feldman@umd5.umd.edu (Mark Feldman) (05/04/89)
In article <46338@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> J Greely <jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes: >The truth is that c-kermit doesn't work correctly under >0.8, and I haven't had a chance to dig in and debug it (preferring to >wait for 0.9, when it should work fine). C-Kermit (as ftp'd from cunixc.cc.columbia.edu, the Kermit ftp archive) works with very little modification on the NeXT -- none if you just want to use it as a terminal. Somewhere in the program, and I forget where, an assignment is done to a string constant. Either modify the single assignment statement or try playing with compiler options to allow writable strings. Perhaps by 1.0 C-Kermit will be modified to use the NeXT interface, the way that Mac-Kermit uses the Mac Interface, and it will be part of the distribution (wish, wish). >In article <10556@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> christ@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP > (Christian L. Keppenne) writes: >>3) has anybody used another scsi hard disk than the ones sold by >>NEXT? i have a rodime 100 meg internal from my mac 2and would like to >>use it until i can afford the 330 meg drive. > >Translation: you can't just attach it, click >"format", and go. This might be possible under 1.0, but for now you'd >need to read up on "newfs", and hack up a disktab entry (that should >be *all* you need, but I haven't snitched a "spare" SCSI drive yet). Alternatively, you could go out and see what's the best price that you can get on the free market for the same drives that NeXT uses. I have heard prices like $3000 and $1500 (and less -- 25%+ savings) for the same SCSI MAXTOR 660 and 330 megabyte drives. >>8) finally, did someone manage to have a next and a macintosh >>networked together in such a way as to allow transfer of text and >>graphics files from the one to the other? > >If you want to transfer graphics, you'll need >to find a TIFF utility for the Mac, since all the NeXT understands is >TIFF (by default). TIFF and PostScript. Of course, those hexified PostScript bitmaps, er, images (assuming that you're doing bitmaps) can be pretty large. very large. gigantic (get a big SCSI disk first :-). Another way to transfer files is to network the NeXT and the Mac. The NeXT has all of the BSD networking software built in and a public domain telnet with ftp server (NCSA telnet) is in the public domain. NCSA telnet is available via annonymous ftp from ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu. Mark