.bull.de (Volker Herminghaus) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: 640 KB limit in NeXTSTEP - Tell me it's not true! Date: 23 Apr 1996 13:53:15 GMT Organization: Bull AG, Langen Message-ID: <4lincb$4ki@www.langen.bull.de> References: <4lfla9$ins@www.langen.bull.de> <Dq9Kys.2HB@ncifcrf.gov> In <Dq9Kys.2HB@ncifcrf.gov> David Kelman wrote: [...] > It isn't #3. My Station with 32MB boots up with something like 208 > buffers, using 1.63 MB. No 640KB limit. Sorry I wasn't clear: I meant 640KB in NS/Intel only, of course. There would be no reason at all for such a limit on black HW, but I could imagine one for Intel (guess why - ask Silly Billy with the Micro Willy :-) Volker
From: monty@kelvin.optimal-object.com (Monty Gabrys) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: Executor Disappointing news! :( Date: 23 Apr 1996 15:58:45 GMT Organization: SuperNet Inc. +1.303.296.8202 Denver Colorado Message-ID: <4liunl$l17@news-2.csn.net> References: <3169C51A.5319@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> <4km7ab$7ru@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3174B626.41CC@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> In-Reply-To: <3174B626.41CC@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> On 04/16/96, "Eric A. Dubiel" wrote: >Bob Powell wrote: >> >> "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> in >> <3169C51A.5319@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> wrote: >> >> >It looks like the MAC OS emulator is coming to its end on NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP. >> >> That may say more about the future of NextStep (however they >> capitalize NeXt, or nEXt, these days) than about the Mac or MacOS. >> Any other NextStep developers falling off that bandwagon? > >IPT may stop developing Partner- the product to connect MAC OS AppleTalk to NS, if >demand doesn't improve...see http://www.iptech.com >------------------------------------------ >Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie >mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu >Instructional Technology Services- Illinois State University >PEACE, LOVE, UNITY, RESPECT (PLUR) >The onus is on us to determine whether free societies in the twenty-first century will >conduct electronic communication under the conditions of freedom established for the >domain of print through centuries of struggle, or whether that great achievement will >become lost in a confusion of new technologies. > --Ithiel de Sola Pool >ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY > Actually we still sell DayDream from Quix. for 695, which allows you to convert black hardware in to a multi OS partitioned system which runs System 7.5 of the Mac OS from a SCSI port Apple ROM hardware extension, and NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP Mach. The speed on a non-turbo is as fast as a Quadra 700, and an 800 for the turbos. Just thought I'd mention that.... Monty Gabrys Optimal-Object Inc. monty@optiaml-object.com
From: lemson@penguin.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Can NEXTSTEP do 115200 bps on a serial port on a PC? Date: 24 Apr 1996 05:07:10 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Message-ID: <4lkctu$qge@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <DpG8AA.4vq@AWT.NL> <4kmcse$n9b@news.its.com> <Dpwzu4.FH1@tigadmin.ml.com> m@ml.com (M Carling) writes: >chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger) wrote: >>In my opinion, you really don't want to try and connect an ISDN link >directly >>to your computer. I'd strongly recommend getting an Ascend Pipeline 50 (or >>thereabouts) instead, and using it as a router for a local ethernet LAN. >I agree, except that everyone I know who has bought an Ascend has regretted >it. I would recommend looking at other brands. We use Ascend Pipeline 50's in our campus ISDN-at-home service and are very happy with them. The only problem we have encountered is that the internal NT1's tend to blow out. We have stopped buying Pipeline 50's with internal NT1's - we now buy Northern Telecom external NT1's and plug them in before the Pipeline. I have had the service for about 2 years and mine has never blown out, so I still have an internal NT1. We use the 128K 2B capability and it seems to work fine. We have a Pipeline MAX HX on the head end with several PRI's. I believe we have around 60-80 customers with Pipeline 50's.
From: walter@biw-ag.de (Sabine Walter) Newsgroups: biz.jobs,biz.jobs.offered,biz.next,comp.lang.objective-c,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,ct.jobs,de.markt.jobs,de.markt.jobs.d,misc.jobs.misc,misc.jobs.offered,misc.jobs.offered.entry,stgt.next,stgt.uni-s.general Subject: Anwendungsentwickler(innen) NEXTSTEP gesucht Date: 24 Apr 1996 13:16:14 GMT Organization: BIW Systemhaus Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4ll9iu$1id@next01.biw-ag.de> Als Systemhaus setzen wir seit öber 20 Jahren MaûstÙbe bei der Beratung, Entwicklung und Einföhrung modernster Business- und PPS-Software. Mit öber 280 Mitarbeitern und Niederlassungen in der Schweiz, –sterreich, Portugal und Ruûland haben wir eine föhrende Stellung am Markt und verzeichnen weiterhin ein starkes Wachstum. Unser Erfolg beruht im wesentlichen auf dem Engagement und der Leistung unserer Mitarbeiter. Dies wissen wir entsprechend zu honorieren. Unsere positive Unternehmensentwicklung bietet auch Ihnen ausgezeichnete Perspektiven. Wir suchen mehrere Anwendungsentwickler(innen) för den Bereich NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Voraussetzungen sind: Kenntnisse der objektorientierten Softwareentwicklung, C-Programmiererfahrung, Studium mit starker Softwareorientierung und Freude an der Arbeit im Team Von Vorteil wÙren: Erfahrungen in NEXTSTEP/OpenStep und Objective C, Datenbanken, Unix etc. Bewerbungen bitte an: BIW GmbH z.H. Herrn Faûbinder Werkstr. 24 71384 Weinstadt Infos unter: e-mail: walter@biw-ag.de http://www.biw-ag.de -- Sabine Walter BIW Beratung und Informationssysteme GmbH
From: kluskens@crystal.nrl.navy.mil (Michael S Kluskens) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: dvi to RTF needed please Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 11:22:10 -0500 Organization: Naval Research Laboratory Message-ID: <kluskens-2404961122100001@nazgul.nrl.navy.mil> References: <1996Apr22.140955.10526@cyantic.com> In article <1996Apr22.140955.10526@cyantic.com>, pavneet@cyantic.com (Pavneet Arora) wrote: >Sorry if this has come up before. I am in urgent need of a dvi to RTF >converter. Does such a beast exist? If so, could someone point me to >where I can find it. > >The reason for my need is that I have become comfortable doing all my >documentation using LaTeX (under NEXTSTEP), but our company's internal >online documentation utilizes NeXT's Digital Librarian application to >index the material --- this app can handle straight text, or RTF. So if >I want to continue using LaTeX I have to produce RTF :-(. > You want a latex to rtf converter, the best free one I found is tex2rtf, you can find it on a CTAN archive in tex-archive/support. Also, there is a commerical program which handles more general conversions possibly even some equations. -- +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Michael S. Kluskens Office: 202/404-1818 | | Radar Division, Code 5316 FAX: 202/767-6276 | | Naval Research Laboratory | | Washington, DC 20375-5336 E-mail: kluskens@radar.nrl.navy.mil | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: John Stockwell <john@dix.Mines.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: LaTeX2e on NeXTSTEP Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 10:34:04 -0600 Organization: Colorado School of Mines Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960424103247.31249A-100000@wenzel.Mines.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Greetings. Is there a version of LaTeX2e available for NeXTSTEP? If so, where might I find it? It doesn't seem to be mentioned in NeXTAnswers. Thanks in advance. John Stockwell | john@dix.Mines.EDU Center for Wave Phenomena (The Home of Seismic Un*x) Colorado School of Mines Golden, CO 80401 | http://www.cwp.mines.edu/cwpcodes voice: (303) 273-3049 | fax: (303) 273-3478.
From: David <sacremon@access.mountain.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: Executor Disappointing news! :( Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 22:24:44 -0500 Organization: Zippo Message-ID: <317D9EFC.3DC9@access.mountain.net> References: <3169C51A.5319@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> <4km7ab$7ru@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3174B626.41CC@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> <4liunl$l17@news-2.csn.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Monty Gabrys wrote: [snip] > > Actually we still sell DayDream from Quix. for 695, which allows you > to convert black hardware in to a multi OS partitioned system which > runs System 7.5 of the Mac OS from a SCSI port Apple ROM hardware > extension, and NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP Mach. The speed on a non-turbo is as > fast as a Quadra 700, and an 800 for the turbos. While Daydream is a great product (using it right now, posting with Netscape for Mac), it does have its limitations. Most notably, it cannot do 8 bit graphics, at least not on a color station. Executor can. Which makes Executor superior for those applications that require 8 bit graphics (games in particular). David Kelman sacremon@access.mountain.net
From: yucheng@math.arizona.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: LaTeX2e on NeXTSTEP Date: 25 Apr 1996 00:01:04 GMT Organization: The University of Arizona Message-ID: <4lmfc0$g46@news.ccit.arizona.edu> References: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960424103247.31249A-100000@wenzel.Mines.EDU> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960424103247.31249A-100000@wenzel.Mines.EDU> On 04/24/96, John Stockwell wrote: >Greetings. Is there a version of LaTeX2e available >for NeXTSTEP? If so, where might I find it? > >It doesn't seem to be mentioned in NeXTAnswers. > >Thanks in advance. > >John Stockwell | john@dix.Mines.EDU >Center for Wave Phenomena (The Home of Seismic Un*x) >Colorado School of Mines >Golden, CO 80401 | http://www.cwp.mines.edu/cwpcodes >voice: (303) 273-3049 | fax: (303) 273-3478. > > I don't know whether there is a LaTeX2e package available for NeXTSTEP or not. But even it doesn't, you can certainly get one from any CTAN site (ftp.shsu.edu, for instance) and dump the image by yourself. Yuwen Cheng yucheng@math.arizona.edu -- ---------------- Yuwen Cheng University of Arizona, Math yucheng@math.arizona.edu
From: cgw (Chad G. Wagner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: BBS Date: 25 Apr 1996 05:48:25 GMT Organization: WorldGate Internet Access Message-ID: <4ln3n9$ofb@scanner.worldgate.com> What BBS packages are available from the NeXT?
From: lin@lorien.umd.edu (Lin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Emacs for NeXT Date: 25 Apr 1996 06:33:39 GMT Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Message-ID: <4ln6c3$ah@hecate.umd.edu> We got Emacs for NeXT 4.12 installed on a NeXT box running NeXTStep 3.3 with patch. It works find when called from the command line. But when clicked from the browser. Icon move to the bottom of the screen, dim for a while and then nothing happened. Any one got any idea what might be wrong ?
From: em@marcon.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: displaying Greek Web pages in OmniWeb Date: 25 Apr 1996 07:30:10 GMT Organization: MARCON - Evstathios Marinos Consulting, Karlsruhe/Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ln9m2$4i8@marcon.marcon.de> Hi, I have problems displaying Greek Web Pages in OmniWeb. Do I need special fonts? Here is a small test page: http://www.onned.gr/greek/index.htm Thanks for your help Stathis --- MARCON - Evstathios Marinos Consulting Evstathios Marinos | Phone : +49 721 37 71 78 Gartenstr. 2 | Fax : +49 721 37 71 79 76133 Karlsruhe (GERMANY) | E-Mail: em@marcon.de
From: me@chep7.kaist.ac.kr (My Account) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: LaTeX2e on NeXTSTEP Date: 25 Apr 1996 13:31:11 GMT Organization: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Message-ID: <4lnuqv$d61@worak.kaist.ac.kr> References: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960424103247.31249A-100000@wenzel.Mines.EDU> <4lmfc0$g46@news.ccit.arizona.edu> yucheng@math.arizona.edu wrote: : On 04/24/96, John Stockwell wrote: : >Greetings. Is there a version of LaTeX2e available : >for NeXTSTEP? If so, where might I find it? : > : >It doesn't seem to be mentioned in NeXTAnswers. : > : >Thanks in advance. : > : >John Stockwell | john@dix.Mines.EDU : >Center for Wave Phenomena (The Home of Seismic Un*x) : >Colorado School of Mines : >Golden, CO 80401 | http://www.cwp.mines.edu/cwpcodes : >voice: (303) 273-3049 | fax: (303) 273-3478. : > : > Check ftp://mathlab03.uln.edu/pub/software/NeXT/TeX. You can find what you want. Dahl Park me@chep7.kaist.ac.kr
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: color laser printer for nextstep Date: 25 Apr 1996 19:30:10 GMT Organization: J. W. Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt/Main Message-ID: <4lojs2$1k1@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <4lgnvq$mvl@news.tamu.edu> <u41n343zqm5.fsf@world.std.com> rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) wrote: > You have three options: Lexmark Optra C, HP Color LaserJet 5, and the > Tektronix Phaser 550. The Phaser is probably the best, followed by Lexmark > and then HP. However, I haven't carefully looked at these so check the > magazine reviews. I checked color lasers carefully at the CeBIT and came to a different result. The Tektronix by far has the worst printing quality of the printers mentioned, since it's not a continuous tone laser. Lexmark right now seems the best choice (I haven't got a print from the HP but heard very bad things about its construction), but you might want to wait for the Canon and Dec printers which build on the same Canon printing engine that Lexmark uses but incorporate an EFI (!) PS RIP. Printing quality of these is simply fantastic. Tschau Uli _____________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe Lorscher Strasse 5 D-60489 Frankfurt Germany Phone: +49 (69) 9784 0007 E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail - Mime - ASCII) PGP: public key on request Member of WiNG (Wiesbaden NEXTSTEP Group) _____________________________________________________________________
From: rmj@leland.Stanford.EDU (Roger M. Jones) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: HP 4M & PS Viewer Date: 25 Apr 1996 17:32:31 -0700 Organization: Stanford University, CA 94305, USA Message-ID: <4lp5iv$dkd@elaine15.Stanford.EDU> Dear Users, Anyone know, or is familiar with, printing from ms word to a HP 4M printer (to a file) and then transferring to a NS machine viewing and then printing (directly to the printer)? When printing to a file with ms word I then transfer the binary file to my NS machine & view the ps file with ps viewer. However, I am able to view the file if I print, within word on my pc to an Apple ps printer, but if I print to a file to a HP 4M the NS ps viewer doesn't display it! Also, the if I print to a file on my pc to an Apple ps printer and then, from my black ns, print to my HP 4M printer, it does indeed print -all eps inserts but the tiff inserts are poorly reproduced. I would be very grateful for any help in this matter. Many thanks, Roger Jones -- Regards, Roger Jones (rmj@leland.stanford.edu)
From: jburne@nol.net (John Burnette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: Executor Disappointing news! :( Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 23:02:47 -0800 Organization: Networks On-Line Message-ID: <jburne-2404962302470001@ip39-109.nol.net> References: <3169C51A.5319@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> <4km7ab$7ru@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3174B626.41CC@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> <4liunl$l17@news-2.csn.net> In article <4liunl$l17@news-2.csn.net>, monty@kelvin.optimal-object.com (Monty Gabrys) wrote: > Actually we still sell DayDream from Quix. for 695, which allows you > to convert black hardware in to a multi OS partitioned system which > runs System 7.5 of the Mac OS from a SCSI port Apple ROM hardware > extension, and NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP Mach. The speed on a non-turbo is as > fast as a Quadra 700, and an 800 for the turbos. > Don't let the fact that you can get a Quadra 700 for far less than $695 deter you... :-)
From: Ravi Mendis <lady0098@sable.ox.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Does WebObjects have Transaction Integrity? Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 12:59:34 +0100 Organization: Oxford University Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960426122740.23197A-100000@sable.ox.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII The last NEXTSTEP newsletter cited the lack of transaction integrity of NeXT's WebObjects product. In particular it mentioned an Internet application which crashed, dissing the order for a bunch of flowers made over the Web, when demonstrated at a NeXT event. This kind of thing is exactly what NeXT's potential corporate clients are weary of (using Web for business-critical applications). WebObjects' design is well enough to provide transaction processing/monitoring at 2 levels at least: 1. TP HTTP protocol: Like the SSL standard, Web browsers and servers may implement HTTP over a (distributed) transaction processing protocol. This is the cleanest/easiest solution? WebObjects, being independent of both Web servers and browsers, would instantaneously gain transaction integrity. 2. Integrate TP into WebObjects: at the WebAdaptor level it may be possible to transaction monitor WebObject transactions. NeXT will be able to use any (non-distributed) Transaction API available: CICS, MQI, Tuxedo. This is by far the most elegant solution. Further, the transaction-sensitive WebAdaptors could be purchased by those who really require it with the Pro or Enterprise edition of WebObjects. Any third party may be able to supply a transaction secure WebAdaptor for different WebServers?!!? (Hint!) But really it will be to NeXT's tremendous advantage if it were bundled with the WebObjects Pro/Enterprise products. Any other suggestions for integrating transaction integrity into WebObjects? ravi
From: Jonathan.Rice@tcd.ie (Jonathan Rice) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: teTeX? (was: Re: LaTeX2e on NeXTSTEP) Date: 26 Apr 1996 13:30:23 GMT Organization: TCD, Computer Science Message-ID: <4lqj5f$pop@news.cs.tcd.ie> References: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960424103247.31249A-100000@wenzel.Mines.EDU> John Stockwell <john@dix.Mines.EDU> wrote: >Greetings. Is there a version of LaTeX2e available >for NeXTSTEP? If so, where might I find it? > >It doesn't seem to be mentioned in NeXTAnswers. > This issue has surfaced sporadically in the NeXT newsgroups before, but I don't think the necessary procedures have been set down in a FAQ file yet. I may be wrong about this - if so, gimme that URL! As far as I understand it, you have three options if you want to get LaTeX2e running: (1) Keep the existing NeXT-supplied TeX binaries and install a new .fmt format file. You can do this from scratch by getting the LaTeX2e macros from a CTAN site and dumping out a latex2e.fmt file, or you can get a ready-to-install package from ftp://ftp.ens.fr/pub/dmi/users/dicosmo/SW/TeX/Latex2E.I.pkg.tar (Intel) or ftp://ftp.ens.fr/pub/dmi/users/dicosmo/SW/TeX/Latex2E.NHS.pkg.tar (other) (2) Install a more recent TeX, which will have 2E bundled with it. You can do this from scratch by compiling the standard CTAN distribution, although a little tweaking of header files is called for, if I remember correctly. OR, a better option is probably to go for Gregor Hoffleit's teTeX package, which is supposed to be a recent TeX, all nicely packaged up for NEXTSTEP. I'm not sure it's in stable release state yet, though. You can get it from: ftp://zarquon.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de/pub/NeXT/tex/teTeX/ However, this site is generally unusably slow for me here in Ireland. Maybe we can get a comment from Gregor as to the state of the project? Is it stable enough yet to be put on more ftp sites than just zarquon? I at least can't find it anywhere else. The principle advantage to going for route (2) instead of (1) is that recent TeX versions have a different directory layout (and attendant dir. hierarchy searching mechanism). So it can be a little messy trying to shoehorn recent tex software (fonts, macros, whatever) into the old directories of route (1). -- Jonathan Rice
From: cortesr@alleg.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: MAB Binaries or Sources Date: 26 Apr 1996 16:48:34 GMT Organization: Allegheny College Message-ID: <4lqup3$6fq@speering.alleg.edu> Hello: Anyone know where I can get quad fat sources or binaries of these applications/binaries: 1.tcsh 2.Sentinel.app 3.Paula.app (for mods) Thanks, Ricardo -- Ricardo Cortes Allegheny College cortesr@alleg.edu (NeXTMail OK) http://ace.alleg.edu/~cortes
Newsgroups: comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.newton.programmer,comp.sys.next.advocacy,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.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.sys.powerpc.misc,comp.sys.powerpc.tech,comp.sys.psion From: house@direct.ca (HOUSE) Subject: FREE ESSAYS!!! ESSAY EXCHANGE!!! Message-ID: <41a7cc$12f11.1a9@intrepid.cia.com> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 08:47:17 GMT Organization: Direct.ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII I AM NOT AFFLIATED WITH THIS SITE!!!!!! CHECK OUT THE EVIL HOUSE OF CHEAT!!!!!! http://www.hvision.nl/~lovkraft LOTS OF FREE ESSAYS IN ALL TOPICS AND LANGUAGES! CHECK IT OUT!
From: jlandwehr@next.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: Does WebObjects have Transaction Integrity? Date: 26 Apr 1996 18:58:12 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <4lr6c4$gsc@news.next.com> References: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960426122740.23197A-100000@sable.ox.ac.uk> In article <Pine.OSF.3.91.960426122740.23197A-100000@sable.ox.ac.uk> Ravi Mendis <lady0098@sable.ox.ac.uk> writes: > > > The last NEXTSTEP newsletter cited the lack of transaction integrity of > NeXT's WebObjects product. In particular it mentioned an Internet > application which crashed, dissing the order for a bunch of flowers made > over the Web, when demonstrated at a NeXT event. > > This kind of thing is exactly what NeXT's potential corporate clients are > weary of (using Web for business-critical applications). > FYI, these events have been misrepresented. The Internet application that crashed was at 800FLOWERS website (http://www.800flowers.com). This particular story originated when I was trying to send flowers via the web. They *DO NOT* run WebObjects - they use the Netscape Merchant System. As it turns out, orders placed on their website are only updated to their main order management system (that the telephone reps use) *3 times a day*. You cannot call them to check on the status of your order until that update has been performed. I order flowers at 8:30pm, their server hung, and I couldn't check the status of the order until 7am the next morning! Steve Jobs tells this story because WebObjects would vastly improve their site. WebObjects would allow them to integrate their website directly into their customer order management system and not have to worry about updates happening only three times a day! -- John Landwehr Product Manager NeXT Software Inc. john_landwehr@next.com
From: "Keith R. Jones" <joneskr@cig.mot.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: test Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 15:46:14 -0500 Organization: Motorola Message-ID: <31813616.41C6@cig.mot.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -- Keith
From: support@radical.com (Radical Product Support) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: SUBMISSION: RadicalNews 0.8.6 Date: 27 Apr 1996 00:24:37 GMT Organization: Radical System Solutions, Inc. Message-ID: <4lrpg5$79p@client2.news.psi.net> NOTE: Originally posted to comp.sys.next.announce, but no automated reply was received from the moderator. We apologize if this is redundant. April 26, 1996 - Anaheim Hills, California. Radical System Solutions, a long-time provider of object oriented expertise to the professional market, is proud to release the latest free beta version of its commercial newsreader, RadicalNews. RadicalNews is an advanced object-oriented newsreader, designed for the discriminating NEXTSTEP marketplace. See the README file (partially included below) for more details about this version of RadicalNews. RadicalNews is built quad-fat, running on Motorola, Intel, Sparc, and HP platforms with NEXTSTEP 3.2 or later. (NEXTSTEP 3.0/3.1 will work, but are not supported.) The beta version is free, and will run until July 1, 1996. After the beta period, a license may be purchased. The beta version is currently available via anonymous ftp at: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/RadicalNews.0.8.6.NIHS.tar ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/RadicalNews.0.8.6.NIHS.README RadicalNews should eventually move to: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/demos/news/RadicalNews.0.8.6.NIHS.tar ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/demos/news/RadicalNews.0.8.6.NIHS.README Our web site will have updated information and links to the most current version: http://www.radical.com/ For further information, contact: Radical System Solutions, Inc. mailto:RadicalNews@Radical.Com ----------------------------------- RADICALNEWS NEW FEATURES IN 0.8.6 * New icon based tool bar - New expanded interface with additional functionality on the tool bar Article Archive/Decode/Print added Group Read/Showall added Thread Read/Unread added Post "Fork" (Was:...) removed from tool bar but left in menu interface. * Requote post text no longer merges paragraphs when you have selected more than one paragraph to requote - the following text is an example: > : This is an example of > multiple paragraph requoting. This > : paragraph will be requoted at level > 2. > : > : Requote text will now preserve paragraph > boundaries when a blank line separates paragraphs. becomes... > > This is an example of multiple paragraph > > requoting. This paragraph will be requoted > > at level 2. > > > > Requote text will now preserve paragraph > > boundaries when a blank line separates > > paragraphs. * Post viewer is reorganized - Now looks more like the thread viewer * More editable headers added for posting - Organization header added - Approved header added - Expires header added * Post and e-mail reply added - Cc header added for e-mailing your followups to the poster of the original message - You can also type in email addresses of "interested parties" whom you want to receive an email copy of your post * Thread sort by filter type added - Threads are sorted by: Followup highlights (default Red) Filter highlights (default Blue) New threads (default Green) Thread followups (default Black) - Feature can be disabled in preferences to return to pre-0.8.6 functionality - Articles still subsorted alphabetically or by date * Menu item for setting followup highlight filters added - Track followups to specific posts of interest - Followups to post are highlighted in Red (by default) and sorted to the top of the thread list - Followup highlight filters are still added automatically for posts you make * Menu items for "quickly" setting filters added - No need to enter the filters panel to add simple filters - Menu items are available for: Highlight Subject -- highlights exact (non-expression) subject Highlight Author -- highlights your favorite authors Delete Subject -- deletes exact (non-expression) subject Delete Author -- plugh... * Group showall added - Shows all the articles in the group without marking them unread * Thread read/unread added - Thread unread finds all the previous articles available in the thread - Thread unread is not supported for the "flat file" interface - NNTP servers fed by cnews MUST have been built with the same DBM library as the cnews software for thread unread to work. Otherwise the message-id database is inaccessable to NNTP (see "Building NNTP" in _Managing UUCP and Usenet_ by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc). INN servers should all work properly. * Automatic file open after uudecoding is now selectable
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From: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: teTeX for NEXTSTEP Date: 27 Apr 1996 13:21:41 GMT Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany Message-ID: <4lt715$k1i@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> Summary: teTeX will be available for NEXTSTEP RSN Keywords: TeX,NEXTSTEP,teTeX,TeXview SInce it has been brought up here a few times in the last weeks: Yes, I'm working on a new TeX distribution for NEXTSTEP, and yes, it's nearly usable now. To be exact, it's mostly a port of Thomas Esser excellent teTeX package, with the IPC features we all like so from good old NeXTTeX. Now that NeXT Inc. was so kind to allow us to use TeXview under the terms of the GPL, I have patched it to use the kpathsearch library. Ok, so the stuff is there, seems to be useable and quite stable; my only problem is: what kind of distribution do you need ? So here's a user survey: I could package the binaries as yet another teTeX binary package; you could then fetch the teTeX libs from a CTAN server, follow the teTeX installation instructions (quite good, but some Unix experience is not wrong), and finally do some NEXTSTEP specific changes. For updates, you had to follow the generic teTeX procedures; anyway, it's not too hard. Or I try to put together a NEXTSTEP pkg, including the binaries, a NEXTSTEP-enahanced teTeX macro tree etc.pp. Be warned that the package would be more than 13MB, and I can't give any warranty how often in the next few weeks it will be changed. You may have to reload it several times. Is that fine for you ? ;-). Depending on the response, I'll decide the one way or the other. I'll announce the availability here in the next few days; a web site on this topic will be set up. Furthermore, if you have any specific wishes or suggestions regarding TeX for NEXTSTEP, feel free to mail me. I'll collect them, and try to include the stuff in future developments. -- | 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: mikecam@unixg.ubc.ca (Michael C. Cam) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Canon OS41 Power Management System Date: 27 Apr 1996 08:54:04 GMT Organization: The University of British Columbia Distribution: world Message-ID: <4lsnbc$buf@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Hi, Has anyone been able to get Canon's PMS working with NS3.3? I had it working with 3.2 but for some reason it doesn't work with 3.3. Thanks in advance, ...Mike. -- ___________________________________________________________________ | | | ___ ^ ... /\ BEAUTIFUL | | _|_::| ___o '|`^ .. o_ . .. /\ / \ BRITISH | | |:::|:| \ \, ^ '|`|` (`_|/____') / / /\ COLUMBIA | | |:::|:| (o)/ (o) '|`'|`|`` ,,/ . ... . .. / \ | |-------------------------------------------------------------------| | Michael C. Cam E-MAIL (NeXT & MIME) PHONE 604-263-7609 | | Open Object Solutions mikecam@unixg.ubc.ca FAX 604-263-7609 | |___________________________________________________________________|
From: Ravi Mendis <lady0098@sable.ox.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: Does WebObjects have Transaction Integrity? Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 19:33:11 +0100 Organization: Oxford University Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960427191111.16883B-100000@sable.ox.ac.uk> References: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960426122740.23197A-100000@sable.ox.ac.uk> <4lr6c4$gsc@news.next.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4lr6c4$gsc@news.next.com> On 26 Apr 1996 jlandwehr@next.com wrote: [edit] > ...The Internet application that > crashed was at 800FLOWERS website (http://www.800flowers.com). This > particular story originated when I was trying to send flowers via the web. > They *DO NOT* run WebObjects - they use the Netscape Merchant System. As it > turns out, orders placed on their website are only updated to their main order > management system (that the telephone reps use) *3 times a day*. You cannot > call them to check on the status of your order until that update has been > performed. I order flowers at 8:30pm, their server hung, and I couldn't check > the status of the order until 7am the next morning! > > Steve Jobs tells this story because WebObjects would vastly improve their > site. WebObjects would allow them to integrate their website directly into > their customer order management system and not have to worry about updates > happening only three times a day! > Thanks for straightening out the facts. However, i'm still clueless as to the transaction integrity of applications based on WebObjects? The fact that the 800FLOWERS application did not use WebObjects doesn't mean that WebObjects possess transaction integrity does it? Explicitly: the level of transaction integrity of corporate applications based on CICS, MQI or other (distributed) TP APIs. It could. Would it not be a point in favor of WebObjects' greater success in the corporate world? Would it not be 'straight-forward' to implement within the current WebObject Framework? (e.g: via TP monitored WebAdaptors?) ravi
From: house@direct.ca (HOUSE) Message-ID: <cancel.4lsi60$ki5@spark.law.vill.edu> Control: cancel <4lsi60$ki5@spark.law.vill.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.games,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.scitech,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.newton.programmer,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <4lsi60$ki5@spark.law.vill.edu> Date: 27 Apr 1996 20:18:41 GMT Cancelled by jem@xpat.com. 830636321 LovKraft Original Subject was: FREE ESSAYS!!!!! EVIL HOUSE OF CHEAT!!!!
From: gg@telebyte.nl Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Commodore 64... Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 23:41:13 GMT Organization: Telebyte Message-ID: <4lu7n0$jsg@rubens.telebyte.nl> For all Commodore-64 freaks.... Remember those games ? Thing on a Spring, River Raid, Pitfall, Crazy Comets, Commando, Monty on the Run, Kong Strikes Back, Mask of the Sun, Raid over Moscow, Impossible Mission, Toy Bizzare, Pitstop I & II, Fort Apocalypse, One on One, Choplifter, Plotting, Dallas Quest, Space Taxi, Boulderdash, Castle Wolfenstein, Rambo, Yie Ar Kun Fu, Poster Paster, Kung Fu Master, Bruce Lee, Blagger, Moon Cresta, Monty Mole, Who Dares Wins, Exploding Fist, International Karate, Parallax, Skramble, Suicide Express, War, Hyper Olympics, Dan Dare, Hawkeye, Ghostbusters, Break Streat, H.E.R.O, Little Computer People, Mickey's Space Adventure, Penetrator, Decathlon, Summer Games I & II, Winter Games, Comic Bakery, Alt. Reality, ..... , ....., .... ,. ... , ..... <more> <more> <more> The C64, The C64-games, The C64-demos, The C64-utils, All compiled on one CD-ROM. The C64-CD-ROM-'96 contains 5650 C-64 disks.... over 30.000 programs, run them on your C64-emulator, run them on your C64 again. This CD-ROM contains the most complete C64-collection ever! More than 650Mb of C64 software on one little disc. If you are a real C64 freak, order !now! For a complete index-file ftp to: utopia.hacktic.nl pub/c64/Misc/c64cd96.lha dhp.com pub/c64/scene/others/c64cd96.lha arnold.hiof.no pub/incoming/c64cd96.lha Emulators and utils are also on the cd. For more info, questions, or orders send e-mail to: gg@telebyte.nl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware From: m@ml.com (M Carling) Subject: Re: Can NEXTSTEP do 115200 bps on a serial port on a PC? Message-ID: <Dq4134.BJ7@tigadmin.ml.com> Sender: usenet@tigadmin.ml.com (News Account) Organization: ml.com References: <DpG8AA.4vq@AWT.NL> <4kmcse$n9b@news.its.com> <4l5qt0$csh@usc.edu> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 12:52:15 GMT reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) wrote: >In <Dpwzu4.FH1@tigadmin.ml.com> M Carling wrote: >> chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger) wrote: >> >In my opinion, you really don't want to try and connect an ISDN link >> directly >> >to your computer. I'd strongly recommend getting an Ascend Pipeline 50 >(or >> >thereabouts) instead, and using it as a router for a local ethernet LAN. >> >> I agree, except that everyone I know who has bought an Ascend has regretted >> it. I would recommend looking at other brands. > >What were the problems? And do you have any recommendations? The common complaint I hear is that the presence of (particular, by user definition) packet types will not bring up the link. To bring up the link, one must log in to the router via its serial port and bring it up by navigating through windows. It should raise a connection automatically when packets that need to go over the net are present. M Carling
Date: 28 Apr 1996 02:52:55 GMT From: gg@telebyte.nl Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Message-ID: <cancel.4lu7n0$jsg@rubens.telebyte.nl> Control: cancel <4lu7n0$jsg@rubens.telebyte.nl> Subject: cmsg cancel <4lu7n0$jsg@rubens.telebyte.nl> EMP/ECP (aka SPAM) cancelled by jem@xpat.com. See news.admin.net-abuse.announce, report 19960428.12 for further details
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From: John McPherson <mcphersj@sojourn.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: FOR SALE ($2000) : NSFIP 3.3 User, Developer, and EOF commercial versions Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 23:59:12 -0400 Organization: Sojourn Systems, Lansing, MI (USA) Message-ID: <3182ED10.2C6B@sojourn.com> References: <317C0D17.7719@ftp.test.com> <317C0DAA.55C@sojourn.com> <317EE46B.426E@sojourn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit John McPherson wrote: > > FOR SALE: > > NeXTstep 3.3 User (Commercial version) $799.00 > NeXTstep 3.3 Developer (Commercial version) $4999.00 > NeXTstep EOF (Commercial version) $499.00 > -------- > (Total) $6297.00 value (Obviously this is not the asking > price...) > > These are being sold as on package. I am also including for free the book NEXTSTEP PROGRAMMING >Step One: Object Oriented Programming by Garfinkel and Mahoney. In addition, I will be including 3 >OPENSTEP video tapes, a NeXT Vs. Sun video tape, and The NeXT Advantage video tape. I have >installed this only once. All the manuals are 'like new!' > > Please send mailto://mcphersj@sojourn.com > > I intend to sell this quickly! > > Thanks!
From: cayouett@bnr.ca (Daniel Cayouette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: JDK for NextStep 3.*? Date: 28 Apr 1996 03:30:56 GMT Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd. Message-ID: <4luopg$da1@bcarh8ab.bnr.ca> Is there a Java Dev Kit for NextStep 3.*? Thanks, Daniel -- -- Nortel Email Evolution Ottawa, Ontario Email: Daniel.Cayouette@nortel.ca Phone: (613) 763-2340
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 Apr 1996 04:15:12 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4m1fog$kcg@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. To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying: SUB Listname YourName Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe The ftp sites ============= ftp://next-ftp.peak.org: The main site for North American submissions (formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu) ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: (Peanuts) Located in Germany. ftp://ftp.dn.net/pub/next Peanuts mirror in the US ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next/ eduStep ftp://ftp.next.com: See below ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com ===================================== [from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help] Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system! This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, read them on the world-wide web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS. NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being. NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests. USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to nextanswers@next.com. Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by default; you can request they be sent as ASCII text files instead. To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the body of the message. You can request several files in a single message. You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message. These commands affect the way that files you request are sent: ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME Message/Partial specification REPLY-TO address sets the e-mail address NeXTanswers uses These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system: HELP returns this help file INDEX returns the list of all available files INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list (ignoring capitalization) For example, a message with the following Subject line requests three files: Subject: 2101 2234 1109 A message with this body requests the same three files be sent as ASCII text files: 2101 2234 1109 ascii This message requests two lists of files, one for each search: Subject: SEARCH Dell SCSI SEARCH NetInfo domain NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. To use a different address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command REPLY-TO <your-address> If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement, please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the files will be faxed to you. If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada. USING NEXTANSWERS VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web server at URL http://www.next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY ANONYMOUS FTP To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using this, please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY MODEM To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at (415) 780-2965. Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section. From there you can download NeXTanswers documents. FOR MORE HELP... If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available from NeXTanswers, call the Support Hotline at 1-800-955-NeXT (outside the U.S. call +1-415-424-8500) to speak to a NEXTSTEP Technical Support Technician. If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must make this call to the hotline. Otherwise, hotline support is on a pay-per-call basis. Thanks for using NeXTanswers! Written by: Eric P. Scott (mailto:eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU) and Scott Anguish (mailto:sanguish@digifix.com) Additions from: Greg Anderson (mailto:Greg_Anderson@afs.com) Michael Pizolato (mailto:alf@epix.net) Dan Grillo (mailto:dan_grillo@next.com)
From: david@pfi.ibk.baum.ethz.ch (David C. EKCHIAN) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: displaying Greek Web pages in OmniWeb Date: 29 Apr 1996 13:22:58 GMT Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ) Distribution: world Message-ID: <4m2fri$ks2@elna.ethz.ch> References: <4ln9m2$4i8@marcon.marcon.de> > I have problems displaying Greek Web Pages in OmniWeb. Do I need special fonts? > Here is a small test page: http://www.onned.gr/greek/index.htm Me too! And I have several greek fonts installed. You should ask the Webmaster there: Dimitris Siatiras <sysadmin@onned.gr> David. -- o _ /-;c ___ David C. EKCHIAN ______________________________________(@)#\(@)___
From: ehutch@hypnos.norden1.com (E. Hutchinson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NEXTSTEP/Contract/DC Area Date: 29 Apr 1996 14:42:32 GMT Organization: Norden 1 Communications Message-ID: <4m2kgo$l0l@tofu.alt.net> Programmer/analyst/developer NEXTSTEP Objective C EOF---Aplus Sybase or Oracle---A plus Must Be-----US Citizen or Greencard Area------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
Date: 29 Apr 1996 10:35:29 EST Newsgroups: comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.newton.programmer,comp.sys.next.advocacy,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.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.sys.powerpc.misc,comp.sys.powerpc.tech,comp.sys.psion Message-ID: <cancel.41a7cc$12f11.1a9@intrepid.cia.com> Control: cancel <41a7cc$12f11.1a9@intrepid.cia.com> From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca Sender: house@direct.ca (HOUSE) Subject: cmsg cancel <41a7cc$12f11.1a9@intrepid.cia.com> EMP/ECP (aka SPAM) cancelled by clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca. See news.admin.net-abuse.announce, report 19960429.01 for further details
From: woo@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: LateX2HTML? Date: 29 Apr 1996 15:02:25 GMT Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN Distribution: world Message-ID: <4m2lm1$3g@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> Has anyone been able to get LateX2html running and working consistently on NeXT? If so, what did you do? I've installed it, but when I try to translate a LaTeX document I get no pages output except for very brief headers. -- - - - - - - - - - J. W. Wooten
From: cz@bronze.lcs.mit.edu (Christopher R. Zach) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Help: Next Color printer looks clogged Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware Date: 29 Apr 1996 13:10:32 -0400 Organization: Guest of MIT AI and LCS labs Message-ID: <4m2t68$8ct@bronze.lcs.mit.edu> Summary: What to do with a stuck printer nozzle? Keywords: Problem with Next Color printer Well, I received my "new" (ok, it was very used) NeXT Color printer over the weekend. It's a pretty nice device, but appears to have a problem. When I ran a test page, the yellow and cyan test bars had lines in them. I tried to run an "A" cleaning, but it did not clear the problem. Then I tried a "B" cleaning, and the printer ran out of ink... After tracking down the ink cartridges (not easy), I reloaded the printer and ran the cycle through. Then I ran another test page, and though the yellow bar was solid, the cyan bar still had horozontal lines (2 of them) running across the page. When I ran a nozzle check, all colors looked ok, except for Cyan. The question is what do I do? I have run a total of 3 B cleaning cycles, and the problem does not seem to be getting better. Is there any way to clean the heads, or do I have to take the printer apart. Does running the cleaning cycle eat a lot of ink (at $100 a refill, cleaning could get rather expensive). Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Chris Zach
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software From: Joseph McWilliams <mcwilljg@euler.sfasu.edu> Subject: Pine for NeXT-Intel? Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960429205659.3147B-100000@euler> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 21:01:05 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Does anyone know if Pine/Pico has been ported to NeXT-Intel? The source indicates Motorola but not Intel. Joe McWilliams
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Pine for NeXT-Intel? Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 06:38:34 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1996Apr30.063834.16161@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960429205659.3147B-100000@euler> In article <Pine.NXT.3.91.960429205659.3147B-100000@euler> Joseph McWilliams <mcwilljg@euler.sfasu.edu> writes: > > Does anyone know if Pine/Pico has been ported to NeXT-Intel? The source > indicates Motorola but not Intel. NeXT supply pico with 3.3 Intel, so I guess it at least has been ported. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: eugene@raddi.uah.ualberta.ca (Eugene Mah) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Pine for NeXT-Intel? Date: 30 Apr 1996 15:54:29 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <4m5d3l$o0u@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960429205659.3147B-100000@euler> <1996Apr30.063834.16161@seer.demon.co.uk> In <1996Apr30.063834.16161@seer.demon.co.uk> Paul Lynch wrote: > In article <Pine.NXT.3.91.960429205659.3147B-100000@euler> Joseph > McWilliams <mcwilljg@euler.sfasu.edu> writes: > > > > Does anyone know if Pine/Pico has been ported to NeXT-Intel? The source > > indicates Motorola but not Intel. > > NeXT supply pico with 3.3 Intel, so I guess it at least has been ported. > > Paul > Pine 3.93 and associated software compiled for me out of the box on both black and white hardware. a 'build nxt' in the pine 3.93 source tree should do the trick. The makefile might have to be changed a tad to add the -arch directive (I can't recall exactly what I did at the moment). Compiled fine with both gcc 2.7.2 and the NEXTSTEP cc. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene Mah eugene@raddi.uah.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail) Systems Administrator "For I am a Bear of Very Little Department of Radiology Brain, and long words Bother University of Alberta Hospitals me." Winnie the Pooh Edmonton, Alberta, Canada http://raddi.uah.ualberta.ca/~eugene/ PGP KeyID = 1F9779FD or E37A1591 O- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Ravi Mendis <lady0098@sable.ox.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: Does WebObjects have Transaction Integrity? Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 14:43:08 +0100 Organization: Oxford University Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960430133338.31260B-100000@sable.ox.ac.uk> References: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960426122740.23197A-100000@sable.ox.ac.uk> <4lr6c4$gsc@news.next.com> <Pine.OSF.3.91.960427191111.16883B-100000@sable.ox.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960427191111.16883B-100000@sable.ox.ac.uk> On Sat, 27 Apr 1996, Ravi Mendis wrote: > Would [transaction integrity] not be 'straight-forward' to implement > within the current WebObject Framework? > (e.g: via TP monitored WebAdaptors?) Actually, monitoring a WebObject application's [http] transactions via a TP-monitored WebAdaptor, is equivalent to "logging" those http requests *received* (and those responded to), without having a clue as to which requests went astray over the 'net. [For database Web applications, this is roughly equivalent to TP-monitoring database transactions via a TP EOFAdaptor (like a CICS/DB2 EOF adaptor) : a far more efficient use of TP monitoring] What it *does not do* is guarantee that [http request/response] transactions are always delivered intact. So although it may monitor [http] transactions, it does not provide transaction integrity for WebObject applications. If you really want 'bullet-proof' transaction messaging over the Web, the link [in the chain of communication] to be tightened is its weakest: the 'Weblink'. It would be simplest to deploy your WebObject applications over Web servers and browsers implementing http on a TP API like CICS or MQI: it could be as simple as using something like the "shttp" protocol. As this solution is *external* to the WOFramework, NeXT need not provide it themselves: they would be infringing on Web browser/server territory. It is really up to one of the Web browser/server providers to implement!? ravi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc From: fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn) Subject: How can I add undo to my program? Message-ID: <Dqovtn.8E6@nvc.cc.ca.us> Sender: news@nvc.cc.ca.us Organization: Napa Valley College Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 19:08:10 GMT How can I add undo to my program? Even better, how about a multi-level undo? It seems like a nearly impossible task of getting undo to work when there are so many different things to keep track of that can be undone. Especially in a text object! I remember a few years ago seeing something that someone had done which had some sort of undo manager, and all you had to do was add some kine of undo method to your objects to get it to work. I'm looking for that, or something similar. Thanks! -- Chris Osborn, Network Administrator Napa Valley College 707 253 3130 - Voice 2277 Napa-Vallejo Hwy. 707 253 3063 - Fax Napa, CA 94558 <fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us> <http://www.nvc.cc.ca.us/~fozztexx>
From: jm040795@fhda.edu (Raven) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: [Q] On limitations of partitioning with 3.3 Date: 30 Apr 1996 23:41:31 GMT Organization: TheSharewareCollector Message-ID: <jm040795-3004961641310001@mencju.apple.com> Hi, I had a few questions about paritition. I'm planning on running multiple OSes (9 of them). I want to use NeXTStep and was trying to figure out how I should install it. I have two 2gig SCSI drives (Seagate drives on Adaptec 2940PCI card). I wish to install NeXTStep onto my second drive. Is this possible? Here are my questions: - Can NS indeed be installed on a second drive? - Can NS be installed over 500megs? Over 1gig or 1024cylinders? This are my two questions thus far. I hope I won't have install qeuestions in the future. Hasta, Joaquin
From: "Vincent W. Yin" <vyin@engsoc.carleton.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: HELP: installing NS3.2 Intel Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 22:49:27 -0400 Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Message-ID: <3186D137.A5B@engsoc.carleton.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, I'm hoping that you can help me out. I have been playing with Linux for some time, but have been nostalgic for NeXTSTEP which I used briefly three years ago (mostly for the beautiful graphical interface and the extensibility). I had a chance recently to pick up a NS3.2 CD and jumped at the opportunity. I thought that I had pretty bog standard hardware but that turned out not to be the case. The boot floppy for the install process apparently only includes drivers for the Adaptec 1542 and a DPT (can't remember the model) while I have an Adaptec 1515 (like a 1522 w/o the floppy, both use the AIC 6360 chip). I understand from reading NeXT Answers that there exists a 1522 driver, but no mention is made of whether it is possible to d/l it to use in conjunction w/ the boot floppy (or I missed it). Can someone tell me what I can do to get a system up and running? also, can someone tell me if I'm going to run into any other problems with hardware? I have an Intel 486DX2/66 on a clone motherboard with AMI BIOS, a Diamond Stealth 24VLB video card (S3 chip), the aforementioned Adaptec 1515 w/ a Toshiba 3401 CD and Iomega Zip (internal), two IDE hard drives and a Digital Etherworks 3 ISA ethernet card. Thanks in advance for any help. -- vince
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer From: jrhoads@netcom.com (Jason Rhoads) Subject: FS:QuickBase SQL Database for NeXTSTEP Message-ID: <jrhoadsDqp2un.JM7@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 21:39:59 GMT Sender: jrhoads@netcom3.netcom.com I purchased a copy of QuickBase for a project I was working on. I no longer need the software, so its for sale! QuickBase 4.1h - 3 User License $695 OBO (Retail $895) Supports EOF. Includes disks and manual. I will pay shipping to anywhere in the continental US. For information about QuickBase check out http://www.quickbase.com Please send all inquiries to me at jrhoads@netcom.com. Thanks!
From: gt7357a@acmex.gatech.edu (Tp12a) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: 640 KB limit in NeXTSTEP - Tell me it's not true! Date: 30 Apr 1996 22:02:13 GMT Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Message-ID: <4m62l5$612@catapult.gatech.edu> References: <4lfla9$ins@www.langen.bull.de> <Dq9Kys.2HB@ncifcrf.gov> <4lincb$4ki@www.langen.bull.de> Volker Herminghaus (vhs@nextone.langen.bull.de) wrote: : Sorry I wasn't clear: I meant 640KB in NS/Intel only, of course. There would : be no reason at all for such a limit on black HW, but I could imagine one for : Intel (guess why - ask Silly Billy with the Micro Willy :-) : Volker I was under the impression that IBM PC compatables reserved $A0000 to $AFFFF for register space so you can't exactly allocate more than 640k of contiguous memory in "low" memory even in protected mode! Correct me if I'm wrong! Phil Tp12a@freenet.fsu.edu gt7357a@prism.gatech.edu http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gt7357a -- Philip C. Tsao Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!gt7357a Internet: gt7357a@prism.gatech.edu
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From: Ruediger Lohmann, M.D. <lohmann@helix.mgh.harvard.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: PPP or SLIP for black hardware running 3.2 Date: 1 May 1996 13:35:55 GMT Organization: Massachusetts General Hospital Message-ID: <01bb3762.78585c40$6646b784@lohmann> Hi, what are your recommendations for SLIP or PPP for a pizza-box running NeXTSTEP 3.2? Are there any versions I should avoid? I use an US-Robotics Sportster modem (14.400). Thanks! Ruediger Lohmann Mass. Genaral Hospital Boston, Ma lohmann@helix.mgh.harvard.edu -- Ruediger Lohmann, M.D. Surgical Oncology Mass. General Hospital, Harvard Medical School lohmann@helix.mgh.harvard.edu phone 1-617-724 9078 fax 1-617-726 8623
From: gblock@homer.alpha.net (Greg Block) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: [Q] On limitations of partitioning with 3.3 Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.advocacy Date: 1 May 1996 14:30:07 GMT Organization: Alpha.net -- Milwaukee, WI Message-ID: <4m7shf$36n@homer.alpha.net> References: <jm040795-3004961641310001@mencju.apple.com> Raven (jm040795@fhda.edu) wrote: | Hi, I had a few questions about paritition. I'm planning on running | multiple OSes (9 of them). Sounds like me. :) | I want to use NeXTStep and was trying to figure out how I should install | it. I have two 2gig SCSI drives (Seagate drives on Adaptec 2940PCI | card). I wish to install NeXTStep onto my second drive. Is this | possible? Yeah, I did. Bit of a hassle, but it can be done. The only bad part is that I ad to create a 10MB partition on my first 1.6G drive to boot the NS partition of the second 1G drive. So, it doesn't really "autoboot"; I always have to do the old sd()mach_kernel thing. I'm sure there's a way around it, but I haven't found it. BTW, I'm using OS/2's boot manager. | - Can NS indeed be installed on a second drive? Yup. Like I said, bit of a hassle. Read your 3.3 install manual. | - Can NS be installed over 500megs? Over 1gig or 1024cylinders? Dunno about over 1G, I think the limit is a 2G, but yeah, over 500 is fine. | This are my two questions thus far. I hope I won't have install | qeuestions in the future. Well, we can *all* hope that we don't have to ask questions in the future, but hell, how likely is that? :) Greg -- Gregory R. Block, Oubliette Software (414)278-0417 Soon-to-be Security Administrator, Demon Internet Ltd.
From: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: HELP: installing NS3.2 Intel Date: 1 May 1996 15:58:11 GMT Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd. Message-ID: <4m81mj$j1t@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <3186D137.A5B@engsoc.carleton.ca> Cc: vyin@engsoc.carleton.ca In <3186D137.A5B@engsoc.carleton.ca> "Vincent W. Yin" wrote: > I thought that I had pretty bog standard hardware but that turned out not to be the > case. The boot floppy for the install process apparently only includes drivers for the > Adaptec 1542 and a DPT (can't remember the model) while I have an Adaptec 1515 (like a > 1522 w/o the floppy, both use the AIC 6360 chip). I understand from reading NeXT > Answers that there exists a 1522 driver, but no mention is made of whether it is > possible to d/l it to use in conjunction w/ the boot floppy (or I missed it). Can > someone tell me what I can do to get a system up and running? Should work with the Adaptec6x60 driver (for 3.2). This is on the 3.2 additional driver floppy image on NeXTanswers, so you are in luck. > I have an Intel 486DX2/66 on a clone motherboard with AMI BIOS, a Diamond Stealth 24VLB > video card (S3 chip), the aforementioned Adaptec 1515 w/ a Toshiba 3401 CD and Iomega > Zip (internal), two IDE hard drives and a Digital Etherworks 3 ISA ethernet card. There are various versions of the Diamond Stealth; I can recall revisions being required in the 3.3 drivers because of this. So, there is a driver, but it might not work. There isn't a driver for 3.2 for the Etherworks card. Everything else seems to be in order. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.co.uk Tel: (01494)432422 P & L Systems Fax: (01494)432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: root@noesis.zone.org (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Pages.app, who supports it now? Date: 1 May 1996 11:16:36 GMT Organization: CERFnet Message-ID: <4m7h6k$49@news.cerf.net> My Pages disks are currupted. Could someone tell me from whom I can get new disks, in other words who owns and supports Pages now? Please reply to murshid@noesis.zone.org and murshid@unit.edu Thank you murshid
From: Douglas Joshua Behnke <behnkedj@cs.rose-hulman.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: [Q] On limitations of partitioning with 3.3 Date: Wed, 01 May 1996 09:46:05 -0700 Organization: Trusted Information Systems, Inc. Message-ID: <3187954D.41C67EA6@cs.rose-hulman.edu> References: <jm040795-3004961641310001@mencju.apple.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Raven wrote: > > Hi, I had a few questions about paritition. I'm planning on running > multiple OSes (9 of them). > Sounds like a perfect application for a Jazz drive. Has anybody tried using a Jazz drive this way? It seems to me that dedicating a cartridge per OS would make things easier than dealing with the partitioning issues. If only there were a filesystem that they all could read that could be used for fixed drives... Cheers, -Josh Behnke behnkedj@cs.rose-hulman.edu
From: mjantti@aton.abo.fi (Markus J{ntti STA) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: *extremely* slow printing on HP DeskJet 600 on parallel port Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware Date: 01 May 1996 11:28:42 GMT Organization: Abo Akademi University Distribution: world Message-ID: <MJANTTI.96May1142842@aton.abo.fi> Hello: I am trying to get a HP DJ 600 (bw) to work on NS for Intel 3.3. The printer works fine under DOS and Linux. Under NS, I have tried Dots, JetPilot and the ghostHPDJ package, with pretty much the same result. The printer semes to be printing, but after 12 hours only a few lines have been printed. I have tried changing the parallel ports mode under BIOS setup (to EPP or ECP from 'Compatible'). Moreover, since the printer works as it should under DOS, it seems like this is a NS related problem. Has anyone had similar problems. The usual places (the Printing and Intel FAQs, NeXTAnswers) are, as far as I can tell, silent on this. anyone have any good advice? Regards, Markus -- Markus Jantti | Department of Economics markus.jantti@abo.fi | Abo Akademi University http://www.abo.fi/~mjantti | FIN 20500 Turku, Finland 358-0-643 747 (Home/Voice) | 358-21-2654 161 (Office/Voice) 358-0-3489 233 (Home/Fax) | 358-21-2654 677 (Office/Fax)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.advocacy From: mario@galileo.uwaterloo.ca (Mario Stargard) Subject: Re: [Q] On limitations of partitioning with 3.3 Message-ID: <DqqK2J.LIM@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca> Sender: news@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca Organization: University of Waterloo References: <4m7shf$36n@homer.alpha.net> Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 16:49:31 GMT In article <4m7shf$36n@homer.alpha.net> gblock@homer.alpha.net (Greg Block) writes: > Raven (jm040795@fhda.edu) wrote: <munch!> > | - Can NS be installed over 500megs? Over 1gig or 1024cylinders? > > Dunno about over 1G, I think the limit is a 2G, but yeah, over 500 is fine. > <munch!> NS 3.2,3.3 have 2Gig partition limitations. Is this a limitation in the kernel and will it go away in 4.0? -- Mario Stargard | http://www.optometry.uwaterloo.ca/~mario Optometry Computing | NeXTMail Welcome, MIME Tolerated "Bill Gates says no matter how much more power we can supply, he'll develop some really exciting software that will bring the machine to its knees." Intel VP David House, Oct 16/89
From: ehutch@hypnos.norden1.com (E. Hutchinson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NEXTSTEP/Career Position/ILL Date: 1 May 1996 19:56:43 GMT Organization: Norden 1 Communications Message-ID: <4m8flr$5t2@tofu.alt.net> Programmer/analyst/developer NEXTSTEP Objective C EOF--------A plus Sybase or Oracle----A plus Career Position-----Full benefits Exceptional Opportunity 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: jm040795@fhda.edu (Raven) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.os2.setup.storage,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.unixware.misc,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.os.ms-windows.misc Subject: Partitioning Woes INFO Date: 2 May 1996 01:33:33 GMT Organization: TheSharewareCollector Distribution: inet Message-ID: <jm040795-0105961831030001@mencju.apple.com> Okay, when trying to install 13 OSes, I am running into some problems. Go figure? Anyways I'm trying to compile a list of problems and diagnose the problems. Maybe others may have some ideas or insight to what's happening. Problems Cause Notes Can't boot off of second unknown drive Cannot boot above 1gig OS uses or is setup UnixWare and NeXTStep to use BIOS to boot have this problem. Linux versus a linear method has this problems with LILO, but can be workaround with 'linear' option. Cannot partition drive unknown Maybe a problem with INT13 with OS fdisk utility vs linear partitioning. I experienced problems with Solaris reporting slice exceeds the end of disk when a drive is formatted by PQMagic. Linux also states that the partitions are not aligned on correct boundries. Cannot install OS into OS does not support WindowsNT, OS/2, and Linux extended logical this feature support this feature partitions Can only use/create four Inherent limitation Microsoft has a standard partitions PC clones. partitioning scheme which supports more than four partitions. Currently only DOS, Window95, WindowsNT OSes support this standard. Cannot boot NT or OS2 Some OSes/software WindowsNT and OS/2 exhibit and/or run Windows are configured to this behavioral problem software after creating boot/load from a when booting. Windows apps DOS/Win95 partitions. static particular and even some DOS apps partition. exhibit this problem. Termanologies/Technologies: o Volumes - This is where you save you data. It could be a file, drive, partition, network volume, floppy, serveral network volumes around the network merged together to appear as a drive. o Soft Partition - A file which exists within a hard partition. This file is a contains the actual data contained within the virtual partition. On Macintoshes a driver will mount this file as a partition that can be used. On PCs, it could possible load soft partition files as volumes using a driver for a propiertary format. Operating Systems have the ability to mount logical drives existing within the extended partition. This logical drives are actually files, or soft partitions, existing withing the extended partition. o Hard Partition - This is a predined area within you hard drive sectioned off for storing data. A hard partition must be mapped on even cylinder boundries. o Extended partition - This partition is only used for contianing soft partitions called logical drives. You cannot use the extended partition itself a drive, but rather smaller partitions within the extended partition. o Primary partition - This is a partition commonly used on PCs. You cannot have smaller partitions within this volume. o Geometry - This is how sectors are laid out on a hard drive. On IDE drives this is all consistant, but for SCSI drives, the geometry layout varies from SCSI card to SCSI card by different vendors. Many SCSI cards will read other vendors SCSI geometry, especially Adaptec products. This causes problems for users whom try to take devices for one computer to another with SCSI cards made by different vendors. I believe this can be allievated by smart OSes which can read multiple geometries. I could be way off here on understanding extended partitions, but from using PCs for a few years, I believe this is how they works. I do know however that you are limited to only four partitions which really sucks. If anyone has had problems partitioning and installing OSes, let me know. I thought of compiling a chart of known problems and possible workarounds. Send me any suggestions, better descriptions for novice users, or additional input or even questions/problems. - joaquin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer From: "Eric K. Ringger" <ringger@cs.rochester.edu> Subject: Re: How can I add undo to my program? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 30 Apr 1996 19:08:10 GMT." <Dqovtn.8E6@nvc.cc.ca.us> Message-ID: <199605020233.WAA09449@slate.cs.rochester.edu> Sender: ringger@cs.rochester.edu (Eric K. Ringger) Cc: comp.sys.next.misc, comp.sys.next.programmer Organization: University of Rochester Computer Science Dept Date: Wed, 01 May 1996 22:33:46 -0400 Hi. Chris Osborn wrote: >How can I add undo to my program? Even better, how about a >multi-level undo? > >It seems like a nearly impossible task of getting undo to work when >there are so many different things to keep track of that can be >undone. Especially in a text object! > >I remember a few years ago seeing something that someone had done >which had some sort of undo manager, and all you had to do was add >some kine of undo method to your objects to get it to work. 'Sounds like Draw.app ! >I'm looking for that, or something similar. [...] Check out the following files in the NEXTSTEP Developer distribution: /NextDeveloper/Examples/AppKit/Draw/undo.subproj /NextDeveloper/Examples/AppKit/Draw/UndoDoc.rtf /NextDeveloper/Examples/AppKit/Draw/UndoREADME.rtf /NextDeveloper/Examples/AppKit/Draw/textUndo.subproj /NextDeveloper/Examples/AppKit/Draw/graphicsUndo.subproj Good luck. --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: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: How can I add undo to my program? Date: 2 May 1996 05:03:38 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <4m9fna$n3@digifix.digifix.com> References: <199605020233.WAA09449@slate.cs.rochester.edu> In-Reply-To: <199605020233.WAA09449@slate.cs.rochester.edu> On 05/01/96, "Eric K. Ringger" wrote: >Hi. > >Chris Osborn wrote: >>How can I add undo to my program? Even better, how about a >>multi-level undo? >> >>It seems like a nearly impossible task of getting undo to work when >>there are so many different things to keep track of that can be >>undone. Especially in a text object! >> >>I remember a few years ago seeing something that someone had done >>which had some sort of undo manager, and all you had to do was add >>some kine of undo method to your objects to get it to work. > >'Sounds like Draw.app ! > >>I'm looking for that, or something similar. >[...] > >Check out the following files in the NEXTSTEP Developer distribution: > I sent this to Chris earlier as well, but it might be of general interest too. In the Summer 1994 issue of NXApp, Jeff Martin wrote an article on message based Undo. Its on ftp.next.com or via next answers.. 1998_Message_Based_Undo_1994Summer.rtfd -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions) http://www.stepwise.com/ (Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server)
From: hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (David Hill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: 640 KB limit in NeXTSTEP - Tell me it's not true! Date: 2 May 1996 04:28:31 GMT Organization: What, me organised? Message-ID: <4m9dlf$ich@linux.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> References: <4lfla9$ins@www.langen.bull.de> <Dq9Kys.2HB@ncifcrf.gov> In article <4m62l5$612@catapult.gatech.edu>, Tp12a <gt7357a@acmex.gatech.edu> wrote: >Volker Herminghaus (vhs@nextone.langen.bull.de) wrote: >: Sorry I wasn't clear: I meant 640KB in NS/Intel only, of course. There would >: be no reason at all for such a limit on black HW, but I could imagine one >: for Intel (guess why - ask Silly Billy with the Micro Willy :-) > >: Volker > > I was under the impression that IBM PC compatables reserved $A0000 >to $AFFFF for register space so you can't exactly allocate more than >640k of contiguous memory in "low" memory even in protected mode! > Correct me if I'm wrong! > Phil >Tp12a@freenet.fsu.edu >gt7357a@prism.gatech.edu >http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gt7357a >-- >Philip C. Tsao >Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 >uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!gt7357a >Internet: gt7357a@prism.gatech.edu > The idea that NEXTSTEP on Intel hardware might have the dreaded 640K limitation sounds like propaganda from rivals! NEXTSTEP uses the modern Intel architecture properly, as does Windows NT. -- David R. Hill, CS & Psych Depts., U. Calgary | Imagination is more Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4 Ph: 403-220-6315 | important than knowledge. hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca Fx: 403-282-6778 | (Albert Einstein) NeXTMail: hill@trillium.ab.ca (Preferred) | Kill your television!
From: yiannis@prologos.nrl.navy.mil (John Michopoulos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: displaying Greek Web pages in OmniWeb Date: 2 May 1996 10:17:54 GMT Organization: Naval Research Laboratory Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ma24i$6tg@ra.nrl.navy.mil> References: <4m2fri$ks2@elna.ethz.ch> In article <4m2fri$ks2@elna.ethz.ch> david@pfi.ibk.baum.ethz.ch (David C. EKCHIAN) writes: > > I have problems displaying Greek Web Pages in OmniWeb. Do I need special > fonts? > > Here is a small test page: http://www.onned.gr/greek/index.htm > > Me too! And I have several greek fonts installed. You should ask the > Webmaster there: > > Dimitris Siatiras <sysadmin@onned.gr> > > David. > -- > o > _ /-;c > ___ David C. EKCHIAN ______________________________________(@)#\(@)___ > I don't have any problems with the fonts I made. Just make sure that you can select from the font preferences of OmniWeb 2.01 and presto! I also have made a couple of greek keyboard mappings files so you can type in Greek (this is irelevant to the previous problem). If there is enough interest drop me a line. I should probaply upload the stuff in the archives. --jm ------------------------------------------------------------------- | Dr.John Michopoulos (yanni)| Tel: (202) 767-2189 or -2165 | | Naval Research Laboratory | Fax: (202) 767-9181 | | Code 6380 |e-mail: yiannis@prologos.nrl.navy.mil| | Washington DC 20375-5000 | michopoulos@anvil.nrl.navy.mil|
From: dirk@.object-factory.com (Dirk Olmes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: [Q] On limitations of partitioning with 3.3 Date: 2 May 1996 10:31:02 GMT Organization: Object Factory GmbH (Germany) Message-ID: <4ma2t6$i6m@isabella.object-factory.com> References: <jm040795-3004961641310001@mencju.apple.com> <4m7shf$36n@homer.alpha.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit gblock@homer.alpha.net (Greg Block) wrote: > Raven (jm040795@fhda.edu) wrote: > | I want to use NeXTStep and was trying to figure out how I should install > | it. I have two 2gig SCSI drives (Seagate drives on Adaptec 2940PCI > | card). I wish to install NeXTStep onto my second drive. Is this > | possible? > > Yeah, I did. Bit of a hassle, but it can be done. The only bad part is > that I ad to create a 10MB partition on my first 1.6G drive to boot the NS > partition of the second 1G drive. So, it doesn't really "autoboot"; I > always have to do the old sd()mach_kernel thing. I'm sure there's a way > around it, but I haven't found it. BTW, I'm using OS/2's boot manager. You can even spare the 10MB partition if you don't mind booting NS off a floppy disk. I did this for almost 2 Years now and it works fine. Just follow NextAnswer #1487 ("Booting from Hard Drive Disk). These steps work fine for a boot floppy. -dirk --- _____________________________________________________________________ Dirk Olmes OBJECT FACTORY Gesellschaft für Informatik und Datenverarbeitung mbH Lohbachstraße 12, 58239 Schwerte, Germany Telephon +49 (0) 2304 945 220 Telefax +49 (0) 2304 945 226 dirk@object-factory.com
From: robin@pswtech.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: [Q] On limitations of partitioning with 3.3 Date: 2 May 1996 14:21:14 GMT Organization: PSW Technologies Message-ID: <4magcq$m4b@digdug.pswtech.com> References: <jm040795-3004961641310001@mencju.apple.com> <4m7shf$36n@homer.alpha.net> gblock@homer.alpha.net (Greg Block) wrote: : Raven (jm040795@fhda.edu) wrote: : | Hi, I had a few questions about paritition. I'm planning on running : | multiple OSes (9 of them). : Sounds like me. :) : | I want to use NeXTStep and was trying to figure out how I should install : | it. I have two 2gig SCSI drives (Seagate drives on Adaptec 2940PCI : | card). I wish to install NeXTStep onto my second drive. Is this : | possible? : Yeah, I did. Bit of a hassle, but it can be done. The only bad part is : that I ad to create a 10MB partition on my first 1.6G drive to boot the NS : partition of the second 1G drive. So, it doesn't really "autoboot"; I : always have to do the old sd()mach_kernel thing. I'm sure there's a way : around it, but I haven't found it. BTW, I'm using OS/2's boot manager. There is a way around this, but it isn't for the faint of heart... Go to the: /private/Drivers/i386/System.config/Instance0.table (This is a file within a 'config' bundle -- you will need to select the "System.config" file first from the file-browser, and then hit COMMAND-O (note that is a _shifted_ letter -O- (oh)).) This will open another file-view with the bundle in it. You should see the Instance0.table file within it. Edit this file with Edit.app (or, use a shell to get to it and edit it with 'vi' or 'emacs' or "whatever"). Change the line: "Kernel Flags" = ""; To: "Kernel Flags" = "sd(1)mach_kernel rootdev=sd1a"; (Note that the _actual_ number will really depend on which drive/partition you use for NEXTSTEP... This should be the same as the command line option you currently supply to the boot prompt though...) Save the files. Now, (here's the really tricky part)... If you boot from a "boot partition", this file will be the one on that partition. However, you will need to make sure that the list of device drivers you load (as defined by the "Active Drivers" and the "Boot Drivers" stanzas in this file) are the same in this file from the 'root' partition. That is to say, this file exists on _both_ the 'boot' partition, and the 'root' partition (same path to the file). : | - Can NS indeed be installed on a second drive? : Yup. Like I said, bit of a hassle. Read your 3.3 install manual. : | - Can NS be installed over 500megs? Over 1gig or 1024cylinders? : Dunno about over 1G, I think the limit is a 2G, but yeah, over 500 is fine. The only limitation is how the BIOS reports your drive. I have NEXTSTEP installed in a 2.5GB Conner drive (EIDE), and it works fine. It took a little trickery to get it initialized, but after that it works. : | This are my two questions thus far. I hope I won't have install : | qeuestions in the future. : Well, we can *all* hope that we don't have to ask questions in the future, : but hell, how likely is that? :) Good luck... -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** These are my opinions... Mine! All Mine! Minemineminemineminemine! *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin D. Wilson robin@pswtech.com PSW Technologies 701 Canyon Bend Dr. 9050 Capital of Texas Hwy Pflugerville, TX 78660 Austin, TX 78759 (512) 251-1737 (512) 343-6666
From: ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: rdist frontend? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Date: 28 Apr 1996 19:55:37 GMT Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA Message-ID: <4m0ifp$157@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> NOTE: FOLLOWUPS TO COMP.SYS.NEXT.MISC I am trying to set up rdist to synchronize a NeXTStep desktop with a LINUX notebook. Is there a GUI front-end for rdist, either under X or under NeXTStep? Ivo Welch ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu Assoc Prof of Finance Anderson GSM at UCLA 110 Westwood Plaza, Box 951481, LA CA 90095-1481 UCLA AGSM Finance Faculty Homepage: HTTP://next.agsm.ucla.edu/
From: cortesr@alleg.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Login Color Index Date: 2 May 1996 18:53:12 GMT Organization: Allegheny College Message-ID: <4mb0ao$d3r@speering.alleg.edu> Hello: I am just curious. What is the default color index of the background for the login panel? I know it is blue, but what is the index? Anyone know where this color is set in defaults either? Thanks, Ricardo -- Ricardo Cortes Allegheny College cortesr@alleg.edu (NeXTMail OK) http://ace.alleg.edu/~cortes
From: tlm@ameslab.gov (Dr. T. L. Marchioro II) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: LateX2HTML? Date: 2 May 1996 22:58:09 GMT Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Distribution: world Message-ID: <4mbem1$hg5@news.iastate.edu> References: <4m2lm1$3g@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> Cc: woo@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov John W. Wooten wrote: > Has anyone been able to get LateX2html running and working consistently on > NeXT? If so, what did you do? I've installed it, but when I try to translate > a LaTeX document I get no pages output except for very brief headers. > I have had it running here for some time. Works beautifully for me, although the latest version is a little flaky, I think because I am not running Perl5.0. What is probably happening, based on your description, is that you have something wrong with the document that is causing equations not to be processed correctly. Look through the images.log file that is generated to see if it is giving warning or error messages on processing the equations. Another possibility is that you have one of the older versions of latex2html, several of which had serious bugs. I would be happy to help you more with this, but it will have to wait a week as I'm off to WWW5 in Paris (I know... life is rough :) So if the above does not help send e-mail and I will look at it on my return. Hope this helps --- 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: jon@mgmt.purdue.edu (Jon Haveman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Login Color Index Date: 2 May 1996 23:52:18 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <4mbhri$1nf@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <4mb0ao$d3r@speering.alleg.edu> cortesr@alleg.edu wrote: > Hello: > > I am just curious. What is the default color index of the background > for the login panel? I know it is blue, but what is the index? > Anyone know where this color is set in defaults either? I'm pretty sure it defaults to the color background you select for root - I'm pretty sure. I'll be there is some other way to set it as well. Cheers - Jon -- Jon Haveman http://intrepid.mgmt.purdue.edu/ Asst. Prof. of Economics ,_~o jon@mgmt.purdue.edu Krannert School of Mgmt _-\_<, (317) 494-6156 (Office) Purdue University (*)/'(*) (317) 494-9658 (Fax) W. Lafayette, IN 47907-1310 (317) 742-7961 (Home)
From: tlabs@mucc.mahidol.ac.th (Jay Busari) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NeXtStep and GUS Max--HELP Date: 2 May 1996 06:36:31 GMT Organization: Mahidol University, Thailand Message-ID: <4m9l5f$qn4@mars.mahidol.ac.th> Hi all, I just got NS 3.3 and there's some info I can't get---not anywhere in NeXtAnswers. I have and GUS Max sound card and a Panasonic CR-562 CDROM drive attached. Now please someone tell me that there are drivers for the GUS with the installation software...I haven't got around to doing it yet, since I've been very busy lately. This'll save me the trouble of having to buy an SB16 and CDROM drive just for NS. I don't mind the little extra cost...but if it can be avoided, it'd be great!! Thanks in advance, Jay Busari (tlabs@mucc.mahidol.ac.th)
From: birdrock@well.com (Brian Dear) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OpenSource? What happened to 'em? Date: 2 May 1996 18:08:18 GMT Organization: The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA Message-ID: <4matmi$3nr@nkosi.well.com> Did OpenSource go out of business? Their 800 number and area-code 303 number both seem to be disconnected. Their website just times out with no data. Anybody know? While I'm at it, the reason I need to reach OpenSource is I bought four Canon object.station's from them, and I am trying to re-install NS3.3 onto two of them, and I cannot even get past the installation floppies before I run into problems (what SCSI driver should I pick out of the list that's on the NS 3.3 Drivers Diskette? The Canons have BusLogic SCSI cards, but none of the BusLogic selections in the list seems to work!). .
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lorgb@netcom.com (LOR/Geske Bock Associates) Subject: Help to boot NeXTStep from 2nd SCSI on PC Message-ID: <lorgbDqsq3H.KIC@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 20:54:53 GMT Sender: lorgb@netcom12.netcom.com How can I boot NeXTStep from 2nd SCSI on the PC? I installed Win NT on the 1st SCSI and NeXTStep on the 2nd SCSI. Now I can not boot NeXTStep. Can anyone know about this? Thanks.
From: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OpenSource? What happened to 'em? Date: 3 May 1996 11:22:43 GMT Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd. Message-ID: <4mcqa3$j1t@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <4matmi$3nr@nkosi.well.com> Cc: birdrock@well.com In <4matmi$3nr@nkosi.well.com> Brian Dear wrote: > While I'm at it, the reason I need to reach OpenSource is I bought four > Canon object.station's from them, and I am trying to re-install NS3.3 > onto two of them, and I cannot even get past the installation floppies > before I run into problems (what SCSI driver should I pick out of the > list that's on the NS 3.3 Drivers Diskette? The Canons have > BusLogic SCSI cards, but none of the BusLogic selections in the list > seems to work!). NeXT changed the default port address for BusLogic cards. You should probably rejumper the card to move the port from 0x334 to 0x330. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.co.uk Tel: (01494)432422 P & L Systems Fax: (01494)432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: Jochen Klinke <jklinke@ucsd.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Disktab entry for Iomega jaz Date: 3 May 1996 14:49:41 GMT Organization: The University of California at San Diego Message-ID: <4md6e6$p8k@news1.ucsd.edu> I've been trying to use the following distab entry (was posted in a newsgroup a couple of weeks ago) for the Iomega jaz 1GB drive. iomega jaz|iomega jaz 1GB|iomega jaz 1GB G.6002/1:\ :ty=removable_rw_scsi:nc#1021:nt#64:ns#32:ss#512:rm#5400:\ :fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\ :os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#192:\ :pa#0:sa#2045952:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#3:da#4096:ra#5:oa=time:\ :ia:ta=4.3BSD:aa: However, initializing fails and reports these errors in the console: BuildDisk: Starting build at Thu May 2 12:15:35 1996... disk name: iomega jaz 1GB G.6002/1 disk type: removable_rw_scsi writing disk label Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot1 creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd1a /usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd1a /etc/mkfs /dev/rsd1a 1045365 6534 2 8192 1024 16 10 60 4096 t Warning: insufficient space in super block for rotational layout tables with nsect 6534 and ntrak 2. File system performance may be impaired. cylinder group too large (16 cylinders); max: 4 cylinders per group /usr/etc/newfs /dev/rsd1a failed (status 1) What's wrong with the disktab entry? Any pointers appreciated. Jochen Klinke PORD 0230 email: <jklinke@ucsd.edu> Scripps Institution of Oceanography phone: 619-534-8029 La Jolla, CA 92093-0230 fax: 619-534-8509
From: birdrock@well.com (Brian Dear) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OpenSource? What happened to 'em? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 3 May 1996 18:18:01 GMT Organization: The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA Message-ID: <4mdikp$54r@nkosi.well.com> References: <4matmi$3nr@nkosi.well.com> I've gotten some email from folks telling me OpenSource has gone out of business. Sigh. I think it's time to stop using NEXTSTEP. Nearly every NEXTSTEP-related vendor I've dealt with has disappeared. I'm typing this from a snazzy Canon object.station running NS3.3, but have reached the point that it's too dangerous to create so many documents in a NS environment. Time to consider alternatives... sigh Brian Dear (birdrock@well.com) wrote: : Did OpenSource go out of business? Their 800 number and area-code 303 : number both seem to be disconnected. Their website just times out with : no data. : Anybody know? : While I'm at it, the reason I need to reach OpenSource is I bought four : Canon object.station's from them, and I am trying to re-install NS3.3 : onto two of them, and I cannot even get past the installation floppies : before I run into problems (what SCSI driver should I pick out of the : list that's on the NS 3.3 Drivers Diskette? The Canons have : BusLogic SCSI cards, but none of the BusLogic selections in the list : seems to work!). : .
From: woo@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Getting au files to use Sound.app Date: 3 May 1996 18:37:41 GMT Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN Distribution: world Message-ID: <4mdjpl$o3c@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> I'm using OmniWeb and have selected a sound that downloads to /tmp/Omni..../something.au It then opens the Edit.app with the bytes of something.au in it. I haven't been able to get Sound.app to recognize files with .au extension nor to get a file with .au extension to have the option of using Sound.app In the Contents view of the Inspector, how do you put a new type in? Seems impossible to use drag and drop. What is the trick? -- - - - - - - - - - J. W. Wooten
From: Scott Mewett <mewett@mpr.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Where can I get NeXT paraphernalia Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 13:39:13 -0700 Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd. Message-ID: <318A6EF0.79DD@mpr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Where can I get NeXT paraphernalia Do they still make it? I phoned the number in the FAQ but it is a different company now. -- Scott Mewett MPR Teltech Ltd. Burnaby, BC mewett@mpr.ca ACSII Only mewett@planeteer.com NeXTMail Welcome
From: jsamson@agt.net (Jean-Paul Samson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Getting au files to use Sound.app Date: 4 May 1996 01:27:10 GMT Organization: Public Live Access Network (PLAnet) Message-ID: <4mebpe$7e3@tigger.planet.eon.net> References: <4mdjpl$o3c@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> In-Reply-To: <4mdjpl$o3c@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> On 05/03/96, John W. Wooten wrote: >I'm using OmniWeb and have selected a sound that downloads >to /tmp/Omni..../something.au > >It then opens the Edit.app with the bytes of something.au in it. > >I haven't been able to get Sound.app to recognize files with .au extension >nor to get a file with .au extension to have the option of using Sound.app >In the Contents view of the Inspector, how do you put a new type in? From the Sound.app Open panel, enter the directory in which the .au file resides. Only .snd files appear, but you can type in the name of the .au file and Sound.app will attempt to read it. Assuming that the .au is not in some strange format, Sound.app should successfully load the sound. -- -=========================================================================- Jean-Paul (Sean) Samson -==- jsamson@agt.net -==- NeXTmail welcome, no MIME -=========================================================================- -= Celebrate the return of DOCTOR WHO with fellow Whovians at a local =- -= get-together: http://www.agt.net/public/jsamson/whoparty =- -=========================================================================- D O C T O R | San Francisco | The end of a millenium, | Watch on FOX, W H O | December 31st, 1999 | the end of a world? | May 14th. -=========================================================================-
From: mpemburn@ix.netcom.com (Mark Pemburn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: A better mouse Date: 4 May 1996 01:06:40 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <4meaj0$mg8@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Hi, I just became the proud owner of a vintage NeXTStation -- the 68040 variety -- some four years old. I must confess that I know nothing about the system but it seems quite powerful considering its age. One thing that I have noticed, though, is that the mouse responds very sluggishly. Is there any aid for this? Mark Pemburn, Baltimore
From: dorfsmay@cuug.ab.ca (Yves Dorfsman,, 403 228-5339,) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Next on Gateway 2000 Date: 3 May 1996 23:00:26 -0600 Organization: Calgary UNIX Users' Group Message-ID: <4meo9a$1kqc@cuugnet.cuug.ab.ca> Hi ! I've bought a NeXTSTEP for Intel (I think it was actually an evaluation version). My machine is a 2-year old Gateway 2000, with the cdrom drive plug on the IDE disk, or the floppy. Anyway, it seems that the boot disk for NeXT supports only SCSI cdrom !! Is there anything I can do ? Like ftp'ing down a version of boot disk for my cdrom drive, or such ? Thanks. Yves. -- ---- Yves Dorfsman dorfsmay@cuug.ab.ca http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~dorfsmay
From: hnalgae@soback.kornet.nm.kr (SungJin Kang (kornet)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Emacs for NeXT Date: 4 May 1996 12:02:46 GMT Organization: KORNET (Korea Telecom) Message-ID: <4mfh16$g6d@usenet.kornet.nm.kr> References: <4ln6c3$ah@hecate.umd.edu> Lin (lin@lorien.umd.edu) wrote: : We got Emacs for NeXT 4.12 installed on a NeXT box running NeXTStep 3.3 : with patch. It works find when called from the command line. But when : clicked from the browser. Icon move to the bottom of the screen, dim for a : while and then nothing happened. Any one got any idea what might be wrong ? In my case, Emacs for NeXT 4.12 worked very well when clicked from dock or shelf, but it didn't work in command line. So I received source and complied. Then, it worked very well. How about getting source and compiling it? Hayan Nalgae. hnalgae@soback.kornet.nm.kr
From: kkwan@cs.hku.hk (Kelvin Kwan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Disktab entry for Iomega jaz Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Date: 4 May 1996 07:16:00 GMT Organization: University of Hong Kong Message-ID: <4mf07g$m8a@hkusuc.hku.hk> References: <4md6e6$p8k@news1.ucsd.edu> Jochen Klinke (jklinke@ucsd.edu) wrote: : I've been trying to use the following distab entry (was posted in a newsgroup : a couple of weeks ago) for the Iomega jaz 1GB drive. : : iomega jaz|iomega jaz 1GB|iomega jaz 1GB G.6002/1:\ : :ty=removable_rw_scsi:nc#1021:nt#64:ns#32:ss#512:rm#5400:\ : :fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\ : :os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#192:\ : :pa#0:sa#2045952:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#3:da#4096:ra#5:oa=time:\ : :ia:ta=4.3BSD:aa: : : However, initializing fails and reports these errors in the console:
From: kkwan@cs.hku.hk (Kelvin Kwan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Disktab entry for Iomega jaz Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Date: 4 May 1996 07:18:56 GMT Organization: University of Hong Kong Message-ID: <4mf0d0$m8a@hkusuc.hku.hk> References: <4md6e6$p8k@news1.ucsd.edu> Jochen Klinke (jklinke@ucsd.edu) wrote: : I've been trying to use the following distab entry (was posted in a newsgroup : a couple of weeks ago) for the Iomega jaz 1GB drive. : : iomega jaz|iomega jaz 1GB|iomega jaz 1GB G.6002/1:\ : :ty=removable_rw_scsi:nc#1021:nt#64:ns#32:ss#512:rm#5400:\ : :fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\ : :os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#192:\ : :pa#0:sa#2045952:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#3:da#4096:ra#5:oa=time:\ : :ia:ta=4.3BSD:aa: : : However, initializing fails and reports these errors in the console:
From: gsmith@westnet.com (Greg Smith) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.os2.setup.storage,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.unixware.misc,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.os.ms-windows.misc Subject: Re: Partitioning Woes INFO Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.os2.setup.storage,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.unixware.misc,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.os.ms-windows.misc Date: 4 May 1996 17:03:20 GMT Organization: WestNet Internet Services Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4mg2ko$kk4@mycroft.westnet.com> References: <jm040795-0105961831030001@mencju.apple.com> Raven (jm040795@fhda.edu) wrote: : Problems Cause Notes : Can't boot off of second unknown : drive Most OSs (DOS and UnixWare for sure) won't boot off the second drive, no matter what you do, period. Linux will, and I've heard NT will as well. My next question for you is what you're using as a boot manager to deal with all this. I've gotten up to 5 OSes simultaneously going with freeware OS boot select (there's a copy of it on my WWW page to download), which can correctly start up Linux on your second drive. It includes a ton of information in it's documentation on this topic, you're trying to reinvent a wheel this program has already built. The only problem I couldn't solve using just OSBS was getting regular DOS 6.2 and Win 95 to boot seperately without jumping through lots of hoops. I ended up buying V-Communications System Commander; for a measly $60, it solved all those problems and has made my life much easier. It included a big table in the documetation with all the PC OSes they know of (quite a few), where you can put their partitions at, and other notes, like what you're trying to put together. If you time is worth anything to you I'd recommend getting a copy. -- * Greg Smith gsmith@westnet.com Baltimore, MD * http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith for info on the Progress 4GL/RDBMS, * UnixWare/NetWare connections, speaker building, rock music * remastering, 80's music that isn't bad, and CD shopping
From: mail@carecom.com (Bjoern B. Dorra) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: looking for a wiz Date: Sat, 04 May 1996 13:53:44 -0700 Organization: CareCom Message-ID: <mail-0405961353440001@carebrain.carecom.com> Howdy, I am looking for a wiz , Yes a real object knowledgeable person to lead my new companys engineering group. I¹ve got the customer but not the technical visionary person that can take this companys product line from the prototype to the finish line. Yes this is a startup, and we are based in San Francisco . Have you got what it takes? Send me your info by email to: mail@carecom.com Snail Mail to: CARECOM 1482 Page Street San Francisco, CA. 94117
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: A better mouse Date: Sat, 4 May 1996 20:40:50 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1996May4.204050.28746@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <4meaj0$mg8@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> In article <4meaj0$mg8@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> mpemburn@ix.netcom.com (Mark Pemburn) writes: > I just became the proud owner of a vintage NeXTStation -- the 68040 > variety -- some four years old. I must confess that I know nothing about the > system but it seems quite powerful considering its age. One thing that I have > noticed, though, is that the mouse responds very sluggishly. Is there any aid > for this? NeXTSTEP mice have non-linear acceleration, which means that if you push them hard, the cursor goes further. This is different from the flat curves of Windows, for example. When used on a reasonably sized display, non-linear acceleration is much better. Put more cynically, you should get used to it. If you still don't like the feel of the mouse, it can be customised slightly from the Preferences application. There is also a commercial utility (which we sell), called MouseMagic which lets you customise mouse responses, as well as choose custom mouse cursors. Look on http://www.plsys.co.uk, or ftp://ftp.plsys.co.uk for a demo copy. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: scp@sonia.math.ucla.edu (S. Port) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Getting au files to use Sound.app Date: 5 May 1996 00:40:22 GMT Organization: UCLA Mathematics Department Distribution: world Message-ID: <4mgtdm$rek@saba.info.ucla.edu> References: <4mdjpl$o3c@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> >I haven't been able to get Sound.app to recognize files with .au extension >nor to get a file with .au extension to have the option of using Sound.app >In the Contents view of the Inspector, how do you put a new type in? > >Seems impossible to use drag and drop. What is the trick? There is a small Next utility called Workspace Manager. Launch it and change the *.au file to *.snd. Then launch the Contents Inspector (Cmd-2) and click the play button. On a Motorola Next you will hear your sound. Don't know if this works on Next Intel. Charlie Dvorak cdvorak@pepperdine.edu + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + The Graduate School of Psychology at Pepperdine "Computers are useless - they only give you answers." Pablo Picasso "Wish I said that." Charles Dvorak + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
From: pixel8ed@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com (Pixelated Technologies) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: SALE!!!NeXT Hardware, Software, etc. Date: 4 May 1996 20:25:42 -0700 Organization: KAIWAN Internet (310-527-4279,818-756-0180,909-785-9712,714-638-4133,805-294-9338) Message-ID: <4mh73m$6hp@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> Subject: SALE!!!NeXT Hardware, Software, etc. Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace Organization: KAIWAN Internet (310-527-4279,818-756-0180,909-785-9712,714-638-4133,805-294-9338) Summary: Keywords: Huge sale on NeXT Hardware and software!!!!!EVERYTHING MUST GO!!!!! WeÕre offering fire sale prices on the hardware, software and manuals below: HARDWARE 2 gigabyte 5.25 DEC hard drive 700 mb 5.25 SCSI hard drive NeXT color printer Pinnacle Micro 128 mb optical drive (some ODÕs include.) NeXT Color Station Scanner - B & W (as is) 21Ó color monitor ADB mouse ADB keyboard ADB Sound box NeXT Non-ADB keyboard & mouse Sony MP-F40W-14 floppy drives PLUS: Memorex 2SED floppy disks (10 packs) Optical disks 2.88 mb floppies SCSI 2 cable 6 feet (new) Printer cable (Next) PLI Super floppy 2.8 SCSI 2 cable Original Next power cords EPS Toner cartridges FEATURING: NEXT DSP ISDN DEVICES - Perfect for building ISDN gateway or programmable voice mail device! SOFTWARE NextStep 3.2 for Next (CD & Disk) Nextstep 3.2 for Next (just CD) Next 3.2 Developer for intel & Next (CD) .. Nextstep 3.1 for Next (CD & Disk) Next Step 3.1 (shrinkwrapped) for Next Nextstep Developer 3.1 CD for Intel & Next... Nextstep 3.0 for Next (CD & Disk) NextStep Prerelease 3.0 (2 CDÕs) Nexttime (multimedia framework) (shrinkwrapped) Education software sampler third party demonstration software Dataphile / Stone Design Dataphile / create / 3D reality (CD) Framemaker 2.0 Appsoft Draw 1.0 Super Debugger 3.7 Microphone Create 2 Soft PC 2.0 Portfolio Speeddex Adobe Type Library/ Touch Type Library Culture Shock Dove Fax WhoÕs Calling 2.0 Rangarok Mathematica Engage Equation Builder 3.0/ .9 Fiscal Dimension 9.5 and 9 Fast track Schedule 2.0 Equation Builder 3.1 (shrink wrapped) floppyworks 2.2 Allegro 3.1 (shrink wrapped) Cricket Presents (presentaion SW for Mac.) Mach Ten by TenOn (UNIX software for Mac!!) BOOKS: HereÕs How, UserÕs Guide, OwnerÕs Guide ÒA fast track of working w/ files, folders, and applications in the NextStep workplace Next Applications Network and System Administration Preliminary 1.0 System Reference Manual: Appendices Software & Peripherals Fall 1990 Sound, Music, Signal Processing Nextstep support & Ed catalogue Next UserÕs reference Next geting started Next release notes Next Improv(e) 1.0 Getting Started w/ Next Dimension Next Dept Tools 3rd party products Spring 1992 BoxSet / Applications / ...tutorials...sys admin userÕs reference catalouge of next promotional items Here's How Nextstep reference Nextworld fall 1992 Next in line (premiere Issue) PLUS, a veritable plethora of power cables, SCSI cables, Optical drive cartridges and cables, etc. CHEAP!!!!! If you donÕt see it, and you need it, ASK! Also, we have printers, monitors, etc. which weÕll sell for parts, as is. 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. -- Pixelated Technologies The source for NeXT and NeXTStep (415)-554-0546 1-800-PIXEL-ME
From: pixel8ed@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com (Pixelated Technologies) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: FS:Oracle DB/Devel. Sys. Date: 4 May 1996 20:35:29 -0700 Organization: KAIWAN Internet (310-527-4279,818-756-0180,909-785-9712,714-638-4133,805-294-9338) Message-ID: <4mh7m1$72c@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> 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). If youÕre interested in purchasing, or have questions about the above, please reply to this address, or call Pixelated Technologies at (213)-655-8622 or toll-free at 1-800-PIXEL-ME. -- Pixelated Technologies The source for NeXT and NeXTStep (415)-554-0546 1-800-PIXEL-ME
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: 6 May 1996 04:15:13 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4mjuch$6k8@digifix.digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Software, Inc. WWW site comp.sys.next newsgroups related newsgroups comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list ftp sites NeXTanswers Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site =============================================== This online community resource includes - 150+ ISV company pages - 350+ ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - NEXTSTEP User Group Directory - comp.sys.next archives - User Group information - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.stepwise.com/ Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise, please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com. eduSTEP WWW site ================ http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/ eduStep aims to provide up-to-date information on: - NextStep tools and projects for scientists. - Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist). - A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with customers in the educational community. - Conferences, meetings, workshops - Major projects, such as SciTools, EMBL's project to develop a NextStep scientific work environment - Status reports on GNUStep, a freely-available implementation of OpenStep now being developed NeXT Software, Inc. 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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: al@atd.rochester.ny.us (Al Davis) Subject: Re: A better mouse Message-ID: <1996May5.210127.22147@atd.rochester.ny.us> References: <4meaj0$mg8@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 21:01:27 GMT Mark Pemburn (mpemburn@ix.netcom.com) wrote: : I just became the proud owner of a vintage NeXTStation -- the 68040 :variety -- some four years old. I must confess that I know nothing about the :system but it seems quite powerful considering its age. One thing that I have :noticed, though, is that the mouse responds very sluggishly. Is there any aid :for this? Maybe it is dirty. The mechanism tends to collect dust. If this is the case, a good cleaning will fix it. The dust collects behind the rollers, out of sight. When the friction with the packed dust exceeds the friction with the ball, it gets very sluggish, possibly indicating zero movement. Another cause might be a greasy coating on the ball. This must be removed. Yet another factor might be the build-up of goo on the internal rollers. This, too, must be removed. They are all metal and cylindrical. Anything else is just goo. --
From: "John W. Wooten" <woo@ornl.gov> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Getting au files to use Sound.app Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 08:22:41 -0400 Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960506082018.2164B-100000@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov> References: <m0uFTbU-0010LQC@cubenx.cube.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <m0uFTbU-0010LQC@cubenx.cube.de> The problem was that OmniWeb automatically downloads files like file.au. If the Next machine can locate an application AUTOMATICALLY that will handle the file, then an au file would play AUTOMATICALLY. I realize that I can save it (it gets saved in /tmp anyway) and then manipulate things to make them work. HOW do I get Sound.app to recognize au as a valid extension for itself? On Sat, 4 May 1996, Holger Hoffstaette wrote: > Date: Sat, 4 May 96 00:45 MET DST > From: Holger Hoffstaette <hhoff@cube.de> > To: woo@ornl.gov > Newgroups: comp.sys.next.misc > Subject: Re: Getting au files to use Sound.app > > In comp.sys.next.misc you wrote: > >I'm using OmniWeb and have selected a sound that downloads > >to /tmp/Omni..../something.au > >It then opens the Edit.app with the bytes of something.au in it. > >I haven't been able to get Sound.app to recognize files with .au extension > >nor to get a file with .au extension to have the option of using Sound.app > >In the Contents view of the Inspector, how do you put a new type in? > >Seems impossible to use drag and drop. What is the trick? > > Simple: just rename it to something.snd. :-) > While you're at it, get the most excellent Resound.app from the archives; it > recognizes .au files. > > Holger > -- > ___ > /\__\ Holger Hoffstaette net: hhoff@cube.de (MIME, NeXT, PGP) > \/__/ Cube Informationssysteme GmbH vox: (+49)0711-90669-0 (or -11) > [kju:b] Stuttgart, Germany fax: (+49)0711-90669-16 > - - - - - - - - - J. W. Wooten
From: allan@ali.bc.ca (Allan Noordvyk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Getting au files to use Sound.app Date: 6 May 1996 15:11:08 GMT Organization: ALI Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ml4qc$krm@cetus.ali.bc.ca> References: <4mdjpl$o3c@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> Cc: woo@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov In comp.sys.next.misc John W. Wooten wrote: > I'm using OmniWeb and have selected a sound that downloads > to /tmp/Omni..../something.au > > It then opens the Edit.app with the bytes of something.au in it. > > I haven't been able to get Sound.app to recognize files with .au extension > nor to get a file with .au extension to have the option of using Sound.app > In the Contents view of the Inspector, how do you put a new type in? > > Seems impossible to use drag and drop. What is the trick? I believe that Sound.app will play the .au files if you change the extension to .snd. Personally, I use Resound.app (available from the archives) since it recognizes and plays .au and .wav files. -- Allan Noordvyk, Software Artisan e-mail: allan@ali.bc.ca ALI Technologies Voice: 604.279.5422 x 317 Richmond, Canada Fax: 604.279.5468 * NeXT and MIME mail welcome *
From: schaub@tamu.edu (Hanspeter Schaub) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: slow system with Preference.app running Date: 6 May 1996 18:50:44 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Message-ID: <4mlhm4$sa6@news.tamu.edu> We have an intel system running NS3.3 with Patch1. The user left himself logged in and left town for a week. When he returned, he found the screen frozen and nothing responded. After turning the power off and rebooting everything seemed to run fine except for one thing. The system is a lot slower. The harddisk seems to get constantly accessed, even though now apparent processes are running. I tried checking with the ps command too. I remembered some discussion a while back about Preference.app having some bugs in NS3.3. After quiting the Preference.app the system immediately became more responsive. The cursor didn't change to a spinning disk for a few seconds every time something got clicked. anybody have any idea what is happing here? He said he tried rebooting and starting it up fresh, but that didn't help either. I'm tempted to do that again. Is Preference.app fixed with the Patch1 for NS3.3? Any suggestions welcome.... HP -- Hanspeter Schaub Ph.D. Graduate Research Assistant Aerospace Engineering Department Texas A&M University http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~schaub schaub@tamu.edu (NeXTmail welcome) We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! WE CAN LEARN TO FLY! -Jonathon Livingston Seagull
From: tony@gst1.gestel.it (Antonio Flores) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Adaptec 2940 and command queueing Date: 7 May 1996 12:05:38 GMT Organization: Italia Online Message-ID: <4mneai$o9d@mikasa.iol.it> Is there a way to enable the "command queueing" feature when one or more scsi devices can t handle it? Antonio Flores tony@gestel.it
From: mpemburn@ix.netcom.com (Mark Pemburn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Getting NeXT to converse with Intel Date: 8 May 1996 00:41:24 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <4moqjk$7i@dfw-ixnews7.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Hi folks, First, a huge thanks for the almost overwhelming response to my post about mouse problems. I post on several news groups but I've never seen any with this level of concern for the newbie. New problem: I am an inveterate scrounger. This has made it possible for me to put together a small network in my home office without having to spend much of my hard-earned valuta. At the moment, we have a pair of 486's (running Windoze for Workgroups and NT 3.51) and my dark, mysterious 040 NeXT. They all talk over thin Ethernet -- the Intels use NetBIOS and TCP/IP while the NeXT uses TCP/IP only (though it is set up to talk IPX/SPX is there is anyone around to listen). What I'm trying to do is to get the Intels to see the NeXT's resources -- the drives and printer (and maybe even the scanner, but I don't hold out much hope for that). I had a dandy soloution for a while when I d'loaded a copy of NFS for NT (from Intergraph), but then the eval period ran out and I was not about to shell out the $600 to buy a licensed copy (I'm *cheap*!). So, can anyone suggest a thrifty solution to this? Is there a NetBIOS for NeXT (or source code to build one)? In the meantime, I'm working on a nifty Visual Basic app to use the nice laser printer on the NeXT by FTP'ing Postscript files, then using "lpr" to print them. Wish me luck! Mark Pemburn, Baltimore, MD
From: Peter Ogilvie <pdo@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Getting NeXT to converse with Intel Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 20:06:37 -0700 Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <31900FBD.5370@ix.netcom.com> References: <4moqjk$7i@dfw-ixnews7.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mark Pemburn wrote: > > What I'm trying to do is to get the Intels to see the NeXT's resources > -- the drives and printer (and maybe even the scanner, but I don't hold out > much hope for that). I had a dandy soloution for a while when I d'loaded a > copy of NFS for NT (from Intergraph), but then the eval period ran out and I > was not about to shell out the $600 to buy a licensed copy (I'm *cheap*!). > > So, can anyone suggest a thrifty solution to this? Is there a NetBIOS > for NeXT (or source code to build one)? check out Samba http://lake.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba Copied form the FAQ: 1: What is Samba? Samba is a suite of programs which work together to allow clients to access Unix filespace and printers via the SMB (Session Message Block) protocol. In practice, this means that you can redirect disks and printers to Unix disks and printers from Lan Manager clients, Windows for Workgroups 3.11 clients, Windows NT clients and OS/2 clients. There is also a Unix client program supplied as part of the suite which allows Unix users to use an ftp-like interface to access filespace and printers on any other SMB servers. > > In the meantime, I'm working on a nifty Visual Basic app to use the > nice laser printer on the NeXT by FTP'ing Postscript files, then using "lpr" > to print them. Wish me luck! > You may be able to get samba to work for you in this area too. Good Luck! Peter
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: craigpa@gb.swissbank.com (Philip Craig) Subject: Re: Getting NeXT to converse with Intel Message-ID: <craigpa.831559352@gpo.swissbank.com> Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator) Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division References: <4moqjk$7i@dfw-ixnews7.ix.netcom.com> Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 12:42:32 GMT mpemburn@ix.netcom.com (Mark Pemburn) writes: > What I'm trying to do is to get the Intels to see the NeXT's resources >-- the drives and printer (and maybe even the scanner, but I don't hold out >much hope for that). I had a dandy soloution for a while when I d'loaded a >copy of NFS for NT (from Intergraph), but then the eval period ran out and I >was not about to shell out the $600 to buy a licensed copy (I'm *cheap*!). > So, can anyone suggest a thrifty solution to this? Is there a NetBIOS >for NeXT (or source code to build one)? You should check out Samba, which when run on the NeXT will let your Intels see the NeXT resources as LanManager devices. It will help you for your drives and the printer. I don't think it'll help with your scanner (surprise!) Check the newsgroup comp.protocols.smb for details of Samba. -- Philip Craig -- craigpa@gb.swissbank.com Work -- philip@pobox.com Play Phone +44 171 711 3729 (w) +44 171 352 9054 (h)
Control: cancel <craigpa.831559352@gpo.swissbank.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: craigpa@gb.swissbank.com (Philip Craig) Subject: cancel <craigpa.831559352@gpo.swissbank.com> Message-ID: <1996May8.143706.23561@il.us.swissbank.com> Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator) Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 14:37:06 GMT cancel <craigpa.831559352@gpo.swissbank.com> in newsgroup comp.sys.next.misc -- Philip Craig -- craigpa@gb.swissbank.com Work -- philip@pobox.com Play
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 and command queueing Date: 8 May 1996 16:13:47 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <4mqh7r$5ph@news3.digex.net> References: <4mneai$o9d@mikasa.iol.it> tony@gst1.gestel.it (Antonio Flores) wrote: > Is there a way to enable the "command queueing" feature when one or more scsi devices can t handle it? Nope, not that I know of... The cheezy answer is to get a DPT...it auto configures to max performance of each device... -- 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...
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From: bmwcsh@tesla.visgen.com (Bruce Walker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Buslogic setting for install (Re: OpenSource? What happened to 'em?) Date: 8 May 1996 17:37:11 -0400 Organization: Visible Genetics Inc. Message-ID: <4mr467$71o@tesla.visgen.com> References: <4matmi$3nr@nkosi.well.com> In article <4matmi$3nr@nkosi.well.com>, Brian Dear <birdrock@well.com> wrote: > > While I'm at it, the reason I need to reach OpenSource is I bought four > Canon object.station's from them, and I am trying to re-install NS3.3 > onto two of them, and I cannot even get past the installation floppies > before I run into problems (what SCSI driver should I pick out of the > list that's on the NS 3.3 Drivers Diskette? The Canons have > BusLogic SCSI cards, but none of the BusLogic selections in the list > seems to work!). I bet this'll work: open up the Canon and look for the 8-position DIP switch on the Buslogic (BT445C) card. If SW1 is set to OFF, turn it ON. It should match whatever all the others (except SW8) is set to. Switch 8 defeats the floppy i/f that's built-in to the BT445C. This will reset the IO address of the card to 330h, which is what the stock 3.3 Buslogic driver is looking for. For some unfathomable reason, the Canon comes with the Buslogic set to 334h, ie the 2nd SCSI controller. -bmw -- Bruce M. Walker | Visible Genetics Inc. | bmw@visgen.com | Suite 1000, Box 333 | Phone: 416-813-3240 | 700 Bay Street | FAX: 416-813-3250 | Toronto M5G 1Z6 | Pager: 416-609-6941
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer From: tom@basil.icce.rug.nl (Tom Hageman) Subject: Re: How can I add undo to my program? Message-ID: <Dqsu13.41G@basil.icce.rug.nl> Originator: uubasil@obelix.icce.rug.nl Sender: news@basil.icce.rug.nl (NEWS pusher) Organization: Warty Wolfs References: <199605020233.WAA09449@slate.cs.rochester.edu> Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 22:19:51 GMT "Eric K. Ringger" <ringger@cs.rochester.edu> wrote: > Chris Osborn wrote: > >How can I add undo to my program? Even better, how about a > >multi-level undo? > > > >It seems like a nearly impossible task of getting undo to work when > >there are so many different things to keep track of that can be > >undone. Especially in a text object! > > > >I remember a few years ago seeing something that someone had done > >which had some sort of undo manager, and all you had to do was add > >some kine of undo method to your objects to get it to work. > > 'Sounds like Draw.app ! > > >I'm looking for that, or something similar. > [...] > > Check out the following files in the NEXTSTEP Developer distribution: [...] Also check out the UndoManager MiniExample. It is (was? I haven't been at ftp.next.com recently...) available as NeXTanswer 1582. Hope this helps, -- __/__/__/__/ Tom Hageman <tom@basil.icce.rug.nl> [NeXTmail/Mime OK] __/ __/_/ IC Group <tom@icgned.nl> (work) __/__/__/ "Ed is the standard text editor" __/ _/_/ -- Unix Programmer's Manual
From: rwgk@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Appsoft Draw Date: 09 May 1996 00:01:30 -0400 Organization: MB&B & HHMI Sender: rwgk@volta.csb.yale.edu Message-ID: <5t3f5aqyud.fsf@volta.csb.yale.edu> Hi, we are still using "Appsoft Draw NeXT Version 1.02", but finally decided that we want to move to another program. However, we have about 500 ".drw" files which we'd like to salvage one way or another. Does anybody know about a conversion program "Appsoft Draw 1.02" -> Something-but-not-bitmap-or-eps? Something is preferably the FrameMaker MIF format. (The Appsoft Draw export MIF is just a MIF wrap around an EPS file. That's not what we are looking for.) Any help is very much appreciated! Ralf
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Getting au files to use Sound.app Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 16:39:20 -0400 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.93.960508163639.485B-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> References: <m0uFTbU-0010LQC@cubenx.cube.de> <Pine.NXT.3.91.960506082018.2164B-100000@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov> <4modho$2sa@BLaCKSMITH.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4modho$2sa@BLaCKSMITH.com> Isn't there a way to use segedit to hack in new extentions directly into the Sound binary within the Sound.app wrapper? TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> No NeXTmail! USENET: Please CC this address on replies, things vanish fast. NeXT Info available via email! Send message with SUBJECT 'send info' If above address fails, use: 476tjl@ptsmail.ptsem.edu (No NeXTmail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: pascal@burgond.remcomp.fr (Pascal Bourguignon) Subject: Re: A better mouse Message-ID: <Dr0BGu.1nx@burgond.remcomp.fr> Sender: pascal@burgond.remcomp.fr (Pascal Bourguignon) Organization: P. Bourguignon Informatique References: <4meaj0$mg8@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 23:19:42 GMT > system but it seems quite powerful considering its age. One thing that I > have noticed, though, is that the mouse responds very sluggishly. Is there > any aid for this? You can change the mouse scaling in the Preferences or with this command: dwrite NeXT1 MouseScaling "5 2 2 3 6 4 10 5 15 6 22" __Pascal Bourguignon__
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: pdepuydt@uia.ac.be (Peter.Depuydt) Subject: OmniWeb 2.0 and JavaScript Message-ID: <Dr51IL.GL3@uia.ua.ac.be> Sender: news@uia.ua.ac.be (News database) Organization: U.I.A. Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 12:32:45 GMT Hi, is there a JavaScript plug-in available for OmniWeb 2.0 Thanks -------------------------------------------------------------- Peter DEPUYDT NeXT & E-mail : pdepuydt@uia.ua.ac.be Student (Computer Science) at University of Antwerp (UIA) Belgium / Europe --------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <476TJL@ptsmail.ptsem.edu> From: 476TJL@ptsmail.ptsem.edu (LUOMA,TIMOTHY) Cc: woo@ornl.gov Subject: Re: Getting au files to use Sound.app Message-ID: <72B6793101A23A0C@-SMF-> Date: 09 May 96 10:18:00 EDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Actually what you want to do is get Sound.app to open the .au files. This can be done, using 'segedit' or (better) SegHoarker.app ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/pub/next/Tools/hack/SegHoarker.1.0.N.b.tar.gz if you have the developer's tools. You have to remove the section __ICON __header add this line: S au Sound to match the line S snd Sound And then replace it. I couldn't quite figure out the syntax for replacing the section using segedit, but that's why I grabbed SegHoarker in the first place! [Note: this address cannot read the 'reply-to' line ] -- Timothy J. Luoma SBN 476 Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton, NJ 476tjl@ptsmail.ptsem.edu MIME OK / No NeXTMail please
From: pmartin@asylum (pat martin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: What is latest version of Mathematica for NeXT Black Date: 9 May 1996 16:32:08 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <4mt6m8$fks@mark.ucdavis.edu> Has anyone upgraded and know how much and the latest version of Mathematica is? thanks
From: Jonathan.Rice@tcd.ie (Jonathan Rice) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Printing Alpha-Channel Images? DPS vs. PS Date: 9 May 1996 17:27:51 GMT Organization: TCD, Computer Science Message-ID: <4mt9un$q2e@news.cs.tcd.ie> Hi. I'd like to do some diagrams in Create using its transparency feature, so that I can do cut-away-style effects. However, since such alpha-channel features are only part of NeXT's Display Postscript implementation, I would appear to be rather stymied as regards printing such diagrams. Or am I? One general solution would be to use the DPS system to create a TIFF of a suitably-high dpi (say 300dpi?) and then print this image. So it's rather inefficient, but at least it should work. Has anyone figured out a neat way to do this sort of thing? A key question, I suppose, is whether I can manage to convince Create to export an EPS file with the alpha information intact. I can't specifically test this out yet, as I'm only using a demo version of the app. I have done a little test with Draw.app, however, in which I draw two overlapping red ovals and then "Save To" an EPS. I then edit the EPS and comment out its header redefinition (neutralisation) of setalpha and currentalpha. Down at the end of the EPS file, where it defines the two ovals, I add two setalpha calls, giving something like this: ... %%BeginSetup /oval { translate scale newpath 0.5 0.5 0.5 0 360 arc closepath } def ... %%EndSetup gsave 125 294 234 291 rectclip 0 setgray 0.333333 setgray 0 0 0 setup gsave 1 0 0 nxsetrgbcolor 0.5 setalpha % added this line 173 209 130 371 oval fill grestore gsave 1 0 0 nxsetrgbcolor 0.2 setalpha % added this line too 160 173 194 299 oval fill grestore ... Dragging this back into Draw (or whatever) produces two intersecting ovals, one with 50% opacity, and the second overlapping it with 20% opacity! Almost there! However, the intersection region between the two ovals is *also* at 20% opacity, rather than 60%, as would be hoped. What's going on here? I guess that the transfer mode is the problem, that the second "fill" is just wiping out the coverage info of the first one. How can I fix this? And presuming this can be worked out, how do I then convince DPS to render everything at 300dpi, etc.? This must have been done before... --- Jonathan Rice Jonathan.Rice@tcd.ie (NeXTMail OK) http://isg.cs.tcd.ie/jorice/jorice.html Dept. Comp. Sci., Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland.
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Appsoft Draw Date: 9 May 1996 17:36:33 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <4mtaf1$j2f@news3.digex.net> References: <5t3f5aqyud.fsf@volta.csb.yale.edu> rwgk@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve) wrote: > Hi, > we are still using "Appsoft Draw NeXT Version 1.02", but finally decided that we want to move to another program. However, we have about 500 ".drw" files which we'd like to salvage one way or another. > Does anybody know about a conversion program > "Appsoft Draw 1.02" -> Something-but-not-bitmap-or-eps? > Something is preferably the FrameMaker MIF format. (The Appsoft Draw export MIF is just a MIF wrap around an EPS file. That's not what we are looking for.) I think your only solution is to get some app that can edit postscript. Namely Tailor.app or the German OneVision suite of products... The German product maybe a good answer b/c it does some amazing DTP stuff, unless you NEED the FrameMaker compatibility... Regardless, either of those products will let you edit eps or ps files. That is the only solution I can think of, and likely the solution most likely to maintain your clipart's fidelity while allowing you to edit it, and giving you complete cross platform transferability. -- 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...
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.software,comp.databases From: jrhoads@netcom.com (Jason Rhoads) Subject: FS:OPENBASE 5.0 $695.00 Message-ID: <jrhoadsDr473G.K7B@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 01:35:40 GMT Sender: jrhoads@netcom3.netcom.com I am selling my personal copy of QuickBase 4.1h that can be upgraded to the recently shipping OpenBase 5.0. For $695.00 I will ship you the disks, manuals, and the three user license key for QuickBase 4.1h. OpenBase 5.0 is available via ftp or I can split the file and put it on disks if you prefer. Please send all inquiries to JRhoads@netcom.com > OPENBASE 5.0 SHIPS! > QuickBase 4.1h upgrades available. > > CONTACT: > OpenBase International Ltd. (formerly known as SofDesign) > 58 Greenfield Road > Francestown NH 03043 USA > > TEL: 603.547.8404 FAX:603.547.2423 > E-MAIL: info@openbase.com > WEB SITE: ,http://www.openbase.com > > Francestown, N.H., May 8, 1996 > > OpenBase International, Ltd. announces its OpenBase 5.0 > client-server database. Upgrades are available for current > QuickBase 4.1 owners. > > OpenBase replaces the popular QuickBase product and offers a number > of advantages over its predecessor. These advantages include: > > - Fast server initialization > - Full subquery and view support > - Alter table support > - Improved data integrity enforcement > - Better performance and query optimization > - New numerical rowid column > - Improved unique index support > - Improved Objective-C API > - Improved documentation > > OpenBase also comes with new graphical tools for designing and > altering database schemas, managing user access and viewing database > information. The new OpenBase manager provides everything you need > to build and manage your databases. > > OpenBase is available under NeXTSTEP 3.3 and OpenStep for Mach, and > will soon be available on OpenStep for Windows NT and OpenStep for > Solaris. OpenBase also works with WebObjects, available from NeXT > Software. > > Electronic orders may be placed using our secure E-MAIL order > application available at the web site. VISA and MASTERCARD are > accepted. > > Visit our web site ,http://www.openbase.com to obtain more > information and to download a free demo of OpenBase. > > ABOUT OPENBASE: > OpenBase International (formerly known as SofDesign Corporation) is > a software development company specializing in database server > technology and object oriented software. > > Since 1991, OpenBase International has sold OpenBase and QuickBase > database software to customers in 37 foreign countries, spanning > over 20 industries. Customers such as Canon, the Royal Danish > Police, MCI, AT&T, and NeXT Software use OpenBase for building > mission critical applications. > > TRADEMARK INFO: > OpenBase, OpenBase logo, and QuickBase are registered trademarks of > OpenBase International, Ltd. All other trademarks mentioned belong > to their respective owners. > >
From: lin@lorien.umd.edu (Lin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 and command queueing Date: 9 May 1996 20:33:24 GMT Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Message-ID: <4mtkqk$gnd@hecate.umd.edu> References: <4mneai$o9d@mikasa.iol.it> <4mqh7r$5ph@news3.digex.net> John Kheit (jkheit@cnj.digex.net) wrote: : tony@gst1.gestel.it (Antonio Flores) wrote: : > Is there a way to enable the "command queueing" feature when one or more : scsi devices can t handle it? : Nope, not that I know of... The cheezy answer is to get a DPT...it auto : configures to max performance of each device... What's DPT ?
From: da Faiz Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: HELP: PCI and Pentium Pro questions... Date: 9 May 1996 23:10:53 GMT Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <4mtu1t$m48@peru.it.earthlink.net> Cc: faizel@earthlink.net Well, I just plunked down my $$$ for a Pentium Pro machine with PCI 2.1 (not the buggy 2.0) and it seems that video performance is still slow. Has anyone got a PentiumPro machine with decent video performance up and running? The interesting thing is that after installing NS3.3 with the original PCI driver(ver 3.30) the system came up, but had slow video, as expected. So, I thought I'd install the newer PCI driver from NeXTanswers (ver. 3.31) and hopefully things would improve, but I saw no improvement whatsoever. It seems that whatever the new driver was doing had no effect on my machine. After reading the notes for the new driver, it seems that the fix only affects PCI chipsets using the 824X0 host-bridge chip (and I think NeXTanswers only stresses the 82420 and 82430 versions), and it goes further to say that boards not using any of these chips would NOT be affected (either positively or negatively). Well, I took a look at my motherboard and I've got the 82454 host-bridge adaptor. Hmm? Could this be the problem? I hope so, and that all that's required is an updated driver for the host bridge chip (FWIW, Windows NT3.51 has blazing video performance on the same machine). Here's my config if anyone's interested: - Gateway2K P6-200 w/ 32MB - Matrox MGA w/ 4MB WRAM - Adaptec 2940U (bios v1.22s) - 2GB Seagate drive - Toshiba 3501 4X CD-ROM drive BTW, installation was a breeze after I got the updated driver floppy images from NeXTanswers (for the Adaptec 2940U)--no hitches. This is the second Gateway I've used for NS, and 2nd painless installation as well (the first was a P5-60). Any comments about PCI on the Pentium Pro would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, ..faizel -- Faizel Dakri faizel@earthlink.net (NeXTmail *friendly*) faizel@pswtech.com (me too)
From: Paul R. Brown <pbrown@math.berkeley.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: What is latest version of Mathematica for NeXT Black Date: 10 May 1996 00:22:21 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Message-ID: <4mu27t$3qt@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <4mt6m8$fks@mark.ucdavis.edu> pmartin@asylum (pat martin) wrote: >Has anyone upgraded and know how much and the latest version >of Mathematica is? >thanks I called them up a while ago, and I recall hearing that I could go from 2.0.2 (the version that shipped with my circa 1991 slab, educational) to 2.2 (again, this is the academic deal) for $140. Paul
From: mpemburn@ix.netcom.com (Mark Pemburn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Getting NeXT to converse with Intel Date: 9 May 1996 01:23:14 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <4mrhe2$lud@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> References: <4moqjk$7i@dfw-ixnews7.ix.netcom.com> <31900FBD.5370@ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII In article <31900FBD.5370@ix.netcom.com>, pdo@ix.netcom.com says... > >Mark Pemburn wrote: >> > >> What I'm trying to do is to get the Intels to see the NeXT's resources >> -- the drives and printer (and maybe even the scanner, but I don't hold out >> much hope for that). I had a dandy soloution for a while when I d'loaded a >> copy of NFS for NT (from Intergraph), but then the eval period ran out and I >> was not about to shell out the $600 to buy a licensed copy (I'm *cheap*!). >> >> So, can anyone suggest a thrifty solution to this? Is there a NetBIOS >> for NeXT (or source code to build one)? > >check out Samba > >http://lake.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba > Ok! This looks like what I need! However . . . So, I went to above-mentioned site, absorbed as much as I thought I needed, and downloaded the latest version of SAMBA. I un-gzed and un-tarred it all on my NT box ('cuz I have no idea have to do this on the NeXT) and FTP'ed it NeXTdoor. OK. Got a directory named /Samba/source with source files. Got a bunch of dirs off of /usr/local as directed in the MakeFile. Un-commented the 'NeXT 3.0 and higher section' so that it reads: FLAGSM = -DNEXT3_0 -arch m68k (for the 68040, nyet?) LIBSM= Typed MAKE . . . Try #1 results: . Stop.nnot load /bin/sh *** Exit 1 Commented out the SHELL line and typed MAKE: Try #2 results: /checkos.sh: No such file or directory *** Exit 1 Changed SHELL = /bin/sh to SHELL #!/bin/sh and typed MAKE: Try #3 results: /checkos.sh Stop *** Exit 1 Tryed several other minor variations, all with similar results. I have to admit that, even though I have programmed in C and BASIC for over 10 years, none of it has been in Unix so I'm completely at sea. I'm not even sure what the name of the *compiler* is, for pity's sake! It's not "cc" or "gcc". What then? My boss suggested that I get my hands on a copy of GNU C for NeXT but I haven't been able to pinpoint a copy of same. Boy, what an adventure! Your help is sincerely appreciated, Mark
From: tuparev@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE (Georg Tuparev) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: What is latest version of Mathematica for NeXT Black Date: 10 May 1996 09:02:59 GMT Organization: EMBL Heidelberg Distribution: world Message-ID: <4mv0o3$2aa@lion.embl-heidelberg.de> References: <4mt6m8$fks@mark.ucdavis.edu> In article <4mt6m8$fks@mark.ucdavis.edu> pmartin@asylum (pat martin) writes: > Has anyone upgraded and know how much and the latest version > of Mathematica is? I think 2.2... -- Georg Tuparev EMBL / Protein Design Phone: +49 - 6221 - 387305 Meyerhofstr. 1 FAX: +49 - 6221 - 387517 D-69117 Heidelberg Germany Tuparev@EMBL-Heidelberg.de (NeXT-mail)
From: mgilula@gate.net (Marshall Gilula) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Edit for NS/I Date: 10 May 1996 08:40:44 -0400 Organization: CyberGate, Inc. Message-ID: <4mvdgc$22p2@hopi.gate.net> NNTP-Posting-User: mgilula is there an Edit for NS/I ? please send private email to mgilula@gate.net -73- Marshall -- Marshall F. Gilula, M.D "El que mucho busca nada encuentra, pero mgilula@gate.net el que nada busca mucho encuentra" http://www.gate.net/~mgilula *****Standard Disclaimers Apply********* Carpe resurrectionem mortuorum
From: yucheng@math.arizona.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: What is latest version of Mathematica for NeXT Black Date: 10 May 1996 13:30:23 GMT Organization: The University of Arizona Message-ID: <4mvgdf$qbo@news.ccit.arizona.edu> References: <4mt6m8$fks@mark.ucdavis.edu> <4mu27t$3qt@agate.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <4mu27t$3qt@agate.berkeley.edu> On 05/09/96, Paul R. Brown wrote: >pmartin@asylum (pat martin) wrote: >>Has anyone upgraded and know how much and the latest version >>of Mathematica is? >>thanks > >I called them up a while ago, and I recall hearing that I >could go from 2.0.2 (the version that shipped with my circa >1991 slab, educational) to 2.2 (again, this is the academic >deal) for $140. > >Paul > I just upgraded mine (from a black one to the latest 2.2 for white) weeks ago. The exact price was $145 plus $5 for shipping. -- ---------------- Yuwen Cheng University of Arizona, Math yucheng@math.arizona.edu
From: dkoski@running-start.com (David Koski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: Printing Alpha-Channel Images? DPS vs. PS Date: 10 May 1996 15:10:49 GMT Organization: Best Internet Communications Message-ID: <4mvm9p$as1@nntp1.best.com> References: <4mt9un$q2e@news.cs.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: <4mt9un$q2e@news.cs.tcd.ie> On 05/09/96, Jonathan Rice wrote: ... > Dragging this back into Draw (or whatever) produces two > intersecting ovals, one with 50% opacity, and the second > overlapping it with 20% opacity! Almost there! However, the > intersection region between the two ovals is *also* at 20% > opacity, rather than 60%, as would be hoped. What's going on > here? I guess that the transfer mode is the problem, that the > second "fill" is just wiping out the coverage info of the > first one. How can I fix this? Transparency is really only good for compositing. When you draw the ovals, you are laying down paint with a certain opacity, not compositing in SOVER mode. There are three ways that I can think of to get the desired effect: 1. using a bitmap editor, draw some transparent ovals and composite them over one another 2. you might be able to do this by hand: try doing it in a paint program to see what the colors will look like, then do it in your draw program with three shapes: the two ovals, and a piece where they overlap (some drawing programs can create this intersection for you). 3. use a drawing program that can simulate transparency effects. -- David Koski Running Start, Inc. OpenStep Development & Consulting dkoski@running-start.com http://www.running-start.com
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: How to print 1UP .ps file as 4UP? Date: 10 May 1996 23:45:53 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <4n0kfh$t3i@news4.digex.net> Hi, I have a .ps file. It is really long, 100pages or so. I want to save some paper, and would like to print the document out as 4 up (i.e. 4 pages printed on a single page ala PageLayout panel). However, the Preview.app doesn't let me do this. Is there a way/a program that can do this? Thanks. -- 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: pmartin@asylum (pat martin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: What is ADB? of non-ADB? Date: 10 May 1996 23:05:55 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <4n0i4j$1ug@mark.ucdavis.edu> what is the difference and what were the original NeXT's shipped with?
From: john@romdas.HIP.berkeley.edu (John Badanes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NeXTSTEP ---> Windows 6.0? Date: 11 May 1996 03:32:34 GMT Organization: University of California at Berkeley Message-ID: <4n11oi$ltj@agate.berkeley.edu> Originator: romdas@uclink.berkeley.edu I'm not thinking of switching, but need to know how to translate a document created in WriteNow so that it will be readable/writable for someone with Windows 6.0. Anything in the public domain? E-mail me if you have a suggestion. Thanks.
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP ---> Windows 6.0? Date: 11 May 1996 04:44:02 GMT Organization: HTI Message-ID: <4n15ui$jtd@news.cais.com> References: <4n11oi$ltj@agate.berkeley.edu> There's a wn-rtf filter utility inside WriteNow.app that will do a so-so job of converting a WriteNow document to RTF. A better solution is to use AFS's WriteUp word processor which is WriteNow read/write capable and an excellent app to boot. Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP Consultant Boston, MA + 1 (617) 252-0088 john@romdas.HIP.berkeley.edu (John Badanes) wrote: > I'm not thinking of switching, but need to know how to translate a document > created in WriteNow so that it will be readable/writable for someone with > Windows 6.0. Anything in the public domain? > E-mail me if you have a suggestion. > Thanks.
From: yucheng@math.arizona.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: How to print 1UP .ps file as 4UP? Date: 11 May 1996 07:41:18 GMT Organization: The University of Arizona Message-ID: <4n1gau$ei6@news.ccit.arizona.edu> References: <4n0kfh$t3i@news4.digex.net> In-Reply-To: <4n0kfh$t3i@news4.digex.net> On 05/10/96, John Kheit wrote: >Hi, > I have a .ps file. It is really long, 100pages or so. I want to >save some paper, and would like to print the document out as 4 up (i.e. 4 >pages printed on a single page ala PageLayout panel). However, the >Preview.app doesn't let me do this. Is there a way/a program that can do >this? > Try it with /usr/bin/psnup. -- ---------------- Yuwen Cheng University of Arizona, Math yucheng@math.arizona.edu
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Edit for NS/I Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 14:24:47 -0400 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.93.960510142412.337B-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> References: <4mvdgc$22p2@hopi.gate.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Marshall Gilula <mgilula@gate.net> In-Reply-To: <4mvdgc$22p2@hopi.gate.net> On 10 May 1996, Marshall Gilula wrote: > is there an Edit for NS/I ? > please send private email to mgilula@gate.net > -73- > Marshall Ummm... There should be, in /NextApps TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> No NeXTmail! USENET: Please CC this address on replies, things vanish fast. NeXT Info available via email! Send message with SUBJECT 'send info' If above address fails, use: 476tjl@ptsmail.ptsem.edu (No NeXTmail)
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: How to print 1UP .ps file as 4UP? Date: 11 May 1996 15:00:15 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <4n2a1v$i08@news3.digex.net> References: <4n0kfh$t3i@news4.digex.net> <4n1gau$ei6@news.ccit.arizona.edu> yucheng@math.arizona.edu wrote: > On 05/10/96, John Kheit wrote: > > I have a .ps file. It is really long, 100pages or so. I want to > >save some paper, and would like to print the document out as 4 up (i.e. 4 > >pages printed on a single page ala PageLayout panel). However, the > >Preview.app doesn't let me do this. Is there a way/a program that can do > >this? > Try it with /usr/bin/psnup. That is the answer. Something like this: psnup -n4 source.ps >output.ps will do the trick. Thanks to all those that helped! -- 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: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: What is ADB? of non-ADB? Date: 11 May 1996 16:59:47 GMT Organization: HTI Message-ID: <4n2h23$rdd@news.cais.com> References: <4n0i4j$1ug@mark.ucdavis.edu> pmartin@asylum (pat martin) wrote: > what is the difference and what were the original NeXT's shipped with? ADB is the Apple Desktop Bus. It's an interconnection standard for keyboards, mice, and other small low speed peripherals. The original NeXT systems shipped with non-ADB keyboards. The Turbo systems shipped with ADB keyboards. Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP Consultant Boston, MA + 1 (617) 252-0088
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Lipo and/or Double Sided Printing? Date: 11 May 1996 21:45:49 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <4n31qd$mhf@news3.digex.net> Hi, I'm looking for two things, and hoping someone might direct me to them... 1) Xanthus, a while back when they released version 1 of OpenWrite, also put out a program to 'thin' fat binaries. 2) Are there any apps/scripts that will let me print documents double sided? IE split up .ps files into ODD and EVEN pages to allow me to print them double sided? I'd appreciate it, if anyone would point out where I might find them? Or would anyone out there be willing to NeXT/MIME/SUN mail either to me? Thanks very much for any help/info! -- 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: da Faiz Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Q: How to tell which stepping of PCI chipset? Date: 12 May 1996 05:16:47 GMT Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <4n3s7v$u1@bolivia.it.earthlink.net> Hi all, Got a quick question: how can I tell which stepping of the PCI chipset is on my motherboard? Also, on a related note, when NEXTSTEP boots up, upon registering the PCI device, it tells me this is PCI ver 2.1. Does anybody know what this means? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, ..faizel -- Faizel Dakri faizel@earthlink.net (NeXTmail *friendly*) faizel@pswtech.com (me too!)
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Double Sided Printing, Thanks, I got Thinner.app (was Lipo and/or Double Sided Printing?) Date: 12 May 1996 05:33:31 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <4n3t7b$sev@news3.digex.net> References: <4n31qd$mhf@news3.digex.net> John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> wrote: > I'm looking for two things, and hoping someone might direct me to them... Correction, just one thing now, I got Thinner.app, thanks very much for those that offered. I appreciate it! > 2) Are there any apps/scripts that will let me print documents double sided? IE split up .ps files into ODD and EVEN pages to allow me to print them double sided? However, I still need item 2 above. And so the below edited proposition still holds... > I'd appreciate it, if anyone would point out where I might find [it]? Or would anyone out there be willing to NeXT/MIME/SUN mail [it] to me? Again, thanks very much for any help :) -- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit )^> %^) =^) monoChrome, Inc. | New York Law School NEXTSTEP Developer | Opinions expressed represent me only MIME, SUN, & NeXTmail OK | http://cnj.digex.net/~jkheit mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net | Telepathy...It's coming...
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Q: How to tell which stepping of PCI chipset? Date: 12 May 1996 05:35:58 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <4n3tbu$sev@news3.digex.net> References: <4n3s7v$u1@bolivia.it.earthlink.net> da Faiz wrote: > Got a quick question: how can I tell which stepping of the PCI chipset is on my motherboard? When I boot up in verbose mode, and I load the PCI bridge thingy, it reports my A-1 stepping. Also, you can look on the physical motherboard for the chipset. Often time the revision will be imprinted right on the chip. Good luck. -- 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: samsite@fox.nstn.ca (sam) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: WebCruiser Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 10:26:46 GMT Organization: Nova Scotia Technology Network Message-ID: <4n4409$62v@news.nstn.ca> For a unique way of surfing or searching information on the web go to. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/richard_billows/
From: Luke Howard <Luke_Howard@inter.net.au> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: CORBA compliant? Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 13:49:46 +1100 Organization: Internet Australia, Melbourne. Message-ID: <319551CA.7CFF@inter.net.au> References: <1996Apr10.102624.77968@cc.usu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: edx@cc.usu.edu edx@cc.usu.edu wrote: > > Are NeXT Distributed Objects CORBA compliant? Where can > I read more about how well NeXT Distributed Objects can > peacefully coexist with other kinds of Distributed Objects? PDO 4.0 is rumoured to be. There is quite a bit of documentation on PDO on NeXT's website, including one paper which advertises the current release of PDO as being CORBA-compliant (just not supporting IDL :-)). NeXT did propose an IDL language binding for Objective-C to the OMG, but I'm not sure whether it has been accepted or not. Objective-C does support the in/out/inout/bycopy qualifiers on method parameters/return types, which I think are the same as those used in IDL. But that alone doesn't make it CORBA-compliant. If you were running PDO and NEO under Solaris, you could write glue between the two object models, but it's hardly an ideal solution. Sun are advertising for someone to write an Objective-C backend for their IDL compiler. -- Luke
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: yves@claire (Yves Akakpo) Subject: taillor_UUCP &INN for NeXT Message-ID: <1996May12.021220.742@yves.fdn.fr> Sender: news@yves.fdn.fr Organization: Individual Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 02:12:20 GMT Hi Is anyone know where are INN and Taillor_UUCP Thanks for your help Yves
From: yucheng@math.arizona.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Double Sided Printing, Thanks, I got Thinner.app (was Lipo and/or Double Sided Printing?) Date: 12 May 1996 11:59:13 GMT Organization: The University of Arizona Message-ID: <4n4jqh$gve@news.ccit.arizona.edu> References: <4n31qd$mhf@news3.digex.net> <4n3t7b$sev@news3.digex.net> In-Reply-To: <4n3t7b$sev@news3.digex.net> On 05/11/96, John Kheit wrote: >John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> wrote: >> 2) Are there any apps/scripts that will let me print documents double >sided? IE split up .ps files into ODD and EVEN pages to allow me to print >them double sided? If you have a compiler, you may try psselect of pstools. Here is a portion of psselect's man page. NAME psselect - select pages from a PostScript file SYNOPSIS psselect [ -q ] [ -e ] [ -o ] [ -r ] [ -ppages ] [ pages ] [ infile [ outfile ] ] DESCRIPTION Psselect selects pages from a PostScript document, creating a new PostScript file. The input PostScript file should fol- low the Adobe Document Structuring Conventions. The -e option selects all of the even pages; it may be used in conjunction with the other page selection options to select the even pages from a range of pages. The -o option selects all of the odd pages; it may be used in conjunction with the other page selection options. The -ppages option specifies the pages which are to be selected. Pages is a comma separated list of page ranges, each of which may be a page number, or a page range of the form first-last. If first is omitted, the first page is assumed, and if last is omitted, the last page is assumed. You can get pstools at http://www.rz.go.dlr.de:8081/unix/src/contrib/pstools.tar.gz Hope this can help. BTW, if anybody knows a US site, please post. Also, if you are working with TeX/LaTeX, there is a dviselect utility that can do the same job as you want. However, I forget where I got it. NAME dviselect - extract pages from DVI files SYNOPSIS dviselect [ -s ] [ -i infile ] [ -o outfile ] list of pages [ infile [ outfile ] ] DESCRIPTION Dviselect selects pages from a DVI file produced by TeX, creating a new DVI file usable by any of the TeX conversion programs, or even by dviselect itself. A range is a string of the form even, odd, or first:last where both first and last are optional numeric strings, with negative numbers indicated by a leading underscore character ``_''. If both first and last are omitted, the colon may also be omitted, or may be replaced with an asterisk ``*''. A page range is a list of ranges separated by periods. A list of pages is described by a set of page ranges separated by commas and/or white space. -- ---------------- Yuwen Cheng University of Arizona, Math yucheng@math.arizona.edu
Date: 12 May 1996 16:11:24 GMT From: jem@xpat.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Message-ID: <cancel.4n4409$62v@news.nstn.ca> Control: cancel <4n4409$62v@news.nstn.ca> Sender: samsite@fox.nstn.ca (sam) Subject: cmsg cancel <4n4409$62v@news.nstn.ca> EMP/ECP (aka SPAM) cancelled by jem@xpat.com. See news.admin.net-abuse.announce, report 19960512.41 for further details
From: violette@earthlink.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sys-admin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: seeking advice on NS and Windows 95 co-existence Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 18:24:48 -0700 Organization: Vasilisa Productions Message-ID: <31968F60.270@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I currently have a 500 MB DOS partition and NS on the other 1.5MB of a P133. The DOS side runs W95, which is not as bad as I thought it would be, but it feels much more arcane than Unix (but my OTHER email address is a .edu and I was raised in the Unix-based academic welfare state, so sure Unix feels like Nature to me.) Anyhow, there's no denying that I need Photoshop, Director, Premiere, and other big fat commercial W95 software. That 500 MB is getting confining. Can I adjust the size of the DOS partition easily without wiping out the NeXT side? I have too much comfortable software that I like using on the NS side to chuck it all and embrace the Antichrist fully. Would it be simpler (forgetting money for a sec) to just install a second drive rather than having the one drive with two partitions, and choose the boot OS still in a prompt? Also, is it true that one should not run Microsoft disk untilities on a disk with another OS partition? If so, are the Norton utilities safe in this context? Thank you, patricia
Control: cancel <3191051C.6C09@together.net> Newsgroups: alt.business.import-export.services,biz.books.technical,aus.ads.jobs,dc.jobs,alt.forsale,misc.forsale.non-computer,misc.forsale,uk.jobs.misc,nyc.jobs.offered,ne.jobs,austin.forsale,comp.sys.next.misc,news.misc,uk.adverts.other,demon.adverts,uk.jobs.wanted,misc.invest.futures,uk.adverts.personals,seattle.general,aus.general,aus.invest,rec.crafts.jewelery,rec.travel.cruises,comp.internet.nethappenings,comp.infosystems.www.misc From: Travis <research@together.net> Subject: cmsg cancel <3191051C.6C09@together.net> Sender: alan@mattress.atww.org (Alan Reichert) Organization: Opportunity Researchers Message-ID: <cancel.3191051C.6C09@together.net> Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 18:04:15 GMT Subject line: Financial Independence from great product at home MLM This post was cancelled because it was either inappropriate for a local dc.* newsgroup, it was a spam, or it was a duplicate copy of another posting.
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: What is ADB? of non-ADB? Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 17:49:47 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1996May12.174947.20281@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <4n2h23$rdd@news.cais.com> In article <4n2h23$rdd@news.cais.com> Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com> writes: > pmartin@asylum (pat martin) wrote: > > what is the difference and what were the original NeXT's shipped with? > > ADB is the Apple Desktop Bus. It's an interconnection standard for > keyboards, mice, and other small low speed peripherals. The original NeXT > systems shipped with non-ADB keyboards. The Turbo systems shipped with ADB > keyboards. Most Turbos shipped with non-ADB. Later systems only came with ADB. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sys-admin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: seeking advice on NS and Windows 95 co-existence Date: 12 May 1996 19:55:29 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <4n5fnh$sjn@news4.digex.net> References: <31968F60.270@earthlink.net> violette@earthlink.net wrote: > Would it be simpler (forgetting money for a sec) to just install a second drive rather than having the one drive with two partitions, and choose the boot OS still in a prompt? If you could at all afford it, yes. Get another drive. I think you can get 1Gig drivers for about 250 (SCSI...likely cheaper for IDE). NeXTSTEP can't just be 'moved' partition-wise... It would require a wipe-out and restoration... -- 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: work@dannug.dk (Michael Hallin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Disktab entry for Iomega jaz Date: 10 May 1996 20:10:41 GMT Organization: Danish NeXT User Group Message-ID: <4n07s1$3fk@machthenext.dannug.dk> References: <4md6e6$p8k@news1.ucsd.edu> In article <4md6e6$p8k@news1.ucsd.edu> Jochen Klinke <jklinke@ucsd.edu> writes: |>I've been trying to use the following distab entry (was posted in a newsgroup |>a couple of weeks ago) for the Iomega jaz 1GB drive. |> |>iomega jaz|iomega jaz 1GB|iomega jaz 1GB G.6002/1:\ |> :ty=removable_rw_scsi:nc#1021:nt#64:ns#32:ss#512:rm#5400:\ |> :fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\ |> :os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#192:\ |> :pa#0:sa#2045952:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#3:da#4096:ra#5:oa=time:\ |> :ia:ta=4.3BSD:aa: |> |>However, initializing fails and reports these errors in the console: |> |>BuildDisk: Starting build at Thu May 2 12:15:35 1996... |>disk name: iomega jaz 1GB G.6002/1 |>disk type: removable_rw_scsi |>writing disk label |>Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot |>Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot1 |>creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd1a |>/usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd1a |>/etc/mkfs /dev/rsd1a 1045365 6534 2 8192 1024 16 10 60 4096 t |>Warning: insufficient space in super block for |> rotational layout tables with nsect 6534 and ntrak 2. |>File system performance may be impaired. |>cylinder group too large (16 cylinders); max: 4 cylinders per group |>/usr/etc/newfs /dev/rsd1a failed (status 1) |> |>What's wrong with the disktab entry? Any pointers appreciated. |> |> |>Jochen Klinke |>PORD 0230 email: <jklinke@ucsd.edu> |>Scripps Institution of Oceanography phone: 619-534-8029 |>La Jolla, CA 92093-0230 fax: 619-534-8509 The problem is in fact that DISK is ignoring your disktab entry for your JAZ drive. I use the exact same disktab entry albeit on black and it works. If you take a closer look at the output from DISK, you will notice one line which indicates the ignoring of the disktab, namely this: >/etc/mkfs /dev/rsd1a 1045365 6534 2 8192 1024 16 10 60 4096 t If it followed your disktab entry, it should be 2045952, not 1045365 for total number of cylinders. This is why you get the error, and it is also a very clear indicator that DISK is not reading your disktab. Normally this problems arises because the name of the drive as seen by the SCSI driver on your system is different in some way compared to the names you have specified in your disktab entry, so you must try and find the exact right name. Last I had that problem it was a 4GB Quantum, and I eventually found the right name, using SDFORMAT, and in my case it was a matter of just two characters.... so I will bet you that this will solve your problem.... Good luck... Best regards Michael -- ___________________________________________________________ Michael Hallin Copenhagen, Denmark Editor in chief of DANNUG NEWS & DANNUG HOT! ColorProduct Manager Rank Xerox Denmark NeXTMail: work@dannug.dk NonNeXTMail: mh.xeroxvang@rxdk.xerox.com
From: ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr (BongOk Kim (kornet)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: INTROUDCE OF KOREA NEXTSTEP USER GROUP Date: 13 May 1996 07:49:00 GMT Organization: KORNET (Korea Telecom) Message-ID: <4n6phc$ib2@usenet.kornet.nm.kr>
From: ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr (BongOk Kim (kornet)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: INTROUDCE OF KOREA NEXTSTEP USER GROUP Date: 13 May 1996 08:01:13 GMT Organization: KORNET (Korea Telecom) Message-ID: <4n6q89$ihn@usenet.kornet.nm.kr> KOREA, calm morning glory nation, you can meet the people who love the NEXTSTEP. NEXAMO that is an abbreviation of Korea NEXTSTEP USER Group, established in 1993, has been activated from then on. At now, Our User Group members are accumulated about 300 persons. NEXAMO offically study the NEXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, and Objective Solution with a loud interest as follows of the parted subjects. Our NEXAMO want to get the information and have a relationship with another NEXTSTEP's User Groups, Developers, Solution Companies from all over the World. If you would like get an information about the NEXTSTEP Usage enviroment of Korea, and NEXAMO, please send your e-mail to us. YoungHoon Kil ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~ppai staff:yoonsik KANG: easters@blue.nowcom.co.kr Haram Lee: HaramLee@hitel.kol.co.kr BumChol Kwon: kwonbc@hitel.kol.co.kr Sukin Jang: miyu@star.elim.net(NeXTMail and MIME OK) address: 24-1301, sindonga APT, hakic2-dong, namgu, inchoen city, South Korea :wq
From: schildwa@greenhaus.ros.ac-net.de (Christian Schildwaechter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Pine for NeXT-Intel? Date: 13 May 1996 13:47:57 GMT Organization: RMI Net - EUnet EUregio POP Aachen Message-ID: <4n7eid$at7@fuchur.rmi.de> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960429205659.3147B-100000@euler> <1996Apr30.063834.16161@seer.demon.co.uk> <4m5d3l$o0u@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Cc: eugene@raddi.uah.ualberta.ca In case you only got NSfIP user, you can find a precompiled version of pine 3.07 on Peanuts. Should be /pub/comp/platforms/next/Unix/mail/pine.3.07.NI.b.tar.gz. Christian
From: fad@mantis (Francisco de Carvalho) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Interface Viewer Date: 13 May 1996 16:39:04 GMT Organization: BT Labs, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, UK Message-ID: <4n7oj8$d5g@pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anyone know of a product developed by an Argentinian based company called Interface Viewer which basically looks at the NIB and produces Object Interaction Graphs (or equivalent graphics)? Any other similar products to view the internal connections stored in the NIBs Thanks, Fran -- --------------------------------------------------------------- F A de Carvalho Intelligence Software Systems BT Labs Telephone +44 1473 642368 B67 / Room G11 Fax +44 1473 640468 Martlesham Heath Mobile (UK) 0850 775383 Ipswich IP5 7RE, UK e-mail: fad@zoo.bt.co.uk URL: http://www.zoo.bt.co.uk/~fad ---------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sys-admin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: mdriftme@mail.wsu.edu (Marc J. Driftmeyer) Subject: Re: seeking advice on NS and Windows 95 co-existence Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (News) Message-ID: <DrCuvF.Mr2@serval.net.wsu.edu> Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 17:51:18 GMT References: <31968F60.270@earthlink.net> Organization: Washington State University You shouldn't have to worry with that NS partition taking up your wopping "1.5Mb" hard drive space. Just kiddin"! From my experience from partitioning Win 95 with 510 MB partition and a 1.5GB partition, Unless you know or can write a low-level C program to modify partition informaiton I would not attempt such an undertaking unless you expect to thrash your partitioned HDD. If you have not done much yet with NS I would suggest taking a day and starting from scratch. It's time consuming but far less wasted energies on the prior option. violette@earthlink.net wrote: >I currently have a 500 MB DOS partition and NS on the other 1.5MB >of a P133. The DOS side runs W95, which is not as bad as I thought >it would be, but it feels much more arcane than Unix (but >my OTHER email address is a .edu and I was raised in the Unix-based >academic welfare state, so sure Unix feels like Nature to me.) >Anyhow, there's no denying that I need Photoshop, Director, Premiere, >and other big fat commercial W95 software. That 500 MB is >getting confining. >Can I adjust the size of the DOS partition easily without wiping >out the NeXT side? >I have too much comfortable software that I like using on the >NS side to chuck it all and embrace the Antichrist fully. >Would it be simpler (forgetting money for a sec) to just >install a second drive rather than having the one drive with >two partitions, and choose the boot OS still in a prompt? >Also, is it true that one should not run Microsoft disk >untilities on a disk with another OS partition? If so, >are the Norton utilities safe in this context? >Thank you, >patricia Marc Jeffrey Driftmeyer The Personal Computing Center Information Technologies Bldg. Rm#2088 Washington State University mdriftme@mail.wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu:8001/~mdriftme (509)335-0518 (work) (509)335-0563 (fax)
From: scholzb@pst.informatik.uni-muenchen.de (Bernhard Scholz) Newsgroups: de.comp.sys.next,news.answers,comp.answers,comp.sys.next.advocay,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: The NeXT-FAQ (Frequently asked questions) Followup-To: de.comp.sys.next Date: 13 May 1996 20:37:48 GMT Organization: InternetNews at LMU, University of Munich, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <NeXTFAQ-1-832019866@pst.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: NeXTFAQ Last-modified: Monday, 13. April 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, ... 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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 MACH. 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 utility), 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 distributed 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 methods 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 will be the next release of NeXT's NEXTSTEP with the ability to be OS independent (NEXTSTEP depends on MACH). Therefore OpenStep will run on Windows 95, Windows NT, MACH, 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 network. 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 will get MACH enhancements and a new GUI as an option as well as all the known advantages of OpenStep itself. 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 isn't already released, this section is just speculating and based on information from the usenet community. OpenStep is sheduled for quarter two 1996. 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 hashing 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 building 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 more. 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 objects 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 for 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 building 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, on-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 application 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 application. 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 special license to connect to the Internet. But because WebObjects is a brand new product, look at http://www.next.com/WebOjects/ for further information. 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 updated 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 development 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 NewsGrazer, 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.com. 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: http://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 free 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 $PIDS Of course trying to connect when the script is running will not allow you to connect, try again a minute later. This fix will not affect on-going UUCP or interactive connections. This will probably be fixed in the next kernel release. This bug is corrected in NEXTSTEP 2.1 and later releases. 9.8 NS2.0 doesn't recognize /LocalApps path /LocalApps, NS2.0 Workspace has its own internal application path. In 2.0 /LocalApps was omitted. Improv needs to have /LocalApps in the Workspace path if you have Improve installed in /LocalApps. The work around in 2.0 only is: dwrite Workspace ApplicationPaths "~/Apps:/LocalApps:/NextApps: \ /NextDeveloper/Apps:/NextAdmin:/NextDeveloper/Demos" This bug is corrected in NEXTSTEP 2.1 and later releases. _________________________________________________________________ This document was converted from LaTeX using Karl Ewald's latex2html. -- -- Bernhard Scholz (IRC: Boerny) scholzb@pst.informatik.uni-muenchen.de http://peanuts.leo.org/ scholz@ve1.rm.op.dlr.de http://www.leo.org/~scholz/
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From: asr@itsq8.com (Ahmad Al-rasheedan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: OpenSource closed?? Date: 13 May 1996 19:13:08 GMT Organization: International Turnkey Systems Message-ID: <4n81k4$n0@info.itsq8.com> Could somebody confirm that OpenSource are out of business. OpenSource is the place where I got all my SW; is it time to look for other VARS?
From: waldek@bg.univ.gda.pl (Waldemar Chrzan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Q: driver for HP DeskJet 1600 Date: 14 May 1996 10:45:05 GMT Organization: Politechnika Gdanska Message-ID: <4n9o7h$ma0@sunrise.pg.gda.pl> Hi ! I searching for driver for HP DescJet 1600 printer. Help Me ! :-) Waldemar Chrzan
From: ian@five-d.com (Ian Kemmish) Newsgroups: alt.business.import-export.services,biz.books.technical,aus.ads.jobs,dc.jobs,alt.forsale,misc.forsale.non-computer,misc.forsale,uk.jobs.misc,nyc.jobs.offered,ne.jobs,austin.forsale,comp.sys.next.misc,news.misc,uk.adverts.other,demon.adverts,uk.jobs.wanted,misc.invest.futures,uk.adverts.personals,seattle.general,aus.general,aus.invest,rec.crafts.jewelery,rec.travel.cruises,comp.internet.nethappenings,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Financial Independence from great product at home MLM Date: 14 May 1996 18:12:50 GMT Organization: At home with Ian Message-ID: <4naif2$abe@newsgate.dircon.co.uk> References: <3191051C.6C09@together.net> <3197961e.0@news.cyberlink.bc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In article <3197961e.0@news.cyberlink.bc.ca>, simcoll@cyberlink.bc.ca says... > >Travis <research@together.net> wrote: >>ground floor of this incredible opportunity. We offer a 3 X 7 Matrix with >>8 ways to make money. Become a Puff Away Distributor today. You can call >>us at By my calculations that means 13 ways to lose money...... Ian
From: randal@puck.physics.colostate.edu (Randal Rheinheimer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: writenow to mac Date: 14 May 1996 20:07:14 GMT Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 Message-ID: <4nap5i$19sm@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> I'm leaving the NeXT system at the university and want to take some docs written in WriteNow with me on disk in Mac format. I don't have any trouble formatting, but what's on the disk is garbage as far as a Mac is concerned, since it doesn't recognize the app (WriteNow) that created the document, even if I save it as straight ASCII. Is there a simple way around this? Thanks for any help. Rand
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Control: cancel <3197961e.0@news.cyberlink.bc.ca> Newsgroups: alt.business.import-export.services,biz.books.technical,aus.ads.jobs,dc.jobs,alt.forsale,misc.forsale.non-computer,misc.forsale,uk.jobs.misc,nyc.jobs.offered,ne.jobs,austin.forsale,comp.sys.next.misc,news.misc,uk.adverts.other,demon.adverts,uk.jobs.wanted,misc.invest.futures,uk.adverts.personals,seattle.general,aus.general,aus.invest,rec.crafts.jewelery,rec.travel.cruises,comp.internet.nethappenings,comp.infosystems.www.misc From: DONNA BRADY <simcoll@cyberlink.bc.ca> Subject: cmsg cancel <3197961e.0@news.cyberlink.bc.ca> Sender: alan@mattress.atww.org (Alan Reichert) Organization: SIMCOLL INVESTMENTS Message-ID: <cancel.3197961e.0@news.cyberlink.bc.ca> Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 19:50:20 GMT Subject line: Re: Financial Independence from great product at home MLM This post was cancelled because it was either inappropriate for a local dc.* newsgroup, it was a spam, or it was a duplicate copy of another posting.
From: bobm@melbpc.org.au (Bob Muirhead) Newsgroups: alt.business.import-export.services,biz.books.technical,aus.ads.jobs,dc.jobs,alt.forsale,misc.forsale.non-computer,misc.forsale,uk.jobs.misc,nyc.jobs.offered,ne.jobs,austin.forsale,comp.sys.next.misc,news.misc,uk.adverts.other,demon.adverts,uk.jobs.wanted,misc.invest.futures,uk.adverts.personals,seattle.general,aus.general,aus.invest,rec.crafts.jewelery,rec.travel.cruises,comp.internet.nethappenings,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Financial Independence from great product at home MLM Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 22:40:49 GMT Organization: Melbourne PC User Group Inc, Australia Message-ID: <31990b9d.3375777@news.melbpc.org.au> References: <3191051C.6C09@together.net> <3197961e.0@news.cyberlink.bc.ca> <4naif2$abe@newsgate.dircon.co.uk> >>>ground floor of this incredible opportunity. We offer a 3 X 7 Matrix with >>>8 ways to make money. Become a Puff Away Distributor today. You can call >>>us at > >By my calculations that means 13 ways to lose money...... The name is very appropriate too. Bob Muirhead
From: haverber@winternet.com (Bill Haverberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Friend on a tight budget needs help with black broken keyboard - he can't post either Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 00:27:02 GMT Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc Message-ID: <4nb81m$mdl@blackice.winternet.com> A friend of mine has a black-hardware next and has a rather serious problem with his mouse (doesn't work) and his keyboard (all y keystrokes map to the number 7). He needs 1) some software that will let him remap his keyboard, or 2) a REAL CHEAP replacement for the mouse and/or keyboard. The keyboard problem is preventing him from accessing the newsgroups so I promised to do so for him...I know absolutely zilch about next except that its supposed to be one of those really cool power systems or something like that (Bill Gates didn't write it so that is one point in its favor :) Anyways, apparently this is the kind of hardware where he can't just walk into a goodwill and grab one off a junked PC or apple. Oh, and if there is software that lets him map his mouse to the keyboard that would be really neat as well. I am going to make an effort to keep up with this newsgroup, but since its not my area of expertise or interest I probably won't be keeping up with it everyday. I would appreciate it if any respondants would EMail me at haverber@winternet.com and I will forward whatever I get. Thanks :)
From: rauch@POWERED.ZOO.CS.YALE.EDU (Erik Rauch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Using inkjet with NeXT slab Date: 15 May 1996 01:58:02 GMT Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158 Message-ID: <4nbdna$o0c@babyblue.cs.yale.edu> Hello, Is it possible to use a standard (non-postscript) inkjet printer with a NeXT sla b, like for example a HP 600? If so, how would one hook it up; do you need to do anything special, besides have the proper cable? Can you use color? Thanks, -Erik Rauch -- .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. |Erik Rauch URL: http://powered.cs.yale.edu:8000/~rauch rauch@cs.yale.edu|
From: trecom1@adams.patriot.net (Trecom Business Systems) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: US-VA/DC(metro area)/NC-MULTI SOFTWARE,TELECOM,DBA,more... Date: 15 May 1996 03:04:06 GMT Organization: PatriotNet, (703) 277-7737 Message-ID: <4nbhj6$k4g@washington.patriot.net> IMMEDIATE MULTIPLE FULL-TIME OFFERINGS: In Northern Virginia and Research Triangle, North Carolina with: TRECOM Business Systems Washington, DC Office 8521 Leesburg Pike, Suite 405 Vienna, VA 22182 http://www.trecomdc.com FAX (703) 883-2019 PHONE (703) 883-2012 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Northern Virginia Washington,DC-Metro Area All Northern Virginia positions are in the Tysons Corner/Dulles Airport corridor. *OOA/D Architects(Enterprise wide project) *Telecommunications Specialists with extensive ISDN experience. *Network/Telecommunications Analysts with strong communication and writing skills *Systems Analysts *SYBASE *UNIX *C/C++ *NeXT *COBOL/IMS ---------------- Cary, North Carolina Research Triangle Area *Network Manager *Network Architects *Telecommunications Analysts with TELCO switch experience *System Architects *System Analysts *ISDN Analysts *ORACLE related positions *UNIX/C/C++ development and programming positions We are looking for information systems professionals with expertise in a wide variety of technologies. You may send us your resume as an attachment via e-mail to jobs@trecomdc.com, fax (703) 883-2019 or send your resume to: Director of Recruiting TRECOM Business Systems, Inc. 8521 Leesburg Pike, Suite 405 Vienna, VA 22182 FAX (703) 883-2019 PHONE (703) 883-2012 For more information about TRECOM Business Systems, take a look at a our Web page at http://www.trecomdc.com -- --- ____________________________________________________________________________ TRECOM Business Systems, Inc. http://www.trecomdc.com 8521 Leesburg Pike, Suite 405 mailto:info@trecomdc.com Vienna, VA 22182 ____________________________________________________________________________
From: Richard Heaton <rheaton@empac.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Using inkjet with NeXT slab Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 21:21:26 -0700 Organization: Empac International Message-ID: <31995BC6.446B9B3D@empac.com> References: <4nbdna$o0c@babyblue.cs.yale.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Erik Rauch wrote: > > Hello, > > Is it possible to use a standard (non-postscript) inkjet printer > with a NeXT sla b, like for example a HP 600? If so, how would one hook > it up; do you need to do anything special, besides have the proper cable? > Can you use color? > > Thanks, > > -Erik Rauch > -- > .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. > |Erik Rauch URL: http://powered.cs.yale.edu:8000/~rauch rauch@cs.yale.edu| Yes it is. Reimer Mellin (I think that's his name)wrote a good filter for the dj. It lets yo connect a dj to the serial port. I think it is called djf (try doing an archie lookup). I have a DJ 500 connected to my black slab (undef NS 2.1 even!!). I looked for it on the sites I got it from , ftp://nova.cc.purdue.edu and ftp://cs.orst.edu but I couldn't find it (it may be too old) You may want to try: ( I got this from archie) ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/systems/next/cs.orst.edu/sources/drivers/ghostHPDJ.1.tar.gz Rich rheaton@empac.com
From: privacy@interlink-bbs.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: New Anonymous Remailer Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 07:05:16 GMT Message-ID: <9605141436.D7427ny@interlink-bbs.com> You may be familiar with anon.penet.fi, which give you an anonymous account. Our service allows YOU to choose what the return address will be! Please write for more info.
From: haasd@ubaclu.unibas.ch (Daniel Haas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Using inkjet with NeXT slab Message-ID: <1996May15.095322.46472@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> Date: 15 May 96 09:53:22 MET References: <4nbdna$o0c@babyblue.cs.yale.edu> Distribution: world Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland In article <4nbdna$o0c@babyblue.cs.yale.edu>, rauch@POWERED.ZOO.CS.YALE.EDU (Erik Rauch) writes: > Is it possible to use a standard (non-postscript) inkjet printer > with a NeXT sla b, like for example a HP 600? If so, how would one hook > it up; do you need to do anything special, besides have the proper cable? > Can you use color? There are some third party printer drivers around, that can fix your problem, e.g DOTS and I think eXTRaPrint, too AFAIK I'm using DOTS for my PCL3-type Laser and it works fine, I haven't tried it on color printers, I don't have one and I think I would need a special Dots version to use colors... Hope this helps Daniel *************************************************************** Daniel Haas Physikalisches Institut Universitaet Basel email: haasd@ubaclu.unibas.ch (no NeXT- or MIME-mail please) smail: D. Haas, Kreuzstrasse 150, D-79540 Loerrach, Germany ***************************************************************
From: Alex Kolesov Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: HELP!!! Sybase/MS SQL DB-Library headers Date: 15 May 1996 07:43:16 GMT Organization: TverUniversal Bank Distribution: world Message-ID: <4nc1uk$k9d@hobbit.tubank.msk.su> Keywords: SQL Hi ! I apologize for using these newsgroups for my post, but folks from comp.databases.<blah-blah-blah> seems not to be concern to help anyone who needs help. Nothing strange - it is _not_ a NEXTSTEP community ... Another world, another rules ... Ok, my problem is: I wrote a lot of code using DB-Library for Sybase on my NeXT and now I have to port it to Windoze somehow to work with MS SQL Server (I don't want to, but ..). Using MS SQL DB-Library seems to be a very attractive solution. Unfortunately my distribution disk for MS SQL does not contain it (and says that it does). I found DLL with DBLib API, but there's no C headers available for that stuff. I've tried to use my sybase ones - it didn't work. So if somebody has these .h files for MS or Borland C compilers (sqlfront.h and sqldb.h), please, send'em to me via e-mail. Thanks a lot in advance for any help. Be well ... ------------------------------------------------------------ Alex Kolesov Moscow, RUSSIA Tver Universal Bank Nostro Accounts Department Phone : 7+(095)-432-9483 NeXT, MIME & Microsoft E-mail: <alex@next.tubank.msk.su> mail accepted ------------------------------------------------------------
Date: 15 May 1996 09:11:37 GMT From: jem@xpat.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Message-ID: <cancel.4nbhj6$k4g@washington.patriot.net> Control: cancel <4nbhj6$k4g@washington.patriot.net> Sender: trecom1@adams.patriot.net (Trecom Business Systems) Subject: cmsg cancel <4nbhj6$k4g@washington.patriot.net> EMP/ECP (aka SPAM) cancelled by jem@xpat.com. See news.admin.net-abuse.announce, report 19960515.09 for further details
From: dcoyle@goanna.mpi-hd.mpg.de (David A. Coyle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Q: driver for HP DeskJet 1600 Date: 15 May 1996 09:58:23 GMT Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany Message-ID: <4nc9rv$oer@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> References: <4n9o7h$ma0@sunrise.pg.gda.pl> In article <4n9o7h$ma0@sunrise.pg.gda.pl> waldek@bg.univ.gda.pl (Waldemar Chrzan) writes: > Hi ! > I searching for driver for HP DescJet 1600 printer. > > Help Me ! > > :-) > Waldemar Chrzan I use JetPilot (info@interpc.de....I think) to drive a 1600C. It worked quite well, though hung the print server occasionally. Dave
From: IHKONG@chollian.dacom.co.kr (õ¸®¾È NEWS GROUP ÀÌ¿ëÀÚ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Friend on a tight budget needs help with black broken keyboard - he can't post either Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Date: 15 May 1996 10:28:22 GMT Organization: DACOM Internet Message-ID: <4ncbk6$16o@nis.dacom.co.kr> References: <4nb81m$mdl@blackice.winternet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc From: Fabien_Roy@free.fdn.org Subject: HP ColorLaserJet 5M ppd file Message-ID: <1996May15.080229.4853@free.fdn.org> Sender: news@free.fdn.org Organization: Fabien Roy Consultant, Paris, France References: <4n1rt3$kq@news.petrel.ch> Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 08:02:29 GMT Could not find it at ftp.adobe.com. Could somebody mail it to me. Thanks -- Fabien Roy --------------------------------------------------------------------- Fabien_Roy@free.fdn.org (NextMail/MIME accepted) Fabien Roy Consultant NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/EOF Consultant, SYBASE DBA 10 rue de la DEFENSE 93100 MONTREUIL, France Tel: 33 1 45 28 32 23 Fax: 33 1 48 55 09 90
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc From: tim@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu (Tim Pugh) Subject: Re: Using inkjet with NeXT slab Message-ID: <DrGIx4.J40@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu> Organization: Johns Hopkins Continuing Professional Programs References: <4nbdna$o0c@babyblue.cs.yale.edu> <1996May15.095322.46472@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 17:22:15 GMT haasd@ubaclu.unibas.ch (Daniel Haas) writes: >In article <4nbdna$o0c@babyblue.cs.yale.edu>, rauch@POWERED.ZOO.CS.YALE.EDU (Erik Rauch) writes: >> Is it possible to use a standard (non-postscript) inkjet printer >> with a NeXT sla b, like for example a HP 600? If so, how would one hook >> it up; do you need to do anything special, besides have the proper cable? >> Can you use color? >There are some third party printer drivers around, that can fix your >problem, e.g DOTS and I think eXTRaPrint, too AFAIK >I'm using DOTS for my PCL3-type Laser and it works fine, I haven't tried >it on color printers, I don't have one and I think I would need a special >Dots version to use colors... >Hope this helps >Daniel >*************************************************************** >Daniel Haas >Physikalisches Institut >Universitaet Basel >email: haasd@ubaclu.unibas.ch (no NeXT- or MIME-mail please) >smail: D. Haas, Kreuzstrasse 150, D-79540 Loerrach, Germany >*************************************************************** Assuming one uses DOTS or eXTRaPrint drivers, is it possible to use the serial port of a NeXT Cube to drive a color printer. If so, is the performance acceptible given a 38.4KBaud rate. I just got rid of a NeXT Color Printer (Cannon Bubble Jet) which was going to cost $300 to fix two faulty jets. Although NS3.3 includes PostScrip Level II, which promises color fidelity -- I always got purple on the printer for blue on the CRT. Any recommendations for a replacement strategy would be appreciated. This to include printer models and driver software. Thanks, Tim -- Tim Pugh |MicroCALL Services tim@aplcenmp.apl.JHU.EDU |8713 Briarcroft Lane |Laurel, MD 20708-1355 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: ronnie@lanl.gov (Ronnie Mainieri) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: How can I add undo to my program? Date: 16 May 1996 03:12:21 GMT Organization: Complex Systems Group, LANL Message-ID: <4ne6el$a34@newshost.lanl.gov> References: <199605020233.WAA09449@slate.cs.rochester.edu> In the text editor sam by Rob Pike a very elegant approach is taken to undo. He looked at the text file as database of characters. There are two basic operations that affect the file: insert and remove. All other modification commands are implemented in terms of these two operations. These two commands are the transactions issued to the database. As the file is modified, another file is kept with all the transactions. To undo one just has to replay the transactions backwards with a few shifts of the addresses used. Ronnie Mainieri ronnie@cnls.lanl.gov
From: michael@rumah.pc.my (Michael Olan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Getting au files to use Sound.app Date: 16 May 1996 05:36:51 GMT Organization: Unconfigured Message-ID: <4neetj$i97@jaring.my> References: <72B6793101A23A0C@-SMF-> Its been several years since I've done this, but I just renamed xxxxx.au to xxxxx.snd and it worked fine. Sun au & Next snd are pretty much the same thing I think. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Michael Olan Email: michael@rumah.pc.my (NeXT Mail OK) Senior Lecturer - Computer Science michael@ppp.itm.my American Degree Program Fax: 6-03-5482329 Institut Teknologi MARA Section 17, Shah Alam, Malaysia ---------------------------------------------------------------------
From: tony@gst1.gestel.it (Antonio Flores) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Wacom tablet driver Date: 15 May 1996 11:38:05 GMT Organization: Italia Online Message-ID: <4ncfmt$sns@mikasa.iol.it> Is there a Wacom tablet driver available? Thanks for help. -------------- Antonio Flores tony@gestel.it
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc From: Steve Dieringer <steved@bankone.com> Subject: RE: What's the fastest 4MB VRAM graphics card? Message-ID: <01bb434c.799676a0$1ab097cc@steve.bankone.com> Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 18:34:03 GMT References: <4h7prq$mgi@digdug.pswtech.com> <RDL.96Mar1214949@world.std.com> <313CED47.7C7D@ucla.edu> Organization: Banc One POS Services Corp. On Tuesday, March 05, 1996, "Tony C." wrote... > Imagine may have a wider bandwidth but Millenium has twice the clock > speed, in addition to its faster WRAM (running at 60 MHz). That > equalizes its 128-bit advantage. Under Windows at least. > > By the way, are you saying that you can't take advantage of 128-bit or > 64-bit hardware under NeXTSTEP? > > Robert La Ferla wrote: > > > > Stick with the Imagine 128. Under Windows, you'll be able to take > > advantage of the 128 bit hardware. All other cards are 64-bit. > > > > Robert La Ferla > > Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant > > Boston, MA > > Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088 > > Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004 > > E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com > > > > In article <4h7prq$mgi@digdug.pswtech.com> ricardo@pswtech.com (Ricardo Parada) writes: > > > > Hi - > > > > I'm getting a Pentium Pro and I was wondering which graphics card has the > > fastest framebuffer. The card should have 4MB to run at 1280x1024 in > > 16-bit color. The card should have a driver for OPENSTEP 4.0 and Windows > > NT. > > > > The machine I'm getting comes with the Imagine 128-bit with 4MB VRAM. > > > > Thanks, > > Ricardo > >
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Getting au files to use Sound.app Date: 16 May 1996 19:17:25 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <4nfv05$17o@bignews.shef.ac.uk> References: <72B6793101A23A0C@-SMF-> <4neetj$i97@jaring.my> In-Reply-To: <4neetj$i97@jaring.my> On 05/16/96, Michael Olan wrote: > Its been several years since I've done this, but I just renamed xxxxx.au to > xxxxx.snd and it worked fine. Sun au & Next snd are pretty much the same > thing I think. > They have the same header format -- the only difference is that Sun and NeXT don't support all of each other's data formats (e.g. Sun don't support NeXT's compression, and NeXT don't support ADPCM compression, though I have NeXT-ified some code to do this: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/info/code/ADPCM/ Best wishes, mmalc. --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer From: Sean Willson <sean_willson@il.us.swissbank.com> Subject: OmniWeb, Netscape, and MIME types Message-ID: <1996May16.214513.19600@il.us.swissbank.com> Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator) Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 21:45:13 GMT Fellow NeXT Users, I have the following problem, I have several Microsoft Word documents sitting on a web server. I create pages with links to those docs and open those pages in both Netscape and OmniWeb. When I select the link in either of the two applications they both display the file in the browser. In Netscape a new mime-type was defined to open Word, although I am not sure if it was done properly. In OmniWeb, the .doc file has a default application of OpenWrite.app yet in both cases the browser ALWAYS displays the output (mangled obviously) in the browser window instead of spawning an external viewer. Is there some reason for this. It is imperative that doc's sit on the web server and can be served up. Can someone make some suggestions? This seems so basic and straight forward, yet persists!!!! I am sure this problem has been dealt with before.....thanks. Sean Willson -- ____________________________________________________________________ Sean M. Willson sean_willson@il.us.swissbank.com Swiss Bank Corp. NeXT, MIME, and ascii 141 West Jackson Boulevard Chicago, Illinois 60604 (312) 554-5399
From: vador@sheroom.minet.net (Eric Taieb aka Sheroom) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: making another Nextstep partion Date: 16 May 1996 22:58:26 GMT Organization: INT (Evry - France) Message-ID: <4ngbui$860@babylone.int-evry.fr> I have to EIDE disks connected each one to a controller EIDE On the first disk 2 partitions: NeXTStep (with the OS) WinShit95 On the second disk 3 partitions: Dos Principal NeXTStep (created using fdisk) Dos extended At boot time when NextStep boots i recognizes the second hard drive: WD Caviar etc.... then it does: Regsiterinf hd1: Not Valid Disk Label And it doesn't only mounts on this second disk The dos principal partition . What should i do to mount the other NextStep partition? This in an extract from fdisk of /dev/rhd1h NeXT fdisk v1.02 Device: /dev/rhd1h Type Start Size Status -------------------------------------------- DOS, 16 bit FAT 0 646 - NEXTSTEP 750 471 Active Unused Blocks Start Size ------------------------------- Free Space 646 104 My Dos extended partition is not even shown!!!!! I've try swapping from NEXSTEP and DOS, 16 bit FAT the active partition and when NextSTep is active partition no partition at all is mounted. DO I NEED TO DO SOMETHING ELSE THAN FDISK TO CREATE A NEW NEXTSTEP PARTITION AND MOUNT IT?????? Please HELP ME OUT I NEED TO MOUNT THIS SECOND NEXTSTEP PARTITION TO GET MORE SPACE FOR NEXTSTEP!!!! THNXXX
From: rdieter@mathlab44.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: OmniWeb, Netscape, and MIME types Date: 17 May 1996 13:17:58 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <4nhua6$64b@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <1996May16.214513.19600@il.us.swissbank.com> In article <1996May16.214513.19600@il.us.swissbank.com> Sean Willson <sean_willson@il.us.swissbank.com> writes: > > Fellow NeXT Users, > > I have the following problem, I have several Microsoft Word documents > sitting on a web server. I create pages with links to those docs and > open those pages in both Netscape and OmniWeb. When I select the link > in either of the two applications they both display the file in the > browser. In Netscape a new mime-type was defined to open Word, although > I am not sure if it was done properly. In OmniWeb, the .doc file has > a default application of OpenWrite.app yet in both cases the browser > ALWAYS displays the output (mangled obviously) in the browser window > instead of spawning an external viewer. This is the fault of the web server, not the web client. The server needs to send it as some MIME type for Word documents... say application/x-word or something. Many web servers (like apache, for example), set the default MIME type to text/plain, which gets set for document types apache doesn't know about... so browsers assume the file is text/plain and displays it. -- Rex Dieter Computer System Manager Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska Lincoln
From: teledia@bundoran.teledia.fr (Teledia) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Installing Solaris2.4 after OpenStep Date: 17 May 1996 15:47:18 GMT Organization: FNET - EUnet France Message-ID: <4ni726$1r7@ns.fnet.fr> I have installed OpenStep 4.0 with success on a sparc station 20 with 64MB of RAM. Now I want to install solaris 2.4 back on the machine, but the format utility core dumps during the installation procedure (Arithmetic Exception). The probe-scsi monitor command shows that the disk is regognized (SUN1.05) but when I boot from the Solaris 2.4 CDROM (even in single user) the format command core dumps and for other commands (fmthard, prtvtoc) I get "No such device or address" errors even though the device files appear in the /dev and /devices directory (I use /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s0). Nobody at Sun can do anything for me around here. HELP! Any suggestion welcome by email to teledia@teledia.fr. Many thanks, JC Dhellemmes teledia@teledia.fr
From: gaylord@vtaix.cc.vt.edu (Clark Gaylord) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Shell script in .app? Date: 17 May 1996 19:17:09 GMT Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Message-ID: <4nijbl$1la@solaris.cc.vt.edu> NNTP-Posting-User: gaylord Please forgive me if this is a really stupid or newbie question. I have one individual in my department who uses a NeXT (black box). While I have no NeXTStep experience, I am very impressed with what I see, and may make this an alternate OS on my PC. This user would like to retrieve mail from a POP server when he starts the Mail application. popclient works well for retrieving mail off of the POP server, and the resulting mail can be added to ~/Mailboxes/mbox directly. But if Mail is already running, it does not know the new mail is present; Mail must be closed and reopened (if there is a work-around for this, I'd like to know). What the user would like to do is have mail retrieved first, then Mail open; a little shell script would work great. BUT, if I try to, e.g., rename Mail in the Mail.app to, say Mail.exe, and make a Mail script in the Mail.app which gets the mail and then opens Mail.exe, this does not work. What do I need to do to have Mail.app use a script instead of calling the Mail executable directly? Please respond via email, and I will gladly summarize to the newsgroup if there is a demand. Many thanks. -- Clark Gaylord Systems Engineering Dept of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Virginia Tech gaylord@aoe.vt.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: tim@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu (Tim Pugh) Subject: JAZ Tools Disk Message-ID: <DrKJ7o.CG1@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu> Summary: How to make JAZ tools disk writable? Organization: Johns Hopkins Continuing Professional Programs Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 21:19:00 GMT Does anyone know how to make the "tools disk", which comes standard with the Iomega JAZ drive, writable. As delivered, it is read only and contains tools which are only of use to PC and MAC users. While there are utilities supplied on the associated floppy disks which allow PC and MAC users to make the "tools disk" writable, no such is supplied for UNIX :-(. An additional question: While I am able to use BuildDisk.app to "build" a JAZ disk, I am unable to boot from it. Any one know if this is possible? (Note: I set the SCSI_ID of the JAZ to a lower value than the normal boot device) Thanks in advance for any help you can give me, Tim -- Tim Pugh |MicroCALL Services tim@aplcenmp.apl.JHU.EDU |8713 Briarcroft Lane |Laurel, MD 20708-1355 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: lacourse (Dan LaCourse) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Shell script in .app? Date: 17 May 1996 21:58:28 GMT Organization: Netspace Message-ID: <4nisq4$c32@news.midusa.net> References: <4nijbl$1la@solaris.cc.vt.edu> Cc: gaylord@vtaix.cc.vt.edu In <4nijbl$1la@solaris.cc.vt.edu> Clark Gaylord wrote: >But if Mail is already running, it does not know the new mail is present; >Mail must be closed and reopened (if there is a work-around for this, >I'd like to know). Try ªUtilities > Get New Mailº Cheers, Dan
From: sh4@clarion.cec.wustl.edu (S. H. Khayat) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: ATI Mach64 driver for NEXTSTEP 3.2, where?? Date: 17 May 1996 18:09:58 -0500 Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO Message-ID: <4nj106$me0@clarion.cec.wustl.edu> I'm looking for ATI Mach64 driver for NEXTSTEP 3.2. The NeXT's nextanswers shows that there is no such thing. But maybe there is and you know. I have the above (unlucky) combination of hardware and software and would like them very much to work. Help!! Help !! /sh
From: rak1002@cam.ac.uk (Rob Kinninmont) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: ATI Mach64 driver for NEXTSTEP 3.2, where?? Date: 18 May 1996 08:53:39 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, England Message-ID: <4nk36j$c3m@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> References: <4nj106$me0@clarion.cec.wustl.edu> In article <4nj106$me0@clarion.cec.wustl.edu> sh4@clarion.cec.wustl.edu (S. H. Khayat) writes: > I'm looking for ATI Mach64 driver for NEXTSTEP 3.2. > The NeXT's nextanswers shows that there is no such thing. > But maybe there is and you know. > > I have the above (unlucky) combination of hardware and software and > would like them very much to work. > Help!! Help !! Try ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/i486/screen/ATIGraphicsProTu rbo.I.b.tar.gz As far as i remember its a 3.2 driver. (It works in 3.3 as well, and is the only driver I found to support interlace modes (I have a problem monitor)) Hope that helps, rob rak1002@cam.ac.uk
From: jm040795@fhda.edu (Raven) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: WANTED: Internet software Date: 18 May 1996 03:27:47 GMT Organization: TheSharewareCollector Message-ID: <jm040795-1705962027500001@mencju.apple.com> Where's a good site(s) to get internet software, both NeXT applications and BSD applciations.
From: jm040795@fhda.edu (Raven) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: WANTED: X/Windows for $00.00 Date: 18 May 1996 03:28:57 GMT Organization: TheSharewareCollector Message-ID: <jm040795-1705962029000001@mencju.apple.com> Is there a free port of X/Windows. I want to compile UNIX X/Windows applications. Will XFree86 work?
From: jm040795@fhda.edu (Raven) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: making another Nextstep partion Date: 18 May 1996 03:31:50 GMT Organization: TheSharewareCollector Message-ID: <jm040795-1705962031520001@mencju.apple.com> References: <4ngbui$860@babylone.int-evry.fr> > My Dos extended partition is not even shown!!!!! I've try swapping from > NEXSTEP and DOS, 16 bit FAT the active partition and when NextSTep is active > partition no partition at all is mounted. > I never had that problem. All my DOS parititions show up with NS3.3. I have never created other DOS partitions after installing NS though. > DO I NEED TO DO SOMETHING ELSE THAN FDISK TO CREATE A NEW NEXTSTEP PARTITION > AND MOUNT IT?????? > Is the partition formatted? > Please HELP ME OUT I NEED TO MOUNT THIS SECOND NEXTSTEP PARTITION TO GET MORE > SPACE FOR NEXTSTEP!!!! > If all else fails, try deleting the partition and see if NeXTStep want's to use it.
From: jm040795@fhda.edu (Raven) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: [Q] How to get other directories to appear Date: 18 May 1996 03:34:55 GMT Organization: TheSharewareCollector Message-ID: <jm040795-1705962034590001@mencju.apple.com> This is very very very annoying. NS doesn't display all the available directories. When I go into Mach kernel, after doing ls, the directories later appear in the gui viewer. I cannot find an option to show all the directories. Is NeXTStep trying to shield the users from difficulty by limiting functionality. I hate it when companies do that.
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: [Q] How to get other directories to appear Date: 18 May 1996 16:08:54 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <4nksmm$pjd@bignews.shef.ac.uk> References: <jm040795-1705962034590001@mencju.apple.com> In-Reply-To: <jm040795-1705962034590001@mencju.apple.com> On 05/18/96, Raven wrote: > This is very very very annoying. NS doesn't display all the available > directories. When I go into Mach kernel, after doing ls, the directories > later appear in the gui viewer. I cannot find an option to show all the > directories. > No, it's enhancing functionality. You can see all the directories/files by: (a) using Finder or Workspace to find a hidden directory (e.g. .cshrc); (b) for a permanent "fix", click the Unix Expert switch in Preferences. > Is NeXTStep trying to shield the users from difficulty by limiting > functionality. I hate it when companies do that. > Is this a case of someone flaming a system before they've found out enough about it? I hate it when people do that. Best wishes, mmalc. (I wonder how far Apple would have got if the data and resource forks of each file were displayed seperately...?) --
From: jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: AppleTalk/Share Glitches In 3.3 Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 13:11:28 -0400 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf-1805961311280001@frazer.com> References: <4n55vr$77k@nntp1.best.com> <4njmre$snr@nntp1.best.com> In article <4njmre$snr@nntp1.best.com>, Carl Hansen <hansen@shellx> wrote: > Ignore the previous question. I didn't have authenication set correctly > on the Mac side. I just fired up the AppleTalk package under 3.3 and noticed that logging in to a Mac with sharing enabled, as guest with no password, doesn't work on a NeXT, whereas it does on a Mac. Login with password does work. Anyone know why this might be happening? > But I still have a question: When the Apple share volumes are mounted > from the Mac and the MAc crashes and is rebooted, > what is the best way to get the Appleshare volumes mounted again? I have an even simpler question. How do you unmount the volume - just drag it to the trash? I didn't see anything obvious in the Workspace menus, but maybe I didn't look hard enough. And, regarding printing to a Laser Writer, I had no problem connecting to a Jet Express card, but I don't see any EtherTalk printers. I see that 3.3 PrintManager still has the necessary NIBs for chosing such printers but ... Anyone used this successfully in 3.3? Barney PS For those who have tried to install the 3.0 AppleTalk package in 3.3 without success, use the 3.0 Installer. The 3.3 Installer doesn't install the executables, but the 3.0 version does. Anyone know why?
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: [Q] How to get other directories to appear Date: 18 May 1996 17:40:37 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-j-48.usc.edu Message-ID: <4nl22l$qki@usc.edu> References: <jm040795-1705962034590001@mencju.apple.com> <4nksmm$pjd@bignews.shef.ac.uk> Cc: m.crawford@shef.ac.uk In <4nksmm$pjd@bignews.shef.ac.uk> mmalcolm crawford wrote: > On 05/18/96, Raven wrote: > > This is very very very annoying. NS doesn't display all the available > > directories. When I go into Mach kernel, after doing ls, the directories > > later appear in the gui viewer. I cannot find an option to show all the > > directories. > > > No, it's enhancing functionality. > > You can see all the directories/files by: > (a) using Finder or Workspace to find a hidden directory (e.g. .cshrc); > (b) for a permanent "fix", click the Unix Expert switch in Preferences. Another option would be to edit the .hidden list if those were the directories that are being discussed. (nothing to add to the last part of this thread) -- 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: a9050756@unet.univie.ac.at () Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Displaying Windows Postscript File Date: 18 May 1996 10:48:06 GMT Organization: Vienna University, Austria Message-ID: <4nk9t6$lh2@www.univie.ac.at> How can I get a Postscript file generated under Windows to Display on the NEXT DPS? THX. Best Regards, Michael Alexander Doctoral Student at the University of Vienna
From: sh4@clarion.cec.wustl.edu (S. H. Khayat) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: *** Installing NEXTSTEP from non-SCSI CD ROM drive, how? *** Date: 18 May 1996 14:54:50 -0500 Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO Message-ID: <4nl9ua$cb4@clarion.cec.wustl.edu> Installing NeXTSTEP requires a SCSI CD ROM drive. Is there a way to get around this apparently very stupid restriction? I have a Pentium box with no SCSI interface and want to install NeXTSTEP 3.2. Please help! /shk
From: dossr@ecs.ecs.csus.edu () Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Reading dedicated wordprocessor disks under NS? Date: 19 May 1996 05:12:39 GMT Organization: California State University, Sacramento Message-ID: <4nmak7$s2n@csusac.ecs.csus.edu> I have a Brother WP-80 wordprocessor 720k proprietary format data disk and I would like to be able to read the disk (ideally) under NS/Intel. I realize that the disk is in a file format that is different from MS-DOS or any other format that NS recognizes, but I was hoping that NS would take it anyways when I told Workspace to "Check for Disks..." It didn't work. I also tried to do:'cat /dev/rfd0b > file_name' as root to copy the disk's contents to a file, but after the disk light came on for a second I got "cat: read error: Invalid argument" which then renders the floppy drive unusable until I reboot. Does anyone know how I can get at this data? Are there any programs or hacks out there for NS? I would even settle for a program on another platform. I checked Brother's WWW page, but they don't offer any support or have any info. on their wordprocessors. I can't seem to find any programs that would do what I'm asking for, although I have seen references alluding that such programs do exist. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank You. -- Robert C. Doss, Jr. California State University, Sacramento e-mail: dossr@csus.edu (MIME & NeXTMail o.k.) WWW: http://www.gaia.ecs.csus.edu/~dossr Facsimile: (707) 253-3063
From: jburton@nwu.edu (Joshua W. Burton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: How to get kermit to export term dimensions? Date: 19 May 1996 06:25:59 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Message-ID: <4nmetn$j91@news.acns.nwu.edu> References: <4nm5rb$6kg@agate.berkeley.edu> pbrown@asparagus.berkeley.edu (Paul Robert Brown) wrote: > > How can I get kermit to broadcast the size of the terminal > window containing it when I'm using my home NeXT to dial in? I never figured out how to do it, in the two years or so that I spent logging in by kermit. You should get a modern kermit; I've got 5A(189), which is three years old, but at least supports curses-style file-transfer progress updates, and similar goodies. If yours is older than this, you should certainly upgrade it. You should also make sure that you are getting good performance out of your kermit, meaning chiefly that you are using a packet size much bigger than the default, and a window size of 4 or more as well. (If you haven't played around with your .kermrc at all, you are getting very substandard performance---write me, and I'll send you my .kermrc settings.) The real solution is to get SLIP (or, better, PPP) up and running, and use rlogin, which always keeps track of your term size. This will also give you news, web, and FTP access from home, and the ability to open multiple terminal windows at once. It takes a bit of work to configure, especially to get mail headers right, but since you're going NeXT-to-NeXT the problems will be a bit easier than usual to diagnose. Well worth the effort, though! Let me know if you get stuck. And ye shall know the truth, |=============================================== and the truth shall make you | Joshua Burton (847)677-3902 jburton@nwu.edu flee... -- Spider Robinson |===============================================
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: AppleTalk/Share Glitches In 3.3 Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 02:24:29 -0500 Organization: Illinois State University, Instructional Technology Services Message-ID: <319ECCAD.69FB@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> References: <4n55vr$77k@nntp1.best.com> <4njmre$snr@nntp1.best.com> <jbf-1805961311280001@frazer.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "James B. Frazer" <jbf@frazer.com> James B. Frazer wrote: > I just fired up the AppleTalk package under 3.3 and noticed that logging in > to a Mac with sharing enabled, as guest with no password, doesn't work on a > NeXT, whereas it does on a Mac. Login with password does work. Anyone know why > this might be happening? http://www.iptech.com has a AppleTalk for NS product that DOES work on 3.2...Partner Are you getting this 3.0 AppleTalk working? I'd be suprised... ------------------------------------------ Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ASCII, MIME or NeXT Mail Instructional Technology Services- Illinois State University Understanding is best learned via experience ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY
From: shihong@mbox.kyoto-inet.or.jp (LAO Shihong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,fj.sys.next Subject: Chinese (big5) truetype fonts converted to PS fonts for NEXTSTEP Date: 19 May 1996 13:07:13 GMT Organization: (empty) Distribution: fj Message-ID: <4nn6e1$9ta@synboon.picky.or.jp> Keywords: chinese font nextstep I have converted some of the truetype fonts found in ftp.cnd.org to postscript fonts for using with NEXTSTEP. Those fonts are in big5 encoding. For more info about those truetype fonts see ftp://ftp.cnd.org/pub/software/fonts/big5/ms-win/ntu_font.txt If you are interested in beta testing those fonts please send email to shihong@mbox.kyoto-inet.or.jp with subject "FONT". ---- LAO Shihong (firstname is surname)
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: ading dedicated wordprocessor disks under NS? Date: 20 May 1996 03:31:28 GMT Organization: HTI Message-ID: <4nop2g$i9i@news.cais.com> References: <4nmak7$s2n@csusac.ecs.csus.edu> Don't think you'll ever be able to do it. Your best bet is to read it using DOS/Windows, save your files to a DOS diskette and then use NEXTSTEP to read the DOS diskette. Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP Consultant Boston, MA + 1 (617) 252-0088
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: [Q] How to get other directories to appear Date: 20 May 1996 03:39:23 GMT Organization: HTI Message-ID: <4nophb$i9i@news.cais.com> References: <jm040795-1705962034590001@mencju.apple.com> jm040795@fhda.edu (Raven) wrote: > This is very very very annoying. NS doesn't display all the available > directories. When I go into Mach kernel, after doing ls, the directories > later appear in the gui viewer. I cannot find an option to show all the > directories. Go to Preferences.app and select the UNIX module. Check the preference called "UNIX Expert" This will turn on the display of all directories. NEXTSTEP defaults to non-expert which is the correct behaviour. The only problem I have is that they forgot to make UNIX Expert the default for the root account. When configuring a new system, it's one of the first things I change. Also, you should be aware that some directories contain a file called .hidden which lists which files are not viewable from the File Viewer. Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP Consultant Boston, MA + 1 (617) 252-0088
From: Robert Worne <rworne@primenet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Reading dedicated wordprocessor disks under NS? Date: 20 May 1996 01:31:01 -0700 Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet Sender: root@primenet.com Message-ID: <4npak5$17c@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> References: <4nmak7$s2n@csusac.ecs.csus.edu> dossr@ecs.ecs.csus.edu () wrote: >I have a Brother WP-80 wordprocessor 720k proprietary format data disk and >I would like to be able to read the disk (ideally) under NS/Intel. I >realize that the disk is in a file format that is different from MS-DOS or >any other format that NS recognizes, but I was hoping that NS would take >it anyways when I told Workspace to "Check for Disks..." It didn't work. > >I also tried to do:'cat /dev/rfd0b > file_name' as root to copy the disk's >contents to a file, but after the disk light came on for a second I got >"cat: read error: Invalid argument" which then renders the floppy drive >unusable until I reboot. Does anyone know how I can get at this data? Are >there any programs or hacks out there for NS? I would even settle for a >program on another platform. I checked Brother's WWW page, but they don't >offer any support or have any info. on their wordprocessors. I can't seem >to find any programs that would do what I'm asking for, although I have >seen references alluding that such programs do exist. Any help would be >greatly appreciated. Thank You. What may work is that a few years ago, Brother made word processors with DOS disk (720K) read/write ability as an option. Try to find one of these machines at your local office supply store, for an obscure hint as to what they look like, they appear to look like one of the old Osbourne portable computers (with built-in CRT, fold-up keyboard) I don't know about the desktop typewriter/screen variations or the LCD-type screen portables. Read in your old disk, save it onto a DOS floppy (probably as ASCII), import the ASCII text into your NeXT system. Good luck. -- 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: woo@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: PostScript viewer resolution Date: 20 May 1996 16:32:59 GMT Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN Distribution: world Message-ID: <4nq6rr$8c8@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> When I prepare a LaTeX document, the DVI viewer shows a beautiful screen presentation and prints beautiful also. If however, I use dvips to make a postscript file, the Postscript screen viewer shows the document almost unreadable, but it still prints fine. Suggestions? -- - - - - - - - - - J. W. Wooten
From: lph@sei.cmu.edu (Larry Howard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: AppleTalk/Share Glitches In 3.3 Date: 20 May 1996 17:10:36 GMT Organization: Software Engineering Institute Message-ID: <4nq92c$1s2@news.sei.cmu.edu> References: <4n55vr$77k@nntp1.best.com> <4njmre$snr@nntp1.best.com> <jbf-1805961311280001@frazer.com> In article <jbf-1805961311280001@frazer.com> jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) writes: >In article <4njmre$snr@nntp1.best.com>, Carl Hansen <hansen@shellx> wrote: > >I just fired up the AppleTalk package under 3.3 and noticed that logging in >to a Mac with sharing enabled, as guest with no password, doesn't work on a >NeXT, whereas it does on a Mac. Login with password does work. Anyone know why >this might be happening? Not so for me on NS 3.3 black to PMac 8100 MacOS 7.5.3. I can access as Guest from NeXT. >I have an even simpler question. How do you unmount the volume - just drag >it to the trash? I didn't see anything obvious in the Workspace menus, but >maybe I didn't look hard enough. Use Preferences. -- Larry Howard Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University lph@sei.cmu.edu (NeXTmail/MIME) (412) 268-6397
From: daugher@cs.tamu.edu(Walter C. Daugherity) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: ATI Mach64 driver for NEXTSTEP 3.2, where?? Date: 20 May 1996 20:05:59 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Distribution: world Message-ID: <4nqjb7$7dm@news.tamu.edu> References: <4nk36j$c3m@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Keywords: ATI Mach64 NeXTanswer 1734 is version 3.37 of the ATI Mach64 driver. Works fine for me. Your mileage may vary. -- Walter C. Daugherity Dept. of Computer Science E-mail: daugher@tamu.edu Texas A & M University http://www.cs.tamu.edu/faculty/daugher/ College Station, TX 77843-3112 ---Not an official document of Texas A&M---
From: ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: PostScript viewer resolution Date: 21 May 1996 01:41:57 GMT Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA Distribution: world Message-ID: <4nr715$qns@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> References: <4nq6rr$8c8@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> Cc: woo@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov In <4nq6rr$8c8@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> John W. Wooten wrote: > > When I prepare a LaTeX document, the DVI viewer shows a beautiful screen > presentation and prints beautiful also. If however, I use dvips to make a > postscript file, the Postscript screen viewer shows the document almost > unreadable, but it still prints fine. > > Suggestions? > This is because the free TeX uses bitmapped fonts, generated specifically for each resolution. If you want a bitmap free system, you need to buy fonts (or use the Adobe fonts, but then you get CMR math fonts that do not fit with the Adobe fonts). The commercial vendor of these fonts is http://web.yandy.com. -- Ivo Welch ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu Assoc Prof of Finance Anderson GSM at UCLA 110 Westwood Plaza, Box 951481, LA CA 90095-1481 UCLA AGSM Finance Faculty Homepage: HTTP://next.agsm.ucla.edu/
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Displaying Windows Postscript File Date: 21 May 1996 09:14:51 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <4ns1ib$ds@bignews.shef.ac.uk> References: <4nk9t6$lh2@www.univie.ac.at> In-Reply-To: <4nk9t6$lh2@www.univie.ac.at> On 05/18/96, wrote: > How can I get a Postscript file generated under Windows to Display on the > NEXT DPS? THX. > It should "just work" -- if you give the filename a .ps extension it should be opened by Preview by default. Windows PostScript is very poor, though, and you often have problems -- one of the most common is the addition of a Control-d character at the beginning of the file. If you open the file in Edit.app, ensure the first line starts with something like: %!PS-Adobe-2.0 ^ Note no space here. Best wishes, mmalc. --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: yoshida@fermi.bsd.uchicago.edu (Hiro Yoshida) Subject: Re: PostScript viewer resolution Message-ID: <DrrDHo.1DK@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Cc: yucheng@math.arizona.edu Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services References: <4nq6rr$8c8@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> <4nr715$qns@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> <4nrden$hkq@news.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 13:58:35 GMT In <4nrden$hkq@news.ccit.arizona.edu> yucheng@math.arizona.edu wrote: > >This is because the free TeX uses bitmapped fonts, generated specifically for > >each resolution. If you want a bitmap free system, you need to buy fonts (or > >use the Adobe fonts, but then you get CMR math fonts that do not fit with the > >Adobe fonts). The commercial vendor of these fonts is http://web.yandy.com. > > > > Or you can install the free BaKoMa PostScript CM fonts. It works pretty well. Do you happen to know where I can find the "free BaKoMa PostScript CM fonts"? When I looked at the ftp://next-ftp.peak.org, I could only find the following Chinese fonts: Peak.index:/pub/next/binaries/chinese/fonts/BaKoMaFontsI.pkg.tar.gz Peak.index:/pub/next/binaries/chinese/fonts/BaKoMaFontsII.pkg.tar.gz Peak.index:/pub/next/binaries/chinese/fonts/BaKoMaFontsIII.pkg.tar.gz Are they what you are talking about, or are there other archives for CM fonts? ____________________________________________________________ Hiro Yoshida Department of Radiology, The University of Chicago, MC2026 5841 South Maryland Avenue, Chicago Illinois 60637 Phone: 312-702-1350, FAX 312-702-0371 yoshida@fermi.bsd.uchicago.edu
From: tony@gst1.gestel.it (Antonio Flores) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Memory problem with MICRON MILLENIA PLUS P133 Date: 21 May 1996 15:52:43 GMT Organization: Italia Online Message-ID: <4nsosb$du1@mikasa.iol.it> I have a problem upgrading the system ftom 32MB to 64MB of ram: with 32MB the system works well with nextstep 3.3 but when i add other 32MB (purchased from MICRON and identical to the others simms) the system completes the boot process but the screen becomes black. At this point the system is not blocked, in fact, if I type "power" the turn off procedure comes back on the screen. If I use "config=Default" at the boot time or set "Default VGA" in the Configure.app the system hangs with a "System Panic" message. The system works well with Dos , Windows , Windows 95 and Windows NT. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks . ------------ Antonio Flores tony@gestel.it
From: allan@ali.bc.ca (Allan Noordvyk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: App to print mailing labels? Date: 21 May 1996 15:15:12 GMT Organization: ALI Distribution: na Message-ID: <4nsmm0$hgn@cetus.ali.bc.ca> References: <4nsles$p1e@newstand.syr.edu> Cc: mcconnel@hydra.syr.edu In comp.sys.next.misc Terry R. McConnell wrote: > Can anyone tell me the name of an App which would allow me to create and > print mailing labels? Many thanks in advance. There is SBook.app from Sarrus, for one. -- Allan Noordvyk, Software Artisan e-mail: allan@ali.bc.ca ALI Technologies Voice: 604.279.5422 x 317 Richmond, Canada Fax: 604.279.5468 * NeXT and MIME mail welcome *
From: ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.text.tex Subject: Re: PostScript viewer resolution Date: 21 May 1996 16:29:47 GMT Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA Message-ID: <4nsr1r$gkb@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> References: <4nq6rr$8c8@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> <4nr715$qns@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> <4nrden$hkq@news.ccit.arizona.edu> <DrrDHo.1DK@midway.uchicago.edu> Cc: yoshida@fermi.bsd.uchicago.edu While installing the new teTeX distribution and additional Adobe-type 1 fonts for TeX on my NeXTStep computer (incl. bakoma), I made some notes. Although you should be warned that I do not understand much about fonts, you might find my experiences helpful: http://next.agsm.ucla.edu/texinstall.html /ivo welch -- Ivo Welch ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu Assoc Prof of Finance Anderson GSM at UCLA 110 Westwood Plaza, Box 951481, LA CA 90095-1481 UCLA AGSM Finance Faculty Homepage: HTTP://next.agsm.ucla.edu/ ------------------------ In <4nrden$hkq@news.ccit.arizona.edu> yucheng@math.arizona.edu wrote: > >This is because the free TeX uses bitmapped fonts, generated specifically for > >each resolution. If you want a bitmap free system, you need to buy fonts (or > >use the Adobe fonts, but then you get CMR math fonts that do not fit with the > >Adobe fonts). The commercial vendor of these fonts is ¬http://web.yandy.com. > > > > Or you can install the free BaKoMa PostScript CM fonts. It works pretty well. Do you happen to know where I can find the "free BaKoMa PostScript CM fonts"? When I looked at the ¬ftp://next-ftp.peak.org, I could only find the following Chinese fonts: Peak.index:/pub/next/binaries/chinese/fonts/BaKoMaFontsI.pkg.tar.gz Peak.index:/pub/next/binaries/chinese/fonts/BaKoMaFontsII.pkg.tar.gz Peak.index:/pub/next/binaries/chinese/fonts/BaKoMaFontsIII.pkg.tar.gz Are they what you are talking about, or are there other archives for CM fonts? ____________________________________________________________ Hiro Yoshida Department of Radiology, The University of Chicago, MC2026 5841 South Maryland Avenue, Chicago Illinois 60637 Phone: 312-702-1350, FAX 312-702-0371 yoshida@fermi.bsd.uchicago.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software From: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Reading dedicated wordprocessor disks under NS? Message-ID: <DrqK8t.IzA@nidat.sub.org> Sender: news@nidat.sub.org Cc: dossr@ecs.ecs.csus.edu Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <4nmak7$s2n@csusac.ecs.csus.edu> Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 03:26:53 GMT In <4nmak7$s2n@csusac.ecs.csus.edu> dossr@ecs.ecs.csus.edu wrote: > I have a Brother WP-80 wordprocessor 720k proprietary format data disk and > I would like to be able to read the disk (ideally) under NS/Intel. I > realize that the disk is in a file format that is different from MS-DOS or > any other format that NS recognizes, but I was hoping that NS would take > it anyways when I told Workspace to "Check for Disks..." It didn't work. > > I also tried to do:'cat /dev/rfd0b > file_name' as root to copy the disk's > contents to a file, but after the disk light came on for a second I got > "cat: read error: Invalid argument" which then renders the floppy drive > unusable until I reboot. Does anyone know how I can get at this data? Are > there any programs or hacks out there for NS? I would even settle for a > program on another platform. I checked Brother's WWW page, but they don't > offer any support or have any info. on their wordprocessors. I can't seem > to find any programs that would do what I'm asking for, although I have > seen references alluding that such programs do exist. Any help would be > greatly appreciated. Thank You. > > > Lookup the man-page for 'dd' ;-) -- 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: mcconnel@hydra.syr.edu (Terry R. McConnell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: App to print mailing labels? Date: 21 May 1996 14:54:20 GMT Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse Distribution: na Message-ID: <4nsles$p1e@newstand.syr.edu> Can anyone tell me the name of an App which would allow me to create and print mailing labels? Many thanks in advance. -- ************************************************************************ Terry R. McConnell Mathematics/215 Carnegie/Syracuse, N.Y. 13244-1150 trmcconn@syr.edu http://barnyard.syr.edu/~tmc ************************************************************************
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From: skeezics@teleport.com (Skeezics Boondoggle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: AppleTalk/Share Glitches In 3.3 Date: 21 May 1996 17:25:00 -0700 Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016 Message-ID: <4ntmss$ctf@claudia.teleport.com> References: <4n55vr$77k@nntp1.best.com> <4njmre$snr@nntp1.best.com> <jbf-1805961311280001@frazer.com> In <jbf-1805961311280001@frazer.com> jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) writes: >In article <4njmre$snr@nntp1.best.com>, Carl Hansen <hansen@shellx> wrote: >> Ignore the previous question. I didn't have authenication set correctly >> on the Mac side. >I just fired up the AppleTalk package under 3.3 and noticed that logging in >to a Mac with sharing enabled, as guest with no password, doesn't work on a >NeXT, whereas it does on a Mac. Login with password does work. Anyone know why >this might be happening? I installed the 3.0 AppleTalk stuff and fooled around with it under 3.2 a bit a while back and had the same problem. "guest" logins were impossible. But one silly workaround that seemed fairly reliable (though was still problematic) was: Open a Terminal window, become root. Bring up the Ethertalk interface with 'ifconfig etlk0 up' if it isn't up already. (Mine was an Appletalk only network, and because no IP address was assigned en0 wouldn't be brought up automatically, and hence etlk0 wasn't up either. NeXT's 'rc' files need some help... :-) cd /Net/AppleShare ls -l Wait for it... Viola! Up pops the login panel with 'guest' as the username! Hit *cancel*. Sometimes more than once. You're in. Very strange. But it worked. That was a long time ago, though, so I might have some of the steps wrong. :-) >> But I still have a question: When the Apple share volumes are mounted >> from the Mac and the MAc crashes and is rebooted, >> what is the best way to get the Appleshare volumes mounted again? >I have an even simpler question. How do you unmount the volume - just drag >it to the trash? I didn't see anything obvious in the Workspace menus, but >maybe I didn't look hard enough. Dragging to the trash worked for me (but be sure to 'cd' out of that directory if you used my trick above. :-) >And, regarding printing to a Laser Writer, I had no problem connecting to >a Jet Express card, but I don't see any EtherTalk printers. I see that 3.3 >PrintManager still has the necessary NIBs for chosing such printers but ... >Anyone used this successfully in 3.3? Hmm. I never did get printing to work. I diddled everything conceivable thing, tweaked this, checked that, frobbed around for hours and couldn't convince the spooler to hand things off to the AppleTalk-connected printers. What was really frustrating is that (as I recall) I could see the printers in the zone from within PrintMangler. But after configuring them (seemingly successfully) I could never quite manage to get a page printed. Sigh. >Barney >PS For those who have tried to install the 3.0 AppleTalk package in 3.3 >without success, use the 3.0 Installer. The 3.3 Installer doesn't install >the executables, but the 3.0 version does. Anyone know why? Hmmm. I think I just grabbed the Package from the 3.0 CD and various other bits and installed with the 3.2 Installer and by hand. I kept the 3.0 version of all the printer stuff in a separate place, including the 3.0 version of various Unix daemons (which, I think, hadn't actually changed :-). Oh, well. At least with the file sharing working I could just dump the files onto the Mac's disk and then walk over and download them into the imagesetter or printer from there. -- Chris -- skeezics@teleport.com it's a pretty safe bet that my opinions have little bearing on reality, especially teleport's version of it.
From: Rakesh Dubey <rakesh@arp.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Memory problem with MICRON MILLENIA PLUS P133 Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 16:14:34 -0700 Organization: Best Internet Communications Message-ID: <31A24E5A.63008B3@arp.com> References: <4nsosb$du1@mikasa.iol.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Antonio Flores wrote: > > I have a problem upgrading the system ftom 32MB to 64MB of ram: > with 32MB the system works well with nextstep 3.3 but when i add other > 32MB (purchased from MICRON and identical to the others simms) the system > completes the boot process but the screen becomes black. > At this point the system is not blocked, in fact, if I type "power" the > turn off procedure comes back on the screen. > If I use "config=Default" at the boot time or set "Default VGA" in the > Configure.app the system hangs with a "System Panic" message. > The system works well with Dos , Windows , Windows 95 and Windows NT. > > Any help will be appreciated. > > Thanks . > Looks like your display hardware is conflicting with the physical memory. Check where the display framebuffer is located, make sure it is > 64MB. If you can't remote login in this machine you will have to take the SIMMs out to change Instance0.table for the display driver. -Rakesh
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: pascal@burgond.remcomp.fr (Pascal Bourguignon) Subject: Re: writenow to mac Message-ID: <Dro0G3.oG@burgond.remcomp.fr> Sender: pascal@burgond.remcomp.fr (Pascal Bourguignon) Organization: P. Bourguignon Informatique References: <4nap5i$19sm@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 18:24:02 GMT In article <4nap5i$19sm@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> randal@puck.physics.colostate.edu (Randal Rheinheimer) writes: > I'm leaving the NeXT system at the university and want to take some docs > written in WriteNow with me on disk in Mac format. I don't have any trouble > formatting, but what's on the disk is garbage as far as a Mac is concerned, > since it doesn't recognize the app (WriteNow) that created the document, even > if I save it as straight ASCII. Is there a simple way around this? Thanks for > any help. > > Rand When you save the NeXT WriteNow file to a Macintosh volume, only the data fork is written, with some default type and creator. To read the NeXT WriteNow file with the Macintosh WriteNow, simply set the type and creator to nX^d and nX^n with ResEdit. __Pascal Bourguignon__
From: beigel@CS.Yale.EDU () Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: need help connecting a faxmodem Date: 22 May 1996 01:36:03 GMT Organization: Yale University, Dept. of C.S., New Haven, CT 06520-8285 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ntr23$cht@babyblue.cs.yale.edu> Originator: beigel@olive I have a U.S. Robotics Sportster fax modem connected to serial port a. I can dial out with it just fine. But I can't get it to send or receive faxes. In Print Manager, I set the port to Serial A. I tried both Types available to me (HSD and Interfax). I can't it to answer incoming calls. When I try to send a fax, I get the error message: The application could not connect to the printing daemon. Do I need to run a daemon to handle faxes? My machine is running stand alone, and the documentation seems to concentrate on networks. The following two programs seem to be relevant: root 930 0.0 3.8 3.46M 616K ? SW 0:00 Faxxess Sporty root 931 0.0 1.7 1.45M 280K ? SW 0:00 TrimProgram Sporty /usr/spo -- Richard Beigel telephone: (203)432-1228 Dept. of Computer Science email: beigel-richard@cs.yale.edu P.O. Box 208285 campus mail: A. K. Watson Hall New Haven, CT 06520-8285 51 Prospect Street
From: michael@fortress.cs.wwu.edu (Michael F. DeMan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: need help connecting a faxmodem Date: 22 May 1996 19:51:40 GMT Organization: Western Washington University Distribution: world Message-ID: <4nvr8c$cui@ra.cc.wwu.edu> References: <4ntr23$cht@babyblue.cs.yale.edu> Cc: beigel@CS.Yale.EDU In <4ntr23$cht@babyblue.cs.yale.edu> beigel@CS.Yale.EDU wrote: > > I have a U.S. Robotics Sportster fax modem connected to serial port a. > I can dial out with it just fine. But I can't get it to send or > receive faxes. In Print Manager, I set the port to Serial A. I tried > both Types available to me (HSD and Interfax). I can't it to answer > incoming calls. When I try to send a fax, I get the error message: > Apparently the USR 28.8 FAX/Modem is not completely class 2.0 compatible. There is also a difference between class 2 and class 2.0. I tried every driver I could get my hands on and it always failed in one way or another. I finally sold it to a friend. My external Zoom 28.8 was about the same price and works fine. Also you need NXFax or the JollyFAX drivers, HSD and Interfax do not work at all for these modems. - Mike
From: joel@fefcful.org (Joel Lingenfelter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Reading dedicated wordprocessor disks under NS? Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 13:54:48 -0700 Organization: First Evangelical Free Church Message-ID: <joel-2205961354480001@asteroid18.threedi.com> References: <4nmak7$s2n@csusac.ecs.csus.edu> >I have a Brother WP-80 wordprocessor 720k proprietary format data disk and >I would like to be able to read the disk (ideally) under NS/Intel. I >realize that the disk is in a file format that is different from MS-DOS or >any other format that NS recognizes, but I was hoping that NS would take >it anyways when I told Workspace to "Check for Disks..." It didn't work. You, my friend, are hosed. I went through this with a guy who had typed a very large master's thesis into one of those suckers. Basically, we called the company and they said something to the effect of "Nope, no computers can read our disks. Isn't that cool? HAHAHAHAHAHA" They seemed really indifferent that anybody might want to get their data off of their completely useless proprietary format floppy disks. Basically these companies see it as a way to insure that their piece of crap machines still have a use so you'll buy ribbons or whatever. You are going to have to retype or scan your data to get it again. When I called on this a few years back, they didn't have a word processor that used dos disks, so you couldn't do the conversion. Maybe that's changed, but that's your only hope at this point. Joel | Joel Lingenfelter -=+=- | Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be | transformed by the renewing of your mind. - Romans 12:2a
From: sams@shellx.best.com (Samuel G. Streeper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Reading dedicated wordprocessor disks under NS? Date: 22 May 1996 16:45:44 -0700 Organization: Best Internet Communications Message-ID: <sams.832808471@shellx> References: <4nmak7$s2n@csusac.ecs.csus.edu> <joel-2205961354480001@asteroid18.threedi.com> >>I have a Brother WP-80 wordprocessor 720k proprietary format data disk and >>I would like to be able to read the disk (ideally) under NS/Intel. I >You, my friend, are hosed. Before I gave up entirely I would try this: /bin/dd if=/dev/rfd0a of=/tmp/diskimage Then see if you get a diskimage that makes any sense at all and try to write a perl script to piece it together and filter out the garbage. I have no idea if this would work but it's probably worth a try. cheers, -sam
From: michael@rumah.pc.my (Michael Olan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Document converters Date: 23 May 1996 02:32:06 GMT Organization: Unconfigured Message-ID: <4o0in6$8k5@jaring.my> I'm looking for ways to convert between various formats using NS, such as: 1) MS Word .doc to .rtf or .wp 2) .ps to .rtf or .wp -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Michael Olan Email: michael@rumah.pc.my (NeXT Mail OK) Senior Lecturer - Computer Science michael@ppp.itm.my American Degree Program Fax: 6-03-5482329 Institut Teknologi MARA Section 17, Shah Alam, Malaysia ---------------------------------------------------------------------
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Document converters Date: 23 May 1996 07:09:55 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-f-58.usc.edu Message-ID: <4o1303$e44@usc.edu> References: <4o0in6$8k5@jaring.my> Cc: michael@rumah.pc.my In <4o0in6$8k5@jaring.my> Michael Olan wrote: > I'm looking for ways to convert between various formats using NS, such as: > > 1) MS Word .doc to .rtf or .wp I would suggest doing this on the original MS Word platform. Otherwise, on NS - OpenWrite and WriteUp can do both to rtf and wp. > 2) .ps to .rtf or .wp Don't know. If you hear of something for ps-->rtf please post. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@usc.edu USC-CNTV NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome =============================================================== PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP" --------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
From: rlarson@semlab5.sbs.sunysb.edu (Richard K. Larson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NeXT EPS --> Corel Draw! Date: 23 May 1996 18:24:42 GMT Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Message-ID: <4o2aha$hd5@abel.cc.sunysb.edu> I am trying to open EPS files created on my NeXT using Corel Draw! on a PC. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. In particular: The EPS images that came in NeXT click art (Apsoft Draw) seem to open just fine. EPS images created on my NeXT using SuperDraw do not open. Instead they induce an error that crashes the PC. Does anyone have experience with this and know what's going on? Any help much appreciated. Please reply by email. -Richard Larson Linguistics SUNY - Stony Brook
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <mishelle@thoughtful.com> From: mishelle@thoughtful.com (Mishelle Baun) Message-ID: <9605231726.AA15859@thoughtful.com> Date: Thu, 23 May 96 11:26:10 -0600 Subject: Re: App to print mailing labels? Cc: mcconnel@hydra.syr.edu In comp.sys.next.misc Terry R. McConnell wrote: > Can anyone tell me the name of an App which would allow me to create and > print mailing labels? Many thanks in advance. HyperSense, Thoughtful Software's multimedia authoring program, can be used to create mailing labels. All you need is your FREE copy of the HyperSensePlayer! Labels can be created from ascii text files or with our on-line address book. Addresses.sense is a HyperSense address book document which can be used to maintain a list of names and addresses. The address book is included along with the latest version of the HyperSensePlayer application, which is available with a FREE single-user license. The address book application includes features for searching, sorting, and marking selected pages, as well as a report template which will print mailing labels on standard label forms in a laser printer. A separate HyperSense utility (DataCopier.sense) provides an automated approach to transferring data between HyperSense documents and flat ASCII text file formats. The HyperSensePlayer comes with a FREE single-user license, and many FREE sample documents, including Addresses.sense, DataCopier.sense, and many other useful utilities such as ParagraphStore.sense (for managing reusable paragraphs), DDM.sense (user-friendly Defaults Database Manager application), HyperCalc.sense (innovative calculator that lets you type arithmetic expressions directly into its display), ListMaker.sense (a tool for creating and searching lists of items. It includes a list of Area Codes and International telephone dialing codes.) and PasteMaster.sense (multiple-item pasteboard utility). The package is available by ftp at the address shown below, or can be ordered from Thoughtful Software for $10 to cover media and shipping costs. (We accept MasterCard/Visa, and personal checks.) HyperSensePlayer (including FREE single-user license and sample documents): ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/HyperSense/HyperSenseREADME1.00B14a.r tfd.compressed ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/HyperSense/HyperSensePlayer.pkg.1.00B 14a.NIHS.b.tar Self-adhesive labels do come in many shapes and sizes. If the labels you buy are in a different format than the one supported, you can purchase the developer version of HyperSense. HyperSense is such a nifty, versitile program, that you probably can find many other uses for it too! It's perfect for writing small utitlites and prototyping applications. Using the development version, you will have access to the Report Layout panel which makes it easy to change the size and layout of the label format, or to create additional formats as needed. Contact info@thoughtful.com for details. HyperSense (full development version and documentation): ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/HyperSense/HyperSenseApp.pkg.1.00B14a .NIHS.b.tar ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/HyperSense/HyperSenseDocs.pkg.1.00B14 a.tar Mishelle Baun Thoughtful Software 970/221-4596
From: Roland Telfeyan <roland@telf.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Document converters Date: 23 May 1996 22:39:11 GMT Organization: Vnet Internet Access, Charlotte, NC - info@char.vnet.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <4o2pef$2dp@ralph.vnet.net> References: <4o1303$e44@usc.edu> > > 2) .ps to .rtf or .wp > > Don't know. If you hear of something for ps-->rtf please post. Tailor is available for NEXTSTEP and Macintosh. Here is the info from the online help: With Tailor, you can visually edit PostScript documents, effortlessly and cleanly - no specialized knowledge required at all. You can cut pieces out of a document and copy them to any other application. Or recover text paragraphs for use in your favorite word processor. And all this regardless of whether the document originated on NEXTSTEP, a PC or a MAC. FirstClass NV Peter Camps Avennesdreef 32, B-9031 Drongen, BELGIUM +32 9 227 62 48 voice +32 9 227 15 89 fax peter@firstclass.be
From: Jay <s2139473@cse.unsw.EDU.AU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: Why NeXT? Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 16:49:09 +1000 Organization: University of New South Wales Distribution: inet Message-ID: <Pine.ULT.3.91.960524163016.12494A-100000@cello13.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU> References: <4norkd$97v@digifix.digifix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4norkd$97v@digifix.digifix.com> After hearing some great things about NeXTSTEP-OS, I'd like to know something: 1. Why do id software develop under it ? Whats so great about it (ie that you can't do under NT or OS/2)? 2. Why should _I_ get it? (I'm a wannabe Game Programmer currently finishing my CompSci degree at University) Would glad to hear convincing arguments... (emailed if possible) Thanks in advance. Justin s2139473@cse.unsw.edu.au http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~s2139473 <-"The Quake Bestiary"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: yves (Yves Akakpo) Subject: /NextLibrary/Documentation/ManPages is empty Message-ID: <1996May24.130435.578@yves.fdn.fr> Keywords: ManPages UNIX Sender: news@yves.fdn.fr Organization: Individual Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 13:04:35 GMT Hi Does anyone know how to copy UNIX MAN PAGES from the CDROM to my slab with a good links to make it accessible or usable by both NextDeveloper.bshlf and by the Terminal commands "man"? NS 3.3 user + developer NeXT Station turbo thanks much for info! Yves
From: Michael Cook <mlc@iberia.cca.rockwell.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: [Q] Looking for Ada to C conversion Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 07:51:42 -0500 Message-ID: <96052407514209@iberia.cca.rockwell.com> Our current project's software is written in Ada83. We have an upcoming need to have code compatible (linkable) with NextStep's Objective-C. We'd like to avoid transliterating our code by hand. Is there an Ada compiler that will produce compatible object code? Alternatively, is there a translator that could be used to convert the Ada83 code to C++ or Objective-C, which could then be compiled? If the conversion is good enough, we wouldn't have to maintain the translated code, and probably only have to really re-write a handful of packages/classes. Thanks, Michael Cook MLC@IBERIA.CCA.ROCKWELL.COM
From: bjones@next.com (Bob Jones) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Q: How to tell which stepping of PCI chipset? Date: 24 May 1996 13:41:14 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <4o4e9q$jcv@news.next.com> References: <4n3s7v$u1@bolivia.it.earthlink.net> In article <4n3s7v$u1@bolivia.it.earthlink.net> da Faiz writes: > Hi all, > > Got a quick question: how can I tell which stepping of the PCI chipset is on > my motherboard? > > Also, on a related note, when NEXTSTEP boots up, upon registering the PCI > device, it tells me this is PCI ver 2.1. Does anybody know what this means? > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > ..faizel > > -- > Faizel Dakri > faizel@earthlink.net (NeXTmail *friendly*) > faizel@pswtech.com (me too!) > For the Orion chipset, if you look at the largest chip of the set (marked with Intel) you should see a number starting with SU. The largest chip should have SU064 marked on it. These are the chips with B0 stepping, which fixes the PCI bug. Some other numbers to look for are SU059 and SU063. These should appear on some of the other Orion chips on the board. -Bob
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Document converters Date: 24 May 1996 17:01:49 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: world Message-ID: <4o4q1t$l76@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <4o2pef$2dp@ralph.vnet.net> In article <4o2pef$2dp@ralph.vnet.net> Roland Telfeyan <roland@telf.com> writes: >> > 2) .ps to .rtf or .wp >> Don't know. If you hear of something for ps-->rtf please post. >With Tailor, you can visually edit PostScript documents, effortlessly and >cleanly - no specialized knowledge required at all. You can cut pieces out >of a document and copy them to any other application. Or recover text >paragraphs for use in your favorite word processor. And all this >regardless of whether the document originated on NEXTSTEP, a PC or a MAC. If you have Acrobat Distiller, you can convert PS to PDF. Then, the lastest PDFView.app (v1.41) will let you save the whole PDF document as RTF. This preserves some formatting like font, italics, bold. A service, via TickleServices or equivelent, that removes newline chars will be handy, as paragraphs contain hard returns for each line of the original PS/PDF text. -- Izumi Ohzawa <izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu> [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ] USMail: Univ. of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-2020 Tel: 510-642-6440, Fax: -3323, Web: http://totoro.berkeley.edu/~izumi/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fuguen@paris.fdn.fr (Francois UGUEN) Subject: CraftMan Engine+ ETI Birds of Europe Message-ID: <DrvsE9.8Bx@paris.fdn.fr> Sender: news@paris.fdn.fr Organization: Individual - PARIS - Francois UGUEN Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 23:10:57 GMT Hello Birds of Europe for NEXTSTEP, a Multimedia Software I purchased in 1994, failed to function when I recently switched to NEXTSTEP 3.3 Martine van der Eerden, from ETI Biodiversity Center told me that the problem is due to the fact that the CraftMan Engine they used to build their software is failing to properly open color windows under NS 3.3 As this is very inconvenient and make Birds of Europe almost unusable, I'd like to know when a bug-fix release of the CraftMan Engine is planned to be released. Best regards, Francois UGUEN fuguen@paris.fdn.fr -- MM*: ?ìP8$
From: waldek@bg.univ.gda.pl (Waldemar Chrzan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Q: HP DeskJet 1600CM (suplement) Date: 24 May 1996 15:11:03 GMT Organization: Politechnika Gdanska Message-ID: <4o4ji7$l29@sunrise.pg.gda.pl> Hi ! I send 3 weeks above mail with question about drivers for HP DeskJet 1600 printer for NeXt Step 3.3 (intel). I send error in my question. My printer is a DeskJet 1600CM. (This is a PostScript network printer) I want to use high quality color printing mode. Where I found drivers form my printer or haw to resolve my problem ? Help mi
From: Robert Gibson Jacobs <rjacobs@leland.Stanford.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Max Refresh at 1152 x 864 ??? Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 09:11:34 -0700 Organization: Stanford University Sender: rjacobs@elaine16.Stanford.EDU Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.93.960524091029.22801B-100000@elaine16.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I have a CTX 1765GMe monitor which supports 1024x768 @ 75 Hz and 1280x1024 @ 60 Hz. In NS 3.3 I have choices of 1152 x 864 at either 60, 72 or 75 Hz. 60 Hz seems to flicker too much so I'd like to try something higher. Can I safely run it at 1152x864 @ 72 Hz? I have a Matrox Millenium with 2 MB RAM. Should I run it at 444/16 colors? Thanks. Robert Post to newsgroup or email rob@rjacobs.stanford.edu
From: Jay <s2139473@cse.unsw.EDU.AU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: Re: Why NeXT? Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 14:14:52 +1000 Organization: University of New South Wales Distribution: inet Message-ID: <Pine.ULT.3.91.960525140625.313F-100000@flute07.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU> References: <4norkd$97v@digifix.digifix.com> <199605241950.MAA00686@math.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <199605241950.MAA00686@math.berkeley.edu> On Fri, 24 May 1996, Paul Robert Brown wrote: > Justin- > > You should just sit down at a NeXTstep machine and check it out for > yourself. I don't think it's the ideal game programming environment, but > that's coming from someone who wrote Apple II games using a macro > assmebler, page-flipping animation, and other low-level techniques... Use > of a high-level language and a compiler seems a little excessive and > slows things down... For anything that involves a GUI, NeXTstep beats > everything else available, hands-down. In addition, it's UNIX. I've loved > UNIX for a long time, since the late '80's, say, and I can't stand DOS... > OS/2 is a darn good platform, kicks ass on Winblowz .095. Mmmmmm Unix. Yuck, saccarine sweet Win95, all sugar no substance. I agree 100% Linux is a little _too_ meaty. Recompiling kernels isn't my idea of a good time. NeXTstep seems like a good compromise. > NeXTstep has good capabilities to allow many people to work on one > project; it was designed with that in mind. It has the power and > flexibility of UNIX. It is the premier object-oriented development > platform out there, period. If you're not familiar with OO, you might not > see what the hubbub is about; try it, you'll never go back. (Even though > the last program I wrote was coded directly in assembly code for a > Pentium machine...) Yep. Just discovered OO at College, and I like it. I still like to assembly optimize my graphics inner-loops though :). Thanks a lot... Justin s2139473@cse.unsw.edu.au http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~s2139473 <-"The Quake Bestiary" "A bird in hand is better than one overhead..."
From: John Hurst <jhurst@hooked.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Two floppy drives Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 15:19:17 -0700 Organization: Hooked Online Services Message-ID: <31A635E5.28C9@hooked.net> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960508170041.17094B-100000@teaching6> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a need to run two floppy drives on an Intel system running NeXTStep 3.3. I have no problems from the hardware side, but I cannot figure out how to make the OS recognize that I have two floppies (both are, of course, 3.5" 1.44MB drives). The floppy driver is for thew controller, so driver settings won't do it. I hope that I'm missing something basic here, but I can't make it work. Thanks in advance. John Hurst jhurst@hooked.net
From: alanf@izzy.net (Alan M. Frabutt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: App to print mailing labels? Date: 24 May 1996 20:03:43 GMT Organization: "Comshare Inc." Distribution: na Message-ID: <4o54mv$414@inet-prime.comshare.com> References: <4nsles$p1e@newstand.syr.edu> Cc: mcconnel@hydra.syr.edu StayInTouch is quite good. In <4nsles$p1e@newstand.syr.edu> Terry R. McConnell wrote: > Can anyone tell me the name of an App which would allow me to create and > print mailing labels? Many thanks in advance. > > > >
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.soft-sys.nextstep From: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Why NeXT? Message-ID: <DryK56.G0B@nidat.sub.org> Sender: news@nidat.sub.org Cc: s2139473@cse.unsw.EDU.AU Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <4norkd$97v@digifix.digifix.com> <Pine.ULT.3.91.960524163016.12494A-100000@cello13.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU> Distribution: inet Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 11:05:30 GMT In <Pine.ULT.3.91.960524163016.12494A-100000@cello13.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU> Jay wrote: > > After hearing some great things about NeXTSTEP-OS, I'd like to know something: > > 1. Why do id software develop under it ? Whats so great about it (ie that > you can't do under NT or OS/2)? > This question can only be posed by some one who's never done development both under Unix and one of the other systems mentioned (If he had, he'd not pose such a stupid question!) And if he'd know the Unix way and seeing how it's done on NEXTSTEP he'd want to have one. Period! > 2. Why should _I_ get it? (I'm a wannabe Game Programmer currently > finishing my CompSci degree at University) > If you're only used to DOS you'd probably better leave it that way, since you'd spend a considerable bit of time worrying why things must be so complicated before you'd catch the point. And afterwards you probably could never be a DOS programmer again ;-) As a summary: NEXTSTEPpers are bored by the request to talk someboy into it since they can't understand why people don't just come and see. Or let it put me that way: it's the same as with oysters. If you don't like'em half a dozen is too much, and if you like'em half a dozen is not enough. -- 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: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: Re: Why NeXT? Date: 25 May 1996 18:03:30 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-j-22.usc.edu Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4o7i1i$7ku@usc.edu> References: <4norkd$97v@digifix.digifix.com> <Pine.ULT.3.91.960524163016.12494A-100000@cello13.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU> <DryK56.G0B@nidat.sub.org> Cc: nitezki@nidat.sub.org In <DryK56.G0B@nidat.sub.org> Peter Nitezki wrote: > As a summary: NEXTSTEPpers are bored by the request to talk someboy into it > since they can't understand why people don't just come and see. Or let it > put me that way: it's the same as with oysters. If you don't like'em half a > dozen is too much, and if you like'em half a dozen is not enough. You are definitely a riot, Peter! 8-) -- 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: par@MCS.COM (Peter Richardson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: Re: Why NeXT? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Date: 26 May 1996 09:01:02 -0500 Organization: MCSNet Services Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4o9o6u$3og@Venus.mcs.com> References: <4norkd$97v@digifix.digifix.com> <Pine.ULT.3.91.960524163016.12494A-100000@cello13.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU> <DryK56.G0B@nidat.sub.org> Peter Nitezki (nitezki@nidat.sub.org) wrote: : In : <Pine.ULT.3.91.960524163016.12494A-100000@cello13.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU> : Jay wrote: : > 1. Why do id software develop under it ? Whats so great about it (ie that : > you can't do under NT or OS/2)? : > : This question can only be posed by some one who's never done development both : under Unix and one of the other systems mentioned (If he had, he'd not pose : such a stupid question!) : And if he'd know the Unix way and seeing how it's done on NEXTSTEP he'd want : to have one. Period! This has to be the most narrow minded NON answer every seen. I have programmed under many UNIX OSs (Solaris, HPUX, AIX), DOS and Windows 3.X. I now am doing most of my work under NeXTStep. I wouldn't trade it back to the Windows 3.x for anything. But I know nothing about programming OS/2 or NT or what might be there. AND even programming under NeXTStep I fail to see what would make it such a great environment of developing games like ID does. So if you know what makes this environment so GREAT get off you HIGH HORSE and say something useful. PERIOD! : > 2. Why should _I_ get it? (I'm a wannabe Game Programmer currently : > finishing my CompSci degree at University) : > : If you're only used to DOS you'd probably better leave it that way, since : you'd spend a considerable bit of time worrying why things must be so : complicated before you'd catch the point. And afterwards you probably could : never be a DOS programmer again ;-) I feel sorry for you that you can only program on 1 system. That must seriously limit you. I hope that you have a very stable job. Peter Richardson
From: pblock@imap2.asu.edu (York Block) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: What is the difference between NextStep and Openstep??? Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 18:49:20 -0700 Organization: GetNet, International Message-ID: <pblock-2205961849200001@phx-ip2-45.getnet.com> Excesme, I would like to know what differences are between NextStep and Openstep.... Thanks very much!!!! p.s. I'm sorry for this question but I want to be sure that I'm thinking is right
From: apuleius@ix.netcom.com(William Grosso) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: Re: Why NeXT? Date: 26 May 1996 17:42:30 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4oa566$du8@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com> References: <4norkd$97v@digifix.digifix.com> <Pine.ULT.3.91.960524163016.12494A-100000@cello13.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU> <DryK56.G0B@nidat.sub.org> <4o9o6u$3og@Venus.mcs.com> In <4o9o6u$3og@Venus.mcs.com> par@MCS.COM (Peter Richardson) writes: > >Peter Nitezki (nitezki@nidat.sub.org) wrote: > >> If you're only used to DOS you'd probably better leave it that >>way, since you'd spend a considerable bit of time worrying why >>things must be so complicated before you'd catch the point. >>And afterwards you probably could never be a DOS programmer again ;-) > >I feel sorry for you that you can only program on 1 system. That must >seriously limit you. I hope that you have a very stable job. > Well, he was pretty adept with the horseshit, wasn't he ? Cheers, Andy
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CraftMan Engine+ ETI Birds of Europe Date: 26 May 1996 17:51:31 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <4oa5n3$roq@bignews.shef.ac.uk> References: <DrvsE9.8Bx@paris.fdn.fr> In-Reply-To: <DrvsE9.8Bx@paris.fdn.fr> On 05/24/96, Francois UGUEN wrote: > As this is very inconvenient and make Birds of Europe almost > unusable, I'd like to know when a bug-fix release of the CraftMan > Engine is planned to be released. > Umm, sorry -- CraftMan was developed by Xanthus, who sadly went out of business a while back. Most of their applications were taken over by Lighthouse, but I've seen no indication that a re-release is in the offing. Best wishes, mmalc. --
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: 27 May 1996 04:15:13 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4oba8h$g04@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. To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying: SUB Listname YourName Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe The ftp sites ============= ftp://next-ftp.peak.org: The main site for North American submissions (formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu) ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: (Peanuts) Located in Germany. ftp://ftp.dn.net/pub/next Peanuts mirror in the US ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next/ eduStep ftp://ftp.next.com: See below ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com ===================================== [from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help] Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system! This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, read them on the world-wide web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS. NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being. NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests. USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to nextanswers@next.com. Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by default; you can request they be sent as ASCII text files instead. To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the body of the message. You can request several files in a single message. You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message. 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USING NEXTANSWERS BY ANONYMOUS FTP To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using this, please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY MODEM To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at (415) 780-2965. Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section. From there you can download NeXTanswers documents. FOR MORE HELP... If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available from NeXTanswers, call the Support Hotline at 1-800-955-NeXT (outside the U.S. call +1-415-424-8500) to speak to a NEXTSTEP Technical Support Technician. If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must make this call to the hotline. Otherwise, hotline support is on a pay-per-call basis. Thanks for using NeXTanswers! Written by: Eric P. Scott (mailto:eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU) and Scott Anguish (mailto:sanguish@digifix.com) Additions from: Greg Anderson (mailto:Greg_Anderson@afs.com) Michael Pizolato (mailto:alf@epix.net) Dan Grillo (mailto:dan_grillo@next.com)
From: graham@pncl.co.uk (Graham Potts) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Urgent NEXT contracts in the UK Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 16:53:04 GMT Organization: Pinnacle Internet Services Message-ID: <4ocj3l$3vf@eiger.pncl.co.uk> This week over 10 new NEXT contracts and permanent positions were placed onto the Jobsite UK Database. For more details, run a text search for NEXT at address http://www.jobsite.co.uk to receive all new NEXT jobs daily by email, send a list of your key skills to jobsite@jobsite.co.uk JobSite UK (Worldwide)
From: hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (David Hill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: OmniWeb images failure Date: 27 May 1996 17:19:52 GMT Organization: University of Calgary CPSC Message-ID: <4oco7o$5h7@linux.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> Summary: No images displayed by OmniWeb under NEXTSTEP Although I have OmniImage and other image handling components on my original black NeXT as well as OmniWeb, and images are downloaded when accessing sites, the images are not displayed. Instead the icon changes to a kind of "No Entry" sign (circle with diagonal line). I cannot view images created locally from within OmniWeb either. Many thanks. david -- David R. Hill, CS & Psych Depts., U. Calgary | Imagination is more Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4 Ph: 403-220-6315 | important than knowledge. hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca Fx: 403-282-6778 | (Albert Einstein) NeXTMail: hill@trillium.ab.ca (Preferred) | Kill your television!
From: hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (David Hill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: OmniWeb Images failure Date: 27 May 1996 17:48:08 GMT Organization: University of Calgary CPSC Message-ID: <4ocpso$65e@linux.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> Summary: Answer my own query-- RTFM! As stated in the very short README file with the app, you have to create the folder /LocalLibrary/Services and drag the OmniImageFilter.service module into it (while logged in as root). Images are then correctly displayed Sorry people david -- David R. Hill, CS & Psych Depts., U. Calgary | Imagination is more Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4 Ph: 403-220-6315 | important than knowledge. hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca Fx: 403-282-6778 | (Albert Einstein) NeXTMail: hill@trillium.ab.ca (Preferred) | Kill your television!
From: wjabi@umich.edu (Wassim M. Jabi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: SUBMISSION: WebProjector Date: 27 May 1996 23:42:12 GMT Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor Message-ID: <4odekk$8tc@srvr1.engin.umich.edu> URL: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wjabi/ Hello: I just finished my first WebObjects project. I created what I call a WebProjector. The idea is to construct a distributed slide projector server. You input the URLs of images that can exist anywhere on the Web in any order and then view them with or without an auto-generated thumbnail index. In essence, you are putting together a Web-based slide presentation made of distributed images. I also included a few pre-packaged demo presentations. Take a look at the URL listed below and please let me know what you think of it: http://libra.caup.umich.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/WOJabi/Examples/WebProj ector -- Wassim M. Jabi Doctoral Program in Architecture University of Michigan 2000 Bonisteel Blvd Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2069 wjabi@umich.edu (Text/MIME/NeXTMail) http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wjabi/
From: hugues@precipice.fdn.fr (Hugues RICHARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NeXT EPS --> Corel Draw! Date: 27 May 1996 11:28:16 GMT Organization: Individual - France Message-ID: <4oc3kg$317@precipice.fdn.fr> References: <4o2aha$hd5@abel.cc.sunysb.edu> rlarson@semlab5.sbs.sunysb.edu (Richard K. Larson) wrote: >I am trying to open EPS files created on my NeXT using Corel Draw! on a >PC. > >Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. In particular: > >The EPS images that came in NeXT click art (Apsoft Draw) seem to open just >fine. > >EPS images created on my NeXT using SuperDraw do not open. Instead they >induce an error that crashes the PC. It is because of the poor quality of the Corel PS importer & parser. Don't worry, it also crashes with other PS, from other software of other plateforms... To test if a PS is good or not, open it with Preview.app (based on a true PS interpreter :-). Hugues. -------------------------------------------------------------------- hugues@precipice.fdn.fr - France (small NeXTMail OK) ------------ NS3.2 ------------ NS3.0J ------------ :-) ------------
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From: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.lang.postscript Subject: Bug in Preview with DocumentPaperSizes:a4 ? Date: 28 May 1996 11:40:28 GMT Organization: Mathematisches Institut, Uni Heidelberg Message-ID: <4oeonc$n46@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> Hmm. Are the values for %%DocumentPaperSizes in PostScript case-dependent ? I.e. are both of the following valid descriptions for the A4 format, or just the first one ? %%DocumentPaperSizes:A4 %%DocumentPaperSizes:a4 At least NEXTSTEP's Preview.app makes a difference. The first one opens a document with A4 page size, while the second one is ignored and the document is displayed with letter page size. The pity is that the second one version is what recent versions of dvips use for A4! Therefore I fear that Preview.app fails for any file produced with dvips using A4. Who is wrong: dvips' config.ps or Preview.app ? Gregor PS: Preview.app's behavior only depends on that single comment (not on `%%PaperSize'...). If you take a correct file, i.e. with `A4', and change that into `a4', you loose. -- | Gregor Hoffleit admin MATHInet / contact RhiNO | | MAIL: Mathematisches Institut PHONE: (49)6221 54-5771 | | INF 288, 69120 Heidelberg / Germany FAX: 54-8312 | | EMAIL: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (NeXTmail, MIME) |
Date: 28 May 1996 12:22:24 EST Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Message-ID: <cancel.gosmanDs2y77.F7o@netcom.com> Control: cancel <gosmanDs2y77.F7o@netcom.com> From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca Sender: gosman@netcom11.netcom.com Subject: cmsg cancel <gosmanDs2y77.F7o@netcom.com> EMP/ECP (aka SPAM) cancelled by clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca. See news.admin.net-abuse.announce, report 19960528.10 for further details
From: nocera@haven.ios.com (Dave Nocera) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: OpenStep NextStep Questions Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 22:52:02 GMT Organization: Internet Online Services Message-ID: <4og3dj$hi3@news.ios.com> Currently my organization has an application running on Next hardware using dedicated Next workstations for each user and many other applications running on X terminals. We would like to consolidate onto a single desktop, so that our users do not need to have two displays on their desks. We are very much opened to suggestions from Next experts who understand the subtil issues of achieving this consolidation. Our current thinking is that we could port our Next application onto a SUN running OpenStep, and consolidate many workstations onto a large SPARC 2000 platform. We would then use X terminals to access the applications, just the same way as we access many of our applications today, by setting the DISPLAY variable and launching the application from the SUN. Is anyone using OpenStep on SUN? If so, does OpenStep (or NextStep for that matter) support multiple users on a single box? We are concerned that OpenStep was written specifically for workstations and is geared more towards 1 user 1 workstation with no ability to consolidate multiple users onto a single box. We would like to use X terminals to display the Next (OpenStep or NextStep) application on. Any and All help greatly appreciated Please email nocera@haven.ios.com Dave
From: nocera@haven.ios.com (Dave Nocera) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: X Terminal Support Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 22:36:53 GMT Organization: Internet Online Services Message-ID: <4og2h6$hi3@news.ios.com> Does anyone know how if and how to bring up a nextstep application on an X terminal? Please email response Thanks Dave
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Two floppy drives Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 10:45:28 -0400 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.93.960528103742.2615C-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960508170041.17094B-100000@teaching6> <31A635E5.28C9@hooked.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: John Hurst <jhurst@hooked.net> In-Reply-To: <31A635E5.28C9@hooked.net> The problem _may_ have to do with the device on which the floppy disks are mounted. On my NS 3.2 m68k system, all NeXT-formatted disks are mounted on /dev/fd0a and Mac/DOS are mounted on /dev/rfd0b (I may have them reversed). My thought is that even if you do have 2 drives, they are both trying to mount at the same mountpoint. Will your OS recognize a floppy put in one drive if the other is empty, or will it never see one of the drives? When you have a floppy in, check 'mount -p' to see what /dev/ the floppy is mounted on. This may not help at all.... just a guess... TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma (Formerly known as: luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu) New email address: 476tjl@ptsmail.ptsem.edu (No NeXTmail) *** Please note: the new address cannot read the 'reply-to' line *** On Fri, 24 May 1996, John Hurst wrote: > I have a need to run two floppy drives on an Intel system running > NeXTStep 3.3. I have no problems from the hardware side, but I cannot > figure out how to make the OS recognize that I have two floppies (both > are, of course, 3.5" 1.44MB drives). The floppy driver is for thew > controller, so driver settings won't do it. I hope that I'm missing > something basic here, but I can't make it work. > > Thanks in advance. > > John Hurst > jhurst@hooked.net > >
From: c95mwg@cs.umu.se (Mikael Wahlberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: MegaPixel Cable, need help! Date: 29 May 1996 09:18:17 GMT Organization: Dept. of Computing Science, Umea Univ., 901 87 Umea, Sweden Message-ID: <4oh4op$q5m@serve.cs.umu.se> Hi! I've got a tiny problem... Our Computer Club (TSDF at the University of Umea) has got a Next Cube with a MegaPixel Display monitor, but we have misplaced our monitor cable when we moved our machines.. Does anyone have the specifications (Pin configuration etc.) on such a cable, so we can make a new one? /Mikael Wahlberg - System Administrator @ TSDF -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Mikael Wahlberg e-mail: c95mwg@cs.umu.se Tel. +46 (0)90 128988 mikael@ts.umu.se GSM +46 (0)70 8283260 URL: http://www.ts.umu.se/~mikael
From: Jeff <jeff@pcd.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: What do I need to do to prepare fo NeXT? Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 23:37:17 -0700 Organization: Alternate Access Incorporated Message-ID: <31ABF09D.49D9@pcd.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I hope that am posting to the correct group, if I am not please guide me to the right one. I have a chance to install NeXTSTEP along with the developer tools, I am not sure of the version. I have visited the NeXT web site and read the hardware requirements and there are NeXT drivers for all of my cards. I will be installing it on to an intel pentium 133 box with 32mb ram. At this point I have two questions. The first being I have only a 15" monitor at this time, will I be able to use the desk top and be satisfied say at 1024x768 or 1152x864? My video card will push to 1280x1024 but that is mighty small on a 15" screen. Secondly I presently run DOS 6.22, Windows '95, and want to run NT as well. I have two 1.2g drives. I presently have DOS and Win'95 on a 1.0 gig partition on the first drive I would like to carve up the second drive with say a 50% partition saved for NT and the second for NeXT. I read that NeXT recommends 400mb with the developer tools installed and I figured another 200mb for apps. My question is do I partition the second drive first with 1 DOS partition for NT and leave the second a non DOS partition? Will NeXT see the non DOS partition and use it ? Or should I wait and let NeXT create it's own partition and then direct it to leave some space for NT? Will I be able to boot into any OS at will? IF I install next on a no-boot drive will it write a boot block onto my boot drive? I just would like to know what I need to do to get all these running with just the two drives(partitioned of coarse to as many as I need). I am not against reformatting any drive and fresh installing everything. Any thoughts or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Many Thanks Jeff
From: ashrafi@mit.edu (Babak Ashrafi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: kerberos POP client? Date: 29 May 1996 14:03:09 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Message-ID: <4ohleu$51e@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Is there a kerberos enabled POP mail client for NS? There's no mention of kerberos in PopOver.app. (Is anyone at MIT using PPP to get mail from Athena into NextMail?) Thanks, Babak
From: Joe Pompei <pompei@audia.music.nwu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Q: NeXT power supplies Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 09:56:32 -0500 Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Message-ID: <31AC65A0.41C6@audia.music.nwu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'd like to use our old power supplies for some other projects, and I was wondering how to power them up - there are two cables with four pins on each, which I assume are the power outputs, and one cable with two pins, which probably switches on the supply. To turn on the supply do I short the two pins or apply a voltage to them? Thanks.. Joe
From: eugene@raddi.uah.ualberta.ca (Eugene Mah) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NS 3.3 Intel and Logitech Bus Mice Date: 29 May 1996 15:41:36 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <4ohr7g$724@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> I look after a number of NS Intel boxes running 3.3 and was wondering if anybody was having problems with NS finding the Logitech bus mouse at start up. This problem always seems to happen from a cold boot; either power up or reset button, but never from a soft boot (restart or ctrl-alt-del from DOS). I don't have the console messages in front of me at the moment, but NS complains about not being able to find a mouse at IRQ 5. Doing a 'restart' from the login window to reboot NS seems to resolve the problem. I have v3.30 of the BusMouse driver installed on these systems. Can anybody provide any hints/suggestions? Thanks Eugene Mah -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene Mah eugene@raddi.uah.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail) Systems Administrator "For I am a Bear of Very Little Department of Radiology Brain, and long words Bother University of Alberta Hospitals me." Winnie the Pooh Edmonton, Alberta, Canada http://raddi.uah.ualberta.ca/~eugene/ PGP KeyID = 0x1F9779FD or 0xE37A1591 O- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: elitman@viaduct.com (Eric Litman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Best net phone for NeXTSTEP Date: 29 May 1996 17:26:16 GMT Organization: Viaduct, Inc. Message-ID: <4oi1bp$4bn@news2.dn.net> Browsing through the archives, I've run across a couple of older apps which support voice over IP, but none that currently support real-time voice on Intel hardware. I remember Robert King (App Foundation) wrote a small app to do this a few years back. Anyone know if it still exists, or if there are any other "net phone" apps that run on Intel hardware? </eal> -- Eric A. Litman, CEO, Viaduct, Inc. http://www.viaduct.com/ Internet security and commerce consulting. PCS: (301) 254-0200
From: drmac19@mail.idt.net (Dylan Blankenship) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NeXTstation for sale Date: 29 May 1996 19:12:59 GMT Organization: ViViD Message-ID: <drmac19-0805961520200001@pmdyn73.vivid.net> Here we go!!!!!!!!! -------------------------------------------------------------- |NeXT Color Workstation =) | |-----------------------------| |megabytes of RAM |***32 |megabyte hard disk |***420 |monitor size(inches) |17" |monitor(b&w or color) |color |Sound box |yes |printer |laser |Keyboard |Full NeXT black keys in good condition |mouse |Black NeXT |Case |Black Slab NeXT pizza box |Disk Drive |1.44 DDHD 3.5" |OS |NextSTEP 3.0 ---------------------------------------------------------------- This configuration is for a NeXT color Workstation . I'm willing to trade for a macintosh powerbook or make an offer. ******TRADE OR FOR SALE********** _/\/\/\/-Visit Static Realm-/\/\/\/\/_ -- drmac19@mail.idt.net _/\/\/-Static_Realm_/\/\/\-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: memory size Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <Ds6JFH.rw@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 18:30:53 GMT References: <korver.833383757@popeye.cs.iastate.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo Keywords: memory In article <korver.833383757@popeye.cs.iastate.edu>, Juliana Bower <korver@cs.iastate.edu> wrote: >How can I tell how much memory is on a machine? > hostinfo from a shell will tell you, or "Info->Info" from Workspace. -- 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: korver@cs.iastate.edu (Juliana Bower) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: memory size Date: 29 May 96 15:29:17 GMT Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Message-ID: <korver.833383757@popeye.cs.iastate.edu> Keywords: memory How can I tell how much memory is on a machine? Thanks.
From: mpaque@pacbell.net (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: memory size Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 00:55:22 GMT Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16 Message-ID: <4oirus$rvg@news.snfc21.pacbell.net> References: <korver.833383757@popeye.cs.iastate.edu> korver@cs.iastate.edu (Juliana Bower) wrote: >How can I tell how much memory is on a machine? The Workspace Info Panel shows the amount of memory installed, along with a few other handy numbers. Click on the NeXT logo in the upper right corner. Then, on the Workspace menu, click on Info, and then on Info Panel on the submenu. The information is also recorded in /usr/adm/messages each time the machine is booted, and displayed on the console during a verbose boot. Look for a message of the form: physical memory = XX.oo Mbytes 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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.soft-sys.nextstep From: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Why NeXT? Message-ID: <Ds6IuL.LLv@nidat.sub.org> Sender: news@nidat.sub.org Cc: reichman@usc.edu Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <4norkd$97v@digifix.digifix.com> <Pine.ULT.3.91.960524163016.12494A-100000@cello13.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU> <DryK56.G0B@nidat.sub.org> <4o7i1i$7ku@usc.edu> Distribution: inet Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 18:18:18 GMT In <4o7i1i$7ku@usc.edu> Matthew N. Reichman wrote: > In <DryK56.G0B@nidat.sub.org> Peter Nitezki wrote: > > As a summary: NEXTSTEPpers are bored by the request to talk someboy into it > > since they can't understand why people don't just come and see. Or let it > > put me that way: it's the same as with oysters. If you don't like'em half a > > dozen is too much, and if you like'em half a dozen is not enough. > > You are definitely a riot, Peter! 8-) > > Ok, ok. I plead guilty of not always applying the amount humble forbearance I've learned to devote towards c.s.n.a postings for postings outside said newsgroup ;-) But I must insist that I was not geniunely out for a flame war. Sometimes I just can't stand NEXTSTEP being mentioned with Microshit in one breath. >:-| But yes, I know this won't help with my karma :-P -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Q: NeXT power supplies Date: 30 May 1996 07:44:50 GMT Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany Message-ID: <4ojjli$eu@turbocat.snafu.de> References: <31AC65A0.41C6@audia.music.nwu.edu> Joe Pompei <pompei@audia.music.nwu.edu> wrote: > I'd like to use our old power supplies for some other projects, and I > was wondering how to power them up - there are two cables with four pins > on each, which I assume are the power outputs, and one cable with two > pins, which probably switches on the supply. Please use El-cheapo PC power supplies. Sell the NeXT supplies to people who really need them. _ _ _(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development, (_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG, _/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152 (______) dave@turbocat.snafu.de (NeXTMail)
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: memory size Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 16:08:16 -0400 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.93.960529160707.6335E-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> References: <korver.833383757@popeye.cs.iastate.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Juliana Bower <korver@cs.iastate.edu> In-Reply-To: <korver.833383757@popeye.cs.iastate.edu> On 29 May 1996, Juliana Bower wrote: > How can I tell how much memory is on a machine? from the commandline: hostinfo | grep "memory available" OR From the Workspace Manager check out one of the items under the 'info' menu item. TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma (Formerly known as: luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu) New email address: 476tjl@ptsmail.ptsem.edu (No NeXTmail) *** Please note: the new address cannot read the 'reply-to' line ***
From: edwintam@webhk.com (Edwin TAM) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP: Monitor refresh rate differ from Config.app setting ? Date: 29 May 1996 06:38:24 GMT Message-ID: <4ogrd0$f9d@hkt001.hkt.net> I am using a 2MB S3-868 video card, and had set to 1024x768 75Hz 16bit color using the Generic S3 driver in Config.app, however, my monitor report the video is 48KHz/60Hz instead of the desired 60KHz/75Hz. Win95 has no problem with this resolution, and I can't see the 60Hz flicker, too; so the hardware is capable, only NEXTSTEP is not (yet). Anybody got any clue on how one might solve this problem ? Many thanks, -- Edwinb TAM
From: eriko@austin.ibm.com (Erik O'Shaughnessy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Can NeXTs do IP Forwading? Date: 31 May 1996 15:34:03 -0500 Organization: IBM Austin Sender: eriko@toolbox.austin.ibm.com Message-ID: <uf91e8r39g.fsf@toolbox.austin.ibm.com> I've got a 040 cube with a PPP connection to the outside and a 10baseT connetion to a Macintosh. My goal was to use the cube to route for the Macintosh, but I haven't had any luck. Mac and cube can ping each other but packets from the Mac destined for the PPP interface drop into the bitbuck. I'm using PPP 2.2.1 (from memory, I got it from www.thoughtport.com if that helps ), and I've trolled thru the source and found only one reference to ipforwarding which didn't really help much. Anyone else have a similar configuration? Does it work :) It is quite possible I've been using other UNIX's too long and don't know where to look on the NeXT. Clues and outright solutions are welcome :) thanks 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) 823-9569 echo "Have a nice day!" >> /dev/kmem T/L 793-9569
From: zbir@seven.ucs.indiana.edu (Zachery "Tigger" Bir) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next Subject: advice needed on platform move Date: 31 May 1996 21:30:12 GMT Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Distribution: world Message-ID: <ZBIR.96May31163012@seven.ucs.indiana.edu> I am in need of some advice. I'm looking into switching over to a NeXT from Macintosh, and most of my friends and coworkers are seriously cautioning me about the move. Can anyone here give me some feedback on similar moves they have gone through? I really like NeXTStep, and it's bound to be more stable than MacOS, but there is the serious consideration of new software being de- veloped, parts availability, and service... Any words of wisdom? E-mail or follow up, -Z -- Zachery J. Bir - zbir@indiana.edu MacOS / Unix / NeXT ACCESS MicroCenter / UCS Support Center http://bandicoot.cs.indiana.edu:34801/
From: jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Can NeXTs do IP Forwading? Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 16:37:05 -0500 Organization: The MITRE Corporation Message-ID: <jbf-3105961637050001@djatwood.mitre.org> References: <uf91e8r39g.fsf@toolbox.austin.ibm.com> In article <uf91e8r39g.fsf@toolbox.austin.ibm.com>, eriko@austin.ibm.com (Erik O'Shaughnessy) wrote: > I've got a 040 cube with a PPP connection to the outside and a 10baseT > connetion to a Macintosh. My goal was to use the cube to route for the > Macintosh, but I haven't had any luck. (snip) I'm posting a similar query, but with fuller details, to c.s.n.sysadmin. In this case, what were the IP addresses and netmasks on the various machines, what did netstat report for network ports on the NeXT and what did the machine on the other end of the PPP think it was talking to, e.g., a host or a network? Barney
From: indy@beckman.uiuc.edu (Steve Weintz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next Subject: Re: advice needed on platform move Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next Date: 1 Jun 1996 13:19:51 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Distribution: world Message-ID: <4opg1n$b2h@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <ZBIR.96May31163012@seven.ucs.indiana.edu> Zachery "Tigger" Bir (zbir@seven.ucs.indiana.edu) wrote: : I am in need of some advice. I'm looking into switching over to a NeXT from : Macintosh, and most of my friends and coworkers are seriously cautioning me : about the move. Can anyone here give me some feedback on similar moves they : have gone through? I really like NeXTStep, and it's bound to be more stable : than MacOS, but there is the serious consideration of new software being de- : veloped, parts availability, and service... : Any words of wisdom? Well, it depends. What would you like to do with it? I find that nearly all my graphics production needs are met with NS software, both new and defunct, but I got a DayDream for those certain apps, like Fractal Design Poser, that arn't avilable. YMMV; the general consensus is that there's no equivalent to Quark Xpress on NeXT, so DTP may be a problem. (I don't find it so.) In general, the futere of NEXTSTEP is very uncertain; NeXT may be dropping the OS altogether within a couple years. There are indeed very few ISV's left to sell you software. On the other hand... ...I worked with a guy who kept a Mac II in the office running System 6 and PageMaker 3.0. Why? I asked. Because, he said, it works, it's cheap and I know how to fix it. This sums up my attitude to NS these days. Besides, it's still the best user environment I've ever found. NeXT hardware is now among the cheapest entries into UNIX you can find. Many defunct software packages can be had at incredible discounts; just because they haven't kept up doesn't mean you can't get useful work done with them. Parts can be found in comp.sys.next.marketplace and from several black hardware dealers. Service is a little tricky, but then I haven't needed much. Good luck, and I wish you success! -- Beckman Institute | S T E V E W E I N T Z | New Media, Ltd. Visualization Facility |------------------------------| steve@dave-world.net indy@.uiuc.edu | Gerunding adverbly, | 217.344.9174 vox 217.244.3074 | Noun verbed. | 217.344.8981 fax
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software From: yoshida@fermi.bsd.uchicago.edu (Hiro Yoshida) Subject: [Q] How to display/print an NS PostScript file on a Mac? Message-ID: <DsBs5x.991@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 14:27:32 GMT To NeXTStep and Mac Users: Could anyone know how to display and print a NeXT's PostScript file on a Machintosh? More precisely, I have a bunch of flies made by Concurrence2, which is a slide making program. Because I cannot directly print the Concurrence2 files to the slide maker (Montage) in our lab, I am trying to save all the pages, copy them to a Machintosh connected to the slide maker, and print them out on a film. However, I cannot display nor print the NS PS files by either PhotoShop 2.5 or GraphicsConverter. Actually, when I tried to read in the NS PS files by these applications, they said: Unknown format or incompatible format. ( I send the NS PS files by ASCII and Binary using Fetch, but both failed.) I am sticking on the PS format because of its high quality; if I use TIFF, yes I can make slides, but the quality of fonts are bad, unfortunately... If anyone succeed to convert/read/print NS PS files on a Mac, please let me know. I would appreciate it if you would e-mail me your message when you post a reply, so that I do not miss it. ____________________________________________________________ Hiro Yoshida, Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor Kurt Rossmann Laboratories Department of Radiology, The University of Chicago, MC2026 5841 South Maryland Avenue, Chicago Illinois 60637 Phone: 312-702-1350, FAX 312-702-0371 yoshida@fermi.bsd.uchicago.edu ,,, If the only tool you have is a hammer, (* o) then you tend to see everything as a nail. __.oOO--(_)--OOo.___________________________________________
From: jbf@mitre.org (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: converting fonts the otherway Date: Sat, 01 Jun 1996 10:56:33 -0400 Organization: The MITRE Corporation Message-ID: <jbf-0106961056330001@mbppp8.mitre.org> References: <4ool8a$24n@lugb.latrobe.edu.au> In article <4ool8a$24n@lugb.latrobe.edu.au>, thoran@pedder.csse.swin.edu.au (thoran) wrote: > I've been searching for a NS app to convert fonts from NeXT to Mac so that > a bureau I'm having print something for me can use the files I've given > them because I've given them some odd fonts. All they should need is the Postscript description of the font. This lives, for example, in /NextLibrary/Fonts/Courier.font/Courier. On a Mac this would need to be broken into a series of POST resources in a file of type LWFN. I believe that the Mac Fontographer application knows how to do this. It may even know how to generate bitmap files for screen display. But, if you have a PPD for their imaging device, which they should be able to provide, and you create such a printer on your NeXT, and then chose Save with the Chosen Printer/Include Fonts option, the NeXT will write a file containing the binaries for the fonts which their imagesetter doesn't have. It will probably work if you don't have the right PPD, since your oddball fonts are not part of the nominal set in all Laser Printers, but I doubt it will work if you chose the Local Printer. Anyway, try some variations. Barney
From: thoran@pedder.csse.swin.edu.au (thoran) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: converting fonts the otherway Date: 1 Jun 1996 05:42:34 GMT Organization: La Trobe University Message-ID: <4ool8a$24n@lugb.latrobe.edu.au> Keywords: NeXT Macintosh font convert Hello misc readers, I've been searching for a NS app to convert fonts from NeXT to Mac so that a bureau I'm having print something for me can use the files I've given them because I've given them some odd fonts. All I've found is converters going from Mac or PC to NS, but not the other way. Is there anything out there which will go the way that I want. I would have thought others would encounter this problem? I have a slight suspicion that this is so simple that it doesn't require an app, but nevertheless I have not found any instructions to indicate this. I'll repost if anything significant arises. Also, if anybody else has this problem and they want to hear what I've found out then email me for a personal reply. Thanks, thoran
From: jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: [Q] How to display/print an NS PostScript file on a Mac? Date: Sun, 02 Jun 1996 10:04:20 -0400 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf-0206961004200001@frazer.com> References: <DsBs5x.991@midway.uchicago.edu> In article <DsBs5x.991@midway.uchicago.edu>, yoshida@fermi.bsd.uchicago.edu (Hiro Yoshida) wrote: > Could anyone know how to display and print a NeXT's PostScript file on a > Machintosh? I don't know of any "free" (ot commercial) tool for viewing PS on a Mac. There probably is one but ... As for downloading, there are several tools for downloading the file - for example, the HP Utility supplied with the 4MP, or "LaserStatus" from the archives. If the Mac is on ethernet with the NeXT, you can use lpDaemon from the archives to create a Unix style print server and just send the file over from the NeXT print panel. There's a NeXT Answer on this, and it's also discussed in the SysAdmin manual (I think). Works for me! Barney
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn) Subject: Re: Can NeXTs do IP Forwading? Message-ID: <DsDxFM.C4D@nvc.cc.ca.us> Sender: news@nvc.cc.ca.us Organization: Napa Valley College References: <uf91e8r39g.fsf@toolbox.austin.ibm.com> Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 18:16:34 GMT In article <uf91e8r39g.fsf@toolbox.austin.ibm.com>, Erik O'Shaughnessy <eriko@austin.ibm.com> wrote: >I've got a 040 cube with a PPP connection to the outside and a 10baseT >connetion to a Macintosh. My goal was to use the cube to route for the >Macintosh, but I haven't had any luck. I'm currently using my NeXT to route for the entire LAN in my house. There are 3 computers on the LAN, my NeXT, a Mac, and a ThinkPad. The PPP package will automatically patch the kernel to do IP forwarding. However, to be able to actually route packets *back* to the Mac or ThinkPad requires setting up routing on the *other* side of the PPP link. To get routing to work, I had to subnet the Class C assigned to my campus and use one of the subnets on my home LAN. I then had to configure both the PPP server and the Cisco router to recognize that packets for my home subnet should be routed through the PPP server. If all you want to do is have the Mac use Web stuff, then you don't need to go to all that work. Simply put the CERN httpd on your NeXT, and configure it as a proxy server (reccommended, since you can set up caching). -- Chris Osborn, Network Administrator Napa Valley College 707 253 3130 - Voice 2277 Napa-Vallejo Hwy. 707 253 3063 - Fax Napa, CA 94558 <fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us> <http://www.nvc.cc.ca.us/~fozztexx>
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: [Q] How to display/print an NS PostScript file on a Mac? Date: 2 Jun 1996 18:22:07 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <4osm4f$los@news4.digex.net> References: <DsBs5x.991@midway.uchicago.edu> <jbf-0206961004200001@frazer.com> jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) wrote: > In article <DsBs5x.991@midway.uchicago.edu>, yoshida@fermi.bsd.uchicago.edu (Hiro Yoshida) wrote: > > Could anyone know how to display and print a NeXT's PostScript file on a > > Machintosh? > I don't know of any "free" (ot commercial) tool for viewing PS on a Mac. There probably is one but ... As for downloading, there are several tools for downloading the file - for example, the HP Utility supplied with the Tailor will now let you view any postscript file on the Macintosh, as it will on a NEXTSTEP system. I think the printing part is in the bag as well :) -- 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: alt.folklore.computers,alt.tv.pbs,comp.sys.next.misc Followup-To: alt.folklore.computers,alt.tv.pbs From: Russell_Schulz@locutus.ofB.ORG (Russell Schulz) Subject: PBS: June 12: Triumph of the Nerds (Silicon Valley) Message-ID: <960602.020726.0f6.rnr.w164w@locutus.ofB.ORG> Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 02:07:26 -0600 Organization: Private System, Edmonton, AB, Canada my guide for KSPS Spokane says: Wednesday, June 12, 8:00 (Mountain) Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires in Silicon Valley This three-hour program zooms backwards on the information superhighway to show in vivid detail how youthful amateurs, hippies and self- proclaimed ``nerds'' accidentally changed the world. The program chronicles the birth and growth of Silicon Valley's personal computer industry, unfolding in Bay Area garages, industrial parks and convenience stores. Interview with Microsoft's Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Apple [co-]founder Steve Jobs, and more. (CC) later it says: //www.polyester.nerd Zoom backwards on the information superhighway to see in vivid detail how youthful amateurs, hippies and self-proclaimed ``nerds'' accidentally changed the world. In essence, get the real story of the birth and growth of Silicon Valley's personal computer industry. Examine the quirky, relentless and profitable adventures of the unlikely 20th-century pioneers who created the miracle products that revolutionized the world. Explore the rise of Apple, Microsoft, and other companies. The program examines the intra-industry competition and the displacement of corporate giants like IBM. Designed for viewing by youngsters who can't imagine a world without laptop [sic], their struggling parents, the wannabes, the confused and the enlightened, _Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires in Silicon Valley_ airs tonight (Wednesday) @ 8 pm. -- Russell_Schulz@locutus.ofB.ORG Shad 86c
From: hugues@precipice.fdn.fr (Hugues RICHARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next Subject: Re: advice needed on platform move Date: 2 Jun 1996 10:00:40 GMT Organization: Individual - France Message-ID: <4oroo8$6c6@precipice.fdn.fr> References: <ZBIR.96May31163012@seven.ucs.indiana.edu> <4opg1n$b2h@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> indy@beckman.uiuc.edu (Steve Weintz) wrote: > the general consensus is that there's no equivalent to Quark > Xpress on NeXT, so DTP may be a problem. (I don't find it so.) There is OneVision. Not especially cheap but good software. One or two key functions are still missing but it is the same with XP. And it is better than :-) a : > Mac II in the office running System 6 and PageMaker 3.0 To my knowledge, this company never stopped developping this software, whatever NeXT marketing orientation had been. Hugues (who is actually beta-testing OneVision 3.0 :-). PS : It works with bloc philosophy as XP but the way to do is a bit different. -------------------------------------------------------------------- hugues@precipice.fdn.fr - France (small NeXTMail OK) ------------ NS3.2 ------------ NS3.0J ------------ :-) ------------
From: rgourvitz@msn.com (Ross Gourvitz) Subject: "Loading form Network" Date: 3 Jun 96 01:18:23 -0700 Message-ID: <00001c41+00000bed@msn.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Organization: The Microsoft Network (msn.com) but i'm not connected to a network. does anyone out there know what's wrong with my single nextstation?
From: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Kai S. Wong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: gs for next/i386? Date: 2 Jun 1996 20:38:14 GMT Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland Message-ID: <4osu3m$35h@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> Hello, Is there a gs "ghostscript" for NeXT/i386 compiled. I need it to use on my Canon printer for printing. --kai-- -- email: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca url: http://web.cs.mun.ca/~kwong/
From: darrin@research.canon.com.au (Darrin Smart) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: "Loading form Network" Date: 3 Jun 1996 03:12:50 GMT Organization: Canon Information Systems Research Australia Message-ID: <4otl7i$11s@mama.research.canon.com.au> References: <00001c41+00000bed@msn.com> In article <00001c41+00000bed@msn.com> rgourvitz@msn.com (Ross Gourvitz) writes: > but i'm not connected to a network. > > does anyone out there know what's wrong with my single nextstation? My cube usually tries to boot from the network, because it's CMOS battery is dead. The fix is to manually boot from the monitor. -- Darrin Smart, Software Engineer | darrin@research.canon.com.au Canon Information Systems Research Australia | Phone +61-2-805-2942 PO Box 313 NORTH RYDE NSW 2113 | Fax +61-2-805-2929
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: 3 Jun 1996 04:15:10 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4otose$9p@digifix.digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Software, Inc. 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From: Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Can NeXTs do IP Forwading? Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 07:16:37 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1996Jun3.071637.8708@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <DsDxFM.C4D@nvc.cc.ca.us> In article <DsDxFM.C4D@nvc.cc.ca.us> fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn) writes: > In article <uf91e8r39g.fsf@toolbox.austin.ibm.com>, > Erik O'Shaughnessy <eriko@austin.ibm.com> wrote: > >I've got a 040 cube with a PPP connection to the outside and a 10baseT > >connetion to a Macintosh. My goal was to use the cube to route for the > >Macintosh, but I haven't had any luck. > > The PPP package will automatically patch the kernel to do IP > forwarding. However, to be able to actually route packets *back* to > the Mac or ThinkPad requires setting up routing on the *other* side of > the PPP link. > > To get routing to work, I had to subnet the Class C assigned to my > campus and use one of the subnets on my home LAN. I then had to > configure both the PPP server and the Cisco router to recognize that > packets for my home subnet should be routed through the PPP server. > > If all you want to do is have the Mac use Web stuff, then you don't > need to go to all that work. Simply put the CERN httpd on your NeXT, > and configure it as a proxy server (reccommended, since you can set up > caching). If Erik has a single Mac, then an alternative is to assign it an IP address on the same network as the cube, and use the proxyarp setting to make it visible. One possible problem is if the external PPP connection is to an ISP that will only support a single IP address (as is common for pricing reasons). Then it isn't fixable. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: lupomesk@I_should_put_my_domain_in_etc_NNTP_INEWS_DOMAIN (Lupomesky Borek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Can NeXTs do IP Forwading? Date: 3 Jun 1996 11:10:24 GMT Organization: Technical University of Brno, Czech Republic Message-ID: <4ouh70$84n@rhino.cis.vutbr.cz> References: <uf91e8r39g.fsf@toolbox.austin.ibm.com> Erik O'Shaughnessy (eriko@austin.ibm.com) wrote: : Anyone else have a similar configuration? Does it work :) It is quite : possible I've been using other UNIX's too long and don't know where to : look on the NeXT. Clues and outright solutions are welcome :) I have NS 3.3 on Intel. There is another computer (Atari TT) ethernetted to it. On the other end of wire there is Cisco 2511 access server. I have 'borrowed' an C address from unversity. On NS 3.3 runs supplied routed daemon, so that Cisco is happy and Atari is reachable from outside. I forgot to mention that outside connection goes via PPP 2.x. Bye Borek
From: parkjy@euler.snu.ac.kr (Park Jeongyoung) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: [Q]How can I get PPD file for HP 4MV ? Date: 3 Jun 1996 12:09:47 GMT Organization: Seoul National Univ. Computing Center Message-ID: <4oukmb$va7@snunews.snu.ac.kr> Now I am using "HP LaserJet4 PostScript". I want to know whether there is the PPD for HP 4MV, and if so,how can get it. -- || Park, Jeongyoung || TFC (Turbulence & Flow Control) Lab. || Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Seoul National Univ. Korea || Email:parkjy@euler.snu.ac.kr (NeXT- or MIME-mail available)
From: jon@saracen (Jon Lester) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: [Q]How can I get PPD file for HP 4MV ? Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1996 15:05:47 GMT Message-ID: <833814347.23053.1@saracen.plsys.co.uk> References: <4oukmb$va7@snunews.snu.ac.kr> Park Jeongyoung (parkjy@euler.snu.ac.kr) wrote: : Now I am using "HP LaserJet4 PostScript". : I want to know whether there is the PPD for HP 4MV, and if so,how can : get it. I'd say that your best bet is to ftp to ftp.adobe.com, and have a look at /pub/adobe/PPDfiles. There's usually a good old selection in there. Hope this helps. -- Jon Lester jon@griffin.plsys.co.uk Tel: (44) 01494-432422 P&L Systems (NeXTmail) Fax: (44) 01494-432478 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 The Broadway, The Griffin, Old Amersham, Bucks, HP7 0HP, UK
From: bgomes@neptune.univ-lr.fr (Bruno Gomes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Trouble with gettytab configuration Date: 3 Jun 1996 16:03:40 GMT Organization: Universite de La Rochelle Message-ID: <4ov2cs$4t9@hpuniv.univ-lr.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hello, I try to connect a Next station and a PC, using the Next system, on dialin. But when I‚m connecting to the remote device, the stream format isn‚t good. I think, it‚s a gettytab file configuration problem. I had the same problem with an hp station using Next system. Trouble was resolved by gettytab file modification. Anybody knows gettytab configuration for Next station and PC using NextStep ? Thanks for help. -- Bruno Gomes E-mail : bgomes@cri.univ-lr.fr Universite de La Rochelle Tel : 46-45-82-14 Centre de Ressources Informatiques Fax : 46-45-82-45
From: pgeiss@cezanne.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (Peter Geissler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Problems with ASUS T2P4 Board Date: 3 Jun 1996 18:53:08 GMT Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ovcak$igb@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> Hi everybody, I had no success installing NeXTStep on a machine with the new ASUS P/I-P55T2P4 board . Installation starts smoothly and the files are copied from CD-ROM. Just before the promt to reboot a message like: "/private/etc/rc.cdrom 89 memory fault" (or similar to that) sometimes: "/private/etc/rc.cdrom 78 bus error" appears and thats it. What do these numbers mean ? I tried with other RAM,VGA and SCSI controller, but without success. So I think I removed nearly everything from the list of suspects exept the board. Does anybody has this board running and knows some magic BIOS settings or is it just that I got a defect one ? The exact configuration of the machine is: P166 CPU Asus T2P4 board (256k PB) Rev. 2.0 32M RAM (no EDO) 2.5G EIDI Harddrive Adaptec 2940 SCSI Controller SCSI CD-ROM Drive Many thanx in advance 4 any help Peter ================================================= Peter Geissler Heidelberg University Peter.Geissler@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de NeXT and MIME mail welcome ==================================================
From: eriko@austin.ibm.com (Erik O'Shaughnessy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Can NeXTs do IP Forwading? (Long) Date: 03 Jun 1996 14:44:53 -0500 Organization: IBM Austin Sender: eriko@toolbox.austin.ibm.com Message-ID: <uf91e43c5m.fsf_-_@toolbox.austin.ibm.com> References: <DsDxFM.C4D@nvc.cc.ca.us> <1996Jun3.071637.8708@seer.demon.co.uk> In-reply-to: Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk's message of Mon, 3 Jun 1996 07:16:37 GMT I said: >>>>I've got a 040 cube with a PPP connection to the outside and a 10baseT >>>>connetion to a Macintosh. My goal was to use the cube to route for the >>>>Macintosh, but I haven't had any luck. fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn) writes: >>> The PPP package will automatically patch the kernel to do IP >>> forwarding. However, to be able to actually route packets *back* to >>> the Mac or ThinkPad requires setting up routing on the *other* side of >>> the PPP link. >>> [ Chris makes me remember that the destination side has to know how to route back to the source machine.. duh. ] >>> If all you want to do is have the Mac use Web stuff, then you don't >>> need to go to all that work. Simply put the CERN httpd on your NeXT, >>> and configure it as a proxy server (reccommended, since you can set up >>> caching). Actually, this was my first workaround for the problem but the girlfriend is screaming for POP, NTTP and other stuff that requires routing. Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) writes: > If Erik has a single Mac, then an alternative is to assign it an IP > address on the same network as the cube, and use the proxyarp setting to > make it visible. > One possible problem is if the external PPP connection is to an ISP that > will only support a single IP address (as is common for pricing reasons). > Then it isn't fixable. I do indeed have a single Mac, but you are correct in supposing that my ISP only supports a single IP. It looks like I may have to break down and buy a domainname :) Thanks for jarring my brain into gear, 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) 823-9569 echo "Have a nice day!" >> /dev/kmem T/L 793-9569
From: Scott Mewett <mewett@mpr.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Can NeXTs do IP Forwading? Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1996 13:59:27 -0700 Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd. Message-ID: <31B3522F.4A28@mpr.ca> References: <uf91e8r39g.fsf@toolbox.austin.ibm.com> <DsDxFM.C4D@nvc.cc.ca.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Chris Osborn wrote: > If all you want to do is have the Mac use Web stuff, then you don't > need to go to all that work. Simply put the CERN httpd on your NeXT, > and configure it as a proxy server (reccommended, since you can set up > caching). > Where can I get CERN httpd for black hardware and is it hard to configure as a proxy server. thanks -- Scott Mewett MPR Teltech Ltd. Burnaby, BC mewett@mpr.ca ACSII Only mewett@planeteer.com NeXTMail Welcome
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: [Q]How can I get PPD file for HP 4MV ? Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 20:35:17 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1996Jun3.203517.11292@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <833814347.23053.1@saracen.plsys.co.uk> In article <833814347.23053.1@saracen.plsys.co.uk> jon@saracen (Jon Lester) writes: > Park Jeongyoung (parkjy@euler.snu.ac.kr) wrote: > : Now I am using "HP LaserJet4 PostScript". > : I want to know whether there is the PPD for HP 4MV, and if so,how can > : get it. > > I'd say that your best bet is to ftp to ftp.adobe.com, and have a look > at /pub/adobe/PPDfiles. There's usually a good old selection in there. Problem is, HP for some strange reason haven't released PPDs for their newer printers. You can download software for Macs and for Windows, which don't include PPDs in the package. The good news is that older HP4 PPDs that are available seem to work. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: Roland Schwingel Subject: Re: advice needed on platform move Message-ID: <DsGvBF.37D@onevision.de> Keywords: dtp,onevision Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <4oroo8$6c6@precipice.fdn.fr> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 08:23:38 GMT Hello, In article <4oroo8$6c6@precipice.fdn.fr> hugues@precipice.fdn.fr (Hugues RICHARD) writes: > indy@beckman.uiuc.edu (Steve Weintz) wrote: > > > the general consensus is that there's no equivalent to Quark > > Xpress on NeXT, so DTP may be a problem. (I don't find it so.) > > There is OneVision. Not especially cheap but good software. One or > two key functions are still missing but it is the same with XP. And > it is better than :-) a : > > > Mac II in the office running System 6 and PageMaker 3.0 :-) I am delighted to hear this ! But which functions do you think are missing in our OneVision ? > > To my knowledge, this company never stopped developping this > software, whatever NeXT marketing orientation had been. . and the development will continue. > > Hugues (who is actually beta-testing OneVision 3.0 :-). > > PS : It works with bloc philosophy as XP but the way to do is a > bit different. Because of the integration there was (nearly) no other way. (XP lacks the features of Photoshop and Freehand/Illustrator, so it can concentrate the Userinterface for layouting and writing text. We also need editing functionality for manipulation pictures and vectors. I think our way isn't bad. And MacOS isn't NEXTSTEP, so the primary way to do an userinterface is another one.) > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > hugues@precipice.fdn.fr - France (small NeXTMail OK) > ------------ NS3.2 ------------ NS3.0J ------------ :-) ------------ Ciao, Roland -- ============================================================================ Roland Schwingel OneVision GmbH Developer Florian-Seidl-Strasse 11 Email:roland@onevision.de 93053 Regensburg (NextMail,MIME welcome) Germany ============================================================================
From: scholzb@pst.informatik.uni-muenchen.de (Bernhard Scholz) Newsgroups: de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.misc,muc.test,lmu.test,tu.test Subject: The NeXT-FAQ (Frequently asked questions) Followup-To: de.comp.sys.next Date: 4 Jun 1996 10:49:58 GMT Organization: InternetNews at LMU, University of Munich, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <4p14cm$boj@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: NeXTFAQ Last-modified: Thursday, 30. April 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, ... 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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 MACH. 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 utility), 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 distributed 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 methods 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 will be the next release of NeXT's NEXTSTEP with the ability to be OS independent (NEXTSTEP depends on MACH). Therefore OpenStep will run on Windows 95, Windows NT, MACH, 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 network. 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 will get MACH enhancements and a new GUI as an option as well as all the known advantages of OpenStep itself. 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 isn't already released, this section is just speculating and based on information from the usenet community. OpenStep is sheduled for quarter two 1996. 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 hashing 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 building 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 more. 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 objects 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 for 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 building 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, on-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 application 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 application. 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 special license to connect to the Internet. But because WebObjects is a brand new product, look at http://www.next.com/WebOjects/ for further information. 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 updated 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 development 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 NewsGrazer, 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.com. 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: http://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 free 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: jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Can NeXTs do IP Forwading? (Long) Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 09:58:20 -0400 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf-0406960958200001@frazer.com> References: <DsDxFM.C4D@nvc.cc.ca.us> <1996Jun3.071637.8708@seer.demon.co.uk> <uf91e43c5m.fsf_-_@toolbox.austin.ibm.com> In article <uf91e43c5m.fsf_-_@toolbox.austin.ibm.com>, eriko@austin.ibm.com (Erik O'Shaughnessy) wrote: > I do indeed have a single Mac, but you are correct in supposing that my > ISP only supports a single IP. It looks like I may have to break down > and buy a domainname :) The other possibility might be to install a firewall which relays the packets with its own address. I've been trying to understand the feasibility of this approach, but it's a non-trivial undertaking. There are firewall tool kits on the archives. They are designed for stricter access standards than you are likely to want. I don't think getting a domain name will help. If the ISP is fussy about a single address, you will probably find he won't list your subnet in his router without extra money. To give specific Boston area examples, TIAC requires a dedicated line (about $90 per month plus buying them a modem), while Shore will do it for an unlimited account (about $50 a month) but charges something like $12 a month to list the subnet. (All numbers from memory.) The guy at CyberAccess, on the other hand, claimed there was no extra charge. But he also admitted to not really knowing what I was talking about. Barney
From: tpg@zaphod.fv.com (Terry Gliedt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Powering-up Black Hardware Without a Monitor Date: 4 Jun 1996 17:26:22 GMT Organization: Internet Service Providers Network Message-ID: <4p1rjv$gjf@news.isl.net> Yes, it *is* possible to run your Black hardware without a monitor. The trick is just to get the NeXT to power on, and boot correctly. This is a rewrite of an older FAQ item attributed to "The Onyx Kitten" <onyxcat@pictor.unm.edu> who no longer is at this mail address. The only reason for redoing this is to make clearer what exactly needs doing and report my personal experiences in this process. My thanks to Justin Sowers <jsowers@lehman.com> for his insight and assistance. HARDWARE SETUP The task is to build a DB-19 male plug to replace the DB-19 cable coming from your Black monitor. You can also use the more common DB-25 male plug as a replacement, but you will need to crimp (or remove) the pins on the right-hand side of the DB-25 so they are not in the way. An easily obtainable parts list is as follows: Radio Shack SKU# Qty. Description Price (as of 03/96) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 275-1556 1 2 pack Push-button switches $1.99 271-1317 1 5 pack 470 Ohm, .25 Watt resistors 0.49 276-1549 1 Grey housing for DB-25 connector 1.19 276-1429 1 25 pin male D-sub connector 1.99 Total: $5.66 + tax If you are a stickler for exact parts then you can order DB-19 connectors from: Gateway Electronics of St. Louis, San Diego, and Denver 1-800-669-5810 314-427-6116 VOX 314-427-3147 FAX http://www.gatewayelex.com for $1.50/ea. (as of 3/96). Minimum order for mailing: $10. Many thanks to Carl Lowenstein <cdl@helium.ucsd.edu> for the pointer to this one. NeXT MegaPixel DB-19 female inside DB-25 male (Connector screwmounts shown for positioning) ________________________________________________ \ _ ................................. / _ \(_) : 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 :/ (_) \ : 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 :/ \ ............................./ ---------------------------------------- DB-19 Pinout: 1= +12 V 7= NC 2= -12 V 8= VSYNC 3= MON CLK 9= HSYNC 4= MON DATA OUT 10= VIDEO 5= MON DATA IN 11= +12V 6= MON PWR SWITCH 12= -12V 13-19= GND THE DONGLE Build the following simple circuit with a momentary push button soldered to the 470 ohm resistor. This assembly should then be wired across pins 6 and 19 of the DB-25 shell. If you have an older cube (030 motherboard) then you will need to be sure that the box draws more power than just for the motherboard in order for the machine to stay on. This can happen in ONE of two ways- 1) You have a disk drive, or other power-drawing internal peripheral connected and in use (not that uncommon), -or- 2) You connect a POWER resistor (20 Ohm, at least 20 Watt) across pins 12 and 13 (as labeled for the DB-19 diagram). I do not recommend the power resitor approach, as the resistor gets _very_ hot and remains an active circuit for the time the machine is on. NeXTStation and 040 cube owners do not have to worry about the idiosyncrasies of the older NeXT power supplies. Here's the circuit: \ Momentary push __ \__ | | | | 470 Ohm $ | | | | | v v To DB-25 pins: 6 19 The soldering involved (resistor to switch terminal & connector pin, and wire to switch terminal & connector pin) takes maybe 10 minutes and is not very technical as the pins are individual so you can attach them to your assembly before you put them into the plastic framework the holds them together as a DB-25 (if you are using the RadioShack parts list above). The power resistor mentioned in the FAQ turns out to be unnecessary if you have anything else in the cube that draws power (a disk, etc.). All of this fits nicely into a plastic DB-25 housing with the pushbutton sticking out where the cable would normally exit. NeXT Cube owners will need to shave down the left (as drawn in illustration) side of the housing inorder to get the "dongle" to fit (the monitor port is at the very bottom of the motherboard and doesn't afford much clearance past the securing screwmount). SOFTWARE SETUP You'll need to be sure your NeXT ROM Monitor settings are correct and that your O/S is ready to run without a monitor. To start, go into the NeXT ROM Monitor (press Command-Command-~) and set the current configuration settings (from "p" in the boot monitor) like this: boot command: whatever DRAM tests: yes perform power-on system test: yes sound out tests: no SCSI tests: no loop until keypress: no verbose test mode: no boot extended diagnostics: no serial port A is alternate console: yes <- recommentation allow any ROM command even if password protected: whatever allow boot from any device even if password protected: whatever allow optical drive #0 eject even if password protected: whatever A few people report they needed to do nothing more on a Cube (level of OS unknown). In my experience on a NeXTstation (NS 3.2), it was necessary to make these changes in /etc/ttys: console "/usr/etc/getty std.9600" NeXT on secure #console /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow NeXT on secure window=/usr/lib/NextStep/WindowServer onoption="/usr/etc/getty std.9600" ttya "/usr/etc/getty std.9600" unknown on secure ttyb "/usr/etc/getty std.9600" unknown on secure A WORD TO THE WISE I would recommend that before you do anything, you make sure you get serial port A working as an alternate console. You can do this with a simple null-modem serial cable connection to a DOS machine running kermit (or other simple-minded terminal emulator). If your black box gets a kernel panic (like mine) and you have disabled the console in /etc/ttys, you might be left in a state where you must re-install to get your machine back up. It seems prudent to always have a serial console solution in case something serious happens and you need to be able to see what is going on. Don't forget that you should remove any printer that is configured for serial port A if you are also using serial port A as an alternate console or serial tty. BOOTING WITHOUT A MONITOR Once the DB plug is built, the ROM Monitor settings are correct, your serial A port console works, and /etc/ttys is correct, then simply power down the NeXT, remove the DB-19 monitor cable, attach your new DB plug and press the momentary switch/button. The box should power on and go through its normal boot sequence. You'll see ROM Monitor messages on the console on serial port A (you are using one, aren't you?). CAVEAT EMPTOR I've tried to be very careful about these instructions, but maybe I missed something, or maybe your situation is somehow different from mine. I might be able to say something that will be helpful, but maybe not. All in all, you are on your own, so be careful. In any case I am not responsible for what you do to your own hardware. -- =================================================================== Terry Gliedt tpg@fv.com MIME OK 507/356-4512 First Virtual Holdings http://www.fv.com/ http://www.hps.com/~tpg/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: "Loading form Network" Message-ID: <DsHnvE.7D7@nidat.sub.org> Sender: news@nidat.sub.org Cc: rgourvitz@msn.com Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <00001c41+00000bed@msn.com> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 18:40:26 GMT In <00001c41+00000bed@msn.com> Ross Gourvitz wrote: > but i'm not connected to a network. > > does anyone out there know what's wrong with my single nextstation? > > Most likely it was ripped out of a network whre it used to remote boot. The next possibility would be a corrupted NetInfo and/or hostconfig setting due to some messing with SimpleNetworkStarter, HostManager, or NetInfoManager. -- 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,comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Bug in Preview with DocumentPaperSizes:a4 ? Date: 30 May 1996 18:07:47 GMT Organization: Danish NeXT User Group Message-ID: <4oko5j$md@jnext.dannug.dk> References: <4oeonc$n46@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> >>>>> "Gregor" == flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit) writes: Gregor> Hmm. Are the values for %%DocumentPaperSizes in PostScript Gregor> case-dependent ? I.e. are both of the following valid descriptions Gregor> for the A4 format, or just the first one ? Gregor> Gregor> %%DocumentPaperSizes:A4 Gregor> Gregor> %%DocumentPaperSizes:a4 'Comment keywords are case-sensitive, as are all of the arguments following a comment keyword.' (From the Red Book, 2nd Edition) Gregor> At least NEXTSTEP's Preview.app makes a difference. The first Gregor> one opens a document with A4 page size, while the second one is Gregor> ignored and the document is displayed with letter page size. Gregor> Gregor> The pity is that the second one version is what recent versions Gregor> of dvips use for A4! Therefore I fear that Preview.app fails for Gregor> any file produced with dvips using A4. You can always make a small sed/perl/what ever script that substitutes the offending line with the correct one in the PostScript file and keeps Preview.app happy. Gregor> PS: Preview.app's behavior only depends on that single comment Gregor> (not on `%%PaperSize'...). If you take a correct file, i.e. with Gregor> `A4', and change that into `a4', you loose. I seem to remember that in the case of conflicting values for keywords, the first specification wins. Regards, Jacob -- Jacob Nielsen Maintainer of NEXTSTEP Software Reviews http://www.dannug.dk/jacob & My own home page :-) http://www.dannug.dk/~jacob NeXTMail, MIMEMail and SUNMail jacob@dannug.dk
From: quite@dial.pipex.com (Aandi Inston) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Bug in Preview with DocumentPaperSizes:a4 ? Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 23:40:28 GMT Organization: UnipalmPIPEX server (post doesn't reflect views of UnipalmPIPEX) Message-ID: <4p2hf0$25g@soap.news.pipex.net> References: <4oeonc$n46@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit) wrote: >Hmm. Are the values for %%DocumentPaperSizes in PostScript >case-dependent ? I.e. are both of the following valid descriptions for >the A4 format, or just the first one ? > %%DocumentPaperSizes:A4 > %%DocumentPaperSizes:a4 May not be directly relevant, but most PostScript interpreters only allow 'a4'. Some imagesetters, however, allow 'A4' and treat it as a4, but rotated 90 degrees on the film. ---------------------------------------- Aandi Inston quite@dial.pipex.com Visit http://ds.dial.pipex.com/quite for info on PostScript, PSAlter, psalters, tea, and small furry animals. And stuff.
From: pgeiss@cezanne.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (Peter Geissler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Problems with 2.5 G EIDE Harddisk Date: 5 Jun 1996 08:25:35 GMT Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <4p3g9v$b9n@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> I have a 2.5 G EIDI harddrive (Western Digital Caviar Series) which I couldnt get to run with NeXTStep. I used the onboard EIDI controller of an Ausus XE Pentium board. Even with the newest bios update which now recognizes the size of the harddisk correctly I couldnt install NS 3.3 on the drive. Nextstep fdisk is running correctly, and the drive is formatted without even a single warning. During copying files from CD to harddisk, errors occurs and after several retries of resetting the EIDI drivers installation is giving up. Does anybody knows whats going on there ? I read that Western Digital is using EIDE while Quantum and Seagate are using Fast-ATA. Is there difference or has the Next EIDI driver to be configured differently ? Peter ================================================= Peter Geissler Heidelberg University Peter.Geissler@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
From: sgordon@emerald.tufts.edu (Steve Gordon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Hook up next monitor to Mac? Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 11:38:57 -0400 Organization: Tufts University Message-ID: <sgordon-0506961138570001@arena-1.tc.tufts.edu> I have a PowerMac 8500 with a free PCI slot, and a spare neXt monitor gathering dust. Is there any way I can hook up the monitor to my Mac? Any advice would be highly appreciated. ...Regards, Steve Gordon ...Academic Computing Services, Tufts University
From: andrew@hydra.cfm.brown.edu (Andrew Jones) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NeXTstep on an IBM Date: 5 Jun 1996 22:22:31 GMT Organization: Brown University Center for Fluid Mechanics Distribution: world Message-ID: <4p51b7$p9t@cocoa.brown.edu> Has anyone had any experiance with NeXTstep on an IBM PC like the Aptiva? Thanks in advance. Andrew
From: "BEST" <markb@bestnet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,pgh.next-users,sdnet.next,slac.users.next,su.computers.next Subject: IMMEDIATE "NeXTstep Developers" CONSULTANT OPPORTUNITIES!!! Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 16:08:18 -0700 Organization: BEST CONSULTING Message-ID: <01bb5333.e2460de0$3b3240ce@kwaa02w059.bestnet.com> BEST Consulting is an Information Systems Consulting firm headquartered in the Seattle area with 11 offices throughout the western U.S. The majority of our Associate Consultants are salaried however, we do have hourly contract Associates as well. All BEST Associates are proficient in a variety of technical disciplines and are strong in professional demeanor, attitude and other non-technical attributes. BEST Consulting has built a solid reputation by providing QUALITY SERVICE to our clients and team building and career oriented employment to our Associates. Our clients keep coming back and referring others and our Associate employee base increases because we are committed to personal pride and the delivery of which we never compromise. Our idea is "total quality", quality in our offering itself and in all the services that come with it. BEST has competitive pay rates, excellent cafeteria style benefits, and an employee oriented history. BEST is constantly looking for people that want to build a relationship and career with a great company. BEST's focus is to "make a difference" JOB TITLE: NeXTstep Developers (#470) JOB LOCATION: Seattle Area NR. OF OPENINGS: Our client has immediate requirements for 10 developers PART/FULL TIME: Full Time START DATE: Immediately SALARY: DOE/DOQ JOB QUALIFICATIONS: NeXTstep, Objective C JOB DESCRIPTION: To provide development porting our clients application from NeXTstep to open step on NT. If you are interested in these opportunities please send/fax your resume to: Mark Barton Sourcing Manager BEST Consulting 12910 Totem Lake Blvd., #270 Kirkland, WA 98034 (206) 814-8104 ext. 185 (206) 814-8108 Fax markb@bestnet.com http://www.bestnet.com
From: schildw@infoac.rmi.de (Christian Schildwaechter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next Subject: Re: advice needed on platform move Date: 6 Jun 1996 01:40:22 GMT Organization: greenHAUS Distribution: world Message-ID: <4p5cu6$f5d@fuchur.rmi.de> References: <ZBIR.96May31163012@seven.ucs.indiana.edu> <4opg1n$b2h@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> In <4opg1n$b2h@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Steve Weintz wrote: > Zachery "Tigger" Bir (zbir@seven.ucs.indiana.edu) wrote: > : I am in need of some advice. I'm looking into switching over to a NeXT from > : Macintosh, and most of my friends and coworkers are seriously cautioning me > : about the move. Can anyone here give me some feedback on similar moves they > : have gone through? I really like NeXTStep, and it's bound to be more stable > : than MacOS, but there is the serious consideration of new software being de- > : veloped, parts availability, and service... > > : Any words of wisdom? > > > Well, it depends. What would you like to do with it? I find that nearly > all my graphics production needs are met with NS software, both new and > defunct, but I got a DayDream for those certain apps, like Fractal Design > Poser, that arn't avilable. YMMV; the general consensus is that there's > no equivalent to Quark Xpress on NeXT, so DTP may be a problem. (I don't > find it so.) There is OneVision from OneVision, a package which some claim beats Quark + Photoshot + Freehand without any trouble. It's a high-end publishing system, so the price for the complete package is > US$ 20,000, and you'll need something like 128 MB RAM at least. I never used it (only 32 MB), but if you're interested, they'll give you a four-weeks- testing-license. Christian --- Christian Schildwaechter schildw@infoac.rmi.de Rosstr. 38-40 http://greenHAUS.ros.AC-Net.de/ 52064 Aachen/Germany (+49)241-2800- 2(voice/am)/3(fax)
From: shanshir@inlink.com (ShanShier) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NeXTSTEP Upgrade Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 00:10:40 GMT Organization: inlink Message-ID: <4p58c1$mt0@news2.inlink.com> Hello, I need some help, I have a copy of NeXTSTEP version 3.2 here at home. However I can't load it on my system because I have a IDE CD-ROM Drive. I was wondering if anyone has an upgrade from 3.2 to 3.3 or if anyone knows of a way I can install 3.2 with an IDE CD-ROM Drive, I really want to get rid of Windows 95 and get NeXTSTEP running on my system, but I just keep running into obsticals, and I haven't been able to get anyone at NeXT to return my calls and help me out on this one. Please Help !!! Thanks, Paul shanshir@inlink.com
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: [Q] How to display/print an NS PostScript file on a Mac? Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 00:52:48 -0500 Organization: Illinois State University, Instructional Technology Services Message-ID: <31B67230.6D47@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> References: <DsBs5x.991@midway.uchicago.edu> <jbf-0206961004200001@frazer.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "James B. Frazer" <jbf@frazer.com> James B. Frazer wrote: > > In article <DsBs5x.991@midway.uchicago.edu>, yoshida@fermi.bsd.uchicago.edu (Hiro Yoshida) wrote: > > > Could anyone know how to display and print a NeXT's PostScript file on a > > Machintosh? > > I don't know of any "free" (ot commercial) tool for viewing PS on a Mac. Well check out GhostScript 1.0, it's now PowerPC code! ------------------------------------------ Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ASCII, MIME or NeXT Mail Instructional Technology Services- Illinois State University Understanding is best learned via experience ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY
From: thor@zems.fer.hr (Thor Legvold) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.periphs.scsi Subject: [Q]: source for low price DPT smartcache controller? Date: 6 Jun 1996 11:48:34 GMT Organization: CARNet, CROATIA Distribution: world Message-ID: <4p6gii$ohv@bagan.srce.hr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Now that I've found what controller I'd like to buy, I need to know where I can buy it - it's not available in Croatia... So, please e-mail any tips about mailorder/nett order for the lowest price and best service/support of DPT SCSI controllers. Regards, Thor Legvold currently in exile in Croatia
From: par@MCS.COM (Peter Richardson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP Upgrade Date: 6 Jun 1996 07:09:18 -0500 Organization: MCSNet Services Message-ID: <4p6hpe$4p3@Mars.mcs.com> References: <4p58c1$mt0@news2.inlink.com> ShanShier (shanshir@inlink.com) wrote: : Hello, : I need some help, I have a copy of NeXTSTEP version 3.2 here at home. : However I can't load it on my system because I have a IDE CD-ROM : Drive. I was wondering if anyone has an upgrade from 3.2 to 3.3 or if : anyone knows of a way I can install 3.2 with an IDE CD-ROM Drive, I : really want to get rid of Windows 95 and get NeXTSTEP running on my : system, but I just keep running into obsticals, and I haven't been : able to get anyone at NeXT to return my calls and help me out on this : one. Please Help !!! I had no trouble the other day getting the upgrade from 3.1 to 3.3 from NeXT. It took one day to have somebody return my call and tell me that it was $200. I simply called the 800-try-next number. I faxed them the old serial number and a letter requesting the upgrade and I expect to see it today. Peter Richardson
From: pgeiss@cezanne.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (Peter Geissler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Shutdown whitout graphics needed because VGA hangs up Date: 6 Jun 1996 14:00:17 GMT Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <4p6o9h$8a8@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> Hi erverybody, The combination of my VGA (ELSA Winner 2000AVI, using S3 968 chip) and ASUS T2P4 board has the problem that it is necessary to boot using the -v option and to skip Configure.app while installing Nextstep. NeXTAnswers is telling that this behaviour is only seen with asus board and S3 cards and can be solved by specifying "BootGraphics = No" with Configure. Unfortunately, my system shows the same problem during power off, the screen just turns completely black and everything hangs up. Does anybody knows how to specifiy not to use this graphics mode not only during startup, but also during shutdown ? BTW, does anybody know the reason for this strange behaviour of S3/ASUS systems ? Thanx in advance Peter Peter.Geissler@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
From: GWILLEM@alpha.ntu.ac.sg (Van Schaik Willem Anthon Johan ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP Upgrade Date: 6 Jun 1996 15:48:51 GMT Organization: Nanyang Technological University Message-ID: <4p6ul3$vll@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> References: <4p58c1$mt0@news2.inlink.com> ShanShier (shanshir@inlink.com) wrote: : I need some help, I have a copy of NeXTSTEP version 3.2 here at home. : However I can't load it on my system because I have a IDE CD-ROM : Drive. I was wondering if anyone has an upgrade from 3.2 to 3.3 or if : anyone knows of a way I can install 3.2 with an IDE CD-ROM Drive, I : really want to get rid of Windows 95 and get NeXTSTEP running on my : system, but I just keep running into obsticals, and I haven't been : able to get anyone at NeXT to return my calls and help me out on this : one. Please Help !!! Probably the simplest solution is to borrow a SCSI controller and CD-ROM drive. Nobody in your neighbourhood who has that for you? Willem
From: murshid@unit.edu (murshid) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: I need Pages 1.7.1 disks Date: 6 Jun 1996 17:56:57 GMT Organization: CERFnet Message-ID: <4p7659$7ck@news.cerf.net> I am a registered user of Pages. I purchased the most recent version that supports making web documents in html. I had a hard disk crash and lost Pages. When I reloaded the software I found that I have corrupt disks. I have asked the current owner of pages to help me and below is his response: Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 13:03:26 -0500 (CDT) From: Ted Shelton <ucsd!its.com!ems> To: murshid@unit.edu Subject: Pages Cc: arpad@its.com, dwight@its.com I am sorry, but there is really nothing we can do for you. We ceased producing Pages almost 10 months ago, and while we did provide some support for old customers (such as answering questions) for quite some time after ceasing official support for the [product, we are now completely out of the NEXTSTEP business and can no longer even provide answers to questions, much less new copies of theapplication. sorry, Ted Shelton IT Solutions ++++ So if a NeXT user has the disks and could provide me with copies I would be most grateful. I would happily submit proof of ownership. Thank you Murshid -- Murshid Grateful to use the only computer murshid@unit.edu that feels like it works the 619 985 2323 way a computer should work.
From: jmonroe@ravensoft.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Shutdown whitout graphics needed because VGA hangs up Date: 6 Jun 1996 19:00:20 GMT Organization: Mid-Plains Internet, Inc. Message-ID: <4p79s4$2s7@unix.midplains.net> References: <4p6o9h$8a8@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> In Shutdown whitout graphics needed because VGA hangs up comp.sys.next.misc <ArticleDisplayer: 0xaa30c> writes, > >...> > turns completely black and everything hangs up. Does anybody knows > how to specifiy not to use this graphics mode not only during > startup, but also during shutdown ? BTW, does anybody know the > reason for this strange behaviour of S3/ASUS systems ? > > Thanx in advance > Peter > Peter.Geissler@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de i believe you can su, then use shutdown now to quit the GUI to the montitor, or simply reboot to quit out. jmonroe
From: ehutch@hypnos.norden1.com (E. Hutchinson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NEXTSTEP/Contracts/DC Area Date: 6 Jun 1996 20:15:55 GMT Organization: Norden 1 Communications Message-ID: <4p7e9r$582@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------------------------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
From: kwoolsey@ix.netcom.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.periphs.scsi Subject: Re: [Q]: source for low price DPT smartcache controller? Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 00:35:34 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <4p7j27$7ak@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com> References: <4p6gii$ohv@bagan.srce.hr> thor@zems.fer.hr (Thor Legvold) wrote: >Now that I've found what controller I'd like to buy, I need to >know where I can buy it - it's not available in Croatia... >So, please e-mail any tips about mailorder/nett order for the >lowest price and best service/support of DPT SCSI controllers. >Regards, >Thor Legvold >currently in exile in Croatia The two international inside sales reps at DPT are: rivera@dpt.com stander@dpt.com One of them should be able to help you!! Visit DPT on the WWW at www.dpt.com. Kristofer Woolsey
From: hugues@precipice.fdn.fr (Hugues RICHARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next Subject: Re: advice needed on platform move Date: 6 Jun 1996 21:48:41 GMT Organization: Individual - France Message-ID: <4p7jnp$2cm@precipice.fdn.fr> References: <ZBIR.96May31163012@seven.ucs.indiana.edu> <4opg1n$b2h@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4p5cu6$f5d@fuchur.rmi.de> schildw@infoac.rmi.de (Christian Schildwaechter) wrote: > >There is OneVision from OneVision, a package which some claim >beats Quark + Photoshot + Freehand without any trouble. It's a >high-end publishing system, so the price for the complete package is >US$ 20,000, and you'll need something like 128 MB RAM at least. ^^^^^^ Althought 1V isn't the most cheapest DTP package around, I wouldn't say as high as US$20000... Hugues (which may have missed an episode :-). -------------------------------------------------------------------- hugues@precipice.fdn.fr - France (small NeXTMail OK) ------------ NS3.2 ------------ NS3.0J ------------ :-) ------------
From: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Bug in Preview with DocumentPaperSizes:a4 ? Date: 7 Jun 1996 11:16:48 GMT Organization: Mathematisches Institut, Uni Heidelberg Message-ID: <4p9330$on8@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> References: <4oeonc$n46@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> <4p2hf0$25g@soap.news.pipex.net> On Tue, 04 Jun 1996 23:40:28 GMT, Aandi Inston <quite@dial.pipex.com> wrote: >flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit) wrote: > >>Hmm. Are the values for %%DocumentPaperSizes in PostScript >>case-dependent ? I.e. are both of the following valid descriptions for >>the A4 format, or just the first one ? > >> %%DocumentPaperSizes:A4 > >> %%DocumentPaperSizes:a4 > >May not be directly relevant, but most PostScript interpreters only >allow 'a4'. Some imagesetters, however, allow 'A4' and treat it as a4, >but rotated 90 degrees on the film. >---------------------------------------- >Aandi Inston quite@dial.pipex.com >Visit http://ds.dial.pipex.com/quite for info on PostScript, >PSAlter, psalters, tea, and small furry animals. And stuff. Well, according to Tom Rokicki and Karl Berry, "A4" seems to be the right one, i.e. dvips still uses A4, and only the current dvipsk used a4, but this will be fixed in a future release. Gregor
From: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: WebObjects and Academia ? Date: 7 Jun 1996 11:50:06 GMT Organization: Mathematisches Institut, Uni Heidelberg Message-ID: <4p951f$on8@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> Does anybody now NeXT's current policy on academic pricing for WebObjects E and P ? Since I was very interested in using WO for a a departmental information server and another database project in our department, I filled out the new `Electronic Order Form' on www.next.com's `academic discount information page'. I did this twice, the first time is now more than a month ago, and the second time was two weeks ago. Since then, I have received no response at all. I have double checked that the email address as well as the fax number and the mail address were filled in correctly in the form. Has anybody reliable information on the academic WOF pricing ? I wished I had received at least a form letter telling me about the conditions. 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: jehu@jehu.async.vt.edu (john stanhope) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: WebObjects and Academia ? Date: 7 Jun 1996 13:20:04 GMT Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Distribution: world Message-ID: <4p9aa4$kr7@solaris.cc.vt.edu> References: <4p951f$on8@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> In article <4p951f$on8@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit) writes: ->Does anybody now NeXT's current policy on academic pricing for ->WebObjects E and P ? Since I was very interested in using WO for a a ->departmental information server and another database project in our ->department, I filled out the new `Electronic Order Form' on ->www.next.com's `academic discount information page'. I did this twice, ->the first time is now more than a month ago, and the second time was ->two weeks ago. Since then, I have received no response at all. -> ->I have double checked that the email address as well as the fax number ->and the mail address were filled in correctly in the form. -> -> ->Has anybody reliable information on the academic WOF pricing ? I ->wished I had received at least a form letter telling me about the ->conditions. -> I filled out the form for one of the WebObject products and about 2 to 3 weeks later got an email telling me I could down load it. The email also said I had purchased it but I never paid any money (I got WebObject enterprise which I don't believe I asked for) so I think either I will be getting a bill or all of the WebObject products are free to academic users. -- John Stanhope jehu@vt.edu
From: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Shutdown whitout graphics needed because VGA hangs up Date: 7 Jun 1996 13:25:33 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <4p9akd$out@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <4p6o9h$8a8@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> <4p79s4$2s7@unix.midplains.net> jmonroe@ravensoft.com wrote: : In Shutdown whitout graphics needed because VGA hangs up comp.sys.next.misc <ArticleDisplayer: 0xaa30c> writes, : > : >...> : > turns completely black and everything hangs up. Does anybody knows : > how to specifiy not to use this graphics mode not only during : > startup, but also during shutdown ? BTW, does anybody know the : > reason for this strange behaviour of S3/ASUS systems ? : i believe you can su, then use : shutdown now to quit the GUI to the montitor, : or simply reboot to quit out. AltGr + Num h -- Axel Habermann kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de Fon:+49 30 45478986 Fax:4542296 Die Dateien, in denen die Programmdokumentation enthalten ist, haben normalerweise die Endung ".c", -- Kristian Koehntopp
From: neuss@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de.NOSPAM (Christian Neuss) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: WebObjects and Academia ? Date: 7 Jun 1996 13:58:08 GMT Organization: Fachbereich Informatik, TH Darmstadt, Deutschland Message-ID: <4p9chg$jg2@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> References: <4p951f$on8@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> Gregor Hoffleit (flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de) wrote: > Does anybody now NeXT's current policy on academic pricing for > WebObjects E and P ? Since I was very interested in using WO for a a > departmental information server and another database project in our > department, I filled out the new `Electronic Order Form' on > www.next.com's `academic discount information page'. I did this twice, > the first time is now more than a month ago, and the second time was > two weeks ago. Since then, I have received no response at all. Same here. I have a colleague in the US who has already received a reply with download instructions. However, he signed up for both the NEXTSTEP and the NT version, but only received a reply for NT. So I see two possible reasons that neither me nor you have heard from NeXT: - we're both in Germany, and they may only "ship" to US customers - the NEXTSTEP versions for /E and /P are not finished yet. Guess we'll have to wait a little longer. Maybe Tsunami will be part of the distribution, and they're still working on it (Gee, that would be nice :-). Rgds, Chris -- // Christian Neuss "I ride tandem with a random.." // http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~neuss/ // +49 6151 16-3414 fax: -5472
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <GBLOOMQUIST@spu.stpaul.uottawa.ca> Message-ID: <MAILQUEUE-101.960607101727.352@spu.stpaul.uottawa.ca> From: "Gregory Bloomquist" <GBLOOMQUIST@spu.stpaul.uottawa.ca> Organization: St. Paul U. Ottawa Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 10:17:27 EDT Subject: NeXT query Priority: normal I am interested to know of anyone who is working with NeXTStep and third party applications in non-Roman scripts (spec. Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, Coptic and related languages). I am interested in both text-based work and in the use of non-Roman scripts (using NeXTStep) for WWW development applications. Neither NeXT materials nor third-party suppliers that I have talked to have given me very much reason to hope. Can any of you? Please feel free to respond to me directly, or, if you respond to the list, please cc: me a copy of your note to ensure that I get it. Thanks. GREG BLOOMQUIST gbloomquist@spu.stpaul.uottawa.ca fax: 613-236-4108 / voice: 613-782-3027
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: WebObjects and Academia ? Date: 7 Jun 1996 16:51:22 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <4p9mma$a2p@bignews.shef.ac.uk> References: <4p951f$on8@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> <4p9chg$jg2@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> In-Reply-To: <4p9chg$jg2@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> On 06/07/96, Christian Neuss wrote: > Gregor Hoffleit (flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de) wrote: > > Does anybody now NeXT's current policy on academic pricing for > > WebObjects E and P ? Since I was very interested in using WO for a a > > departmental information server and another database project in our > > department, I filled out the new `Electronic Order Form' on > > www.next.com's `academic discount information page'. I did this twice, > > the first time is now more than a month ago, and the second time was > > two weeks ago. Since then, I have received no response at all. > > Same here. > > I have a colleague in the US who has already received a reply > with download instructions. However, he signed up for both the > NEXTSTEP and the NT version, but only received a reply for NT. > Oh dear... me too... > So I see two possible reasons that neither me nor you have heard > from NeXT: > - we're both in Germany, and they may only "ship" to US customers > - the NEXTSTEP versions for /E and /P are not finished yet. > Maybe I'll have to check with NeXT UK again. I got the impression a couple of months ago that it wasn't clear what the distribution policy would be outside of the US, and that maybe there would be a charge (say $100, for a CD-ROM). I got the impression from NeXTs WWW page that the s/w would be available (free) to any academic via the net, but I guess this isn't the case after all. <sigh> Best wishes, mmalc. --
From: icardena@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu (Ian Patrick Cardenas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: WebObjects and Academia ? Date: 7 Jun 1996 19:38:52 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Message-ID: <4pa0gc$35u@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <4p951f$on8@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> <4p9chg$jg2@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> <4p9mma$a2p@bignews.shef.ac.uk> I had the weirdest experience receiving WOF academic. I had filled out the form and was told to expect email. I never received any so I contacted NeXT who gave me the number of the US Midwest rep. Cool, I talked to him and he assured me I would here something about download instructions by May 1st. Well, I didn't hear anything and so I called back found out there had been some delays and I was assured I'd hear something within the week. Two days letter I received a CD in the mail via FedEx that contained all 3 versions of WOF Enterprise. Never did receive that email though... I'd call NeXT and check on the status of your order. -- Ian P. Cardenas (icardena@uiuc.edu) CCSO NeXT System Administrator, CCSO Sites Technical Support "Are they as successful as who,Microsoft? Only drug lords from South America are as successful as Microsoft." -Tim Byars, on the success of NeXT Computer, Inc.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.periphs.scsi From: Anonymous Subject: Re: [Q]: source for low price DPT smartcache controller? Message-ID: <DsnGIH.2o2@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.ATTGIS.COM> Sender: news@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.ATTGIS.COM (news) Organization: AT&T Global Information Solutions, Columbia SC References: <4p7j27$7ak@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com> Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 21:47:05 GMT ==========kwoolsey@ix.netcom.com, 6/6/96========== thor@zems.fer.hr (Thor Legvold) wrote: >Now that I've found what controller I'd like to buy, I need to >know where I can buy it - it's not available in Croatia... >So, please e-mail any tips about mailorder/nett order for the >lowest price and best service/support of DPT SCSI controllers. >Regards, >Thor Legvold >currently in exile in Croatia The two international inside sales reps at DPT are: rivera@dpt.com stander@dpt.com One of them should be able to help you!! Visit DPT on the WWW at www.dpt.com. Kristofer Woolsey ==========kwoolsey@ix.netcom.com, 6/6/96========== thor@zems.fer.hr (Thor Legvold) wrote: >Now that I've found what controller I'd like to buy, I need to >know where I can buy it - it's not available in Croatia... >So, please e-mail any tips about mailorder/nett order for the >lowest price and best service/support of DPT SCSI controllers. >Regards, >Thor Legvold >currently in exile in Croatia The two international inside sales reps at DPT are: rivera@dpt.com stander@dpt.com One of them should be able to help you!! Visit DPT on the WWW at www.dpt.com. Kristofer Woolsey For your next computer product purchase, checkout Computer Consultants of Columbia's online catalog at: http://www.netside.com/~ccofcola/products.html go back one and checkout the entire web site (http://www.netside.com/~ccofcola). They stock over 25,000 different computer products from over 10,000 different manufacturers. There e-mail address is: ccofcola@netside.com The most fantastic thing I've found out about this company is they spend 5 days building a system tailored to your needs, with a 72 hour burn in and then still offer a 5 year warranty on the CPU and memory, and also a 100% 3 year warranty, which covers all parts and labor. The only thing you pay is shipping. I've found that to be the best warranty offered on the Internet. There’s even talk of a buy back plan for your system after 3 years. Remember you heard it from me first.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,de.comp.periph.cdrom,comp.publish.cdrom.hardware,comp.publish.cdrom.software From: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: ISO 9690 & Rockridge anybody? Message-ID: <DsqItM.4C3@nidat.sub.org> Sender: news@nidat.sub.org Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 13:29:46 GMT Hi folks, Last week I ran into a strange problem with a CDROM that states to be ISO 9660 level 1 compliant with Rockridge extensions (MathSource for Unix from Wolfram Research). Although it mounts ok on NEXTSTEP (black slab with Toshiba XM-3701TA) it hangs on original NeXT hardware (Sony CDU-541). And it has a very peculiar problem that makes it unaccessible to File Viewer (only first level visible) and recursive file system lookups on Unix (like ls -R): the special directories 'dot' and 'double dot' get expanded into their genuine names, rendering all recursive lookup a endless loop. Does anybody know what to do? The CDROM isn't completely unusable. But to avoid endless recursions I must navigate the file system by hand. Generating a listing of the file system tree is several hours of menial labour >:-( -- 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: pgeiss@cezanne.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (Peter Geissler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: How to get a S3-968 VGA running Date: 9 Jun 1996 17:59:00 GMT Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <4pf3d4$eqr@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> Does anybody knows how to get a VGA with an S3-968 running ? I have an ELSA Winner 2000-AVI with is unfortunately not supported by the WINNER 1000/2000 driver. The VGA shows some strange behaviour: - booting without -v option never works, but booting wiht -v option does not work everytime. sometimes the screen just turns black. - switching to the desired display modes does now work, all i get is a black screen. (8 bit color at 60 hz seems to work) - shutdown does not work, because the system hangs up before the "please wait until .." panel appears (shows blank screen instead). I tried to manually shut down by "shutdown -hp now" by had no sucess. I am using S3 Generic Display Driver V. 3.32 and I did correct for the right memory address by hand. BTW, its an ASUS T2P4 board using AWARD BIOS 1.104 Does anybody has an idea whats going on with the machine and what can I do to get it running ? Thanks, Peter Peter.Geissler@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
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: 10 Jun 1996 04:15:10 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4pg7ge$nms@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. 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From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: TIFFANY and Kodak PhotoCD Date: 7 Jun 1996 17:54:33 -0400 Organization: Communications Vir, Internet Access Montreal. Message-ID: <4pa8ep$4po@Vir.com> Hello, I have two Kodak PhotoCD's to which I had transfered 1 roll of film. I recently added another roll of film to each. NeXTSTEP mounts the Kodak PhotoCD and I can view the first 36 frames from the first film on the CD, but I can't see the 2nd roll. I assume this works like a partitioned hard disk, the first partition is mounted automaticallyi, the next one must be mounted manually. How do I mount the second part of the Kodak Photo CD to see the pictures from the second film? What device device should I use? Or how do I get TIFFanyII to read the second roll of film written on the Kodak PhotoCD? Any help would be appreciated, stef -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stefanos Kiakas Travel guide for Montreal, QC, e-Scape Information Systems Inc. Canada --> http://www.uniscape.com stefanos@uniscape.com (NeXTMail OK) NeXTStep Driver Info +1 (514) 729 9643 NeXTStep Driver Information URL http://www.uniscape.com/NSDrivers
From: dcoyle@goanna.mpi-hd.mpg.de (David A. Coyle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: WebObjects and Academia ? Date: 10 Jun 1996 07:56:07 GMT Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany Message-ID: <4pgkeo$pmh@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> References: <4p9mma$a2p@bignews.shef.ac.uk> In article <4p9mma$a2p@bignews.shef.ac.uk> mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> writes: > On 06/07/96, Christian Neuss wrote: > > Gregor Hoffleit (flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de) wrote: > <buncha stuff cut out> > > So I see two possible reasons that neither me nor you have heard > > from NeXT: > > - we're both in Germany, and they may only "ship" to US customers > > - the NEXTSTEP versions for /E and /P are not finished yet. > > > Maybe I'll have to check with NeXT UK again. > <more stuff cut out> I'll hazard a guess and say that NeXT's app that evaluates the requests does a first pass and rejects anyone who's email address doesn't end in ".edu" Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------ David A. Coyle Father of Annealer.app. Fission-track research. Ask for my PGP public key. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Max-Planck-Institut f r Kernphysik Heidelberg, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------ dcoyle@goanna.mpi-hd.mpg.de dcoyle@weizen.rt.schwaben.de http://goanna.mpi-hd.mpg.de/fission/fissionhome.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ Microsoft - We put the "backwards" into backwards compatibility
From: ians@cam-ani.co.uk (Ian Stephenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: ISO 9690 & Rockridge anybody? Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 08:56:55 GMT Organization: Cambridge Animation Systems Ltd Sender: news@cam-ani.co.uk Message-ID: <Dss0uw.82C@cam-ani.co.uk> References: <DsqItM.4C3@nidat.sub.org> In article <DsqItM.4C3@nidat.sub.org> nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) writes: > Hi folks, > > Last week I ran into a strange problem with a CDROM that states to be ISO > 9660 level 1 compliant with Rockridge extensions I've seen a CD behave weirdly like this - it was reported as a bug in a driver I was working on. I ended up reading the bits, and going through the 9660 standard document comaring them. I found a number of errors which while potentially benign on some machine would trash many other machines. Endianess: 9660 stores such things as file lengths in BOTH big and little endian format. The driver can just read the one it wants, and ignore the other one. Unfortunatly on this CD the values WERE NOT THE SAME for many files! Might work fine on a little endian machine, but break a bigendian (or visa versa). and .. 9660 stores . and .. as the first two entries of the directory table (sorry I can't remember the details/terminology). They should have a filename length of 1, and (I think)a filename of integer 1 and 2 respectivly (could be wrong on this). This particular CD I had had the value of 0 for both these entries (aka the null string, if you're using standard C strings) . A system might assume that the first two entries are the directory linkage, and be OK, even though the numbers are wrong. Unfortunatly NeXTStep then stores this in a list to display in file browser. This is list is terminated by an entry with the vaule "" - just like on this CD! (so nothing appeared in the browser). Anyway, it sounds like your CD has the REAL filenames in the first two slots, rather than int 1 and 2 (might have the numbers wrong here!). This is just wrong! While some machines might get away with it, depending on how the driver is written, it looks like your CD is NOT iso9660. $an
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: hans@onevision.de(Hans Stoeger) Subject: Re: advice needed on platform move Message-ID: <DsrxtC.L7@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <4p5cu6$f5d@fuchur.rmi.de> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 07:51:11 GMT In article <4p5cu6$f5d@fuchur.rmi.de> schildw@infoac.rmi.de (Christian Schildwaechter) writes: > In <4opg1n$b2h@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Steve Weintz wrote: > > Zachery "Tigger" Bir (zbir@seven.ucs.indiana.edu) wrote: > > There is OneVision from OneVision, a package which some claim > beats > Quark + Photoshot + Freehand without any trouble. It's a > high-end publishing > system, so the price for the complete package is > US$ > 20,000, and you'll need > something like 128 MB RAM at least. > I never used it (only 32 MB), but if you're interested, > they'll give you a four-weeks- > testing-license. > Christian is right, that OneVision is a good programm 8-). He is not right with the facts... First the price: The complete package is BELOW 20 000 DM (German Marks, this means below 14 000 $) and that includes even NEXTSTEP! ( most of our customers are nor running NEXTSTEP wenn they buy our software!) YOu don t have to buy the complete package, so it gets cheaper! Hardware: You need NO 128 MB RAM to run OneVision. 32 MB IS enough for a lot of work, most of the customers have machines with 64MB RAM. ====================================================================== Hans Stoeger OneVision GmbH Support Florian-Seidl-Strasse 11 Email: hans@onevision.de D-93053 Regensburg (NeXTMail and MIME welcome) Germany
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.misc From: frank@OneVision.de (Frank Pohl) Subject: Re: advice needed on platform move Message-ID: <Dsryy8.r5@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision GmbH, Regensburg, Germany Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 08:15:43 GMT In comp.sys.next article <4p7jnp$2cm@precipice.fdn.fr> you Hugues: > schildw@infoac.rmi.de (Christian Schildwaechter) wrote: > > > >There is OneVision from OneVision, a package which some claim > >beats Quark + Photoshot + Freehand without any trouble. It's a > >high-end publishing system, so the price for the complete package is > >US$ 20,000, and you'll need something like 128 MB RAM at least. > ^^^^^^ > > Althought 1V isn't the most cheapest DTP package around, I wouldn't > say as high as US$20000... > Right Hugues, ePScript-Package from OneVision: the complette package with Kalibration, Softproof, PS, EPS and PDF import and editing, and with Trialog: DM 19.700 = about US$ 13.000. Trialog-Package from OneVision: integrated text, image, graphic and more editing (without PS, EPS, PDF editing): DM 9.900 = about US$ 6.600. ====================================================================== Frank Pohl OneVision GmbH Florian-Seidl-Strasse 11 Email: frank@onevision.de D-93053 Regensburg (NeXTMail and MIME welcome) Germany
From: stanj@cs.stanford.edu (Stan Jirman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: TIFFANY and Kodak PhotoCD Date: 10 Jun 1996 10:33:41 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <4pgtm5$mg2@nntp.Stanford.EDU> References: <4pa8ep$4po@Vir.com> Stefanos Kiakas writes > Hello, > > I have two Kodak PhotoCD's to which I had transfered 1 roll > of > film. I recently added another roll of film to each. NeXTSTEP > mounts the Kodak PhotoCD and I can view the first 36 frames from > the first film on the CD, but I can't see the 2nd roll. > > I assume this works like a partitioned hard disk, the first > partition is mounted automaticallyi, the next one must be mounted > manually. How do I mount the second part of the Kodak Photo CD > to see the pictures from the second film? What device device > should I use? > > Or how do I get TIFFanyII to read the second roll of film > written on the Kodak PhotoCD? Stef, TIFFany can't do anything here. The problem is that NeXTSTEP can not read multi-session Photo CDs. No application can do it. They have promised that it would work in 4.0, but you know NeXT. However, I have a driver installed which allows NeXTSTEP 3.3 to mount such PCDs. I got it from a German software place; the guy I talked to is Uwe and can be reached at ut@tools.de. Hope this helps. - Stan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Stan Jirman President, Caffeine Software caffeine@cs.stanford.edu Creators of TIFFany NeXTmail / MIME welcome Professional Image Processing When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. ----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: schildw@infoac.rmi.de (Christian Schildwaechter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: [Q] How to display/print an NS PostScript file on a Mac? Date: 10 Jun 1996 13:20:49 GMT Organization: greenHAUS Message-ID: <4ph7fh$smk@fuchur.rmi.de> References: <DsBs5x.991@midway.uchicago.edu> <jbf-0206961004200001@frazer.com> Cc: jbf@frazer.com In <jbf-0206961004200001@frazer.com> James B. Frazer wrote: > In article <DsBs5x.991@midway.uchicago.edu>, yoshida@fermi.bsd.uchicago.edu (Hiro Yoshida) wrote: > > > Could anyone know how to display and print a NeXT's PostScript file on a > > Machintosh? > > I don't know of any "free" (ot commercial) tool for viewing PS on a Mac. > There probably is one but ... As for downloading, there are several tools > for downloading the file - for example, the HP Utility supplied with the > 4MP, or "LaserStatus" from the archives. If the Mac is on ethernet with the > NeXT, you can use lpDaemon from the archives to create a Unix style print > server and just send the file over from the NeXT print panel. There's a > NeXT Answer on this, and it's also discussed in the SysAdmin manual (I > think). Works for me! > > Barney I didn't see the initial posting, so maybe I'm missing something here (for example, whether your printer is postscript compatible (4MP) or not). Ghostscript is available (for free) for MacOS (the last version I've seen was 2.58) and I guess ghostView too.You should be able to view and print with these. Christian -- Christian Schildwaechter schildw@infoac.rmi.de Rosstr. 38-40 http://greenHAUS.ros.AC-Net.de/ 52064 Aachen/Germany (+49)241-2800- 2(voice/am)/3(fax)
From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: WebObjects and Academia ? Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 17:46:31 +0200 Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960610174218.4458C-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <4p9mma$a2p@bignews.shef.ac.uk> <4pgkeo$pmh@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4pgkeo$pmh@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> On 10 Jun 1996, David A. Coyle wrote: > I'll hazard a guess and say that NeXT's app that evaluates the requests > does a first pass and rejects anyone who's email address doesn't end in > ".edu" > I strongly hope that you are not true! (or did you just miss a smiley?) If this is true and the people at NeXT are getting so stupid to do this, I'm going to sell immediatly my complete NEXTSTEP stuff and will invest in something different. Academic != educational (edu) Best regards, Boerny. -- Bernhard Scholz (IRC: Boerny) scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de http://peanuts.leo.org/ scholz@ve1.rm.op.dlr.de http://www.leo.org/~scholz/
From: neuss@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de.NOSPAM (Christian Neuss) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: WebObjects and Academia ? Date: 10 Jun 1996 15:57:20 GMT Organization: Fachbereich Informatik, TH Darmstadt, Deutschland Message-ID: <4phgl0$1omm@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> References: <4p9mma$a2p@bignews.shef.ac.uk> <4pgkeo$pmh@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> David A. Coyle (dcoyle@goanna.mpi-hd.mpg.de) wrote: > > > - we're both in Germany, and they may only "ship" to US customers > > > - the NEXTSTEP versions for /E and /P are not finished yet. > I'll hazard a guess and say that NeXT's app that evaluates the requests > does a first pass and rejects anyone who's email address doesn't end in > ".edu" *Ouch*!! That means we Europeans are S.O.L. Well, its not like we did any research anyway, right? Grumble.. So.. has anybody from Europe *succeeded* in obtaining WOF /E? Or is anybody from NeXT listening? :-/ Chris -- // Christian Neuss "I ride tandem with a random.." // http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~neuss/ // +49 6151 16-3414 fax: -5472
From: humanist@interport.net (Michael Howard) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: where to buy NextStep-student Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 14:50:44 -0400 Organization: Humanist Movement Distribution: inet Message-ID: <humanist-1006961450440001@ts3port26.port.net> I've been looking everywhere for someone selling NextStep student edition and can't find it. Any pointers for a place with good prices? -- Michael Howard humanist@interport.net http://www.interport.net/~humanist
From: juergen@eskimo.bb.bawue.de (Juergen Grieb) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Installing pkg with Installer Date: 10 Jun 1996 17:41:01 GMT Organization: "private site" Message-ID: <4phmnd$9f@eskimo.eskimo.bb.bawue.de> I tried to install a pkg with Installer.app and got the following error: Installing XX.pkg in /User/joe/Apps ... stdin: not in compressed format **** During installation of XX.pkg errors occurred. ... error. I tried to decompress and untar the pkg by hand and it worked properly. I had no problems at all. I tried several different pkg and got the same error. Even with pkg I have had installed before. So, I think there is no problem with the packages but with the installer.app. I also installed the installer.app again but with no change. What is going wrong? -- Juergen _______________________________________________________________________ Juergen Grieb ** 72119 Ammerbuch/Germany ** Tel. +7073 - 5118 e-mail: juergen@eskimo.bb.bawue.de ** NeXTMail and Mime welcome PGP-Key is available (please request it, so mail exchange will be safe)
From: stimpy@sojourn1.sojourn.com (gcl) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: where to buy NextStep-student Followup-To: comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Date: 10 Jun 1996 22:19:51 GMT Organization: Sojourn Systems Ltd. Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4pi727$cpv@tkhut.sojourn.com> References: <humanist-1006961450440001@ts3port26.port.net> Michael Howard (humanist@interport.net) wrote: : I've been looking everywhere for someone selling NextStep student edition : and can't find it. Any pointers for a place with good prices? 800-331-5489 Diskovery Educational Systems. I bought mine from them 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 _________________________________________________________________
From: Dino Bagdadi <dino@ex-nihilo.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: TIFFANY and Kodak PhotoCD Date: 10 Jun 1996 23:38:37 GMT Organization: Shadow Information Services, Inc. Message-ID: <4piblt$qku@viper.shadow.net> References: <4pa8ep$4po@Vir.com> Cc: stefanos@Vir.com In <4pa8ep$4po@Vir.com> Stefanos Kiakas wrote: > Hello, > > I have two Kodak PhotoCD's to which I had transfered 1 roll of > film. I recently added another roll of film to each. NeXTSTEP mounts the > Kodak PhotoCD and I can view the first 36 frames from the first film on > the CD, but I can't see the 2nd roll. > > I assume this works like a partitioned hard disk, the first > partition is mounted automaticallyi, the next one must be mounted manually. > How do I mount the second part of the Kodak Photo CD to see the pictures > from the second film? What device device should I use? Multi-Session CD's are not supported by NEXTSTEP (of any flavor). There used to be a company (forgot the name) that made the necessary driver as part of their document processing (scanning/OCR/storing) solution, but you'd also have to use a CD-ROM player that supported Multi-Session CD-ROMs. BTW, NeXT's CD-ROM player doesn't support Multi-Session CD-ROMs. > Or how do I get TIFFanyII to read the second roll of film > written on the Kodak PhotoCD? TIFFany's can't read Multi-Session CD-ROMs. But it can handle Photo CD Pro CD-ROMs. > Any help would be appreciated, Tell NeXT to support this! -- Dino Bagdadi ex nihilo, inc. dino@ex-nihilo.com (ASCII, NeXTmail and MIME) Public PGP key available via `finger -l dbagdadi@hyper.shadow.net'
From: "Michael Groff (NEURL)" <mg8@doc> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Printing from mac to NeXT Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 21:48:20 -0400 Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960610214203.7293B-100000@doc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII We must print from a PowerBook 160 on a NeXT printer connected to a slab running NS 3.3. At present we are saving the postscript file to disk and printing with macps. This works well. However, others in our group would like to have a macintosh interface on the whole process. How can I achieve this? Please respond directly via e-mail and I will summarize the responses. Thanks, mike === Michael Groff, MD Resident in Neurological Surgery Mount Sinai Hospital New York City email: mg8@doc.mssm.edu
From: "Michael Groff (NEURL)" <mg8@doc> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: voice/fax/modem Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 21:52:51 -0400 Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960610214836.7293C-100000@doc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII We are looking for something that route voice mail, faxes, and modem data coming accross a single phone line to the right place. It is ok if the voice gets shunted to an old fashion answering machine, but we prefer a voice mail set up. Is there good a good solution on the NeXT for this type of thing? Please e-mail me and I will summarize. Thanks, mike === Michael Groff, MD Resident in Neurological Surgery Mount Sinai Hospital New York City email: mg8@doc.mssm.edu
From: john@gscorp.com (John C. Fox) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: TIFFANY and Kodak PhotoCD Date: 11 Jun 1996 03:18:03 GMT Organization: Sirius Connections Message-ID: <4piohb$ef8@sun.sirius.com> References: <4pa8ep$4po@Vir.com> Cc: stefanos@Vir.com > Or how do I get TIFFanyII to read the second roll of film > written on the Kodak PhotoCD? > > > Any help would be appreciated, > > stef > Hi There: Unless someone knows otherwise, I think you're out of luck here. There is no operating system level support in NEXTSTEP for mulitisession CD ROMS, which is is what you need. Sorry, John john@gscorp.com
From: hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (David Hill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NSFIP on NEC Versa M100 Date: 11 Jun 1996 02:27:20 GMT Organization: University of Calgary CPSC Message-ID: <4pili8$7go@linux.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> Summary: Advice/experience getting NSFIP up on NEC Versa M100 needed Anyone out there got experience firing up NEXTSTEP on a NEC Versa M100 with 16 MB RAM, 540MB HD. Any problems, wrinkles, etc. Please email, and I'll post a summary. Thanks. david -- David R. Hill, CS & Psych Depts., U. Calgary | Imagination is more Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4 Ph: 403-220-6315 | important than knowledge. hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca Fx: 403-282-6778 | (Albert Einstein) NeXTMail: hill@trillium.ab.ca (Preferred) | Kill your television!
From: haasd@ubaclu.unibas.ch (Daniel Haas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Daydream for NeXTStation? Message-ID: <1996Jun11.100910.46603@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> Date: 11 Jun 96 10:09:10 MET Distribution: world Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland Is the Mac-HW-Emulator Daydream for the black boxes still available? If so, how much does it cost? Where to get one? (If anybody in Germany or Switzerland is interested in selling his used one, feel free to contact me, I'm probably interested if it is not too expensive...) Daniel *************************************************************** Daniel Haas Physikalisches Institut Universitaet Basel email: haasd@ubaclu.unibas.ch (no NeXT- or MIME-mail please) ***************************************************************
From: haas@worldnet.fr (Bertrand Haas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,de.comp.periph.cdrom,comp.publish.cdrom.hardware,comp.publish.cdrom.software Subject: Re: ISO 9690 & Rockridge anybody? Date: 11 Jun 1996 12:28:13 GMT Organization: sct.fr Message-ID: <4pjoot$3p4@news.sct.fr> References: <DsqItM.4C3@nidat.sub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII In article <DsqItM.4C3@nidat.sub.org>, nitezki@nidat.sub.org says... > >Last week I ran into a strange problem with a CDROM that states to be ISO >9660 level 1 compliant with Rockridge extensions (MathSource for Unix from >Wolfram Research). Although it mounts ok on NEXTSTEP (black slab with >Toshiba XM-3701TA) it hangs on original NeXT hardware (Sony CDU-541). And it >has a very peculiar problem that makes it unaccessible to File Viewer (only >first level visible) and recursive file system lookups on Unix (like ls -R): >the special directories 'dot' and 'double dot' get expanded into their >genuine names, rendering all recursive lookup a endless loop. > If you are using NS 3.2 it is normal (there were a bug). If you are using NS 3.3 it normaly works fine.
From: wjabi@umich.edu (Wassim M. Jabi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: TIFFANY and Kodak PhotoCD Date: 11 Jun 1996 20:39:52 GMT Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor Message-ID: <4pklio$2s2@srvr1.engin.umich.edu> References: <4pa8ep$4po@Vir.com> In-Reply-To: <4pa8ep$4po@Vir.com> URL: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wjabi/ On 06/07/96, Stefanos Kiakas wrote: > I can view the first 36 frames from the first film on > the CD, but I can't see the 2nd roll. This is a problem with NEXTSTEP OS 3.x. It can only handle "single-session" PhotoCD. To resolve this problem, you need to buy a driver called CDXA. I included the address below. Make sure your CD-ROM is included in their support list, but mine (Apple/MATSHITA) was not and still worked. Here is the contact info: CDXA Driver Price DM 48,- (Deutschmarks) Uwe Tilemann Tools GmbH Adolfstr. 5 D-53111 Bonn GERMANY Phone: +49 0228 98580-0 Fax: +49 0228 98580-17 Email: ut@Tools.DE (NeXTmail/MIME) WWW: http://www.Tools.DE/ -- Wassim M. Jabi Doctoral Program in Architecture University of Michigan 2000 Bonisteel Blvd Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2069 wjabi@umich.edu (Text/MIME/NeXTMail) http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wjabi/
From: james@ali.bc.ca (James Nakashima) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Help with CVS on NeXTSTEP please Date: 11 Jun 1996 22:01:25 GMT Organization: ALI Message-ID: <4pkqbl$fjj@cetus.ali.bc.ca> Hi, I'm trying to use CVS on NeXT and I'm having a lot of problems with wrappers. I have version 1.8.1 as well as a changed version 1.3 for NeXTSTEP. With version 1.3, and the example scripts gunzipuntar and gtarzip I run into the problem of losing some files out of .rtfd files. No small problem. With version 1.8.1 I can input .rtfd files and pull them out no problem, but when I try to change them and put them back in again I get a message saying that a diff failed or something and it doesn't work. Please, any help would be most appreciated. Thanks, Jim -- ________________________________________________________ Jim Nakashima Voice: (604) 279-5422 Ext 369 ALI Technologies Inc. Fax: (604) 279-5468 Richmond, BC Email: james@ali.bc.ca
From: alastair@BlackAlbatross.otago.ac.nz (Alastair Thomson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: WebObjects and Academia ? Date: 12 Jun 1996 02:05:52 GMT Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ Distribution: World Message-ID: <4pl8m0$rlh@celebrian.otago.ac.nz> References: <4phgl0$1omm@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> In article <4phgl0$1omm@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> neuss@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de.NOSPAM (Christian Neuss) writes: > That means we Europeans are S.O.L. Well, its not like we did any > research anyway, right? Grumble.. > > So.. has anybody from Europe *succeeded* in obtaining WOF /E? > Or is anybody from NeXT listening? :-/ You should be able to 'purchase' the academic version of WOF (i.e. Enterprise) from NeXT in Europe. We 'purchased' six or so licenses from NeXT Asia Pacific no problems. By purchased I mean we paid the shipping costs, which were nil since we purchased a real copy as well. A -- Alastair Thomson, | Phone +64-3-479-8347 Manager, | Fax +64-3-479-8529 Computer Science Applied Research Centre | NZ Mobile 0-25-353-994 University of Otago, | alastair@csarc.otago.ac.nz Dunedin 9015, | NeXTmail/MIME Welcome New Zealand. | http://www.csarc.otago.ac.nz:805/
From: neuss@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de.NOSPAM (Christian Neuss) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: WebObjects and Academia ? Date: 12 Jun 1996 12:35:17 GMT Organization: Fachbereich Informatik, TH Darmstadt, Deutschland Distribution: world Message-ID: <4pmdi5$lbn@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> References: <4p9mma$a2p@bignews.shef.ac.uk> <4pgkeo$pmh@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> <Pine.HPP.3.91.960610174218.4458C-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Bernhard Scholz (scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de) wrote: > On 10 Jun 1996, David A. Coyle wrote: > > I'll hazard a guess and say that NeXT's app that evaluates the requests > > does a first pass and rejects anyone who's email address doesn't end in > > ".edu" > I strongly hope that you are not true! (or did you just miss a smiley?) > If this is true and the people at NeXT are getting so stupid to do this, > I'm going to sell immediatly my complete NEXTSTEP stuff and will invest > in something different. > Academic != educational (edu) Relax, Boerny.. people make mistakes. Programmers make mistake. Even CGI script programmers make mistakes. And yes, sometimes I think that US Americans are somewhat ignorant on what happens in the rest of the world. If you're serious about selling your NeXT stuff, please contact me. Anyway, I'll resubmit that form using a US edu adress of mine. Should this work, I'll report it here. Best wishes, Chris -- // Christian Neuss "I ride tandem with a random.." // http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~neuss/ // +49 6151 16-3414 fax: -5472
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software From: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: TIFFANY and Kodak PhotoCD Message-ID: <DsvB7n.G1v@nidat.sub.org> Sender: news@nidat.sub.org Cc: john@gscorp.com Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <4pa8ep$4po@Vir.com> <4piohb$ef8@sun.sirius.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 03:33:23 GMT In <4piohb$ef8@sun.sirius.com> John C. Fox wrote: > > Or how do I get TIFFanyII to read the second roll of film > > written on the Kodak PhotoCD? > > > > Unless someone knows otherwise, I think you're out of luck here. There is no > operating system level support in NEXTSTEP for mulitisession CD ROMS, which > is is what you need. > Single session only. Thats positively clear. You must either get all films recorded in a single session or... I've heard a rumor about CDROM drives that could map multisession into single session. I never ran into such a thing, though. -- 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.org.ieee,comp.org.acm,comp.unix.misc,comp.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc,comp.unix.internals,comp.mail.mime,comp.os.mach,comp.protocols.nfs,comp.sys.apollo,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.novell From: toni@usenix.org (Toni Veglia) Subject: USENIX 1997 Annual Technical Conf - Paper Submissions Due 7/18/96 Message-ID: <DswKo2.8zs@usenix.org> Keywords: USENIX Organization: USENIX Association Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 19:55:13 GMT ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PARTICIPATION USENIX 1997 Annual Technical Conference January 6-10, 1997, Anaheim, California WANTED: Papers for the 1997 USENIX Annual Technical Conference. We're looking for papers on topics such as electronic commerce, internetworking, interoperation/standards, multimedia, practical network security, privacy, cryptography, mobile systems, network connectivity, system support, and application design. This is by no means an exhaustive list. Papers on other advanced system topics are encouraged. Papers that analyze problem areas and draw important conclusions from practical experience are especially welcome. ======================================== Manuscripts due: June 18, 1996 ======================================== * To get more information about this event, visit the USENIX Web site: http://www.usenix.org. * Send email to the USENIX mailserver at info@usenix.org. Your message should contain the line: "send usenix97 conferences" * Or watch comp.org.usenix for full postings =================================================================== The USENIX Association brings together the community of engineers, system administrators, scientists, and technicians working on the cutting edge of computing. Its technical conferences are the essential meeting grounds for the presentation and discussion of the most advanced information on new developments in all aspects of advanced computing systems.
From: dcoyle@goanna.mpi-hd.mpg.de (David A. Coyle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: WebObjects and Academia ? Date: 13 Jun 1996 08:10:58 GMT Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany Message-ID: <4poiei$3nm@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> References: <4phgl0$1omm@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> In article <4phgl0$1omm@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> neuss@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de.NOSPAM (Christian Neuss) writes: > David A. Coyle (dcoyle@goanna.mpi-hd.mpg.de) wrote: > > > > - we're both in Germany, and they may only "ship" to US customers > > > > - the NEXTSTEP versions for /E and /P are not finished yet. > > I'll hazard a guess and say that NeXT's app that evaluates the > > requests does a first pass and rejects anyone who's email address > > doesn't end in ".edu" > > *Ouch*!! > > That means we Europeans are S.O.L. Well, its not like we did any > research anyway, right? Grumble.. Whoa!.. Take it easy. I was just guessing: it was an explanation that fit the facts. We at the Max-Planck-Institutes call this a _hypothesis_. ;-))) (note smiley: please!) Hypotheses don't become theories until they are tested. Devise an experiment and see what happens. > So.. has anybody from Europe *succeeded* in obtaining WOF /E? > Or is anybody from NeXT listening? :-/ Yes, but not that way. And if they are listening, here's a simple way to determine german academic email addresses: unis have this format: uni-<city name>.de eg: .uni-heidelberg.de Technical unis are similar: tu-<city name>.de eg: .tu-berlin.de The Max-Planck Institutes are in the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft domain: <institute>.mpg.de eg: .mpi-hd.mpg.de Other institutes, like the new GeoForschungsZentrum in Potsdam (.gfz.de), didn't want to be in the MPG (we'll not discuss that). We can't apply a universal rule to them, so they deserve what they (don't) get. Dave
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From: jdevlin@umich.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Kernel can't see some scsi devices Date: 13 Jun 1996 11:08:33 GMT Organization: University of Michigan Message-ID: <4posrh$lu5@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> I thought the internal hard drive on my NeXTStation had finally died -- had a system panic, and when I rebooted the kernel couldn't even see the drive at boot time. But now I notice that it can't see the external CDRom drive either. If I reboot and get lucky, sometimes it can see both. Most times it sees neither. Any thoughts as to the cause? Or the solution? Most grateful. Order of scsi devices follows, in case that's relevant. Logical: External boot drive (0) Internal hard drive (1) NeXT CD Rom (4) Physical (Daisy chain): Slab -> CDRom -> External hard drive -- John Devlin Department of Philosophy The University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109 - 1003
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: WebObjects and Academia ? Date: 13 Jun 1996 13:41:25 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <4pp5q5$q0f@bignews.shef.ac.uk> References: <4phgl0$1omm@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> <4pl8m0$rlh@celebrian.otago.ac.nz> In-Reply-To: <4pl8m0$rlh@celebrian.otago.ac.nz> On 06/12/96, Alastair Thomson wrote: > In article <4phgl0$1omm@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> > neuss@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de.NOSPAM (Christian Neuss) writes: > > So.. has anybody from Europe *succeeded* in obtaining WOF /E? > > Or is anybody from NeXT listening? :-/ > Funnily enough, my order (put in on the web on May 23) just came through today. I did prod NeXT UK, gently, yesterday, but the two events may be unconnected... Best wishes, mmalc. --
From: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Kanji on non-J NEXTSTEP system ? Date: 13 Jun 1996 14:26:06 GMT Organization: Mathematisches Institut, Uni Heidelberg Message-ID: <4pp8du$j5n@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> We have a Japanese guest in our department. She is used to read her mail on an X11 system with elm and kterm. Can I provide her with something similar for a non-Japanese NEXTSTEP system ? I.e., is there a NEXTSTEP equivalent to kterm that is able to display kanji fonts ? 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: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Kanji on non-J NEXTSTEP system ? Date: 13 Jun 1996 16:58:39 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: world Message-ID: <4pphbv$km5@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <4pp8du$j5n@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> In article <4pp8du$j5n@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit) writes: >We have a Japanese guest in our department. She is used to read her >mail on an X11 system with elm and kterm. Can I provide her with >something similar for a non-Japanese NEXTSTEP system ? If read-only is OK (i.e., she can read Japanese mails and news, but cannot reply in Japanese), look at setup instructions in: ftp://pinoko.berkeley.edu/pub/next/nihongo/AA_How_to_read_kanji_on_NS-non-J It expands Japanese text into PS using bitmap fonts, and displays in Preview via services mechanism. Works in conjunction with Mail.app or newsreader apps. No need for X11. Izumi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc From: Ilia Bisnovatyi <ilia@cs.uchicago.edu> Subject: Running NeXT applications remotely on X? Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960613130301.1884B-100000@tartarus13> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 18:03:56 GMT Hi, all, I have the following question: I do part of my work on NeXTstep, but the site that I am currently using has only SunOS and Irix machines. However, I can remotely login to my NeXT from here. My question is--is there a possibility of opening graphical applications remotely via X on my local non-NeXTstep host? Thanks, - Ilia (ilia@cs.uchicago.edu)
From: gaylord@aoe.vt.edu (Clark Gaylord) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Exception #4 on boot: what now? Date: 13 Jun 1996 19:21:54 GMT Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Message-ID: <4pppoi$7u7@solaris.cc.vt.edu> I have a Turbo that has fallen into my lap, and when I turn it on, it goes through system check until: Exception #4 (0x10) at pc 0x43800a sp 0xa7ff106 Can anyone give some insight into what I can do with this machine, and what is wrong with it (and where I can find this kind of information -- the user manuals I've found are useless!) Many thanks. Clark -- Clark Gaylord Dept of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Virginia Tech Blacksburg, Virginia USA 24061 gaylord@aoe.vt.edu http://www.aoe.vt.edu/~gaylord
Newsgroups: comp.org.ieee,comp.org.acm,comp.unix.misc,comp.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc,comp.unix.internals,comp.mail.mime,comp.os.mach,comp.protocols.nfs,comp.sys.apollo,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.novell,comp.sys.sun,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.unix.aix From: toni@usenix.org (Toni Veglia) Subject: CORRECTION: 1997 USENIX Technical Conf Papers Due JUNE 18, 1996 Message-ID: <Dsy5z5.6su@usenix.org> Organization: USENIX Association Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 16:33:05 GMT There was a typo in the subject line of the previous posting for the USENIX 1997 Annual Technical Conference, to be held January 6-10, 1997, in Anaheim, CA. The correct due dates for refereed paper submissions are: Manuscripts Due: June 18, 1996 Notification to Authors: August 7, 1996 Camera-ready Final Papers Due: November 13, 1996 ==================================================== For more information, visit the USENIX website: http://www.usenix.org, or send email to conference@usenix.org
From: vhs@nextone.langen.bull.de (Volker Herminghaus) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Exception #4 on boot: what now? Date: 14 Jun 1996 08:55:11 GMT Organization: Bull AG, Langen Message-ID: <4pr9df$muu@www.langen.bull.de> References: <4pppoi$7u7@solaris.cc.vt.edu> Cc: gaylord@aoe.vt.edu In <4pppoi$7u7@solaris.cc.vt.edu> Clark Gaylord wrote: > I have a Turbo that has fallen into my lap, and when I turn it on, it > goes through system check until: > Exception #4 (0x10) at pc 0x43800a sp 0xa7ff106 > > Can anyone give some insight into what I can do with this machine, and > what is wrong with it (and where I can find this kind of information -- > the user manuals I've found are useless!) Exception #4 in a Motorola processor means it has encountered an illegal opcode. That probably means your EPROM that holds the boot monitor is losing its memory. Try to get a new one or have someone copy you his. I would but I have a pre-turbo machine, and their EPROMs can't handle turbos. Volker
From: dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: WebObjects and Academia ? Date: 14 Jun 1996 09:06:54 GMT Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany Message-ID: <4pra3e$ah@turbocat.snafu.de> References: <4phgl0$1omm@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> <4poiei$3nm@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> dcoyle@goanna.mpi-hd.mpg.de (David A. Coyle) wrote: (...) > Yes, but not that way. And if they are listening, here's a simple way to > determine german academic email addresses: > unis have this format: > uni-<city name>.de eg: .uni-heidelberg.de > Technical unis are similar: > tu-<city name>.de eg: .tu-berlin.de > The Max-Planck Institutes are in the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft domain: > <institute>.mpg.de eg: .mpi-hd.mpg.de And tfh-berlin.de or fu-berlin.de or fhtw-berlin.de ? But that should not be that problem - NeXT should ask the distributor for a valid list. _ _ _(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development, (_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG, _/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152 (______) dave@turbocat.snafu.de (NeXTMail)
From: dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Running NeXT applications remotely on X? Date: 14 Jun 1996 09:11:32 GMT Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany Message-ID: <4prac4$ah@turbocat.snafu.de> References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960613130301.1884B-100000@tartarus13> Ilia Bisnovatyi <ilia@cs.uchicago.edu> wrote: (...) > login to my NeXT from here. My question is--is there a > possibility of opening graphical applications remotely > via X on my local non-NeXTstep host? Maybe you can write a program that grabs your screen, packs it, transfers the picture to the sun and displays it. Inputs on X should be send to the NeXT and fake inputs there. That will be dead slow -- anybody tried that out? _ _ _(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development, (_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG, _/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152 (______) dave@turbocat.snafu.de (NeXTMail)
From: woo@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Running NeXT applications remotely on X? Date: 14 Jun 1996 13:08:58 GMT Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN Distribution: world Message-ID: <4pro9a$i84@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> References: <4prac4$ah@turbocat.snafu.de> In article <4prac4$ah@turbocat.snafu.de> dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel) writes: > Ilia Bisnovatyi <ilia@cs.uchicago.edu> wrote: > (...) > > login to my NeXT from here. My question is--is there a > > possibility of opening graphical applications remotely > > via X on my local non-NeXTstep host? > Check out the gnustep web site. I've talked to some people who are using a gnu library with nextstep to distribute apps to X workstations -- - - - - - - - - - J. W. Wooten
From: gaylord@aoe.vt.edu (Clark Gaylord) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Exception #4 on boot: what now? Date: 14 Jun 1996 13:29:33 GMT Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Message-ID: <4prpft$34g@solaris.cc.vt.edu> References: <4pppoi$7u7@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <4pr9df$muu@www.langen.bull.de> Volker Herminghaus (vhs@nextone.langen.bull.de) wrote: : In <4pppoi$7u7@solaris.cc.vt.edu> Clark Gaylord wrote: : > I have a Turbo that has fallen into my lap, and when I turn it on, it : > goes through system check until: : > Exception #4 (0x10) at pc 0x43800a sp 0xa7ff106 : Exception #4 in a Motorola processor means it has encountered an illegal : opcode. That probably means your EPROM that holds the boot monitor is losing : its memory. Try to get a new one or have someone copy you his. I would but I : have a pre-turbo machine, and their EPROMs can't handle turbos. Thanks for the information! Could this be due to a missing memory chip? When I open up the machine, I see an open SIMM socket over near the hard drive. It looks a little smaller than the main 72pin sockets. What is this for? Btw, the main memory is in sockets 3&4; if we put it in 1&2 the system doesn't see it. I figure we've probably got a bad socket in the first bank. Thank you. -- Clark Gaylord Dept of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Virginia Tech Blacksburg, Virginia USA 24061 gaylord@aoe.vt.edu http://www.aoe.vt.edu/~gaylord
From: gaylord@aoe.vt.edu (Clark Gaylord) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: X Server for NeXT? Date: 14 Jun 1996 13:44:43 GMT Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Message-ID: <4prqcb$34g@solaris.cc.vt.edu> I figure this has gotta be a FAQ, but I don't see it in the list. Is there a good X Server for NeXT? Or is it included? I don't see anything about it. If we have to get one, is there something like XFree86 or similar hack-ware? -- Clark Gaylord Dept of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Virginia Tech Blacksburg, Virginia USA 24061 gaylord@aoe.vt.edu http://www.aoe.vt.edu/~gaylord
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc From: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Running NeXT applications remotely on X? Message-ID: <DszytF.7Gs@nidat.sub.org> Sender: news@nidat.sub.org Cc: ilia@cs.uchicago.edu Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960613130301.1884B-100000@tartarus13> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 15:53:38 GMT In <Pine.SUN.3.91.960613130301.1884B-100000@tartarus13> Ilia Bisnovatyi wrote: > Hi, all, > > I have the following question: I do part of my work > on NeXTstep, but the site that I am currently using > has only SunOS and Irix machines. However, I can remotely > login to my NeXT from here. My question is--is there a > possibility of opening graphical applications remotely > via X on my local non-NeXTstep host? > Only if you can manage to get DisplayPostScript for your X-server. Tektronix and Digital sell it as an option to their X-terminals, for instance. -- 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.software,comp.sys.next.misc From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Running NeXT applications remotely on X? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <Dszv23.xx@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 14:32:27 GMT References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960613130301.1884B-100000@tartarus13> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.960613130301.1884B-100000@tartarus13>, Ilia Bisnovatyi <ilia@cs.uchicago.edu> wrote: >Hi, all, > >I have the following question: I do part of my work >on NeXTstep, but the site that I am currently using >has only SunOS and Irix machines. However, I can remotely >login to my NeXT from here. My question is--is there a >possibility of opening graphical applications remotely >via X on my local non-NeXTstep host? > No--can't be done. NeXT DPS is a thing all unto itself. -- 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: mpaque@pacbell.net (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Exception #4 on boot: what now? Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 19:08:33 GMT Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16 Message-ID: <4psdec$8f3@news.snfc21.pacbell.net> References: <4pppoi$7u7@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <4pr9df$muu@www.langen.bull.de> <4prpft$34g@solaris.cc.vt.edu> gaylord@aoe.vt.edu (Clark Gaylord) wrote: >Could this be due to a missing memory chip? When I open up the machine, >I see an open SIMM socket over near the hard drive. It looks a little >smaller than the main 72pin sockets. What is this for? That socket is intended for DSP expansion memory, and takes a specail SIMM adding up to 192 Kwords of memory to the DSP. >Btw, the main memory is in sockets 3&4; if we put it in 1&2 the system >doesn't see it. I figure we've probably got a bad socket in the first bank. Uh oh. While the ROM can start up, run self-tests, and whatnot with memory in any bank, the kernel has to be loaded into a certain physical memory range (so addresses set up when the kernel was linked will actually point at the code and data they are intended for!) That memory is supposed to be in the first bank. Sorry, but you'll need to get that board fixed or swap it for a working board. 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: Hi Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: PGP mail filter Date: 14 Jun 1996 20:14:50 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Distribution: world Message-ID: <4psh7q$16vs@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Has anybody thought of writing a mail filter for PGP? I'm talking about something that is similar to the URLifier. It would scan a message, and replace the PGP garbage with a small icon that you can select to verify a digital signature. If the message was encrypted, it would prompt you to automatically decrypt it. Thoughts? - Steve P.S. It would be nice if it could be tied into cryptor bundle and made to work with MIME comiplient mail instead of just NeXTMail. The PGP Tickleservices is nice, but it requires too much manual work. --- ============================================================== Stephen J. Perkins | mailto:perkins@cps.msu.edu Dept. of Comp. Science | NeXT, MIME, finger for PGP Michigan State University | NeXT OS 3.3 using PPP-2.2 NeXT PPP-2.2 info at http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Exception #4 on boot: what now? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <Dt06oC.npH@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 18:43:24 GMT References: <4pppoi$7u7@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <4pr9df$muu@www.langen.bull.de> <4prpft$34g@solaris.cc.vt.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <4prpft$34g@solaris.cc.vt.edu>, Clark Gaylord <gaylord@aoe.vt.edu> wrote: >Volker Herminghaus (vhs@nextone.langen.bull.de) wrote: >: In <4pppoi$7u7@solaris.cc.vt.edu> Clark Gaylord wrote: >: > I have a Turbo that has fallen into my lap, and when I turn it on, it >: > goes through system check until: >: > Exception #4 (0x10) at pc 0x43800a sp 0xa7ff106 >: Exception #4 in a Motorola processor means it has encountered an illegal >: opcode. That probably means your EPROM that holds the boot monitor is losing >: its memory. Try to get a new one or have someone copy you his. I would but I >: have a pre-turbo machine, and their EPROMs can't handle turbos. > >Thanks for the information! > >Could this be due to a missing memory chip? When I open up the machine, >I see an open SIMM socket over near the hard drive. It looks a little >smaller than the main 72pin sockets. What is this for? > It's been a long time since I saw inside a Turbo slab, but if that SIMM socket isn't in line with the rest it's for the DSP memory expansion board that NeXT made. It likely isn't the cause of your problem. -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: mpaque@pacbell.net (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Running NeXT applications remotely on X? Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 23:57:11 GMT Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16 Message-ID: <4psubl$i4s@news.snfc21.pacbell.net> References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960613130301.1884B-100000@tartarus13> <DszytF.7Gs@nidat.sub.org> nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) wrote: >In <Pine.SUN.3.91.960613130301.1884B-100000@tartarus13> Ilia Bisnovatyi >wrote: >> Hi, all, >> >> I have the following question: I do part of my work >> on NeXTstep, but the site that I am currently using >> has only SunOS and Irix machines. However, I can remotely >> login to my NeXT from here. My question is--is there a >> possibility of opening graphical applications remotely >> via X on my local non-NeXTstep host? >> >Only if you can manage to get DisplayPostScript for your X-server. Tektronix >and Digital sell it as an option to their X-terminals, for instance. I'm sorry, folks, but that won't work. NeXT's GUI relies on additional capabilities present in NeXT's Window Server that aren't in the stock DPS interpreter bolted into (or in front of) X servers. NeXT added additional DPS operators to support compositing, window creation and management, and event processing and dispatch. (Which is why they call it a Window Server instead of a DPS Interpreter!) 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: mkienenb@arsc.edu (Mike Kienenberger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Running NS on a SPARC 5? Date: 14 Jun 1996 22:15:47 GMT Organization: Arctic Region Supercomputing Center Message-ID: <4psoaj$irs@news.alaska.edu> Can anyone give me any advice on installing/running NeXTSTEP for SPARCs on the following equipment? I've got a lot of experience with NeXT and Intel hardware running NeXTSTEP, but I've done very little with Sun equipment and have no experience with Nextstep on a Sparc. 1) Is this hardware supported? (It appears to be from the compatibility guide, but that's a pretty old document.) 2) Are there any known problems setting it up or operating it? 3) Does NeXTPPP (as a server) run under this configuration (external US Robotics Sportster 28.8 modem). 4) Any problems running Co-Xist on this setup? From the Sales Quotation SPARCstation 5 with Solaris User Environment Model 110 with 110-MHz microSPARC-II Processor TurboGX 8-bit Accelerated 2-D/3-D Color Graphics 20-inch Color Monitor, TurboGX Frame Buffer 32 Mbytes 2.1 Gbyte 5400 RPM Internal Fast SCSI-2 Disk 2.1 Gbyte 5400 RPM Internal Fast SCSI-2 Expansion Disk SunCD 2Plus Internal CD-ROM Drive 4-8 Gbyte 4mm DDS-2 Tape Unipack with 50 to 68-pin SCSI Cable Domestic Solaris 2.4 hardware: 03/95 Desktop Media Kit Thanks in advance for any experiences you'd be willing to share. Email/News Posts equally acceptable responses. --- Mike Kienenberger Arctic Region Supercomputing Center Systems Analyst (907) 474-6842 mkienenb@arsc.edu http://www.arsc.edu
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Connecting to Internet via ISDN (possible?) Date: 15 Jun 1996 01:59:21 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <4pt5dp$m72@mark.ucdavis.edu> Hi all, I need to connect a NeXTstation (NS 3.3) to the internet via ISDN and was wondering if anyone had some pointers on where to start. The ISDN provider could be one of many, but I am leaning toward PacBell. I am at a bit of a loss as to how I actually make the connection. Is the ISDN box connected through the DSP port? Are these still available? I am looking for the best solution, not necessarily the cheapest. I would welcome any suggestions. Thanks, --Ryan Scott scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu
From: rob@bedazzled.com (Robert A. Wyatt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.periphs.printers,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.sys.hp.misc Subject: Need help finding version 4.0 PPD file for HP Printer Date: 15 Jun 1996 02:32:53 GMT Organization: Bedazzled Records Distribution: world Message-ID: <rob-1406962137210001@pool062.max6.ffx1.va.dynip.alter.net> I'm hoping someone can help me located a PPD file for an HP LaserJet 5si printer. Here's my problem. We have several machines running NEXTSTEP 3.2. This version of NEXTSTEP requires version 4.0 Adobe PPD files. Unfortunately, the PPD file currently available on Adobe's server is version 4.2, as is the file included with the printer drivers for Mac and Windows. Does anyone know where I can get a version 4.0 file? Or, is there a way to convert the 4.2 file to 4.0 format? Finally, for the NEXTSTEP-literate among you, does NEXTSTEP 3.3 support version 4.2 files? What about NEXTSTEP 4.0? Will it support newer PPD files? Thanks in advance for your help! All thoughts and suggestions are appreciated! -Rob Wyatt rob@bedazzled.com
From: cayouett@bnr.ca (Daniel Cayouette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: What's the best solution for ISDN and a NextStation Date: 15 Jun 1996 02:29:01 GMT Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd. Message-ID: <4pt75d$6ca@bcarh8ab.bnr.ca> I have a NeXTstation with NS 3.2 and I'll be getting ISDN at home in the near future. What is the best solution to get me connected? Can I use the 10baseT ethernet port to connect to a bridge/router that then connect to the ISDN line? Or should I get a TTYDSP to convert the DSP port to a fast serial port and then connect it to an ISDN modem. Any help/comments would be appreciated. Thanks, Daniel -- -- Nortel Email Evolution Ottawa, Ontario Email: Daniel.Cayouette@nortel.ca Phone: (613) 763-2340 http://47.80.2.132/~cayouett
From: ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr (BongOk Kim (kornet)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: SONY SCSI DAT Driver Date: 15 Jun 1996 16:12:54 GMT Organization: KORNET (Korea Telecom) Message-ID: <4pune6$13n@usenet.kornet.nm.kr> Hi, all My friend has a SONY SCSI DAT-TAPE DEVICE(SDT-5000). What's the driver in the NEXTSTEP? Please coment or info. YoungHoon Kil From South Korea ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~ppai :wq
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: PGP mail filter Message-ID: <Dt1D3C.9Hp@nidat.sub.org> Sender: news@nidat.sub.org Cc: Hi Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <4psh7q$16vs@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 09:59:36 GMT In <4psh7q$16vs@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Hi wrote: > > Has anybody thought of writing a mail filter for PGP? I'm talking about > something that is similar to the URLifier. It would scan a message, and > replace the PGP garbage with a small icon that you can select to verify a > digital signature. If the message was encrypted, it would prompt you to > automatically decrypt it. > That thing is called CryptorBundle. And you're probably the only one who's not yet got a copy of it ;-) Fetch it from the usual archives. P.S.: US archives didn't hold CB on stock for a long time cause of possible legeal trouble with Big Brother in DC. Whether this is self censorship or self protection is up to you! But Peanuts is just one click away on the Net :-) P.P.S.: Your Reply address is invalid. -- 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: shanshir@inlink.com (ShanShier) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NeXTSTEP Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 22:00:20 GMT Organization: inlink Message-ID: <4pvcf6$1tc@news2.inlink.com> Hello, Well, I have heard a couple of responses about NeXTSTEP so far no one has really been able to help me out here. Does anyone know where I can buy a Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM drive I can add to my computer system. How much and how soon could I get it, I am rapidly looseing patients with NeXTSTEP and am almost ready to scrap it and just buy a MAC or something... Perhaps the new OS/2 Warp Merlin.... Who knows... Please help... Frusterated in St. Louis Paul shanshir@inlink.com
From: godwin@unixg.ubc.ca (Godwin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 13:43:35 GMT Organization: UBC Message-ID: <31c40ccf.546327@news.ucs.ubc.ca> References: <4pvcf6$1tc@news2.inlink.com> On Sat, 15 Jun 1996 22:00:20 GMT, shanshir@inlink.com (ShanShier) wrote: >Hello, > >Well, I have heard a couple of responses about NeXTSTEP so far no one >has really been able to help me out here. Kind of hard to respond without any questions!;-) >Does anyone know where I >can buy a Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM drive I can add to my computer system. Local computer store? >How much and how soon could I get it, I am rapidly looseing patients >with NeXTSTEP and am almost ready to scrap it and just buy a MAC or >something... They are around 200 -300 bucks for a fast one.. and you do NEED CDROM to read the OS (which is on CD) don't you think? >Perhaps the new OS/2 Warp Merlin.... Who knows... Please old argument other OS vs NeXTSTEP... BTW have you even check out the prices of NEXTSTEP with other OS? Godwin
From: "Andrew M. Priasmoro" <ampriasm@students.wisc.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: PPP Internet Services Provider. Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 21:22:42 -0500 Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison Message-ID: <31C36FF2.47A1@students.wisc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: comp.sys.next.software, comp.sys.next.hardware, comp.sys.next.sysadmin Does anyone know what PPP Internet Service Providers support NeXTStep 3.3 Dynamic IP networking? Andrew.
From: grio@next.com (Dan Grillo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: WebObjects and Academia ? Date: 16 Jun 1996 04:02:26 GMT Organization: Information Services, NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <4q010i$mc@news.next.com> References: <4p951f$on8@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> <4p9aa4$kr7@solaris.cc.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Versions: makemail 2.8j In article <4p9aa4$kr7@solaris.cc.vt.edu>, john stanhope <jehu@vt.edu> wrote: >The email also said I had purchased it but I never paid any money >(I got WebObject enterprise which I don't believe I asked for) so I >think either I will be getting a bill or all of the WebObject products >are free to academic users. WebObjects is free for academic users. --Dan -- Dan Grillo dan@next.com 415 780-2963 new office - Blg1 Rm163
From: alan@osci.me.ttu.edu (Alan A. Barhorst) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Market potential survey for black accelerators Date: 13 Jun 1996 07:01:30 GMT Organization: Texas Tech Academic Computing Services Message-ID: <4poeca$kf1@ttacs7.ttu.edu> Hello, I see a thread has been going around about accelerators for black hardware 50/66 mhz. I am volunteering to assemble a list of names to submit to Sam Goldberg (hoping to lower the price, if he is still in the black hardware business) or to one of the Mac accelerator companies such as Sonnet. I called Sonnet and talked to an engineer, apparantly they tried to get their card working but did not put much effort into it. Send the info as shown below to my email address. I will not re-broadcast the info to the net, only to possible suppliers of the needed equipment. You can also tell me other companies, (Motorola would be nice--like a 83mhz 486->586 plug and play Intel conversion), that may be able to do the job. I will try to get NeXT/Bell-Atlantic to release the number of black machines on the market and the estimate of those left, which may be snatched up by students and non-students looking to get into NS I will end the survey on June 30, 1996. Tell your friends. Name Association CPUs needed will pay/each Alan A. Barhorst Texas Tech U 2 $250-$325 -- AB ______________________________________________________________ Alan A. Barhorst | alan@osci.me.ttu.edu Mechanical Engineering | http://www.osci.ttu.edu/ Texas Tech University | NeXT, MIME and ASCII mail. ______________________________________________________________
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc From: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Connecting to Internet via ISDN (possible?) Message-ID: <Dt346n.E3r@nidat.sub.org> Sender: news@nidat.sub.org Cc: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <4pt5dp$m72@mark.ucdavis.edu> Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 08:42:23 GMT In <4pt5dp$m72@mark.ucdavis.edu> Ryan Scott wrote: > Hi all, > > I need to connect a NeXTstation (NS 3.3) to the internet via ISDN and > was wondering if anyone had some pointers on where to start. The > ISDN provider could be one of many, but I am leaning toward PacBell. > I am at a bit of a loss as to how I actually make the connection. Is > the ISDN box connected through the DSP port? Are these still > available? > > I am looking for the best solution, not necessarily the cheapest. I > would welcome any suggestions. > The only way is to get a router with ISDN capabilities. There are several models on the market. And you even can build one from old PC hardware and PD software (ka9q, for instance). The Hayes ISDN adapter available for NS 2.x is way dead and stinking. All support cut from all participants (NeXT, Hayes, and PacBell). -- 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 From: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: SONY SCSI DAT Driver Message-ID: <Dt34HK.E4L@nidat.sub.org> Sender: news@nidat.sub.org Cc: ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <4pune6$13n@usenet.kornet.nm.kr> Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 08:48:56 GMT In <4pune6$13n@usenet.kornet.nm.kr> BongOk Kim (kornet) wrote: > > Hi, all > My friend has a SONY SCSI DAT-TAPE DEVICE(SDT-5000). > What's the driver in the NEXTSTEP? > RTFM: man st -- 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: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP Date: 16 Jun 1996 18:36:03 GMT Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc. Message-ID: <4q1k6j$7q1@news.its.com> References: <4pvcf6$1tc@news2.inlink.com> shanshir@inlink.com (ShanShier) wrote: > Hello, > > Well, I have heard a couple of responses about NeXTSTEP so far no one > has really been able to help me out here. Does anyone know where I > can buy a Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM drive I can add to my computer system. > How much and how soon could I get it, It's likely that if you were to open a Yellow Pages and look under "Computers", you would find a lot of computer stores nearby. Alternatively, you could find a computer-related magazine and look for mail-order places. You then call places that look interesting, and ask them whether they have SCSI CD-ROM drives, and how much they cost. > I am rapidly looseing patients with NeXTSTEP and am almost ready to scrap > it and just buy a MAC or something... Perhaps the new OS/2 Warp Merlin.... > Who knows... Please help... Reality check: switching to another operating system will not help you find a SCSI CD-ROM drive. Loosing patience with NS makes no sense whatsoever. -Chuck Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc. --------------------------------+--------------------------------------- CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet Date: 17 Jun 1996 04:15:10 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4q2m4e$bv4@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. To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying: SUB Listname YourName Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe The ftp sites ============= ftp://next-ftp.peak.org: The main site for North American submissions (formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu) ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: (Peanuts) Located in Germany. ftp://ftp.dn.net/pub/next Peanuts mirror in the US ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next/ eduStep ftp://ftp.next.com: See below ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com ===================================== [from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help] Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system! This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, read them on the world-wide web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS. NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being. NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests. USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to nextanswers@next.com. Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by default; you can request they be sent as ASCII text files instead. To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the body of the message. You can request several files in a single message. You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message. 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To use a different address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command REPLY-TO <your-address> If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement, please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the files will be faxed to you. If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada. USING NEXTANSWERS VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web server at URL http://www.next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY ANONYMOUS FTP To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using this, please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY MODEM To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at (415) 780-2965. Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section. From there you can download NeXTanswers documents. FOR MORE HELP... If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available from NeXTanswers, call the Support Hotline at 1-800-955-NeXT (outside the U.S. call +1-415-424-8500) to speak to a NEXTSTEP Technical Support Technician. If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must make this call to the hotline. Otherwise, hotline support is on a pay-per-call basis. Thanks for using NeXTanswers! Written by: Eric P. Scott (mailto:eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU) and Scott Anguish (mailto:sanguish@digifix.com) Additions from: Greg Anderson (mailto:Greg_Anderson@afs.com) Michael Pizolato (mailto:alf@epix.net) Dan Grillo (mailto:dan_grillo@next.com)
From: perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: PGP mail filter Date: 17 Jun 1996 05:06:21 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <4q2p4d$rkv@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <4psh7q$16vs@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <Dt1D3C.9Hp@nidat.sub.org> Cc: nitezki@nidat.sub.org In <Dt1D3C.9Hp@nidat.sub.org> Peter Nitezki wrote: > In <4psh7q$16vs@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Hi wrote: > > > > Has anybody thought of writing a mail filter for PGP? I'm talking about > > something that is similar to the URLifier. It would scan a message, and > > replace the PGP garbage with a small icon that you can select to verify a > > digital signature. If the message was encrypted, it would prompt you to > > automatically decrypt it. > > > That thing is called CryptorBundle. And you're probably the only one who's > not yet got a copy of it ;-) Fetch it from the usual archives. Not so. I have CryptorBundle. It works great if you are using NeXTMail. However, most people don't use NeXTMail. If I PGP sign a message in emacs RMAIL and send it to myself, I recieve a message that looks just like I sent. Not what I want. I want something like the URLifier that will remove the PGP signature garbage and replace it with a nifty PGP looking zap that will verify the signature. > P.P.S.: Your Reply address is invalid. Doubly interesting. I've added a reply-to header but I'm surprised to hear you had trobles. My sig has the correct address of perkins@cps.msu.edu. Could y'all please let me know what actually got posted? - Steve --- ============================================================== Stephen J. Perkins | mailto:perkins@cps.msu.edu Dept. of Comp. Science | NeXT, MIME, finger for PGP Michigan State University | NeXT OS 3.3 using PPP-2.2 NeXT PPP-2.2 info at http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
From: ehutch@hypnos.norden1.com (E. Hutchinson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Developer/Career Position/ILL Date: 17 Jun 1996 11:44:26 GMT Organization: Norden 1 Communications Message-ID: <4q3geq$rfs@tofu.alt.net> Programmer/analyst/developer NEXTSTEP--------------------Commercial experience Objective C-----------------Commercial experience EOF-------------------------A plus Sybase or Oracle------------A plus Career Position-------------Full benefits Relocation------------------Company assistance Area------------------------ILL 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: Bob Lunney - Imonics Development <bob.lunney@imonics.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Running NS on a SPARC 5? Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 11:10:24 -0400 Organization: Imonics Corporation Message-ID: <31C57560.793C@imonics.com> References: <4psoaj$irs@news.alaska.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mike Kienenberger wrote: > > Can anyone give me any advice on installing/running NeXTSTEP for SPARCs > on the following equipment? I've got a lot of experience with NeXT and Intel > hardware running NeXTSTEP, but I've done very little with Sun equipment and > have no experience with Nextstep on a Sparc. > [snip] > --- > Mike Kienenberger Arctic Region Supercomputing Center > Systems Analyst (907) 474-6842 > mkienenb@arsc.edu http://www.arsc.edu The installation is as easy as on black hardware. (And if you've ever installed NEXTSTEP on a PC, that's saying alot!) Get at least 32 Mb more RAM - you'll be glad you did. Otherwise, the quoted hardware with NS 3.3 "just works". -- Bob Lunney | Building tomorrow's legacy Imonics, Inc. | systems today. (tm) bob.lunney@imonics.com | Character is what you are in (919) 461-6261 | the dark. -- Dwight Moody
From: hkraus@raveneagle.com (Harold Kraus) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Info on installing to IDE/SCSI drives on Intel Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 15:57:03 GMT Organization: AccessOne Message-ID: <4q3vfu$b57@news.accessone.com> I am looking for information about the following issues for release 3.2 of NS/I (info on the latest release would also be helpful): For IDE drives > 504 MB: - LBA turned off: - Can NS/I recognize space over 504 MB (during installation) under this conditions? - LBA turned on: - Can NS/I even be installed under this condition? - Can NS/I be installed starting past the 504 MB point under any conditions? For SCSI drives > 1 GB: - "Enable DOS drives > 1 GB" turned on (with an Adaptec HBA): - Can NS/I be installed under this condition? - "Enable DOS drives > 1 GB" turned off: - Can NS/I recognize space above 1 GB (during installation) under this conditions? - Can NS/I be installed starting past the 1 GB point under any conditions? Finally: - Can I install part of the OS to an IDE drive (for booting), and assign more space to a SCSI drive (again, during installation)? My experience has been the answer is no to all of the above questions, making a multiple OS install a major pain. To make matters much worse, this OS requires that it be booted from drive 0. Just checking to see if I'm missing something or the new release is different. Boy I love PC's... Thanks, Harold hkraus@accessone.com
From: "Thomas A. Nawara" <tom@synet.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: motherboard from slab in a cube? Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 13:40:18 -0500 Organization: Synet Internet Solutions Message-ID: <31C5A692.63DE@synet.net> References: <4q3vfu$b57@news.accessone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit would a motherboard from a 25MHz 68040 slab be a suitable replacement for my dead motherboard from a 25MHz 68040 ND cube? -- [tom] tom nawara vp/director of www services synet internet solutions tom@synet.net http://www.synet.net vox: 708.271.1500 fax: 708.271.1515
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: HP LaserJet IIIP PS For Sale Message-ID: <1996Jun17.145501.23718@roper.uwyo.edu> From: nor@panoramix.uwyo.edu (norbert pirzkal) Date: 17 Jun 96 14:55:01 MDT Distribution: world LaserJet IIIP with Postscript cartridge, 1.5 meg of RAM, 300 DPI, 4PPM for Sale Includes original box and manuals. Not used very much, runs really well. $500.00 o.b.o plus shipping Email norbert@uwyo.edu for more info -- Norbert Pirzkal http://faraday.uwyo.edu/grads/npirzkal P.O. Box 3905 Physics & Astronomy Department University Station Laramie, WY, 82071
From: ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr (BongOk Kim (kornet)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NEXTSTEP 4.0 for Mach Date: 17 Jun 1996 21:02:09 GMT Organization: KORNET (Korea Telecom) Message-ID: <4q4h4h$6tu@usenet.kornet.nm.kr> Hi, all What's feather in the NEXTSTEP 4.0 for Mach? Any info would be appreciated. YoungHoon Kil From South Korea ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~ppai
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: motherboard from slab in a cube? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <Dt62Cz.DLn@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 22:55:47 GMT References: <4q3vfu$b57@news.accessone.com> <31C5A692.63DE@synet.net> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <31C5A692.63DE@synet.net>, Thomas A. Nawara <tom@synet.net> wrote: >would a motherboard from a 25MHz 68040 slab be >a suitable replacement for my dead motherboard >from a 25MHz 68040 ND cube? > Not really. Cube boards get their power from the NeXTbus backplane, whereas slab boards have a separate power supply connector. I've sometimes wished that slabs were simply one-slot NeXTbus backplanes, but I'm sure it would have cost more. -- 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: mdrift@sqasun5 (Marc Driftmeyer (Temp)) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: where to buy NextStep-student Date: 18 Jun 1996 01:57:05 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4q52dh$bfr@news.next.com> References: <humanist-1006961450440001@ts3port26.port.net> Cc: humanist@interport.net In <humanist-1006961450440001@ts3port26.port.net> Michael Howard wrote: > I've been looking everywhere for someone selling NextStep student edition > and can't find it. Any pointers for a place with good prices? > > Check out NASCORP on the Internet or your local University Computer Store.
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP Date: 17 Jun 1996 22:13:43 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <4q4lan$qqu@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <4pvcf6$1tc@news2.inlink.com> shanshir@inlink.com (ShanShier) wrote: > Hello, > > Well, I have heard a couple of responses about NeXTSTEP so far > no one has really been able to help me out here. Does anyone > know where I can buy a Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM drive I can add to my > computer system. How much and how soon could I get it, I am > rapidly looseing patients with NeXTSTEP and am almost ready to > scrap it and just buy a MAC or something... Hopefully you aren't losing any patients due to NeXTSTEP. Some of the documentation about NeXTSTEP used to be confusing about CD-ROM drive options (perhaps it still is). Basically, just about any truly SCSI CD-ROM will work. Certainly Toshiba makes some nice CD-ROM drives. Call up whatever computer supplier you would use if you owned a Mac, and ask for their prices on SCSI CD-ROM drives. Probably want to ask for an external drive (just because it's a bit simplier to deal with). Note that some SCSI controller cards on NS/Intel (PC) systems will have problems with CD-ROM drives unless the CD-ROM is set to SCSI ID #6. I imagine that's a rare problem with modern systems, but I thought I'd mention it because you didn't say what kind of system you had. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: PPP Internet Services Provider. Date: 18 Jun 1996 04:22:28 GMT Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc. Message-ID: <4q5au4$ol3@news.its.com> References: <31C36FF2.47A1@students.wisc.edu> "Andrew M. Priasmoro" <ampriasm@students.wisc.edu> wrote: > Does anyone know what PPP Internet Service Providers support NeXTStep > 3.3 Dynamic IP networking? Check out http://www.thoughtport.com/.... -Chuck Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc. --------------------------------+--------------------------------------- CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: tom@icgned.nl (Tom Hageman) Subject: Re: Help with CVS on NeXTSTEP please Message-ID: <Dt6xMo.5MM@icgned.nl> Sender: news@icgned.nl Organization: IC Group References: <4pkqbl$fjj@cetus.ali.bc.ca> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 10:11:12 GMT [I've posted this to csn.misc before, but it seems my other news server decided to ignore my posts:-(] In article <4pkqbl$fjj@cetus.ali.bc.ca>, james@ali.bc.ca (James Nakashima) wrote: > I'm trying to use CVS on NeXT and I'm having a lot of problems with > wrappers. I have version 1.8.1 as well as a changed version 1.3 for > NeXTSTEP. > > With version 1.3, and the example scripts gunzipuntar and gtarzip I run > into the problem of losing some files out of .rtfd files. No small > problem. With version 1.8.1 I can input .rtfd files and pull them out no > problem, but when I try to change them and put them back in again I get a > message saying that a diff failed or something and it doesn't work. > > Please, any help would be most appreciated. You can try this patch to CVS 1.8.1, it seemed to solve some (maybe even all;-) wrapper-related problems for me: *** src/update.c~ Wed Jan 3 20:48:54 1996 --- src/update.c Wed May 29 09:49:15 1996 *************** checkout_file (file, repository, entries *** 919,923 **** rename_file (file, backup); else ! (void) unlink_file (backup); } --- 919,923 ---- rename_file (file, backup); else ! (void) unlink_file_dir (backup); } *************** checkout_file (file, repository, entries *** 996,1000 **** retcode == -1 ? errno : 0, "could not check out %s", file); ! (void) unlink_file (backup); return (retcode); } --- 996,1000 ---- retcode == -1 ? errno : 0, "could not check out %s", file); ! (void) unlink_file_dir (backup); return (retcode); } *************** checkout_file (file, repository, entries *** 1148,1152 **** if (!pipeout) ! (void) unlink_file (backup); return (retval); --- 1148,1152 ---- if (!pipeout) ! (void) unlink_file_dir (backup); return (retval); [I have already submitted this to the cvs maintainers.] After that, you'll have to clean out the "CVS/,,*" files (directories actually) that may still lurk in your working directory... Hope this helps, Tom. -- __/__/__/__/ Tom Hageman <tom@basil.icce.rug.nl> [NeXTmail/Mime OK] __/ __/_/ IC Group <tom@icgned.nl> (work) __/__/__/ "Ed is the standard text editor" __/ _/_/ -- Unix Programmer's Manual
From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: SONY SCSI DAT Driver Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 15:53:53 +0200 Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960618155116.15451B-100000@hphalle0h.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <4pune6$13n@usenet.kornet.nm.kr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4pune6$13n@usenet.kornet.nm.kr> On 15 Jun 1996, BongOk Kim wrote: > > Hi, all > My friend has a SONY SCSI DAT-TAPE DEVICE(SDT-5000). > What's the driver in the NEXTSTEP? > It's just an SCSI device, so you don't need a vendor specific driver. After installing the SCSI-Tape driver everything should work just fine. See the manpages for SCSI Tape support, like 'mt', 'tar' and the special devicefiles like '/dev/rst0' Greetings, Boerny. -- Bernhard Scholz (IRC: Boerny) scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de http://peanuts.leo.org/ scholz@ve1.rm.op.dlr.de http://www.leo.org/~scholz/
From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: WebObjects and Academia ? Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 15:59:03 +0200 Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960618155516.15451C-100000@hphalle0h.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <4p951f$on8@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> <4p9aa4$kr7@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <4q010i$mc@news.next.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4q010i$mc@news.next.com> On 16 Jun 1996, Dan Grillo wrote: > In article <4p9aa4$kr7@solaris.cc.vt.edu>, john stanhope <jehu@vt.edu> wrote: > >The email also said I had purchased it but I never paid any money > >(I got WebObject enterprise which I don't believe I asked for) so I > >think either I will be getting a bill or all of the WebObject products > >are free to academic users. > > WebObjects is free for academic users. > Nice short answer! Not to be pedantic, but there are three WO products: WebObjects, WebObjects PRO and WebObjects Enterprise. We all already know that WebObjects is free to everyone including academics. Just to be sure: Are you going to tell as that the whole WO _product family_ would be free for academics? Would we now get PDO for free with WO PRO or PDO + EOF with WO Enterprise? I can't believe this completely, but being able to compile WO applications would be nice anyway :) Best regards, Bernhard. -- Bernhard Scholz (IRC: Boerny) scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de http://peanuts.leo.org/ scholz@ve1.rm.op.dlr.de http://www.leo.org/~scholz/
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: WebObjects and Academia ? Date: 18 Jun 1996 15:06:13 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <4q6gl5$f3r@bignews.shef.ac.uk> References: <4p951f$on8@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> <4p9aa4$kr7@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <4q010i$mc@news.next.com> <Pine.HPP.3.91.960618155516.15451C-100000@hphalle0h.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960618155516.15451C-100000@hphalle0h.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> On 06/18/96, Bernhard Scholz wrote: > On 16 Jun 1996, Dan Grillo wrote: > > > WebObjects is free for academic users. > > > Nice short answer! Not to be pedantic, but there are three WO products: > WebObjects, WebObjects PRO and WebObjects Enterprise. We all already know > that WebObjects is free to everyone including academics. Just to be sure: > Are you going to tell as that the whole WO _product family_ would be free > for academics? Would we now get PDO for free with WO PRO or PDO + EOF > with WO Enterprise? I can't believe this completely, but being able to > compile WO applications would be nice anyway :) > I just unpacked my copy and it comes with EOUser and EODeveloper... And EOF1.1J No PDO, though, but I'm not entirely surprised or distressed about that. And yes it was free. And yes, I'm very, very thankful for this. And yes, I wish I had a spare moment to play with it, but since I received the email from NeXT giving me download details, I've been innundated with other stuff to do. <sigh> Best wishes, mmalc. --
From: tremblay_michel@tandem.com (Pierre-Michel Tremblay) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Help: Screaming cc compiler using Lex&Yacc. Date: 18 Jun 1996 17:57:31 GMT Organization: Tandem Computers Message-ID: <4q6qmb$af@news.mpd.tandem.com> Bonjour all, I'm a novice interested in using Lex and Yacc. I went on the tutorial located at URL: http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/course/advanced/lex/lex.html. I've tried to use their tutorial without success. cc screams at me and I don't really know what's necessary to get it to run properly. Here are the very simple steps I followed: ********** Step 1. ********** I've modified the makefile to support the cc compiler; not acc. I also took care of replacing the 8 spaces by a tab. Hence makefile at http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/course/advanced/lex/what.html: setup % cat > makefile CC= cc CFlags= -w LdFlags= -ll DEMO: $(Project).o $(CC) $(CFlags) -o DEMO $(Project).o $(LdFlags); make last $(Project).o: $(Project).c $(CC) $(CFlags) -c $(Project).c; make last $(Project).c: $(Project).l lex -t $(Project).l > $(Project).c; make last last: # displays most recent file ls -lt | head -2 | tail -1 clean: # removes intermediate files rm *.o *.c .SILENT: ********** Step 2. ********** Then, I've wrote this small example and replaced the spaces with tabs: setup % cat > tr2.l %% [A-Z] printf("%c", yytext[0]+'a'-'A'); . ECHO; ********** Step 3. ********** Now. Could anyone tell me what's wrong with this? What are the flags I should use? % make Project=tr2 -rw-r--r-- 1 pmt 6853 Jun 18 13:47 tr2.c /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:1: illegal external declaration, found `.' /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:1: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:1: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:1: undefined type, found `W' /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:1: illegal external declaration, missing `;' after `h' /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:1: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:1: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:1: undefined type, found `W' /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:1: illegal external declaration, missing `;' after `h' /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:1: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:1: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:2: illegal method selector, found ` diablo 12 pitch .ds L' /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:3: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:4: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:5: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:6: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:7: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:8: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:9: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:11: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:12: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:13: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:14: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:15: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:16: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:17: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:17: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:18: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:19: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:20: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:21: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:22: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:23: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:24: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:25: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:26: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:27: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:27: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:28: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:29: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:30: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in character constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:31: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:31: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:31: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:31: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:31: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:32: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in character constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:33: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in character constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:36: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:36: warning: numeric constant contains digits beyond the radix /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:36: illegal method definition, missing `{' after `SMI' /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:36: undefined type, found `from' /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:36: illegal external declaration, missing `;' after `UCB' /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:37: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:37: illegal method definition, found `mark' /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:39: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:40: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:42: warning: nondigits in number and not hexadecimal /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:43: warning: nondigits in number and not hexadecimal /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:44: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:45: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:46: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:47: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:47: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:47: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:47: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:47: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:47: warning: nondigits in number and not hexadecimal /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:11: illegal method definition, missing `{' after `ptrdiff_t' /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:1: illegal external declaration, found `.' /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:1: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:1: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:1: undefined type, found `W' /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:1: illegal external declaration, missing `;' after `h' /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:1: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:1: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:1: undefined type, found `W' /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:1: illegal external declaration, missing `;' after `h' /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:1: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:1: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:2: illegal method selector, found ` diablo 12 pitch .ds L' /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:3: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:4: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:5: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:6: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:7: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:8: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:9: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:11: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:12: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:13: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:14: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:15: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:16: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:17: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:17: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:18: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:19: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:20: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:21: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:22: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:23: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:24: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:25: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:26: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:27: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:27: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:28: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in string constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:29: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:30: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in character constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:31: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:31: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:31: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:31: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:31: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:32: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in character constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:33: warning: ANSI C forbids newline in character constant /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:36: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:36: warning: numeric constant contains digits beyond the radix /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:36: illegal method definition, missing `{' after `SMI' /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:36: undefined type, found `from' /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:36: illegal external declaration, missing `;' after `UCB' /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:37: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:37: illegal method definition, found `mark' /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:39: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:40: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:42: warning: nondigits in number and not hexadecimal /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:43: warning: nondigits in number and not hexadecimal /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:44: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:45: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:46: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:47: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:47: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:47: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:47: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:47: stray '\' in program /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:47: warning: nondigits in number and not hexadecimal /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:22: illegal method definition, missing `{' after `)' *** Exit 1 Stop.
From: alex@starside.rhein-main.de (Alexander F.E. Seggerman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Internal Clock Date: 18 Jun 1996 19:07:36 GMT Organization: Individual Network - Rhein-Main Message-ID: <4q6upo$4qk@odb.rhein-main.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I'm running NSFIP and W95 (sorry !!) and the internal clock is alwas off 1 hour. I could always change the time, but this is a hassle. Does anybody know about this problem?? alex -- ______________________________________________________________ Alexander Seggerman mailto: alex@starside.rhein-main.de Berger Straße 157 (NeXTMail & Mime & ASCII) D-60385Frankfurt http: xx.net/alex Germany Phone: ++49 (69) 468104 FAX: Sorry no FAX ______________________________________________________________
From: leonvs@occam.com (Leon Michel von Stauber) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: where to buy NextStep-student Date: 19 Jun 1996 02:06:44 GMT Organization: Zilker Internet Park, Inc. Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4q7nbk$pbe@hackberry.zilker.net> References: <humanist-1006961450440001@ts3port26.port.net> Cc: humanist@interport.net In <humanist-1006961450440001@ts3port26.port.net> Michael Howard wrote: > I've been looking everywhere for someone selling NextStep student edition > and can't find it. Any pointers for a place with good prices? You can buy it new from Optimal Object. I believe you can find them now at http://www.optimal-object.com/. It's about $324 with tax, for NS 3.3 User and Developer, and EOF. You can also often find really good prices on used copies in comp.sys.next.marketplace. ____________________________________________________________________ Leon von Stauber http://www.occam.com/leonvs/ Occam's Razor, Game Designer <leonvs@occam.com> Zilker Internet Park, System Admin <leonvs@zilker.net> "We have not come to save you, but you will not die in vain!"
From: QJNA80A@prodigy.com (Gary Sharp) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Nextstep Programmers Wanted Date: 19 Jun 1996 04:05:59 GMT Organization: Prodigy Services Company 1-800-PRODIGY Distribution: world Message-ID: <4q7ub7$1840@usenetz1.news.prodigy.com> NextStep/OpenStep programmer wanted to help finish programming a completely new data technology that is capable of automatically integrating heterogeneous databases. This technology is a quantum leap ahead of all existing database technologies. Top programmers may have the opportunity of sharing royalties. Contact Gary Sharp, Director, Management Research Foundation, Boca Raton, Fl., 407-750-0013 between 11AM and 5PM EDT.
From: thor@zems.fer.hr (Thor Legvold) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: What NeXT archives do email ftp? Date: 19 Jun 1996 09:53:01 GMT Organization: CARNet, CROATIA Distribution: world Message-ID: <4q8ilt$bhm@bagan.srce.hr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi. I've left my cosy existance with Megabit lines and millisecund turnaround times in Norway for the sunny beaches but almost non-existant network of Croatia, and am having really a difficult time getting _any_ new software from the net. The only reliable protocoll is e-mail; ftp, www, gopher, etc out of the country all drop connection because of timeouts and overload. The national lines out are all gatewayed through one single machine and as I've been told it's quite a limited line (not even a T1 link as I understand...) So, I know I really should just go to the beach, but there are many things I would like to get up and running on my NeXT (like the new PopOver, OmniWeb, DataPhile which I've paid for but haven't been able to download, etc etc) and am not able to because ftp/www aren't reliable. Several kind soles have been nice enough to email me new versions of their programs, other informed me that the package was too large to be emailed. What I would like to know is where/how I can access next-ftp.peak.org, peanuts, and the new MusicKit home from ftp-by-email. I would really appreciate any help anyone could give. Regards, Thor Legvold Former NeXT sysadmin, user group leader and musician Currently in exile in Croatia
From: parkjy@euler.snu.ac.kr (Park Jeongyoung) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: How to install PPD file. Date: 19 Jun 1996 12:31:36 GMT Organization: Seoul National Univ. Computing Center Message-ID: <4q8rv8$hi1@snunews.snu.ac.kr> I have found a PPD file for HP 4MV in Adobe ftp site and copied it /NextLibrary/PrinterTypes/English.lproj/. But still there was no choice for HP 4MV in the Type section of 'Create New Printer' panel. Is there any other way to install PPD file? Thank you in advance. -- || Park, Jeongyoung || Email:parkjy@euler.snu.ac.kr (NeXT- or MIME-mail available)
From: vhs@nextone.langen.bull.de (Volker Herminghaus) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Internal Clock Date: 19 Jun 1996 13:12:09 GMT Organization: Bull AG, Langen Message-ID: <4q8ub9$4gc@www.langen.bull.de> References: <4q6upo$4qk@odb.rhein-main.de> Cc: alex@starside.rhein-main.de In <4q6upo$4qk@odb.rhein-main.de> Alexander F.E. Seggerman wrote: > I'm running NSFIP and W95 (sorry !!) and the internal clock is alwas off 1 > hour. I could always change the time, but this is a hassle. Does anybody know > about this problem?? You live in a timezone 1 hour off GMT. Your hardware clock is always set to GMT. Since DOS is too stuid for timezones it will show one hour off the correct time. Your only hope is to set your timezone to GMT, which doesn't really hurt. Volker
From: neuss@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de.NOSPAM (Christian Neuss) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: WebObjects and Academia ? Date: 19 Jun 1996 16:08:54 GMT Organization: Fachbereich Informatik, TH Darmstadt, Deutschland Distribution: World Message-ID: <4q98mm$1aag@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> References: <4phgl0$1omm@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> <4pl8m0$rlh@celebrian.otago.ac.nz> Alastair Thomson (alastair@BlackAlbatross.otago.ac.nz) wrote: > You should be able to 'purchase' the academic version of WOF (i.e. > Enterprise) from NeXT in Europe. We 'purchased' six or so licenses from NeXT > Asia Pacific no problems. By purchased I mean we paid the shipping costs, > which were nil since we purchased a real copy as well. Looks like this is not the case. I contacted NeXT Germany and was told that I could simply use the page from NeXT's server. Two days later, I got an email from NeXT inquiring about the intended use for WebObjects Enterprise (so they are obviously processing that order). If these two events are connected, I don't know, but it might be helpful for European (or at least German) users to know that yes, we are supposed to use the Web page for ordering. Your mileage may vary.. Chris -- // Christian Neuss "I ride tandem with a random.." // http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~neuss/ // +49 6151 16-3414 fax: -5472
From: Mehdi Bousaidi <mbousaidi@cen.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: The only Lighthouse under the Sun Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 16:32:15 -0400 Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA Message-ID: <31C863CF.2533@cen.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sun is buying Lighthouse. Check out the Press Release at: http://www.lighthouse.com under news. This was announced yesterday. Mehdi B
From: mnb2@labdien.cc.columbia.edu (Mark Nathan Broadie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Problems with NS3.3 FIP Date: 19 Jun 1996 23:33:39 GMT Organization: Columbia University Message-ID: <4qa2oj$3c8@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> I recently bought a PC to run NS3.3 Intel and I am having a few problems. 1) Using TeX I create a .dvi file which can be previewed with TeXview just fine. But after using dvips, the file cannot be previewed nor printed - it generates postscript errors (Error: typecheck; Offending command: div). I am using dvips which came on the NS3.3 distribution CD, version 5.51. 2) I am trying to create color files in TeX using colordvi.tex. I followed an example in the manual, but TeXview only showed black and white. I created a color .eps file using Edit, including the .eps file within a TeX document, and TeXview previewed that in color just fine. 3) More importantly, I can connect to our local network, but am having problems configuring the machine so that it can recognize machines on the outside world. I can ftp to an address, but not to a name. If anyone has ideas on how to solve these problems, I would be very greatful. thanks in advance, Mark Broadie mbroadie@research.gsb.columbia.edu
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <ced016@email.mot.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Running NeXT applications remotely on X? Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 18:48:57 -0600 Organization: Motorola, Schaumburg,IL,USA Message-ID: <31C89FF9.36BB@email.mot.com> References: <4prac4$ah@turbocat.snafu.de> <4pro9a$i84@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: woo@ornl.gov John W. Wooten wrote: > > In article <4prac4$ah@turbocat.snafu.de> dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel) > writes: > > Ilia Bisnovatyi <ilia@cs.uchicago.edu> wrote: > > (...) > > > login to my NeXT from here. My question is--is there a > > > possibility of opening graphical applications remotely > > > via X on my local non-NeXTstep host? Can someone put this code up on a ftp site compiled? Can you ask these people you've talked with? That would be great! Eric Dubiel http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie
From: n8mbk@wireless.org (Nathan C. Burnett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Looking for a NeXT book Date: 20 Jun 1996 04:25:13 GMT Organization: Wayne State University Message-ID: <4qajr9$76i@cwis-20.wayne.edu> Keywords: NeXT book admin I was recently hired as a system administrator and was given a small group of NeXTstations to feed and care for. I've been trying to locate some sort of reference that talks about the oddities of admining NeXT machines (Netinfo databases, FAT binaries, etc). The only title I've been able to find is the NeXTstep system and network admin book put out by NeXT. The problem is that it's been out of print for quite a while and I can't find a copy. Are there any other books out there I might look for? Thanks, Nate -- --- Nathan C. Burnett "Friends help you move, nathan.burnett@math.enmu.edu Good Friends help you move bodies." http://chestnut.enmu.edu/~burnettn PGP Key: finger -l burnettn@mojave.enmu.edu Unknown
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From: deberg@comiskey-park.mit.edu () Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: Apparel Date: 20 Jun 1996 13:35:07 -0400 Organization: Zeta Beta Tau - MIT Message-ID: <knhenna8jlg.fsf@comiskey-park.mit.edu> Hi. I'm looking for a source of NeXT apparel and anything else w/ the NeXT logo (shirts, coffee mugs, etc). Hermann Marketing (listed in the FAQ) no longer carries anything w/ the NeXT logo. Does anybody have any pointers to a source of this stuff? Thanks... matt -------- matt debergalis <deberg@mit.edu, skyking@ai.mit.edu> M-x hackers-r-us
From: overa@fire.sjsu.edu (ver) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Help: How do I connect a MAC laser printer to Next 040? Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 10:59:02 +0800 Organization: Information Resources and Technology Message-ID: <overa-2006961059020001@physlab4.sjsu.edu> I would loke to connect a mac laser printer to a next 040 cube. I know i can be done just not sure how. Any help greatly appreciated, Me :)
From: ab@purdue.edu (Allen Braunsdorf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Running NS on a SPARC 5? Date: 20 Jun 1996 19:59:22 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <4qcaiq$hcd@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <4psoaj$irs@news.alaska.edu> <31C57560.793C@imonics.com> Bob Lunney - Imonics Development <bob.lunney@imonics.com> wrote: >Mike Kienenberger wrote: >> Can anyone give me any advice on installing/running NeXTSTEP for SPARCs >> on the following equipment? >The installation is as easy as on black hardware. (And if >you've ever installed NEXTSTEP on a PC, that's saying alot!) > >Get at least 32 Mb more RAM - you'll be glad you did. >Otherwise, the quoted hardware with NS 3.3 "just works". I'm running 3.3 on a Tatung SPARC 5/85 clone and it's fabulous. Significantly faster than my '040 cube and color as well. No sound though. :-( I couldn't do the install with my usual CD-ROM drive and did have to borrow a genuine Sun one (says in the manual you have to use a Sun one). My drive does work on the system once it's up, though. Missed the original poster's list of hardware, but I'll add that the old CG3 graphics card works too with minor driver tweaking (binary patch of 11 bytes). When I get some more time, I plan to tweak it enough more to change its name so I can stick it in the archives. My current version is still called CG6FrameBuffer, so you can't use it on a system that needs that driver to really work (like a multi-headed machine or a shared pool of drivers). ab
From: "Elwood K.F. Chu" <c3801721@comp.polyu.edu.hk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OpenGL support for NEXTSTEP? Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 10:34:20 +0800 Organization: Hong Kong Polytechnic University Message-ID: <01bb5e50.fc5f01a0$0e0a40ca@alexander> I would like to know whether OpenGL support as well as development kit for NEXTSTEP? --------------- Elwood K.F. Chu BA (Hons) Computing Year 3 Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199606210141.VAA00719@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 96 21:41:36 -0400 Subject: WOW! Cc: comp-sys-next-misc@antigone.com I am seriously impressed. I downloaded the new sendmail quite some time ago, but was more than a little confused about how to get it to work. In fact, I was entirely thrown off by it. I tried to take it slowly and figure it out myself, but it just wasn't happening. I downloaded the instructions from: http://brise.ere.umontreal.ca/~magnan/ It took 10 minutes. And most of that was the reboot. And it works very very well. I can send mail to 'luomat' and it goes to the right place, and mail to 'luomat@nerc.com' and it goes there too, and all of it looks as though it came from me at 'luomat@nerc.com'. Thanks for the very helpful set of instructions.... TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu luomat@nerc.com <<--preferred address
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Help: Screaming cc compiler using Lex&Yacc. Date: 20 Jun 1996 18:02:29 GMT Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc. Message-ID: <4qc3nl$hci@news.its.com> References: <4q6qmb$af@news.mpd.tandem.com> tremblay_michel@tandem.com (Pierre-Michel Tremblay) wrote: > Bonjour all, > > I'm a novice interested in using Lex and Yacc. I went on the tutorial > located at URL: http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/course/advanced/lex/lex.html. I've > tried to use their tutorial without success. cc screams at me and I don't > really know what's necessary to get it to run properly. Here are the very > simple steps I followed: [ ... ] I followed those same steps under NS 3.3p1 and had things work fine. I got an excutable called 'DEMO' which would convert upper case letters to lower case. What system are you running and what version of the compiler? -Chuck Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc. --------------------------------+--------------------------------------- CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: "Andrew M. Priasmoro" <ampriasm@students.wisc.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: GateKeeper1.0 Problem Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 05:21:07 -0500 Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison Message-ID: <31CA7793.6B68@students.wisc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I tried to use GateKeeper together with ppp2.2.0.1.9. My problem was when I set up the ppd path in the GateKeeper preference menu as "/usr/local/ppp/bin" I got a message "error execu'ing pppd:Permission denied" right after connected to my ISP and clicking the pppd button on the GateKeeper dial-up menu. Does anyone know what is the solution to fix this problem? The thing I don't understand is I checked every related directories and link-directories content ppp files, and they were all group, others, user executable, but why the GateKeeper said that permission to execute pppd was denied? I really appreciate if anyone can help me to solve this problem. Thanks. Andrew.
From: frank@this.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OpenGL support for NEXTSTEP? Date: 21 Jun 1996 12:10:05 GMT Organization: NO ORGANIZATION, INC. Message-ID: <4qe3et$bec@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <01bb5e50.fc5f01a0$0e0a40ca@alexander> Cc: c3801721@comp.polyu.edu.hk In <01bb5e50.fc5f01a0$0e0a40ca@alexander> "Elwood K.F. Chu" wrote: > I would like to know whether OpenGL support as well as development kit for > NEXTSTEP? > > --------------- > Elwood K.F. Chu > BA (Hons) Computing Year 3 > Hong Kong Polytechnic University > Mesa (the OpenGL library, not the spreadsheet 8-)) has some support for NeXTSTEP: http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~brianp/Mesa.html -- Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] -- Home Page http://hades.tue.schwaben.de/~frank NeXTSTEP, Linux & PostScript Guy "In cantonese C++ is called C ga ga"
From: s124177@student.uq.edu.au (Simon Chih-L Han) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Help: How do I connect a MAC laser printer to Next 040? Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 23:08:12 +1000 Organization: Centre for Research in Vascular Biology Message-ID: <s124177-2106962308120001@pipi.anatomy.uq.oz.au> References: <overa-2006961059020001@physlab4.sjsu.edu> In article <overa-2006961059020001@physlab4.sjsu.edu>, overa@fire.sjsu.edu (ver) wrote: > I would loke to connect a mac laser printer to a next 040 cube. I know i > can be done just not sure how. > > > Any help greatly appreciated, > > Me :) I have connect a PC running NeXTStep/Intel directly to the parallel port of Apple Laserwriter 360.
From: "Scott Mewett" <mewett@mpr.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: Re: Apparel Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 21:36:59 -0700 Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd. Message-ID: <01bb5ff4.a8a97f40$9a835786@mewett> References: <knhenna8jlg.fsf@comiskey-park.mit.edu> I posted this question some time ago and got no response. I too am eagerly looking for some NeXT apparel as well. > deberg@comiskey-park.mit.edu () wrote in article <knhenna8jlg.fsf@comiskey-park.mit.edu>... > Hi. I'm looking for a source of NeXT apparel and anything else w/ the > NeXT logo (shirts, coffee mugs, etc). Hermann Marketing (listed in the > FAQ) no longer carries anything w/ the NeXT logo. Does anybody have any > pointers to a source of this stuff?
From: commonwealth@commonwealth.seanet.com (Commonwealth Land Title Company) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Prices? Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 11:48:43 LOCAL Organization: Seanet Online Services, Seattle WA Message-ID: <commonwealth.22.00C2FDBF@commonwealth.seanet.com> I am interested in Switching from Linux to NeXTSTEP. I currently own a Pentium 100 with 16 megs of EDO Ram, a 1.6 gig EIDE harddrive, a Wearnes IDE 6x cdrom, an Ensoniq Soundscape P n' P, an S3 Trio 64v+ graphics card with 2 megs of dram, and a 15" Sony Vivitron monitor. I run Windows 95 and Linux Kernel 2.0 with the Afterstep window manager (clone of the Nextstep interface) under X11R6 version 3.1 I have a couple of questions first however: (1) How much do the user versions 3.3 sell for? Developer? (2) What are the advantages and disadvantages to switching from what I use now, to NeXTSTEP? (3) Is the hardware that I am using now as well supported as it is in Linux? I like the idea of NeXTSTEP mostly because Linux is a little buggy at times, and It would seem to me that NeXTSTEP would be a much smoother running OS. I don't want to just jump in to something though, on assumptions that have no basis in fact. If anyone can answer these questions, I would be most appreciative. Thanks, oh and please CC: to commonwealth@seanet.com.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc From: klaus@cruella.interpc.de (Klaus Bscheid) Subject: Printing portrait on a paper that is wider then high Message-ID: <DtD4z9.JH9@interpc.de> Sender: usenet@interpc.de Organization: interpersonal-computing GmbH Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 18:35:32 GMT Hi everyone I couldnÁt believe it but I wasn't able to set a PrintInfo where the width is greater than the height, without flipping automatically to landscape. After that I have tried to set the orientation back to portrait but this doesnÁt work. It's the same behavior if you try to do such a thing with the Format->PageLayout Panel. There is no way to enter a portrait pagesize witch is wider then high. Now you can say why not turning the paper to landscape orientation, but if you tell me a way to feed continuous paper in landscape orientation... But if anyone has a solution for this really strange behavior please let me know. have a nice day klaus
From: eugene@raddi.uah.ualberta.ca (Eugene Mah) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: modem cable for slab Date: 21 Jun 1996 21:29:07 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <4qf473$16um@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> anybody know of a source where i can get a proper modem cable for my non-turbo slab? otherwise i'll have to take apart this one cable i have and rewire it (bit of a pain). Thanks -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene Mah eugene@raddi.uah.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail) Systems Administrator "For I am a Bear of Very Little Department of Radiology Brain, and long words Bother University of Alberta Hospitals me." Winnie the Pooh Edmonton, Alberta, Canada http://raddi.uah.ualberta.ca/~eugene/ PGP KeyID = 0x1F9779FD or 0xE37A1591 O- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Joe McReynolds <joemc@lmsc.lockheed.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: HELP:Need Mac 7.5 Print Driver for NeXT laser printer Date: 22 Jun 1996 00:18:22 GMT Organization: Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space Message-ID: <4qfe4e$efr@butch.lmsc.lockheed.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Anyone know where I can get a Mac (OS 7.5.2) printer driver (i.e., a chooser extension) which will drive a NeXT laser printer!? No luck in the Mac archives I've searched. Thanks much for any help!
From: jadams@jadams.cac.stratus.com (John Adams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: cut utilities Date: 22 Jun 1996 01:45:18 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA Message-ID: <4qfj7e$poo@transfer.stratus.com> Is there a cut utility for NeXTStep? -- John_A_Adams@vos.stratus.com
From: gcasa@wam.umd.edu (Gregory John Casamento) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: HELP! Does anyone else have NS3.3 on an AST? Date: 21 Jun 1996 20:17:04 GMT Organization: University of Maryland College Park Message-ID: <4qf000$9pl@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> Hi, I am having a great deal of trouble getting the sound card on my AST to work with NeXTSTEP3.3. Thesound card is an integrated Crystal Audio CS4232 card. I cannot seem to find the correct driver for it. Thanks for any help or assistance, -- Gregory John Casamento -- gcasa@wam.umd.edu (c) G. Casamento -- Permission to distribute on MS network denied!!
From: jadams@jadams.cac.stratus.com (John Adams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: cut utilities Date: 22 Jun 1996 01:46:23 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA Message-ID: <4qfj9f$pp6@transfer.stratus.com> Is there a cut utility for NeXTStep? -- John_A_Adams@vos.stratus.com
From: jadams@jadams.cac.stratus.com (John Adams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: cut utilities Date: 22 Jun 1996 01:46:03 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA Message-ID: <4qfj8r$pp5@transfer.stratus.com> Is there a cut utility for NeXTStep? -- John_A_Adams@vos.stratus.com
From: Ronald Pomeroy <rpomeroy@at1.mindspring.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: Re: Apparel Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 22:53:15 -0500 Organization: NeXT Software Inc. Message-ID: <31CB6E2B.35D2@at1.mindspring.com> References: <knhenna8jlg.fsf@comiskey-park.mit.edu> <01bb5ff4.a8a97f40$9a835786@mewett> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Scott Mewett wrote: > > I posted this question some time ago and got no response. I too am eagerly > looking for some NeXT apparel as well. > > > deberg@comiskey-park.mit.edu () wrote in article > <knhenna8jlg.fsf@comiskey-park.mit.edu>... > > Hi. I'm looking for a source of NeXT apparel and anything else w/ the > > NeXT logo (shirts, coffee mugs, etc). Hermann Marketing (listed in the > > FAQ) no longer carries anything w/ the NeXT logo. Does anybody have any > > pointers to a source of this stuff? The company which sells NeXT (and other apparel) is called "The Company Store". Unfortunately I can't find anything with a reference (on the web or in my apartment!). Call 1-800-TRY-NEXT. I bet they'll know. -- Ronald Pomeroy NeXT Software Inc. 326 Nelson St. #403 250 14th St. 4th Floor Atlanta Ga. 30313 Atlanta, GA. 30318 (404)521-2662 (404)892-3370 voice rpomeroy@at1.mindspring.com (404)815-0210 fax Ronald_Pomeroy@NeXT.com
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: GateKeeper1.0 Problem Date: 22 Jun 1996 03:23:56 GMT Organization: J. W. Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt/Main Message-ID: <4qfp0c$hj@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <31CA7793.6B68@students.wisc.edu> "Andrew M. Priasmoro" <ampriasm@students.wisc.edu> wrote: > I tried to use GateKeeper together with ppp2.2.0.1.9. My problem was > when I set up the ppd path in the GateKeeper preference menu as > "/usr/local/ppp/bin" I got a message "error execu'ing pppd:Permission > denied" right after connected to my ISP and clicking the pppd button on > the GateKeeper dial-up menu. Does anyone know what is the solution to > fix this problem? Did you suid root GateKeeper as described in the online help? Bye Uli -- _____________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe Lorscher Strasse 5 D-60489 Frankfurt Germany Phone: +49 (69) 9784 0007 E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail - Mime - ASCII) PGP: public key on request Member of WiNG (Wiesbaden NEXTSTEP Group) _____________________________________________________________________
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Internal Clock Date: 22 Jun 1996 10:05:25 -0400 Organization: PHCS Message-ID: <4qguj5$eur@papoose.quick.com> References: <4q6upo$4qk@odb.rhein-main.de> <4q8ub9$4gc@www.langen.bull.de> In article <4q8ub9$4gc@www.langen.bull.de>, Volker Herminghaus <vhs@nextone.langen.bull.de> wrote: >In <4q6upo$4qk@odb.rhein-main.de> Alexander F.E. Seggerman wrote: >> I'm running NSFIP and W95 (sorry !!) and the internal clock is alwas off 1 >> hour. I could always change the time, but this is a hassle. Does anybody >know >> about this problem?? > >You live in a timezone 1 hour off GMT. Your hardware clock is always set to >GMT. Since DOS is too stuid for timezones it will show one hour off the >correct time. >Your only hope is to set your timezone to GMT, which doesn't really hurt. I wrote something which fixes this problem. You can find it on the US NeXT archives : ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/util/TimeShift.I.b.tar.gz ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/util/TimeShift.README It slips in between the reboot and halt routines and the shutdown software so that when you shutdown the system, the clock gets set to the current local time. On reboot, its other component gets called by the rc scripts and resets the clock relative to GMT. This way the clock is sane for both environments and you don't have to lie about your timezone. -- ___ ___ | James E. Quick jq@quick.com / / / | Private HealthCare Systems NeXTMail O.K. \_/ (_\/ | Systems Integration Group (617) 895-3343 ) | "I don't think so," said Rene Descartes. Just then, he vanished.
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: What NeXT archives do email ftp? Date: 22 Jun 1996 10:19:49 -0400 Organization: PHCS Message-ID: <4qgve5$f1l@papoose.quick.com> References: <4q8ilt$bhm@bagan.srce.hr> In article <4q8ilt$bhm@bagan.srce.hr>, Thor Legvold <thor@zems.fer.hr> wrote: >What I would like to know is where/how I can access >next-ftp.peak.org, peanuts, and the new MusicKit >home from ftp-by-email. I would really appreciate >any help anyone could give. There are several sites that provide ftpmail functionality. I used the service several years ago when I only had a uucp feed. The service was sometimes unreliable, but it's better than nothing. qouted from an ftpmail information page on the web. Several sites_ on the Internet offer an ftpmail service, and anyone with access to e-mail can use them. Users are requested not to make use of ftpmail services at sites remote from them. In France, there is a service at ftpmail@grasp.insa-lyon.fr and in the United Kingdom there is a service at ftpmail@doc.ic.ac.uk. There is an ftpmail service in the U.S.A at ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com. The ftpmail package is based on perl scripts, which are available from: src.doc.ic.ac.uk: /packages/ftpmail grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr: /pub/unix/mail/tools/ftpmail ftp.sterling.com: /mail/ftpmail Ftpmail was written by Paul Vixie. -- ___ ___ | James E. Quick jq@quick.com / / / | Private HealthCare Systems NeXTMail O.K. \_/ (_\/ | Systems Integration Group (617) 895-3343 ) | "I don't think so," said Rene Descartes. Just then, he vanished.
From: jonl@geom.umn.edu (Jonathan B. Leffert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: looking for NS 3.3 for intel Date: 22 Jun 1996 15:24:39 GMT Organization: University of Minnesota Message-ID: <4qh37n$jvf@epx.cis.umn.edu> If anyone is looking to sell their copy of NS 3.3 for Intel Processors, please email me (jonl@geom.umn.edu). Thanks, jon -- Jon Leffert <jonl@geom.umn.edu> <jbleffert@mmm.com> "Profits are like fumbled footballs, they draw a crowd real fast." - D.M. 1.79*10^12 furlongs per fortnight--it's not just a good idea, it's the law! PGP mail strongly prefered, finger -l jonl@geom.umn.edu for public key
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.os.linux.misc From: fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn) Subject: Looking for "voice mail"/"answering machine" software Message-ID: <DtF6G8.51w@nvc.cc.ca.us> Sender: news@nvc.cc.ca.us Organization: Napa Valley College Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 21:02:32 GMT I'd like to find some software that I can run under eithe Linux or NeXTSTEP to answer the phone and take messages for me. Pretty much just some kind of "answering machine" software. At the moment it doesn't need to be any more complex than to answer, play a message, record a message, and email the recorded message to me. Don't need any voice mail menu system or anything. I've been getting people leaving messages on the answering machine in my office meant for other people in my dept., and it would sure be easy to get them their messages if I could just forward it to them over email. -- Chris Osborn, Network Administrator Napa Valley College 707 253 3130 - Voice 2277 Napa-Vallejo Hwy. 707 253 3063 - Fax Napa, CA 94558 <fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us> <http://www.nvc.cc.ca.us/~fozztexx>
From: Robert Worne <rworne@primenet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: HELP:Need Mac 7.5 Print Driver for NeXT laser printer Date: 22 Jun 1996 15:13:01 -0700 Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet Message-ID: <4qhr5d$srt@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> References: <4qfe4e$efr@butch.lmsc.lockheed.com> Joe McReynolds <joemc@lmsc.lockheed.com> wrote: >Anyone know where I can get a Mac (OS 7.5.2) printer driver (i.e., a >chooser extension) which will drive a NeXT laser printer!? No luck in >the Mac archives I've searched. Thanks much for any help! No such beast. If you want to use a NeXT LP with 7.5.2, you need to get a NeXT Cube or Slab and run Daydream on it. No way to run a LP off of non-NeXT hardware. -- Robert Worne NeXT-OS/2-MacOS Starving CS Undergrad...Sorry, I don't *do* Windows! I'd rather starve... -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/P/S d-?>pu s+:+> a- C++$>++++ 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: "Andrew M. Priasmoro" <ampriasm@students.wisc.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: GateKeeper Connection Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 20:32:50 -0500 Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison Message-ID: <31CC9EC2.4235@students.wisc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I am trying to use GateKeeper-0.9.NI and PPP-2.2.0.4.6 for my NeXTStep Intel machine. Unfortunately, I have encountered problems with the "link" in GateKeeper menu. I created my scripts according to the exam- ples given by the GateKeeper. My modem dialed up to my ISP properly and obtained the local and remote IPs as well. However, after it ob- tained the local and remotes IPs, the connection disconnected. Here is the part of the messages I checked from the PPP-2.2.log file: . . . . . ########################## #### local IP address is: 204.120.5.128 ########################## #### remote IP address is: 204.120.4.7 ########################## June 22 18:41:31 silicon pppd[1504]: Setting interface mask to 255.255.255.0 June 22 18:41:33 silicon pppd[1504]: rcvd[IPCP ConfReq id=0x3 <compress VJ 0f 00><addr 204.120.4.7>] June 22 18:41:33 silicon pppd[1504]: ipcp:down June 22 18:41:33 silicon pppd[1504]: sent[IPCP ConfReq id=0x3 <addr 0.0.0.0><compress VJ 0f 01>] June 22 18:41:33 silicon pppd[1504]: ipcp:received COMPRESSTYPE June 22 18:41:33 silicon pppd[1504]: (45) June 22 18:41:33 silicon pppd[1504]: (ACK) June 22 18:41:33 silicon pppd[1504]: ipcp:received ADDR June 22 18:41:33 silicon pppd[1504]: (204.120.4.7) June 22 18:41:33 silicon pppd[1504]: (ACK) June 22 18:41:33 silicon pppd[1504]: ipcp:returning Configure-ACK June 22 18:41:33 silicon pppd[1504]: sent [IPCP confAck id=0x3 <compress VJ 0f 00> <addr 204.120.4.7>] June 22 18:41:33 silicon pppd[1504]: Terminating on signal 2. June 22 18:41:33 silicon pppd[1504]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x2] June 22 18:41:34 silicon pppd[1504]: rcvd [IPCP ConfNak id=0x3 <addr 204.120.5.128>] June 22 18:41:34 silicon pppd[1504]: Hangup (SIGHUP) June 22 18:41:34 silicon pppd[1504]: rcvd [LCP TermAck id=0x4] June 22 18:41:34 silicon pppd[1504]: Connection terminated. June 22 18:41:35 silicon pppd[1504]: Exit. Does anyone have any pointers, why after pppd sucessfully negotiated the local and remote IPs, it went to "ipcp:down" and eventually terminated the connection of my modem to my ISP? By the way I am using inexpress.net as my ISP, if anyone knows about this ISP, what kinds of scripts (pppup, options, ipup, ipdown, etc) do I need to write or modify? And also I would be real appreciate if anyone could give me some scripts that will sustain the connection between my modem and my ISP. Until now, I don't even have enough time to execute the OMNIWEB, the connection has already timed out. Once again, I want to thank you in advance for your helps. I hope, I will hear the answers soon from you. Andrew.
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Looking for "voice mail"/"answering machine" software Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 07:26:14 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1996Jun23.072614.12606@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <DtF6G8.51w@nvc.cc.ca.us> In article <DtF6G8.51w@nvc.cc.ca.us> fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn) writes: > > I'd like to find some software that I can run under eithe Linux or > NeXTSTEP to answer the phone and take messages for me. Pretty much > just some kind of "answering machine" software. > > At the moment it doesn't need to be any more complex than to answer, > play a message, record a message, and email the recorded message to > me. Don't need any voice mail menu system or anything. What you ask is mostly handled by am, which is specific to ZyXEL modems. It can be found on the Peanuts archive site. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Looking for "voice mail"/"answering machine" software Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 22:30:36 -0400 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.94.960622222720.7757A-100000@charisma> References: <DtF6G8.51w@nvc.cc.ca.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Chris Osborn <fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us> In-Reply-To: <DtF6G8.51w@nvc.cc.ca.us> ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Unix/communication/am.1.16.s.tar.gz ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Unix/communication/am.1.6.README the program 'am' will do this, but only with Zyxel modems. Anyone have a comment as to how well this works?? I've been toying with the idea of getting a new modem (to do 28.8) and the thought of being able to use 'am' as an answering machine is appealing, so I'd be interested in hearing from those who use it. TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma, currently with nothing witty to put in his .sig luomat@nerc.com <<--NEW address (NeXT/MIME OK!) Watch this space for my WEBPAGE, coming soon! On Sat, 22 Jun 1996, Chris Osborn wrote: > > I'd like to find some software that I can run under eithe Linux or > NeXTSTEP to answer the phone and take messages for me. Pretty much > just some kind of "answering machine" software. > > At the moment it doesn't need to be any more complex than to answer, > play a message, record a message, and email the recorded message to > me. Don't need any voice mail menu system or anything. > > I've been getting people leaving messages on the answering machine in > my office meant for other people in my dept., and it would sure be > easy to get them their messages if I could just forward it to them > over email. > > -- > Chris Osborn, Network Administrator Napa Valley College > 707 253 3130 - Voice 2277 Napa-Vallejo Hwy. > 707 253 3063 - Fax Napa, CA 94558 > <fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us> <http://www.nvc.cc.ca.us/~fozztexx> > >
From: "Andrew M. Priasmoro" <ampriasm@students.wisc.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Resolving Problem. Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 04:04:08 -0500 Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison Message-ID: <31CD0888.498C@students.wisc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Does anyone know the solution how to resolve nameserver? My problem was after connection through PPP-2.2 I could not telnet or use browser by just typing the machine names, instead I had to type full IP addresses. I have my resolv.conf as follows: domain wisc.edu # WISC name servers # nameserver x.x.x.x where x.x.x.x is the DNS number. Could anyone tell me what was wrong with my resolv.conf file? Andrew.
From: gcasa@wam.umd.edu (Gregory John Casamento) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Need working sound driver for NS3.3 Date: 23 Jun 1996 16:11:32 GMT Organization: University of Maryland College Park Message-ID: <4qjqbk$c6j@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> Hi, I am in need of a sound driver for my Crystal Sound CS4232 sound card. I need it so that I can have sound on my AST Advantage 822. The card is integrated onto the mother board, so I am not sure which bus is it on. At any rate, is there anyone who has an AST 822 and has got the sound working?? If so, I would really like to know what driver and what settings. Thanks, -- Gregory John Casamento -- gcasa@wam.umd.edu (c) G. Casamento -- Permission to distribute on MS network denied!!
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From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet Date: 24 Jun 1996 04:15:09 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4ql4od$a16@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. 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From: pascal@localhost (Pascal Thibaudeau) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OpenGL support for NEXTSTEP? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 24 Jun 1996 05:18:22 GMT Organization: CRIBX1 , Universite de Bordeaux I , France Message-ID: <4ql8eu$l7b@news.u-bordeaux.fr> References: <01bb5e50.fc5f01a0$0e0a40ca@alexander> Elwood K.F. Chu (c3801721@comp.polyu.edu.hk) wrote: : I would like to know whether OpenGL support as well as development kit for : NEXTSTEP? : --------------- : Elwood K.F. Chu : BA (Hons) Computing Year 3 : Hong Kong Polytechnic University Try Mesa-OpenGL for NeXTSTEP Getting the software ==================== The primary Mesa ftp site is iris.ssec.wisc.edu in the pub/Mesa directory. Mesa is also mirrored on sunsite in the directory pub/packages/development /graphics/mesa. The archive file Mesa-1.2.8.tar.Z can be unpacked with: zcat Mesa-1.2.8.tar.Z | tar xf - The archive file Mesa-1.2.8.tar.gz can be unpacked with: gzcat Mesa-1.2.8.tar.gz | tar xf - After you unpacking you should have the following files in the Mesa-1.2.8 directory: README - this file README.AMIWIN - instructions for using Mesa on Amigas with AmiWin (X11) LICENSE - the GNU library license IAFA-PACKAGE - description file Makefile - top-level Makefile Make-config - system configurations used by the Makefiles mklib.* - scripts for making shared libraries for some systems include/ - application include files lib/ - application libraries, created during installation src/ - source code for core library src-glu/ - source code for utility library src-tk/ - source code for tk library src-aux/ - source code for aux library demos/ - demo programs samples/ - sample OpenGL programs from SGI book/ - example programs from the OpenGL Programming Guide widgets/ - the Mesa widgets windows/ - Microsoft Windows driver stuff NeXT/ - NeXT demo programs mondello/ - Cirrus Logic Mondello 3-D accelerator code -- -Pascal Thibaudeau ********************************************************************** E-Mail: pthibaud@frbdx11.cribx1.u-bordeaux.fr ( NO NEXTMAIL ) pascal@galileo.slip.u-bordeaux.fr ( Small NEXTMAIL OK ) Powered by NEXTSTEP **********************************************************************
From: mow@navigator.de (Markus Wenzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: HELP:Need Mac 7.5 Print Driver for NeXT laser printer Date: 23 Jun 1996 09:10:51 GMT Organization: Navigator Message-ID: <4qj1mr$c2@marsu.navigator.schwaben.com> References: <4qfe4e$efr@butch.lmsc.lockheed.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: joemc@lmsc.lockheed.com In <4qfe4e$efr@butch.lmsc.lockheed.com> Joe McReynolds wrote: > Anyone know where I can get a Mac (OS 7.5.2) printer driver (i.e., a > chooser extension) which will drive a NeXT laser printer!? No luck in > the Mac archives I've searched. Thanks much for any help! There's a commercial product called "InterPrint" from Intercon which does the trick. Have a look at http://www.intercon.com/ -- Navigator Markus Wenzel info@navigator.de IT Consulting & System Administration http://www.neworbit.de/navigator/
From: "J. Bradley Watson" <brad@nycnet.com> Newsgroups: alc.market,uk.adverts.computer,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: ! You've PAID for Your Computer, Now Let it PAY You - FREE Program Date: 24 Jun 1996 08:55:42 GMT Organization: CompuServe Incorporated Message-ID: <4qll6e$p3o@arl-news-svc-5.compuserve.com> References: <4qbenj$gfq@news.sas.ab.ca> <OBJT5GAmDZzxEwVk@resmon.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit send me program c1
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From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Printing portrait on a paper that is wider then high Date: 23 Jun 1996 21:44:28 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <4qkdrs$b32@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <DtD4z9.JH9@interpc.de> klaus@cruella.interpc.de (Klaus Bscheid) wrote: > Hi everyone > > I couldn't believe it but I wasn't able to set a PrintInfo where > the width is greater than the height, without flipping automatically > to landscape. After that I have tried to set the orientation > back to portrait but this doesn't work. > > It's the same behavior if you try to do such a thing with the > Format->PageLayout Panel. There is no way to enter a portrait > pagesize which is wider then high. I've run into this too, trying to use an HP DesignJet plotter. The maximum size of a plot is 36 inches wide by 60 inches long. The width is fixed at 36 inches, but the height depends on the size of the image that you send the plotter. If I want to print something that is (say) 34 inches by 8 inches, I'd like that image to be printed 34 inches *wide* by 8 inches *long*. This uses 8 inches of paper. NeXTSTEP printing insists on printing it 8 inches wide by 34 inches high, which uses 34 inches of paper and gives me a lot of wasted space... We probably should BugNeXT about this, but I haven't had the time to yet. For what it's worth, it seems many (but not all) programs on the Mac exhibit the same behavior. They are determined to print the longest dimension of a document along the direction of the longest dimension of the maximum-size plot. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: joel@fefcful.org (Joel Lingenfelter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: HELP:Need Mac 7.5 Print Driver for NeXT laser printer Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 09:48:13 -0700 Organization: First Evangelical Free Church Message-ID: <joel-2406960948140001@asteroid08.threedi.com> References: <4qfe4e$efr@butch.lmsc.lockheed.com> >Anyone know where I can get a Mac (OS 7.5.2) printer driver (i.e., a >chooser extension) which will drive a NeXT laser printer!? No luck in >the Mac archives I've searched. Thanks much for any help! Sorry bud, they don't exist... So far, I've never seen anyone get a NeXT laser printer to work outside of a NeXT. You can sometimes use the NeXT as a print spooler, but you have to print to a postscript file and then ftp it over. A royal pain. It's the main reason I didn't purchase the NeXT printer. If I'm wrong, I'd love to know. Joel | Joel Lingenfelter -=+=- | Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be | transformed by the renewing of your mind. - Romans 12:2a
From: mbecker@uml.edu (Mark Becker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Help? NeXT Printer prints streaks and fuzzy lines, grays the page. Date: 24 Jun 1996 16:53:54 GMT Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Message-ID: <4qmh72$1le@ulowell.uml.edu> Summary: Printed pages have streaks, fuzzy lines, and grayness. Keywords: black hardware printer Hello All - Please stop flaming. Two other people have asked if I've heard anything about this problem. I'd be happy to coordinate responses and summarize back to the group(s).. as soon as I hear of something to try. A week or so ago I wrote: Hello * - I've got an '030 cube with the NeXT printer. I've been using LaTeX and Mathematica to write a paper. So far, so good. However.. When pages are printed, text and graphics appear in the 'right' places and are nice and crisp. However, there is a lot of uneven undesired graying of pages from top to bottom and a couple of thin fuzzy lines across every printed page. There are places where a 'ghosting' of text near the top of a page reappears 3.5 to 4 inches farther down. The first horizontal fuzzy line appears approximately 3.5 inches from the top of a page. Fiddling with the print intensity adjustment (the green dial) varies the intensity of printed material but not of the vertical streaking and horizontal fuzzy lines. The toner cartridge has been replaced with a brand new HP LaserJet II cartridge and this problem persists. If you've come across this problem before, what did you do to fix it? Is there some adjustment that can be done on the printer? Your time is appreciated. Regards, Mark mbecker@caehbl.uml.edu
From: Andrew Burday <andy@philo.mcgill.ca> Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: file system changes not recognized immediately? Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 14:10:27 -0400 Organization: McGill University Computing Centre Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960624135518.7946A-100000@dep> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII This is with specific reference to Next Step 3.2 (roughly, Mach 2.5 with a 4.3BSD server), but using NeXT's hacked csh, not the GUI. A couple of times recently, I have had the following kind of experience. I have added or updated an executable in my $path. (In the case of the update, the old version was renamed but kept on the system.) I then tried to use it by typing only the program name (without a path). I either got a "command not found" message, or the *old* version of the program got executed. This only happened in the sessions in which I made the change. When I logged out and back in, all was well. It's as if the shell or the OS had built a list of the inodes for all the programs in my $path when I logged in, so that changes were not recognized until I had logged out and back in. Is that possible? Or in the case of the upgrade, before upgrading I had run the earlier version of the program. Is it possible that the executable image had simply remained in memory, so that when I tried to run it again, the system never even looked at its disk? In each case, I am quite sure that there was at most one copy of the executable in my $path to start with. The problem is *not* that I had multiple copies of the programs sitting in my file system. A third possibility is that I'm just losing it. But I'd rather not think so. If anyone more wizardly than I can help me understand what was going on in these cases, I'd appreciate it. Again, the main symptom is that when an executable is added or upgraded, I can't run it, or can't run the new version, until I log out and back in. Best, Andrew Burday ******************************************************************** andy@philo.mcgill.ca <URL:http://www.philo.mcgill.ca/> -------------------------------------------------------------------- ...it is just low-life, some coldness in us all, some helplessness that causes us to misunderstand life when it is pure and plain, makes it seem like a border between two nothings, and makes us no more or less than animals who meet on the road -- watchful, unforgiving, and adrift without patience or desire. Richard Ford. *********************************************************************
From: a9050756@unet.univie.ac.at () Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: HELP:Need Mac 7.5 Print Driver for NeXT laser printer Followup-To: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Date: 24 Jun 1996 19:14:53 GMT Organization: Vienna University, Austria Message-ID: <4qmpfd$1tsk@www.univie.ac.at> References: <4qfe4e$efr@butch.lmsc.lockheed.com> <joel-2406960948140001@asteroid08.threedi.com> Joel Lingenfelter (joel@fefcful.org) wrote: : >Anyone know where I can get a Mac (OS 7.5.2) printer driver (i.e., a : >chooser extension) which will drive a NeXT laser printer!? No luck in : >the Mac archives I've searched. Thanks much for any help! If you are fine with transferring the ps-file to a next-print server then all you need to get is the mac next ppd file from ftp.adobe.com and install it via the chooser accessory. Works like a charm. Best Regards, Michael
From: gerald@kurt.in-berlin.de (Gerald Erdmann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to logout from NetWare Server Date: 24 Jun 1996 18:34:00 GMT Organization: Private NEXTSTEP site, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <4qmn2o$3ef@mimi.in-berlin.de> Hello! Is there a simple way (like "logout" under MS-DOS) to logout from an NetWare Server connected via NEXTSTEP? Login is simple just goto /Net/<servername> and wait for login-panel but logout? Ok, with NetWareManager you should do this but first it's not very simple (my opinion) and second it doesn't work every time. I would prefer a simple logout-program to do this. Hope someone could help me, Gerald -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | GERALD ERDMANN | email: gerald @ kurt.in-berlin.de (NeXTmail welcome) | voice: +49 30 397 31 400 (Germany - Berlin) | crypt: pgp2 public key available |
From: shaffer+@pitt.edu (Charles D Shaffer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: file system changes not recognized immediately? Date: 24 Jun 1996 21:16:28 GMT Organization: University of Pittsburgh Message-ID: <4qn0jc$7vs@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> References: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960624135518.7946A-100000@dep> Try typing "rehash" at the shell prompt. This will instruct the shell to update the hash tables where it keeps lists of executables in your path (or something like that). Anyway, works for me using tcsh. David Shaffer
From: Yuwen Cheng <yucheng@math.arizona.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: file system changes not recognized immediately? Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 13:53:30 -0700 Organization: University of Arizona, Mathematics Message-ID: <31CF004A.41A7@math.arizona.edu> References: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960624135518.7946A-100000@dep> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Andrew Burday wrote: > > A couple of times recently, I have had the following kind of experience. > I have added or updated an executable in my $path. (In the case of the > update, the old version was renamed but kept on the system.) I then tried > to use it by typing only the program name (without a path). I either got > a "command not found" message, or the *old* version of the program got > executed. This only happened in the sessions in which I made the change. > When I logged out and back in, all was well. It's as if the shell or the > OS had built a list of the inodes for all the programs in my $path when I > logged in, so that changes were not recognized until I had logged out and > back in. Is that possible? Or in the case of the upgrade, before > upgrading I had run the earlier version of the program. Is it possible > that the executable image had simply remained in memory, so that when I > tried to run it again, the system never even looked at its disk? > > In each case, I am quite sure that there was at most one copy of the > executable in my $path to start with. The problem is *not* that I had > multiple copies of the programs sitting in my file system. > > A third possibility is that I'm just losing it. But I'd rather not think > so. If anyone more wizardly than I can help me understand what was going > on in these cases, I'd appreciate it. Again, the main symptom is that > when an executable is added or upgraded, I can't run it, or can't run the > new version, until I log out and back in. You should run rehash in a Terminal window after you've added/updated the content of your path directories. Here is a summary from the man page of csh. Hope this help. rehash Causes the internal hash table of the contents of the directories in the path variable to be recomputed. This is needed if new commands are added to directories in the path while you are logged in. This should only be necessary if you add commands to one of your own directories, or if a systems programmer changes the contents of one of the system directories. -- ---------------- Yuwen Cheng University of Arizona, Math yucheng@math.arizona.edu
From: "Thomas D. Knox" <td-knox@sunchew.ece.uiuc.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: file system changes not recognized immediately? Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 17:54:07 -0500 Organization: Electrical and Computer Engineering Message-ID: <31CF1C8F.41C67EA6@sunchew.ece.uiuc.edu> References: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960624135518.7946A-100000@dep> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: andy@philo.mcgill.ca Andrew Burday wrote: > > This is with specific reference to Next Step 3.2 (roughly, Mach 2.5 with a > 4.3BSD server), but using NeXT's hacked csh, not the GUI. > > A couple of times recently, I have had the following kind of experience. > I have added or updated an executable in my $path. (In the case of ... snip ... Try typing "rehash". This will force your csh to rebuild it's internal hash table of which files are where. Thomas Knox -- td-knox@sunchew.ece.uiuc.edu Webmaster and Head Motif Programmer Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign <http://www.ccem.uiuc.edu/>
From: : t.joerg@uni-bonn.de (Torsten Joerg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to logout from NetWare Server Date: 25 Jun 1996 01:19:32 GMT Organization: home, sweet home... Message-ID: <4qner4$8v@gandalf.uni-bonn.de> References: <4qmn2o$3ef@mimi.in-berlin.de> gerald@kurt.in-berlin.de (Gerald Erdmann) wrote: > Hello! > > Is there a simple way (like "logout" under MS-DOS) to logout from an NetWare > Server connected via NEXTSTEP? Login is simple just goto /Net/<servername> > and wait for login-panel but logout? > > Ok, with NetWareManager you should do this but first it's not very simple (my > opinion) and second it doesn't work every time. > > I would prefer a simple logout-program to do this. > > Hope someone could help me, > > Gerald > > -- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > | GERALD ERDMANN > | email: gerald @ kurt.in-berlin.de (NeXTmail welcome) > | voice: +49 30 397 31 400 (Germany - Berlin) > | crypt: pgp2 public key available > | > Just check /usr/bin/netware/nwlogout ! Torsten
From: witte@habanero.cul.columbia.edu (breck witte) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to logout from NetWare Server Date: 25 Jun 1996 01:20:45 GMT Organization: The Banzai Institute Message-ID: <4qnetd$rjl@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> References: <4qmn2o$3ef@mimi.in-berlin.de> <4qner4$8v@gandalf.uni-bonn.de> and be sure to get out of the Netware directory (in any shells as well as in the Workspace app) or as soon as you log out you'll be prompted immediately to log back in again. /breck
From: : t.joerg@uni-bonn.de (Torsten Joerg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to logout from NetWare Server Date: 25 Jun 1996 01:22:13 GMT Organization: home, sweet home... Message-ID: <4qnf05$8v@gandalf.uni-bonn.de> References: <4qmn2o$3ef@mimi.in-berlin.de> <4qner4$8v@gandalf.uni-bonn.de> : t.joerg@uni-bonn.de (Torsten Joerg) wrote: > gerald@kurt.in-berlin.de (Gerald Erdmann) wrote: > > Hello! > > > > Is there a simple way (like "logout" under MS-DOS) to logout from an > NetWare > > Server connected via NEXTSTEP? Login is simple just goto /Net/<servername> > > and wait for login-panel but logout? > > > > Ok, with NetWareManager you should do this but first it's not very simple > (my > > opinion) and second it doesn't work every time. > > > > I would prefer a simple logout-program to do this. > > > > Hope someone could help me, > > > > Gerald > > > > -- > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > | GERALD ERDMANN > > | email: gerald @ kurt.in-berlin.de (NeXTmail welcome) > > | voice: +49 30 397 31 400 (Germany - Berlin) > > | crypt: pgp2 public key available > > | > > > > > Just check /usr/bin/netware/nwlogout ! > > Torsten OOPS - of course I meant /usr/netware/bin/nwlogout .... ;-) Torsten, once more
From: Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: How to logout from NetWare Server Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 23:03:46 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1996Jun24.230346.17541@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <4qmn2o$3ef@mimi.in-berlin.de> In article <4qmn2o$3ef@mimi.in-berlin.de> gerald@kurt.in-berlin.de (Gerald Erdmann) writes: > Is there a simple way (like "logout" under MS-DOS) to logout from an NetWare > Server connected via NEXTSTEP? Login is simple just goto /Net/<servername> > and wait for login-panel but logout? > > Ok, with NetWareManager you should do this but first it's not very simple (my > opinion) and second it doesn't work every time. > > I would prefer a simple logout-program to do this. /usr/netware/bin/nwlogout. It even has a man page. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: IAMJYJ@chollian.dacom.co.kr (õ¸®¾È NEWS GROUP ÀÌ¿ëÀÚ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Printing portrait on a paper that is wider then high Followup-To: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc Date: 25 Jun 1996 09:09:50 GMT Organization: DACOM Internet Message-ID: <4qoacu$8ct@nis.dacom.co.kr> References: <DtD4z9.JH9@interpc.de> <4qkdrs$b32@usenet.rpi.edu> Garance A Drosehn (gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu) wrote: : klaus@cruella.interpc.de (Klaus Bscheid) wrote: : > Hi everyone : > : > I couldn't believe it but I wasn't able to set a PrintInfo where : > the width is greater than the height, without flipping automatically : > to landscape. After that I have tried to set the orientation : > back to portrait but this doesn't work. : > : > It's the same behavior if you try to do such a thing with the : > Format->PageLayout Panel. There is no way to enter a portrait : > pagesize which is wider then high. : I've run into this too, trying to use an HP DesignJet plotter. : The maximum size of a plot is 36 inches wide by 60 inches long. : The width is fixed at 36 inches, but the height depends on the : size of the image that you send the plotter. : If I want to print something that is (say) 34 inches by 8 : inches, I'd like that image to be printed 34 inches *wide* : by 8 inches *long*. This uses 8 inches of paper. NeXTSTEP : printing insists on printing it 8 inches wide by 34 inches : high, which uses 34 inches of paper and gives me a lot of : wasted space... : We probably should BugNeXT about this, but I haven't had : the time to yet. : For what it's worth, it seems many (but not all) programs : on the Mac exhibit the same behavior. They are determined : to print the longest dimension of a document along the : direction of the longest dimension of the maximum-size plot. : --- : Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu : Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) : Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca (Francois Magnan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Looking for "voice mail"/"answering machine" software Date: 25 Jun 1996 16:46:56 GMT Organization: Universite de Montreal Distribution: world Message-ID: <4qp560$lbq@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> References: <DtF6G8.51w@nvc.cc.ca.us> <Pine.NXT.3.94.960622222720.7757A-100000@charisma> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.94.960622222720.7757A-100000@charisma> On 06/22/96, "Timothy J. Luoma" wrote: > >ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Unix/com munication/am.1.16.s.tar.gz > >ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Unix/com munication/am.1.6.README > >the program 'am' will do this, but only with Zyxel modems. > > >Anyone have a comment as to how well this works?? > >I've been toying with the idea of getting a new modem (to do 28.8) and the >thought of being able to use 'am' as an answering machine is appealing, so >I'd be interested in hearing from those who use it. > >TjL > I use am as my answering machine daily. I have a ZyXEL Elite 2864. I had to modify the source a little to make it work with the Elite. I also added some nice features like being able to listen to messages without having to log into my account (just like a normal anwering machine you press a button on the modem and it plays the messages). It works very well in general. There are little things that should be corrected though. I don't think the author Axel Haberman kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de is working on it anymore. A good thing that should be done for NeXTSTEP users would be to compile the mgetty+sendfax+vgetty package and make a version of this easyly installable. This would bring a fax/data/voice system that works with nearly all voice/fax modems. I tried to compile it but I was only able to compile mgetty+sendfax not the vgetty (voice) part. Anybody willing to compile this? Francois Magnan -- ______________________________________________________ Francois Magnan Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques Universite de Montreal email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
From: Jimmy Patrick <jimmyp@rahul.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: help with modem Date: 25 Jun 1996 17:04:11 GMT Organization: a2i network Message-ID: <4qp66b$oq@samba.rahul.net> NNTP-Posting-User: jimmyp I'm having a heck of a time trying to connect a modem to my NeXTstation mono. I have tried with a mac modem cable and that would dial out but not connect, maybe no DCD So then I made up the cable that is in the NeXT documentation, and that cable will not even dial. (Using tip, I get "cannot synchronize with hayes") Maybe it's the modem or maybe it's the cable, or maybe I don't have it configured right. What kind of modems are people having success with? What kind of cable are you using? I have checked out the faq, but it doesn't seem to be too specific about modems. Any replies appreciated, jimmy patrick - jimmyp@rahul.net
From: tlm@ameslab.gov (Dr. T. L. Marchioro II) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Looking for "voice mail"/"answering machine" software Date: 25 Jun 1996 19:11:26 GMT Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Distribution: world Message-ID: <4qpdku$ent@news.iastate.edu> References: <DtF6G8.51w@nvc.cc.ca.us> <Pine.NXT.3.94.960622222720.7757A-100000@charisma> <4qp560$lbq@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> Cc: magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca Tim Luoma wrote: > >the program 'am' will do this, but only with Zyxel modems. > > > >Anyone have a comment as to how well this works?? > > > >I've been toying with the idea of getting a new modem (to do 28.8) > and the > >thought of being able to use 'am' as an answering machine is > appealing, so > >I'd be interested in hearing from those who use it. I used Zyxel plus AM quite happily for several months, until one of our recent wonderful Iowa thunderstorms did some damage to my Zyxel (I am hoping it can be repaired). The software worked just fine once I had "tweaked" a couple of the parameters a bit (most notably, you have to specify the background "line noise" so it knows when to drop the connection). The installation instructions are a bit sketchy, but all in all it was a very nice solution for data/voice/FAX and I'm hoping to keep with it. Thanks Jolly! Hope this proves 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: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Looking for "voice mail"/"answering machine" software Date: 25 Jun 1996 20:35:31 GMT Organization: J. W. Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt/Main Message-ID: <4qpiij$35q@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <DtF6G8.51w@nvc.cc.ca.us> <Pine.NXT.3.94.960622222720.7757A-100000@charisma> <4qp560$lbq@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca (Francois Magnan) wrote: > A good thing that should be done for NeXTSTEP users would be to > compile the mgetty+sendfax+vgetty package and make a version of this > easyly installable. This would bring a fax/data/voice system that > works with nearly all voice/fax modems. I tried to compile it but I > was only able to compile mgetty+sendfax not the vgetty (voice) part. > Anybody willing to compile this? I agree this really should be done. Any volunteers? ;-) Bye Uli -- _____________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe Lorscher Strasse 5 D-60489 Frankfurt Germany Phone: +49 (69) 9784 0007 E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail - Mime - ASCII) PGP: public key on request Member of WiNG (Wiesbaden NEXTSTEP Group) _____________________________________________________________________
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl Subject: IAMJYJ@chollian.dacom.co.kr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Message-ID: <DtLG14.47D@RnA.NL> Sender: news@RnA.NL Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: R&A References: <DtD4z9.JH9@interpc.de> <4qkdrs$b32@usenet.rpi.edu> <4qoacu$8ct@nis.dacom.co.kr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 06:15:04 GMT Can somebody tell IAMJYJ@chollian.dacom.co.kr to stop posting purely quoted articles? I tried e-mail but that did not help. Below is an example: Garance posted something, the follow-up (quoted with a ':' character) just shows his words. Waste of bandwidth, IAMJYJ@chollian.dacom.co.kr (õ¸®¾È NEWS GROUP ÀÌ¿ëÀÚ) wrote: > > >Garance A Drosehn (gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu) wrote: >: klaus@cruella.interpc.de (Klaus Bscheid) wrote: >: > Hi everyone >: > >: > I couldn't believe it but I wasn't able to set a PrintInfo where >: > the width is greater than the height, without flipping automatically >: > to landscape. After that I have tried to set the orientation >: > back to portrait but this doesn't work. >: > >: > It's the same behavior if you try to do such a thing with the >: > Format->PageLayout Panel. There is no way to enter a portrait >: > pagesize which is wider then high. > >: I've run into this too, trying to use an HP DesignJet plotter. >: The maximum size of a plot is 36 inches wide by 60 inches long. >: The width is fixed at 36 inches, but the height depends on the >: size of the image that you send the plotter. > >: If I want to print something that is (say) 34 inches by 8 >: inches, I'd like that image to be printed 34 inches *wide* >: by 8 inches *long*. This uses 8 inches of paper. NeXTSTEP >: printing insists on printing it 8 inches wide by 34 inches >: high, which uses 34 inches of paper and gives me a lot of >: wasted space... > >: We probably should BugNeXT about this, but I haven't had >: the time to yet. > >: For what it's worth, it seems many (but not all) programs >: on the Mac exhibit the same behavior. They are determined >: to print the longest dimension of a document along the >: direction of the longest dimension of the maximum-size plot. > >: --- >: Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu >: Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) >: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA -- Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl (Gerben Wierda) NEXTSTEP RD242 "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there" Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud. Renee: "Met veel koper maakt men hoempa." (After hearing a Nielsen symphony)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda) Subject: What is the Ariel board for cubes? Message-ID: <DtLLMI.J56@AWT.NL> Sender: news@AWT.NL Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 08:15:54 GMT Hello people, What does the Ariel board for cubes do? And is there a list somewhere of extensions that at any one time were available for black hardware? -- Gerben Wierda, Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid. Javastraat 42, 's-Gravenhage Staff member Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy, The Hague, The Netherlands Tel (+31) 70 3639922 Fax (+31) 70 3608992 "One foolish wise man can state more than a thousand wise fools can question."
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: What is the Ariel board for cubes? Date: 26 Jun 1996 09:00:59 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <4qqu8b$l4r@bignews.shef.ac.uk> References: <DtLLMI.J56@AWT.NL> In-Reply-To: <DtLLMI.J56@AWT.NL> > What does the Ariel board for cubes do? > There were two Ariel baords -- the QuintProcessor, and the ISPW. The Quint gave you another 5 m56000 DSP chips to play with above the one standard in all NeXTs; for some DSP applications I gather this was very handy, particularly as I think it was more-or-less transparent to the user, or at least a lot more straightforward to programme than most other systems. The ISPW (IRCAM signal processing workstation, developed at IRCAM in Paris, then based in the Pomipdou Centre) was a real beast: it sported two i860 chips for signal processing, and up to three could be put in one Cube, and four Cubes braced together to give you the power of 24 i860s in parallel. That adds up to more xOPS than you could shake a stick at -- certainly back then, and I suspect performance would still be impressive today. It came, if I remember rightly, and I'm sure someone will correct my hazy memory, with a DSP programming environment called Max, and a graphical patch builder called Animal..? All very impressive. > And is there a list somewhere of extensions that at any one time were > available for black hardware? > I think actually there was little other than the Quint, ISPW and the Dimension board, unless you're also counting external A/D converters (like Digital Ears, Digital Eye, AD64/x, Digital microphone, did the Dazzl ever come out?, the DSP Ports 656 or somesuch etc). Best wishes, mmalc. --
From: marius@Romania.EU.net (Marius Panait) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: waitpid Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 09:41:48 GMT Organization: EUnet Romania Message-ID: <4qr0qo$3k7@caesar.eunet.ro> Hi! I need the source for "waitpid" function. I need it to ported a program from sun,solaris,aix,linux to nextbsd. When I "make", after "cc" I received an error from "ld": Undefined symbols: _waitpid Thanks in advance. Marius PS: please email to me!!!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda) Subject: PostScript encoding for e dieresis? Message-ID: <DtLtor.JqI@AWT.NL> Sender: news@AWT.NL Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 11:09:59 GMT ISO Latin-1 encoding? I have a PS document that uses \337 for the encoding of e dieresis (e with two points above). But on the postscript printer either nothing comes out and on another the fl ligature comes out. \337 is NEXTSTEP encoding, it seems. But what coding do I have to use for e dieresis to get it out in the rest of the world? -- Gerben Wierda, Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid. Javastraat 42, 's-Gravenhage Staff member Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy, The Hague, The Netherlands Tel (+31) 70 3639922 Fax (+31) 70 3608992 "One foolish wise man can state more than a thousand wise fools can question."
From: rwakeman: rwakeman@thoughtport.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: HELP:Need Mac 7.5 Print Driver for NeXT laser printer Date: 26 Jun 1996 11:46:20 GMT Organization: The ThoughtPort Authority, Inc. Message-ID: <4qr7uc$s4k@chinx4.thoughtport.net> References: <4qfe4e$efr@butch.lmsc.lockheed.com> <joel-2406960948140001@asteroid08.threedi.com> In-Reply-To: <joel-2406960948140001@asteroid08.threedi.com> On 06/24/96, Joel Lingenfelter wrote: >>Anyone know where I can get a Mac (OS 7.5.2) printer driver (i.e., a >>chooser extension) which will drive a NeXT laser printer!? No luck in >>the Mac archives I've searched. Thanks much for any help! Daydream comes with a special printer driver that prints Mac os from Black hardware. However, you need to be running Daydream (hal software with the Apple rom chip via the dsp port) to do so. Robert Wakeman rwakeman@thoughtport.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda) Subject: Do you own a socalled `refurbished' B&W Megapixel monitor? Message-ID: <DtLzGB.K7E@AWT.NL> Sender: news@AWT.NL Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 13:14:35 GMT If you do, please contact me. I'd like to know your experiences. -- Gerben Wierda, Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid. Javastraat 42, 's-Gravenhage Staff member Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy, The Hague, The Netherlands Tel (+31) 70 3639922 Fax (+31) 70 3608992 "One foolish wise man can state more than a thousand wise fools can question." n a thousand wise fools can question."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: What is the Ariel board for cubes? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <DtM3Dx.sJ@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 14:39:32 GMT References: <DtLLMI.J56@AWT.NL> <4qqu8b$l4r@bignews.shef.ac.uk> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <4qqu8b$l4r@bignews.shef.ac.uk>, mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> wrote: >> What does the Ariel board for cubes do? >> >There were two Ariel baords -- the QuintProcessor, and the ISPW. > >The Quint gave you another 5 m56000 DSP chips to play with above the one >standard in all NeXTs; for some DSP applications I gather this was very >handy, particularly as I think it was more-or-less transparent to the user, >or at least a lot more straightforward to programme than most other systems. > The MusicKit, in its current incarnation, will support QuintDSP boards. I imagine you could get some serious synthesis going then. Ariel did a final run of them almost two years ago. I would have bought one, except the price was around $12,000. >The ISPW (IRCAM signal processing workstation, developed at IRCAM in Paris, >then based in the Pomipdou Centre) was a real beast: it sported two i860 >chips for signal processing, and up to three could be put in one Cube, and >four Cubes braced together to give you the power of 24 i860s in parallel. >That adds up to more xOPS than you could shake a stick at -- certainly back >then, and I suspect performance would still be impressive today. It came, if >I remember rightly, and I'm sure someone will correct my hazy memory, with a >DSP programming environment called Max, and a graphical patch builder called >Animal..? All very impressive. > That sounds pretty mighty. I think these were also included in Ariel's blow-out manufacture, but they were cheap--like $6k. :-) >> And is there a list somewhere of extensions that at any one time were >> available for black hardware? >> >I think actually there was little other than the Quint, ISPW and the >Dimension board, unless you're also counting external A/D converters (like >Digital Ears, Digital Eye, AD64/x, Digital microphone, did the Dazzl ever >come out?, the DSP Ports 656 or somesuch etc). > It's really worth it to get a hold of one of the "third party products" books from 1991 or so. I have Summer 1990 and there's no end to the nifty stuff. Kind of makes you depressed, a little like reading AmigaWorld from 1988. -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: cut utilities Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 23:44:44 -0400 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.94.960621232546.1757A-100000@charisma> References: <4qfj9f$pp6@transfer.stratus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: John Adams <John_A_Adamsadams@vos.stratus.com> In-Reply-To: <4qfj9f$pp6@transfer.stratus.com> On 22 Jun 1996, John Adams wrote: > Is there a cut utility for NeXTStep? yes yes yes Actually it is part of the GNU ?textutils? package (it might be another package.... 'fileutils' or 'binutils' perhaps?) Whatever it is, you can find it (the package) at ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma, currently with nothing witty to put in his .sig luomat@nerc.com <<--NEW address (NeXT/MIME OK!) Watch this space for my WEBSITE, coming soon!
From: cdl@proxima.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: cut utilities Date: 26 Jun 1996 23:25:16 GMT Organization: The Avant-Garde of the Now, Ltd. Message-ID: <4qsgst$f4b@news1.ucsd.edu> References: <4qfj8r$pp5@transfer.stratus.com> Cc: jadams@jadams.cac.stratus.com In <4qfj8r$pp5@transfer.stratus.com> John Adams wrote: > > Is there a cut utility for NeXTStep? You can get it with the GNU text utilities, available at an archive site near you. For instance, wuarchive.wustl.edu, systems/gnu/textutils-1.11.tar.gz Watch out, the inverse program "paste" is very different from what is already present in your NeXTstep system under the same name. carl --- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego clowenstein@ucsd.edu
From: John A. Maier <johnam@beta.datastorm.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: gcc for NeXT! (sort of) Date: 27 Jun 1996 15:14:39 GMT Organization: Datastorm Message-ID: <4qu8h0$mjq@beta.datastorm.com> References: <4qs7u0$c77@beta.datastorm.com> I download the following files off of peak and installed them: as-1.38.NIH.b.tar.gz cc-NeXT.2.5.8.NIH.ba.tar.gz gdb-4.7.NIH.b.tar.gz gnumake-3.74.b.SHIN.tar.gz libg++_for_3.2.NIH.ba.tar.gz I can start a compile, cc launchs as and then as wants ld (i386 3.3 version). Boom! So how do I get ld? jam *************************************************************************** * John A. Maier * Research and Development * * E-mail: johnam@datastorm.com * Datastorm Technologies Inc. * * * Procomm Plus for Windows and DOS * * * (314) 443-3283 * *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** * John A. Maier * Research and Development * * E-mail: johnam@datastorm.com * Datastorm Technologies Inc. * * * Procomm Plus for Windows and DOS * * * (314) 443-3283 * ***************************************************************************
From: neuss@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de.NOSPAM (Christian Neuss) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: PostScript encoding for e dieresis? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Date: 27 Jun 1996 13:59:36 GMT Organization: Fachbereich Informatik, TH Darmstadt, Deutschland Message-ID: <4qu448$hse@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> References: <DtLtor.JqI@AWT.NL> Drs G. C. Th. Wierda (G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl) wrote: > I have a PS document that uses \337 for the encoding of e dieresis (e with > two points above). But on the postscript printer either nothing comes out and > on another the fl ligature comes out. \337 is NEXTSTEP encoding, it seems. > But what coding do I have to use for e dieresis to get it out in the rest of > the world? I think you need to explicitely set the encoding vector. Here's what works for me: /reencodeISO { dup dup findfont dup length dict begin { 1 index /FID ne { def }{ pop pop } ifelse } forall /Encoding ISOLatin1Encoding def currentdict end definefont } def /ISOLatin1Encoding [ ... /Egrave/Eacute/Ecircumflex/Edieresis/Igrave/Iacute/Icircumflex ... ] def and then for instance: /Helvetica reencodeISO def /Helvetica-Bold reencodeISO def Helvetica 9 scalefont setfont 10 20 moveto (hi g\310rben) show Drop me a line if you need the complete encoding vector, I didn't want to post it here in complete length. Best wishes, Chris -- // Christian Neuss "I ride tandem with a random.." // http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~neuss/ // +49 6151 16-3414 fax: -5472
From: gaylord@aoe.vt.edu (Clark Gaylord) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: FAQ: What is ADB? Date: 27 Jun 1996 15:50:18 GMT Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Message-ID: <4quajq$csr@solaris.cc.vt.edu> I suppose this should be a FAQ, or more importantly questions like this are probably FAQable, but it isn't there. What is ADB? To what extent can ADB and non-ADB be interchanged (there is info about what is required to run ADB but not whether non-ADB would work in such boxes in the FAQ). The generalized question would be a fairly complete inventory of "Black hardware" and how to maintain it, what's replaceable, etc. Considering the general nature of this query, I think the group is the appropriate forum for discussion, but if anyone wants to respond to me via email that would be fine too. If appropriate, I can post a summary of responses I receive. Thank you. -- Clark Gaylord Dept of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Virginia Tech Blacksburg, Virginia USA 24061 gaylord@aoe.vt.edu http://www.aoe.vt.edu/~gaylord
From: gaylord@aoe.vt.edu (Clark Gaylord) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: How to update EPROM? Date: 27 Jun 1996 15:52:04 GMT Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Message-ID: <4quan4$csr@solaris.cc.vt.edu> I have been told that a Turbo under my care may be in need of new EPROM/reprogramming. What does this entail? This is the result of an Exception #4 on boot up. Thank you. -- Clark Gaylord Dept of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Virginia Tech Blacksburg, Virginia USA 24061 gaylord@aoe.vt.edu http://www.aoe.vt.edu/~gaylord
From: gaylord@aoe.vt.edu (Clark Gaylord) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: SIMM positions Date: 27 Jun 1996 15:56:02 GMT Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Message-ID: <4quaui$csr@solaris.cc.vt.edu> I have a Turbo under my care that will not recognize the memory when in sockets 1&2. Moving the SIMMs to sockets 3&4 allows the machine to correctly indicate 16MB RAM, but then results in Exception #4. I know there are problems with this machine, as it was retired when the mouse port died, so the Exception may or may not be related to the memory movement. Now the question: if you have two SIMMs in slots 3&4 and no SIMMs in 1&2, what happens (on an otherwise working machine :-) Although this is a rather unique personal problem, I think discussion in the group is warrented; those who disagree are welcome to email me directly their comments. Many thanks. -- Clark Gaylord Dept of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Virginia Tech Blacksburg, Virginia USA 24061 gaylord@aoe.vt.edu http://www.aoe.vt.edu/~gaylord
From: pedro Polonia <ppolonia@envirolink.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: problems with startup... Date: 27 Jun 1996 16:19:15 GMT Organization: U of Iowa Panda System Message-ID: <835892111-1-8867@manatee.envirolink.org> Keywords: help!!!! I'm newbie with NeXT. After a power failure in the room, the NeXT in witch i work, get stuck in the start-up... please, some one can tell me what to do ? i already read the sort Next book but it didn't help me. I don't have yeat the rest of the documentation :( no flames please... here goes, what the Monitor shows: after the shutdown, my NeXTstation color opens the [NeXT Rom monitor 2.5 v66] window and shows: | CPU MC68040 25MHz, Memory 100 ns | Backplane slot #0 | Ethernet address: 0:0:f:0:b3:1b | Memory size 12 Mb | Testing the FPU, SCC, SCSI, Enet, RTC, Timer, \ Event Counter, Sound Out. | System test passed so far so good... yeap! i know that the NeXT is old :( and now the troble: | boot sd(0,0,0)diagnostics | booting SCSI target 0, lun 0 | bkl0 boot: sd() diagonotics | booting from SCSI target 0 lun 0 | diagonostics: not found | load failed. | | blk0 boot: only now i can shoutdown the NeXt with power key. if i press <enter>, he went in guru meditation with the mesg: | :Command fail I supose that i need to reconfigure the disk information, witch i do if it where linux like" mount root=/dev/sc01" or something... How i do this in next at this point ??? --- ______________ +----------------------/___________ /\------------------------------------+ | Peace, love and \ ________/ / / "Those who desire to give up | | 8 hours of sleep! ;-) \ \ \ / / / Freedom in order to gain Security, | | Pedro Polonia \ \ \ / / / will not have, nor do they deserve, | | ppolonia@envirolink.org \ \ \/ / / either one." - Thomas Jefferson | | Pgpfinger: 6D 9E CB F5 \ \ \/ / 59 4F BE A7 6D 5E D3 A1 B8 AE 2C 7D | +---------------------------\ \ /-----------------------------------------+ \_\/
From: commonwealth@commonwealth.seanet.com (Commonwealth Land Title Company) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Next OS Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 11:43:38 LOCAL Organization: Seanet Online Services, Seattle WA Message-ID: <commonwealth.24.00B9AFDA@commonwealth.seanet.com> I requested and received some information (glossy's, white paper,etc) about Openstep, Webobjects, NeXTStep, etc. I am interested in purchasing the NeXTStep OS. I am not a software developer, so I am pretty certain that I don't need the developer's version. I use Linux currently, so all I really need is to have all of the functionality of Linux, plus whatever else the NextStep OS adds. I have heard of the academic version and the user version, in addition to the developer's version. I guess that my main question would be, is there any difference other than price between the two versions? (academic and user). Thanks.
From: ggerman@alpha.wright.edu (Greg German) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: WindowServer port? Date: 27 Jun 1996 16:24:52 -0400 Organization: Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio 45435 Message-ID: <4quqmk$vhq@alpha.wright.edu> I am trying to resurect a couple of machines that used to run as a small NetInfo network. (old black NeXT hardware) I would prefer to run them as stand alone machines. I seem to have the cube up and running OK on its own, but the slab doesn't seem to want to boot and I see the following message: date time host loginwindow[xyz]: loginwindow: could not find WindowServer port! Any pointers on how I can get around this problem would be appreciated. Thanks, Greg German
From: "Andrew M. Priasmoro" <ampriasm@students.wisc.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Sound Blaster 16 Problem. Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 15:49:58 -0500 Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison Message-ID: <31D2F3F6.2486@students.wisc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, I have a sound blaster 16 (not plug and play), it did not give problems when I played my CD ROM music. But, when it played sound files (au, snd, etc) sometimes it played the sound and sometimes it did not. Does anyone have any pointers or solutions to fix this problem? Is this a bug from the sound blaster 16 driver? I use the driver I obtained from NeXT Answer and I believe it's the recent driver released by NeXT. Andrew.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: FAQ: What is ADB? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <DtoBvs.887@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 19:38:16 GMT References: <4quajq$csr@solaris.cc.vt.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <4quajq$csr@solaris.cc.vt.edu>, Clark Gaylord <gaylord@aoe.vt.edu> wrote: >I suppose this should be a FAQ, or more importantly questions like this are >probably FAQable, but it isn't there. > >What is ADB? To what extent can ADB and non-ADB be interchanged (there is >info about what is required to run ADB but not whether non-ADB would work >in such boxes in the FAQ). > ADB is Apple Desktop Bus; the last NeXT hardware used it for the keyboard and mouse. You can run it on Turbo chipset machines with ROM monitor V73 or higher. It requires the right soound box/monitor, keyboard, mouse, and cable. You can't mix the two, eg. have an ADB keyboard and non-ADB mouse. -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: How to update EPROM? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <DtoBxC.34C@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 19:39:12 GMT References: <4quan4$csr@solaris.cc.vt.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <4quan4$csr@solaris.cc.vt.edu>, Clark Gaylord <gaylord@aoe.vt.edu> wrote: >I have been told that a Turbo under my care may be in need of new >EPROM/reprogramming. What does this entail? > You can get new boot PROMs from Decision One. Their number always escapes me, but you can get it from NeXT (800-TRY-NEXT). -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: Jeff Bakst <jbakst@flinet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: HELP:Need Mac 7.5 Print Driver for NeXT laser printer Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 20:15:06 -0400 Organization: Gargoyle Studios Message-ID: <31D3240A.4E74@flinet.com> References: <4qfe4e$efr@butch.lmsc.lockheed.com> <joel-2406960948140001@asteroid08.threedi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Joel Lingenfelter wrote: > > So far, I've never seen anyone get a NeXT laser printer to work outside of > a NeXT. You can sometimes use the NeXT as a print spooler, but you have to > print to a postscript file and then ftp it over. A royal pain. > > It's the main reason I didn't purchase the NeXT printer. > > If I'm wrong, I'd love to know. > That is odd...I have a cube on our LAN...with NT/W95 as well as OS/2 can print to the NeXT LP via TCP/IP. I do not need to output to a file and then FTP to NeXT...the system just sees that printer as a LP (set as Apple LaserNTX) or some such thing. -- ;************************************************************ ; Jeff Bakst ; Gargoyle Studios ; 6806 Torch Key Street Lake Worth, Florida ; +1.561.963.8311 Voice ; +1.561.457.6907 Pager ; +1.561.640.6030 Fax ; email: jbakst@flinet.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Next OS Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <DtoKqq.Aq5@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 22:49:38 GMT References: <commonwealth.24.00B9AFDA@commonwealth.seanet.com> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <commonwealth.24.00B9AFDA@commonwealth.seanet.com>, Commonwealth Land Title Company <commonwealth@commonwealth.seanet.com> wrote: >I requested and received some information (glossy's, white paper,etc) about >Openstep, Webobjects, NeXTStep, etc. I am interested in purchasing the >NeXTStep OS. I am not a software developer, so I am pretty certain that I >don't need the developer's version. I use Linux currently, so all I really >need is to have all of the functionality of Linux, plus whatever else >the NextStep OS adds. I have heard of the academic version and the user >version, in addition to the developer's version. I guess that my main >question would be, is there any difference other than price between the two >versions? (academic and user). Thanks. The academic bundle contains User, Developer, and EOF. There's little printed documentation (how to install it, user's guide.) It's a hell of a deal! -- 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: vhs@nextone.langen.bull.de (Volker Herminghaus) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: problems with startup... Date: 28 Jun 1996 07:51:48 GMT Organization: Bull AG, Langen Message-ID: <4r02uk$du7@www.langen.bull.de> References: <835892111-1-8867@manatee.envirolink.org> Cc: ppolonia@envirolink.org In <835892111-1-8867@manatee.envirolink.org> pedro Polonia wrote: > I'm newbie with NeXT. After a power failure in the room, > the NeXT in witch i work, get stuck in the start-up... [...] > | boot sd(0,0,0)diagnostics > | booting SCSI target 0, lun 0 > | bkl0 boot: sd() diagonotics > | booting from SCSI target 0 lun 0 > | diagonostics: not found > | load failed. Seems like your machine is trying to load extended diagnostics from disk. After you enter the boot monitor, type 'p' <CR> to enter the configuration. When you get to the question 'Boot extended diagnostics?' answer no. Then reboot. Good luck, Volker
From: Th.H@bwl.univie.ac.at (Thomas Hoellerer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: Help: Sun SS20 + Next 3.3 + FaxModem Date: 28 Jun 1996 14:21:32 GMT Organization: Vienna University, Austria Message-ID: <4r0ppc$1tpo@www.univie.ac.at> Knows anybody how to install a Faxmodem (Zyxel 1496) on a Sparc SS20. I can send Faxes, bur if I receive some, there are only lines and nothing readable. thanks Thomas Hoellerer Th.H@bwl.univie.ac.at -- ********
From: Technical Options <toi@mcs.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Chicago- Nextstep Developers Date: Fri, 28 Jun 96 12:06:02 PDT Organization: MCSNet Internet Services Message-ID: <NEWTNews.8068.835988836.Postmaster@toi.mcs.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Multiple positions: S/W Engineers to S/R S/W Engineers Salary commenurate with experience, 40-100K Plus bonus. Desired Skills: Nextstep, Objective C, Sybase, Interface Builder & Next development tools The candidate should have 2-5 years plus experience. Eligible candidate should have the following skills: 1) Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously 2) Ability to work under pressure in time critical situations 3) Problem solving and analytical capabilities Knowledge of one of the following: - Financial Derivatives Business - Currency Options Pricing - Risk Management - Interest Rate Derivatives Contact Mike Hartnett for more information; Technical Options, Inc P-708.357.9400 toi@mcs.net F-708.357.9411
From: commonwealth@commonwealth.seanet.com (Commonwealth Land Title Company) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: cdrom question... Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 11:34:48 LOCAL Organization: Seanet Online Services, Seattle WA Message-ID: <commonwealth.25.00D815D5@commonwealth.seanet.com> I have a Pentium 100 with 16mb and a 1.6gb hd, etc... I also have a 6x cd-rom IDE cdrom drive. I have read that installation of NeXTStep requires a SCSI cdrom drive... is this true? If so, what is a good model of internal to buy? Thanks in advance.
From: Gianluca Faletti <glf287@sinet.it> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Compile Gimp on NextStep Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 23:00:27 +0200 Organization: Staff Message-ID: <31D447EB.5DF6@sinet.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, all I have found a freeware paint program at http://www.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/~gimp/gimp.html is possible to compile on NS and how, or ther's anyone that can compile it for me ? Thank's Gian Luca reply to glf287@sinet.it please
From: Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: cdrom question... Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 06:48:41 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1996Jun29.064841.3343@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <commonwealth.25.00D815D5@commonwealth.seanet.com> In article <commonwealth.25.00D815D5@commonwealth.seanet.com> commonwealth@commonwealth.seanet.com (Commonwealth Land Title Company) writes: > I have a Pentium 100 with 16mb and a 1.6gb hd, etc... I also have a 6x cd-rom > IDE cdrom drive. I have read that installation of NeXTStep requires a SCSI > cdrom drive... is this true? If so, what is a good model of internal to buy? That isn't entirely true. You can install from an ATAPI CDROM, although you need to read the installation notes in NeXTanswers very carefully first, and you will almost certainly have to open the case and move things around both before and after installation. Also, in my experience, support for ATAPI CDROM drives is less broad than for SCSI ones. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: vazquezr@physics.ucla.edu (Rick Vazquez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Daydream 2.2 Date: 29 Jun 1996 08:04:06 GMT Organization: University of California, Los Angeles Message-ID: <4r2o1m$jn0@uni.library.ucla.edu> Could someone please help me, I have a DayDream but I only have kernel 1.44 and really need 2.2, btu I have looked high and low. Could someone please NeXTMail me the upgrade Disk???? I don't think anyone will mind, considering that you need the Hardware to make it work. Rick UCLA Physics vazquezr@physics.ucla.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc From: mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld) Subject: Next EPS to Macintosh (Quark Express) Conversion Organization: CYANTIC Systems Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 23:09:07 GMT Message-ID: <1996Jun27.230907.25091@cyantic.com> We need to convert Next EPS to Macintosh EPS format including colour attributes. This must be done programmatically, not at the command line. Has anyone done this before (of course) and is there a utility (class or code snippet) available out there? -- Mark T. Dornfeld, Cyantic Systems Corporation Voice: (416) 621-6166 1 Eva Road Suite 301 Facsimile: (416) 621-6212 Etobicoke, Ontario, M9C 4Z5 CANADA Email: mark@cyantic.com "Vasily, give me one ping; one ping only" -- -- Mark T. Dornfeld, Cyantic Systems Corporation Voice: (416) 621-6166 1 Eva Road Suite 301 Facsimile: (416) 621-6212 Etobicoke, Ontario, M9C 4Z5 CANADA Email: mark@cyantic.com
From: quite@dial.pipex.com (Aandi Inston) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Next EPS to Macintosh (Quark Express) Conversion Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 13:07:37 GMT Organization: UnipalmPIPEX server (post doesn't reflect views of UnipalmPIPEX) Message-ID: <4r39pn$l1c@soap.news.pipex.net> References: <1996Jun27.230907.25091@cyantic.com> mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld) wrote: >We need to convert Next EPS to Macintosh EPS format including colour >attributes. This must be done programmatically, not at the command line. >Has anyone done this before (of course) and is there a utility (class or >code snippet) available out there? There are only three formats of EPS-with-preview that I've ever heard of: - PC-format, which includes a TIFF or WMF preview inside the EPS file - Mac-format, which includes a PICT preview accompanying the file - EPSI-format, which includes a greyscale preview as PostScript comments in the file. So, what is NeXT format EPS. Actually, I rather suspect it is EPS without preview, with NeXT using its display PostScript facilities to show you the preview. No answer, I'm afraid, just trying to clarify the question... ---------------------------------------- Aandi Inston quite@dial.pipex.com Visit http://ds.dial.pipex.com/quite for info on PostScript, PSAlter, psalters, tea, and small furry animals. And stuff.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.next.misc From: catsmeat@netcom.com (Peter Thompson) Subject: Re: file system changes not recognized immediately? Message-ID: <catsmeatDtKoq9.3nq@netcom.com> Followup-To: comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.next.misc Organization: Relax, Don't Worry, Have a Homebrew! References: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960624135518.7946A-100000@dep> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 20:25:21 GMT Sender: catsmeat@netcom9.netcom.com Andrew Burday (andy@philo.mcgill.ca) wrote: : This is with specific reference to Next Step 3.2 (roughly, Mach 2.5 with a : 4.3BSD server), but using NeXT's hacked csh, not the GUI. : A couple of times recently, I have had the following kind of experience. : I have added or updated an executable in my $path. (In the case of the : update, the old version was renamed but kept on the system.) I then tried : to use it by typing only the program name (without a path). The problem you are experiencing is csh - not the system. If you change something in the path, you need to type 'rehash' for your current incarnation of csh to understand about the newer version. This should solve your problem. YMMV. Peter Thompson.
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: WindowServer port? Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 10:54:23 -0400 Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.94.960628105400.778E-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> References: <4quqmk$vhq@alpha.wright.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Greg German <ggerman@alpha.wright.edu> In-Reply-To: <4quqmk$vhq@alpha.wright.edu> When this happened to me it was a corrupted /etc/ttys file... might check that.... TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma luomat@nerc.com NeXTMail adored! (MIME/SUN also accepted) Watch this space for my Webpage (Soon!) On 27 Jun 1996, Greg German wrote: > I am trying to resurect a couple of machines that used to run as a > small NetInfo network. (old black NeXT hardware) I would prefer > to run them as stand alone machines. I seem to have the cube up and > running OK on its own, but the slab doesn't seem to want to boot and > I see the following message: > > date time host loginwindow[xyz]: loginwindow: could not find WindowServer port! > > Any pointers on how I can get around this problem would be appreciated. > > Thanks, Greg German > >
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.bugs From: smb3u@delton.psyc.virginia.edu (Steven M. Boker) Subject: Re: Help: Sun SS20 + Next 3.3 + FaxModem Message-ID: <DttExG.2qy@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia, Department of Psychology References: <4r0ppc$1tpo@www.univie.ac.at> Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 13:32:04 GMT In article <4r0ppc$1tpo@www.univie.ac.at> Th.H@bwl.univie.ac.at (Thomas Hoellerer) writes: >Knows anybody how to install a Faxmodem (Zyxel 1496) on a Sparc SS20. > >I can send Faxes, bur if I receive some, there are only lines and >nothing readable. > Well, since you can send faxes, I assume you have already installed something like NXfax or Jolly's fax package. The symptom you describe sounds like what I saw when I had a cable that didn't connect the hardware flow control between the serial port and the Zyxel. Out faxes worked fine since the computer was polite in the way that it sent data, but the Zyxel will push data back at the computer faster than can be processed if you don't have the RTS/CTS flow control lines connected. Good luck! Steve -- Steven M. Boker 804-982-5062 (voice/fax) 804-295-0009 (home) boker@virginia.edu http://kiptron.psyc.virginia.edu/steve_boker/ Dept. of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903 After 8/1/96: Dept. of Psych., U. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556
From: Steve Frank <safrank@uci.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: SLIP under 3.3/Intel? Date: 30 Jun 1996 18:37:16 GMT Organization: University of California, Irvine Message-ID: <4r6hgs$6eu@news.service.uci.edu> Is there a SLIP version that works under 3.3 / Intel (patch 1), eg, does PNI slip work in spite of the warnings in the readme? I have tried to use the thoughtport PPP but have not been able to establish stable connections -- the machine freezes 2-10 minutes after establishing a connection and transmitting packets. An althernative PPP might also be a solution, if there is one? Another reason for using SLIP is that one ISP I may use (ibm.net) only allows SLIP, no PPP support is available. -- -------------------------------------------------- Steven Frank | Dept. of Ecology and | Tel: 714-824-2244 Evolutionary Biology | Fax: 714-824-2181 Univ. of California | email: safrank@uci.edu Irvine, CA 92697-2525 |
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