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From: BRUNO@BRLNCC.BITNET (Bruno Costa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: ProWrite 3.2 patches
Date: 30 Jul 92 16:24:19 GMT
Organization: IMPA - Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada
X-Unparsable-Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 21:02:44 BS3


  I am looking for the patches from ProWrite 3.2.0 to 3.2.2 that were
floating around the net a while back. I know that in the patches
directory of wuarchive.wustl.edu there are UK (?) patches from
version 3.2.2 to 3.2.4, and a patch from 3.2.3 to 3.2.4.
  The patches I'm looking for were in the incoming directory of the
now defunct ab20.larc.nasa.gov Amiga site. Does anyone have this
patches and would be willing to mail me uuncoded copies? Does
anyone know an FTP site where this patches can be found?
  I've asked my friend (who wants the patches) which version of
ProWrite did he have. He said it was plain 3.2, as far as he could
tell, but he may be wrong. So I assumed I would need the entire
series of patches. Thanks a lot for any help.

  Bruno.
PS: I'm a programmer who just reads c.s.a.programmer... I don't have
enough time currently to read other Amiga groups (too busy developing
Amiga software!). So, pleeease, e-mail any answers. ThanksQ!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: A1000 "Kwickstart" Boards
From: toddo@hogbbs.scol.pa.us (Todd Oberly)
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 18:19:45 EDT
Organization: The Heart of Gold BBS, Lemont PA

 
The last time I had access to c.s.a.hardware (some time in February), a
couple guys were selling their own custom A500/2000 Kickstart ROM 
switcher
boards.  They said their next job would be designing one for the
A1000, one which would not overlap the 68000 chip (aka Kwickstart).  I'm
thinking about getting an accelerator in the future, making this really 
the
only way to go.  Would someone be kind enough to point me in the right
direction (an email address, phone number, P.O. Box, etc.)?
 
Thanks in advance!
 
Todd
 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: amuser@lillee.cs.curtin.edu.au (Bill Sharp-Smith AUG)
Subject: Re: Virtual Memory for the Amiga?
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 07:57:08 GMT

mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst) writes:

>BTW, ADPro crashed with more than 512Megs virtual memory available.. dunno why.
                                   ^^^^^^^
OH, what a *SHAME* !!!!!

8-) 8-) 8-) !

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From: jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: What W Processor will save a file to Postscript
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 22:36:02 GMT
Organization: is sometimes desirable

In article <mac1.711386320@Ra.MsState.Edu>, Mubashir Cheema writes:

> 
>  This may be too easy. I need a word processor that can save a document
>  as a Postscript file.  I don't have a laser printer connected to my Amiga
>  and would like to take the advantage of the one in my lab.
>  Thanx alot in advance.

I believe that Excellence! does this.


                                                Jim Pritchett


UUCP:  utacfd.uta.edu!rwsys!caleb!jdp
 or    texsun.central.sun.com!letni!rwsys!caleb!jdp
 or    spudge.lonestar.org!caleb!jdp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: jeh@raster.kodak.com (Ed Hanway)
Subject: Re: Virtual Memory for the Amiga?
Organization: Eastman Kodak Company, Digital Systems Center
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 12:34:55 GMT

Would someone with this virtual memory system care to try the following
program?

#include <exec/types.h>
#include <proto/exec.h>
#include <stdio.h>

#define TESTBUFSIZE	(100000000L)
#define	TRIALS		(1000)
#define BLOCKS		(TESTBUFSIZE/TRIALS)
#define BLOCKSIZE	(TRIALS)

main(void)
{
	volatile char *buf;
	int i;

	if(buf = (volatile char *) AllocMem(TESTBUFSIZE, 0L)) {

		for(i = 0; i < TRIALS; i++) {
			long addr = (rand() % BLOCKS) * BLOCKSIZE;

			Disable();
			buf[addr]++;
			Enable();
		}
		FreeMem(buf, TESTBUFSIZE);
	} else {
		fprintf(stderr, "No test\n");
	}
}

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: burkert1@platon.fmi.uni-passau.de (Klaus Burkert)
Subject: Re: Virtual Memory for the Amiga?
Organization: University of Passau, W-Germany
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 20:47:28 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.083807.19323@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
>In article <1992Jul27.193125.18927@uni-paderborn.de> laire@uni-paderborn.de (Ralph Schmidt) writes:
>>Marc...there is a simple answer....IT'S OUT AND CAN BE BOUGHT BY EVERY USER
>>..so it's not vapore anymore...Or do you call all non-US products vaporware
>>because you can't get them in US ?:-B
>
>   As a matter of fact I do.  If something is available in Europe but not in
>the U.S., then for me for all practical purposes that product does not exist.
>Like I said, until this virtual memory product is released over here, it will
>remain vaporware to me.

There are a lot of US products without german or European distributors
or not functioning in PAL (eg Toaster) and I wouldn't call it all
vapour just because the manufacturer isn't my neighbour...

Maybe we should call you vapour because you're not available in europe? :-)
(Sorry to get personal, but I couldn't resist).

I can order US-products without problems:
 order by fax
 pay with credit-card
no problem... but maybe if sth gets defective and you need service.
I can't imagine it much more difficult the other way round, you're just
required to be willing to!!

Ciao, Klaus.

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Brandweg 11          voice: +49-851/83993 (only pm please)
D-W-8390 Passau   /  Federal Republic of Germany
From: DonD@cup.portal.com (Don Robert DeCosta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Find File utility for the Amiga
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 23:03:40 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>I need a "find file" utility for the Amiga.  Can anyone recommend one?
>
>Or, if there's a good way to do it with Amiga DOS, thus rendering an
>application unnecessary, then that would be great too.
>
>Thanks,
>Ken Zarifes
><HeroSoftware@cup.portal.com>
>

Under 2.04: 

	search <root directory> all file <file pattern>

Works pretty well.

1.3 can do it too but the syntax is a little different!

Don DeCosta           |The nice thing about sanity is|  VM/Nomad2
DonD@cup.portal.com   |you can lose it more than once|  Amiga/Imagine
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: s915426@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Leanne Taylor)
Subject: Re: Directory Opus 3.50
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre, Melbourne Australia.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 00:04:17 EST

jpotter@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Jonathan Potter) writes:

[stuff about pirated beta release deleted]
>Needless to say I am unhappy about what has occurred. If you can't trust your
>beta testers who can you trust? People who spread copies of pirated software
>(especially unfinished versions) can be totally blamed for the low number of
>high quality programs available for the Amiga. I have become generally
>disillusioned with the whole business, and am myself seriously considering
>moving to an IBM or Unix platform after the next version of Directory Opus is
>finished.

Are you insinuating that people in the Unix and IBM worlds do not pirate 
software, and more specifically do not pirate Beta releases???  If so I 
think you are slightly mistaken.  Unfortunately I do not know more than about 
2 people that I know using PC's that actually paid for the software that they 
use.  Beta's are available as soon as the testers get them if not before. 
At least of my friends in the AMiga comunity, at least half of them buy softwareUnfortunately several of them are of the mentality that if they refuse to buy
it, then prices will go down, like they did with the Atari ST :-(

Of course, the Unix world is different, with more Universitys, and Businesses 
using these systems, than home users.  Pc's to an extent too, but an alarming
number of small businesses use pirated software as they feel that they cannot
afford AutoCad etc - If only they used Amiga's

Sorry about your efforts being hassled, and keep up the good work, though
I like DirOpus, I wouldn't use it as DirWork is all I need and cheaper
for now :-)

>Jonathan Potter / INOVAtronics

Justin

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: ewong@ucs.ubc.ca (Eldon Wong)
Subject: Re: Laser printer cont'd
Organization: University of B.C. Computing Services
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 16:07:38 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.162648.14229@ultb.isc.rit.edu> mjp3783@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
>In article <1992Jul22.134157.19713@city.cs>, lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun) writes:
>>Thanks for the feedback I have decided to go for an Okilaser400
>>printer. The question now is this: is the 512K memory enough, or
>>do I need 1.5 Mb and Abode Type manager?
>>The plain printer with 512K is 551 quids
>>and with 1.5 Mb and Adobe is   700 quids.
>>
>>Do I need the extra bits or not, for use
>>with Pagestream 2.2?
>>
>>--
>>Lionel Tun   (lionel@cs.city.ac.uk)
>>Vision Group, City University, London, EC1V 0HB. 071-477 8000 x 3889
>
>I was printing on a 1 meg HP Laser Jet IIIP and I had it run out of memory
>using PageStream 2.2. We bought a 2 meg expander and the same file printed
>fine.
>
>
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The reason why your HPIIIP didn't work with 1 MB of RAM is because of HP's
resolution enhancement feature.  This feature uses up part of the 1 MB thus
leaving you with somewhere about 700K of memory.  There isn't enough memory 
to print out a full page at 300dpi.  There were a lot of problems with
salespeople telling everyone that the 1 meg was enough when the III series 
was first introduced.
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From: u2112539@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Problems with Post
Date: 23 Jul 92 17:02:46 +1000
Organization: University of New South Wales



	I mistakenly posted the below in .advocasy so I'd appologise but I hear
they are a weird and dangerous bunch so ...
	Anywayz here it goes again ..

        I have Post and have a few problems with it. ie, it works great with
.EPS and postcrypt when it comes to screen viewing, but when I try to print
I get a third of the page fed through the printer and stop. Screen and printer
gives the same result nothing shows up on screen. I can't render them to .iff
either. I have an EPSON LQ500 an A3000 with 6 megs WB 2.05. Just earlyer I
managed to print the last two lines of a .EPS that I output from DynaCadd, it
seemed to have drawn the image way above the  A4 page and only a little showed
up on screen. I used a very low printer res but I can't see how I can run out
of mem with 6megs #$@%$# Also I managed to printer a letter were it couldn't
find the font and replaced it with the round circles. I know init.ps is pointing
to the corect font directory because screen rep works fine and .EPS don't have
any fonts anyway and the printer is acceseble because it can print the default
(circle) font but that 1/3 page feed for every page drives me nuts. What can it
be, does anybody have a similar setup. I mean 6meg A3000 with wb 2.05 is the
next thing after the stock amiga 3000 you can buy these days.
        Please help
                George T.
From: Michel@mike.CAM.ORG (Michel Lauzon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: XPK HELP!!!!!
Date: 24 Jul 92 01:51:51 GMT
Reply-To: Michel@mike.CAM.ORG
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00 beta rel2


Can someone could send me (uuencode) the latest version of XPK (version 
2.1 is on amiga.physik.unizh.ch amiga/priv/xpk21.lha but i dont have FTP 
access). Some one have plays with my amiga and have formated my boot 
partition and i can not found here in montreal the original archive. I need 
it i have few megs of packed files that i cannot acces now (and i need 
them).
  
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: leavitt@cheshire.oxy.edu (Thomas VanNess Leavitt)
Subject: Re: Virtual Memory for the Amiga?
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA.
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 05:43:01 GMT

Just to clarify, I was only u/ling a post I saved a couple months ago, 
in order to inquire about the virtues of the product.  I know nothing about
the technical aspects of implementing VM... that was someone else's argument.`:wq
From: bell@comute.enet.dec.com (Shane L. Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: ProDraw 3.0
Date: 30 Jul 92 14:19:15 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


    Can anyone can me a list of its features?
    Really what I want is people's opinions on this product.  Is this version
even out yet?  Do you feel it's worth purchasing.  Email is appreciated and
thanks for any views and opinions on this matter.  I appreciate your time and
effort in educating me so I can make the best choice for me.

		-- Shane L. Bell

		school - bell@alpha.ecs.umass.edu Sept '92 and after
		work - bell@flails.tay1.dec.com Summer '92
From: 89u7491@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Best Structured Drawing Prog.
Date: 24 Jul 92 04:23:38 GMT
Organization: University of New South Wales

I just thought I'd give my opinion on the best structured drawing program. From
my limited experience I'd say ProVector. The quality of output is *outstanding*
to say the least. I needed something that outputted EPS to use with PasTeX and
this was the best by far. ProDraw is apparently very good but I found it hard
to use. With ProVector you can pretty much go for it first time you load it, it
has great on-line help. It also outputs in DR2D which is the iff format for
structured drawing and as such can be imported straight into pagestream 2.0 or
higher. It can also use any pagestream fonts (via a program included with
ProVector that converts pagestream fonts to ProVector fonts).

I must also say the ProVector has *excellent* arexx support. There is nothing
you can't do via an arexx script. I have managed to incorporate plotting of
statistics into ProVector (bar graphs, pie charts ..etc) via simple arexx
scripts. The documentation provided is excellent, it is comprehensive and very
well set out.

What does everybody else think?

Cheers
-Trevor
Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.applications:6295 comp.sys.amiga.graphics:5359 comp.sys.amiga.misc:12028
From: boily@phy.ulaval.ca (Edouard Boily)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Print IFF Utility wanted
Date: 29 Jul 92 15:59:36 GMT
Organization: Universite Laval, Ste-Foy, Quebec (Canada)
Originator: boily@perseus.phy.ulaval.ca

Hi!

OK, lets suppose I have a black and white IFF image of 1280X1700
pixels that I would like to send to my printer.  I would like a
utility that will permits me to do this using my Preference setup
and which allows me to specify the size I want my IFF image to be
on the paper.  Something that would look like that from the CLI:

	IFFPrint MyImage.IFF 8.5in 11in
or
	IFFPrint MyImage.IFF 50% 75%

I do not want to do this using DPaint or another big program
because I want to do this from a script.  Just a little program
like the Workbench's PrintFile would be nice.

Does such a utility exists?  I've searched through the Fish Disk
collection without success.

	Thanks.

 - Edouard
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett)
Subject: Re: Virtual Memory for the Amiga?
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 13:53:14 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.093108.757@ifi.unizh.ch> blatter@ifi.unizh.ch (Martin A. Blatter) writes:
>In article <1992Jul27.024218.17053@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
>>   Rumors about this German-written virtual memory system have been filtering
>>around the net for over a year, but nothing solid ever seems to come about 
>>from it.  
>
>It's not a German-written program, the authors are Swiss, however
>its is being distributed by a German company ;-)
>The program is available in Europe since July 20th and will be
>available in the U.S. real soon now.
>
>>really does exist and works as advertized, why doesn't the company at least
>>develop a crippleware demo of the vmem system that can be freely distributed,
>>as proof that it really exists?  
>
>Most limitations of a demo version could be removed by software pirates.
>It's not easy to create a usable demo version of a virtual memory
>system...
>
>>Until the company behind this product does
>>something to show that this thing is not vaporware, I will remain solidly
>>skeptical.
>
>Take my word: The program exists and is available in every good computer
>shop in Germany, and it *works* (I'm using it right now on my A3000)


   Like I said, I'll believe it when I see it...

>
>-- 
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>Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
>                                                         -- Rich Kulawiec

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From: rovero@oc.nps.navy.mil (Josh Rovero)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Hard drive defragmenting
Date: 27 Jul 92 05:24:03 GMT
Organization: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA

Well, 1 combination that ReOrg doesn't handle is an old CLtd non-autoboot
controller and 2 MFM drives with an Adaptec controller.  It gets to the
*last step* and punts, leaving the disk unusable. (I had backed everything
up, so I didn't experience the pain and frustration of lost data).

After that experience, I am a little leery of using it on the A3000 until
after my next set of full backups.

-- 
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Department of Oceanography, Code OC/Rv |      Bitnet 5346p@NAVPGS 
Naval Postgraduate School              |              
Monterey, CA  93943   (408) 646-2084   |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: walrus@wam.umd.edu (Udo K Schuermann)
Subject: Re: Any relational DBMSs out there?
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 06:34:39 GMT

In article <62955@cup.portal.com> TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko) writes:
>I think dbMan is a clone of DBASE III+, so its relational-like. Nothing
>like SQL (please don't pronounce it "sequel", or the SQL police will
>gouge your eyes out).

Ok, how about pronouncing it "squeal"?  ;-)

 ._.  Udo Schuermann     "If I went around calling myself emperor just because
 ( )  walrus@wam.umd.edu  some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd
 Seeking virtual memory   put me away!"         -- Monty Python's "Holy Grail"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: vailm00@DMI.USherb.CA (MARC VAILLANCOURT)
Subject: Re: Directory Opus 3.50
Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke -- departement de Mathematiques et d'Informatique
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 15:31:46 GMT

-> I have become generally disillusioned with the whole business, and 
-> am myself seriously considering moving to an IBM or Unix platform 
-> after the next version of Directory Opus is finished.
 
  HA! Who will buy Directory Opus now that you tell it probably won't be
updated?  Personnaly I'll suggest anyone looking for a nice DirUtil to buy
SID 2 instead.

	Marc
From: Neon@cup.portal.com (Anthony Joseph Bruder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Trying to find DMS 1.11
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 01:34:16 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

In an article dated 7/23 Vincent J. Murphy writes:

>     The title says it all: I'm looking for DMS 1.11 or higher. DMS
>is a disk achiving program (I need it to unarchive Lemmingoids :)
>Please e-mail your response!



DMS1.11 is on wuarchive.wustl.edu - it's buried deeply in:

                      systems/amiga/utilities/cli/archive.


Tony Bruder - neon@cup.portal.com