HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: schwager@cs.uiuc.edu (Mike Schwager)
Subject: ux1.cso.uiuc.edu DONATION DRIVE
Summary: It's cheap, but it ain't free
Keywords: send money!
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 16:02:24 GMT


Ladees and Germs,
The Fish Archive on ux1 has run out of money in one heck of a hurry.  Fred
sent the last couple of sets within a short amount of time, and I've been
caught with my proverbial drawers around my ankles.  Soooo... I need
donations to keep the archive going.  If you find this to be a worthy
cause, please consider donating $10. Instructions:

1. Send your email address with your donation and you will automagically
be put on the Fish disk mailing list.  This means you will get notification
and Contents listings of the disks the very second they're available on
ux1.  If you do NOT want to be on this mailing list, include a short
message to that effect.

2. I will notify you by email when I receive your donation, if you include
your email address with your donation.

3. Send it to this address:

Michael Schwager (my friends call me "Mike")
403 S. Coler
Urbana, IL 61801

The sooner your donation arrives, the sooner I can get enough money to send
to Fred for another subscription.  If you recall, last time we got over
$900 (!), were able to pay Lionel Hummel $250 for his previous
contributions to the cause, and have gotten oodles of disks from Fred.  $10
was the suggested donation and that worked out quite well.  Feel free to
give more or less as your circumstances dictate.  Of course, I get to keep
the floppies so I put in $50 plus my time to upload and reply to email and
stuff like that.

Be advised that Fish disks are also uploaded to grind.isca.uiowa.edu for
free (they don't take donations).  But if you like the freedom of choice
and speedy access to your favorite Fish disks, not to mention an email
message the very moment the disks are uploaded, then consider donating to
the ux1 archive.  Thanks.
-Mike
-Mike Schwager
Address: schwager@cs.uiuc.edu
DoD: #0301

U.S. Mail Address:
403 S. Coler
Urbana IL 61801

Fish Archive Spots:
128.174.5.59	ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (disks 100-630 and counting)
	Maintained by Mike Schwager (schwager@cs.uiuc.edu)
128.255.19.233 grind.isca.uiowa.edu  has FF #1-current,
	Maintained by Michael T. Pins (amigapd@isca.uiowa.edu)
16.1.0.2 gatekeeper.dec.com has FF #1-current in /pub/micro/amiga/fish
	Maintained by Mike Meyer (mwm@Pa.dec.com)
128.252.135.4 wuarchive.wustl.edu  has FF #1-current in systems/amiga/fish/fish
        ...mirror of gatekeeper's fish disks
130.194.1.106 monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (In Australia) has about the last 40 or so
	Maintained by Craig Matchan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: consp11@bingsuns (Brett Kessler)
Subject: LhA_e122.run on ab20 is bad
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Summary: Get a load of this!
Keywords: lha LhA lharc corrupt archive
Organization: State University of New York at Binghamton
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 18:43:12 GMT

I just ftp'ed LhA_e122.run from ab20, put it onto an MS-DOS disk, and
brought it to my Amiga.  I couldn't get it to extract itself - it kept
giving me the GURU.  Thinking I may have had a disk error on the
MS-DOS disk (or in the transfer), I used LhA on the Unix side, which
came back with a corrupt archive.

Can somebody upload a new copy of the archive?  Maybe not even to ab20
- how about one of the other sites, and letting us know where it is?

Thanks a lot.

+------///-+                       BRETT L. KESSLER
|     ///  | consp11@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu           Binghamton State
| \\\///   | OR bkessler@cup.portal.com            Sr. Computer Consultant
+--\XX/----+            "WELL, WHATEVER, NEVERMIND" - Nirvana
From: freund@sakura.cs.ucdavis.edu (Jason Freund)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Looking for Pascal comments
Date: 10 Apr 92 06:44:24 GMT
Reply-To: freund@sakura.cs.ucdavis.edu (Jason Freund)
Distribution: na
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis


	What pascal compilers are out there?  I just need a simple
compiler that conforms to most Pascal standards.  Compilation speed and
accuracy are the only factors.  Speed, size, and efficency of code 
generated is not a factor.


--------------------!PLEH !!ereh kcab deppart m'I---------------///----------
Jason Freund           freund@sakura.eecs.ucdavis.edu          ///
2033 F Street #311     916-758-0272                        \\\/// Amiga 3000 
Davis, CA 95616        Engineering Computer Science         \XX/
From: pianoman@misseye.uucp (Alan D. Ray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re:  .info Magazine has "suspended operations"
Date: 14 Apr 92 21:48:38 GMT
Organization: Not an Organization

In article <1992Apr12.071606.24631@crash.cts.com> jgallego@pnet01.cts.com (Jose Gallego) writes:
>damiel@netcom.com (Paul Theodoropoulos) writes:
>>phooey. i sure hope they can refinance. Would it do any good at all
>>to send in a check to resubscribe, or would that likely end up being
>>a "charitable donation"? Do they need an infusion of cash or is it
>>deeper than that? i think the one real failing of .info is their 
>>re-subscription method - they don't send out any "your subscription
>>is due" letters, and i think a number of people just wind up letting
>>the sub lapse. Granted, the current method is more cost effective in 
>>the short term, but i'd bet it loses bad in getting people to repeat
>>their sub.
>>
>>
>>-- 
>>paul theodoropoulos                                         damiel@netcom.COM
>
>Not only that, but how about purchasing back issues.  In may case I let my
>subscription lapse, I will try to reach then and get those missing issues.

I had all the issues except two from the first year, and INFO no longer
had any to sell.

>
>.INFO has (or had) two of the most honest reviewer, Mark and Ben.  Their
>reviews will tell you if the product is good or not, they don't included the
>line "the author promised me that these bugs will get fix in the next
>release".
>
>I would not want to see .INFO go down.  Are there any more ideas on how to
>support this execellent magazine?  Let's take some action and show them that
>we don't want them to become one of the fallen down.
>Jose
>
>UUCP: {hplabs!hp-sdd ucsd nosc}!crash!pnet01!jgallego
>ARPA: crash!pnet01!jgallego@nosc.mil
>INET: jgallego@pnet01.cts.com
>BIX: jmgallego
>CITY: San Diego, CA USA

I'd hate to see them die too, and frankly I was a little surprised,
but in looking back, I notice now that ads were real scarce in the
last couple issues.
I feel the same way I did when Transactor went belly up. There was
another good one.
Anyway, if .info doesn't return, I have a copy of Issue #1 in mint
condition for $100 (just kidding :)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: rickan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Mark Rickan)
Subject: Re: Amiga advertised in Computer Graphics World
Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 16:19:26 GMT

In article <1992Apr16.024315.20539@nic.unh.edu> ggg@kepler.unh.edu
(Gregory G Greene) writes:

>	I always thought they should advertise in Computer Shopper also.  After
>  all, thats what its there for.  A lot of people look through it each month
>  for hardware/software.  

However, didn't Computer Shopper cease publishing the Amiga section several
months ago? Quid pro quo.

Mark

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: wangf@unixg.ubc.ca (Frank Wang)
Subject: Help needed for Commodore LT286
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 17:24:37 GMT

I bought a Commodore LT286.  Apparently, two utility programs are missing,
'eagle' and 'switch.'  I phoned the dealers in town, none of them has
those programs.  The programs are used to inverse the screen.  Can someone
out there know where I can get those utility programs?

Thanks

Frank
From: gunnbr@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Brian R Gunn)
Subject: Re: A600 specs
Reply-To: gunnbr@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Brian R Gunn)
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 15:34:31 GMT

In article <EACHUS.92Apr1170407@Dr_No.mitre.org> eachus@Dr_No.mitre.org  
(Robert I. Eachus) writes:
> In article <1992Mar29.182400.19551@cs.rose-hulman.edu>  
gunnbr@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Brian R Gunn) writes:
> 
>    What's the power supply on the 600 like??  Commodore seems to
>    ALWAYS have problems including wimpy powersupplies--have the
>    finally fixed this problem??
> 
>    Hmmm...  I have an Amiga 1000 and an Amiga 2500, what wimpy
> powersupplies?  As far as I know the only Amigas with power supply
> limitations are Amiga 500s where the stock power supply is designed
> for a bare bones machine.

I was referring to the wimpy power supplies on the 500 and the 64.  Sounds  
to me like the 600 will be another one of those machines that Commodore  
assumes will remain bare bones, and therefore provide a wimpy power  
supply.

Brian
From: darren@cbmvax.commodore.com (Darren Greenwald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Weird Clock PRoblem
Date: 7 Apr 92 21:00:54 GMT
Reply-To: darren@cbmvax.commodore.com (Darren Greenwald)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <douglask.04cm@termnet.chi.il.us> douglask@termnet.chi.il.us (Douglas Kasten) writes:
>
>
>
>HELLLLPPP!!!
>
>
>Ive come across a querk in my system I cant figure out.. My system clock
>apparently seems to be running about 6x faster than normal.
>

Same advice for you.  Disable the startup-sequence, and run the clock
program with the seconds output enabled.  If time is still running too
fast, you probably have a blown CIA-A chip.

If the problem does not show itself, try using a virgin startup-sequence,
and use no user startup-sequence.  If the problem goes away, start
looking at anything special you've added (via process of trial, and error).

p.s. you may also wish to remove anything connected to the machine,
namely anything attached to your parallel port, serial port, and
floppy port.  I can't recommend you unplug cards, or other attachments ...
only you can determine if doing so would void your warranty, and/or
potentially cause you, or your equipement harm.

Bottom line - process of elimination is about the only thing you can
do yourself before determining that you may have a hardware problem
which needs to be fixed.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Virus_Checker 6.04
From: johnv@tower.actrix.gen.nz (John Veldthuis)
Date: 14 Apr 92 22:45:19 +1200
Organization: Amiga Virus Extermination Services, TAUG

Just a quick note here about version 6.04 of Virus_Checker.
Yes it is a real version. It was released quickly because someone in the
USA called me with a new virus that had spread over his Harddrive. He
transfered it via modem to me, I checked it out and killed it and then sent
Virus_Checker 6.04 to him the next day via modem. Here are the details of
what it does.

MENEM'S REVENGE:
	This is a Link virus. It starts a Task called a single space. This
	task sole job is to Patch the LoadSeg vector in DOS. It thus
	infects programs that are run. It is triggered thru the Amiga's
	time and will write it's message to files on dh0: and/or df0:
	The message it writes and then displays as an Alert is

	Menem's Revenge has arrived
	Argentina still alive

	All VC does is Remove the Task and reset the LoadSeg vector.
	It will be removed from files as they are scanned.	
	It adds 3076 bytes to each file it infects.

	There are some problems with this virus. It does not know Amiga
	Files very well and will sometimes get it wrong. VC will remove the
	virus okay but the program may still not work due to this.
	Also when the virus is removed from memory the computer may lock-up
	or GURU after a while. This may be due to memory not being freed
	properly when the task is removed.

Please no more E-Mail messages asking me about it.
--
*** John Veldthuis, Taranaki Amiga Users Group, johnv@tower.actrix.gen.nz ***
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: anstey@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Charles Anstey)
Subject: Where can I get 'startup20'?
Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 04:33:07 GMT

Where can I find 'startup20'?  I used to have it, but I must have deleted it.
Now I cannot find it at ab20 where I was sure I picked it up.  I hope it is 
the program that allows you to choose different startup-sequences from a 
requester but automatically runs a default after X seconds if none are
chosen.  If 'startup20' is not the name of the program, could someone tell
me the actual name and where I can find it.

-Charles Anstey
From: brian.s.mogged@UWRF.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: A problem with a GVP accellerator and a IDE hard drive
Date: 9 Apr 92 16:01:37 GMT


	I have a gvp 68030 accellerator running at 28 mhz with 8 megs on board
with an IDE hard drive installed on it.  The problem is that, almost randomly, 
the harddrive will lock up and the hard drive light will stay on.  This does it
on read and writes!!!  I had to recover my hard drive many times with 
QuarterBack Tools after having writes that failed.  The problem occurs to my 
knowlege when it hits long files greater than 100,000 bytes.  I have looked up 
the manual to check this problem out but I do not find one single refernece to
solution to this problem.  I have tried the hard drive on an ICD controller it 
works beautifully (the only reason why I have it on the accellerator right now 
is the IDE controller will not work with the accelerator simotanously).

  I would like some help on this problem, please.  
		Thanks in Advance
			Brian.S.Mogged@uwrf.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: tlee@mickey.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Timothy Lee)
Subject: Re: Does opening your A3000 void your warranty?
Keywords: voiding warranty
Organization: University of Hawaii
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 01:14:40 GMT

In article <1992Apr10.093156.2428@cco.caltech.edu> andrey@cco.caltech.edu (Andre T. Yew) writes:
>
>	I remember this question being asked a few weeks ago somewhere, but
>I don't remember if there was a definite answer given.  From reading 
>both the warranty card and the Gold Service letter, the answer should
>be no.
>
>	However, when I called Gold Service almost three weeks ago to report
>a problem, and when I told the service person that I had opened
>my Amiga, he immediately told me that my warranty was void.  I then
>called Commodore for a clarification and they gave me the Gold Service
>number, so I called there again.  Speaking with a different service rep,
>I was told that opening my Amiga would not void my warranty, so confident
>that I still had my warranty intact, I reported my problem again.
>After a few days, I called up to followup on my previous call.  The
>rep then told me that my warranty was void according to their computer
>and that the service rep would not even talk to me.  They suggested
>calling my dealer, which I have yet to do.
>
>	So can someone tell me if I'm in the right here?  My interpretation
>of the warranty conditions, which may be completely bogus, is that
>if I damaged the system myself, then the repair would not be covered
>under warranty.  If someone unauthorized person (like myself) attempted
>any sort of modification and damaged the system, that would not be
>under warranty.  In no place does it ever say what under what
>conditions would my warranty be voided.  I assume that there's some
>God clause somewhere that allows them to do so.  Before I go and
>raise a big stink with Commodore, could someone save me the embarassment
>if I'm wrong?
>

    When my I called GOLD SERVICE and got a repairman down to my house to
  replace my motherboard on my A3000, I asked the Repairman whether adding
  things to the A3000 would VOID the warrantee.. He said that it WOULD NOT
  VOID the warrantee as long as the INSTALLATION does not cause a damage to
  the computer...

				--tim
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Handy Guide To Modern Science:                 |  Timothy Lee
 1. If it's green or it wiggles, it's biology. |  tlee@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
 2. If it stinks, it's chemistry.              |  timlee@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
 3. If it doesn't work, it's physics.          |  timlee@WORK.SLEEPING.ZZZ
From: wulf@elfie.async.vt.edu (Jake Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Crash-trapping.  A few Q's
Date: 12 Apr 92 21:49:15 GMT
Reply-To: wulf@elfie.async.vt.edu (Jake Rose)
Organization: NeuSoft

In article <1992Apr12.073609.29521@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> aj733@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tim Hnat) writes:
>The best program that I've seen to handle most problems is ARTM...stands for
>Amiga Real Time Monitor. It gives you alot of info about what's happening
>with your system and let's you take care of frozen windows and tasks among
>other things. Definately the program to get.

I had ARTM for a while, but I just got so sick of its horrid interface and its
real-time scrolling that for some reason slows the system to a crawl (and its
flaky output under 2.04), that I just deleted it.  I've been thinking about
writing a 2.04 version, but I haven't had the time as yet (Where the hell's
our libraries book, by the way?  It's only a year overdue now.  Great, huh?
Really professional.  Almost like MicroSoft's OS upgrades.).  I'll post some-
thing if I ever do get around to writing it.

>Check archie for current whereabouts...prog artm should work fine without 
>giving you a zillion entries.

>* aj733@cleveland.freenet.edu  *					   *

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From: Patrick.Rogoschewsky@f31.n140.z1.fidonet.org (Patrick Rogoschewsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: re: Where can I find ZKick?
Date: 14 Apr 92 02:30:15 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:140/31 - The Bit Bucket, Regina Sask

When you find out email with the info.

--  
Patrick Rogoschewsky - via FidoNet node 1:140/22
UUCP: ...!access.usask.ca!weyr!31!Patrick.Rogoschewsky
Domain: Patrick.Rogoschewsky@f31.n140.z1.fidonet.org
Standard Disclaimers Apply...
From: gordos@ucunix.san.uc.edu (John Gordos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Everything killer on the way!!!
Date: 16 Apr 92 16:51:12 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati

2 other attributions lost.   Sorry.


>>>	On a side note, INTEL is a chip manafacture, not an IBM PC maker. 
>>   Actually, Intel does make systems as well.  Just not very good
>>ones.
>
jeff >	INTEL makes development systems and I've used some of them. I like
jefftheir ICE (In Circuit Emulator) the best. Allows the computer system to pre-
jeff >tend it is the CPU on the board being tested. I'm not familiar with their
jeff >other systems, but one thing is for sure - they do not make IBM PCs! The
jeff >
jeff >jeff
jeff >



Actually, Intel does make IBM/PC compatibles.  I use them daily.  They seem
to be a vanilla PC clone.   Runs well enough.  


We VAR them out, so they may not be avaiable to the general public.


John
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John A. Gordos, III                             gordos@ucunix.san.uc.edu
Access Corporation				Univ. of Cincinnati
Standard Disclaimers apply.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: l-rittle@uiuc.edu (Loren J. Rittle)
Subject: Re: ISpell ljr
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Originator: rittle@hew2.cs.uiuc.edu
Keywords: ISpell
Reply-To: l-rittle@uiuc.edu (Loren J. Rittle)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 22:29:26 GMT

umoster0@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Sean K. Ostermann) writes:
>Where can I find this program?  I need it to run GUISpell and I can't find
>it on AB20.  Thanks in advance.
>Sean

Since I get and reply to about one message a day on this subject I
will followup this message with a post.

The most current publicly available version of ISpell is on
ab20 (while it lasts... :-) and any site which archives
comp.binaries.amiga.  The reason you may not have been able
to find the package is that it is in /usenet/... instead of
/amiga/...

The exact name of the directory that contains the package (on
ab20 at least) is:

/usenet/comp.binaries.amiga/volume91/applications/ispell-3.11ljr

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Loren
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc
From: gcasa@wam.umd.edu (Gregory John Casamento)
Subject: Z-80
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Distribution: um
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 11:19:26 GMT

Does anyone have one of those old ZX-81/Timex Sinclair computers???  I
am trying to learn more about the Z-80 processor and have heard that
the old ZX-81 or TS has one in it.  I'll take it off your hands for $2.00.

Thanks...


-- 
Gregory John Casamento  --  gcasa@wam.umd.edu
###### The opinions expressed herein are the result of many semesters of ####  
###### torment at The University of Maryland.  They are not my fault! ####### 
Blurb: Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for lunch!
From: ross@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ross Hippely - Manuals)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: A3000T's with HD Floppies and MSH
Summary: double the sectors per track
Keywords: mountlist MSH floppies
Date: 8 Apr 92 20:59:03 GMT
Reply-To: ross@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ross Hippely - Manuals)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <1992Apr07.205519.4977@crash.cts.com> uzun@crash.cts.com (Roger Uzun) writes:
>
>Is it possible to create a mountlist entry on an A3000T with
>a high density floppy disk which will allow the MSH program
>to read/write 1.44M MS-DOS floppy disks?  If so what is the
>mountlist entry.
>--------------------------------------------------------------
>bix: ruzun
>NET: uzun@crash.cts.com

I dunno about MSH, but with CrossDOS I just double the sectors per track
in the MountList.  Works like a charm for me.

Note that this is no assertion that it will work like a charm (or work at
all in HD mode, for that matter) for you.  Commodore never promised, blah,
blah, blah, disclaimer, disclaimer ....  :-)

However, since you and a number of other lucky (?) A3000 owners will be using
the magic unsupported HD floppy mode regularly, it would be good if you
posted about any problems -- or blissful lack of same -- that you encounter.

Best of luck!

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Ross Hippely:						Technical Writer
employed by, not representing:		Commodore Business Machines Inc.