nextanswers@next.com (11/04/90)
The October NextAnswers are now available. See the note below about
the re-organization (there is a monthly supplement in addition to the
complete release, and a new directory called TechSupportNotes).
NextAnswers is a collection of answers to commonly asked technical
questions about the NeXT Computer System. 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 highly recommend that you obtain NextAnswers and have it installed
on the NeXT computers at your site. NextAnswers can be obtained two
ways: by ftp from an archive server, or--for members of the support
alias, campus consultants, and campus support centers--on an OD from
NeXT if you don't have access to the Internet.
If you don't have Internet access, send an optical disk to:
NextAnswers
Technical Support
NeXT, Inc.
900 Chesapeake Dr.
Redwood City, CA 94603
Starting with the October release, there are two versions of
NextAnswers: a complete set, and a monthly supplement for those who
already have an earlier complete set. The former is called
NextAnswers_Oct_90.tar.Z and occupies about 400K of disk space. The
latter is called NA_Supplement_Oct_90.tar.Z, occupies about 190K, and
contains files that are new or changed since the July 90 release.
(There was no September release, as we were busy with our product
introduction. If you have the August release, you should still obtain
the October supplement.) Whether you download the complete set or the
supplement, after you untar it be sure to read the file INSTALL.wn,
because the directory organization has changed to accomodate the new
monthly supplements.
In addition, we have separated the NeXT Technical Support Notes from
NextAnswers. There are currently six TechSupportNotes, each of which
is a fairly lengthy WriteNow file. Separating them out makes the
NextAnswers tar file much smaller, helping you to download it more
quickly. The Technical Support Notes should be individually available
in a directory called TechSupportNotes on the archive server. Each
one has a name of the form filename.wn_month_year.tar.Z, where
month_year is the last time the document was updated, so you can see
at a glance whether it's been changed since you last downloaded it.
Their total size is about 260K. New in October is one called
UUCP.wn_Oct_90.tar.Z.
The October NextAnswers is available on the following Internet archive
servers:
________________________________________________________
hostname IP address directory
________________________________________________________
cs.orst.edu 128.193.32.1 pub/next/documents/NextAnswers
sonata.cc.purdue.edu 128.210.15.30 pub/next/docs
umd5.umd.edu 128.8.10.5 NeXT/NextAnswers
eesun1.arl.utexas.edu 129.107.2.51 public/NeXT/docs
Make sure you have about two megabytes of free space on your disk,
then su to root in aShell and type the following commands. Replace
"filename" with "NextAnswers_Oct_90.tar.Z" or
"NA_Supplement_Oct_90.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
Oct_90. Inside Oct_90 will be a WriteNow file called INSTALL.wn that
contains complete instructions on how to finish the installation.
(Note: contrary to what the INSTALL file says, the untarred directory
is called Oct_90 even if it's a supplement.)
The information below is contained in a file called CHANGES in the
untarred directory:
____________________________________
The following files in the October 1990 release of NextAnswers are
additions or revisions to the August release. Some of the revisions
are trivial. We also list the changes from July to August at the
bottom of this file, for those who missed the August release.
NEW SINCE AUGUST:
appkit.552
appkit.555
appkit.573
appkit.595
hardware.570
hardware.574
hardware.582
misc.554
netinfo.572
objc.557
objc.594
os.590
postscript.559
postscript.583
sound.571
sysadmin.551
sysadmin.553
sysadmin.556
sysadmin.564
sysadmin.565
sysadmin.569
sysadmin.576
sysadmin.592
tex.560
tex.561
workspace.577
DELETED SINCE AUGUST:
os.383 and os.459 [superceded by os.590]
MOVED TO TechSupportNotes:
appkit.541.wn -> ExceptHandling.wn [also revised since August]
misc.542.wn -> NeXT_Style_Guide.wn
performance.455.wn -> PerformanceTuning.wn
sybase.364.wn -> Sybase.wn
sysadmin.440.wn -> SerialPortDoc.wn
NEW IN TechSupportNotes:
UUCP.wn
REVISED SINCE AUGUST:
INSTALL.wn
README.wn
CHANGES
appkit.541.wn [revised and moved to TechSupportNotes/ExceptHandling.wn]
dsp.212
hardware.203
hardware.419
hardware.470
hardware.493
hardware.505
mail.546
mathematica.543
misc.457.wn
misc.538
misc.547
network.389.wn
objc.27
os.327
os.332
____________________________________
The following files in the August 1990 release of NextAnswers were
additions or revisions to the July release. Some of the revisions
were trivial.
NEW FILES:
appkit.15
appkit.34
appkit.35
appkit.541.wn
appkit.97
hardware.185
hardware.189
hardware.199
hardware.203
hardware.265
mail.546
mathematica.543
mathematica.544
misc.542.wn
misc.547
objc.219
objc.27
objc.545
os.147
os.16
postscript.130
printer.139
sysadmin.549
winserver.25
winserver.7
winserver.9
workspace.548
REVISIONS:
INSTALL.wn
README.wn
CHANGES
hardware.231
misc.417.wn -> misc.417 [made rtf]
misc.538
network.418.wn -> network.418 [made rtf]
sybase.364.wn
sysadmin.373.wn -> mail.373 [made rtf and renamed]
sysadmin.416.wn -> sysadmin.416 [made rtf]
sysadmin.495
RENAMED FILES:
nib.269 -> ib.269
DELETED FILES:
appkit.320 [superceded by objc.27]eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) (11/05/90)
In article <281@next.com> nextanswers@next.com writes: >appkit.541.wn [revised and moved to TechSupportNotes/ExceptHandling.wn] Here's what I have online from August NextAnswers (extracted with date/time preserved): -r-xr-xr-x 1 root 27577 Aug 31 23:21 FlowControl.050094.eps* -r-xr-xr-x 1 root 13954 Aug 31 23:21 Logo.ps* -r-xr-xr-x 1 root 29617 Aug 31 23:21 NestHandlers.764161.eps* -r-xr-xr-x 1 root 38198 Aug 31 23:21 WNDocument.wn* Here's what's in the latest tarchive: r-xr-xr-x152/11 0 Sep 6 10:29 1990 ExceptHandling.wn/ r-xr-xr-x152/11 38198 Jul 24 13:36 1990 ExceptHandling.wn/WNDocument.wn r-xr-xr-x152/11 13954 Apr 5 16:30 1990 ExceptHandling.wn/Logo.ps r-xr-xr-x152/11 27577 Apr 5 16:40 1990 ExceptHandling.wn/FlowControl.050094.eps r-xr-xr-x152/11 29617 Apr 5 16:40 1990 ExceptHandling.wn/NestHandlers.764161.eps Was this mislabeled as a revision (because the directory's been touched), or did you ship an old version by mistake? -=EPS=-