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From: mwills@su102c.ess.harris.com (Scott Wills)
Subject: Re: AUSH command/file name completion
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 15:17:00 GMT
Reply-To: mwills@x102a.ess.harris.com (M. Scott Wills)
Organization: Harris Corporation, Government Aerospace Systems Division.
Keywords: AUSH completion

I wrote:

>Anxious for [unix] tcsh-like command and file name completion in an Amiga
>Shell-compatible environment, I hurried to uiuc to retrieve "Amiga
>Ultimate Shell" (AUSH v1.52) from the recent set of fish disks
>(ff747).

>But I can't seem to get completion to work!  "setvar" shows $filepat
>is "#?" as it should be, but TAB and ^d just insert themselves, rather
>than completing and listing possible completions (respectively), as
>they should.  Also, ^b, ^n, ^p, and lots of others just self-insert
>instead of giving their promised, tcsh/emacs-like behavior.

The line:

  setvar lineedit 1

is needed in "s:.aushrc" to enable both line editing and
filename/variable completion.  Command completion (from path) does not
appear to be implemented.  TAB on a blank line shows all files in the
current directory as possible completions.

Now I wonder why a window specification on the NewAUSH command line
isn't working for me.  "NewAUSH" by itself opens a large AUSH window,
but "NewAUSH CON:10/10/100/100/AUSH/CLOSE" does nothing.  A disk
access takes place, but no error messages, and no AUSH window appear.

Scott
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From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Booklet pagenumbering
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 22:37:22 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>
>I am trying to layout a booklet that may consist of up to 100
>pages.  We are wanting to print on legal size paper in landscape
>mode with two pages per sheet... double sided of course.
>
>Programs such as pagestream don't seem to have a concept of two
>pages per sheet not do they permit the fancy page numbering that

Are you sure you're talking about Pagestream?  Two pages per sheet is
trivial.  Layout two columns per sheet.  Each column is a page.  What's your
problem?

>we will need.  I have heard that some Mac programs can do it and
>posibly workperfect but have not actually seen it in action.

Explain "fancy page numbering." Like 1,2,3 or i, ii, iii?  Do you have a
manual for PS?  Are your registered?  Do you really know what you are
talking about?

>Does anyone know of a product that can do this?  Better yet, a
>way in which we can get pagestream to do it.

Read the manual.

>Dave
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: twang@csc.albany.edu (Teddy Wang)
Subject: Re: AIBB-Results was(More 4000 compatible software)
Organization: State University of New York at Albany
	<dworz.03y2@amazing.UUCP>
Date: 11 Nov 92 21:48:11


Here are some interesting numbers to compare by...
All tests were done using AIBB v5.0...

   AIBBLogFile

   Host Processor:   68040
   ICache: ON     DCache: ON
   IBurst: OFF     DBurst: OFF
   Host State: Multitasking Allowed

Host Processor:	68040 (Fusion Forty, 28Mhz)
All caches on, with copyback mode, and multitasking off (only way to get an
accurate test :)

   Test: WritePixel
   Benchmark result: 1.54 Seconds
   This Machine : 1785.7 <---
   A3000/25MHz  : 337.0

Test WritePixel
Test Result: 	32.02 Seconds
This Machine:	4.53
A500-NFR:	1.00
A2000-FR:	1.45
A3000-25:	9.69
A4000-25:	26.80

   Test: Dhrystone
   Benchmark result:      13661 Dhrystones/second
   This Machine : 2051.2 <---
   A3000/25MHz  : 560.2

Test: Dhrystone
Test Result:	34483.00 Dhrystones/sec 
This Machine:	21.52
A400-NFR:	1.00
A2000-FR:	1.02
A3000-25:	5.98
A4000-25:	19.28

   Test: Sort
   Benchmark result: 0.62 Seconds
   This Machine : 1951.6 <---
   A3000/25MHz  : 720.2

Test: Sort
Test Result:	2.55 Seconds
This Machine:	23.29
A4000-25:	19.67

   Test: Sieve -- Using Stack Variables
   Benchmark result: 2.94 Seconds
   This Machine : 1633.3 <---
   A3000/25MHz  : 816.7

   Test: Savage
   Benchmark result: 5.28 Seconds
   This Machine : 1666.7 <---
   A3000/25MHz  : 610.3

Test: Savage
Test Result:	2.55 Seconds
This Machine:	273.49
A4000-25:	233.57

   Test: Matrix -- Using Stack Variables
   Benchmark result: 4.38 Seconds
   This Machine : 1889.5 <---
   A3000/25MHz  : 766.3

Test: Matrix
Test Result:	1.00 Seconds
This Machine:	23.67
A4000-25:	16.32

Plus a couple of real interesting ones...

Test: MemTest
Test Result:	2.55 Seconds
This Machine:	18.17
A500-NFR:	1.00
A2000-FR:	1.03
A3000-25:	6.72
A4000-25:	11.51

Test: Beachball
Test Result: 	13.23 Seconds
This Machine:	169.03
A4000-25:	354.18

As you can see, these figures would almost be as one would suspect.  The
Fusion Forty being overclocked at 28Mhz is quicker than the A4000 except 
in the area of graphics (no 32 bit bus, until the chip ram accelerator 
is released by RCS), and the raytraced Beachball.  The graphics I can 
understand, but the beachball still surprises me.  Maybe C= has a new
68040.library which accepts calls to the FPU faster?

Teddy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: taylorm@wl.aecl.ca
Subject: Problems with DVIPS and POST
Organization: AECL RESEARCH
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 19:57:39 GMT

I have recently installed PasTeX1.3, Post1.7, and a port of DVIPS on my A3000.

PROBLEM 1:
I am having trouble with Post and DVIPS.  The files that DVIPS generates
have all of the pages shifted up by about 1.5 inches, so the tops of the
pages don't get printed. 

PROBLEM 2:
I am attempting to print with a POST on a Star 24 dot matrix printer.  If I
generate the PS file with DVIPS at 300 DPI the bottoms of the letters don't
print.  When I generate the file at 360X180 (the proper resolution for my 
printer) some of the letters are stretched vertically.

PROBLEM 3: 
When I use the font compression option on DVIPS the postscript files 
overflow the stack on whatever I am printing on.

If anyone has any suggestions about how to fix any of these problems, I
would be grateful.  I want to use DVIPS because it allows me to include
postscript diagrams in my documentswith the psfig macro.

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 The 'C' language lets you get away   *             /\/\ike Taylor
     with murder, but the victim      * mataylor@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca
         is usually yourself          *          taylorm@wl.aecl.ca
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From: drz@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Dennis Zeitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Programing with AMOS
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 92 12:03:04 MST
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #1, Edmonton, AB, Canada

Anyone who uses AMOS and is interested in exchanging ideas about it, 
please send me email.

Dennis Zeitz              drz@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: twang@csc.albany.edu (Teddy Wang)
Subject: Re: MSH: and 2.05
Organization: State University of New York at Albany
Date: 10 Nov 92 19:59:59


   Get MultiDOS.  Much better (i.e. it actually works in all systems... not  
   arbitrarily on  some systems like MSH).  Also lets you access the IBM disk  
   as DF0: as well as the Amiga disk.  Works fine for me under 2.04 (should  
   be ok under 2.05 as well).

Actually this was the problem I was having with MultiDOS until I got the
2.04 ROMs.  MultiDOS would crash my machine every time I used it, and
MSH seemed very stable.  Since I've upgraded though, I have found that 
though MultiDOS does work, it is not very stable (could be my '040 though),
and MSH has also become unstable, both giving me unrecoverable errors on
multiple occasions...

Teddy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran)
Subject: Re: FinalCopy
Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 18:02:37 GMT

In article <jmarin.721216713@messi.uku.fi> jmarin@messi.uku.fi (Jukka Marin)
writes:

>BUT the fonts look horrible on screen.  In interlaced display modes they are
>somewhat readable, in non-interlaced modes they look pretty terrible.  If
>this was just a preview mode it would be okay, but I can't imagine of editing
>texts for hours or days or weeks with that "quality" of fonts.
>Yes, I could use the 150% or 200% magnification to make the fonts look
>better - but then I could only see a small portion of the page (I want to
>see all columns all the time, at least).

Ideally, a nice compromise would be the ability to toggle the WYSIWYG display,
so that you could revert to a system bitmap for speed and clarity. Has
anyone suggested this to Softwood?
From: cikp14@vaxa.strath.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: What is Art Expression Like?
Date: 10 Nov 92 15:10:51 GMT
Organization: Strathclyde University VAX Cluster

Could anyone tell me anything about soft logics ART expression?

I have a black and white Deskjet 500 which I will be using for output 
I also have a colour kit (for the odd colour pictures)


Simon.

thanks,
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: umoster0@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Sean K. Ostermann)
Subject: AmigaGuide Readers?
Summary: Readers?
Keywords: AmigaGuide
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:20:10 GMT


For those of use who can't afford SAS/C 6.0 at the moment (saving for the
A4000) and don't have an Amiga 4000, does there exist any PD Readers for
AmigaGuide Documents.  I guess we will have to live with the fact that an
AmigaGuide reader won't be included with 2.1 and the minguide that I got
with CSH 5.19 doesn't work.  Is there anything else out there in PD
land or Shareware land?  Is there a newer version of MINGUIDE (I have 1.0)
that actually works?

Thanks for any and all help,

Sean

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: hibrown@sarah.albany.edu (Herb Brown)
Subject: Re: MSH: and 2.05
Organization: State University of New York at Albany
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 13:02:58 GMT

In article <TWANG.92Nov10195959@thor.albany.edu> twang@csc.albany.edu (Teddy Wang) writes:
>
>   Get MultiDOS.  Much better (i.e. it actually works in all systems... not  
>   arbitrarily on  some systems like MSH).  Also lets you access the IBM disk  
>   as DF0: as well as the Amiga disk.  Works fine for me under 2.04 (should  
>   be ok under 2.05 as well).
>
>Actually this was the problem I was having with MultiDOS until I got the
>2.04 ROMs.  MultiDOS would crash my machine every time I used it, and
>MSH seemed very stable.  Since I've upgraded though, I have found that 
>though MultiDOS does work, it is not very stable (could be my '040 though),
>and MSH has also become unstable, both giving me unrecoverable errors on
>multiple occasions...
>
>Teddy


MultiDOS works like on a charm with or without the 2.0 ROMS. We have been
using it in our Amiga Classroom with no problems whatsoever for a long
time. It's easy to install and easy to use. Directory utilities like
DirectoryOPUS and DirWorks are 100% compatible with MultiDOS.

Herb


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: saj31052@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Scotty A Johnson)
Subject: Floppy troubles...
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:08:50 GMT


I don't know if I have already asked this here, but
I am doing it now:

I have an internal floppy on an older A500 which I purchased
used two months ago.  The drive was fine (as far as I could
tell), until about one month after I got it.  I do not usually
use it for AmigaDOS disks, since I have most everything on my
harddrive.  I generally d/l software on a PC, and mount the
PC disk on workbench using one of three products:

Messy-DOS, Multi-DOS, or Cross-DOS.

I have 2.0 ROMS, and I run 2.04, and 2.1.

The errors were rare at first, but now plentiful.  I get an error
#25, which seems to be a CRC checksum error, from all of these
utilities (though Messy-DOS doesn't recognize the IBM DOS disk
very often).  I get this error only when trying to copy, view,
exectute, or access the FIRST file on the disk.  It accesses about
the first 20k of the file before giving me the error message.

I figured at first that it was time to replace the drive, so
I took the machine into my favorite Amiga dealer.  They tested
the drive as completely as they could under AmigaDOS, and told
me there was nothing wrong with it.  It produced the error
under Cross-DOS, etc, and the techician does not know what the
error means.  I decided to save myself some money and take my
machine back.

Also, I have had a couple of games that have become screwed
lately, but for some reason I feel this is more a coincidence,
since in my 6 years of owning an Amiga, I have gotten MANY
"screwed" disk erros..  I usually just toss them out.  In 
particular JR-Comm used to get screwed a lot, right at track
40, but that's another story...


If anyone out there knows anything about floppys and can help,
please let me know.

Thanks,

  Scotty AJ

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: hibrown@sarah.albany.edu (Herb Brown)
Subject: Re: Tape Backups, Quarterback
Organization: State University of New York at Albany
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 21:59:32 GMT

In article <calfor.721661749@news.ncsu.edu> calfor@ncsu.edu (Constantine A Lapasha) writes:
>
>Hmm... seems that I've been doing multiple backups to tape using QB for some
>time now.  I normally do full backups, so I have little hands on experience
>with differential backups using this setup.  The only problem I've had is
>trying to convince QB to skip to the proper backup session on the tape
>when restoring.  I finally found that the following sequence worked fairly
>well:
>insert tape,
>request restore - so QB reads the session log off tape
>skip to next part of tape
>request restore - so QB reads the session log
>...
>etc..
>I found that if I didn't have it read the log off tape for each session,
>that I cound not get it to skip to the proper session properly (say the 
>forth backup session on the tape)
>
>this is on an A2500 + cbm tape drive -- checked w/ 2.04 and later
>
>anybody else have these problems - any more elegant fixes?
>
>Kostya
>
>calfor@unity.ncsu.edu
>paleo@ecsvax.uncecs.edu
>


This technique will work with differential backups as well.

Herb


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From: amigamat@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Mark Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Anyone have Prowrite 3.3?
Date: 12 Nov 92 16:24:50 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

In article <harry.034s@elfuerte.fipnet.fi> harry@elfuerte.fipnet.fi (Harri P Pesonen) writes:
>But if I have used different SIZE fonts, too?  Could the macro do all these
>steps:
>
>1. enlarge the document by four, ie. 25 %
>2. multiply the existing font sizes by four
>3. print the document
>4. divide sizes by four
>5. reduce the document by four, ie. 100 %

Theoretically, yes you could do this.  The method would be to move through the
document a character at a time, highlighting it, and getting the font size.
Then the macro would change the size to 4 times, then go to the next character
until the end of the document is reached.  However, practically, I don't think
you would want to try this.  It would be so slow a process that you would
probably have to go kill yourself before it's finished.

>    Harri Pesonen               harry@elfuerte.fipnet.fi

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From: d3e256@nomad.pnl.gov (Dave Thiede)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Booklet pagenumbering
Keywords: pagestream publishing booklet
Date: 9 Nov 92 23:58:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: oracle.1992Nov9.235803.1604
Reply-To: dr_thiede@pnl.gov
Organization: Battelle PNL


I am trying to layout a booklet that may consist of up to 100
pages.  We are wanting to print on legal size paper in landscape
mode with two pages per sheet... double sided of course.

Programs such as pagestream don't seem to have a concept of two
pages per sheet not do they permit the fancy page numbering that
we will need.  I have heard that some Mac programs can do it and
posibly workperfect but have not actually seen it in action.

Does anyone know of a product that can do this?  Better yet, a
way in which we can get pagestream to do it.

Dave
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From: cikp14@vaxa.strath.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Is there a New Pagestream comming out?
Date: 10 Nov 92 15:09:03 GMT
Organization: Strathclyde University VAX Cluster

Does anyone know when the next major update of Pagestream is due as I'm
going to buy the program but will hang on if one is due soon.

thanks

Si.
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From: fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Re: XPK 2.4 & XFH 1.12
Date: 11 Nov 92 05:43:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.1992Nov11.054302.4118
Distribution: usa
Organization: Foxes 'R' Us - Seven locations to serve you

Randy_Schnedler@fcircus.sat.tx.us (Randy Schnedler) writes:

>	Why does XFH leave it alone?  The next time it's written, it
>will be compressed, won't it?

Since XFH does not support the read/update (r+) file mode, it probably
just passes the open request down to the next file system, which in this
case does the Right Thing.

>	I'm using NUKE also--it seems to make the most sense for any XFH
>use.

I did all sorts of benchmarks for the different compressors, with speed
tests and compression on different types of data.  Then I found that
xQuery will give you the same information in a lot less time.   :)

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From: lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Software publishers - please advise on piracy
Date: 5 Nov 92 15:38:19 GMT
Organization: City University, London

I posted an article in c.s.a.misc which I think may
be of interest here. I am wondering what to do about
a pirate. Please look in c.s.a.misc for the article
as I forgot to cross-post it here.

This concerns all Amiga software - the pirate claims
to supply any game or application.

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From: jimdawson@cup.portal.com (Jim R Dawson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Help needed for POST
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 01:00:57 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>I am having some trouble with a Public Domain program called Post.
>It is a postscript interpreter I picked up from wuarchive...
>
>The problem seems to be that post can't seem to obtain the font that
>I am using.  It displays small black blobs in place of each letter.
>I am using an A3000 and an Epson FX printer, and the two pieces of
>software Post has been doing this for are ProWrite 3.2, and Pro. Page
>3.0 (love this program!!)
>
>When I print from ProPage and ProWrite I output to a file on the ram:
>and then use post to create a printout or IFF file.  The command I use-
>
>post init.ps ram:test.ps IFF t:test*.pic SIZE b
>
>This works fine except for the trouble with it not printing the actual
>characters.
>

Assuming you have some fonts in your PSFonts: directory, here is what might
be the problem. When loading PSFonts, remember that PostScript font names
are case sensitive. Be sure that the name of the font and the
capitalization exactly match the name of the font inside the font file
(search for 'FontName xxxxxx' in the font file)

                                        jimdawson@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: icarus@lascar.puc.cl (Edo. Jimenez IIC)
Subject: Driver for a Touch-Screen
Organization: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:41:02 GMT


 Hello everybody
 Somebody knows where I can get driver(s) for a Touch Screen, I have a
touch Screen ELO-GRAPHICS, if somebody can help me drop me a line to 

 ICARUS@LASCAR.PUC.CL


  Thanks in advance.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: jmarin@messi.uku.fi (Jukka Marin)
Subject: Re: Backup Prog Suggestions
Date:  7 Nov 92 09:39:35 GMT
Organization: University of Kuopio, Finland

jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999) writes:

>I didn't post to the originator as at the time I was playing with a new toy.
>I could highly recommend QuarterBack as long as you get the latest version,
>and after playing with it all last night, MRBackup by MRSoft (formerly
>distributed by TTR).  MRB isn't as pretty looking as QB, but it does the job
>well.  All the usual bells and whistles are supported, and it has a VERY
>rich Arexx interface (I haven't done a final talley but I think EVERYthing
>available via the control panel is there in the Arexx port, too).

>Before last night I was resigned to using the oh so lame TapeStore software
>that came with my WangTek tape drive.  After last night, MRB takes the place
>of honor on my system.

Would somebody care to try out my BaRe and let me know how it compares with
the commercial software?  BaRe is a tape backup utility which uses double
buffering, knows about links (both soft and hard) and was designed for
automated backups (can be run by Cron, for example).  BaRe v0.40 can be found
on nic.funet.fi - it doesn't support links but should give a picture of the
speed and whether it works with a given tape drive (the latest version is 0.76).

I'm going to release BaRe as shareware after adding a few more features to
it.  BaRe works under 1.x, 2.x and 3.0.

  Jukka Marin

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