Subject: FAQ: 1 - Introduction


                               1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 About this FAQ

   These are the frequently asked questions concerning NeXT, NeXTSTEP or
   any other NeXT related topics.

   This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the (comp.sys.next
   and de.comp.sys.next) community.

   NeXT,Inc. is a privately hold company, heading towards software
   business. It sells NEXTSTEP its award winning OS and several other
   software packages (most included with NEXTSTEP): EOF, NEXTSTEP
   Developer, WebObjects, NetInfo, ...

   With the coming 'open' version of NEXTSTEP, which is named OpenStep
   and will run not only on top of Mach (as NEXTSTEP does) but also on
   Solaris, Windows NT, Windows 95, HP-UX, the user of NeXT's software is
   confronted with a wide range of different software and hardware.

   To help in the unaware user, this FAQ was founded. But also
   professional users might find some interesting information, which they
   didn't knew already.

   Note the NEXTSTEP and OpenStep questions often concern related topics
   like Objective-C, UNIX, administration tasks, etc. for which already
   separate FAQs do exist. See the new.answers newsgroup for additional
   FAQs, if your problem isn't covered by this FAQ.

1.2 Submissions

   As with all FAQs the quality of the information provided here is
   mostly depending on the Usenet community, which in most cases serves
   for the information resource. Feel free to e-mail the FAQ author to
   contribute, or send error reports.

   If you contact the author, use the following subject for submissions:
   FAQ submission. To report errors use: FAQ error.

   In the near future we want to implement an e-mail service for those
   who don't have access to news. You may add yourself to the mailinglist
   by sending an e-mail with subject: FAQ mailme. Note that this service
   isn't available, yet, and will only become available if there is
   enough request and not before June 1996.

1.3 Copyright

   This FAQ is copyrighted by Bernhard Scholz. (Internet e-mails:
   scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de)

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1.4 Disclaimer

   Of course there is no warranty in any case using the information
   provided here. We haven't tested the information to be correct.

   We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this FAQ.


1.5 Thanks

   We want to say "thank you" to Nathan, who did a great job on first
   FAQs. Best wishes to you and your family!!!

   We want to thank Maximilian Goedel, who did the first reword on the
   FAQs after Nathan gave up.

   Especially we want to thank the Usenet community for contributing to
   the FAQ and all the people who have written us.