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From: johnv@tower.actrix.gen.nz (John Veldthuis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: VirusChecker 6.20
Distribution: World
Date: 25 Dec 92 05:16:48 +1200
Organization: Amiga Virus Extermination Services, TAUG

Quoted from <1h4ujdINN7i4@tamsun.tamu.edu> by halo@tamsun.tamu.edu (Dr. Strangelove):
> Forgive me if this is somewhere in the docs but I've been using VC for quite
> some time now and stopped reading the docs after so many updates.  My current
> version of VC6.20 doesn't seem to recognize ms-dos disks.  It says that it
> can't read the bootblock.  Now my last version of VC, 6.15 I think, had no
> problem with ms-dos disks and I don't think it ever asked me to memorize it.
> Note:  When I first started using VC, trying to use the brainfiles kept
> crashing my machine.  Since most non-standard bootblocks are games and most of
> them can only be started from a boot, this was no big deal... I don't have many
> games anyways.

Well the code has not changed. Maybe you changed your configure stuff. You
can tell VC not to bother warning you when it can't read a disk. This is
probably how you had it before.
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*** John Veldthuis, Taranaki Amiga Users Group, johnv@tower.actrix.gen.nz ***
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
From: itch@cbnews.cb.att.com (richard.m.brack)
Subject: Re: Can I get disk icons for assigns on the workbench?
Organization: AT&T
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 23:40:58 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc

In article <BzrytI.9B1@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, ja51359@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (axelrod) writes:
> 
> Is there any way of getting the workbench to display an icon for an assign
> to a particular subdirectory so that I don't have to always traverse all
> the drawers to go where I need to?

Assuming you are running 2.x or up you should be able to just drag the
drawer to the workbench and use 'leave out' from the icons menu.


Rich...
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: woodstoc@netcom.com (Michael Ayotte)
Subject: Re: WANTED: Your comments on Supra modems
Keywords: Supra V.32bis modem problems
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 03:43:43 GMT

I also have had nothing but problems with Supras. I bought my v.32bis from one source and sold two others to my friends (bought from SUpra Directly). One of the ones I sold didn't work period, out of the box and It took two or three returns fro them to stop "Trying" to fix it and finnally (several months later) replace it with a new one (He is a sysop of a Mac BBS), the other two have both developed problems where there speaker cuts out and doesn't work for several hours at a time. Although the second prob


lem is just an annoyance, it is a big annoyance as I am used to listening to the handshaking saignals to see how things are doing. I have heard other Supra users say they have had no problems, but I have also heard others complain about them. I wont buy another supra, next time I'll shell out the extra bucks and get a USR or something...

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Interests: Computers, Audio/Video, Electronics, Broadcasting
and a whole lot more.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: dyson@sunfish.physics.uiowa.edu (Richard L. Dyson)
Subject: Re: VirusChecker 6.20
Reply-To: dyson@sunfish.Physics.UIowa.EDU
Organization: Department of Physics & Astronomy
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:53:20 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.060911.14845@ra.msstate.edu>, jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce) writes:
>  (Dr. Strangelove) writes:
> >Forgive me if this is somewhere in the docs but I've been using VC for quite
> >some time now and stopped reading the docs after so many updates.  My current
> >version of VC6.20 doesn't seem to recognize ms-dos disks.  It says that it
> >can't read the bootblock.  Now my last version of VC, 6.15 I think, had no
> 
>      I believe this is normal as I run MSH on my machine here at home.
> I get the same with 6.04 and 6.19, i.e. non-recognition of msdos floppies

I too noticed this with 6.19.  (Haven't installed 6.20 yet)  I would
point to the BB button that I *believe* is associated with this
behavior.  Try selecting/deselecting it (can't recall which here at
work) and see if it helps you get the desired result...

hope this helps someone...

rick
-- 
Richard L. Dyson               INTERNET:  dyson@sunfish.Physics.UIowa.EDU
    We laugh heartily to see a  whole  flock of sheep jump because one
    did so;  might not one imagine that superior beings do the same by
    us, and for exactly the same reason?

                                                -- Grenville
From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Commodity question
Date: 30 Dec 92 09:37:25 GMT
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Organization: Commodore Germany

In article <crystal.724659529@glia> crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal) writes:
 >In <rschuler.724653094@pv0221.vincent.iastate.edu> rschuler@iastate.edu (Rodney A Schuler) writes:
 >
 >>RTFM (read the FINE manual)
 >
 >Uh, if I may interject here... ?
 >
 >Many times I've found that the manuals written by *programmers* are difficult
 >for the non-programmers/casual users to decipher.  

Sorry, wrong in this case. All the Amiga user manuals are *not* written
by the programmers but by docs specialists.

-- 
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Wer's nicht kann, soll's bleiben klopfen oder Steine lassen!
From: jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Tape question, part 2
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993 21:15:39 GMT
Organization: is sometimes desirable

In article <BzM9GG.IED@fc.hp.com>, Steve Koren writes:

> Pat Lashley (patl@bodacia.Eng.Sun.COM) wrote:
> 
> > the mountlist entry set up right, or if there's a 2.1 incompatability
> > somewhere.
> 
> I doubt its 2.1.  I'm using BTNtape and tar under 3.0 and it works OK,
> so it should get along with 2.1 also.

Could you please EMail me a uuencoded copy of the tar you are using?  Mine
"randomly" fails to create entire directory trees during a restore with
v2.04.

I haven't been able to fix mine due to bugs in my compiler's libraries.

                                  Thanks,


                                                Jim Pritchett


UUCP:  rwsys.lonestar.org!caleb!jdp
 or    utacfd.uta.edu!rwsys!caleb!jdp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: lewis@gto.jsc.nasa.gov (Steve Lewis)
Subject: Re: Reasons for Amiga CD-ROM
Organization: NASA Johnson Space Center
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:26:51 GMT

In article <Bzu958.DvD@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:

[discussion of the benefits of putting a CD-ROM into an Amiga ...]

>   I've suggested that as well.  Floptical drives and CD-ROM drives cost about
>the same.  It is a toss-up right now which would be more beneficial in the
>short run.  I think CD-ROM drives would be more beneficial in the long-run,
>at any rate.

One interesting point that comes from an article in the January '93 Amiga 
Format:

"Commodore have already pointed out to us that, to them, the cost of putting 
a CD drive in a machine would be roughly equivalent to putting a floppy 
drive in."

The article goes on to strongly imply that we could expect integrated CD-
ROMS in Amigas (i.e., standard equipment) in the near future.

IMO, this would be quite nice.

-Steve
---------------------------------------------------
Steve Lewis, lewis@gto.jsc.nasa.gov, (713) 483-8126

"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."
               -- Mark Twain, 1897
               -- Commodore-Amiga, July, 1992
From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: TypeSMITH announcement
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 17:08:19 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>r>         What about FC II format? Would be REAL nice to be able to
>r>         convert the above to the format that FC uses.....
>
> Final Copy II?  Don't be rediculous - Final Copy shot itself in the foot when
>        it decided to go against the standard and use those dippy NimbusFonts;

Gee, Amiga went against "the standard" and you seem to like it.  Sometimes
when the "standard" is falling short, a new entry is needed.

>        in fact, that is the main reason why none of the Amiga users in my
>        department (Modern Languages - Russian) refuse to buy it: you can't
>        use already existing Cyrillic fonts, they dont' ahve their OWN
>        Cyrillic fonts, and it doesn't allow one to import BitMap fonts.
>        FCII is totally unexpandable and, in my opinion, is only good for
>        those who do little more than type in a few select fonts...

.... which comes to about 98% of Amiga users. :-)  I have nearly 200 NimbusQ
fonts for Final Copy.

I certainly looking forward to a NimbusQ <> Type 1 conversion util.

BTW- "those dippy NimbusFonts" are by no means "dippy."  They are VERY high
quality and the print engine blows Compugraphics out of the water.  There
are many Nimbus fonts out there, though these are the first for the Amiga.
They are more readily available to professional type setters.

>
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>
>--- Via UCI v1.02 (C-Net Amiga)

-Joel
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From: eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Reasons for Amiga CD-ROM
Date: 27 Dec 92 19:23:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: pro-free.1992Dec27.122315.7054
Organization: ProLine [pro-freedom] AppleVan (Apple UG of Vancouver, WA)

> While down ol' memory lane, there's a "funny" which probably many weren't
> aware of even at the time: when FAUG was first organized, a meeting place
> was needed.  Finally a church meeting hall was secured at an extreme discount
> the church people (apparently) thought a "Users' Group" was some kind of
> rehab program and so provided the facilities at a nomimal fee; if they
> only knew! :-)


Hmmm... *maybe* they were closer to being right than was realized at the
time.  Ami-holics Anonymous?  ;-)



        -=- Ed


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: 2.1 and Trumpcard
From: my self???? <UD171081@NDSUVM1.BITNET>
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 12:17:29 CST
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computer Network

I am looking for some expert help from the net.  I just upgraded to OS 2.1 from
1.3.  I have a 2000 with a Trumpcard HD controler.  I upgraded the Trumpcard to
 their new ROMs and reformated my HD using there software then installed 2.1 us
using the install program that came with it.  My problem is that I now get rand
om requesters stating that I have disk errors when opening applications.  If I
click on retry the program will load normally.  Also the HD backup and HD tools
programs that came with 2.1 do not show my HD as being on the system, yet I can
write and read from it.  I believe the system info program shows something like
???????? for my controler and my Supra RAM board.

Could all of these problems be caused by not having the correct mountlist entry
in the right places?  I understand this has changed from 1.3 and I am not sure
if the automatic installation programs would handle this correctly.

Thanks in advance for the advice!!

Leland D Diers
UD171081@VM1.NoDak.EDU
UD171081@NDSUVM1
From: hellerS@moravian.edu (sjh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: 2.04 -> 2.1
Date: 21 Dec 92 17:54:18 GMT
Distribution: na

In <BzEoFy.M6H@icsbelf.co.uk> ianm@icsbelf.co.uk (Ian Moran) writes:

>Has anyone bothered to upgrade from 2.04 to 2.1. I`m not sure whether there
>is enough on offer in the latter for someone who already has Cross-Dos and
>a full 2.04 manual set. Also I will more than likely want to upgrade my
>2000 next year to one of the WB3 machines. The upgrade costs 55 GBP here in
>the UK.

Well, I did it, but now I'm really wondering WHY...8-)
It doesn't really seem to offer much over 2.04 for the average user. I
suppose if I were massively-multi-lingual the Locale utility might be
usefull. I have MultiDOS, so I hardly need CrossDOS. But, for $45 I guess
it's OK to have the latest "official" release for my machine...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
Subject: Re: photo cd routines now on
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Distribution: comp
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:51:00 GMT

In article <199221.4247.24257@dosgate> "grant robinson" <grant.robinson@canrem.com> writes:
>Another case for just ignoring him.  I was told directly at the WOC
>Toronto that there are negotiations currently underway with Kodak for
>Photo CD.  There is also work going on to get internal CD drives out.
>Infact if MB knows anything about C=, he'll know that C= believes CD Rom
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>machines are the way of the future.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

   They have a hell of a way of showing it.  The first systems with built-in 
CD-ROM drives were available almost three years ago.  Commodore has been using
CD-ROM drives in their CDTV for over two years.  And after all this time, they
have yet to develop one Amiga CD-ROM system or Amiga CD-ROM add-on, to 
capture this "wave of the future,"

   I mean, isn't it at least a little embarassing when *Tandy* beats Commodore
to the market with a 16-million-color CD-ROM multimedia system?

---
| Marc Barrett -MB-  |  email: barrett@iastate.edu
--------------------------------------------------
From: alewis@cs.weber.edu (alan lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Window positions for Aload and Csh.
Date: 22 Dec 92 23:36:18 GMT
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center

I'm using a virtual WB of 1280 by 960 and am trying to position Aload and Csh where I want them, but I can't find in the Docs how to do it.  I would like to do the same for Emacs 1.26, help...
From: Steve_Lee@matrix.rain.com (Steve Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: test
Distribution: world
Date: 24 Dec 92 17:32:02 PST
Organization: The Matrix BBS

   Sorry to interrupt, but I have to see if posting works...

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From: shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick)
Subject: Rainlight.medmod...
Originator: shulick@navajo
Reply-To: shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu
Organization: Vallen Software
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 16:54:32 GMT


Thanks for all the responses!!  Summary: "More!"  Well, I dunno about
that. :)  Of the approximate 90 samples I have, most of them are
generally uninteresting, and I don't want to use the piano AGAIN.  At
least not twice in a row.  Actually, I'm considering working on a
medieval type mod, w/ flute, dulcimer, some other things.  It's really
tough for me to make a good mod.  If I don't concentrate on it or I have
no idea what to do, I wind up making some cheesy techno mod instead..
And we don't want that! :)  I think the major part of the problem is I
don't really know what to make this time.  How about some input?  Do you
want another piano song?  Or something different... percussion, bass
guitar solos, what?  E-mail me ideas.  Please do NOT post them, as I'll
be gone for vacation, and I'll probably never see the posts, so e-mail
only!  Have a melodious X-mas. :)

-- 
    // Amiga 3000   ___ \ Sam Hulick: shulick@indiana.edu (NeXTmail OK!)
   // 68030 25 MHz /__/\ \ My opinions wear combat boots.  Or whatever.
\\// OS 2.04       \__\/ / "Walk!  Not bloody likely.  I am going in a
 \/                     / taxi."  --George Bernard Shaw
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: itch@cbnews.cb.att.com (richard.m.brack)
Subject: Re: High Res Pointer Strangeness
Organization: AT&T
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 23:46:53 GMT

In article <randy.0acv@stagetwo.uucp>, randy@stagetwo.uucp (Randy Gault) writes:
> For some reason, when I use a High Res Pointer, the Busy Pointer
> sometimes shows up as Low Res.

I think this has something to do with many applications defining their own
busy pointer.  This happens to me too.  I changed the default clock to
something else and when the busy pointer goes low res it is always something
other than what I defined it to be.
 
> Sometimes the (regular) High Res Pointer loses every other column and
> becomes squished looking (half width).  Sometimes it loses every other

This happens to me too.  Seems to happen when some app uses a sprite. (?)

> row (half height).

This has never happened to me.
 
> Has this happened to anyone else?
> Any solutions?

Nope, but I'm all ears.  Anyone else???


Rich...
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From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: IDEA->Macro prog w/joystick movements
Date: 25 Dec 92 02:57:41 GMT
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Flying Cat, Inc.

In article <1992Dec24.101046.16626@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> blyy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>oh, one more thing, I'd like to to work in any application, if possible.
>In other words, AmigaDos 2.0 has a shell text-clipping feature that only
>works with other Dos windows. 

Actually, as long as you are running the background program 'conclip',
which is supplied with 2.04 and is started by default in the startup-sequence,
the shell copy/paste uses the Amiga system clipboard.  Other programs
that can use the clipboard (VLT, MicroEmacs, Baby!, etc) can get and
put the text you clipped.

>-Aaron

		andy



-- 
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"Unix is the Operating System of the future, and always will be."

Any expressed opinions are mine; but feel free to share.
I disclaim all responsibilities, all shapes, all sizes, all colors.
From: bu951@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Brian R. Beeler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Questions about the A1200 ...
Date: 27 Dec 1992 05:29:06 GMT
Organization: CWRU, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bu951@po.cwru.edu (Brian R. Beeler)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu

--------

     I'll be buying a new  computer in ~2 months and have been looking
at the A1200, but have  some questions (which I'm sure are in the FAQ,
but I can't seem to find one):

1. Software. What I'm looking for (I've omitted the software I need
   and have found): 
    A. Database applications. In example: Borland's Paradox SE
       (a stripped down version of Paradox (or anything similar)).
    B. Spreadsheet applications. In example: Lotus 1-2-3 personal 
       (a stripped down version of 1-2-3 (again, anything similar)).
    C. Math applications, like MatchCad, Maple or Derive.
    D. Lisp programming apps, like Xlisp.
    E. A decent C compiler.
    F. Networking apps, like NSCA or KA9Q
    G. Xwindows. Can I port my X apps? Any PD or shareware emulators?

2. Hardware
    A. Ethernet. I want to use this in a lab that's running thin coax.
       Can I use a "parallel port -> ethernet card-in-a-mini-case ->
       coax" adaptor?
    B. Overall quality of C= stuff. Are you happy with it?
    C. Floppy drives. I need to read/write MS-DOS/UNIX 1.44m floppies.
    D. Monitors. What's best for the Amiga?
    E. RAM. What is "fast" RAM?
3. Other
    A. A recommendation of a good Amiga dealer.

     I presently use [at  work] a 386 running MS-Windows (which, IMHO,
is the most pathetic excuse for a "windowing" system I've ever used.).
It crashes >3  times  a  week, can't download a file and run ANY other
apps. smoothly at the  same  time, it can't run my x.400 email program
and keep the NetWare  drivers  in memory, etc.. For me, MS-DOS cuts it
on my Toshiba T1000SE, but I wouldn't use  [on my own desktop]  MS-Win 
if someone paid me.
     As for Macs,  I  like  them, but system 7.x is a little buggy and
dollar-for-dollar the A1200 seems like the better deal.
     Even if I can't get all the apps I want/need, I'll probably still 
buy the A1200.
     Thanks for bandwidth, time, help.

                           Shalom,

                           Brian


PS: FYI: Microsoft came to my company two weeks ago and showed us 
"Windows NT". It crashes ever better than MSWin 3.1.   
-- 
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GEIS: a.beeler.b@monet      beeler@cc.utah.edu
"What a long, strange trip it's been" - G.dead
From: rayz@koko.csustan.edu (Ray Zarling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: PowerPacker: Same version, diff size???
Date: 3 Jan 93 19:34:20 GMT
Organization: CSU Stanislaus

In article <C09zF3.LCF@news.chalmers.se> thly@pe.chalmers.se (Thomas Lydhig) writes:
>
> Powerpacker is a strange utility!!! I have 6 PowerPacker.library files,
> and if I use the CLI-command "version" on these files i get this
> information:
>
>            Name                     Version     Size
>
>            powerpacker.library      35.344      2604
>            powerpacker.library      35.254      5236
>            powerpacker.library      35.254      2664
>            powerpacker.library      35.254      4136
>            PowerPacker.library      33.1        2664
>            powerpacker.library      35.254      6036
>
>(BTW why can't you get version number if you change the filename?)
>
> As you see sizes of the files are very different but the version
> are the same! And 2 of the files has exactly the same lenght but
> different version number! Why???

For libraries, it seems that the Version command always reports the
version number for the library that is currently loaded into memory.
Thus, when you asked for 'version powerpacker.library', the system
discovered that there is a powerpacker.library in memory, version
35.254, and it reported that, ignoring whatever was on disk.  This
check for libraries is case-sensitive, so when you asked about
PowerPacker.library, it gave you information about the one on disk.

--Ray Zarling
  rayz@csustan.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc