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From: lacsap@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Pascal Chesnais)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Keyboards, Frame, CL wrt 2.0
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Date: 15 Dec 90 20:06:41 GMT
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Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
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I have received answers from different places about my comments:

Keyboard - NeXT changed the keyboard to conform to "international"
standards and to allow local customization (read they only want
hardware configuration for the keyboard).  I still want the option to
purchase the old style keyboard when ordering my NeXTstation.  There
was no warning that the keyboard would change.  I sense a new third
party market here!

Frame - The upgrade package in 2.0 only upgrades you to Frame 2.0c
*only if* you have 2.0b installed.  Even so 2.0c will NOT allow you to
use the math/equation stuff...  Also 2.0c seems to have the symbol
font completely screwed up, so if you look at the paragraph markings
you get different symbols.  Frame is working on a fix for this,
hopefully they will have a 2.0d which will fix the most of the
problems soon.  I must state that both NeXT and Frame have been
extremely helpful in trying to get up and running with this problem.

CL - NeXT is "frantically" working on this, the best time frame for a
fix is January/February release.  No word as to how this will be
released.  Franz is not keen on helping people who do not have
software support license.  So this is all in NeXT's court right now.

pasc

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Pascal Chesnais, Research Specialist, Electronic Publishing Group
Media Laboratory, E15-348, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Ma, 02139 (617) 253-0311
email: lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu (NeXT)