HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: hpverwei@cs.ruu.nl (Dick Verweij)
Subject: Re: Amiga DTP isn't catching up quite fast enough...
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 13:14:34 GMT
Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science

In <5NOV199211292562@rigel.tamu.edu> cpw8034@rigel.tamu.edu (Alan Wen (409) 693-2924) writes:
>THE COMPUTER WARS ARE OVER!  IBM clones have won.  The 90's are now years
>for grabbing the niche markets and not for total domination.  85% of ALL
>microcomputers in the world are ibm clones. 10% or so are Mac's... the 
>remaining 5% are misc micros like Amigas, NeXT's, etc...  
>
Can you also tell me how much percent of these clones are 486DX's with 
Diamont Speedstar 24x cards plugged in?
(Ok PC's have won by number, but what the heck, there are also more ants  
than people on earth);


-- 
DICK H.P. VERWEIJ

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From: clin@jade.tufts.edu (Chuck (Satch) Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: TwilightZone
Date: 12 Nov 92 21:34:21 GMT
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA



I'm currently trying out the TwilightZone Blanker utility. Can anyone
tell me if there are blankers (besides the one included) available from
ftp sites.
thanks in advance
-chuck
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From: sarrasin@disuns2.epfl.ch (Christian Sarrasin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: TurboText & ARexx Q's
Date: 6 Nov 92 22:35:24 GMT
Reply-To: sarrasin@disuns2.epfl.ch (Christian Sarrasin)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

TurboText (1.03) SetPrefs's ARexx command has a fairly complete control
over the program's settings. Yet one of them is missing: Does anyone know
if there is a way to change TurboText's screen colors, short of loading a
preference files using OpenPrefs. This method is quite inconvenient,
because it would require something like the following process:

1) Store all current individual preference settings using GetPrefs calls
2) Load the file including colors definitions using LoadPrefs
3) Set back all saved settings from 1) using SetPrefs

Needless to say, this is pretty painful, since you need about 30 calls to
GetPrefs/SetPrefs to save/restore the original environment.

You might wonder why I am want to change the screen colors? Well, I am
working with two monitors: a 1950 and a 2024. The problem when swithing
from one to the other is that the colors used on the 1950 are unusable on
the 2024, and the ones suitable for the 2024 look *ugly* on the 1950.

Also, if someone has "magic" macros that will allow:

1 single click+drag mouse to select individual characters, double
  click+drag to select words, and so on...
2 automatically arrange windows to arrange them at popup time, so that
  the first open at the top of the screen, the second a tad lover, just
  letting the titlebar of the firt visible, the third below the title bar
  of the second, etc...

Well, I'd be very interested...

Appart from that, does anyone know if TurboText is going to be updated
one of these days? I heard Oxxi is not used to realeasing lots of updates
to the programs they publish. I sure hope it's wrong, because TTX is such a
nice program, though it is lacking some minor, yet important features
(like multiple undo's...)

Thanks for any clues.

Christian.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
Subject: Re: a4000 anims & video
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 14:38:29 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1.3 PL5

Joel B Couch (jbciii@world.std.com) wrote:

> I've heard it said that a 50 MHz 68030 with a 50 MHz 68882 has
> greater floating point processing power than does a 25 MHz
> 68040. The reason for this, beyond the higher clock speed,

Only in a few cases, such as transcendental math functions.  "Normal"
floating point math will be faster on a 25 MHz 040 than a 50 MHz 882.
Consider that for most floating point benchmarks the 25 MHz 040 is
between 2 and 6 times as fast as a 25 MHz 882.  So if you double the 882
speed, you'll still get between 1 and 3 times the performance on the
040, providing you have reasonably good floating point code.  (See the
AIBB results for FP comparisons between 040 and 882 systems.)

If you rely heavily on transcendental math, the fast 882 is the better
bet.  But that is a very uncommon thing.  Even 3D rendering engines like
ray tracers and such use very little or no transcendental math.  And
even programs which seem like they must be doing a lot of transcendental
math probably spend a fairly small percentage of their time doing that.
I bet that over 95% of all FP intensive software will be faster on an
040 than a 882 which is twice the clock speed.  If you *really* need the
hottest FP performance, the 68K family is pretty far from the cutting
edge of the performance curve anyway.  If FP is your hot item, get a
workstation of some sort and use it as a compute server for your Amiga.
You'd need custom software on both sides to make it fly, but if you need
that much speed, you can probably arrange the software end of it.

Another factor is that 50 MHz is likely to be as fast as 882's ever get.
But 25 MHz isn't the fastest 040.  I believe there may already be 33 MHz
parts, and I'd expect a 40 Mhz version eventually.  (I don't think we'll
see 50 MHz, but who knows.  I also have my doubts about the 68060).

   - steve
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: accs1@bagheera.mumath
Subject: Re:  Booklet pagenumbering
Reply-To: accs1@bagheera.mumath
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 13:25:21 GMT

In article 1dv9j5INNab5@uwm.edu, mrosen@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Michael David Rosen) writes:
>In article <1992Nov12.115233.16017@sfu.ca> flui@fraser.sfu.ca (Francis Wai Gee Lui) writes:
>>In article <fgd3.02sp@nifty.UUCP> fgd3@nifty.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe, III) writes:
>>>   How can you make Pagestream automatically put two different page numbers
>>>on the same sheet?  How can you get it to put the page numbers in the right
>>>sequence?  Since you're so sure it's in the manual, perhaps you could point
>>>me to a reference.  I'd sure like to read how Pagestream does that.
>>
>>Actually, ProPage can do two-ups and have the proper page numbering through
>>its disable page eject feature.  Just layout pages half as small, and
>>shifting even pages over and disabling page eject for odd pages in the
>>Postscript Output Specs.  While you work on each page, everything works
>>like an ordinary page, and then when you print, voila!  Two-ups to go!
>>
>
>Aside from the fact that manually entering page numbers for a hundred page
>booklet would take less time than it takes to compose all these messages,
>Propage could probably do this.
>
>I suspect that you could write an arexx program to do this sort of thing in
>ProPage but again it would take *a lot* longer to write the program than to
>manually enter the page numbers. 


Time becomes irrelevant if you intend to publish such a booklet every month.
Frank






Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: larsm@ii.uib.no (Lars Magnus Nordeide)
Subject: Re: The Amiga GUI jungle
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Reply-To: larsm@ii.uib.no
Organization: University of Bergen
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 92 18:52:12 GMT

In article 69040@cup.portal.com, drchip@cup.portal.com (MYRON A LIEBERMAN) writes:
>2.04 Style Guide Compliance? Have the style police looked at the 2.04
>workbench menus? Are they compliant with the style guide? Just curious. :-)

No, not the 2.04 ones, but the 3.0 is another story... (he he)

--
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larsm@ii.uib.no
"Hey! Somebody has stolen my quote!"

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From: bjst@sth.frontec.se (Bjorn Stenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: AGA Software (The Quest begins)
Date: 9 Nov 92 13:08:13 GMT
Organization: IDK/Frontec - System Design Group

amipb@amipb.gna.org (Philippe Berard) writes:
>     The first game in AGA will be out soon : ZOOL. And DeluxePaint
>     4.5 is supposed to use the new modes too. ImageMaster 9.21 uses
>     the AGA also.

I think the latest PPShow (can't recall version) also supports AGA.

		-- Bjorn

       ///  Bjorn Stenberg, Stockholm, Sweden         bjst@sth.frontec.se
      ///  main() { printf(&unix["\021%six\012\0"],(unix)["have"]+"fun"-0x60);}
 \\\ ///  "- Your documentation no longer confuses me, old version!"
From: lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Looking for opinions on MaxiPlan4 for stocks, budget, misc.
Date: 5 Nov 92 13:17:36 GMT
Organization: City University, London

In article <1992Nov3.162614.16182@nynexst.com> clare@nynexst.com (Clare Chu) writes:
>  Finally I'm looking for a way to print envelopes (or labels)
>  from my Deskjet 500.  Which programs will let me do this?
>
>  Thanks a lot!
>
>  Clare
>  clare@nynexst.com

EasyScript! (advert near the back of AmigaWorld) do a label program
called LabelDex! I have not seen it myself, but according to the
info it does everything you would want in a label program.

--
Lionel Tun   (lionel@cs.city.ac.uk)
Vision Group, City University, London, EC1V 0HB. 071-477 8000 x 3889
From: gromyko@sputnik.rhein-main.de (Michael Grom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Whats Final Copy II maths support like
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 11 Nov 92 09:47:41 MED
Organization: private Amiga Site

In article <BxHDF8.Dv1@news.cs.andrews.edu> adap@edmund.cs.andrews.edu (Edsel Adap) writes:
> In article <1992Nov9.211359.1@vaxa.strath.ac.uk> cikp14@vaxa.strath.ac.uk writes:
> >Could anyone tell me what the maths support in Final copy II is like?
> >
> >Is it anything like MSWORD for windows?
> >
> >thanks,
> >
> >Simon.
>
> It does addition of numbers! WOW!
>
> Edsel
> --
[..]

FCII does not provide something like the formula editor coming
with WWord 2.

Regards,
	Michael
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: cmh061@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Richard Batty)
Subject: Re: Backup Prog Suggestions
Organization: Coventry University
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 11:52:05 GMT

accs1@bagheera.mumath wrote:
>Tell me guys, what is the currently best backup program on the AMIGA ?
>
>Frank


That all depends on what you are trying to back up !
To back up disks either XCopyPro    Latest version is May 92 I think
		     or DCopy 2	    Which is PD

I havnt found anything that they cant back up.

Or for harddrive backup its probably Quaterback current Version 5 I think!

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From: amigamat@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Mark Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Anyone have Prowrite 3.3?
Date: 9 Nov 92 15:41:13 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

In article <68940@cup.portal.com> Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) writes:
>
>Aye, this be true. However one nice thing that Softwood did with
>Final Copy I and II's installation is that all the proprietary
>NimbusQ fonts it uses live in the Final Copy drawer itself, not in
>your FONTS: device or fonts directory. So When you run Final Copy,
>and ask to load a font from its menu, you ONLY see its proprietary
>fonts listed, and conversely when you run your other software
>(Dpaint, PPage, whatever) and bring up a font requester, you don't see
>the Final Copy fonts. 
>
>I just thought this deserved mentioning :)

One thing that annoyed me with Final Copy I, and I have not seen II to see
if it has changed, is that the font requester is not a real font requester,
but rather it is simply a file requester.  You can attempt to change to
a file other than fonts.  If you choose a file that is not a font file, then
strange things happen in the program.

>Harv

Like I've said earlier, Final Copy II is usable.  It has omissions and
enhanced features over other word processors.  Let it be said, though,
that no word processor on the Amiga comes anywhere near the quality or
feature list of Microsoft Word.  Maybe someday...

Mark Thomas
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: umoster0@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Sean K. Ostermann)
Subject: AmigaGuide Readers Solved
Summary: I've got them now
Keywords: Thanks for AmigaGuide Readers
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 20:29:10 GMT

I would like to thank all the poeple who helped me with my problem of
finding AmigaGuide readers.  I now have two:  Hyper and ShowHyp.  To the
person who mailed me ShowHyp, Thanks!!

Sean
====================================
University of Manitoba
Computer Engineering
====================================

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: twang@csc.albany.edu (Teddy Wang)
Subject: Re: What is Art Expression Like?
Organization: State University of New York at Albany
Date: 10 Nov 92 11:34:20


   Could anyone tell me anything about soft logics ART expression?

   I have a black and white Deskjet 500 which I will be using for output 
   I also have a colour kit (for the odd colour pictures)


Yep, I guess that this is the question of the week, or maybe month.  I 
pre-bought Art Expression almost 3 weeks ago.  They promised it would be
out late October - early November.  Well I guess it's kinda early 
November.  

Can you guys out at soft-logik please post when this product will be
shipping?

Thanks,

Teddy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: jmarin@messi.uku.fi (Jukka Marin)
Subject: Re: FinalCopy
Date: 10 Nov 92 07:33:42 GMT
Organization: University of Kuopio, Finland

Kent Dalton writes:

>How big are your pages? I typically can see the entire width of my text
>(on a 8.5"x11" page) at 125% using 640x400 with overscan.

I use the standard A4 page size which is approximately 8.2"x11.7".  I use
a 640x512 display with slight overscan but I don't think the 125%
magnification in FC is enough.  I would like to use 150% or 200% to make
the fonts look almost as good as the Amiga bitmapped ones.

>Generally, I haven't been too bothered by the screen fonts. It probably
>depends on what type of writing you are doing and how flexible you are
>about using the magnification feature.

Well, being used to simple text editors, I hate the FC fonts..  Yesterday
I made a quick test with the screen settings and set the screen to be
95 dpi and that helped a bit.  I'll experiment more with it tonight.
Thanks for the person who suggested it!

adap@edmund.cs.andrews.edu (Edsel Adap) writes:

>The output on ANY laser printer is good!!!! (Haven't used it with dot
>matrix).

I believe that.

>>BUT the fonts look horrible on screen.  In interlaced display modes they are

>Are you sure you've got FCII?  FC I was really bad at screen displays.
>But FCII had significant improvements regarding screen display.

Yes, I have got FCII now.  I didn't notice it was nay better than FCI, tho ;-)

>I use it at 640x400 16 color interlaced.  Note I only have an ugly 1084
>Monitor.  If you want better display get some sort of flicker fixing
>hardware and hookup a multisync monitor to your amiga.

I use FCII on my A3000 with a multisync.  I can use any text editor on any
Amiga without a flicker fixer and without getting a headache.  I just wish
FCII would let me use bitmapped fonts while editing the text - a bit less
WYSIWYG, but much more comfortable.

>Get Final Copy II.  It's worth your money!

Will see. ;-)  I definately want something better than Word Perfect - maybe
I should just stick with TxEd+ and AmigaTeX.  Clear fonts on screen and
excellent printing quality. :-)  (Well, that's how I will write any bigger
projects, anyway..)

Thanks for all the suggestions,

  Jukka

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: niko@artcom.de (Niko Luckow )
Subject: Re: ToolManager 2.0 -Sounds Help
Keywords: ToolManager2.0,amiga sounds
Organization: ART+COM e.V., Berlin, Germany
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 10:49:25 GMT

carrafie@ucselx.sdsu.edu (Maria Carrafiello) writes:

>	I'm sorry if this question has been asked/answered already but I'm
>having trouble adding sounds to the ToolManager 2.0 program. First some
[...]
>done something wrong.  Has anyone added sounds to Tool Manager? Could you
>post/e-mail the instructions on how to do it? If I put everything in the
[...]

I've got the same problem, so please don't (only) email your answers -
follow them up.

>thanks in advance for any help.

Thanks, too.

>Maria Carrafiello
>San Diego State University
>carrafie@ucselx.sdsu.edu

Nikolai Luckow
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: attias@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (Roberto Attias)
Subject: French,Spanish... and others: help needed!
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 10:20:56 GMT


Hi. I'm writing a scientific calculator program, using locale library.
I need help to localize in some language, basically french & spanish,
but every other (not including italian) is welcome.
Please, translate only if you know the language VERY WELL
If you want to do it, please write the translated sentence below the
original one, and mail back to me this post. People that helped me
will be mentioned in the acknowledgments section of the calculator
manual (the calculator will be shareware...so you will be able to
get it by FTP).
Mail to:

            attias@ghost.sm.dsi.unimi.it


Ok. Here are the sentences:

1 )Created by....... This is just a Beta release...please test it and
    suggest improvements.
>
2 ) Informations about....
>
3 ) Meaning digits...
>
4 ) Couldn't open...
>
5 ) Couldn't lock (default public screen)
>
6 ) Couldn't get (screens'VisualInfo)
>
7 ) Sorry, unable to open IFF for reading/writing
>
8 ) Sorry, StopChunk failed
>
9 ) Couldn't allocate enough....(gadgets)
>
10) sorry, font too big.
>
11) Project
>
12) About
>
13) Quit
>
14) Cut Result
>
15) Paste Expression
>
16) Invalid operator
>
17) Missing digits in number
>
18) Exponent too big
>
19) Missing parenthesis
>
20) Unknown operand
>
21) Too many digits
>
22) Division by zero
>
23) Unvalid number
>
24) domain error in arc
>
25) logarithm argument must be positive
>
26) modulus in division by zero error
>
27) Sqrt() argument can't be negative
>
28) Fact() argument can't be negative  

Thank you very much for the help.
From: bohlman@plains.NoDak.edu (Daemon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Reading and Writing ST disks!
Date: 6 Nov 92 17:00:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: ns1.BxB0KD.ADo
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

In article <1992Nov6.115451.20118@cs.nott.ac.uk> arw@cs.nott.ac.uk () writes:
>Could anyone please tell me if there is a PD/Shareware program available that
>allows you to read / write ST disks. Thanks..
>
If you mean Atari ST format, try an MSDOS format reader like MSH or 
it's myriad clones and counterparts..

(Same format actually..  Shows real imagination..)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: jmarin@messi.uku.fi (Jukka Marin)
Subject: Re: FinalCopy
Date:  9 Nov 92 11:35:47 GMT
Organization: University of Kuopio, Finland

tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran) writes:

>>BUT the fonts look horrible on screen.  In interlaced display modes they are
>>somewhat readable, in non-interlaced modes they look pretty terrible.  If
>>this was just a preview mode it would be okay, but I can't imagine of editing
>>texts for hours or days or weeks with that "quality" of fonts.

>Ideally, a nice compromise would be the ability to toggle the WYSIWYG display,
>so that you could revert to a system bitmap for speed and clarity. Has
>anyone suggested this to Softwood?

I FAXed to them (we'll see if they respond.. :-) and I guess I could suggest
this if I FAX to them again.

I tested several word processors including FinalCopy I, Word Perfect,
ProWrite, excellence! and KindWords (ugh :) when writing a review for
a magazine and FinalCopy was fast and easy to use and I liked it the
best.  If it just used readable fonts on screen..

BTW, excellence! would have been my choice if it wasn't so primitive in
scaling and positioning pictures.

Now that FinalCopy has simple structured drawing commands, it's even more
attractive to me..  Too bad it can't read in postscript files and edit
them! :-I ;-)

  Jukka Marin

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From: David_Corn@fcircus.sat.tx.us (David Corn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: a4000 anims & video
Date: 5 Nov 92 21:41:40 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: The Flying Circus Amiga BBX, San Antonio, Texas
X-NewsSoftware: BBX-UMB 0.26a beta (Nov 01 1992)


Another factor is that 50 MHz is likely to be as fast as 882's ever get.
But 25 MHz isn't the fastest 040.  I believe there may already be 33 MHz
parts, and I'd expect a 40 Mhz version eventually.  (I don't think we'll
see 50 MHz, but who knows.  I also have my doubts about the 68060).


---


Apple's Quadra 950 is 33 mhz, and 40 mhz versions are expected shortly. 
The Cyclone will be 50 mhz also...  (All 040 versions, naturally...)

DC



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