NextAnswers@next.copm (01/31/91)
The January release of NextAnswers is now available on the Internet
archive servers. NextAnswers is a 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 NeXT computers.
We recommend that you obtain the latest release of NextAnswers and
have it installed on the NeXT computers at your site. You can
obtain NextAnswers via anonymous ftp (file transfer protocol) from
one of the following Internet archive servers:
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hostname IP address 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
It should soon also be available on:
umd5.umd.edu 128.8.10.5 NeXT/NextAnswers
There is an ftp site in Japan for our Asian customers:
etlport.etl.go.jp 192.31.197.99 pub/NeXT/documents/NextAnswers
The NextAnswers release is also available by email from the Purdue
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 like
path mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu
or
path wellknownsite!yoursite!yourname@uunet.uu.net
Note that name@site.bitnet or name@site.UUCP won't work.
There are two versions of NextAnswers: a complete set, and a monthly
supplement for those who already have the previous month's complete
set. The former is called NextAnswers_Jan_91.tar.Z and occupies
456K of disk space (1.57 Megabytes when installed). The latter is
called NA_Supplement_Jan_91.tar.Z, occupies 132K (588K when installed), and contains files that are new or changed since the November 90 release. Whether you download the
complete set or the supplement, after you untar it you can complete
the installation by following the instructions the file INSTALL.wn.
There is also a directory called TechSupportNotes on the archive
servers, which contains longer Technical Support Notes from NeXT.
There is one new TechSupportNote since the November release of
NextAnswers, called 2.0EntryPoint.rtf. This is a particularly important
one for programmers; it explains differences between 1.0 and 2.0.
It is 65K in size.
To obtain NextAnswers from an archive server, sure you have about two
megabytes of free space on your disk, then su to root in Terminal and
type the following commands. Replace "filename" with
"NextAnswers_Jan_91.tar.Z" or "NA_Supplement_Jan_91.tar.Z", depending
on whether you want the complete set or the supplement.
mkdirs /LocalLibrary/NextAnswers
cd /LocalLibrary/NextAnswers
ftp hostname-or-IP-address [see table above]
[Login:] anonymous
[enter your own login name as the password]
ftp> cd directory [see table above for the directory name]
ftp> binary
ftp> get filename
ftp> quit
zcat filename | tar -xvf -
This will create a subdirectory of /LocalLibrary/NextAnswers called
Jan_91. Inside Jan_91 will be a WriteNow file called INSTALL.wn that
contains complete instructions on how to finish the installation.
The information below is contained in a file called CHANGES in the
untarred directory:
The following files in the January1991 release of NextAnswers are
additions or revisions to the November release. Many of the revisions
are trivial.
NEW SINCE NOVEMBER:
appkit.613
appkit.619
appkit.632
appkit.633
appkit.636
appkit.639
appkit.640
appkit.641
appkit.642
appkit.643
appkit.644
fax.617
framemaker.610
framemaker.611
hardware.602
ib.638
mathematica.630
misc.612
misc.614
misc.615
objc.624
objc.627
objc.629
os.623
printer.625
shell.616
sysadmin.626
REVISIONS [many of these have simply been verified for 2.0]:
appkit.15
appkit.160
appkit.23
appkit.3
appkit.33
appkit.337
appkit.345
appkit.349
appkit.35
appkit.354
appkit.368
appkit.396
appkit.463
appkit.503
appkit.517
appkit.525
appkit.552
appkit.555
appkit.57
appkit.573
appkit.58
appkit.595
appkit.97
color.607
dsp.212
hardware.146
hardware.170
hardware.185
hardware.213
hardware.231
hardware.241
hardware.251
hardware.265
hardware.307
hardware.340
hardware.499
hardware.568
hardware.579
hardware.581
hardware.586
help.392
mail.451
misc.558
misc.562
misc.567
misc.575
misc.587
netinfo.535
objc.29
objc.584
objc.591
sound.571
sysadmin.508
tiff.566
video.578
winserver.25
winserver.7
winserver.8
winserver.9
workspace.301
workspace.309
workspace.325
workspace.333
workspace.380
workspace.398
workspace.480
workspace.500
workspace.548
workspace.577
RENAMED FILES:
[none]
DELETED FILES [obsolete or redundant]:
appkit.295
appkit.311
appkit.34
appkit.59
cnh5730@calvin.tamu.edu (Chuck Herrick) (02/01/91)
oops!! did they skip December NextAnswers? -- The opinions expressed herein are mine and are in no way attributed to any of the many people for whom I work. Who they are is irrelevant.