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From: stefanb@hathi.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Stefan Becker)
Subject: Re: ToolManager 2.0 Likes/Dislikes
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik  /  RWTH Aachen
Date: 12 Oct 92 13:27:27 GMT

hello@bnr.ca (Ken Orford) writes:

>For exec objects, if the argument flag is set, how does one indicate the
>position of the (icon) arguments in the text of the command line string?

TM uses the normal "alias" syntax for this. So if you want to insert the
argument names in the command line, just use this:

   lharc x [] ram:

This works of course only for CLI and ARexx programs.

>I can't seem to find this information in the manual anywhere. Are the

I forgot to mention it :-(

>arguments simply appended to the end of the command string? For example,

Yes.

	Stefan

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From: bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Gregory R. Block)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: About MAPLE V...
Date: 11 Oct 1992 17:22:32 GMT
Organization: Electrical Engineering Dept. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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In article <1992Oct8.150904.17524@cerberus.ulaval.ca> gel25@Vision et Systemes Numeriques writes:
>    You can't expect people to pay $700 for software. This is not my
>idea of a student discount price!

Like hell they can't.  700 is CHEAP for what it does.  If you really
need it, you can afford it.  BTW:  Most colleges have Maple on site
license for ALL versions, including the Amiga version.  Even if they
don't have any Amigae.

>    This is why software piracy exists. Sell your software for 100 bucks
>and everybody will buy it!

Maple, if you haven't noticed, isn't the kind of program that
everybody will buy.  Unless you're a serious math student, or you're
in a program with heavy math (guess which one I'm in?) you really
don't need a symbolic algebra system.

My advice?  Use your university's stuff.  They paid a LOT of money for
their site license(s).  See what your university has.  Here at uwm, I
KNOW we've got maple, and we may even have Mathematica.  (Though Maple
V is one HELL of a lot better.)  I use it enough to justify buying it.
So I did.

And the cost of software is no justification for piracy, BTW.  Thought
I'd mention that.  If you're bitching about the cost of Maple, then
you obviously don't need it that bad.  It's not like Mathematica is
any cheaper.  Hell, the NeXT version of Mathematica costs several
thousand dollars!  Of course, it comes with this big, black dongle...  ;)

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From: ewilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: HD backup
Date: 7 Oct 92 09:02:53 -0700
Reply-To: EWILTS@GALAXY.GOV.BC.CA
Distribution: comp
Organization: BC Systems Corporation

In article <1992Sep29.104117.15476@cs.hut.fi>, ged@phantom.cs.hut.fi (Camillo S{rs) writes:
> I'd like a GOOD HD-backup program. None of the ones I've tried so far
> have handled my hard and soft links gracefully. One almost killed the
> HD...

Ami-Back by MoonLighter Software.  Demo copies are available on MoonLighter's
BBS.  Hopefully someone in Florida can grab it off the BBS for you and make it
available for FTP (long-distance from Finland wouldn't be too cheap...)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: tw5232@albnyvms.bitnet (Teddy Wang)
Subject: Virtual Memory for the '040 any time soon?
Reply-To: tw5232@albnyvms.bitnet
Organization: University of NY at Albany
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 12:47:47 GMT

Has anybody out there released a virtual memory ``program'' machines with the
68040 chip???  From the traffic over the net, I can tell that a release of
GigaMem for the '040 is pending (as soon as the author plays with his 4000 a
bit more :)  Can I ask the time-frame for such a release?  Tried HDMem, but it
won't work with my '040 either...  Has anybody gotten HDMem to work with a
'030?  How's about the PD code for virtual memory, does anybody know how to
patch it to run with the '040's MMUs?

Thanks for the info...

Teddy
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV)
Subject: Re: Copy/Paste utility for VLT and 2.0
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 20:42:31 GMT

LORETI, Maurizio <MLO@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> writes:

>I do not have the LAST revision of the VLT manual; I
>had a look to the documentation and to the example files.
>E.g. in scp/neatstuff.scp you will find:
>#   Ctrl left mouse button:
>#   Drag out an area and clip it to the clipboard. The area stays highlighted.
>#
>mousesupport ctrl  selectdown      (~movecursor %X %X %Y %Y; $1: if selectdown
>(movecursor %X mouse %Y mouse) else (goto $2); goto $1; $2: movecursor clip)

>What you can do is: select the operation/mouse support... menu;
>select the ctrl/selectdown text gadget;
>enter there carefully the text from ~movecursor to movecursor clip;
>if you do not want the selected area to stay highlighted, add a
>move hide at the end;
>click on "use". Now, ctrl_left mouse button will start an area selection,
>and the selected text will be copied to the clipboard. A RAmiga-V
>will paste the clipboard in a CLI window; at least this works for me ;-)

>     Ciao,          Maurizio

But this is flaky sometimes ... as in "What you see isn't *necessarily* what
you get".  I have this problem when I'm using Emacs ... I'll highlight an 
area of text and paste it and what gets pasted is something *completely*
different than what I had highlighted!  It seems to work fine if I remember to
send Emacs a ctrl-L before I highlight the text though...

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: 10667547@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (JIMMY FANG)
Subject: What is Maple?
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, Monash University 
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 03:28:25 GMT

I know that Maple lurks on the Vax that I use at university, so I guess they 
would have a site license for it (so I could get a copy relatively cheap).

I'm majoring in Econometrics (kind of Economics combined with Statistics) 
and would like to know if Maple V would be any good for me.
Does it do anything for me if I'm studying ARCH, GARCH, ARCH-M, GARCH-M, etc 
in modelling returns on bonds, stockmarket returns, etc?

I would like a program that was like a word-processor that could handle 
Greek symbols, and other math symbols in a mathematic way.  I'm sick of 
having to manually place super and subscripts above the capital pi sign and 
having "blank lines" and entering printer codes directly through a text-
editor.

Also being able to put footers, headers, using multi-columns and the other 
stuff that I expect from a proper word-processor a part of this package?
I'll be writing an honours essay on market returns over the holidays and 
using a text editor and manually writing in all the symbols and 
matrices is not my idea of efficient use of time.


Thanking you in anticipation,


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com (Dennis Heffernan)
Subject: Re: Final Copy II data released
Organization: Xanadu Enterprises Inc.
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 21:02:09 GMT

In article <20943@plains.NoDak.edu> kruger@plains.NoDak.edu (Donovan Kruger) writes:
|When are they going to learn???  What is any productivity program without
|an UNDO feature????  There are a couple out there already that have
|UNLIMITED undoes!  What's the deal?  I love the new features, but would
|still trade them all in for an UNDO!  I've mentioned it to Woody Wilson
|three times, but I guess it's not that important. (?)

	I guess it isn't, since in all the time I've been using Final Copy I've
never once wished I had an Undo command.  (And I've been using it since it
came out.)

	Calm down.  It's just not a crucial feature.


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From: kimski+@CMU.EDU (Sun Kun Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: About MAPLE V...
Date: 8 Oct 92 20:46:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.MepEuoS00VQCQkVJdf
Organization: Junior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Here at Carnegie Mellon, we have a site-license agreement and the
computer store sells Maple for about $15(which is the price they charge
for copying of the disks) for the MS-DOSs and MACs.  Documentation is
available separately.  However, since the computer store doesn't have
any AMIGAs to copy the AMIGA version of Maple, we borrrow the disks by
paying a $50 deposit... and then get the deposit back after we return
the disks.  So, MAPLE is essentially FREE... for use during our stay
here at CMU(which is what site license is).

As someone else said, your university might offer the similiar offers. 
Nevertheless, MAPLE V definitely is a fine piece of software.


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From: bell@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Does the post.library support Colors ?
Date: 15 Oct 92 19:37:40 GMT

In article <1992Oct15.150921.23591@uni-paderborn.de>, fillg1@uni-paderborn.de (Michael Illgner) writes:
> Hi folks,
> Is it possible to use the famous post.library with color-postscript files ?
> This would make the printing of included colored images in TeX-files
> using dvips very easy. 
> 					Thanks in advance
> 					Michael
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	Yes I have had Post1.7 output colour postscript files to the screen.

			Shane L. Bell
			bell@ecs.umass.edu
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Friday, 16 Oct 1992 00:52:37 PST
From: LORETI, Maurizio <MLO@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Copy/Paste utility for VLT and 2.0
 <1992Oct14.144754.1093@galaxy.gov.bc.ca>
 <92288.221918MLO@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
 <1992Oct15.140431.18434@news2.cis.umn.edu>

I do not have the LAST revision of the VLT manual; I
had a look to the documentation and to the example files.
E.g. in scp/neatstuff.scp you will find:
#   Ctrl left mouse button:
#   Drag out an area and clip it to the clipboard. The area stays highlighted.
#
mousesupport ctrl  selectdown      (~movecursor %X %X %Y %Y; $1: if selectdown
(movecursor %X mouse %Y mouse) else (goto $2); goto $1; $2: movecursor clip)

What you can do is: select the operation/mouse support... menu;
select the ctrl/selectdown text gadget;
enter there carefully the text from ~movecursor to movecursor clip;
if you do not want the selected area to stay highlighted, add a
move hide at the end;
click on "use". Now, ctrl_left mouse button will start an area selection,
and the selected text will be copied to the clipboard. A RAmiga-V
will paste the clipboard in a CLI window; at least this works for me ;-)

     Ciao,          Maurizio
From: wmp@wperkins.UUCP ("William M. Perkins")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: SuperBase Professional Registration
Date: 8 Oct 92 21:18:41 EDT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: The Greenwood

W L Anderson (wlanders@nexus.yorku.ca) wrote:
: I know that Precision Software sold the Amiga version of SuperBase to Oxxi, 
: but I have an registration card (addressed to Precision) that wasn't sent
: in for my version of SuperBase.  I'm assuming that I should send the card to 
: Oxxi instead, but I don't have their address.  Can somebody email Oxxi's
: address so I can register SuperBase?  Thanks.
: 
: Tom Hayko
: wlanders@nexus.yorku.ca

The address that I have for Oxxi from the Summer '92 edition of "AC's Guide To
The Commodore Amiga is:

     Oxxi, Inc.
     P. O. Box 90309
     Long Beach, CA 90809-0309

And phone: +1 310 427 1227,  FAX: +1 310 427 0971

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From: kentd@FtCollins.NCR.com (Kent Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: ToolManager 2.0 Likes/Dislikes
Date: 7 Oct 92 10:02:31 GMT
	<1992Sep29.120205.14960@NeoSoft.com>
	<1992Oct1.122042.19607@unibi.uni-bielefeld.de> <1743@lysator.liu.se>
	<67101@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: /dev/null
Followup-To: /dev/null
Organization: NCR Microelectronics, Ft. Collins, CO
In-reply-to: Neon@cup.portal.com's message of 3 Oct 92 05:29:46 GMT


>>>>> On 3 Oct 92 05:29:46 GMT, Neon@cup.portal.com (Anthony Joseph Bruder) said:
Anthony> In an article dated 10/1/92 you write:

Steve>  This reminds me.. Does anybody know why foreigners insist on
Steve> changing `Stefan' to `Stephan'?          ^^^^^^^^^^

Um, you're the foreigner. Degree of foreigness is measured by distance
from the United States. Well, it works for me :^) 

Steve> I get letters for this "Stephan
Steve> Boberg" guy all the time.. Wonder who he is? :-)

Anthony> In the US the common spelling of your name is Stephan.

No it's not, you goof!

Anthony> Illiteracy is ramampant here 
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I find this terribly ironic.              

Anthony> and so you are probably lucky not to get called Steven. Come to
Anthony> think of it, you're probably lucky they get the 'S' right!

Yes, we're all rude, ignorant, brutes here in the US and, of course, the
main US 'net readership is comprised of those two especially idiotic and
surly groups: technical professionals and college students. Don't be
surprised if you wake up tomorrow and find that half the US netters, in
a fit of absent-minded stupidity, have accidently shot themselves in the
head with their right to bear arms.

Stefan, Stephan, Steven, BAH! Steve's darn lucky he didn't get called
'Theotis' considering the source. That's what I think.

Anthony> Please keep up the good work.  You make computing more fun for
Anthony> everyone.

Yes, Toolmanager is really cool! Thanks Stefan! But IMHO, it definitely
needs to lose the OO interface, blecch!
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From: cunniff@cup.portal.com (Ross Alan Cunniff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: ProVector with a 3 button mouse
Date: Thu,  8 Oct 92 13:02:59 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

Larry Moss writes:
>I just recently bought a 3 button mouse and was wondering if there is any
>way that I can bind the middle button to something in ProVector.  It
>would be real handy if I could use it to call a commonly used AREXX
>macro.  If ProVector doesn't have a way of doing it, is there some other
>utility available for the amiga that will let me do this?

ProVector doesn't directly support 3-button mice.  If you have the
capability to map the third button to a keystroke (such as Ctrl-M
or some other control key), you can use the DefineKey ARexx call
to bind that keypress to an ARexx action.

Ross Cunniff
President, Stylus, Inc.
cunniff@cup.portal.com
From: jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Structured Drawing Program
Date: 15 Oct 92 02:32:32 GMT
Organization: is sometimes desirable

What is the best structured drawing program for the Amiga?  I want Postscript
output (and maybe input?)  Amazing Computing had a favorable article about
ProDraw 3.0.  Is this a good choice?  Is anything better?


                                Thanks,

                                                Jim Pritchett


UUCP:  rwsys.lonestar.org!caleb!jdp
 or    utacfd.uta.edu!rwsys!caleb!jdp
From: Greg.Gerke@beavnet.omahug.org (Greg Gerke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: SBase4 problems...
Date: 14 Oct 92 20:18:00 CST
Reply-To: greg.gerke@beavnet.omahug.org
Organization: Beavernet, Plattsmouth, NE
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.applications

Has anybody else had any problems with running SBase 4 Pro v1.20? I was able to
install the program, but when I try running the program (either from CLI or
WorkBench) it seems to just grind away for a bit and then just stops. The Forms
Designer works just fine, though. I cranked up SnoopDos and the last thing it
seems to do is open S:SBase4.ini and at that point it just stops. I've tried
setting the stack up as far as 40000, but no go.

Any clues what I can try to get it to work? Is there maybe a .library that I've
got in my LIBS: that is more than SBase4 can handle? Should I be holding my
feet in a different position? :-)

Thanks,
Greg

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From: soft-logik@cup.portal.com (Kevin W Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Questions about ProPage
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 17:11:53 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>
>I`m trying to decide whether to get PropPage or PageStream for DTP
>and finding it damn difficult to get a clear differentiation from
>the very undetailed reviews that get printed in typical Amiga
>magazines.
>
>Anyway, what I really want to know is what the detailed features
>are of the products, a few questions I have are written below.
>Now it may be that no-one knows the answer to these, in which case
>I will write to some of the Amiga magazines informing them of the
>opportunity they have to do a decent comparison for a change.
>
>
>  a) Does one perform better than the other (speed)
>
>  b) Does ProPage allow you zoomed views, including view facing
>     pages?
>
>  c) What are the major weaknesses of the two products.
>
>  d) Both support typography pretty well now, but is one
>     easier to use than the other.
>
>  e) Which produces better typeset output? (I`m amazed that none
>     of the reviews ever mention this.)
>
>  f) Which is more stable. Ie: Bugless.
>
>  g) Which company have better support?
>

I'm sure there will be differing opinions on the items above. I've enjoyed
working with PageStream for over 3 years and heartily recomment it.

Both produce very high quality typeset output and I don't think you will
find any differences. PageStream can position to 1/7200 of an inch and
set type sizes to .01 point (while ProPage is .1 point) but I think these
are not significant in most situations. ProPage has Arexx and Pantone color
support if those are important to you. PageStream imports many more
graphic formats than Pro Page if that is important to you.

One thing though--you won't find any Gold Disk support for ProPage here
on the Internet, but you just got it from Soft-Logik.

Kevin Davidson, Asst. Moderator AmigaZone Vendor Support - PORTAL
               <soft-logik@cup.portal.com>
        SOFT-LOGIK BBS (PCP MOSLO) (314) 894-0057
From: stelmack@incubus.csee.usf.edu (Gregory M. Stelmack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: FCII is HERE!
Date: 12 Oct 92 00:18:56 GMT
Reply-To: stelmack@incubus.csee.usf.edu (Gregory M. Stelmack)
Organization: University of South Florida, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

In article <1992Oct7.133316.3142@sarah.albany.edu>,
hibrown@sarah.albany.edu (Herb Brown) writes:
|> 
|> 
|> What are its math features? The ad mentions math features. For
|> example,
|> is there a complete math font now? Can one easily insert math
|> symbols
|> in a document? Etc., etc., etc.
|> 

Well, it includes a Symbol font (as did the 1.3 release) giving you access
to the Greek alphabet. It's math feature is the ability to add a column of
numbers automatically.

-- 
-- Greg Stelmack (stelmack@eggo.csee.usf.edu)
-- FullTime Grad Student, PartTime Amiga Salesman, PartTime Amiga Developer
-- Author of: Spades, Pro Port Analyzer Plus, more to come...
-- DISCLAIMER: The opinions reflected here are mine and mine alone.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
Subject: Re: Process KILL/LIST Program???
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 13:44:04 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1.3 PL5

John Gregor (aq722@cleveland.Freenet.Edu) wrote:

> output was *one* column shorter.  RIght now, it seems to be 79 columns
> wide, and the widest you can make a term window without using overscan
> is 78 columns.  79 columns is fine for people who use overscan and so
> can make their CLIs a "real" 80 columns, but for the rest of us, its a

I think I can do that.  I never noticed it because all my CLI windows
are 80 columns :-)

> I tried a bunch of other utilities, but nothing else was as good.  I

Glad you like it.

  - steve
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications