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From: mmj7455@ultb.isc.rit.edu (M.M. Jacyszyn)
Subject: Help Please!  Panasonic KX-P4410 Laser Printer Driver woes
Originator: mmj7455@ultb
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 23:39:08 GMT



I am having problems getting my Panasonic KX-P4410 Laser Printer to
print properly.  If you have this printer, I would be greatly obliged to
hear from you via E-mail.

I currently have HPLaser.Driver in my devs/printers directory, and am
using it in my preferences.  Now I have not been able to get anything to
print from the CLI or a disk manager program.  So I tried printing a
file from my WordPerfect program and they have a different list of
Printer preferences to chhoose from and none of those allow me to print
either.  Whenever I attempt to print via WP or Cli, my system crashes.

If you have the Panasonic KX-P4410 driver, would it be possible for me
to mail you a disk to send back?  Or is there an ftp site that has
drivers available to download.  Any help I can get on the matter would
be MUCH appreciated.  Thanks!

mmj7455@ultb.isc.rit.edu     <----- E-mail address
From: jprad@faatcrl.faa.gov (Jack Radigan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: PIRACY
Date: 22 Nov 92 07:04:42 GMT
Organization: FAA Technical Center, Pomona, NJ
NNTP-Posting-Host: faatcrl.faa.gov

thom@cs.mun.ca (Thomas Clancy) writes:

>This is the point (side) I am speaking of, I believe in "Try" before you
>"buy" I would never have bought Populous, Power Monger, Shadow Of Beast II
>etc; unless I tried them first. I had passed by Populous on the shelf
>many times, one day I had the opportunity to try out a friends 
>[pirated] copy and low-and-behold... I loved it and bought it, I also
>have all subsequent [original] data disks and associated programs.

  On this we're in total agreement.  

  -jack-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: pmiller@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Paul Miller)
Subject: Hmmm - I'm getting spots!
Organization: The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 17:28:21 GMT

I've started to get little spots on my display - In DPaint, little dots or
dashes show up at random - they're not actually IN the bitmap - If I zoom
in they're gone, so I know it's not DPaint. In Term I get little dots at
random when it scrolls. A few little dashes have even shown up on the
WorkBench. They don't seem to appear during menu operations or BitBlts.

Can anyone give me a diagnosis based on these symptoms? I'm running
V39.106 on an A3000/25. Please email me if you have any suggestions.

-- 
* Paul Miller                         |Nobody cares about my opinion anyway*
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From: rfentima@ub.d.umn.edu (Robert Fentiman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Piracy
Date: 16 Nov 1992 17:28:20 -0600
Organization: University of Minnesota, Duluth
NNTP-Posting-Host: ub.d.umn.edu

In article <1e991mINNfre@bowen.rick.cs.ubc.ca> c1a192@rick.cs.ubc.ca (Oliver Erik Seiler) writes:
>rfentima@ub.d.umn.edu (Robert Fentiman) writes:
>> You want a better equasion?!
>> 
>> Software Piracy = Shoplifting
>
>Actually this isn't true. Software piracy creates two copies of a a program
>where only one existed before. Shoplifting doesn't create anything.
>
>Software piracy also doesn't affect shopowners in the same way as shoplifting
>because the software is still on their shelves...


OK.  This one cant be beat.

Software Piracy = a violation of copyright laws

Commercial software is copyrighted.  Somone cannot distibute a copy of
the game or even a SIMILAR game without the company's concent (recall
when Spectrum Holobyte told PD distributers that the Tetris clones were
illegal?  They have been removed from the old disks of the FF collection
in all the latest releases of the collection (even from FTP sites like
ux1).

Copyright laws are there to prevent COPYING which removes potential
profits from the producer. 

	Thanks
	Robert Fentiman

UseNet: rfentima@ub.d.umn.edu
At: University of Minnesota, Duluth

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: rhealey@kas.helios.mn.org (Rob Healey)
Subject: Re: The Death of the Juggler
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 10:30:35 GMT
Organization: Rob's home system, Hopkins, MN

In article <BxI9C9.H5F@fc.hp.com> koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren) writes:
=Anyway, it no longer works on an Amiga 4000.  It did survive from 1.1 to
=2.04 though.
=
=Our esteemed Juggler has finally passed away.
=

	Did you set the boot menu option to force ECS compatability mode?

	I'd be real surprised if one of Eric's works ran OK after
	AGA modes were enabled...

		-Rob
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: mark@IMD.Sterling.COM (Mark Buglewicz)
Subject: Re: Hmmm - I'm getting spots!
Organization: Sterling Software
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:45:54 GMT
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In article <9211230328.AA19954@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> pmiller@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Paul Miller) writes:
>I've started to get little spots on my display - In DPaint, little dots or
>dashes show up at random - they're not actually IN the bitmap - If I zoom
>in they're gone, so I know it's not DPaint. In Term I get little dots at
>random when it scrolls. A few little dashes have even shown up on the
>WorkBench. They don't seem to appear during menu operations or BitBlts.
>
>Can anyone give me a diagnosis based on these symptoms? I'm running
>V39.106 on an A3000/25. Please email me if you have any suggestions.
>
>-- 
>* Paul Miller                         |Nobody cares about my opinion anyway*
>* INTERNET: pmiller@csugrad.cs.vt.edu |    - Have a JOLT and a smile! -    *
>* "What IS it, man?"                                "Happy Happy, Joy Joy" *


I had a very similar problem a while back when I put in my new Agnus chip.
Turns out the Agnus was bad.  Maybe that's your problem.

Mark
From: jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Let's move this thread to EFF's newsgroup already was RE: Piracy
Date: 16 Nov 92 12:51:37 CST
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

Software "piracy" is no more of a clearly defined crime than network
break-in's.  There aren't easy explanations for the technology itself
(ever try explaining *what* software is to someone who is unfamiliar
with it?) and this further contributes to the difficulty of defining
the "proper" use of them.  Why don't we move this very complicated
topic to eff's newsgroup for anyone who is interested in what
philosophical arguments have been forwarded as well as any further
discussion.
-- 
jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
James Miller

_chicchai .sig no ho ga ichiban iin janai ka..._
             Enlightenment Happens?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: itch@cbnews.cb.att.com (richard.m.brack)
Subject: easy question
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 00:39:03 GMT


Is there a way to change the background color of the shell window?
If so, how?  Thanks!


Rich...
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: umueller@iiic.ethz.ch (Urban Dominik Mueller)
Subject: Re: csh 5.19 and CshResident
Organization: Dept. Informatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 00:21:01 GMT

In article <BxsJpC.6IG@ccu.umanitoba.ca> kaarts@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Kenneth John Aarts) writes:
>
>What does the environment variable CshResident do?  Csh 5.19 tries to open it
>every time it is started.  An egrep of csh: revealed nothing.

A small optimization. Csh allows delayed loading of programs to be made 
resident. The names of those programs are stored in environment variables
(since the apply to any invocation of csh). This would mean checking for
and ENV: variable on every starting of an external prog, which is slowish
and messes up SnoopDos. Thus, the variable CshResident is set if there
are any delayed residents, and is checked for by every new invocation of
csh. (Yes, I know about the race conditions).
  -Dominik


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls)
Subject: Re: Piracy
Organization: University of Mississippi, Dept. of Computer Science
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 19:57:00 GMT

In article <8686@orbit.cts.com> chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch) writes:
>SS
>Skip, take a chill pill.

If you don't want to read it, learn how to use a killfile.
 
>No one is justifying piracy.  Most people agree that it is wrong.  What people
>are pointing out, is that piracy is not theft.  i

There are people who are trying to justify piracy and they have been using the
argument that piracy is not theft to do so.  If they want to call it something
else, fine, but just changing the name does nothing to justify their actions.

>it is copyright infringement.  it is still wrong, it is still ILLEGAL, and it
>still hurts people.  However, calling piracy theft, is like puting a gun in
>your  face, demanding money and calling it shoplifting.  see the picture?

No, I'm afraid that I don't see the picture.  The definition of theft varies,
but most would probably agree that it is the act of stealing something which
belongs to someone else.  A pirate steals the ideas and hard work that have
been used in the creation of a program.  Whether or not you call it piracy,
theft, or whatever does not matter to me, but I will not simply "chill out" 
and accept the lame attempts at justifying a crime.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: amuser@cs.curtin.edu.au (Bill Sharp-Smith)
Subject: Re: Now.. you get what you want! (maybe) : )
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 05:29:41 GMT

marks@castle.ed.ac.uk (Mark Steyn) writes:

>shulick@osage.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick) writes:


>>Ok, I'm dying to write another program for the Amiga, so throw all your
>>suggestions this way.  NOT intense things like comm programs, compilers,
>>print spoolers (hi Scott :), etc.  Anything else... try me, and I'll let
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Why not ? we need a decent, transparent one badly. Maybe someone else
reading this will...

How about a program like Steve Tibets "TaskX" that shows a list of all
running tasks and allows you to change their priority up or down by
simply clicking a button. It would also show their individual "CPU use"
percentages (all adding to 100% unlike Xoper). It could be made a
commodity with a hot-key that causes it to pop-up. It could also pop up
on the current screen (public or not) rather than just the workbench.

Here's the really desirable feature : allow specific tasks to be left
out of the list by some configuration file. This would allow you to hide
all the system tasks and show only the actual applications running.

How 'bout it ?

>This may seem trivial, but if there is one thing I really _hate_ about
>the Amiga's interface it's that in interlace mode, or any of the new AGA
>productivity modes, the bottom scrollbars and arrows are halved in
>height.  I've never seen a utility to restore them to their normal
>proportions, but I would love to see one.~~~

A good idea, but I think CBM should do this. I'm surprised WB3.0
doesn't. Then again, maybe CBM should do the program I suggested above.
(The average Joe shouldn't have to use changetaskpri to change
priorities)

Regards,
-- 

Gary McGhee 
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From: cs_a245@ceres.kingston.ac.uk (Stephen T Mumford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: A1200 + Hard drive (Max sizes??)
Date: 17 Nov 1992 11:50:35 -0000
Organization: Kingston University, Kingston-upon-Thames
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: ceres.kingston.ac.uk

The subject says it all.

What is the largest capacity hard drive you can fit in an A1200 ?

I have heard various figures, ranging from 130Mb, to 200Mb. Which is true ?

Thanks.

Stephen Mumford
From: matt-dah@dsv.su.se (Mattias Dahlberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Question Concerning....  PIRACY!
Date: 17 Nov 92 14:10:16 GMT
Organization: The DSV institute of Stockholm, Sweden
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

slhmz@cc.usu.edu wrote:

:   Now, I play the "pirated" version.  Does this make me a pirate?
:   I do own the originals which are safely stored away.  So, am I
:   a pirate, or just reserving my rights?

Nah, don't worry. The software house's got its money, you have done
the Amiga market a favour. If you'd bought the pirated version, things
would have been different, otherwise - enjoy the game.

--
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=  Mattias  =  matt-dah@dsv.su.se  =  I love it.        =
=========================================================
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=  any new software for the Amiga. Obvious, is it not?  =
=========================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: mashton@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (M.S. Ashton)
Subject: DSP not as good as we thought?
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:49:01 GMT

Am I to understand (from reading a review of the Falcon) that the DSP chip
is not capable of reproducing digital sound at variable frequency (like Paula 
can) and is, in fact, limited to fixed rates such as 12.5,25,50KHz.
If this is the case then all the nice DMA sound is completely unusable for
computer generated music (soundtracker/Med etc.) and only useful from replaying
a sample at the frequency it was sampled at.
Am I to understand that to get round this, one needs to use masses of 
real-time CPU intervention,thus spoiling the whole point?
Is this why Commodore left it out?
Any more info?
___
mashton@dcs.warwick.ac.uk
The best way not to be unhappy is not to have a word for it.

The opinions expressed are entirely those of myself and the little purple 
people that visit me from time to time.They are not those of my employer,
basically,because I haven't got one.
From: kaye@FSCORE.dec.com (Mark Kaye - Where's my Kama Sutra pop-up book for Zero-G)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Supra sucks: Modem problems
Date: 21 Nov 92 20:23:23 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


>In article <By0tEv.4IF@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu writes:
>>
>>Ok, so my modem stopped working after a lightning storm.  (It's a
>>V.32FAX).  There's no more dialtone, and I hear static noise, too.. so I
>>send it in to Supra to fix, and they send it back saying
>>it's repaired.  Bullshit.  I do "atdtxxxxxx" and there's 1) no dialtone
>>and 2) Some strange static garbage.  So I get a return authorization #
>>and send it back to get a new unit.  I got it back this morning, and
>>tried it out.  NOW there is a dialtone, and it dials, but there's still
>>this stupid static in the background!!!  And because of this static
>>noise, it won't connect at all.  Now is this my machine or my setup?  I
>>swear this modem worked fine before.  Have any of you experienced this?

Dial the number using your regular phone, check if you hear the static!

Mark Kaye		|		| 613-591-5029			|
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From: loginf1@gipsy13.cs.uni-sb.de (Uebung Smolka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: A3000 Speed Improvements
Date: 17 Nov 92 16:06:56 GMT
Organization: U of Saarbruecken, Dept. of Computational Linguistics
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

David Ingebretsen (dingebre@imp.sim.es.com) wrote:
: In article <J3c4TB2w165w@lakes.trenton.sc.us>, mr_scary@lakes.trenton.sc.us (Chris Hurley) writes:
:>... 
: 
: Please post. I would like to see a summary as well.
       
Me too.

       Michael
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: KRC@ECLX.PSU.EDU (Keith R. Connors)
Subject: Is there a nice Checkbook program!?
Organization: Penn State Engineering Computer Lab
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 16:37:58 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24


I'm looking for a nice checkbook balancing program.  Looking around, and
download a couple from BBSs, I have yet to find any that are easy
to use and understand.  No sophisticated features are needed, but would
be appreciated.  

If you know of any that are easy to use and support all basic fetures
(including printing and an Intuition interface), please drop me a line.

My system:

		A500 - 1/2 Meg Chip, 2 1/2 Meg Fast
		Workbench 1.3
		GVP Impact Series 52 Meg HD

Thanks so much!  (I prefer E-Mail, but do read NEWS).

			
						Keith Connors
						krc@eclx.psu.edu
From: rfentima@ub.d.umn.edu (Robert Fentiman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Piracy
Date: 16 Nov 1992 14:46:53 -0600
Organization: University of Minnesota, Duluth
NNTP-Posting-Host: ub.d.umn.edu


Well, I read a post where somoone said piracy is not theft because
depriving someone of anticipated profits is not theft.

You want a better equasion?!

Software Piracy = Shoplifting

Shoplifting is illegal because it deprives stores of anticipated
profits.  It is also defined as one type of theft.

	Thanks
	Robert Fentiman

                
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: byron@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Mr. Subliminal)
Subject: Re: PIRACY
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 05:02:51 GMT

Hmmm, in my opinion piracy is whatever results in someone using software that
they did not pay for, the means to getting there are court issues.

Perhaps more discussion should be emphasized on solutions to piracy, it's not
likely that the courts are listening to this thread but software designers may
be.  

Ideas:

More usable demos, I think all software should have a demo for it that can run
on any machine it is designed for.  Ie. Even if a game can't be played
without x amount of ram: etc.. the demo should be able to with lots of emphasis
on the fact that you need whatever to run it.  There are limits to this of
course, I am just brainstorming.  I tend to play a game once for a while then
leave it and never pick it up again, demos would let software designers test
the marketability of their products if it were a more common practice.  Knowing
you can't use the better software after playing their demos might get more
people to upgrade.  Might not.  Demos would make for better software since
people won't buy what they have tried and not liked.  Piracy may be reduced
since there would be less need to crack the software if you can preview it with
a demo. May not.  I think people start to pirate after buying x number of games
, playing them once and never looking at them again, then examining their
wallet.

More thought to design, some things are cracked to get them to do something
they don't do already, install on a hard drive, etc..  There has got to be
better ways to avoid piracy than word lookup and disk protection, some thought
to that should be given as well.  If you put 40 games on a hard drive, having
to have 40 manuals around for word lookup is a drag. Disk protection is ok, as
long as the software doesn't write to it, ie. saving a game position. If your
drive is a bit off you may make the disk go bad.  Word lookup is better in my
opinion although a photocopier can get around that.

Anyway, enough rambling.. have at it. 8+)

Byron...
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: XPK/XFH <==> GNUEmacs problems
From: hoffmann@nutmeg.ntu.edu.au (Arthur Hoffmann)
Date: 16 Nov 92 23:14:45 +0900
Distribution: world
Organization: Information Technology, Northern Territory University

In article <1992Nov13.174731.26253@ifi.uio.no>, gunnarr@ifi.uio.no (Gunnar R|nning) writes:
> 
> The xpk/xfh package works fine for me,except when I use with GNUEmacs ;-(
> Emacs reads xpk (NUKE) compressed files without problems,but it won't
> save the buffer back to the file.It just creates an empty file...
> I get an error message from Emacs sounding something like this :
> 
> cannot open file/directory  <filename>
> 
> Are there any body out there with similar problems or a solution to
>  my problem ???
> 
> ***********************************************
> * Gunnar R|nning   | Email:gunnarr@ifi.uio.no * 
> *         #include <std.disclaimer>           *
> ***********************************************
> 
That is some thing with the xpk/xfh package. It can not append to a file. 
The solution I am using is that I simply do a ctrl-x-w (save as) and then specify
a directory which is not used by xpk/xfh. After that I simply copy the file back
into the compressed dir. Sure it is a bit of a hassle, but it is free. :)


Arthur.

					Arthur Hoffmann
					hoffmann@nutmeg.ntu.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: I found a pirate - what shall I do?
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 14:41:34 GMT

In article <bn.00fp@mndcrme.uoknor.edu> bn@mndcrme.uoknor.edu (Bo Najdrovsky) writes:
>Please don't! It's up to us decent folks to make sure that the Amiga market
>survives and thrives by _purchasing_ the software we use :-). I honestly
>don't see how people can use a program on daily basis and not feel at least
>a bit guilty that they didn't pay for it.  Admitedly, none of us are
>angels, but if you use it, you should buy it.

  Software Piracy is why I decided to become a computer operator and junk
most of my Bachelor of Science training as a computer programmer.

   A thief is a thief, regardeless what they steal !

   Will I ever write pd or shareware for the Amiga ? No, because of the
number of scum, excuse me pirates that have posted here that have shown me
they would rather destroy the Amiga than see it get anywhere. The excuses
they have stated here show their complete disregard for intelligent thought.

   Hmm. Maybe they are just politicians.

-- 
 Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM - Gulf Park Campus 
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