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From: dejnsen@caen.engin.umich.edu (Nik Anthony Gervae)
Subject: Filesystem problems, CD-ROM, Scene_Images
Message-ID: <1991Apr20.062826.19543@engin.umich.edu>
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Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1991 06:28:26 GMT

  Well, the local NeXT SE showed up and fixed my system for me. Happy day! And
in the process (I'll probably get barbecued for this, but what the heck) I
discovered that NextStep software does indeed exist on CD-ROM. I heard
elsewhere that NeXT uses CD-ROM discs internally, and now I have seen *with
my own eyes* such a beastie. So get on that phone, all you NeXTstation 
owners, and tell NeXT that you'd pay for such a thing (only, of course, if
you really would). It seems to me that, short of buying the release on floppy,
that a CD-ROM drive is one of the cheaper mass-storage "backup" options
available to slab owners. ~ $500-700 dollars for a drive, I should *hope* a
not-too-expensive disc, and hey, all the system stuff is there for when (not 
if) your hard drive crashes or some other calamity befalls. I can backup the 
rest on floppy (at least until I get that 1.2Gig external ;-).

  And last, a humble request (or two). Does anyone know where I can get my
paws on the original Scene_Images from release 1.0? 2.0 just don't have 'em,
and I want 'em. ftp? Maybe you could email them to me? Licensing problems?
Also, I do have my filesystem back, but now I'm totally paranoid about
what files may have vanished (some did; this is all I know so far). Could
some kind soul do a ls -lg of their entire filesystem (from a virgin OD if
possible) and email it to me so I can check files, owners, and permissions?
I'd be *so* grateful if you could do that....
--
/ Nik Gervae aka dejnsen@caen.engin.umich.edu | "It'll be finished next week, \
| CS/Linguistics stud. & NeRD at UM (go blow) | I promise!"--me               |
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| **When all else fails, bug someone who      | "Just say an iguana chewed    |
\   knows (not me!).                          | up your textbook."--Jason Fox /