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From: [e-mail]
Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 17 Apr 1995 04:15:10 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development

Topics include:
    Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
    eduSTEP WWW site
    NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site
    comp.sys.next newsgroups
    related newsgroups
    comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list
    ftp sites
    NeXTanswers


Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
===============================================

This online community resource includes
    - 200+ ISV company pages
    - 400+ ISV product descriptions
    - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
    - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages
    - NEXTSTEP User Group Directory
    - comp.sys.next archives
    - User Group information
    - Mailing List archives and information

You can connect via the world wide web at:

    http://www.stepwise.com/

Additionally there is a Mail Server available. You can get
information on using the mail server at

    [e-mail]

Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at [e-mail]

If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise,
please contact me at [e-mail].


eduSTEP WWW site
================

    http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/

eduStep aims to provide up-to-date information on:

- NextStep tools and projects for scientists.
- Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific
  community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist).
- A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with
  customers in the educational community.
- Conferences, meetings, workshops
- Major projects, such as SciTools, EMBL's project to develop a
  NextStep scientific work environment
- Status reports on GNUStep, a freely-available implementation
  of OpenStep now being developed


NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site
============================

    http://www.next.com




comp.sys.next.* newsgroups
==========================

news:comp.sys.next.advocacy

 This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in
 the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy
 flame wars from .misc.


news:comp.sys.next.announce

 Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products,
 FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.)

 This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it
 directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to [e-mail]
 where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability.

 Archives are available by ftp at

 ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives

 Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted
 to any other comp.sys.next groups.

news:comp.sys.next.bugs

 A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material
 e-mailed to [e-mail] is not published, so this is a place for
 the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This
 newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post
 stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense
 to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual
 reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT- specific groups as well.


news:comp.sys.next.hardware

 Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals,
 and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with
 NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better
 asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices
 belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used
 NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for.


news:comp.sys.next.marketplace

 NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be
 crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to
 misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups.


news:comp.sys.next.misc

 For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here
 by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no
 crossposting!!!


news:comp.sys.next.programmer

 Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is
 primarily a forum for advanced technical material.

 Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although
 specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are
 appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal"
 newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach,
 comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest.


news:comp.sys.next.software

 This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run
 on NEXTSTEP systems.


news:comp.sys.next.sysadmin

 Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this
 will spill over into .programmer or .software.



Related Newsgroups
==================

news:comp.soft-sys.nextstep

 Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists
 because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for
 discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP.


news:comp.lang.objective-c

 Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed
 include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc.


news:comp.object

 Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT
 and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost
 philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a
 programmer/philosopher.

(The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to
it.)

Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs
or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be
simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups.


Getting the Newsgroups without getting News
===========================================
 Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are
 now available as a mailing list digest as well.

    next-nextstep-d
    next-advocacy-d
    next-announce-d
    next-bugs-d
    next-hardware-d
    next-marketplace-d
    next-misc-d
    next-programmer-d
    next-software-d
    next-sysadmin-d

(For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to

<[e-mail]>).

The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's.

To subscribe, send a message to <[e-mail]> saying:

    SUB Listname YourName

Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe



The ftp sites
=============
ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu:                    The main site for North American submissions
ftp://nova.cc.purdue.edu:                Lots of older stuff
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de:        In Germany.
ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl                  (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and
ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it                   (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next/    eduStep
ftp://ftp.next.com:                        See below


ftp.next.com and [e-mail]
=====================================
[from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help]


          Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system!

This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and
other software, which are then sent to you automatically.  You can request
documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, read them on the world-wide
web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS.

NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system.  Requests sent to it are
answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being.
NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests.


USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL

To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to [e-mail].
Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by default; you can request they be
sent as ASCII text files instead.

To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the
body of the message.  You can request several files in a single message.

You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message.
These commands affect the way that files you request are sent:

  ASCII            causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text
  SPLIT            splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME
                   Message/Partial specification
  REPLY-TO address sets the e-mail address NeXTanswers uses

These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system:

  HELP             returns this help file
  INDEX            returns the list of all available files
  INDEX BY DATE    returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest
  SEARCH keywords  lists all files that contain all the keywords you list
                   (ignoring capitalization)

For example, a message with the following Subject line requests
three files:

  Subject:  2101 2234 1109

A message with this body requests the same three files be
sent as ASCII text files:

  2101 2234 1109 ascii

This message requests two lists of files, one for each search:

  Subject:

  SEARCH Dell SCSI
  SEARCH NetInfo domain

NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line.  To use a different
address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command
REPLY-TO <your-address>

If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement,
please send mail to [e-mail].


USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX

To use NeXTanswers by fax, call [phone] from a touch-tone phone and
follow the instructions.  You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to
identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID
numbers of the files you want.  You can also request a list of available
files.  When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the
files will be faxed to you.

If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support
at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada.


USING NEXTANSWERS VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB

To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web
server at URL http://www.next.com.


USING NEXTANSWERS BY ANONYMOUS FTP

To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM
and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README.  If you have problems using
this, please send mail to [e-mail].


USING NEXTANSWERS BY MODEM

To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at [phone].
Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section.  From there you
can download NeXTanswers documents.


FOR MORE HELP...

If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available
from NeXTanswers, call the Support Hotline at 1-800-955-NeXT (outside the U.S.
call [phone]) to speak to a NEXTSTEP Technical Support Technician.
If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must
make this call to the hotline.  Otherwise, hotline support is on a
pay-per-call basis.


Thanks for using NeXTanswers!





Written by:
    Eric P. Scott (mailto:[e-mail]) and
    Scott Anguish (mailto:[e-mail])

Additions from:
    Greg Anderson (mailto:[e-mail])
    Michael Pizolato (mailto:[e-mail])
    Dan Grillo (mailto:[e-mail])