Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!agate!ziploc!eps From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Next docs, printing, nonsense Message-ID: <1047@toaster.SFSU.EDU> Date: 11 Dec 90 06:02:08 GMT References: <1990Dec10.022935.20133@utstat.uucp> Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Distribution: na Organization: San Francisco State University Lines: 22 I'm not going to be writing drivers for equipment I don't have available. If someone would like to donate a "current model" HP inkjet printer and documentation to the SFSU Computer Science Department (contributions are U.S. tax-deductible) I'm more likely to be persuaded. We're not going to be running 2.0 here for a couple of weeks; so much has changed that it would be a major shock to our user community. There's some stuff I really like in 2.0 (and some really, truly stupid breakage). It doesn't seem to have quite the robustness of 1.0a, but with the rumored 2.1 release a couple of months away, I'm hoping the problems will be ironed out soon enough. In any case, my first order of business is to attend to the networking software, so expect the usual slew of FTPables. (BTW, thanks for including traceroute and ntp!) As usual, NeXT giveth and NeXT taketh away, so if you have older distribution media, don't trash them when you get your 2.0 upgrades. You may want to restore a few things that "disappear" but are still "good." -=EPS=-