reberhar@iiic.ethz.ch (Rolf Georg Eberhardt) (10/15/90)
Hi netland Does anybody know the space requirements for the extended sw release if stuff like the Shakespeare works, spelling checker, thesaurus, manuals (I would buy them in book-form, if they aren't expensive), etc. is thrown off ? As a stand-alone machine I wouldn't need any mail, or other net-specific features either... Thanks --rolf
scott@sage.uchicago.edu (Scott Deerwester) (10/18/90)
In article <11594@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>, reberhar@iiic (Rolf Georg Eberhardt) writes: >Hi netland > >Does anybody know the space requirements for the extended sw release >if stuff like the Shakespeare works, spelling checker, thesaurus, >manuals (I would buy them in book-form, if they aren't expensive), etc. >is thrown off ? As a stand-alone machine I wouldn't need any mail, >or other net-specific features either... > >Thanks > >--rolf Hmmm.. Now *that*'s a thought. Would NeXT be willing to ship a version of the 2.0 disk for machines that are going to be on a local net with other NeXTs that have the full distribution? It would be awfully nice if somebody would go through the trouble of figuring out what you really ought to keep on a local disk and what (like /NextLibrary, /NextDeveloper, ...) you can really afford to access over the net. How about an option in the installation process? Is the (full) 2.0 distribution identical on the various hardware combinations? ------- Scott Deerwester | Internet: scott@tira.uchicago.edu | ~{P;N,5B~} Center for Information and | Phone: 312-702-6948 | Language Studies | 1100 E. 57th, CILS | University of Chicago | Chicago, IL 60637 |
rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) (10/18/90)
In article <1990Oct17.190226.12997@midway.uchicago.edu>, scott@sage.uchicago.edu (Scott Deerwester) writes: |> In article <11594@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>, reberhar@iiic (Rolf Georg Eberhardt) writes: |> >Hi netland |> > |> >Does anybody know the space requirements for the extended sw release |> >if stuff like the Shakespeare works, spelling checker, thesaurus, |> >manuals (I would buy them in book-form, if they aren't expensive), etc. |> >is thrown off ? As a stand-alone machine I wouldn't need any mail, |> >or other net-specific features either... |> Hmmm.. Now *that*'s a thought. Would NeXT be willing to ship a |> version of the 2.0 disk for machines that are going to be on a local |> net with other NeXTs that have the full distribution? It would be The software release 2.0 should include a thing called Install.app or something similar. This program will allow you to install and deinstall single components off the release. This way everyone can decide what they want to have locally or centrally stored. So I think NeXT has taken care of that. You just need to put in a little bit of work and you need to have access to the full distribution. -- 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." Bernhard Shaw | rca@cs.brown.edu or antony@browncog.bitnet ------------------------------------------------------------------------------