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From: fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: HELP: Dos 3.3
Date: 12 Apr 92 22:13:59 GMT
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

In article <11930008@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> sjordan@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Steve Jordan) writes:
>Why doesn't the Dos 3.3 FST allow you to format disks in the finder?
>I'd like to make a hard disk partition to hold my old Dos 3.3 stuff,
>but alot of stuff isn't compatible if you convert it to Prodos.

The DOS 3.3 FST is read-only and only works with 5.25" disks.  You'll need
a program like DOS Master to put DOS 3.3 on a ProDOS volume like a 3.5"
disk, RAM disk, or HD partition.

>Along these same lines, if I do convert a binary dos 3.3 file to prodos,
>is there some way to execute the binary file under prodos?  BRUN doesn't
>work from BASIC.  I also tryed changing the file type to SYS, which didn't
>help either.  Maybe there's a utility to convert a binary file to a SYS file?

It depends on where the binary file loads.  You'd need to set the aux type
correctly, and make sure that the program doesn't try to use any DOS 3.3
routines (RWTS, etc).  The shorthand for executing any program is "-", as
in "-fubar".

You can't convert a binary file to a SYS file; it's more than just changing
the filetype.  There are some specific things expected of a SYS file, not
the least of which is that it has to be loaded at $2000.

You may also have problems with files which have an early load address
(some old cracked games liked to put a "crack page" on the text screen);
this won't work under ProDOS unless you change the memory in-use map
at $bf58.  This is probably more than you want to deal with though.  Your
best bet is to find a DOS 3.3 on a HD program.  DOS Master is available
from Glen Bredon for about $25; the instructions are terrible, but the
program works fairly well.

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fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
[ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]
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From: flav@bluemoon.rn.com (Jason Jones)
Subject: Re: Piraccy via BBSs (was: Re: Apple Awards)
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 21:20:31 EDT

edw@caligula.cts.com (Ed Watkeys) writes:

> 
> In my area, there are about five BBSs which don't steal software (I think
> "pirating" implies a degree of Romanticism absent from most of the stealing
> that goes on...), and about twenty that do. Now, I asked my friend what makes
> a "pirate" board worth calling, and he said, "ZModem, of course!"

  WHAT?  That is pretty funny!  Most boards that I call for software 
<pirated or not> have only x,ymodem!  20 boards that have pirated exfers?  
Come on!  You must not be talking -just apple- bbs's..


> The fact is that Morgan is right. The "best" pirate BBSs have message section
> too, but they often revolve around ninth-graders calling eachother names and
> requests to upload the latest WAREZ. I know, I used to be one of them.

  Well, I just happen to be a ninth grader, and from what I see, many 
people my age are the main posters on apple bbs's, and in some cases the 
only callers.  You also make it sound like we are sitting around, typing 
posts in all uppercase saying 'Gimme some warez!  I need the following 
games...'.  Give me a break!  The sysops let us do what we want, and the 
people who want to post, post, and the ones who want to transfer, 
transfer.  I really think your statement about ninth graders in 
exxagerated!

> 
> Any schmuck kid can start a BBS with some stolen software and get a transfer
> section up. Personally, I don't think that these schmucks would choose ProLin
> because it is a little too invloved for their needs... They used to just get
> a copy of GBBS, (V1.3 if I recall...), get the SuperTac external, make all
> of the menus k-Rad k00l, and put all of the stuff they've stolen on a HD.
> Of coursde, back then, *the* thing was YMODEM...

  Yeah... I see so many kids that have all this hardware and software to 
designate to a bbs.  All they do is go out and spend $2000 on some 
hardware, and then pay for another line, monthly, just to give other peope 
  You make it sound like us kids are the ones with the boards set up, and 
that we are just like drones or something..



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From: mporter@pro-palmtree.socal.com (System Administrator)
Subject: Re: ANSITerm 1.1
Organization: The Palmtree BBS - 310/450-9394 - Santa Monica, CA
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 07:58:19 GMT

In <dd46998@pro-iisysops.cts.com>
dig@pro-iisysops.cts.com (Doug Granzow) writes:

>bslog@pro-scat.cts.com (Bill Logsdon) writes:
>
>>One of my buddies has AnsiTerm 1.0..... he was always telling me bout how
>>good a prog it was... but fore I wanted to spend the bucks, I asked to
>>borrow it to verify it would run on my sys.... IT WON'T!
>
>I have a feeling that Paul doesn't keep up with this newsgroup. You might
>want to try sending him email at paulp@pro-palmtree.cts.com. There is a demo
>of ANSI Term floating around; you might want to try that and see if you have
>problems with it too.

        Paul Parkhurst's new mail address is paulp@pro-palmtree.socal.com

Mail sent to paulp@pro-palmtree.cts.com will get here, but it'll be slow.

--Mike




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From: ericm@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Eric Mulholland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Is this a Teach bug or is it me?
Date: 13 Apr 92 12:31:49 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center


A problem I have every other time I use Teach is with using the scroll
arrow.  I click on the arrow to scroll, but when I release the button
to stop scrolling, it doesn't stop.  It will keep scrolling til it hits
the end or until I move the pointer off the arrow.  It does this for
moving up as well as down.  Unfortinatly, I haven't found a way to have
this happen everytime, makes it difficult to get fixed.
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From: lucifer@world.std.com (Kevin S Green)
Subject: Info request - GS/OS Golden Master CD-Rom contents?
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 22:10:44 GMT

Yesterday I called Resource Central to see if they had the
GS/OS Golden Master CD-Rom in yet. I was comtemplating 
changing my order from the 6 disk+manual set for the
CD-Rom. They have it...for $99.

I spoke with a guy named David and he very kindly gave me
a brief overview. However, I would like to know a little
more before I up the ante. Specifically...

1) Are all the manuals online in text form?
2) David said Hypercard GS was on the disk. True/False?
3) Are the latest tech notes and such on disk?
4) Are there any nifty goodies (GSbug, etc) on the disk?

If anyone has any info I would appreciate it. 
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               /America Online: Gargoth
From: sjordan@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Steve Jordan)
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 19:18:27 GMT
Subject: HELP: Dos 3.3
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2

Why doesn't the Dos 3.3 FST allow you to format disks in the finder?
I'd like to make a hard disk partition to hold my old Dos 3.3 stuff,
but alot of stuff isn't compatible if you convert it to Prodos.

Along these same lines, if I do convert a binary dos 3.3 file to prodos,
is there some way to execute the binary file under prodos?  BRUN doesn't
work from BASIC.  I also tryed changing the file type to SYS, which didn't
help either.  Maybe there's a utility to convert a binary file to a SYS file?


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From: mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Manning)
Subject: Re: RE: Copyrights. Part 1
Organization: Simulacron I
Distribution: comp.sys.apple2
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 20:10:00 GMT

[Stuff Deleted]

> I'd like to know your source, Mark. It doesn't match well with mine. Mine is
> a copyright lawyer who has covered my book, articles and screenplay. One of
> us has some bogus information.

Probably mine since I haven't registered anything since 1986 or so
(when there were quite a few people I knew dying off).  I have only
recently recovered enough from their deaths (last year or so) to begin
really programming again in my off hours.  As of that time, I had all
of the books from the GPO as well as had read several books from the
main public library.

But you have to admit a couple of things though:  1)Most of the information
is both correct and sound, 2)Even though you said you only have to put the
notice onto the object in question (we are talking mainly about software
production here) I do not think it will stand up in court UNLESS it is
also notarized.  Why?  Because you can print something easily and change
the date just as easily.  The same is true of storing a file.  In part #2
I talked about notarizing something.  If you aren't going to copyright
your work - at least notarize it.  That way you DO have a record, with a
witness, to show you had the idea first (which is the whole deal behind
copyrights).

In the matter of books, plays, and even songs though, it is unlikely that
you would go around talking about everything in your latest book.  And
even if you did, it would take those people a lot longer to come up with
the exact same kind of story than it would for you to complete what you'd
already started.  Be that as it may, I _have_ noticed several court cases
recently in regards to songs.  Micheal Jackson has been in court twice,
The Beach Boys lost a case over a song, and the most famous court battle
I'd ever heard about was over a song an American writer wrote and a British
writer wrote, submitted the same day, and the British person lost the race
by less than an hour.  This same British writer was so upset that he wrote
another song and appeared on the Monty Python show to sing "This Song" (a
song about the song he'd written and lost).

In conclusion I'd like to say that YES.  My information may not be 100%
correct.  But it is _sound_ advice.  Advice that anyone who is writing a
program should listen to and act on.  I hate half measures and anyone
who doesn't care enough about their work to spend the $10.00 or $20.00
is simply asking for whatever happens to themselves.  Especially since
with a Notary Republic you can (sometimes) get their services for free.

Nuff said (IMHO).

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From: kiszkaw@woods.ulowell.edu
Subject: Re: System 6 and Ramdisks
Organization: University of Lowell
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 01:11:35 GMT

	Well, I feel kinda silly now.  I've gotten MUCH mail, and seen a few
posts saying that maybe I don't have enough memory/you should have posted
how much memory you have.  WELLL....  I suppose that WOULD be helpful, wouldn't
it?  Just to avoid future embarassments, and aid in future diagnoses, here's
my system setup:

		GS Rom 01
		Sonic Blaster
		GSRam (4 MB)
		RamFAST v2.01 (Can't Remember the revision...)
		TMS Pro 105 HD
		DataLink Express w/ MNP5
		Apple 3.5" Drive

	That's everything that may affect my memory situation (I've got things
like surge protectors and fans, but who cares?!).  BTW, the about finder
menu-thingy shows the finder using approx. 1200K, and the Control Panel
(Both the Cdev and the Cda) recognize the 4 MB I've got.  Hope that helps you
help me!

	Bill Kiszka
	kiszkaw@woods.ulowell.edu

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: b645zkb@utarlg.uta.edu (Mark S. Kent)
Subject: Freq. crashes...
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Keywords:  ZIPGS
Organization: The University of Texas at Arlington
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 05:17:00 GMT

I have been having this problem with my GS lately (I think it started when I
got my ZIPGS...oooh shudder) and it tends to lock up the system after about
1-1/2 to 2 hours of use under GS/OS (5.0.4 or 6.0).  I hear the system beep
and then have to re-boot to get anything to come back up.  I can't even get
into the OA-CTL-ESC Control Panel.  When re-booting, I noticed some memory
location numbers and thought that I would post them here to see if anyone
can enlighten me on what they mean. The screen said:

F01: 0 0      R 0
AC3 = 70YFF  = 56D17  = 1BE  = FM0  = EL1m0x0e0

or similarly:

F01: 0 0      R 0
AF0 = 18YFF  = 5CD17  = 1BE  = FM0  = EL1m0x0e0

Anyone like to venture a guess?  I did have to send my ZIP back after I first
got it because of "noise" that the GS produces while running P8 programs.  They
soldered something onto it and it has worked OK since then (although even now
it sometimes hangs while PT 3.0 is running...online OR offline).

Any help would be appreciated.  BTW, the ZIP GS is a 1.02 version.

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From: S_PRAUSS@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Andreas Prauss @ Uni Ulm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: OCR-Software
Date: 16 Apr 92 12:33:37 GMT
Organization: University of Ulm, FRG
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.21

Sorry, I've just some trouble with my line-editor!

I was wondering if anybody knows something about a recommendable
OCR-Software that isn't to expensive!

By the way, Dan,
thanks for mailing me, even without an concrete question! Can you send me
some more informations about 'InWords'?

Ciao,

Andreas Th. Prauss


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From: slhood@bluemoon.rn.com (Stephen L. Hood)
Subject: Re: FontSel 1/1
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 92 11:08:29 EDT

greis@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gayla Ann Greis) writes:

> 
> In article <92102.000531TJK111@psuvm.psu.edu> TJK111@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
> >FontSel 0.31 a CDEV by Jay Krell that will display the fonts in your Font Me
> >in the Font that they are. You should have a point size 10 for each of your
> >fonts to display quickly. Pointless users will see Pointless try to make a
> >size 10 font for every TT font you have active just to display in the menu. 
> >use Save Bitmap to crete what you need and save time. GSCII 2.3.1 and GSHK 1
> >Documentation included.
> 
> Uhh... Doesn't pointless only save a 12 point font bitmap? I haven't been
> able to save selectable sizes... (Otherwise I'd be using Davy's Other Dings)

        I think you should read your manual again.  When you click on the 
"Save Bitmap" button, a StndFile dialog pops up, with a default save name 
of "X.12", where "X" is the font that you currently have selected from the 
CDev.  Simple overwrite the "12" with the point size that you want to 
bitmap, and Pointless will take it from there.  A very intelligent 
interface, if a little out of the HI Guidelines.  I can see how it could 
be easily overlooked -- I had to rip out my manual to be sure.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: hal@budapest.math.macalstr.edu (Harold Byron Bouma)
Subject: Re: Ram Disk Blues
Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 03:15:15 GMT

 writes
> I've been having some trouble with System 6 running off of a Ram Disk.
> 
> First of all, the Ram disk is no longer initialized automaticly. BUMMER! It
> took me forever to figure out why if I copied my system disk to the RamDisk,  
> It wouldn't boot. ie., when the systems boots, boot blocks are no longer
> automaticly written to the Ram Disk.
> 

	Its actually been like that way for a long time now. One of my first  
questions to c.s.a2 was that exact same question. (about why I can't get my  
RAMdisk to boot...) 

> But that isn't the problem. Sometimes, after quitting an application, my
> ram.disk gets clobbered and the systems hangs. I've tried booting prodos 8  
and
> cataloging the Ram disk, but It just isn't there. I have to completly reboot.
> I have a 01 machine, with 2 megs installed. 1 meg is used as a ram disk. This
> problem has happened with both desktop and 8-bit programs. Anyone have any
> ideas?

	I have found that RAMdisks have been very unreliable at times. Some  
programs like to munch it very easily. It makes it even more unreliable when  
you set your Min/Max settings to different values, which is why the ROM 03's  
don't have that option anymore. The Virtual RAMDisk was too much of a kludge.  
I'm not sure what's causing the problems when you boot ProDOS 8 and looking for  
the RAMDrive. Which slot are you looking for it in? (or Volume name?)

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From: drew@fnbc.com (Drew Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Serial port on Apple //c
Date: 9 Apr 92 21:43:20 GMT
Article-I.D.: fnbc.1992Apr9.214320.23303
Reply-To: drew@fnbc.com
Organization: First National Bank Of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA

How does one set the baud rate on the built-in serial port on the //c from the  
Monitor?

Thanks.

- Drew
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From: moorera@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU (Ryan A Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2,from.socal.com
Subject: Re: HELP!!!!
Date: 12 Apr 92 18:25:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Apr12.182530.10005
Reply-To: moorera@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

In article <1992Apr12.011403.14818@pro-palmtree.socal.com>, hlee@pro-palmtree.socal.com (Hyo Lee) write
> 
>I used FTP, set the file type to Binary, and got the files into my site.
> 
>Then, I used Kermit, set the file type to binary, and receive the files
>using my modem.
> 
>But, all the files that are Binscii'ed come out all wrong.

There is a very simple reason why it doesn't come out right...

FTP and Kermit MUST be used in TEXT mode!

Did you forget what the point of BinSCI was?  The point is so that binary files
can be represented by text characters so they can be posted in places like
c.b.a2 that only except text.  Binary mode on FTP will roast text files, and
text mode will roast binary files because of the way the files are interpreted
by the system.  Changing FTP mode (not sure about Kermit) to Text should solve
the problem.

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From: slhood@bluemoon.rn.com (Stephen L. Hood)
Subject: Re: Sys6 and AWGS
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 92 10:49:23 EDT

sjordan@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Steve Jordan) writes:

> I'm having the same problem.  Does anyone know WHY Appleworks cannot load
> modules?

        I have often noticed this error (under AWGS v1.1) with module 
loading.  After playing around with the software, I am pretty much certain 
that the problem -- at least in my case -- is a memory shortage.  These 
problems have ceased since I updated to 4.25 Megs.


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From: mvats@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mudit P Vats)
Subject: Eclipse Problems !
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 16:26:48 GMT

I was playing around with Eclipse this past weekend and I just coget
the modem to pick-up.  I am using an AE Datalink 1200 bd. modem, //gs, 3.25megs
ram, 40 megger hd and a TransWarp... I set my 'Eclipse.epl ' modemm driver to
'SSCSMART.MDR' with SLOT 2.  No Problem there.  WELL, in the 'LOGON.EPL', for
the basic set-up, something is weird.  i.e. When someone calls me, the modem
seems to connect, and then nothing happens........

Also, I have some modem questions : what does 'AT&F' and  'ATX2' accomplish..

any info would be appreciated, thanks !


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