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From: kenney@fraser.sfu.ca (Kenney Peter Wong)
Subject: Need a MSWord compatible WP
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 19:23:20 GMT

At school, I use Word on the Mac to write my essay/reports.
I would like to know if there is a good Amiga WP which can read
Word formatted files (or maybe RTF).

On the same note, is there any hardware/software which can read
Mac floppies?

kenney@fraser.sfu.ca
From: ps296au@sdcc4.ucsd.edu (Steven Cobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: ISpell -- what's the latest version?
Date: 3 Jan 93 02:56:30 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

What is the Latest version of ISpell for the amiga?  The latest I
have seen was on FF400 (or less).  Is there anything newer? I
understand that Thomas Rokicki (sp?) made some additions to it to
work well with TeX.  Any comments?

Thanks,
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: weber@amiga.physik.unizh.ch (Christian A. Weber)
Subject: Re: HotLinks problem
Organization: ICU - University of Zurich, Dept. of Computer Science
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 16:25:16 GMT

Alfredo Jahn V (alfredo@ajahnv.lonestar.org) wrote:
: I recently installed AmigaDos 2.1 and I am having some HotLinks 
[...]
:      Error:
:      Could not obtain HotLinks write lock

Are you running the latest version of HotLinks Edition?
I'm running hotlinks.library 1.1 (24.09.1992), Pageliner
1.1.2 (upgraded with the patch on amiga.physik) and WB 2.1
without such problems.

--
Martin A. Blatter - blatter@ifi.unizh.ch, blatter@amiga.physik.unizh.ch
From: erickson@alee.UUCP (Lee C. Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Amiga outliner?
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 08:28:09 EST
Organization: InnovaSystems, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00

> Steven Cobb (ps296au@sdcc4.ucsd.edu) wrote:
> > I'm looking for an outline editor.  Something that will allow me to
> > dynamically expang, contract and move text subheadings and text.  I
> > would like it to save primarily ascii format	(to use with
> > AmigaTeX).  Does anybody know of anything? - comercial or PD.

I use GNU EMACS's outline mode with AmigaTeX -- it works just fine!

I add the following lines to my ".emacs" startup file to get the outline
mode to work properly with the LaTeX headings:
  ;; Set default outline-regexp to work for LaTeX
  (setq outline-regexp
        "\\\\chap\\|\\\\\\(sub\\)*section")

Hope this helps!

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: twang@csc.albany.edu (Teddy Wang)
Subject: Re: Art Expression and font effects
Organization: State University of New York at Albany
Date: 24 Dec 92 09:50:46

   In article <caw.0w2y@miroc.Chi.IL.US> caw@miroc.Chi.IL.US (Christopher A. Wichura) writes:
   >Does Art Expression have the ability to do font effects such as open cut?
   >(By open cut I mean that the font looks like it's an outline of the designed
   >face instead of being rendered normally.)  Or is open cut considered a
   >different kind of font (i.e., open cut helvetica is what I need)?
   >
   >If Art Expression doesn't do this, is there something that does?  I also need
   >to bend this font around a circle...
   >
   >Thanks,
   >-=> CAW
   >
   >--
   >
   >Christopher A. Wichura                Multitasking.  Just DO it.
   >caw@miroc.chi.il.us  (my amiga)                          ...the Amiga way...
   >u12401@uicvm.uic.edu (school account)

   I would *guess* that Art Expression does this. 

Yup,

Art Expression has the ability to creat objects out of TEXT which is fully
editable.  Also Art Expression has full capability to align text to a path
or line, and it can also wrap text into any shape you please...

Teddy
From: jmarin@messi.uku.fi (Jukka Marin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: FinalCopy II problems
Date: 30 Dec 92 18:12:39 GMT
Organization: University of Kuopio, Finland

I finally got my copy of FinalCopy II and I like it :-)  However, there are
some problems I have noticed - I would like to know if someone can reproduce
them on his/her system or if I have goofed up somewhere.  So, here it goes..

FinalCopy II bugs (release I, Nov 4 1992)

- in long texts, when you go to later pages (20..40..60), the cursor is no
  longer on the correct line on screen (when you click a line on screen,
  the cursor goes too low).  In short documents (5 pages or less) this problem
  is unnoticeable.

- characters are sometimes not updated correctly on screen

- very long internal processing when loading a long file, changing fonts,
  quitting, etc. in a big document

- can't use virtual memory for storing text (either allocates very small
  chunks of memory (inefficient) or asks for MEMF_PUBLIC)

- when using full justification (both left and right side of text are
  justified), text looks right on screen (the space between words is
  increased to justify the right hand size of text).  When printed on a PS
  laser, however, the _character_ spacing is used to justify the text.
  I would like the word spacing to be used in printouts as well.

I would like to hear if these problems can be reproduced and/or if they
have already been fixed.  I'm planning to FAX to SoftWood and report these
problems if they are _real_ problems.  E-mail would be fine..

Thanks in advance,

  Jukka Marin




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From: hemmer@hemmer.adsp.sub.org (Franz Hemmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: VirusZ
Date: 23 Dec 92 17:52:16 GMT
Reply-To: hemmer@hemmer.adsp.sub.org (Franz Hemmer)
Organization: Interactivsion
X-NewsSoftware: GRn-beta 1.16g (11.15.92) by Michael B. Smith & Mike Schwartz

In article <#js2#2m@rpi.edu> danaf@bray1b.its.rpi.edu (Frank R. Dana Jr.) writes:
> In article <85663@ut-emx.uucp>, sjk@ut-emx.uucp (Phil Alvin) writes:
> |> 
> |> I recently downloaded VirusZ2.27 from some archive site only to
> |> find it wanted a more recent version (38+) of the reqtools.library
> |> than it came with.  Version reported the included version as being
> |> V37.something.  When I run the program, I get a nifty little
> |> requester saying VirusZ requires V38+ of the library. Where can I
> |> find the more recent library (for 2.* ROMS)?
> 
> Speaking of version....
> 
> Has anyone but me had miserable luck with the version command? It seems to me 
> that it only works the FIRST time you check the version of something, and then
> repeats the old version for ANY path you give it. I guess it stores the versions
> in some sort of memory cache or something. All I know is, if I do a 
> 
> version libs:reqtools.library
> 
> and the program reports version 37.5, then if I call
> 
> version DH0:telecomm/VirusZ/libs/reqtools.library

Version looks in the resident memory list, if not found it opens the library
thus making it resident. The next time around the library is found in the
resident list and Version reports on the library in memory. If the library
is not used by any tasks, you can flush memory with eg. Avail FLUSH, or
Stack 12000000 >NIL:, and then perform the Version command on a librar on
disk.

> |> Scot

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From: alfredo@ajahnv.lonestar.org (Alfredo Jahn V)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Small Business Package needed
Date: 3 Jan 93 21:05:01 GMT
Organization: Amiga 2000 (Home System)

My wife and I are thinking of starting a small Import/Export business.
I've used Phasar for my personal finances but for a small company, I
don't think something like Phasar will do the trick. 

I am looking for a program that can do invoices, look up customer info,
etc.  I guess an accounting package that can cross reference to a 
database program could be set up to do that kind of thing...

Can anyone suggest a package/packages that I can look into?  Also, if
anyone has had some bad experiences with some programs, I would like to
know about them too.  Thanks in advance.

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From: fgd3@nifty.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe, III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re:  Need Word Perfect batch file converter
Date: 25 Dec 92 21:33:53 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Fabbian G. Dufoe, III

In article <18878@mindlink.bc.ca> Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca (Charlie Gibbs) writes:
>In article <Bzqs4M.3o0@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu
>(Marc N. Barrett) writes:
>
>>   I need to convert a whole bunch of small Amiga Word Perfect files to
>>IBM WP 4.2 format.  Would anyone know of a batch file converter that would
>>do this?  I remember there being some kind of file converter once written
>>by the people at Word Perfect, but I don't remember much about it and cannot
>>find it.

   WordPerfect can convert the files one at a time, but it doesn't make it
very convenient for a large set of small files.

>     Try CrossDOS.  :-)  Seriously, Amiga WP format is the same as
>IBM WP 4.2.  If you tell IBM WP to save in 4.2 format it can be read
>by an Amiga, and I think WP 5.1 will recognize 4.2 files when reading
>them.  Just make sure when you transfer the files that you don't do
>any "text mode" conversions because that'll screw them up.

   It's close, but not exactly the same.  The one difference I know of is
that the Amiga version supports italics and MS-DOS WP 4.2 does not.  If you
know your files don't have any italicized text you can simply copy them to
MS-DOS disks and load them into WP 4.2.  In fact, even if there is
italicized text you can do that.  You won't lose anything except the italics
codes.

>     In CrossDOS it's as easy as sticking a formatted 720K MS-DOS
>diskette into the Amiga drive and typing COPY #? DI0:.
>
>     Serial port transfers via null modem should work too.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: casey@anxiety.lexmark.lex.usa.na (Patrick Casey)
Subject: Re: Gnu emacs - help me ...
X-Disclaimer: These views are the poster's and not necessarily those of Lexmark
Reply-To: pacasey@lexmark.com
Organization: Lexmark International, Lexington KY
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 21:18:23 GMT

In article <1hbbtcINNrmh@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> jonathan@cats.ucsc.edu (Jonathan Cano) writes:


>  about 4 months ago I began using Gnu Emacs v18.58 at work.  After 
>  using it 5 days a week, 8 hours a day for 4 months I've come to
>  realize that this is the one TRUE editor :^).  Well maybe not but

                                  ^
                                  |
                                 Amen!      ;-)


>  Anyways, I got ahold of a FAQ that lists a variety of different emacs
>  implementations and what machines these implementations run on but
>  I don't know which one to try.  I'm interested in hearing about what
>  version of emacs your running on your amiga (and how your amiga is
>  configured).

I think David Gay's port is pretty much the standard on the Amiga now.
I'm using version 1.26 of his port (which is emacs 18.58, I think).
It's the real thing, i.e. full blown GNUEmacs, so it should be exactly
like what you use at work, with the exception of a few Amiga quirks
(like /tmp -> tmp:, etc.).  It's a nice port.  I've got an A3000 with
6Meg.  Your setup of 5Meg should be fine.

>  Ideally, I'd like to be able to FTP a working executable and not
>  have to bother with building it myself.

There are both full source distributions and binary/lisp-file only
ones, I believe, probably available on wuarchive.wustl.edu in the
amiga area or the amiga.physik.unizh.ch mirror area there.

>  --Jonathan


- Patrick
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: dyson@sunfish.physics.uiowa.edu (Richard L. Dyson)
Subject: A2320 Display Enhancer and AmigaDOS 2.05 problems
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Reply-To: dyson@sunfish.Physics.UIowa.EDU
Organization: Department of Physics & Astronomy
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:01:17 GMT

Happy Holidays and Thank You for Reading this post!

        I have an A2000 (rev. 6.x) running WB 2.05 with the ECS and 6 Mb
additional memory.  I am using a Commodore A2320 Display Enhancer
("flicker fixer") with a NEC MultiSync monitor.  According to the A2320
manual (pg. 10), I should use a slightly different adjustment procedure
than WB 1.3/non-ECS users.  If I follow their instructions, my computer
GURUs.  If I follow the instructions for a WB 1.3 machine, it doesn't
GURU.  My A2320 Test/Demo disk says it is version 1.2.  Has anyone else
experienced this problem?  Does anyone know why I can't use the 2.0x
procedure?  The monitor is approximately adjusted, but if Commodore made
a distinction between WB 1.3 and WB 2.0/ECS, I would like to take
advantage of it, if at all possible.

Thanks for Any Help or Suggestions!
Rick
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: hoehle@inf-wiss.ivp.uni-konstanz.de (Joerg-Cyril Hoehle)
Subject: Re: Good news for "Snap" users
Organization: Information Science, Univ. of Konstanz
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:05:25 GMT

John Fieber (jfieber@sophia.smith.edu) wrote:
: actively supported whereas the author of Snap apparently has
: abandoned the Amiga and not left the source code with anyone.  

Uh? Source code to snap *is* available, up to V1.62 (the latest) I'm
pretty sure and that's exactly what I loved with Snap and what other
programs didn't give me: source code! Even better, I know of no
distribution of Snap that came without source code, where did you find
yours? Thank the author (Michael Karlson if memory serves me right?)
for providing source code to his useful program. I could put it up to
some ftp place...

 	Joerg.
hoehle@inf-wiss.ivp.uni-konstanz.d
From: j0nez@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (J0nez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: .DMS problems
Date: 26 Dec 1992 19:00:17 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4
Originator: j0nez@csd4.csd.uwm.edu

I recently DMSed several of my less used utilities in an effort to free up
some disks...Now, upon trying to unDMS them, every one comes up as being a
non-DOS disk.  When I go through with FIXDISK, there's some kind of error
on the very first track of every unDMSed disk, always the same error, always
on the first track.  What went wrong???  (Yes, I did have the program set
to run from track 00 to track 79...)  Any help would be appreciated!

John "I think all my utilities are hopelessly lost" Bowman
From: mrosen@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Michael David Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Art Expression and font effects
Date: 24 Dec 1992 09:58:39 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

In article <caw.0w2y@miroc.Chi.IL.US> caw@miroc.Chi.IL.US (Christopher A. Wichura) writes:
>Does Art Expression have the ability to do font effects such as open cut?
>(By open cut I mean that the font looks like it's an outline of the designed
>face instead of being rendered normally.)  Or is open cut considered a
>different kind of font (i.e., open cut helvetica is what I need)?
>
>If Art Expression doesn't do this, is there something that does?  I also need
>to bend this font around a circle...
>
>Thanks,
>-=> CAW
>
>--
>
>Christopher A. Wichura                Multitasking.  Just DO it.
>caw@miroc.chi.il.us  (my amiga)                          ...the Amiga way...
>u12401@uicvm.uic.edu (school account)

I would *guess* that Art Expression does this. 

I *know* that ProDraw v3.0 does this (outline font style and aligning text 
along a path.

Art Expression is a new baby and an unknown quantity for the time being. If you
need the effect right away you *may* want to go with PDraw.

There are other options but I'm not familiar with their reliability and the
quality of the output.

Hope this helps,

mrosen


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: Manjit_Bedi@mindlink.bc.ca (Manjit Bedi)
Subject: Using Video Director with a Hitachi VT-F462a VCR - need help
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 23:37:16 GMT

Hello Netters and Happy New Year!

I am currently attempting to set up Video Director with
my newly bought VCR.  It is a Hitachi VT-F462a.  One major problem is that
the infrared device is not working with the VCR.  The
learn program indicates that it got a sample when I held
the remote up to the infrared thing.  It would appear this
remote control is not compatible with Video Director.  I tried
many many times yesterday to try to get this to work.
I have successfully used Video Director with an older
VCR made by RCA; so I do know that remote control feature
of Video Director does work.

But this VCR supports some kind of protocol for doing video
dubbing.  The manual refers to a synchro-edit cable between
compatible VCR's. This protocol is not the LANC protocol.  I have not been
able to find anything in the VCR manual indicating what the protocol is.
There are some input jacks on the VCR
about the size of a headphone jack for doing the video dubbing.
The LANC connector that came with Video Director does fit in this jack.

The manual for Video Director said more video devices and
protocols would be supported by driver updates.  I sent
my in registration card a few months when I purchased the
Video Director package.  I have not heard anything from
Gold Disk about any new drivers.

So is there a Gold Disk BBS which might have some drivers on
it for my VCR?  Has anyone written a driver for this make
of VCR?

I will try to contact Hitachi and hopefully get some info
on how this protocol possibly works.  Writing a driver for
Video Direcotor is bit out of my league.

I am using Video Director Version 1.05.

I wonder if any of the authors of Video Director might be on
the net and see this post.

I appreciate whatever help and advice that I might receive.

--
        Manjit Bedi
                ( Manjit_Bedi@mindlink.bc.ca or manjit@inde.bc.ca )

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
Subject: Re: Need Word Perfect batch file converter
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 00:51:44 GMT

In article <Bzqs4M.3o0@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu
(Marc N. Barrett) writes:

>   I need to convert a whole bunch of small Amiga Word Perfect files to
>IBM WP 4.2 format.  Would anyone know of a batch file converter that would
>do this?  I remember there being some kind of file converter once written
>by the people at Word Perfect, but I don't remember much about it and cannot
>find it.

     Try CrossDOS.  :-)  Seriously, Amiga WP format is the same as
IBM WP 4.2.  If you tell IBM WP to save in 4.2 format it can be read
by an Amiga, and I think WP 5.1 will recognize 4.2 files when reading
them.  Just make sure when you transfer the files that you don't do
any "text mode" conversions because that'll screw them up.

     In CrossDOS it's as easy as sticking a formatted 720K MS-DOS
diskette into the Amiga drive and typing COPY #? DI0:.

     Serial port transfers via null modem should work too.

Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca
I used to be indecisive but now I'm not so sure.
From: wfaust@venus.adsp.sub.org (Wolf Faust)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re:  ProPage 3.0 help!!!
Date: 21 Dec 92 11:08:13 GMT
Organization: Not an Organization

In article <g=r2g2q@rpi.edu> danaf@bray1a.its.rpi.edu (Frank R. Dana Jr.) writes:
>In article <trat.0kmw@amiganet.chi.il.us>, trat@amiganet.chi.il.us (Tom Reamer) writes:

>|> When printing, the page is no where near centered, so I have to crank the whole
>|> page to the left.  
>
>Check your actual Workbench printer preferences first.

Yes, PPage does print graphics a bit to low and a bit to the left.
You can correct this by using the Offset gadgets in the PPage
print requester.  I use -0.5 for both Offset parameters on DIN A4
paper size.

>The way ProPage works with printers is fascinating in the extreme. It's so
>completely warped, I can't believe someone hasn't blased away the old print
>system and implemented a completely new one. Maybe in 4.0....

Warped?  When it comes to color printing using PPage and WB
drivers, you'll quickly see that PPage is fine.  There are only
two things that should get improved:  offsets and speed.

>|> If I print more than 1 page, the next page will space down about 1 inch or more
>|> then start printing
>
>Again, check those page length settings. And you Printer Graphics prefs.

No, this is a driver issue and can most likely be avoided by
running InitPrinter after reseting/turning on the printer.  Or get
the Studio printer software. Studio allows you to print with 256
greyscales from Amiga applications (yes, works fine with PPage!)
and many other things...

>|> Also, if I save AFTER I print, it will save messed up, with the wierd spacing.
>
>That I don't understand. What do you mean by saving with "weird spacing". Does
>the on-screen work physically CHANGE as you print? That would be really 
>surprising....

Also never had such a thing here.... Low memory???

>|> What can be the problem?  The output is 100 times better than Pagestream, but 
>
>Damn right it is!  8)

Yep, PageStream is fast but far from being good when it comes to
graphics.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications