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From: ottmar@ajberl.adsp.sub.org (Ottmar Roehrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: XPK (was Re:  Disk Doubler)
Date: 12 Sep 92 12:33:02 GMT
Organization: Atelier Roehrig

In article <David_Corn.0cev@fcircus.sat.tx.us> David_Corn@fcircus.sat.tx.us (David Corn) writes:
>
>re:XPK
>
>As of the last version I saw, 1.0, it could not compress, ON THE FLY,
>files saved to it - one had to manually compress the files.  Also, it
>didn't seem to save as much space as Imploder did.

There's new version out, which definitly does crunching on the fly. I
work with it every day and my CGFONTS:-Partition with over 200 fonts
became smaller by about 50 percent. I hardly even notice the
decrunching process with my 040 and it works together flawlessly not only with
PPage...

Ottmar
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From: wfaust@aurea.hotb.sub.org (Wolf Faust)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re:  The DeskJet
Date: 11 Sep 92 13:20:48 GMT
Organization: Not an Organization

In article <1992Sep10.092659.25538@city.cs> lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun) writes:

>It seems to me that with so much interest in the HP-DJ500C, CBM and
>HP ought to get together and issue the definitive printer driver in
>WB. When I bought my (church's) HP-DJ500C it included printer
>drivers and demos in beautifully packaged envelopes and disks for
>only MS-D*S! Where are their morals:-)

Moral? Naiv! Money rules the world:

I.   I  had  talks  with  HP since more than a year.  They allways
failed  to  do  any  kind  of support, though, I know they do nice
support  once  you are in.  There are other companies that do make
Deskjet compatible printers (Citizen, Fujitsu, Brother).  I talked
with  them and all I got is "we are looking into this, not decided
yet..."

II.   4-5  months  ago  someone from CBM called me and asked for a
Deskjet  500C driver.  Sure, because I had no printer I still have
no  Deskjet driver.  CBM contacted HP and now I'm HP PCP developer
(funny how things go, ey?!) and still no printer. Also, nobody was
willing to cover my uncosts for postage, phone, ink... (surely not
much).

III.  After 1-2 months I got the PCP developer manuals from HP and
still:  no printer.  My time is running out...

IV.   Now that I still got no deskjet/laserjet from anybody, I was
forced  to  go  commercial.  I got a deskjet and laserjet from the
distributor  who will sell the drivers here in Germany and this is
the end of the story:  pay!



PS:   funny:   now  I  have  a  Deskjet  from  HP for three weeks.
Several  months  later than we originaly discussed...  but it's to
late  to make it for free...

>Lionel Tun   (lionel@cs.city.ac.uk)
>Vision Group, City University, London, EC1V 0HB. 071-477 8000 x 3889

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From: david@ariane.uucp (David Lebel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Super Denise/Workbench and BorderOff
Date: 9 Sep 92 00:29:00 GMT
Organization: SilverBox Development Group
X-NewsSoftware: Amiga GRn 1.16c (6/22/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <1992Sep3.171211.18188@PA.dec.com> davis@soomee.enet.dec.com (Mark Davis) writes:

>I attempted to use the FD program "BorderBlank" on my A2000/ECS Denise/
>A2320.  When started it DOES blank the border but it also adds the "zipper"
>to the right hand edge of my screen.  I purchased the ECS Denise to remove
>the "zipper" introduced when adding the A2320.  Has anyone else observed
>this symptom when using Border blanking utilities with the above mentioned
>hardware configuration?

   I use my own 'BorderOff' utility to blank the border of any custom screen
(including Workbench if BorderOff is lauched before LoadWB), and I don't see
this artifact on my Sony CPD-1304S connected to my Amiga 3000 in 720x478. In
fact, the only time I see this artifact it's when my overscan is really wide.
Like in OSCAN_VIDEO (768x480). Try to reduce your screen width, maybe it will
help somewhat.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
Subject: re: DAT drivers for the AMIGA???????
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 14:38:23 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1.3 PL5

> I would appreciate any information about software for the Amiga
> to manage DAT tape drives.  How much of the functionality of
> a Hard Disk (if not the speed) can one hope for?

I have a DAT drive on my Amiga which I use for backups.  It works quite
well (aside from an initial hardware problem in the drive itself which
was fixed by sending it back to the vendor).

As for the speed: I get about 160 Kb/sec.  That's pretty slow, but then,
DATs are slow.  Think about it: they are designed for audio, which needs
two channels of about 48 samples/sec each (for 24 KHz audio, due to the
Nyquist limit).  You just don't need all that much bandwidth for audio.
So the DAT won't even begin to come close to the speed of your HD, or
for that matter, some other cartridge storage devices such as most QIC
drives.

As for your other question, the DAT will also not function the same as a
hard drive.  The DAT is a sequential device, not a random access device
like your HD is.  You can't put a filesystem on it.  What you can do is
to write individual files to it, separated by file marks, and read them
off later.  You can't change files in the middle of the tape, only
append new files to the end.

For this reason, it is a good device for either backups, or off-line
storage of massive amounts of data (DATs come up to 2 Gb in size).  I
use mine as an "infinite storage device" (2 Gb is pretty much infinite,
as far as I'm concerned) to store software and data which I want to
keep, but don't want to clutter my HD up with.

  - steve
From: zarthac@camelot.bradley.edu (Matthew Simmons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: PasTeX help
Date: 5 Sep 92 21:26:12 GMT
Organization: Bradley University

I grabbed the newest version of PasTeX and installed everything
including the previewer fonts just as the thing said to, but when I
try to run DVIPrint, it says it cant find the fonts, though DVIShow
can.  What am I doing wrong?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: amc1@cec2.wustl.edu (Adam M. Costello)
Subject: dvi2lj problems
Keywords: dvi2lj
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 21:41:27 GMT

I just tried dvi2lj.  With no arguments, it reports:
This is the DVI to HP LaserJet IIP converter version 0.49 (Amiga)

It almost works.  The only problem is that a few characters got munged.
For example, the cmr10 comma, the cmmi7 m, and others (I'm not totally
sure about which characters--I'm taking my best guess).  It was
consistent--the same glob appeared for each cmr10 comma, etc.  But when
I viewed the dvi file with PasTeX's ShowDVI, using the exact same pk
files (yes, the 300dpi ones), all the characters looked correct.

Has anyone else had this problem?  Do I not have the latest version of
dvi2lj?

I have an HP LaserJet IIP plus.  I printed the file by entering
copy file.pcl par:

Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
AMC
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: soh@tmp_ip_003.trl.OZ.AU (Soh Kam Hung)
Subject: Re: Post 1.7 and dvips
Keywords: works
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 23:40:47 GMT

walrus@wam.umd.edu (Udo K Schuermann) writes:

>In article <1992Sep08.042229.19206@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> zcapd49@ucl.ac.uk (Mr C Jomaron) writes:
>>barrett@snoopy.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett) writes:
>>
>>>In article <1992Sep7.193924.9744@ultb.isc.rit.edu> kxs5829@ultb.isc.rit.edu (K.X. Saunders ) writes:
>>>>	I tried using Post 1.7 with the Amiga port of dvips.  I converted
>>>>texrexx.dvi to texrexx.ps.  I then tried to print it with post.  I get an
>>>>error of stackoverflow: /CharBuilder.  Increasing the all mem allocation
>>
>>>	No, it's a bug in dvips.  I had the exact same problem, and here
>>>is what I discovered.
>>>...

>No, it's not a bug.  Tell dvips 5.47 NOT to compress the font encoding.  As
>far as I recall, some option like 'Z' will do that for you.  It's
>documented and can be "permanently" set in the dvips.config file (or
>whatever it's called.)

Thanks to Udo's hint, I got dvips 5.47 and Post 1.7 working on my Amiga
last weekend.  Oh, reading the Post manual helped a lot!  Then, I
wanted to print documents, and that was trickier than I thought.

1. I wanted dvips to use 360x180 dpi fonts for my Epson LQ400 printer.
I store PK font files as TeX:fonts/pk/HxV/font.HxVpk, where H and V are
the horizontal and vertical resolutions in dots per inch respectively.
Unfortunately, dvips uses only one argument for the font resolution
when expanding templates in the font path string (``P'') in its
configuration file (TeX:config/config.ps).  The hack was to enumerate
all possible font resolutions like this:

* Resolution
D 360
* PK font path
P TeX:fonts/pk/%dx180/%f.%dx180pk,TeX:fonts/pk/%dx197/%f.%dx197pk

%f is expanded into the name of the font required, say ``cmr10''.
%d is expanded into the resolution required, say ``360''.

2. Post could display my PostScript output on the screen, but would not
print anything.  I decided to read the manual once more; the author
suggested setting the size of the printer graphic output in
Preferences.  Once I did so, (setting my page to 8" x 11") I had no
trouble printing.  I can now import PostScript files into my [La]TeX
documents and print or view them at home!  YAY!

Regards,

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From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Gizmos2.0 Stuff
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 01:13:58 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>In article <65596@cup.portal.com> joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan) wri
t
>es:
>> I still like most of the Gizmos2.0 applications I got so many years ago.
>>
>> 1.) In rollodex, has anyone ever gotten the dialer to work?  I've tried it
>
>I remember testing the dialer when I first installed the rolodex (many years
>ago) and, for me, it worked fine right out of the box with my old Supra 2400
>modem.  You did remember to put the cursor on the first digit of the number
>you wanted to dial, didn't you?  Other than testing if it worked, I've never
>used it with any regularity (the dialer, that is).

Yes, that's what I do.  Remember, there is a requester that pops up asking
you if that's the number you want dialed.  I hit the OKAY button and and all
I see are a few flashes of my modem's LED.  

Would you give yours a try, and if it works, mail me exactly what your
serial prefs were and what exactly you had entered in the pre and post dial
string?  I would raelly appreciate the input.  The manual doesn't explain
the entries at all (mine had ";\013")

>
>> And BTW- how about some cheers for these early (1986!) Digital Creations
>> gems.  They may still be the best set of all-purpose desktop utilities ever
>> written for Amy.
>
>I agree, and I still use the Gizmoz Rolodex to hold all my names and
>addresses.  Except for not forcing topaz8 in the titlebar, it works just as
>well under 2.04 as it did under 1.2 and 1.3, and I have yet to find anything
>more recent that works as well.
>--
Yeah, I wish the title bar wouldn't always be stuck at 8 pixels.  sigh.  But
it works SO NICE otherwise.

>=============================================================================
>Mike Koch       rehab1!amisys!mkoch@cbmvax.commodore.com      CI$: 70017,2677
>

-Joel
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From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Why Final Copy 1.3 crash with DEL-HELP?
Date: Fri,  4 Sep 92 16:33:24 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1992Sep3.214624.29972@news.iastate.edu> <1992Sep4.093521.17704@sfu.ca>

>
>As a registered Final Copy owner, shouldn't I have heard about this before it
>made its way into AmigaWorld?
>
>  __   __
> / /\ /_/\__   Francis Lui
>/_/ /\\ \ \/\  e-mail: flui@sfu.ca
>\ \  / \ \  /
> \ \ \  \_\/   You know you're a techno-dweeb when
>  \_\/         floppy drive applies more to your love life,
>               and hard drive to your machines.

I too am a registered Final Copy owner and up to now have received quite
a few mailings from SoftWood. In fact a couple months ago they sent
me the full glossy manuals for their two accessory Final Copy font
packages with an offer to buy them at a discount. Thus I'm also kinda
surprised I haven't gotten a mailing from them concerning Final Copy II.
Unless SoftWood has changed hands and the mailing list went into
the dumpster. 

Harv
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.org.ieee
From: mih8447@usl.edu (Hebert Marc I)
Subject: Spice on Amiga
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 23:41:54 GMT

Any Amiga Spice users out there?  I've had some difficulty with it.

On versions >= 5, (from fred fish) my 2.0 2000 crashes.
On version 3, I get three error messages stating that information was
needed for time elapsed, etc.

Any suggestions?

Thanks, Marc.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Radical Eye AmigaTeX
From: dgold@basso.actrix.gen.nz (Dale Gold)
Date: 16 Sep 92 03:08:31 PST
Organization: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

Quoted from <1992Sep10.164026.4073@qucis.queensu.ca> by akerman@qucis.queensu.ca (Richard Akerman):
> What is the address for Radical Eye?

	Radical Eye Software
	Box 2081
	Stanford, CA
	94309

The manual say that if you have any questions you can call:

	(415)-32-AMIGA (322-6442)

I assume that this is a voice phone number.

The technical support BBS is at (415) 32-RADIO or (415)-327-2346
And all your questions will be answered there.

Tomas Rokicki, the author,  can be reached via email at:

	rokicki@CS.Stanford.EDU

> How much is AmigaTeX?  

I don't remember. It seemed expensive when I bought it, but it was worth
every penny...

Cheers,
Dale
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From: Gary_Coleman@mindlink.bc.ca (Gary Coleman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Ultimate in Spreadsheet programs?
Date: 5 Sep 92 02:52:42 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

> Thomas Reamer writes:
> 
> I am in search of a spreadsheet program that not only offers a wide range of
> options but also one that looks professional, a super looking high-res
> screen,
> fantastic printouts of it's graphs and spreadsheet.  Is there one out there
> for
> the Amiga that offers all of this?  I was working on Microsoft Works for the
> Mac (eww_)   And I was highly impressed with the look and printing with no
> jaggies!
> 
> I presently own Advantage, but the printing is terrible(to many jaggies)  And

Looking for a good spreadsheet program on the Amiga is an oxymoron.  I tryed
importing a L123 file and got all kinds of "Not supported" glitches.
@round(A3*3,2) is rather simple stuff one would think.

> 
> Thanx in advance!!
> 

Your welcome...
From: lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: PPage let down by HB Marketing (UK) Ltd
Date: 11 Sep 92 11:57:07 GMT
Organization: City University, London

I am pleased to hear about Gold Disk's user support and
good things about PPage3.0. But sadly Gold Disk are
badly let down here in the UK by their distributors HBM
Ltd. I tried to upgrade to PPage3.0 from PPage2.1.
They have taken several days already, and when I called
them they said that it would take 1 or 2 weeks to order
stocks from Gold Disk in USA. How can _distributors_
let their stocks run so low? I can understand smaller
dealers keeping low stocks, but HBM are supposedly
the official UK distributors.

In comparison, I upgraded from DPaint3 to DPaint4 by
sending in the front page of my manual and a credit
card no. to Electronic Arts in the UK. I received the
new package _by_return_of_mail_ ie it could not have
been any quicker!
I mentioned this to the casual people at HBM and they
said `we are not Electronic Arts'!

Maybe Gold Disk should use Electronic Arts to be their
UK distributors?

BTW I feel it would be helpful to the Amiga community
for Gold Disk to know this - does anyone know if they
have an email address?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: PP20 to ASCII?
From: dgold@basso.actrix.gen.nz (Dale Gold)
Date: 7 Sep 92 11:28:32 PST
Organization: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Keywords: 

Quoted from <65306@cup.portal.com> by JEFF-G@cup.portal.com (Jeff - Griffin):
> Somewhere I recall seeing a file that will convert PP20 (PPmore) .txt
> files into 'regular' ASCII for use on a word_processor, can anyone direct
> me to such a file?

Nope, but while you're looking for it, you can run the Commodore CMD
command to capture your printer output to a file, read the text file 
with PPmore, and hit the print gadget to write an ASCII file to disk
which can then be loaded into your WP.

Dale
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From: Greg_Dawson@mindlink.bc.ca (Greg Dawson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: ProPage Bug maybe????
Date: 7 Sep 92 18:43:23 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

Chris Esser esser@en.ecn.purdue.edu writes:

>PPage will work fine with a kickfile.  However, Gold Disk is aware of problems
>with PPage crashing under the 2.04 ROMS, and especially with systems using
>2.04 ROMS _AND_ an accelerator.  Although I haven't had crashes while loading
>files, I have almost always had them upon exiting.  I simply exit PPage with
>a reboot.  As I said, Gold Disk is aware of some problems, and is currently
>working on fixing them, after which all registered users will receive an
>updated version in the mail.  Since Gold Disk might not have encountered your
>problem, either call or write them, so they can be sure to have it fixed in
>the next release.



Just to add my .02 cents worth, I use PPage 3.0 regularly with 2.04 roms and a
GVP 22mhz combo board and find it to be a very stable program - I haven't had
it crash in a long time (I guess everyone's mileage will vary). I do remember
it crashing upon exiting when the autosave genie was running - however, someone
on the net (can't remember who just now) sent me a revised version of this
genie and I haven't had any problems since.

I have a question for owners of PPage 3.0 and PDraw 3.0 - How much chip memory
will these programs eat up when multitasked? I just ordered PDraw 3.0. I have
about 850k Chip memory available after startup. Will I have any problems
running these programs together? (I also have 4megs fast ram).


Greg Dawson

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: s892031@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Pumpkin Power)
Subject: Re: PP20 to ASCII?
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre, Melbourne Australia.
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 13:02:35 EST

dgold@basso.actrix.gen.nz (Dale Gold) writes:

>Quoted from <65306@cup.portal.com> by JEFF-G@cup.portal.com (Jeff - Griffin):
>> Somewhere I recall seeing a file that will convert PP20 (PPmore) .txt
>> files into 'regular' ASCII for use on a word_processor, can anyone direct
>> me to such a file?

>Nope, but while you're looking for it, you can run the Commodore CMD
>command to capture your printer output to a file, read the text file 
>with PPmore, and hit the print gadget to write an ASCII file to disk
>which can then be loaded into your WP.

Or you could just grab PP2.3B of one of the fish disks (a while ago now)
which should work fine.  PowerPacker 4 still uses the same compression
algorithm as far as I can tell, it just does it considerably faster.

NB. For those who don't know anything above 2.3B will have save disabled
unless you register first, 2.3B was the last fully functional shareware
demo release.

Peter Barton : s892031@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au

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From: wfaust@aurea.hotb.sub.org (Wolf Faust)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re:  ProWrite & the DeskJet (Was: ProWrite 3.3 Press Release)
Date: 9 Sep 92 01:03:43 GMT
Organization: Not an Organization

In article <4600@disuns2.epfl.ch> sarrasin@disuns2.epfl.ch (Christian Sarrasin) writes:

>#1.the accents in my documents are all changed to graphic characters
>   (like theta instead of e accute, and such). I remember that DJHelper
>   has a control over the character translation tables, but I find it
>   rather annoying that it doesn't match the vanilla character set by
>   default.

Yes, DJHelper does not enable Latin 1 for non ASCII characters.
Well,  some  people  may  call this stupid, some people may really
need this because of the font cartridge.

>So I ask the same question again: Will ProWrite 3.4 treat DeskJets' top
>margins correctly *using the standard driver*?

It's a general problem on Deskjets. Both drivers (commo's and
DJHelper) do not move the CAP to the top of the page on initialising.
This is recommended in the HP developer kit for Deskjet... but it
seems nobody reads it... Though... I'm not that sure if it really
cures the problem... I will try it as soon as I have the time with
the Deskjet Studio driver...

Also, DJHelper does not initialise the page right when you start
using the printer by printing a graphic.

>PS: I don't mean to sound rude! It's just that I have always been
>    disappointed with DJHelper, especially since it is advertised every-
>    where as being the "miracle" solution... As far as I am concerned, it
>    is definitely not!

Hmm... well, I think at this time, DJHelper is worth the money for
people with font cartridges or people that do print lot's of b/w
graphics. It surely does no good job on graphics... but it's
currently the best available...

I'm better quiting on this one... and use my DeskJet Studio with 256
greyscales ;-) 

>     Christian Sarrasin (sarrasin@eldi.epfl.ch || sarrasin@disuns2.epfl.ch)

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