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From: d2ser@dtek.chalmers.se (Svante Eriksson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: AmigaGuide Musings...
Date: 22 Jan 93 09:54:46 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden

dgc3@kimbark.uchicago.edu (milovan djilas) writes:

>Is there a program that converts TexInfo databases to AmigaGuide
>format?  I've several GNU programs whose docs I'd really like to be
>able to read sensibly.

Yes, a modified version of the GNU MakeInfo, made by Sebastiano Vigna
and Reinhard Spisser, will do this.  Look for MakeInfo1_49b.lha on
amiga.physik.unizh.ch or one of its mirrors.

It converted the GCC 2.3.3 Texinfo manuals to AmigaGuide-format w/o
problems - this version of MakeInfo is great!

>--dgc

...ser

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: msmcknig@unccsun.uncc.edu (Michael S McKnight)
Subject: Re: Suggestion for next PStream
Organization: University of NC at Charlotte
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 02:58:27 GMT

Also, how about some markers that follow the edges of an object when you grab
it to move it.  Like if you grab a text box, the box moves with the little hand,
but you have no way of measuring where on the paper (via the rulers) the corners
of the box is located.

This is hard to explain.  Like when you grab a box it would produce marks in
the ruler area that align with the edges of the box.  Get the idea?
Take a look at PageMaker or FrameMaker and you'll see what I mean.  I know
those packages cost many times what pagestream cost, but that is really a basic
feature for accurately placing graphics and boxes of text.  

Oh, like how when you are going to paste an object you get the markers... like
that only while you move the object around the page without having to cut and
paste.

Did I just ramble or did anyone understand me?

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From: johnh@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (John J Humpal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Modular screen blanker?
Date: 24 Jan 1993 14:20:03 -0500
Organization: Homewood Academic Computing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md, USA
Distribution: usa
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In article <1993Jan24.131503.6404@sarah.albany.edu> hibrown@sarah.albany.edu (Herb Brown) writes:
>
>What is a  *modular*  screen blanker?  Is Spliner a modular screen
>blanker?
>
	After Dark, the pee-cee and Mac screen-blanker is an example
of a modular screen blanker.  All it is is a master handler that takes
care of the timing and input events for blanking/unblanking the screen.
The modules determine what will appear on the screen.  So, you could have
a variety of different blanker modules (e.g., spliner, starfield, flying
toasters, fish, etc) which would be called by the handler when it's
time to blank the screen.
-- 
-John

John J. Humpal -- johnh@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu -- short .sig, std. disclaimer
From: zeylon@lysator.liu.se (Johan Zeylon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: GrandSlam parallel.device greater than 1.0 ???
Summary: Wanting upgrade of parallel.device for GrandSlam
Keywords: amiga, printer, software
Date: 24 Jan 93 02:38:23 GMT
Organization: Lysator ACS at Linkoping University

Hi everybody.
I've recently started using the extra parallel port on my GrandSlam hard disk controller, the problem is that the current version of the parallel port driver software is SLOW, it takes all CPU time available in my poor amiga...
I think it look's like it's using loops for the delays, phuey!
If ANYBODY's having a newer version PLEASE drop me a message!
73 de Johan
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From: fillg1@wien.uni-paderborn.de (Michael Illgner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: GhostScript and HP500C
Date: 26 Jan 1993 10:30:50 +0100
Organization: Universitaet Paderborn, Germany
NNTP-Posting-Host: wien.uni-paderborn.de

Hi folks,
Yesterday I have tried the GhostScript port from amiga.physik. The black-
andwhite hp500 driver seems to work ok, but the color hp500c driver
gives me an error message like "can't create tmp-file /tmp/gs553562'.
Does anyone know what's wrong here ? I have assigned TMP: to RAM: !

						Michael

	
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From: ml@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Markus Landgraf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: I've done a Ghostscript port that works!
Date: 27 Jan 93 14:59:39 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: TU Darmstadt
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Hello,
I read, that there is a ghostscript port for the amiga and it has
some problems (high stack, no display of postscript-files on the amiga).
I am currently working on a beta version of a ghostscript port
(at the moment only version 2.4.1), which has an amiga intuition device.
The display of postscriptfiles works yet, but I'll do some
more work in having gadgets in the display-window, so that the
user can scroll over the postsctript output. I think the beta-
version is ready in three or four weeks. The I'll put it to
the ftp-site in Kassel (ftp.hrz.uni-kassel.de /pub/machines/amiga/ghostscript).
If there are more people porting ghostscript, please mail to me in
order to coordinate our work.

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From: rfentima@ub.d.umn.edu (Robert Fentiman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: PageSetter3
Date: 21 Jan 1993 00:04:00 -0600
Organization: University of Minnesota, Duluth
NNTP-Posting-Host: ub.d.umn.edu

In article <74029@cup.portal.com> MPT@cup.portal.com (Michal P Todorovic) writes:
:>Is there life on Mars?  Didn't I read somewhere that there is a very thin
:>atmosphere and very simple vegetation / bateria?
:>
:>Edwin Yau.
:>Freelance Writer.
:
:Uh... maybe in a science fiction article.  As far as I know, no life
:as been found anywhere off earth.  Not even bacteria.

I know this is off topic, but I'm not the one who brought it up and I'm
going to make this accurate.

NASA officially states on all planets (besides Earth of course) that
there is no life them EXCEPT MARS.  The official report is listed as
"inconclusive".  I believe this is partially due to a researhcer who 
found proof that bacteria could exist in harsh conditions (though his 
reasearch in antartica - where he is missing and presumed dead, but 
they found all his results and confirmed them).  However, neither of the 
Viking Mars landers were equiped with the devices necessary to prove
it or not (due to the more recent dicovery), Mars is the only other 
planet in our solar system that could allow life (by current scientific 
defition), this is NASA's official statement.

This is all to the best of my knowlege.  Please correct me if situations
have changed.

:---------------------
:
:Michal Todorovic         | The Laws of Thermodynamics, Paraphrased
:Terra Nova Development   |
:                         | 1. You can not get anything without
:MPT@cup.portal.com       |    working for it.
:                         | 2. The best you can ever hope for through
:"Justice is incidental   |    working is breaking even.
: to Law and Order"       | 3. You can only break even at absolute
:      J Edgar Hoover     |    zero.

	Thanks
	Robert Fentiman

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: adap@edmund.cs.andrews.edu (Edsel Adap)
Subject: Re: hard drive compression
Organization: Andrews University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:13:42 GMT

In article <93021.145354ICPCH@ASUACAD.BITNET> <ICPCH@ASUACAD.BITNET> writes:
>Could anyone tell me if a compression-on-the-fly program like the PC
>Stacker 2.0 is available for the Amiga.  Anything FTPable?
>I am running out of HD space and would rather not buy another drive.

Have you tried imploder?  Imploder will compress your executables (and all
your other files if you'd like) so they are still executable but smaller.
Whenevery you want to run an imploded program, Imploder decompresses it in
memory first.  It reduces space usage in your HD.

It is very slow though on my 68000 based A2000.

Edsel
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forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid
meeting."
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From: pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk (Jakob G}rdsted)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Magazine lead times (was Re: SAS 6.2 update)
Date: 26 Jan 93 08:59:22 GMT
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark

barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett) writes:
>In article <C1DLqF.GFM@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> cfury@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Chris Fury) writes:
>>Um, pardon me, but do you know anything of how Magazines are published?
>>A magazine is done a month before it actually goes to press...

>	A month?  I dream of a month. :-)  The magazine I just started
>writing for has a 3-4 month lead time.  For example, to get an article into
>the March issue, I had to submit it by the previous November!

Not saying your word cannot stand alone, I'd like to add, that this
is a 'fact' as far as I know - most 'interest' magazines have at least
a 3 month delay. I've always wondered, why 3 months ? (not opposed to
'one week' but let's say two months, for example). Where is the bottleneck,
that makes it necessary with so much time.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: kmosher@IMD.Sterling.COM (Ken Mosher)
Subject: Where's DataTax
Organization: Sterling Software, IMD
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:02:03 GMT
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Does anyone know what happened to DataTax (the company).  I need to get my
annual upgrade to do my taxes and the original phone number is disconnected.
I seem to remember that they were bought out ... anyone have a way to contact
them?

Thanks,


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: Graham_Parkinson@mindlink.bc.ca (Graham Parkinson)
Subject: Re: Excellence 3.0 loses Tabs
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 21:20:24 GMT

> Joshua J Delahunty writes:
>
> Msg-ID: <1jmu8kINN9jk@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
> Posted: 21 Jan 1993 19:41:08 GMT
>
> Org.  : University of California; Santa Cruz
>
>
> In article <19853@mindlink.bc.ca> Graham_Parkinson@mindlink.bc.ca (Graham
> Parkinson) writes:
> >
> >   The ONLY problem that I have with Ex. Ver3 is that it loses tabs when
> >printing.  The screen format is ok but when a document is printed
> >(postscript) or imported elsewhere some of the tabs are often missing.
> >
> >   Atempting to figure things out from the manual would be easier if the
> >updated manual was available to those of use who updated from 1 -> 2 -> 3
> >
> >   There was a more recent program version than 3.00 but I don't know
> >what they are up to now at Micro-Systems, presumably an AGA version.
> >
> >   Additional Features that would be great: Column cuts ala CED
> >                                            Column math!
> Import of EPS!
> Style Sheets!
> Documents SECTIONS, so different column (and other) settings apply to a
>         section, and not the entire document!
> Import of foreign file formats!  At LEAST RTF (Rich-Text Format).
> Better control of GUI features, either by key or ARexx -- like indent
> marker
>         setting, margins settings, spacing, etc.  I'd like to hit one key
> to
>         indent the current paragraph, and another to zip back out again.
>         Fonts, too.  I am REAL tired of bringing up the font requester each
>         time I want to select a new font!  (Style sheets could fix this).
>                                                 -- joshua

Agreed!  RTF Rich Format is a handy way of dealing with Microsoft Word
         Documents for instance.
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From: jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: GNUPlot output to printer or file?
Date: 26 Jan 93 23:26:13 GMT
Organization: is sometimes desirable

In article <C1BuM8.F4x@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, David J. Pugliese writes:

> 	I am using GNUPlot 3.1 from the executable archive gnuplot-3.1bin.lha.
> While I get screen output, I cannot get printed output or graphic output to
> a file.  When I cange the output to PRT:, I still get screen graphics,
> but with a higher aspect ratio.  Am I missing something here, or is only
> screen output possible with gnuplot?

Do a help set terminal (or something like that) in gnuplot.  It will give
you a list of supported devices.  Then do a set terminal to your printer.


                                                Jim Pritchett


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From: jperkski@kentcomm.uucp (Jim Perkowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: WB2.04 and Wb2.1 HDBackup (inspect and differences )
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 20 Jan 93 23:47:04 EST
Organization: Privately owned and operated UUCP site.

In article <1jjsvuINNpaa@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> tigner@paun01.pa.msu.edu (Barry Tigner) writes:

[ Stuff deleted]

> Am I doing something wrong ? I can get BRU to verify the files via the CLI
> so I suspect that BRU is not at fault. I really want to use HDBackup.
> Please reply or pass this question along to someone who can answer it.
>
> Here is my configuration and the aforementioned captured outputs.
> Thank you for your help.

 It sound like you need to change something in either s:BRutab or s:HDBackup.config.

[System config deleted]
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From: eric@wolf359.UUCP (Eric Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Wordworth2 Question
Date: 24 Jan 93 18:10:56 GMT
Organization: Engineers in Exile
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In article <1993Jan19.195854.4105@city.cs>, Lionel Tun writes:

> Am I the only one here using WW2? It is rapidly becoming _the_

The real thing, not the demo.  Right?  Good.  I'd like to know if the
format conversions work in the complete version of Word Worth 2.0.

In the Demo they don't.  The're not disabled, just not usable.  Here's
what I get.

WP 5.1 -> Wordworth	Format is mangled, stray garbage characters left
			in the file.  The only formating to pass through
			is bold.

WP for Amiga 4.1x > WW	Same as WP 5.1
Win Write -> Wordworth	Massive enforcer hits.  When the dust has settled,
			The formatting has survived but all font
			information is gone.
MS Word -> Wordworth	Same as Win Write.		

If the format conversions work I will gladly pay the shipping across the
Atlantic.  But they have to work.
  
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: cwahl@panix.com (Charles Wahl)
Subject: SKsh 2.1 problem -- U option appears to be broken
Organization: MyOwnTime/MyOwnPhonebill
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 04:24:36 GMT

I've recently installed AmigaDOS 2.04, and SKsh2.1 on my A500 without a
harddrive (used 1.3 and SKsh1.7 before).  Despite Steve Koren's warning
about needing a hard drive, I've had few problems so far, but the most
vexing is that the 'U' option does not appear to work -- that's the one
which prompts for an unmounted device rather than just telling you that 
it wasn't found.  This is useful to many people, but often indispensable
to a floppy-bound user.

The funny thing about it is that SKsh seems to pass its disregard of
unmounted volumes on to the shell upon which it is opened; in other
words, I can open a shell, and, before starting SKsh, type something
like archiv:zoo/zoo, and if archiv: isn't in a drive, AmigaDOS puts up a
requester.  If I then start SKsh, and make the same command, I just get
an "archiv:zoo/zoo: not found (41)" error message (the number is a SKsh
error code).  If I then exit SKsh, but leave the shell open, and type
the same command again, or any one referencing an unmounted volume,
AmigaDOS now gives me a "not found" error message.

Just to show that I have read the fecund manuals, from the SKsh
Addendum2.0.doc:

         'U' option flag changed

             The  "insert  volume xxx:" requester is now disabled for all
             SKsh  internal  commands.   It   previously was disabled for
             only a few.  The 'U' option flag will enable them.

and from the doc on 'options':

            +U   The  U  option, if set, causes SKsh to  use  a
            requester if a  component of the path contains
            an unmounted volume.

Anybody have a clue?  I'd appreciate the help.  BTW, my SKsh options are
1CFUchlrs (were 1CFUchls in SKsh1.7 before true pipes made the 'r'
option available, and the U option worked fine then).

Thanks, Steve Koren for a great piece of Amiga software! I mean it!

Charles Wahl    <cwahl@panix.com>
From: taa33@isuvax.iastate.edu (Devin E. Parsons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Two Final Copy II questions
Date: 27 Jan 93 22:15:40 GMT
Reply-To: taa33@isuvax.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

In article <1993Jan27.215059.1547@leland.Stanford.EDU>, dvoelker@leland.Stanford.EDU (David Voelker) writes:
>     I have a couple of questions about Final Copy II that I can't seem
>to find answers to in the manual:
>     1. How do you do an append?  I.e., how do you bring another file
>into one you've already opened?
>     2. The only way to close a document and start another seems to be
>to select "Quit."  If you don't select "Quit," opening successive
>documents just opens successive windows.  But if you "Quit" from
>the first document you opened, the whole program quits.  Is there any
>way to exit a document without "Quit?"
>
>-- 
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>|   Dave Voelker      Stanford University     dvoelker@leland.stanford.edu  |
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

To append, just open two windows and cut the info from one and paste to
the other.

To close a doc, just click on the close box (upper left) and the system will
ask you if you want to quit FC...say no and a blank window will come up, them
WITHOUT typing anything (even a space) select OPEN and the blank window will
be filled with the doc you just opened (only one window). 
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From: aj755@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard Kowicki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Suggestion for next PStream
Date: 27 Jan 1993 07:28:13 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: aj755@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard Kowicki)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc4.ins.cwru.edu


Just to add my input...

*  A user-preference file to use whatever settings I choose to
   use in my papers without constantly changing it thru menus.
   (For example:  I hate the default setting of 6 points for 
   super/subscripts.  I'd rather use 3 point.)

*  A 'sliding' tab bar where I can slide my tab into whatever position
   I choose to have it.  This would be much better than the add-delete
   tab positions now used - and make it much easier to lay out a heading
   for a table.

*  Screen redraws!!!  If it can't be made faster (especially on a 68000),
   at least make so that I can choose to redraw the screen when I want to,
   not when I make a change in a location of an object.  (I especially
   hate it when I get a screen redraw for removing/adding Tabs!!!  The
   minimal change that should be made to the document is within the text
   box itself - not the entire page!!!)  Most times, in making simple changes,
   you don't really need an entire redraw.

Other than that, I really enjoy using PageStream.  It's my favorite text
publishing program!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: keck@athena.cs.uga.edu (Paul)
Subject: Re: KingFisher
Organization: University of Georgia
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:40:34 GMT

I find that FishCat is easier to use than Kingfisher.  I have been
using it for a long while, and have no complaints at all.  When
I tried Kingfisher, though, I hated it.  So, if you don't like
Kingfisher either, then try Fishcat.  It's on a Fish disk- just
use Kingfisher to find it. ;-)