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From: jpr@hp10.lri.fr (Jean-Pierre Riviere)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Find File utility for the Amiga
Date: 29 Jul 92 13:43:00 GMT
Reply-To: jpr@lri.lri.fr (Jean-Pierre Riviere)
Organization: everything but the maffia...

I did one for the 1.3 (it works on 2.0 but of course cannot handle links).
I has *ALL* the features of research you might dream of (regexp, bits,
note, date, size...),
even scanning only on files/directory, interactive mode and no sub-dir
acanning,
is of "normal speed* (I used C= routines to scan directories) and allows
built-in functions
(display complete name (path and name (that the original use after all
:-)), echo (all you
want, *very handful* to generate script (knows path+name or name only),
filenote, delays
(want a fast done slideshow ?), deletion, and, the *ultimate weapon* :
it can do as many
commands as you wish with the files/directoryes you wish (though only
one at a time).
(it can deal perfectly with blanks in file names, too :-)

To make you an idea :

find -f dh0: -e "Hey, that's file []. Looks like a picture to me.\n" -I
*.(pic|iff) "Mostra {}"

will find all through dh0: (-f dh0:)
for file matching *.(pic|iff)
if found it will say (with option -e)
Hey, that's file mickey.pic. Looks like a picture to me.
Do you want to process that file  (y/N) ?
the latter prompt being cause of interactive mode (-I)
and if you answers yes, will display it with Mostra
(the {} indicate the full name of the file).

Don't be afrais by the option. Just type "find" and a one-page clear
summary will
be printed. And the manual (in English) is really helpful (tell you what
you can do, lot of
examples and yet everything is told).

Try it, it's very handful, it's free, and the source in C is complete!
It's cli-only :)

I'm going to do an even more powerful 2.0-only version.

If you're interested, email me and I'll send you the stuff.
(I have not ftp'ed it cause it's 2.0 ignorant, a shame nowadays, but
anyway if power
is what you need, you can have a look at it)

Now, your needs may very well do another find suit them better. I wrote
mine for me ;)

If name is your only target, Cedric Beust made one quick find very
efficient. Email him then.

Good luck in your quest.

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From: rcstoeck@iiic.ethz.ch (Raymond Claude Stoecklin)
Subject: Re: Amiga Dock Utility
Organization: Dept. Informatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 20:52:50 GMT

>Also try Toolmanager available on ff #551 at above sites.  It has docking
>features amoung other things and only works under 2.0.  I've heard from 
>someone that it's not stable but I know lots of people use it.
?!? I've been running Toolmanager ever since.. and if something IS stable
on my Amiga, then it is Toolmanager 1.5 ! (Well.. as long as you don't try
to quit it and DO NOT DARE to use a Version < 1.5 :-)
However, I find the "dock" it provides very ugly, but you can use brushes
on your workbench instead of a real dock. That way, you can even change
the screenmode! I highly recommend it.
>
>Tony Bruder - neon@cup.portal.com
- Raymond Stoecklin (try to pronounce :-) rcstoeck@inf.ethz.ch
From: peter@aristotle.sbi.com (Peter Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Does a Postscript driver exist for amiga prt: device?
Keywords: printer postscript network
Date: 22 Jul 92 16:58:53 GMT
Reply-To: peter@aristotle.sbi.com (Peter Murray)
Organization: Financial Systems Development - Salomon Bros. Inc., NY


when is 2.1 going to be released or has it?
From: soft-logik@cup.portal.com (Kevin W Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Which application for the cutting plotters
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 18:14:18 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>My friend ask me to is there a good Amiga software for the
>cutting plotters (eg. Roland 11xx series)
>He wants to use plotter with the Amiga for cutting bigest
>fonts (5 to 50 cm) otherwise he have to use PC clones...
>I think may PageStream can be used for this but I don't sure.
>Please give me some information.
>Thanks,
>
>Cem Turgay.
>


Yes, PageStream supports HPGL compatible plotters such as the Roland.

Kevin Davidson, Asst. Moderator AmigaZone Vendor Support - PORTAL
               <soft-logik@cup.portal.com>
        SOFT-LOGIK BBS (PCP MOSLO) (314) 894-0057
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Hard drive defragmenting
From: davis@chem.canterbury.ac.nz (John Davis)
Date: 22 Jul 92 14:26:04 +1200
 <X204KSJ@minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de> <1992Jul21.163135.8338@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com>
Organization: Chemistry Dept, Univ of Canty, CHCH NZ

In article <1992Jul21.163135.8338@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com> jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999) writes:
>Subject: Re: Hard drive defragmenting
>From: jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999)
>Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 16:31:35 GMT

>In article <X204KSJ@minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de> arzheim@goofy.zdv.uni-mainz.de (Kai Arzheimer ) writes:

>>Better solution: Try ReOrg (shareware). It does very well (with enough memory)
>>and can be found e.g. at amiga.physik.unizh.ch (dir should be /amiga/disk or so)

>... and then again.... I've heard a few disquieting reports of ReOrg not doing it's job right --
>or doing it too good, depending on how one looks at it.  Files that were good before
>ReOrg got them were no longer useable.  Even text files have been trashed.  I have *not* gotten
>the particulars on what version (I just checked, I have *two* on my BBS), but as usual it
>appears caution is the watchword.  :-(

>Anyone else hear of this?  I've had two verified reports from both No. and SoCal, and the people
>reporting it included the re-org`ed files and the backups of the originals.  The originals were the
>same size as the reorganized ones, but the ReOrged ones were not useable.  This did not happen to
>all files, but a sufficient number to send off alarm bells.

yes, but can the people involved gaurantee their hard-disk wasn't already
subtly munged (most commonly two files using the same sectors - a fault
that things like Qbtools will not pickup , indeed fixdisk is the only
package I know that checks for that) before they ran ReOrg. ReOrg does
a fair amount of sanity checking on the disk before starting, but it seems
to be mainly on the directory structures.

Anyway, I haven't heard of anyone losing data thru ReOrg - though of course
you should always do a total backup before starting it, and then if you're
paranoid (I am:-) do a verify of the backup against the disk afterwards just
to make sure


 
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From: mruff@amiga.physik.unizh.ch (Martin Ruff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Virtual Memory for the Amiga?
Date: 28 Jul 92 16:37:08 GMT
Organization: ICU - University of Zurich, Dept. of Comp. Sci.


In article <1992Jul26.191741.26791@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> aq061@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Scott Devine) writes:
>
>I have read some of the post on this virtual memory program for the amiga..
>Is it a swap disk (like windows on an ibm uses) to simulate ram on the HD?
>Also, can someone please mail me a copy - I don't have FTP access.
>-- 
This product is commercial !!! It will be available in a few days (begin of
August) from a German distributor. 
					Martin
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From: dwatts@ki.com (Dan Watts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: trouble reading tar tapes
Date: 22 Jul 92 03:52:26 GMT
Organization: ki Research, Inc

In article <2755@hq.hq.af.mil> snolan@marge.hq.af.mil writes:
|I have an A3000 16/50 with an Archive Viper 150MB tape drive.
|I routinely use the BTN-Tape handling stuff and TAR command
|(both from Fish disks) to do system backups.  Works great!
|
|I work on an IBM RS-6000 system, with its own 15MB tape drive.
|I have been trying to transfer large quantities of data
|(22 - 30 MB) from work to home by using tar from the RS-6000
|at work to load the tape with data, then using tar to read the
|data.  "tar tvf tape:" works fine.  I can read the tape, and get a
|complete list of files on the tape including the "." for the
|directory under UNIX (this could be a problem?).  But, "tar xvf tape:"
|does not work, the tape begins to read, then the hard drive light
|locks on, and the system dies.  I then have to cold boot, reload
|KickStart from floppy, and sometimes re-validate my drive.
|
|Why is this failing?  Is there that much difference between file
|structure types and file systems, AIX vrs Intuition?  I tried
|a SVR4 box (DRS-6000 from ICL, a real dog) to write the tapes
|also, I can't even read those, though I suspect that is a problem
|with the ICL box writing proprietary headers...
|
|Thanks in advance,
|Scott Nolan
|snolan@marge.hq.af.mil


I had similar problems but in the reverse direction.  I couldn't read
the fish tapes [written by an Amiga] on my SGI or RS/6000.  Turns out
there was a compatability issue in the directory header of the tar
image.  I ended up building GNU tar on my SGI and was then able to read
the tapes.  I'd guess that you need a newer version of tar for the Amiga.
GNU tar should work just fine.

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From: soft-logik@cup.portal.com (Kevin W Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: PPage fonts in PageStream?
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 06:15:03 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>Is it possible to use the CG and postscript fonts included with PPage
>in PageStream? How are they installed and is there needed some sort of
>conversion? Can the CG fonts used also with a PS-laser, so that they are
>replaced with the respective postscript font (like happens in PPage)? Are
>bitmapped display fonts needed when using the postscript fonts of PPage?
>
>(I'm waiting for my copy of PageStream and started to wonder if I have
>to purchase also some new fonts...:-)
>
>
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>

PageStream supports CompuGraphic fonts directly. PageStream comes with CS Times
,
CS Triumvirate and Garamond Antiqua (CG fonts). In general, you just add the
directory containing the fonts with the PageStream Font Manager (the Font
Manager is basically just a way to add the directory to the list of places
where PageStream looks for fonts. I have my 20 megs of fonts spread out over
about 20 directories). I have heard that most of the fonts from the Gold Disk
font pack work with PageStream (no warranty expressed or implied).

However, let me call your attention to Adobe Type I fonts of which 100's are
available in the Public Domain or Shareware (try places like hubcap.clemson.edu
for fonts). Soft-Logik also has 600 commercial Adobe Type I fonts from the
Imgae Club fonts for sale.

Yes, PageStream will recognize the "35" standard built-in PostScript printer
fonts and use them. You can control this through a text file (fontequivv2)
with PageStream.

Bitmaps are not needed for CompuGrapic or Adobe Type I fonts, but if available
they speed up screen display.

Kevin Davidson, Asst. Moderator AmigaZone Vendor Support - PORTAL
               <soft-logik@cup.portal.com>
        SOFT-LOGIK BBS (PCP MOSLO) (314) 894-0057
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: leavitt@cheshire.oxy.edu (Thomas VanNess Leavitt)
Subject: Re: Virtual Memory for the Amiga?
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA.
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 00:51:56 GMT

Marc has invested so much in his contention that AmigaOS is antiqudated
and crippled because of its lack of VM that he can't let go... 

he's now asking why AmigaOids are making such a big deal out of the
"availability of an unsupported 3rd party hack" if VM isn't really
necessary.

Pretty consistent, Marc... first you make such a big fuss, and when it
finally appears, you dismiss it, and ask why everyone else is making
a big deal out of it.

Followups directed to .advocacy.  Sorry.@

thom
From: ewilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: WShell
Date: 29 Jul 92 20:29:33 -0700
Organization: BC Systems Corporation

In article <1992Jul29.060028.2854@cs.mun.ca>, craigs@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Stace) writes:
> Where can I get a copy of WShell?

WShell is commercial.  Since you're in Canada, I'd suggest either your local
dealer or Calgary Software-by-Mail at (403) 254-1644.  They list it at $69.50
(plus GST of course).

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From: jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999)
Subject: Re: LZH split that creates LZH files?
Organization: NCR (Torrey Pines Development Center)
Disclaimer: This posting does not neccessarily reflect the opinions of NCR.
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 19:58:59 GMT

In article <shjmg3p.fuzzy@netcom.com> fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:

>I have discovered a nifty program called LZ that looks like it could be
>useful for backup purposes.  The only trouble is that sometimes it
>creates files too large to put on a floppy disk.
>
>In the MS-DOS world there is a magic program called Zip-Chunker which
>takes a .ZIP archive and breaks it into floppy-sized chunks, but the
>resulting files are .ZIP files, so all you have to do is unzip each file
>in turn, and you'll end up with the original archive contents.  No
>messing with joining or splitting or anything.  It's great.
>
>Is there a similar program for LZH files on the Amiga?  Is anyone
>working on one?

LZ is old news, I'm afraid.  While better than LHarc, it is unsupported by its
author at this point (Jonathan Forbes).  My suggestion is to go with a newer
program called LHA.  It's much faster than LZ, creates smaller archives than
LZ (in some cases), and is fully functional even unregistered.  Also, it comes
with utilities to split archives like you want to do.

One caveat: if you use 2.04+ and DiskMaster2, you should either look for version
1.11 (LHA_E111.RUN) or kluge your system with WildStar and go with version 1.32
(LHA_E132.RUN).  The reason for this is that later versions of LHA do not agree
with DM2 on wildcard selection, thus rendering recursive backups impossible.  I
chose the former method, which works quite well for me.  BTW, the *.RUN archives are
self-extracting.


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From: lm03_cif@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Larry Moss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: ProVector and arexx
Summary: Help with writing an arexx macro for  ProVector
Date: 30 Jul 92 00:00:27 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

First, I'd like to thank everyone that responded to my questions about
amiga drawing programs a while back.  I bought ProVector, and so far I'm
reasonably happy with it.  One of the things I like most about it is that
it's (supposedly) fully programmable through arexx.  That happens to be
the same thing I'm having trouble with.  I receieved lots of mail from a
bunch of happy provector users before I bought it.  Hopefully someone will
be able to help me out now.

I have succeded in writing some macros, but being new to rexx and
provector it hasn't been easy to do what I want.  This might have
something to do with my understanding of the types of objects that can
exist.  The objects I'm working with consist of arcs and straight lines
and must be closed and filled.  This is easy enough to do using the
straight-curve tool, but since I need many objects that look very
similar I figured it would be easier to create a macro that would
basically give me a new object type to work with.  Basically the object
looks like the following:
        ______
       (______)

The macro I wrote uses GetUserData to determine the length, position and
orientation of the object.  It then creates 2 arcs using Arc and 2 lines
using PolyLine.  This creates the figure above, but since I now have 4
separate objects I can't fill them.  I can group the objects, but that
doesn't seem to do what I want.  Can anyone tell me how to create an
object of this type using arexx?

Thanks,
Larry


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From: jpotter@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Jonathan Potter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Directory Opus 3.50
Date: 28 Jul 92 04:40:41 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Division, The University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA

Over the past 6 weeks or so a pirated version of Directory Opus 3.50 has
been spread around the world. This is an "escaped" BETA version that was
released by an indiscreet beta-tester. The offender has not been pinpointed
yet but I expect him/her to be identified soon, and legal action may be taken
against them.

The above notwithstanding, the version of 3.50 circulating contains many bugs
and several routines that are unfinished. This is the nature of beta copies.
Unfortunately, the version does not actually say it is a beta-copy, a mistake
I now regret.

The bugs, which I am not going to list here, range from mild to serious ones.
Several beta-testers have suffered hard drive damage and data loss due to the
more serious ones (sorry guys :-), and the program is generally unstable in
many areas.

Therefore, if you obtain a copy of this version of Directory Opus, for your
own sake don't use it. I don't want the program to develop a bad reputation
because of the misbehaviour of an unfinished version.

The legitimate version 3.50 (which will probably not be called that now)
is expected to be released sometime in August or September. It will contain
many new features over and above those in the pirated version 3.50. All
registered users will be notified when the new version is ready.

Needless to say I am unhappy about what has occurred. If you can't trust your
beta testers who can you trust? People who spread copies of pirated software
(especially unfinished versions) can be totally blamed for the low number of
high quality programs available for the Amiga. I have become generally
disillusioned with the whole business, and am myself seriously considering
moving to an IBM or Unix platform after the next version of Directory Opus is
finished.

The moral of the story I guess is to trust no-one. But everyone else, please,
if you come across Directory Opus 3.50, don't copy it. And encourage the person
who offers it to you to delete it himself. Otherwise, the Amiga's already
small number of developer's may decrease by one more.

Jonathan Potter / INOVAtronics
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From: tw5232@albnyvms.bitnet (Teddy Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Where's PasTeX
Date: 28 Jul 92 04:32:19 GMT
Reply-To: tw5232@albnyvms.bitnet
Organization: University of NY at Albany

I know that the latest incarnation of TeX is available on fish disks, but this
version doesn't come with fonts, a previewer, or fig!  Where over anonymous ftp
can I get the most recent release of PasTeX???

Thanks

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From: klassen@ender.cuc.ab.ca (D. Todd Klassen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: WANTED: program to perform calculations for electronics student
Date: 28 Jul 1992 08:03:02 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Reply-To: q-pd-elec-eng@ender.cuc.ab.ca
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


I have a friend who is a student in Electronic Engineering and asked
me what public domain programs were available (for IBM or Amiga)
to help him with some of the various calculations and problems he
needs to solve.  Things like figuring out the knee points of
diodes from different constant voltages, emitter and collector voltages
of diodes, etc, etc.

Does anyone know what's available out there?  Any help will be 
appreciated.  Please E-mail responses to q-pd-elec-eng@ender.cuc.ab.ca

I'll post a summary of the replies if requested.

Thanks,

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: davids@netcom.com (Dave Schreiber)
Subject: Re: Virtual Memory for the Amiga?
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 23:07:51 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

In article <1992Jul24.100519.617@cheshire.oxy.edu> leavitt@cheshire.oxy.edu (Thomas VanNess Leavitt) writes:
[...]
>OK let's get one thing straight here.  The MMU stands for Memory Management
>Unit.  It doesn't (necassarily) have anything to do with virtual memory. It
>supports what is known as Hardware Memory Protection, or memory translation.
>That is, or course, memory management.  In the 68K series of CPU's the
>Vector Base Register is used to support virtual memory in the following:
>68010, 68020, 68030, 68040.  The 68000 and 68008 do not have the Vector Base
>Register.  I'm not sure, but possibly virtual memory can be implemented on
>the 68000 with some nifty software.  In any case, the MMU is not necassary.
>All 68K CPU's above the 68000 can support virtual memory.

Memory protection is only half of what you need for virtual memory.  You
also need the capability to change the location that memory blocks appear
at, which is the whole point of VM (the 'location' of physical memory
changes depending on where it is needed).  This requires an MMU;  a 68K
series microprocessor cannot support VM without one (build-in or 
external).

>Thom

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