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From: hemmer@hemmer.adsp.sub.org (Franz Hemmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: gadtools v1.3
Date: 9 Sep 92 16:54:11 GMT
Reply-To: cbmehq!cbmden!hemmer@cbmvax.commodore.com (Franz Hemmer)
Organization: InterActivsion
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <1992Sep4.112101.6471@nntp.hut.fi> s36399s@taltta.hut.fi (Harri Holopainen) writes:
> In article <hemmer.020z@hemmer.adsp.sub.org> cbmehq!cbmden!hemmer@cbmvax.commodore.com (Franz Hemmer) writes:

> >GadToolsBox doesn't support inclusion of IFF's into gadgets, but
> >perhaps this will be different in the future ?!
> >
> 
> I'd like to see another thing to be different in the future too:
> Now the ^&%$ thing crashes 2 times out of 3 when i try to run it :/

This is most likely your applications fault, not gadtools.

> Harri Holopainen

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From: doug@dsij.uucp (Doug Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re:  Do you agree with AC TECH's assessment?
Date: 9 Sep 1992 22:52:12 GMT
Organization: Not an Organization


  I'm kind of disappointed with AC TECH. And I was surprised that AW TJ was
somewhat better, considering how superficial AW usually is. I'd like to see
more 2.0 articles and more variety. A lot of smaller, informal articles,
and a few larger ones. I actually liked the previous AC format better.
  My favourite was Amiga Transactor. A lot of the articles were good quality
or better, with a few critical reviews. Maybe 4 pages of raw advertising.
  Those were the good ol' days!

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Windsor, ON		  *	and boils?
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From: u911661@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (Mad Mal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: printer drivers
Summary: how do you write printer drivers?
Date: 15 Sep 92 09:47:00 GMT
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.

This must be possible.....

I want to use an Epson GQ 3500 laser printer and can't find any drivers, as yet
and am therefor thinking of resorting to writing a printer driver for it...

I need a driver for the wb (1.3 and 2.0) and also for pagestream 2.2....

Any assistance as to the writing there of, or the whereabouts of a suitable
driver would be greatly appreciated.

Mal.

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From: shaffer+@pitt.edu (Charles D Shaffer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: ARexx Programmer's Guide and RVI
Summary: Can't find rexxglue.o
Date: 11 Sep 92 17:07:41 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh, Department of Physics


	After purchasing the ARexx Programmer's Guide I've decided
to add ARexx functionality to some of my applications but I'm having
some problems using RVI.  I've downloaded the rexxvars.o file but
the documentation says it requires rexxglue.o.  I don't have this
file and can't find it (yes...I've purchased the 2.0 developer's
kit).  I'm using a 3000 with 2.04.  Any advise would be appreciated.
Also, the is there a diskette that accompanies the Programmer's Guide?
If so, I didn't get it.  Please respond via email and I will
summarize if there is any interest.  Thanks...

-David
From: nealet@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Neale Type)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: How do I write a non-DOS disk
Date: 15 Sep 92 09:26:12 GMT
Organization: University of Sussex
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

how do I go about changing my standard bootable Amiga-DOS disk into a
non-dos disk, that boots ok, as not to allow the majority of people from
hacking my programs on disk ???

neale


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
From: jamie@cdevil.unx.sas.com (James Cooper)
Subject: Re: XSB -- modular screenblanker building kit
Originator: jamie@cdevil.unx.sas.com
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 14:48:43 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.


In article <b16ynaq@rpi.edu>, pooler@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Robert Peter Poole) writes:
>
>I grabbed the XSB kit from Fred Fish disk 687.  It seemed promising.  However,
>one of the xsb??????.library files was missing -- xsbpsychedelic.library.
>Since the source and makefile for this .library were present, I figured, why
>not try to compile it?  Whoops!  All kinds of errors.  Problem number one has
>to do with the fact that the makefile specifies that the assembler look for
>includes in AINCLUDE:  Reading through the sparse documentation doesn't offer
>much help, and my efforts to contact the author via email have resulted in
>naught.  I want to know what steps I have to perform to successfully compile
>the example libraries from the sources given, and in doing so learn how to
>write my own blanker routines that will work with the XSBCX client program.
>
>Anybody out there have any experience with this code?  Alternatively, is there
>another extensible/modular screensaver program out there which provides an
>easy means for programmers to create blanker modules?

I've also had problems contacting the author about this.  I rewrote
everything necessary to avoid having to use any assembly code at all,
instead using the library building support in Blink.  I also took care
of some Enforcer hits in XSBCX, etc., and made TestXSB work (it didn't
at all <on my system> when I got the archive originally).

I was going to pass all this back to the author, but his site returned
the mail, saying he had to pay for it, and had refused...

Yes, there are two other modular blanker systems out there, but they
don't come with source, and they both have Enforcer hits and other
problems...


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(jamie@unx.sas.com)                             bix: jcooper

Any opinions expressed herein are mine (Mine, all mine!  Ha, ha, ha!),
and not necessarily those of my employer.
From: jeannet@pegase.enst.fr (Olivier Jeannet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: review buffer in shell like Sphinx or WShell 2.0
Keywords: handler, shell, system
Date: 14 Sep 92 16:03:01 GMT
Reply-To: jeannet@inf.enst.fr
Organization: Telecom Paris, France

I want to write a display-handler, to be able to look at lines that have
gone past the top of the shell window. It's something like the
display-handler on WShell 2.0 (which I never used), or the Sphinx-handler
(but it doesn't work as it should do), or the usual slider you have on
many Unix shells, with which you can scroll back (nearly) as much as you
want.

Any help, sources, where I can find informations, would be very nice.

Olivier.
From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Do you agree with AC TECH's assessment?
Date: Mon,  7 Sep 92 16:46:00 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)


[...]
>does a backup program do?" says the article.  Dar dee dar dee dar.)  The
>reviewer (Merrill Callaway -- I don't know if that name is male or female,
>so I'll assume female) missed or glossed over some of the programs
>shortcomings For example, the reviewer calls QB's user interface "truly
[...]

>
>                                                        Dan
>
This same Merrill Callaway is also responsible for reams of reviews
in the "regular" flavor of Amazing Computing. He (s/he) recently
reviewed ASDG's Epson or JX100 scanner driver software and whined about
getting scans that weren't correctly proportioned for an Amiga monitor. 
When I wrote ASDG's scanner driver manual (which recently got five
stars under the "documentation" rating in the end-boxes in reviews
in three current Sept. 1992 British Amiga-specific magazines, by the 
way) I spent no small amount of space explaining in detail how to
scan an area of a piece of art larger in the vertical dimention
to compensate for the Amiga's non-square pixels versus the scanners'
square ones, and then how to use ADPro's scaling feature to 
reduce the scan down to the correct size for the proper proportions
when viewed on NTSC monitors. 

Callaway completely missed this important piece of information from
the manual and thus drew the wrong conclusions at the end of the 
review. 

Hey, I write reviews for a living too. I go thru a lot of pre-writing
work including making lots of phone calls at my own expense to make
sure I get my facts right before I submit the articles. I call
software mfrs, get the most knowledgable person they have on the phone,
and say "These are the technical facts about your program that I"m
going to use in my article... I'll list them to you one by one. You tell
me if I'm wrong about any of them."

"Some people have a way with words.  Other people... no have way."
(Steve Martin)


Harv
From: bojsen@moria.UUCP (Per Bojsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Programming Tools (was: Amiga programmers UNITE)
Date: 8 Sep 92 01:25:36 GMT
        <BtG4C9.F7z@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
        <1992Aug28.204031.21575@ariel.ec.usf.edu>
Reply-To: cbmehq!lenler!moria!bojsen@cbmvax.commodore.com
Organization: IDUN-Soft Aps.

In article <1992Aug28.204031.21575@ariel.ec.usf.edu>, Gregory M. Stelmack
writes:

> Don't know about a better make (although LMK has always met my needs), but
> better command-line switches are supposed to be there. Ones that are actual
> options rather than toggles are promised. But why UNIX switches?

Because a cc frontend with UNIX switches and a better (i.e., UNIX
compatible) make allows you to write portable makefiles that can be
used under UNIX as well as under AmigaOS.  I have ported many UNIX
programs to the Amiga using SAS/C and I've found that rewriting the
makefiles often comprises the major part of the porting job . . .

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
From: mvelzen@fwi.uva.nl (Marc "VELZ" van Velzen)
Subject: Re: Amiga PROLOG wanted.
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 15:21:37 GMT

mcramm@dct.ac.uk writes:

>In article <kelso_j.716435620@kultarr>, kelso_j@cs.uwa.oz.au (J Kyle Kelso) writes:
>> Can anyone tell me where I can get a PD PROLOG for the Amiga?  I have
>> VT prolog but it's a very very old version.  Fish disk numbers or FTP
>> sites would be appreciated.
>> 
>> I don't want to sit in front of this PC any longer than I have to...
>> 
>> 
>> J Kyle Kelso 
>> email: kelso_j@kultarr.cs.uwa.edu.au
>The only one I know of is Stony-Brook Prolog (SB-Prolog) which is in the Fish
>collection (can't remember the numbers, but I think it's in the high 300s
>somewhere?) It's based on the WAM (Waring (?) Abstract Machine) and produces
>semi-compiled code (sorta like p-code).

WaRREN Abstract Machine

>It's not a complete Prolog but it's way better than any VT-Prolog I've seen,
>and there's enough source (for built-in predicates too) for you to extend it 
>as you need.
 
It also is slow, buggy as hell, and has terrible debugging facilities ...
Get SWI-prolog for yer PC, it's WAY better ... (this is of course not a
plug for PCs in general, so don't start that PC<->Amiga flamewar again, 
I'd *love* a decent prolog for my 'miga, but it seems there isn't one).

marc
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From: paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Icon default tool paths (was Re: A4000 Specs? Who knows.)
Date: 15 Sep 92 12:27:05 PST
Organization: BBS

> That was a little silly. Firstly, you should calculate if the font
> is too large and is going to overlap. If it is, then force it to an
> 8 point font.
 
No, I simply don't allow them in the configuration part of the
program to pick a font that's too big.
 
> Secondly, you should use the ReqTools.library
 
Aint gonna.
From: jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: what is EPIPE in the tar sources?
Date: 10 Sep 92 05:29:48 GMT
Organization: is sometimes desirable

In article <apwEr*HY0@caleb.UUCP>, Jim Pritchett writes:

> I am attempting to apply Andy Finkel's fix to the tar program from Fish 446(?)
> Also, I am Manxifying the program since I don't have the SAS compiler.
> 
> In the file diffarch.c, there is a reference to EPIPE:
> 
> errno = EPIPE;                  /* FIXME, remove perrors */
> 
> I assume that this is supposed to be a #define, but I can't find it defined
> anywhere in the tar sources or the Amiga includes.  What should it be, and where
> is it defined?  (I suspect that I could just arbitrarily define it, but I would
> like to do this "correctly.")
> 
> Does anyone out there know?

Well, after making up a value, I discovered two more undefined things in other
routines:

ENXIO
EFAULT

After doing these also, I got the following undefined routines from the linker:

(17)Undefined symbol: _opendir. 
(17)Undefined symbol: _readdir. 
(17)Undefined symbol: _closedir.
(17)Undefined symbol: __TZ.     
(17)Undefined symbol: _tzset.   
(17)Undefined symbol: _timezone.
(17)Undefined symbol: _getft.

Could someone post descriptions of these functions so that I can write
replacements?  (or, point me to where they are...)

                                    Thanks,


                                                Jim Pritchett


UUCP:  rwsys.lonestar.org!caleb!jdp
 or    utacfd.uta.edu!rwsys!caleb!jdp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
From: Todd_Lewis@unc.edu (Todd M. Lewis)
Subject: Re: Beginner 'C' Q about clock time
Organization: UNC Office of Information Technology
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 19:27:17 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.130024.42975@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>  
2ftqkiln@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>so could someone tell me how to get a [psudo-random] number
>from the clock. Thanks in advance....-Dave

ULONG seed;
  CurrentTime( &seed, &seed );

This sets seed to some number that depends on how long the machine
has been on, either the seconds or microseconds, but I don't really
care which.  This may be kindav ugly (and intuition.library had
better be open) but it's so easy I can't help myself.
--
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       An acorn's destiny is not to become an oak tree.
         An acorn's destiny is to become a squirrel.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
From: Jan.Lucenius@tel.vtt.fi (Jan Lucenius)
Subject: bug in amigabasic ?
Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 08:01:11 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.programmer

Description of what happened:

I have a basic program which among other things appends lines to a text
file in the format
<integer>,"string",<real value>,<integer>,<integer>
for example
12,"gefgwe",12.6,3,20

It has worked perfectly for 2.5 years (as long as you remember to not
put a comma in the string). Now for some reason
- the existing file was deleted - and it is very unlikely that anyone else
  would have deleted them
- some of the integers in the beginning of the lines were missing causing
  TYPE MISMATCH when reading the file with the same program.

The disk have sometimes been affected by the SCA virus, but that is removed
long ago.

I also booted the computer with the "copy of extras" disk where the program
reside on the root directory, and all the files that it uses.

Thought that the disk would have been too full, as one of these files is
created for each calendar month, but rebooting the computer (A 500 with
total 1 M memory, one external disk drive and kickstart switch with 2.04
and 1.3 ROMs) with WB 2.04 showed that there should still have been 14K
left.

Any ideas of how the files have disappeared?

Jan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
From: xnybpf01@serss0 (Brian P Feeny)
Subject: GCC Problems
Organization: Florida International University, Miami
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 04:36:10 GMT


	This question is in regards to GCC.  How can you compile a program,
which makes use of amiga.lib, and NOT have ixemul linked?  I would like to
compile say a simple program that opens a screen.  I have amiga.lib, 
and the includes. What are the exact directives for an error free comilation?

						Brian
-- 
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From: john@igd.fhg.de (Werner John)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Comeau C++
Date: 15 Sep 92 14:11:21 GMT
Organization: FHG IGD, 6100 Darmstadt, Germany

In article <BuLpwM.78M@well.sf.ca.us>, comeau@csanta.attmail.com (Greg Comeau) writes:
|> [some stuff deleted...]
|> In article <1992Sep14.161205.1@sara.cc.utu.fi> kkeranen@sara.cc.utu.fi (Kimmo Ker{nen) writes:
|> >2. Price (including shipping to EUROPE) ?
|> 
|> Comeau C++ 3.0 With Templates for AmigaDOS costs $US250.
|> International shipping is $US60.
                              ^^^^^
you mean $US260 ??

|> [...]
|> >4. Requirements ? (I have A3000 + 4M fast RAM)
|> 
|> That's more that enough.  Software-wise we use rexx.  Also, Comeau C++
|> is a compiler producing C as its object code.  Current official C backends
|> (necessary ONLY for native code generation) as SAS/C 5.10a and above, or
|> Manx Aztec C 5.0d and above.

So it is a fromt end, isn`t ?  Are Amiga C++ headers shipped with it ?
Can you send (or email) me some more free information about Comeau C++ ?
Thank you.
- John

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Zeppelinstr. 68		| Fax:   ++49 69 885555
Neu Isenburg  W-6078	| I-net: john@igd.fhg.de
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From: Roger_Martensson@p3.f607.n901.z92.badnet.bad.se (Roger Martensson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: COMMERCIAL DICE; when?
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 15:06:43 +0000
Reply-To: Roger_Martensson@p3.f607.n901.z92.badnet.bad.se (Roger Martensson)
Distribution: world
Organization: The Third Point, Mellansel, Sweden 
OD-Comment-To: David_Ingebretsen

Hello David

  You wrote:

 DI> From: dingebre@imp.sim.es.com (David Ingebretsen) Followup-To:
 DI> comp.sys.amiga.programmer

 DI> I saw mentioned that version 3.0 of DICE will be commercial. When will
 DI> it be available and for how much?

What? Is version 3.0 coming?
If this is right?
What about us who have registred us then?

/Rm - InterNet: Roger_Martensson@p3.f607.n901.z92.badnet.bad.se
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
From: Todd_Lewis@unc.edu (Todd M. Lewis)
Subject: Re: What is (APTR) ?
Organization: UNC Office of Information Technology
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 13:40:05 GMT

In article <copes.716466012@marsh> copes@cs.curtin.edu.au (Simon Cope) writes:
>gs@TEETOT.ACUSD.EDU (Sir Greg Simon) writes:
>>Could comebody please explain to me what it is:
>>	(APTR)
>>Amiga-pointer?
>>Ascii-pointer?
>I think it stands for A Pointer.  It is defined as ULONG * in the includes.
>Definitely easier to type.

It was "ULONG *" in the "old" includes, but it has been changed.
Here's a clip from the 2.04 <exec/types.h> file.  Please don't sue me C=:

]  /*  WARNING: APTR was redefined for the V36 Includes!  APTR is a   */
] /*  32-Bit Absolute Memory Pointer.  C pointer math will not	    */
]/*  operate on APTR --	use "ULONG *" instead.			   */
]#ifndef APTR_TYPEDEF
]#define APTR_TYPEDEF
]typedef void	       *APTR;	    /* 32-bit untyped pointer */
]#endif

I think you are right, though.  It stands for "A Pointer".
--
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
From: willw@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (William Waring)
Subject: Problem with ReqTools and Workbench
Organization: /etc/organization
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 15:14:14 GMT

Hi  there,
	I  was  wondering  if anyone could please help me with a problem I have
got  running  my  program  (X-Comm)  from  workbench.   I  use SAS/C V5.10a
compiler and I trying to run my program from a standard icon.  I compile it
LIB:c.o  at  the  moment  but  I  don't  want that anoying CON:  I/O window
popping  up on workbench everytime the program is loaded.  I know that this
can  be  gotten  rid of by using _main instead of main, but the problem is,
everytime  I run X-Comm off an icon using the _main, my Reqtools requesters
have  a  bad  habbit  of  crashing  after the window opens.  IE, I load the
program  from  workbench, the window doesn't come up and it all loads fine.
Then I go into the phonebook editor window and select "Import phonebook..."
or  "Load  Phonebook..."  and  the Reqtools file request window appears and
starts drawing it's gadgets and then BANG.  It gurus.
	I  have  no idea why this happens.  I figured I may have to set up some
I/O  pointers in my process structure or something strange like that?  Do I
have  to  fiddle with workbench messages?  Anything other than just setting
it  to  _main().  Please help, this is one of the few bugs that are holding
up X-Comm's release at the moment.  Thanx in advance..
-- 
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From: dsaban@cs1.uct.ac.za (D SABAN)
Subject: Clrscr(); on AMIGA.
Organization: Computer Science Department, University of Cape Town
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 10:21:33 GMT

I'm studying C on the IBM.  I would like to transfer some of the files I'm 
writing to the Amiga, unfortunately it seems that Clrscr(); only works on 
the IBM.

Does anyone know the equivalent of Clrscr(); for the amiga.

Dan Saban
(dsaban@cs1.uct.ac.za)
University of Cape Town
South Africa

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
From: epang@fraser.sfu.ca (Eugene Pang)
Subject: Re: GadToolsBox 1.4 still has IDCMP bug
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 19:58:04 GMT

d9mats@dtek.chalmers.se (Mats Persson) writes:
>I just received GadToolsBox 1.4 (37.121) and became very disapointed
>when I discovered that it still can't manage to create the correct
>IDCMP flags. Neither can you set a cycle gadget to disabled.

Seeing as the Changes file dates this version back to May, it's quite likely
that this has already been fixed, but not released.

>In my opinion the old 1.3 with the IDCMP-patch works better than 1.4 .

My patch still works...

Using a disk editor (or Cygnus Ed), look for the unique hex string
<< 72 0E 70 00 >> and replace it with << 72 00 70 0E >>.  This is offset
around 82694 bytes from the beginning of the file.