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From: clare@nynexst.com (Clare Chu)
Subject: Re: BackUP & ABackup (fish disks)
Organization: Nynex Science and Technology
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 19:24:49 GMT

In article <1992Dec28.144746.27467@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu> lofaso@tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Bernie Lofaso) writes:
>garyweir@netcom.com (Gary Weir) writes:
>
>>Note -  Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.applications
>
>>I'm presently using BRU (thanks Fred) via HDBackup for my hard drive
>>backup needs.  I was hoping to get Ami-Back (commercial package) but
>>Santa wasn't quite good enough to me this year (I didn't get a lump
>>of coal, I did at least get WB 2.1.....8-).  Has anyone used either
>>or both of the following shareware packages?  Any and all comments
>>appreciated.
>
>>BackUP         version 3.77        by Felix R. Jeske        Fish#767
>
>>ABackup        version 2.00        by Denis Gounelle        Fish#780
>
>>Thanks!
>
>>-- 
>>Gary M. Weir   Milpitas, California (Silicon Valley)  garyweir@netcom.com
>
>I've tried both programs on an A4000. I don't like the user interface
>for BackUP very much. It doesn't allow you to enter the directory to be
>backed up, but instead requires you to enter a volume. You don't have to
>back up then entire volume, you can select/deselect what you wish, but
>having to read a large disk volume only to deselect everything and start
>over is a pain. I tried backing up a directory with 2.7M in it to HD floppy
>with compression turned on. After about 10-15 minutes I got tired of waiting
>and turned the machine off.
  
   That was one of the custom changes Felix did for me when I registered.
   It turns on the recursive option, so that you can just click on a
   directory to recursive select/deselect it.
>
   You're right about the volume stuff though.  But since my volumes aren't
   so large, I didn't notice this.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: wlanders@nexus.yorku.ca (W L Anderson)
Subject: Re: BackUP & ABackup (fish disks)
Summary: ABackup 1.70 is excellent!
Organization: York University, CS Dept. Toronto
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 05:15:13 GMT

I haven't used ABackup 2.0 yet (it's sitting on my drive until  I
need  to do another backup), but I found Abackup 1.70 to be quite
good.  My only complaint was that if it found a disk to be faulty
in  the  middle  of  a backup, you had to start all over.  If 2.0
remedies this problem, it's awesome.

Tom Hayko
wlanders@nexus.yorku.ca
From: MPT@cup.portal.com (Michal P Todorovic)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Home budgeting program requested!
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 18:30:04 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>> Michael Grom writes:
>>
>> In article <18889@mindlink.bc.ca> Lloyd_Sumpter@mindlink.bc.ca (Lloyd
>> Sumpter) writes:
>> >    You need a spreadsheet program. Unfortunately, the choices for Amiga
>> [...deleted...]
>> > anything in the same league as Excel or Quattro. Also, don't expect to
>> find
>> > "packages" for the Amiga programs (like you can for the MSDOS ones) that
>> > would set up your Home Finance stuff for you.
>>                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> Not true. Look out for Desktop Budget. This shall suffice for
>> home financing stuff. A pretty simple and cheap package.
>>
>    Sorry, I wasn't clear. I meant programs that run "on top of" the
>spreadsheet. These are very popular for Lotus 123 (and anything that runs
>Lotus macros and functions) for home finance, taxes, etc.
>
>

Its simply a matter of economics.  There are millions of copies of 123
out there; a pretty good base to market add ons to.  However, believe me
that there are certainly *not* millions of copies of any Amiga spreadsheet
sold.  Or all of them put together.  Maybe not even all of them put together
and multiplied by 10.

---------------------

Michal Todorovic         | The Laws of Thermodynamics, Paraphrased
Terra Nova Development   |
                         | 1. You can not get anything without
MPT@cup.portal.com       |    working for it.
                         | 2. The best you can ever hope for through
"Justice is incidental   |    working is breaking even.
 to Law and Order"       | 3. You can only break even at absolute
      J Edgar Hoover     |    zero.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: twang@csc.albany.edu (Teddy Wang)
Subject: REGARDING Art Expressions!
Organization: State University of New York at Albany
Distribution: comp
Date: 22 Dec 92 12:06:45

Hey everyone,

Really got the hang of Art Expressions now, but I've noticed a couple of 
things...  A couple of weeks ago Soft-Logik wrote a little doo-dad in this
group about how some of the early AEs to go out did not have the stacks 
set to 20000.  Well mine was like that, so I set it up to 20000, but I still
got some fairly spectacular crashes when doing cutting, copying, and 
pasting.  I changed the stack even higher (between 60000 and 100000) and
my problems vanished.

Note that I'm still not using Art Expressions in my advertising business,
mainly because of its shortcomings when compared to Adobe Illustrator, but
hopefully, Soft-Logik will address the issues that I have raised in a 
previous posting.  

Teddy Wang
New Illusions
From: wayne@amtower.spacecoast.org (Wayne Summer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Need a program to catalog structured clips....................
Date: 31 Dec 92 18:35:11 GMT
Reply-To: wayne@amtower.spacecoast.orgX-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Organization: Wayne's Machine; Palm Bay, Florida

In article <1hr1rkINNj1h@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> aq061@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Scott Devine) writes:
>
> I have about 800 structured clip art images and need a way to make thumbnails
> of them.  If there is a program out there that can convert them to bitmaps -
> they are in propage and EPS format (both loadable by pagestream as objects) -
> then I can use Image Finder.  But I don't have a program to convert them
> automatically.  Manually loading them in would take an enormous amount of time.
> Is it possible to program pagestream (does it have an arexx port?) to
> automate the process?  Any suggestions?
> --
> -------------------------------------------------
> _  //   Scott Devine (aq061@cleveland.freenet.edu)
> \\//
>  \/ Amiga, the world's most perfect machine.

PageStream does not have an Arexx port.  I strongly suggested that they add
that feature eighteen months ago at the AmiExpo in Orland, Fl.  You can automate
PageStream using journal and some (OK! a lot of) work.  I hope you have a lot
of Hard Drive space because these will take a lot of space when made into IFFs.

I don't know if journal works on KS 2.04 or above.  I haven't used it since
upgrading.  E-mail me if you need/want more info.
--
Wayne

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From: tdenbo@eis.calstate.edu (Tom Denbo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Art Expression fonts in PageStream
Date: 30 Dec 92 23:50:18 GMT
Organization: Calif State Univ/Electronic Information Services

I was disappointed that the AE PostScript fonts give "group" problems in
PS.  I've had this problem with PD PS fonts also.
No matter what style you chose, you always get normal.

Is there a fix for this?  

Does this problem occur with the commercial PS fonts available from S-L?

Other than that, I'm happy with AE.  Today I'll try to export a file made
with AE in Adobe Illustrator format to a friends Mac.

Tom Denbo
From: charlton@cs.utk.edu (Ron Charlton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: VirusZ
Date: 28 Dec 1992 14:11:13 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - CS Department
NNTP-Posting-Host: duncan.cs.utk.edu
Keywords: reqtools.library version

In article <zdt2a4b@rpi.edu> danaf@rpi.edu writes:
>In article <1992Dec22.074314.13333@wam.umd.edu>, walrus@wam.umd.edu (Udo K Schuermann) writes:
>|> 
>|> The Version command probably looks at the in-RAM copy first:  The first
>|> Version command loads the .library file, the second one just checks the
>|> same one again (still in memory), ignoring the requested file.  Try the
>|> same commands again, but issue the command 'avail flush' between them to
>|> flush out the unused, but resident-in-memory, copy.
>
This will work fine EXCEPT when someone has the library open.  In that case
you will still get the in-RAM version number since you cannot flush an open
library.

Version should accept the FILE keyword to mean "search the .library file
as you would any ordinary file."  If this is too difficult to implement,
version should at least say whether it was able to load the file or just
read the in-RAM version.

Ron


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: danaf@bray1b.its.rpi.edu (Frank R. Dana Jr.)
Subject: Re: VirusZ
Keywords: reqtools.library version
Reply-To: danaf@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 04:40:11 GMT

In article <85663@ut-emx.uucp>, sjk@ut-emx.uucp (Phil Alvin) writes:
|> 
|> I recently downloaded VirusZ2.27 from some archive site only to
|> find it wanted a more recent version (38+) of the reqtools.library
|> than it came with.  Version reported the included version as being
|> V37.something.  When I run the program, I get a nifty little
|> requester saying VirusZ requires V38+ of the library. Where can I
|> find the more recent library (for 2.* ROMS)?

Speaking of version....

Has anyone but me had miserable luck with the version command? It seems to me 
that it only works the FIRST time you check the version of something, and then
repeats the old version for ANY path you give it. I guess it stores the versions
in some sort of memory cache or something. All I know is, if I do a 

version libs:reqtools.library

and the program reports version 37.5, then if I call

version DH0:telecomm/VirusZ/libs/reqtools.library

it will STILL give me version 37.5, even if the library file in the second 
path is newer or older. I've verified this several times by actually loading
the library into TurboText and reading the version string "by hand".

(The reason I'm mentioning this, Scot, is because version may be LYING to you
when it says that the included version of reqtools.library is 37.x. It may be
telling you the version of your INSTALLED lib, which is definitely 37.x. Try
copying in the new file anyway, or check the version with a (good) text editor
to see what it REALLY is. It just may be version 38.)

|> 
|> Thanks,
|> Scot
|> sjk@emx.cc.utexas.edu
|> sjk@astro.as.utexas.edu

-- 
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=======Amiuser============Frank R. Dana, Jr.============Doc Ami=======     
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	   living, dead, or undead... that's gonna CHANGE.
From: kweis@nde.unl.edu (kris weis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: .DMS problems
Date: 26 Dec 1992 21:16:09 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln	
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: nde.unl.edu

j0nez@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (J0nez) writes:

>I recently DMSed several of my less used utilities in an effort to free up
>some disks...Now, upon trying to unDMS them, every one comes up as being a
>non-DOS disk.  When I go through with FIXDISK, there's some kind of error
>on the very first track of every unDMSed disk, always the same error, always
>on the first track.  What went wrong???  (Yes, I did have the program set
>to run from track 00 to track 79...)  Any help would be appreciated!

>John "I think all my utilities are hopelessly lost" Bowman


  I had that problem also with a few programs...I had luck using a newwer 
version of DMS, but if you are using the newest one, then you are 
SOL..HOWEVER, I know this didn't answer your question, so if there is 
anyone else who knowz about this, POST! I would like to know what is going 
on as well!!
From: Ted_Eugene_Viens@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: PCB design programs for the Amiga
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 22:29:42 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>I am looking for any program that will allow me to design Printed
>Circuit Boards on my AMIGA. I am trying to design a Transputer
>TRAM module for a Computer Engineering thesis and would very
>much like to do it from home during my current vacation.
>
>I have access to PADS for the IBM machines so it would be nice
>if it had the same file format so I could take into uni to show
>my supervisor.
>
>It doesn't need to create big boards, the version of PADS I will use
>only allows for 32 chips (something like that).
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>--
>Ross Mark                       | email rossm@cumulus.csd.unsw.oz.au
>Computer Engineering            |       rossm@cs.unsw.oz.au
>4th Year                        |
>University Of New South Wales   |   But is it all worth it???
>
Hello, Ross...
Prolific, Inc  writes and sells Pro-Net and Pro-Board and their supporting
programs.  Pro-Net is a schematic capture program and Pro-Board is the
PCB layout and design program.  The programs are properly interconnected
to work together an your project including the various production list,
auto-routing, auto-placement, manual changes, back annotation, and various
reports.  Most of my experience has been with manual board design on
Pro-Board in designing a 2 by 4 inch audio-video relay board and a 7 by 10
inch audio-video distribution amp board.  The programs are comparable in
cost, style and power to similar programs on other platforms.  They work on
common Amigas.  Prolific has increased its customer support and now maintains
a vendor access area on the Portal telecom service in the US.  Portal is an
Internet sight.
I have seen mixed reviews on these programs, but they have performed adequately
for me.  They have produced accurate gerber files, and the files have been used
to make successful two-sided boards.  The programs are much more powerful than
my needs.
		Prolific, Inc.
		6905 Oslo Circle, ste. 3
		Buena Park, CA  90621
		tel.  714-447-8792
		fax.  714-994-6435
Good luck...
Ted..
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: bath@hunnas (David Bath)
Subject: SKsh 2.1 +U option
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 05:54:10 GMT

Does anyone know if the +U option has changed between SKsh 2.0 and 2.1?
I can't find any reference to it being different.  Since 2.0 I've run 
with the +U option on so that my shell scripts will prompt me with a
system requester to mount various volumes, but with 2.1 they don't stop
(and don't work very well, since the required volumes aren't mounted).

For example, the following no longer causes a requester to mount volume
'notmounted'  :

doc2.1>options        
BCFIUchlrs            
doc2.1>ls notmounted: 
                      
doc2.1>

--

+-------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| David Bath			| bath@ozrock.enet.dec.com                    |
| Networks and Communications   | The views expressed are my own, etc...      |
| Digital Equipment Corporation | "Pink rubber gloves with black frilly bits" |
| Gold Coast, Australia         |                                             |
+-------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
From: ajahn@digi.lonestar.org (Alfredo Jahn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re:  SKsh 2.1 (problems with "&")
Date: 30 Dec 92 15:25:36 GMT
Organization: DSC Communications Corp, Plano, TX

In article <wE+cs*+20@lemsys.UUCP> clemon@lemsys.UUCP (Craig Lemon VE3XCL) writes:
>In article <alfredo.0437@ajahnv.lonestar.org>, Alfredo Jahn V writes:
>
>> In article <1992Dec28.235752.28944@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> bath@hunnas (David Bath) writes:
>> >alfredo@ajahnv.lonestar.org (Alfredo Jahn V) writes:
>> >: Has anyone had problem with the "&" (background process)? I just installed
>> >: it (I also just installed OS 2.1, incase that makes any difference...).
>> >
>> >What kind of problems?  It seems to work OK for me, although I'm still
>>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>    It doesn't create a background process! If I type "sleep 10 &" it waits
>> 10 seconds until my prompt comes back. I spoke to a friend who is running
>> 2.04 and it doesn't work for him either...
>
>        Have you installed the JB system?  I seem to recall (off of the top
>of my head) that for &, ps etc... you require JB to be running.  JB also
>doesn't run well with the Janus software.  There is a little readme about
>that as well if it concerns you.

I have JB running...  Can we get some comments/confirmation on this problem from
*you* Steve (Koren)??  



-- 
Alfredo Jahn  INTERNET: ajahn@digi.lonestar.org  UUCP: uunet!digi!ajahn
DSC Communications, Corp.
1000 Coit Road, Plano TX 75075   (214) 519-3545
From: db562s445@sycom.mi.org (Dave Birdsong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Art Expression upgrade
Distribution: world
X-BBS-Software: EXCELSIOR! V0.975
Date: 2 Jan 93 08:16:06 EST
Organization: Michigan Information eXchange

>>There should be also a fix release to BME version 1.1.2.  That version
>>crashes violently when there is the DLGPro enviroment started.
>I suspect DLGPro (is this a PD program?) or another program in your
>user-startup or WBStartup drawer is the culprit. Try starting
>enforcer and mungwall before running DLGPro.
DLGpro is one of the best BBS programs out there....
It might be costly,but it does do the job better than most bbs Programs I have 
seen on the AMiga...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: bath@hunnas (David Bath)
Subject: SKsh 2.1 special chars & fname completion
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 07:43:48 GMT


The addendum for 2.1 mentions that filename completion over files with
special chars in them has been improved:

>>File completion enhanced                                        
>>                                                                
>>   There is a minor enhancement to filename completion in  SKsh 
>>   2.1.  SKsh 2.0 backslash escaped  spaces  and  some  special 
>>   characters   during   filename   completion.     SKsh    2.1 
>>   understands a larger set of these special  characters  which 
>>   would otherwise cause parameter breaks.

It seems to "backslash escape" spaces ok, but having done so, it doesn't
seem to wish to look further.  For example, I have the following 
directory:

Digi-View 4.0>pwd                                                  
Workbench:Multimedia/Digi-View 4.0                                 
Digi-View 4.0>ls -ld frank                                         
frank                    ----rwed    <Dir>       23-Dec-92 15:12:07
Digi-View 4.0>
Digi-View 4.0>cd ..                 
Multimedia>ls -ld Digi-View\ 4.0/fra<hit TAB here>

When I hit TAB, I get the beep/flash (thanks to the great new +B option).
If I hit ESC=, it indicates it has no files to offer me.

I can't remember now whether it behaved this way under 2.0 or not.
Anyone got any ideas?
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+-------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| David Bath			| bath@ozrock.enet.dec.com                    |
| Networks and Communications   | The views expressed are my own, etc...      |
| Digital Equipment Corporation | "Pink rubber gloves with black frilly bits" |
| Gold Coast, Australia         |                                             |
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From: paul@dragons.DIALix.oz.au (Paul O'Neill)
Subject: AUX applications
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Reply-To: serialapps@dragons.DIALix.oz.au
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: 27 Dec 92 08:48:06 WST-8
Organization: Private UUCP node

Does anyone have a list of Amiga app's that will run over the serial port.

So far I have:

	- microEmacs (specially modified)
	- TIN newsreader
	- WShell
	- Superbase and other ARexx app's (if _you_ write the code)

I am looking for:

	- a 123-compatible spreadsheet
	- any other productivity software

If there is enough interest I will produce a list.

Please reply to serialapps@dragons.DIALix.oz.au

Many thanks
Paul


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: jmrg9881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon Reid)
Subject: Term strangeness
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:30:42 GMT

I just got a copy of term-2.2b and love it.  Unfortunately, it's useless to
me at the moment.  When I dial in to school using JR-Comm (as I am doing
now), I use 7-E-1 and it works fine.  When I try using term, though, it
connects OK but gives me every other character.  The display becomes normal
when I set the parameters to No parity (7-N-1), but then the ATZ
initialization string gets screwed up, as well as the dial string,
preventing me from dialing.

What gives?

(Also, is there any way to set term to quit quietly without popping up a
requester each time?)

-- 
Jon Reid    j-reid@uiuc.edu    GEnie: THE.REIDS
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
From: wfaust@venus.adsp.sub.org (Wolf Faust)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: CANON BJ200
Date: 29 Dec 92 06:03:13 GMT
Organization: Not an Organization

In article <tim.02rm@corcoran.rain.com> tim@corcoran.rain.com (tim corcoran) writes:
>Simple question, does a driver exist for this printer.

>I am able to use it in EPSONQ mode, but NOT with Wolf-Fausts's BJ130 etc.
>driver.

The BJ200 is compatible with the BJ10 not BJ130. So get the
CanonBJ10 driver on Fish 696.

As previously said, there will be soon a MAJOR upgrade to ALL Canon
drivers (I expect 1-2 week of januray as release date).
Also, this update will include two new drivers:

CanonBJ200 (the driver uses the BJ200 native mode!!!!)
CanonBJC880 (uses CaPSL 4)

>BTW: It's a fabulous little printer, stunning quality @ excellent price (~$360).

Wait until you have a real driver and you'll agree:  it's by far
the best ink jet when it comes to quality.  Hmm...  I'm just
wondering if the new BJ200 ink cartridge (BC02) works with my old
BJ10e.  You can use the old BC01 cartridge on the BJ200 (but with
loss of quality because of the old printerhead included with the
BC01). Well, I'll give it a try  withing the next days...

-- 
Wolf Faust                 Internet: wfaust@aurea.hotb.sub.org
Germany                        FIDO: 2:249/3.5
Tel: (+49)69 5486556         CBMNet: wfaust@venus.adsp.sub.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
Subject: Need Word Perfect batch file converter
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 02:26:45 GMT

   I need to convert a whole bunch of small Amiga Word Perfect files to 
IBM WP 4.2 format.  Would anyone know of a batch file converter that would
do this?  I remember there being some kind of file converter once written
by the people at Word Perfect, but I don't remember much about it and cannot
find it.

---
| Marc Barrett -MB-  |  email: barrett@iastate.edu
--------------------------------------------------
From: Phillip_Eastham@kumear.apana.org.au (Phillip Eastham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: MatLab help & Circuits
Distribution: world
Date: 21 Dec 92 12:37:11 EST
Organization: The DUNGEON BBS

Hello everybody,

     I would like to know if anybody out there who knows about Nyquist
plots, Root-Locus plots and Bode plots and if they can be done and used on
AMIGA MATLAB which was featured on the Fish Disk collection. Also if there
are any other programs capable of doing these plots.

     If you do know could you please tell me how to get them working and
how to get a picture of the plot on the screen.

     I would also like to know if there is any other programs out there,
commercial or PD, that you can draw circuits on and then the program can
analyse the circuit as well? 

     Thanks for your help.

-- Via DLG Pro v0.992

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