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From: lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)
Subject: Re: Wordworth2 Question
Organization: City University, London
Distribution: comp
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 14:19:13 GMT

In article <wayne.02ah@amtower.spacecoast.org> wayne@amtower.spacecoast.orgX-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith writes:
>It sounds even better since I read through it again.  Unfortunately there is no US
>importer as yet -- the address given is in England.  The European people on the net
>seem to like it and can (and probably will) give a review of it.

When I get my Amiga up and running...

>
>Hummm! I have a friend whose brother is in England.  Maybe I can get him to send us
>a couple of copies.  Does anyone know how much it is in England and where the cheapest
>place is to get it?  Guess I'll have to check out Amiga Shopper or Amiga Format mags.

Funnily enough the cheapest place to get it _at the moment_ is
from Digita directly. Special offer at GBP#59, if you disparage
another Amiga word processor (aka `trade in').

Digita are on 0395 268893.

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From: fgd3@nifty.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe, III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: SID2 support ... NOT !!!
Date: 22 Jan 93 12:15:49 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Fabbian G. Dufoe, III

In article <1993Jan21.111817.10070@iscsvax.uni.edu> brackin9784@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
>apparently Timm Martin is no longer supporting SID2.  His bbs
>DEEP C has been off line for the last month.  He stated in the
>docs for SID2 that registered users would be notified about
>fixes and updates.  I've had SID2 for damn near a year and
>have yet to receive a notice that there have been any updates.
>I have the original 2.0 release.  I have been told that 2.01a
>is the most current.
>
>How does one acquire this when Timm Martin is so hard to contact ??

   Have you tried sending him a letter at the address he gave in the docs?

   Chances are Timm has found his job takes too much of his time and he can
no longer devote much attention to programming the Amiga.  He wrote SID
while he was in college.  I'm sure he thought he'd have as much time and
interest for Amiga programming once he started work, but life's reality has
a way of correcting those idealistic assumptions of youth.

--Fabbian G. Dufoe, III
   350 Ling-A-Mor Terrace South   | GEnie:    F.DUFOE3
   St. Petersburg, Florida  33705 | internet: fgd3%nifty@tct.com
   813-823-2350                   | uucp:     ...tct!deep6!nifty!fgd3
From: tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Where's DataTax
Date: 28 Jan 93 01:25:56 GMT
Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario

In article <1993Jan27.220203.2754@sparky.imd.sterling.com> kmosher@IMD.Sterling.COM (Ken Mosher) writes:

>Does anyone know what happened to DataTax (the company).  I need to get my
>annual upgrade to do my taxes and the original phone number is disconnected.
>I seem to remember that they were bought out ... anyone have a way to contact
>them?

The company has sold the rights to the Amiga version of the program to Oxxi.
You can get in touch with them via:

Oxxi Inc.,
PO Box 90309
Long Beach, CA
90809 USA
(310) 427-1227 or
(310) 427-0971 (FAX)
From: cmp0119@sys.uea.ac.uk (Paul Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: PopUpMenu
Summary: Does PopUpMenu work?
Keywords: pop up menus bogabogabogabogabogabogaboga
Date: 25 Jan 93 10:08:12 GMT
Organization: UEA School of Information Systems, Norwich, UK.


After a spate of unpleasant crashes I finally convinced myself that
*something* was mucking up my system and proceded to remove (and after
each test replace) each utility in my WBStartup draw/user-startup file
until the machine started working properly again. To my utter horror,
everything suddenly worked perfectly when I removed PopUpMenu...

Q: Is PopUpMenu at all notorious for not working under KS2.04, or is
   my copy corrupted/ancient?

I miss my pop up menus! I want them back!

Paul
cmp0119@uk.ac.uea.sys
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: edmondse@woods.ulowell.edu
Subject: PasTeX1.3 vs CTeX2.1 info please?
Organization: University of Lowell
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:15:58 GMT

Has anyone successfully installed PasTeX1.3 on a 68000 based A2000 or A1000.

Specifically, I need to know what the hardware requirements are to run
PasTeX1.3 on the Amiga.

I currently have 3 megs of memory (1 chip and 2 fast), ECS Agnus, OCS Denise
and about 10Megs of space on my hardrive. Is this sufficient?

Also are .dvi files created on the Amiga using either CTeX 2.1 or PasTeX1.3
compatible with those created on different platforms (specifically DEC/VMS
based mainframes)?

Finally, after spending a bit of time using the CTeX demo from one of the Fred
Fish disks I may be interested in picking up the commercial version of TeX.
What is the general consenus on this version? Is it worth the purchase price 
as compared to the public domain or shareware version? If it also has a driver
for a HP Laserjet IIP I may be sold.

Any comments or help would be very helpful and appreciated.
From: hhoff@toklotum.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Helmut Hoffmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: GhostScript and HP500C
Date: 26 Jan 93 11:17:42 GMT
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik - RWTH Aachen
NNTP-Posting-Host: toklotum.informatik.rwth-aachen.de

fillg1@wien.uni-paderborn.de (Michael Illgner) writes:

>Yesterday I have tried the GhostScript port from amiga.physik. The black-
>andwhite hp500 driver seems to work ok, but the color hp500c driver
>gives me an error message like "can't create tmp-file /tmp/gs553562'.
>Does anyone know what's wrong here ? I have assigned TMP: to RAM: !

Hi!

Maybe there is not enough RAM?

If GhostScript generates a full color page in RAM it might need up
to 7.200.000 Pixels or about 3.6MByte RAM (using 4 Bits  per Pixel).

Bye,

hhoff
From: Carl-D@cup.portal.com (Carl Thomas Demelo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Yak's mouse blanking
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 07:41:53 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <-162649999@hpopd.pwd.hp.com>

I have Yak 1.3 which claims to do a nicer mouse blank (just blanks sprite 0).

However, it doesn't seem to work anymore :-(  It worked in 1.2.  Anyone else
noticed this?  (I have an A1200)

=========================>>> Yeah Yak made my A2000/2.04 YAK! (as in heave,
blow oats, LOCK UP).

	*;^)
		Carl
From: sdo@email.sp.paramax.com (Scott Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Latest version of ProCalc ?
Date: 25 Jan 1993 10:53:33 -0600
Organization: Paramax -  Eagan, MN
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: grimm.sp.paramax.com

Michal,

	In the new version (1.1) of ProCalc, did the Lotus import
feature get fixed?  Ie, can it import .WK1 files and do the import
of HLOOK and VLOOK functions correctly for either .WK1 or .WKS
files?  These were the only real problems I had with the earlier
versions (I don't use the graphing functions...)

		Scott
From: bdonal@elaine.ee.und.ac.za (B. DONALDSON : PGRADS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: WANETD: Video Titling software
Keywords: titling video
Date: 23 Jan 93 11:24:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: elaine.bdonal.6
Organization: Electronic Eng., Univ. Natal, Durban, South Africa
NNTP-Posting-Host: pc3.ee.und.ac.za

Hi, A friend of mine is looking for shareware titling software for his Amiga 
1000. Can anyone suggest a decent program, and point me in the direction of 
an FTP site. I have tried NIC.FUNET.FI and athene.uni-padeborn.de, but both 
of these have titling directories which are empty.

Thanx - Brian
From: hhoff@drunol.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Helmut Hoffmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Where can i get MultiDOS?
Date: 22 Jan 93 14:47:26 GMT
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik - RWTH Aachen
NNTP-Posting-Host: drunol.informatik.rwth-aachen.de

feuchtwa@fraser.sfu.ca (Martin Feuchtwanger) writes:
>I want to save postscript files to ibm format disks
>and understand that Kjell Didriksen's MultiDOS can
>do that.  Is there an ftp site for this FD program?
We have multidos on our archive:

ftp.dfv.rwth-aachen.de

Look in the directory pub/amiga/disk. The file is called
multidos1_12.lzh.

Have fun with it.

Bye, hhoff.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: rodd@jpradley.jpr.com (Rod Dorman)
Subject: Re: KingFisher
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 08:15:14 GMT
Summary: Try V1.15
Organization: Unix in NYC

jonathan@cats.ucsc.edu (Jonathan Cano) writes:
>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

It always did by clicking in the disk number gadgit and entering 0 or
9999.  Version 1.15 has the Aquarium << and >> type of gadgets.
-- 
					-- Rod --
rodd@jpr.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: flui@fraser.sfu.ca (Francis Lui)
Subject: Re: ProDraw 3.0 and 4000
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:50:32 GMT

In article <1993Jan24.002618.13791@news.uit.no> terjem@stud.cs.uit.no (Terje Normann Marthinussen) writes:
>Well, PPage 4.0 with AGA support as well as lots of other features has been
>advertised in Amiga World. Don't know if it's available yet though.
[]

I mailed away for the upgrade a couple weeks ago, but I haven't gotten it
yet.

There's also a really annoying bug in PDraw 3.0 that popped up during
the upgrade from v2.0 to v3.0.  The line-cutter sometimes erases the
entire line/object!  Unfortunately, this bug makes point-by-point
editing fiendishly difficult. Just yesterday, I was working on a logo
for my Computer Science project group and I had to keep starting over;
I eventually gave up and just left my logo the way it was.

[]
>Although.... I still think it's incredible that Gold Disk couldn't release
>an OS 3.0 compatible version the day when the A4000 was released.

It's not incredible.  It's economics.  I guess they're really trying to
get into the Windows and Mac markets now.  On the other hand, the text
editing in PDraw is the best I've ever seen in any drawing program.

  /\
 /\ \
/ /\ \   Francis Lui
\  / /   flui@sfu.ca
 \ \/
  \/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: gowen@sevmsa.cs.msstate.edu
Subject: Basic PasTeX help needed.
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:03:58 GMT


Hello everyone, I finally had a chance to load everything on to my A3000 at
home.  I have ShowDVI working flawlessly as far as I can tell.  DVIps works
almost flawlessly:  I just get some strange warning that says "Checksum
mismatch in font manfnt.pk360" when I use it.  I was converting the MetaFont
documentation's .DVI file to PostScript when I noticed this problem.  Any
ideas?  I deleted this font, and had MetaFont rebuild it, but I then get the
same message.  I have not tried converting any other .DVI files since I do
not have any other .DVI files that are in English, which brings me to my
second problem.

     Does anyone have any basic documentation in English or .DVI format on
how to get virtex or initex (TeX) to work?  I tried reading the .tex file,
but I get lost due to all the embedded TeX commands.  I tried to use both
virtex and initex to build a .DVI file for the English docs on TeX, but I
keep getting the following error "(Fatal format file error)."  I may not be
defining all the environment's variables or something.  Any ideas?  I may
even be using the wrong commands - I am not sure.  The command I used is as
follows "virtex &plain tex" while the output from TeX is:

This is a PD-Version of (big) Pas-TeX (made Aug 29 1991 [br]/[hes])
This is TeX, C Version 3.14
This is a format file for a `normal' TeX.
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)

     I am sure that my mistake is probably a basic one; however, I would
appreciate any help someone can offer me.  What would be great for me (as
well as probably some other people) is to have some readable, English
documentation that describes all the basic setups for American-based Amigas
running PasTeX.

Thank you for your help in advance!

Lon

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.unix.gnu
From: trevore@vast.unsw.edu.au (Trevor Elbourne (Supr. Hell) BE)
Subject: GhostScript available for the Amiga
Organization: University of New South Wales
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 09:47:36 GMT

	Well GhostScript is available now for the amiga, and I have managed
to set it up (It's available on Amiga.physik in text/dtp/) Even though
very few must have got it yet, has anyone managed to get the epson
driver working ? It garbles the printout, gifmono works fine but the reolution
is too small and does not seem to change. For anyone that is having probs,
I set a very high stack (ie 200000) so it won't crash. It prints to PAR: well
but refuses to do so corectly. Can or has anyone managed to get it to work.
	Thanks in advance
		George
From: taaustin@vaxb.acs.unt.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: One solution to your blanker needs
Date: 24 Jan 93 16:13:49 GMT
Organization: University of North Texas

To the folks concerned with Twilight Zone...
 
I too would like to see a modular blanker on the Amiga that performs
similar to AfterDark on the Mac.  I have, however, found something
that I appreciate more in some ways.  I like blankers like Spliner,
FracBlanker, StarBlanker, ASwarm, FlyingToasters (new one!) and would
like them to be available in such an application.  Well, friends, I have
what I consider to be the best of both worlds.  The above blankers all
sit in one drawer on my system (with nothing else in the drawer).  A
program called RXBlanker occupies a line in my UserStartup.  RXBlanker
calls a program from my blanker drawer randomly at each bootup and
copies it to the WBStartup drawer with the generic name of BLANKER (thus
it is overwriting the 'blanker' from the previous session.  The result
is:
 
1) I have a randomly selected blanker at each bootup (I like that!)
2) I can add to the system simply by dropping new blankers in the
   blankers drawer whenever they come along.  It took every bit of
   10 seconds to unarchive Flying Toasters and drop it in a few weeks ago.
3) any time I want one blanker exclusively I can simply move the others
   to a holding drawer leaving the desired blanker alone in the main
   blanker directory.  I occasionally do this when doing long text sessions
   for days at a time when I prefer the pointer blanking available from
   FracBlanker.

NOTE:  if you are interested in RXBlanker it has been available at physik
       and its mirrors for some time now.  BEWARE, however, there is a program
       with a similar name that has been confused with this.  RXBlanker is what
       you want if you are interested in what I have just described.
       RoxBlanker is the similarly named program, Rox VS RX.  RoxBlanker is
       another 'modular' blanker that uses blanking modules of its own format.
       I confess to knowing very little about RoxBlanker except that I did
       download it and was not impressed by the quality of the modules it
       came with. (personal opinion only)...
 
 
$.02
 
Terry   taaustin@vaxb.acs.unt.edu
From: umoster0@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Sean K. Ostermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: GNUPlot output to printer or file?
Date: 28 Jan 93 15:18:26 GMT
Reply-To: umoster0@ccu.umanitoba.ca
Organization: The Univeristy of Manitoba.

Actually with GNUPLOT you can't output to PRT:, you must output to PAR:.  If you do that, you should get a nice graph output on your printer.  
That's how I solved that problem.

Sean
From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Scanner software?
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 06:30:29 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1993Jan23.131244.21326@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>

>
>	I have recently purchased ADPro V.2 and have been just using
>	it for Image manipulations for video graphics. So far I haven't
>	seen any mention of drivers for any scanners/digitizers.
>
>	Is this something extra? Or is there something I've missed in my
>	'speed reading'?

>
Yes, ASDG's Epson scanner driver package is sold separately from ADPro.
The pkg includes the driver software, manual, and cable to connect
the scanner to your Amiga (any model Amiga, except that an A1000 will
need a gender bender too, due to its backwards parallel port).

>	Also I recently ordered an Epson ES-300C and was told that they
>	(Epson) had stopped shipping that line and were going to be
>	shipping another new model in place of the ES-300C. Does anyone
>	know about this?

Yes, the ES-300C has been discontinued and in its place Epson now
makes the ES-600 and ES-800. You should be able to find the 600 for
about the same price that the 300 was selling for.. around US$1000.00.
The 800 is a bit fancier and a few hundred dollars more. 

>
>	Thanks in advance . . .
>
>
>			varmart@atlas.cs.upei.ca
>	         Reji Martin, Prince Edward Island, Canada

Harv
From: kentd@FtCollins.NCR.com (Kent Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: New CallMF (1.0) an TeXRexx (1.5)
Date: 28 Jan 93 09:42:23 GMT
Reply-To: Kent.Dalton@FtCollinsCO.NCR.com
Organization: NCR Microelectronics, Ft. Collins, CO
In-reply-to: wisser@cip-s08.informatik.rwth-aachen.de's message of 26 Jan 93 11:32:56 GMT

>>>>> On 26 Jan 93 11:32:56 GMT, wisser@cip-s08.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Ulrich Wisser) said:

Ulrich> Hello,
Ulrich> I just loaded new versions of CallMF and TexRexx to ftp.dfv.rwth.aachen.de
Ulrich> in /pub/amiga/icoming.

Ulrich> Some bugs are removed (maybe some new will appear, as normal)
Ulrich> - Doc for CallMF
Ulrich> - batchmode for METAFONT now works
Ulrich> - Fontcaching for DVIPS 5.47
Ulrich> ...

One question about CallMF: Does anyone know a way to have it adjust the
priority of the metafont process(es) it invokes? The version I have
invokes metafont repeatedly, so just finding the metafont 
process and lowering it's priority doesn't work since a new process will
be invoked shortly. (MetaFont just completely takes over my 3000/25's
CPU, I shudder to think what it'd be like using CallMF on a vanilla 68K)

I used to use Job Manager to automatically lower MF's priority but JM
seems to conflict with so much other stuff that I stopped using it.

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From: jorni@edb.tih.no (Joern G. Innset,o90a)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: PopUpMenu
Date: 27 Jan 93 22:33:32 GMT
Posting-Front-End: Winix Conference v 92.05.15  1.20 (running under MS-Windows)

In article <1k0roqINNlio@tom.rz.uni-passau.de>, groth@valentin.fmi.uni-passau.de (Peter Groth) writes:


>In article <cmp0119.727956492@oxygen.sys.uea.ac.uk>, cmp0119@sys.uea.ac.uk (Paul Harrison) writes:
>> 
>> After a spate of unpleasant crashes I finally convinced myself that
>> *something* was mucking up my system and proceded to remove (and after
>Try MagicMenu V1.17 - it does all you want and more :-)
>Available from amiga.physik.unizh.ch and its mirrors in the directory
>os20/cdity.

A very nice commodity it is too, if it wasn't for the bug...

Every time I use a menu, MagicMenu seems to grab some memory, and not
release it again...

Could someone please report this highly annoying bug to the author?

Jorn I.
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From: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Flow
Date: 22 Jan 93 18:09:27 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: BLAZEMONGER INCORPORATED

In article <feuchtwa.727668376@sfu.ca> feuchtwa@fraser.sfu.ca (Martin Feuchtwanger) writes:
>Though i've never done any programming recently, i'm sure i'd use Flow
>for that purpose, because its so good at indenting/unindenting,
>collapsing/expanding, and re-aranging.  Does anyone use it for that?

	That's an interesting idea I'd not considered before.  The hiding
and unhiding of code is a useful thing.  However, my initial impression is
that Flow would not make a good programming editor.  First of all, the
keystrokes cannot be rebound to other commands.  While you can invoke
ARexx macros, they are bindable only to the function keys, and in a really
braindead way (see my review in c.s.a.reviews for details).  Second, it's
too easy in Flow to blow away your entire file with 1 mouseclick and 1
keystroke.  Third, some program syntax cannot be indented one level at
a time.  How in the world could you do the following?

	if (foo)
	{
		if (bar)
		{
			if (blat)
			{
#ifdef MACRO
				printf("one");
#else
				printf("two");
#endif
			}

I'm sure I could think of other complaints too.

	TurboText, an excellent programmer's editor, does allow hiding and
unhiding of portions of the program.

                                                        Dan

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: pcrayne@halcyon.com (Peter C. Crayne)
Subject: Virus on a fish disk?
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 22:15:57 GMT

Just the other day, I was trying out Replex from fish disk #791. As soon
as I run it, whammo! Virus Checker pops up telling me I have been
infected with the menem's revenge virus. (or something like that.)
However, a file scan of Replex reveals nothing. Is replex mucking about
with things in the system that it should not be? Does it have a virus?
Will superman save Jimmy in time?

TIA,
-Pete
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