NextAnswers@next.com (03/30/91)
The March release of NextAnswers is now available on the Internet
archive servers. NextAnswers is NeXT Technical Support's collection
of answers to commonly asked technical questions about NeXT
computers. The topics covered include system administration,
programming, and NeXT applications. When incorporated into Digital
Librarian, NextAnswers will supplement the existing on-line and
printed documentation, further helping you to understand and apply
the power of your NeXT computer.
We recommend that you obtain the latest release of NextAnswers and
have it installed on the NeXT computers at your site. The March
release comes in only one form, NextAnswers_Mar_90.tar.Z, which is a
complete set of all the NextAnswers. The reason there is no
supplement this month is that nearly all the files had at least
trivial changes (such as addition of a "Valid for 2.0" line.)
NextAnswers_Mar_90.tar.Z occupies 548K of disk space (1.71 Megabytes
when installed). After you untar it you can complete the installation
by following the instructions in the file INSTALL.wn.
In addition, there is a new directory called MiniExamples that
contains small programming examples from NeXT Developer Support. The
current examples show how to program with Services, how to implement
a grabber, how to drag an image into a Text object, and how to use
the NXBrowser class. The MiniExamples occupy 119K when unarchived.
There is also a directory called TechSupportNotes on the archive
servers, which contains longer Technical Support Notes from NeXT.
(There are no new TechSupportNotes since January.)
Finally, the "Concepts" chapters of the Technical Documentation are
now available on the archive servers, as discussed in a separate
posting.
The March release of NextAnswers is available on the following
Internet archive servers:
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hostname IP address NextAnswers-directory
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sonata.cc.purdue.edu 128.210.15.30 pub/next/docs
cs.orst.edu 128.193.32.1 pub/next/documents/NextAnswers
The MiniExamples are in these directories:
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hostname MiniExamples-directory
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cs.orst.edu pub/next/documents/NextAnswers/MiniExamples
sonata.cc.purdue.edu pub/next/docs/MiniExamples
Purdue also maintains an email-based archive server, for those
without ftp access. Send a message consisting of "help" to
archive-server@cc.purdue.edu. If the "From:" line in your message
header will not be in Internet format (e.g., name@site.edu), include
a line in your message like "path name@site.edu" or "path
wellknownsite!yoursite!yourname@uunet.uu.net". Note that neither
name@site.bitnet nor name@site.UUCP will work.
To retrieve the files from an ftp-based archive server, make sure you
have about two megabytes of free space on your disk, then su to root
in a Terminal window and type the following commands.
mkdirs /LocalLibrary/NextAnswers
mkdirs /LocalLibrary/MiniExamples
cd /LocalLibrary/NextAnswers
ftp hostname-or-IP-address [see table above]
[Login:] anonymous
[enter your own login name as the password]
ftp> cd NextAnswers-directory [see table above for the name]
ftp> binary
ftp> get NextAnswers_Mar_90.tar.Z
ftp> lcd /LocalLibrary/MiniExamples
ftp> cd MiniExamples-directory [see table above for the
name]
ftp> mget *
[then type "y" for each file]
ftp> quit
zcat NextAnswers_Mar_90.tar.Z | tar -xvf -
cd /LocalLibrary/MiniExamples
zcat AtYourService_Mar_91.tar.Z | tar -xvf -
zcat Grabber_Mar_91.tar.Z | tar -xvf -
zcat ImageText_Mar_91.tar.Z | tar -xvf -
zcat NormalBrowser_Mar_91.tar.Z | tar -xvf -
This will create a subdirectory of /LocalLibrary/NextAnswers called
Mar_91, and it will put the unarchived programming examples in
/LocalLibrary/MiniExamples. Inside Mar_91 will be a WriteNow file
called INSTALL.wn that contains complete instructions on how to
finish the installation of NextAnswers.
The information below is contained in a file called CHANGES in the
untarred directory:
The following files in the March 1991 release of NextAnswers are
additions to the January release.
NEW SINCE JANUARY:
appkit.647
appkit.650
appkit.651
appkit.661
appkit.663
appkit.665
appkit.668
appkit.677
appkit.682
appkit.683
appkit.686
appkit.687
appkit.695
appkit.697
appkit.699
appkit.700
appkit.703
color.648
fax.685
framemaker.673
hardware.580
hardware.620
hardware.656
hardware.659
hardware.666
hardware.667
hardware.680
hardware.692
help.684
ld.691
mail.645
mail.678
misc.649
misc.669
objc.702
os.662
postscript.674
postscript.693
sound.696
sysadmin.609
sysadmin.672
sysadmin.676
sysadmin.681
sysadmin.688
sysadmin.689
sysadmin.698
tiff.654
workspace.658
workspace.660
workspace.671
workspace.675
workspace.679
workspace.694
workspace.701
DELETED FILES:
hardware.203
netinfo.601
postscript.26
REVISED FILES:
Nearly all files have had trivial revisions (e.g., addition of a line
saying "Valid for 2.0").madler@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) (03/31/91)
Someone at NeXT is still putting 1990 on their checks--the posting, which is the same as the NextAnswers_README, as well as INSTALL.wn, refer repeatedly to NextAnswers_Mar_90 instead of 91. Mark Adler madler@pooh.caltech.edu
gessel@ilium.cs.swarthmore.edu (Daniel Mark Gessel) (04/02/91)
>Someone at NeXT is still putting 1990 on their checks--the posting, >which is the same as the NextAnswers_README, as well as INSTALL.wn, >refer repeatedly to NextAnswers_Mar_90 instead of 91. >Mark Adler >madler@pooh.caltech.edu Puts a new light on their shipping problems, doesn't it. They probably think they're almost a year ahead on all their orders :-). Dan -- Daniel Mark Gessel Internet: gessel@cs.swarthmore.edu I do not speak (nor type) representing Swarthmore College.