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From: fillg1@uni-paderborn.de (Michael Illgner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: IS XPK SAFE?
Date: 23 Nov 1992 15:55:29 GMT
Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn, Germany
Distribution: world
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In article <1eqnb1INN8se@uni-paderborn.de>, tron@uni-paderborn.de (Matthias Scheler) writes:
|> [stuff deleted]
|> 
|> |> |> I would prefer a version of Ami-Back with FULL XPK-Support :-).
|> |> 
|> |> That's quiet easy. Write a new filehandeler that compresses on read and decompresses on write,
|> |> as an opposite to the XFH-handler. Now backup your disk using the new device.
|> 
|> A handler with multi disk/drive handling ??? Uuuurgs ....


Not for the backup-media (the disks), for the disk to be backuped (the Harddisk). 
As an alternative : Nuke your whole harddisk, backup  it, then unnuke.

								Michael
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From: soft-logik@cup.portal.com (Kevin W Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Applications and Plotter output?????
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 16:34:00 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>I am looking for titles and makers of software that can send output
>to a plotter.  I recently acquired an hp7470A plotter and would like
>to use it with my Amiga 2000. I would appreciate any information that
>can be provided.
>
>                                      Thanks,
>                                      Rod T.
>                                      EMAIL -->rthorstr@oz.bmd.trw.com
>
>
>PS. To the individuals I sent an earlier message.  If you responded to
>my message via email, it was lost since we had a disk crash and I lost
>my mail for 2 days.
>

PageStream, the Desk Top Publishing program, supports HPGL compatible
plotters.

Kevin Davidson, Asst. Moderator AmigaZone Vendor Support - PORTAL
               <soft-logik@cup.portal.com>
        SOFT-LOGIK BBS (PCP MOSLO) (314) 894-0057
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From: ewilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: <None>
Date: 17 Nov 92 18:48:42 -0800
Reply-To: EWILTS@GALAXY.GOV.BC.CA
Organization: BC Systems Corporation

In article <wfaust.091a@venus.adsp.sub.org>, wfaust@venus.adsp.sub.org (Wolf Faust) writes:
> Fabbian  sent me a small dumpfile that showed the problems several
> Deskjet  users  have talked about.  Because several people had the
> same problems, here the cause/solution of the problem:

[problem of graphics shifting on page truncated]

> **** HOW TO AVOID THE PROBLEM *****
> 
> There are several solutions on how to avoid the shift of graphic
> output:
> 
> 1.   Run the "Initprinter" program (on your WB or Extra disk)
> before doing the first dump (only in case this dump does graphics)
> after turning on/reseting the printer.  This way your printer gets
> initialised and all dumps hereafter should be ok.
> 
> Initprinter will cause an empty page on your printer. This can be
> avoided by selecting continuous papertype in preferences before
> running Initprinter.
> Note: on some applications you do not need to turn this setting
> back to single page to get a formfeed at the end of each page.

I've just tried this to see if it also resolves my problem with Final Copy II
and the Super_DJ driver.  It doesn't.  My first page is fine, then I get a
blank page, then the 3rd page (actually the 2nd printed page) starts
immediately at the top of the physical page with no top margin.  I didn't even
think the DJ 500 was capable of printing with no top margin!

I would really appreciate someone's settings for FC II, Super_DJ, and DJ Helper
preferences (if it's used).  I had everything set up properly for QuickWrite
and then purchased FinalCopy II and haven't got a perfect match yet.  Any ideas
would be *greatly* appreciated!

> PS:   I really don't want to force you buying one of the mentioned
> commercial driver, but I think they are surley worth the money and
> far from being expensive (at least Studio and DJHelper). Also, in
> case of Studio/TurboPrint, you get much better graphic output...

I've found Super_DJ/DJHelper invaluable with previous problems and well worth
the money.  The tricky part is identifying just the right combination of
parameters for each individual program which is an unfortunate aspect of the
current state of DeskJet support.  

> Wolf Faust                 Internet: wfaust@aurea.hotb.sub.org
> Germany                        FIDO: 2:249/3.5
> Tel: (+49)69 5486556         CBMNet: wfaust@venus.adsp.sub.org
-- 

Ed Wilts, BC Systems Corp., 4000 Seymour Place, Victoria, B.C., Canada, V8X 4S8
EWilts@Galaxy.Gov.BC.CA     Office:  (604) 389-3430    Fax: (604) 389-3412
From: soft-logik@cup.portal.com (Kevin W Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Printing with the B&W cartridge on PageStream 2.2
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 17:30:12 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>I have just got a Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 500C and I am having abit of
>difficulty printing out JUST TEXT with the Black & White cartridge.
>Everytime I try to print ANYTHING (text OR graphics) it asks for the
>Colour Cartridge.  Whats up?  Is there anyway of printing text out in
>Black or am I stuck with this putrid green?

OK, I told you wrong.

To print Black and White on the DJ 500C (using the black cartridge only)
load the DeskJet 500 (NOT C) driver and print with that.

Sorry for the wrong advice.

Kevin
From: fillg1@uni-paderborn.de (Michael Illgner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: IS XPK SAFE?
Date: 23 Nov 1992 13:38:25 GMT
Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn, Germany
Distribution: world
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Keywords: semprini, spam, ni, naught bits, Bruce, llamas

In article <1eqm2bINN8se@uni-paderborn.de>, tron@uni-paderborn.de (Matthias Scheler) writes:
|> In article <1992Nov19.003222.8735@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>, umueller@iiic.ethz.ch (Urban Dominik Mueller) writes:
|> 
|> [stuff deleted]
|> 
|> |> ... Now we only need someone to build XPK
|> |> into BTN: (the backup programs wouldn't even know about compression!).
|> 
|> I would prefer a version of Ami-Back with FULL XPK-Support :-).

That's quiet easy. Write a new filehandeler that compresses on read and decompresses on write,
as an opposite to the XFH-handler. Now backup your disk using the new device.

								Michael
|> 
|> -- 
|> Matthias Scheler                                         tron@uni-paderborn.de
|> University of Paderborn (Germany)

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From: rico@disaster.hacktic.nl (Rico Jansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: MSH: and 2.05
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 09:49:53 GMT
Organization: HIN - Disaster Area

In article <BxIoAE.K74@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>, A. Fryer writes:

> > I used to use MSH (version 1.30) to read/write MSDOS format disks.
> > When I switched to AmigaDos 2.05, MSH was unable to read or even
> > recognize my MSDOS disks.  Is there a newer version of MSH?

I don't know if it is newer but I have a version that works so
there ought to be a working version around somewhere.

> Get MultiDOS.  Much better (i.e. it actually works in all systems... not  
> arbitrarily on  some systems like MSH).  Also lets you access the IBM disk  
> as DF0: as well as the Amiga disk.  Works fine for me under 2.04 (should  
> be ok under 2.05 as well).
> 

MultiDOS isn't better, I have had troubles with it with my machine.
The symptom was that when a program was used that gave you a requester
It started saying 'no disk in drive MD0:' for every drive I had.
(That is 3 Diskdrives and 2 Harddisks)

Also MultiDOS won't let you read odd format disks. Like 800K (10 sector disks)
or 360K disks in 5-1/4 inch drives.

Rico Jansen (rico@disaster.hacktic.nl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: itch@cbnews.cb.att.com (richard.m.brack)
Subject: Re: ProDraw + A4000 = :-(
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 23:49:40 GMT
Keywords: prodraw 4000 no workee

In article <1992Nov18.191534.15115@news.uit.no>, terjem@stud.cs.uit.no (Terje Normann Marthinussen) writes:
> In article <1992Nov18.031030.6187@cbnews.cb.att.com>, itch@cbnews.cb.att.com (richard.m.brack) writes:
> >
> >I don't know how others generally feel about Gold Disk but I'm not too
> >excited at the moment.  If you haven't heard ProDraw crashes on the
> >A4000.  Are there any developer types out there that have tried to run
> >it on a non-4000 machine running 3.0?  Just wondering what happened.
> 
> Well, I've tried it and PPage on both A4000 and an A2500 running 3.0.
> As long as the OS is v. 39.29 an KS is v. 39.106 the program runs on
> both machines. If you have anything earlier than that it will crash.

Interesting.  I'm running KS 39.106 and WB 39.29 according to 'about' from
the 'workbench' menu, and ProDraw is NOT working.  It loads, and seems ok
at first.  You can start using it but very soon it freaks.  Some times I
get repeated recoverable alerts to the point all you can hope to do is hit
Amiga-Q to quit the program.  Usually the pull down menus just stop working
too.  The titles appear when you press the right mouse button but you can't
get the menus down.

The customer support guy seemed to agree with me that it didn't work on the
4000.  He didn't argue that at all.  Did you use it extensively or just
load it to see if it would run?


Rich...
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: adap@edmund.cs.andrews.edu (Edsel Adap)
Subject: Re: A1000 w/ ProWrite, Final Copy, and Prof Draw???
Keywords: Advice request.
Organization: Andrews University
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:10:42 GMT

In article <1992Nov18.191317.5255@ennews.eas.asu.edu> kanko@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (Mark Kanko) writes:
>
>Sorry if I'm asking some FAQs, but I haven't been on this group for 
>quit awhile.  I'll make it short and sweet.
>
>I've go an A1000 with 2.5 Meg and a 40-M Xetec HD hooked to an
>Okidata OL400 laser printer (HPII emulation).  I bought ProWrite
>3.2 last year in hopes of getting an application on par with
>MS-Word, but I was miserably disappointed.  A typical 300dpi
>12-pt Times text-only page takes 4-7 minutes to print.  Not
>only that, but the quality of the printout is terrible, "High
>Quality" mode gives me garbage, printer font numbers don't work 
>(yeah, I know: "It's not New Horizon's fault that the printer
>driver doesn't support it..."), I only get a few displayed lines
>on my screen in non-interlace, etc., etc., etc.  In short, my old
>Zenith 286 running Word for Windows ran circles around this combo.
>I am on the verge of selling the ProWrite and buying Final Copy II.
>
>Ques 1:  Will I see the advertised speed increase with FC II and
>my system?  Will I be able to successfully (i.e., see smooth,
>300 dpi resolution on the printed page)  use the "included" 
>outline fonts with my OL400 and get pages out faster than 8 min per?

Yes, there is a significant speed increase.
And yes you can get 300 DPI resolution on any printed page if your
printer supports it.  Since the outline fonts are printed as graphics,
you cannot get 8 pages per minute.  (On any laser printer with any
computer, printing graphics is not as fast as printing text).

>
>Ques 2:  I want to get Professional Draw 3.0.  Same basic questions
>as above, but mainly will I be limited on output quality on my
>non-Postscript printer and what should I expect for speed (or lack
>thereof) on my unaccelerated A1000.
>
>Any advice EMAILED to me would be greatly appreciated.  I'm a full-
>time student and don't have a whole lot of time to research all 
>this.  I'm especially interested if you're using a A1000 and/or
>the OL400.  Thanks, all.
>
>Mark
>kanko@asuvax.eas.asu.edu
>


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: cazabon@hercules.cs.uregina.ca (Charles Cazabon (186-003-526))
Subject: What is AmigaGuide?
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 02:42:15 GMT
Distribution: World
Organization: University of Regina, SK, Canada

A number of shareware/freeware applications I have downloaded recently
have included documentation files ending with '.guide'.  As they also
included documentation in standard text format, this was not a problem,
and I ignored the .guide files.

However, I recently downloaded CyberCron15.lha and found that it's only
documentation is in .guide format.  It is a little confusing to try to
read it on its own, and I have been able to deduce that these files
are probably some sort of on-line hypertext help system or something to
that effect.

One file came with an icon with it's default tool set to 
SYS:Utilities/AmigaGuide.  This program was not included with my
OS2.04 package...strange enough.  They also seem to require an
amigaguide.library that I also do not have.

Are these files part of the OS2.1/OS3.0 package?  If so, are they
non-distributable to those of us with 2.04?

If they are a separate package, where are they available?


--Chuck Cazabon, cazabon@hercules.uregina.ca
* alternate address:  cazabon@meena.cc.uregina.ca
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I went to Israel on holiday, and all I got was this lousy gunshot wound.
From: tron@uni-paderborn.de (Matthias Scheler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: IS XPK SAFE?
Date: 23 Nov 1992 13:46:09 GMT
Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn, Germany
Distribution: world
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[stuff deleted]

|> |> I would prefer a version of Ami-Back with FULL XPK-Support :-).
|> 
|> That's quiet easy. Write a new filehandeler that compresses on read and decompresses on write,
|> as an opposite to the XFH-handler. Now backup your disk using the new device.

A handler with multi disk/drive handling ??? Uuuurgs ....

-- 
Matthias Scheler                                         tron@uni-paderborn.de
University of Paderborn (Germany)
Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:47:49 -0500 
From: "Alex R.N. Wetmore" <aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Startup problems?

Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.amiga.applications: 19-Nov-92 Re: Startup
problems? by Mark 'Mark' Sachs@psuvm. 
> Let me just interrupt here and say that now, November 1992, there is no
> excuse for anyone to be running that weak, pathetic operating system,
> AmigaDOS 1.3.

There are reasons.  I have an a1000, which I paid $100 for, and can't
really afford the $100 upgrade to 2.0 (I have to buy a romswitch for the
a1000 also, because it has a 256k RAM area that it loads the ROMs into).
 On the other hand I don't count on everything working, but it would be
nice if applications (esp things found on ftp sites) said somewhere
easily readable that they require 2.0.

I guess you could say that no one should be using an a1000, but that
seems awfully silly since they are still pretty well supported
computers.  

alex
From: terjem@stud.cs.uit.no (Terje Normann Marthinussen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: IS XPK SAFE?
Keywords: semprini, spam, ni, naught bits, Bruce
Date: 15 Nov 92 20:22:50 GMT
Organization: University of Tromsoe

In article <Bxnwv6.At@javelin.sim.es.com>, dingebre@imp.sim.es.com (David Ingebretsen) writes:
>
>I'm very impressed with the XPK package and the XFH and XPK-handler
>file systems. BUT how reliable are they?
>
>If you use/have used either of these, I would appreciate you thoughts.
>
>1. Have you ever lost data?
>2. Was it obnoxious in any way?
>3. Would you do it differently if given another chance?
>4. Which handler would you recommend?
>5. Do you back up your data in the compressed format?
>
>lastly, and random thoughts.
>
I've had som bad experiences with xfh/xpk.

Gnuemacs won't start sometimes in compressed form.

When compressing then uncompressing some programs there will be errors when you
uncompress it.

When xfh open files it holds the whole file in uncompressed form in memory until
it's closed again. So, when I tried to compress my cgfonts: directory, I ran out
memory just by starting PPage (this is documented in the manual though).

Disk access will be VERY slow, especially "dir". I suppose this is because 
xfh will have to examine all the files in the directory for information
about the compression type and their real size.

Some programs destroys their own file upon execution (for instance commodities)
don't now why. Have wondered maybe it could be that they are trying to write
to their own file when running? (haven't cared to examine the phenomena closer though.
It's not that important to me)

Showdvi/dviprint from the PasTeX package complains about the compressed files
(don't remember the error though), but they will work.

I have the feeling that Nuke, which I think is the best compression method also
is the least stable.

That's all I can remember right know, but I feel that there probably is
more. If anyone has some ideas about how to get rid of the above problems then
they will be  appriciated.

Terje Marthinussen
terjem@stud.cs.uit.no
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From: rfentima@ub.d.umn.edu (Robert Fentiman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Programming
Date: 16 Nov 1992 13:51:59 -0600
Organization: University of Minnesota, Duluth
NNTP-Posting-Host: ub.d.umn.edu

In article <Bxt9zr.JCx@unx.sas.com> walker@twix.unx.sas.com (Doug Walker)
writes:

>The point is that with AMOS it's not totally code dependant.  AMOS

I have understood that this was the writer's point ever since he wro
it.

>As a side question, is AMOS a compiled or interpreted BASIC?  If it's
>interpreted, that reduces its usefulness for commercial products, but
>wouldn't affect its usefulness for personal applications or PD 
>projects.

It's both (for versatility).  The initial AMOS package comes with an
interpreter.  Also included is a RUN ONLY version of the interpreter so
that anyone who doen't have the AMOS editor cannot edit the program (not
to mention it is smaller).  AMOS programs are not stored in ASCII
format, but the editor allow importing of ASCII if you wish to port over
some old BASIC programs.  A compiler is also available for improvements
on the size, speed, and source protection of a program.

>-- 
>  *****
>=*|_o_o|\\=====Doug Walker, Software Distiller====== BBS: (919)460-7430 =
> *|. o.| ||                                          1200/2400/9600 Dual
>  | o  |//     For all you do, this bug's for you!
>  ====== 
>usenet: walker@unx.sas.com                            bix: djwalker 
>Any opinions expressed are mine, not those of SAS Institute, Inc.
>

	Thanks
	Robert Fentiman

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At: University of Minnesota, Duluth
From: Carl-D@cup.portal.com (Carl Thomas Demelo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re:
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 20:38:38 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: na

>Has anyone with an Amiga 500, DataFlyer 500 and running workbench 1.3 used
>ReOrg version 1.1?
>
>Several times, I've run ReOrg on my 52 meg hard drive, entered the "SetAutoBoo
t
>on" command to re-enable autobooting (as ordered by the DataFlyer 500 User's
>Manual), and upon reset, found that my drive would not boot. Strange thing is,
>on my latest attempt, I performed this ReOrg/SetAutoBoot combination at severa
l
>stages during my hard drive restoration process. The operation was successful
>(ie. ReOrg optimized the drive and the drive autobooted upon reset) when my
>drive was 20% full, 40% full, 50% full but not when 70-75% full.
>
>I contacted the author of ReOrg concerning this, and he sent me a very
>detailed response on what he thought the problem might be and why. He suggeste
d
>that the problem may be with the SetAutoBoot command. So, I contacted Expansio
n
>Systems, the manufacturer of the DataFlyer and hence creator of the SetAutoBoo
t
>command, for help. Their information, was, in a word, non-existent. I think
>"We'll get back to you on this" is their favorite expression. I've phoned them
>3 times in the last week and I don't expect they'll ever have an answer for me
.
>
>So, does anyone out there have a suggestion as to what the problem might be
>and a possible solution? Has anyone else had this problem with the DataFlyer
>and optimizers?
>
>Thanks for any info.
>
>- Robert Randell


I've had similar problems using BAD with a Dataflyer/ST147N.  Expansion 
Systems told me to make a boot floppy with the hard drive mountlist on it.
Then mount dh0: and setautoboot on from the floppy startup sequence.
It seems to work for me.

Carl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,alt.sys.amiga.uucp
From: umueller@iiic.ethz.ch (Urban Dominik Mueller)
Subject: Re: XPK 2.4 & XFH 1.12
Organization: Dept. Informatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 00:16:43 GMT

In article <Randy_Schnedler.0jyb@fcircus.sat.tx.us> Randy_Schnedler@fcircus.sat.tx.us (Randy Schnedler) writes:
>
>In <1992Nov11.054302.4118@netcom.com>, fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:
>> >    I'm using NUKE also--it seems to make the most sense for any XFH
>> >use.
>> 
>> I did all sorts of benchmarks for the different compressors, with speed
>> tests and compression on different types of data.  Then I found that
>> xQuery will give you the same information in a lot less time.   :)
> 
>Where did you get xQuery?  Is this a compressor that goes along with
>XPK?  If so, where can it be found?  I have XPK24USR.lha which includes

xQuery is an application program that lists some statistics that are built
into the sub-libraries. It's in the original xpk25usr.lha archive.
(Hope you saw the announcement posting)

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From: squigg@gssec.bt.co.uk (Stephen Quigg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.introduction,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Programming
Keywords: AMOS, beginners, programming
Date: 17 Nov 92 12:53:29 GMT
Organization: BT Glasgow Systems and Software Engineering Centre, Scotland.


-- 
Stephen J Johnston writes ::

> I disagree ..... modules should comply with the rules of other modules etc ...

where  did you go to college ?
The whole point of a module is that it is entirely independant from all other
modules in the completed code , meaning that any module can be changed as much
as you like ,as long as it's interface to the other modules is seen to be the
same (ie same data passed between them ....)
Correct me if I picked up what you were saying wrongly ....

Anyway , forget modules , object orientation is by far the superior solution ,
both for small-scale AND large projects !
 
Stephen Quigg
squigg@gssec.bt.co.uk 
British Telecom , GSSEC , Glasgow
(Nothing in any of my mail represents my Employer in any way)