Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!ists!yunexus!haroldt From: haroldt@paralandra.yorku.ca (Harold Tomlinson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXTstation: where the bleep is cc? Where are the MAN PAGES ?!? Message-ID: Date: 11 Feb 91 18:00:55 GMT References: Sender: news@yunexus.YorkU.CA Distribution: comp Organization: York Computing Services Lines: 70 In-reply-to: melling@cs.psu.edu's message of 8 Feb 91 23:45:09 GMT In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > The Unix man pages and the compiler have a more limited audience than > Webster, etc. There wasn't enough room on the 105MB drive to include > everything, so the C compiler and friends were omitted. You can buy > the extend release of 2.0 on floppies, or you can copy the compiler > and man pages from someone with the entire release. Aren't the man > pages available with the Berkeley sources on uunet.uu.net? > > Does anyone have the NeXT source to the 2.0 compiler? Can it be > posted to an anonymous ftp site? > > -Mike Thank you for this thread.... Oh well, my plans of buying a Next just got tossed. I'll have to wait until I can afford a bigger disk in order to do any compiles or read the manuals (don't even suggest paper). My gnu-Emacs has a big enough dictionary in it for me. Ganted, I'm not the typical Next- User, I'm into programming and would like to do so with a box that can also be easily used for word-processing, graphics, and sound. From the info in MacWorld, I found out that the 'interface builder' was missing from the NextStation version of the OS, but not what that means EXACTLY. 'Certain utilites' were said to be missing... What 'certain utilities'??? `ls`?? `cc`?? What is the NextStation really good for "out of the box"? Don't get me wrong, I like the Next (think Cube - which I can't afford), but, I want to have a "Unix PC" where pc means personal computer. Okay, I've blathered enough, here is what I WANT, how close does a NextStation come to it??? Want? 0) High res graphics with the ability to display nice scanned images. 1) Sound. Preferably Midi-Stereo. 2) 20 Mips ;) 3) WordPerfect (c) 4) enough information to write my own windowing software for my box. 5) scanner 6) laser printer Need? 0) Unix (preferably Berkley) compatability. 1) a C compiler 2) a Fortran compiler 3) a Lisp interpreter 4) man pages 5) gcc 6) gnu-emacs 7) 2400bps modem and Kermit software 8) support for terminals 9) ability to add more disk later. Okay, I don't really NEED anything.... I might just buy an old Sun (yuk) instead. ====================================================================== === Harold Tomlinson === == Computing and Communications Services == = YORK UNIVERSITY = = haroldt@paralandra.yorku.ca = = 416- 736-5257-33802 = ====================================================================== -- ====================================================================== === Harold Tomlinson === == Computing and Communications Services == = YORK UNIVERSITY = = haroldt@paralandra.yorku.ca = = 416- 736-5257-33802 = ======================================================================