HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: Aric.Caley@ofa123.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Lacepointer Availabl
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992
Date: 04 Nov 92  11:04:02

> Organization: Texas Instruments, PAS
> From: macanespie@waves.pas.ti.com
> Message-ID: 1992Nov2.180312.1@waves.pas.ti.com
> Reply-To: macanespie@waves.pas.ti.com
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
>
> After seeing several postings talking about "Lacepointer" that allows the
> pointer sprite to be interlaced on a non-interlaced screen, I
> looked/ftp'd
> around for this utility.  No dice.
>
> From where can this nifty program be ftp'd?  I checked wuarchive, ux1,
> physik and hubcap.  None of the normal amiga sites have it.  I've also
> check with archie, it found no application with any (reasonable)
> permutation of the name.
>
> Could someone upload it to wuarchive or physik?

I'm pretty sure it was on a fish disk which should be easy to get..

> Does it really work on AmigaDOS 2.04?  Does it work on an A3000?
>
> Inquiring minds want to know.
>
> Post or email at your leisure.  I'll summarize if necessary.

There are two versions included - one for 1.3, and one for 2.04.
Unfortunately I'm still running 1.3..

> -!--
> Alan MacAnespie,              || * Standard Disclaimers Apply Upstairs.*
> Texas Instruments, PAS        ||  Is a person who writes many different
> macanespie@waves.pas.ti.com   ||  applications a Renaissance Computist?
>
> How many bits would a BlitBlit blit if a BlitBlit could blit bits?

 - Dances With Coyotes - World's slowest programer -Given that the universe-
 ---------------------------------------------------is infinate, and god is-
 ------------ And the fat lady sings... ------------all powerful, would you-
 ---------------------------------------------------like some toast?       -


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran)
Subject: Re: Amiga DTP isn't catching up quite fast enough...
Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:06:17 GMT

In article <5NOV199211292562@rigel.tamu.edu> cpw8034@rigel.tamu.edu
(Alan Wen (409) 693-2924) writes:

>First off, what kind of refresh rate can you possibly get in a scalable
>typeface prg like PageStream2.2 on an '020 based A1200?  Please, even an
>A3000/25 is unacceptable.

The AGA chipset will make screen *redraws* much more efficient than the
030-based A3000.

>Sure the A1200 has the AA chipset, but it's not exactly an A4000...

Not in terms of the CPU, but the chipset is identical.

>..and what prg's are you going to use with your amiga?  Why isn't 
>MicroSoft (now bigger than IBM) porting over Word or Excel?

I would suggest looking into end-of-year reports from both companies.
Microsoft is an order of magnitude smaller than IBM. The rationale for
not developing Microsoft Amiga software has very little to do with
hardware capabilities. It's simply a matter of return on investment.

[flame bait deleted]
From: drz@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Dennis Zeitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Amos!
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 10:21:56 MST
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #3, Edmonton, AB, Canada

I got 6 messages back from my amos question so far!!  I wondering if that 
in enough interest to start a mailing list or a "comp.sys.amiga.amos"??  
I have no idea who to even ask about it, as I've only had Net access for 
about a month.  I also only have mail read/write access and maybe ftp, I 
have to check, so I don't think I would be able to administer it.  I also 
don't know very much about amos at all, that's why I was asking.
  I hope to learn more when a friend of mine is done reading the new Amos 
Book on games programing, it looks really cool.  It has examples of 
scrolling and how to write a adventure or shoot-em-up game.  And a 
section on Amal (something that I don't have a clue about, whenever I try 
amal it always gives me errors)
 
  What's the word on Amos pro? does it have a program checker like easy 
amos? so you can run the program line by line?


Dennis Zeitz              drz@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
From: slhmz@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: ICONS are just too damn slow.
Date: 13 Nov 92 00:01:58 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

Hi.

When I open a disk or a drawer on the workbench, the disk grinds (sounds like
a table saw) and SLOOoooowly... puts up the icons.  It is like the icons are
stored extremely far apart from each other.

Wouldn't the icons load in MUCH faster if they were all in a row on the disk
instead of spread out everywhere?  It is a real pain for the icons to pop
up so slow.  Is there a utility that will put the icons next to each other on
the disk for faster loading or something.  If so, how well does it work?

--
Faith
From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Final Copy II
Date: Sat,  7 Nov 92 14:04:36 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

>Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.amiga.applications: 4-Nov-92 Re: Final
>Copy II by Michael Grom@sputnik.rhe
>> In article <sevTPb200WCXAa2GgV@andrew.cmu.edu> Sun Kun Kim
><kimski+@CMU.EDU> wri
>> tes:
>> > Well, I ordered my copy on Thursday and by yesterday afternoon, I was
>> > playing with its drawing tools.  :-)
>> >
>> > I must say that I am impressed with what SoftWood has done.  I have been
>> > using ProWrite 3.2 for the past year and Final Copy really shines.  The
>> > Thesaurus gives you the actual meaning of  words!!  The print set-up is
>> > EASY!!  It was not confusing as it was in ProWrite 3.2 where you must
>> > mess with options-galore to get a 'jaggie-free' printing.  In Final Copy
>> > II, I click PRINT, and I got SMOOTH characters.  The only thing I didn't
>> > like about it was it's naming of the fonts and how you choose fonts.  It
>> > was a little awkward.
>>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>   Simply rename the fonts to the names of their PS equivalents,
>>   they will be still accepted by FCII.
>>
>
>Yes, that solves the naming... but choosing fonts is still "awkward".  I
>have to go into a file requester to choose fonts(once I use them, it
>stays in memory and on the menu).  Anyone know of a way to load it into
>the menu automatically when you start up?  I guess the only option would
>be to write a macro that will load in all the fonts...

Bingo.  You've got it.  That's one of the arexx macros that come with FCII,
it auto loads a number of fonts.  You can tweak it to fit your own needs.
Still, I think we shouldn't have to fool with an arexx font, it should be
added to a font_config or such.
>
>                                       Alex...
>\ Alexander Sun Kim               e-mail: sk2x+@andrew.cmu.edu /

-Joel
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From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Booklet pagenumbering
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 00:05:29 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1992Nov11.104848.27844@sfu.ca>

>In article <69294@cup.portal.com> joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan) wri
t
>es:
>>>I am trying to layout a booklet that may consist of up to 100
>>>pages.  We are wanting to print on legal size paper in landscape
>>>mode with two pages per sheet... double sided of course.
>>>
>>>Programs such as pagestream don't seem to have a concept of two
>>>pages per sheet not do they permit the fancy page numbering that
>>
>>Are you sure you're talking about Pagestream?  Two pages per sheet is
>>trivial.  Layout two columns per sheet.  Each column is a page.  What's your
>>problem?
>
>I think he meant that you can't number the pages when you try to kludge
>two-ups like that.  Since they are still on one page, giving both of them
>page numbers would result in the same page number for each, which is not what
>you want for two-ups.

I gotchya.  I couldn't decipher exactly what he meant.  I see the page
numbering problem in that.  But the layup is possible, as are the different
page numbering styles.

>Francis

-Joel
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: hibrown@vidar.albany.edu (Herb Brown)
Subject: Re: MultiDos
Organization: State University of New York at Albany
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 17:08:32 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.132933.2059@city.cs> lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun) writes:
>
>Well I tried MultiDos but it always left a DF0:Busy icon on the
>workbench screen so I gave up on it. Maybe there is a later
>version that fixes that?
>
>--
>Lionel Tun   (lionel@cs.city.ac.uk)
>Vision Group, City University, London, EC1V 0HB. 071-477 8000 x 3889

If you call MultiDOS from your s:user-startup file, those icons will
not appear.

Herb 


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: mucci@syzygy.cs.jhu.edu (Philip Mucci)
Subject: Thanks to all for the lha/lhz splitter...
Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 19:12:01 GMT

	Just wanted to thank all those kind souls who responded to my last
message. I finally got it...works fine.

	Thanks all!

	-Phil

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: dvoelker@leland.Stanford.EDU (David Voelker)
Subject: Fix for Final Copy II printing problem
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 19:54:30 GMT

     I'm posting this answer to my own question (posted last week) in
case it applies to others.  My problem is that FCII prints in graphics
mode, but not in draft mode.  (Printer: Okidata OL400 laser,
HP-compatible.  Driver: LaserJet).  I called Softwood today and was told
the fault was probably theirs.  They're sending me a new program disk,
dated Nov. 4.  I don't know if the culprit is the main executable or
some supporting file.  If anyone is having a printing problem similar to
mine, call Softwood and request a new program disk.

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From: hbo@netcom.com (Howard Owen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Bru hoo hoo
Summary: Sequential save sets suck
Keywords: Arrgh!
Date: 12 Nov 92 06:50:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.1992Nov12.065053.920
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)


  I sure hope I'm wrong about this... 

  After upgrading to 2.04 from 1.3, I backed up my HD using hdbackup from the 
Extras disk. Being a naive user of this application (but in a position to 
know better) I did not verify the save set, but trusted my floppies as they
came out of the box. After preping and formatting my HD, a restore of the
first partition worked flawlessly. The second disk of the second save set 
contained a hard error, however. The depth of my problem became clearer
when I attempted to get around the error to the other 17 disks in the save set.
I couldn't seem to get bru to seek past the error in the second disk, nor
could I get it to start at an arbitrary place in the archive. Is there
any way to do this? Failing some command line contortion around the 
problem, is there a busted bru archive salvager out there? Failing THAT,
where can I get the bru archive spec?

Thanks for any help,

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,alt.sys.amiga.uucp
From: mwills@su102b.ess.harris.com (Scott Wills)
Subject: Re: XPK 2.4 & XFH 1.12
Date: 10 Nov 92 20:13:45 GMT
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: Scott.Wills@dolphin.ess.harris.com (M. Scott Wills)
Organization: Harris Corporation, Government Aerospace Systems Division.

Randy_Schnedler@fcircus.sat.tx.us (Randy Schnedler) writes:

>In <1992Nov9.150411.8348@mlb.semi.harris.com>, mwills@su102c.ess.harris.com (Scott Wills) writes:
>> I decided to try XPK/XFH (external compressor
>> protocol/auto-compressing file system handler) to compress my usenet
>> news articles subdirectory (UUNews:) for AmigaUUCP 1.16D and ran into
>> a problem that others may be interested in:

>	I _just_ did this today so I'm very interested!  ;-)

>> 
>> The articles auto-compress/uncompress fine, but the ".next" file which
>> keeps track of the "next" article number (and file name) was not
>> updated properly.  So every new article was written to the same file,
>> overwriting the previous one.  I remembered reading that not all 2.04
>> file system requests (packets) are implemented by XFH 1.12, including
>> "open for appending".  So I tried manually uncompressing all the
>> ".next" files (one per newsgroup) with hopes that XFH would leave it
>> alone.  It worked!  Now things appear to be working fine.

>	Why does XFH leave it alone?  The next time it's written, it
>will be compressed, won't it?

Rnews must first read the file to determine the next article number to
use, then increment the value, rewind the file and and write the new
value back to the file.  It could accomplish this via an open(r/w),
read, rewind, write; or via open(r), read, close, open(w), write (I
don't have the source handy).  In either case, XFH has to decide how
to deal with the write to an existing file.  I suspect that the former
case would make it difficult for XFH to compress the (formerly
uncompressed) existing file.  If the latter case were implemented as
"delete" then "create" in the file handler, it might behave as you
suggest.

The current behavior is A Good Thing in this case, but if my
interpretation is correct, this behaivor may be overly dependent on
the current implementation of XFH and AmigaUUCP's RNews.  The real
problem is that XFH did not allow RNews to update the .next file when
it WAS compressed (NUKED).

Scott
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From: jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999)
Subject: Re: a3000kickstart
Organization: NCR (Torrey Pines Development Center)
Disclaimer: This posting does not necessarily reflect the opinions of NCR.
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 19:34:51 GMT

Quoth kjohnson@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Keefer):

]> PIRATE PIRATE PIRATE PIRATE PIRATE PIRATE PIRATE PIRATE PIRATE PIRATE PIRATE

]> I also resent being called a pirate.  I am not a pirate, and I don't

If the shoe fits....

]> Now let me even JUSTIFY what I said I would do:  For one thing, if C= support

You can't.

]> got the next release of WB/KS OS 2.04 in a couple of weeks.  Free of charge.
]> So maybe I slipped through the cracks somehow, I don't know; at any rate, since

Ever hear of Commodore Express?  Ever call them?  Ever even TRY to find out
what the problem was?  Or did you just "assume" everything?  You could have
(a) picked up the phone, (b) dialed a toll-free number, and (c) not paid
a penny for your trouble.  Or asked around.  Or written C= direct.  Or...

well, there's a LOT you could do, if you'd stir off your haunches and give
it a whirl.  Don't blame the fellow from Germany, he was calling it as he
saw it -- which I agree with, to a lesser extent.  What you offer is excuses,
not justification.

Feel free to disagree with me, as I expect you will, but you know damn well
that AmigaDOS is copywrited material, you just apparently chose not to look
in the manual at the copywright notice.  Don't blame C= if the person that
set up your Unix system didn't spoon feed it to you.

]> Keith P. Johnson
]> |kjohnson@csugrad.cs.vt.edu|"And the piano sounds like a carnival             | 

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From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: a3000kickstart
Date: Sun,  8 Nov 92 18:27:47 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>OK, let me make it perfectly clear that I am not making a mistake this time
>since I had to go out of my way to save this guy's letter and bring it into
>my newsreader so I could post it...  Commentary follows this oh-so-
>constructive letter.
>
>nothing.
>
>keefer
>Keith P. Johnson
>
>--
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>
>|.....Keith P. Johnson.....| And the microphone smells like a beer            
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>|.1711 Whipple Dr. Apt. 11.| And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar  
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>|...Blacksburg, VA 24060...| And say "Man, what are you doing here?" -B. Joel 
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>



-Joel
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From: johnv@acix.DIALix.oz.au (John Verhoeven)
Subject: Re: SOLUTION: ProWrite Page length problems.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: 6 Nov 92 21:47:32 WST
Organization: ACix - Private UUCP Node, Cloverdale, Western Australia.

Bill Sharp-Smith (amuser@cs.curtin.edu.au) wrote:
> The secret lies in the "No gaps between pages" button in the page setup
> (?) requester. It must be turned ON, other wise your set page length is
> ignored. NLQ mode works fine, however.

What version of ProWrite are you using?

I tried this out last night with V3.2.4 and it still has the same problem.

What other settings are you using..Preferences, Page Layout etc?

> Thanks to Mark for his interest even though he doesn't work for New
> Horizons anymore.

What happened?

> Gary McGhee 

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From: jfoust@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (James C. Foust)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Broadcast Titler 2
Date: 6 Nov 92 23:54:56 GMT
Organization: Ohio University CS Dept,. Athens

In article <1992Nov2.054132.1604@funlwb.enet.dec.com> ollis@redbck.stl.dec.com (Stephen Ollis) writes:
>
>Does anybody out there run Broadcast Titler under V2 of Amiga DOS?
>Does it work successfully?
>
>I currently run it under V1.3, and it is one of the 3 major apps we run on 
>this box.. 
>			Stevo...
>
 Stevo:
   We run BT 2 on an A3000T here in the broadcast lab.  You have to have a
fairly current update, but it works.  The original version of the program
we got last spring would not run correctly, but I don't know if it was
WB 2.0 or the 68030 it didn't like.  I take that back...it wasn't the
original version we got in the spring (it was ALREADY the right one), but
when we tried to run another departmnet's BT2 on our system it didn't
work.
   Point is, get a new enough upgrade and it works.

Jim

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: hellerS@moravian.edu (sjh)
Subject: Latest version of ISpell? (What/where?)
Keywords: ISpell
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 08:41:23 EST

The latest version of ISpell that I've been able to locate seems to be on
Fish 191 and includes version 191 and a beta version of 2. Does anyone know
if there's a newer version out there and where it might be?

Thanks.
hellerS@moravian.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.introduction,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: pooler@cobb.cs.rpi.edu (Robert Poole)
Subject: Re: MSH: and 2.05
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:03:50 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.130258.9750@sarah.albany.edu> hibrown@sarah.albany.edu (Herb Brown) writes:
>In article <TWANG.92Nov10195959@thor.albany.edu> twang@csc.albany.edu (Teddy Wang) writes:
>>
>>   Get MultiDOS.  Much better (i.e. it actually works in all systems... not  
>>   arbitrarily on  some systems like MSH).  Also lets you access the IBM disk  
>>   as DF0: as well as the Amiga disk.  Works fine for me under 2.04 (should  
>>   be ok under 2.05 as well).
>>
>>Actually this was the problem I was having with MultiDOS until I got the
>>2.04 ROMs.  MultiDOS would crash my machine every time I used it, and
>>MSH seemed very stable.  Since I've upgraded though, I have found that 
>>though MultiDOS does work, it is not very stable (could be my '040 though),
>>and MSH has also become unstable, both giving me unrecoverable errors on
>>multiple occasions...
>>
>>Teddy
>
>
>MultiDOS works like on a charm with or without the 2.0 ROMS. We have been
>using it in our Amiga Classroom with no problems whatsoever for a long
>time. It's easy to install and easy to use. Directory utilities like
>DirectoryOPUS and DirWorks are 100% compatible with MultiDOS.
>
>Herb
>Herb Brown  Math Dept  The Univ at Albany  Albany, NY 12222  (518) 442-4640
>Director,                                          hibrown@math.albany.edu  
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I never had good luck with MultiDOS.  It crashed my machine constantly.
(I have a 3000 which was running Amigados 2.04 at the time).  MSH, on the
other hand, worked flawlessly for me.  Guess both pieces of software must
have been flawed, each one probably conflicts with certain pieces of
software.  I didn't like the way MultiDOS sort of takes over the df0: device
and substitutes its own version (puts an ugly "df0: BUSY" icon on the
workbench, for example).

The REAL solution is to get the Amigados 2.1 upgrade (or get a machine
that runs 3.0), which contains CrossDos.

Rob Poole
pooler@cs.rpi.edu
pooler@rpi.edu