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From: clare@nynexst.com (Clare Chu)
Subject: Re: Home budgeting program requested!
Organization: Nynex Science and Technology
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 14:31:11 GMT

>>
>> >   Personally, I can't fathom why anyone would use a computer to do Home
>> >Finances. As Dave Barry said, you type in how much money you make and
>> where
>> >you spend it, and (stay with me on this!) it tells you how much money you
>> >made and where you spent it. I use a calculator.
>
>    (Remember, this is all Personal Opinion)
>    Yes, I do all that, and more, in my consulting business. I use a
>spreadsheet to do it. Why? Because packaged programs never seem to suit my
>needs (Which seem to change every month).
>    This is the classic argument of buying vs building. If you do it
>yourself: 1. You know exactly what the program does, 2. it does exactly what
>you want it to , and 3. if it doesn't, you can change it.
>    In the Early Years of personal computing, just about everyone wrote their
>own programs. Now, nobody does. I can whip up an elementary Home Budget on a
>spreadsheet in about 10 minutes. Why should I buy a package?
>

  Besides, with a spreadsheet, you can whip up ARexx macros and
  link them to cells to make calculations that aren't available.
  I'm doing this with a Schedule D form for FIFO sales of mutual
  fund shares.  You enter into a cell the amount of shares
  sold, that it is FIFO, and then instruct ARexx to go back
  and look at the amount of shares bought first, update
  the gains, losses, and fill in the Sold column until the
  shares sold == first shares bought (might be several lines
  since I use dollar cost averaging).  This all sounds confusing
  but with ARexx, you can do it, believe me.

  You can also do LIFO, or average value of shares throughout
  lifetime method.

  With a package, you're stuck to what the developers had in mind.

  Good Luck, Clare
From: bmaple@burner.com (Bob Maple)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: CygnusEd and control character
Date: 5 Jan 93 18:43:08 MST
Organization: The Back Burner BBS (via C-Net Amiga)

Has anyone any idea why in CygnusEd when you try to enter a control code,
it does the control code, immediately followed by a linefeed?  Whether I type
it (^A for instace) on the keyboard, or with the 'Enter Ascii' and typing a 1,
it does the same thing.

I can find NO mention of this in the manual, nor have I found any solutions
there either.  They talk about control codes in several places but nowhere
have I found an answer to my woes.

Is this a bug in my particular version, or is there some clever way of turning
it off I'm just not finding?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV)
Subject: Re: Prowrite vs. Final Copy II
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:35:30 GMT

kevint@sad.hp.com (Kevin Taddeucci) writes:

>Jake Rose (jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu) wrote:

>Actually, in 640 X 400 or higher resolution, Final copy is one of the best 
>looking (as far as interface) word processors I have seen. I like the 
>interface in Final Copy II as well. 

If the screen is flickerfixed or not interlaced, yes.  I look forward to 
trying FC1.3 (and later FC II) on a 1200 when mine gets here.  The faster
processor should make printing speed more acceptable as well (on a 500
1 meg chip/4 megs fast it's *painfully* slow, which is why I use ProWrite
at present with it's NLQ option.)

>Back to the point of the original post. In my opinion Final Copy's print 
>output certainly looks better than any other Amiga word processor and 
>looks as good as anything I have seen from any Graphics MS-DOS word 
>processor.

The only "bad thing" about FC II is that it lacks a few very useful features
like UNDO!

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From: wmbfmk@rw7.urc.tue.nl (Marc van Kempen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Can I make CrossDos eat a MSDOS SyQuest?
Keywords: MSDOS SyQuest CrossDos
Date: 5 Jan 93 01:32:17 GMT
Reply-To: wmbfmk@urc.tue.nl




This question must have been asked a thousend times before, but I never
tuned in to this group, and I couldn't find the FAQ.

I'm trying to read a MSDOS-SyQuest cartridge on my Amiga, with no
results yet.

Ingredients:
	CrossDos 4.01a patched to 4.02a
	Amiga 2000, 68020, kickstart 2.0
	GVP SCSI controller
	44 MB Syquest on unit 1.

This is the mountlist entry:

DHC:
	Device = gvpscsi.device
	Unit = 001
	Flags = 0
	Surfaces = 2
	BlocksPerTrack = 34
	Reserved = 1
	Interleave = 0
	LowCyl = 0; HighCyl = 16000
	FileSystem = L:MSDOSFileSystem
	Stacksize = 4000
	Priority = 10
	GlobVec = -1
	DosType = 0x4D534800
	BufMemType = 0
	Mask = 0xFFFFFE
	MaxTransfer = 0x7FFFFFFF
	Buffers = 32
#

When I mount dhc: and try to read it I get:
Not a DOS disk in device DHC.


Am I doing something wrong ? I've tried all possible BlocksPerTrack
/ Reserved / LowCyl / Buffers / DosType / Flags combinations that seemed
reasonable.

Thanks in advance.

Marc.
From: levi@galoob.cs.utk.edu (David Levi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Cinemorph or MorphPlus demos
Date: 9 Jan 1993 18:45:58 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Department of Computer Science
Distribution: world
Reply-To: levi@galoob.cs.utk.edu (David Levi)
NNTP-Posting-Host: galoob.cs.utk.edu

Is there a working demo version of Cinemorph or Morph Plus anywhere on the
network?  I'd like to give these programs a spin before deciding which
program to buy.  I've tried the demo of Visionary, and it seems pretty
good except that it's kind of a pain to work with DCTV images.
-- 
-Dave Levi     levi@cs.utk.edu
From: gael@hpgnd149.grenoble.hp.com (Gael_MARZIOU)
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 14:54:53 GMT
Subject: Re: QUESTION: Browser II
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, GND
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications

It seems to me that there is a newer version but only available from the 
authors for registered users if I remember well.


Gael Marziou : gael@hpgndl71.grenoble.hp.com or Gael_Marziou@hp6330.desk.hp.com
From: bberg@unlinfo.unl.edu (bruce berg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Accountant 2.0 ?
Date: 4 Jan 1993 11:12:21 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln	
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: unlinfo.unl.edu

Hi all,
   Several questions have popped up about small business accounting 
software. I recently made this quest myself. I was all set to get 
Clerk5.0, when I came across accountant2.0, getting that instead. I 
have had nothing but trouble even getting it to install properly. I 
had heard that KFS Software, developer of this software, had great 
support but I have a terrible time getting them on the phone. Has 
anyone out there used this program and what has been your experience. 
I find myself really wishing I had gone ahead with Clerk. (which looks
to be an excellent shareware program.)

Bruce Berg
MVP

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: hibrown@sarah.albany.edu (Herb Brown)
Subject: Re: DirOpus V4.0
Organization: State University of New York at Albany
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 00:30:07 GMT

In article <10337@ncrwat.Waterloo.NCR.COM>, Tom Carter writes:
>
> At the WOC in Toronto in very early December, I saw a demo of the new
> Directory Opus V4.0. The sales dude there indicated it would start shipping
> (from Texas?) a week later to registered owners. Has any registered owner got
> their copy yet? I want to purchase this program but its not in my local
> dealers yet and the sales rep at the local dealer has not received his
> personal copy (ordered at the show) either. So...are they shipping yet? 
> 
> --
> Tom Carter
>

I received it today and at first glance it looks mighty nice!

Herb


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From: jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jake Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Prowrite vs. Final Copy II
Date: 5 Jan 93 18:00:27 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA

kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad) writes:
>Hi,

>I'd just like to know which has better print quality -- Prowrite 3.3 or
>Final Copy II?  MS-Word prints out beautiful documents on inkjet or 24 pin
>printers, but Excellence! (which I'm using now) looks very very sad by
>comparison.  I really think a $1500 Amiga should be able to produce print
>quality as good as Windows, right?

Definitely - in fact, the Amiga was probably doing it before Windows was.
I have no problems with ProWrite 3.3 on my 3000 under 2.04 - it prints fine,
about the same as Final Copy II (Yes, Excellence!'s print quality is less
than excellent).  However, a friend of mine has a 24 pin printer and gets
worse output than I do on my double-pass 9 pin Epson FX-850 with ProWrite.
The problem with Final Copy is its complete disregard for system fonts -
you cannot use CG (vector outline) fonts with it, as you can with ProWrite.
Aside from that, and Final Copy's even-less-standard interface (it looks
sort of like they tried to make it look like a NeXT, only the resolution's
lower, so all the gadgets are just huge), I would take Final Copy II.  It
has a much nicer dictionary and thesaurus (I wouldn't be surprised if it's
the same one that Excellence! uses), nice structured drawing tools, and more.
Maybe someone at Softwood will fix the interface to adhere to the Style guide
and add support for CG fonts - if they do, they'll convert me from ProWrite
3.3 in an instant.


>						---Joel Kolstad
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From: hhoff@golbasto.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Helmut Hoffmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: PasTeX1.3
Date: 11 Jan 93 13:28:36 GMT
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik - RWTH Aachen
NNTP-Posting-Host: golbasto.informatik.rwth-aachen.de

shorio@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Shigenori Horio) writes:

>Hi, I just installed PasTeX1.3 in my Amiga3000.  For the starter, I double
>clicked showDVI program to check tex div documents.  However, the program
>shows error message something like "program can not open screen", and 
>exits out.  What do I have missing?

>-Fory
Maybe memory? I think ShowDVI tries to open a screen of the same size and
style as the Workbench-Screen. If this is very big/interlaced/colorfull,
there might be a memory-problem.
 
hhoff.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: rittle@supra.comm.mot.com (Loren James Rittle)
Subject: Re: ISpell -- what's the latest version?
Organization: Systems Technology Research, Motorola, Inc.
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:23:27 GMT

In article <42990@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> ps296au@sdcc4.ucsd.edu (Steven Cobb) writes:
>What is the Latest version of ISpell for the amiga?  The latest I
>have seen was on FF400 (or less).  Is there anything newer? I
>understand that Thomas Rokicki (sp?) made some additions to it to
>work well with TeX.  Any comments?

The simple answer to the above is:

ISpell 3.3LJR

Yes, there is a new version of ISpell available.
Check FF770 - FF790 or FTP from wuarchive.wustl.edu or AmiNet site.

The complex answer as best I know it:

Someone wrote ISpell.
Many people hacked on it at MIT (?).
Someone else rewrote/ported ISpell for/to UNIX (and C?).
Many people hacked on it.
[Released to UseNet via some newsgroup.]
Many people hacked on it (noticing a pattern here... :-)
Someone ported ISpell to the Amiga.
Thomas added some features and fixed some bugs in the original Amiga port.
[It hit FF4XX somewhere in here, but I recall having had a version for
 a while before it hit FF4XX, I may have downloaded it from the radical
 eye support on BIX.]
I added some features and an ARexx port.
[I sent the changes back to Thomas.]
[I released a version through comp.sources.amiga while Tad still ran the show.]
I let it sit for a while.  Then I wrote a GUI front-end for the ISpell
ARexx server.
[I released GUISpell about a year ago.]
I let it sit for a while.  Then I added all the support ARexx modules
that people sent me, recompiled with the latest C compiler and released
a new package last month.  I also inclued my latest GUI front-end for
use with ISpell.


Meanwhile, in another part of the dungeon:

Someone has continued to hack on ISpell to create
International ISpell 3.X BETA.  This version of ISpell keeps
information about the language out of the ISpell program.
Affix files and dictionaries for many languages have been
created.

It has been my hope to marry my ARexx support in the currently
supported Amiga ISpell to IISpell 3.0.  The problem is that it
has never come out of beta... maybe someday.

Regards,
Loren
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Systems Technology Research (IL02/2240)
Motorola, Inc.
(708)576-7794
From: RHorne@cup.portal.com (Richard Stanley Horne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: VCLI & GVP DSS
Date: Mon,  4 Jan 93 18:23:58 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

Here are some suggestions for using VCLI with the DSS 8 digitizer.  First,
try to find version 5.2 of VCLI.  You can find it at wuarchive.wustl.edu
in systems/amiga/incoming/audio.  If you can't find it there, let me know
and I'll send you the update myself.  Second, the FIRST thing you should
do (before learning commands) is to select the "Generic" digitizer.  If
you try to learn commands using the wrong digitizer, VCLI will be confused.
Please let me know if this solves your difficulty.
                                                 Regards, Richard Horne
Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.applications:9946 comp.sys.amiga.misc:19785
From: kevint@sad.hp.com (Kevin Taddeucci)
Subject: Re: Flow Charting Software
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:17:21 GMT
Organization: HP Sonoma County (SRSD/MWTD/MID)
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]


I forgot to mention one important thing about IntroCAD. It works in 
interlace only. If you don't have a flicker fixer or can't stand a little 
flicker you may not like it. It does user colors which create minimal 
flicker when the intensity is turned down though.

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From: ottmar@ajberl.adsp.sub.org (Ottmar Roehrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Cinemorphing
Distribution: world
Reply-To: ottmar@ajberl.adsp.sub.org
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 11 Jan 93 19:48:28 CET
Organization: Atelier Roehrig, dcp GmbH

In article <Twin-Peaks.02ud@fbi.amigans.gen.nz> Twin-Peaks@fbi.amigans.gen.nz (Dale Cooper) writes:
> actually morph.  Is this correct?  And which morphing package has that
> Baby-Owl morph, is that Cinemorph?

No, it's ASDGs MorphPlus. _IMHO_ the package with the most
sophisticated algorithms in terms of speed _and_ quality combined.

Ottmar Roehrig
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From: leneis@ogicse.ogi.edu (Tony Leneis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Bug report for Post author
Date: 11 Jan 93 00:05:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: ogicse.48318
Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute, Beaverton, OR


	I had a problem with a postscript program not working in Post 1.7.  The
author eventually tracked it down to Post not handling strings and names the
same way as keys in dictionaries.  He was able to clear up the problem with a
few gratuitous `cvs' commands, but wanted me to pass the following on to the
author of Post.  As I do not have an internet e-mail address, I'm hoping that
somebody on the net will be able to pass this on:

> That's what I thought.  This is definitely a bug in "Post", and if you could
> report it to the author, that would be cool.  Specifically, the Red Book
> (1st edition) says on page 30:
>
>   "Keys are normally name objects; the PostScript syntax and the interpreter
>   are optimized for this most common case.  However, a key may be any
>   PostScript object except `null' (defined below.)  If you attempt to use a
>   string as a key, the PostScript interpreter will first convert that string
>   to a name object; thus strings and names are interchangeable when used as
>   keys in dictionaries."
>
> So the language definition is pretty clear that the `cvs' should be happening
> automatically.

Also, has there been any more work on Post?  More specifically, is it going to
be able to do level 2 Postscript?  Also, any chance of getting a 2.0 compliant
user interface?  Neat program.

Tony
leneis@cse.ogi.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: gbartoli@netcom.com (Guy Bartoli II)
Subject: Re: Anyone have experience with X-Comm V1.00?
Organization: CLink - A Manly Network
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 12:47:08 GMT

(Perhaps this should be forwarded into csa.datacomm? I have no clue how to
do that, so I'll let wiser heads go for it.)

I've been using XComm 1.00 for a couple of hours now. I haven't seen any of
the bugs that you have just reported (but, then again, my setup and needs
are much different from yours, I'm sure.)

First off, and most importantly to me, XComm handles Zmodem xfering
flawlessly, unlike Term2.4(a) (using the EXACT SAME ZMODEM LIB!) This got my
immediate and undivided attention.

Secondly, I've switched through various emulations while online, and have
iconified and quit/restarted Xcomm with absolutely no problems. Not a single
guru yet (knock on silicon.) 

The macro-editor has worked flawlessly sofar, and I had no problems
configuring common macros such as  default username-send and password-send
(easily accessable by using the %u and %p symbols when configuring. Yay!
Great feature, Ed&Bill.)

I'm calling my unix account on XComm now, using the VT340 emulation, and
sofar, I'm extremely impressed. Now, if someone could convert $45 in
Australian money to USFunds, I'll know how much it costs to register the
sucker.

To sum up: the previous few posters have encountered many bugs and gurus
while using XComm. I'm running an A2000 (2.04Roms) with very little running
in the background, and I've had absolutely no problems. I have a feeling
that, since it is the first public release of XComm, that it will be
relatively unstable on some machines, as the previous two posters have
mentioned, but luckily, it has been peachy for me sofar!

Regards, Guy


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: waggoner@pdx159 (Mark Waggoner)
Subject: Re: Has GNU flex been ported to the AMIGA?
Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro, Oregon
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 22:35:03 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.194543.7044@coplex.com> dannie@coplex.com (Dannie J. Gregoire) writes:
>Subject pretty much says it all. Does anyone know where I 
>can find a fairly recent version?

Fish disk 704 for flex version 2.3.7

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From: jmw@chem.ucsd.edu (John M. Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Distant Suns 4.1 questions.
Date: 5 Jan 1993 05:59:46 GMT
Organization: University of California San Diego, Chemistry
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: chedccf0.ucsd.edu
Summary: 2.0 and/or math chip support available as upgrades

In article <C0Bnut.1xy@rahul.net> mike@rahul.net (Mike Smithwick) writes:

[regarding questions about versions of Distant Suns 4.1 which provide
support for AmigaDos 2.0 and/or for a math chip:]

>The other versions are available seperately. Otherwise it would
>have required a fourth disk in the box which would have increased
>the price.
>
>mike

I called Virtual Reality today; the scoop is that versions other than
the one for 1.3/ffp (supplied in the package as sold) are available as
upgrades; $10.00 (+ 4.95 shipping); at least, for the 2.0/fpu version
that I ordered. I'm not real happy about paying an extra $15, but I'm
hoping for some more speed.

It would have saved some head-scratching if this had been made clear
in the documentation provided. 

   John Wright	Chemistry, MS 0314, UCSD, La Jolla,  CA 92093-0314
	jmw@chem.ucsd.edu  jwright@ucsd.edu  (619) 534-3049


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
Subject: Re: CygnusEd and control character
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 19:20:28 GMT

In article <bmaple.0gvh@burner.com> bmaple@burner.com (Bob Maple)
writes:

>Has anyone any idea why in CygnusEd when you try to enter a control code,
>it does the control code, immediately followed by a linefeed?  Whether I
type
>it (^A for instace) on the keyboard, or with the 'Enter Ascii' and typing a
1,
>it does the same thing.

     Are you sure it's actually generating line feeds in the file?
I just tried it (I use CED to read news so I just opened another
window :-).  I've noticed in the past that CED does go to a new
line after each control character, but this is on the display only,
to avoid excessively-long lines if you should, for example, read an
executable file.

     Anyway, in my test, I entered control-A, control-B, control-C,
control-D, and control-E, then saved the file.  The result was 5
bytes long, containing hex 0102030405.

     I wouldn't worry about it.  The new lines appear on the screen
only, not in the file.

Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca
I used to be indecisive, but now I'm not so sure.