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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 01:19:00 CST
From:         Lance Tagliapietra <96720919@UCS.UWPLATT.EDU>
Subject:      UX1 gone???
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Hi,

I just tried ftp'ing to ux1.cso.uiuc.edu and found that all the FTP
directories are empty?  I hope that they were just working on their
system and that this is not permanent?  Anyone know any more about
this?

-Lance
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 Lance Tagliapietra                       Internet: 96720919@ucs.uwplatt.edu
 P.O. Box 26                                BitNet: 96720919@uwplatt
 Platteville, WI 53818
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Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 1992 16:09:22 -0400
From:         Calvin Chu <ngk@EAGLE.TC.CORNELL.EDU>
Subject:      RE: More descr. re:kermit...

>out much as I really haven't used NComm.  I have successfully used jrcomm
>and term (which I highly recommend) to do kermit.  Thus, my practical
 experiencewith ker

How did you get Jrcomm to do kermit? (!!!?)
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 09:54:21 +0200
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Subject:      Re: workbench 2.1
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striker@JUDY.INDSTATE.EDU ask :

>Anyone have any ideas about why it wont work on some A2000's

Oh yes ! I think it is because your workbench 2.1 is a pirated beta version...

 ;-)

 B. de Batz (France)
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 09:13:00 EDT
From:         Jim Loomis <LOOMIS@ITHACA.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Purple screen????

We've changed quite a few Agnus chips, and you should also be aware that the
Agnus socket is delicate and easily cracked, particularly if the Agnus sticks.
We had one hairline crack which caused a poor contact with the socket and a
purple screen.

Jim Loomis      LOOMIS@ITHACA.BITNET        607-274-3913
        Director, Telecommunications Facilities
        Roy H. Park School of Communications
        Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY 14850-7256 USA
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Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 1992 12:30:00 EDT
From:         BARNETTJ@SNYSYRV1.BITNET
Subject:      Saxonscript Postscript Fonts

If anyone is interested in obtaining converted mac postscript fonts
for use with Saxonscript Professional (which is a software/amiga
based postscript interpreter), I have a collection of these
files, including their corresponding bitmaped and metric fonts
such that they can be used with programs such as ProWrite.

If you are interested, E-mail me.  I do not have a high speed modem,
and uploading these files to wuarchive would take a lifetime.  If
someone else is willing, just send me 6 disks and a self addressed
stamped enveope.

-Jordan
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 18:19:00 EST
From:         Owen <91016@TAYLORU.BITNET>
Subject:      NewAqua

Does anyone out there use NewAqua with 2 floppy drives?  I do and I need to
update my aquarium, which is only at 310 right now.  I used to get my updates
(the ones with the data, names, index, etc files in it) from ab20 before it
went down.  Can anyone tell me where I can find updates that will work for
NewAqua?
        Come to think of it, since I'm planning on getting a hard drive quite
soon, what;s the best aquarium program to use and what updates do I use for
it?
                                                                Kevin Shafer
                                                                91016@tayloru
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 13:01:56 BST
From:         Rick Tait <rickt@TCOM.STC.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: peter's quest

>
> Hi, I downloaded this game from wuarcive and have made it all the way to
> the last screen.  But, when I get to this screen the &$&^% locks up!
> ARGH!  The frustration this sort of thing causes is immeasurable.
>  Has anybody out there played this game and run into the same problem??
>
> Yours frustratedly,
>
> Ken Hylbert
>
> hylbkl@morekypr
>
Yep. Same thing happened to me. Do you have 2.04? I do. It's such an old
game I can only think it was compiled under 1.2/3 and it doesn't like
something. Other than that, it could be hardware. This is my setup:
	A1500 (1MB CHIP)
	GVP SC-8 (2MB FAST)
	105MB QUANTUM
Similar to yours perchance?

---
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Subject: hidden messages in turbolayers
From: davis@chem.canterbury.ac.nz (John Davis)
Date: 1 Sep 92 11:13:54 +1200
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Organization: Chem Dept, Uni of Canty, Chch, New Zealand
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Just found this lurking in the turbolayers 1.3 executable 
(hint - toggle on rot13)

Jr znqr vg... orggre guna rire! Tbbq jbex, zl sevraq! 
Lbh penpxrq gur zntvp pbqr! (Vg jnfa'g gung qvssvphyg, jnf vg? ;-)) Abj, jung 
qb lbh rkcrpg? Fbzr frperg zrffntrf? BX..urer jr tb: Svefg bs nyy, V jvfu gb 
gunax nyy gur pbhagyrff crbcyr jub znqr guvf cbffvoyr (fbhaqf terng, qbrfa'g 
vg?). Naq bs pbhefr, gunaxf gb gur arire erfgvat perj ng POZ-Nzvtn jub oebhtug 
hf guvf tbetrbhf bcrengvat flfgrz!      Qb lbh yvxr guvf cebtenz? Vs lbh fraq 
zr fbzr arng fbsgjner bs lbhef, be n yvggyr qbangvba, V pna tvir lbh fbzr bs 
zl bgure Xvpxfgneg 2.0 hgvyvgvrf.    -puevf   CF: Bs pbhefr, irel fcrpvny 
terrgvatf gb nyy zl fcrpvny sevraqf...   

--
-----------------------------------------------------------
| o      John Davis - davis@chem.canterbury.ac.nz        o |
| o                   chem194@csc.canterbury.ac.nz       o |
| o                   John_Davis@equinox.gen.nz          o |
| o    (Depart)mental Programmer,Chemistry Department    o |
| o  University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand o | 
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Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 1992 13:03:51 -0400
From:         cultural elite <dsr@LNS598.TN.CORNELL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: gcc
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Calvin Chu <ngk@EAGLE.TC.CORNELL.EDU> writes:
>I already have SAS 5.1, what does GCC offer above SAS? Also, I heard about
>GCC 2.22 or something like that. On Wuarchive is 1.something .. . . ?

C++, and a very BSDish ("Unix-like") environment.  And not much support
for Amiga specific programming (though it is getting better).

gcc-2.2.2 for the Amiga is on wuarchive, in (something vaguely like)
systems/amiga/incoming/devel.  The .lha file is over 3 meg, and unpacks
to something more like 5 meg.

--
Dan Riley                          Internet:   dsr@lns598.tn.cornell.edu
Wilson Lab, Cornell University     HEPNET/SPAN: lns598::dsr (44630::dsr)
	 "Maybe, leastways is the best way of all" -Caterwaul
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 20:30:21 CDT
From:         Peter Nordgren <pnordgre@HP.UWSUPER.EDU>
Subject:      Seeking address/no. for Dataflyer (Expansion Systems)
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Today I wanted to call Expansion Systems, Inc., the folks who make
the Dataflyer controllers.  To my dismay, I found that I had tossed
out or misplaced every document I had with their address/phone no.
I know they're in California, but I can't remember where.

Can any of you Dataflyer owners help me out?  Thanks!

Reply directly to my address below.

*********************************************************************
 Peter Nordgren                 pnordgre@hp.uwsuper.edu
 Director, Media Resource Center
 University of Wisconsin-Superior
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              <D.N@UKHOUO.PRIME.COM>
Subject:      Re: Some of the latest Amiga Info that I have...hope it is useful
              to someone.
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sub AMIGAHAR
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 13:15:08 PDT
From:         EBRUC@CATGSG.DNET.HAC.COM
Subject: Re: zmodem with a vax

>>A LONG time ago someone here mentioned a program for a vax/vms system that
>>will allow you to send files using the Zmodem protocal.  Can anyone tell me
>>what it's called and/or where i can find it?
>>                                                        Kevin Shafer

> I have a copy of a pair of progs called RX and ?SZ? that act VERY well as
> Zmodem transfer progs... If you can't find them through Archie, send me a
> private mssg,and I wil try to send it via VMS dump....

I have come across a VAX/VMS specific RZ/SZ implementation.  But, it only
supports dialup connections and the documentation implies it only works with a
particular commercial product on the PC side.  I don't recall the name of the
product, but it just so happens that the company that made the VAX/VMS version
available produces the commercial telecom product.

What I am looking for, is a program that supports non-dialup connections to
VAX/VMS or Unix (preferably a BSD flavor).  None of the programs I have found
support remote login type connections.  If anyone has heard of or has a copy of
a program that supports X-, Y-, or Z- modem in a remote login type connection, I
would like to get a copy.

Ed Bruce
edward@hac2arpa.hac.com
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From: ai182@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Wayne Draznin)
Subject: EMPLANT ???
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 14:57:48 GMT


Has anyone heard anything recently re. Emplant's release?
Last I heard, it was held up in FCC testing -- that was
mid-July.

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From:         Owen <91016@TAYLORU.BITNET>
Subject:      archie

Can anyone tell me the closest archie to Indiana?
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 10:04:52 -0500
From:         flasar@WUGCRC.WUSTL.EDU
Subject:      RE: What is Internet, ?
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Derryck:
    To get a good idea of what, exactly, the Internet (as well as Bitnet,
JANET and other networks) are, check out a book called The Matrix, by John
Quarterman, available from Digital Press.  This is a very impressive compilation
on world and local networks, current to about 1989, though a revision should be
up soon, and there is talk to make it an on-line resource.  More importantly,
all your questions about these networks we so easily use each day are described
succinctly and clearly.
    Dan Flasar
    Washington U School of Medicine
    St. Louis, MO
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 12:37:00 EST
From:         Owen <91016@TAYLORU.BITNET>
Subject:      Where to go?

What is THE place for Amiga ftp'ers?  wuarchive now that ab20 is down?
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 10:45:35 EST
From:         Fernando Lopes Maia <fernmaia@INF.UFRGS.BR>
Subject:      GODS

        Hi folks!

        I want to buy the original version ( without troubles ) of the game GODS
   .
        Somebody can me help!!!

        PS: Talk to me about the purchase conditions - mail orders, credit cards
   , ...



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Date:         Sun, 30 Aug 1992 19:44:00 CDT
From:         Richard Hendricks <HENDRIC@KSUVM.BITNET>
Subject:      AMIGA (DUH)

I recently was at the bookstore here on the Kansas State
University campus and came across a book describing microcomputers
and their uses.  Not to my suprise, most of the book was geared towards
 IBM-clones and their ilk.  Not to mention the fact that apple
computers,i.e. the apple2e and the macintosh got a couple
chapters, while Amigas were stuck under the heading of
entertainment and education computers and given only a
very slight token apperance, namely about two paragraphs!
I cannot understand why people seem to ignore this wonderful
computer!  does anyone have any comments, thoughts?
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Subject:      Re: workbench 2.1
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              "striker%JUDY.INDSTATE.EDU@nmsuvm1.NMSU.Edu" at Aug 30,
              92 9:26 pm

Why what won't work? You mean 2.1? It hasn't even been released yet!
Unless you mean those thuroughly illegal beta copies on the net. But as
for why it won't work on "some 2000s," I dunno. How can we say anything about
2.1 unless we have the official word from C= ? Wait till World of Commodore!
Or better yet, Comdex, when I suspect there will be an even bigger C= blowout
of new stuff.


Queen of Swords
dleland@nmsu.edu
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 09:13:23 MST
From:         Stephen Vermeulen <SVermeulen@RAGNAROK.CUC.AB.CA>
Subject:      Re: Floppy drive database....
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:on Sun, 30 Aug 1992 00:04:30, Etop Udoh <eudoh@ST6000.SCT.EDU> asks:
:
:>    Is there such as thing as (like the harddrive database), a floppy
:> drive database which contains information on every or almost every
:> known floppy drive, size, and formatting capacities ?????
:
:yup.
:
:in fact, I've got a copy or THEREF42, which is a reference for hard disks,
:optical drives, FLOPPY drives etc. It's out there in FTP land somewhere
:(I'm sure it's on wuarchive somewhere (no, there's nuthin you aint got,
:dave 8-o )).
:
:
:| djohnson@geel.dwt.csiro.au  |  +61 52 472-651 (voice)   +61 52 472-657 (fax)
 |

Can you send me a copy... for our user's group newsletter?

Thanks,
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Date:         Sun, 30 Aug 1992 08:18:05 -0400
From:         Calvin Chu <ngk@EAGLE.TC.CORNELL.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Interlace problems.

I havn't upgraded to 2.04, sadly enough. How much hard drive space will it
take up?
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Date: 26 Aug 92 17:18:01 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620

> Is there such a beast for the Amiga?  In a way I hope not, but I am taking
> the programmers favorite language :( .
> 
> 

"Amiga Shopper" recently commented that there appears to be no Cobol 
implementation to be found anywhere for the Amiga, and I've seen that written 
in a couple of other places as well, so I think the answer is no.

   Bill Bennett                           JANET: warda@uk.ac.oxford.vax    
   CRC Growth Factors Research Group   Internet: warda%vax.oxford.ac.uk  
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 10:23:10 EST
From:         BBOWLES <bbowles@IUS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Mechwarrior for the AMIGA?

          HI all! I was wondering if anyone out there knew of a PD
          game like Mechwarrior?  At the recent Gen-Con gameing
          convention a friend was told by the Amiga users group there
          that the PD game "Mechforce" was like Mechwarrior only
          better!  Does anyone know if this is true and if so do you
          know where I might find it?  I have had several Pd
          Battletech type games that I deleted, but I have yet to fing
          the first person perspective type game like Mechwarrior for
          the I*M.  Any help on this matter would be greatly
          appreciated.  thanks in advance!

                                          Brian

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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 13:17:00 EDT
From:         Jim Loomis <LOOMIS@ITHACA.BITNET>
Subject:      Window Startup

I wonder if anyone knows if or how there is a way to have the startup-sequence
go directly into a particular drawer, rather than opening to the Workbench?

Even though it seems silly to anyone who uses an Amiga regularly, I have video
production people who either regard our machines as video prompters or paintbox
workstations.  Unbelievably, they find it difficult to select the correct
drawer (sub-dir) for the applications programs.

Yes, I know how to do a script with a menu which will run various applications,
but we want to retain the other workbench features, such as selecting file
icons, etc.

Thanks for any response,

Jim Loomis      LOOMIS@ITHACA.BITNET        607-274-3913
        Director, Telecommunications Facilities
        Roy H. Park School of Communications
        Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY 14850-7256 USA
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From:         Amiga Utilities <amiga@SPECTRUM.CS.UNSW.OZ.AU>
Subject:      Interlace problems.
              92 3:58 am

Once upon a time Calvin Chu said:
>
> I'm having some odd problems with interlace.  While flipping screens, some
> screens will become deinterlaced, but flipping the other way (using Mach III)
> will re-interlace the deinterlaced screen.   What I mean by deinterlaced
> screen is that the interlace screen is folded in half on itself and flickers
> like crazy and crashes if you try to do anything on that particular screen.

The solution is simple: Don't use software that makes your machine crash.
Toss Mach III in the bit-bucket.

As a general rule, stick to 2.04 and applications specifically written for
2.04. They tend to be better written and crash less often. 2.04 itself offers
more functionality so you might find that you do not need things like Mach.

     ///    amiga@cs.unsw.oz.au
    ///     The amiga utilities account.
\\\///      University of New South Wales
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From:         "Alejandro J. Kurczyn S." <AKURCZYN@ITESMVF1.BITNET>
Subject:      RE: Purple screen????

>Received: by uni-lj.ac.mail.yu (MX V3.1C) id 24304; Wed, 19 Aug 1992 10:08:40
>          +0100
>Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 10:07:34 +0100
>From: Blaz Zupan <uel111r2a%tferi4@uni-lj.ac.mail.yu>
>To: I-AMIGA@rutvm1.bitnet
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>Subject: RE: Purple screen????
>
>>         OK, this is starting to get REALLY old!  First my A500 starts giving
>me
>> a black screen on cold boots, and only would reset if given a three finger
>> salute, then it wouldn't work without a drop test... (I know, but it worked
f
>or
>> a while... ) now I have had a really strange thing... I got a ?PURPLE?
screen

I think it has to do with the Denise, Agnus or CHIP ram chips, I had a similar
trouble with my A500 rev 5 machine, I changed the Agnus to the 1MB and a faulty
Agnus was installed (a missing pin!) on the machine, the result was a purple
screen, reinstalling the old agnus didn't solve the problems. The only solution
we found was to change the motherboard (to a rev 6) along with the agnus.

About the black screen, I also had a similar problem when I burned out my
Denise, it worked fine for some minutes then *poof*, all was black. Sometimes
a cold boot would work and some times not. Try replacing the Denise. By the
way, I burned it because I have a "screen filter glass", you know, the ones
supoused to ease eye strain and "radioactive emissions" from the monitor, my
"filter" has a ground wire and I didn't used it. Maybe a spark or something
jumping from the filter to the monitor screen burned the Denise.

Now that I think about it, the only "original" stuff in my trusty A500 is the
case! :-) not even the keyboard (old one didn't work with rev 6 board) or the
drive (faulty motor).

By the way, do you know of any "glitches" in the memory using the 1MB Agnus
activated? Sometimes I get #0003 guru numbers and the screen gets trashed
once in a while (when short of memory).

Saludos from Mexico
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