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From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Specification of A4000
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 18:07:07 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <rogeraw.8.718632397@dhhalden.no>
  <1992Oct11.022132.19679@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>

>rogeraw@dhhalden.no (ROGER ALLAN WAHLGREN) writes:
>
>>In article <1992Oct8.100608.19974@alf.uib.no> erik@cmi.no (Erik Hansen) write
s
>:
>>>From: erik@cmi.no (Erik Hansen)
>>>Subject: Specification of A4000
>>>Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 10:06:08 GMT
>>>I see the Amiga 4000 mentioned on the net, what is
>>>the detailed specifications of this computer system,
>>>especially with reference to multimedia use?
>>>
>>>Erik M. Hansen
>>>Christian Michelsen Research a/s
>>>erik@cmr.no
>
>>For multimedia:
>>good graphics but BAD sound.
>
>Just curious (perhaps this should belong to c.s.a.advocacy...), which
>"multimedia" computer would you consider as having "good" sound??
>
>Mac?? IBM MPC?? NeXT (is NeXT a "multimedia" machine??)???

Perhaps none of them do.  But that's NOT the issue.  The issue is THE 4000
AS A MULTIMEDIA computer.  So the answer doesn't need to mention the mac or
ibm.  C'mon people, I use my amiga a lot and I love AmigaDOS but let's pull
our head out of the ground and face issues that need payed attention to when
it is legit.

For a machine to be professional multimedia, the 4000 still lacks
appropriate sound.  I'm not talking spreadsheets, or c programming, or
database applications.... pluuuuuueeeeeeeeeease.... we are in this case
talking professional multimedia.

>:)
Ha ha.  So funny.  Gee wiz.

>Kelvin
>e-mail: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu
>

I, for one, am glad to see that CBM is at least planning on DSP 16 bit
multi-channel sound.  That will help me GREATLY in placing Amigas in
multimedia applications.

-Joel
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Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 15:25:30 -0400 
From: Michael Witbrock <mjw+@cs.cmu.edu>
Subject: Political advice from certain persons, do with it what you will
	<Bvy1A5.1uE@news.iastate.edu>

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From: vmkiili@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Ville-Matti Kiili)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Finally got to play with an A4000
Date: 16 Oct 92 19:59:53 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
:    How useful is Super HiRes on an A3000 anyway?  It is dog slow even with
: one bitplane, limited to two bitplanes at the most, and a 64-color palette.
: Besides, this is more than made up for by the fact that on an A3000 

Yup, that's why I don't use it. But it certainly isn't slow on an A4000.

: absolutely EVERYTHING that will run on the system can be promoted to 31Khz,
: with no exceptions.
: 

Really? Ok, would you tell me how I could promote 800x600 24.62kHz to 31kHz? Not
possible, eh? And 31kHz VGA monitor can't handle that resolution.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: kholland@hydra.unm.edu (Kiernan Holland)
Subject: Re: Avoid the Amiga 4000
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 19:33:26 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <8508@orbit.cts.com> chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch) writes:
>Marc's comment that the IDE drive in the 4000 is slower is also wrong, as has
>been posted here by diskspeed performance tests, it's about the same, if not
>faster than the stock 3000's HD and SCSI.

I heard that IDE is about as fast as SCSI until you hit the really 
big hard drives like the 600 and 1.2 GIG drives.
From: piusn@ghsaar.saar.sub.org (Pius Nippgen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: ASDG VD0: device (or similar) under ADOS RELEASE 2.05
Date: 12 Oct 92 20:04:40 GMT
Organization: Private Amiga Site

In article <1992Oct03.003218.569100@zeus.calpoly.edu>
jgodfrey@zeus.calpoly.edu (Jon David "JET" Godfrey) writes:

>I have recently upgraded to DOS 2.05 and have had no luck installing ASDG's
>VD0: recoverable ram device into the system.  Although the software is fairly
>old, I have seen no updates on any PD/Share/Commercial lists anywhere.
>I once used the VD0: on my 1.3 machine and found it much more stable and
>usable than any other including C='s own.
>Is there a new version, patch, or anything that I can do to get ASDG's
>functioning on my A2500/030 Release 2.05 machine?

ASDG's VD0: recoverable ram device from Fish Disk 58 works fine with
all Kickstarts, even with my A4000.

ASDG's VD0: recoverable ram device from Fish Disk 241 seems to be too
much optimized, so it worked no more on my A3000 or A4000, but the good
old version from Fish Disk 58 worked always fine.

>EARTH: Jon D. Godfrey                  | The Flight Deck II BBS          ///

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From: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Avoid the Amiga 4000
Date: 13 Oct 92 12:52:39 GMT
Reply-To: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>In article <1992Oct7.193356.6639@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:

[other good responces by Dave have been deleted as we all know who is right]

>>Some people might want to simply abandon the A4000 altogether, purchase an
>>A3000 instead, and upgrade it with a third-party video card as soon as DIG
>>becomes available for the Amiga.
>
>Other people might want to stick with their A500 and just badmouth stuff they're
>too cheap to buy or too ignorant to understand.  Naaa, couldn't happen...

Well, maybe even some will sell the A500, have no computer at all, and still
complain about a machine they know nothing about but would buy in a minute
if they could...
			Like you said Dave:  couldn't happen...
						...with an intelligent human.

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|      /// Michael Sinz  -  Senior Amiga Systems Engineer              |
|     ///                   Operating System Development Group         |
|    ///   BIX:  msinz      UUNET:  mks@cbmvax.commodore.com           |
|\\\///                     Luck sometimes visits a fool,              |
| \XX/                      but never sits down with him.              |
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From: jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Fond farewells Huh?
Date: 15 Oct 92 23:27:24 CDT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

       <huh?>

> Now, you will have to have your forehead barcoded like the rest of us lost
> souls, and be tortured by the depravities of the Anti-Christ (Bill Clinton).
> You think Al Gore's last name is a coincidence? There are no
> accidents!

       <more what the HE-double-hockey-sticks is this stuff deleted.>

> See you in H-E-double-hockey-sticks!
> 
> Matt "My fate was sealed by this sig line"
> "Braindead individuals are incapable of accessing USENET." - Bruce Bufalini
>
> psu.edu, naturally 

Did I miss something I thought this was comp.sys.amiga.misc?  Please
take this to comp.nothing.better.to.do or
rel.religious.fanatics.with.no.brains.
-- 
jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
James Miller

_chicchai .sig no ho ga ichiban iin janai ka..._
             Enlightenment Happens?
From: epa@cis.ksu.edu (Eric P. Armstrong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: How to "leave out" the trashcan
Date: 11 Oct 92 19:23:24 GMT
Organization: Kansas State University
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: cygnus.cis.ksu.edu

Or you can do it the easy way.  edit sys:.backdrop and add the line

:Trashcan

to the file.  Workbench won't do anything about it until you reboot
though.
-- 
Eric P. Armstrong        epa@cis.ksu.edu        cis.ksu.edu!harry!rtfm!epa
       "I plead the fifth, because I'm too dumb." -- Karl S. Hagen
From: dfs5716@usl.edu (Seidel Daniel F)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Iff 2 Ascii
Date: 15 Oct 92 17:25:02 GMT
Distribution: y
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana




I to had seen an iff2ascii converter but at the time was not interested....
   Now that I am I can't seem to find it ....
      Does anyone out there know where I can find this prog?
Thanks...
            mail to  dfs5716@usl.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: 22black@sol.cs.wmich.edu (The Bewildered One)
Subject: Re: NEW AMIGA OS NEEDS PM, VM, AND JOB CONTROL
Organization: Western Michigan Univ. Comp. Sci. Dept.
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 14:46:14 GMT

chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch) writes:

>AmigaOS is NOT UNIX! (ANU?)... What you want is the speed of AmigaDos with the
>powers uf Unix, your not going to get it... since the powers of unix make the
>speed of AmigaDos unatainable.

>you can buy VM, it slows down the machine of course, but you can buy it..

I haven't had a speed decrease with vm on.  But it doesn't work with everything.
Nor do i trust it completely.

>Memory Protection would totally kill the flexibility of the OS.

Hardly, i think you under estimate the programmers at commodore.  It can be
done.  Just with our environment is harder.  Especially since they want
resource tracking, what is the point of multi-user, without have a safe
environment to program.

Martin
From: addison@pollux.usc.edu (Richard Addison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: CDTV INFO. WANTED. Answers needed...
Date: 7 Oct 1992 00:54:45 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: pollux.usc.edu

> Can I extend the memory of CDTV?

DKB's MegAChip 2000/500 will give you 2 megabytes of CHIP memory.

-- 
Richard
From: jw@jwdata.se (Johan Widen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Any experience with the Grolier Encyclopedia CD-ROM on the Amiga?
Date: 12 Oct 92 19:56:58 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Johan Widen Data AB
Originator: daemon@sics.se
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00 beta rel2

I'm considering buying an encyclopedia on CD-ROM to be used on an Amiga.
My question is thus: does it "work" usefully on the Amiga, or would I need
a PC?


Johan Widen				Tel: +46 8 59 120 120
Johan Widen Data AB			Fax: +46 8 59 127 761
Hugingatan 20, S-195 52 MARSTA, SWEDEN	Internet: jw@jwdata.se
From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Finally got to play
Date: 16 Oct 92 10:16:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: cbmger.9845
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Organization: Commodore Germany

In article <n0bfft@ofa123.fidonet.org> Aric.Caley@ofa123.fidonet.org writes:
>
>Are we talking real, interleaved pixels?  IE, with 8 bit pixels, all 8 bits
>are packed together into a single byte?  

No no no, it says "bitmaps", not "pixels"! It's like in an ILBM file,
where you have one scan line of bitplane 0, then for the same scan line
the other bitplanes, and only then advance to the next scan line.

>If so, I assume this is a new feature of AGA?  

Yes, indeed. It helps the video circuitry for faster fetches for the
pixel values.

>If not, what is it?  Interleaved rows (IE, 8 rows make one
>actual row of pixels)?

Interleaved rows of whole scan lines.

-- 
Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to \\  Only my personal opinions...
Commodore Frankfurt, Germany  \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: hibrown@sarah.albany.edu (Herb Brown)
Subject: Cyberscape and Mandala
Organization: State University of New York at Albany
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 22:31:02 GMT


I am looking for an address and/or telephone number of the developer
of Cyberspace and the developer of Mandala. If anyone knows either,
please send it to me via e-mail. Many thanks,

Herb


-- 
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Director,                                          hibrown@math.albany.edu  
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From: ps296au@sdcc4.ucsd.edu (Steven Cobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: A4000 and scan-lines, mode promotion, flicker
Date: 9 Oct 92 00:32:59 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <bmccnnll.718497481@unix1.tcd.ie> bmccnnll@unix1.tcd.ie (Barry McConnell) writes:
}In <1992Oct7.063412.6947@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
}
}}   Most of the A4000 screens will have scan-lines.
}
}What is "mode promotion"? I thought that meant that anything opening PAL
}Hi-Res-Laced via Intuition would end up with a flicker-free display? 

You were correct! That is what promotion does.  Your mistake has
not paying attention to the name of the poster.

Regards,
-- 
  \________/\      ______________________    __________________________________
Steven Cobb  \    /   scobb@ucsd.edu     \__/                Graduate School:
              \  /                                           It's not a job...
         UCSD  \/ ision Lab                                  It's an indenture.
From: po87553@cs.tut.fi (Pasi 'Albert' Ojala)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Writing my own shell Was: NEW AMIGA OS NEEDS PM, VM, AND JOB CONTROL
Date: 16 Oct 1992 16:06:58 GMT
Organization: Tampere University of Technology
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.tut.fi
Keywords: shell,

In article <1992Oct15.093408.25575@ifi.unizh.ch> matija@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Matija Milostnik) writes:
>In article <1992Oct15.042722.5167@sol.cs.wmich.edu> 22black@sol.cs.wmich.edu (The Bewildered One) writes:
>>[..]  Myself i am going to wait 
>>awhile and start working on a unix protected shell that will have file 
>>protection on all files and be defined as the drwerwerwe in any combo, then
>>i will of course add 's' to the protection.

[..]
>The protection flags are also reserved by Commodore, so you have
>to think another scheme for this.
>
> Matija

Commodore has defined world and group bits, so you can use them.
I include here the definitions, but all parties remember that these
CAN change. So use at your own risk..
(Btw, thanks to Randell Jesup)

/* These are the latest bits directly from Randell Jesup 30.1.1992 */
 
/* Regular RWED bits are 0== allowed. */
/* NOTE: GRP and OTR RWED permissions are 0== not allowed! */
/* Group and Other permissions are not directly handled by the filesystem */
#define FIBB_OTR_READ		15	/* Other: File is readable */
#define FIBB_OTR_WRITE		14	/* Other: File is writable */
#define FIBB_OTR_EXECUTE	13	/* Other: File is executable */
#define FIBB_OTR_DELETE		12	/* Other: prevent file from being deleted */
#define FIBB_GRP_READ		11	/* Group: File is readable */
#define FIBB_GRP_WRITE		10	/* Group: File is writable */
#define FIBB_GRP_EXECUTE	9	/* Group: File is executable */
#define FIBB_GRP_DELETE		8	/* Group: prevent file from being deleted */
 
#define FIBF_OTR_READ		(1<<FIBB_OTR_READ)
#define FIBF_OTR_WRITE		(1<<FIBB_OTR_WRITE)
#define FIBF_OTR_EXECUTE	(1<<FIBB_OTR_EXECUTE)
#define FIBF_OTR_DELETE		(1<<FIBB_OTR_DELETE)
#define FIBF_GRP_READ		(1<<FIBB_GRP_READ)
#define FIBF_GRP_WRITE		(1<<FIBB_GRP_WRITE)
#define FIBF_GRP_EXECUTE	(1<<FIBB_GRP_EXECUTE)
#define FIBF_GRP_DELETE		(1<<FIBB_GRP_DELETE)
 
-----------
-Pasi

-- 
Pasi 'Albert' Ojala       The hardest thing doing
po87553@cs.tut.fi         a job is beginning it.
From: gdillard@tbag.tscs.com (George Dillard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Need Printer Driver for Epson Action Laser II!
Date: 14 Oct 92 01:16:10 EST
Organization: Tampa Bay Amiga Group

When I first purchased this printer I could not purchase ram for it.  I had to wait 2 months for a release on the expansion ram.  I can certainly agree that the support for this printer has been shoddy, however I have had no problem with it under an HP emulation with the addition of a postscript emulator.  I, Like you would be intrested for an Epson driver to give more flexibility.

--- Via UCI v1.02 (C-Net Amiga)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: jdickson@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Jeff Dickson)
Subject: Re: a600!
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 21:27:07 GMT

In article <Rob_Semenoff.0ipo@saug.UUCP> Rob_Semenoff@saug.UUCP (Rob Semenoff) writes:
>     I could have sold my friend on getting into the Amiga family. COULD
>being the opperative word!! He had me phone the local and ONLY amiga
>dealer, I asked 
>"How much for the Amiga 600 with 40meg HD?"
>
>     After being on hold for almost 10 minutes the salesman came back and
>said
>
>"the price is ..... $750.000"
>
>     $750.00 well for a low end machine that f@#king stupid!!! If anyone
>from C= is out there reading this, read on. My friend said NO WAY am I
>going to spend that much money for that little thing, and with that the
>search ended. He no longer wants to get an amiga and he is now looking at
>other systems.
>
>     I too think $750 is way too much for such a crappy BASE system. If C=
>wants to break into the console market I think this is NOT the way to do
>it.    Needless to say that the C= dealer also never sells ANY Amiga
>System. They are still selling Amiga 3000/25/50 for $2800 (No monitor) Most
>people are going out of town to other dealers to buy Amiga stuff, 7 hours
>drive away is too far but it still beats the local dealer!!!!! the meaning
>of this letter is that now my friend is pissed of at C= and so am I for
>letting this dealer screw us for what money they can make!!!

The absurdly high prices the dealer is asking is not Commodore's fault.
Commodore sets a suggested retail price, but it is up to the dealer to
comply with that. Also when dealers of like equipment are within the approx-
imate vicinity of one another they have to price their merchandise competit-
ively. Or else - they loose out. This dealer has _no_ competition for miles 
and miles and he's banking on that.

Your friend's quarrel with Commodore is unfounded.

jeff
From: DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Cygnus Ed & Turbotext
Date: 7 Oct 92 13:47:59 GMT
 <54427@dime.cs.umass.edu> <1992Oct7.063111.14460@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>
Organization: Penn State University

In article <1992Oct7.063111.14460@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>,
rittle@supra.comm.mot.com (Loren James Rittle) says:

>In article <54427@dime.cs.umass.edu> barrett@scooby.cs.umass.edu (Daniel
>Barrett) writes:

>Both programs could use an update.  According to the last I heard,
>the author of CED is still on vacation (for over a year?) - what are
>ASDG's plans with regards to CED?  Perry, it would be nice to know
>if CED will ever get an upgrade.

I definitely recall Perry saying that CED would be updated "sometime
this (1992) year". Perhaps not. :-)

No matter, CED is still an awesome editor.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Track/Sector Editor
From: <DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 01:00:06 EDT
Organization: Penn State University

In article <1992Oct10.221526.59596@cc.usu.edu>, slbfn@cc.usu.edu says:

>In article <39291@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, ktakenak@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Kerry Takenaka)
>writes:

>I found an EXCELLENT editor on a very recent fish disk (in the 7xx series).
>It is called "DPU" and is written for PAL mode.  However, if it can not
>find a PAL computer, it will open a Hires Interlaced screen.  I like this
>one very much.  Is there anything better out in the PD/FW/SW forum?

Although the GUI editors are nice, when I want power I always turn to a
good ML monitor like AmigaMon by Timo Rossi. It functions quite well as
a file/sector editor while at the same time offering the usual palette of
monitor features. HOWEVER, unless you a programmer, it will definitely
appear inscrutable or primitive. :-)
From: eethoml@cybaswan.UUCP (l c thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: postscript
Keywords: postscript printer driver
Date: 8 Oct 92 10:57:22 GMT




Is it possible to have a printer driver that outputs postscript files?
If so, where can it be found.



Lester Thomas,
eethoml@pyr.swan.ac.uk
From: cal@shoppe.ucsc.edu (Cal Delaney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Reading SUN floppy disks
Date: 8 Oct 1992 18:34:20 GMT
Organization: UCO/Lick Observatory
NNTP-Posting-Host: shoppe.ucsc.edu

In article <1992Oct8.130307.5699@gw.wmich.edu> 832root@gw.wmich.edu writes:
>(As a last resort, I can use the IBM labs and download them using KERMIT (ACK!)
>onto an IBM floppy - What's the best way to make an Amiga floppy drive read
>a standard 720K IBM floppy disk?  Is there a public domain program that will
>do this?)
>
Yes, I do this all the time.  There are several shareware PD programs
that do this.  MSH and MultiDOS come to mind.  There is also the
comercial CroddDOS.

On our Sparck 2 we have a routine that will read, format, write to
720K 3 1/2 floppies.
From: 832root@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Reading SUN floppy disks
Date: 8 Oct 92 13:03:07 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

Here at Western Michigan University, we have a bunch of nice Sun
SparcStations in our computer lab.

My question is this - is there any way to use an AMIGA floppy drive to
READ (not write) a floppy disk that was formatted on a Sun.

I'd like to download some things from an FTP site (which I can do on my
Sun account), copy it onto the floppy, then bring it home to my trusty
little Amiga and copy it onto my hard drive.  

Downloading things direct to my Amiga from the sun takes a good long while,
particularly when we're talking about a bunch of 600K files or whatever,
and I only have a 2400 baud modem.

(As a last resort, I can use the IBM labs and download them using KERMIT (ACK!)
onto an IBM floppy - What's the best way to make an Amiga floppy drive read
a standard 720K IBM floppy disk?  Is there a public domain program that will
do this?)

Oh.. in case it matters, I have WB 2.04 and 9 megs of RAM.

 - Rick Root
 - Master of Short Signatures

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: rghester@eos.ncsu.edu (Rodney Hester)
Subject: Re: wb 2.05?
Keywords: really?
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 19:41:10 GMT

In article <1992Oct15.184139.13494@ugle.unit.no> eyvind@Lise.Unit.NO (Eyvind Bernhardsen) writes:
>rghester@eos.ncsu.edu (Rodney Hester) writes:
>> 2.05 includes a new SetPatch (with _many_ changes...again, if you don't have
>                                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> 2.05, GET IT!), a new FastFileSystem for 1.3 FFS cross-compatibility, and a
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>Wouldn't it be better to get 2.1 instead?

Absolutely!  Unfortunately it won't be available in the US until the end of
October.  :-(
-- 
           //       Rodney Hester - rghester@eos.ncsu.edu         //
         \X/          -=[ In Stereo Where Available ]=-         \X/