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From: mthakur@apple.com (Manavendra Thakur) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Consulting Engineer at Apple Enterprise Professional Services Date: 31 Oct 1997 20:59:49 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <63dgs5$asi$1@news.digifix.com> JOB TITLE: Consulting Engineer DEPARTMENT: Enterprise Professional Services REPORTS TO: Manavendra Thakur LOCATION: Stockley Park, London, UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- POSITION (OVERVIEW AND PURPOSE) Full time on-site consultant to assist Apple's enterprise customers develop and deploy mission critical custom applications utilizing Apple's WebObjects, OPENSTEP, and EOF technologies. RESPONSIBILITIES The primary goal for the Consulting Engineer is to accelerate our customers' mission critical application development efforts and ensure that these applications are architected for performance, scalability, and code re-use. This means ensuring that the customer has the right mix of development staff, a sound design, a scalable architecture, an efficient implementation, and an effective deployment plan. The job responsibilities specifically include the following: * A full-time, dedicated, on-site WebObjects/OPENSTEP/EOF expert * Mentorship of object-oriented analysis, design, and programming techniques * Guiding customers in the optimal use of Apple Enterprise Software development tools and environment * Application planning, integration, and testing assistance * Conduit between the customer and Apple to resolve technical issues and facilitate the adoption of Apple technologies into the customer's development environment * Third party solutions selection and guidance * Assistance to project leaders in assessing team skills and mapping team strengths REQUIRED SKILLS / JOB EXPERIENCE * Minimum three years experience in commercial software development or consulting * Experience developing and deploying custom applications over intranets and internets * Familiar with object oriented design and analysis techniques and environments * Expert C (or equivalent) programmer * Working knowledge of relational and/or object databases * Good communication, presentation, and customer facing skills * Dynamic team player * Business aware * Willing to travel * Bachelors degree in Computer Science or similar Highly desirable: * Technical development experience with OPENSTEP, EOF, or WebObjects * Experience with Web servers and web technology in production use Please note: Relocation benefits are not available for this position. To apply for this position, please send your curriculum vitae to: Ms. Siobhan Kuzminski H.R. Administrator Apple Computer UK Ltd. 2 Furzeground Way Stockley Park Uxbridge, Middlesex UB11 1BB UNITED KINGDOM Alternatively, you may fax your CV to Ms. Kuzminski at +44 181 218 1434. Questions about the position itself may be sent to the email address shown below. Manavendra Thakur Manager, Enterprise Software & Services Apple Computer Europe Email: Manavendra_Thakur@apple.com
From: tj@oro.net (Thomas Ferreira) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Holiday Special for @Society Magazine Newsletter Date: 21 Oct 1997 19:16:11 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <62iv1r$696$1@news.digifix.com> We invite you to subscribe to @Society Magazine Newsletter, "the multi-platform (non wintel) computer newsletter", which is a "printed" newsletter that includes coverage of NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, the NeXT platform, and Rhapsody. In the spirit of the upcoming holidays, we are now offering a mini-subscription for only $7.00. Our mini-subscription includes 3 total issues; Issue #1 through #3. Otherwise, if you wish to receive all 6 issues of @Society, we offer a low low $15 for a full one year subscription. Come by and visit the @Society web pages at: http://www.oro.net/~tj Take care, TJ @Society
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <13622877838422@digifix.com> Date: 2 Nov 1997 04:46:00 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <398878446823@digifix.com> Topics include: Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites NeXTanswers Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites ============================================ The following sites are a sample of the OpenStep related WWW sites available. A comprehensive list is available on Stepwise. Stepwise OpenStep/Rhapsody Information Server http://www.stepwise.com Stepwise has been serving the OpenStep/NEXTSTEP community since March 1993. Some of the many resources on the site include: OpenStep Third Party Software guide, Developer Directory, Mailing List information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites related to OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related Frequently Asked Questions. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. This is the World Wide Web interace to the FTP site. Apple Enterprise Software Group (formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.) http://www.next.com Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software patches. Apple Computer's 'Prelude to Rhapsody' Self Support Site http://devworld.apple.com/dev/prelude.html This site has been constructed to help you help yourself to learn as much as possible about the foundation for Rhapsody, today's OPENSTEP. The site provides an informal collection of pointers, references, and starting points for developers who are using the Prelude to Rhapsody bundle, distributed at this year's Worldwide Developer Conference. OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups ==================================================== COMP.SYS.NEXT.ADVOCACY This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. COMP.SYS.NEXT.ANNOUNCE Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. COMP.SYS.NEXT.BUGS A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-specific groups as well. COMP.SYS.NEXT.HARDWARE Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. COMP.SYS.NEXT.MARKETPLACE NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. COMP.SYS.NEXT.MISC For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! COMP.SYS.NEXT.PROGRAMMER Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. COMP.SYS.NEXT.SOFTWARE This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. ** RELATED NEWSGROUPS ** COMP.SOFT-SYS.NEXTSTEP Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. COMP.LANG.OBJECTIVE-C Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. COMP.OBJECT Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. Getting the Newsgroups without getting News =========================================== Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are now available as a mailing list digest as well. next-nextstep next-advocacy next-announce next-bugs next-hardware next-marketplace next-misc next-programmer next-software next-sysadmin object lang-objective-c (For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's. To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying: subscribe where * is the name of the list e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites ================================= ftp://ftp.next.peak.org The main site for North American submissions formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu ftp://ftp.peanuts.org: (Peanuts) Located in Germany. Comprehensive archive site. Very well maintained. ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next NeGeN/NiNe (NEXTSTEP Gebruikers Nederland/NeXTSTEP in the Netherlands) ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next eduStep ftp://ftp.next.com: See below ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com ===================================== [from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help] Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system! This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, read them on the world-wide web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS. NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being. NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests. USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to nextanswers@next.com. Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by default; you can request they be sent as ASCII text files instead. To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the body of the message. You can request several files in a single message. You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message. These commands affect the way that files you request are sent: ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME Message/Partial specification REPLY-TO address sets the e-mail address NeXTanswers uses These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system: HELP returns this help file INDEX returns the list of all available files INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list (ignoring capitalization) For example, a message with the following Subject line requests three files: Subject: 2101 2234 1109 A message with this body requests the same three files be sent as ASCII text files: 2101 2234 1109 ascii This message requests two lists of files, one for each search: Subject: SEARCH Dell SCSI SEARCH NetInfo domain NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. To use a different address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command REPLY-TO If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement, please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the files will be faxed to you. If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada. USING NEXTANSWERS VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web server at URL http://www.next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY ANONYMOUS FTP To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using this, please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY MODEM To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at (415) 780-2965. Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section. From there you can download NeXTanswers documents. FOR MORE HELP... If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available from NeXTanswers, call the Support Hotline at 1-800-955-NeXT (outside the U.S. call +1-415-424-8500) to speak to a NEXTSTEP Technical Support Technician. If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must make this call to the hotline. Otherwise, hotline support is on a pay-per-call basis. Thanks for using NeXTanswers! _________________________________________________________________ Written by: Eric P. Scott ( eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU ) and Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com ) Additions from: Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com ) Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net ) Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines for comp.sys.next.announce Supersedes: <13624877838425@digifix.com> Date: 2 Nov 1997 04:46:06 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <400878446826@digifix.com> Cross Posting ============= I try very hard to make sure that postings get out in a timely fashion. Most go out in less than 24 hours. Postings that require editing because they do not contain information in a useable format, or have already been posted to other comp.sys.next.* groups may be delayed, or returned to you. If your posting is rejected, I'll try and make suggestions about what should be changed where possible. Obviously off charter messages (spams, open-letters, etc) may not get a response. Content Guidelines ================== Try to keep submissions short and concise (80-100 lines max). Include full instructions on contacting you (where applicable) All Postings e-mail address, telephone (optional) Press Release toll-free voice phone, toll-free fax, voice phone, fax phone mailing address,info@blahblah.com,retail price,educational price availability Software available ftp site full path to file IN URL FORMAT supported CPU's for binary distributions, OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting, time of meeting, speakers expected Signatures will be deleted automatically, so please don't rely on your .sig for the contact information Please double check all information you are posting for accuracy. If you are announcing software available by FTP, make sure the copy on the archive site is good. Announcement of Product Sales ============================= This is an area of announcement that has caused me terrible grief in the past. The policy is tilted towards the ISV, which has worked out well in the past. Posts that announce sales of products that you are DIRECTLY involved in the development of are OK. Posts from companies trying to sell other products are evaluated on an individual basis. Time Sensitive Announcements ============================ Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date. Unfortunately, that can be the worst time for you to get access to your internet connection to send the announcements to comp.sys.next.announce. In order to make comp.sys.next.announce as timely as possible, I will accept "post-dated" announcements for release on a specific future date. All information will be kept confidential until the requested release date, and NDAs will be signed where required to ensure this. Hopefully this will make these announcements arrive at users sites as quickly as if you posted them directly to comp.sys.next.whatever. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com. Questions and comments to next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: Katie Graunke <katie@stone.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Stone Design Announces Last Days of Homecoming Promotion Date: 29 Oct 1997 20:59:36 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <63883o$3a1$1@news.digifix.com> News For Immediate Release For more information write info@stone.com or call Katie Graunke at (505) 345-4800 http://www.stone.com/pr/HomeComing.html Stone Design Announces Last Days To Buy Homecoming Promotion Bundle October 28, 1997 - Albuquerque, New Mexico - Stone Design announced today the final days to purchase all four Stone Design NEXTSTEP applications as a bundle for the low price of $199. The sale ends on Friday, October 31, 1997. Stone Design will accept orders that are emailed, faxed or mailed by Monday November 3, 1997. Get your order in before it's too late! The original release follows. Stone Design Announces "Homecoming Promotion" September 16, 1997 - Albuquerque, New Mexico - Stone Design announced today the "Homecoming" Sale on its suite of NEXTSTEP software, which runs on NEXTSTEP and OpenStep MACH. In response to the placement of Steve Jobs as interim CEO at Apple Computer, and the return of Stone Design to the Macintosh software community, we wished to honor the pioneers who were early adopters of this next millennial technology with some awesome prices. The StoneWare suite consists of DataPhile(TM), the multi-media, easy to use database manager, Create(TM), THE powerful graphics package, 3DReality(TM), a 3D modeler and renderer, and CheckSum(TM), a check writer and finance manager. A bundle of all of these Stone Design applications for NEXTSTEP is now available for only $199, a very special deal. These apps originally listed for $1,979. This bundle includes DataPhile 3.1, Create 3.1, 3D Reality 2.1 and CheckSum 2.0. All of the licenses will be upgradeable to "Rhapsody" - Apple Computer's codename for the next generation operating system. This sale is only available until Nov 2, 1997. If you do not care to ftp the apps, add $20 USA ($30 International) for CD, shipping & handling. We accept VISA/MasterCard and money orders. FAX: 505-345-3424 DataPhile 3.1 is a flat-file database designed for people who need flexibility without the complexities of a rigid, relational system. Using DataPhile's intuitive front end, anyone can build and manage a database, modifying it and generating reports easily. DataPhile also comes with a number of useful template databases so you can begin using it right out of the box. DataPhile requires no additional servers; it functions alone or in a networked environment, on Motorola, Intel, Sun and HP-RISC processors. Create 3.1 is THE fully supported drawing application for NEXTSTEP. Create is a multi-page, full color, easy and fun to use graphics program that is perfect for professional artists and non-artists alike. Create's tool palette is highly extensive, including arcs, circles, lines, curves, splines, ovals, rectangles, squares, text, super text, and freehand tools. Create's User PostScript is unique, and perfect for advanced users or users who would like to learn more about PostScript, view, directly edit and repeatedly execute the PostScript code associated with any object created in or imported into the program. 3D Reality is a 3D modeling and rendering front end for Pixar's Renderman. 3D Reality creates photorealistic three dimensional drawings and includes many textures, shaders and sample images. CheckSum is the personal finance manager and check writer for the NEXTSTEP platform. For more information on any Stone Design products and services, please visit our web site: www.stone.com To reach a human, please call 505-345-4800 Monday through Friday from 9:00am to 5:00pm Mountain Time. +++ Stone Design Corporation of Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 1984, develops a variety of productivity applications for NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/RHAPSODY/JAVA. 3D Reality, DataPhile, and Create are trademarks of Stone Design Corporation. The Stone Design logotype is copyright Stone Design 1994. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@pulse.squonk.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: New version of mCD (music CD) for NeXTSTEP Date: 5 Nov 1997 04:32:53 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <63ostl$223$1@news.digifix.com> mCD is written by Garance Alistair Drosehn, email: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu mCD.app is a program for listening to music CD's under NeXTSTEP. You will need to be root to setup the program properly, as the executable (mCD.app/mCD) has to be setuid root. If you do not do that, then the program will tell you how to do that when you try to run it. This is the version of mCD as of Oct 26th, 1997 (which I also call "version 0.22", for what that's worth). When starting up mCD, you need to hit the "load" button for the first CD you want to play (you might want to check the preference settings before doing that). After that, you can eject CD's and it will automatically detect when you insert a new one. This is compiled under NeXTSTEP 3.3, and should work on releases 3.2 thru 4.2. It probably won't compile under Rhapsody (although I intend to make a Rhapsody version once I have a Rhapsody machine). For those who have been picking this up off eclipse, the biggest change in this version is that it knows to skip "data tracks" on music CD's (such as the new Genesis, or recent Sarah McLachlan releases). For those who picked this up from other ftp sites, such as peak, there's a number of other changes which might be of interest. Seems I hadn't updated the one on peak since 1995! The program is available at: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/misc/mCD.README ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/misc/mCD.971026.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/misc/mCD.971026.s.tar.gz And also at: ftp://eclipse.its.rpi.edu/NeXT/apps/mCD_f/00-README ftp://eclipse.its.rpi.edu/NeXT/apps/mCD_f/mCD-971026-H.tar.gz ftp://eclipse.its.rpi.edu/NeXT/apps/mCD_f/mCD-971026-I.tar.gz ftp://eclipse.its.rpi.edu/NeXT/apps/mCD_f/mCD-971026-N.tar.gz ftp://eclipse.its.rpi.edu/NeXT/apps/mCD_f/mCD-971026-S.tar.gz ftp://eclipse.its.rpi.edu/NeXT/apps/mCD_f/mCD-971026_NIHS.tar.gz ftp://eclipse.its.rpi.edu/NeXT/apps/mCD_f/mCD-971026_src.tar.gz
From: info@caffeineSoft.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Caffeine Software Announce Release of TIFFany3 PR-2 Date: 6 Nov 1997 20:11:00 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <63t88k$pr9$1@news.digifix.com> For Immediate Release For further information, please contact: Caffeine Software info@caffeineSoft.com Caffeine Software Announce Release of TIFFany3 PR-2 November 5, 1997 -- Naters, Switzerland -- Caffeine Software, publishers of TIFFany, the renown image editing package for NeXTSTEP and OpenStep, announce the availability of TIFFany3 PR-2 for OpenStep. TIFFany3 is a high-end image processing application featuring multiple layer document support and the Magic Brush, for which the application has become famous over the past 5 years. TIFFany3 PR-2 is available for the three OpenStep 4.2 architectures as well as a twin-fat binary for Apple's new operating system, code-named Rhapsody. This new twin-fat binary runs on Rhapsody Developer Release for Intel and PowerPC processors. TIFFany3 PR-2 comes with a one-user full floating license which expires on January 15, 1998. This PR-2 release is the second official Beta-Release and features many bug fixes as well as new features and speed enhancements in comparison to the PR-1 release. A complete list of changes can be found at the Caffeine Software web page at http://www.caffeineSoft.com/ Since the PR-2 release is a beta application release running on a pre-beta operating system, we appreciate any comments and suggestions as well as bug reports which any users may have. Such reports should be submitted to bugs@caffeineSoft.com. TIFFany3 is not just a port of the well-known TIFFany2 to Rhapsody but rather an all-new imaging application designed to increase the productivity of today's graphics professionals. It features a multithreaded kernel as well as a smart memory management to keep memory consumption at a minimum. A particular emphasis has been put on the creative tools, which allow the artist to focus on what s/he intends to achieve rather than on the process itself. The included batch manager allows for simple handling of repetitive processes, and the pipelining tool allows the combined application of multiple Actions (such as Sharp and Contrast) at the same time by a simple drag-and-drop definition. The sophisticated open API allows 3rd party developers to extend TIFFany3 by designing specific plug-in modules for customer's needs. Some of TIFFany's key features: * Arbitrary number of layers in arbitrary size, resolution and color space * Arbitrary number of views for each document * Input of any standard bitmap format as well as EPS * Output of JPEG compressed EPS files * Anything that modifies the image in any sort is by definition an Action * Any Action can be used in combination with a brush, marquee or fill * Action Manager for simple management of Actions * Individual Compositing and Filtering settings for each Action * Any combination of Actions can be defined as a Process Action and hence be applied as one individual Action, even for brushing * Over 50 different Actions for color balancing, sharpening, noise reduction, special effects etc. * Get quickly started with over 300 pre-defined parameter sets for Actions, covering various image processing needs. * Automatic image masking by color, region, brightness or any other attribute or a combination thereof * High-quality image scaling and rotating * Undo history for multi-level undo with instant multiple undo and replay * Settable individual Smooth Step for each Marquee, for fade-in effects at Marquee's edges * Binary operations with Marquees (Union, Intersection, Exclusion) * Non-interactive actions applied in the background * "Smart Brush" - does not reapply an Action to previously touched areas in order to avoid undesired multiple effects, even between individual brush strokes. * Any operation can be queued and scheduled for any number of images * Processing daemon - a series of operations can be defined to be applied to any image in a set of specified directories. This allows for a processing server with simple file-drag operation * Open API with sample sources for 3rd party developers For a more complete list of Actions and other features please visit Caffeine Software's web site at: hhtp://www.caffeineSoft.com/ This latest version of TIFFany is the result of several years of experience from customers ranging from the hobby photographer to the world's space agencies. Thanks to the unleashed power of Rhapsody, TIFFany3 represents the most flexible imaging tool yet. For further information, please contact: Caffeine Software info@caffeineSoft.com http://www.caffeineSoft.com/ ~~~ Caffeine Software was founded in 1990. The company quickly specialized in custom image processing for the NeXT computer system. In 1993, Caffeine Software presented TIFFany, a high-end imaging package. Since then, Caffeine Software has extended the product line with other applications for imaging needs while TIFFany maintained it's reputation as the most renown imaging package on NeXTSTEP and OpenStep. Caffeine Software and TIFFany are trademarks of Caffeine Software.
From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (7.11.97) Date: 7 Nov 1997 20:59:57 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <63vvgd$s81$1@news.digifix.com> On the Peanuts NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next, [129.187.249.15]): 37707 Oct 29 05:19 Usenet/news/1997/Ann-10.gz 38483 Oct 30 09:45 Usenet/news/1997/Bugs-10.gz 1096 Oct 31 11:28 OpenStep/games/Empire.0.6.README 991770 Nov 1 03:10 OpenStep/games/Empire.0.6.m.NIS.bs.tar.gz 193033 Oct 30 16:55 Usenet/news/1997/Hard-10.gz 103567 Oct 30 16:45 Usenet/news/1997/Misc-10.gz 142133 Oct 30 09:47 Usenet/news/1997/Prog-10.gz 345769 Oct 30 06:13 Tools/security/SkeyCalc.1.1.NI.b.gz 675005 Oct 30 06:16 Tools/security/SkeyCalc.1.1.NIHS.b.gz 6792 Oct 30 06:14 Tools/security/SkeyCalc.1.1.README 184108 Oct 30 16:08 Usenet/news/1997/Soft-10.gz 200831 Oct 30 15:47 Usenet/news/1997/Sys-10.gz 111656 Oct 30 16:52 Usenet/news/1997/de.comp.sys.next-10.gz 356415 Oct 27 02:45 Rhapsody/developer/pdksh.5.2.3.RDR.b.pkg.tar.gz Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/pub/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-hamburg.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-siegen.de/ France: ftp://ftp.fdn.fr/, ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Switzerland: ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/ UUCP (Germany) wburg.hanse.de (Tel. ++49-40-307 89 06) Mailbox (Germany) (Tel. ++49-8803-61111, ISDN ++49-8803-62149). Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from december 199e. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.leo.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.leo.org)
From: Hermann Steier <hermann@aaa-plus.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Joy for Windows Released Date: 7 Nov 1997 20:59:41 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <63vvft$s7p$1@news.digifix.com> JOY FOR WINDOWS RELEASED NEW RAPID SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TOOL FOR WINDOWS 95 AND NT VIENNA, Austria, November 7, 1997. AAA+ Software today announced the release of "Joy for Windows". Joy is a tool for very quick, interactive software development. Programs developed with Joy run on Windows 95/NT, Apple Rhapsody, and OPENSTEP/Unix, with no porting required. Joy is based on OPENSTEP, a software widely acknowledged as one of the most advanced object-oriented development environments, and used by Apple as the foundation of its new Rhapsody operating system. With Joy, developers can take advantage of the rich object-oriented frameworks of OPENSTEP without the need to get familiar with a complex development environment. Joy boosts developer creativity and productivity by enabling programmers to quickly and interactively try out new ideas. Professional applications can thus be developed step by step, through rapid creation of prototypes. FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS - integration with OPENSTEP's graphical tools for GUI construction - object oriented scripting language to implement program logic - interactive testing of new code without recompiling or even restarting - all methods of classes in OPENSTEP frameworks available in scripts - interactive sending of messages to explore OPENSTEP frameworks - script variables graphically connected to User Interface Objects - inspect and change any object's variables or methods at runtime - definition of new classes and methods at runtime - methods can be implemented for both classes and single instances - internal, invisible use of byte-code compilation to boost performance - free mixing of interpreted scripts and compiled C++, C and Objective-C - scripted methods transparently callable from compiled Objective-C DEPLOY THE SAME CODE FOR APPLE AND WINDOWS Joy extends the OPENSTEP suite of development tools, which is available for Windows 95/NT, Rhapsody and Mach Unix. Regardless where Joy programs are developed, they can be run without modification on all platforms, and adopt their look and feel to the local platform. More than 10,000 registered Apple developers have recently received the prerelease version of Apple's new operating system Rhapsody with Joy already bundled. They can now deploy their Joy programs on Windows. The extensive object-oriented frameworks of OPENSTEP are a key part of the technology that Apple acquired through the merger with NeXT for it's new operating system Rhapsody. Many Fortune 500 companies have successfully used OPENSTEP to build mission critical custom applications and enterprise solutions. The tremendous benefits of this technology are widely acknowledged throughout the industry (Byte magazine called it 'the most respected piece of software on the planet'), yet to master it requires a major investment of time and effort. Joy softens the steep learning curve for Windows developers. The Joy interpreter gives easy and interactive access to the extensive OPENSTEP class libraries that Apple is selling for Windows 95 and Windows NT as part of its OPENSTEP Enterprise product. Joy is based on technology used internally by AAA+ since 1993 to develop large financial applications. It has thus been thoroughly tested and validated in day to day operation. PRICES AND AVAILABILITY A free, fully-enabled evaluation version of Joy is available from http://www.aaa-plus.com/joy/download.html and ftp sites, including ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/windows/demos/Joy.1.02.w.I.b.tar.gz Introductory pricing for regular licenses is $49 for Joy Explorer and $299 for Joy Developer. On 1 December, 1997 prices are set to increase to $69 and $399, respectively. Joy Explorer is ideal for users who want to explore the class library and develop smaller scale applications, Joy Developer is for users interested in developing large scale applications. Upgrading later from a Joy Explorer license to Joy Developer is possible. OPENSTEP Enterprise is available from AAA+ and Apple's Enterprise Software and Services Division. It is priced at $1499. ABOUT AAA+ SOFTWARE AAA+ creates award-winning financial risk management software for large European banks based on OPENSTEP technology. Starting with the release of Joy, proven technologies originally developed for AAA+ Software's internal use are available to all OPENSTEP developers. AAA+ Software F&E GmbH., headquartered in Vienna, Austria, grew out of a university research lab in advanced software technologies in 1993. CONTACT Werner Staringer AAA+ Software Tel. +43-1-533-66-65-42 mailto:star@aaa-plus.com AAA+, Joy Explorer, and Joy Developer are registered trademarks of AAA+ Software F&E GmbH. Apple, Macintosh and OPENSTEP are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Windows 95 and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp. Additional names may be trademarks of individual companies and are respectfully acknowledged.
From: Gerald Erdmann <gerald@stepman.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Rhapsody presentation at BeNG meeting (Nov. 3rd) Date: 30 Oct 1997 20:33:51 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <63aqvf$5ie$1@news.digifix.com> **** MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT **** Berlin NEXTSTEP User Group (BeNG) November meeting ================================================== The Berlin NeXT User Group (BeNG) in co-operation with Apple Computer Germany invite you to a free presentation of the first developer version of Apple's upcoming MacOS successor operating system, code-named "Rhapsody" on Monday, November 3rd 1997, 7:00pm Apple staff will be present and eager to answer your questions regarding Rhapsody. They will also show the fascinating possibilities Rhapsody will offer. The presentation will take place in the main building of the Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin) in Room H 2038, 2nd floor Strasse des 17. Juni 135 D-10623 Berlin-Charlottenburg Entrance is free, no reservation necessary, but PLEASE COME ON TIME, for we will have to leave the room at about 9:30pm! ABOUT RHAPSODY With the acquisition of NeXT Software Inc. one year ago, Apple opted for NeXT's product OPENSTEP for Mach (better known under its former name "NEXTSTEP") as the basis for its new operating system following MacOS. The "next generation OS", code-named "Rhapsody", offers multi-tasking, modern memory management and memory protection, Display PostScript, object-oriented development tools, complete Java integration and all the highlights known from MacOS like QuickTime Media Layer and ColorSync. HOW TO GET THERE We meet in Room H 2038 on the 2st floor of the main build of the Technical University of Berlin. It is located Strasse des 17. Juni 135 near the western city-center of Berlin. Follow the guides in the building. * by bike or public transport: We recommend coming by bicycle or using the public transport (BVG/S-Bahn): You can either take the underground line U2 or bus 145 or bus X9 and leave at 'Ernst-Reuter-Platz' (+ 200m walking), or you choose bus 245 up to Ernst-Reuter-Platz (+ 200m walking). The nearest rapid transit ("S-Bahn") station is "Tiergarten" (~800 m/ ~10 min walking distance); you get there via the rapid transit lines S3, S5, S7 or S75. * by car - from North (Wedding [No joke, it's the name of a district of Berlin! :-)], Moabit, Reinickendorf, Pankow ...) Main direction is Turmst. or Beusselst. and then "Alt-Moabit" St. Follow them south, crossing the Spree River via the Gotzkowsky Bridge until Ernst-Reuter-Platz. Drive around the roundabout traffic and leave the place to Strasse des 17. Juni. No. 135 is located on the right side. - all other directions: Head for Ernst-Reuter-Platz via Bismarckst. or Hardenbergst. (from the West-Berlin city center/Zoo) or "Strasse des 17. Juni"/Grosser Stern. From the roundabout Ernst-Reuter-Platz, take the "Strasse des 17. Juni". exit. After 200 m you see No. 135 at right side. There is a limited number of parking lots near the building. [This "map" should be viewed / in a non-proportional font!] / n / \ / i / \ \ / l / \^^^^\ V k / \^^^^\ n / \ \^^^^/ a \ \ E \^^/ r . \ \ \ i \/ F /^\ S \ \ \ \ n /^^^\ a \ O \ \ \ \ - \^^^^\ l \ t \ \ \ / s \^^^^\ z \ \ t \ Guericke- \ \ / r./\ t \^^^^\ u \ \ o \ str. \ \/ t / \ e \^^^^\ f \ \ - \ \ s / \ i \^^^^\ e \ \ S \ / h / \ n \^^^^\ r \ \ u \ / c / \ u \^^^^\ \ .. \ h \ / r / \ f \^^^^\ \ // \ r \Bus / a / \ e \^^^^\ \ // \ - \145. __/ M /Bus 245 \ r \^^^^\ . // \ S \--" \ \ \^^^^\ S-Bahnhof \ t \ \ \^^^^\ Tiergarten ----------" r. Ernst- ---------------" "----"...---- //---...--- Bismarck- Reuter- Strasse des // strasse Platz 17. Juni // ------------. .-----------------------...----//----...---- "-. .=" | H 2038 | // U2 ". Ha \ Bus 145 --------- // U2 \ rd \ U2 // \ en \ // \ be \ // S3,S5 \ rg \ // S7,S75 \ st \ // \ r. \ // \ \ U+S-Bahnhof \ \ Zoologischer \ \ Garten You find a better card at http://www.stepman.com/beng.html! --------------------------------------------------------------------- | GERALD ERDMANN (STEPman) | email: gerald @ stepman.com (NeXTmail welcome) | voice: +49 30 397 31 400 (Germany - Berlin) | crypt: pgp2 public key available |
From: Eric Tremblay <ericet@CAM.ORG> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Nebula CDROM special offer from author Date: 10 Nov 1997 04:33:23 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <6462qj$5ut$1@news.digifix.com> PRESS RELEASE SPECIAL OFFER DIRECTLY FROM THE AUTHOR BUY A NEBULA CDROM for NEXTSTEP and RECEIVE A FREE JOLT! GAMES FOR JAVA CDROM. Montreal, Canada, November 8th -- For everyone interested in learning more about NEXTSTEP programming the Nebula Quad-Fat CDROM offers hundreds of NEXTSTEP applications with full source code. This is a great resource for programmers, permitting them to learn from other peoples source code. The Nebula CDROM also offers more then 750 applications for computers running NEXTSTEP. For a limited time only. Special price is $49.95 U.S. for the Nebula Quad-FAT CDROM and included at no extra cost the Jolt! Games for the JAVA Platform CDROM. Jolt! gives you 72 game oriented applets most of them come with full source code. Prices do not include shipping (U.S., Canada and international is $5). This offer is only available from the author directly. The publisher will not and does NOT offer this special. What on Nebula? It's a collection of Quad-FAT applications. With applications in such categories as utilities, games, astronomy, financial, educational, graphics, mail, etc. They will also find graphics in tiff, PostScript, gif and login panels. Also on the disc is a large collection fonts and sounds plus many other files. Each directory on the disk contains an index listing filename, version, author and a short description of each file. A central index is also included which can be used with Digital Librarian to quickly locate the file your looking for. NEXTSTEP 3.2 or above for Motorola, Intel, PA-RISC or SPARC processors is required to use this disc. For more information Details about the this offer are available at http://www.cam.org/~ericet/special.html. Alternatively, you can send an e-mail to ericet@cam.org. Ordering Information: There are several ways you can order directly from the author! By Email at ericet@cam.org , By Fax (514) 279-4848 Payment, we accept the following credit cards: Visa, MasterCard. Be sure to list the complete card number and the expiration date. We also accept checks in US$. All orders must be prepaid. We accept checks and money orders in U.S. dollars, made payable to Eric Tremblay.
From: "Paul J. Sanchez" <paul@spectrum.SLU.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Blue Sky Postcript AMS fonts for TeX Date: 10 Nov 1997 04:33:43 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <6462r7$5uu$1@news.digifix.com> 09-Nov-1997 Blue Sky Research has made their high quality postscript versions of the Computer Modern and AMS fonts for TeX freely available for general use (as described in the excerpt from their READ.ME file included below). I have packaged these as NeXT style .font directories and put them into .pkg files for easy installation. I have done so for the convenience of the NeXTstep/OpenStep community. No warranty is expressed or implied. The full distribution consists of three files. I anticipate they will wind up in: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/fonts/tex/BlueSkyFonts.README ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/fonts/tex/BlueSkyCM.tar.gz ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/fonts/tex/BlueSkyAMS.tar.gz Both .tar.gz files will create their own subdirectory with an installer package, the original READ.ME file from the CTAN sources, and a file called README.NeXT containing installation instructions for NextStep/OpenStep. The CM directory also contains two test files which are further explained in the installation instructions. Many thanks to Blue Sky Research, Y&Y Inc., and the AMS for making these available. Enjoy! --Paul J. Sanchez Associate Professor Parks College of St. Louis University paul@spectrum.slu.edu Note1 - I am aware that the space character is not properly mapped for use in other NeXT applications, such as Edit.app. You're free to correct this on your copy if you wish, but I wanted to make sure that I wasn't violating the copyright with this distribution. Note2 - The original distribution of the CM fonts had a problem with lcircle10 - the name had been truncated to lcircle1 for DOS compatibility, and I didn't catch that until after the package was on the ftp site. The updated BlueSkyCM.tar.gz package fixes the problem. If you already installed the CM fonts, you fix this manually by renaming (in /LocalLibrary/Fonts): LCIRCLE1.font ==> LCIRCLE10.font LCIRCLE1.font/LCIRCLE1 ==> LCIRCLE10.font/LCIRCLE10 LCIRCLE1.font/LCIRCLE1.afm ==> LCIRCLE10.font/LCIRCLE10.afm Then edit /usr/lib/tex/ps/psfonts.cm and add 0's at the end of "lcircle1" and "LCIRCLE1" (which are both on the same line). =============== Excerpt from the READ.ME file =================== The PostScript Type 1 implementation of the Computer Modern fonts produced by and previously distributed by Blue Sky Research and Y&Y, Inc. are now freely available for general use. This has been accomplished through the cooperation of a consortium of scientific publishers with Blue Sky Research and Y&Y. Members of this consortium include: Elsevier Science IBM Corporation Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Springer-Verlag American Mathematical Society (AMS) In order to assure the authenticity of these fonts, copyright will be held by the American Mathematical Society. This is not meant to restrict in any way the legitimate use of the fonts, such as (but not limited to) electronic distribution of documents containing these fonts, inclusion of these fonts into other public domain or commercial font collections or computer applications, use of the outline data to create derivative fonts and/or faces, etc. However, the AMS does require that the AMS copyright notice be removed from any derivative versions of the fonts which have been altered in any way. In addition, to ensure the fidelity of TeX documents using Computer Modern fonts, Professor Donald Knuth, creator of the Computer Modern faces, has requested that any alterations which yield different font metrics be given a different name.
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines for comp.sys.next.announce Supersedes: <400878446826@digifix.com> Date: 9 Nov 1997 04:46:10 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <11554879051632@digifix.com> Cross Posting ============= I try very hard to make sure that postings get out in a timely fashion. Most go out in less than 24 hours. Postings that require editing because they do not contain information in a useable format, or have already been posted to other comp.sys.next.* groups may be delayed, or returned to you. If your posting is rejected, I'll try and make suggestions about what should be changed where possible. Obviously off charter messages (spams, open-letters, etc) may not get a response. Content Guidelines ================== Try to keep submissions short and concise (80-100 lines max). Include full instructions on contacting you (where applicable) All Postings e-mail address, telephone (optional) Press Release toll-free voice phone, toll-free fax, voice phone, fax phone mailing address,info@blahblah.com,retail price,educational price availability Software available ftp site full path to file IN URL FORMAT supported CPU's for binary distributions, OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting, time of meeting, speakers expected Signatures will be deleted automatically, so please don't rely on your .sig for the contact information Please double check all information you are posting for accuracy. If you are announcing software available by FTP, make sure the copy on the archive site is good. Announcement of Product Sales ============================= This is an area of announcement that has caused me terrible grief in the past. The policy is tilted towards the ISV, which has worked out well in the past. Posts that announce sales of products that you are DIRECTLY involved in the development of are OK. Posts from companies trying to sell other products are evaluated on an individual basis. Time Sensitive Announcements ============================ Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date. Unfortunately, that can be the worst time for you to get access to your internet connection to send the announcements to comp.sys.next.announce. In order to make comp.sys.next.announce as timely as possible, I will accept "post-dated" announcements for release on a specific future date. All information will be kept confidential until the requested release date, and NDAs will be signed where required to ensure this. Hopefully this will make these announcements arrive at users sites as quickly as if you posted them directly to comp.sys.next.whatever. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com. Questions and comments to next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <398878446823@digifix.com> Date: 9 Nov 1997 04:46:07 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <11552879051630@digifix.com> Topics include: Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites NeXTanswers Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites ============================================ The following sites are a sample of the OpenStep related WWW sites available. A comprehensive list is available on Stepwise. Stepwise OpenStep/Rhapsody Information Server http://www.stepwise.com Stepwise has been serving the OpenStep/NEXTSTEP community since March 1993. Some of the many resources on the site include: OpenStep Third Party Software guide, Developer Directory, Mailing List information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites related to OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related Frequently Asked Questions. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. This is the World Wide Web interace to the FTP site. Apple Enterprise Software Group (formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.) http://www.next.com Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software patches. Apple Computer's 'Prelude to Rhapsody' Self Support Site http://devworld.apple.com/dev/prelude.html This site has been constructed to help you help yourself to learn as much as possible about the foundation for Rhapsody, today's OPENSTEP. The site provides an informal collection of pointers, references, and starting points for developers who are using the Prelude to Rhapsody bundle, distributed at this year's Worldwide Developer Conference. OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups ==================================================== COMP.SYS.NEXT.ADVOCACY This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. COMP.SYS.NEXT.ANNOUNCE Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. COMP.SYS.NEXT.BUGS A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-specific groups as well. COMP.SYS.NEXT.HARDWARE Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. COMP.SYS.NEXT.MARKETPLACE NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. COMP.SYS.NEXT.MISC For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! COMP.SYS.NEXT.PROGRAMMER Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. COMP.SYS.NEXT.SOFTWARE This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. ** RELATED NEWSGROUPS ** COMP.SOFT-SYS.NEXTSTEP Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. COMP.LANG.OBJECTIVE-C Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. COMP.OBJECT Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. Getting the Newsgroups without getting News =========================================== Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are now available as a mailing list digest as well. next-nextstep next-advocacy next-announce next-bugs next-hardware next-marketplace next-misc next-programmer next-software next-sysadmin object lang-objective-c (For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's. To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying: subscribe where * is the name of the list e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites ================================= ftp://ftp.next.peak.org The main site for North American submissions formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu ftp://ftp.peanuts.org: (Peanuts) Located in Germany. Comprehensive archive site. Very well maintained. ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next NeGeN/NiNe (NEXTSTEP Gebruikers Nederland/NeXTSTEP in the Netherlands) ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next eduStep ftp://ftp.next.com: See below ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com ===================================== [from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help] Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system! This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, read them on the world-wide web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS. NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being. NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests. USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to nextanswers@next.com. Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by default; you can request they be sent as ASCII text files instead. To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the body of the message. You can request several files in a single message. You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message. These commands affect the way that files you request are sent: ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME Message/Partial specification REPLY-TO address sets the e-mail address NeXTanswers uses These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system: HELP returns this help file INDEX returns the list of all available files INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list (ignoring capitalization) For example, a message with the following Subject line requests three files: Subject: 2101 2234 1109 A message with this body requests the same three files be sent as ASCII text files: 2101 2234 1109 ascii This message requests two lists of files, one for each search: Subject: SEARCH Dell SCSI SEARCH NetInfo domain NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. To use a different address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command REPLY-TO If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement, please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the files will be faxed to you. If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada. USING NEXTANSWERS VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web server at URL http://www.next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY ANONYMOUS FTP To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using this, please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY MODEM To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at (415) 780-2965. Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section. From there you can download NeXTanswers documents. FOR MORE HELP... If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available from NeXTanswers, call the Support Hotline at 1-800-955-NeXT (outside the U.S. call +1-415-424-8500) to speak to a NEXTSTEP Technical Support Technician. If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must make this call to the hotline. Otherwise, hotline support is on a pay-per-call basis. Thanks for using NeXTanswers! _________________________________________________________________ Written by: Eric P. Scott ( eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU ) and Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com ) Additions from: Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com ) Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net ) Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Samba 1.9.17p4 with NetInfo Date: 10 Nov 1997 21:25:56 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <647u54$9e$1@news.digifix.com> Hello everybody. As a site with a very heterogeneous computer environment, I ran into the problem of wanting to share our NEXTSTEP partitions with the NT machines we also have. Samba was first delivered with OS4, so I used that. Then came the service pack 3 on the NT machines and nothing worked anymore. The new version of Samba, however took care of that BUT: now I had to maintain a passwd file - ugh: nidump periodically, properly update the passwd file and .... Just a bit too much. I thought of modifying Samba such that it would read NetInfo rather than flat files ... and now I've done it. This version of Samba reads NetInfo for its configuration, printers, passwords, and lmhosts data (traversing the hierarchy as necessary). It will automatically revert to the flat files (except for the passwords) if NetInfo is not configured or valid file names are supplied. For the time beeing, you will have to make the entries in NetInfo manually (with NetInfoManager.app or the ni-utils). But stay tuned, the SambaManager.app is on its way ... I have also tried (but failed) to install a new character set (NeXT). It currently doesn't correctly map the characters yet, though. This still needs more work. This version has compiled fine under NEXTSTEP3.3 and OPENSTEP4.0. I have only tested the NS3.3 binaries (both under NS3.3 and OS4.0, NeXT and Intel) and they seem to work, although the log files do show a lot of error messages and I failed to automatically mount the user's home directories (perhaps a configuration problem). The modified sources are available from: ftp://ftp.ifi.unibas.ch/unix/next-3.3/samba-1.9.17p4.s.tar.gz You will need to grab the libdes sources if you must use the service pack 3 compatible security mode: ftp://ftp.ifi.unibas.ch/unix/general/libdes-4.00.tar.gz The precompiled binaries (they include libdes, beware of restrictions of use!): ftp://ftp.ifi.unibas.ch/unix/next-3.3/samba-1.9.17p4.NIHS.tar.gz ftp://ftp.ifi.unibas.ch/unix/openstep_mach/samba-1.9.17p4.NIS.tar.gz As this still needs more work, and I havn't sent the changes to the original authors, I will currently not put the sources onto any other server, but if you wish to do so, don't hesitate. -Robert -- Institut fuer Informatik tel +41 (0)61 321 99 67 Universitaet Basel fax. +41 (0)61 321 99 15 Robert Frank Mittlere Strasse 142 rfc822: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (NeXT,MIME mail ok) CH-4056 Basel X400: S=frank;OU=ifi;O=unibas;P=switch;A=arcom;C=ch Switzerland
From: Tom Hageman <tom@basil.icce.rug.nl> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Gary Ritchie's WindowDepth.preferences, version 1.0[trh1] Date: 11 Nov 1997 04:09:58 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <648lqm$9pt$1@news.digifix.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- This is an update of Gary Ritchie's WindowDepth Preferences module. (I don't seem to be able to keep my grubby paws out of other people's code;-) This version supports both NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP defaults. The user interface is revised as well, to use the sparse vertical window real-estate more economically. WindowDepth.preferences is a Preferences.app module that lets you tinker with the maximum window depth of applications. It requires NeXTSTEP 3.x or OPENSTEP/Mach 4.x. It comes with the source code, but is also compiled for those without a development system. TO INSTALL WITHOUT COMPILING: Copy WindowDepth.preferences from WindowDepth.bproj to one of the following directories: ~/Library/Preferences /LocalLibrary/Preferences See the accompanying README file for more information. It can be found at: <ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/preferences/WindowDepth.preferences.1.0.NIHS.bs.tar.gz> <ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/preferences/WindowDepth.preferences.1.0.README> [It should turn up at ftp://peanuts.leo.org/ in a few days...] Please report any bugs or suggestions to <tom@basil.icce.rug.nl>. Enjoy! Tom Hageman. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: next iQCVAwUBNGeDRTHcGwCnCAFpAQFy3AP/aM5ZJqRELg/ASDplWu2Qbge0i/x0XbYE rFUAssEBpBtzARHum1ter3M+gw1AuCu6YghkAk33uii7Vbb7DUoHTLO6HLFG484M gQsbPSI/4HjZmxrX9ckNY95HmZKl22KOq3WHDmp/X21bCL6uWhEoSfBcPxjPKlqi AWTqAYViQ6Q= =xidS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- __/__/__/__/ Tom Hageman <tom@basil.icce.rug.nl> [NeXTmail/Mime OK] __/ __/_/ IC Group <tom@icgned.nl> (work) __/__/__/ __/ _/_/ Confused? You won't be after the NeXT episode.
From: Liz Cooper <liz@ergotech.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: ErgoTech Announces ActiveX Controls For ErgoCim Date: 12 Nov 1997 22:45:49 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <64dbit$ajh$1@news.digifix.com> Press Release - for immediate release ErgoTech Announces ActiveX Controls For ErgoCim LOS ALAMOS, NM November 11, 1997 - ErgoTech Systems, a leading independent supplier of OpenStep/NeXTSTEP component software for manufacturing integration, machine control, and factory automation announces the availability of a bridge to link Microsoft ActiveX controls to ErgoCim under Windows 32-bit development environments. ErgoCim is ErgoTech's premier integratable component based automation, data acquisition, and machine control software package for manufacturing. "This expands and simplifies the building of components for ErgoCim," stated Jim Redman, President of ErgoTech. "Software developers and systems integrators have wide choice of ActiveX controls and development tools, including popular visual development environments such as Microsoft's Visual Basic." ActiveX controls on ErgoCims manufacturing framework simplify the building of robust enterprise systems as well as custom machine controls. MOFA, ErgoTech's open architecture manufacturing framework, is ORB independent, supporting both DCOM and CORBA ORBs. MOFA is designed for distributed computing environments and the integration of manufacturing applications. The whole system is very simple in concept and truly open in design. This further extends ErgoTech's commitment to industry-wide compatibility and support for open software systems for manufacturers, giving both software and equipment developers more freedom of choice and slashing both development time and maintenance costs. About ErgoTech Systems, Inc. ErgoTech is a leading independent provider of quality distributed object technology and component software for manufacturers and equipment builders. ErgoTech's object-oriented "MOFA" open architecture framework allows the integration of tools and equipment and other information, allowing the creation of an integratable manufacturing execution system (IMES). This enables the building of next generation advanced applications for manufacturing and equipment control, especially in the high tech, high growth industries such as aerospace, semiconductor, and automotive, as well as serving the needs of discrete manufacturing industries. ErgoTech's technology provides easy access to information located throughout the organization, including real-time process information, and information stored in legacy applications such as MRP II or ERP systems. ErgoCim runs on MOFA and is sold as a suite of applications and runtime loadable components to provide shop floor automation, machine control, and enterprise-wide manufacturing information access. ErgoTech Systems, Inc. PO Box 1287 901 18th Street Los Alamos, NM 87544 Contact: Elizabeth Cooper, VP Business Development ecooper@ergotech.com toll free (888)ERGOTEC or 505-662-5156 505-662-7442 Fax Sales: Ron Stevens rstevens@ergotech.com toll free (888)667-5156 info@ergotech.com http://www.ergotech.com
From: Scott Keith <scott@usa.openbase.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: OpenBase for Rhapsody (PPC & Intel) Now Available Date: 14 Nov 1997 06:15:11 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <64gq9f$73m$1@news.digifix.com> ------------------------------------------------------ OPENBASE NEWS! ------------------------------------------------------ 1. OPENBASE FOR RHAPSODY (PPC & PC-Compatibles) AVAILABLE NOW! 2. SPECIAL DEVELOPER PRICING ($99 per connection, 5 Pack) 3. RHAPSODY DEMO CD: INSTALLATION PROBLEMS? 4. OPENBASE LITE: INFORMATION ON THE FREE LICENSE 5. DOWNLOAD SITES & INSTRUCTIONS ------------------------------------------------------ OPENBASE INTERNATIONAL LTD. http://www.openbase.com 58 Greenfield Road e-mail: info@openbase.com Francestown, NH 03043 USA TEL: 603.547.8404/FAX: 603.547.2423 ------------------------------------------------------ 1. OPENBASE FOR RHAPSODY (PPC & PC-Compatibles) AVAILABLE NOW! ------------------------------------------------------ OpenBase International, Ltd. has made OpenBase Network & OpenBase Lite available for both the PC-Compatibles and PPC versions of Rhapsody. OpenBase is a high performance SQL engine that handles all of the complexities of data storage and multi-user communication for end-user applications. Aggressive multi-threading, row level locking, text searching, change notification and variable record length technology makes OpenBase a robust database solution. Some of the companies who use OpenBase include: Adobe Systems, Allegheny College, AT&T, Canon Systems Globalization, Disney, First National Bank of Chicago, Peek Financial Group, MCI, P&L Systems, Motorola, Apple Enterprise Software, LGS-Systems, OneStep Solutions PLC, The Royal Danish Police and The Sharper Image. Since 1991, OpenBase International, Ltd. has sold its database server software to customers in 37 different countries. Now it is available on Rhapsody! ------------------------------------------------------ 2. SPECIAL DEVELOPER PRICING ($99 per connection, 5 Pack) ------------------------------------------------------ OpenBase International, Ltd. is offering a special deal for Rhapsody developers: $495 for a 5 connection OpenBase Network license. The 5 connection OpenBase Network license includes ALL development tools needed to begin building Rhapsody database applications. It includes a native EOF adaptor, ISQL, OpenBase Manager, high level object libraries, and a low level C interface. OpenBase Network is 100% compatible with WebObjects. Call today to order your copy (603-547-8404). ------------------------------------------------------ 3. RHAPSODY DEMO CD: INSTALLATION PROBLEMS? ------------------------------------------------------ As some of you have already experienced, there are problems installing OpenBase off the Rhapsody Demo CD. If you would like to try OpenBase, please download it from one of our ftp sites (See directions below). OpenBase Lite & OpenBase Network now have a new installation program that makes installation easy on Rhapsody. A 7 day demo of OpenBase Network is available when you install. You also have the option to install the FREE OpenBase Lite license. IMPORTANT NOTE: When you download OpenBase for Rhapsody you MUST make sure to uncompress the file on your Rhapsody computer. DO NOT uncompress the file on MacOS. ------------------------------------------------------ 4. OPENBASE LITE: INFORMATION ON THE FREE LICENSE ------------------------------------------------------ OpenBase Lite is a FREE run time license to our popular SQL database. The purpose of the license is to allow software vendors to sell shrink-wrapped database applications without paying royalties for single licenses. OpenBase Lite provides a zero administration database interface. An EOF adaptor is included. OpenBase Lite does not include development tools and should not be used to host web applications (this would violate the license agreement). Inexpensive development licenses are available for Rhapsody development projects (See special offer described above). To receive OpenBase Lite download OpenBase5.1.3 from one of the sites listed below. OpenBase Lite for Yellow-Box on NT will be made available as soon as Yellow-box on NT is available. OpenBase Lite will not be available for OpenStep 4.2 systems. ------------------------------------------------------ 5. DOWNLOAD SITES & INSTRUCTIONS ------------------------------------------------------ OpenBase Lite & OpenBase Network now have a new installation program that makes installation easy on Rhapsody. A 7 day demo of OpenBase Network is available when you install. You also have the option to install the FREE OpenBase Lite license. OpenBase For Rhapsody PPC: USA - ftp://ftp.sirius.com/pub/RHAPSODY/OpenBase5.1.3_PPC.compressed USA - ftp://ftp.openbase.com/pub/RHAPSODY/OpenBase5.1.3_PPC.compressed EUROPE- ftp.onestep.co.uk/pub/OpenBase/RHAPSODY/OpenBase5.1.3_PPC.compressed OpenBase For Rhapsody INTEL: USA - ftp://ftp.sirius.com/pub/RHAPSODY/OpenBase5.1.3_INTEL.compressed USA - ftp://ftp.openbase.com/pub/RHAPSODY/OpenBase5.1.3_INTEL.compressed EUROPE- ftp.onestep.co.uk/pub/OpenBase/RHAPSODY/OpenBase5.1.3_INTEL.compressed OpenBase For Windows NT & OpenStep 4.2: See http://www.openbase.com DO NOT DECOMPRESS THE FILES ON MAC OS. COPY THE FILES DIRECTLY TO YOUR RHAPSODY COMPUTER. RHAPSODY INSTALLATION: 1. Decompress the OpenBase package. Here are the steps: Step#1 - Highlight OpenBase5.1.3_PPC.compressed in the FileViewer. Step#2 - In the File menu select "Decompress" 2. Run the OpenBase Setup program AS ROOT. Here are the steps: Step#1 - Highlight the Setup.app program in the OpenBase5.1.3_PPC directory. Step#2 - Go to the Services menu and select AppOpener->Open As Root. 3. Choose OpenBase Network to install a full version of OpenBase with all development & administration tools. A 7 day demo is provided automatically. 4. OR Choose OpenBase Lite to install the FREE single user version of OpenBase. OpenBase Lite includes an EOF adaptor but no admin tools. 5. Wait for the installation to finish. 6. Reboot your computer. ____________________________________________________________________
From: thomas@zippy.sonoma.edu (Thomas Poff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: LDAP from UofM for NeXTStep Date: 15 Nov 1997 04:37:57 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <64j8v5$904$1@news.digifix.com> Hi, I put a version of U of M's LDAP server up that compiles and works properly under Openstep 4.2 and NeXTStep 3.3. I am still working on building up a release that will work on Rhapsody. I would enjoy hearing what folks out there are doing with LDAP. For those who don't know, LDAP stands for "Lightweight Directory Access Protocol" and is in reality a kind of hierarchical database / object store mechanism that works via both command line and TCP/IP. That description is oversimplified but roughly accurate. The url is: http://next.ireadyco.com/~thomas/next <soon to be http://0000000.com> Enjoy, Thomas devjava@jps.net
From: Hermann Steier <hermann@aaa-plus.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: See JOY at MACWORLD and EDF '97 Date: 11 Nov 1997 21:09:38 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <64ahii$499$1@news.digifix.com> SEE JOY AT MACWORLD AND EDF '97 VIENNA, Austria, November 11, 1997. Joy, the Rhapsody exploration and programming tools by AAA+, will be presented at MacWorld 97, Duesseldorf, November 13-15, at the Apple booth (hall 13, booth E30). Special talks on Joy will be held at the Apple Seminar Center Thursday 15:30, Friday 16:00, and Saturday 11:30. See the Apple Info Desk for your personal Joy Demo outside these times, starting Thursday afternoon. Joy will also be presented at Apple's European Developer Forum 1997 (EDF) in Bruxelles. See a Joy demonstration at the AAA+ booth at the EDF Tools Expo or attend the session on Friday, November 21, 15:20, Room 1. To find out more about EDF and to register on-line go to http://edr.euro.apple.com/events/edf97/ Joy enables you to interactively send messages to objects of a running application. From within Rhapsody's Interface Builder, this is the best way to quickly explore the functionality of Rhapsody's extensive object oriented frameworks. Joy supports very quick, interactive software development. It is tightly integrated with IB for graphical GUI construction and includes an object-oriented scripting language to implement the program logic. Testing of new code can be done interactively within IB without recompiling or even restarting the tested program. The variables and methods of all objects can be inspected and modified on the fly. Programs developed with Joy run on Rhapsody, Windows 95/NT, and OPENSTEP/Unix, with no porting required. More information and a free, fully-enabled evaluation version are available at http://www.aaa-plus.com/joy/download.html ABOUT AAA+ SOFTWARE AAA+ creates award-winning financial risk management software for large European banks based on OPENSTEP technology. Starting with the release of Joy, proven technologies originally developed for AAA+ Software's internal use are available to all OPENSTEP developers. AAA+ Software F&E GmbH., headquartered in Vienna, Austria, grew out of a university research lab in advanced software technologies in 1993. CONTACT Hermann Steier AAA+ Software Tel. +43-1-533-66-65-0 mailto:hermann@aaa-plus.com AAA+, Joy Explorer, and Joy Developer are registered trademarks of AAA+ Software F&E GmbH. Macintosh and OPENSTEP are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Windows 95 and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp. Additional names may be trademarks of individual companies and are respectfully acknowledged.
From: Dwight Everhart <everhart@alterlife.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Chronographer 1.00 Date: 15 Nov 1997 22:26:56 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <64l7jg$2vi$1@news.digifix.com> Chronographer -- A daily planner application Dwight Everhart everhart@alterlife.com November 15, 1997 UPDATE ====== Chronographer version 1.00 has been released. Yes, the mythical commercial version has finally been let lose upon the Earth. It was released on Saturday, November 15, 1997. I apologize for the lateness of this release and for any interruption in service that you may have experienced when the previous version expired. Features added: o You can now pay for what you've been using, but you don't have to until February 1, 1998. Of course, the author would appreciate earlier payments if it's convenient for you. You may pay over the web (securely), by phone, fax, email, or postal mail. You may pay by credit card, U.S. check, EuroCheque, money order, or wire transfer. See the License help file page for details about how to pay. o The file format used to store your roles, goals, tasks, and appointments has been changed from a NeXT-specific binary one (typed streams) to a text format, ensuring portability to Rhapsody, Windows 95/NT, and Mac OS. Note however that, although the files can now be viewed in any text editor, they are not meant to be human readable or writable. Tweaking them will probably cause Chronographer to fail when trying to load them, so try to resist the temptation. The first time you start the new version of Chronographer, it will convert all of your files to the new format. Just to be safe, your old files will be renamed to "filename.old", if you should need to go back to them. If you wish to delete them later, feel free to. o As a side effect of the new file format, saving is now significantly faster. Unfortunately, loading is slower - for this release, at least. I'll see if I can optimize it. o Chronographer now has its own domain on the Internet. You can now find its web site at http://www.chronographer.com/. The mailing list has also moved to the new domain. Responses to requests to the list server will be much faster, since the list is now being hosted on a dedicated server connected to the net with dual T3 lines, instead of through a polled UUCP connection over a 14.4 Kbps modem without hardware error correction. Bugs fixed: o Nine mostly minor ones. See the release notes for details. These new features and fixed bugs are also described in Chronographer's release notes. Choose the Info-->Release Notes command to see them. AVAILABILITY ============ Chronographer is being distributed in one, quad-fat package: name: Chronographer.1.00.NIHS.b.tar.gz h/w: NeXT, Intel, HP-PA, SPARC size: 2755613 md5: 4f22325073defd1ff6a97f5ba4a44f6d sum32: 3508639707 You can download Chronographer from its new web page at http://www.chronographer.com/download.html. The page lists the sites where Chronographer is available. Just click on the site nearest you. The release is binary-only and includes software for NeXT, Intel, HP-PA, and SPARC hardware. It will run on NEXTSTEP versions 3.2 and later and on all versions of OPENSTEP for Mach. Please note the new address for this mailing list. Instead of chronographer-announce@alterlife.com, it is now announce-list@chronographer.com. Subscription and unsubscription requests should be sent to announce-list-request@chronographer.com. Include either "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" in the subject of the message. Of course, you can use the new version of Chronographer to handle the requests for you. Also, I will be changing my personal email address to everhart@chronographer.com soon, although the old one will continue to work until August 1998. I'd like to thank all of you for supporting Chronographer during these past 20 months of beta testing. Chronographer is a better program due to your comments and bug reports. With your continued support, it'll only get better. -- Dwight Everhart "We live in a society where the buck gets passed, Bella Vista, Arkansas and everyone's claiming to be a victim, and no everhart@alterlife.com one's responsible for their actions. Accepting PGP mail welcome responsibility is a virtue that's practically dead." -- Liam Neeson
From: Mike Gabrys <Mike_Gabrys@bang.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: BANG General Meeting; Rhapsody Development Date: 15 Nov 1997 22:39:42 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <64l8be$38f$1@news.digifix.com> **** ANNOUNCEMENT **** Bay Area Apple-NeXT GROUP General Meeting When: Wednesday, November 19, 7:00 PM Where: Apple Campus Town Hall - Building 4 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California Hit the Ground Running With Rhapsody Development (Overviews, Hints and Testimonials from the Trenches ...) These real world figures have kindly agreed to present: Dan Wood of Bear River Associates: "Mac Toolbox + PowerPlant + C++ Compared To Rhapsody" Eric Simenel of Apple Computer , Inc.: "How a 12-year Mac Developer Veteran Copes With Switching To Another Development Environment". A source code review and demo of - "My First Yellow Application" Steve Dekorte of Inquisit, Inc. and Robert Vasvari, consultant with Inquisit, Inc.: "Real YellowBox Business Apps" - a very cool app using AppKit and EOF, developed in 3 weeks. Please join us for the presentation, demos, Q&A, and dinner after the meeting at a nearby restaurant. ============================================================================ Presenter Bios: Dan Wood, a Mac programmer since the mid-eighties, is currently Senior Consulting Engineer at Bear River Associates, Inc., of Oakland, California. He has been working on an OPENSTEP project in his spare time since May's "Prelude to Rhapsody" release. Eric Simenel presently working for Apple Computer, Inc., has experience with software development on mainframe and mini-computers, four years development experience for the Macintosh platform and for eight years has supported Mac developers in Apple's DTS. Beginning last Spring, Eric has been learning/developing/training and supporting Rhapsody. He holds the French equivalent of a Computer Science Engineering Degree. Steve Dekorte is an OPENSTEP and WebObject software engineer for Inquisit, Inc., in San Francisco. Among his other contributions, he maintains a useful Web site, www.slip.net/~dekorte/ which includes a link to the "Rhapsody enlightening" Objective-C home page, which he maintains. His OO framework and GUI story begins in 1992 at the Supercomputer Computations Research Institute (SCRI), in Tallahasse, FL, and since then has worked with NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP since 1995. Steve is a frequent contributor to the Rhapsody-Dev.listserv which has become increasingly active with the shipment of Apple's Rhapsody DR-1.0 and he has worked as a NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP software engineer at Suite Software, Inc. and Marble Associates, Inc. Robert Vasvari is currently a consultant at Inquisit, Inc., where he is porting NEXTSTEP applications to OPENSTEP (Rhapsody is an easy port after that!) Formerly he worked as a NEXTSTEP Developer/Architect at Filoli Information Systems, as a NEXTSTEP Developer for a Speech Recognition Research Project at SF State University and before that as a NEXTSTEP Developer for the Neural Network Research Project at SFSU. Robert designed and built three popular NEXTSTEP freeware programs (available at next-ftp.peak.org): "RBrowser" - a remote filesystem browser; "HelpfileBuilder" - builds NEXTSTEP Help files for applications; "Starter" - a simple app that provides a platform to build on. He holds both a B.S. and M.S. in CS from SFSU. ============================================================================ Next Month's BaNG Meeting Wednesday, December 17, 1997, 7pm "Porting Mac Apps to Rhapsody Using Metrowerks Tools" David Hempling, CodeWarrior Latitude Technical Lead, will present "Porting Mac Apps with CodeWarrior Latitude" and Bob Campbell will present "Metrowerks' C/C++/ObjC compiler running on Rhapsody". ============================================================================ 1998 BaNG Meeting Schedule Returning to our regular evening in January 1998, monthly meetings are scheduled for the the 4th Wednesday of each month (Nov/Dec 1997 & 1998 each moved up one week due to holidays). Please check this page for the latest information on meeting topics and venues, as booking speakers for the evolving Rhapsody Development community employs "Dynamic Binding near Runtime". If you have not already signed up to receive an email notification when a topic and speakers have been set, please add your address to our list. confirmed* for Apple's Town Hall * January 28, 1998, 7pm * February 25, 1998 - ( * potential conflict - time & location may vary) * March 25, 1998, 7pm * April 22, 1998, 7pm unconfirmed, but anticipated for Apple's Town Hall * May 27, 1998, 7pm * June 24, 1998, 7pm * July 22, 1998, 7pm * August 26, 1998, 7pm * September 23, 1998, 7pm * October 28, 1998, 7pm * November 18, 1998, 7pm * December 16, 1998, 7pm ============================================================================ Where to Get More Information * Email: info@bang.org * World Wide Web: http://www.bang.org/ * Telephone: 1.415.487.6237 BaNG, the Bay Area Apple-NeXT Group, is a longstanding support forum now focused on issues relating to Rhapsody/PPC, Rhapsody/Intel, YellowBox/PPC, YellowBox/Intel, BlueBox, WebObjects, EOF, the rumored Apple NC, as-yet-to-be-announced OS permutations, OPENSTEP, NEXTSTEP and the Macintosh computing environment. BaNG remains a membership organization with meetings open to an interested public. Topics for meetings vary as BaNG tries to present timely information and speakers of pertinent interest to users, developers and employees of compelling computing & technology environments. Suggestions of meeting topics and ideas for speakers are welcome; please send them to wendy@bang.org. If you have questions about our meetings or the organization, visit this site again, or contact one of the volunteers at BaNG. ============================================================================ How to Get to the Apple Town Hall, Building 4 The Apple Computer Campus is located at the corner of De Anza and the 280 Freeway in Cupertino. The facility is a group of 6 large four-story buildings located on a road called Infinite Loop. Driving North From San Jose on Highway 280 * Take the Cupertino exit and turn left. * On De Anza, turn left at the first street light -- this is Mariani Blvd. If you keep left, Mariani becomes Infinite Loop. * Stay on Infinite Loop until you come to Building 4 (large numbers are posted outside the buildings). Park in the lot outside. Driving South From San Francisco / North Bay on 280 * Driving south on 280 from the upper peninsula, take the De Anza exit and turn right. * On De Anza, turn left at the first street light -- this is Mariani Blvd. If you keep left, Mariani becomes Infinite Loop. * Stay on Infinite Loop until you come to Building 4 (large numbers are posted outside the buildings). Park in the lot outside. Driving South on Highway 101 * Take 101 South. Cross over to Cupertino on 85; head south on 280. The first exit will be De Anza; turn right. * On De Anza, turn left at the first street light; this is Mariani Blvd. If you keep left, Mariani becomes Infinite Loop. * Stay on Infinite Loop until you come to Building 4 (large numbers are posted outside the buildings). Park in the lot outside. Finding Town Hall Town Hall is a large auditorium with entrances in the lobby of Building 4. [Note: If the door is locked, please knock; someone will be there in a moment to let you into the building.] Special thanks for the directions and venue arrangements go to Carl de Cordova, Internet Evangelist at Apple Computer. ============================================================================
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines for comp.sys.next.announce Supersedes: <11554879051632@digifix.com> Date: 16 Nov 1997 05:00:33 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <19600879656445@digifix.com> Cross Posting ============= I try very hard to make sure that postings get out in a timely fashion. Most go out in less than 24 hours. Postings that require editing because they do not contain information in a useable format, or have already been posted to other comp.sys.next.* groups may be delayed, or returned to you. If your posting is rejected, I'll try and make suggestions about what should be changed where possible. Obviously off charter messages (spams, open-letters, etc) may not get a response. Content Guidelines ================== Try to keep submissions short and concise (80-100 lines max). Include full instructions on contacting you (where applicable) All Postings e-mail address, telephone (optional) Press Release toll-free voice phone, toll-free fax, voice phone, fax phone mailing address,info@blahblah.com,retail price,educational price availability Software available ftp site full path to file IN URL FORMAT supported CPU's for binary distributions, OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting, time of meeting, speakers expected Signatures will be deleted automatically, so please don't rely on your .sig for the contact information Please double check all information you are posting for accuracy. If you are announcing software available by FTP, make sure the copy on the archive site is good. Announcement of Product Sales ============================= This is an area of announcement that has caused me terrible grief in the past. The policy is tilted towards the ISV, which has worked out well in the past. Posts that announce sales of products that you are DIRECTLY involved in the development of are OK. Posts from companies trying to sell other products are evaluated on an individual basis. Time Sensitive Announcements ============================ Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date. Unfortunately, that can be the worst time for you to get access to your internet connection to send the announcements to comp.sys.next.announce. In order to make comp.sys.next.announce as timely as possible, I will accept "post-dated" announcements for release on a specific future date. All information will be kept confidential until the requested release date, and NDAs will be signed where required to ensure this. Hopefully this will make these announcements arrive at users sites as quickly as if you posted them directly to comp.sys.next.whatever. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com. Questions and comments to next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <11552879051630@digifix.com> Date: 16 Nov 1997 05:00:31 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <19598879656442@digifix.com> Topics include: Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites NeXTanswers Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites ============================================ The following sites are a sample of the OpenStep related WWW sites available. A comprehensive list is available on Stepwise. Stepwise OpenStep/Rhapsody Information Server http://www.stepwise.com Stepwise has been serving the OpenStep/NEXTSTEP community since March 1993. Some of the many resources on the site include: OpenStep Third Party Software guide, Developer Directory, Mailing List information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites related to OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related Frequently Asked Questions. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. This is the World Wide Web interace to the FTP site. Apple Enterprise Software Group (formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.) http://www.next.com Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software patches. Apple Computer's 'Prelude to Rhapsody' Self Support Site http://devworld.apple.com/dev/prelude.html This site has been constructed to help you help yourself to learn as much as possible about the foundation for Rhapsody, today's OPENSTEP. The site provides an informal collection of pointers, references, and starting points for developers who are using the Prelude to Rhapsody bundle, distributed at this year's Worldwide Developer Conference. OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups ==================================================== COMP.SYS.NEXT.ADVOCACY This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. COMP.SYS.NEXT.ANNOUNCE Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. COMP.SYS.NEXT.BUGS A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-specific groups as well. COMP.SYS.NEXT.HARDWARE Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. COMP.SYS.NEXT.MARKETPLACE NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. COMP.SYS.NEXT.MISC For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! COMP.SYS.NEXT.PROGRAMMER Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. COMP.SYS.NEXT.SOFTWARE This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. ** RELATED NEWSGROUPS ** COMP.SOFT-SYS.NEXTSTEP Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. COMP.LANG.OBJECTIVE-C Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. COMP.OBJECT Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. Getting the Newsgroups without getting News =========================================== Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are now available as a mailing list digest as well. next-nextstep next-advocacy next-announce next-bugs next-hardware next-marketplace next-misc next-programmer next-software next-sysadmin object lang-objective-c (For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's. To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying: subscribe where * is the name of the list e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites ================================= ftp://ftp.next.peak.org The main site for North American submissions formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu ftp://ftp.peanuts.org: (Peanuts) Located in Germany. Comprehensive archive site. Very well maintained. ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next NeGeN/NiNe (NEXTSTEP Gebruikers Nederland/NeXTSTEP in the Netherlands) ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next eduStep ftp://ftp.next.com: See below ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com ===================================== [from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help] Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system! This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, read them on the world-wide web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS. NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being. NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests. USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to nextanswers@next.com. Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by default; you can request they be sent as ASCII text files instead. To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the body of the message. You can request several files in a single message. You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message. These commands affect the way that files you request are sent: ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME Message/Partial specification REPLY-TO address sets the e-mail address NeXTanswers uses These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system: HELP returns this help file INDEX returns the list of all available files INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list (ignoring capitalization) For example, a message with the following Subject line requests three files: Subject: 2101 2234 1109 A message with this body requests the same three files be sent as ASCII text files: 2101 2234 1109 ascii This message requests two lists of files, one for each search: Subject: SEARCH Dell SCSI SEARCH NetInfo domain NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. To use a different address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command REPLY-TO If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement, please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the files will be faxed to you. If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada. USING NEXTANSWERS VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web server at URL http://www.next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY ANONYMOUS FTP To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using this, please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY MODEM To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at (415) 780-2965. Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section. From there you can download NeXTanswers documents. FOR MORE HELP... If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available from NeXTanswers, call the Support Hotline at 1-800-955-NeXT (outside the U.S. call +1-415-424-8500) to speak to a NEXTSTEP Technical Support Technician. If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must make this call to the hotline. Otherwise, hotline support is on a pay-per-call basis. Thanks for using NeXTanswers! _________________________________________________________________ Written by: Eric P. Scott ( eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU ) and Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com ) Additions from: Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com ) Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net ) Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
From: root@takis2.ee.net (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Qpopper 2.4 for NextStep Date: 17 Nov 1997 04:26:55 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <64oh2f$c3c$1@news.digifix.com> qpopper2.4 for NextStep I downloaded the latest version of qpopper (2.4) in : ftp://ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/qpopper.2.4.NIHS.bs.tar.gz ftp://ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/qpopper.2.4.NIHS.bs.README and most likely will move to: ftp://ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/qpopper.2.4.NIHS.bs.tar.gz ftp://ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/qpopper.2.4.NIHS.bs.README The latest (freeware) version of qpopper can always be obtained from : ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/eudora/servers/unix/popper This version of qpopper has been compiled quad-fat (next/inter/hppa/sparc) using the GNU dbm library. In the qpopper directory I have included the libgdbm.a, which can be found in the qpopper.2.4.NIHS.bs/gnu directory. The GNU library is also compiled quad-fat (test/conversion programs included). To compile(if desired), install and configure qpopper read the files INSTALL and qpopper-NeXT.rtf in the qpopper.2.4.NIHS.bs directory. While qpopper is compiled quad-fat I have only tested it in my home machine next/motorola running NS3.3. I have no idea if it compiles/runs on OpenStep. Enjoy. Panagiotis Velissariou takis@superior.eng.ohio-state.edu takis@takis2.ee.net Here is the Qpopper README file Welcome to Qpopper, a POP3 server for most versions of UNIX ------------------------------------------------------------ What is Qpopper? ---------------- Qpopper supports the widely used POP3 protocol for downloading Internet e-mail used by many popular e-mail clients. Qopper does not include a message transfer agent or SMTP support and normally works with standard UNIX mail transfer agents such as sendmail or smail. Installing and documentation ---------------------------- The file INSTALL gives detailed install instructions. If you want to get started quickly, usually you can type "configure" to generate the Makefile for your platform, and then type "make". Detailed documentation is available the doc directory. In particular the file doc/Release.Notes describes the changes from one version to the next. Acknowledgments --------------- Qpopper is the work of many individuals and organization around the world. The original work was done at UC Berkeley and many have contributed since. QUALCOMM now maintains and distributes qpopper. While we don't have an accurate collection of the names of all, their contributions are appreciated. Finding out more about Qpopper ----------------------------- The latest release of qpopper is available at QUALCOMM's ftp site, ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/quest/unix/servers You may also write to qpopper@qualcomm.com. We try to answer as much of the e-mail as possible, but apologize in advance if we are unable to answer your request. In general all messages are read and taken as suggestions for future work. Other QUALCOMM e-mail products ------------------------------ The Eudora Division of QUALCOMM has several e-mail products, some for free and others that are sold. These include the Eudora e-mail client for Windows and Macintosh, and the WorldMail server for Windows NT which implements the POP, IMAP, SMTP, LDAP and ph protocols. You can find out more about by writing e-mail to eudora-rep@eudora.com or at http://www.eudora.com.
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: cmsg cancel <64tl9i$mst@chatta.samart.co.th> Control: cancel <64tl9i$mst@chatta.samart.co.th> Date: 19 Nov 1997 03:10:25 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.64tl9i$mst@chatta.samart.co.th> Sender: s.somsak@mailcity.com Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence specific to this spam. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
From: Thomas Engel <tsengel@immd9.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSIONS: TheShelf, MiscKit, IconKit, MesaGL and Osprey Date: 19 Nov 1997 19:58:24 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <64vgd0$bqv$1@news.digifix.com> Hi all, since compiling the MiscKit on RDR does not work straight out of the box I uploaded some hopefully useful resources to ftp.next.peak.org. TheShelf is a simple demo app which illustrates the ideas of the OS 4.0beta TabbedShelf and the Rhapsody UI study tray concept. It is not perfect...but gives a good impression of the concept. 7599 Nov 19 13:16 TheShelf.0.3.3a.README 180873 Nov 19 13:17 TheShelf.0.3.3a.rdr.P.bd.tgz The app requires the IconKit and MiscKit frameworks which are precompiled in: 602 Nov 19 15:38 MiscKit.2.0.5.rdr.P.b.README 614896 Nov 19 15:40 MiscKit.2.0.5.rdr.P.b.tgz 396 Nov 19 14:56 IconKit.4.2.1.rdr.P.b.README 64028 Nov 19 15:22 IconKit.4.2.1.rdr.P.b.tgz Besides that you can play with some simple 3D until QTML comes along. Osprey.app is a simple demo app that requires the MiscKit and the Mesa GL framework. A second demo app (MesaView) is part of the Mesa package. 2581 Nov 19 13:29 Osprey.0.05.README 249618 Nov 19 13:31 Osprey.0.05.rdr.P.b.tgz 1758 Nov 19 15:03 Mesa.2.0.rdr.P.b.README 307498 Nov 19 15:23 Mesa.2.0.rdr.P.b.tgz (! truncated on first upload please check size) All submissions are binary distributions only since the source code packages are 100% identical to the Openstep releases which already are on the archives. The final location of the files on the peak ftp server is not known yet but all files have been placed in pub/rhapsody/submissions Aloha Tomi P.S. Btw.. it is a pain that peak no longer allows looking into the submissions folders. It is virtually impossible to check if the files have been transfered correctly until someone downloads the corrupted files and complains about them :-( P.P.S: If you can't find the "good" files then you should be able to see them at: http://www9.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~tsengel/Library/Rhapsody/
From: Eric Tremblay <ericet@CAM.ORG> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Localization Example for OpenStep. Date: 20 Nov 1997 04:23:37 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <650e09$n3u$1@news.digifix.com> LocalizationExample Version 2.2 by Eric Tremblay (ericet@cam.org) Submitted to: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/submissions Should end up in: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/mach/sourcelibrary Contact Info: Comments and suggestions are welcomed: E-mail: ericet@cam.org WWW: http://www.cam.org/~ericet Intro: This is simply an example of how localization works in OpenStep. In this example the application is localized in English and French. The source code is very easy to follow and anyone wondering how localization is done will understand in a matter of minutes after looking at this application. I hope that you enjoy and find this program useful. Please send me comments!!! License Agreement: In this license, the author is Eric Tremblay. Permission to copy this package, to redistribute it and to use it for any purpose is granted. The author makes no express or implied warranty or representation of any kind with respect to the software found here, including any warranty that it is defect- free. ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE IS HEREBY DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT WILL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THIS SOFTWARE. The author is under no obligation to provide any services, by way of maintenance, update, or otherwise. History: 2.2: First release. Compiled on OPENSTEP 4.2 MACH. The Package: Version 2.2 comes complete in a tar.gz package. Which includes: - LocalizationExample.app A FAT OpenStep binary for NeXT, Intel and Sparc hardware - README.TXT This file - SpecialOffer Information about a special offer for the Nebula CDROM - Includes Full Source Code - FAT OpenStep binary, NeXT, Intel and SPARC. Compiling: This version includes all the source code necessary to recompile the program from scratch on OpenStep 4.2+ systems.
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines for comp.sys.next.announce Supersedes: <19600879656445@digifix.com> Date: 23 Nov 1997 05:00:11 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <8983880261226@digifix.com> Cross Posting ============= I try very hard to make sure that postings get out in a timely fashion. Most go out in less than 24 hours. Postings that require editing because they do not contain information in a useable format, or have already been posted to other comp.sys.next.* groups may be delayed, or returned to you. If your posting is rejected, I'll try and make suggestions about what should be changed where possible. Obviously off charter messages (spams, open-letters, etc) may not get a response. Content Guidelines ================== Try to keep submissions short and concise (80-100 lines max). Include full instructions on contacting you (where applicable) All Postings e-mail address, telephone (optional) Press Release toll-free voice phone, toll-free fax, voice phone, fax phone mailing address,info@blahblah.com,retail price,educational price availability Software available ftp site full path to file IN URL FORMAT supported CPU's for binary distributions, OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting, time of meeting, speakers expected Signatures will be deleted automatically, so please don't rely on your .sig for the contact information Please double check all information you are posting for accuracy. If you are announcing software available by FTP, make sure the copy on the archive site is good. Announcement of Product Sales ============================= This is an area of announcement that has caused me terrible grief in the past. The policy is tilted towards the ISV, which has worked out well in the past. Posts that announce sales of products that you are DIRECTLY involved in the development of are OK. Posts from companies trying to sell other products are evaluated on an individual basis. Time Sensitive Announcements ============================ Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date. Unfortunately, that can be the worst time for you to get access to your internet connection to send the announcements to comp.sys.next.announce. In order to make comp.sys.next.announce as timely as possible, I will accept "post-dated" announcements for release on a specific future date. All information will be kept confidential until the requested release date, and NDAs will be signed where required to ensure this. Hopefully this will make these announcements arrive at users sites as quickly as if you posted them directly to comp.sys.next.whatever. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com. Questions and comments to next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <19598879656442@digifix.com> Date: 23 Nov 1997 05:00:08 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <8981880261224@digifix.com> Topics include: Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites NeXTanswers Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites ============================================ The following sites are a sample of the OpenStep related WWW sites available. A comprehensive list is available on Stepwise. Stepwise OpenStep/Rhapsody Information Server http://www.stepwise.com Stepwise has been serving the OpenStep/NEXTSTEP community since March 1993. Some of the many resources on the site include: OpenStep Third Party Software guide, Developer Directory, Mailing List information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites related to OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related Frequently Asked Questions. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. This is the World Wide Web interace to the FTP site. Apple Enterprise Software Group (formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.) http://www.next.com Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software patches. Apple Computer's 'Prelude to Rhapsody' Self Support Site http://devworld.apple.com/dev/prelude.html This site has been constructed to help you help yourself to learn as much as possible about the foundation for Rhapsody, today's OPENSTEP. The site provides an informal collection of pointers, references, and starting points for developers who are using the Prelude to Rhapsody bundle, distributed at this year's Worldwide Developer Conference. OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups ==================================================== COMP.SYS.NEXT.ADVOCACY This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. COMP.SYS.NEXT.ANNOUNCE Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. COMP.SYS.NEXT.BUGS A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-specific groups as well. COMP.SYS.NEXT.HARDWARE Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. COMP.SYS.NEXT.MARKETPLACE NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. COMP.SYS.NEXT.MISC For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! COMP.SYS.NEXT.PROGRAMMER Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. 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At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. Getting the Newsgroups without getting News =========================================== Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are now available as a mailing list digest as well. next-nextstep next-advocacy next-announce next-bugs next-hardware next-marketplace next-misc next-programmer next-software next-sysadmin object lang-objective-c (For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's. To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying: subscribe where * is the name of the list e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites ================================= ftp://ftp.next.peak.org The main site for North American submissions formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu ftp://ftp.peanuts.org: (Peanuts) Located in Germany. Comprehensive archive site. Very well maintained. ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next NeGeN/NiNe (NEXTSTEP Gebruikers Nederland/NeXTSTEP in the Netherlands) ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next eduStep ftp://ftp.next.com: See below ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com ===================================== [from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help] Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system! This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, read them on the world-wide web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS. NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being. NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests. USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to nextanswers@next.com. Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by default; you can request they be sent as ASCII text files instead. To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the body of the message. You can request several files in a single message. You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message. These commands affect the way that files you request are sent: ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME Message/Partial specification REPLY-TO address sets the e-mail address NeXTanswers uses These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system: HELP returns this help file INDEX returns the list of all available files INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list (ignoring capitalization) For example, a message with the following Subject line requests three files: Subject: 2101 2234 1109 A message with this body requests the same three files be sent as ASCII text files: 2101 2234 1109 ascii This message requests two lists of files, one for each search: Subject: SEARCH Dell SCSI SEARCH NetInfo domain NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. 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USING NEXTANSWERS BY ANONYMOUS FTP To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using this, please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY MODEM To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at (415) 780-2965. Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section. From there you can download NeXTanswers documents. FOR MORE HELP... If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available from NeXTanswers, call the Support Hotline at 1-800-955-NeXT (outside the U.S. call +1-415-424-8500) to speak to a NEXTSTEP Technical Support Technician. If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must make this call to the hotline. Otherwise, hotline support is on a pay-per-call basis. Thanks for using NeXTanswers! _________________________________________________________________ Written by: Eric P. Scott ( eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU ) and Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com ) Additions from: Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com ) Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net ) Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
From: Pedja Bogdanovich <pedja@TipTop.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: TipTop Software - Act now and receive a FREE copy of Objective-Everything! Date: 24 Nov 1997 21:08:04 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <65cqbk$nnv$1@news.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Act now and receive a FREE copy of Objective-Everything! ======================================================== Bethesda, Maryland, November 24, 1997. With the Apple Macintosh developer community poised to move to the Rhapsody development environment, TipTop Software, Inc. made the following announcement. Apple Macintosh developers find it hard to believe that there is MUST-HAVE development tool for OpenStep. Until they try Objective-Everything... For very limited time, you can get a FREE license of the amazing Objective-Everything development environment. This is NOT an evaluation or a demo license, but a full regular, non-expiring license that people pay money for! So, ACT NOW, don't miss this great offer! See http://www.tiptop.com/Objective/ for details. (This offer may be withdrawn at any moment without advance notice.) ###
From: Pedja Bogdanovich <pedja@TipTop.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: TipTop Software - Objective-Everything Release 5 Date: 24 Nov 1997 21:08:00 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <65cqbg$nnu$1@news.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Objective-Everything Release 5 ============================== Bethesda, Maryland. November 24, 1997. Today, TipTop Software, Inc. proudly announced Release 5 of the Objective-Everything(tm) development system for OpenStep (Rhapsody, Windows, and Mach), including Objective-Python, Objective-Tcl, Objective-Perl, and Objective-Browser. "We are excited to make the Objective-Everything technology widely available" said Pedja Bogdanovich, TipTop President. "Objective-Everything is the preeminent scripting solution for Yellow Box. It augments the Yellow Box development with the power and flexibility of the world's most popular high-level programming languages." Objective-Everything provides true language independence for the OpenStep (Yellow Box) object model. It allows you to develop programs for OpenStep without being restricted by the lack of expressiveness, class libraries, or other limitations of a particular programming language. With Objective-Everything you can use the language best suited for the task at hand, or even mix-and-match languages! Objective-Everything consists of Objective-Python, Objective-Tcl, Objective-Perl, and Objective-Browser. Objective-Everything is an invaluable development tool for anyone who develops under OpenStep, including programmers who just want to program in straight Objective-C. Objective-Everything is ideally suited for rapid application prototyping and development, application scripting, regression testing, exploratory programming, and much more. Specifically, some of the uses and benefits of Objective-Everything include: * Rapid application prototyping and development environment. The Objective-Everything languages, Objective-Python, Tcl, and Perl, provide an interactive interpretive environment. You get immediate feedback to all your programming actions in this environment, so you can prototype and develop much more rapidly. You can define and redefine classes and methods on-the-fly, at runtime. * Exploration and debugging. The dynamic nature of Objective-Everything, and its powerful runtime introspection capabilities make it an ideal tool for exploratory programming and debugging. * Scripting environment. The Objective-Everything runtime library can be linked with any OpenStep application to provide high-level scripting control. * Testing environment. Objective-Everything is ideally suited for regression testing. * True language independence. Classes can have mixed implementation; certain methods can be implemented in Objective-C, other methods can be implemented in Tcl, yet some other methods can be implemented in Python, etc. It is transparent and irrelevant to the sender of a message which language implements the corresponding method---the method looks "native" to the caller. * Augment OpenStep with high-level languages, augment high-level languages with the OpenStep API. Objective-Everything provides Python, Tcl, or Perl programmers with the full access to the powerful OpenStep API from these languages. Symmetrically, it augments the OpenStep environment with powerful high-level languages and associated class libraries. * Cross-platform portability. Programs developed with Objective-Everything, run without any porting and recompilation on all OpenStep platforms (Rhapsody, Windows, Mach). * Objective-Everything is easy! You will be able to use it to explore the OpenStep system and build non-trivial apps in no time. Objective-Browser is a graphical tool which allows you to visualize objects and object-relations in a running program. This is a *must-have* tool for all Apple Macintosh developers getting familiar with the OpenStep development environment! The browser allows you to view live objects within a running application in many object-specific ways. OB allows you to easily investigate the structure and methods of various objects and classes. For example, classes hierarchy, methods, instance variables, and other object information can be viewed and *edited* during execution. OB is extensible. You can provide object-specific browser nodes and custom inspectors for any object in the system. OB is dynamically loaded on demand and can be used from any application. For more information see http://www.tiptop.com/Objective, or contact TipTop: TipTop Software, Inc PO Box 30681 Bethesda, MD 20824-0681 USA +1-301-656-3837 +1-301-656-8432 fax info@tiptop.com http://www.tiptop.com ---------------------- Objective-Everything technology is being used by a number of Fortune 500 companies to rapidly build mission critical custom application. TipTop Software, Inc. a privately held Maryland corporation, provides state-of-the-art products and services to enterprises using advanced object environments such as OpenStep and Java. TipTop is the pioneering innovator in the language independence technology field. Objective-Everything, Objective-Python, Objective-Tcl, Objective-Perl, Objective-Browser, Objective-Test are trademarks of TipTop Software, Inc. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners. ###
From: info@caffeineSoft.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Caffeine Software Announce Release of PixelNhance for OpenStep Date: 20 Nov 1997 20:35:01 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <6526tl$fmf$1@news.digifix.com> For Immediate Release For further information, please contact: Caffeine Software info@caffeineSoft.com Caffeine Software Announce Release of PixelNhance for OpenStep November 20, 1997 -- Naters, Switzerland -- Caffeine Software, publishers of TIFFany, the renown image editing package for NeXTSTEP and OpenStep, announce the availability of PixelNhance for OpenStep. PixelNhance is a simply to use image manipulation application which allows the user to adjust basic aspects of an image, such as contrast, color balance, and sharpness. All of the operations are performed in realtime and the user can see the original and processed image side by side. PixelNhance PR-1 is available for OpenStep/NT, the three OpenStep 4.2 architectures as well as a twin-fat binary for Apple's new operating system, code-named Rhapsody. This new twin-fat binary runs on Rhapsody Developer Release for Intel and PowerPC processors. In order to achieve simple usage, all of the settings are adjusted with live sliders or similar custom control elements. Because all of the operations are performed in realtime in fully screen-sized windows, the user can experiment with the settings and see the result immediately, thus allowing him/her to find the appropriate parameters without having any prior image processing knowledge. The application contains six modules, allowing to perform brightness, contrast, and midtone adjustment, correcting color balance, changing saturation, increasing sharpness, modifying color tones, and performing noise reduction. In addition to standalone usage, PixelNhance can be used as a realtime preview application for TIFFany3. Sometimes it may be desirable to apply an enhancement only to certain parts of the image. In such a case the user can adjust settings within PixelNhance to his / her liking and drag these parameters into TIFFany3, where it creates a TIFFany3 action, thus allowing the user to use the paint brush with the found settings, apply it to selected areas created with sophisticated marquee tools, or use it for automatic batch processing. PixelNhance PR-1 comes with a one-user full floating license which expires on January 15, 1998. In order to download the application, please visit Caffeine Software's web site at: hhtp://www.caffeineSoft.com/ PixelNhance is the result of combining the imaging power of TIFFany3 and many user's suggestions on how to make the user interface much simpler to allow the non-sophisticated user to enhance scanned or digitally acquired images. For further information, please contact: Caffeine Software info@caffeineSoft.com http://www.caffeineSoft.com/ ~~~ Caffeine Software was founded in 1990. The company quickly specialized in custom image processing for the NeXT computer system. In 1993, Caffeine Software presented TIFFany, a high-end imaging package. Since then, Caffeine Software has extended the product line with other applications for imaging needs while TIFFany maintained it's reputation as the most renown imaging package on NeXTSTEP and OpenStep. Since 1997, Caffeine Software specialize in cusom-made applications for specific imaging and batch processing needs for individual customers. Caffeine Software, PixelNhance and TIFFany are trademarks of Caffeine Software.
From: Tom Hageman <tom@basil.icce.rug.nl> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Carl Edman's EnhanceMail 2.1 Date: 25 Nov 1997 21:46:46 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <65fh06$rsv$1@news.digifix.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- This is a feature/bugfix/maintenance/whatever release of Carl Edman's EnhanceMail bundle. EnhanceMail extends the capabilities of Mail 3.3 / 4.x by adding quoting, signatures, X face support, a distributed, cached user-image database, full-text indices PGP encryption/decryption/signatures and a number of other features. What's new: (*) German online help, contributed by David Andel <david@nexttoyou.de> (*) I am solely responsible for the mutilation, if any, of the Japanese Preferences panels in the base distribution. I don't have NS3.3J, nor do I know a single character of Japanese, so basically I was stumbling in the dark... (*) See the file "hidden-defaults.txt" for a list of `secret' Mail.app user preferences. (*) Pre-compiled bundle is now distributed in an Installer package. (*) EnhanceMail finally has its own logos :-) -- you'll encounter it in the online Help, the Info panel and the Installer package. New Info and Version History help sections. (*) Updated look-and-feel of the Preferences panels. Saving preferences should be a lot faster now. Lazy loading of XImageURL image into preferences panel (which should fix Tomi's "ImageServer not started" due to .jpeg/.gif images, problem.) Add UI for HTTPProxy, and for some future features. (*) Got rid of those pesky PGP alert panels on decryption / signature-check thanks to Gerben. PGP status is now shown in additional X-PGP-{Result,Notice,Warning} headers (even if the decryption / signature check fails.) (*) Workaround braindead exit status reported by pgp (2.6.3i at least) after successfully decoding encrypted, unsigned message (life is ridiculous.) (*) Signatures in Compose windows now switch style according to the format button even after a quote has been inserted. This should (finally) behave exactly as in EM1.3. (*) Smiley substitution now avoids uuencoded text regions. (*) Add periodic mail check in Mailboxes panel. (*) More Mailboxes panel efficiency improvements. (*) Add Smiley-inspector in Preferences. (*) Add unread mail count to Mailreader's status line. (*) Don't auto-compact indexed mailboxes (for now). (*) Add Control-deliver as a means to overrule auto-Spellcheck (this has the side-effect not to archive the message, whereas Alt-Deliver has the side-effect of forcing archival.) Remove the invokation of spell-check on Alt/Ctrl-Deliver if auto-Spellcheck is off. (*) Display silhouette image for failed XImageURL downloads. There's a KNOWN BUG [i.e. I just found out:-] in the installation over/deinstallation of a previously installed package (when _not_ installed as root): due to the readonly-ness of EnhanceMail.bundle/Images/ Installer fails with the alert "You don't have permission to install some of the files in EnhanceMail.pkg.pkg (see the Log view)." [sic] Workaround: either move the old EnhanceMail.bundle out of the way, or issue the command "chmod u+w /where/ever/EnhanceMail.bundle/Images" in a Terminal shell window. Or install as root. Source code and a quad-fat binary are included. See the accompanying README file for more information. It can be found at: <ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/bundles/EnhanceMail.2.1.README> <ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/bundles/EnhanceMail.2.1.NIHS.bs.tar.gz> - Base distribution with English online-help, localized UI for French, German and (partially) Japanese, Installer package with quad-fat precompiled bundle, and source code Additional language add-on packages are available at: <ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/bundles/EnhanceMail_French.lproj.2.1.d.pkg.tar.gz> <ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/bundles/EnhanceMail_German.lproj.2.1.d.pkg.tar.gz> - Installer packages with complete localized UI and online help. and also in <ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/new_arrivals/> for the near future. [I expect it will turn up at ftp://ftp.peanuts.org/ in a few days...] Please report any bugs or suggestions to: <enhancemail@basil.icce.rug.nl> (this is just an alias, _not_ a mailinglist.) Enjoy! Tom Hageman. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: next iQCVAwUBNHswrTHcGwCnCAFpAQGWzwP/TYOLS0NFKFLztN7mPUSo5ATp4jwSJ+hF JBjRNkd3PObZ1TIp9xwvjRI53UxhUMyBh4Em/DFmmyuwpWOz79fl0HYTGUKvw1VS pOeFrnfF56OsN+fV5pOGddSlrTOl6onaTI5yFcicOcC7mdCZnI85AJ/5OHFHP9EW YvK2rpCJ+nM= =Hwp5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- __/__/__/__/ Tom Hageman <tom@basil.icce.rug.nl> [NeXTmail/Mime OK] __/ __/_/ IC Group <tom@icgned.nl> (work) __/__/__/ __/ _/_/ Confused? You won't be after the NeXT episode.
From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (28.11.97) Date: 29 Nov 1997 04:50:05 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <65o6tt$dal$1@news.digifix.com> On the Peanuts NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next, [129.187.249.15]): 2776972 Nov 25 12:44 Tools/calendars/Chronographer.1.02.NIHS.b.tar.gz 6616 Nov 25 12:44 Tools/calendars/Chronographer.1.02.README 393814 Nov 26 18:35 OpenStep/games/NeXTGo.3.0.NIS.bs.tar.gz 1437 Nov 26 18:21 OpenStep/games/NeXTGo.3.0.README 25581 Nov 25 12:55 Rhapsody/tools/monitor/OmniCPUMonitor.1.0.m.PI.b.tgz 3324038 Nov 25 12:58 OpenStep/network/www/OmniWeb.3.0b3b.NIS.b.tgz 2078506 Nov 25 13:01 Rhapsody/network/www/OmniWeb.3.0b3b.m.P.b.tgz 2838215 Nov 25 13:01 Rhapsody/network/www/OmniWeb.3.0b3b.m.PI.b.tgz 477099 Nov 25 12:45 Games/strategic/SokoSave.1.0.NIHS.b.tar.gz 1283 Nov 25 12:45 Games/strategic/SokoSave.1.0.README 2305 Nov 25 12:45 Games/strategic/SokoSave.1.0.s.README 77507 Nov 25 12:45 Games/strategic/SokoSave.1.0.s.tar.gz 3496 Nov 25 12:48 Tools/emulators/a2_1.1.NIHS.bs.README 188756 Nov 25 12:48 Tools/emulators/a2_1.1.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 404 Nov 25 15:49 Rhapsody/developer/gcc.2.7.2.1-RDR.s.README 6448121 Nov 25 15:50 Rhapsody/developer/gcc.2.7.2.1-RDR.s.tar.gz 808149 Nov 21 15:11 Tools/cdrom/mCD.971026.NIHS.b.tar.gz 335886 Nov 21 15:11 Tools/cdrom/mCD.971026.s.tar.gz 1308 Nov 21 15:11 Tools/cdrom/mCD.README 64763 Nov 25 12:47 Science/mathematics/spinne.1.1.NIHS.b.tar.gz 1638 Nov 25 12:47 Science/mathematics/spinne.1.1.README Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/pub/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-hamburg.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-siegen.de/ France: ftp://ftp.fdn.fr/, ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Switzerland: ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/ UUCP (Germany) wburg.hanse.de (Tel. ++49-40-307 89 06) Mailbox (Germany) (Tel. ++49-8803-61111, ISDN ++49-8803-62149). Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from december 199e. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.leo.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.leo.org)
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines for comp.sys.next.announce Supersedes: <8983880261226@digifix.com> Date: 30 Nov 1997 04:59:53 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <12247880866024@digifix.com> Cross Posting ============= I try very hard to make sure that postings get out in a timely fashion. Most go out in less than 24 hours. Postings that require editing because they do not contain information in a useable format, or have already been posted to other comp.sys.next.* groups may be delayed, or returned to you. If your posting is rejected, I'll try and make suggestions about what should be changed where possible. Obviously off charter messages (spams, open-letters, etc) may not get a response. Content Guidelines ================== Try to keep submissions short and concise (80-100 lines max). Include full instructions on contacting you (where applicable) All Postings e-mail address, telephone (optional) Press Release toll-free voice phone, toll-free fax, voice phone, fax phone mailing address,info@blahblah.com,retail price,educational price availability Software available ftp site full path to file IN URL FORMAT supported CPU's for binary distributions, OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting, time of meeting, speakers expected Signatures will be deleted automatically, so please don't rely on your .sig for the contact information Please double check all information you are posting for accuracy. If you are announcing software available by FTP, make sure the copy on the archive site is good. Announcement of Product Sales ============================= This is an area of announcement that has caused me terrible grief in the past. The policy is tilted towards the ISV, which has worked out well in the past. Posts that announce sales of products that you are DIRECTLY involved in the development of are OK. Posts from companies trying to sell other products are evaluated on an individual basis. Time Sensitive Announcements ============================ Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date. Unfortunately, that can be the worst time for you to get access to your internet connection to send the announcements to comp.sys.next.announce. In order to make comp.sys.next.announce as timely as possible, I will accept "post-dated" announcements for release on a specific future date. All information will be kept confidential until the requested release date, and NDAs will be signed where required to ensure this. Hopefully this will make these announcements arrive at users sites as quickly as if you posted them directly to comp.sys.next.whatever. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com. Questions and comments to next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <8981880261224@digifix.com> Date: 30 Nov 1997 04:59:51 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <12245880866021@digifix.com> Topics include: Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites NeXTanswers Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites ============================================ The following sites are a sample of the OpenStep related WWW sites available. A comprehensive list is available on Stepwise. Stepwise OpenStep/Rhapsody Information Server http://www.stepwise.com Stepwise has been serving the OpenStep/NEXTSTEP community since March 1993. Some of the many resources on the site include: OpenStep Third Party Software guide, Developer Directory, Mailing List information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites related to OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related Frequently Asked Questions. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. This is the World Wide Web interace to the FTP site. Apple Enterprise Software Group (formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.) http://www.next.com Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software patches. Apple Computer's 'Prelude to Rhapsody' Self Support Site http://devworld.apple.com/dev/prelude.html This site has been constructed to help you help yourself to learn as much as possible about the foundation for Rhapsody, today's OPENSTEP. The site provides an informal collection of pointers, references, and starting points for developers who are using the Prelude to Rhapsody bundle, distributed at this year's Worldwide Developer Conference. OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups ==================================================== COMP.SYS.NEXT.ADVOCACY This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. COMP.SYS.NEXT.ANNOUNCE Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. COMP.SYS.NEXT.BUGS A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-specific groups as well. COMP.SYS.NEXT.HARDWARE Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. COMP.SYS.NEXT.MARKETPLACE NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. COMP.SYS.NEXT.MISC For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! COMP.SYS.NEXT.PROGRAMMER Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. COMP.SYS.NEXT.SOFTWARE This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. ** RELATED NEWSGROUPS ** COMP.SOFT-SYS.NEXTSTEP Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. COMP.LANG.OBJECTIVE-C Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. COMP.OBJECT Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. Getting the Newsgroups without getting News =========================================== Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are now available as a mailing list digest as well. next-nextstep next-advocacy next-announce next-bugs next-hardware next-marketplace next-misc next-programmer next-software next-sysadmin object lang-objective-c (For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's. To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying: subscribe where * is the name of the list e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites ================================= ftp://ftp.next.peak.org The main site for North American submissions formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu ftp://ftp.peanuts.org: (Peanuts) Located in Germany. Comprehensive archive site. Very well maintained. ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next NeGeN/NiNe (NEXTSTEP Gebruikers Nederland/NeXTSTEP in the Netherlands) ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next eduStep ftp://ftp.next.com: See below ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com ===================================== [from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help] Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system! This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, read them on the world-wide web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS. NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being. NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests. USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to nextanswers@next.com. Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by default; you can request they be sent as ASCII text files instead. To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the body of the message. You can request several files in a single message. You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message. 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From: Hermann Steier <hermann@aaa-plus.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Free evaluation keys for Joy Date: 25 Nov 1997 22:12:43 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <65figr$sbk$1@news.digifix.com> Joy introductory offer expires this week Vienna, November 25, 1997. Till November 30, Joy, the must-have tool for Rhapsody developers, can be ordered at discounted introductory prices: $49 for Joy Explorer and $299 for Joy Developer. Free evaluation keys are available on request from joy@aaa-plus.com, implying no further obligations. These enable all features of Joy Developer, and can be used with the demo version, which came on the Rhapsody Developer CD. To download it or order Joy go to http://www.aaa-plus.com/joy/order The offer applies to all platforms: Joy for Rhapsody/PPC, Joy for Rhapsody/Intel, Joy for Windows NT/95, Joy for OPENSTEP/MachOS. Typical uses of Joy include: - interactive exploration of Rhapsody frameworks - prototyping solutions - rapid application development - automated testing and debugging of Rhapsody applications Joy Explorer includes a dynamic class browser, embeddable in any application. It allows you to browse the class tree, inspect objects, modify their instance variables and inspect, interactively invoke or override the methods they implement. This is the most enjoyable way to learn the concepts of Rhapsody programming and to master Rhapsody's extensive object frameworks. Joy is ideal for very quick, interactive development of sophisticated applications. It is tightly integrated with Rhapsody's Interface Builder application for graphical GUI construction and includes an object-oriented scripting language to implement the program logic. Testing of new code can be done interactively within IB without recompiling or even restarting the tested program. Joy boosts developer creativity and productivity by enabling programmers to quickly and interactively try out new ideas. Professional applications can thus be developed step by step, through rapid creation of prototypes. Programs developed with Joy run on Rhapsody, Windows 95/NT, and OPENSTEP/MachOS, with no porting and no recompiling required. Regular prices of $69 for Joy Explorer and $399 for Joy Developer will take effect in December. ABOUT AAA+ SOFTWARE AAA+ creates award-winning financial risk management software for large European banks based on OPENSTEP technology. Starting with the release of Joy, proven technologies originally developed for AAA+ Software's internal use are available to all OPENSTEP developers. AAA+ Software F&E GmbH., headquartered in Vienna, Austria, grew out of a university research lab in advanced software technologies in 1993. CONTACT Hermann Steier AAA+ Software Tel. +43-1-533-66-65-0 mailto: h.steier@aaa-plus.com AAA+, Joy Explorer, and Joy Developer are registered trademarks of AAA+ Software F&E GmbH. Macintosh and OPENSTEP are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Windows 95 and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp. Additional names may be trademarks of individual companies and are respectfully acknowledged.
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Marcel Waldvogel and Netfuture.ch.