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From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <3142915339621@digifix.com> Date: 10 Jan 1999 04:45:03 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <6325915944426@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 1994. Some of the many resources on the site include: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related Frequently Asked Questions. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep http://www.peak.org/rhapsody PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. Apple Enterprise Software Group (formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.) http://enterprise.apple.com http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software patches. Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site http://gemma.apple.com/rhapsody/rhapdev/rhapsody.html These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to develop great Rhapsody software products.. Rhapsody Developer Documentation http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html WebObjects Documentation http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html 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: <3145915339623@digifix.com> Date: 10 Jan 1999 04:45:05 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <6326915944429@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: Tom Hageman <tom@basil.icce.rug.nl> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: MailCrashTrap 1.0 -- new bundle for Mail.app Date: 12 Jan 1999 19:57:39 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <77g9fj$dof$1@news.digifix.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- MailCrashTrap bundle version 1.0 1999/01/10 This is a plugin for Mail.app (3.3 and 4.x) that extends its error handling in case of an application crash. It prints a stack backtrace [*] to the console, and puts up an alert box that offers you to continue execution of Mail.app instead of just exiting. Use this feature at your own risk!!! Source code and a quad-fat binary are included. See the accompanying README file for more information. It can be found at: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/mail/bundles/MailCrashTrap.1.0.NIHS.bs.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/mail/bundles/MailCrashTrap.1.0.README Checksums: (sum) 35023 116 MailCrashTrap.1.0.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 18982 3 MailCrashTrap.1.0.README (md5sum) 43fd1d94d704235ae4e63a6df430663e MailCrashTrap.1.0.NIHS.bs.tar.gz b0a686c9facb72226e9fd18eeeedfdc1 MailCrashTrap.1.0.README Please report any bugs or suggestions to <mailapp-utilities@basil.icce.dev.rug.null.nl>. <<SPAMBLOCK: remove dev. and null. to reply>> [*] Known bug/limitation: stack backtrace does not yet work for HP and Sparc architectures. Enjoy! Tom Hageman -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: next iQCVAwUBNpuNgTHcGwCnCAFpAQFSpQQArULaFHsgsp/xyhCUD55IZQqlHhbL9yWs MeQ/MmxN9wobKny386VxVp5A0idu0cxmhGmRhS08A6mRk94DUCJunAFQp8q9cwIz f0CSsJj9vsKgGKdHwjw9B7GaIqi7A6/pmvsh5KpqStBu4B0au5Dbx0e/g5K5A5rF /8f1zxm2Mb4= =xToI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
From: "technicalSCOUTS" <wow@techscouts.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: US-NY-New York City -WEBOBJECTS/OPENSTEP-RECRUITER Date: 14 Jan 1999 04:19:47 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <77jr93$n6k$1@news.digifix.com> Location: New York City Position: Consulting Software Engineer Responsible for the design and development of large-enterprise object-oriented internet and intranet applications. 2-4 years of software engineering and experience with Object-oriented software development methodologies required. Experience with OPENSTEP, Rhapsody, NEXTSTEP, Enterprise Object Framework, and WebObjects preferred. Experience with C, SmallTalk, MS Windows NT, Solaris, Netscape HTTP Server, Oracle RDBMS desired. -- technicalSCOUTS Wes Wigginton Manager of OPENSTEP Recruiting 13492 Research Blvd. Suite 120-171 Austin, Texas 78750 512-257-1100 ext. 104 off. 512-335-1899 fax wow@techscouts.com http://www.techscouts.com
From: "technicalSCOUTS" <wow@techscouts.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: US-NC-RALEIGH -WEBOBJECTS/OPENSTEP-RECRUITER Date: 14 Jan 1999 04:19:51 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <77jr97$n6l$1@news.digifix.com> Title: WebObjects Integration Consultant Location: Raleigh,NC Description: Senior consulting engineer positions supporting a client on-site their facilities in Raleigh, NC. Provide software engineering support developing and maintaining a large, enterprise-deployed object-oriented (OO) application and intra/internet application components. 2-4 years software engineering experience using OO software development methodologies required. Experience with OPENSTEP, EnterpriseObjectsFrameworks (EOF), and WebObjects preferred. Experience with C, C++, MS Windows NT desired. Experience with development and implementation of 3-tier, enterprise client solutions. Provide mentoring, advice and assistance to client programmers, analysts, and managers. Work directly with a team of 15-20 other developers and several client analysts. Excellent client handling and customer support skills necessary. Positions require: (1) security clearance processing for access to sensitive and participation on client network and (2) drug testing -- technicalSCOUTS Wes Wigginton Manager of OPENSTEP Recruiting 13492 Research Blvd. Suite 120-171 Austin, Texas 78750 512-257-1100 ext. 104 off. 512-335-1899 fax wow@techscouts.com http://www.techscouts.com
From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (15.1.99) Date: 14 Jan 1999 23:57:19 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <77m08v$dm5$1@union.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> On the Peanuts-Archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://ftp.peanuts.org/): Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/peanuts/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/mirrors/ftp.peanuts.org/, France: ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from march 1998. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.org)
From: "technicalSCOUTS" <wow@techscouts.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: US-OK-Tulsa-OPENSTEP/NEXTSTEP/OBJECTIVE-C/RECRUITER Date: 15 Jan 1999 04:32:21 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <77mgcl$ncb$1@news.digifix.com> LOCATION: Tulsa, OK POSITION: SR. OPENSTEP Engineer OVERVIEW & REQUIREMENTS: Major Worldwide Telecommunications Organization is looking to expand its current Long Distance and Local Network Monitoring / Processing Application. The long term vision is to take this strategic corporate application from a national platform to a highly distributed global one. The current development environment is built on OPENSTEP, Mach with NT Clients. The long range plan is to move to multiple geographically dispersed Sun Solaris Servers and move a large portion of the Client load onto the Servers. The Clients would then become thinner and built on Java/Web based applications. Desired Skills Set: 3 - 5 years experience in OPENSTEP, NEXTSTEP, Objective-C development. Networking Protocol Experience is preferred. Solid Object-Oriented Analysis and Design skills. Experience with distributed applications, EOF, CORBA, and WebObjects a plus. -- technicalSCOUTS Wes Wigginton Manager of OPENSTEP Recruiting 13492 Research Blvd. Suite 120-171 Austin, Texas 78750 512-257-1100 ext. 104 off. 512-335-1899 fax wow@techscouts.com http://www.techscouts.com
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.announce,comp.sys.amiga.announce,comp.sys.atari.announce,comp.sys.next.announce Subject: cmsg cancel <729769.4910@137.208.127.3> Control: cancel <729769.4910@137.208.127.3> Date: 16 Jan 1999 00:31:12 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.729769.4910@137.208.127.3> Sender: "RexxLA Call for Abstract/Paper" <president@RexxLA.org> Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence specific to this spam. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
From: 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: <6325915944426@digifix.com> Date: 17 Jan 1999 04:45:19 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <306916549240@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 1994. Some of the many resources on the site include: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related Frequently Asked Questions. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep http://www.peak.org/rhapsody PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. Apple Enterprise Software Group (formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.) http://enterprise.apple.com http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software patches. Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site http://gemma.apple.com/rhapsody/rhapdev/rhapsody.html These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to develop great Rhapsody software products.. Rhapsody Developer Documentation http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html WebObjects Documentation http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html 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: <6326915944429@digifix.com> Date: 17 Jan 1999 04:45:21 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <307916549242@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: Dwight Everhart <everhart@chronographer.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Chronographer 1.20 -- A daily planner application Date: 18 Jan 1999 06:17:25 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <77ujll$oj6$1@news.digifix.com> Chronographer version 1.20 has been released. It is the final NEXTSTEP version of Chronographer. Major features added: o Chronographer's user interface and help file have been translated into German, and its user interface has been translated into French. o A Date Style preference has been added to the General Preferences. With it, you can make Chronographer display dates in European style instead of American style. o A text field has been added immediately above the schedule. It displays the date currently selected in the schedule. For the day view, this is simply the date of the view. For the week, month, and year views, it is the date of the day selected in the view. o Week and day numbers have been added. In addition to the date displayed above the schedule, the week and day number of that date are also included. You can also jump directly to a particular week or day number. o All of the places where dates can be set now allow the new date to be typed in directly, in addition to the old way of using the arrow buttons. o Pressing the enter key (the one on the keypad) while an item in a to-do list is selected causes a new item to be created. This is useful if there is no room in the list to type a new item. DESCRIPTION =========== Chronographer is an application designed to help you to organize not only your time but also your priorities in life. Instead of just keeping track of appointments, Chronographer also keeps track of the goals that these appointments further, so you can easily determine if what you are doing today is helping you to accomplish what you want to do this week, this month, this year, and this decade. Instead of just asking yourself, "What needs to be done and when do I need to do it?", Chronographer encourages you to first ask, "What do I want to accomplish in life?" and then ask, "What do I need to do in order to achieve these goals?" Chronographer focuses on the long term as well as the short term. Chronographer's time-management concepts are based, in part, on principles developed by Stephen R. Covey and presented in his books _The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People_ and _First Things First_. Chronographer helps you to organize your life by establishing a hierarchy of roles and goals. Out of these roles and goals appointments are scheduled. Chronographer allows you to set a time budget for each role or goal, and it provides you with instant summaries of how much time you've actually spent on each item. It also provides a detailed report of how you've spent your time. FEATURES ======== o A browser to organize your activities by grouping them into roles and goals. o Schedules for keeping track of appointments. Day, week, month, and year schedule views are available. In the day and week schedules, appointments are displayed in colored boxes. Schedule detail can be set to one line for every 60, 30, 15, or 5 minutes. In the month view, a filter can be used to intelligently control which appointments and to-do items are displayed. o To-do lists for keeping track of appointments that don't have specific times associated with them. Each day, week, month, and year has its own to-do list. To-do items can be filtered so that only certain groups of them are displayed. o A button bar for selecting nearby dates, making navigation easy and fast. o Repeating appointments. They can repeat every day, week, month, or year or a multiple of those periods. o Appointment reminders using either a panel, email, or sound. o A time report that lists, in detail, how you spent your time. This could be a useful tool for consultants who need to keep track of how much time they spend on each of their projects. It could also be useful for employees who have to report their time usage to their managers. o Easy drag-and-drop interface. Once you type in an appointment's title, you never have to type it in again. Just drag the appointment to a schedule or to-do list to schedule it. Alternatively, you can just click on a schedule and type in an appointment. Appointment durations can be changed by dragging the edges of the appointment. Appointments can be moved easily by dragging them to another location on the schedule or to another day's schedule or to a to-do list. AVAILABILITY ============ You can download Chronographer from its web page at http://www.chronographer.com/Download/. 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$40 per user. -- Dwight Everhart Calle Mayo Software everhart@chronographer.com San Diego, California
From: Ian Cardenas <cardenas@BLaCKSMITH.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: DropPoint 1.0 Date: 18 Jan 1999 06:17:21 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <77ujlh$oj5$1@news.digifix.com> DropPoint 1.0 http://www.ultraviolent.com/DropPoint/ ian_cardenas@ultraviolent.com DropPoint adds aditional drag&drop features to MacOS X Server DR2 (Intel/PPC). Under NEXTSTEP each running application had an associated tile on screen that was was very useful for dropping files on. DropPoint duplicates this funcitonality and was inspired by the screenshot for the OPENSTEP for Mach 4.0 beta 1 screenshot that was in circulation. Main distribution: http://www.ultraviolent.com/DropPoint Archives: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/rhapsody/submissions/DropPoint-1.0-PI-b.tgz Will probably move to: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/rhapsody/Applications/Workspace/DropPoint-1.0-P I-b.tgz -- Ian P. Cardenas (ian_cardenas@ultraviolent.com) [Scott: This may be a repeat, Please ignore if it is... nntp troubles]
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.announce,comp.sys.amiga.announce,comp.sys.atari.announce,comp.sys.next.announce Subject: cmsg cancel <729771.57438@137.208.127.3> Control: cancel <729771.57438@137.208.127.3> Date: 18 Jan 1999 14:58:27 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.729771.57438@137.208.127.3> Sender: "RexxLA Call for Abstract/Paper" <president@RexxLA.org> Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence specific to this spam. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
From: Shambhunath Borah <borah@yrrid.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Yrrid's LOF 2.0 now available in Beta Date: 18 Jan 1999 22:26:13 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <780ce5$f19$1@news.digifix.com> Chapel Hill, NC. January 11, 1999 Yrrid Incorporated today announced the release of the Beta version of its Legacy Object Framework (LOF) 2.0, Yrrid's leading mainframe-to-web integration tool. Ship date is March 31, 1999. Christopher Lloyd, CTO of Yrrid, said: "LOF 2.0 is a huge improvement over LOF 1.2. It has a better architecture, wider appeal, and does more for you." With 2.0, mainframe application information can be easily manipulated from commonly used developer environments such as Visual Basic, Active Server Pages (ASP), COM, Java, and versions 3.51 and 4.0 of Apple's WebObjects. "Whichever client environment you choose, you can rapidly create a new user interface to your existing mainframe application logic, without making any changes in your legacy code," said Dan Flye, Product Manager at Yrrid. In addition to the Legacy Modeler and the Legacy System (a mainframe simulator), LOF 2.0 also includes tutorials and examples. Limited documentation is available with today's Beta release; complete documentation will be included when the full version ships in late March. See for yourself! Download a copy of the LOF 2.0 Beta release at: http://www.yrrid.com/scripts/WebObjects.exe/LOF2BetaRegistration and read the details of Yrrid's Proof of Concept Package at: http://www.yrrid.com/lof2/poc-pr.htm For further information, please contact lof2-info@yrrid.com. Yrrid Incorporated 507 Monroe Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27516 +1 919 968-7858 +1 919 968-7856 (fax) Yrrid, the Yrrid logo, Legacy Object Framework and the Legacy Object Framework logo are trademarks of Yrrid Incorporated. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (22.1.99) Date: 21 Jan 1999 23:57:11 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <788esn$ftd$1@union.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> On the Peanuts-Archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://ftp.peanuts.org/): Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/peanuts/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/mirrors/ftp.peanuts.org/, France: ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from march 1998. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.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: <306916549240@digifix.com> Date: 24 Jan 1999 04:44:19 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <13193917154022@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 1994. Some of the many resources on the site include: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related Frequently Asked Questions. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep http://www.peak.org/rhapsody PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. Apple Enterprise Software Group (formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.) http://enterprise.apple.com http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software patches. Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site http://gemma.apple.com/rhapsody/rhapdev/rhapsody.html These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to develop great Rhapsody software products.. Rhapsody Developer Documentation http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html WebObjects Documentation http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html 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: <307916549242@digifix.com> Date: 24 Jan 1999 04:44:21 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <13194917154024@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: David Wetzel <dave@turbocat.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: PostgreSQL EOAdaptor Release 1.4 (v138) available Date: 25 Jan 1999 04:44:52 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <78gss4$joh$1@news.digifix.com> The current EOAdaptor for PostgreSQL is now available. It enables you to access PostgreSQL databases from EOF 2.x. The current version is free. It will work until Apr 15 1999. Supported is OPENSTEP on NeXT, Intel and Sun and YellowBox on NT. I have no 95/98 to try ;-) Rhapsody is not supported until MacOS X server ships. For information/download visit http://www.turbocat.de/ CHANGES SINCE LAST RELEASE INCLUDE: * Tested with WebObjects 3.5.1 and WO4 on NT. * databaseEncoding can be set in the connection dictionary to NSASCII, NSISOLatin1, NSISOLatin2, NSMacOSRoman or NSNEXTSTEP * works only with PostgreSQL versions >= 6.4 You can debug your WOApps with this adaptor on NT. Some people told me that other adaptors crash.... If you have any questions or suggestions mail to info@turbocat.de. Commercial support is available. The next release will support fetch limits as expected :-)
From: "Geert B. Clemmensen" <gclem@frontline-software.dk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: BETA TEST: FrontBase: Call for beta-testers Date: 25 Jan 1999 04:45:18 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <78gssu$jok$1@news.digifix.com> FrontBase 1.04beta ============== We are looking for people and companies willing to participate in the final beta test round for FrontBase, our high-end transaction oriented relational database server. FrontBase is, at the moment, available for the following platforms: MacOS X Server (DR2/PPC) OPENSTEP 4.2 Windows NT 4.0 BeOS 4* NEXTSTEP 3.3 (Intel)** *Client library in C **Only if enough requests and with no EOF adaptor FrontBase will be released when MacOS X Server is released. Please register as beta-tester on our web-site, remember to specify platform, and we will be happy to provide you with a beta copy. --- Geert B. Clemmensen www.frontline-software.dk Frontline Software Kongevejen 44B 3460 Birkeroed Denmark Phone: +45 45 82 62 62 Fax: +45 45 82 08 16 e-mail: info@frontline-software.dk
From: Greg Lindholm <gsl@who.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: IconMaker 2.04 FREE Date: 25 Jan 1999 05:35:31 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <78gvr3$kq1$1@news.digifix.com> IconMaker Version 2.04 FREE =========================== IconMaker is an application for creating and manipulating icons. IconMaker was withdrawn in 1997 because of lack of market. I have finally gotten around to releasing it for FREE. This is a fully enabled version. If you are using an early release or a demo version please upgrade to this version. This version was compiled MAB for Next, Intel, HPPA, and Sparc on NEXTSTEP 3.3. It has been posted as IconMaker.204FREE.NIHS.b.compressed to ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/submissions and should be moved to ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/graphics/misc shortly. Greg Lindholm mailto:iconmaker@bigfoot.com
From: "justine jackson" <justjackson@email.msn.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Seeking Consultants Date: 26 Jan 1999 03:59:06 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <78jeia$il0$1@news.digifix.com> We are seeking consultants for a project in California, LA area. Project is as follows: Consultants will design, code, implement and maintain electronic commerce applications for an E-Commerce/Catalog online application. Assist in defining and evaluating the future commerce application needs for Client. Work within a 12-person team to design the presentation, functional and technical components of commerce applications. Develop applications that are optimized for performance and are written for reusability. Research strategies and emerging technologies in support of Client's future electronic commerce directions. Technical skills: Demonstrated experience with writing Internet-based applications; proven proficiency in WebObjects (including:NextStep/OpenStep/EOF); demonstrated excellent verbal and written communications skills; demonstrated ability to work effectively in a team-oriented environment. Nice to have: Experience with Java and/or C++; experience with writing Internet based electronic commerce applications; experience with multiple computing platforms (Solaris, Windows NT) Bachelor's degree or equivalent a plus. Please contact: Justine Jackson Sr. Technical Recruiter Select Group 201-964-0960 ext. 14 jacksonj@sg.com
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: egcs 1.1.1 port for NEXTSTEP 3.3 Date: 26 Jan 1999 21:43:01 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <78lct5$akr$1@news.digifix.com> I've uploaded to www.peak.org/next my latest efforts to port egcs-1.1.1 to NEXTSTEP. This is intended as a test/beta release (as I've only done minimal testing myself), but I wanted to make SOMETHING available for everyone to play with. Appended is the README: ---------------------------- egcs-1.1.1-1beta.I.README Jan 26, 1998 The EGCS C compiler (v1.1.1 port 1beta) for NEXTSTEP 3.3. DO NOT attempt to use this port on OpenStep for Mach 4.x! file: egcs-1.1.1-1beta.I.b.tar.gz sum: 24969 5975 md5sum: c4954dc6a4f27871da0422360514c013 This release is for testing purposes only. This particular port has not been tested internally much at all. INSTALLATION Unpack to /usr/local: cd /usr/local gnutar xzvf /PathToArchive/egcs.1.1.1.I.tar.gz WARNING: This will overwrite any currently installed version of gcc or egcs. NOTE: you STILL need the nextstep developer packages installed in order to use this, as it uses NeXT's supplied binutils, C libraries, and header files. CHANGELOG Jan 26, 1999 (1.1.1 port 1beta) - Beta release. - No source code (yet) CREDITS Cygnus Software, egcs source http://egcs.cygnus.com/ Packager Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> Computer System Manager Universtity of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Mathematics and Statistics http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: egcs-1.1.1 for OpenStep for Mach 4.2 Date: 26 Jan 1999 21:43:18 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <78lctm$aks$1@news.digifix.com> I've uploaded to www.peak.org/next my latest efforts to port egcs-1.1.1 to OpenStep for Mach 4.2. This is intended as a test/beta release (as I've only done minimal testing myself), but I wanted to make SOMETHING available for everyone to play with. Appended is the README: ---------------------------- egcs-1.1.1-1beta.m.I.README Jan 26, 1998 The EGCS C compiler (v1.1.1 port 1beta) for OpenStep for Mach 4.2. DO NOT attempt to use this port on NEXTSTEP 3.x! file: egcs-1.1.1-1beta.m.I.b.tar.gz sum: 58498 5975 md5sum: 4e95a4807a0eefc9b82de435b1ea4e0e This is for testing purposes only. INSTALLATION Unpack to /usr/local: cd /usr/local gnutar xzvf /PathToArchive/egcs.1.1.1.m.I.tar.gz WARNING: This will overwrite any currently installed version of gcc or egcs. NOTE: you STILL need the openstep developer packages (tested for OpenStep for Mach 4.2 only... earlier/other versions may or may not work) installed in order to use this, as it uses NeXT's supplied binutils, C libraries, and header files. CHANGELOG Jan 26, 1999 (1.1.1 port 1beta) - Beta release. - No source code (yet) CREDITS Cygnus Software, egcs source http://egcs.cygnus.com/ Packager Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> Computer System Manager Universtity of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Mathematics and Statistics http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/
From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (29.1.99) Date: 28 Jan 1999 23:57:19 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <78qtgv$f8o$1@union.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> On the Peanuts-Archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://ftp.peanuts.org/): Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/peanuts/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/mirrors/ftp.peanuts.org/, France: ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from march 1998. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.org)
From: mont@doverpacific.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Project Manager Date: 28 Jan 1999 23:27:01 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <78qro5$bc5$1@news.digifix.com> Dover Pacific Computing, Inc., a San Diego based software development firm, is looking to add a project manager to its development team. The project manger will work closely with product marketing to design and specify a release. This individual will then lead a team of 3-5 developers and be responsible for leading that team to successful implementation and delivery of the release. This is a hands-on position. The manager will be expected to contribute to the development of the project, and to remain up-to-date with the technology. Qualified applicants will have experience leading a team of developers and bringing projects in on-time. Knowledge of object-oriented development techniques and relational database theory is required. Experience in OpenStep or WebObjects is a plus. Dover Pacific Computing is a rapidly growing software development firm selling systems to large enterprises for managing multiple sales channels and doing business over the web. Offering competitive salary and benefits, stock options, a great work environment, and a beautiful location this is an excellent place to call home. Come join our team! Email resumes to: hr-engineering-dev@doverpacific.com or Fax to: 619-450-4890 Dover Pacific Computing, Inc. San Diego, CA 92121 619-450-4800 (voice) 619-450-4890 (fax)
From: Ingmar Camphausen <ingmar@aurora.in-berlin.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Meeting Berlin NEXTSTEP User Group: Monday 1999-02-01, 8pm Date: 31 Jan 1999 04:05:08 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <790kpk$fbs$1@news.digifix.com> What: Berlin NEXTSTEP User Group (BeNG) February meeting Where: IN-Berlin club rooms, Kiautschoust. 18, Berlin-Wedding When: Monday, 1999-02-01; 8-10pm MET The BeNG (Berlin NEXTSTEP User Group) will be holding its monthly meeting in the club rooms of the Individual Network Berlin e.V. (IN-Berlin, www.in-berlin.de) on Monday, February 1st, at 8:00 pm MET. (See "How to get there" below for a detailed description!) Topics: MAC OS X SERVER Mac OS X Server is about to be released within the next weeks. What are it's strenghts, are there any deficiencies? Which platforms will it run on? What will the pricetag be? -- These and similar questions can be answered during the meeting (we hope! :). MISCELLANEOUS Any other news from Apple? -- New PowerMacs, new iMacs, WebObjects 4.0 and more... The meeting is open to anyone who is interested in NEXTSTEP, OPENSTEP or RHAPSODY, Apple's future operating system (OS). 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 pm. After the program, join us for a snack and/or drink at a nearby cafe or pub. Looking forward to seeing you at the meeting! Contact: Gerald Erdmann <gerald@beng.org> (NeXTmail welcome) Ingmar Camphausen <ingmar@beng.org> (NeXTmail welcome) Suggestions for meeting topics and offers for presentations or ideas for suitable speakers are welcome! Please mailto:treffen@beng.org The following meeting is scheduled for Monday evening, March 1st, 1999. Watch the beng-announce mailing list (mailto:about@beng.org) and/or comp.sys.next.announce for further announcements & details as the February meeting date approaches! How to get there ---------------- We hold our monthly meeting in the meeting room of the Individual Network Berlin e.V. (IN-Berlin), Kiautschoust. 18, in 13353 Berlin-Wedding. This is about 3.5 km north-west from the city-center of Berlin (Brandenburg Gate, Reichstag). The club rooms of IN-Berlin are located in a residential area, and it should be easy to spot them once you have found the Kiatschoust., for they are part of the store at no. 18 with the "IN-Berlin" logo and name on display in the front window. The rooms are on the ground floor and will be easier to access for people with a wheelchair than those where we used to meet in the TU Berlin, but there are still one or two steps to hurdle. The buses used on line 248 are "behindertengerecht" ("suitable for disabled persons", i.e. they can be accessed by people with a wheelchair and have enough free space inside on the platform to transport them). by bike or public transport: You can either take the underground train lines U9 to station 'Amrumer Strasse' or U6 to 'Wedding', or one of the Bus lines 248 to 'Kiautschoustrasse', 221 to 'Luxemburger Strasse' or 245 to 'U-Bahnhof Wedding'. from U-Bf. 'Amrumer Strasse' (five minutes walk): Choose the exit marked 'Torfstrasse' and enter Torfst. Turn left into Sprengelst., right into Samoast. and then left into Kiautschoustrasse. The meeting location is on the right hand side then. from U-Bf. 'Wedding' (six minutes walk): Leave the station and enter Lynarstrasse. Walk down Lynarst., passing Willdenowst. and Sparrst., then turn right into Tegeler Strasse. Finally, turn left into Kiautschoustrasse. The meeting location is on the left hand side of the street then. from bus stop 'Luxemburger Strasse' (four minutes walk): If you have come by the bus 221 line driving to destination 'U-Bhf. Leopoldplatz', you are already on the right side of the Luxemburger Strasse; if you have come from the opposite direction (i.e. bus line 221 destined for 'Maerkisches Viertel' or 'Wilhelmsruher Damm'), you have to cross the Luxemburger Street first. Then, enter Tegeler Strasse, pass Triftstrasse and Sprengelstrasse until you reach Kiautschoustrasse. Turn into Kiautschoust. The meeting location is on the left hand side of the street. with bus line 248: If you come with bus 248 bound for final station 'Kreuzberg, Gitschiner Str.' or 'U-Bhf. Hermannplatz', the station directly preceding Kiautschoustrasse is 'Samoastrasse'. If you come with the 248 bound for 'Reinickendorf, Buednerring' or 'U-Bhf. Leopoldplatz', the stop before Kiautschoustrasse is 'Am Nordhafen'. Leave the bus at the stop Kiautschoustrasse and you are nearly there (just a few steps...) via S-Bahn: The nearest "S-Bahn" (inner city railway) station is "Putzlitzstr.", but this station is not operational yet (scheduled for year 2000 when the northern city ring becomes completely operational...). All other S-Bahn stations are more than 2 km away. by car As this is a residential area, there will only be few (if any!) parking lots near the location. Hence we really recommend you to come by bike or public transport! [The "map" below should be viewed in a *fixed-width* font!] N /|\ | | Am \ ___---""" ru \ TFH ___---""" \ me \ ___---""" ___--- \ r \ ___---""" ___---""" \ \ ___---""" Strasse <"" ___ \ St. \_---""" burger ___-\ T \ ___---""" \ Luxem- ___---""" \ e "" ___--- _--"" U-Bf. ___---""" ___---" g _---""" Amrumer St.___---""" ____---"""ftst.__-\ e \ ___--- <" _--""" Tri-__--"""" \ l \__---""" __ __--\ \ \__-- S \"" ___----" e ___---""" -"" \ \ \ a \___---""" _____ r \"" \ T \ ___--" m str___---""" \ \ \ o \__---""" gel- o <""" \ S \ \ r Spren- __--""\ a \ \ t \ \ f .-"""""" \ s \ ___---"" r \ U-Bf \ s \ \ t \___---""" str. \ Wedding \ t \ \ r Kiautschou__---""\ \ ---> \ r \ "" ___---""" X \ \__--"" \ \__Pekinger Pl._ \ __\ ___---"" NNN__ \ \ __--"" __-- ___---""" Nordufer """"--__\ \ __--"" str. __--"" ___---""""""""""""---___ Nord- "" Lynar __--"" ___---""" ""-_ ufer __--"" " "-_ _--"" \ "\ \ \ 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 http://www.beng.org/meeting.html (follow the link to the StadtINFO city map on that page; the IN-Berlin "club house" will be marked with a red circle.) About BeNG The Berlin NEXTSTEP User Group (BeNG) exists since 1990 and is a loose "aggregation" of NeXT/NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/RHAPSODY enthusiasts. Our participants can be reached and communicate via a mailing list. We are also present in the World Wide Web and host one of the most respected FTP servers with RHAPSODY software. In addition, we manage the well-known NeXT/NEXTSTEP/ OPENSTEP FTP archive at the Technical University (TU) Berlin for several years now. e-mail about@beng.org (automated reply) beng@beng.org (mailing list) beng-request@beng.org (subscriptions) WWW http://www.beng.org FTP ftp://ftp.beng.org (RHAPSODY) ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/NeXT (NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP) We meet the first Monday each month at 8:00 p.m. local time. (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 mail them to `treffen@beng.org'. If you still have any questions/queries, please do not hesitate to contact us! Berliner NeXT User Group (BeNG) c/o IN-Berlin Kiautschoustrasse 18 D-13353 Berlin Tel +49 30 / 39 03 93 03 Fax +49 30 / 39 03 93 04 Email info@beng.org About IN-Berlin The Individual Network Berlin (IN-Berlin) offers Internet access for private use since 1990. A registered society ("e.V.") since 1996, IN-Berlin works on a non-commercial basis and provides about 750 participants with Internet connectivity via its 2 MBit/s link today. In the IN-Berlin club rooms in the district of Berlin-Wedding, user meetings, courses and events of groups and associations friendly related to IN-Berlin, e.g. the Berlin LINUX User Group (BeLUG) or the Berlin NeXT User Group (BeNG), take place on a regular basis. Further information about IN-Berlin: IN-Berlin e.V. Kiautschoustrasse 18 D-13353 Berlin GERMANY Phone +49 30 - 45 49 43 43 WWW http://www.in-berlin.de e-mail info@in-berlin.de
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: <13193917154022@digifix.com> Date: 31 Jan 1999 04:44:42 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <29381917758824@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 1994. Some of the many resources on the site include: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related Frequently Asked Questions. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep http://www.peak.org/rhapsody PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. Apple Enterprise Software Group (formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.) http://enterprise.apple.com http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software patches. Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site http://gemma.apple.com/rhapsody/rhapdev/rhapsody.html These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to develop great Rhapsody software products.. Rhapsody Developer Documentation http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html WebObjects Documentation http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html 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: <13194917154024@digifix.com> Date: 31 Jan 1999 04:44:44 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <29382917758826@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: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: cmsg cancel <0067OU14.64VP7F88@macrotrade.com> Control: cancel <0067OU14.64VP7F88@macrotrade.com> Date: 01 Feb 1999 01:01:16 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.0067OU14.64VP7F88@macrotrade.com> Sender: macrotrade@macrotrade.com Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence specific to this spam. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
From: Andrew Abernathy <andrew@omnigroup.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New OmniWeb beta 8b license available (old license expiring) Date: 3 Feb 1999 04:26:41 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <798j61$dtv$1@news.digifix.com> OmniWeb beta 8b comes with a temporary ten-user license which expires on January 31. We are providing a new license which does not expire until March 31, by which time MacOS X Server is expected to have shipped and we will be ready to sell permanent licenses. You can apply this license via the license panel, which is accessed via the Help menu. The new license is: Owner: Expiring OmniWeb beta license License Key: MKGH-VUAC-NSSC-RAAZ-HMQY
From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (5.2.99) Date: 4 Feb 1999 23:57:09 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <79dc4l$bdc$1@union.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> On the Peanuts-Archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://ftp.peanuts.org/): Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/peanuts/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/mirrors/ftp.peanuts.org/, France: ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from march 1998. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.org)
From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: pine 4.10 suite compiled for NeXTStep & OpenStep Date: 6 Feb 1999 04:59:15 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <79gi73$cpi$1@news.digifix.com> Available at: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/pine/4.10/ (each program has its own sub-directory) I'm calling it the PINE "suite" because there are several programs: pine 4.10 imapd 4rev1.v12.250 (don't ask me why the version #) pilot 2.0 pico 3.5 Each piece of the suite is available for download in single-architecture format. The reason for this is the enormous amount of space required for MAB (for example, PINE when MAB is 8.5mb, stripped and gzip -9!) NOTE: PINE 4.10 is, IMO, a vast improvement over previous 4.x releases, and includes a new feature called "roles" If you tried one of the earlier 4.x releases and didn't like the changes (like me) you might want to take another look. NOTE2: Testing for 4.10 has been going on for quite some time but this is the first public release. Those of you cautious types may want to wait a few days. See http://www.washington.edu/pine/changes/4.05-to-4.10.html for more information about the release TjL
From: BeNG-FTP-Team <ftpadm@w3.beng.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files available from ftp.beng.org (February 5th, 1999) Date: 6 Feb 1999 04:59:24 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <79gi7c$cpj$1@news.digifix.com> As of February 5th, 1999, the following files were received at ftp.beng.org: CommuniGatePro 2.9.Beta3 ftp://ftp.beng.org/pub/system/server/apps/commercial/CommuniGatePro_2.9.Beta3.Rpi.b.tar.gz (1.3 MB) FloppyImages DR2 ftp://ftp.beng.org/pub/developer/misc/FloppyImages_DR2.README (297 Bytes) GraphiClock 1.2 ftp://ftp.beng.org/pub/misc/apps/GraphiClock_1.2.Rp.b.tar.gz (34 KB) ftp://ftp.beng.org/pub/misc/apps/GraphiClock_1.2.README (3 KB) OmniCVSEOModelerBundle 1.1 ftp://ftp.beng.org/pub/developer/bundles/OmniCVSEOModelerBundle_1.1.README (3 KB) RadicalNews 2.0b3 ftp://ftp.beng.org/pub/internet/news/apps/commercial/RadicalNews_2.0b3.Rpi.b.tar.gz (760 KB) gnutar 1.12 ftp://ftp.beng.org/pub/system/server/unix/gnutar_1.12.README (252 Bytes) ftp://ftp.beng.org/pub/system/server/unix/gnutar_1.12.Rp.b.tar.gz (163 KB) pine 3.96 ftp://ftp.beng.org/pub/internet/mail/unix/pine_3.96.README (152 Bytes) sharutils 4.2 ftp://ftp.beng.org/pub/system/server/unix/sharutils_4.2.README (64 Bytes) You can download the complete index from ftp://ftp.beng.org/pub/INDEX. You can upload new software packages to ftp://ftp.beng.org/pub/incoming. Don't forget to include a README file in your upload! Please send any hints or bug reports to ftpmaster@beng.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: <29381917758824@digifix.com> Date: 7 Feb 1999 04:44:42 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <631918363637@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 1994. Some of the many resources on the site include: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related Frequently Asked Questions. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep http://www.peak.org/rhapsody PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. Peanuts Archive http://www.peanuts.org/peanuts/NEXTSTEP http://www.peanuts.org/peanuts/OpenStep http://www.peanuts.org/peanuts/Rhapsody http://www.peanuts.org/peanuts/MacOSX http://www.peanuts.org/peanuts/WebObjects http://www.peanuts.org/peanuts/GeneralData The Peanuts-Archive is the premier site in Europe and mirrored in whole or parts all over the world. Apple Enterprise Software Group (formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.) http://enterprise.apple.com http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software patches. Apple Computer's Mac OS X Server Site http://www.apple.com/macosx/ Apple Computer's Mac OS X Server Developer Site http://developer.apple.com/macosx/server/ Apple Computer's WebObjects Site http://www.apple.com/webobjects/ Mac OS X Server Developer Documentation http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosxserver/macosxserver.html WebObjects Documentation http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups ==================================================== COMP.SYS.NEXT.ADVOCACY This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. COMP.SYS.NEXT.ANNOUNCE Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. COMP.SYS.NEXT.BUGS A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-specific groups as well. COMP.SYS.NEXT.HARDWARE Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. COMP.SYS.NEXT.MARKETPLACE NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. COMP.SYS.NEXT.MISC For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! COMP.SYS.NEXT.PROGRAMMER Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. COMP.SYS.NEXT.SOFTWARE This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. ** RELATED NEWSGROUPS ** COMP.SOFT-SYS.NEXTSTEP Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. COMP.LANG.OBJECTIVE-C Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. COMP.OBJECT Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. Getting the Newsgroups without getting News =========================================== Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are now available as a mailing list digest as well. next-nextstep next-advocacy next-announce next-bugs next-hardware next-marketplace next-misc next-programmer next-software next-sysadmin object lang-objective-c (For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's. To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying: subscribe where * is the name of the list e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites ================================= ftp://ftp.next.peak.org The main site for North American submissions formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu ftp://ftp.peanuts.org: (Peanuts) Located in Germany. Comprehensive archive site. Very well maintained. ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next NeGeN/NiNe (NEXTSTEP Gebruikers Nederland/NeXTSTEP in the Netherlands) ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next eduStep ftp://ftp.next.com: See below ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com ===================================== [from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help] Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system! This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, read them on the world-wide web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS. NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being. NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests. USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to nextanswers@next.com. Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by default; you can request they be sent as ASCII text files instead. To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the body of the message. You can request several files in a single message. You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message. 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USING NEXTANSWERS BY ANONYMOUS FTP To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using this, please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY MODEM To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at (415) 780-2965. Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section. From there you can download NeXTanswers documents. FOR MORE HELP... If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available from NeXTanswers, call the Support Hotline at 1-800-955-NeXT (outside the U.S. call +1-415-424-8500) to speak to a NEXTSTEP Technical Support Technician. If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must make this call to the hotline. Otherwise, hotline support is on a pay-per-call basis. Thanks for using NeXTanswers! _________________________________________________________________ Written by: Eric P. Scott ( eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU ) and Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com ) Additions from: Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com ) Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net ) Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines for comp.sys.next.announce Supersedes: <29382917758826@digifix.com> Date: 7 Feb 1999 04:44:44 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <633918363639@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: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (12.2.99) Date: 11 Feb 1999 23:57:04 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <79vqog$9cv$1@union.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> On the Peanuts-Archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://ftp.peanuts.org/): Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/peanuts/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/mirrors/ftp.peanuts.org/, France: ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from march 1998. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.org)
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines for comp.sys.next.announce Supersedes: <633918363639@digifix.com> Date: 14 Feb 1999 04:44:29 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <15547918968426@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: <631918363637@digifix.com> Date: 14 Feb 1999 04:44:27 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <15546918968424@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 1994. Some of the many resources on the site include: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related Frequently Asked Questions. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep http://www.peak.org/rhapsody PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. Peanuts Archive http://www.peanuts.org/peanuts/NEXTSTEP http://www.peanuts.org/peanuts/OpenStep http://www.peanuts.org/peanuts/Rhapsody http://www.peanuts.org/peanuts/MacOSX http://www.peanuts.org/peanuts/WebObjects http://www.peanuts.org/peanuts/GeneralData The Peanuts-Archive is the premier site in Europe and mirrored in whole or parts all over the world. Apple Enterprise Software Group (formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.) http://enterprise.apple.com http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software patches. Apple Computer's Mac OS X Server Site http://www.apple.com/macosx/ Apple Computer's Mac OS X Server Developer Site http://developer.apple.com/macosx/server/ Apple Computer's WebObjects Site http://www.apple.com/webobjects/ Mac OS X Server Developer Documentation http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosxserver/macosxserver.html WebObjects Documentation http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html 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: Uli Zappe <uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: NEXTTOYOU Object Library (NEXTSTEP 3.3) Version 1.1 Date: 10 Feb 1999 04:26:37 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <79r1pt$9ni$1@news.digifix.com> The NEXTTOYOU Object Library is intended to comprise useful objects that are well documented, demonstrated by an example app, and easy to use as a palette in Interface Builder. The objects are free for both commercial and non-commercial use, but come without any warranty. Source code is available on request, but the conditions depend on the author of the particular object. So far, only a "prototype" version exists. It is available only for NEXTSTEP 3.3, and so far only contains a single object, NTYBrowserData. NTYBrowserData is an NXBrowser delegate that allows to very easily read all kinds of data into an NXBrowser object. The library is available at: ftp://ftp.cs.TU-Berlin.DE/pub/NeXT/misc/NEXTTOYOU/ObjectLibrary/NTYObjectLibrary.3.3-1.1.NIHS.tar.gz For further information, contact: Uli Zappe <uli@nexttoyou.de> New in version 1.1: - findPath:backwards:caseSensitive:regEx:alsoDisabled: has become findPath:startPath:backwards:caseSensitive:regEx:alsoDisabled: This enables you to search multiple entries even in NTYBrowserData objects that are not the current data provider (and thus have no selected path from which to go on searching). If you have used this method you have to update your method calls. - findPath:backwards:caseSensitive:regEx:alsoDisabled: crashed when called without a path being selected. This has been fixed.
From: Bernhard Scholz <boerny@xenia.hsh.stusta.mhn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: New search service on the Peanuts-Archive Date: 10 Feb 1999 04:28:24 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <79r1t8$9nj$1@news.digifix.com> The Peanuts-Archive announces a new search engine for retrieving software information about NEXTSTEP, OpenStep, MacOS X and WebObjects. The search engine is based on the Peanuts-Archive's FTP and WWW content, capable of doing a search based on filenames and/or a full-text search of README files. Structured, fuzzy and limited searches are possible as well as a regular expression search. The search index is updated daily and is accessable through the Peanuts-Archive's homepage at: http://www.peanuts.org/ or directly (for bookmarking or other search engines) at http://www.peanuts.org/Search.html This is a new service (only 2 weeks old!). Bug-reports and enhancement ideas are welcome! Please write to: mailto:peanuts-admin@peanuts.org **************************************************************************** About the Peanuts-Archive The Peanuts-Archive is the oldest NEXTSTEP archive in the world, existing since more than eight years now and is now commited to newer technologies like OpenStep, MacOS X, WebObjects and others, too. The archive is mirrored by many other sites and features certain special services not found anywhere else. The archive is located in Germany and maintained by students and contributors in their spare time for free as a non-profit oranization. If overseas connections are getting slow, please contact one of our mirrors. Main access by WWW: http://www.peanuts.org/ FTP: ftp://ftp.peanuts.org/ E-Mail: peanuts-admin@peanuts.org Many thanks to the Apple European Developer Relations for their help in getting the archive up and running again after a hard time in the last year. We hope you all like the new server! --- Bernhard Scholz http://www.peanuts.org/ Peanuts-Archive Admin scholz@peanuts.org
From: group-admin@isc.org (David C Lawrence) Sender: group-admin@isc.org (David C Lawrence) Organization: The Cabal Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.sys.next.announce Subject: cmsg newgroup comp.sys.next.announce Control: newgroup comp.sys.next.announce Message-ID: <x8GDkwLAW.1Hwi@isc.org> Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 20:04:43 -0000 ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/pgpcontrol/README ndy3Oe9nxDMqDxHdLcn2_RT0GOvyJ0jUEEyFTyNoWSGgdvTuukM3NAIgpCIKzMSa plDrYK4xEhKWM6_8e_Ci4QBQ67oIefXuJnR9FfiIQVE2BrXR0RYSzZCDxnC1nGLh bL34uu4ZONh0c87fPD2TWwG3CH1qhKXww42po2RXQJW19SBmX39ToAhIlGqdZt3l rUXWoWTg7dW= =7pG6 comp.sys.next.announce is an unmoderated newsgroup which passed its vote for creation by 293:34 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 13 Feb 1999. For your newsgroups file: comp.sys.next.announce Announcements related to the NeXT computer system. Meow! David C Lawrence
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From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wantedmisc.forsale.computers.mac,comp.sys.macintosh,comp.sys.mentor,comp.sys.mips,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.msx,comp.sys.ncr,comp.sys.net-computer,comp.sys.net-computer.announce,comp.sys.newton,comp.sys.newton.announce,comp.sys.newton.marketplace,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.newton.programmer,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: cmsg cancel <13290493-1702990124500001@ccas11-sli46.t-net.net.ve> Control: cancel <13290493-1702990124500001@ccas11-sli46.t-net.net.ve> Date: 17 Feb 1999 05:23:37 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.13290493-1702990124500001@ccas11-sli46.t-net.net.ve> Sender: 13290493@geocities.com Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence specific to this spam. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
From: BeNG-FTP-Team <ftpadm@w3.beng.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files available from ftp.beng.org (February 12th, 1999) Date: 12 Feb 1999 21:12:31 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <7a25fv$ss0$1@news.digifix.com> As of February 12th, 1999, the following files were received at ftp.beng.org: CommuniGatePro-Documentation ftp://ftp.beng.org/pub/system/server/apps/commercial/CommuniGatePro-Documentation.RpiWi.d.tar.gz (177 KB) CommuniGatePro 2.9.Beta3 ftp://ftp.beng.org/pub/system/server/apps/commercial/CommuniGatePro_2.9.Beta3.Rpi.b.tar.gz (1.3 MB) GraphiClock 1.2 ftp://ftp.beng.org/pub/misc/apps/GraphiClock_1.2.Rp.b.tar.gz (34 KB) ftp://ftp.beng.org/pub/misc/apps/GraphiClock_1.2.README (3 KB) apache 1.2.4-613 ftp://ftp.beng.org/pub/internet/www/unix/apache_1.2.4-613.README (109 Bytes) bc 1.04-3 ftp://ftp.beng.org/pub/system/server/unix/bc_1.04-3.README (88 Bytes) You can download the complete index from ftp://ftp.beng.org/pub/INDEX. You can upload new software packages to ftp://ftp.beng.org/pub/incoming. Don't forget to include a README file in your upload! Please send any hints or bug reports to ftpmaster@beng.org.
From: "technicalSCOUTS" <wow@techscouts.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: USA-WA-SEATTLE-WEBOBJECTS-OBJ-C-SR SOFTWARE ENGINEER-RECRUITER Date: 18 Feb 1999 21:16:28 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <7ahvvc$237$1@news.digifix.com> Location: Seattle (or 100% traveler) Titile: Sr. Software Engineer Prefer full-time employees Skills: 7+ years' industry experience, 3+ years' OO/Objective C and 1 year WebObjects. Must have solid client interaction skills and good communication skills. Any telecom or Corba experience would be a plus. If candiate is willing to relocate to job location we could probably live with a 50 - 75% traveler. Duration: 6 months on initial project in Seattle Salary Range: Up to $100,000 for a full time traveler Needed: ASAP -- technicalSCOUTS Wes Wigginton Manager of OPENSTEP Recruiting 13492 Research Blvd. Suite 120-171 Austin, Texas 78750 512-257-1100 ext. 104 off. 512-335-1899 fax wow@techscouts.com http://www.techscouts.com
From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (19.2.99) Date: 18 Feb 1999 23:57:01 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <7ai9cd$f1d$1@union.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> On the Peanuts-Archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://ftp.peanuts.org/): Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/peanuts/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/mirrors/ftp.peanuts.org/, France: ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from march 1998. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.org)
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines for comp.sys.next.announce Supersedes: <15547918968426@digifix.com> Date: 21 Feb 1999 04:44:25 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <7744919573223@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: <15546918968424@digifix.com> Date: 21 Feb 1999 04:44:23 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <7743919573220@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 1994. Some of the many resources on the site include: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related Frequently Asked Questions. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep http://www.peak.org/rhapsody PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. Peanuts Archive http://www.peanuts.org/peanuts/NEXTSTEP http://www.peanuts.org/peanuts/OpenStep http://www.peanuts.org/peanuts/Rhapsody http://www.peanuts.org/peanuts/MacOSX http://www.peanuts.org/peanuts/WebObjects http://www.peanuts.org/peanuts/GeneralData The Peanuts-Archive is the premier site in Europe and mirrored in whole or parts all over the world. Apple Enterprise Software Group (formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.) http://enterprise.apple.com http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software patches. Apple Computer's Mac OS X Server Site http://www.apple.com/macosx/ Apple Computer's Mac OS X Server Developer Site http://developer.apple.com/macosx/server/ Apple Computer's WebObjects Site http://www.apple.com/webobjects/ Mac OS X Server Developer Documentation http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosxserver/macosxserver.html WebObjects Documentation http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html 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! 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From: Stephen Brandon - SysAdmin <sbrandon@music.gla.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SBUMISSION: NeXTSTEP/OpenStep Csound v3.52 Date: 22 Feb 1999 04:12:25 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <7aqlf9$8v1$1@news.digifix.com> CSOUND Canonical Version, compiled for NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP Version 3.52 ________________________________________________________ The latest version of Csound for NeXTSTEP/OpenStep can be found on: ftp://ftp.maths.bath.ac.uk/pub/dream/platforms/next/csound-3.52.NI.gz The source code diffs can be found at: ftp://ftp.maths.bath.ac.uk/pub/dream/platforms/next/diffs-NeXT-3.52 The Makefile used can be found at: ftp://ftp.maths.bath.ac.uk/pub/dream/platforms/next/Makefile.NeXT NOTES _____ * This is a FAT version, compiled for NeXT hardware and Intel/NeXTSTEP hardware. All known "endian" issues have been resolved. It runs on NeXTSTEP v 3.x (tested on 3.3) and 4.2. Other versions probably work too. * Real-time sound output is supported on both Intel and NeXT hardware. The default buffer sizes have been changed to give optimum performance. Of course, there's very little you can do on NeXT hardware beyond simple file playback in real time, before it starts to break up, but Intel performance is much better on faster machines. * Real-time sound input is NOT included. * Real-time MIDI input is NOT included, although I have had this almost working properly in the past. * The default output sound file (if you don't specify one) is "test.snd", instead of "test". * You can still work with AIFF/AIFC/WAV files if you wish, but the "native" file format is NeXT/Sun .snd files. * UNIX "pipe" support has been compiled in, but is untested. * Sometimes "esr", and possibly other values are mis-reported in the text output, on NeXT hardware. This is to do with a problem in the text output (printf), and does not indicate any other internal problem. * Source changes have been sent to John Fitch, and hopefully will make it into the next canonical source version. * A Rhapsody version would be very easy to put together, once Sound/MIDI issues are finalised in the OS. Please report any NeXT-specific problems to me (particularly endian [byte-swapping] issues on Intel machines), and other problems to the Csound list (csound@noether.ex.ac.uk). Enjoy! Stephen Brandon Systems Administrator, Department of Music, e-mail: S.Brandon@music.gla.ac.uk 14 University Gardens, (NeXT mail welcomed) University of Glasgow, Tel: +44 (0)141 330 6065 Glasgow. Fax: +44 (0)141 330 3518 Scotland G12 8QH
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These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Marcel Waldvogel and Netfuture.ch.