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From: wenicp@iwsd01.itwol.bhp.com.au (Peter Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: KingFisher
Date: 28 Jan 93 16:04:38 +1000
Organization: BHP Information Technology

In article <1k2bikINNid9@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, jonathan@cats.ucsc.edu (Jonathan Cano) writes:
>
> I thought I remembered seeing a discussion of KingFisher in here in
> comp.sys.amiga.applications but I just viewed the entire news group
> here at my local site and I don't see any articles regarding
> KingFisher (or any other FF dataBase program).
>
> Has anyone else experienced any problems with KingFisher?  Say perhaps
> KingFisher hanging?
>
> My experience:
>
>     I just got KingFisher and I was trying it out.  I decided to
>     update the DataBase with FF disks 771-790 so I got the appropriate
>     'Contents' files, concatenated them into one big file, and then
>     told KingFisher to added them into the DataBase.  This seemed to
>     work.  Next I tried to move around in KF and it just hung.  The
>     gadgets in its window would appear selected when I clicked on them
>     but nothing would happen.  I could select menu items (like 'quit')
>     but nothing wouud happen...
>
> I know that this may have already been beaten to death but if someone
> who knows the state of affairs with KingFisher could drop me an email
> message I would appreciate it. (i.e. is there a new version available
> or on the way?

From memory, the latest version is 1.15 (?),
I have had no problems updating the database.

> By the way,  I think KF is a great improvement over Aquarium but I do
> have a suggestion (or two?):  KF should have a way of traveling to the
> beginning or the end of the database

This exists in the latest version.

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From: cfury@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Chris Fury)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: SAS 6.2 update
Date: 24 Jan 93 20:47:03 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA

cmatting@nyx.cs.du.edu (Chris Mattingly) writes:

>In article <1993Jan23.160343.20155@crash> rtillery@crash.cts.com (Rick Tillery) writes:
>>Just a note to let everyone know that I just downloaded the update archive
>>for SAS 6.2 from Portal.  I haven't installed it yet, but I'm really impressed
>>with SAS's regularity of updates.
>>
>>Keep up the good work SAS!
>>
>>Rick Tillery(RTillery@crash.cts.com)
>>

>Umm, pardon me, but are you talking about the SAS/C compiler?  If so, then
>they need to get their marketing scheme together, because in the latest issue
>of Amiga World, they did a review and had advertisements for 6.0, not 6.2


Um, pardon me, but do you know anything of how Magazines are published?

A magazine is done a month before it actually goes to press, in which
time it is edited, etc.  I know the guy who did the 6.0 article, and 6.1 
WAS not out yet.  6.2 just came out this week!  Geesh.

>--
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>Send all flames to: /dev/null
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From: TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Amiga GIF viewer wanted....
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 19:32:29 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1993Jan22.174846.25362@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>

>Actually if you are getting an A1200, I would suggest using the GIF datatype
>that someone just released on the C.S.A.announce (?) board.  It works quite
>well, and since it is just a class, works with any program that knows to look
>for it.

Two problems: GIFs look their best at 256 colors.  Multiview uses the WB
to display pictures, so unless you have your WB set to 256 colors, you
don't get to see them in glorious technicolor.

Second problem. Its slow, slow, slow, even on a 4000.  ViewTek is fast
and does a nice job on most formats.

TomK@cup.portal.com
Tom Krotchko
From: rayz@koko.csustan.edu (Ray Zarling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Latest version of ProCalc ?
Date: 26 Jan 93 22:06:16 GMT
Organization: CSU Stanislaus

In article <74380@cup.portal.com> MPT@cup.portal.com (Michal P Todorovic) writes:
>
>I vaguely remember problems with the HLook and VLook functions
>that I fixed a while back.  However, if you have a specific
>Lotus 123 file that ProCalc can't handle I'd appreciate getting a
>copy of it so I can fix it; not having the actual file makes fixing
>any problems virtually impossible.

I haven't needed the Lotus capability, but I haven't been able to get
ProCalc to print these nice, colorful spreadsheets IN COLOR, or for that
matter, using the nice variable sized fonts!

The manual says to use  a graphical printout, but when I do, all I get
is a blank page.  A tech support person at Gold Disk said that printing
in color or different fonts is not yet supported--surely this can't be
true?  If it is, I hope an upgrade is coming soon?

I am using ProCalc v1.05, with an HP PaintJet printer which otherwise
works just fine with all my other applications.

--Ray Zarling
  rayz@csustan.edu
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From: christian@ecl008.adsp.sub.org (Christian Joosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Flow Charting Software
Date: 24 Jan 93 15:39:42 GMT
Organization: Vorsselmans / Heijmans & Joosen

In article <1993Jan9.165816.22693@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> cadpoole@atlas.cs.upei.ca (Dale Poole) writes:
>Hello Y'all.
>
>
>I'm a newbie programmer, currently in the throes of flow charting. Designing
>the charts is no big deal, but putting them into a form that is neat and
>easy to read for my instructors is a different matter.
>
>I have constructed some easy objects in DPaint, but DPaint doesn't seem to
>fill the entire page, leaving little vertical room for long charts.
>
>I'm hoping one of you can point me to some PD/Shareware or Commercial
>software, that is designed to do flow charts, and to print them out on a
>standard 8.5 X 11 inch piece of paper.
>
>Keep in mind that I am a student and can't afford a CAD program! ;>,
>

We made such a program.
It is a CASE tool for the amiga.

The program generates C-source code from flowcharts.
You can print flowcharts with complete chapter indexes and 
label references.
The program uses the standerd printer drivers for printing
the flowcharts.
Functionality can be expanded with arexx.

It is now in a beta test phase.
I think we need one or two month's to finish te program.

We are also looking for a distributor for this program.


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From: al705@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Edith D Goldstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: DPaint Anims
Date: 25 Jan 1993 05:21:46 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: al705@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Edith D Goldstein)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc4.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, Lloyd_Sumpter@mindlink.bc.ca (Lloyd Sumpter) says:

>   I've scanned a whole pile of pictures (Overscanned, interlaced HAM) that I
>want to combine into an Anim. Deluxe Paint informs me that I can't use
>pictures "bigger than the screen".
>
>   Is there a trick in Deluxe Paint that I'm missing?
>
>   Is there a (PD) program that simply combines IFF pictures into an anim
>file?
>
>   I was very suprised that DPaint could not animate overscanned pictures.
>Isn't that sort of required if you're going to record the anim on video?
>
>
>--
>
><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<semi-YAHOO>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>                    Lloyd_Sumpter@mindlink.bc.ca
>             "Amiga made it - Commodore screwed it up"
>

Did you check if your "Screen Size" was the same size as your "Page Size"
before you set the number of frames you wanted?  (Both can be changed under
the "Picture" menu selections at the top left of your menu bar).
 
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From: Lloyd_Sumpter@mindlink.bc.ca (Lloyd Sumpter)
Subject: DPaint Anims
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:16:47 GMT

   I've scanned a whole pile of pictures (Overscanned, interlaced HAM) that I
want to combine into an Anim. Deluxe Paint informs me that I can't use
pictures "bigger than the screen".

   Is there a trick in Deluxe Paint that I'm missing?

   Is there a (PD) program that simply combines IFF pictures into an anim
file?

   I was very suprised that DPaint could not animate overscanned pictures.
Isn't that sort of required if you're going to record the anim on video?


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From: jorni@edb.tih.no (Joern G. Innset,o90a)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.tect,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: WB3.0 on an A3000?
Date: 28 Jan 93 11:24:00 GMT
Posting-Front-End: Winix Conference v 92.05.15  1.20 (running under MS-Windows)

In article <C1JFx2.J98@unccsun.uncc.edu>, msmcknig@unccsun.uncc.edu (Michael S McKnight) writes:
>I have heard roomers about being able to run WB3 on pre-aga systems and that CBM
>had re-written all of the graphics code to make graphic operations on these ECS
>machines faster.
>First of all, is this true?

Yes.

>If so, does it just speed up things like Animations, or painting programs, or
>intuition windows, or any graphic operation whatsoever?  This is of course
>under the assumption that anything the Amiga displays is graphic.

It speeds up all handling of graphics considerably - in AIBB's graphical tests it
marvels, compared to that of an A3000 with 2.0.

>Second, whats the likelyhood(sp?) of CBM actually releasing this as an upgrade
>to 2.1?

I've heard, directly from CBM Norway, that this _will_ be in 2.1.

>If they do, would it include a new SuperKickStart for my A3000?  I don't want to
>have to change any chips... I like my A3000 to be able to upgrade OS without
>having to buy a new chip every time.

You could always put the new Kickstart in RAM, that's how I used to run 3.0 on my
A3000 before I got the A4000.

Jorn I.
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From: clare@nynexst.com (Clare Chu)
Subject: Re: ARexx script help please
Organization: Nynex Science and Technology
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 18:11:28 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.192632.4189@ils.nwu.edu> knyal@ils.nwu.edu (Jarrett Knyal) writes:
>I am interested in processing whole directories of pictures in ADPro.  I know
>ADPro had an Arexx port so I'd like to use it instead of going through the
>laborious process of doing each frame by hand.  Problem is--I know nothing
>about ARexx!  Has anyone made a little script that does this that I can take a
>look at?  

  I'm sure Merrill Calloway has!  He writes the ARexx column for
  Amazing Amiga and in come of the articles he has written stuff
  that processes pictures in ADPro.  I suggest getting his book
  "The ARexx Cookbook", as I think the explanations will be in there.
  I haven't gotten the book yet, since I'm lazy and have been playing
  "Civilization" instead of ARexx'ing my ProCalc and Final Copy and
  DirOpus.
From: sgeertge@burner.com (Scott Geertgens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: IMAGINE
Date: 26 Jan 93 23:50:46 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Organization: The Back Burner BBS (via C-Net Amiga)


  You should try and join the Imagine Mailing List, as they have lots of info
for Imagine users. As for your problem, I believe it is because your object
(or part of it, anyway) lies outside the world boundaries. The scan-line mode
does not use the boundaries, which is why it is visible there... Hope this
helps some...

                        Scott G.

--- Via UCI v1.22 (C-Net Amiga)
From: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Gnuplot not working
Date: 26 Jan 93 21:25:18 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

mcasey@ac.dal.ca writes:


>I'm having an absolutely awful time trying to get gnuplot running reliably
>on my machine.  The farthest I've ever gotten is a couple of plots of 
>functions (all relatively simple), and then the thing either 
>a) sort of locks up- i.e. I can still do other things with the computer, but
>I not longer have control of cli window I'm running under.

GNUplot sometimes takes a long time to plot... (I suppose you are
trying out one of the demos, right?)  especially on a stock Amiga.  Just
wait for a little while... you computer isn't really hanging.

>Any help would be appreciated.  I can be contacted at 
>MCasey@ac.dal.ca
>Thanks.
>Mike

Yours Sincerely,
Kelvin
e-mail: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad)
Subject: Structured drawing programs with Bezier Curves?
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
Distribution: usa
Date: 21 Jan 93 23:24:56 CST


Hi,

	I wanted to know... does Art Expression know how to do Bezier
curves?  I recently prepared a manual, and finally figured out a use for
the things -- making arrows that point things out look like they were drawn
by somebody who's a lot smoother with a mouse than I am. :-)

	I'd like to do the same for my Amiga.  If Art Expression doesn't do
the French thing, do any structured drawing programs for the Amiga?

	Also:  Does anybody have any opinions on how AE compares to the
competition?  I remember that Amiga Whirled did a structured drawing
program review some months ago, but I don't think they compared AE in it.
I was left with the impression that, at that time, ProDraw and ...the one
by Gold Disk... were the best.  How does AE compare to these?

	Thanks.  Please e-mail me answers. :-)

					---Joel Kolstad
From: klump@vati.fmi.uni-passau.de (Karsten Klump)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Amiga GIF viewer wanted....
Date: 21 Jan 1993 08:00:08 GMT
Organization: University of Passau, W-Germany
NNTP-Posting-Host: valentin.fmi.uni-passau.de

In article <eb139.727538005@fred> eb139@cs.city.ac.uk (MAHMOOD Z) writes:
>Beng new to teh AMiga scene, and considering purchasing an A1200 in the near future,
>I would like to know if there are any good Amiga GIF readers out there as I have
>loads of disks worth of GIFS fort use on the PCs here at the University/
>I assume that Amiga has more other popular graphic formats such as IFF....
>is there a PD utility available that converts GIF --> IFF ?
>TTFn
>Zaheer

Try 'viewtek', it shows iff,gif,jpeg (up to 24bit on AGA) and most sorts of
animation.

You can find viewtek in 'forwiss.uni-passau.de' or 'ftp.uni-kl.de' 
  path:  pub/amiga/aminet/os30/gfx/*


To convert other graphic formats use the pbm-plus package.
  path pub/amiga/aminet/gfx/pbmplus/*

Much fun
Karsten 
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From: umkhawaj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Tahir Z. Khawaja)
Subject: Need Printer driver for . . ...
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 06:33:42 GMT


Hello,

	Just got my printer back from a friend after 4 years.  Used it on the
C64 before.  I need a printer driver for it.  It is a:

		Smith Corona  FastText 80

	REALLY old right!  Well can't find the manual for it.  So I can't
create my own driver.  SO I am asking someone out there to tell me where I can
find one or you can just mail me if you got one.

BYE and thanks in advance.


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From: geider@amigdr.gna.org (Frank Geider)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Newlist 7.1 bug?
Date: 26 Jan 93 01:03:00 GMT
Organization: ATACOM's Versailles Node
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

WALLY@UKCC.UKY.EDU wrote:
> I don't know about the two other "versions" of Newlist included in the
> 7.1 archive, but the International version of NewList 7.1 seems to have
> a slight bug..
>  
> The s option gurus the machine with 80000003.  All other options seem
> to work fine, except for being kinda incompatible with version 6.0..
>  
> :)
>  
> It seems to sort by name regardless of the s option being speficied
> or not, but it shouldn't guru.. :)

What's your config ?
and what's the date of the archive ? or the file newList itself ?
the good newlist is the 7.1a (25-Dec-92)
I try to use the s and S option here without problems ...?!

        Bien Amicalement

                          Frank Geider
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: Mark.Stuart@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: Re: DPaint Anims
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 09:28:52 GMT

In article <19990@mindlink.bc.ca> Lloyd_Sumpter@mindlink.bc.ca (Lloyd Sumpter) writes:
>    I've scanned a whole pile of pictures (Overscanned, interlaced HAM) that I
> want to combine into an Anim. Deluxe Paint informs me that I can't use
> pictures "bigger than the screen".
>    Is there a trick in Deluxe Paint that I'm missing?
>    Is there a (PD) program that simply combines IFF pictures into an anim
> file?
>    I was very suprised that DPaint could not animate overscanned pictures.
> Isn't that sort of required if you're going to record the anim on video?
> 

I had the same problem with scenery animator (wanted to combine anim
brushes generated with Imagine onto lo res 32 colour scenery anims).

The problem i found was that the IFF files were described to Dpaint (I use
described because I don't pretend to understand the innards of IFF) as
being higher res than they really were.

For example, the 368x256 res files had a page size of 768x256, even though
the image was really smaller. The only way I overcame it was to drop
scenery anim back to a lesser overscan mode, and it worked. I suppose you
could try adpro, it might save them in a more intelligent way.

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From: itch@cbnews.cb.att.com (richard.m.brack)
Subject: Re: Amiga GIF viewer wanted....
Organization: AT&T
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:53:27 GMT

In article <KVBls*qu4@bike.abg.sub.org>, wowbagger@bike.abg.sub.org (Harald Mayr) writes:
> In article <74109@cup.portal.com>, Jim R Dawson writes:
> 
> >You should check out ViewTek. (current version 1.03). It works with all
> >display modes (although I can't test this out on my A2000....) and displays
> >GIF, JPeg, IFF ILBM, and IFF ANIMs. It also comes with a version for the
> >GVP IV-24 display board.
> 
> I have a problem with ViewTek 1.03. I start it im my WBStartup with the Tool-
> Type ICONIFY set. This means ViewTek creates an AppIcon on my Workbench. If
> I click on the AppIcon a requester appears and I select INTERACTIVE. If I
> click on EXIT in the following ASL requester my machine gurus. :-((((
> 
> Can somebody confirm this?

This happened to me too.  Switch to 1.02, it's been working fine for me.


Rich...
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From: cdj@LNS62.TN.CORNELL.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Maths software required. Any ideas?
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 02:51:27 GMT
Organization: Wilson Lab, Cornell U., Ithaca, NY, 14853
Reply-To: CDJ@lns62.tn.cornell.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: lns62.tn.cornell.edu

>
>A student edition does not exist for the Amiga.
>
A couple of months ago I sent EMAIL to the company who makes MAPLE V (it was
on the literature I got at school and in their manuals) and I was told that
the management was trying to decide whether to make a student version for
the Amiga.  The difference between them, (other than $99 verses $450) is the
student version does not have some of the more esoteric libraries.  It does
come with the standard library, statistics, linear algebra, and graphics libs.
The rep. said that positive mail from Amiga owners could help in getting a
student version.  Unfortunately I can no longer find the address.

			Chris Jones
			cdj@lns62.tn.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: msmcknig@unccsun.uncc.edu (Michael S McKnight)
Subject: Assigns, Paths, and Aliases in Shells
Organization: University of NC at Charlotte
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 22:22:54 GMT

Is there anyway to get a shell to recocnize the paths, assigns and aliases I
declare in user-startup?  The assigns seem to usually work, but the paths
and aliases havent a clue and I wouldnt think I shoudl have to declare them
all in shell-startup.

Right now I have user-startup and shell-startup execute the following files
when thet are run, but when opening a shell, it adds considerable time:
	s:MyPaths
	s:MyAssigns
	s:MyAliases

Anyone know how to fix this with the standard AmigaShell (ie. CLI)?

Please send replies via EMail to:

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