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From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (2.1.98) Date: 2 Jan 1998 20:08:16 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <68jhfg$8dk$1@news.digifix.com> On the Peanuts NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next, [129.187.249.15]): 50505 Dec 30 18:47 Usenet/news/1997/Ann-12.gz 37969 Dec 30 19:26 Usenet/news/1997/Bugs-12.gz 1731366 Dec 29 18:29 Communication/apps/GateKeeper.3.0.Beta.1.NI.b.tar.gz 5427 Dec 29 18:29 Communication/apps/GateKeeper.3.0.Beta.1.README 1003861 Dec 29 18:29 Communication/apps/GateKeeper.3.0.Beta.1.s.tar.gz 29824 Dec 29 18:27 Audio/apps/Granulator.1.3.I.b.tar.gz 3625 Dec 29 18:27 Audio/apps/Granulator.README 180216 Dec 30 19:52 Usenet/news/1997/Hard-12.gz 79524 Dec 30 20:40 Usenet/news/1997/Misc-12.gz 201448 Dec 30 21:42 Usenet/news/1997/Prog-12.gz 182140 Dec 30 22:55 Usenet/news/1997/Soft-12.gz 183774 Dec 30 20:19 Usenet/news/1997/Sys-12.gz 259405 Dec 29 18:22 Network/programs/system/bootp.DD2.4.3.2.NIHS.b.tar.gz 1344 Dec 29 18:22 Network/programs/system/bootp.DD2.4.3.2.README 83488 Dec 30 20:23 Usenet/news/1997/de.comp.sys.next-12.gz 11233 Dec 29 18:20 Network/programs/proxyd.1.0.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 1455 Dec 29 18:20 Network/programs/proxyd.1.0.README Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/pub/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-hamburg.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-siegen.de/ France: ftp://ftp.fdn.fr/, ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Switzerland: ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/ UUCP (Germany) wburg.hanse.de (Tel. ++49-40-307 89 06) Mailbox (Germany) (Tel. ++49-8803-61111, ISDN ++49-8803-62149). Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from december 199e. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.leo.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.leo.org)
From: Katie Graunke <katie@stone.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Stone Design Announces December 1997 Raffle Winner Date: 4 Jan 1998 04:44:58 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <68n44a$k06$1@news.digifix.com> NEWS For immediate release For more information: EMAIL: info@stone.com TEL: Katie Graunke, (505) 345-4800 Albuquerque, NM, January 1, 1998 -- Stone Design Corp, a long time leader in the OpenStep/Rhapsody software marketplace, announced the winner of the December 1997 Raffle for a copy of Create and Stone CD Volume 3. The winner is Sven Droll. Stone Design will raffle software and a CD each month while supplies last. To enter the raffle, please visit our World Wide Web site: http://www.stone.com/ =*= Stone Design Corporation of Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 1984, develops a variety of productivity applications for Rhapsody, Java, and OpenStep. 3D Reality, DataPhile, and Create are trademarks of Stone Design Corporation. CheckSum is a trademark of Sirius Solutions. n I recommend the installer is that it puts things in a directory hierarchy that makes installation, modificaiton, and use of future versions simpler and safer. It also supports a full de-install in case you want to do that. Further, the installer contains a copy of Mark Trombino's LogOn.app. This app makes it really easy to connect to a provider. No more chat scripts!!! Unfortunately, LogOn.app will only run on OS 4.x. PPP (and the installer package) work for OS 3.2 on, but those folks using 3.x will not be able to run the LogOn.app. Please note, if you already have PPP installed and want to use the installer, read the Installation directions BEFORE proceeding. DO NOT Blindly run the installer first. Please let me know if you have any problems! Happy New Year! - Steve --- Stephen J. Perkins NetMass Communications, e-mail: perkins@netmass.com NeXT PPP-2.3 info at: http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/ -- --- Stephen J. Perkins NetMass Communications, e-mail: perkins@netmass.com NeXT PPP-2.3 info at: http://www.peak.org/next/ppp/
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: <343883285229@digifix.com> Date: 4 Jan 1998 04:58:53 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <21230883890024@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: <345883285232@digifix.com> Date: 4 Jan 1998 04:58:56 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <21232883890027@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: Pedja Bogdanovich <pedja@TipTop.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: TipTop Software to Exhibit at MacWorld San Francisco Date: 5 Jan 1998 04:29:24 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <68pnj4$k95$1@news.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TIPTOP SOFTWARE TO EXHIBIT AT MACWORLD SAN FRANCISCO Bethesda, Maryland, January 5, 1997. TipTop Software, Inc. today announced that they will be exhibiting at Macworld San Francisco in Rhapsody Row in the Developer Central area, North Hall, Booth #3080. Visitors will be able to see the amazing Objective-Everything development environment for Yellow Box and learn more about other TipTop products such as WOPerl. Objective-Everything 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. Objective-Browser 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, class hierarchy, methods, instance variables, and other object information can be viewed and *edited* during execution. WOPerl WOPerl brings the power and flexibility of the Perl language to WebObjects from Apple Computer, Inc. while providing completely seamless interoperability with the rest of the WebObjects system. For example, in your Web applications you can transparently mix Perl, Objective-C, and WebScript-implemented web components. In WebObjects with WOPerl, you can not only reuse your C and C++ code, and use any Perl-provided functionality (e.g., use networking Perl modules, interprocess communication modules, database interface modules, text processing modules, web-related modules, OLE automation extension module on Windows NT, etc.), but you can also use all Apple-provided functionalities (e.g., PDO, DOLE, EOF), as well as functionalities from your own class libraries! 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, and WOPerl are trademarks of TipTop Software, Inc. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: cmsg cancel <68qjb2$600$12677@tourist.gnt.net> ignore no reply Control: cancel <68qjb2$600$12677@tourist.gnt.net> Message-ID: <cancel.68qjb2$600$12677@tourist.gnt.net> Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 12:40:44 +0000 Sender: onyqvywd@somethingofyourchoice.com From: andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk Organization: Annihilator v0.1 Spam (EMP) cancelled - type=SBOTA
From: Robert Vasvari <vrobi@shell-1.sirius.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: RBrowser.2.03 for OPENSTEP Date: 2 Jan 1998 05:59:54 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <68hvoq$j3r$1@news.digifix.com> Browser 2.03 beta for OPENSTEP 4.2 MACH on i386,m68k and sparc Submitted to: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/submissions Should end up in: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/mach/apps/internet This beta version will expire on feb 1 1998. RBrowser 2.03 requires OPENSTEP 4.2. This prerelease is for Mach only. Windows and Rhapsody versions are coming soon. For more detailed info please visit http://www.ddrummer.com What is RBrowser? RBrowser was developed for OPENSTEP users who use other UNIX machines remotely, and would like to use the features and general functionality of the OPENSTEP Workspace file browser. Remote Browser (RBrowser) provides access to files on remote UNIX systems with OPENSTEP graphical interface. While matching the Workspace Manager's file viewer look and feel it provides a uniform interface to distributed file transfer and file related operations, greatly simplifying access and use of files on remote systems scattered across the Internet. Main Features: 1. RBrowser gives you a Workspace-like file browser on a filesystem of a remote machine which can run any flavor of UNIX. RBrowser implements almost all of the functionality of the Workspace for file system viewing and manipulation. There is no special software required on remote systems. 2. Drag-and-drop file transfer (including directories) between machines. 3. Open, edit, and automatic saveback of documents. 4. TESTED REMOTE SYSTEMS: + A/UX + AIX + DomainOS + Irix + HP/UX + Linux + OPENSTEP + NetBSD + OSF/1 + SunOS + Solaris + Ultrix + SCO Architectures: Shipping now for HP-PA RISC, Intel and NeXT hardware. e-mail:rbrowser@ddrummer.com (c)1998 Different Drummer Software.
From: info@stone.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Stone Design Ships Create(TM) for all flavors of Yellow Box and Rhapsody Date: 6 Jan 1998 04:50:22 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <68sd6e$56l$1@news.digifix.com> NEWS For Immediate Release For more information, please contact: Katie Graunke katie@stone.com 505-345-4800 http://www.stone.com/pr/Create_Everywhere.html Stone Design Ships C R E A T E(TM) For all flavors of Yellow Box and Rhapsody San Francisco CA - January 5, 1998 - Long time NeXTSTEP/OpenStep/Rhapsody software house, Stone Design Corp, announced the availablilty of its drawing and web design package Create 4.2.3 for all versions of Rhapsody, including Yellow Box for Windows, Rhapsody Developer Release 1 for PPC and Intel, and OpenStep 4.x for Windows and MACH: Intel, Motorola and SPARC. A fully functional demonstration version of Create 4.2.3 can be downloaded from the Stone Design website (www.stone.com) with a temporary full strength license good until February 12, 1998. Andrew Stone, CEO of Stone Design said, "We believe in 'Try before you buy', and we know that Create for Yellow Box is the fastest, most reliable version of the software ever released! Experience the object edge today." "Create is not only the most versatile drawing and web page authoring software on the market today, it's available on all the major platforms, conclusively proving Apple's cross platform claims for Yellow Box," said Katie Graunke, Marketing Director for Stone Design. "Visit the Stone Design website and check out Create for yourself." Available now from the Stone Design website, www.stone.com, Create has an introductory price of $249 per license, with academic and student pricing for those who qualify. -=- Stone Design Corp. in Albuquerque, New Mexico was formed in 1984 and was the first developer to ship a product on NeXT hardware in 1989 with the release of TextArt. Since then, Stone Design has been a leader in innovative shrinkwrap software in the NEXTSTEP and OpenStep marketplace. Like a rock, Stone is committed to Rhapsody/Yellow Box development.
From: info@stone.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Stone Design and Caffeine Software Deliver the Licenser Kit Date: 6 Jan 1998 04:47:57 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <68sd1t$562$1@news.digifix.com> NEWS For Immediate Release For more information, please contact: Katie Graunke katie@stone.com 505-345-4800 http://www.stone.com/pr/LicenserKit.html Stone Design and Caffeine Software Deliver the Licenser Kit San Francisco CA - January 5, 1998 - Long time NeXTSTEP/OpenStep/Rhapsody developers, Stone Design Corp, maker of Create(TM), and Caffeine Software, maker of TIFFany(TM), announced today the availability of the versatile Licenser Kit for all versions of Rhapsody, including YellowBox for Windows, RDR-1 for PPC and Intel, and OpenStep 4.x on all supported platforms. The Licenser Kit gives Rhapsody developers all they need to quickly add copy protection to their programs and to generate licenses for those programs. The distribution includes a sample application that uses The Licenser Kit, and an automatic license generator program. The user interface is entirely flexible, as expected from software developers Andrew Stone of Stone Design and Stan Jirman of Caffeine Software. In use commercially for over four years, the well-tested Licenser Kit has become a de facto standard for Rhapsody and Yellow Box developers. Besides Create(TM) and TIFFany(TM), other major Rhapsody applications currently using the Licenser Kit include Anderson Financial Systems' word processing and page layout software, WriteUp(TM) and PasteUp(TM), and P&L Systems' spreadsheet, Mesa(TM). "The Licenser Kit has become the standard licensing solution for Yellow Box," said Andrew Stone, CEO of Stone Design. "It quickly and transparently plugs into any app to address the perennial financial black hole of software piracy. The Kit allows you to distribute your application on the Internet, allowing anyone to evaluate your app in demo mode, and then unlock the application when they decide to buy." The Licenser Kit allows developers to quickly add the level of copy-protection security they require, including the following, combinable options for generating restricted usage: * Tie license to host name * Tie license to user name * Tie to host ID * Create floating network licenses * Allow as many users as desired * Have unlimited number of licenses on a network * Add licenses on the fly * Automatically unlicense if application is moved or copied * Generate expiring licenses for "full strength" demos Special "Early Adopter" price of $1999 is available now; the regular price is $10,000. The Licenser Kit is the key to the timely release of Rhapsody/Yellow Box applications. Visit www.stone.com for more information, or contact Stone Design at info@stone.com or 505-345-4800. -=- Stone Design Corp. in Albuquerque, New Mexico was formed in 1984 and was the first developer to ship a product on NeXT Hardware in 1989 with the release of TextArt. Since then, Stone Design has been a leader in innovative shrinkwrap software in the NEXTSTEP/OpenStep/Rhapsody marketplace. Like a rock, Stone is committed to Yellow Box development. Caffeine Software was founded in 1990. The company quickly specialized in custom image processing for the NeXT computer system. In 1993, Caffeine Software presented TIFFany, a high-end imaging package. Since then, Caffeine Software has extended the product line with other applications for imaging needs while TIFFany maintained it's reputation as the most renown imaging package on NeXTSTEP and OpenStep. Since 1997, Caffeine Software specializes in custom-made applications for specific imaging and batch processing needs for individual customers.
From: Chris Saldanha <csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: ArchiveInspector 0.91beta for NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP Date: 6 Jan 1998 21:07:54 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <68u6fa$rsc$1@news.digifix.com> URLs: http://www.computeractive.com/cAi/software/ ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/ArchiveInspector.0.91.README ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/ArchiveInspector.0.91.I.b.tar.gz ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/ArchiveInspector.0.91.NIS.b.tar.gz (probably moving to /pub/next/apps/archiveutil) ArchiveInspector is a module for the NeXTSTEP/OpenStep Workspace Manager (i.e. the File Viewer), which adds a Contents inspector panel allowing you to browse around inside various kinds of multi-file archives (like tar, tar.Z, tar.gz, .compressed and zip files), and extract some or all of the files. This version fixes a pair of bugs that could cause your workspace to force a logout. Please upgrade if you have v0.9beta. This also adds more functionality for .gz and .Z files. Author: Chris Saldanha <csaldanh@acm.org> http://www.mae.carleton.ca/~csaldanh/ Here's the README file for the bundle: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- README for ArchiveInspector Version 0.91beta by Chris Saldanha <csaldanh@acm.org> ArchiveInspector is a tri-fat (sorry, I didn't have an HP-PA compiled MiscKit, it'll be in the next version, I promise) module for the NeXTSTEP/OpenStep Workspace Manager (i.e. the File Viewer), which adds a Contents inspector panel allowing you to browse around inside various kinds of multi-file archives: -.tar -.tar.Z -.tar.gz -.compressed -.zip You may also extract individual files from the archive (only one at a time, at present), or extract all the files at once, to the current directory, or a specified one. You can also decompress .gz and .Z files (in-place) that aren't also tar archives, so you don't lose the functionality of the NeXT inspector. Please read the file "LICENSE" for license and usage information, "HELP" for info about how to use this fairly trivial inspector, and the file "INSTALL" for installation notes. If you want to receive email when I post new versions of this software, please email me with your desired email address and I'll add you to my list. I will not give this list to other people. THIS IS BETA SOFTWARE. THIS MEANS THAT THERE ARE LIKELY TO BE BUGS IN THIS SOFTWARE. I am releasing this version with BUGS and TODO files, which list the changes to come. Nothing destructive should occur when using this program, but I can't guarantee that. I test only on NeXTSTEP 3.3. It should work on OpenStep for Mach, but I haven't tried it (please let me know!). I would appreciate it if people would have a go at trying to break this module, and please report any bugs or feedback/suggestions to me. This program is PostCardWare, which is essentially free software. Usage is governed by the license found in the file LICENSE (PLEASE READ IT!), which came with the distribution. If you didn't get this file, please let me know where you got your copy of this software, and I will happily send you a copy by email. I am not distributing source code for the beta versions of the software, but I will likely do so when the software is in a release state. This program makes use of the MiscKit, version 1.9.0, particularly the MiscString and MiscTree classes. I have written a category on MiscTree that parses pathnames and inserts all the right things into the MiscTree. I'm going to submit that code, when it's a bit more stable, into the MiscKit. Please visit http://www.misckit.com/ for info about this excellent collection of free objects, classes and palettes that make NeXTSTEP/OpenStep development even better than usual.
From: Jim_Brownfield@Radical.Com (Jim Brownfield) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ANNOUNCE: RadicalNews 2.0a1 Alpha Release for Rhapsody Power PC Date: 6 Jan 1998 21:39:09 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <68u89t$sou$1@news.digifix.com> ANNOUNCE: RadicalNews 2.0a1 Alpha Release for Rhapsody Power PC January 5, 1998 - Anaheim Hills, California. Radical System Solutions, a long-time provider of object oriented expertise to the professional market, is proud to announce the first free alpha version of RadicalNews running under Rhapsody for the Power PC. RadicalNews is an advanced international graphical newsreader. RadicalNews for Rhapsody/Intel will be released shortly. RadicalNews 2.0a1 provides most of the RadicalNews features for NEXTSTEP, however one notable exception is mail forwarding. Mail will be added soon, but in the interim, all bug reports and comments should be directed to <mailto:support@radical.com>. For a full list of RadicalNews features, please visit our website at <http://www.radical.com>. New versions of RadicalNews will be released rapidly, and the best way to keep current with the latest version is to visit our web site. Japanese is supported in this alpha release, however the nib files are currently in English. RadicalNews is built for the Power PC on Rhapsody DR1. The alpha version is free and expires on April 1, 1998. The new version of RadicalNews is available from our website at: http://www.radical.com/TheHome/TheProducts/RadicalNews/RadicalNews.2.0a1.P.b.tar gz Our web site will have updated information and links to the most current version: http://www.radical.com/ For further information, contact: Radical System Solutions, Inc. mailto:RadicalNews@Radical.Com
From: David Wetzel <dave@turbocat.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: PostgreSQL EOAdaptor (v127) available for download Date: 6 Jan 1998 22:42:15 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <68uc07$150$1@news.digifix.com> The current EOAdaptor for PostgreSQL is now available. It enables you to access PostgreSQL databases from EOF 2.x. The current version is free. It will work until 19th March '98. Supported is OPENSTEP on NeXT, Intel and Sun. For information/download visit http://www.turbocat.de/ CHANGES SINCE LAST RELEASE INCLUDE: O Fixed problem with inserting NSDates which are NULL O Fixed problem with fetching NSDates which are NULL O - (unsigned)deleteRowsDescribedByQualifier: entity:entity; Returns the REAL Number of delete Rows now. O Removed NSLog()s and log only if isDebugEnabled returns YES. use defaults write NSGlobalDomain EOAdaptorDebugEnabled YES to enable debugging If you have any questions or suggestions mail to info@turbocat.de. Commercial support is available.
From: Ingmar Camphausen <ingmar@aurora.in-berlin.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Berlin NEXTSTEP User Group (BeNG) January meeting Date: 1 Jan 1998 18:48:21 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <68godl$5id$1@news.digifix.com> **** MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT **** Berlin NEXTSTEP User Group (BeNG) January meeting =================================================== The BeNG (Berlin NEXTSTEP User Group) will be holding its next meeting on Monday, January 5, 1998, at 8:00 p.m. (MET) in the "Institut fuer Energietechnik" of the Technical University Berlin in Room KT 101 (1st floor), Marchst. 18, D-10587 Berlin, Germany. This is our scheduled agenda: o The BeNG IN 1998 Timely for the "Rhapsody year" 1998, the Berlin NeXT User Group gets a "face-lifting". We will have a domain of our own (beng.org) [not to mix with the Bay Area NEXTSTEP Group, BANG! ;-) ] and we will (nearly) have rooms of our own! Details will be reveiled on Monday. o RHAPSODY NEWS What's new about Rhapsody and the "Yellow Box" for Windows 95/NT that has just been shipped to the registered Apple Developers? o NEXTTOYOU 97/4 On Christmas eve, the latest issue of the world's unique NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/RHAPSODY magazine "NEXTTOYOU" saw the light of the world. As usually, the content of the recent issue will be presented, and copies handed over to the members of the BeNG group subscription. Single copies will be on sale, too, for those who have no subscription yet. The meeting is open to anyone who is interested in NEXTSTEP, OPENSTEP and RHAPSODY, Apple's future operating system . People seeking for more first hand information about these OS's (especially Mac users), are very welcome, too. The official part of the meeting is scheduled to end at about 10 p.m. After the program, join us for a snack and/or drink at a nearby cafe or restaurant. Looking forward to seeing you at the meeting! Contact: Gerald Erdmann gerald@stepman.com (NeXTmail welcome) or Ingmar Camphausen ingmar@in-berlin.de (NeXTmail welcome) BeNG: e-mail beng@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (mailinglist!) WWW http://buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de/~beng FTP ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/NeXT How to get there ---------------- We meet in Room KT 101 on the 1st floor of the "Institut fuer Energietechnik", a building of the Technical University of Berlin. It is located Marchst. 18 on the campus of the TU near the western city-center of Berlin. The entrance to the building is on the left hand side behind a gate at the end of a parking lot. Watch out for the NeXT-logo-like 'BeNG' signs and follow them upstairs to the meeting room! :-) * by bike or public transport: We recommend coming by bicycle or using the public transport (BVG/S-Bahn): You can either take the underground line U2 or bus 145 or bus X9 and leave at 'Ernst-Reuter-Platz' (+ 400m walking), or you choose bus 245 up to Ernst-Reuter-Platz/Marchst. (+ 200m walking). The nearest rapid transit ("S-Bahn") station is "Tiergarten" (~1000 m/ ~10 min walking distance); you get there via the rapid transit lines S3, S5, S7 or S75. * by car - from North (Wedding [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. At the fork keep left into the Franklinst. After crossing the March Bridge and the Einstein St, the "Institut fuer Energietechnik" is located on the left-hand side of the street behind the drive to a parking lot. - all other directions: Head for Ernst-Reuter-Platz via Bismarckst. or Hardenbergst. (from the West-Berlin city center/Zoo) or "Strasse des 17. Juni"/Grosser Stern. From the roundabout Ernst-Reuter-Platz, take the Marchst. exit. About 200 m into the Marchst., right after a blue building and the drive to a parking lot on the right hand side, you find the "Institut fuer Energietechnik" (marked 'KT' in the ASCII map below). 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 \ / r./\ t \^^^^\ u \ \ o \ / t / \ e \^^^^\ f \ \ - \ / s / \ i \^^^^\ e \ \ S \ / h / \ n \^^^^\ r \ \ u \ / c P \ u \^^^^\ \ .. \ h \ / r /\P KT \ 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 // ------------. .-----------------------...----//----...---- "-. .=" // U2 ". Ha \ Bus 145, X9 // U2 \ rd \ U2 // \ en \ // \ be \ // S3,S5 \ rg \ // S7,S75 \ st \ // \ r. \ // \ \ U+S-Bahnhof \ \ Zoologischer \ \ Garten If you have access to the world wide web, you may also want to take a look at a map of the meeting location and its environment via the StadtINFO online city map at the URL http://www.kulturbox.de/cgi-bin/k/pixelinfo?PQ=m11&X=96&Y=381&TEXT=BeNG%21 (The "Institut fuer Energietechnik" is marked with a red circle.) * * * The subsequent meeting is scheduled for February 2, 1998. (no agenda yet, sorry!) --- BeNG --- WHO WE ARE --- The Berlin NEXTSTEP User Group (BeNG) exists since 1990 and is a loose "aggregation" of NeXT/NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP enthusiasts. Our participants may be reached via our mailing list. Of course, we are also present in the World Wide Web. In addition, we manage the NeXT/NEXTSTEP FTP archive at the Technical University (TU) Berlin. mailing list mailto:beng@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de WWW http://buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de/~beng (soon: http://www.beng.org/ !) FTP ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/NeXT We meet the first Monday each month at 8:00 p.m. (If this coincides with a holiday, the meeting takes place the subsequent week.) We usually have a lecture or presentation; respective suggestions or offers are very welcome and should be directed to our mailing list.
From: far@ix.netcom.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION GateKeeper 3.0 Beta 2 Date: 1 Jan 1998 18:48:12 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <68godc$5i7$1@news.digifix.com> SUBMISSION GateKeeper 3.0 Beta 2 GateKeeper 3.0 is an integrated GUI control and PPP package. RELEASE NOTES This is an early, experimental Beta. Minimal testing has been done on Intel hardware running 4.2 User with a SupraSonic modem. Building the source distribution requires NS 3.2/3.3 Developer. It should work with NS 3.2->4.2 User. This release is self contained and will not affect prior releases of GateKeeper or PPP if you install it in a different folder. In this release GateKeeper and the integrated PPP daemon communicate in a peer to peer fashion as necessary via Mach RPC (prior releases parsed the PPP log stream). This allows GateKeeper to dynamically alter the behavior of the running PPP daemon. The current Beta only implements a subset of the planned RPC so many things require the user to stop and start the PPP daemon (from GK) in order for changes to take effect. Central to the operation of this release is "Dial on demand" which I have enabled in the PPP daemon. In fact this release has no "Connect" button beyond it's Manual Dial mechanism. This allows GateKeeper and the PPP daemon to provide the functionality of previous releases while operating independently of each other. For example, if GateKeeper is restarted while a PPP daemon is active it will contact the daemon and resume the peer to peer relationship. The integrated PPP package is based on the NeXT 2.3.1 release of the free PPP as ported by Steve Perkins and others. Significant changes include: GateKeeper.app Architecture has been extensively reworked to support the new model of operation. Preferences now consists of dynamically loaded bundles. PostPPP script execution upon termination of GK and daemon. PPP daemon Dial on demand has been enabled. Mach RPC and communications server thread added. chat Slight mod to overcome cheese ball NeXT POSIX support. Capture and reporting of connection speed via Mach RPC. PPP LKS No changes in this Beta. Testing was done using the PPP2.2 LKS (more stable on my dev system) while this package contains the 2.3.1 LKS. DISTRIBUTION FILES GateKeeper.3.0.Beta.2.s.tar.gz contains a source distribution GateKeeper.3.0.Beta.2.NI.b.tar.gz contains a binary distribution URL's ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/ppp/GateKeeper/GateKeeper.3.0.Beta.2.s.tar.gz ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/ppp/GateKeeper/GateKeeper.3.0.Beta.2.NI.b.tar.gz ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Communication/apps/GateKeeper.3.0.Beta.2.s.tar.gz ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Communication/apps/GateKeeper.3.0.Beta.2.NI.b.tar.gz SUPPORT My ability to provide support is very limited. Should you require assistance I will expect you to have the current stable release (2.1) running on your system. During the Beta period I will provide support without charge to those testing the Beta. Upon final release the following will apply: Comments and bug reports are always welcome, but if you would like support the following applies: 1. If you are a non-commercial user and are doing some type of FSF GNU or other freeware work for the UNIX community let me know and we'll call it even. The same is true if you provide software free to single non-commercial users or if you have contributed to the creation of GateKeeper. 2. If you would like E-mail support please register for it by sending in a one time registration fee of $20 USD. 3. If you would like telephone support please contact me via E-mail for details. CURRENT RELEASE The current Beta release of GateKeeper is version 3.0 Beta 2 The current stable release of GateKeeper is version 2.1 FEATURES -- Dial on demand. -- Manual Dial and login to a ppp provider without a script. -- Compound document format for storing information necessary to access an Internet Service Provider. -- GUI document editor (partially implemented) -- Toolbar control -- Idle timeout with sound warning. -- Execute and check exit status of a preLink and a preUnLink script prior to the respective operation. -- displays pppStats -- Redial. -- App Icon session timer. -- Tri-state animated icon provides status feedback. -- Captures and displays connection information BUGS If you are using the GK 2.1 stable release you must switch the PPP log from a FIFO to a file in GK 2.1's preferences. If you want old Gate docs to report connection speed you must add a line to your pppup file like: "REPORT CARRIER". See the enclosed example doc. The documentation does not reflect this Beta release. German localization has been removed from this Beta. If running a local nameserver you should dump it's cache after each PPP session. Comments, bug reports and suggestions should be sent to: Felipe A. Rodriguez 5315 Colodny st. #7 Agoura Hills, CA 91301 far@ix.netcom.com (NeXTmail preferred) (MIMEmail welcome)
From: Mont Rothstein <mont@echidna.doverpacific.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Job Offers: Looking for experienced OpenStep developers Date: 8 Jan 1998 05:01:45 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <691mjp$djk$1@news.digifix.com> Dover Pacific Computing, Inc. is looking to fill positions in the following areas. These positions will begin in the February-March timeframe, and will be located at Dover Pacific's new office in San Diego. Project Manager - This person will be responsible for a team of 3-4 developers, and coordinating with a product manager, software quality assurance, and documentation. Skills should include: extensive experience in team leadership, object-oriented analysis and design, and an ability to roll up the sleeves and dive into code when necessary. The job will require taking over an existing team and product suite. Project Manager/Senior Developer - This person will be responsible for a team of 1-2 developers, and coordinating with a product manager, software quality assurance, and documentation. Skills should include: team leadership, object-oriented analysis and design, and strong coding abilities. The job will require starting a new product suite including design and implementation, and growing with that product suite and team. Senior Developer - This person will be a member of a team of 3-4 developers. Skills should include: object-oriented analysis and design, and strong coding abilities. The job will require working within a team and helping less experienced developers. Developer - This person will be a member of a team of developers. Skills should include: object-oriented analysis and design, and software development experience. The job will require working within a team and helping less experienced developers. The following tools are being used. Experience in these tools is not required (but obviously it would help): Objective-C HTML Postscript Java (in the future) OpenStep Enterprise Objects Framework (EOF) Web Objects Windows NT 4.0 All positions include competitive salaries and full benefits. If you are interested in any of the above positions please contact: Mont Rothstein (mont@doverpacific.com) Dover Pacific 4251 S. Higuera #201 San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 805-781-8317 (voice) 805-781-8319 (fax)
From: Mark Trombino <mark@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: LogOn 00.92b now available Date: 9 Jan 1998 19:26:49 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <695tlp$7b3$1@news.digifix.com> APP NAME: LogOn WHAT: GUI for PPP. VERSION: 0.92 beta OS: Openstep for Mach (tested on 4.2 only) (DOES NOT RUN ON NEXTSTEP) PLATFORMS: NeXT, Intel SIZE: 1.8 MB compressed 4.7 MB installed FAT (NeXT, Intel, Sparc) (English & French) 1.53 MB installed for single platform WHERE: ftp://wendy.ucsd.edu/pub/Mark/LogOn_00.92b.m.NIS.tar.gz LogOn is intended for internet users who just want an application that launches and kills PPP which is both simple to install and easy to use. The goal was to provide an app that frees users from having to deal with chat scripts, options files, or pap-secrets files. It is not an application that helps you install PPP or configure PPP, but rather one that (hopefully) shields you from ever having to know the nitty-gritty details of pppd or chat. Using LogOn for the first time is as easy as entering your account name, password and phone number. Afterwards, using LogOn is as simple as saying "I want to connect to Netcom from Home using PPP 2.3" and pressing a button. FEATURES: * Graphic front end to ppp. * Maintains unlimited number of "Accounts": Saves account name, password, server phone number, chat script... Have one for each account you own... * Maintains unlimited number of "Locations": Saves modem initializations, phone prefix/postfix, long distance access codes... Have one for home, one for work, one for school, etc * Maintains unlimited number of "Option" files. (With a GUI, of course!) * To use, just connect a "Server" Location with a "Local" Location and press the LogOn button. * "Autodetect" feature - no chat scripts! * "Autoredial" feature - keeps trying until ppp is active * Launches apps you select automatically when ppp is established * Changes signatures to match your "virtual" location. * Can fetch pop mail for you when ppp is established (You supply a program like popOver) * Can purge mail queue when ppp is established. * Maintains /etc/resolv.conf (if you wish - you can disable this feature). * A clock tracks time on line. * Log Window displays ppp log file (or other you select) * PPP Expert and Novice users - limits access to certain elements of LogOn to experts only. * Users can choose whether to use an external script or LogOn to bring up connection. Likewise to bring down a connection. * Context Help to guide you through the set up process. * Compatable with both pppd 2.2 and pppd 2.3. WHAT'S NEW: Version .92 * Removed pppkill from project. Uses shell script pppdown instead. * New multi-panel Preferences Panel. * Can set time between autoredial attempts. * Dial on startup option * Kill or not kill PPP on shutdown option * If LogOn is killed before it has a chance to restore the filesystem, the next time it is run the user is asked if they wish to restore the filesystem to its previous state. * If PPP is already running when LogOn is launched, it will automatically switch to the connected state. * LogOn files are now readable/writable only by owner. * Passwords in chat scripts are now sent securely - prepended with the /q escape character. * There are now "Send Mail" and "Fetch Mail" menu items. Version .91 * Added French language project (translation by Andre Lalonde <info@scribex.com>). * BUG FIX: LogOn now properly saves whether not not you want to have it issue the command to fetch your mail. Please download it and give it a try. And, of course, please let me know of any comments or suggestions you might have. Thank you for trying LogOn! --- Mark Trombino mtrombin@ix.netcom.com (NEXTMail, MIME Mail okay)
From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (9.1.98) Date: 9 Jan 1998 19:59:57 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <695vjt$81v$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]): 1734954 Jan 4 13:58 Communication/apps/GateKeeper.3.0.Beta.2.NI.b.tar.gz 5503 Jan 4 13:58 Communication/apps/GateKeeper.3.0.Beta.2.README 1003578 Jan 4 13:59 Communication/apps/GateKeeper.3.0.Beta.2.s.tar.gz 1120 Jan 4 14:09 Rhapsody/tools/time/MenuClock.v1.01.README 11264 Jan 4 14:09 Rhapsody/tools/time/MenuClock.v1.01.s.tgz 1791 Jan 4 14:13 OpenStep/network/filetransfer/RBrowser.2.03.README 489470 Jan 4 14:13 OpenStep/network/filetransfer/RBrowser.2.03.m.I.tgz 479751 Jan 4 14:13 OpenStep/network/filetransfer/RBrowser.2.03.m.N.tgz 489373 Jan 4 14:13 OpenStep/network/filetransfer/RBrowser.2.03.m.S.tgz 1819 Jan 4 13:59 Network/news/RadicalNews.0.9.3.NIHS.README 1538853 Jan 4 14:00 Network/news/RadicalNews.0.9.3.NIHS.b.tar.gz 3678 Jan 4 14:00 Network/news/RadicalNewsJ.0.9.3.NIHS.README 1622379 Jan 4 14:00 Network/news/RadicalNewsJ.0.9.3.NIHS.b.tar.gz 194 Jan 4 14:08 Rhapsody/network/programs/filetransfer/ncftp-2.4.2.I.bs.README 248082 Jan 4 14:08 Rhapsody/network/programs/filetransfer/ncftp-2.4.2.I.bs.tgz 165 Jan 4 14:08 Rhapsody/network/programs/filetransfer/ncftp-3.0beta7.I.bs.README 505649 Jan 4 14:08 Rhapsody/network/programs/filetransfer/ncftp-3.0beta7.I.bs.tgz 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: <21232883890027@digifix.com> Date: 11 Jan 1998 04:59:16 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <366884494825@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: <21230883890024@digifix.com> Date: 11 Jan 1998 04:59:14 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <364884494823@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: info@vvi.com (VVI-DCS Information) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: OpenGraph Unleashes WEB Graphing For Rhapsody and OpenStep Date: 12 Jan 1998 20:41:31 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <69dv5r$dmk$1@news.digifix.com> PRESS RELEASE: OpenGraph Unleashes WEB Graphing For Rhapsody and OpenStep VVI Data Control Specialists (VVI-DCS) 311 Adams Ave.; State College, PA 16803 USA 888-DCS-OPEN ; 814-234-9613 info@vvi.com http://www.vvi.com State College, PA USA, 12 January 1998: VVI Data Control Specialists (VVI-DCS) today announced availability of OpenGraph for WEB charting and graphing purposes. As a demonstration of this capability, VVI-DCS has been running a Live Temperature Lab (see http://www.vvi.com/liveTemperatureLab.html) where, during the past month, over 100 million temperature values have been digitized and then, on the minute, recorded in graph format and made available to WEB browsers throughout the world. The whole process takes about one percent of the CPU which means millions of graphs per month can be generated on a modern Mac or PC. John Brilhart, CTO of VVI-DCS, remarks: "Our customers aren't normally this severe with their computers. However, it is important that we take OpenGraph to the limit as part of our quality assurance programs. We've been implementing these types of systems for six years now and it is the best way to improve overall quality and functionality." OpenGraph runs on OpenStep, Rhapsody, Windows NT and Windows 95 using Apple's OpenStep Enterprise and Yellow Box and integrates with Apple's WebObjects. Because of that graphs can be generated and displayed in real-time and on-demand for any web browser, Java enabled or not. OpenGraph includes a comprehensive framework and API, an easy to use Interface Builder palette and the comprehensive building tool, GraphBuilder, to make technical-oriented figures, maps, templates, graphs and complete page-oriented documents. About VVI-DCS: VVI Data Control Specialists (VVI-DCS) was cofounded in 1989 by Ed VanVliet and John Brilhart, subsequently incorporated in 1992 and is currently a privately held corporation. Since its founding VVI-DCS expanded to be the leading independent supplier of data reporting software in the OpenStep marketplace. VVI-DCS's customers comprise world leading companies in the banking, biotechnology, chemical, financial services, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical industries. Systems VVI-DCS helped build have been operational for years and at this time are monitoring billions of dollars worth of products in real-time and on a global scale. These systems are, in part, based on VVI-DCS's OpenGraph About OpenGraph: OpenGraph is a framework of Objective-C and C++ objects for reporting data in graph and textual formats and consists of a graph building application and pre-built objects. OpenGraph accepts real-time feeds from any source and serves as a graphing front-end for real-time financial analysis, transaction, production and inventory analysis, database systems, and instrumentation. OpenGraph is fully object-oriented and is well suited to systems which require reliability, exacting specifications and performance. _________________________________ (C) Copyright 1998 VVimaging, Inc. (VVI-DCS); All rights reserved. OpenGraph, GraphBuilder, VVI Data Control Specialists, VVI-DCS, and VVimaging are trademarks of VVimaging, Inc. (VVI-DCS). OpenStep and Apple are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. All other trademarks and service marks belong to their respective owners.
From: Dirk Fromhein <Dirk.Fromhein@watershed.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Relational Object Framework for Java Beans -> NeXT EOF to JavaBeans Transition Tool Date: 12 Jan 1998 04:16:08 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <69c5e8$kk9$1@news.digifix.com> NeXT Developers: A New Product to Transition from NeXTSTEP/OpenStep EOF to JavaBeans Watershed Technologies is getting set to introduce our latest product, Relational Object Framework (ROF) for JavaBean, a class library and supporting administration tool that allows you to move from NeXTSTEP/OpenStep to Java. ROF is able to convert Enterprise Object Framework (EOF) models (both 1.x and 2.x) to Java-based ROF models. ROF is also be able to generate source code for base Java objects that map appropriately. In developing ROF, our engineers have relied heavily on their many years of EOF experience to influence the design of ROF. It goes beyond the capabilities of EOF and provides greater functionality and ease-of-use. Our Beta will be released on Thursday, January 15th, and we believe that you?ll really like what you?ll see. Below please find detailed information on ROF and about this upcoming Beta test. Product Description: ROF is a set of class libraries and application tools that allows software developers to create Java applications that work with any Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). The Relational Object Framework simplifies application development by eliminating direct RDBMS interactions from Java programming. Any JavaBean can be automatically mapped to database tables. Java programmers can create sophisticated scalable applications that interact with any RDBMS without knowing SQL, the structure of the database, or managing the connection layer via JDBC. This allows programmers to access an RDBMS without any database specific coding. Additionally, because ROF maintains its own model of the database and the class mappings, the database structure and class definitions can change independently. This results in huge time savings during product development and product maintenance. ROF allows any Java Business Object to be ?mapped? to any relational database tables. This mapping can also span multiple tables. This mapping is also ?lazy?, related objects are not fetched from the database until they are accessed in some way. This makes the program much more efficient. ROF allows programs to be two tier (direct connection to the database), two and a half tier (inserting a middle tier that ?pools? connections between ROF and the database), and true three tier (via CORBA or DCOM/Microsoft Transaction Server). ROF is written to take advantage of any JDBC driver. This flexibility provides enterprise level scalability without any code changes. Product Summary: ? Relational Object Framework (ROF) is a Relational Database to Java Objects mapping layer useful for client/server database application development; it's a bridge that maps complex Java Objects to database entities/attributes/relations ? Targeted to custom application developers ? ROF?s purpose is to allow developers to create Java applications that work with any Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) ? Features include: - mapping - enabling any JavaBean to be automatically ?mapped? to relational database tables - ?lazy? mapping - this efficient feature won?t fetch related objects from the database until they are accessed - enterprise scalability - ability to create sophisticated scalable applications that interact with any RDBMS without knowing SQL, the structure of the database, or managing the connection layer via JDBC - database independent - maintenance of its own model of the database and the class mappings so that the database structure and class definitions can change independently - no coding - access databases without writing specific SQL coding - support for multiple architectures - enterprise JavaBean support - ODMG conformity - ability to conform to ODMG 2.0 standards - n tiers - ROF supports n tier architecture: ? two tier (direct connection to the database) ? two and a half tier (inserting a middle tier that ?pools? connections between ROF and the database) ? true three tier (via CORBA or DCOM/Microsoft Transaction Server). - JDBC flexibility - written to take advantage of any JDBC driver which provides enterprise level scalability without any code changes ? Benefits include: - time savings - drastic reduction time during both product development and product maintenance - simplified development - simplification of database application development by eliminating direct RDBMS interactions from Java programming - focus on Java objects - ability to concentrate on creating Java objects - no SQL - elimination of the need to write and maintain SQL - no schema knowledge - database schema knowledge is not required - no Java code impact - database schema can change without any impact on Java code - no schema impact - Java code can change without impacting database schema Key Dates: ? Thursday, January 15th - ROF Beta release ? Week of January 12th - the Beta Test Agreement will be posted on our website, http://www.watershed.com Product Profile for the Beta Release: ? What's Included: - Class libraries for the Runtime components of ROF - Class libraries for the GUI components (based on Swing/JFC 0.6.1) - Relational Manager administration application - Javadoc documentation for the Runtime classes - A short tutorial with complete examples for each with different levels of complexity Any questions or comments should be directed to info@watershed.com. We look forward to your feedback. Thanks, Dirk Fromhein Dirk.Fromhein@watershed.com
From: info@caffeineSoft.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Caffeine Software Announce Release of TIFFany3 PR-4 Date: 14 Jan 1998 20:47:08 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <69j88c$kl9$1@news.digifix.com> For Immediate Release For further information, please contact: Caffeine Software info@caffeineSoft.com http://www.caffeineSoft.com/ Caffeine Software Announce Release of TIFFany3 PR-4 January 13, 1998 -- Santa Clara, California -- Caffeine Software, publishers of TIFFany, the renown image editing package for NeXTSTEP and OpenStep, announce the availability of TIFFany3 PR-4 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-4 was shown last week to the public at MacWorld Expo in San Francisco and has received an overwhelming attention from the visitors. Caffeine Software now gives out free temporary licenses of the same version of the software. TIFFany3 PR-4 comes with a one-user full floating license which expires on March 1, 1998. TIFFany3 PR-4 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. Unlike in earlier releases, some features of this new release will not work on OpenStep 4.0 and 4.1 Some of the new features in PR-4: * New filter modules * Quick Preview for all Actions in the Action Manager * Action History allows the user to quickly access the 20 most recent actions (OS 4.2 and Rhapsody users only) * Complete Undo - all operations can be undone, in the well-known multi-level undo fashion known from earlier TIFFany releases * Support for Kodak's "kiff" file format This PR-4 release of TIFFany can be downloaded for free from the Caffeine Software web page at http://www.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: http://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: "Peter Zachary" <pzachary@islandnet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: UCCON releases beta version (0.5) of User Defined Animation and Debugging System (UDADS) for NEXTSTEP3.3/OPENSTEP INTEL Date: 14 Jan 1998 21:03:40 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <69j97c$kup$1@news.digifix.com> UCCON releases beta version (0.5) of User Defined Animation and Debugging System (UDADS) for NEXTSTEP3.3/OPENSTEP INTEL (TM). VICTORIA, B.C. CANADA ---- January 14, 1998 ---- UCCON has released a beta version (0.5) of the User Defined Animation and Debugging System (UDADS). UDADS is a developer tool which can be used for visualizing, testing and debugging object oriented applications. UDADS provides the means to watch dynamic object behaviour at desired levels of abstraction. This allows developers to think about their application areas in ways which are more compatible with the object-oriented programming paradigm. As a state-of-the-art developer's tool, UDADS provides the following benefits: - rapid isolation and correction of problems through the detection of unexpected application behavior, - effective verification, testing and debugging of application design, - enhanced ability to demonstrate application development progress, and - enhanced ability to communicate application behavior to both general users and developers. UDADS provides these benefits by: - providing dynamic graphical displays (custom or generic) of selected application variables or objects as they change state, - capturing user actions and allowing them to be replayed in a script mode, and - providing seamless access to standard as well as advanced debugging features. "This beta version of UDADS will allow developers to experience the future of debugging," said Peter Zachary, junior partner in UCCON. "A paradigm shift from textual to dynamic graphical debugging is inevitable... once the overwhelming benefits of visual debugging become known." Beta Availability Beta version (0.5) UDADS can be downloaded from UCCON's web site at http://www.uccon.com. Not all features are functional or stable. Beta version (0.5) UDADS was written for NEXTSTEP 3.3 INTEL (TM) but will run under OPENSTEP INTEL (TM). Contact: Peter Zachary (250) 598-9446 pzachary@uccon.com http://www.uccon.com Ukrainian Canadian Consolidators (UCCON) UCCON is a privately funded partnership whose mission is to exploit Western software market opportunitites through the entrepreneurial application of Ukrainian scientific talent. Beta version (0.5) UDADS has been developed in Kyiv, Ukraine. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
From: Tom Hageman <tom@basil.icce.rug.nl> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: perl 5.004_04 Installer packages Date: 14 Jan 1998 21:07:34 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <69j9em$l3e$1@news.digifix.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- This is a ready-to-install binary distribution of Perl 5.004_04 for NEXTSTEP / OPENSTEP / Prelude to Rhapsody. As a special bonus it is built with SysVIPC shared memory/semaphore support -- including the sys/{ipc,sem,shm}.ph headers this time :-) (see ftp://ftp.nl.net/pub/comp/next/SysVIPC/.) perl.pkg contains the base Perl executable, libraries and man pages. If you want to create Perl extensions or embed Perl into your own programs you must also install perlCORE.pkg (see `ExtUtils::MakeMaker.3' and `ExtUtils::Embed.3' in `/usr/local/lib/perl5/man/man3' after installation of perl.pkg.) If you want to be able to run setuid perl scripts you should also install perlsuid.pkg. Note: this last package MUST be installed as "root". You must also have libgdbm.a and libposix.a libraries installed in the libraries search path at if you want to be able to use GDBM and POSIX modules, respectively. This is because these libraries are linked at runtime when these modules are loaded dynamically into perl. (So you'd need these libraries even at non-Developer systems. I haven't yet found a feasible workaround for this, sorry.) The NDBM and ODBM modules use libgdbm.a if it is available, and fall back to libdbm.a otherwise. [A precompiled gdbm package is available at ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next/<<where???>> The POSIX library is available at ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/Patches/NEXTSTEP3.3Patch1/libposix.a according to NeXTanswer #2066. One problem with downloading this is that it must be re-ranlib-ed after you copy it to /usr/lib (or /usr/local/lib) or you will not be able to link against it -- NeXT should have put it inside a .tar.gz archive...] The perl-examples archive contains some sample perl scripts, as distributed with the perl source. These are not installed by default; do with them as you see fit. It also contains cperl-mode.el, yet another perl editing mode for Emacs 19.29 or later. This is not installed by default since it may conflict with `perl-mode.el' as shipped with Emacs. If you want it, install it in /path/to/lib/emacs/site-lisp/. This perl distribution has been tested on NeXT and Intel, but not on Sparc or HPPA. Use it at your own risk. This distribution has been built for NS3.3. It does run on OS/Mach, but I doubt that you can successfully build new perl modules using the OPENSTEP compiler. KNOWN PROBLEMS WITH THIS DISTRIBUTION: - - due to the way it is built (a NS3.3 cross-compiler setup running under OPENSTEP) preprocessing using perls `-P' option does not work unless you have `cc3' installed (This is a compiled in constant unfortunately -- perl does not read it from Config.pm.) A workaround is to create a symlink e.g: ln -s /bin/cc /usr/local/bin/cc3 - - If the perl package is installed on an OPENSTEP system, a NS3.x cross-compilation environment is assumed to be mounted on /NEXTSTEP/, and my `cc3' cross-compilation script (as present in the MiscKit) is assumed as its default compiler. If you don't want this you have to edit /usr/local/lib/perl5/next-fat/5.00404/Config.pm by hand. Copyright 1987-1997, Larry Wall. Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5.0 source kit. Use `perlbug' to report bugs in Perl. Please do _not_ use this to report bugs regarding packaging; you can send these to the address given below. It can be found at: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/devtools/perl/perl-examples.5.004_04.d.tar.gz (sample perl scripts; 90KB) ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/devtools/perl/perl.5.004_04.NIHS.bd.pkg.tar.gz (base package; 3.2MB) ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/devtools/perl/perlCORE.5.004_04.NIHS.bd.pkg.tar.gz (module/embed developer package; 1.5MB) ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/devtools/perl/perlsuid.5.004_04.NIHS.b.pkg.tar.gz (setuid perl package; 0.93MB) ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/devtools/perl/perl.5.004_04.README 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] Enjoy! Tom Hageman <tom@basil.icce.rug.nl> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: next iQCVAwUBNL0FgTHcGwCnCAFpAQH/NgP/XC3tF8n71rl5h+J6okEAkwUTKeZfliRg JI88Qzjf67IhHUG+MicPA6mk6dhJJGRuKVdMUCSbeTamOrNxr3eKIwauDRDWXlMR lSfWBsIt6vd9sazquWUpGXA0Rp2deE31lXvW7D9ZRXuCJB6M+DsvWfKeAQIRD8hq /+Bi9+uh20Q= =qT8Q -----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: Alvin Jee <alvin@neander.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: First release of NeanderCam and BW QuickCam driver Date: 16 Jan 1998 20:35:45 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <69ogb1$re3$1@news.digifix.com> For Immediate Release: Contact: Neanderthal Design NeanderCam@neander.com Fax: (408) 738-8336 http://www.neander.com PRESS RELEASE: First release of the NeanderCam still image capture application and a driver for the Connectix Gray-Scale QuickCam is available. 15 Jan 1998 - Sunnyvale, California Neanderthal Design announces the availability of version 1.0 of NeanderCam and a driver for the parallel port version of the Connectix gray-scale QuickCam for NeXTSTEP 3.3. NeanderCam is a NeXTSTEP 3.3 application that displays still-frame images that are captured by digital cameras. NeanderCam allows you to save the displayed images as TIFF files. NeanderCam also supports the dragging of images from the "viewfinder" into other applications as TIFF images. NeanderCam allows users to use not only the cameras that are connected to the local machine, but also to cameras that are located on other machines attached to the network. Thus, NeanderCam can be used for remote visual monitoring and primitive video conferencing. NeanderCam makes use of run-time loaded bundles to load drivers for specific camera types. This allows users to use new camera types without requiring a new version of NeanderCam. In conjunction with this release of NeanderCam, Neanderthal Design is releasing version 1.0 of a driver for the parallel port (Windows) version of the Connectix gray-scale QuickCam camera. While this driver only runs on Intel machines running NeXTSTEP 3.3, NeanderCam can access the QuickCam from any NeXTSTEP 3.3 machine on the local network. The Intel version of the driver and the quad-FAT versions of NeanderCam and the driver bundle can be retrieved from our web site http://www.neander.com or out ftp site ftp://ftp.neander.com. For more information send e-mail to NeanderCam@neander.com --- NeanderCam is a trademark of Neanderthal Design. QuickCam is a trademark or Connectix Corporation. All other product names mentioned herein are the trademarks of the product owners. --- Alvin Jee alvin@neander.com NeXTMail gleefully accepted! Sending bits down the Internet since 1984 http://www.neander.com/ ext/editor/WebWriter.0.1.m.I.b.tgz 289747 Jan 15 13:25 Rhapsody/text/editor/WebWriter.0.1.m.P.b.tgz 838838 Jan 15 13:29 OpenStep/X11/Xnext-server.3.02.m.I.b.tgz 1191246 Jan 15 13:33 Network/programs/www/apache.1.2.5.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 1143 Jan 15 13:33 Network/programs/www/apache.1.2.5.README 99 Jan 15 13:16 Rhapsody/developer/programs/library/libreadline-2.1.I.b.README 243016 Jan 15 13:16 Rhapsody/developer/programs/library/libreadline-2.1.m.I.b.tgz 807 Jan 15 13:13 Rhapsody/developer/programs/language/perl5.004_04.README 3139161 Jan 15 13:13 Rhapsody/developer/programs/language/perl5.004_04.m.I.b.tgz 2940343 Jan 15 13:13 Rhapsody/developer/programs/language/perl5.004_04.s.tar.gz 1802989 Jan 15 13:21 Rhapsody/unix/tools/sh-utils.1.16.m.I.bs.tgz 482897 Jan 15 13:24 Rhapsody/unix/archive/sharutils-4.2.m.I.bs.tgz 212 Jan 15 13:10 Rhapsody/tools/programs/security/ssh-1.2.21.I.b.README 488534 Jan 15 13:10 Rhapsody/tools/programs/security/ssh-1.2.21.m.I.b.tgz 1041676 Jan 15 13:10 Rhapsody/tools/programs/security/ssh-1.2.21.s.tar.gz 158 Jan 15 13:18 Rhapsody/unix/text/textutils-1.22.I.bs.README 1421010 Jan 15 13:18 Rhapsody/unix/text/textutils-1.22.m.I.bs.tgz Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/pub/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-hamburg.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-siegen.de/ France: ftp://ftp.fdn.fr/, ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Switzerland: ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/ UUCP (Germany) wburg.hanse.de (Tel. ++49-40-307 89 06) Mailbox (Germany) (Tel. ++49-8803-61111, ISDN ++49-8803-62149). Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from december 199e. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.leo.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.leo.org)
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <364884494823@digifix.com> Date: 18 Jan 1998 04:58:51 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <15507885099622@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. 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From: Wassim M Jabi <jabi@acsu.buffalo.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: EggTimer v1.1 for OPENSTEP Date: 21 Jan 1998 21:56:40 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <6a5quo$dv4$1@news.digifix.com> EggTimer v1.1 is a simple and useful application for setting short to medium term reminders. Using EggTimer, you can set multiple reminders that are either one-time or recurring. The application keeps track of the reminders and tells you at all times how much time remains before the reminder will "fire". You can re-set or change the properties of the reminder at any time before or even after it has expired. If you download and use EggTimer, please send me e-mail to let me know how you like it and how I can improve it. EggTimer is available for OPENSTEP MACH (Moto/Intel), Microsoft Windows NT, and Apple Rhapsody. Source code is also available if you are trying to learn OPENSTEP programming. EggTimer took all of two to three days of development. Please note that the Rhapsody binary is not tested and I am able to provide it due to the generous help of Eric Peyton. Please try to download and install it and let me know if it really works. I would love to receive a Rhapsody screen shot similar to the Windows NT one I have at my web site (URL listed below). Enjoy! Wassim Jabi (wj@writeme.com) URLs: General Web site for downloading all EggTimer flavors: http://libra.ap.buffalo.edu/www/Software/ OPENSTEP for MACH Binary (Motorola & Intel) ftp://libra.ap.buffalo.edu/pub/next/binaries/EggTimer.1.1.m.NI.b.tar.gz OPENSTEP ENTERPRISE for Windows NT Binary (Intel) ftp://libra.ap.buffalo.edu/pub/next/binaries/EggTimer.1.1.w.I.b.tar.gz OPENSTEP/Rhapsody Binary (PowerPC) ftp://libra.ap.buffalo.edu/pub/next/binaries/EggTimer.1.1.r.P.b.tar.gz OPENSTEP Source Code: ftp://libra.ap.buffalo.edu/pub/next/source/EggTimer.1.1.w.I.s.tar.gz README file: ftp://libra.ap.buffalo.edu/pub/next/binaries/EggTimer.1.1.README EggTimer on Windows NT Screen Shot: http://libra.ap.buffalo.edu/www/Software/ETScreenShot_NT.gif
From: "Wendy J. Mattson" <posh@sirius.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: BANG General Meeting Jan. 28: Date: 22 Jan 1998 04:44:43 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <6a6irr$mt6$1@news.digifix.com> **** ANNOUNCEMENT **** Bay Area NeXT GROUP General Meeting When: Wednesday, January 28, 7:00 PM Where: Apple Campus Town Hall - Building 4 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California Topics: - Winning with the Power of Apple's EOF - MacWorld Wrap-Up (and Surprises?) Speakers: * Steve Dekorte of Inquisit, Inc. and Robert Vasvari, consultant with Inquisit, Inc. * Ernest N. Prabhakar, Ph.D., Rhapsody Product Marketing Manager, Apple Computer, Inc. with a review of MacWorld SF (and maybe a few surprises...) ----- Your company is acquired and your new CEO orders you to get rid of all that Steve-the-Giant Technology, but one department after another knocks on your door and wants you to build "just a little app" so that they can access their departmental data from the corporate orb. What are you going to do when no other technology accomplishes the same thing and they are begging? It's Enterprise Objects Frameworks (EOF), Apple's slightly known Crown Jewels, to the rescue!!! _Steve Dekorte_ of _Inquisit_, Inc. and _Robert Vasvari_, consultant with Inquisit, Inc., present their powerful example of EOF's table relationship abstraction and how it can be used to implement dynamic and flexible client user interfaces for enterprise database access. WebObjects is a recognized buzzword, but don't miss this great demo of the pertinent, underlying technology which makes Web Objects Frameworks able to be legendary. As Al Gore says, "It's about the ease of getting data out of the database, stupid!" And Enterprise Objects provides that power and ease in spades. Real Yellow Box Business Apps was first explained as, "a very cool app built using AppKit and EOF, developed in only 3 weeks." See for yourself! Don't miss this tangible evidence of why Apple needs to stay around. -- The second portion of the program: a little MacWorld SF wrap-up for good measure), with: Ernest N. Prabhakar, Ph.D., Rhapsody Product Marketing Manager, Apple Computer, Inc. There will also be time for an audience participatory "MacWorld Report", including feedback about the Rhapsody Birds-of-a-Feather session, which was attended by an overflow crowd. Additional information about the show and breaking Rhapsody highlights will be recapped by Ernest N. Prabhakar, Ph.D., Rhapsody Product Marketing Manager, who continues to be a fountain of useful information from Apple. It doesn't get any better than hearing it directly from Ernie. Please join us for the presentation, demos, Q&A, and dinner after the meeting at a nearby restaurant. -- Presenter Bios: Steve Dekorte is an OPENSTEP and WebObjects software engineer at Inquisit, Inc. in San Francisco. Among other contributions, he maintains a useful Web site (http://www.slip.net/~dekorte) which includes a link to the "Rhapsody enlightening" Objective-C home page, which he maintains. Steve's OO framework and GUI story begins in 1992 at the Supercomputer Computations Research Institute (SCRI), in Tallahassee, FL, and 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 Developer Release 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 computer science from SFSU. _ Next Month's BANG Meeting: Wednesday, February 25, 1998, 7:00 PM -- 1998 BANG Meeting Schedule Confirmed for Apple's Town Hall: * January 28 * February 25 * March 25 * April 22 Planned (to be confirmed) for Apple's Town Hall * May 27 * June 24 * July 22 * August 26 * September 23 * October 28 * November 18 * December 16 ================================================================== Where to Get More Information * Email: info@bang.org * World Wide Web: http://www.bang.org/ BANG, the Bay Area 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 info@bang.org. If you have questions about our meetings or the organization, visit the BANG site (http://www.bang.org/), 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. ===================================================================
From: agm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Axel G Merk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Entrepreneurial Openstep/Rhapsody Developer sought Date: 22 Jan 1998 21:36:35 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <6a8e53$gpg$1@news.digifix.com> Are you interested in learning about money management while being primarily responsible for fortifying the infrastructure for a small, but fast growing investment management firm? You would work directly with the firm's principal who himself is a long-term (since 1990) Nextstep/Openstep programmer and enthusiast. You will have a unique opportunity to learn to understand all functions of a fund management company. Programming skills sought * Object-Oriented Programming, preferably Objective-C * Database Programming, preferably with Enterprise Objects Framework * Distributed Programming, preferably with Distributed Objects Further skills of help * Finance * Accounting You would be responsible for converting a loosely designed network of virtual offices, into a virtual, global powerhouse. We are building a state-of-the-art back- and front-office infrastructure. You are welcome to work from anywhere, that is to telecommute, or to relocate to the beer capital of the world (among others, it's most fun to do the design work there). As indicated, we are small, very small. We realise that our growth will depend on you. Therefore, we would give you the opportunity to participate in the growth of our company and performance of our investments. We would hire you as a consultant; our resources are limited, but we believe we have exciting opportunities to offer. Please contact us also if you only have a few months to spare, but ideally we are interested in building a longer-term relationship. While the products you will be developing are first for internal use, we would encourage a spin-off one day to market these products separately. We will also consider your application if your Openstep experience is limited (providing you compensate with other skills and enthusiasm). Please send applications to: Axel Merk Merk Investments Ltd. agm@dataphone.se email (NeXTmail encouraged) Please include in your application a brief statement on your programming style. Merk Investments is a Swiss corporation providing financial advice to hedge funds, private and institutional clients. We are based in Europe, but compete with US performance and fee standards. As the European cost structure is higher than the American, we depend on a lean and modern IT infrastrusture. That's where you come in - we need your help. -Axel Merk Merk Investments Ltd. agm@dataphone.se +1.800.999 1498 phone +1.888.999 1498 fax
From: jurgen@oic.NO_SPAM.de (Juergen Moellenhoff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: HTTPS v1.0 Package for OmniWeb 3.x (OpenStep 4.2/Mach) Date: 24 Jan 1998 22:53:35 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <6adrdf$mrh$1@news.digifix.com> HTTPS v1.0 Package for OmniWeb 3.x (OpenStep 4.2/Mach) ====================================================== Juergen Moellenhoff (jm@oic.de), January 19, 1998 Description =========== This Package allows you to use https-URLs (via SSL) with OmniWeb 3.x. It uses the free SSLeay-lib (Version 0.8.1) from Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com) and the OmniWeb (http://www.omnigroup.com/) extensible bundle architecture. The software is currently available via anonymous ftp at ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/OpenStep/connectivity/www/bundle /HTTPS.1.0.m.NIS.b.tar.gz This software is supplied without a warranty of any kind. I am not responsible for any damage that may occur as a result of using this software. Please keep in mind that this is work in progress. Also, please bear with the incomplete nature of the package. Installation ============ ATTENTION: Before you can install this Package you must install the SSL.pkg which includes two Frameworks (SSLCrypto, SSL) to /LocalLibrary/Frameworks, without these Frameworks the bundle doesn't work. To enable the HTTPS protocol, install the ./HTTPS.omniweb bundle anywhere in the OmniWeb 3.x bundle path. Then, restart OmniWeb.app. The recommended location for personal installation is ~/Library/Components for system-wide installation /LocalLibrary/Components. If you use a proxy server, you MUST include at least one protocol for your proxy server (http, ftp, etc. but not https) in the protocol section of the Proxy-Preferences Panel or add the "https" protocol to the NonProxiableSchemes like defaults write OmniWeb NonProxiableSchemes "(file, mailto, omniweb, rlogin, telnet, tn3270, https)" Without these "workarounds" OmniWeb wraps https calls to http!!! CONNECT-Protocol (Proxy Support for https) ========================================== To enable proxy support for https (SSL tunneling) you need another entry in the Proxy-Preferences Panel. Add a server to the "Proxy Server URL" section like this: "https:\\whatever-cache:1234\" and add the https protocol to the "Protocols" section. IMPORTANT: The https proxy MUST be the first server in the list, because the list of proxy servers is an ordered list. For example my proxy defaults look like this: ProxyServers = "(\n {\n destinations = (oic.de); \n proxyURL = \"(non-proxied protocols and destinations)\"; \n }, \n {proxyURL = \"https://www-cache.oic.de:3128/\"; schemes = (https); }, \n {proxyURL = \"http://www-cache.oic.de:3128/\"; }\n)"; History ======= 1.0 - Changed the Proxy-Support. If you need proxy support add the proxy server now with the Proxy-Preferences Panel of OmniWeb. - Created a Version for OmniWeb 3.x (OpenStep/Rhapsody) AND OmniWeb 2.x - The name of the bundle for OmniWeb 3.x (OpenStep/Rhapsody) is "HTTPS", for OmniWeb 2.x "HTTPSExtension". 0.9 (Beta) - Added Proxy authentication for the CONNECT-Protocol. - Fixed a bug in the Hostname resolver. Now it should be possible to use this bundle without any DNS if you use a proxy server. 0.8 (Beta) - Adapted the bundle for OmniWeb 3.x - SSLeay-lib is now located in two Frameworks (SSLCrypto, SSL) - Renamed it (sorry for that) from HTTPSExtension.omniweb to HTTPS.omniweb, because the "new" bundle is not compatible with OmniWeb2.x, it works ONLY for OmniWeb3.x. So it is easier for me to figure out which bundle you mean if you have some questions about it. 0.7 - It's now SSLeay-lib in version 0.8.1. - Supports SSLv2 and SSLv3 - Added a Preferences Panel - Added Proxy-Support (CONNECT-Protocol) (see HTTPS Preferences) - Added an Installer Package - Renamed it from https.omni to HTTPSExtension.omniweb - Fixed some bugs - Removed the source code 0.6 - Internal version 0.5a - It's now SSLeay-lib in version 0.5.2a. - Fixed a little (not important) bug. - Included the source code 0.5 - First version, which uses the SSLeay-lib in version 0.5.1b Bugs? ===== Yes, if you use a proxy server. You MUST include at least one protocol for your proxy server (http, ftp, etc. but not https) in the protocol section of the Proxy-Preferences Panel or add the "https" protocol to the NonProxiableSchemes. ATTENTION: Without any protocols, OmniWeb wraps https calls to http!! Send bug reports, suggestions or comments to the address below. Architectures ============= ALL Architectures (INTEL, MOTOROLA and SUN) are supported. SUN are not tested!! Warning! ======= It is illegal to use this software inside of the USA. The PKP has exclusive patent rights in the USA on all aspects of public key cryptography. Sorry, but this is not my fault. If you are interested in learning more about this, read the documentation for the SSLeay-lib package. Copyright ========= This bundle is free for commercial and non-commercial use. ToDo ==== - Client certification?? - Display an Icon when a SSL-Connection is in progress?? Source Code =========== To compile this bundle you need the SSLeay-lib in version 0.8.1 and the API (Headers) for OmniWeb 3.x. If you modify the source code, please send a copy of the modifications to me <jm@oic.de>. Thank you. Thanks ====== Thanks to "Stefanie R. Herzer <herzer@apple.com>" "Stephen J. Perkins <perkins@netmass.com>" "Ken Case <kc@omnigroup.com>" "Eric Young <eay@cryptsoft.com>" "Tim Hudson <tjh@cryptsoft.com>" Contact Information =================== Juergen Moellenhoff OIC - Object Innovation Center Bochum, Germany EMail: jm@oic.de (ASCII, NEXT and MIME-Mail)
From: jurgen@oic.NO_SPAM.de (Juergen Moellenhoff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: HTTPS v1.0 Package for OmniWeb 3.x (Rhapsody) Date: 24 Jan 1998 22:53:39 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <6adrdj$mri$1@news.digifix.com> HTTPS v1.0 Package for OmniWeb 3.x (Rhapsody) =============================================== Juergen Moellenhoff (jm@oic.de), January 19, 1998 Description =========== This Package allows you to use https-URLs (via SSL) with OmniWeb 3.x. It uses the free SSLeay-lib (Version 0.8.1) from Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com) and the OmniWeb (http://www.omnigroup.com/) extensible bundle architecture. The software is currently available via anonymous ftp at ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/Rhapsody/connectivity/www/bundle /HTTPS.1.0.m.PI.tar.gz This software is supplied without a warranty of any kind. I am not responsible for any damage that may occur as a result of using this software. Please keep in mind that this is work in progress. Also, please bear with the incomplete nature of the package. Installation ============ Use "installer.sh" to install the Packages. ATTENTION: Before you can install this Package you must install the SSL.pkg which includes two Frameworks (SSLCrypto, SSL) to /LocalLibrary/Frameworks, without these Frameworks the bundle doesn't work. To enable the HTTPS protocol, install the ./HTTPS.omniweb bundle anywhere in the OmniWeb 3.x bundle path. Then, restart OmniWeb.app. The recommended location for personal installation is ~/Library/Components for system-wide installation /LocalLibrary/Components. If you use a proxy server, you MUST include at least one protocol for your proxy server (http, ftp, etc. but not https) in the protocol section of the Proxy-Preferences Panel or add the "https" protocol to the NonProxiableSchemes like defaults write OmniWeb NonProxiableSchemes "(file, mailto, omniweb, rlogin, telnet, tn3270, https)" Without these "workarounds" OmniWeb wraps https calls to http!!! CONNECT-Protocol (Proxy Support for https) ========================================== To enable proxy support for https (SSL tunneling) you need another entry in the Proxy-Preferences Panel. Add a server to the "Proxy Server URL" section like this: "https:\\whatever-cache:1234\" and add the https protocol to the "Protocols" section. IMPORTANT: The https proxy MUST be the first server in the list, because the list of proxy servers is an ordered list. For example my proxy defaults look like this: ProxyServers = "(\n {\n destinations = (oic.de); \n proxyURL = \"(non-proxied protocols and destinations)\"; \n }, \n {proxyURL = \"https://www-cache.oic.de:3128/\"; schemes = (https); }, \n {proxyURL = \"http://www-cache.oic.de: 3128/\"; }\n)"; History ======= 1.0 - Changed the Proxy-Support. If you need proxy support add the proxy server now with the Proxy-Preferences Panel of OmniWeb. - Created a Version for OmniWeb 3.x (OpenStep/Rhapsody) AND OmniWeb 2.x - The name of the bundle for OmniWeb 3.x (OpenStep/Rhapsody) is "HTTPS", for OmniWeb 2.x "HTTPSExtension". 0.9 (Beta) - Added Proxy authentication for the CONNECT-Protocol. - Fixed a bug in the Hostname resolver. Now it should be possible to use this bundle without any DNS if you use a proxy server. 0.8 (Beta) - Adapted the bundle for OmniWeb 3.x - SSLeay-lib is now located in two Frameworks (SSLCrypto, SSL) - Renamed it (sorry for that) from HTTPSExtension.omniweb to HTTPS.omniweb, because the "new" bundle is not compatible with OmniWeb2.x, it works ONLY for OmniWeb3.x. So it is easier for me to figure out which bundle you mean if you have some questions about it. 0.7 - It's now SSLeay-lib in version 0.8.1. - Supports SSLv2 and SSLv3 - Added a Preferences Panel - Added Proxy-Support (CONNECT-Protocol) (see HTTPS Preferences) - Added an Installer Package - Renamed it from https.omni to HTTPSExtension.omniweb - Fixed some bugs - Removed the source code 0.6 - Internal version 0.5a - It's now SSLeay-lib in version 0.5.2a. - Fixed a little (not important) bug. - Included the source code 0.5 - First version, which uses the SSLeay-lib in version 0.5.1b Bugs? ===== Yes, if you use a proxy server. You MUST include at least one protocol for your proxy server (http, ftp, etc. but not https) in the protocol section of the Proxy-Preferences Panel or add the "https" protocol to the NonProxiableSchemes. ATTENTION: Without any protocols, OmniWeb wraps https calls to http!! Send bug reports, suggestions or comments to the address below. Architectures ============= ALL Architectures are supported. Warning! ======= It is illegal to use this software inside of the USA. The PKP has exclusive patent rights in the USA on all aspects of public key cryptography. Sorry, but this is not my fault. If you are interested in learning more about this, read the documentation for the SSLeay-lib package. Copyright ========= This bundle is free for commercial and non-commercial use. ToDo ==== - Client certification?? - Display an Icon when a SSL-Connection is in progress?? Source Code =========== To compile this bundle you need the SSLeay-lib in version 0.8.1 and the API (Headers) for OmniWeb 3.x. If you modify the source code, please send a copy of the modifications to me <jm@oic.de>. Thank you. Thanks ====== Thanks to "Stefanie R. Herzer <herzer@apple.com>" "Stephen J. Perkins <perkins@netmass.com>" "Ken Case <kc@omnigroup.com>" "Eric Young <eay@cryptsoft.com>" "Tim Hudson <tjh@cryptsoft.com>" Contact Information =================== Juergen Moellenhoff OIC - Object Innovation Center Bochum, Germany EMail: jm@oic.de (ASCII, NEXT and MIME-Mail)
From: jurgen@oic.NO_SPAM.de (Juergen Moellenhoff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: HTTPSExtension v1.0 Package for OmniWeb 2.x (OpenStep, NEXTSTEP) Date: 24 Jan 1998 22:53:42 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <6adrdm$mrl$1@news.digifix.com> HTTPSExtension v1.0 Package for OmniWeb 2.x (OpenStep, NEXTSTEP) ================================================================ Juergen Moellenhoff (jm@oic.de), January 19, 1998 Description =========== This Package allows you to use https-URLs (SSL) with OmniWeb 2.x. It uses the free SSLeay-lib (Version 0.8.1) from Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com) and the OmniWeb (http://www.omnigroup.com/) extensible bundle architecture. The software is currently available via anonymous ftp at ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/Network/www/omniweb2bundles/HTTP SExtension.1.0.NIHS.b.tar.gz This software is supplied without a warranty of any kind. I am not responsible for any damage that may occur as a result of using this software. Please keep in mind that this is work in progress. Also, please bear with the incomplete nature of the package. Installation ============ To enable the HTTPS protocol, install the ./HTTPSExtension.omniweb bundle anywhere in the OmniWeb 2.x bundle path. Then, restart OmniWeb.app. The recommended location for personal installation is ~/Library/OmniComponents for system-wide installation /LocalLibrary/OmniComponents. NOTE: If you have a previous version of this bundle (https.omni), remove it before you restart OmniWeb.app. If you use a proxy server, you MUST include at least one protocol for your proxy server (http, ftp, etc. but not https) in the protocol section of the Proxy-Preferences Panel or add the "https" protocol to the NonProxiableSchemes like dwrite OmniWeb NonProxiableSchemes "(file, mailto, omniweb, rlogin, telnet, tn3270, https)" Without these "workarounds" OmniWeb wraps https calls to http!!! CONNECT-Protocol (Proxy Support for https) ========================================== To enable proxy support for https (SSL tunneling) you need another entry in the Proxy-Preferences Panel. Add a server to the "Proxy Server URL" section like this: "https:\\whatever-cache:1234\" and add the https protocol to the "Protocols" section. IMPORTANT: The https proxy MUST be the first server in the list, because the list of proxy servers is an ordered list. For example my proxy defaults look like this: OmniWeb ProxyServers "( { destinations = (oic.de); proxyURL = \"(non-proxied protocols and destinations)\"; }, {proxyURL = \"https://www-cache.oic.de:3128/\"; schemes = (https); }, {proxyURL = \"http://www-cache.oic.de:3128/\"; } )" History ======= 1.0 - Changed the Proxy-Support. If you need proxy support add the proxy server now with the Proxy-Preferences Panel of OmniWeb. - Created a Version for OmniWeb 3.x (OpenStep/Rhapsody) AND OmniWeb 2.x - The name of the bundle for OmniWeb 3.x (OpenStep/Rhapsody) is "HTTPS", for OmniWeb 2.x "HTTPSExtension". 0.9 (Beta) - Added Proxy authentication for the CONNECT-Protocol. - Fixed a bug in the Hostname resolver. Now it should be possible to use this bundle without any DNS if you use a proxy server. 0.8 (Beta) - Adapted the bundle for OmniWeb 3.x - SSLeay-lib is now located in two Frameworks (SSLCrypto, SSL) - Renamed it (sorry for that) from HTTPSExtension.omniweb to HTTPS.omniweb, because the "new" bundle is not compatible with OmniWeb2.x, it works ONLY for OmniWeb3.x. So it is easier for me to figure out which bundle you mean if you have some questions about it. 0.7 - It's now SSLeay-lib in version 0.8.1. - Supports SSLv2 and SSLv3 - Added a Preferences Panel - Added Proxy-Support (CONNECT-Protocol) (see HTTPS Preferences) - Added an Installer Package - Renamed it from https.omni to HTTPSExtension.omniweb - Fixed some bugs - Removed the source code 0.6 - Internal version 0.5a - It's now SSLeay-lib in version 0.5.2a. - Fixed a little (not important) bug. - Included the source code 0.5 - First version, which uses the SSLeay-lib in version 0.5.1b Bugs? ===== Yes, if you use a proxy server. You MUST include at least one protocol for your proxy server (http, ftp, etc. but not https) in the protocol section of the Proxy-Preferences Panel or add the "https" protocol to the NonProxiableSchemes. ATTENTION: Without any protocols, OmniWeb wraps https calls to http!! Send bug reports, suggestions or comments to the address below. Architectures ============= ALL Architectures (INTEL, MOTOROLA, HP and SUN) are supported. HP and SUN are not tested!! Warning! ======= It is illegal to use this software inside of the USA. The PKP has exclusive patent rights in the USA on all aspects of public key cryptography. Sorry, but this is not my fault. If you are interested in learning more about this, read the documentation for the SSLeay-lib package. Copyright ========= This bundle is free for commercial and non-commercial use. ToDo ==== - Client certification?? - Display an Icon when a SSL-Connection is in progress?? Source Code =========== To compile this bundle you need the SSLeay-lib in version 0.8.1 and the API (Headers) for OmniWeb 2.x. If you modify the source code, please send a copy of the modifications to me <jm@oic.de>. Thank you. Thanks ====== Thanks to "Stefanie R. Herzer <sherzer@apple.com>" "Stephen J. Perkins <perkins@netmass.com>" "Ken Case <kc@omnigroup.com>" "Eric Young <eay@cryptsoft.com>" "Tim Hudson <tjh@cryptsoft.com>" Contact Information =================== Juergen Moellenhoff OIC - Object Innovation Center Bochum, Germany EMail: jm@oic.de (ASCII, NEXT and MIME-Mail)
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: <15507885099622@digifix.com> Date: 25 Jan 1998 04:58:54 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <345885704420@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: <15509885099625@digifix.com> Date: 25 Jan 1998 04:58:56 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <347885704423@digifix.com> Cross Posting ============= I try very hard to make sure that postings get out in a timely fashion. Most go out in less than 24 hours. Postings that require editing because they do not contain information in a useable format, or have already been posted to other comp.sys.next.* groups may be delayed, or returned to you. If your posting is rejected, I'll try and make suggestions about what should be changed where possible. Obviously off charter messages (spams, open-letters, etc) may not get a response. Content Guidelines ================== Try to keep submissions short and concise (80-100 lines max). Include full instructions on contacting you (where applicable) All Postings e-mail address, telephone (optional) Press Release toll-free voice phone, toll-free fax, voice phone, fax phone mailing address,info@blahblah.com,retail price,educational price availability Software available ftp site full path to file IN URL FORMAT supported CPU's for binary distributions, OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting, time of meeting, speakers expected Signatures will be deleted automatically, so please don't rely on your .sig for the contact information Please double check all information you are posting for accuracy. If you are announcing software available by FTP, make sure the copy on the archive site is good. Announcement of Product Sales ============================= This is an area of announcement that has caused me terrible grief in the past. The policy is tilted towards the ISV, which has worked out well in the past. Posts that announce sales of products that you are DIRECTLY involved in the development of are OK. Posts from companies trying to sell other products are evaluated on an individual basis. Time Sensitive Announcements ============================ Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date. Unfortunately, that can be the worst time for you to get access to your internet connection to send the announcements to comp.sys.next.announce. In order to make comp.sys.next.announce as timely as possible, I will accept "post-dated" announcements for release on a specific future date. All information will be kept confidential until the requested release date, and NDAs will be signed where required to ensure this. Hopefully this will make these announcements arrive at users sites as quickly as if you posted them directly to comp.sys.next.whatever. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com. Questions and comments to next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: Ingmar Camphausen <ingmar@aurora.in-berlin.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Berlin NEXTSTEP User Group - February meeting Date: 27 Jan 1998 04:48:23 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <6ajoun$50r$1@news.digifix.com> **** MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT **** Berlin NEXTSTEP User Group (BeNG) February meeting =================================================== The BeNG (Berlin NEXTSTEP User Group) will be holding its next meeting on Monday, February 2nd, 1998, at 8:00 p.m. (MET) in the "Institut fuer Energietechnik" of the Technical University Berlin in Room KT 101 (1st floor), Marchst. 18, D-10587 Berlin, Germany. Topics: o OPENSTEP & APPLETALK The freeware "CAPer" connects NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP machines and MacOS computers via AppleTalk and enables file and printer sharing. - Listen to an introduction to CAPer. o RHAPSODY NEWS At the MacWorld in San Francisco the first pre-version of the RHAPSODY Premiere Release was shown. We will hear a report about the "status quo". The meeting is open to anyone who is interested in NEXTSTEP, OPENSTEP and RHAPSODY, Apple's future operating system. People seeking for more first hand information about these OS's (especially Mac users), are very welcome, too. The official part of the meeting is scheduled to end at about 10 p.m. After the program, join us for a snack and/or drink at a nearby cafe or restaurant. Looking forward to seeing you at the meeting! Contact: Gerald Erdmann gerald@stepman.com (NeXTmail welcome) or Ingmar Camphausen ingmar@in-berlin.de (NeXTmail welcome) BeNG: e-mail beng@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (mailinglist!) WWW http://buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de/~beng FTP ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/NeXT Suggestions of meeting topics and, offers for presentations or ideas for speakers are welcome! Please send them to beng@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de. How to get there ---------------- We meet in Room KT 101 on the 1st floor of the "Institut fuer Energietechnik", a building of the Technical University of Berlin. It is located Marchst. 18 on the campus of the TU near the western city-center of Berlin. The entrance to the building is on the left hand side behind a gate at the end of a parking lot. Watch out for the NeXT-logo-like 'BeNG' signs and follow them upstairs to the meeting room! :-) * by bike or public transport: We recommend coming by bicycle or using the public transport (BVG/S-Bahn): You can either take the underground line U2 or bus 145 or bus X9 and leave at 'Ernst-Reuter-Platz' (+ 400m walking), or you choose bus 245 up to Ernst-Reuter-Platz/Marchst. (+ 200m walking). The nearest rapid transit ("S-Bahn") station is "Tiergarten" (~1000 m/ ~10 min walking distance); you get there via the rapid transit lines S3, S5, S7 or S75. * by car - from North (Wedding [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. At the fork keep left into the Franklinst. After crossing the March Bridge and the Einstein St, the "Institut fuer Energietechnik" is located on the left-hand side of the street behind the drive to a parking lot. - all other directions: Head for Ernst-Reuter-Platz via Bismarckst. or Hardenbergst. (from the West-Berlin city center/Zoo) or "Strasse des 17. Juni"/Grosser Stern. From the roundabout Ernst-Reuter-Platz, take the Marchst. exit. About 200 m into the Marchst., right after a blue building and the drive to a parking lot on the right hand side, you find the "Institut fuer Energietechnik" (marked 'KT' in the ASCII map below). 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 \ / r./\ t \^^^^\ u \ \ o \ / t / \ e \^^^^\ f \ \ - \ / s / \ i \^^^^\ e \ \ S \ / h / \ n \^^^^\ r \ \ u \ / c P \ u \^^^^\ \ .. \ h \ / r /\P KT \ 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 // ------------. .-----------------------...----//----...---- "-. .=" // U2 ". Ha \ Bus 145, X9 // U2 \ rd \ U2 // \ en \ // \ be \ // S3,S5 \ rg \ // S7,S75 \ st \ // \ r. \ // \ \ U+S-Bahnhof \ \ Zoologischer \ \ Garten If you have access to the world wide web, you may also want to take a look at a map of the meeting location and its environment via the StadtINFO online city map at the URL http://www.kulturbox.de/cgi-bin/k/pixelinfo?PQ=m11&X=96&Y=381&TEXT=BeNG%21 (The "Institut fuer Energietechnik" is marked with a red circle.) * * * The next meeting is scheduled for Monday, March 2, 1998, 8:00 pm. (no agenda yet, sorry!) --- BeNG --- WHO WE ARE --- The Berlin NEXTSTEP User Group (BeNG) exists since 1990 and is a loose "aggregation" of NeXT/NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/RHAPSODY enthusiasts. Our participants may be reached via our mailing list. Of course, we are also present in the World Wide Web. In addition, we manage the NeXT/NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP & RHAPSODY FTP archive at the Technical University (TU) Berlin. mailing list mailto:beng@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de WWW http://buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de/~beng (soon: http://www.beng.org/ !) FTP ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/NeXT We meet the first Monday each month at 8:00 p.m. (If this coincides with a holiday, the meeting takes place the subsequent week.) We usually have a lecture or presentation; respective suggestions or offers are very welcome and should be directed to our mailing list. Our meetings are open to the interested public. Suggestions of meeting topics and, offers for presentations or ideas for speakers are welcome; please send them to beng@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de.
From: "Lionel P. Aboulkheir" <lionel@wahz.SUMERIS.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: SUMERIS releases QuantaReport 3.0 for OpenStep 4.2 Date: 28 Jan 1998 04:34:01 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <6amcfp$82n$1@news.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SUMERIS releases QuantaReport 3.0 for OpenStep 4.2 SUMERIS Technology delivers industry-strength reporting and database access software for the OpenStep/Rhapsody plateforms. January 27, 1998, Chanhassen, MN - SUMERIS Technology today announced the availability of QuantaReport 3.0 for OpenStep 4.2 for Mach and OpenStep Enterprise for Windows NT/95. New features of this release include native client access connectors for PrimeBase database server from SNAP Innovations and Sybase SQL Server from Sybase. QuantaReport brings client/server, industrial-strength database and reporting tools to OPENSTEP/Rhapsody users. It supports various types of workgroup documents to be used for both data entry and to create multi-page reports accessing multiple databases. QuantaReport allows the creation of multiwindow documents with live and dynamic database connections using drag-and-drop report graphics such as Frames, Columns, Cells, Texts, Text Fields, Images, Sounds and Table Views. Report graphics can include complex formulas mixing text and expressions, database references and cross-document references. QuantaReport is multimedia capable: image or sound graphics can be created with or without database association, as well as complex RTF texts with embedded formulas. QuantaReport unique design allows sophisticated, structured documents to be created with constructs such as Master-Detail relationships and dynamic creation of fetch expressions. QuantaReport scripting language enables even greater customization and provides an easy to use API to many of QuantaReport functionnalities. Scripts may be attached to button or cell graphics to perform various user actions. Script functions include: . mailing functions like print, fax and e-mail functions . database functions to fetch or save records . date, numerical and text functions . general functions like AlertPanel, OpenWindow etc.. QuantaReport is an excellent tool for the office. Mailings - whether by mail, fax or e-mail, or all at once- incorporating customized letters, labels and envelops are as easy as a few clicks away! Built around a client/server architecture, QuantaReport is multiuser and multi-server allowing access to multiple databases on different servers. QuantaReport may be used with various third-party database systems as well as with QuantaBase, SUMERIS relational database server, which is provided in its standard version. For more information, please contact: SUMERIS Technology Lionel Aboulkheir 7310 Cactus Curve Chanhassen, MN 55317-9030 (612) 474-6505 (612) 470-3593 fax SUMERIS Systems, Inc 4380 Agar Drive Richmond, B.C. V7B 1A3 604/273-6939 604/273-9332 fax in Europe: SUMERIS Technology, SARL Guy Aboulkheir 17, avenue du Tramway 94420 Le Plessis-Tr-vise FRANCE +33 1 49 41 15 01 +33 1 45 94 24 64 fax Web Site: http://www.SUMERIS.com e-mail: info@SUMERIS.COM ___________________________________________________ ### SUMERIS Technology is an independently held company created in 1992, dedicated to developing business and productivity software using object-oriented technology. It has offices in the US, Canada and France and customers worldwide. SUMERIS is a registered trademark of SUMERIS Technology, SARL. NeXT, the NeXT logo, OpenStep, and NEXTSTEP are trademarks or registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners. ###
From: Dwight Everhart <everhart@chronographer.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Chronographer 1.11 Date: 28 Jan 1998 06:25:52 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <6amj1g$ad0$1@news.digifix.com> Chronographer -- A daily planner application Dwight Everhart everhart@chronographer.com January 27, 1998 UPDATE ====== Chronographer version 1.11 has been released. (Version 1.10 was released for two days, but it had a bug which prevented users of version 0.98 from upgrading, so I didn't announce that release. That bug is fixed in this version.) Licenses purchased for version 1.00 or 1.02 will apply to this version, as well as to all 1.xx versions. In fact, all version 1 licenses will also apply to version 2, so, if you buy a version 1 license, you'll get a free upgrade to version 2. This is an especially good deal considering that version 2 will cost US$60, and the price of version 1 will increase to $60 when version 2 is released. Order now and save $20. A note about future versions of Chronographer: Version 2 will run on Rhapsody, Windows 95/NT, and Mac OS (when Apple releases the Yellow Box for Mac OS). Version 2 will *not* support OPENSTEP for Mach, but, of course, version 1 will continue to run on that platform. For those of you who have purchased a license already, please don't uninstall the previous version of Chronographer before installing this new version. There's no need to, and, if you do, your registration file will be deleted. I can send you another copy if that happens, but it's better to avoid the hassle in the first place. Features added in this version: o The evaluation period is now based on when you started using Chronographer. It now ends 60 days after you start instead of on an arbitrary date like February 1. If you started using Chronographer before December 17, your evaluation period will end on February 15. To continue using Chronographer after that date, you will need to purchase a license. If you started using Chronographer after December 17, you'll have a full 60 days to evaluate the program. o The date on which the evaluation period ends can be viewed on the registration panel. To see the date, choose the Info-->Register... command. o A new view had been added to the inspector: the File List. With it, a list of files can be associated with any role, goal, task, or appointment. The files can be added using an open panel or by dragging them into a file well or on top of the appointment. One or more of the files can be opened by selecting them and double-clicking or dragging them from the file well. One of the files in the list can be marked as the "default" file. This file will be opened when the appointment is double-clicked if a preference for this is set. If an appointment has no files associated with it, a double-click will open the default file associated with the first parent that has any files in its file list. Files can also be dropped onto an open part of a schedule or to-do list. An appointment will be created for the file using the name of the file as the name of the appointment. o A new command, Agenda-->Load All has been added. If it is used, all appointments will be loaded. This isn't normally needed, since Chronographer automatically loads appointments as it needs them, but it is useful for correcting the effects of a bug which appears to cause the appointment count info to become incorrect. Loading all appointments automatically causes a recount to be done. The appointment count is used mainly by the Task Report to determine which appointments have been scheduled and which haven't. o A lock file is now created when a chronograph is opened to ensure that the same file isn't used by two copies of Chronographer at the same time. If Chronographer finds a lock when it opens the chronograph, it will ask you if it should break the lock and use the chronograph anyway. This will happen when re-starting Chronographer after a crash. o The registration file is now saved in your ~/Library/Chronographer folder in addition to the app wrapper. This ensures that the registration data is preserved if Chronographer is uninstalled and then reinstalled. It also allows you to register Chronographer without running it as root if you installed it as root, although doing so would cause Chronographer to be registered only for you and not for anyone else that uses your system or network. Bug fixed: o Clicking on the completion box of a to-do item or task did not have any effect if the window was not the main window. These new features and fixed bugs are also described in Chronographer's release notes. Choose the Info-->Release Notes command to see them. AVAILABILITY ============ You can download Chronographer from its web page at http://www.chronographer.com/Download/. The page lists the sites where Chronographer is available. Just click on the site nearest you that has the package you want. 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. Chronographer is a commercial product. However, you are welcome to try it for free for 60 days. During that time it will be fully functional. If you wish to continue using it after that time, you'll need to purchase a license for US$40 per user. If you wish to be removed from this announcement list, either use the Info-->Mailing List command in Chronographer, or just reply to this message and tell me you want to be removed. -- Dwight Everhart "Imagination is more important than knowledge." Bella Vista, Arkansas -- Albert Einstein everhart@chronographer.com PGP mail welcome
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Marcel Waldvogel and Netfuture.ch.