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From: catapcnl@NeXTWork.Rose-Hulman.Edu. (Chris Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Unix style parent directory (..)
Date: 31 Jul 92 18:08:18 GMT
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology


In article <63149@cup.portal.com> joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)  
writes:
:>I'm looking for a smart cd command or something similar
:>to reduce the shock of going back and forth between
:>amigados and unix on a daily basis.  Is there some OS patch
:>that will recognize ".." or "." and substitute the apropriate
:>directory path?
:>
:>Thanks,
:>Steve
:>
:>--
:>___________/\       
___________________________________________________________
:_
:>Steven Cobb 
:
:How about shell aliases like
:
:alias . cd :
:alias .. cd /
:
:I just tried them and they work fine. (Love this multitasking!)
:(Er, If I remember right, that's what Unix . and .. are?)
:
:-Joel
:-------

Isn't "." the current directory?  For example, "copy devs:printer.device to ."  
(which you could do under ARP).
--
Chris Lawrence
Pretender to the Throne; Destroyer of the Faith
-----------------------------------------------
"In a democracy, the majority often gets what it wants.  Occasionally, it also
 gets what it deserves."
 - ??? (Can someone tell me?)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: dtiberio@csws17.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
Subject: Re: Unix style parent directory (..)
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 05:06:04 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.043338.23438@ccu.umanitoba.ca> kaarts@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Kenneth John Aarts) writes:
>In <36248@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> ps296au@sdcc4.ucsd.edu (Steven Cobb) writes:
>
>>I'm looking for a smart cd command or something similar
>>to reduce the shock of going back and forth between
>>amigados and unix on a daily basis.  Is there some OS patch
>>that will recognize ".." or "." and substitute the apropriate
>>directory path?
>
>If you are not using csh (5.19 at the moment), then you are not using your
>shell properly.
>
>Ken

	I tried csh (version 5.21 or something like that). I still have it,
but don't like it all that much. I just want the cd .. command too!


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From: paulh@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Help with Addhard disc drive
Date: 28 Jul 92 08:43:27 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England


    Hi,

    I have a 45M Addhard hard disc for the A500. This is one of those 
products where the controller and mechanism are all in one 'plug in' box.
The Addhard system comes pre-formated with w/b 1.3 and no utility software.

    However quite recently my Amiga crashed whilst writing to a file.
Now my Amiga will not boot from the hard drive. I simply get a requester
saying 'Not a dos disk in device 0'. I think that the boot sector has
been trashed, yes?. I can boot from a floppy in DF0: but I can't read
df0:.

    I think that I need to re-format the drive, but I don't have the programs
to do so. Has anyone out there in net-land have any experience with 
recovering Addhard drives. In particular utility software for low-level
formatting.

    Thanks,

    Paul H


Paul Hatcher			PHONE    +44 904 432771
Department of Computer Science	JANET    paulh@uk.ac.york.minster
University of York		INTERNET paulh@minster.york.ac.uk
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: prado@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (Louis A. Prado)
Subject: Amiga TeX
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:41:20 GMT

Firstly, could someone please tell me what is TeX.  I thought it was a text
editor which included support for mathematical symbols.  If this is the case
why does it (the one avialable on FF610-FF616) require 30Megs of HD space.
Are there just tons of bit mapped fonts ?

Has anyone seen any program similar to MathCAD for the Amiga, or any
utility which will allow an engineering student use his Amiga and printer
for some serious work.


--
- Lou Prado	EE  Undergrad.     Arizona State Univ.
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 16:47:59 EDT
From: <KCR103@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Want to know more about the Amiga

Presently, I have a solid knowledge base of computers including Apple ]['s,
Macintoshes, and PC's.  Eventually, I will outgrow my present Apple ][GS's
capabilities and I want to learn more about the Amiga.  If I tell you want I
do know then you can tell me more of what I do not.
     I know the Amiga is based on the motorola 68000 series as is the Mac, and
even has 68040 accelerators at this point.  The Amiga also has four sound
channels built in and has a dedicated graphic chip as well.  (Sound is import-
ant to me since the Apple ][ has 15 channel stereo sound built in.)  What is
the present resolution of the Amiga graphics screen, number of colors etc.  Are
there DMA SCSI controllers with cache?  How many expansion slots/ ports does
the Amiga have?  What bandwidth does the Amiga's bus run at?  Ok, I know I am
asking for a lot of detail, but I want to be sure.

     And software, are there desktop publishers that can print to lasr printers
What developmental software exists for the machine, and finally, how much does
it cost?

Ken

PS.  I like to hear about vaporware as well.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Help. STRANGE errors starting to pop up.
From: russelld@radical.amigans.gen.nz (Russell Donaldson)
Date: 30 Jul 92 21:08:10 PST
Distribution: world
Organization: Disorganisation!

In article <1992Jul27.171213.21359@edsi.plexus.COM> jason@edsi.plexus.COM (Jason White) writes:
>This is starting to scare me. I have had my Amiga for a few years now, and
>never saw THIS error before in my life, and now I saw it twice in one day:
>
>When I boot a disk, and the startup-sequence is going through it's motions, I
>see:
><invalid> <invalid> <invalid>
>on TWO separate bootups. I changed nothing in my setup except adding a 1MB
>agnus(Which works fine)
>
>I run a 500 with 3MB, no HD.
>
>Nothing wennt actually WRONG when I saw that, but it looked ominous enough to
>post about.
>
>--
>Jason White		     | I am Amiga
>jason@edsi.plexus.COM	     | hear me roar!
>			     |	   /
>SYSOP of Computer Continent |	 \/

--
Looks to me like your battery backup clock has thrown a wobbly during
Setclock Load .  Mine has done this on a couple of occasions, but eventually
comes to its senses and reappears for no good reason at a later date,

--
 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
 + Russell Donaldson  -  Wanganui    New Zealand      Ph (06) 3442275    +
 +		     russelld@radical.amigans.gen.nz			 +
 +		   Life is too short to drink bad wine. 		 +
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From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
Subject: Re: Compression
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 14:35:45 GMT

In <1992Jul23.053515.4271@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> mjbrown@lonestar.utsa.edu (Marc J. Brown) writes:

>In article <cheungc.711801996@p4.cs.man.ac.uk> cheungc@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Carson Cheung) writes:
>>Does anybody know of a program for the Amiga similar to SuperStor and Stacker
>>on MS-DOS systems which will compress and decompress files 'on the fly'.

>I have heard that the Amiga had "on-the-fly" compression/decompression long
>before IBMers did (practically a necessity since most Amiga owners have
>limited ram).  I think Imploder does what you're looking for, and I also
>believe it's PD.  [I can understand why you got confused, thinking IBM got
>there first; I've even heard people tell me that IBMers invented MOD files.]

 I never looked at Imploder, but I believe it did the same thing as
Powerpacker.
 I haven't looked into this, but I believe Powerpacker is essentially similar
to PKLite on the IBM.  That is, it just compresses the executable files so that
when they are executed they decompress in memory and hopefully work normally.

With the patches you can have the file system do the decompression for you on
the Amiga, so that these packed files are transparent.  This enables you to
save text files in a packed form, yet still view them with your normal
utilities.

 I believe that Marc Brown may be correct in that I think Powerpacker came
out for the Amiga before Pklite came out for the MS-DOS machines.  But I
don't think that is important at this stage in the game.

 What Carson Cheung wants is something closer to Stacker or Superstor.  These
programs take your entire harddrive partition and compress it.  It is
transparent to the user, as the device driver takes care of all the
uncompressing and compressing.  Unlike Powerpacker, Stacker or Superstor
always keep the files(or rather partition) in a compressed form, so when
you save your file back to the harddrive, it will be recompressed.


>Here's another interesting tidbit: I have also heard that Stack eats hard-
>drives for lunch (that is to say, it destroys them utterly and irreversably).
>I've also talked with several IBM owners who experienced this firsthand
>(one lost a 70 meg [or something] that had his "life's work" of personal
>programming, and he is now an Amiga owner :).

 This is incorrect.  I've been using Superstor for quite some time now, and 
it is a very stable product.  It's possible that the early versions of
Stacker had some problems, but there have been several revisions since.

 But, at any rate, I am not aware of anything similar to Superstor for the
Amiga.  It's entirely possible that this could be done.  But I don't know
if the speed would be acceptable on a 68000 based machine.  And I'm sure
the user base would not support the development effort, as there is a 
great deal of beta testing that must be done with a product of this nature.





Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: chetc@quack.sac.ca.us (Chester L. Cuaresma)
Subject: Amiga software emulator for PC?
Organization: The Duck Pond public unix: +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest'.
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 04:15:38 GMT

I have this zip file which claims to be an Amiga emulator for the PC.
Now, this can't be for real, is it?  Does anybody have any information
on it?  Does it really work?

Thanks.

					Chet C.

-- 
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+      Chester L. Cuaresma                chetc@quack.sac.ca.us        +
+          FLIP, FLIP, FLIP, GASP, GASP, GASP, "meow" (BOOM!)          +
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: laire@uni-paderborn.de (Ralph Schmidt)
Subject: Re: C= speaks!!! let's spread the words!!!
Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 05:10:47 GMT

sboutwel@sandbox.kenn.wa.us (Scott Boutwell) writes:


>If Commodore is so all fired concerned about their Image why then is Marketing
>now trying to squeez our only affiliated Amiga Dealer in the area in to death.
>Buy having marketing tell him that if they don't sell $3000 in merchandise per
>month they are going to jerk his right to be a Commodore Affiliate???  

>What the H*ll is up commodore?  The only other place to purchase Amiga's is
>150 miles...  Why is the Amiga dying... Because of lack of exposure.  Users
>have been telling you that for years!!!  I've seen alot of folks from
>Commodore Engineering and Software developement on the Nets but why aren't the
>guys that are killing the machine looking in on what is being said.  Why is
>Marketing not paying attention??  WHY?  Sorry about he rating and raving... 
>But some of us users in this area have worked hard to try and get some kind of
>Amiga exposure in our area.   I'm starting to feel betrayed for thinking that
>the Amiga was the best platform by a company that many are starting to feel
>does not really give a D**N.  Well marketing what is your response????

Do you really think one of the responsible managers read this ?
Forget it, it's only a waste of time.


Regards...
-- 
Ralph Schmidt                                            laire@uni-paderborn.de
University of Paderborn (Germany)
From: mjbrown@lonestar.utsa.edu (Marc J. Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Compression
Date: 23 Jul 92 05:35:15 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

In article <cheungc.711801996@p4.cs.man.ac.uk> cheungc@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Carson Cheung) writes:
>Does anybody know of a program for the Amiga similar to SuperStor and Stacker
>on MS-DOS systems which will compress and decompress files 'on the fly'.

I have heard that the Amiga had "on-the-fly" compression/decompression long
before IBMers did (practically a necessity since most Amiga owners have
limited ram).  I think Imploder does what you're looking for, and I also
believe it's PD.  [I can understand why you got confused, thinking IBM got
there first; I've even heard people tell me that IBMers invented MOD files.]

Here's another interesting tidbit: I have also heard that Stack eats hard-
drives for lunch (that is to say, it destroys them utterly and irreversably).
I've also talked with several IBM owners who experienced this firsthand
(one lost a 70 meg [or something] that had his "life's work" of personal
programming, and he is now an Amiga owner :).

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///_//__//___//____//_______  _   \\// \\ //   \V/ )/ )/ )/ )/ )/ )  //  //  //
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"You fat, bloated BAKA!!" (_/(_/(_/(_/ \_)\_)\_)\___/(_/ \_)\___/ of Megawatts
From: bombadil@diku.dk (Kristian Nielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Compression
Date: 24 Jul 92 12:11:41 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

cheungc@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Carson Cheung) writes:

>Does anybody know of a program for the Amiga similar to SuperStor and Stacker
>on MS-DOS systems which will compress and decompress files 'on the fly'.

>I already have PowerPacker Patcher but this only allows reading of
>compressed files such as a compressed data file into a text editor
>and when the file has been modified and saved from within the text editor
>it is no longer crunched so I have to use PowerPacker to crunch them again.

The program 'XFH' (written by yours truly) included in the Xpk release
does something along the lines of Stacker, though it's done on the
file system level whereas Stacker (I think) operates on the device
level. Unfortunately the current version (like the PPPatches) does not
automatically compress files, but this will be implemented eventually
(I'm working on it). The advantages of the XFH are that it is very
system friendly (being a file system handler), that it is flexible
(can be selectively applied to directories and co-exists with any
normal amiga file system), and that it uses the Xpk standard,
providing a selection of high-performance compression algorithms (you
could even write your own).

The Xpk package is freely distributable; it was released on the german
magazine "AmigaPlus" a few weeks ago and may also be available from
some ftp sites.

	- Kristian.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: philipm@cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Philip Marivoet)
Subject: Re: PowerPacker
Keywords: powerpacker
Organization: Dept. Computerwetenschappen
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 08:12:41 GMT

If I remember correctly, PowerPacker 2.3b was the latest shareware version.
It should be available on one of the older fish disks. Since the author
didn't get too much shareware response he released the next versions as
low budget software. The most recent version is 4.0 or something like that
and has HUGE improvements over the 2.3b version. Distribution of the 
commercial version is handled by a firm called UGA which is based in the
Netherlands. Maybe someone can post their address (or an address of 
a US distributor, since I guess the poster lives in the US).

-Ives
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: prado@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (Louis A. Prado)
Subject: TEST
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 04:29:02 GMT


--
- Lou Prado	EE  Undergrad.     Arizona State Univ.
From: bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson - Amiga Networking)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga can still be rescued was Re: LET'S RESCUE THE AMIGA!!
Date: 30 Jul 92 18:13:00 GMT
Reply-To: bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson - Amiga Networking)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <1992Jul29.135052.41982@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:

[ much idealistic, upper case, yelling into the wind about unchangeable
  facts of life deleted ]

>If the Amiga is in such a weak state that an Amiga fanatic like myself
>who leads a user's group, is a developer, and takes every opportunity
>to convey the good points (as well as the short comings) of the Amiga
>as an effective computer tool then I must say it is certainly way
>past any rescue attempt... 

Read that sentence again. Does it make sense? What factor(s) do you
describe that you say make the Amiga "past any rescue attempt" ?

There is a point at which Amiga "fanatics" (as you describe yourself) hurt
the Amiga more than help it.  Yelling across the net about how things
-ought- to be ("If I were king") accomplishes little to nothing.  

>jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
>James Miller

       +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +
       Brian Jackson    Amiga Networking Group, Commodore-Amiga Inc.
                        bj@cbmvax.commodore.com
     {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!bj    or   networking@cbmvax.commodore.com
 "Oh, so you have a Borg named Hugh."           Uva uvam vivendo varia fit
From: WGLP09@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: VLT Phonebook will not work. Help, please!
Date: 22 Jul 92 00:03:03 GMT
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

As you already discovered you need rexxarplib 3.0...

      Willy.
----------
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: don@chopin.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd)
Subject: Re: C= speaks!!! let's spread the words!!!
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 12:06:37 GMT



     
     I keep seeing people complain that Commodore isn't advertising.  I take it
then that lots of people haven't seen the ads that have been running in 
numerous PC, educational, multimedia, etc. trade magazines for several 
months?  Or heard about the 70+ ads that are scheduled to appear from
August to December in these magazines?  I'm talking about places like
InfoWorld, etc.
     Sure it's not commercials at the Olympics, but at least it's non-Stevie
advertising.


-- 
Don Lloyd                / "...my brain IBM; so if you see me acting strangely,\
don@chopin.udel.edu      \ don't be surprised." - Styx, 'Mr. Roboto'           /
Gibberish is Spoken Here.          Publications Editor, AmigaNetwork 
      MicroSoft Slogan: Resistance is Futile.  You Will Be Assimilated.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de (Georg Hessmann)
Subject: Re: Help with zoom compressed archives ..
Organization: University of Passau, Germany
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 12:17:50 GMT

In article <92198.142851E66821@TRMETU.BITNET> <E66821@TRMETU.BITNET> writes:
>   I have problems decompressing archives while using zoom. I have version
>   5.4. It does not recognizes most of the archives. What shall I do?
>   Any help?

Maybe you should try the older version of zoom.
ftp: ftp.uni-passau.de /pub/amiga/archivers/zoom42.lzh

	Georg.


-- 
  hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de		hessmann@unipas.uucp
From: mpue2@syma.sussex.ac.uk (James E. Talbut)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: DKB MegAChip
Date: 23 Jul 92 12:39:40 GMT
Organization: University of Sussex, five miles away from Brighton

I got a MegAChip the other day (actually I got it weeks ago but I only
got around to fitting it the other day) and I noticed something annoying
with it.

When I have two screens of different resolutions and I pull one down to
show both at the same time, if the back screen is within about an inch
(40 scan lines or so) then the back screen is a complete mess.
It has sort of echos of the front screen stuck half way (horizontally)
across it.
If I pull the back screen down it clears up.

I am using a A1500 (i.e. an English 2000 with two disk drives), WB2.04,
a GVP Impact II, and a Sony T.V.

Does anyone know why it does it, and how I can stop it?

I blame the MegAChip 'cos it didn't do it before!

	J.T.
-- 
Fine beer may be judged with just one sip,
	but it's better to be thoroughly sure.  -  Czech proverb

James Talbut            mpue2@syma.susx.ac.uk
From: jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Japanese On The Amiga: ANS V1.2 the Amiga Nihon System by Technode
Date: 30 Jul 92 23:39:27 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

For those interested in the ability to manipulate Japanese (JIS) on
the Amiga please read the review I posted in comp.sys.amiga.review on
the newest release of the Amiga Nihon System Version 1.2 (ANS)
by Software Technode of Japan.  

I believe it may take some time to go up as the moderator will read
and edit it before posting it.  If you just can't wait I'm done with
classes and would be glad to chat about it via e-mail.
-- 
jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
James Miller

_chicchai .sig no ho ga ichiban iin janai ka_
From: armstrongmw@cgc.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: DKB is excellent
Date: 29 Jul 92 17:22:45 PST
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Organization: Cooley Godward Castro Huddleson & Tatum, San Francisco, Ca

In article <Jul.28.21.51.05.1992.3868@remus.rutgers.edu>, bachmann@remus.rutgers.edu (Dan Bachmann) writes:
> 
> DKB is world class/first class 
>  
> 		I friend of mine purchased the DKB2632 board (A2630
> RAM
> expander) from DKB. To make a long story short, we could not get
> it to work.
> 	We called DKB technical support and sent the 2632 back to
> them along with a copy of the systems s:startup-sequence and
> devs:mountlist (sent via Internet->CompuServe)... they checked it
> out and sent it back that same day - so there was only 2 days
> downtime!
> 						thank you DKB
> 						Daniel Bachmann
> 						bachmann@remus.rutgers.edu


I also purchased the 2632.  I was told that the 2632 required a simple
modification to work with my A2500.  I sshipped it to them overnight, and the
modified the 2632 and shipped it back to me overnight also(much to my surprise
and delight)  I have to agree with the original poster, DKB is a CLASS ACT.  I
have called them several times, and every time the have been more than
helpfull.  Unlike some tech support groups, they not seem at all annoyed at my
calling them.

I'm looking forward to the Megachip, 2 meg Agnus card now. Only one more week
until I can get it.

Mike Armstrong
armstrongmw@cgc.com


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