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From: wrh@PHYSICS.WM.EDU (William Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: printing under ORCA/Shell 2.0
Date: 15 Dec 92 00:17:20 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

As typed by Frank M. Lin ...
> 
> When I try to print a file by typing "type xxx >.dev2", it prints out, but
> doesn't get line feeds.  So it just kept on printing on the same line.  What am
> I doing wrong?  I tried to use setprinterinit, but nothing changed.
> 
> frank m. lin
> fmlin@terapin.com
> 

  Have you looked in the Printer Setup CDA?  There are some options there
for columns per line, lines per page, init string, and LF/CR handling, if I
remember correctly.  Try messing with these.  Also, I assume ".dev2" is the
same as ".printer"?  If not, try "type xxx >.printer"
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From: cd248@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard Sherman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Hyper C GS patch needed (or cheap compiler for A2 or UNIX)
Date: 20 Dec 1992 08:42:09 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: cd248@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard Sherman)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


I just downloaded the docs for Hyper C and it says it's not compatible
with the GS.  It said that there's supposed to be a patch available
but they didn't have it.
 
Does anyone have the GS patch for this program?  If not, does anyone
know
of another program I can get cheaply either for Apple II or Unix that I
could use to learn C?  Several people have told me to stay away from
lint and cc while I'm learning, and I'm not up to investing in Orca/C
just yet.
 
Any help is appreciated.
 
Stacy

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| GEnie: R.SHERMAN2    stacy@uhhacb.uhh.hawaii.edu             |
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From: jamesb@ecst.csuchico.edu (James L. Brookes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: The Apple II Now and Forever
Date: 16 Dec 92 06:45:52 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico
NNTP-Posting-Host: hairball.ecst.csuchico.edu

In article <BzC419.7Fr@darkside.osrhe.uoknor.edu> 
dsdd@okcforum.osrhe.uoknor.edu (Roy Barrett) writes:
[lots of junk nuked]

>I meant that we have reached the point of no return, in terms of support by
>Apple, as James Brookes says, "It's not gonna happen"

I'd like to point out that I'm being quoted very much out of context.

Way to go, Roy.

Besides, quoting me as an athourative source on this matter isn't
exactly a great idea.  I dictate Apple policy no more than you do.

>Roy Barrett.                                           This news gateway seems
>(also root@dsdd.core.fvnet.org soon!)                to have a serious problem
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From: joko@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Kohn)
Subject: Re: Pointless 2.0
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 23:10:39 GMT


Re: Pointless Update

I called maybe 3 weeks ago to get my Pointless v2.0 update. It arrived, by
US Mail, within 3 days.

It's wonderful. It's better than I imagined it would be.

Joe Kohn
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: cmcurtin@bluemoon.use.com (Matthew Curtin)
Subject: Re: Converting NeXT sound files to GS
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 19:53:15 EST

jimmys@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw) writes:

> I was wondering if there is anything out there (for on GS) that will
> convert sound files for the NeXT to stanard binary raw files that
> the GS can use?

I'd also be interested in knowing if there is something that would convert 
SunOS .au files to something usable to my GS...

 __________________________________________________________________________
| C. Matthew Curtin             ! "But I am the enlightened one, they are  |
| P.O. Box 27081                ! but mere sheep, following each other in  |
| Columbus, OH 43227-0081       ! the name of compatibility." -B. Heineman |
| 614/365-3272 (voice mail)     !              Apple II Forever!           |
|_cmcurtin@bluemoon.use.com_____!_____________GNO_your_AppleIIGS!__________|
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: joko@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Kohn)
Subject: Apple II T shirts
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 23:32:52 GMT


I just spoke with my friend Tony Gonzalez, and he has 28 of his t shirts
left. They are black t shirts. On the front is a graphic of St Wozniak
standing on a 6502 (maybe floating is a better description?). St Woz is
sporting a halo. On the back of the shirt is a Mac TE (Too Expensive) with
one of those international No symbols drawn through the Mac TE.

Tony has created several different versions of the t shirt. On this one,
there's no message on the back.

To get yours (remember, only 28 are left), send $15 to:

Burger Bill Heineman
7734 S BROADWAY ROAD
Whittier, CA 90606-2301

(I wore mine to my user group meeting today, and as usual, it generated a
couple of laughs)

If response is good, Tony may print some more up.

Joe Kohn
From: jlars@pro-storm.cts.com (John Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Project Apple Storm: The Empire Strikes Back
Date: 20 Dec 92 18:35:34 GMT
Organization: ProLine [Pro-Storm] -- Dallas, TX -- 214/644-5113


   From what I read and from what I have heard from other sources you
pretty well hit the nail on the head.  Who knows maybe this will change the
opinion of the fools in Apple HQ.  I am tempted to do somthing similar to
what had happened to the then NBC CEO when he treatened to Ax STTOS after
it's second series but I would need the CEO's Physical Address at his home
to impliment it.  I wonder how he would feel having to searchthrough mounds
of mail to find what he really needs??
 
John Larson

ProLine:  jlars@pro-storm
Internet: jlars@pro-storm.cts.com
UUCP:     crash!pro-storm!jlars
Bitnet:   jlars%pro-storm.cts.com@nosc.mil
From: ustai@memstvx1.memst.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: C64 outsells Apple IIs? :(
Date: 15 Dec 92 12:15:37 -0600
Organization: Memphis State University

Hiya,
	After all that hoo-haa about only selling 7 GS's...  seems that even a
C64 outsells Apple IIs now... :(

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Subject: Re: C64 emulator for DOS?
From: kopnicky@great-gray.owlnet.rice.edu (Lyle Warren Kopnicky)
Date: 8 Dec 92 22:48:21 GMT
Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas

> From: dsdd@okcforum.osrhe.uoknor.edu (Roy Barrett)

> Why the hell would you want a c64 emulator? buy a c64, don't they go for
> almost free now?
> --
> (Discontinued Products.... sheee...)

Discontinued, hell!  The C64 is currently selling at the rate of
700,000 units annually, and is the sole reason that Commodore's
factory is still open (the Amiga chips are licensed out third parties
for manufacturing).  You can probably get a 64C for ~$100 and a 1541
drive for <$100.  You could hook it up to a TV, or use a composite
capable monitor such as the 1084S, which runs for about $300.


--
+----------------------------Ren & Stimpy--------------------------------+
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| cheese. And you're the lemon merchant. Get it? And he knows it. That's |
| why he's gonna kill us. So we gotta beat it. Yeah. Before he lets      |
| loose the marmosets on us! Don't worry, little missy! I'll save you!"  |
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From: cirop02@elm.circa.ufl.edu (David Isaacson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: System 6.0 Reliability
Date: 17 Dec 1992 08:36:57 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

In article <9212160804.AA19053@bluffs.scar.utoronto.ca> 90taobri@BLUFFS.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao) writes:
|>The following revelation escaped Tim Meekins's lips:
|>> 
|>> I wrote soniqTracker which you mention, and I know of -NO- outstanding
|>> crash bugs in it. If you can -consistently- crash it let me know. I've
|>> never seen soniqTracker crash since about version .4. it's possible i have
|>> a rare strange bug in it, but i've never seen one occur. i've had a few
|>> reports quit crashes, but no way to verify it was actually soniqTracker
|>> and no way to reproduce it.
|>
|>    I've never had sT crash on me, but very often the next desktop
|>application that comes along will hang (either when the menu bar is drawn,
|>or before the screen switches from text to SHR).  This never happens unless
|>I had just quit from sT.  No system error messages, nothing.  It looks like
|>some memory trashing problem at first glance.  I've never run sT without
|>DA's or init's long enough to verify that it isn't conflicting with
|>something else.  However, *only* sT causes the computer to hang (and it
|>doesn't happen every time either).

Hmm... I get the same exact problem. A lot of times when I quit sT to
go back to the Finder it justs hangs and never makes it back. It never
beeps like it crashed or anything. And it only happens to me with sT
also.

|>--
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|>-- Preferred: 90taobri@chasm.scar.utoronto.ca (checked daily)
|>-- Free Plug: =MuGS 2.0=, the only offline Internet mail reader for
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Pascal on a II+
From: csokolo@eis.calstate.edu (Christopher Sokolov)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 00:32:21 GMT
Organization: Calif State Univ/Electronic Information Services

I would try finding Apple Pascal.  It is a solid system, and show work
fine on a II+.  (It was originally designed for it!)  You need a language
card (adds 16K to your system) but you can get that from most mail order
places.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: lunatic@netcom.com (Lunatic Johnathan Bruce E'Sex)
Subject: Re: "Apple II Forever" (Was: Re: Project Apple Storm)
Organization: Netcom; Renegade User
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 09:28:37 GMT

In article <bazyar.724051295@teal>, bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar) writes:
>
>  They didn't notice a tape recorder, or was it smuggled in?  Ahh..
>I love it!  Apple II Terrorism! :)
 

In article <Bz3x13.Cw1@well.sf.ca.us> joko@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Kohn) writes:
>
>I had absolutely no idea that the meeting was being taped. I was pretty
>surprised to see the transcript. It brought a smile to my face.
>
>I guess I'd forgotten about there being a recorder there. At the end of the
>meeting, Ernie produced a tape recorder, and played us a song, the Apple II
>Forever Song, which btw, I'd never heard before.
>
>Joe Kohn

     _
    /-\ctually, he played it BEFORE the meeting, on a portable stereo.
 It didn't LOOK like a tape recorder, it just looked like a regular
 play-only boom box.  _I_ certainly didn't know that it was also a
 tape recorder. 
 

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: sknkwrks@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: Attn Michael Henitz (ab20 mods)
Organization: Skunk Works Software Co.
Date: 11 Dec 92 18:57:32 GMT

In article <Bz2zqM.JB5@news.iastate.edu> irsman@iastate.edu (That Ian Guy) writes:
>Ian, who doesn't understand why everyone's so hot over soniqTracker :)

Hate to burst your bubble...but could it be that soniqTracker offers
more faithful reproduction of MODs?  I tried running one of the MODs
on my system (CYBER.MOD) past MODZap and...well, the results weren't
exactly the best in the world.  (Specifically, some of the voices were
way off-key and the glide function overshot quite a bit.)

If you want, I'll send a BinSCII'd copy of this MOD your way...play it
first with soniqTracker, and then with MODZap...you'll see what I
mean.

  _/_   Scott Alfter                             Internet: sknkwrks@cs.unlv.edu
 / v \  Call the Skunk Works BBS today!           Ask me about SoftDAC--digital
(IIGS(  (702) 894-9619 300-14400 V.32bis          audio for your Apple IIe/IIc!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2,comp.sys.mac.system
From: starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky)
Subject: Re: Where to get the Mac ProDOS file system extension
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:59:14 GMT

cxdb14@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu (RANDY) writes:

>Can someone tell me site, directory, and file name where I can get the Mac
>ProDOS file system extension?

What is this?  It sounds quite interesting.  Can you provide a description?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: isc10327@nusunix1.nus.sg (ONG TAT-WEE)
Subject: Re: GS/OS System Error.... HELP!
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 08:43:28 GMT

Mark Spaeth (aa783@cleveland.Freenet.Edu) wrote:
: 
: My GS was working wonderfully until I tossed it in the car and brought it
: home.  Now, when I boot system 6, I sometimes get:
: 
:          Address  $00DB19    LC Bank $1
:          Error      $0043
: 
: -- Mark Spaeth
: -- Sysop, Cleveland Freenet Apple ][ sig
: 
	Delete the Sound CDev!  I tend to have this error code when I
boot up with the Sound CDev installed.  Granted, I do have quite huge
sound resource waveforms, over 100-200k in size.  The error disappear
when I removed the Sound CDev.  Try it.

- DOTW -

Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: holmer@eecs.nwu.edu (Bruce Holmer)
Subject: Request for benchmarks (in 6502 assembly code)
Organization: EECS Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, Il., USA
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 23:25:33 GMT


Does anyone have 6502 assembly code for some smallish
benchmark programs?  I have the C code for many of these (see
below), but I don't have access to a C compiler.

I'm looking for things like the old Byte benchmarks (circa
1981) or the benchmarks used in the first RISC articles (e.g.
Patterson/Sequin, Computer Magazine, Sept. 1982).  Things
like sieve, sort (quicksort, heapsort, etc.), string move,
string search, ackerman, simple puzzle solvers, matrix
operations, software floating point, etc.  I'll be running
these on a simulator, so I'll just initialize the memory, run
the code, and look at the results in memory (that is to say,
I can do with just subroutines for most of the simple stuff).

Thanks,
--Bruce Holmer
holmer@eecs.nwu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: vprasad@cs.ulowell.edu (V G Prasad)
Subject: Looking for ProDos software ..
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 20:08:23 GMT

Hi,

I am looking for ProDos software for apple IIe. Any information
regarding this is welcome(eg ftp site location).

Thanks.

v g prasad
From: co057@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steven H. Lichter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Zoom modems/good or bad?
Date: 18 Dec 1992 07:00:34 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu



I just got 2 of them (vfx v32) and have not found any problems with them
yet. The work at 9600 with the dual standard as with a couple of others.
They work at 144 and above with both the PP as well as the Hayes. They do
run a little warm but so do a lot of modems. I hope to have one up
and running on my BBS within a week or so. I
I'm waiting for Paul Parkhurst to mod a driver and make the cable I need.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: dsdd@okcforum.osrhe.uoknor.edu (Roy Barrett)
Subject: Re: A2-Central uses cheap paper?!?!?!
Organization: Okcforum Unix Users Group
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 00:07:51 GMT

: > A2-Central? A2-Central is great and all, but it's real small, and really
: > looks more of a user group type newsletter.. (Cheap paper, etc)
: > 
: > I'm not ragging on it, Just wondering if the new one would be like this one.
:   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: 
:     *Really*?!?!  What the heck has paper quality got to do with magazine
: content quality?  Would you rather see A2-Central on nice, heavy stock with
: colour photos and pay three times as much?  I just waded through a bunch of
: replies to another one of your hypercritical messages about Apple.  Give it
: a rest and stop bitching for a change.

: 

Three times as much?!?! It's already $3.95, for 8 pages on cheap paper, I mean,
Computer Shopper costs $2.95, and it has 1000+ pages... I just didn't like A2-C
too much, it didn't appeal to me.
: --

Also, I'm not bitching, I was just WONDERING, read my last post, and A2-C isn't
by Apple, anyways.
: -- Real name: Brian Tao (Dept. of Exobiology, University of Toronto)
: -- Preferred: 90taobri@chasm.scar.utoronto.ca (checked daily)
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From: gregt+@CMU.EDU (Gregory Ross Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: RamFAST problem?
Date: 12 Dec 92 22:24:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.Qf_jAUS00WCSNR05Zb
Organization: Senior, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


  I just got a brand new rev D. RamFAST card (3.0l ROMs).  I'm rather
pleased with it overall, except that I'm getting some rather strange
behavior.  Right now I have DMA turned off, and everything seems fine.
When I have DMA on, things will run for a while, but then something
inevitably bombs.  Sometimes it's nice, like a "GS/OS fatal error" or
somesuch.  Sometimes the system just freezes during or after disk
access.

  My system:
	s7: RamFAST (Conner 3200 at id 6, Seagate ST1096N at id 5)
	s4: SuperSonic with digitizer (yeah, that's the problem :-)
	s3: ZipGS 9/64K (board v1.02)
	ram slot: GSSauce with 4megs
	diskport: Apple 3.5" and AE 5.25"
	modemport: uuh, modem
	joyport: ya, the joystick

  I'm thinking of sending the RF back to CVT, and have them look at
it, or ship me a new one.  I used to have Apple's DMA SCSI card, and
never had a single crash, so I think it's gotta be the RF.  But then
again, the very first problem I had seemed like the Zip was fried.
Ever since then, it seems like the RF.  Is it possible that when the
RF DMAs, sometimes the Zip toasts the data?  Hell, I dunno.  I'd
rather not lose time by shipping the card away, but I'm getting more
worried about the crashes...

  Does anyone have any insights?

		-Greg
		 InterNet: gregt+@cmu.edu
		       or: gt0t+@andrew.cmu.edu
		 BITNet  : R746GT0T@CMCCVB
		 AOL     : GRThompson
From: JDA@CU.NIH.GOV ("Doug Ashbrook")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Need help with ParamText routine
Date: 11 Dec 92 18:32:32 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

On page 229 of the ByteWork's "Programming the Toolbox in Pascal"
tutorial it states:

     "Setting bit 1 of the flag word tells the Control Manager to
     perform text substitution.  This lets you substitute text in a
     static text string, more or less like you did in an alert
     window."

I have been attempting to do this but have been unsuccessful in
everything I have tried so far.  I found the ParamText toolbox
routine in volume 1 of the Toolbox Reference Manual and I assume that
this is the routine that I need to use.  My static text gets drawn,
but there appears to be garbage where the substitute text should
appear.  In addition to the code shown below, I have tried calls such
as the following, but none work:

   ParamText(strPtr, nil, nil, nil);
   ParamText(@'Output', nil, nil, nil);

Here is a portion of my Pascal source (I am using ORCA/Pascal
version 1.4):

   var
      str: pString;
      strPtr: pStringPtr;

   begin {InitWindow}
   str := 'Input';
   strPtr := @str;
   ParamText(pointer(ord4(strPtr)), nil, nil, nil);
   wPtr := NewWindow2(nil, 0, @DrawContents, nil, $02,
               status, rWindParam1);
   end; {InitWindow}

And here is the Rez source for the template for the static text
control:

resource rControlTemplate (statInput) {
   statInput,                           /* control ID */
   {5,15,16,500},                       /* control rect */
   statTextControl {{
      $0002,                            /* flags */
      $1002,                            /* more flags */
      0,                                /* refcon */
      statInput+status                  /* Title Ref */
      }};
   };
resource rTextForLETextBox2 (statInput+status) {"Input File:  *0"};


Please note that the curly brackets probably will not survive the
translation from my EBCDIC IBM mainframe through the mostly ASCII
network.  Can you please shed some light on what I am doing wrong?
Or at least point me in the right direction.  Thanks.

====================================================================
J. Douglas Ashbrook                                   (301) 402-1248
INTERNET: JDA@CU.NIH.GOV                           BITNET: JDA@NIHCU
National Institutes of Health, Computer Center,   Bethesda, MD 20892
From: gdesroch@slate.mines.colorado.edu (DESROCHERS GARY FREDERIC)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: More on printing!
Date: 15 Dec 92 23:34:30 GMT
Organization: Colorado School of Mines


    O.K.  I have a good interface for GSOS printer drivers.  Now for the 
next step.(no pun intended)

     I am now in ProDOS 8.  I want to identify a printer and I want to
exclude all the other ports that could not possibly be printers.  How can I
do this.  Remember this is only on the IIgs.  The firmware reference says
that it can only be in slots one and two.  Is this the case?  Let's
speculate that it isn't the case.  Let's step through the list of block
devices for ProDOS 8.  Let's say I get:

slot 1 drive 1 = block device
slot 1 drive 2 = block device
slot 2 drive 2 = block device
slot 3 drive 2 = block device

   This is not a real list by any methods.  All I am trying to get at is
that if there is a block device defined for slot 1 drive 1 can I actually
say that there is no printer there?  But could I also say that there may be
a printer at slot 2 because nothing is taking up drive 1.

    I just through this together right now to see what I could come up
with.  Any comments or suggestions on how you have done it or how you think
it should be done would be appreciated.


-- 
Gary F. Desrochers
gdesroch@slate.mines.colorado.edu