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From: johnv@acix.DIALix.oz.au (John Verhoeven)
Subject: Re: Spice, SPlot, & VI
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
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Date: 9 Oct 92 22:52:01 WST
Organization: ACix - Private UUCP Node, Cloverdale, Western Australia.

James A Grizzard (jagrizza@uncc.edu) wrote:
> the Z editor that comes with Aztec C is supposed to be almost ideintical to vi.  I've
> never used either one (like MEmacs myself..), so I can't say for sure...

Last night after reading this I dug out the manual for Z and had a read.
It is very similar to vi except for a few differences.

They are (briefly)
-   No virtual memory support, file must fit in memory.
-   No 'ex' editor, Z just emulates some of the 'ex' commands
-   Can't escape to a shell
-   Can't suspend Z (ie like CTRL-Z in Unix)
-   command like d/<text> delete the entire line containing text

Please no flames over this.....

Is it possible to run vi on an IBM mainframe running MVS/TSO?  Does
anybody know of anybody doing it?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: mike@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Smithwick)
Subject: Quaterback and tape drives
Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 17:00:07 GMT

[]

I am trying to use Q'back with a tape drive, and it works ok, except
for one case... I want to back up multiple volumes on a single tape.
The tape controller "Space" button is supposed to let you advance 
over any recorded segment to the end of the used tape so a person can
start a new backup session. Trouble is the "space" button is always ghosted
out. Anyone have ideas about this??

mike



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: u920604@postoffice.utas.edu.au (Matthew King)
Subject: File size limit for DMS/Zoom - what do people think
Organization: University of Tasmania (Australia)
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 01:00:15 GMT

After using full disk compression for a while now - and transferring files via
an ibm disk - I thought that maybe dms and zoom should have a maximum file size
option where the user can choose to have the file less than x kbytes and if 
the compressed file exceeds this limit it starts output to another file?

I thought that there must be a lot of users out there using ibm<-->amiga or
Amiga<-->Amax<-->Mac transfers where there is a limit of 713k and 800k resp.

What do people think of this?  If you can contact the programmers somehow
please do?  What about Lha 2.0 is this a possibilty when it is released.

Matthew King(u920604@postoffice.utas.edu.au)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: markus@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Markus Illenseer)
Subject: Re: Couple of ToolM 2.0 Q's
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 14:35:19 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Bielefeld, Technische Fakultaet.

In article <1992Oct6.203121.10370@uoft02.utoledo.edu>, mneylon@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu (Michael Neylon) writes:
|> YATMQ (yet another Toolmaster question)....
|> 
|> 1) How can I set a dock icon to open a drawer?   (ie I have a downloads
|> dir and I want ot be able to access it graphically....)

 Not possible. The WB does not provide a way to open a drawer by a programm
 (F.i. the Jazzbench does: jazzbench.library/OpenDrawer() )

|> 
|> which leads us to...
|> 2) How can I set a dock icon to use the unarchiving CSH script that came
|> with the distribution?  I do wanna see the output as the file is being
|> unarced....

 Use CLI-Type for the exec. Then add as command: 'csh:csh -s csh:unpack.sh'
 wheras 'unpack.sh' is the provided shell-script to extract files.
 BTW, it's the same way as TM 1.5 did it already.
 
|> 
|> and
|> 
|> 3) What modifications must I make to the CSH script to have a archive
|> view program?

 None. There is a View.sh in the Scripts-Dir of TM 2.0.
|> 
|> and in general
|> 4) If I have a command that takes input after the file name, how
|> can I write a csh script to use it (ie a C compiler), and then use that
|> as an Exec Dock icon?

 Have a closer look at the Scripts .. It should tell you all.
 Together with the classes of the csh, this View-Icon is almost unbeatable.
 Only WB 3.0 is slightly better :-)

|> 
|> The documentation is a little vague on these points, but it is other wise
|> a great program (but it cant use MFR!! wah!)

 No, the Doc is not vague. Look at Scripts/TM-csh.doc ...

|> 
|> TIA
|> -- 
|> Michael Neylon   aka Masem the Great and Almighty Thermodynamics GOD!
|>       //         | Senior, Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Toledo
|>   \\ // Only the |   Summer Intern, NASA Lewis Research Center
|> \  \X/   AMIGA!  |         mneylon@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu           /

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: swithing@csws15.ic.sunysb.edu (Scott Withington)
Subject: Best PD music composition program?
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 18:39:04 GMT

I'm looking for a PD/Shareware music composition program for the amiga to let 
my roommate, a masters student in music composition, who uses macs, that the 
Amiga is a cost effective alternative to a $3000 + mac setup.  Is MED the best
availible for someone like this? or are there better/more professional ones 
out there?

-Scott, the amigavangelist
From: masulliv@ecs.umass.edu (Michael Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Amiga books and A/D Conversion
Date: 15 Oct 92 14:14:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: ecs.18757.2add7cd3

Could someone recommend a good book for the Amiga?  I'm looking for 
something along the lines of the Commodore 64 Reference guide.  
I need memory maps and especially infor on A/D Conversion.  

I'm pretty sure the Amiga has an A/D converter in the joystick port, can anyone 
confirm this for me?  And also how much resolution it has?
						Thanks!
						Mike
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: jerry@cs.mcgill.ca (Gerald (Jerry) KUCH)
Subject: Re: About MAPLE V...
Organization: McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 15:10:17 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.113706.8413@sarah.albany.edu> hibrown@sarah.albany.edu (Herb Brown) writes:
>In article <Bw07Lw.JoJ@cs.vu.nl> wgkramer@cs.vu.nl (Ewout Kramer) writes:
>>
>>Sure :-( At a monthly income of $400 I can really afford Maple V.
>>I just have to live without food/clothing/housing for 3 months.
>>
>>
>>Ewout
>
>The Amiga version of MAPLE V is about $400, so one month's income will
>do it for you. Think of it this way. By going with little food for one
>month and totally concentrating on learning Maple, you will not only
>loose ugly fat and become healthier, but you will become a Maple expert.
>
>Herb

Uhhh, gee, Herb, not to endorse the piracy or whining about Maple's price
(which is reallly reasonable at $450, far better price-performance than
Mathematica) but I'm not convinced that he'd be much healthier after a
month of starvation...

Wow... fasting for symbolic math packages... this could be trendy.  :-)

>
>
>-- 
>Herb Brown  Math Dept  The Univ at Albany  Albany, NY 12222  (518) 442-4640
>Director,                                          hibrown@math.albany.edu  
>Computer Assisted Instruction in Mathematics       hibrown@csc.albany.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: hibrown@sarah.albany.edu (Herb Brown)
Subject: Re: FCII is HERE!
Organization: State University of New York at Albany
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 13:33:16 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.211417.11637@news.iastate.edu> taa33@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
>Good news, I received my copy of FCII today!  I have not had a lot of time to
>use FCII, but here are a few impressions.
>
>  [Lots of features ....]
>
>If anyone wants any other info, just sent me some E-mail or post a reply.
>                            Devin.
>*******************************************************************************
>**     Devin E. Parsons                                    / /               **
>**       Friley 4543                                   \  / /                **
>**   Iowa State University -VOICE 515-294-3096        \ \/ /                 **
>**   Ames, Iowa 50012-0001 -E-mail TAA33@ISUVAX.EDU    \/\/  Only Amiga!     **
>*******************************************************************************


What are its math features? The ad mentions math features. For example,
is there a complete math font now? Can one easily insert math symbols
in a document? Etc., etc., etc.

Thanks,

Herb


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From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Are there any PD bad block fixers ?
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 18:08:04 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <7rsznbb@rpi.edu> <1992Oct7.113442.22364@sfu.ca>

>Does anyone know the latest version of QB Tools?  I have version 1.3d, but
>I sent in my user registration card after New Horizons took over (or did I
>just misplace it?).  Also, when will QB Tools undergo a major revision?
>It looks pretty ugly under OS 2.04...

Mine says:  Quarterback Tools V1.5, March 8, 1991

I sure wish Central Coast hadn't been scarfed by New Horizons :-(

> / /\ /_/\__   Francis Lui

-Joel
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: mwills@su102c.ess.harris.com (Scott Wills)
Subject: Re: Opions on ToolManager2.0
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 14:28:10 GMT
Reply-To: mwills@x102a.ess.harris.com (M. Scott Wills)
Organization: Harris Corporation, Government Aerospace Systems Division.

mickh@imart.adsp.sub.org (Michael-Wolfgang Hohmann) writes:

>In article <BvGMLG.63n@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>, Ji Ma writes:

>-> I just install the new ToolManager2.0 which I think is great advance from
>-> old version at least objective concept is new and powerful.  But at first
>-> I almost got lost.  After I fool around for about a hour before I find out
>-> the right way to set it up.  I would said if author pride a example on the
>-> distribution disk it would save us lot of time.  Anyway, it is great program
>-> and you should give it a try.

>  You can try the example in "Graphics/MichaelH/ToolManager.prefs"

A more general one would be a better example.  The one provided
depends too much on MichaelH's specific system.  It has references to
many assigned volumes which most people won't have.

So how about this:  If anyone has a favorite ToolManager.prefs that
they'd like to share, without too many site specific idiosyncrasies,
please post them.  Perhaps if they are small we could post them here
rather than in comp.binaries.amiga (I'm not sure we get c.b.a anymore,
it's been dead for some time).

Scott
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From: mcgowen@cse.ucsc.edu (Richard McGowen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Project D and Fuller Computer -> RIP?
Date: 15 Oct 1992 21:50:12 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz (CE/CIS Boards)
NNTP-Posting-Host: arapaho.ucsc.edu

The about feature in Final Copy II credits Ben Fuller with the
interface, or some such thing.  Maybe he has ignored his own software to
do contract work (or full time work) for Softwood.
From: gel25@Vision et Systemes Numeriques (Eric Gailloux)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: About MAPLE V...
Date: 8 Oct 92 15:09:04 GMT
Reply-To: gel25@Vision et Systemes Numeriques
Organization: Universite Laval, Qc


    Here's the answer I got to the following question I asked to
the guys out there at Maple Software:


>>Where can I buy Maple for the Amiga?
>>Is there a special price for students like me who can't afford
>>to pay $500 bucks or more for software?
>>I own an A3000 with 4 megs of ram, is that enough?

>*********************************************************************

>There is a special student edition for Maple for the Macintosh and
>386/DOS platforms only.  I have provided ordering details for this
>version, in case you are interested, at the end of this message.
>Unfortunately we have no Amiga student version of Maple, but you are
>entitled to the academic discount price for a single user version of
>Can $695.  The regular price is $935.

    DISCOUNT PRICE AT $695! (This is a personnal comment)

>All that we ask is that you provide proof of your academic
>status, such as a photocopy of your faculty/student ID or
>registration form with a current date specified.

>Thank you for requesting information about Maple.  Please send me your
>full postal address, including university/business affiliation, and
>phone/Fax numbers, and I will mail a comprehensive information package
>to you.   This package should answer most, if not all, of your questions.
>If after receiving this information package you have any further
>questions, please do not hesitate to ask.

>Would you please tell us how you learned about Maple. Was it through a
>colleague or through one of our programs:  advertising, direct mail,
>card deck, conference or editorial coverage? We also welcome all customer
>comments about Maple. Our technical team considers these carefully for all
>improvements and updates to the product. Thank you for your help.

>               Joyce Brennan, Customer Services Manager
>    |\^/|      Waterloo Maple Software
>._|\|   |/|_.  160 Columbia St. West
> \  MAPLE  /   Waterloo, Ontario
> <____ ____>   CANADA  N2L 3L3
>      |        Tel:  (519) 747-2373		info@maplesoft.on.ca
>               Fax:  (519) 747-5284 		jbrennan@maplesoft.on.ca

>*********************************************************************


    You can't expect people to pay $700 for software. This is not my
idea of a student discount price!
 
    This is why software piracy exists. Sell your software for 100 bucks
and everybody will buy it!

    How many illegal copies of Word Perfect (for PC) are out there?
Tons of them! Why? Because they sell it for $495US!


Eric Gailloux- Internet: gel25@gel.ulaval.ca
From: cs90rol@brunel.ac.uk (Richard O Lavey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: upgrade 2.0 -> 2.05
Date: 12 Oct 92 16:19:34 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, West London, UK

Why do you want to go from 2.0 to 2.05?? As I understand it (and please correct me if I'm wrong), 2.05 is the release for the A600, and the main difference from 2.04 is that it supports the PCMCIA slot on that machine.

2.04 ROM's are V37.175, and WB 2.04 is V37.67


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: waggoner@pdxgp1 (Mark Waggoner)
Subject: Anyone have Prowrite 3.3?
Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro, Oregon
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 04:30:56 GMT

  I recently received an upgrade notice for Prowrite 3.3.  Does anyone 
know if the irregularly spaced printing reported with version 3.2 has 
been fixed?  In other words, does it use the outline fonts properly when
printing?

  Thanks,

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,aus.tex,comp.text.tex
From: hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de (Georg Hessmann)
Subject: Re: Problem with PasTeX and NFSS
Keywords: pastex nfss
Organization: University of Passau, Germany
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 12:23:02 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.224012.9237@trl.oz.au> soh@tmp_ip_003.trl.OZ.AU (Soh Kam Hung) writes:
>I'm using PasTeX 1.3 (public domain version of TeX 3.14 for the Amiga)
>and I've built a new LaTeX format file for the New Font Selection
>Scheme (the filedate in readme.mz3 is 92/08/30).  When I try to process
>a complicated document, I get the following error.
>
>! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [pool size=2710].
>
>I have no problem processing the same document on a SparcStation, so I
>guess there is something wrong with my Amiga configuration of PasTeX.
>The English translation of the PasTeX documentation doesn't help, and I
>cannot read the German documentation in the configuration file.
>
>Here is a list of ideas I have considered:
>
[...]
>2. I've tried increasing the ``poolsize'' attribute and various other
>attributes, but to no avail.

You are on the right way...
But PasTeX stops reading the TeX.cnf file, if it finds
a line where the first char is a #.
So you have to add the poolsize line before the # line.
(Sorry, that the comment is only in german)

>3. I've also tried using BigTeX, but I encounter the same error.

Same like 2.

>NOTE: A full log and my tex.cnf file is included at the end of this
>article.
>
>Can anyone help?  Please send me email, and I will post a summary if
>there is enough interest.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
[...]
>--- tex.cnf TeX configuration file ---
>
>% tex.cnf	Beispiel eines Konfigurationsfile fuer TeX
>%
[...]
>stringvacancies 15000
>maxstrings 	65535
>triesize	10000
>itriesize	10000	% triesize (for IniTeX only)
>%
>%  !! Falls virtex der Speicher ausgeht, sind es meist die naechsten zwei Werte !!
>%
>memmax		65000	% it's enough (for the docs)
>memtop		65000
># <-- siehe einige Zeilen tiefer
^^^^^ !!! Here stops PasTeX reading the file. (speed improvement)
>%
>% ... und diese Werte haben default-maessig diese Werte:
>%
>memmax		65532
>memtop		65532
>fontmax		120	% oder weniger mit neuer Font Selection
>fontmemsize	36000
>poolsize	65536
^^^^^
Copy this line before the # (40000 should be enough)


	Georg.

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From: cuadrasola@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Poscript on screen?
Date: 11 Oct 92 15:09:44 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

I am looking for a PD program that would load poscript files and didplay them
on screen.  Something like GhostView on Unix and the PC.  Is there such a thing
for the Amiga?

Thanks

Juan
cuadrasola@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
From: bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Gregory R. Block)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Process KILL/LIST Program???
Date: 12 Oct 1992 21:50:28 GMT
Organization: Electrical Engineering Dept. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.2.33

In article <Bw0zMG.3xr@fc.hp.com> koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren) writes:
>these fields without doing this check, so a problem can arise.  I'm
>working on a new version of JM which is 100% legal.

Boy, am I happy to hear that.  :)  I just couldn't find a replacement.
BTW:  It would be nice if you'd find a way to send signals to a
program.  Kind of like "break", but using your lovely process numbers?
:)

Anyways.

>I'm curious as to what problems you have though.  I run JM 100% of the
>time, and have never had a system crash related to it.  My system often
>gets weeks of uptime without any problems, and I use a good number of
>other software packages.  There are only a few problems that have ever
>been reported to me related to JM 1.1b:

The problems I have don't cause JM to crash, they cause OTHER programs
to crash.  I've traced this down to EXACT locations in Term 2.x.
Other programs, who knows.  More code really should be
source-released.  Anyways, I'm not sure WHY it should do it, but it does.

>   * The Bridgeboard problem (for which there is a workaround)
>   * A problem with one PD program which performed similar functions to
>     JM and used the same fields.
>   * A problem with one BBS "door" program.

>Other than this, I haven't seen any failures.  I have other software
>with intermittent failures (for example, CPR under SAS 5.10b), but it
>always crashes as well without JM installed (as CPR does).

Hmm.  What about CPR 6.0?

>Hopefully JM 1.2 will fix the above three problems and coexist with all
>other system-legal software.

So is it going to use a more "legal" method to do what it does?  I'd
really like to be specific as to what was causing random gurus, but I
can't.  They were there when JM was, gone when JM wasn't.  Term was
the most visible, due to its own bugs.  :)  But that should be fixed
soon.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: judd@wilkinson.cs.colorado.edu (Stephen Judd)
Subject: Re: About MAPLE V...
Organization: Universtiy of Coloardo, Boulder
Distribution: cu
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1992 00:18:04 GMT

In article <1992Oct16.222040.26842@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> grusin@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (GRUSIN MICHAEL) writes:
>
>...Does anyone know if CU has a site license for MAPLE V and how one
>goes about getting a copy? (I'm a student at CU)
>
>Thanks, -Mike (grusin@rintintin.colorado.edu)

There are machines around that have Maple V, most notably euclid, the
math machine.  You ought to talk to Gordon Brown or one of those cats and
then post your results here!  Also, you might talk to Lloyd Fosdick.  The
HPSC lab (nordsieck et.al.) has Maple, but I think it's an older version.

It is worth a try though, I think.
					-Steve
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: wgkramer@cs.vu.nl (Ewout Kramer)
Subject: Has ANYONE got HDMem to work?
Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 10:16:03 GMT


I tried HDMem from one of the newest Fishdisks, but I can't get it to work.
It starts off well, when I 'avail' my memory I have indeed gained 2MB of
free memory, but as soon as I really need those 2MB, the filesystem hangs.

Suggestions anyone?


Ewout
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications