HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
Organization: The Leader Desslok School of Diplomacy
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:23:55 EST
From: Mark 'Mark' Sachs <MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Startup problems?
 <1d67g0INNnks@bnsgd245.bnr.co.uk> <Bx7KMu.DnG@news.cs.andrews.edu>
 <Bxu9Ap.Bz3@starnine.com> <Bxyzpt.FC8@news.cs.andrews.edu>

In article <Bxyzpt.FC8@news.cs.andrews.edu>, adap@judah.cs.andrews.edu (Edsel
Adap) says:
>>Under 2.0+, when you RUN >NIL: <NIL:, run does indeed detach completely.
>If I remember correctly, the original poster was running under 1.3.  and
>this certainly doesn't work under 1.3.

Let me just interrupt here and say that now, November 1992, there is no
excuse for anyone to be running that weak, pathetic operating system,
AmigaDOS 1.3.

Upgrade to 2.04 or 2.1 when out; your brain will love you for it.

Followups to comp.sys.amiga.advocacy.

 "But Dr. Radium, was that necessary?" "Rez, _everything_ I do is necessary."
[Your blood pressure just went up.]        Mark Sachs IS: mbs110@psuvm.psu.edu
DISCLAIMER: If PSU knew I had opinions they'd probably try to charge me for it.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: blatter@amiga (Martin A. Blatter)
Subject: Re: Pagestream 2.2 & .iff files guru :<
Organization: Another Amiga UNIX System
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 17:41:09 GMT

In article <crystal.722392256@glia> crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal) writes:
>Does anyone have any clues as to why PageStream is guruing on me?
>I click IMPORT GRAPHICS and go to DF1: to pull an small .iff file off of it.
>I load it into the picture window [...]

As far as I know, this problem has been fixed in version 2.2HL and 2.21.
There are freely distributable patches around (available on good amiga
ftp sites) that upgrade version 2.2 to 2.2HL and 2.2HL to 2.21.

In the meantime, just make sure that `Snap to grid' and `Snap to guides'
are turned off before importing IFF pictures to the picture window.

Hope that helps
--Martin

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From: alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz (Ross Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Pro Write icons
Date: 20 Nov 92 15:58:33 GMT+12
Distribution: world
Organization: Wanganui Amigans, Wanganui, NZ

I've recently bought Pro Write 3.2.4, and I like it a lot, not least because
it's highly 2.0 style guide compliant.

The one problem I have with it is that the icons it saves with its documents
are old-style, 1.3 icons, with reversed colours. Does anybody know of a way of
fixing this? I could switch off the save-icons option, of course, but I'd
rather not.


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...... Ross Smith (Wanganui, NZ) ...... alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz ......
   Mine is the ship bound for Alpha Centauri
   We must be out of our minds
   For though we are shipmates bound for tomorrow
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From: soft-logik@cup.portal.com (Kevin W Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Pagestream/ImageClubFonts
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 11:04:06 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world
  <69918@cup.portal.com> <1ekq7mINNljb@uwm.edu>

>I am well aware of what professional quality is in the font industry and at
>no time did I use the phrase `rip you off'; those words are yours not mine.
>Since you chose to delete my post (understandable; it was long) I don't
>think you should imply that I claimed that was the case.

The person who used the phrase 'rip you off' was not the same person who
deleted the text (me). I'm sorry I did not note the discrepancy when editing
the response.

>I realize that the Image Club is the maker of these typefaces and that
>Soft Logik has no control over their quality. It would have been nice to get
>a refund or an exchange for four display typefaces but since you apparently
>assume I'm attempting to pirate your product, never mind.
>
On the other hand, the response did not accuse you of pirating fonts, but
was explaining the no return policy.

Kevin Davidson, Asst. Moderator AmigaZone Vendor Support - PORTAL
               <soft-logik@cup.portal.com>
        SOFT-LOGIK BBS (PCP MOSLO) (314) 894-0057
From: soft-logik@cup.portal.com (Kevin W Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Pagestream/ImageClubFonts
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 16:32:57 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

The preceding text has been deleted to save space. Basically the writer is
not satisfied with the quality of the Image Club fonts that Soft-Logik
markets. The problems he sees are 1) Numerials not all the same width, 2)
poor letterspacing in general and 3) poor quality when printed at 300 DPI.

>
>A long post. I'm attempting not to "flame" in this message and I understand
>that I bought a cheap product and got burned by it. I just want others to
>know that if they want decent, usable Postscript Type 1 typefaces that
>Soft-Logik doesn't have such a product and you should be prepared to pay more
>to get decent product.


Michael Loader, of Soft-Logik was send a copy of the post and has responded.
His response follows:

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The Soft-Logik Typeface Library is NOT low quality. These are high
quality professional fonts licensed from Image Club, one of the largest
Mac and PC font and art houses. These fonts will render well to any
PostScript laser printer from any application that is PostScript compatible.
They will not render quite as well to a non-PS laser from PageStream
because hinting will not be used.

No, the numerals don't align in all the ImageClub fonts. Many popular
PostScript fonts do have numerals which align because this is very
convenient for creating tables. But this is not a requirement and Image
Club chose not to do this in order to get better spacing between the
numbers. This means that you cannot use the numerals in the fonts which
do not have the same spacing for numbers, in tables. This is true, but
definitely not a flaw.

I apologize if the fonts do not meet your expectations because the numbers
do not align, but your dissatisfaction is not due to a flaw in the
font outline but due to your dislike for the design. Like most other major
font vendors, including Adobe, Soft-Logik warrants the magnetic media
on which the font is sold. We also offer a money-back guarantee should the
font outline not render to the printer. This is standard across the industry.
But we do not offer refunds when somebody purchases a font and does not
like the design, again like Adobe. This is done not to 'rip you off' but
to stem a wave of font piracy, which is a serious problem for companies
like us.

Once again, the fonts in the Soft-Logik Typeface library are professional
typefaces intended for professional use. Thousands of people on the Mac,
PC, Amiga and Atari platforms have purchased these fonts. You can sometimes
see them reviewed in Publish and Business Publishing. Many of the faces
are licensed from ITC and other companies and are based on the original
typeface design.

Soft-Logik Publishing

Kevin Davidson, Asst. Moderator AmigaZone Vendor Support - PORTAL
               <soft-logik@cup.portal.com>
        SOFT-LOGIK BBS (PCP MOSLO) (314) 894-0057
From: soft-logik@cup.portal.com (Kevin W Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Pagestream/ImageClubFonts
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 11:06:53 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world
  <1ekq7mINNljb@uwm.edu> <1enmlpINN19t@uwm.edu>

>Yesterday I posted a lengthy reply to a post from Soft Logik concerning the
>Postscript type library that the offer. Since I edited the previous statements
>down it appeared that Kevin Davidson responded on behalf of Soft Logik. As far
>as I know this was not the case.
>
>I apologize to you, Kevin for this oversight.
>

Thanks, that response was from Mike Loader of Soft-Logik.

Kevin Davidson, Asst. Moderator AmigaZone Vendor Support - PORTAL
               <soft-logik@cup.portal.com>
        SOFT-LOGIK BBS (PCP MOSLO) (314) 894-0057
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From: snolan@postmaster@hq.af.mil (Scott D Nolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Applications and Plotter output?????
Date: 23 Nov 92 18:42:08 GMT
Reply-To: snolan@marge.hq.af.mil
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Organization: 7th Communications Group

How do I use the PLT: device?
I have a TI MicroLaser, and access to plotters that hang off of
248 flavor PCs, and I want to get hardcopy output from either
mCAD or Plans...

Do I set up a device to save the output to a file and then drop that
file on the printer/plotter?

Thanks in Advance, Scott

-- 

Even if you are on the right path,
If you just sit there you will get run over.

			- will rodgers
From: mcgowen@cse.ucsc.edu (Richard McGowen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Trouble with Amiga GNU Emacs 18.58 V 1.26 DG menus..
Date: 20 Nov 1992 09:37:27 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz (CE/CIS Boards)
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: arapaho.ucsc.edu

Does anyone know why my screen continuosly flashes whenever I try to 
use on of the "Emacs menus"?  For instance if I go up to the menu and
select the entry, save file as, or if I hit the hot key right-Amiga w,
my screen will start flashing and I have to reboot.  I have
.emacs-menu.menu and .emacs-menu.el right in s: where they belong.  I
have the fifo-handler installed, and know that it works since I can
compile from within emacs.  Any help/suggestions?

Richard
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: varmart@atlas.cs.upei.ca (Reji Martin)
Subject: Re: looking for some PD utilities
Summary: finding files, ftp sites
Organization: University of Prince Edward Island
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 13:29:34 GMT


	The easiest way to find a file on ftp sites is by
	using 'archie'!

	Just type 
		  archie -s filename


	The -s switch tells the search to ignore U/L case and 
	the filename can consist of all or partial filename.

	For example;    archie -s disksalv  


	Which will display all sites that have the file on hand
	and where it is. Which by the way is on any site that
	contains Fred Fish disks and in # 251.

have fun . . .


     The      O
     Wheel   /-
     Brat   ( )\_	varmart@atlas.cs.upei.ca

     Reji Martin,   Prince Edward Island, Canada
From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: DirOPUS questions!
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 19:27:02 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>On Mon 16-Nov-1992  2:54p, Thomas Lydhig wrote:
>
>TL> Some questions about DirOPUS v3.41 from INOVAtronics:
>TL>     1. What is the latest version?
>
>I think it's 3.5 or something?  (I'm still using 3.41)
>
>TL>     2. Is it possible to stop OPUS from continue remove files then it
>TL>        already have started removing files? I could not find any solution
>TL>        to it in the manual!
>
>Use xxxx xxxxx xxxxxxx. This is right at the top of Chapter 2....even in in
>the index...

Please guys, this seemed like an obvious hacker' question.  It pains me to
see us give away this info to a likely stolen copy of a good program.

-Joel
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: walker@twix.unx.sas.com (Doug Walker)
Subject: Re: C system ?
Originator: walker@twix.unx.sas.com
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:44:33 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.


In article <1992Nov23.172507.13191@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, wbennett@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William F Bennett) writes:
|>      I am new to the C world. I have started to explore the fascinating world 
|> of C with PD software. I would like to obtain a complete system. To my 
|> knowledge there are three C systems: Aztec C (though I haven't heard much about
|> this lately) , Lattice C, and SAS C. Would anyone please discuss the merits and
|> faultsof these with a beginner in mind. Email or net.

SAS/C and Lattice C are really the same product; SAS/C is the
newer successor to Lattice C.  SAS/C is currently at version 6.0,
and is a complete development environment: Compiler, libraries, 
headers, debugger, editor, make utility, grep and diff utilities,
profiler, message browser, online help system, 1200-page manual,
printed quick reference guide, and more.  It comes on seven
AmigaDOS diskettes.

I can give you more information if you like - I manage the development
group for the Amiga SAS/C -  but I'll try to keep this group from 
getting too commercial, so please send me email if you would like
answers to specific questions.

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Any opinions expressed are mine, not those of SAS Institute, Inc.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: sirvent@boole (SIRVENT xavier)
Subject: help about 4 exec's functions called rawdofmt, getcc, etc...
Organization: University of Grenoble (France)
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:19:18 GMT

Hello world, it'is my first message i send in the world. Well, i have some
problem is assembler to convert a data register in his writing value in ascii.
For example, i want to transform d0 with the value $ff in the string "255"
I think it is possible with the exec's function rawdofmt but i have no 
explanation about it and about the tree other functions that look like this one
Can somebody send me the mean to use these functions.

P.S 
   Thank you for any response!
P.P.S
   Don't care of my english, it is awful.......

Friendly...


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From: 5marte_f@spcvxb.spc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Atalk3 Vt320 X-windows All of it!
Date: 16 Nov 92 23:20:09 GMT
Organization: St. Peter's College, US


Hello Everyone,

	I am looking for a VT320 emulation protocol whatchamacalit for use with 
Atalk-3. Anyone know of the existance of one? Also does anyone know how someone 
would go about writting one of these?

	I am also looking for an X-windows emulation. Clues anyone?

			Thanx In Advance
			Felix Marte
From: stern+@pitt.edu (Eric G Stern)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Printing problems with Post V1.7
Keywords: Post printer postscript
Date: 18 Nov 92 21:01:10 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh


Since people are having problems with Post, I thought I'd share
some scripts which I use to print or display with Post.  I wrote
them after I couldn't get Post to recognize my Prefs printer defaults,
which I now think was a system bug in 1.3.

====
;Here is displayPS which displays a postscript file on the screen

.key psfiles

; echo "PSFILES is <psfiles>"

IF "<psfiles>" EQ ""
	echo "usage: DISPLAYPS  files"
	skip done
endif

post:post post:init.ps <psfiles> screen size x612y792d72

lab done

====
;here is printPS which prints to my epson compatible dot matrix
;printer at selectable density.  High density is 240x216, medium
;is 120x144.  The page size is 8.5x11 inches.

.key psfile1,psfile2,psfile3,psfile4,high/s,medium/s

;echo "PSFILES is <psfiles>"
;echo "high is <high>"

IF "<psfile1>" EQ ""
	echo "usage: PRINTPS  files HIGH/s MEDIUM/s"
	skip done
endif

if "<high>" eq "high"
	post:post post:init.ps <psfile1> <psfile2> <psfile3> <psfile4> +
		printer size x2040y2376xd240yd216p7
else
if "<medium>" eq "medium"
	post:post post:init.ps <psfile1> <psfile2> <psfile3> <psfile4> +
		printer size x1020y1584xd120yd144p2
else
	post:post post:init.ps <psfile1> <psfile2> <psfile3> <psfile4> +
		printer size x1020y792xd144yd72p1
endif
endif

lab done

====
I just put them in my S: directory and make set the script bit so
that they are executable.


				Eric Stern
				stern@unix.cis.pitt.edu
From: craig@legend.akron.oh.us (CRAIG COOLEY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: SID2 ASCII Files
Reply-To: craig@legend.akron.oh.us
X-Software: Legend (216-825-2747) UUCPShell v4.9/med31May92
Organization: The Legend BBS Norton,OH USA (216)825-2747
X-Disclaimer: Opinions of users do not necessarily reflect those of managment
Date: 23 Nov 92 17:33:35 EST
Organization: The Legend BBS Public Access (216)825-2747

Get DirOPUS instead!
          -Craig
From: jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: IS XPK SAFE?
Date: 16 Nov 92 18:38:41 GMT
Organization: NCR (Torrey Pines Development Center)
Disclaimer: This posting does not necessarily reflect the opinions of NCR.

Quoth umueller@iiic.ethz.ch (Urban Dominik Mueller):

]> Author speaking... It is very valid to ask for XPK's safety. Genreally, XPK

]> >5. Do you back up your data in the compressed format?
]> 
]> If you mean backuping the underlying DH3: instead of XFH:, then certainly.
]> If you mean compressing before backuping, there's only one program that
]> does it so far: KwikBackup. I would probably use compression if the backup
]> drive is slow and the CPU is fast. Good backup programs should offer a
]> verify mode in that re-reads and re-decompresses, and they should work
]> with independent chunks so a read error doesn't trash the whole disk.

Now *I'm* a little confused!  :-)  Um, I was assuming that by "backing up"
the hard drive partition meant archiving the data onto other media for
recovery if anything, um, unpleasant happend to the partition.  In that
case, at least 3 backup programs I am familiar with (QuarterBack 5, AmiBack 2,
and MRBackup 1.12) support compressed backups.  However, now I'm not quite
sure that we're talking about the same thing...

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: rittle@supra.comm.mot.com (Loren James Rittle)
Subject: ls, ispell, newpop and aga-test now at USA site
Organization: Land Mobile Products Sector, Motorola Inc.
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:35:55 GMT
Keywords: n

For people in North America:

I just uploaded the items referred to in the 4 recent messages to

"/systems/amiga/incoming/utils" @ uarchive.wustl.edu

Regards,
Loren
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Systems Technology Research (IL02/2240)
Motorola, Inc.
(708)576-7794
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: vsanchez@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Victor Sanchez)
Subject: Re: Provector questions
Keywords: drawing printing provector stylus font
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:02:58 GMT

>In article <1992Nov14.012042.18721@ichips.intel.com> waggoner@pdx159 (Mark Waggoner) writes:
>>I have a couple of questions about Provector that I hope someone can
>>answer.  Also, if there are any general likes or dislikes you have regarding
>>the product, I would really like to hear about them.
>>
>>  1. For text, what type of fonts does it use?  Postscript?
>>     Compugraphic? Both? Other?  Are any fonts included with the package?  

As Mr. Cunniff (sp?) told you, if you buy PSimport you can convert any 
PostScript type 1 font into ProVector format. This was important for me
becuase I needed the full character set (most of the labels in my figures
are in spanish). So I converted the Times-Roman, Helvetica, Courier and
Symbol family and they work just fine. The fonts lost some of the kerning
info in the process but they still look OK.

Now that I have used the program for the figures in my dissertation I have a
better feel for it. In general it produces the best postscript output of 
any drawing program I have used in any computer, period. The company provides
good support and is compliant with most amiga interface requirement. Their
file format is public domain and it is part of the IFF set of standards, 
which mean that it is begining to be supported by other programs (some PD
plotting programs do now). It has and very complete and powerful AREXX 
interface and suports multiple levels of undo.

My main complaints are the "Arc" tool, which forces you to decide the size of
the arc before hand, i.e., you cannot just set the radius and drag the curve
until it is the angle you want. The lack of lines with arrows (although 
the provided me with a couple of ARREX scripts for doing that, which work
very well). Letter drawing seems very slow in a package that prides itself
in being very fast, I do not know if font cacheing is being done.

There are other minor details, like, when using the symbol font, I would like
to see the actual font in the requester and not the roman version of it (i.e.
they need to provide a map from amigados type fonts to actual ProVector font).
I have a slow Amiga (an A1000 running 2.04) and large requesters like the 
fill and border ones take a long time to draw, a simple set of requesters 
would provide faster access to them. What I have done is to have all the 
possible preferences I use, not many, defined in AREXX macros so that can 
do the all the changes with a single menu invocation, etc. Nothing that a A4000
would not fix :-).

		Victor

PS, I would like PSimport to import the text also, at least if I have
the font available. I have to import scientific drawings and plots, which
are full of text.
>
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> \X/                 Faster chips for a better tomorrow