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From: danaf@bray1a.its.rpi.edu (Frank R. Dana Jr.)
Subject: Re: Trying to add a Gadget to DirOpus - help me
Reply-To: danaf@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 23:44:50 GMT

In article <18745@mindlink.bc.ca>, Manjit_Bedi@mindlink.bc.ca (Manjit Bedi) writes:
|> Call me stupid.  I just started reading Chapter 7 in the manual.  What
|> I was doing wrong was in there.

Hey stupid! Look in chapter 7!!!

8)

|> Sorry for the waste of bandwidth.

Not-so-sorry for even more waste. Flame to c.s.a.a.

|> --
|>         Manjit Bedi
|>                 ( Manjit_Bedi@mindlink.bc.ca or manjit@inde.bc.ca )

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV)
Subject: Re: Good news for "Snap" users
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 06:32:25 GMT

jfieber@sophia.smith.edu (John Fieber) writes:

>No, I don't think it is a religious issue, it is the issue that
>PowerSnap instantly freezes my machine while Snap has always
>worked flawlessly.  (under 2.04)  Other people have reported
>exactly the reverse.  I would rather use PowerSnap because it is
>actively supported whereas the author of Snap apparently has
>abandoned the Amiga and not left the source code with anyone.  

For me, it's powersnap anything but Topaz and bye-bye input handler!  So I just
use conclip in the CLI and use VLT's mouse support to handle snapping there.
Simple enough. :)

>>(Besides, we all know that these are inferior, and we are just biding
>>time until BLAZESNAP(tm) comes out.   ;-)

>Of course.  I'm really looking forward to being able to snap
>things that are not even on the screen.  It will be so handy when
>I can just cut and paste from a book over on my shelf without
>even opening it.  The digitizer industry is doomed.

I thought you could only snap from screens sunning on beaches in Tahiti, unless
the moon is aligned with the 29th planet on the sixth star from the center of
the universe.  Or did I look at the wrong spec sheet again? ;-)

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From: jkrutz@burner.com (Jamie Krutz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Distant Suns 4.1 questions.
Date: 17 Dec 92 08:31:57 MST
Organization: The Back Burner BBS (via C-Net Amiga)

>Screens are hard coded...add to 5.0 wish list.

Great.  As someone who has Distant Suns rising rapidly on my list of software to buy, that's a feature I'd really like to see.  Programs which don't take advantage of the overscan screen size I use are an annoyance...

TNX Mike.

Later,
 -Jamie

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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Is SAS C V6 C++ compatible
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 03:31:33 GMT

Is there a Scheme compiler for the Amiga, or has someone done the dirty
work in porting C-Scheme?
-- 
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From: ZAPPER@cup.portal.com (Doug Zap Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: recommend good Editor ??
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 21:25:41 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world
  <15775@suns7.crosfield.co.uk> <PJAQUES.92Dec14040508@ray.cs.oberlin.edu>
  <Bz9xKD.LGr@fiu.edu>

Well I love AZ too. But I've been keeping an eye out for a year or more 
now for an editor that will a) do finds and replaces on user selectable
columns (like the SPF editor's "bounds" feature) and or b) can do searches 
and replacement of the infamous hex 10 or linefeed character. 
Any one heard or used such an animal?

Hunh: what was that? --- ZAPPER
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: fischers@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Samuel Fischer)
Subject: Re: recommend good Editor ??
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 11:40:51 GMT

You should give DME a try. PD, fast, small, fully configurable (and when I say
fully, I mean fully:). I even think it haas an ARexx Port.

The Author is Matt Dillon, and it should be on some Fish Disk. (or in the
DICE package)

bye,
sammy
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From: twang@csc.albany.edu (Teddy Wang)
Subject: Re: recommend good Editor ??
Organization: State University of New York at Albany
Date: 16 Dec 92 18:03:45

   > Also, a friend who _does_ use AGE says it takes forever to come up on
   > his A2000HD/2.04/68030.  Why is that?

   Well, emacs can takes time to load but only if the init file is huge.
   If you only use the defaut .emacs in the distribution, it's not so slow.
   Also emacs is not only an editor, it's a complete environnment.
   For example, there are various modes for mail handling, same things for news
   reading and many other things.
   Emacs continuously evolves, not only the editor itself but all the diffrent 
   modes that are written by users and posted each day in gnu.emacs.sources.
   What other amiga editor can regnosize and adapt itself to the language in
   which the file you load is written ?
   I must admit that the beginnings are more difficult than with az or another 
   simple editor but it's not the same category.


Don't expect to get up and running with David Gay's release of GNU Emacs
if you haven't used another incarnation of emacs without having some
serious difficulties.  Emacs is much more cryptic than the WYSIWIG text
editors that we are accustomed to on the Amiga system...  For that
reason, it's a favorite among programmers and the like.

Although the installation (consisting of a readme file) is sufficent,
emacs doesn't have the graphically based file loading and saving 
mechanisms that one associates with AmigaDOS.

If you have never used emacs before, take heart because there are at 
least a dozen very complete emacs manuals available, including one 
written by Stallman himself (the original author of emacs, as well as 
the founding father of the FSF).

I've been using emacs since David Gay first released it.  I was running
on a 68000 then, but I found it quite usable.  Performance increased 
dramatically when I upgraded to a 68040.  But don't be discouraged if
you are running on a slower CPU because after you get the hang of it,
there is nothing quite like emacs...

Teddy
 
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From: clueless@bradley.edu (Mark Kristie)
Subject: Fonts with Post
Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 05:43:11 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
X-Posted-From: cs1.bradley.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

I have post, and I was wondering about something....

If I have the Art Expression fonts, how can I get them to work with Post?  Can 
I?  Do you just assign PSFonts: to the AEFonts directory?
From: bmaple@burner.com (Bob Maple)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Directory Opus
Date: 17 Dec 92 17:19:32 MST
Organization: The Back Burner BBS (via C-Net Amiga)

On Thu 17-Dec-1992  5:18p, Joel Edward Swan wrote:

Says I:

JS> >UHNG!  I paid that much for my BBS program.  While I love DirectoryOpus
JS> to death, I can do without v4.0 until Inovatronics stops this nonsense.

Says Joel:

JS> It appears that your BBS will not work with DirOpus, no?  If you are
JS> running the CPU meter on DirOpus, turn it off and your BBS problems should
JS> "log out."

No, I was referring to the comparitive costs of a directory utility to my BBS
program.

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From: walrus@wam.umd.edu (Udo K Schuermann)
Subject: Re: Aquarium vs. KingFisher
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:28:49 GMT

In article <johnv.03vp@acix.DIALix.oz.au> johnv@acix.DIALix.oz.au (John Verhoeven) writes:
>1)  It doesn't seem to take notice of the font specified in the config
>    file for the contents display.  I'm trying to use topaz 11 with
>    'contents-font=topaz.font/11' in the config file

I haven't tried that particular one, but it certainly works for me if I get
silly and ask for Times/36 or other things like it.  It first checks RAM
via OpenFont(), then OpenDiskFont(), then it checks if the font is in ROM.
If that doesn't work, it checks the next font in a list, which tends to be
diamond/12, the same way.  If you have no fonts installed it ends up with
topaz/8 which is always in ROM.
	Are you sure topaz/11 is available?

>2)  A quick goto first/last fish gadget would be nice.

It's on the list for improvements already.

>3)  Option to continue search after reaching first/last fish if option
>    2 is not added.

I admit that I don't understand what you mean by that.  Right now it's a
wee bit unelegant (the gadgets aren't ghosted), true, but when a search
fails, it makes little sense to continue it, no?

>Altogether a great effort.
>Thank you Udo.

Thank you and you're welcome!

However ... I have a confession to make ... it appears that v1.1 went out
with a bit too much haste:  I did not properly test the 'Add Fish' function
in conjunction with the new name index, and adding 771-780 this morning
revealed that the name index is not properly updated during that operation.
What does that mean to you?
	If KingFisher complains after the 'Add Fish' operation, then the
name index was not properly updated and you need to reindex the database to
bring the name index up to date.  Even though KingFisher will say that the
problem may be lack of memory, it is really I who is the culprit :(
	If KingFisher doesn't complain then the problem just didn't appear
for YOU and you can be happy.  There _is_ a problem in there, though.

So, you don't need to flood me with bug-reports: I'm aware of the problem
and will have a fix available this coming weekend.  Count on it.

 ._.  Udo Schuermann
 ( )  walrus@wam.umd.edu
From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Directory Opus
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 19:51:59 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1git58INN43c@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>

>
>In a previous article, Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) says:
>
>>>
>>>I just saw an ad for Directory Opus version 4.0.
>>>Does anyone have information about this new version?
>>>
>>>--
>>> Rich Yauman ac463@yfn.ysu.edu  /  Only AMIGA USERS make it possible  /
>>>------------------------------ /              ^^^^^                  /
>>
>>Questions like yours puzzle me. You saw the ad (full page ad on
>>inside back cover of Jan '93 Amiga World). You see the screen shot.
>>You see the mfr's name, address, and phone nbr (INOVAtronics),
>>You see about two dozen features listed, you see there's an upgrade
>>path for current owners... what else do you want to know?
>>
>>Harv
>>
>
>Replies like yours puzzle me.  Why do you waste your time and the time
>of people who read this newsgroup just to post this kind of belligerent
>tripe?  I guess I'm just as guilty as you, now.

I'm a little confused as well.  What more DO you want to know?  Have you
tried writing/calling Inovatronics?

>
>Tom
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From: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Good news for "Snap" users
Date: 15 Dec 92 00:26:18 GMT
Reply-To: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Organization: BLAZEMONGER INCORPORATED

In article <57505@dime.cs.umass.edu> barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett) writes:
>Since I upgraded to Workbench 2.1, Snap appears to work perfectly!!

	I was little bit hasty in writing the word "perfectly." :-)

	Snap still doesn't see certain highlighted text ("white" text,
in the default Workbench colors), italics text, and gets a little
confused with some boldface characters.

	HOWEVER, the problem that I mentioned in my posting -- snapping
text like "Hello" that turns into "HHHHe" --- is gone.  So Snap's performance
is at least improved in 2.1 (over 2.04).

                                                        Dan

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: baronz@eastquad.engin.umich.edu (Aaron L Richards)
Subject: LIVE software
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 14:04:19 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Originator: baronz@eastquad.engin.umich.edu


I was wondering if anyone out there can tell me if they know of any software
for the LIVE framegrabber that is any good.  I just purchased a LIVE for a
1000, and was able to get it to work.  It is a neat"thing."  
 
If anyone knows of software for the LIVE other than that which is shipped with
it please let me know.  I especially would like to see things like video in a
window, or a program that would let me continually grab the Xth frame out of
so many Y frames.  for example, I would like to grab one frame out of ten
or some such.
 
Also, does anyone know of any sites carrying programming examples for the
LIVE in 'C'.  I would like to try my hand at video in a window using LIVE if
no one else has done it yet.

 

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: papo@pyuxf.uucp (25241-anaya)
Subject: Textra and AREXX perfect together??? 
Organization: Bellcore, Piscataway, Noo Joisy
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 00:58:03 GMT
Summary: Can I access textra from AREXX, if I can then how? 
Keywords: TEXTRA AREXX Scripts Foo 

Hi netters:

I'm running TEXTRA v 1.11.  In the editor you can call REXX scripts from a
very convenient menu.  Can AREXX use any services from TEXTRA?

i. e.

ADDRESS TEXTRA "Command"

(I come from the IBM mainframe world and I know I can access ISPF/PDF
from REXX but I'm a total klutz in when you talk about programming the
Amiga)

Regards,


Luis Roberto Anaya-Rivera         papo@pyuxf.cc.bellcore.com
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From: heinz@edohwg.adsp.sub.org (Heinz Wrobel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re:  Looking for a debugger...
Date: 16 Dec 92 19:09:12 GMT
Organization: Edotronik GmbH

In article <Bz957o.KsA@unx.sas.com> walker@twix.unx.sas.com (Doug Walker) writes:
>If you set the "catch tasks" option, CPR will bring any spawned tasks
>under debugger control.  You can then switch between tasks to do your

It would be really neat if CPR caught _any_ new task, not just the one's
spawned by SW already under CPR control.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: liuzzo@cbnewse.cb.att.com (james.g.liuzzo)
Subject: WANTED: C128 applications
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 13:50:41 GMT
Keywords: C128 applications


Looking for applications that run on a C128 in "128 mode".
Any Amiga fans out there with old C128 software to unload?
If so, please email.
- Jim
From: cmd1@wuecl.wustl.edu (Chris Dunphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Bug in ViewTek1.03!!!
Date: 16 Dec 92 18:36:57 GMT
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO


   I just FTPed ViewTek 1.03 and must say that it is an excellent 
utility to show of the beauty of my 4000's display, but I have
found a rather serious bug in it.... :(
  If I make ViewTek into an AppIcon, select it and bring up
interactive mode, and then choose exit, it crashes the system.
I do not think ViewTek1.02a did this.  
   Please pass this bug report onto the author if anyone is
in contact with him.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: clare@nynexst.com (Clare Chu)
Subject: Re: Directory Opus
Organization: Nynex Science and Technology
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 16:17:20 GMT

In article <bmaple.0dey@burner.com> bmaple@burner.com (Bob Maple) writes:
>On Fri 11-Dec-1992  1:48p, Alan MacAnespie wrote:
>
>AM> Yep: $100.  Shipping for upgrades is supposed to start sometime next
>AM> week.
>
>UHNG!  I paid that much for my BBS program.  While I love DirectoryOpus to
>death, I can do without v4.0 until Inovatronics stops this nonsense.
>
  
   What is there in there besides running on v3.0 and AGA machines,
   which I don't have, that makes it worth so much?  Anyone got it
   and can comment?

   Clare
From: jh@cadre.com (Joe Hartley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: X windows and the AGA chipset
Date: 15 Dec 92 20:19:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: fripp.1992Dec15.201933.5609
Reply-To: jh@cadre.com
Organization: Cadre Technologies, Inc.

Does anyone know if GfxBase is planning to make their X windows software work
with the new graphics chipset??

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From: dale@ntg.com (Dale Luck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.unix.amiga
Subject: Re: Xwindows and the Amiga
Date: 14 Dec 92 23:06:24 GMT
Organization: New Technologies Group, Inc.  Palo Alto CA

In article 22black@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Martin Black) writes:
>Brian_-_Dziki@cup.portal.com writes:
>
>>Amiga. GfxBase sells a programmer's guide and toolkit that will allow me to do
>>this (it allows you to compile standard X11 source code with the SAS/C Compile
>>and run your own X applications under AmigaDos). This, however, cost $250.
Education price brings it down to $200.00 (20% discount)
>
>Yes I have known that through sas/c you could do that with their x11.
>Yet I would like to know how much converting to do you need to make 
>most X apps that compile and run on say a sun, to make it work on your
>x11 equipped amiga.  Any owners of the amiga x11 can remark on this?

Our experience with the Xclients we provide is that your typical X application
will compile and run with zero change to the source code. Provided no unknown
bugs pop because it is now running under AmigaDOS. These aren't new bugs
It is just that they went undetected under the previous os they were running.

For the clients we provide on the X11 disk, about 80% of them compiled
and ran successfully the first time with no change to the source code.

Biggest problems that kept dropping up:
  no fork(), Have to use appropriate combinations of Execute or system().
  no /tmp directory, Change it to use t:
  itimers not supported.

To get to this point though, a lot of work had to be done on xlib,
toolkit, widgets, and include files. Especially in the area of
resource/application default pathnames lookup. But this is all hidden
from the typical X11 application.

We also provide a berkely socket library with the programmers system
which allows connections over AS225(tcp/ip) and TSSNET(DECnet).


>Martin

Dale Luck
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: walker@twix.unx.sas.com (Doug Walker)
Subject: Re: Is SAS C V6 C++ compatible
Originator: walker@twix.unx.sas.com
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 13:53:27 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.


In article <1992Dec16.110011.14228@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, bath@hunnas (David Bath) writes:
|> >>SAS Institute will be coming out
|> >>with its own C++ in 1993 as well, and this C++ will require SAS/C
|> >>version 6.x.
|> 
|> This is good news, especially if it's as higher quality as SAS/C 6.1
|> Any details yet?  Like will it be C++ 2.1 or 3?  Fully integrated with
|> CPR?

It will be C++ 3.0, but without templates.

The amount of debugger support right now depends on how much
we can get done how quickly 8^)  Probably in the initial release
we will have only source lines and the ability to set breakpoints
on functions (no class browsers, etc.) but we will be addressing
that after the initial release.  We are aiming for third quarter
1993, subject to veto by the technical writing staff.

By the way, we will need some new C++ beta testers.  If anyone
out there is interested, send mail to ts4sasca@unx.sas.com
so stating.  Khristi Tomlinson of our tech support department
will respond with a survey that you need to fill out, listing
your hardware, the type of programs you normally work with,
and your experience level with C++.  We need a wide variety of
hardware and experience levels.

If accepted into the program, you will be required to sign a 
nondisclosure agreement which prohibits you from distributing
the beta software, using the beta software to compile programs
that will be distributed, or even telling other non-beta-testers 
that you are testing it.  (If you don't think you can live with
the above restrictions, ESPECIALLY THE ONE ABOUT NOT GIVING
THE SOFTWARE TO ANYONE, please don't bother applying.  Our legal
division will take violations of the agreement very seriously.)

Preference is given to testers who have access to BIX since that's 
the easiest way for us to distribute changes, but we do have some 
(especially in Europe) who aren't on BIX.

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