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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Display tooltypes?
From: radnor_j@qis.dofasco.ca
Date: 13 Apr 92 09:31:35 GMT
Organization: Dofasco Inc, Hamilton, Ont. Can.
Nntp-Posting-User: radnor_j

The Display command documented in the 2.0 Manual in the AmigaDos section 
states that to show a picture that is larger than screensize, use the "opt a"
option, ie. Display pic.iff opt a.

Question: How do you specify "opt a" from the workbench for pics that have
a default tool of Display. Or, in other words, does Display support any 
Tooltypes?

I'm sure there must be others of you out there that have a directory of pics
that have icons (iconized even.....iconize by R. Tillery...excellent program),
with the idea that you click on them and display the pic. 

Or maybe Display isn't the tool of choice. If not what is? Superview?

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From: djung@economics.adelaide.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: M2Error?
Date: 11 Apr 92 04:00:41 GMT
Organization: Economics, University of Adelaide

I am looking for the program M2Error from fish 79.  Does anyone know where
I can find it?  Or alternatively where I can ftp old fish disks?

(M2Error displays error messages from TDI Modula II error files - I prefer
to use DME over the supplied editor)

Thanks in advance.
			-David Jung

djung@eco.adelaide.edu.au
University of Adelaide
South Australia
From: epa@cis.ksu.edu (Eric P. Armstrong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: The 2.04 Clock
Date: 13 Apr 92 14:13:40 GMT
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: depot.cis.ksu.edu

Has anyone else noticed that clock under 2.04 allocates ungodly
amounts of chipram?

Work:Home/epa> avail
Type  Available    In-Use   Maximum   Largest
chip     591888    455664   1047552    564656
fast    2625472   1568832   4194304   2590368
total   3217360   2024496   5241856   2590368
Work:Home/epa> run clock
[CLI 9]
Work:Home/epa> avail
Type  Available    In-Use   Maximum   Largest
chip     405520    642032   1047552    378288
fast    2469336   1724968   4194304   2446104
total   2874856   2367000   5241856   2446104
Work:Home/epa>

Isn't 182K a bit steep? :-)  It seems to be allocating a window the
size of the screen since the memory usage doesn't change when you
resize it.  Is this a known bug or did I just notice it because of the
huge virtual workbench that I am running.

Kickstart version 37.175, Workbench version 37.67, Exec Version 37.132


-- 
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: ccjy@bristol.ac.uk (APATHY=)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: PLEASE, the TRUE legal scoop and distibuting music samples
Date: 8 Apr 92 09:35:38 GMT
Organization: University of Bristol, England

In article <92097.195932CMS129@psuvm.psu.edu> CMS129@psuvm.psu.edu (Christopher M. Stoy) writes:
>In article <1992Apr6.040500.3575@regina.cs.uregina.ca>,
>plummer@hercules.cs.uregina.ca (Dave Plummer) says:
>>
>>Then again, Playboy _is_ suing a BBS owner in the states for $4 Million for
>>having digitized pictures of Vanna White from one of their issues...
>>
>
>The Playboy thing is a little different. By having the photos of Vanna, the
>BBS operator was hurting sales of Playboy.  Why buy the issue when you could
>get them off a BBS for free?  On the other hand, I doubt Genesis would care
>about the demo.  He isn't hurting sales in any way I can see (in fact, he
>is most likely increasing them by making people want to hear the entire song).
>As long as he isn't making any profits off the thing, I doubt Genesis would
>take him to court.
>
>I would like to say I am NOT a lawyer by any stretch of the imagination, and
>the opinions expressed in this article are just that, OPINIONS.
>
>Chris Stoy  INTERNET: stoy@endor.cs.psu.edu BITNET: cms129@psuvm.psu.edu
>President, Slothman Software Inc. Makers of "SlothMonger , the slowest
> program to ever run on any computer in the history of everything."
>              "We make VaporWare a reality..."


And i would just like to add that Phil Collins of Genesis is a nice man with
good values in life.  Not everyone is like the LA Law style people we see on
our T.V.'s everyday.

Moneyt isn't everythingand i beleive that genesis know that.
They are a great bunch.

My friends

U4ia...probably got this all wrong
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: rickan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Mark Rickan)
Subject: Pascal (was Re: Info on programming wanted)
Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 15:35:49 GMT

In article <1992Apr5.034436.23782@samba.oit.unc.edu> Frederick.Theilig@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Frederick Theilig) writes:

>>    1) What language should I use ( C, Pascal, Assembly, ...)
>     Personal preference.  I like C.  There aren't any professional
> pascal compilers, but you could get away with PCQ (pd/shareware).

In fact, there are at least two commercial Pascal compilers on the market:
HiSpeed Pascal from HiSoft and Kick Pascal from Maxon. OXXI is reportedly
working on a Pascal compiler as well.

Mark

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From: wfaust@venus.UUCP (Wolf Faust)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: IBM Proprinter 24 driver for Amiga?
Date: 11 Apr 92 02:31:27 GMT
Reply-To: cbmehq!venus!wfaust@cbmvax.commodore.com
Organization: Not an Organization

In article <1992Apr9.124645.28194@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> sacke@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Elizabeth E Sack) writes:
>Does anyone know where I can get an IBM Proprinter 24 printer
>driver for Workbench >2.04?

You can most likely use the CanonBJ10 driver. This driver uses the
CanonBJs ProPrinter mode and because of this, is ProPrinter
compatible in most cases.  Though, there are some
Canon/Brother/Star specific extensions but as long as you only use
graphic density 2 or 6, you stay 100% ProPrinter compatible.

I have also seen several "ProPrinter" drivers out there, but most
of them don't have the functions and resolutions of the CanonBJ10
driver (sometimes, ProPrinter compatible printers have problems
with those additional options...).  Also have a look at the soon
to be released CanonBJ10 driver update...  (I'll hopefully finish
the driver and utilities this weekend yeeaaahhh ;-)

CanonBJ10 should be available on ab20, Genie, CompuServe, Canon UK
or Germany, me, my boss BBS:  ++49-6173-2544 (Fido 2:243/43 HST/v32bis)

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From: johnv@acix.DIALix.oz.au (John Verhoeven)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Changing modes on 68030
Date: 9 Apr 92 11:45:27 GMT
Organization: Not an Organization
X-NewsSoftware: Amiga GRn V1.28 2/25/92 (Beta) by Mike Schwartz

In article <1992Apr3.081130.1077@daimi.aau.dk> usatoday@daimi.aau.dk (Peter Dalsgaard) writes:
>I need help please !!
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
No disagreement here with this statement :-)

>Can anyone tell me, were I can find a utility program, that
>sets the memory refresh rate on the '030, and forces it to
>use 32 bit instructions.

Memory refresh is not handled by the 68030, but by other chips.  It is
playing with fire to muck around with this value.  How would like your
machine crashing randomly because one chip can handle a slower refresh
rate, but another can't.  Leave the settings of refresh rate to the
hardware designer and trust that he knows his stuff (Hi Dave!).

All 680x0 processors have a minimum 16 bit instruction size.  Optionally
following this may be more 32 bit extension values (absolute addresses,
values, jump targets etc.)

I think you getting confused by the fact that all 68000 fetches from
memory are in 16 bit chunks.  The 68020 and up fetches from memory in
32 bit chunks.

On the A3000 the entire system has a 32 bit bus.  All memory accesses
are 32 bits.

On A500/1000/2000 systems it depends on the accelerator card fitted.
Assuming you have at least a 68020, then if you don't have memory on the
card (commonly called '32 bit memory') all fetches (32 bits) have to be
funnelled over a 16 bit data bus to the memory on the motherboard.
Adding 32 bit memory gives you the biggest single speedup when fitting
an accelerator.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: taaustin@vaxb.acs.unt.edu
Subject: RXBlank author READ
Organization: University of North Texas
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 01:55:20 GMT


Would the author of RXBlank(er?) please contact me

taaustin@vaxb.acs.unt.edu

I mentioned your program to the folks at grind.isca, several of them
want the program.  I lost the archive and the doc file.  I still have
the program but am hesitant to post it without all archive files intact.
I checked ab20 and couldn't find it...  perhaps I did not look in the
right directory.  There are several anxious folks there but as I said,
I don't want to upload it without documents and your credits.
 
Thanks,
Terry

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: iceman@camelot.bradley.edu (Christopher Ice)
Subject: Re: Amiga advertised in Computer Graphics World
Organization: Bradley University
Distribution: na
Date: 17 Apr 92 02:47:53 GMT

In <802@shaman.wv.tek.com> peterr@ice.tek.com (Peter Rehley) writes:

>Greetings,
>	If any of you get the "Computer Graphics World" magazine, look on 
>	page 26 in the April issue.  There is a full-page color ad for the 
>	Amiga.

>	Looks like Commodore is starting to advertise in some non-amiga
>	magazines.

>--
>Peter Rehley
>peterr@orca.wv.tek.com
>(503) 685-2637
>Tektronix

There is also a very favorable mention of the Amiga's video capability.  And
believe it or not, it actually mentions that we've been doing for years what
PC's are just starting!!!

Bout time!  CGWorld......let's hear MORE!!!


+--------------------------------------///-------------------------------------+|    Chris Ice                        ///         Bradley University           |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: stefanb@rama.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Stefan Becker)
Subject: Re: Where's XPKMASTER.LIBRARY?
Organization: RBI - RWTH Aachen
Date: 15 Apr 92 08:01:04 GMT

HI!
The XPK (External Packer) system isn't released yet. You'll have to wait a
little longer...

	Stefan

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: NIX on the brainwash Nish
From: rumford@afitamy.fidonet.org (Don Rumford)
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 92 18:28:46 EST
Organization: AFIT Amiga Users BBS(AFITAUG), Dayton, Oh. (513) 879-9798

*** Quoting Nishith A. Patel to All dated 04-04-92 ***
> as fast
> as a 68040 at 25 MHz as far as raw  speed goes, in executing 
> instructions.
> (The 25 MHz 486 will still beat the 040 in most identical application 
> tasks
> because of it's superior instruction set. This is another advantage of 
> Intel
> processor based computers over Amigas.) And if he used a faster OS, 
> like the
> new OS/2 2.0, he will see a bigger performance boost in multitasking.
> their
> fastest CAD program, spreadsheet, or other processor intensive app for 
> high
> end work) and compare it to the speed of the fastest app for that 
> purpose
> available for the IBM under OS/2 2.0 (or a Windows app under Windows 
> 3.1)
> For CAD, go with the standard, AutoCAD, but I do not know if it is the 
> fastest.
> For a spreadsheet, go with Lotus 1-2-3 3.1 or 2.3. Under windows 3.1, 
> go with
> Excel. These might not be the fastest, but they will do. You will see 
> that
> OS/2 2.0 and Windows 3.1 are very fast.
> 
Ixney on the ainwash Bray there Nish.  The Workbench screen looks the way
it does to accommodate the HP and SUN users and the way they believe a GUI
should look like.  I can show you some very interesting Workbench screens
if that's what your measure is.

AutoCad.....Lotus.....yeah yeah yeah....we have heard the decree from ipso
facto obnoxious oh Big Blue and clone clusterers before.  I agree these
are excellent programs and have evolved to a highly refined state.  Amiga
owners tend to be self lead, creative types who make intelligent decisions
based on fact.  Can your 486 host a Toaster card?  What difference does
it make how fast it is if it can't do the job at all.  You can get it to
work though if you hide the Amiga logo and hook your pc up to the serial 
port.  At any rate, Amiga owners don't buy Amigas to run Lotus or AutoCad,
they buy them to run Imagine, Excellence and Deluxe Paint IV.  Can your 
486 say DPaint animation Nish?

Superior instruction set???  Go with OS/2........?  You need the superior 
instruction set to overcome the crippled architecture of the Intel chip.
Care to take this discussion over to advocacy Nish?



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: 8939527@hydra.maths.unsw.OZ.AU ()
Subject: Re: M2Error?
Organization: school of Mathematics UNSW
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 07:49:52 GMT

In article <1992Apr11.133041.1@economics.adelaide.edu.au> djung@economics.adelaide.edu.au writes:
>I am looking for the program M2Error from fish 79.  Does anyone know where
>I can find it?  Or alternatively where I can ftp old fish disks?
>
>(M2Error displays error messages from TDI Modula II error files - I prefer
>to use DME over the supplied editor)
>
>Thanks in advance.
>			-David Jung
>
>djung@eco.adelaide.edu.au
>University of Adelaide
>South Australia
	Here is some info from a fellow from tha land of OZ. Look at an FTP site in Germany (Or denmark). It has about 70 disks of source code in Modula II. And a colection of related excecutables. M2err shows up a few times. Now the crunch your best bet is to look through archie to hunt it out otherwise mail to 
htgoebel at cip.informatik.un-erlargen.de or mail to me when I find it.
(amn VI edit or wont accept the Shift 2 key)
	CYA
Geo T.
8939527 at hydra.maths.unsw.oz.au
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: walrus@wam.umd.edu (Udo K Schuermann)
Subject: FISH: Aquarium Update 611-630
Summary: Available now via ftp from grind.isca.uiowa.edu
Organization: University of Maryland at College Park
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 05:47:22 GMT

The following UPDATE DATASET for the Aquarium Database is now available via
anonymous ftp:

aquarium-611-630.lzh

isca02.isca.uiowa.edu	[128.255.19.233]	amiga/misc/

1. The program "Aquarium" can be found on Fred Fish's AmigaLibDisk #301 and
   #559.  These can be found at ux1.cso.uiuc

2. I am not the author of Aquarium; I only maintain the database.

3. Floppy users will still be able to use the old Aquarium through disk 630.
   Those who can format their floppies with FFS will have 48K free after this
   update.

 ._.  Udo Schuermann      "One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish."
 ( )  walrus@wam.umd.edu                                -- Dr. Seuss
From: pat_meloy@outbound.wimsey.bc.ca (Pat Meloy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: AmaxII HD Partition
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: Amiga GRn V1.28 2/25/92 (Beta) by Mike Schwartz
Date: 7 Apr 92 01:55:47 PST

In article <1992Apr6.221440.5838@henson.cc.wwu.edu> n8846069@henson.cc.wwu.edu (Barry) writes:
>dtiberio@csws7.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes:
>
>>	I have the same problem with my A3000. 
>
>Works fine on my A3000!  I am using v2.0 by the way.
>
>-Barry

 You've probably all done this and I don't want to insult anyone, but I
figure someone has to state the (painfully) obvious;

 Have you renamed the appropriate .amhd file as detailed in the manual?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: peterk@public.sub.org (Peter Kittel)
Subject: Re: Fortran Compiler
Organization: Public News & Mailserver, Commodore Germany PM UNIX, Frankfurt
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 92 07:32:35 GMT

hoffmann@pandanus.cs.ntu.edu.au (Arthur Hoffmann) writes:

>Does anyone know if there is any PD or shareware Fortran Compiler around? 
>Could be for an IBM, Amiga or even Macintosh, my Amiga swallows anything.

(Please use your Return key.)

No, I only know about the commercial product "AC/Fortran" by Absoft.
But look around the Fish disks, perhaps there's more than I'm aware
of in the moment.

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From: ewilts@mr.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for new ConMan
Date: 10 Apr 92 19:35:37 -700
Organization: BC Systems Corporation

In article <1992Apr10.170215.14563@newserve.cc.binghamton.edu>, consp11@bingsuns (Brett Kessler) writes:
> 
> I've been running with ConMan 1.3d in my system for quite a while, and
> I know that I used to have ConMan 1.3e (but the disk got toasted).  In
> any case, I can't seem to find ConMan beyond 1.3 (the original 1.3)
> anywhere!  Can somebody please give me a hint as to where it may be?

Conman 1.3e is on Fish 426.  To the best of my knowledge, there isn't a later
version.  You should, however, have a good look at WShell 2.0.  You'll find the
Display Handler well worth the money compared to Conman.  WShell is commercial.

-- 
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From: ewilts@mr.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Suggestion for new AB20 equivalents
Date: 14 Apr 92 08:18:16 -0700
Organization: BC Systems Corporation

In article <1992Apr9.153032.4361@tom.rz.uni-passau.de>, hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de (Georg Hessmann) writes:

> If there are more incoming servers (at least on at every continent)
> and the servers has always (nearly) the same contents, this
> would save much network traffic!
> 
> E.g. it would be very nice to have an *active* mirror server in
> germany. :-)
> So everybody here can get all new/interesting things from germany
> and don't have to go oversee.
> 
> Yes! And all with active mirrowing.
> So not only one server to upload, but every server mirrows the others
> and every server will be mirrowed from the other servers.
> So everyone has the *full* ab20 succesor near at home. :-)
>  
>   hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de		hessmann@unipas.uucp

And my followup request:  Allow NFS mounting to the Amiga areas.  That way
people on the Internet with NFS software could use their own utilities at home
to copy the files.  For us non-Unix users, this is a lot easier...

Unfortunately I haven't got the disk space here, or I would set up the server
myself...

-- 
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From: jcrowe@mpd.tandem.com (Joseph Crowe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Everything killer on the way!!!
Date: 14 Apr 92 17:17:19 GMT
Organization: Tandem Computers (MPD) Austin, TX

In article <1992Apr14.155300.6848@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> jdickson@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Jeff Dickson) writes:
>In article <wpFSq*c00@motship.comsat.gna.org> pvdh@motship.comsat.gna.org writes:
>>In article <1992Apr3.040022.29243@news.jit.dec.com>, Walter Zambotti DEC writes:
>>
>>> There is new box coming developed by IBM/APPLE/INTEL that will allow you
>>> to run UNIX MAC-DOS and PC-DOS on the one box.  It is based on IBM's
>>> RS6000 chip.
   Just a little bit of information to correct here.  Intel has no
involvement in the Power PC project.  The silicon manufacturer will be
Motorola in Austin, TX.  The chip has been alleged to be packaged in a
format which provides pin-compatability to Moto's 88100 RISC chip.
>
>	That's a good idea. Processors are getting so fast (especially RISC
>chips) why not have them emulate other CISC processors. 
   The problem does not lie in processor speed, but rather in system
speed.  The path to the "killer micro" has to travel through the
sticky swamp of memory to processor and i/o bottlenecks.
>
>	On a side note, INTEL is a chip manafacture, not an IBM PC maker. 
   Actually, Intel does make systems as well.  Just not very good
ones.
>
>jeff

Joe
From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: .info Magazine has "suspended operations"
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 17:34:29 GMT

In article <caw.08fp@miroc.Chi.IL.US> caw@miroc.Chi.IL.US (Christopher A. Wichura) writes:
> Probably because 1) the magazine looks kludged together and is
> perceived as a gamer's mag

It is?

Amiga World does a lot more game reviews, and has a lot fewer solid articles.
-- 
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