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From: Rodney.Harper@f52.n105.z1.fidonet.org (Rodney Harper)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: German magazines
Date: 16 Nov 92 05:17:04 GMT

I would like to get a listing of addresses for the various german
magazines that deal with the Aquarium hobby.  Also any addresses for
german aquarium clubs would be appreciated.

Thanks,


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From: thompson@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: [M] What does a Miniatus Grouper eat?
Date: 16 Nov 92 15:24:08 CST
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

Greetings....
     I was wondering what to feed a Miniatus Grouper.  I currently am feeding
him Tetra DoroMarin and Hikari cichlid pellets.  What kind of live foods do
groupers eat?  Just wondering.  E-mail is fine.

Thanks,
John

Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
From: dipakb@sco.COM (Dipak Basu)
Subject: Oscar Vacation
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 00:16:34 GMT


My 6-inch oscar is going to get a vacation from us during
Thanksgiving.  He is a picky eater (unusual for an oscar) and
only likes live food.  He sniffs at the vacation feeder tablet
stuff!  Any ideas about what he can eat while we're gone?

BTW his only roommate is a pleco that's bigger than him, so
that's not a solution.

Dipak.
Xref: sparky alt.aquaria:5869 rec.aquaria:9009
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria,rec.aquaria
Subject: Re: (M) Coral Cats - Have you seen them?
From: <UD005565@NDSUVM1.BITNET>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 12:13:17 CST
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computer Network

I use to keep Coral Catfish in a 29 gallon setup. They seemed pretty
harding and ate well. They didn't seem to bother any other fish, but
I forget what I kept with them. I was told to watch for their spines
as they can inflict a painful sting.
                                    Bill Martin
Xref: sparky alt.aquaria:5829 rec.aquaria:8931
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 09:04:37 EST
From: <JAL127@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria,rec.aquaria
Subject: Re: We need Your assistance (see Letter)

Well, from what i have understood, Many corporations in Russia have (do?) used
hormones to breed a lot of the difficult fish species.  But this is by no means
 the only way to breed Acanthophthalmus kuhli.  There have been scattered repor
ts of random breeding by A. kuhli.  Most of the rports indicate a slightly acid
ic water along with having peat as the bottom substrate.  The A. kuhli's loved
to hide in this substrate.  From what I can gather, the aquarists just noticed
small A. kuhli's where only large A. kuhli's were present before. This is all t
he information i have right now. I hope it clarifies things.

Ron...
Xref: sparky alt.aquaria:5858 rec.aquaria:8984
From: pprior@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Paul A Prior)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria,rec.aquaria
Subject: Re: (M) Coral Cats - Have you seen them?
Date: 22 Nov 92 17:02:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: magnus.1992Nov22.170201.28194
Organization: The Ohio State University

In article <By3qCp.Joq@ra.nrl.navy.mil> tse@ra.nrl.navy.mil (Anthony Tse) writes:
>In article <1992Nov21.214725.22248@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> pprior@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Paul A Prior) writes:
>>I also had them order me a 6-line wrasse to hopefully eat some of the 
>>"ice-cream cone" snails that I've been pulling out by hand.
>
>	My 6-line wrasse doesn't touch them ice-cream cone snails (I know
>Julien Sprung said it will, but mine doesn't).  I bought a really really
>really expensive clam a few weeks ago and to my dismay, I found
>ice-cream cone snails on it after I spent endless nights genociding them
>in my tank previousely.  I spent about an hour that night with a twizzer
>plugging over a hundred ice-cream cone snails out from the rim of the
>clam shell.  I did the same thing the next few nights and got about 20
>more, I think they are extinct in my tank now.
>

What does he eat?  I've been picking the snail out of the water whenever
I see them, but given that my clam is pretty much surrounded by rocks I
wouldn't see if the snails were on it from the side or back.  Should I 
move it?


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From: jessop@ljohub.enet.dec.com (Class Dinosauria)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: Axolotyls (Mexican Walking Fish)
Keywords: Fish, feeding, illnesses
Date: 19 Nov 92 16:53:48 GMT
Reply-To: jessop@ljohub.enet.dec.com (Class Dinosauria)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation



	Perhaps you have overfed them?  I have a book on Axlotls,
	But not with me (here at work).  I can try and dig it up
	tonight... and if you don't have any satisfactory answers
	by tomorrow.. I'll see what I can find.

	I had an axlotl once... and it metamorphosed!!!  (if that
	is the correct term).  It dropped it's gills and began 
	breathing air.  That's somewhat rare...

	Mike
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 12:59:18 EST
From: <KJH6@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: Fish as pets...

In article <1992Nov19.164347.21881@rdg.dec.com>, jessop@ljohub.enet.dec.com
(Class Dinosauria) says:
>
>        I just thoguth I'd share this...  It always amazes me at how
>        intelligent and trusting fish can become (especially when they
>        are hungry ;)...
>        [...]
>        Mike

  I've noticed this too.  I started a tank of my own in April of this
year, which now has three Angelfish as ite prime occupants.  The tank is
in my living room, and near where we usually sit to pay hnomage to the
idiot box.  It seems that every time I look over at the tank while
sitting there, all three fish are lined up watching me, motionless.

They also watch what's going on in the room rather closely, especially
when my wife's Parakeets are out -- the birds sit on the ledge
next to the tank and watch the fish, while the fish (nearly as large
as the birds now) watch the birds.  It's funny to watch.

  ObQuestion : Can anyone recommend a good book on Angelfish, especially
with regard to behavior?

                                      - Ken Hoover
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Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
From: harrism@aquila.rtp.dg.com (Mike Harris)
Subject: Re: Another lighting question...
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 15:00:36 GMT
Distribution: na
Reply-To: harrism@dg-rtp.dg.com
Organization: Data General Corp., Research Triangle Park, NC

In article <BxxxJG.1C6@news.udel.edu>, scottus@bach.udel.edu (Scott Arthu Saracco) writes:
|> 

	Turn the light on.
From: jdhl@troi.cc.rochester.edu (papa_sm00sh)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: [F] fish fighting...
Date: 16 Nov 92 17:14:22 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York



I have a couple trios of fish, 1 male two female... and the females
occasionally fight... is thisa fight to see who gets to breed?  how
long will the fighting last (new fight each day?  each 'egg cycle'?
what happens to the loser... will she be rejected and then be cast off
from the rest of the tank and go sit in a corner until she dies?

i also have one female who refuses to mate with a male... she is a
high-fin marigold lyretail and he is a pineapple swordfish... i wasn't
too concerned about the interbreeding, but recently the female's tail
which used to be quite long and beautiful is now about half eaten away
at the top and about one quarter gone on the bottom... she also tends
to spend most of her day/night hiding under a rock or in the plants or
by the heater where the male will not see her...


any help?

jason
From: lee@ace.npac.syr.edu (Lee C. Brink)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: Lobster Molting
Date: 18 Nov 92 13:44:28 GMT
Organization: Northeast Parallel Architectures Center - Syracuse, NY
In-reply-to: cowan@cerianthus.pinetree.org's message of Mon, 16 Nov 92 21:07:23 GMT

>>>>> On Mon, 16 Nov 92 21:07:23 GMT, cowan@cerianthus.pinetree.org (Darin Cowan) said:

Darin> lee@ace.npac.syr.edu (Lee C. Brink) writes:

> 
> 	2) Leave the skeleton in the tank.  The crayfish needs the
> 		calcium from its old skeleton and will eat it.
> 


Darin> THis is a marine type question, but is that statement also true of 
Darin> shrimp?  My Banded Coral Shrimp molts and I remove the skeleton 
Darin> normally.  Is this a practice I should cease?


I unfortunately cannot answer that.  I would like to get into saltwater 
tanks, but until I consolidate my bills & pay off my debts saltwater
will have to wait.

As a related issue to shrimp, how does one go about getting a pair of them?
Any differences in the sexes, or is it just pot luck?

      Lee

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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 10:58:02 EST
From: <JAL127@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: [M] What does a Miniatus Grouper eat?
 <1992Nov17.005503.11983@bsu-ucs>

no
From: corey@amiganet.chi.il.us (Corey Sweeney)
Newsgroups: alt.lang.asm
Subject: Re: 32-bit addressing
Date: 17 Nov 92 01:47:25 GMT
Organization: Amiga Network Information Systems

In article <1992Nov11.180052.29435@uvm.edu>, cblaise@moose.uvm.edu.UUCP (Chris
Blaise) writes:
>From article <corey.0e1y@amiganet.chi.il.us>, by corey@amiganet.chi.il.us
(Corey
> Sweeney):
>> how do i get a 80286 or above into 32-bit addressing mode?  can this be done
>> from turbo debugger?
>> 
>
>       I believe the method in Turbo Assembler to put a 386+ into
>32 bit addressing mode is to place
>
> .386
>
>       On a line before you use 32 bit stuff (like reference EAX, EBX, etc).
>As far as I know about the 286 architecture, there is no method for 
>32 bit addressing.
>
>(I've also never tried any of this stuff...It's just some of the
>few interesting tidbits I picked up from reading various assembly books...)
>
>TTYL
> Chris


Yes that was my mistake.  i meant how to get the 286 into 24-bit addressing
mode using debug.

Thanks for the info
        Corey

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corey@amiganet.chi.il.us
I do not own a amiga!
From: terra@diku.dk (Morten Welinder)
Newsgroups: alt.lang.asm
Subject: Re: Identifying Processors
Date: 23 Nov 92 12:27:03 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

denis.giroux@freddy.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Denis Giroux)  writes:

>TO: all

>I have a question for the assembler gurus out there. Is there an easy way to
>distinguish a 286 processor from a 386, and a 386 from a 486?

Get the program Infoplus and study the source. It is available from 
simtel20 and garbo.

In short: It is easy in *real* mode, impossible in protected mode (which
includes virtual-8086-mode).

Don't flame me for this; think it over instead. The 486 manual gives
states that all the flag-handling instructions may trap in protected
mode. Also the BSwap instructions (etc.) may be emulated on a 386.
Interrupts cannot be stopped so timing is unrealiable. 

A 486DX can be distinguished from a 386 by checking the type of 
co-processor. A RapidCad would show as 486, though (I think!).

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Newsgroups: alt.lang.asm
Subject: Summary re 80x86 assembly language libraries
From: CHEGC@LURE.LATROBE.EDU.AU (CROSS,Graeme)
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 00:02:02 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

Last week, I posted a request for information on 80x86 library routines, which
went something along the lines of:

[START REPLAY]

A question for 80x86 programmers out there: do you use a commercial library of
assembly routines for your work, or have you written everything yourself? I
have come across advertisements for two libraries: Spontaneous Assembly (by
Base Two) and the Quantasm Power Lib (by Quantasm).
What are your experiences with one and/or the other?
Are there other libraries around?
Are the libraries worth the money?
Are they compatible with Turbo Assembler in Ideal mode?

[END REPLAY]

Anyway, here are the results (as promised):

I had 8 replies, including one posting here in alt.lang.asm

    5 people use Spontaneous Assembly, and all were happy with the product
    2 people use their own home-grown libraries
    1 kind person told me to give up on assembly - QuickBasic was suggested as
       a suitable alternative (thanks, but no thanks :-)
    
    1 of the above mentioned Spontaneous Assembly users also extolled the
       virtues of using the GEOS environment, which is 100% object assembly

Warnings:
    David_Toland@vos.stratus.com warned me about some problems he had with the
       include files in Spontaneous Assembly, but overall, he seemed to be very
       happy with the product.

Interestingly enough, no respondents used the Quantasm Power Library - whether
this is due the quality, the pricing (it's $490 here in Australia :-( or the
fact that no-one who uses it has the time to reply is a mystery that will haunt
us all 'til to the end of time...

A big thankyou to all who replied (except Mr QuickBasic :-).
I will probably continue to use my collection of home grown and public domain 
routines while I explore Spontaneous Assembly further.

Thanks,

Graeme Cross              chegc@lure.latrobe.edu.au
Dept of Chemistry
La Trobe University
Bundoora, Victoria
Australia
From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
Newsgroups: alt.lang.asm
Subject: Re: 32-bit addressing
Date: 14 Nov 92 09:01:06 GMT
Organization: Global Village 1

librik@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David Librik) writes:

>corey@amiganet.chi.il.us (Corey Sweeney) writes:

>Or do you mean "protected mode"?  The problem with running in protected
>mode is that it is a pain and a half to access low memory (i.e. DOS and
>video); you'll need something like Phar Lap's DOS extender.

??? In PM you can access low mem as easily as high mem. It's just a matter of
setting the descriptor tables right.

>You can get
>a 286 into protected mode, but it's a kludge -- although I don't have the
>code here, it involves sending a command to the keyboard controller and
>then doing a quick reboot!  It's easier on the 386.

Ha! That's not true! It's as easy to get a 80286 *IN* protected mode as it is
to get a 386 *IN*. Only to get *OUT* of PM (i.e. switch to RM) requires a
kludge on the 286. BTW, there exist undocumented instructions on both the 286
and the 386 which allow you to access mem >1M without switching to PM mode and
back to RM (although I don't know the details).
From: rol@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr (Paul Rolland)
Newsgroups: alt.lang.asm
Subject: Re: LASTDRIVE function/asm/ect... Need one!
Date: 17 Nov 92 12:36:56 GMT
Followup-To: alt.lang.asm,comp.lang.pascal,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Organization: Apple Computer Europe

In article <1992Nov8.081922.15576@ra.msstate.edu>, jdz1@Ra.MsState.Edu
(John D. Zitterkopf) wrote:
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> 	As the subject says, I'm looking for some references on how to find
> the LASTDRIVE on a particular system. Something like a INTerrupt or source
> code that will allow me to do this. I did my best to search an interrupt list
> to come up with a solution to do this but no luck. For Example, My lastdrive
> is G, I'd like to make a TP6.0 function called LASTDRIVE that would return
> a byte value of 7 or so. If it's in Assembly, I can convert it, ect. 
> 	A function to also tell me if the drive number is valid or not could
> also prove useful. 
> 	I know these types of things are done becuase PC-TOOLS and the like
> figure it out and even find the correct drive type. 

Here is some code that I use to get LastDrive. It does use the call to
subfunction 60h which is undocumented, but it works fine with all the 
version of DOS that I've tested. It is used to get the real path associated
to a disk (useful to detect SUBSTed disk, or network disk). As a result,
you
have in LastDrive the result of the DOS LastDrive, and in LastPhysDrv the
name of the last PHYSICAL drive, that is to say a disk that really exist 
(not a substed one !).
Tested with NOVELL network.

            Mov     Ah,19H
            Int     21H
            Mov     Byte Ptr Ds:[CurrentUnit],Al
            Mov     Dl,Al
            Mov     Ah,0EH
            Int     21H
            Mov     Byte Ptr Ds:[LastDrive],Al
            Add     Al,40H
            Mov     Word Ptr Ds:[Buffer+1],'\:'
            Mov     Byte Ptr Ds:[Buffer+3],0
GLLoop:     Mov     Byte Ptr Ds:[Buffer],Al
            Mov     Si,OffSet Buffer
            Mov     Di,OffSet Buffer+10H
            Mov     Ah,60H
            Int     21H
            Mov     Al,Byte Ptr Ds:[Buffer]
            Cmp     Al,Byte Ptr Ds:[Buffer+10H]
            Jz      GLEnd
            Dec     Al
            Jmp     Short GLLoop
GLEnd:      Sub     Al,40H
            Mov     Byte Ptr Ds:[LastPhysDrv],Al

Paul Rolland, rol@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr
---

A bug can be changed to a feature by documenting it. Developpers know !

--------------------- DISCLAIMER -------------------

All the opinions I express in this posting are mine, but I'm
ready to share them with anybody interested :-)
From: denis.giroux@freddy.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Denis Giroux) 
Newsgroups: alt.lang.asm
Subject: Identifying Processors
Date: 22 Nov 92 13:25:00 GMT
Reply-To: denis.giroux@freddy.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Denis Giroux) 
Distribution: world
Organization: Freddy's Place BBS - Edmonton, AB - 403-456-4241

TO: all

I have a question for the assembler gurus out there. Is there an easy way to
distinguish a 286 processor from a 386, and a 386 from a 486?

I have made a procedure to do it, and I find 286+ processor identification
messy. All I've been able to figure out for these is to hook interrupt 06h
(invalid op code on 186+ processors) and executing instructions that only work
on a specific processor(and those above it), and see if it traps to int 6.

I am looking for a quick and easy way of doing it, like identifying an 8086
by:
  mov cl, 20h
  shr cl, cl
  cmp cl, 20h
  je not_a_8086      ; 80186's and above use modulo 32 on the shift count

Is there any instruction quirks like this between 286's <-> 386's <-> 486's??
Or even between different manufacturers(AMD, Cyrix, Intel, NEC)??

Anyone willing to help? E-mail me at:
denis.giroux@freddy.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca

                     
Newsgroups: alt.lang.asm
From: mdivya@world.std.com (Marigowda Divya)
Subject: GDT
Summary: GDT
Keywords: GDT 386 Assembler
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 00:17:59 GMT

I am trying to define an Executable Segment Descriptor (with 
READABLE code); but system reboots when I try to load GS with
this selector.  Are any of the bits wrong (especially the TYPE bits)?

Here are a few relevant clips from my program:

   gdt   dw  0,0,0,0
         dw  0ffffh,0,9a00h,8fh
   gdtptr dw 0fh,0,0

       ......
          mov bx,8   ;selector
          mov gs,8   ;loading segment with intention of "Reading" code

PC boots at this point.  I have tried this code with 9200H (Data segment
Descriptor/Writable) and it works.  Thanks in advance for any help.

Cheers,
divya
(mdivya@world.std.com)

          
Newsgroups: alt.lang.asm,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
From: craigm@egnext1.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Craig Markwardt)
Subject: Re: LASTDRIVE function/asm/ect... Need one!
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
	<1992Nov9.193307.22648@ra.msstate.edu>
	<12NOV92.16560845@skyfox.usask.ca>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 07:39:29 GMT

In article <12NOV92.16560845@skyfox.usask.ca> friesenda@skyfox.usask.ca writes:

   In a previous article, jdz1@Ra.MsState.Edu (John D. Zitterkopf) wrote:
   >In article <9NOV92.14394645@skyfox.usask.ca> friesenda@skyfox.usask.ca writes:
   > 
   >>>DOS interrupt 21h, function 52 -> ES:BX pointer to DOS info table.
   >>>Offset 21h is a byte value of LASTDRIVE in config.sys. (DOS 3.x at least)
   >>>
   >>I needed the same sort of function a few months back and thought I had
   >>found the answer with some interrupt (I can't remember if it was 21h
   >>or not), but as it turned out, at least in my case, using the interrupt
   >>was useless.  I think the same goes for the above method.  Interrupt
   >>21h will return the value of LASTDRIVE in _CONFIG.SYS_. If you are
	...

_Undocumented DOS_ by Andrew Schulman (et al) spends a whole chapter
discussing solutions to this very problem as a prototype example of
using undocumented DOS calls.  In the end, Schulman concludes that in
order to get an accurate result for network machines, you need to use
an undocumented interrupt (but since Novell does it for their
networking software, he reasons that it is acceptable for you to use
it too).

Craig

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Organization: Sophomore, Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.lang.intercal
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:20:30 -0500 
From: Michael P Collins <mc7f+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: I know I'll regret this...

Where can I find data on intercal?  Like a compiler?   Or a description
of the language?  Do I really want to?

Newsgroups: alt.lang.ml
From: sullivan@teal.csn.org (Steve Sullivan)
Subject: ml questions
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 15:57:17 GMT



I'm enjoying learning sml, and had a few
questions.  Please let me know if you can shed
any light on any of these!  Many thanks ...


1. The sml I'm using, from princeton.edu, includes Harper's notes.
His notes document the "system" and "cd" commands.
Yet sml apparently doesn't recognize them.  How can I get them working?


2.  How can I get a function to remember state?

In particular, I want to write a random number
generator that remembers it's last seed,
so the caller doesn't have to provide it.  Many modern
generators require hundreds of bytes of state info, so passing
that in and out on each call is very inefficient.

Simple example - how to get sml to do something like:

fun rand 1 = let val seed = ref 1 in !seed end   (* initialize and return 1 *)
  | rand 2 = (seed := (xx*seed) mod yy; !seed;)  (* update seed, return it *)


3. Why not allow nonlinear patterns?  They wouldn't have to cover
the whole general matching problem - just allow, for example,
   fun (x,x) = ...
to bind the first x, and then fail if the second x doesn't match.



4. Why not lazy functions?  Seems lazy and strict evaluation
could be mixed, with functions being lazy by default, and 
strict if:
  - they used any imperative features
  - they used any function which is strict
I looked at lsml from sbcs.sunysb.edu, but at first glance
it seems very experimental and somewhat out of date.


If you have light to shed on any of these, please let me
know!  Many thanks -

Steve Sullivan
sullivan@csn.org