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From: arensb@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Andrew Arensburger - RMS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Need answer to FAQ, What the heck is TeX ?????
Date: 23 Jul 92 19:55:39 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center

kopackm@lonex.rl.af.mil (Michael A. Kopack) writes:
>Could somebody please give me a good description of what the heck TeX is.
>I've seen it talked about on this newsgroup before, but never really
>understood what it was.

	TeX [*] is a typesetting language, sort of like PostScript or troff;
that is to say, you feed it text interspersed with layout commands, and
it spits out a file that can eventually be converted into a prettily-printed
document. It is also the de facto standard typesetter in academia.
	One important thing to note is that TeX is *not* a word processor:
you need to use a text editor to create the text file that TeX will read.
	TeX has the advantage over PostScript that you can actually write
papers in TeX, whereas people who write PostScript are generally considered
odd geniuses. TeX is also much more readable than troff.
	TeX comes in two main flavors: plain TeX and LaTeX (there are lots
of other dialects out there, like AMSTeX). Plain TeX is basically just a
bunch of typesetting primitives and macros, and is fairly low-level. LaTeX
is a lot prettier, but can be painful to use if you don't want to use one
of the predefined styles.

[*]: TeX is pronounced to rhyme with 'blechh'. If you don't the author will
be very very mad at you.

>I have a BIG problem. How can I get the program since it won't fit on a 720K
>disk? Anybody know of a way to break up .lzh files under Unix and then rejoin
>the files before decompression? HELP!!!!!

	There are Unix versions of lharc and lha floating around. Ask your
friendly neighborhood archie site where to find them.
	If all else fails, you can chop the (binary) file into several 720K
chunks, then 'join' them on your Amiga.

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From: jc@crosfield.co.uk (jerry cullingford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Need answer to FAQ, What the heck is TeX ?????
Date: 28 Jul 92 08:43:15 GMT
Organization: Crosfield Electronics, Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom.

>      Thanks! (I, too, wondered what TeX was!) One question, though:
>      What is the output? Does it use Amiga's built-in printer driver? Or can
>it output a Postscript file ( similar to troff)?

TeX outputs a 'device independant' file. You can then feed this file to
a TeX device driver (screen previewer, or printer driver).

These read the device independant dvi file, and font files at the appropriate
resolution, to produce the final page.

You can output to postcript or non-postscript printers. It doesn't normally
use the amiga printer drivers, because the purpose built ones are a lot
faster.

The font files are held at particular resolutions, but are created from a
mathematical 'font program' by a program called 'metafont', so
new resolutions can easily be created if required. 

Some implementations of TeX will let you use postscript fonts (even on
non-postscript printers).

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From: mike@agrijag.UUCP (Mike Schiller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: can't change screen font in 2.04. Help?
Date: 26 Jul 92 08:30:33 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Not an Organization
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <1992Jul20.115527.13850@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> tkt@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>
>
> I'm having a stupid problem with the new workbench under 2.04.  If I have
> a screenfont.prefs file in my prefs/env-archive/sys drawer, workbench
> halts on startup and reboot and presents a requester that says
> "To reset workbench screen, please close all windows except drawers."
> then the screen flickers and it presents it again, and then finally
> shows the workbench screen.  It ultimately uses the correct font, but only
> after the most annoying warmboot ever.  If I delete the screenfont.prefs
> file, the problem disappears, but then I have to use the default font.
> (I don't suppose there's any way to change the default font?  My workbench
> claims it's using topaz 8, but I recognize it as topaz 11.)  Help?
> Make it go away.
>
>
>
>                                                       -Adam

Adam:

All you have to do to get rid of this problem is to edit your Startup-Sequence
and make sure that ALL programs run before IPrefs are directed to NIL: To do
that you should add " >NIL:" to the end of all command lines run before IPrefs.
What will happen now is that when you reboot you will get a white screen with
nothing on it until IPrefs is run, then the Workbench *should* open correctly
at that time using the font & screensizes set by you in preferences.
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From: ludde@cyklop.nada.kth.se (Erik Lundevall)
Subject: Re: Virtual Memory for the Amiga?
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, NADA
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 11:34:48 GMT

In <1992Jul28.083807.19323@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:

>   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.

I suppose you never considered the option of buying something from another
country? 
It is just as easy for me to buy something from the US as it is here at home, 
just a matter of picking up the phone or send a fax (the phone rates are a bit 
higher to the US of course). 
I doubt it would be much more difficult the other way around.

>---
>| Marc Barrett -MB-  |  email: barrett@iastate.edu
>"[Hillary Clinton] is right now doing her utmost to drive her husband's 
>campaign into her own corner of the Democratic party, where the liberal left
>and the radical left meet." -- The American Spectator
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Your fault. Core dumped.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: rickan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Mark Rickan)
Subject: Re: Find File utility for the Amiga
Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 01:59:34 GMT

In article <62957@cup.portal.com> HeroSoftware@cup.portal.com (Bits of Magic)
writes:

>I need a "find file" utility for the Amiga.  Can anyone recommend one?

Two suggestions (particularly if you are using 2.0):

o MFU - the 'Magic File Requestor' ASL enhancement is an excellent shareware
        package which augments the standard 2.0 requestor and offers a
        file-find feature

o Find- an excellent file-find utility similar to that of the Mac

Both are readily available from Amiga FTP sites and Find appears on one of the
recent Fred Fish disks.

Mark

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From: hakanl@lulea.trab.se (H}kan Lennest}l)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for a DMS File Utility to Split/Join files on UNIX
Date: 29 Jul 92 08:28:25 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Organization: Telia Research AB, Aurorum 6, 951 75 Lulea, Sweden
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

h08f@alf.zfn.uni-bremen.de (Faroul) writes:
: khuynh@triton.unm.edu writes:
: 
: >	Hello,  I was ftp'ing some demos and came across a DMS file > 730,000
: >bytes and thus I cannot save it to an MS-DOS disk so that it can be read by
: >Dos2Dos or CrossDos.  I am looking for a file utility that will:
: 
: >	- Split DMS files on UNIX and Join Files on AmigaDos or
: >	- Join the files on AmigaDos splitted by the UNIX command SPLIT
: Split should be a standard-UNIX-command (try "man split" or just enter "split"
: without args). And "join" on AmigaOS should work well to join those parts.

You need to uuencode (or something similar) the archive first.

/H}kan
: 
: 	Faroul
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From: ronkko@cc.helsinki.fi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: PPage fonts in PageStream?
Date: 24 Jul 92 22:19:22 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

Is it possible to use the CG and postscript fonts included with PPage
in PageStream? How are they installed and is there needed some sort of
conversion? Can the CG fonts used also with a PS-laser, so that they are 
replaced with the respective postscript font (like happens in PPage)? Are 
bitmapped display fonts needed when using the postscript fonts of PPage?

(I'm waiting for my copy of PageStream and started to wonder if I have
to purchase also some new fonts...:-)


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From: Lloyd_Sumpter@mindlink.bc.ca (Lloyd Sumpter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Need answer to FAQ, What the heck is TeX ?????
Date: 28 Jul 92 00:50:04 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

> Andrew Arensburger - R writes:
>         TeX [*] is a typesetting language, sort of like PostScript or troff;
> that is to say, you feed it text interspersed with layout commands, and
> it spits out a file that can eventually be converted into a prettily-printed
> document. It is also the de facto standard typesetter in academia.
>         One important thing to note is that TeX is *not* a word processor:
> you need to use a text editor to create the text file that TeX will read.
>         TeX has the advantage over PostScript that you can actually write
> papers in TeX, whereas people who write PostScript are generally considered
> odd geniuses. TeX is also much more readable than troff.
>         TeX comes in two main flavors: plain TeX and LaTeX (there are lots
> of other dialects out there, like AMSTeX). Plain TeX is basically just a
> bunch of typesetting primitives and macros, and is fairly low-level. LaTeX
> is a lot prettier, but can be painful to use if you don't want to use one
> of the predefined styles.
> 

      Thanks! (I, too, wondered what TeX was!) One question, though:
      What is the output? Does it use Amiga's built-in printer driver? Or can
it output a Postscript file ( similar to troff)?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: laire@uni-paderborn.de (Ralph Schmidt)
Subject: Re: Virtual Memory for the Amiga?
Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 19:31:25 GMT

barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:

>In article <1992Jul26.224229.26193@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> mlelstv@speckled.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst) writes:
>>In <1992Jul26.191201.26801@wam.umd.edu> walrus@wam.umd.edu (Udo K Schuermann) writes:
>>>Where, pray tell, can it be found?  Is it commercial or freely
>>>distributable?  From what you describe, it may just be a functional
>>>solution.  More info, please!!
>>
>>It's commercial, we just ran a test with a 2Gig Harddisk on A3000
>>and A2500/30 machines. Markus Illenseer will post a summary this
>>week.

>   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.  For all the rumors and good reports from German Amiga users, the
>thing remains totally vaporware for anybody outside of Europe.  If this thing
>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?  Until the company behind this product does
>something to show that this thing is not vaporware, I will remain solidly
>skeptical.

>>Regards,
>>-- 
>>Michael van Elst
>>UUCP:     universe!local-cluster!milky-way!sol!earth!uunet!unido!mpirbn!p554mve
>>Internet: p554mve@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de
>>                                "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

>---
>| Marc Barrett -MB-  |  email: barrett@iastate.edu
>-----------------------------------------------------

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

Regards....

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University of Paderborn (Germany)
From: peter@aristotle.sbi.com (Peter Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Which laser printer is best supported?
Date: 22 Jul 92 16:56:11 GMT
Reply-To: peter@aristotle.sbi.com (Peter Murray)
Organization: Financial Systems Development - Salomon Bros. Inc., NY


go with the LEXMARK / IBM LaserPrinter 6 or 10... with postscript...
it has wonderfull ouput at 600dpi....and is a high quality pice of 
equipment...

I love mine...

peter
ttfn...
From: cardinal@amiganet.chi.il.us (Paul Nowatzki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Wanted: air compressor
Date: 21 Jul 92 18:15:11 GMT
Organization: Amiga Network Information Systems

In article <1992Jul20.192705.8053@ncar.ucar.edu>, shan@niwot.scd.ucar.edu (Val
Shanahan) writes:
>
>I am posting this for a non-net person, but you should reply to me so I can
>forward any responses.
>
>My friend and his father own some big trucks, the kind they haul asphalt in.
>They need an air compressor that is powerful enough to use with an impact
>wrench, for removing lug nuts and such.  I know this is a little vague, but
>they aren't sure just how much power they need.  If you can help out, I will
>get the info to them so they can call you.
>
>Thanks, Val


I believe we'll have to await the release of BLAZEMONGER in order to experience
real-time digital air-compressor control.

Paul

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From: hugh@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca (Hugh D. Gamble)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: LaTeX question: the 1-inch offset
Keywords: LaTeX,TeX,PasTeX
Date: 24 Jul 92 20:05:44 GMT
Organization: NTT Systems, Inc., Toronto, Canada

In article <Brr6y2.7Fy@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jmrg9881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon Reid) writes:
>  It seems like you can't override the margins set up by the \documentstyle
>command.  I have tryed everything to get it to change but it always shoves it
>down and over by about an inch (even in the  ShowDVI program, with the margin

You can make your own document style that has them however you like,
but the lazy way is simply to use negative margins.


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From: app@shamash.cdc.com ( GSD Advanced Packing/Processes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Amiga <-> Unix
Date: 21 Jul 92 16:53:31 GMT
Organization: Control Data, Arden Hills, MN

>>sun spacestation2) machine and an Amiga?  If necessary, I can use
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Oh, so they're already in the space business? 
>Anyway, where can I buy one and how will I bring it into geostationary
>orbit?                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Give it a good boot!

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From: mcgowen@cse.ucsc.edu (Richard McGowen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Amiga Dock Utility
Date: 24 Jul 92 03:59:29 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz (CE/CIS Boards)
NNTP-Posting-Host: arapaho.ucsc.edu

Is there a newer version of AmiDock than 1.4.5.  That was the version I
got when I registered.  I really like the program but was a bit
disappointed that the author didn't reply to the message I sent him when
registering.  I am also kind of bummed that there doesn't seem to have
been any updates.

Richard
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: dingebre@imp.sim.es.com (David Ingebretsen)
Subject: PLEASE BE PATIENT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Reply-To: dingebre@imp.sim.es.com (David Ingebretsen)
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, UT
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 17:52:00 GMT


I know this has been hashed and re-hashed, but would someone
please tell me what I need to do to see a complete PAL screen
on an A3000 with a Sony multi-sync monitor? I would like to look
at a couple of the PAL game demos.

Thank you.

	David

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	            opinions of my employer, nor are my actions
		    encouraged, supported, or acknowledged by my
		    employer.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: smneyln@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Michael Neylon)
Subject: Re: Need answer to FAQ, What the heck is TeX ?????
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Distribution: usa
Date: 23 Jul 1992 11:12 EST  

In article <1992Jul23.131214.10027@lonex.rl.af.mil>, kopackm@lonex.rl.af.mil (Michael A. Kopack) writes...
>Could somebody please give me a good description of what the heck TeX is.
>I've seen it talked about on this newsgroup before, but never really understood
>what it was. In fact, I've always thought it was some commercial product
>untyil I saw it listed on Fish Disks 611-616. They are awefully big files
>and I don't feel like dl them unless it's something I will use. So, wehat
>is it? I have speculated that it might bwe some sort of word processor or
>possibly a program for evaluting complex mathematical formulas, but I reaslly
>don't know.
> 
TeX is a word processing language, similar to PostScript, that can produce
good-looking reports and others items of that nature.  Unlike PageStream,
TeX is based off working withing a text file, and imbedded commands to 
perform certain actions, ie setting the font, drawing lines, formatting
an equation.

The TeX on the FF disk is for a 68030 processor.  A more general version
of TeX is PasTeX, and can be found at various FTP sites.  PasTeX (at
last glance) currently includes the PasTeX programs, PreviewFonts, which are
used to view a processed document, and MetaFonts, which is used for
output.  FIG, a graphics package, is also optional available, and can be
used to put figures into TeX documents.  (this all takes 4+2+8+1 disks!)

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From: 01ksdavis@bsu-ucs.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Jonathan Potter, RU STILL HERE?
Date: 26 Jul 92 12:34:20 GMT


	A friend of mine has recently purchased Directory Opus, and he
mentioned to me something about the upgrade that even I didn't think about.

	He said that the manual should have actual screen shots.  Most people I
know of tend to think visually, that is, they can better grasp a concept if
they see it, and not just read about it.

	Hope this gets to you, Jonathan Potter.  Just in Case, I will look for
your email address in my back-log of email.

	Where have all the other posters gone?

	Kyle
From: Neon@cup.portal.com (Anthony Joseph Bruder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Amiga Dock Utility
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 00:29:03 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>I remember seeing about a year ago that somebody had written a utility for the
>Amiga similar to the NeXT's dock facility.  I couldn't turn it up by doing an 
>archie search for it though.  Does anybody know if it's shareware, and/or
>FTP'able from any sites?  Also, does it work happily under 2.0?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>					Jerry

It's also on Fish Disk #518 available on ux1.cso.uiuc.edu and grind.isca.uiowa.
edu for FTP.

Don't know if its 2.0 compatible (probably is given the relatively high fish
disk number).

Also try Toolmanager available on ff #551 at above sites.  It has docking
features amoung other things and only works under 2.0.  I've heard from 
someone that it's not stable but I know lots of people use it.

Tony Bruder - neon@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: pmiller@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Paul Miller)
Subject: Term, login script
Organization: The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 20:14:23 GMT

Can anyone out there who is using Term (that very nice 2.0 term program
with all the arexx stuff) tell me how to get it to execute an arexx 
script which logs me into my unix system when I dial the number? I can
not figure out how to this! It would also be nice to get it to automatically
call my system when I run Term - I know there is a way to do this with
the Commands... option, but there isn't enough documentation on how to 
get it to dial the number AND execute the script.
 
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