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Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Monday, 25 Jan 1993 20:05:42 MST
From: Brian C. Berg <AUBRI@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: DPaint Anims

In article <74285@cup.portal.com>, Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) says:
>order you want them to appear. The only downside of AnimBuild is
>that its interface vanishes as soon as you tell it the name of
>your last IFF file and that it should start building. Thus you
>have to watch your drive lights, or constantly LIST the directory
>it's building the anim in to know when it has finished the task.
>Other than that, an excellent little proggie :)

When using AnimBuild, I just pop open SnoopDOS... it shows me all the frames
as they are processed.  Works like a charm!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: shambarg@netcom.com (Scott Shambarger)
Subject: Re: ECS reset on A4000
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 04:29:27 GMT

In article <hamster.033e@xymox.apana.org.au> hamster@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) writes:
>In article <1993Jan22.155016.12933@news.uit.no> kjelli@stud.cs.uit.no (Kjell Irgens) writes:
>
>> Is it possible to make a program that resets AGA machines so that they start
>> up without AGA enabled afterwards?  I'm getting tired of having to hold both
>> mousebuttons at startup to play games (I haven't seen a single commersial game
>> that works from HD without turning off AGA)
>
>I think (but don't quote me, I don't own a 4000!) that Chris Hames'
>Degrader V1.30 will do that for you. It was recently posted to
>comp.binaries.amiga.
>

Have you tried holding both mouse buttons down on a reboot and then
selecting ECS or original chipset emulation for the startup menu?  I
believe it's in the Video section.
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From: cmp0119@sys.uea.ac.uk (Paul Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: PageSetter3
Date: 22 Jan 93 10:45:54 GMT
Organization: UEA School of Information Systems, Norwich, UK.

rfentima@ub.d.umn.edu (Robert Fentiman) writes:

>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 o... etc etc

ArgggggggghhhhhhhhHHH!!!!

I should have known better.... I should have known!!! (The only question
left to answer now is why hasn't a seperate thread started about teabags
or some such ... BUT PLEASE DON'T ANSWER!)

Apologies to the net for including sarcky questions in my posting - in the
meantime could any replies on the "Life on Mars" front be forwarded to
a more appropriate newsgroup?

In the meantime... can I take it that the lack of a response on the
"what is pagesetter3" question (other than "use pagestream 'cos it's the
best!" answer) means that NOBODY ACTUALLY HAS PSIII? Does this mean
it's vapourware or are all USENET people obscenely rich bastards [well,
comparitively, compared to me at any rate] who can afford #100's on DTP
software and so don't have to use the cheapies?

And another question: Is there life in Norwich?

Yours apologetically/flamely(?!)/questionally(?!!)/researchedly(?!?!)


Paul Harrison
cmp0119@uk.ac.uea.sys
My opinions are not of this Earth, let alone UEA's.
From: 3315943@QUCDN.QueensU.CA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Print files
Date: 26 Jan 93 23:48:37 GMT
Organization: Queens University at Kingston

I want to be able to capture data being sent to my printer and save it
as a file. This is too allow me to take it into the university for printing.
I am running a 1 meg A500 with a hard drive and 1.3 roms.
 
Is this possible?
From Dwight Robinson
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: sattlerc@rtsg.mot.com (Chris Sattler)
Subject: Dnet & terminal capabilities
Summary: Need help setting up termcap/terminfo for Dnet
Keywords: Dnet termcap terminfo
Reply-To: motcid!sattlerc@uunet.uu.net
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:57:04 GMT

I've got Dnet set up to access my system at work, but the cursor keys
don't seem to work.  If I dial in with VLT and go into vi everything
works fine.  But if I go in through Dnet and then use vi it doesn't.
I suspect VLT does a translation of the cursor key sequence to provide
VT100 emulation.  I've tried various manipulations of termcap and
terminfo files with no success.  Does anyone out there have a working
termcap or terminfo description that works through Dnet?  If so could
you please send it to me?
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From: amigamat@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Mark Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Flow Charting Software
Date: 26 Jan 1993 19:43:40 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
NNTP-Posting-Host: donald.cc.utexas.edu

In article <1993Jan26.003612.7466@ra.msstate.edu> jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce) writes:
>In article <alien.02gx@acheron.amigans.gen.nz> alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz (Ross Smith) writes:
>
>   It depends on the University. Here the first class in Pascal the students
>are taught pseudo-coding, no flowcharting. At the Community College, they
>flowchart in one beginning programming class and then drop it. I usually
>get to tell new students that we don't flowchart over here at Uni. Dale may
>not have a choice...

In a course I just took, we used the book "The Science of Programming" by
David Gries.  He refers to flow charts as flaw charts in the book.

I personally prefer pseudo-coding, or direct programming.  I have had to
flow chart, but never at UT.

I have not heard of a flow charting program for the Amiga.

Mark
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: blatter@amiga.physik.unizh.ch (Martin A. Blatter)
Subject: Re: Latest version of ProCalc ?
Organization: ICU - University of Zurich, Dept. of Computer Science
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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:53:02 GMT

Michal P Todorovic (MPT@cup.portal.com) wrote:
: However, a new version of ProCalc (version 1.1) is in final beta testing.
[...]
:         - Uses asl file requester and asl screen requesters if available. 
:         - Can set the screen mode id on startup.

Great! This will probably make ProCalc the first Style Guide compliant 
program from Gold Disk. Congratulations.

:         - Supports the alternate character set on Postscript printing. 

Ahh...finally. That was one of the reasons I didn't buy ProCalc yet.
The current version is said to be unable to print special characters 
(e.g. german umlauts) which renders the program unusable for european
users.

: How do I know all this?  Because I'm the author of ProCalc.  

By the way. Does ProCalc 1.1 support IFF DR2D export? Would be
very nice if you'd adopt Commodore's standard format for structured
graphics. ProVector, Art Expression, PageStream, TypeSmith and
other programs already support DR2D. It's *very* easy to implement
if you're using iffparse.library or iff.library.

Has a release date or MRSP been set yet?

: Michal Todorovic         | The Laws of Thermodynamics, Paraphrased 
: Terra Nova Development   |        

Keep up the good work!
--Martin                                            

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From: Lloyd_Sumpter@mindlink.bc.ca (Lloyd Sumpter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Flow
Date: 24 Jan 93 18:52:46 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada

I used Flow years ago to go from COurse Outlines to Lecture Notes, as well as
pseudo-code. However, the major upgrade (which did have lots of features)
forced you to use a custom screen that was NOT interlaced (the old one opened
on the WB).
   Does the latest version support interlace? Window in WB?


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From: jtillema@hindmost.lpl.arizona.edu (John Tillema)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: "Better" CD command
Keywords: unix,cd
Date: 22 Jan 93 05:50:33 GMT
Organization: Lunar & Planetary Laboratory, Tucson AZ.


With the talk of better CD's for the amiga and ways of getting
cd to do . and .., I thought I'd clean up the program I'd been 
using and release it to ya.  I tried the unixdirs program that
was mentioned as it'd be nice to use that with all the normal
amigados commands, but it didn't seem to work on mine, looks like
it might not run on 2.1.  This command does require amigados 2.0 or
better to run (it should quit nicely if you try running it on less
than 2.0).  The program is called JCD and is on amiga.physik.unizh.ch
in /amiga/new.  It is about 8K in size, written in SAS/C v6.1, don't
know how efficient it is, but don't see any time difference between 
running it and the normal cd on my 68k amiga....

What it does...  It will convert a unix path into a standard amiga
path, and then change you to there.  I tried to stick to as close to
true unix actions as possible.  Here is a brief summary of the differences.
                     JCD         AmigaDOS
                     cd            cd $HOME
                     cd .          cd
                     cd ..         cd /
                     cd /work      cd work:
(It even handles those really nasty paths like cd .././././tst/.././.././var
 correctly)

I have used versions of this program for over a year now with no troubles
so far, but if any are noticed, let me know...

Hope this helps some poor soul like me whose fingers would
automatically type "cd ../tst" instead of "cd /tst"!

John
jtillema@panda.lpl.arizona.edu
From: pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk (Jakob G}rdsted)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Is there such a utility?
Date: 26 Jan 93 09:01:29 GMT
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark

bartosz@stein.u.washington.edu (Bartosz Kijanka) writes:


>	I am wondering if there is a little utility which would allow me
>to off-load files larger than 835K from my HD onto floppies.  Yes, a backup
>program can do this, I know.  I am looking for just a simple painless 
>utility which would break a file up accordingly, and save it off onto an X
>number of floppies, and be able to restore a file from such an operation.
>I am aksing this because I have many large *.lha files which I would like to
>move off my HD without having to deal with a cumbersome backup program.
>Help me out if you've seen such a utility.  Thanks.

You can ftp a program called YEK something(search for yek, that oughta
find it), from various amiga sites(the .physik chain has it). I believe
it is rather new. I have it myself, but haven't used it yet - it's mostly
at our unix system, I need it :-) . If it does what it says, it is what
I wish unix split was...



>bartosz@u.washington.edu











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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: walker@twix.unx.sas.com (Doug Walker)
Subject: Re: SAS 6.2 update
Originator: walker@twix.unx.sas.com
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:33:39 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.


In article <18790055@hplsla.hp.com>, tomb@hplsla.hp.com (Tom Bruhns) writes:
|> Just two days ago, my upgrade from 5.x arrived on my doorstep, ordered
|> directly from SAS just after Christmas.  I haven't installed it yet,
|> but so far everything I've seen says "6.0", not "6.2".  It would be
|> nice if they had a sticker they could put on the shrinkwrap saying 
|> "Newest 6.2 release" or some such, though I'm painfully aware how much 
|> hassle it is to do something like that.  

ALL copies of the product shipped have been version 6.0, and will
continue to be 6.0.  We want ALL users to have the same base disk
set.  This way, any future patches can be made relative to the 6.0
disk set, which everybody has, and there's no hassle about getting
the correct version.

|> On the other hand, knowing that updates are available for download
|> lessens my concern a lot.  Is the 6.2 update available via ftp
|> somewhere??

Yes, it's available at the aminet sites (and probably elsewhere by
now).  It is freely redistributable.

We do plan to send a mailing to all registered customers informing
them of the existance of 6.2.  We didn't do this with 6.1 because
there was a major bug having to do with the MATH=68881 option (other
than that, by the way, 6.1 was pretty clean.)  We will probably
be sending out the letter at the end of this month.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: WALLY@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject: Overscan pref bug?
Organization: University of Keentookey
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 08:56:01 GMT

I am playing around with my new ECS Denise (BTW, for you who remember me
posting that in PAL the screen seemed as though the vert hold was set
wrong.. It was..  I feel like an idiot)..
 
I normally have an NTSC hires nointerlace screen....  I changed to
superhires interlace (NTSC again) screen, and loaded up overscan to
make sure I was using all of the screen..  Overscan things I have a
hires screen!  (max size 724x241)
 
Am I doing something wrong, or is it not getting the update on the
resolution?
 
Thanks..
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: teece@sol.UVic.CA ()
Subject: Re: Print files
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. CANADA
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 07:16:34 GMT

In article <16B6210885.3315943@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> 3315943@QUCDN.QueensU.CA writes:
>I want to be able to capture data being sent to my printer and save it
>as a file. This is too allow me to take it into the university for printing.
>I am running a 1 meg A500 with a hard drive and 1.3 roms.
> 
>Is this possible?
>From Dwight Robinson

Well, the CMD command in AmigaDOS does that exactly. And several commercial
programs (eg. excellence!) allow you to send your output to a file as
Postscript so it is ready for all those wonderful Postscript printers at
work!

DOS 2.1 also has a Postscript driver and perhaps you can use that and CMD
together to send stuff as Postscript to a file, completely with AmigaDOS.
I haven't tried that yet. Anyone know that this is possible?  (But then,
you did say you were using 1.3 now, so I suppose that isn't useful to you.)
 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: zarthac@bradley.edu (Matthew Simmons)
Subject: Re: Metafont font generation for TeX
Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:04:48 GMT
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Jonathan P Moore - H600/91 (u1jpm@ohm.york.ac.uk) wrote:
: Can anybody give me a fools guide on how to set up metafont using
: Arexx so that when I use dvips or Showdvi it actually generates the
: font required??
and dviprint...

: The docs are a bit skimpy, and my knowledge of Arexx relies upon the
: manual that comes with Workbench 2 (ie I know nothing!)

: Thanks a lot

Could you post this, instead of sending it via e-mail?  I'm about to 
voyage into the world of PasTeX again....

: Just a thought - If all Pc`s use 1 Meg *9 Simms?  Why would GVP opt
: to use 1 Meg * 8? Wierd eh?  1 Meg * 9 is a lot cheaper for obvious
: reasons? I`m definitely going to buy 1 Meg *9 to expand my GVP Hc+8
: board and my vortex 386sx bridgeboard!
Cuz the IBM uses the first 8 chips to actually hold the stuff, and uses
the 9th to check up on the first 8 (you know that wonderful memory checking
thing that happens when you turn it on?)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: Gary_Coleman@mindlink.bc.ca (Gary Coleman)
Subject: ProCalc: bug or feature?
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 08:01:16 GMT

I am fairly new to accounting, and want to know the proper way to set up my
journals.  I enter the base price in a cell, have a function in the next cell
to show G.S.T.  (a1*.07), and then total a1+b1 in c1 to get my invoice total.
If I make b1  =round(a1*.07,-2  I get rounding errors.  I want to drop off
any remainder beyond the last penny.  This is really noticeable when I enter
the invoice amount into my annual invoice journal.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: walker@twix.unx.sas.com (Doug Walker)
Subject: Re: SAS 6.2 update
Originator: walker@twix.unx.sas.com
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:44:10 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.


In article <1jt8fuINNqaj@crcnis1.unl.edu>, pdietz@cse.unl.edu (Phil Dietz) writes:
|> cmatting@nyx.cs.du.edu (Chris Mattingly) writes:
|> >Umm, pardon me, but are you talking about the SAS/C compiler?  If so, then
|> >they need to get their marketing scheme together, because in the latest issue
|> >of Amiga World, they did a review and had advertisements for 6.0, not 6.2
|> 
|> 
|> That's exactly the point.  A typical magazine ad/review takes
|> 2 to 3 months.  Unless a company knows that they will be producing 
|> version X in 3 months, they are forced to send version X-N
|> to the printer...
|>  
|> A new update before the ad means "REALLY quick" updates.

Also, I believe our ad only mentions "Version 6", which is a proper
description of 6.2.  6.2 is "Version 6, revision 2".  The review
does mention 6.0, but that is accurate since that's the version 
actually reviewed.


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From: hhoff@blefusco.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Helmut Hoffmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Basic PasTeX help needed.
Date: 25 Jan 93 12:38:32 GMT
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik - RWTH Aachen
NNTP-Posting-Host: blefusco.informatik.rwth-aachen.de

gowen@sevmsa.cs.msstate.edu writes:
>This is a PD-Version of (big) Pas-TeX (made Aug 29 1991 [br]/[hes])
>This is TeX, C Version 3.14
>This is a format file for a `normal' TeX.
>(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
I think you try to use a normal TeX format file in a BIG-TeX-Version.
Either use a normal-Size-TeX-Version with you format files or
try to generate a BIG-TeX-Format file with initex.
I hope I could help you with this.


Bye, hhoff.

Email: hhoff@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: knyal@ils.nwu.edu (Jarrett Knyal)
Subject: ARexx script help please
Organization: Institute for the Learning Sciences
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:26:32 GMT

I am interested in processing whole directories of pictures in ADPro.  I know
ADPro had an Arexx port so I'd like to use it instead of going through the
laborious process of doing each frame by hand.  Problem is--I know nothing
about ARexx!  Has anyone made a little script that does this that I can take a
look at?
From: ele0135@sys.uea.ac.uk (D. Hardy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: 3 Button Mouse Software
Date: 25 Jan 93 12:24:58 GMT
Organization: UEA School of Information Systems, Norwich, UK.


Can anyone tell of all the software that will use a 3 button mouse - would like to be able
to cut and paste Like on the sun system .


Please Email me 
ele0135@radon.sys.uea.ac.uk

Thanks.
dunc!!!
From: stern+@pitt.edu (Eric G Stern)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: GNUPlot output to printer or file?
Keywords: gnuplot,output,help
Date: 25 Jan 93 14:08:49 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <C1BuM8.F4x@news.cso.uiuc.edu> djp33563@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (David J. Pugliese) writes:

   [  ... trying to get printed output with GNUplot]
>	Dave Pugliese
>	d-pugliese@uiuc.edu

I don't know how you're doing it, but here is what I do.  When you've
viewed your plot on the screen and are happy with it, you select your
output device with "set terminal <>" command.  You then have to direct
the output with "set output 'file'".  Then you issue your plot command
or replot.  I don't know what output devices have been compiled into
the fish executable; I've recompiled mine to use only the devices that
I need.  To find out what is available, just issue the "set terminl"
with no arguments.

				Eric Stern