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From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: DirOPUS questions!
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 19:26:45 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>Some questions about DirOPUS v3.41 from INOVAtronics:
>    1. What is the latest version?
Not sure.  I believe it's still xx.xx

>    2. Is it possible to stop OPUS from continue remove files then it
>       already have started removing files? I could not find any solution
>       to it in the manual!

From the manual...

Chapter 2 Preliminary Information (page 2-1)
	ABORTING
	Before we discuss any functions of the program, it is important...

	(It's as plain as the nose on your face.)


>    3. I would like to have a "join" function, there I mark some files, give
>       them a name and then they will be joined to one file. I have tried
>       several times but nothing works. Do anyone have any idea?

Yes. I use the following gadget function...

JOIN A as B C

where A = 4th command from bottom of page 7-2 and
      B = bottom paragraph on page 7-1 with a "title" that asks for new name
      C = top command on page 7-3 of manual.

>    4. Is it possible to reach INOVAtronics on Internet? How?

Not sure.  I believe the australian author, Jonathan Potter, has an account.
If you are properly registered, they are more than willing to help by phone.
Their number is printed in HUGE letters on the back side of the manual's
title page.

>    5. I think DirOPUS is the _BEST_ software ever made for any computer in
>       this category. (I have used DOS, UNIX, VMS and nothing is close). Is
>       there any software for PC that I have missed which will be close
>       (forget Norton commander and PCTools)?

So do I, and that's why I'm very careful about possible software
pirate/thieves.

>THANX,
>        Thomas Lydhig           /       thly@pe.chalmers.se

You're welcome.

-Joel
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From: stelmack@eggo.tmc.edu (Gregory M. Stelmack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: FinalCopy
Date: 12 Nov 92 03:16:20 GMT
Organization: University of South Florida, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

The best way to get around Final Copy's screen fonts is to use one of the
readable ones (the SoftSans font is pretty readable for me), and then format
when you are done. This has the effect of using a system font that has been
suggested. Also, try a larger typeface, and scale down when done. Or, now
the Final Copy II finally follows the cursor horizontally, use the view
scaling option to increase the letter size.

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From: jmrg9881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon Reid)
Subject: Re: Word processor with equation layout support?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:02:45 GMT

adamkp@rs6320.ecs.rpi.edu (Peter Adamkovics) writes:

>I just saw a wordprocessor to do all sorts of equation layout, tables,
>indices, table of contents, etc... 

>the only problem was that this was Ami-Pro 3.0 on my friends '386
>I wish we had such a program......

For the absolute *best* in equation layout, settle for nothing less than
TeX!  We have both a commercial version (AmigaTeX) and a freeware version
(PasTeX) available for our pleasure.
-- 
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From: kanko@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (Mark Kanko)
Subject: A1000 w/ ProWrite, Final Copy, and Prof Draw???
Keywords: Advice request.
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:13:17 GMT


Sorry if I'm asking some FAQs, but I haven't been on this group for 
quit awhile.  I'll make it short and sweet.

I've go an A1000 with 2.5 Meg and a 40-M Xetec HD hooked to an
Okidata OL400 laser printer (HPII emulation).  I bought ProWrite
3.2 last year in hopes of getting an application on par with
MS-Word, but I was miserably disappointed.  A typical 300dpi
12-pt Times text-only page takes 4-7 minutes to print.  Not
only that, but the quality of the printout is terrible, "High
Quality" mode gives me garbage, printer font numbers don't work 
(yeah, I know: "It's not New Horizon's fault that the printer
driver doesn't support it..."), I only get a few displayed lines
on my screen in non-interlace, etc., etc., etc.  In short, my old
Zenith 286 running Word for Windows ran circles around this combo.
I am on the verge of selling the ProWrite and buying Final Copy II.

Ques 1:  Will I see the advertised speed increase with FC II and
my system?  Will I be able to successfully (i.e., see smooth,
300 dpi resolution on the printed page)  use the "included" 
outline fonts with my OL400 and get pages out faster than 8 min per?

Ques 2:  I want to get Professional Draw 3.0.  Same basic questions
as above, but mainly will I be limited on output quality on my
non-Postscript printer and what should I expect for speed (or lack
thereof) on my unaccelerated A1000.

Any advice EMAILED to me would be greatly appreciated.  I'm a full-
time student and don't have a whole lot of time to research all 
this.  I'm especially interested if you're using a A1000 and/or
the OL400.  Thanks, all.

Mark
kanko@asuvax.eas.asu.edu

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From: Craig.Clinton <Craig.Clinton@mixcom.mixcom.com>
Subject: Driver for Citizen GSX240 printer
Organization: Milwaukee Internet Xchange BBS, Milwaukee, WI U.S.A.
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 16:52:05 GMT

Does anyone know if a printer driver for the Citizen GSX240 printer exists,
and where it can be FTP'ed from? This is for a friend who doesn't seem to like
Epson or other emulations. Thanks much in advance.

Craig.Clinton@mixcom.com

            - Lord Protector, Milwaukee Area Commodore Enthusiasts.

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From: umueller@iiic.ethz.ch (Urban Dominik Mueller)
Subject: Re: IS XPK SAFE?
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 19:42:07 GMT

Author speaking... It is very valid to ask for XPK's safety. Genreally, XPK
seems stable; but I'd never compress anything that you cannot replace or
absolutely need. On the other hand, things like your private module collection
seem a to be a good candidate for compression.

In article <Bxnwv6.At@javelin.sim.es.com> dingebre@imp.sim.es.com (David Ingebretsen) writes:
>
>I'm very impressed with the XPK package and the XFH and XPK-handler
>file systems. BUT how reliable are they?
>
>If you use/have used either of these, I would appreciate you thoughts.
>
>1. Have you ever lost data?

No reports of data loss because of XPK bugs have reached me so far. In
case it happens to anyone out there, please report immediately as to
save others from suffering the same problem. Of course there are imminent
problems with storing files in packed format: A single corrupted bit
will usually trash the whole files.
Also, you'll have to differ between the packers. NUKE and BLZW are the
oldest ones and can be considered pretty safe. I do test new packers
before adding them to the release archive, but only practice shows 
if they really work 100% flawlessly.

>2. Was it obnoxious in any way?

Sorry, my English isn't good enough for that one :)

>3. Would you do it differently if given another chance?

I guess I'm not the one to answer this...

>4. Which handler would you recommend?

Both have their drawbacks. Xpk-Handler is new to this release and thus pretty
untested. XFH has a bug that can cause crashes when ExAll() is used on it
(like MagicFileRequester does). Neither of them can open files in 
MODE_READWRITE as used when updating files. In general, I would use the
handlers on partitions/directories that are written to only infrequently,
and never for places where your own work (pictures, texts, sources) are
stored.

>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.
From: clare@nynexst.com (Clare Chu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Final Copy and Super DJ
Date: 19 Nov 92 01:51:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: nynexst.1992Nov19.015100.15509
Organization: Nynex Science and Technology

In article <1992Nov17.184842.1242@galaxy.gov.bc.ca> EWILTS@GALAXY.GOV.BC.CA writes:
>> 
>> There are several solutions on how to avoid the shift of graphic
>> output:
>> 
>
>I've just tried this to see if it also resolves my problem with Final Copy II
>and the Super_DJ driver.  It doesn't.  My first page is fine, then I get a
>blank page, then the 3rd page (actually the 2nd printed page) starts
>immediately at the top of the physical page with no top margin.  I didn't even
>think the DJ 500 was capable of printing with no top margin!
>
>I would really appreciate someone's settings for FC II, Super_DJ, and DJ Helper
>preferences (if it's used).  I had everything set up properly for QuickWrite
>and then purchased FinalCopy II and haven't got a perfect match yet.  Any ideas
>would be *greatly* appreciated!
>

  Sorry I can't help.  I suggest going back to the default Commodore
  supplied DeskJet driver since it works well for me with Final Copy.
  I don't use Super_DJ or DJ Helper with Final Copy because of all the
  tinkering.  To tell the truth, I don't use DJ Helper or Super_DJ
  at all and use the Commodore supplied driver.  I have no problems
  with shifted pages or graphics being shifted.  I think you need to
  set the Page SetUp in Final Copy for the DeskJet because they are
  set to the LaserJet.  Look on page 4-3 of the Final Copy II manual
  for the settings of print area.  It says that you might get an
  extra blank page if the print area or page type are not defined
  correctly.

  I'm still wondering why my husband bought me DJ Helper and Super_DJ
  as it didn't seem to speed up graphic printing over the default
  Commodore driver either.  The only thing I was able to do with it
  was to force ProWrite to print out (in draft mode) other HP internal
  fonts.  But then the spacing was all off...  Besides nowadays I
  don't use ProWrite anymore, so both of them are gathering dust.
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From: hibrown@sarah.albany.edu (Herb Brown)
Subject: Re: Word processor with equation layout support?
Organization: State University of New York at Albany
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 13:30:22 GMT

In article <1992Nov21.220047.3300@nic.csu.net> vpopesc@opus.uucp (Valentin Popescu) writes:
>Is there an amiga wordprocessor (WYSIWYG, NOT TeX), that supports
>equation layout? (such as FrameMaker, etc)? I looked at FinalCopy in a
>store, and although they claimed math support, it turned out to be a
>very expensivce calculator. :)   (unless I didn't know how to use it).
>
>So, in other words, I would like to write documents that include
>differential equations, so I would need support for the
>integral/sumation signs. Any help out there? Anyone promising this in
>any upcoming apps?
>
>Thanks..
>
>
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>\_____     /   |/_ \     \     _____/           Valentin Popescu
> \_____    \_____/  \____/     ____/   vpopesc@{calstatela.edu,csula.bitnet}


You are absolutely correct. Final Copy does not support mathematical
equations and should if it's to become a useful addition to the Amiga
software library. A word processor with support for writing mathematics 
is desperately needed for the Amiga. There are multitudes of students
who do not know TeX and do not have the time to learn TeX but need such
a pgm.  Are you listening FC? ProWrite? Whoever comes up with it first
stands to make a bundle of moola!!!

Herb


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From: cree@elec.canterbury.ac.nz (Michael Cree)
Subject: What does ADPro do?
Organization: Electrical Engineering, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 23:26:07 GMT

I see that ADPro is listed as an image processing package. My question is
what sort of image processing package, that is, is it one of those packages
aimed only at the video market and has a fairly limited range of processing
utilities that are very much video oriented or is it what I would called
a true image processing package in that it provides routines for the
restoration, enhancement and measurement of images for scientific endeavours?

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From: victorng@dgp.toronto.edu (Victor Ng-Thow-Hing)
Subject: Amax II 800K disks
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
Distribution: na
Date: 23 Nov 92 16:22:46 GMT

Hi everyone:
What is the main difference between Amax II and Amax II plus?  Do you need
a special Mac drive to read 800k disks? I also heard that Amax II software
can understand High Density disks with Commodore's new HD drive, but can this
new commodore drive read 800K Mac disks?
Thanks,
Victor.
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	    System Administrator for DGP lab
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From: hibrown@sarah.albany.edu (Herb Brown)
Subject: Re: MAPLE V
Organization: State University of New York at Albany
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 14:00:43 GMT

In article <BxuCsy.JJB@news.cso.uiuc.edu> saj31052@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Scotty A Johnson) writes:
> WHat is the status of Maple and the Amiga?
> 

Maple V currently runs on Amigas under 2.04 with 2 megs ram. A math coprocessor
is NOT needed.

> I know that 5.2 is coming out for other machines, but
> I haven't heard anything about it for the Amiga.
>

Release 2 of Maple V has been announced for Suns and Decs (ultrix). A windows
version will probably be announced by the end of '92. Versions for Macs and
Nexts will probably be made at the end of the 1st quarter of '93. My guess
is that a port to the Amiga will not surface until at least the summer of
'93. 

>
> Also, I have never used Maple, but I have heard that
>
>  1) The interface on the Amiga is poor
>
>  2) It is more powerful than Mathematica
>
>  3) It is similar to MACSYMA
>
>Can anyone verify these things?
>

We have been using Maple in our Amiga Classroom to teach mathematics for
nearly three years and, in particular, Maple V for nearly two.

We have been quite satisfied with its interface. The Amiga port actually 
offers three ways of running Maple V, and one of my colleagues even uses
an emacs wrapper when he runs Maple V. It's quite flexible.

I do not use Mathematica nor Macsyma, so I cannot comment here except to
simply add that dealing with the Maple people at Waterloo for the last 3
years has been a pleasure. They are more than willing to listen and react
to our comments, suggestions, complaints, etc.

>Thanks,
>
>  Scotty AJ
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From: u8706558@cs.uow.edu.au (Sean Volke)
Subject: Re: Startup problems?
Organization: The Shell
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 03:22:47 GMT

jsg@ccs.northeastern.edu (Jonas S Green) writes:
>In article <Mf3KgJC00UhWA5oQUO@andrew.cmu.edu> "Alex R.N. Wetmore" <aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>>Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.amiga.applications: 19-Nov-92 Re: Startup
>>problems? by Mark 'Mark' Sachs@psuvm. 
>>> 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.

>Several of the Cable TV stations in my area use Amigas. They are utiling 1.2 /
>1.3 on the machines broadcasting their slides. They have no reason to upgrade
>thode machines to 2.04 / 2.05 / 2.1

>Boston Museum of Science has a few Amigas in it's collection of stuff, they
>have no reason to upgrade those machines. 

>Of course in both cases, you could say they are not running the operating
>system, they are running Application programs.

And CBM Australia were out of stock of WB2.0 upgrades last time I checked
so that makes things a little tricky. I believe the uk had/has a similar
problem i.e. there are simply not enough upgrades floating around the
world to enable everyone to upgrade.
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From: georg@bluemoon.GUN.de (Georg Sassen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Help needed for POST
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:34:09 GMT
Reply-To: georg@bluemoon.GUN.de (Georg Sassen)
Organization: just me
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

In article <1992Nov15.112503.6223@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de> hiit@rz.tu-clausthal.de (Ibrahim Tertemiz) writes:
>You can also take the fonts from GS for PC's . There is only one problem:
>you have to rename them all :(

Try this in your REXX: drawer (it uses makelink, for 1.3 systems you
would have to modify it to use rename or copy). Start it after you
have cd'ed to the directory where the ghostscript fonts and the
Fontmap file are.

---------------------------cut------------------------------------
/* link ugly ghostscript font names to real font names */

x = open('mapfile','Fontmap','R')

if x~=1 then do
    say "Where is the Fontmap file ?"
    exit 20
end

do while ~eof('mapfile')
    r = readln('mapfile')
    if left(r,1)~='/' then iterate
    r=translate(r,' ','09'x)
    parse var r '/'realname '('uglyname')'
    realname=strip(realname)
    uglyname=strip(uglyname)
    say realname uglyname
    address command 'MakeLink' realname uglyname
end

call close('mapfile')
-------------------------------cut-------------------------------


    Georg

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From: waggoner@pdx159 (Mark Waggoner)
Subject: Re: Provector questions
Keywords: drawing printing provector stylus font
Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro, Oregon
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 07:09:32 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?  
>
>  2. What are the options for printing?  Postscript?  Any preferences 
>     printer? If it can print to any preferences printer, is it at the full
>     printer resolution or is it at screen resolution mapped to the
>     printer resolution?
>
>Thanks

Since no one has answered my questions, and I managed to get an email response 
from Stylus, I thought I would post the (somewhat edited) answer for the 
benefit of others.  Still, if anyone has any other comments regarding the
program (or wants to recommend something else), please post or email me.

Ross Cunniff writes:
| ProVector uses its own font format; however, it comes with a program
| to convert SoftLogik PageStream fonts to its own format.  Additionally,
| if you purchase the PSImport package, you can convert Adobe Type 1
| fonts to our font file format.  We realize that this is an inconvenience,
| and are working on a better solution, but for now this is what we're
| stuck with.

| ProVector will print to PostScript, HP-GL, Preferences printer, and ILBM
| bitmap output.  The Preferences output is at full printer resolution
| (the density is selectable from within the program).

| ProVector comes with a Times
| Roman clone and a Helvetica clone.  One flaw with these fonts is that
| the full Amiga character set is not included, only the 127 ASCII
| characters.  You can get public domain PostScript Type 1 fonts
| on many networks and public domain software collection disks.

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From: dworz@amazing.adsp.sub.org (Christoph Dworzak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: AIBB-Results was(More 4000 compatible software)
Date: 14 Nov 92 04:50:18 GMT
Organization: CREaTEC SA
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <BxL5q2.7z3@fc.hp.com> koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren) writes:
> Christoph Dworzak (dworz@amazing.UUCP) wrote:
> 
> > Test: WritePixel
> > Benchmark result: 1.54 Seconds
> > This Machine : 1785.7 <---
> > A3000/25MHz  : 337.0
> 
> Something is going on here that I don't quite understand.  My 4000 isn't
> _nearly_ as fast as yours on this test - in fact, it isn't even in the same
> league.  I get about 2.75 times the performance of a 3000, while you are
> getting about 5.3X.  There must be something I'm not thinking of.
> 
>   - steve

Sorry! I din't realize it when i did the test,
but i was running CPUBlitt :-)
Without CPUBlitt i get the same figures as you.


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