HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: dmk@doc.ic.ac.uk (Dileepa Munaweera Karundasa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
Subject: Re: Hard Discs & ADFSBuffers
Date: 5 Nov 1992 16:58:15 -0000
Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
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> How easy is it to fit an IDE drive.

I have an A5000 and did (just) manage to fit a 2nd drive to it. The unit was a
210M Quantum, and it was a very tight squeeze. I'm not entirely sure what acorns
position on this matter is but I have not encountered any major problems.

Installing the actual drive unit is fairly simple, just screw it to the base of
the A5000 through the holes provided, they do align as long as you put the front
of the drive towards the front of the case. I would advise you figure out how you
intend to route the cables before hand. All you really need are a power cable
splitter and a ribbon cable able to take two IDE drives, and some fixing screws
and washers for the drive.

Though it is not *very* difficult to fit the second HD it is not all that easy,
some fairly forceful pushing and pulling is required.  

Hope the above is useful.

Dileepa.




Disclaimer : If you are at all unsure do not attempt to fit a drive, you **can**
	     damage a machine severely, for which I will not be responsible.
From: dcw-a@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
Subject: Acorn Roadshow in York?
Date: 9 Nov 92 16:54:52 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England

Hmmm, not quite a technical question, but a quick one. I heard at some point that there was going to be an acorn roadshow or similar event up here in York somewhere around now (15th?). Anyone know anything about this and who will be there???

	Doug.
	
	
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From: ahersee@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Andrew Hersee)
Subject: Re: Sprite dragging/New Filer/Replacement ToolSprites
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 14:00:26 GMT

srm2@ukc.ac.uk (S.R.Mansfield) writes:

>Could you please ensure that all *extras* are configureable, ie the 
>ability to enable/disable each function.  This would allow users to
>have just the functions they want implemented, instaed of either -
>Acorn filer or fully extended filer.  

This is going to happen. Everything will be definable with a seperate
configure application.


>Stephen Mansfield.
>
>P.S. Is it worth supporting RISC OS 2 with this code? 

No and it won't be since it is a hack of the RO3.1 filer and thus will only
be avaliable to people with RO3.1 since you will require the new OS to be able
to decode the program.

Andrew Hersee

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From: jna10@cl.cam.ac.uk (J.N. Abley)
Subject: Throwback
Reply-To: jna10@phx.cam.ac.uk (J.N. Abley)
Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 12:43:36 GMT

Does anybody have any information about how throwback works? I thought
it would be quite nice to be able to throw debugging information from
C programs out to whatever throwback-compatible editor happens to be
loaded, rather than sending it out to pipeFS or whatever.

Joe

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From: erlenkon@rhi.hi.is (Erlendur Konradsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
Subject: Filer_Action
Date: 6 Nov 92 10:20:21 GMT

Is there anybody out there who can tell me how to use the Filer_Action
module in RO3. I use !Alarm to make automatic bakups of important files to
floppy by using task alarms. The normal copy command takes the computer
over while the backup takes place. So I would like to use the filer_action
module to make backups in the background.

   _________
  /   / / .   "The best conversation I had over the last 5 million years was 
 /-  / / /     with a coffee machine" ( Marvin, the paranoid android ).
/__ / / /
              Student of computer science at the University of Iceland
              and working at the Icelandic Banks data center (RB).
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From: smb@cs.nott.ac.uk (Simon Burrows)
Subject: Re: Bug alert : RO3.1 corrupts DOS files
Organization: Nottingham University
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 22:34:23 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.102048.24186@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> thughes@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Tom Hughes) writes:
>
>I'm fairly sure that this is well known, as I read somewher recently
>(in Archive I think) that you should *always* dismount a DOS floppy
>before ejecting it, as not doing so means that the write behind buffer
>will not be flushed to disc, so the last sector or so written to disc
>will not actually have been written.

It was discussed on here as well. It's interesting how Archive always gets
the credit for these things!

>Whether this is a bug or the way things were supposed to work, it is
>*very* bad. If this was in the specification, I worry about the person
>who wrote the spec... Please, please, please sort it out Acorn.

I'm sure the RISC OS Development team members would agree with you.
It will most likely have been sorted out unless management decided that
the programmers have better things to do.

Simon
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From: dbh@doc.ic.ac.uk (Denis Howe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
Subject: Re: FTP
Date: 5 Nov 92 12:15:01
Organization: Computing Department, Imperial College, London, UK
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In-reply-to: cs89jmb@brunel.ac.uk's message of 5 Nov 92 10:56:51 GMT

In article <Bx8p2u.HG@brunel.ac.uk> cs89jmb@brunel.ac.uk (Aeon Flux)
wrote:

>JR Vaughan (vaughajr@cs.aston.ac.uk) wrote:
>> How in God's name do I use FTP from my SparcStation here at Aston?

>Get a copy of FTPTool and compile that (excellent piece of s/ware)

I recommend the ANGE-FTP package for GNU Emacs - transparent access to
files anywhere in the world!
--
Denis Howe <dbh@doc.ic.ac.uk>
So Biggs, you're the idiot who bought all these IBM PCs.  You're fired!
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From: /G=Rhodri/S=James/O=SJ-Research/ADMD=INTERSPAN/C=GB/@mhs-relay.ac.uk
Subject: Re: ADFS maps
Organization: Yale CS Mail/News Gateway
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:25:36 GMT

ijp@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Palmer) writes:

>Over the weekend I suddenly (well over the period of a few mins) lost
>3.5Meg of my hard disc free space. I was archiving some files and what
>appeared to happen is that every time a new file was placed in the
>archive (producing a copy of the archive temporarily) the old one at
>the end was NOT being added to the free space map (or is it taken
>away?) on my IDE (A5000) hard disc.

I suspect that you are the victim of map rot.  It can happen that when doing
lots of writing/deleting, RiscOS fails to link now unused areas of disc onto
the free list, resulting in a number of phantom objects in the map, rotting
away the free space.  Owen tells me that RO 3.1 is the least prone to map
rot, by the way.  It's also the only version on which I've actually observed
the problem, but never mind.

>[...]

>Now my question is, is there some easy way of getting that 3.5 meg
>back without having to re-initialise my hard disc and reinstal all the
>data?

Yes.  However, if you don't know exactly what you're doing then
reinitialising and reinstalling will be faster and more likely to leave you
with a functioning disc.

Cheers,
         a lurgified Rhodri

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From: srm2@ukc.ac.uk (S.R.Mansfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
Subject: Re: Sprite dragging/New Filer/Replacement ToolSprites
Date: 13 Nov 92 11:51:37 GMT
Reply-To: srm2@ukc.ac.uk (S.R.Mansfield)
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.

It sounds as if there is going to be alot of additional features added 
to Acorn's Filer module in the coming months.  I have only one
request...

Could you please ensure that all *extras* are configureable, ie the 
ability to enable/disable each function.  This would allow users to
have just the functions they want implemented, instaed of either -
Acorn filer or fully extended filer.  

This I feel would also increase the audience for the code. I'm, like most
people, picky on what gets added to my RISC OS Desktop.


Stephen Mansfield.

P.S. Is it worth supporting RISC OS 2 with this code?
From: cs89jmb@brunel.ac.uk (Aeon Flux)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
Subject: ARMXX & MHz
Date: 13 Nov 92 15:01:26 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]


Salutations,

Not being a real techy I was pondering this question last night and wondering
why I couldn't come up with an answer.

An Arm2 runs at 8Mhz and has approx "mippage" of 4
An Arm3 runs at 26Mhz and has approx "mippage" of 13

Rumour has it that the next ArmX chip runs at 50Mhz and has approx mippage of
28

Now then, what I don't understand is the Arm3 has a 4k cache which helps to 
speed things up, right?
The Arm3 (most common ones) are approx 3 times faster than an Arm2 - is this 
because they are clocked 3 times faster?

If so, where does the cache help?

Taking this argument to the next ArmX at 50Mhz - it runs approx twice as fast
as the Arm3 (again clock speed is "doubled") so shouldn't this be faster still
due to improvements on the design off the chip?


Someone, please explain this to me


Confused



Jayce

--
"I may be a shallow guy, but a shallow guy with a great ass!" - Cat, Red Dwarf

Jason "Archangel" Banham               Internet: cs89jmb@brunel.ac.uk       
					         aangel@sequent.co.uk

   ***** Acorn rep on StudentSoft/Archimedes owner/Computer Scientist *****
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
From: dhmyrdal@flipper.pvv.unit.no (Dag H}kon Myrdal)
Subject: Re: Modula 2/3
Organization: ProgramVareVerkstedet - UNIT
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 14:03:40 GMT

In article <1992Nov12.094539.17980@aston.ac.uk> davism@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mik Davis) writes:
[...]
>: I believe a standalone Modula-2 compiler for the Arc exists - it has certainly
>: been mentioned since the days of Arthur, and the old APCS!
>
>  So where can it be found? I think a lot of students would be interested in
>this...
>
Hmmmm... another candidate for the FAQ list ???
:-)

As far as I know, the Modula2 compiler was only suitable for internal
Acorn use... So it can be found somewhere in the misty backwaters of the
Acorn labs... but probably nowhere else :-(

Maybe somebody could persuade Acorn to do to the Modula2 compiler as they seem
to have done to the Pascal compiler??? Make it unsupported PD, then somebody
*might* turn it into a useable product???


--Dag


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From: robertej@cs.aston.ac.uk (ThinkPix)
Subject: Re: Impression postscript errors
Reply-To: robertej@cs.aston.ac.uk
Organization: Aston University (Comp Sci)
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 13:01:05 GMT

In article 10004@vax.oxford.ac.uk, cstevens@vax.oxford.ac.uk () writes:
>Hello out there
>	I'm trying to use the postscript printer driver from acorn along with
>computer concepts impression junior. If I use it to create a postscript file
>and then carry this file onto our university mainframe (they have a postscript
>laser printer I don't!) then pritn it on the OCE 6750 PS printer I get error
>codes coming back and no output, things like Tx undefined command, or UM
>unknown command. However if I print a drawfile or just a plain !edited text
>file the printer is completely happy with the results and prints quite happily.
>Looking at the files, Impression seems to put a lot of extra information in the
>beginning of the file as compared to draw and edit, but not knowing much about
>this I havn't made much progress. Things like replacing the Tx in the file with
>T just allows the UM adn other errors to get through.
>Any ideas?
>Chris Stevens
>CSTEVENS@UK.AC.OX.VAX 

I too have troubles using PostScript files made at home on an Archie (R/O 2)
files made with all versions of printerPs don't work from Impression Junior and
DTP. This only seems to apply to documents as my title page from Draw+ works just
fine. The support staff here just spent half an hour trying to suss it out but can't
and just say it's something to do with dialects, while mumbling about non-standard
systems.
Needless to say I'm narked, all I get from my lovely assignment is the end sheet saying
who sent it...
ThinkPix

robertej@uk.ac.aston.cs
From: cs89jmb@brunel.ac.uk (Aeon Flux)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Protection
Date: 9 Nov 92 15:10:55 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
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Hello fellow Acorn Peeps,

Having been the victim of a theft this weekend I would like to take further 
steps to protect my computer system from being "useful" in the event of it
being pinched.

Therefore, does anyone out there have any useful tips/programs etc ... I could
talk to him/her about???

What I have done is put a file in a sub-directory, given it a filename of 
ASCII 160 and given it a "blank" filetype.
Within this file I have put in my name and telephone/email details.

Also I have implemented in my boot up script a check for a particular file - if
it exists then a passwd program comes up but it is not very safe as it allows
access to the command line via F12.

Could someone mail me with hints, details, code etc....

I read somewhere (not so long ago) about someone poking his CMOS RAM with
personal details.



Thanks for your help,

Jayce.

--

"I may be a shallow guy, but a shallow guy with a great ass!" - Cat, Red Dwarf

Jason "Archangel" Banham               Internet: cs89jmb@brunel.ac.uk       
					         aangel@sequent.co.uk

   ***** Acorn rep on StudentSoft/Archimedes owner/Computer Scientist *****
From: espgl@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr D Charalambakis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Greek fonts
Date: 5 Nov 1992 14:40:54 -0000
Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
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        Since lot's of people replied requesting a copy of the Greek
fonts that I have I am replying through the news to say that:

        In case you don't read comp.sys.acorn.announce these fonts have
been put to the newcastle info-server.

                Regards, Jim.
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From: alla0008@student.tc.umn.edu ()
Subject: Re: SPRITE TO DRAW
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 16:47:57 GMT

In article <2afa54f0.8cdafd.3@BEIZ.mediatex.ch> Ikki@BEIZ.mediatex.ch (064230062: Fernmeldedirektion Olten) writes:
>Cold anyone explain what exactly this
>Trace does?
>If I wanto convert a sprite-file into
>a draw-file I only drag the Sprite-file
>on the Draw-Icon on the iconbar.

Doing this only embeds the original sprite in a draw file - if you attempt to
re-scale it or rotate it, it is still treated as a sprite, with all the
limitations which go with transforming a bitmap image.

!Trace looks for edges in the sprite and produces drawfile path objects,
filling them as appropriate to produce a draw-format version of the
original sprite. The image is now a collection of Draw path objects, so
can now be edited/altered with Draw, and rotated/rescaled arbitrarily.

Trace does a pretty good job of this, on the whole - obviously it only
works well on sprites which have relatively large blocks of pure colours
(on a sprite containing lots of dithering, such as from some scanners,
there aren't any obvious edges for the program to trace around).

Graham						allan@mnhep8.hep.umn.edu
						gta@st-andrews.ac.uk
From: sproven@cs.strath.ac.uk (Simon B Proven IE91)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: WHAT ARE THE BEST GAMES AROUND AT THE
Date: 9 Nov 92 12:17:03 GMT
Organization: Comp. Sci. Dept., Strathclyde Univ., Glasgow, Scotland.

In article <2afa56ba.8cda36.2@BEIZ.mediatex.ch> Ikki@BEIZ.mediatex.ch (064230062: Fernmeldedirektion Olten) writes:
>AARRRGGHH. I hate Braben. Why, why and
>again why did he that, etc.
>(Ok, I have Elite on my Archie, but it
>was not converted by Braben himself).
>Talking about copyrights in this subject
>, what about Karma?? That has some parts
>of Elite too, hasn t it?

Don't worry...

I was in the Computer Depot in Glasgow this morning, and they expect Black
Angel to arrive in the next day or two... apparently 4D won their court
case... :))

As for Braben, well being a cyclist, I have a good repertoire of hand
signals which are normally used to indicate my feelings towards car
drivers, that would come in handy right now... ;)

mad@bike
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From: davism@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mik Davis)
Subject: Re: RISC OS 3 Impression...
Organization: Aston University
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 12:28:36 GMT

smb@cs.nott.ac.uk (Simon Burrows) writes:
: 
: See comments above. Techwriter is a very capable package, and for people
: who do not need a page designer, but who are interested in writing letters,
: technical and scientific documents, Techwriter is much more likely to
: satisfy your needs than Impression II.
: 

  Can Techwriter produce a draw-file or something similar of an equation.
This would be VERY useful for people who DO need a page designer but also need
the odd equation or formula.
  Alternatively, if Impression could have some method of reading Techwriter
files, that would be quite useful too.

  While we're on the subject, does anyone know how much easiwriter and
techwriter cost please?

Mik

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Subject: Re: SPRITE TO DRAW
From: Ikki@BEIZ.mediatex.ch (064230062: Fernmeldedirektion Olten)
Date: 6 Nov 1992 11:20:15 CET
Organization: MEDIAtex AG, CH-8807 Freienbach/SZ

Cold anyone explain what exactly this
Trace does?
If I wanto convert a sprite-file into
a draw-file I only drag the Sprite-file
on the Draw-Icon on the iconbar.


Greetings.

Internet: Ikki(at)BEIZ.mediatex.ch





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From: tytgat@rilke.esat.kuleuven.ac.be (John Tytgat)
Subject: Registered Dissi users - please read
Organization: K.U.Leuven, Belgium
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 15:48:46 GMT


Can the following people contact me via e-mail (concerning the new
registered Dissi version v2.04MR) ?

Michael Ben-Gershon    mybg@shum.huji.ac.il ("Unknown user")
Gardar Runolfsson      grari@grun.is ("User grari does not exist")
BitBox                 orion@lcopaiker.is (no reply)

Needless to say that I already tried contacting these people via these
e-mail addresses.  Sorry for wasting the valuable bandwidth...

John
tytgat@esat.kuleuven.ac.be (do not thrust my e-mail address in the header)
BASS
From: nas20@cl.cam.ac.uk (Nick Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: sprite to draw
Date: 5 Nov 92 12:12:58 GMT
Reply-To: nas20@phx.cam.ac.uk (Nick Smith)
Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK

In article <1davnsINN2mn@yarrow.csv.warwick.ac.uk> espgl@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr D Charalambakis) writes:
>        Is there any PD utility which takes a sprite and converts it to
>draw file? I know about !Trace but I think this is not PD.
>
>        Does this exists for a PC? (ie tiff/gif to coreldraw)?

!Trace is not PD - but don't let this put you off! It is one of my favourite
bits of low cost software on the Arc: for L5.99 (inc VAT & PP) you get a
very impressive Sprite->Draw file convertor (handles colour), a Draw file->
Font convertor, a whole load of examples pics & some Japanese font thing
that I admit to never having looked at.

You won't find anything PD like this on the Arc - and you can be damn sure
that any PC stuff will be horrible! I expect CorelDraw 3 comes with its own
tracing s/w, so you could always go out and spend L300 or whatever on that!

You can get !Trace from David Pilling - see his adds in most Acorn mags, or
in the Acorn product directory.

Disclaimer: I have no connection with this product other than really liking
it!
--
Nick Smith, Rm.226, Churchill College, Cambridge ! Email: nas20@uk.ac.cam.phx
.sig quote wanted - must be under guarantee.     ! Tel: (0223) 465596
From: mark@acorn.co.uk (Mark Taunton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: RISC iX origins (was Re: The new Acorn Machine)
Date: 12 Nov 92 14:06:07 GMT
Organization: Acorn Computers Ltd, Cambridge, UK

In article <10942@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> gpalmer@cs.strath.ac.uk (Gary J Palmer IE91) writes:
>In article <721419881snx@cursci.demon.co.uk> gtoal@cursci.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:
>->
>->That will most likely be the NFS code which was released by Sun. RiscIx
>->is based on the Berekely 4.2 tape I'm almost 100% sure.
>->
>->G
>
>BSD 4.2??? Bleargh.... And with 4.4 nearly ready for release (I'm a bit out of
>tuch so it may already be out..). 

RISC iX is and always has been based on BSD 4.3, i.e. the latest full
release of (AT&T-derived) BSD UNIX from Berkeley, in conjunction with
Sun NFS code and various other stuff.  BSD 4.3 is best described as a
"solidified" (i.e. more reliable and better tuned) version of 4.2:
there isn't that much difference between them anyway.

Perhaps Gary might care to re-consider his opinion.  After all, it
seems somewhat unreasonable to expect that a product which was in
development for around two years before its original launch 3 years
ago (and which has been substantially developed since then), should be
based on a source tape which may or may not (have) come out this year!
The point is, switching the version of BSD you choose to base a
released product on is no trivial matter, especially when the changes
to the internal structure are so substantial as they are between 4.3
and 4.4.

Mark.