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From: jc@crosfield.co.uk (jerry cullingford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga TeX
Date: 30 Jul 92 11:51:51 GMT
Organization: Crosfield Electronics, Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom.

In article <1992Jul29.085614.18153@sniap.mchp.sni.de> Wolf-Eckart.Schmidt@sniap.mchp.sni.de writes:
>TeX itself needs not more than 5 MB on your HD, depending on the macro packages
>you are using (TeX, LaTeX, BibTeX, ...). This macro packages expand the capa-
>bilities of TeX. Then you need several MB for fonts (previewer fonts, printer
>fonts in several resolutions).
>So TeX needs 30 MB (plusminus) of diskspace, but if you have a computer with at
>least more than 1MB and a large HD, TeX is a good program for the Creation of
>high quality documents, especially with mathematical and chemical symbols.

OTOH :-) since most of the space is taken up by lots of fonts at lots of
resolutions, most good implementations provide a font cacheing mechanism,
so you don't have too keep all the fonts/resolutions on your working disk(s),
but only the ones you actually use. Usually this is 10% or less of the total.

You should be able to use TeX on a floppy based system without too much
disk swapping - say one or two disks for TeX, the previewer, and printer
driver (most people only use plain TeX, or the LaTeX macros), and a few
disks for the fonts in use.

The AmigaTeX demo fits everything on one disk (no printer driver, and probably
not too many fonts) so it can be done..

A Hard disk makes life a lot easier though :-)

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From: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Random Guru with JRComm1.02a. Can it be fixed?
Date: 26 Jul 92 21:16:04 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann) writes:
>In article <sheldon.712096564@du139-208.cc.iastate.edu>, sheldon@iastate (Steve Sheldon) writes:
>> JR-Comm is buggy.  I never used it extensively.  But the one time that I
>>downloaded the demo version and played with it I was able to crash it
>>repeatedly.  I've forgotten the options I had to select to do this, however.

>I've been using JRComm exclusively and frequently for over a year, and I
>haven't had a single crash I'd attribute to it.

>Perhaps you were able to crash it by using some odd combination of options,
>but my experience is that in normal operations, it's rock solid.

Me too.  I have been a registered user of JR-Comm for almost a year now.
I don't remember ever causing JR-Comm to crash.  (I am using 9600 baud
via the serial port).  The only time which I remember seeing Guru while
using JR-Comm was yesterday--I was playing a mod, talking on irc,
decompressing a newly downloaded file, and converting a GIF file, so
I wouldn't blame it on JR-Comm.

But then, if you do find out some JR-Comm's bugs, please let Jack knows.

Yours Sincerely,
Kelvin


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From: Mike_Noreen%cave@sweden.eu.net (Mike Noreen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Random Gurus with JRComm/A3000
Date: 28 Jul 92 06:42:35 GMT
Organization: The Misty Cave BBS +46 753 33132

After my last posting concerning my JRComm/A3000 problems, I've had
yet another case of crash-on-connect, but with a different errorcode;
instead of 80000003, it was 80000025, although my system is exactly
thesame.
I don't believe I've ever had that guru before, but I thought that maybe
it might enable someone to understand whats wrong...
 
By the way: I've earlier run JRComm on an A500+ (a A500 kick2.0 with ECS...
I believe they are called A500P in the US), and with another modem, and I
had the same problem - random gurus at connect.
 
Really; today my system only has three things in common with my earlier
system: JRComm, kick2.04, and Snap.
 
For a time, I ran Enforcer in my user-startup,but although the system
seemed more stable, it did not remove the problem altogether.

If anyone has any ideas or suggestions, please drop me a note, will you?

-- Via DLG Pro v0.992

Mike_Noreen%cave@sweden.eu.net
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From: d0per@dtek.chalmers.se (Martin Hiller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Workbench 2.1
Date: 21 Jul 92 15:58:08 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden

catapcnl@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Christopher Neil Lawrence) writes:

>This may sound like a dumb-ass question (because nobody knows) but will 2.1 be  
>a disk-upgrade (like 1.2 -> 1.3) or a ROM upgrade (1.3 -> 2.04)?

As I recall it, 1.2 -> 1.3 was a ROM upgrade. I had to change the Kickstart
to get my HD to autoboot.

>--
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From: eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: ! Pournelle [sic] says that there is a new amiga !
Date: 28 Jul 92 06:44:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: pro-free.1992Jul27.234426.36
Organization: ProLine [pro-freedom] AppleVan (Apple UG of Vancouver, WA)


 > I fail to see why anyone would listen to his constant bitching and
 > moaning about the hardware and software given to him, but obviously Byte
 > thinks that someone is reading it.


Hey, you guys... knock that off.  I *need* Pournelle's column.  After all,
good birdcage liners are hard to find!



                -=- Ed


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: amuser@marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au (Bill Sharp-Smith AUG)
Subject: Re: WB font editor
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 06:12:26 GMT

ps296au@sdcc4.ucsd.edu (Steven Cobb) writes:


>I asked this a while ago and I seem to have lost the responses
>that I got.  Does anyone know of a font editor for screen fonts
>(hopefully very large fonts)  Someone mentioned something like
>WBFonted or something, but I have been unable to find it on
>any archive.  If you know where it is (or something better)
>could you let me know?

Its called WBFed.lzh. As far as I know, it is the only bitmap font
editor for WB2.0. I can send it if necessary, but you should try
wuarchive.wustl.edu and amiga.physik.unizh.ch first.

>Thanks
>Steve
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From: bombadil@diku.dk (Kristian Nielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Compression
Date: 28 Jul 92 11:16:10 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

jamie@cdevil.unx.sas.com (James Cooper) writes:

>Check out the XPK stuff, probably on amiga.physik.  One of the pieces of
>that distribution is a filehandler named XFH, which will do compress
>files as they are written to it, and decompress them as they are read
>from it.  It should be exactly what you are talking about.

Well, not quite - the newest version is V1.00b, and it does not
compress files, only decompresses (I should know since I wrote it!).
But I've been working on this, and it's almost finished now.

Anyway, the compressing version is sceduled to be on the next Xpk
update with deadline 5th of august, so I would like some help with
getting it stable before then. If you can spare a few hours in the
next couple of days giving it a comprehensive beta-test, give me a
mail and I'll see that you receive it when it's ready (specify ftp or
e-mail). I think it's VERY important for a filing system to be stable.

(BTW: I can't send you the Xpk stuff, you'll need to get that
yourself).

	- Kristian

	email: bombadil@diku.dk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: haley@unixg.ubc.ca (Ross MacGregor)
Subject: Re: C= speaks!!! let's spread the words!!!
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 07:13:39 GMT

Oh boy, Commodore speaks. Big yawner folks. I guess i was hoping to hear
something new.  NOT!  INSTEAD we get this drivel blah, blah, "we are such
great company", blah, "Amiga has a great future" etc.  
Frankly, there was little there to convince me Commodore is not going
down the toilet. Sure they've alway's had great plans and then there's
the roomer's, but look what we have NOW (what the average uninformed
person see's, it don't look so rosy). 
I'll leave the contents of the post to the sharks that frequent these
waters. 

Now my question is: does C= think this is only the rantings of ONE man!
Maybe we should help them tune in to our view of things :)
Let's get say the last 8 month's of doom and gloom articles from this
group and mail it to Commodore!  I figure even without Marc Barrett's
articles (tho i would include them personally) we'd get a good stack
of reading for them. :)

Wait a sec.  Was this just a joke?  Of course, why would C= attack some
reporter when half its developers are jumping ship (well getting themselves
life perservers anyway).  :)

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From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: C= speaks!!! let's spread the words!!!
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 28 Jul 92 01:17:33 PST
Organization: Amiga makes it possible

In article <55283@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> tna@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Trevor Andrews) writes:
> In article <1992Jul27.172316.591@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung) writes:
> >(forwarded from bit.listserv.i-amiga)
> >(I am not related to Commodore.  I am merely forwarding this for your interests)
> ...
> >TITLE: Commodore asks for help...
> >
> >Commodore is aware of the activity on computer networks in response to
> >the "Amiga/Slow Death" article written by Mr. Phillip Robinson.
> >Commodore wants to assure all you who are concerned that we are not
> >taking this lightly, and would appreciate your help in responding to
> ...
> >
> >P.S. "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."
>    But then he's dead now isn't he...
> >                    -- Mark Twain, 1897
> ...
>
> That was sad... Real sad...  Sorry but Mr. Robinson is right... That is
> just by the posting of this letter.... sigh... I agree with Mr. Robinson.
>

I for one am tired of being a 3rd party person who must carry the load for
CBM.  I will not lift a finger to do diddly for CBM anymore.  Let's put the
heat on those guys to do something GOOD for a change.

>
> Just my $0.02
>
> Take care,
>   Trevor

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From: amiga@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (philip.s.kasten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: PowerPacker
Keywords: powerpacker
Date: 21 Jul 92 19:27:21 GMT
Organization: AT&T

Where can I find PowerPacker?  It seems that there are many utilities
on Fred Fish disks for PowerPacked files, but I cannot find PowerPacker
itself on any Fish disk.  Is it commercial?  If not, is it available from
anonymous ftp somewhere?

Phil Kasten
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: johnl@crash.cts.com (John Lindwall)
Subject: World of Commodore Amiga coming up soon
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 03:43:09 GMT

Just a reminder that the World Of Commodore Amiga Show is coming up
soon, Sep 11-13 in Pasadena.

Friday,   Sep 11: 10am-5pm
Saturday, Sep 12: 10am-5pm
Sunday,   Sep 13: noon-5pm

The Pasadena Center, 300 East Green St, Pasadena, CA

Registration at the door: $15 one day/$30 three days
Preregistration: $10 one day/$25 three days
Look in current issues of Amiga magazines for the preregistration coupons.
(Pre-reg deadline is August 21)

I also noticed that a lot of the advertisers in the newer AmigaWorld have
a notice on their ad stating that they will be at the show.
---
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From: ksj@phoenix.ocf.llnl.gov (Kenneth S. Jancaitis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: CDRom help
Date: 27 Jul 92 21:21:40 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

I believe that the ad that you are referring to is the one for the
Asimware Asim-CDFS.  I recently purchased both the file system and a
Chinon CDS-431 internal drive from Asimware, and after some initial
problems I'm pleased with both (my problems were due to an old version
of the ROMS on my GVP SCSI controller).  The drive and software are
compatible with all my hardware and software (A-2000, GVP '030
accelerator, Dos 2.04, Directory Opus, etc..).  I have used it to access
the AB-20 CD0ROM, and the file system also reads MAC HFS disks as
advertised.  CDTV disks might be a problem, as a lot of those depend on
specific hardware in the CDTV - there was no list of compatible CDTV
titles available last time I asked.  I'm impressed by the speed of the
drive and software - I haven't noticed myself waiting much longer to get
data off the CD-ROM than I do off my Quantum.
 
I believe the people at Asimware are still working to expand the list of
drives which qualify for use with Asim-CDFS, so your best bet is to call
them to get the latest list.  The staff there has been really helpful,
and they can let you know exactly what you need to do to get things up
and running.
 
Ken Jancaitis
From: mjbrown@lonestar.utsa.edu (Marc J. Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga software emulator for PC?
Date: 27 Jul 92 19:31:33 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

In article <sheldon.712261332@pv141b.vincent.iastate.edu> sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon) writes:
>
>It'd kind of be like writing a program for the Amiga that emulated
>a TRS-80 Color Computer...  one could do it, but who would want it,
>and be willing to pay for it?

Actually, I have a better parallel.  Imagine trying to spiff up a Yugo
to the performance of a Corvette.  You'd have to literally reshape the
Yugo's internal structure to that of the Corvette (ignore the practical
impossibility of this situation :).  In the end, you've got your Yugo that
can be a Corvette, but it would have been better and cheaper if you had
simply bought a Corvette and saved yourself the trouble.

On the other hand, if you have a Corvette and want to have the option of
making it perform like a Yugo (because, for instance, the Yugo has some
special feature available exclusively to it), the hardware changes required
are imaginably small, if existent.

BTW, don't you think it's a bit ironic that, in THIS country anyways, a
computer's degree of capability is inversely proportional to its popularity?
It takes a place like Europe to assure me that humans as a whole aren't
staggeringly soft in the head.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: dueker@xenon.arc.nasa.gov (The Code Slinger)
Subject: HD Backup utils
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Keywords:  harddisk backup utility
Organization: Computer Sciences Corp
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 20:18:00 GMT

Okay, in response to my recent post asking about good backup utilities
that would split large files across floppies to reduce, if not eliminate,
wasted floppy space, the general response was to use either QuarterBack or
AmiBack.

Turns out that I was partly wrong in saying that AmiBack wouldn't run
under 1.3.  Purchasing AmiBack 2.0 will get you both a 1.3 and a 2.0
version.

Now, one final question, which both of the above did not address on the
outside of the boxes (I've only looked at the boxes in a store):  Are the
files which are backed up to floppy, restoreable without using the same
utility?  In other words, can I restore, say, a single file without
having to load up the backup utility?  The shareware version of the
backup utility I use, will backup to AmigaDOS-compatible files.  So, for
example, I can restore a file by simply entering:  uncompress file.dat.

Thanx for your help,
   Chris
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From: sbiddle@aviate.welly.gen.nz (Steve Biddle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Virus_Checker v6.15 (was Re: Virus_Checker 6.06 is out)
X-Newsreader: Ann 0.9
Date: 24 Jul 92 23:14:12 +1200
Organization: Steves Amiga - Wellington, New Zealand.

In article <Brrs9s.KJE@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>,
	shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu ("sam hulick") writes:
>In article <1992Jul21.233357.18270@cs.mun.ca> merril@odie.cs.mun.ca (Merril Locke) writes:
>> 6.15 is out I d/loaded it about a week ago.	 - Merril -
>>
>>--
>
>Doesn't sound right.  I've checked amiga.physik and used archie and can't find
>it.  Could be a BS version put out by some hacker?

No, it's the real thing..


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: dueker@xenon.arc.nasa.gov (The Code Slinger)
Subject: Backing up Hard Disk to Floppy
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Keywords:  Backup harddisk floppy
Organization: Computer Sciences Corp
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 15:59:00 GMT

Doesn't anybody do this anymore?  Maybe all you out there don't worry
about the problem I describe below?  

I have some largish files, some pictures, some data, and, when backed up,
would fit on a floppy by themselves.  But the HD backup program I use (a
shareware program that has since gone commercial) can cause quite a lot of
wasted space on the floppies when the floppy is already partially used
with smaller backed up files.  The large file is placed on the next floppy
making the remaining space of the backup-floppy wasted.

What I'd really like is a backup program that would split that large file
so that very little (preferably none) of the floppy to be wasted.

Are there any HD backup programs out there that can do this?  Now, before
you respond, please note that I have a 1000 running 1.3, and, therefore,
cannot run a backup program such as AmiBack, which will run only on 2.0.

Thanx,
   Chris
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: vjh21@cas.org (Vince Herried ext 2877)
Subject: Re: BRU HD/Backup
Organization: Chemical Abstracts Service
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 12:57:39 GMT

So how does one use the Inter Process communication port with BRU,  I think it is
the -Ai flag says one can use IPC as a filter.

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