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From: mjl@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Maurice J. LeBrun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Emacs 18.58 ver 26 is available via anon ftp
Date: 6 Oct 92 07:28:05 GMT
Reply-To: mjl@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Maurice J. LeBrun)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Originator: mjl@donald.cc.utexas.edu


Hello all,

I'm not sure this has been announced here, but there is a new version of
GNU emacs for the Amiga, version 26.  You can get it from
amiga.physik.unizh.ch (in amiga/util/gnu), or in the US from the mirror at
merlin.etsu.edu (in aminet/util/gnu) as:

-rw-r--r--   1 admin    amiga    2963672 Oct  2 01:16 a1.26-emacs-18.58-src.LHA

for the full archive or

-rw-r--r--   1 admin    amiga     969340 Oct  2 01:08 a1.26-emacs-18.58-bin.LHA

for the binary archive.  I was unable to find it in any of the other mirror
sites.  

This version fixes some bugs involved with iconization, and has new
features including:

 o can now bind functions to keypad

 o can set public screen for Emacs to come up via command line switch, e.g.

	emacs -screen Emacs_screen

 o can set geometry for Emacs window to come up with via command line
   switch, e.g.

	emacs -geometry 0 25 710 447

among other things.

Kudos to David Gay for his work on this wonderful package.  Please send
comments to him (and not me) at dgay@di.epfl.ch.

--
Maurice LeBrun    mjl@fusion.ph.utexas.edu
Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin

Faire de la bonne cuisine demande un certain temps.  Si on vous fait
attendre, c'est pour mieux vous servir, et vous plaire.
                                [menu of restaurant Antoine, New Orleans]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: sugai@spls38.ccs.mt.nec.co.jp (Masaru Sugai)
Subject: Re: Hiragana Fonts
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 14:23:24 GMT
Organization: NEC Corporation, +81(3)5476-1084(VOX)/1083(FAX)

In article <BvAFBx.5GG@dei.unipd.it> marco@tina.dei.unipd.it (Marco Pontil 259243) writes:
>
>Do anybody know if there are the Hiragana (one of the Japanese set of
>characters) fonts for Amiga ?
>
>Thanks ...
>
>
>                ______  __.  __  _  ____________________________
>               / / / <_(_/|_/ (_(__(_)  marco@paola.dei.unipd.it

During holiday season when I was in Boston, I made kanji fonts (JIS 1/2 full 
character set) for A3000 to read Japanese e-mails at my appartment on snowy
days :)

I converted k14 font in X11 distribution into .font files. 'Cos I didn't know
what to do with multi-byte character font coding on Amiga, I made dozens of font
files whose name indexes the code set table, and character code points to one
of the glyph in the font file. So you have to change font set when you display
Japanese text with Kanji characters, but fortunately, Hiragana and Katakana
character sets fall into a single font file respectively. Please let me know
if anybody has interest.

- Masaru Sugai




Masaru Sugai   NEC Corporation Tokyo Japan
   sugai@ccs.mt.nec.co.jp, masaru@world.std.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: music@moravian.edu (Steve Heller)
Subject: Re: Amiga World -- problems anyone?
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 92 13:35:33 EDT


A friend had a similar problem about a year ago where he sent in the
subscription card with "bill me" marked, got one issue, and never
heard from them again. But unlike you, he didn't try again...

I've beena subscriber for about 3 years (and I often wonder why), but
have never had any problems with the subscription.
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From: jpuzzo@husc10.harvard.edu (James Puzzo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: "Family Values"...& vulgar programs!
Date: 30 Sep 92 15:27:46 GMT
 <gem6fjG00j_HA0ZVx=@cs.cmu.edu> <1992Sep30.075650.28510@bristol.ac.uk>

ccsw@bristol.ac.uk (EthaStorm) writes:

>I think there is ABSOLUTELY NO REASON for swearing in a utility program. A demo
>maybe, but then again if the only way a coder can get an effect from his/her
>audience is to swear at them, then I think they really shouldn't bother. It
>doesn't impress anyone (except, of course, their cliquey mates who all swear
>in their demos/games/utilities.)

>I think it's childish. I mean, imagine the mentality of someone who goes
>"I know let's say "F**K" in our demo (giggles follow)". I don't need it, I
>don't want it. I know how to swear. I know what the words mean. I don't need to
>have them shoved in my face when I get home to relax!!!!

>If coders have got to swear, then why don't they just call their demos something
>like "Swearing Demo", or "I know a naughty word (giggle) demo". Least then,
>those of us who aren't impressed by swearing, or those who are OFFENDED by
>swearing don't have to go throught the time, money and hassle of pulling, and
>unpacking the demo.

>An example: I pulled five demos last night. Three of them had the word "F**K"
>in there!!! 60%!!!! I binned them. They aint staying in my archive, cos I am
>not impressed by it. The two I did keep were by two unknown groups (both
>Australian I think). Their routines were good, put together well, and the
>music was interesting. But, no swearing. I wonder why? Cos mebbe those guys
>knew that their code could stand on it's own two feet without the need for the
>coders to prove that they were ADULTS!!

I think you need to sit down and have a cool drink.  There is just NO need for
you to get so ruffled just because some programmer decided to use certain 
words in certain places.  Maybe you come from "nowheresville" or something,
but people swear in the real world.  They really do.  And they even do it just
because it's a habit.  Not to cheese you off or to make a joke.  I can see
that if you are SO offended by a few choice words that you'll scrap a demo, 
you're being a bit TOO discriminating.  And I don't know why you insist on
believing that the guys stuck in swearing 'cause their code otherwise wasn't
very good.  In some parts of the world, people talk and write that way.  They 
really do.  Case closed.

James Puzzo
jpuzzo@husc

P.S.  Never visit New York City, if you can help it.  You might melt.
	Or get sworn at.
	Or even hear some swearing.
	Not even directed at you.

(Why? WHY?... someone tell me please...)

-- 
Long live Zambo and the amazing spoon!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: zerkle@toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Fish disk list updates via Email ???
Date: 1 Oct 92 04:36:22 GMT
Reply-To: zerkle@cs.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle)
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis

In article <C91CARCE.92Sep30135759@styr8.IDA.LiU.SE> c91carce@IDA.LiU.SE (Calle G Cederberg         ) writes:
>
>Sent the following question to Fred Fish :
>
>Is there a possibility to recieve updates of the Fish list via Email?
>

Fred replied:
#
#I don't maintain any email lists.  
#I send the list to the amiga
#announce group moderator, who then posts it on usenet.  

That's me.  I post the lists from Fred the instant I get them.  You
can read them on comp.sys.amiga.announce.

However, it looks like I am going to successfully make a mailing list
out of .announce.  When I do (in about a week, probably), you will be
able to get the Fish list updates (and the other Amiga announcements)
via email.  Of course, you will still be able to read it on
Usenet as well....

Wait until then, at which time I'll give instructions for how to join
the mailing list.

--
Dan Zerkle  zerkle@cs.ucdavis.edu  (916) 756-5170
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: aduncan@rhea.trl.OZ.AU (Allan Duncan)
Subject: Re: ASDG VD0: device (or similar) under ADOS RELEASE 2.05
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 22:59:13 GMT

From article <67130@cup.portal.com>, by pk-asdg@cup.portal.com (Perry S Kivolowitz):
... 
> I haven;'t used it in years...but it's nice to know it is still being
> of help to the community.

I find that it makes a better tradeoff with limited memory than the C=
fixed-size RRD, and since it still works under 37.175, why not continue
to use it?
Allan Duncan		ACSnet	 a.duncan@trl.oz
(+613) 253 6708		Internet a.duncan@trl.oz.au
Fax    253 6664		UUCP	 {uunet,hplabs,ukc}!munnari!trl.oz.au!a.duncan
    Telecom Research Labs, PO Box 249, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, Australia.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.applications,bit.listserv.i-amiga
From: stefanb@messua.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Stefan Becker)
Subject: Annoucement: ToolManager 2.0
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik  /  RWTH Aachen
Date: 26 Sep 92 15:43:07 GMT


Hi folks!
A new version of my utility ToolManager is ready. I hope you'll like it!

Contents of ReadMe:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ReadMe for ToolManager 2.0                                          26.09.1992

   ToolManager is a flexible program to manage the tools in your working
environment. It can start Workbench and CLI programs as well as ARexx
scripts. The user interface consists of menus, icons or dock windows.

For further information please read the documentation.

BEWARE: This program makes heavily use of the new 2.0 functions, so it's
        completely useless to all people who are still using 1.3. To get
        the full functionality you should run it *only* under 2.04.

USAGE: Open the ToolManager drawer and double click the Install icon. After
       removing any older ToolManager versions, double click the ToolManager
       icon in the WBStartup drawer. Use the preferences editor to create
       your configuration.

New features since 1.5:

        - Complete new concept (object oriented)

        - (Almost) Complete rewrite

        - ToolManager is now split up into two parts

        - Main handler is now embedded into a shared library

        - Configuration is now handled by a Preferences program

        - Configuration file format has changed again :-) It is an IFF
          File now and resides in ENV:

        - Multiple Docks and multi-column Docks

        - Docks with new window design

        - Dock automatically detects largest image size

        - Sound support

        - Direct ARexx support for Exec objects

        - ToolManager can be used without the Workbench. If the
          Workbench isn't running, it won't use any App* features.

        - Locale support

        - Path from Workbench will be used for CLI tools

        - Seperate Handler Task for starting WB processes
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The new version is available at the following sites:

    amiga.physik.unizh.ch [130.60.80.80]
       /amiga/new/ToolManager2_0.lha (may be moved to another directory)
    ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.112.31]
       /pub/amiga/os2_0/ToolManager2_0.lha

Have a nice day...

         Stefan

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From: j_thiem@pavo.concordia.ca (THIEMANN, JOACHIM)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: mouse problems
Date: 29 Sep 92 14:15:00 GMT
Organization: Concordia University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Sep28.194326.28365@nmsu.edu>, miarmijo@nmsu.edu (Michael Albert Armijo) writes...
>I have a little problem with my mouse.  It seems to lock-up time to
>time and will only roll side-to-side.  I have taken it apart and
>cleaned it, but it still does not work.  I was wondering if any one
>else has had this problem before and it so how to solve it.
>If possible, would you please send your replies to my email address:

>Thank you.
>			Michael Armijo

I think it might be that a couple of your wires from your mouse are
broken... I suggest you check it with an Ohmmeter.

The other thing might be that the disk in the mouse is out of align-
ment with the lights... that's what happend to me.  I used a bit of
plastic foam into the mouse at a few places, and now it works, but
not reliably.  I probably have to get myself a new mouse...

In an old issue of Amazing Amiga they have the hook-up diagram for
an IBM compatible mouse (almost any, exept serial ones) to the 
Amiga.  That might be the way to go...

- Joachim Thiemann.
From: crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Aliases...
Keywords: ALIASES UNIX
Date: 28 Sep 92 23:44:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: glia.crystal.717723845
Organization: University of Washington

In <1992Sep28.214520.18883@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> mbuc1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Matthew Richard     Buchanan       ) writes:

>In <griffita.717474433@sfu.ca> griffita@fraser.sfu.ca (David Stuart Griffiths) writes:

>>Can anyone tell me how to change/make an alias for UNIX (Sun/SGI)
>>systems?  This isn't "quite" the right area to ask this in, but Amiga
>>users as a whole tend to be more pleasent than asking IBM types :-)

>>Dave

>An alias on our Unix system is just like under AmigaDOS:

>alias lo logout

>to make an alias for logout - I have this one in my .login file.

>hope this helps, Matt.

On our SGI system, the aliases are in the .cshrc file  (so we don't screw up
our .login when playing around :>)

In my file they look like

alias isca   "telnet whip.isca.uiowa.edu"

which  gets me to the ISCA BBS (formerly on grind)

Crystal
  ;>
     (yes! nn works again!!! HOORAY!!!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: pfhendr@pb2esac.uucp (Paul Hendricks)
Subject: A1000 troubles...HELP!!!
Organization: Pacific*Bell ESAC, Oakland, CA.
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 23:36:07 GMT

I had left my A1000 on over the weekend, and when I finally sat down and
turned on the monitor, all I got was a white screen, well ok I thought
I'll just turn it off, then back on again and reboot, but no such luck
the problem stayed.

After trying it several more times I would sometimes get a yellowish 
screen then it would slowly go to an orangish color, but the horizontal
would be messed up. Also it never recognizes the internal or external 
disk drives, if I put in or take out a disk, the read light never goes on.

I also noticed that the CAPS key lights up for about 1 sec. when I first
power it up, but I'm not sure if it did that before it died.

If it looks like it will be an expensive job to fix it, I may be tempted
to put my money into an A3000 instead. But if it's something that I can
do on my own for a small amount (like replace a chip or two) I'd be
willing to go that route.

If anyone has any ideas of what happened and what I can do to fix it or
at least troubleshoot it, please let me know.

Paul "Amigaless" Hendricks
From: jc@crosfield.co.uk (jerry cullingford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: case design (was Re: Return of "Family Values"...& vulgar programs!)
Date: 1 Oct 92 12:14:31 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Organization: Crosfield Electronics, Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom.

In article <1992Sep28.175523.1@vaxb.llnl.gov> yurick@vaxb.llnl.gov writes:
>In article <1992Sep24.084404.24384@bristol.ac.uk>, ccsw@bristol.ac.uk (EthaStorm) writes:
>Well, the A1000 DID have a built in disk drive.  The keyboard wasn't great
>though.

But it did stow neatly away under the system case - a really nice idea that
vanished from the later models. The 2000 case is a fairly standard IBM style
one, which means you can get at things fairly easily when you've got the lid
off; The 3000 one was a backward step, IMHO; (although the tower version is
better).






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| jc@crosfield.co.uk (jc@cel.uucp) or jc@selune.demon.co.uk        |   \_|__
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From: plav@cup.portal.com (Rick M Plavnicky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: :-( Contest - win your own A4000 :-(
Date: Thu,  1 Oct 92 20:13:17 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world
  <1992Sep28.140559.23389@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>
  <zoltar.07i6@glasgow.amigans.gen.nz>

Recently, it seems, virtually everyone in the Amiga community that a)
has usenet access, and b) is *not* from the US has been bitchin' and
moanin' about this damned 'Win an A4000' contest.  (Can you believe
it?  I've seen the quoted article citations three and four deep on
this!)  I'll spare you the quotes - you've seen it all before...

I see an opportunity here.  ("Typical US attitude," giggles my wife.)

Since I'm not planning on entering this contest I'll offer the use of
my US mailing address for my non-US friends to enter.  Yeah, that's
it.  If you win, you get to say you entered while vacationing in the
US, visiting a friend, or whatever!  Ooohhh, yeah, this *is* good...

Ten dollars, US currency, payable to me before I submit your entry
ought to just about cover it.  Make that twenty.  The A4000 looks
pretty good, and a chance at a free one seems worth it, given the
level of interest.  Yep...

Oh, and for those whose sense of humor is on vacation, visiting
friends, etc.: :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

I'll just be sitting here, waiting for the cash and checks to
overflow my email box...


/* Rick Plavnicky  plav@cup.portal.com */


disclaimer: This post is made in jest and does not
            represent a valid offer of anything
            whatsoever.  Do not send your contest
            entry to me.  Any entries received will
            be discarded without notice, and will
            NOT be forwarded to C=, who most likely
            wouldn't accept it anyway.  If you can
            manage to send cash or other negotiables
            to my email box, however, I'll certainly
            try to find a way to spend it!  :-)


"Welcome to America, land of the free.  That'll be five dollars to park."
From: davidm@consilium.com (David S. Masterson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: FAQ on Amiga archives?
Date: 5 Oct 92 05:47:41 GMT
Organization: Consilium Inc., Mountain View, California
X-Posting-Software: GNUS 3.13  [ NNTP-based News Reader for GNU Emacs ]

Is there an explanation of where the major Amiga archives are and what their
structure is?  I'm not on the Internet, so I can't telnet to various places to
look around.  I can usually get things via ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com, though, but
I need to know a little more about the structure of the archive sites so that
I can request files/directories without just hunting around.  Anyone have the
basic information?
--
====================================================================
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davidm@consilium.com				Mtn. View, CA  94043
====================================================================
Make no mistake about it, this president is in charge.  He is in
touch.
                -- Vice President George Bush, on Ronald Reagan.
From: dollens@equinox.unr.edu (C Blake Dollens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: new virus?
Date: 2 Oct 92 07:02:29 GMT
Organization: University of Nevada, Reno

In article <cektM3200WB_BUoFFK@andrew.cmu.edu> jw63+@andrew.cmu.edu (James W Walden) writes:
>Life has been hectic so I'm not very up to date on what's out in September,
>but I'm using VirusChecker 6.06.  There might be a newer version out, but
>VirusCheck is the best AmigaDOS 2.04 antivirus program that I've found.

The newest version of VirusChecker I know of is 6.15.  It ought to be  
available at most good Amiga ftp sites.  Does anybody know if there's a
newer version out?

Blake
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dollens@equinox.unr.edu |                            -Walter Slovotsky
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: dingebre@imp.sim.es.com (David Ingebretsen)
Subject: Re: "Family Values"...& vulgar programs!
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Reply-To: dingebre@imp.sim.es.com (David Ingebretsen)
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, UT
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 21:43:42 GMT

In article <jpuzzo.717866866@husc10>, jpuzzo@husc10.harvard.edu (James Puzzo) writes:
> ccsw@bristol.ac.uk (EthaStorm) writes:
> 
> >I think there is ABSOLUTELY NO REASON for swearing in a utility program. A demo

Argument in favor of NOT using vulgarity in programming...

> >knew that their code could stand on it's own two feet without the need for the
> >coders to prove that they were ADULTS!!
> 
Argument promotion free speech deleted...

> very good.  In some parts of the world, people talk and write that way.  They 
> really do.  Case closed.

A common falacy is the idea that because "everyone does it" it somehow makes it
all right. Regardless of someone's habits, I still maintain my rights to be 
offended by vulgarity. The fact that the masses may not have larger 
vocabularies doesn't mean that I have to tolerate it. Many people don't
use profanity and communicate ideas, emotions, and feelings just fine. 
It's unfortunate that society becomes complacent and allows a basic 
degradation of morals and values and writes it off as ok because "In 
some parts of the world, people talk and write that way.  They  really do."
I spent a couple of years in France and believe me they have a slang with
profanity that far surpasses any that we have in the English language.

Fortunately, we (in the US anyway) live in a country where we CAN disagree
on issues and our rights to disagree are protected and were paid for by 
many lives over the years.

You go ahead and use profanity if you want. I choose not to and choose to 
teach my children there is a better way to express themselves.

"Case closed."

> 
> James Puzzo
> jpuzzo@husc
> 
> P.S.  Never visit New York City, if you can help it.  You might melt.
> 	Or get sworn at.
> 	Or even hear some swearing.
> 	Not even directed at you.

There are many other reasons I will never, by my choice, go back to New York 
that have nothing to do with swearing. Although, I do truly love Boston.

> 
> (Why? WHY?... someone tell me please...)
> 
> -- 
> Long live Zambo and the amazing spoon!
 
Followups to advocacy...

-- 
	David

	Disclaimer: The content of this message in no way reflects the
	            opinions of my employer, nor are my actions
		    encouraged, supported, or acknowledged by my
		    employer.
From: mmcalees@cs16.UVic.CA (Michael McAleese)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: FAQ - FTP Sites
Date: 6 Oct 92 00:23:01 GMT
Organization: Those Dudes

In article <1992Oct4.065744.2974@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> ra2cs252@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Ho Ling Cherd) writes:
>I have just got an Amiga for the first time and would
>like to know where I can ftp pd and sharewares.

North America:
  wuarchive.wustl.edu in systems/amiga/

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