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From: alexb@sybase.com (Alex Burmester)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: POSTSCRIPT --> iff
Date: 24 Jan 93 06:16:56 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Sybase, Inc.

This is probably a faq so please email any responses,  Is there a program
that will convert a postscript file to something I can edit on my amiga?
I print things like graphs out on unix but I don't have access to something
like a picture editor to add diagrams to the graphs.  Thanx mucho!
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From: stukh2@wsinfo11.info.win.tue.nl (Marco Kemper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Anyone interested in old amigatrek story?
Summary: read it yourself
Keywords: story
Date: 22 Jan 93 12:14:39 GMT
Reply-To: stukh2@info.win.tue.nl


Hello out there,


Digging through some old disks I found some amigatrek stories. It was
originally posted by Mike Smithwick in 1989. If anyone wanted to
repost it, permission had to be asked. But I don't know his email address.
So, I won't post it but if you would like to get a copy of it, just send
me a mail. And if you don't want that, Mike, my email address is
stukh2@win.tue.nl


Marco
The Netherlands
From: ag@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (andy garton)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 09:59:56 GMT
Subject: SKsh replacements?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard SSG/CSY-PWD, UK.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc

I have recently bought my first Amiga (a 1200 :-) and the software I am most
impressed with is SKsh by Steve Koren.  As a Unix user at work, I find SKsh a
really useful, stable and well documented collection of programs.

However, in the documentation for version 2.1 Steve states that he probably
won't be developing SKsh any further due to there being several ports of ksh
'imminent'.  Where are these ksh ports?

Are they available on any FTP sites yet?  Any news on when they will be (or 
are they commercial releases)?

(I did find something called 'pdksh' but this didn't seem Amigaised and was
nothing like as good as SKsh).

Thanks for any info...

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Andy Garton                                                 ag@hpopd.pwd.hp.com
Software Development Engineer
Hewlett Packard Ltd
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: kevint@sad.hp.com (Kevin Taddeucci)
Subject: Re: New machine sales
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 23:11:18 GMT
Organization: HP Sonoma County (SRSD/MWTD/MID)
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Gregg Giles (ggiles@cie.uoregon.edu) wrote:
>    The local Software Etc. is now down to two shelves of Amiga software -
> maybe a maximum of 20 titles. That's downright pathetic. Even the A600 that 
> was on display for a couple weeks is no longer around. It's do or die time
> for Commodore. No more futzing around, no more trying to turn a profit on
> margins... it's time to sell some friggin machines so developers will start
> writing software for the machine.


I talked to my local Software Etc. last night and they said the reason no 
A600's were on display is because all the stores had to send them back to 
there distribution center so they could re-distribute them. Apparently 
they were selling well in some stores and not so well in others. They also 
said that they would be getting A1200's in Febuary. Our software Etc. 
stocks 4 or 5 shelfs of software, although there is a lot of duplication. 
On the bright side, the Amiga gets as much shelf space as the Mac.

Even though many of the software titles are older they are very cheap. All 
Sierra games are less than $20 (U.S.), most  Psyconosis games are under 
$20, and many others are even cheaper. I just picked up ORK by Psyconosis 
for $14.88. If you don't mind buying games 6 months to a year after they 
are first released, you can get some great deals.

I do wish they would carry something other than games though!

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From: nh5@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: HELP WANTED with GURU!!
Date: 21 Jan 93 12:38:22 EST
Distribution: world,comp
Organization: Cornell University

In article <1jlm7c$6km@agate.berkeley.edu>,
kevinm@ocf.berkeley.edu (Kevin Miller) writes: 
> I'm looking for help with a curious problem I have been having with my Amiga
> 500.  For the last several months, I have been getting sporatic GURU messages
> and I am puzzled as to why.
> 
> It only seems to happen when I am using the modem, and a typical GURU is
> this:      00000003.002BADC0
> 
> My system consists of a Rev 5 A500 with 512K AGNUS and WB 1.3. I also have an
> internal 1.8 meg memory card installed in the A501 slot, plus a Trumpcard
> Professional hard drive (52 megs SCSI Quantum), and the Meta4 memory board
> with 2 megs installed.
> 
> I have taken the machine apart and made sure the socketed chips were secure,
> but the machine still crashes.
> 
> Any and ALL help is greatly appreciated!  I'm tired of this!
> 
> -- 
>                               _
> Kevin Miller            Amiga// UC Berkeley Physics/Astronomy Double Major
> kevinm@ocf.berkeley.edu _500// "Why is there blue sky, why is there red
> kevinm@teripin.com      \\ // sky, now's the time to ask the reason why.""
>                          \X/              --Genesis,"Way of the World"
> Disclaimer: If you find an opinion, kill it.  They are dangerous.
> 


What other programs are you running in the background?
Your problem probably has to do with one of them.  Try systematically removing
each program when you use your modem.

A Guru# 00000003 is a 680x0 illegal instruction error, by the way.

-David

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
Subject: Re: New machine sales
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 07:40:47 GMT

In <1jmb0fINNstr@pith.uoregon.edu> ggiles@cie.uoregon.edu (Gregg Giles) writes:

>James R. Burley II (jrb@jrb.larc.nasa.gov) wrote:
>: Does anyone know how well the new AGA machines are selling? Commodore
>: had a terrible last quarter and their stock has been sliding ever since.
>: I'm hoping for a turn around with the next quarterly earnings due out at 
>: the end of Jan '93.

>   I've been hoping for a Commodore "turn around" for about five years now, and
>I've finally come to the conclusion that they are just totally hopeless when it
>comes to America. I held stock up until 1991, and I dumped it. It's gone down
>ever since then.  

 Agreed, it's a long time to hope and hope...

>   The local Software Etc. is now down to two shelves of Amiga software -
>maybe a maximum of 20 titles. That's downright pathetic. Even the A600 that 
>was on display for a couple weeks is no longer around. It's do or die time
>for Commodore. No more futzing around, no more trying to turn a profit on
>margins... it's time to sell some friggin machines so developers will start
>writing software for the machine.

 Yikes! I'm impressed.  You mean your Software Etc. actually had an A600?
The ones around this part of the country stopped carrying the A500 last year
some time.  And before that they just kind of got stuck in the back of the
room behind the Nintendo's.
-- 
sheldon@iastate.edu                Steve Sheldon
Project Vincent                    ICSS Resource Unit
SCO ODT, Arc/Info, Atlas GIS       2142 Agronomy Hall
                                   Iowa State University
From: db562s445@sycom.mi.org (Dave Birdsong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: WB2.1...Is it worth it?
Distribution: world
X-BBS-Software: EXCELSIOR! V0.976
Date: 24 Jan 93 16:03:08 EST
Organization: Michigan Information eXchange

I think so!..
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: "robert buonincontro" <robert.buonincontro@canrem.com>
Subject: 1200 and 1200hd hits
Reply-To: "robert buonincontro" <robert.buonincontro@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 24 Jan 93 00:08:26 EST


OE>Ralph A. Barbagallo III 'sez (In article 36466):
> HEY!  Just called Tenex...they have both the Amiga 1200 and Amiga 1200HD
> with a 40 meg IDE installed for low prices...  $849 for the HD version and
> $599  for the non HD version... !!!!!!!!  Comes with Workbench 2.1, mouse,
> blah blah blah...

OE>The 1200 comes with WB3.0...

OE>Only the 600 and 600HD comes with WB2.1...

Correction! The 600 and 600HD come with WB 2.05

          robert.buonincontro&canrem.com
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From: d90mb@efd.lth.se (Maarten Berggren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: A4000 or SGI for video
Date: 27 Jan 93 18:12:13 GMT
Organization: Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden



In article <C1Iq58.Ju@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>, wjbaird@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Warren Baird) writes:
|> I agree that an Indigo wouldn't make a very good home computer
|> (although I think I'd rather program on one than on an Amiga).  But I
|> thought that the original thread had been about which machine was
|> better _for graphics_.  If you want to do serious graphics
|> programming, I still think that an Indigo, or one of the low-end
|> SparcStations would be a better bet than an Amiga (if you have the
|> extra $$$ to afford the workstation).  The graphics libraries (GL on
|> the SGI, and XGL on the Sun) on the workstations are a lot more
|> powerful than anything I've seen on the Amiga (i.e. there are routines
|> for doing transformations, adding gouraud shading, support of light
|> models and materials, etc.  As far as I can tell, I'd have to write
|> all of this stuff from scratch on the Amiga.

Please do so. Then place it in the public domain. After that, Amiga will have
good graphic libraries for free.

-- 
M}rten Berggren (d90mb@efd.lth.se)
From: ross@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ross Hippely - Manuals)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1 & translator
Summary: speech synth needs lib, dev, and handler
Keywords: translator.library
Date: 27 Jan 93 15:03:15 GMT
Reply-To: ross@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ross Hippely - Manuals)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <1993Jan27.085830.20577@ugle.unit.no> eyvind@Lise.Unit.NO (Eyvind Bernhardsen) writes:
>In article <1993Jan26.213452.19597@sfu.ca>, donison@fraser.sfu.ca (Brad Donison) writes:
> > I just got 2.1 installed on my 2000 a week ago.  CBM has removed the
> > translator.library from the OS and I can not find any reference in the
> > manuals about its replacement!  So has the AmigaOS completely lost the
> > text to speach ability?  I have a few programs, such as Excellence! and
> > AmigaVision, which allow the Amiga to "talk back" to me.  I hope that
> > there is a replacement for the translator.library somewhere.  I tried
> > placing the 1.3 version library and it did no good at all.  Anyone have
> > any info on this???
>
>Don't know why you didn't get it (I think C= dropped it for some STUPID reason),
>but try copying the narrator.device over from 1.3 (or 2.04, preferably) as well as
>the translator.library.  It SHOULD work.

You need three things to restore your Amiga's speech capability: 

1) LIBS:translator.library 
2) DEVS:narrator.device
3) L:speak-handler


> > (*        contact:  donison@sfu.ca                  *)
>
>-Eyvind
> \X/   |         eyvind@lise.unit.no | Quote me and EAT LAWYER, asshole!

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: visser@stc.nato.int (Henk Visser)
Subject: VideoDirector experience ?
Summary: Who has got experience with the VideoDirector program
Keywords: video, editing, genlock
Organization: SHAPE Technical Centre, NL
Distribution: eunet
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 09:06:54 GMT

Hi,

I am an enthousiastic video amateur. But I have not invested in a lot
of equipment yet. I do have a Sony v800 and a JVC HR5000 S-VHS.

Now I am becoming more and more convinced that the way ahead is to buy
and AMIGA (Currently I am a complete novice in the AMIGA environment).

Can anybody give me some good advice what I should buy.
I am thinking of
	* Amiga 1200
	* VideoDirector
	* Genlock with (Y/C)

Who has experience with the VideoDirector program. Does it work with
the Sony RC timecode ?
Is the VideoDirector program run at the Amiga1200?
How is aware of a Y/C genlock of a reasonable price?
Is there public domain software for making titles ?
What sort of video effect software can be used with AMIGAs.

What are the pitfalls to look for ?

As you see a lot of questions, I would appreciate your replies .

Henk Visser e-mail: visser@stc.nato.int
SHAPE Technical Centre, P.O. Box 174, 2501 CD  The Hague
The Netherlands  (voice: 31-70-3142288, fax: 31-70-3142111)
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The Netherlands  (voice: 31-70-3142288, fax: 31-70-3142111)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
Subject: Re: IBM is Boring was <obsenty IBMers>
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:30:09 GMT

In <1993Jan26.031734.5420@trl.oz.au> aduncan@rhea.trl.OZ.AU (Allan Duncan) writes:

>From article <16B5E9BD1.WALLY@UKCC.UKY.EDU>, by WALLY@UKCC.UKY.EDU:
>[...]  
>> Everyone must realize that a computer is a tool.  Do you say your
>> neighbor is an idiot because you have a Craftsman hammer and he has
>> a Stanley hammer?

>To carry the analogy a bit further - I _would_ have doubts about my
>neighboor's competence if he was using a Ball Peine hammer to do a
>Knapping Hammer job.

 Ahh, but a good sledge makes every job more enjoyable!
-- 
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Project Vincent                    ICSS Resource Unit
SCO ODT, Arc/Info, Atlas GIS       2142 Agronomy Hall
                                   Iowa State University
From: clldomps@cs.ruu.nl (Louis van Dompselaar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Need SID2 update help
Date: 26 Jan 93 16:17:15 GMT
Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science

In <1993Jan19.131205.9980@iscsvax.uni.edu> brackin9784@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:

>Is Timm Martin still supporting SID2 ? I've been trying to contact his
>DEEP C bbs for the last 3 weeks, with no success (no answer !!)
>I have the pro verision of SID2 (the original 2.0 release) I want to 
>update to 2.01a which supports user defineable file descriptions.
>
At least his POBox number was still valid last November, when he
sent me a letter telling me he had not yet received my money, only
my application form... 

Louis
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From: dollens@equinox.unr.edu (C Blake Dollens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Uncompress
Date: 26 Jan 93 06:04:38 GMT
Organization: University of Nevada, Reno

In article <2158@blue.cis.pitt.edu> rvmst1+@pitt.edu (Rainer V Mager) writes:

>	I somewhere got a copy of the standard unix program compress,
>but I need an uncompress, any ideas where I can find it?  Thanx,
>		Rainer

If you have the compress 4.0 file that's at most of the Amiga ftp sites,
you already have an uncompress command.  Type "compress -d {filename}", and
the file will decompress.  If this isn't the one you have, you should be 
able to get it from wuarchive.wustl.edu, among other sites.  I've been using
it for some time now with Directory Opus and have had no problems with it.
Hope that helps.

Blake
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: ruffalom@cs.uwp.edu (Mike Ruffalo)
Subject: a4000 education discount
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Parkside
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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:56:23 GMT

	Is there going to be an educational discount for the 4000 anytime
soon or is there already? its the way I purchased my a3000 and if the deal
is as good as it was for my a3000 I will probably do it very soon.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: bgpierce@vancouver.uwaterloo.ca (B.G. Pierce)
Subject: Virtual ram for Amiga? 
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:30:23 GMT

  Does anyone know if there's any package out there (preferably PD) that
allows the Amiga to use the hard drive as virtual ram a la workstation?
I have drive space, but not so much ram.  I believe that MacII's do
something like this under system VII.  My 2000 running V2.05 does not.
 
  Any suggestions?
                                             b
From: broeking@zuse (Jens Broeking)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Mac To Amiga
Date: 28 Jan 93 10:45:06 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Dekanat Informatik Universit{t Dortmund
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X-XXDate: Thu, 28 Jan 93 07:52:10 GMT

In article <bjm.0307@rommel.apana.org.au> Brad McMahon,
bjm@rommel.apana.org.au writes:
>In article <1993Jan17.022415.3474@csu.edu.au>
u9050912@golum.riv.csu.edu.au 
>(Jason J. Strudwick) writes:
>>Is there a public domain program that copies files from an Amiga
disk
>>to a Macintosh?
>>

HI

I think the best a cheapest way is to convert the files into pc
format.
On Amiga side this should be no problem under OS 2.04 or if you
still uses
OS 1.3 CrossDos will do this for you.

On MAC side there you have two possibilities:

1) use the file converter which is on one of the installer disk
    (I think on system 6 or greater)

2) The way we use : we bought AccessPC 2.0 . This program
automatically
    knows if you insert a pc disk into the mac and you can move
files like all
    other files under mac OS. 

Hope i could help you a little bit

Bye jens
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: vailm00@DMI.USherb.CA (MARC VAILLANCOURT)
Subject: Re: Is it possible to put WB 3.0 > 8 Colors ?
Keywords: Workbench 3.0 Colors
Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke -- Dept. d'Informatique
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:56:59 GMT

-> The point is that there are only 8 things on the workbench worth 
-> giving colors to.  The point of having a 256 color WB is so that 
-> you can put a background picture on the thing to make it look neat.
->   Get it?  Good.
 
   False! What about the icons?! This is a very big mistake from C=... this
is my biggest gripe about WB 3.0 incidently. In the next one, they should let 
the user choose by himself how many colors he want to use for the WB elements.

	Marc
From: ajahn@digi.lonestar.org (Alfredo Jahn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: SKsh replacements?
Date: 28 Jan 93 19:40:40 GMT
Organization: DSC Communications Corp, Plano, TX

In article <-192769995@hpopd.pwd.hp.com> ag@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (andy garton) writes:
>I have recently bought my first Amiga (a 1200 :-) and the software I am most
>impressed with is SKsh by Steve Koren.  As a Unix user at work, I find SKsh a
>really useful, stable and well documented collection of programs.
>
>However, in the documentation for version 2.1 Steve states that he probably
>won't be developing SKsh any further due to there being several ports of ksh
>'imminent'.  Where are these ksh ports?
>
>Are they available on any FTP sites yet?  Any news on when they will be (or 
>are they commercial releases)?
>
>(I did find something called 'pdksh' but this didn't seem Amigaised and was
>nothing like as good as SKsh).

Why would *anyone* that has used SKsh want to use anything else? I have used SKsh
for years. I am at 2.1 now and love it!  When we first got our Apollo's at work,
SKsh on my Amiga made the Apollo implementation of ksh look like s**t... (it 
didn't support ESC-. and ESC-ESC, etc.). (I later found out it was a Domain
problem and when we went to X the problem was fixed).  I have a friend that uses 
pdksh and likes it (he's a real Unix purist!).  I personally don't want to change
from SKsh.

I just hope that Steve Koren doesn't stop supporting his wonderful program (SKsh)
just because there are other ksh's out there!!!  Are you listening Steve? :-)

>Thanks for any info...
>
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Andy Garton                                                 ag@hpopd.pwd.hp.com
>Software Development Engineer
>Hewlett Packard Ltd
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk (Jakob G}rdsted)
Subject: Re: A4000 with 68EC040?
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 15:43:27 GMT

abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung) writes:

>Buddy, you got an 040.  If you don't believe me, try removing the heat-sink
>and look at the chip yourself.  So far Commodore (in USA, at least) has
>never sold an ec040 Amiga 4000.  The manual is wrong.

You, and several others, have stated 'that the manual is wrong'. I'd like
to rephrase it as 'the wording in the manual could have been better'. I
understand, that CBM has had plans to MAYBE sell a cheaper 'Aec4000', note
that this does not mean, they're going to, just that they will not in
advance exclude the opportunity from their choices. The wording in the 
manual then makes it possible to ship this manual with the above mentioned
beast. To spell it out once more, if the above wording ever comes into use,
the book will be shipping in a box with the clear wording 'Aec4000'.

This was not meant as a flame, only my two cents, from what I've read
in magazines.
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