NeXTedge Support Bulletin, Volume 2, Issue 1
Spring 1992

The Support Bulletin is a resource for NeXT system administrators, support providers, and technically literate customers. It is published quarterly and provides technical information and programmatic updates on a range of hardware and software topics.

Annual subscriptions to the Support Bulletin are also available.  Subscribers receive both a printed bulletin as well as a floppy disk with the bulletin's content formatted specifically for Digital Librarian (the floppy disk also includes NeXTanswers).  Annual subscriptions are $200.00 (call 1-800-848-NeXT for information).

We recommend that you obtain the electronic version of each Support Bulletin and have it installed at your site.   Each issue of the the Support Bulletin is represented by its own distinct target in Digital Librarian. See below for installation instructions.  This issue of the Support Bulletin (Volume 2, Issue 1) is called 92_spring_bulletin.tar.Z and occupies 160 Kb of disk space. When the Spring 92 issue is untarred and uncompressed, it occupies 400 Kb.

The Spring 92 Support Bulletin is available on the following Internet archive servers:
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         hostname       IP address      SupportBulletin-directory
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        sonata.cc.purdue.edu  128.210.15.30     pub/next/docs
        cs.orst.edu     128.193.32.1    pub/next/documents/SupportBulletins

There is an ftp site in Japan for Asian customers:
       etlport.etl.go.jp 192.31.197.99 pub/NeXT/documents/SupportBulletins

Purdue also maintains an email-based archive server, for those without ftp access.  Send a message consisting of "help" to archive-server@cc.purdue.edu. If the "From:" line in your message header will not be in Internet format (e.g., name@site.edu), include a line in your message like "path name@site.edu" or "path wellknownsite!yoursite!yourname@uunet.uu.net".  Note that neither name@site.bitnet nor name@site.UUCP will work.

To retrieve the Support Bulletin from an ftp-based archive server, make sure you have about one megabyte of free space on your disk, then su to root in a Terminal window and type the following commands.  

	mkdirs /LocalLibrary/SupportBulletins
        cd /LocalLibrary/SupportBulletins
        ftp hostname-or-IP-address  [see table above]
        [Login:] anonymous
        [enter your own login name as the password]
        ftp> binary
        ftp> cd SupportBulletin-directory  [see table above for the name]
        ftp> get 92_spring_bulletin.tar.Z
	ftp> quit
        zcat 92_spring_bulletin.tar.Z  | tar -xvf  -

This creates a subdirectory of /LocalLibrary/SupportBulletins called 92_spring_bulletin.  After making a backup of 92_spring_bulletin.tar.Z, delete it to save disk space. 

To access the Support Bulletin from the Digital Librarian, simply drag the directory /LocalLibrary/SupportBulletins/92_spring_bulletin into the target area of your Digital Librarian bookshelf window. Because it's pre-indexed for Digital Librarian, you need only select the Support Bulletin target file and type in a key word to search for the information you need.

Note:  Since each issue of the Support Bulletin will be represented by its own distinct target in the Digital Librarian, you may want to create a separate bookshelf dedicated to Support Bulletins for easy reference.