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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 11:07:00 CST
From:         Lance Tagliapietra <96720919@UCS.UWPLATT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Some of the latest Amiga Info that I have...hope it is useful
              to someone.
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>Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 18:23:57 -0400
>From: Calvin Chu <ngk@EAGLE.TC.CORNELL.EDU>
>Subject: RE: Some of the latest Amiga Info that I have...hope it is useful to

>regarding those ami-har and ami-tech redistributions of the newsgroups
>I was wondering, if it was possible to reply and get your messages on
>those newsgroups using standard UNIX mail.

You can send mail to any usenet newsgroup by sending the message to

new-group-name@ucbvax.berkely.edu,  for example to send to comp.sys.amiga.misc
you would address your message to comp-sys-amiga-misc@ucbvax.berkeley.edu.
You would then see you message and any replys in an ami-hard digest.

-Lance
 ---------------- Amiga - The Wild Side of Power Computing -----------------
 Lance Tagliapietra                       Internet: 96720919@ucs.uwplatt.edu
 P.O. Box 26                                BitNet: 96720919@uwplatt
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 13:25:05 PDT
From:         EBRUC@CATGSG.DNET.HAC.COM
Subject: RE: The new Amiga FTP site

For those who are learning about list servers the address for the WUARCHIVE list
server is:
  listserv@wugate.wustl.edu

We get more than enough SUBSCRIBE requests to the list instead of the list
server.

Ed Bruce
edward@hac2arpa.hac.com
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 13:28:25 -0900
From:         "Psuedo-Combat Mage" <KSDKW@ALASKA.BITNET>
Subject:      UPD

I've looked on ARCHIE, but I always have trouble using telnet so I had to quit
but does anyone know where I could find upd.
It was discussed quite a while ago...the program that plays certain sounds
like when a disk is inserted, etc.....Thanx
Dave
ksdkw@alaska
ksdkw@acad1.alaska.edu
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 06:31:37 CDT
From:         Rick Thomson <RKT469T@SMSVMA.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Help on HD buying

 Yes you can add Any SCSI type Hard drive to your GVP Combo board including
 SCSI-2 Hard Drives.  Quantum has a new line of lowcost SCSI type drive coming
out some time this fall.  My primary choice would be quantum over any other dri
ve out there.
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Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 1992 16:04:30 -0400
From:         Calvin Chu <ngk@EAGLE.TC.CORNELL.EDU>
Subject: Re: workbench 2.1

>Anyone have any ideas about why it wont work on some A2000's

Don't know. I thought the latest version of the Workbench was the one that
came with the 2.04 roms.  If you have 2.1 then it's probably developers
right now, so I guess you can talk to Commodore and ask them to send you
another.
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 09:50:32 BST
From:         d lamptey msc <lamptey@ACSE.SHEFFIELD.AC.UK>
Subject:      What is Internet, ?

Hi aLL:

Can someone tell me some things about internet:

* Who "owns" it, how it is funded, What it is (academic network?)

* I guess it is a world-wide network?

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The big question:  Why do I need to know this ?

Well I have made a reference in my thesis to some stuff I found on InterNet,
and need to appendicize some blurb about Internet!!!!



Derryck.


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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 18:12:00 EST
From:         Owen <91016@TAYLORU.BITNET>
Subject: Wanted: latest startup

        Could someone send me a copy of the most recent Amiga-Startup file?
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From:         Cocteau <IBY141@URIACC.BITNET>
Subject:      RE: More descr. re:kermit...

Dave,

  How did you get JR-Comm to work with Kermit.. As far as I can tell it
doesn't accept external protocols..

Andrew Iby141@Uriacc.Uri.Edu
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 10:05:50 +1000
From:         "David Johnson,
              CSIRO Div. Wool Tech." <DJOHNSON@GEEL.DWT.CSIRO.AU>
Subject:      Re: Upgrading My VXL On My Own!

On Thu, 3 Sep 1992 07:47:00 WAREP%WABASH.BITNET@pucc.Princeton.EDU wites:

> Actually, not to be brain dead or anything, but isn't it the case that the
> crystal be twice the speed you want your chip to run?

not necessarily.

> i.e. the 500s original crystal speed being 14.534MHz or something
> along those lines?

it's 28 point something. The master clock is divided by 4

> If I remember correctly the Mac is the only machine that has the
> crystal rating the same as its chip rating.

I use Olivetti I*M PC Clones at work, and most of them divide the master
clock by 2, however the 50MHz 486 machines run 50MHz Xtals. My 68881 runs
at 12MHz with a 12MHz Xtal.

So the answer to all this is that "it depends on what the board designer did".
If the 25MHz VXL uses a 25MHz Xtal, then it's a fair bet that the 50MHz
will need a 50MHz Xtal.  Whether or not a simple swap will work - I don't
know. If VXL make a 50MHz version, then it depends on whether the other
chips on the board on your 25MHz are the same as on the 50MHz one. If they
are, then it should work.

Hope this goes some way to clearing things up


dave   +----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
+------+                      |  CSIRO Division of Wool Technology             |
| David Johnson               |  PO Box 21, Belmont, Australia, 3216           |
| djohnson@geel.dwt.csiro.au  |  +61 52 472-651 (voice)   +61 52 472-657 (fax) |
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     Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.        - Diogenes
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From:         "David Johnson,
              CSIRO Div. Wool Tech." <DJOHNSON@GEEL.DWT.CSIRO.AU>
Subject: Re: 720k 5-1/4" diskettes
X-To:         I-AMIGA%RUTVM1.BITNET@pucc.Princeton.EDU

on Sat, 29 Aug 1992 23:47:33, Etop Udoh <eudoh@ST6000.SCT.EDU> writes

> hi,
>
>    Does anyone know where I can buy 720k  5-1/4" DSDD 96tpi diskettes
> ????????????????????????????

As far as I know, there aint such a beast. I've been using ordinary DSDD
disks as 720k & 880k for ages with no problems. Beware of HD disks, though:
the magnetic coating on them is different, and they can be unreliable on
SOME drives when formatted at a lower density.

By the way, a 5-1/4" DSDD gives 360k... 720k ones were called DSQD (quad
density, that is) by Olivetti.

all the best
dave   +----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
+------+                      |  CSIRO Division of Wool Technology             |
| David Johnson               |  PO Box 21, Belmont, Australia, 3216           |
| djohnson@geel.dwt.csiro.au  |  +61 52 472-651 (voice)   +61 52 472-657 (fax) |
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     Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.        - Diogenes
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 10:55:01 ITA
From:         Davide Bianchini <DAVIDE@IGECUNIV.BITNET>
Subject:      More acks

   Here are some more acknowledgements to Markku and Andrew who helped me
to solve my FTP-downloading problems. Thank you guys.

                                                       Davide
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 12:46:59 +1000
From:         "David Johnson,
              CSIRO Div. Wool Tech." <DJOHNSON@GEEL.DWT.CSIRO.AU>
Subject:      Re: Disk drive database....
X-To:         I-AMIGA%RUTVM1.BITNET@pucc.Princeton.EDU

I've had a few queries regarding my posting about a reference library
of hard/floppy/optical.etc drives. For the benefit of those who want
to know more:

it's called THEREF42.ZIP

it's available by FTP from (just about anywhere ;-) )
 wuarchive in mirrors/msdos/info (archie knows all)

it contains specifications of all sorts of drives: e.g. interface type,
speed, size (heads, cyls etc). It does not contain jumper settings or
pinouts.

get back to me if you want to know more

dave   +----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
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| David Johnson               |  PO Box 21, Belmont, Australia, 3216           |
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 18:40:02 -0400
From:         CAMACHO@ECSUC.CTSTATEU.EDU
Subject:      Amiga and Byte
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I finally read Jerry's column on the Amiga and 3000T. It seems real
positive. Somebody should thank him for the ink.

Carlos
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 18:47:01 EDT
From:         "J.C. Higgins, Sys Mgr CsVax1, UCC , Eire" <chris@CSVAX1.UCC.IE>
Subject:      RE: What is Internet, ?

Why spend money on a book, when you can get 'Zen and the art of Internet'
from an FTP site near you...
Don't ask me for details... I FTP's it in ages ago, and have forgotten where
I got it from. but it was not hard to find...

It makes for very interesting reading..

Chris.
Chris@csvax1.ucc.ie

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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 10:44:00 EDT
From:         BARNETTJ@SNYSYRV1.BITNET
Subject:      Partition mounting....

On startup using system 2.0 if you press both mouse buttons, you can opt
not to mount a particular partition, such as that for AMAX.

Is there a way of me rather than reformating my harddrive to have amigados
not recognize and mount the amax icon such that I don't end up with it
on my workbench screen?
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 12:14:00 EDT
From:         BARNETTJ@SNYSYRV1.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Saxonscript Postscript Fonts

Just send a SAS with sufficent postage to cover the return cost of
the disk to

Jordan Barnett
60 Presidential Plaza
Apartment 608
Syracuse, New York 13202

If you need to get in touch with me by voice, call
426-0062

-Jordan
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From:         GPW2501CSCI@APSU.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Accelerators....

        Look in the issues of AMIGA WORLD magzine.  There should be some
company selling it.
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 08:34:40 -0400
From:         uel111r2a%tferi4@UNI-LJ.AC.MAIL.YU
Subject:      RE: workbench 2.1
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From: Blaz Zupan <uel111r2a%tferi4@uni-lj.ac.mail.yu>
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Subject: RE: workbench 2.1

> Anyone have any ideas about why it wont work on some A2000's

It seems that you are using a beta test version, because C= has not yet
released Workbench 2.1. Beta test versions almost never work as they should...
Just remember the problems with the Workbench 1.3 gamma. So wait for the
official release!!!

Greetings,
	Blaz

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From: mk59200@cc.tut.fi (Markku Kolkka)
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Subject: Re: workbench 2.1
Date: 3 Sep 92 15:02:37 GMT
Organization: Tampere University of Technology, Finland


In article <I-AMIGA%92090108344365@RUTVM1.BITNET> uel111r2a%tferi4@UNI-LJ.AC.MAIL.YU writes:
>It seems that you are using a beta test version, because C= has not yet
>released Workbench 2.1. Beta test versions almost never work as they should...

That's why it's a _test_ version, not a _release_ version.
Remember that the purpose of software testing is to find the bugs!

--
	Markku Kolkka
	mk59200@cc.tut.fi
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Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 1992 19:40:48 EDT
From:         Eric Clemons <GCCLEMON@ECUVM1.BITNET>

Hi,

    Could someone explain how to fix the problems due to FTPing with
VAX/VMS systems. I suspect that the same problem that causes the harmless
Header: 0000 error with .DMS files makes it so any executables i get are
not accepted by the Amiga as runable. However any archives, .lzh and the
above .DMS, etc. are not affected. I've heard that the .DMS error is caused
by one of the FTP systems adding some bytes to the file. How do I get rid
of those bytes. (Yeah, I know the disks still work, but in case the same prob,
is messing my executables up, how do I get rid of them.)


Help appreciated,
       -Eric Clemons.

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| I don't know why I'm crying : Kate| Then they all go make love while  |
| Am I suspended in Gaffa?    : Bush|   you go insane     :Todd Rundgren|
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 04:18:52 -0400
From:         Calvin Chu <ngk@EAGLE.TC.CORNELL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: gcc

Will GCC work with SAS C 5.1 which I have?
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 13:06:00 EDT
From:         YDEZTJA@IUP.BITNET
Subject:      2.04 Problems

Hello...
I have an Amiga 500 (Rev 6a) with an A501 512 expansion board.
I just installed 2.04, and it is GREAT!, but The new OS does
not recognize the extra 512K I have!
I ran AVAIL and a program on the extras disk that shows your
computers configuration. Neither recognize that the memory is
even there. I am about to get Multistart, and replace my 1.3 Rom,
to see what the problem is. The 1.3 Roms DID acknowlege my 1Meg of RAM!
DEEP FRUSTRATION.....
HELP!!!
*CRASH*
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 00:36:55 EDT
From:         Cocteau <IBY141@URIACC.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Accelerators....

  I just checked the April (egads) issue of Amiga World and found the
VXL 30 for the 2000 listed at $329.  Is this price still about the same
or has it gone up/down in the past few months?

Andrew Iby141@URIACC.URI.EDU
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Date:         Sun, 30 Aug 1992 11:22:00 EDT
From:         DELANEYD@SNYSYRV1.BITNET
Subject:      Re: kermit xfer:ncomm/university

        I would recommend getting sz and rz programs to do z modem transfer.
The transfer rates you will get are *far* superior to kermit as kermit is
old.  I went the kermit route and then switched and couldn't believe the
difference.

        ->dave
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From:         CADDS Technical Support David Nicholson X457
              <D.N@UKHOUO.PRIME.COM>
Subject:      Re: Some of the latest Amiga Info that I have...hope it is useful
              to someone.
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subscribe AMI-HAR
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Date:         Sun, 30 Aug 1992 16:26:45 CDT
From:         "Richard W. Jamison" <rwj@ENGR.LATECH.EDU>
Subject:      C= c libraries
X-To:         i-amiga@rutvm1.rutgers.edu

How are these libraries distributed??  Are they available strictly for sale
with someone's c compiler?  Or can I get them for free or a nominal charge
from someone??

Bill Jamison
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From:         "Steve H. - 6553" <HIRBYS%AMOS@LAWRENCE.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: obtaining RKM (was serial.device and MsgPorts)

Date sent: 27-AUG-1992
In an article dated 27 Aug 1992 10:49:21 -0700 (PDT)
  EBRUC@CATGSG.DNET.HAC.COM said

>
>How does one go about getting the RKM's from C/A.
>

     RKM means "ROM Kernel Manual," more or less the Amiga equivalent of
_Inside_Macintosh_.  There are several volumes--can't remember exactly how many-
   -
though I've found the ones subtitled "Libraries" and "Devices" to be almost
sufficient.

     Most mail-order houses specializing in Amiga software have the manuals;
Addison-Wesley publishes them, so your local bookstore should be able to get
them.  And, in northeastern Wisconsin at least, the Software, Etc. store has
them on the shelf.  (That's where I got mine.)

     Hope this helps.

++
Steve Hirby                                        hirbys@lawrence.edu
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 08:08:00 EST
From:         WAREP@WABASH.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Accelerators....

Just thought I'd input on the adspeed.  Who said it was no better than no
accelerator at all?  I have one, and if you think there is no difference between
7.14MHz and 14.3MHz, you're nuts.  I have 2.05 and am running a 16 color WB.  In
7.14MHz mode, this is painfully slow when it comes time to, oh, redraw.  However
in 14MHz mode, it is just like running a 4 color WB.  Also, I'm sure you've
played with the tried and true Turbo Silver, right?  AdSpeed boosted the
performance 170% without the need for a math co(just think if there were an add
on co for it!)  Ever played wings?  SLOOOOOOOOOOW on a stock 500, isn't it?
Well, can you say 'close to real time'?  As close as it gets without hopping in
a plane itself. (Slight exxageration(sp!). . .but reall,y I have played it on my
machine with AdSpeed(14.3MHz), and on my friends machine which has a VXL(25MHz)
and 4MB of 32-Bit RAM, and there was NO difference on things like wings(It has
an optimal speed, I guess . . .), but for the money, I would get a VXL + RAM.  I
like my AdSpeed, and for the price($160), you can't beat it. Period.  I have a
system with NO fast RAM(Just 512K Chip and 512K psudo-fast), so probably if you
have fast RAM, this would be a viable solution if you're just looking for a
quick, inexpensive accelrator for right now until the price of the 040/500 comes
down.
        As far as I*M emulators, I have CrossPC(which comes with CrossDos 5.0+),
and on a stock 500, it runs at 1/5th the processor speed, which on a 7.14MHz
machine, is around 1.somethingMHz.  BAD! Yuck!  With AdSpeed it is a little
different because  of the buffers and things on the adspeed itself, so I am now
actually running a 4MHz I*M!!!(Yay?)  I want to see it run on a 30MHz 030
myself, then maybe we can outperform I*Ms on our own platforms.  But not with
CrossPC...it is limited ti Mono and CGA(BLEAH!!) as well as a ceiling of 768K
of RAM total, although on my 1MB machine, it can only access 256K, which is NOT
helpful.
        Oh well, go with your gut and I hope this helps a little.  As a
sidenote, our computer labs at Wabash have a few(20 or so) 386/16s(hehehe), and
I now more than double their performance with a 14.3MHz 68000.  Oh, well.  I
guess there's something to be said for superior technology.
        Later on in a later task,
        Only Amiga makes it possible!

                        Phil Ware
                        <WAREP@WABASH>
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From:         Owen <91016@TAYLORU.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: zmodem with a vax

The key in solving your problem is in your telling us what computer you're
trying to send from.  Also, are you useing direct ftp or bitftp?
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