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From: Manjit_Bedi@mindlink.bc.ca (Manjit Bedi)
Subject: Trying to add a Gadget to DirOpus - help me
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 22:52:53 GMT

I am trying to add a gadget to Directory Opus which will do get the "version"
of the selected file.  I don't understand the "function" business.  From
what the docuemenatation is saying it would appear the functions are
the built in ones only.  Can you add a new function type?
I would have thought that you could run standard Amiga dos commands directly
but it does not seem that way from my attempts.  Do I need to call the
version
command via AREXX?  I am using version 3.41.

Advice and help would be most appreciated.
--
        Manjit Bedi
                ( Manjit_Bedi@mindlink.bc.ca or manjit@inde.bc.ca )
From: soft-logik@cup.portal.com (Kevin W Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: PageLiner and BME Patches
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 18:21:35 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>In article <71509@cup.portal.com> soft-logik@cup.portal.com (Kevin W Davidson)
>writes:
>>Updates to Soft-Logik's PAGELiner and BME products have been released
>>and are available on the Soft-Logik BBS (314 894-0057), Portal
>>Communications and 2 ftp sites:
>
>I really like soft-logik's uprgade policy, and I'd say it's one of the best I
>have ever met.
>
>However, as far as Pageliner is concerned, it really *needed* urgently a patch
.
>
>It's kind of funny, bacause I was _trying_ to write a longish software manual
>with PageLiner 1.1.1 hotlinked to PageStream when I read about the patch.
>Actually, PageLiner was guruing my machine (A3000/25 w/10MB and 2.04) about
>every 10 minutes or so. I found it *real* unusable :-( :-( It's just terrible
>when the sole action of moving the cursor down a few lines can crash the whole
>machine :-(
>
>Well, v1.1.2 does the job a little bit better, but still crashes my machine.
>Only now it happens kind of less often...
>
>Kevin, do you know if a shomehow stable version of PageLiner is going to be
>available sometime soon?
>
>Keep it improving, and thanks for your upgrade policy...
>
>Christian.
>
>     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>                   "This ain't the Planet of Sound" -- Pixies
>                     \\\ Stay tuned for more Rock'n'Roll ///
>                    Christian Sarrasin  (sarrasin@di.epfl.ch)
>     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>

There aren't any crashes on the PageLiner buglist that I am aware of. Fixing
problems of this sort are Soft-logik's highest priority. Can you supply any
other information about your configuration and any other software you might
be running at the same time?

I've never had a released version of PageLiner crash on me.

[Christian, for some reason I'm still having problems e-mailing you. You
asked something a few weeks ago and I couldn't reply.]
 
Kevin Davidson, Asst. Moderator AmigaZone Vendor Support - PORTAL
               <soft-logik@cup.portal.com>
        SOFT-LOGIK BBS (PCP MOSLO) (314) 894-0057
Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.applications:9452 comp.sys.amiga.graphics:8031
From: Sam_-_Malone@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: DigiView Problem - different
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 18:34:21 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <pianoman.00x1@misseye.uucp> <crystal.724187599@glia>
  <71580@cup.portal.com>


Hellllo Netsters.

A few days ago, I explained that I was having some trouble with my
Digiview Gold 4.0 on an Amiga 2000HD (accelerated with a Toaster).
In that I haven't used the Digiview in a while...I wasn't quite sure at
what point it quit working. 

As I stated, the pulldown ABOUT indicated that I was using version 4.02
which NewTek informs me is the needed version to work with AmigaDOS 2.04.

If you are having trouble, check your version first.

Now... if you have the correct version... but are still seeing the
forever WAIT signal... read on.

A few weeks ago, I noticed that my system was locking up often when I
would try to CREATE a DMS compression of a floppy. It would WRITE the
DMS fine...but wouldn't READ one.

I also noticed that my CLOCK in the Utilities drawer of my Workbench
would blank out when I turned on my printer. 


In addition, a few days ago, when I was downloading with Baud Bandit,
the CPS indicator was blank. It was still downloading fine, but it wasn't
able to tell how FAST it was downloading. 

Lots of clues...but remember, I'm pretty thick.  :-)

So my first assumption was that one of the 8520 chips was beginning to
flake out. Looking at the schematic, I saw that U300 interfaces the keyboard,
the parallel port (printer or Digiview) and stuff like that. A likely
candidate. Upon, installing a new one, everything went back to normal and
works fine! I have seen a couple other Digiview units that haven't shown
all the same symptoms as mine, but never-the-less, U300 wound up being
the culprit. If you don't have a spare on hand, exchange U301 and U300.
They are both the 40 pin 8520 chip. Your problem may either go away or
the symptom may change... but at least it will be a cheap way to attempt
to troubleshoot it at home on your own. These chips are underneath the
power supply/floppy tray on the A2000 in the back near the serial port.

Good Luck!

Dave Wickard  (612) 456-2783
dave@flip.sp.paramax.com
Sam_Malone@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
From: walker@twix.unx.sas.com (Doug Walker)
Subject: Re: Looking for a debugger...
Originator: walker@twix.unx.sas.com
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:22:44 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.


In article <1gij3uINNhof@uwm.edu>, bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Gregory R. Block) writes:
|> >If you set the "catch tasks" option, CPR will bring any spawned tasks
|> >under debugger control.  You can then switch between tasks to do your
|> >debugging.
|> 
|> Good to hear.  Now, another question:  Will it catch spawned processes
|> as well?  (I would think so, but you can never be sure...)

Yes, it will.

-- 
  *****
=*|_o_o|\\=====Doug Walker, Software Distiller====== BBS: (919)460-7430 =
 *|. o.| ||                                          1200/2400/9600 Dual
  | o  |//     For all you do, this bug's for you!
  ====== 
usenet: walker@unx.sas.com                            bix: djwalker 
Any opinions expressed are mine, not those of SAS Institute, Inc.
From: soft-logik@cup.portal.com (Kevin W Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: PageLiner and BME Patches
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 18:00:49 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

Updates to Soft-Logik's PAGELiner and BME products have been released
and are available on the Soft-Logik BBS (314 894-0057), Portal
Communications and 2 ftp sites:
 
  amiga.physik.unizh.ch in /amiga/new
  hubcap.clemson.edu    in /pub/amiga/incoming/patches

These patches can be applied only to version 1.1.1 of these products
and update them to version 1.1.2.

Kevin (soft-logik@cup.portal.com)
Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.applications:9420 comp.sys.amiga.misc:18469
From: coney@csu.murdoch.edu.au (Jeff Coney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Bridgeboard to printer problem
Date: 14 Dec 1992 05:00:39 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: socs.csu.murdoch.edu.au
Summary: Problem getting SYGRAPH on Brigeboard to talk to printer
Keywords: bridgeboard, printer, SYGRAPH

I have an A2000, with an AT bridgeboard.  I can not get SYGRAPH to access the   printer.  Is this one of these PC programs that won't talk to the printer 
through the Amiga's parallel port?  Is there any fix for this??

Jeff Coney
coney@socs.murdoch.edu.au


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas)
Subject: Textra and AREXX perfect together???
Summary: Can I access textra from AREXX, if I can then how?
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 21:09:51 GMT
Organization: StarNine Technologies, Inc.
Keywords: Textra, text editor, arrex

papo@pyuxf.cc.bellcore.com writes:

>Hi netters:

>I'm running TEXTRA v 1.11.  In the editor you can call REXX scripts from a
>very convenient menu.  Can AREXX use any services from TEXTRA?

>i. e.

>ADDRESS TEXTRA "Command"

>(I come from the IBM mainframe world and I know I can access ISPF/PDF
>from REXX but I'm a total klutz in when you talk about programming the
>Amiga)

>Regards,


>Luis Roberto Anaya-Rivera         papo@pyuxf.cc.bellcore.com
>-----
>AWSDA member since 1992.  "You have the absolute right to defend yourself".
>A true PL/1 hacker.  DCL 1 OBJECT BASED (THIS), 3 MEMBERFUN ENTRY;

Textra versions prior to 1.13 do have a bug in the ARexx interface that
causes a hang when you try to set Textra as the default ARexx host via:

    address "TEXTRA"

However, ARexx commands can be sent to pre-1.13 Textras successfully on
a per-line basis like this:

address "TEXTRA" "gotoxy 0 0"
address "TEXTRA" "hopselect next word"

As I said, this is fixed in version 1.13 which is due to be released in
January.  v1.13 also sports a plethora of new stuff like a font requester
for selecting the display font on a per-window basis, multi-processing
(ARexx scripts and print jobs are handled in the background, while you
edit a third file), Insert file, and a great deal more.

The v1.11 Textra is supplied as an integrated text editor with JForth
Professional; which uses Textra's exposed ARexx port to control it.

For more information:

mikeh@starnine.com

     OR

Mike Haas
3867 La Colina Rd.
El Sobrante, CA. 94803
From: jdblake@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (John David Blake)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: QUESTION: ProWrite + Panasonic Pin Config
Date: 13 Dec 1992 05:52:11 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4
Originator: jdblake@csd4.csd.uwm.edu

I own ProWrite 3.2 and a Panasonic KX-P1080i (an 8 pin junky ole' printer.)
Once I got the program to print fonts to the printer, but I messed around
with the dips for another program, and I could never get it to work again.
Aargh. So, the question is:

         What dip configuration do I need to use ProWrite 3.2 and the
               KX-P1080i (w/ a 1 meg 500 and 2 floppies, no hd)
                                    ?????


If anybody could answer (via email, preferably), I'd really really really
appreciate. I'd also be glad to answer any specific questions you might have
concerning my system. Thanks a lot!

        \/\/iz
    Joe Wicentowski
jdblake@csd4.csd.uwm.edu



Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: heyneman@isibee6.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Tom Heynemann)
Subject: Spice under 2.x
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:21:14 GMT

Well this should be pretty straightforward:
I'm looking for a Amiga version of Spice (as recent as possible)
running under Amiga OS 2.x - The one I have (it's a 3.x based one,
containing aspice, bspice, nutmeg sconvert)ran well under 1.3 
(though a friend of mine had it crashing his A500)
on my A2500 (68020 + 68881 FPU) it breaks all over the place in 2.04.
So if anyone out there have a working version (with FPU support if
possible) or compilable sources (SAS-C 5.10b) let me know
prrrreeeaaase

	Tom			____________________________
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tom@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch	|  no adress	no money   |
				| no phone	just tired |
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Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.applications:9555 comp.sys.amiga.misc:18893
From: ekrieger@quasar.hacktic.nl (Eric Krieger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Jan Van Der Baard (GadToolsBox author)
Date: 20 Dec 92 12:05:35 GMT+1
Distribution: world
Organization: Not an Organization
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <paul.041q@dragons.DIALix.oz.au> paul@dragons.DIALix.oz.au
 (Paul O'Neill) writes:

> I'm trying to get in touch with the author of GadToolsBox as I have a
> small problem.
> 
> I created some .g files using v1.0 of GTB and have just upgraded to v1.4
> - what a great move!!
> 
> Problem is that the 1.0 format files are not able to be read by v1.4.

Correct. This is also stated in the GadToolsBox.Doc and Changes.Doc!!!

> Can someone please pass this on to Jan, or can they provide a program
> which will convert the file formats for me?

Ok, i'll send/forward it to his FIDO-address (2:285/502.7), but i don't
think it's possible to convert the created data, and therefore no
conversion-tool available.

-- 
 _____________    __________________________________________________
/ Best regards,\ /                                 FIDO: 2:285/1.10 \
\ Eric Krieger / \ ekrieger@quasar.hacktic.nl  AmigaNET: 39:102/1.21/
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: mruff@amiga.physik.unizh.ch
Subject: Problems with Deskjet 550C
Summary: Driver Porblem with DeskJet 550C 
Keywords: DeskJet550C
Organization: ICU - University of Zurich, Dept. of Computer Science
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 15:04:00 GMT

Hi,
My mother just bought a HP DeskJet550C. I've got big
problems getting usable results. If I try to print from
DpaintIV the output is much to dark. If I print from
FinalCopy II when I use a color title and the rest of 
text in black then all of the output is printed in 
color that means that the "black" is not black it's
dark-green-gray. I tested the printer with my fathers
PeeCee and there I get brillant results. Does Commodore
loose again with a bad printer driver? How can I solve the
problem?
			Thanks 		Martin


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: trevore@vast.unsw.edu.au (Trevor Elbourne (Supr. Hell) BE)
Subject: PostScript -> EPS
Organization: University of New South Wales
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 11:36:19 GMT


	Subject clear enough ? I am after a technique to convert Postcript 
output (Maple in question here but we are dealing with PostScript files
here) to EPS so that I can imprt them in PageStream.
	Thanks in advance
		George
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: comeau@csanta.attmail.com (Greg Comeau)
Subject: Re: Is SAS C V6 C++ compatible
Originator: comeau@well.sf.ca.us
Reply-To: comeau@csanta.attmail.com (Greg Comeau)
Organization: Comeau Computing
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 18:04:17 GMT

In article <BzAyLv.6Ho@unx.sas.com> walker@twix.unx.sas.com (Doug Walker) writes:
>
>In article <1992Dec14.161234.1@vaxa.strath.ac.uk>, cikp14@vaxa.strath.ac.uk writes:
>|> Could anyone let me knoiw if SAS C V6 is C++ compatible and if not what other C
>|> packages are available that are.
>
>I'm not sure what you mean by C++ compatible.  SAS/C is a fully ANSI
>compliant C compiler with related tools.  It can be used with a 
>C++ front end like Comeau C++.

Yep.  Various releases of Comeau C++ have worked with various releases of
SAS/C over the past two years from at least SAS/C 5.10a right up to the
recent SAS/C 6.1.

- Greg
-- 
         Comeau Computing, 91-34 120th Street, Richmond Hill, NY, 11418
                   Producers of Comeau C++ 3.0 With Templates
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From: beust@aurora.unice.fr (Cedric Beust)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: SAS won't talk to me??
Date: 15 Dec 1992 10:52:46 +0100
Organization: University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aurora.unice.fr


In article <Bz95KI.L1v@unx.sas.com>, walker@twix.unx.sas.com (Doug Walker)
writes:

>I've passed your message along to the Heidelberg office, but I admit
>that I am very puzzled as to what is going on.  I know Gerlinde is
>working very hard at getting the upgrades out.  I'll pass along any
>response from Heidelberg.

	I'm having the same problem. I wrote to Heidelberg about four
	weeks ago (might be more) to ask how I could pay the upgrade
	from France. I haven't had any reply yet.

--
Cedric BEUST, beust@sa.inria.fr, Bull Research Koala proj, KoalaBus & xforum
Pho:(33) 93.65.78.07(.66 Fax), INRIA, B.P.93 - 06902 Sophia Antipolis, FRANCE.
From: egott@triton.unm.edu (Eric Gottlieb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Textra and AREXX perfect together???
Keywords: TEXTRA AREXX Scripts Foo
Date: 14 Dec 92 17:12:20 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <1992Dec14.005803.16080@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> papo@pyuxf.uucp (25241-anaya) writes:
>Hi netters:
>
>I'm running TEXTRA v 1.11.  In the editor you can call REXX scripts from a
>very convenient menu.  Can AREXX use any services from TEXTRA?
>
>i. e.
>
>ADDRESS TEXTRA "Command"
>
>(I come from the IBM mainframe world and I know I can access ISPF/PDF
>from REXX but I'm a total klutz in when you talk about programming the
>Amiga)
>

Yes.  You should look in "RexxCommand.doc", which should have come with
Textra, for details on what arexx commands textra can respond to.

	--egott@triton.unm.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: moskov2r@fiu.edu (Ram A Moskovitz)
Subject: Re: recommend good Editor ??
Organization: Florida International University, Miami
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:05:00 GMT

>
>Also, a friend who _does_ use AGE says it takes forever to come up on
>his A2000HD/2.04/68030.  Why is that?
>
>--
>--pjaques 
>pjaques@occs.cs.oberlin.edu 

well on my 2000HD 030 it takes about 4 seconds, not bad.

Ram
From: johnv@acix.DIALix.oz.au (John Verhoeven)
Subject: Re: Aquarium vs. KingFisher
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: 18 Dec 92 20:17:43 WST
Organization: ACix - Private UUCP Node, Cloverdale, Western Australia.

John Verhoeven (johnv@acix.DIALix.oz.au) wrote:
> G'Day,
> 1)  It doesn't seem to take notice of the font specified in the config
>     file for the contents display.  I'm trying to use topaz 11 with
>     'contents-font=topaz.font/11' in the config file

Oops sorry, must look more closely next time.  The non interlace display
was giving me a false impression.  It *does* work!

> Altogether a great effort.
> 
> Thank you Udo.
> 
> >  ._.  Udo Schuermann
> >  ( )  walrus@wam.umd.edu
> 

--

John Verhoeven                        johnv@acix.DIALix.oz.au      _--_|\
Treasurer, Amiga Developers           (ALT: johnv@DIALix.oz.au)   /      \
Association of Western Australia      Phone: (+619) 478 1406      *_.--._/
From: bmaple@burner.com (Bob Maple)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Directory Opus
Date: 11 Dec 92 13:49:45 MST
Organization: The Back Burner BBS (via C-Net Amiga)

On Fri 11-Dec-1992  1:48p, Alan MacAnespie wrote:

AM> Yep: $100.  Shipping for upgrades is supposed to start sometime next
AM> week.

UHNG!  I paid that much for my BBS program.  While I love DirectoryOpus to
death, I can do without v4.0 until Inovatronics stops this nonsense.

AM> (All prices ($) contained above refer to US dollars)

_I_ was hoping they were pesos at those numbers. :(

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From: davidm@consilium.com (David S. Masterson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Is SAS C V6 C++ compatible
Date: 19 Dec 92 02:09:11 GMT
	<BzGIpJ.HGy@unx.sas.com>
Organization: Consilium Inc., Mountain View, California
In-reply-to: walker@twix.unx.sas.com's message of 18 Dec 92 13:27:18 GMT
X-Posting-Software: GNUS 3.13  [ NNTP-based News Reader for GNU Emacs ]

>>>>> On 18 Dec 92 13:27:18 GMT, walker@twix.unx.sas.com (Doug Walker) said:

> I have a hard time understanding why people are SO CONCERNED that the C++
> not use C as an intermediate step.  You will never see the C file produced
> unless you ask to; the process will be as seamless as using the C compiler
> itself.  Speed and debuggability are not dependent on the intermediate
> language used.  Choice of algorithms in the translator is more important
> than the fact that it uses C as an intermediate.

Since the optimizer that a C++ to C translator is dependent on is the one in
the C compiler, optimizations based on the C++ use of temporaries, const'ness
of C++ objects, etc. would be impossible (correct?).  Therefore, a C++ to C
translator would not produce as efficient code as a native C++ compiler (or so
Steve Clamage of Taumetric Corp. and vice-chairman of the C++ standardization
committee claims).  I'm not a compiler writer, so I certainly can't back up
this statement.

> Eventually the translator will be modified and will replace the C front-end
> completely, but not in the first version.  Keep in mind that some
> intermediate language will always be used, that's the way that compilers
> work.

I'll be happy if the implementation of C++ matches the draft standard that is
being worked on.  I think C++ could be a good language for the Amiga provided
the implementation is a good one.  What is most needed in the implementation
of C++ (on any system) is the exception handling capability.  Until compiler
writers start putting out C++ with that capability, the market for vendors of
reusable components will be hampered as exception handling *will* completely
change the style in which objects are developed.
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