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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: WriteNow and Rom Monitor Bugs, Global Settings
Message-ID: <210@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 29 Dec 89 10:57:57 GMT
References: <9482@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <9482@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
	rogerj@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Roger Jagoda) writes:
>1) From within WriteNow, the Alt+<key> combos
>produce the desired symbol, but NOT over the
>letter you wish.      ...    I just can't understand
>why such a great DPS machine fails to do accents
>correctly. Others have reported the same result
>with other foreign characters.

It's not a WriteNow bug per se, the problem is that the
Application Kit's Text class doesn't implement it yet.

[/usr/include/appkit/Text.h]

- setOverstrikeDiacriticals:(BOOL)flag;
 /*
  * TYPE: Handling Diacritical Marks; Unimplemented
  *
  * Unimplemented
  * 
  * CF:  overstrikeDiacriticals
  */

- (int)overstrikeDiacriticals;
 /*
  * TYPE: Handling Diacritical Marks; Unimplemented
  *
  * Unimplemented
  * 
  * CF:  setOverstrikeDiacriticals:
  */

So NONE of the NeXT applications work right (yet).


>2) If I use the "P" hardware password option while
>in the ROM Monitor, a hardware password IS set. I
>know this because I cannot issue bsd -s and boot
>stand-alone with the wrong password. Fine. However,
>When I DO give the password, it comes back with:
> 
>"incorrect password"

Type just the first 6 characters of the hardware password.


>3) When adding a new application to the dock, the icon appears
>just as a normal "generic" icon, even though there's an associated
>.tiff file with the App. After I place the icon on the dock and issue
>"Find Applications", a lot of disk activity is heard and then...
>nothing changes.

Don't put the icon in the dock until after you've done Find
Applications.  If the Mach-O file is in a directory in your
application path, which is by default
	~/Apps:/LocalApps:/NextApps:/NextDeveloper/Apps:/NextAdmin:
		/NextDeveloper/Demos
this should work ... I haven't had any problems.


>4) How do you set "global" settings. For users, we have important
>settings we need EVERY user to have in their environment. For
>making .logins and .cshrc's we put a "stock" file in /usr/template/user/...
>But now, for the NeXTStep stuff.

Just *DO* it!  (Do WHAT? he asks...)

Log in as freshly-created user, and run the Preferences
application to set things the way you want, and then use dwrite
to change things like NXFixedPitchFont etc.  Put what you want in
the dock.  Log out.  Log in as root and copy that user's
.NeXT/.NeXTdefaults.[DL] and .dock files to /usr/template/user/.
They then become the defaults for all subsequently created
users.

					-=EPS=-