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From: music@moravian.edu (Steve Heller)
Subject: Re: Need text editor without a screen
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 11:51:02 EDT

In <1992Oct6.204436.23265@coplex.com> dannie@coplex.com (Dannie Gregoire) writes:

>I am in need of a text editor for the Amiga that does not open its
>own screen and uses console i/o.  It will be used on a remote terminal
>via fifo pipes.

>Any suggestions??  Thanks.

Either VIM or STEVIE will do this. They are both emulations of the
unix 'vi' editor, both are good, although I think STEVIE is more
complete, and both are available via anonymous ftp from most major
amiga sites, and from fish disks as well I think. These are a lot
smaller than gnu_emacs which takes several megs to store and use.
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From: esser@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Chris Esser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Where is Spice???
Date: 8 Oct 92 17:18:48 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <1992Oct8.122000.16198@cerberus.ulaval.ca> gel25@Vision et Systemes Numeriques writes:
>Where can I get Spice 5.2? I got version 5.1 from Fred Fish #278
>and it crashes my A3000 even with a 40K+ stack!
>

Actually, 40K is quite small -- I changed my Shell-Startup to open ALL shells
with a minimum stack of 200K...  I can't quite remember correctly, but I seem
to recall that spice needed a stack of at least 60K...

>
>Eric Gailloux- Internet: gel25@gel.ulaval.ca
Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.applications:7782 comp.sys.amiga.graphics:6634 comp.graphics.animation:526
From: veale@ecst.csuchico.edu (Stanley Veale)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.graphics.animation
Subject: Re: Looking for introductory books on animation
Summary: Recommendation
Date: 10 Oct 92 04:46:44 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico
NNTP-Posting-Host: cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu

For traditional animation, try "The Animation Book" by Kit Laybourne.
It's a practical guide to just about the whole process, including
diagrams for home camera setups, cheapo registration gizzys, homemade
lightboxes, and so forth.  Published by Crown Publishers.

Good luck.

Stanley

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: msmcknig@unccsun.uncc.edu (Michael S McKnight)
Subject: print spooling on A4000
Organization: University of NC at Charlotte
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 19:01:26 GMT


Now that the new systems are out and a few people out there have them and
the folks from CBM can talk about them, I have a question.

Is there built in print spooling?  I mean, a multitasking OS like AmigaDOS
should have had this a long time ago.  If a mac can do it, surley the Amiga
can!  So, can I flip a switch (in prefs) and have all printed output
spooled to disk and printed in the background while I continue my work?

If so, great!  If not, WHY!?!?!  It can't be that hard to do.  Sure there 
are PD programs that do this, but they either intercept PRT: *OR* PAR: but
not both!  PRT: spooling is nice for text files, PAR: spooling is needed for
DTP software.  Those programs that to attempt PAR: actually use the CMD
command and for one reason or another render the serial port useless.

Well, please tell me the news I want to hear!
Also, please reply via Email.

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From: t9014135@phillip.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: upgrade 2.0 -> 2.05
Date: 9 Oct 92 18:50:36 GMT
Organization: RMIT (Bundoora Campus)

I want to upgrade to WB 2.05, (the disks that I recieved with my amiga 3000).

Everytime I insert disk 1 and click the update icon in the tools directory of
WB, a message comes up saying to insert the super kickstart. Naturally I didn't
get a super kickstart disk with my amiga.( I always thought ROMS took care of
the kickstart)

What am I doing wrong, I really want to upgrade to version 2.05.

Also what version is 2.04, I have version 37.57 ( I think, off the top of my
head ) does that mean I have WB 2.04 ?

thanks tef

t9014135@phillip.edu.au
tevfik@arcadia.mc.phillip.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999)
Subject: Re: Multi-Level Docks in TM2.0
Organization: NCR (Torrey Pines Development Center)
Disclaimer: This posting does not neccessarily reflect the opinions of NCR.
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 14:32:05 GMT

In article <1992Oct9.080525.10418@uoft02.utoledo.edu> mneylon@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu (Michael Neylon) writes:

>: While I'm here, cross-referencing between objects would be a bonus. If I
>: change the name of an exec object, it also has to be changed in the menu
>: object. Correct me if I'm wrong ( =^) but isn't this one of the reasons
>: for implementing object orientation??

>Unless you are using the 'text' dock window, these titles are never known to
>any one else.....so does it really matter what they are?

Well, that's just the thing, some of us DO use the text option for a Dock.
For one thing, it makes remembering function key bindings easier.  Rather
than have F1 defined as simply "Login Jeff", for instance, I have it defined
as "Login Jeff    [F1]".  This makes it easy to remember the fkeys that go
with certain functions.  Hey, half my main Dock buttons are null execs --
they're there simply to remind me what fkey is bound to what popup dock.

One of the marks of truly great software -- we're already moved away from
arguing whether it works or not, and discussing matters of style.  Way to go,
STEFAN!!!

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From: Greg.Gerke@beavnet.omahug.org (Greg Gerke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: SBase4 problems...
Date: 14 Oct 92 20:18:00 CST
Reply-To: greg.gerke@beavnet.omahug.org
Organization: Beavernet, Plattsmouth, NE
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.applications

Has anybody else had any problems with running SBase 4 Pro v1.20? I was able to
install the program, but when I try running the program (either from CLI or
WorkBench) it seems to just grind away for a bit and then just stops. The Forms
Designer works just fine, though. I cranked up SnoopDos and the last thing it
seems to do is open S:SBase4.ini and at that point it just stops. I've tried
setting the stack up as far as 40000, but no go.

Any clues what I can try to get it to work? Is there maybe a .library that I've
got in my LIBS: that is more than SBase4 can handle? Should I be holding my
feet in a different position? :-)

Thanks,
Greg

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
Subject: Re: Process KILL/LIST Program???
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 20:30:16 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1.3 PL5

Gregory R. Block (bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu) wrote:

> Now, I know that what Job Manager does isn't "legal" but I figured

You're right, its not quite legal, since it patches into the tc_Switch
and tc_Launch vectors of the task structure.  However, it tries to be
"friendly" in that, if it detects another program is using those fields,
it will leave them alone.  However, other programs sometimes overwrite
these fields without doing this check, so a problem can arise.  I'm
working on a new version of JM which is 100% legal.

I'm curious as to what problems you have though.  I run JM 100% of the
time, and have never had a system crash related to it.  My system often
gets weeks of uptime without any problems, and I use a good number of
other software packages.  There are only a few problems that have ever
been reported to me related to JM 1.1b:

   * The Bridgeboard problem (for which there is a workaround)
   * A problem with one PD program which performed similar functions to
     JM and used the same fields.
   * A problem with one BBS "door" program.

Other than this, I haven't seen any failures.  I have other software
with intermittent failures (for example, CPR under SAS 5.10b), but it
always crashes as well without JM installed (as CPR does).

Hopefully JM 1.2 will fix the above three problems and coexist with all
other system-legal software.

 - steve
From: snolan@postmaster@hq.af.mil (Scott D Nolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: spell checking in PageStream
Date: 9 Oct 92 17:22:28 GMT
Reply-To: snolan@marge.hq.af.mil
Organization: 7th Communications Group

I am using PageStream a lot for a newsletter and small letters.
I love it, it is great, but either I am completly missing some
sort of options, or the spelling checker in PageStream sucks.

Has anyone had any luck using a flat ascii spelling checker
then throwing the text back into PageStream with Arexx?

Has anyone any ideas on how to get better performance out of
the spelling checker in PageStream?

I am using an A3000-16 with Quantum hard drives, and a one page
batch spelling check will take 15 - 30 minutes, if nothing is
miss-spelled.  Actually, it calls up a large number of very
simple words as "unknown" and I find myself adding 90% of the
mismatches after a quick check in Websters....

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks in advance,
Scott Nolan

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From: ewilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Hex Editor
Date: 8 Oct 92 07:10:16 -0700
Reply-To: EWILTS@GALAXY.GOV.BC.CA
Organization: BC Systems Corporation

In article <1992Oct8.131423.13115@phillip.edu.au>, t9014135@phillip.edu.au writes:
> Where can I find a Hex editor, any ftp sites ?
> 
> I would like to some Hacking :) :)

There are actually quite a few on the Fish disks (NewZap on 574 comes to mind). 
As well, commercial editors such as TurboText and TxEd+ support editing in hex
mode.

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From: kevint@hpsad.sad.hp.com (Kevin Taddeucci)
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 16:37:56 GMT
Subject: Software Failure in VideoTitler3D
Organization: HP Signal Analysis Division - Rohnert Park, CA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications


 While trying to use Polyfonts in VideoTitler3D version 1.5, I get a 
 software failure #81000005. According to the 2.04 includes and autodocs 
 manual this number indicates a "Corrupt Memory List Detected in FreeMem.
 
 I have been talking to Oxxi and they said they have never seen this 
 problem and can not re-create it. 

 My configuration is a 16Mhz A3000 with 6Meg of RAM. 2 Chip / 4 Fast.
 
 My question is could this failure be caused by a bad memory chip?
 
 If so, does anyone know of a shareware/PD memory test program?
 
 Has anyone else had this problem with VideoTitler3D?


                           THANKS IN ADVANCE!
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From: Ron_Reynolds@amsbbs.wimsey.bc.ca (Ron Reynolds)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: GPFAX UPGRADE to V2.04
Distribution: world
Date: 7 Oct 92 19:55:30 PST
Organization: Amiga Mail System BBS

In a message dated Tue  6 Oct 92 12:00, Johnl@crash.cts.com (john Lindwall)
wrote:


 JL> I looked on the Supra BBS for the files and didn't see them.  Where
 JL> are they?

Anyone that is intrested and has access to file FREQ'ing can Freq the
upgrade from me at 1:153/957.0  V.32bis with the name GPFSUPRA.LHA


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From: walthour@coos.dartmouth.edu (David Walthour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: About MAPLE V...
Date: 13 Oct 92 13:21:38 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

In article <CASEY.92Oct12212217@morale.lexmark.lex.usa.na> pacasey@lexmark.com writes:
>In article <1b9nsoINN359@uwm.edu> bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Gregory R. Block) writes:
>
>
>   Like hell they can't.  700 is CHEAP for what it does.  If you really
>   need it, you can afford it.  BTW:  Most colleges have Maple on site
>   license for ALL versions, including the Amiga version.  Even if they
>   don't have any Amigae.
>
>How much did you pay for your copy of Maple?  Just curious.  Thanks.
>
>Patrick
>--
>Patrick A. Casey      pacasey@lexmark.com         Hi, I.S. big brothers!

I purchased Maple V last may and only paid $430 US for it at the academic
price.  I can't believe that they would raise the price to $700 until they 
release the new Amiga version this spring.

David Walthour
walthour@dartmouth.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: hoehle@inf-wiss.ivp.uni-konstanz.de (Joerg-Cyril Hoehle)
Subject: Re: Is there an NROFF for the Amiga????
Organization: Information Science, Univ. of Konstanz
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 18:14:45 GMT

Steve Heller (music@moravian.edu) wrote:
: In <70992@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt6758b@prism.gatech.EDU (Michael Anthony Kopack) writes:
..
: > I need to track down a version of NROFF that will work on my A500 under 1.3.
..
: I believe what you want is the 'nro' program. I believe I got this
: from one of the recent fish disks (but I'm not absolutely certain of
: that). It is NOT a complete implementation of nroff but it will handle
: a good many of the most commonly used features of nroff and does
: support macros.

I don't agree on that point. I found NRO very incompatible with UNIX
nroff. I had to change most of the commands it used. It also didn't
work well with a nroff to TeX translator. But I can't recommend
something better. You have been warned!

 	Joerg.
hoehle@inf-wiss.ivp.uni-konstanz.d
From: Jamie_Krutz@a68k.denver.CO.US (Jamie Krutz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Setpatch/Kickstart1.2 = Kickstart1.3 ?
Distribution: world
Date: 15 Oct 92 09:08:28 MST
Organization: The Arvada 68K BBS- Westminster, CO

This makes no sense.  Why would final copy require _kickstart_ 1.3?

I thought the only difference between ks 1.2 and ks 1.3 was autobooting,
with the rest of the changes being handled by WB 1.3 disks.

Say it ain't so..
 -J

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: kennethm@cc.gatech.edu (Kenneth Moorman)
Subject: Re: GVP030 & Gigamem?
Reply-To: kennethm@cc.gatech.edu (Kenneth Moorman)
Organization: College of Computing
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 13:25:51 GMT

General Gigamem question --- is it a PD, shareware, etc package or
is it commercial?   If the first, where can it be found, if the
second, who is the makers/distributers.   Thanks.

			- Kenneth Moorman (kennethm@cc.gatech.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: davewt@NCoast.ORG (David Wright)
Subject: Re: Q: GNU Emacs 18.56 1.26 sync. processes
Organization: North Coast Public Access *NIX, Cleveland, OH
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 02:08:46 GMT
Summary: bad ver of fifo:
Keywords: GNU Emacs, sync. processes

In article <1992Oct12.153520.34565@news.th-darmstadt.de> stefan@kiebitz.intellektik.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Stefan Gerberding) writes:
>I have got a problem with GNU Emacs 18.56 release 1.26. The sync.
>processes do not work! Eg. dired fails with "vfork failed: Not enough
>memory" which can not be true since there are more than 3 Megs free!
	I asked the person who did the Amiga port of this about this same
problem and he said that this was most likely due to using an old fifo
.library & fifo-handler. He said that he would send me a copy of the version
he had, and that the version on a Fish disk (somewhere around 540) would
also work.
>
>The fifo device is installed, I copied fifo-handler to l: and the appended
>the mountlist entry to my mountlist (There was no installation guide in
>the archive which I got from the Berlin ftp server) and mounted fifo: in
>the user-startup.
	There is no mountlist entry for the newer fifo packages. If yours
told you to add one, it is DEFINATELY out of date. The version that I have
instructed me to start it by doing "run <nil: >nil: l:fifo-handler" in one
of the startup sequence files. If you look at the script "s:emacs" that came
with the Emacs 1.26 distribution, it was already trying to do this if the
fifo.* stuff was not running.
>
>I am running 2.04 on an Amiga 2000 with 5 Megs.
	I am running it under 2.04 on a 3000 with 5 megs as well, only one of
which is "chip". Note that is says right in the Emacs manual that version
1.26 can not use "chip" RAM at all.

	If I can get it working I will post a message saying which version I
was able to use, and maybe this could also be placed on the sites that have
the Amiga version of Emacs (since the fifo.* stuff is also freely
distributable).

					Dave
From: Lloyd_Sumpter@mindlink.bc.ca (Lloyd Sumpter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Need text editor without a screen
Date: 8 Oct 92 02:45:39 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

   Will the Micro-Emacs that came with the Amiga work?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: jon@stat.tamu.edu (Jon Davis)
Subject: Re: Q: GNU Emacs 18.56 1.26 sync. processes
Keywords: GNU Emacs, sync. processes
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 05:45:57 GMT

stefan@kiebitz.intellektik.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Stefan Gerberding) writes:

>I have got a problem with GNU Emacs 18.56 release 1.26. The sync.
>processes do not work! Eg. dired fails with "vfork failed: Not enough
>memory" which can not be true since there are more than 3 Megs free!
>I got the same error with "shell-command".

>The fifo device is installed, I copied fifo-handler to l: and the appended
>the mountlist entry to my mountlist (There was no installation guide in
>the archive which I got from the Berlin ftp server) and mounted fifo: in
>the user-startup.

>I am running 2.04 on an Amiga 2000 with 5 Megs.

>Thanks in advance,
>		Stefan.

Are you using the latest FIFO: device?  The one I'm using is _run_ from the
user-startup, and not mounted.  The documentation claims this fixes some
problems from the version that was mounted.

Hope that helps some!

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From: doctor@k9.UUCP (Paul Broe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: GVP030 & Gigamem?
Date: 7 Oct 92 07:02:50 GMT
Organization: Mostly Harmless...
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <5849@tuegate.tue.nl> raymondp@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Raymond Penners) writes:
> Hello there,
> 
> I have a problem with virtual-memory: I have GVP ec030 Combo 40Mhz, but when
                                                   ^^^^^
Here's the problem. -------------------------------=====

> GigaMem won't work. Error: "Current MMU-list too complex (no empty level)".
> What does this say? How can I fix it?

You have the version of the 68030 that has a disabled MMU. If it is socketed you
can remove it and plug in a 40 MHz 68030. If it is surface mounted, it can still
be done, but it isn't easy.

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From: srfergu@rufus.erenj.com (Scott Ferguson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: HOW: Relative/Absolute Cell Addressing in Analyze! Spreadsheet
Keywords: Analyze!, Relative Addressing
Date: 9 Oct 92 13:07:23 GMT
Organization: Exxon Research & Engineering Co.


Does anyone know the syntax for using absolute cell addressing in
Analyze! ???

The default seems to be relative (when you copy the cell, it's references
to other cells move with it). I'd like to be able to use column-relative,
row-relative, and absolute as well.

For instance, a column-relative reference would point to the same row
no matter where you copy the cell, but the column of the reference would
move.

Thanks.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: blatter@ifi.unizh.ch (Martin A. Blatter)
Subject: Re: GVP030 & Gigamem?
Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 20:18:54 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.132551.24163@cc.gatech.edu> kennethm@cc.gatech.edu (Kenneth Moorman) writes:
>General Gigamem question --- is it a PD, shareware, etc package or
>is it commercial?   

It is a commercial program, *not* PD . There are some public domain 
virtual memory handlers around but they are far from being really 
useable products.

>If the first, where can it be found, if the
>second, who is the makers/distributers.   Thanks.

INOVAtronics, Inc.
Suite 209B
8499 Greenville Ave
Dallas, TX, 75231-2499
USA

Phone: 214-340-4991
Fax: 214-340-8514

>			- Kenneth Moorman (kennethm@cc.gatech.edu)

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