rexfelis@milton.u.washington.edu (Leif Harrison) (03/23/91)
Well, I got my Demo Sale Cube last Monday, and it seems to be in
almost perfect condition, almost. Thank you to Norm Gilbert & Co. for
getting it to me, in 18 days, no less... ;)
But...the OD died after one usage...so, I get to take it down to
my local B-land to get it checked out... :(
(note, I believe the *disk* died, not the drive, although I can't be sure
a bad drive caused the bad disk)
Anyhow, I have a few questions about my new machine...
1) How do you change the machine name/domain name or whatever that is
at the top of the login window? This is a non-networked NeXT, so...
2) how would I go about hooking my NeXT to a dumb-terminal? To be exact,
a Qume QVT102 terminal. I believe it has an "EIA" and an "AUX" port on it,
but which one should I use to connect it to the Next? And which next port
should I use...I assume one of the serial's, but which one, A or B?
And, of course, where would I go about getting the requisite cable?
And, would I have to run anything in the background to get it to
recognize log-ins from the port, or would it "automatically" do so?
3) another one, how would one go about connecting a Epson-compatible
printer to use as a line printer? (it's a Star NX-1000, to be exact)
Abd how would one get it to function as such?
Anyhow, believe that's all for now...any help is *greatly* appreciated...
- Leif Harrison
rexfelis@milton.u.washington.edurca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) (03/25/91)
In article <18945@milton.u.washington.edu> rexfelis@milton.u.washington.edu (Leif Harrison) writes: > 1) How do you change the machine name/domain name or whatever that is > at the top of the login window? This is a non-networked NeXT, so... When logged in as root do the following: # dwrite GLOBAL HostName localhost Important: use localhost and NOT your hosts name. localhost is treated as a special case. As long as your machine does not have a name, it gets a default name localhost, AFTER you name your machine, localhost works at almost all places like a variable for your hosts actual name. => you don't have to change all the settings just because you renamed your machine. Ronald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." G.B. Shaw | rca@cs.brown.edu or antony@browncog.bitnet