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From: sworkman@oregon.uoregon.edu (Michael Sean Workman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Emplant, sybil, and ???
Date: 18 Nov 1992 09:10 PST
Organization: University of Oregon
Distribution: world
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News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

You people really seem to be slamming Utilities Unlimited pretty hard.  I
just saw a guy say that he's giving UU another chance.  After Sybil and now
Emplant, he'll give them one more... well folks, let's not forget the Super
Card Ami (or as I like to call it - the Stupid Card Ami).  The 'copy
anything' hardware copier.  First off, I ordered one (a long time ago) and
it took them about three months to get it to me.... when I got it I tried
backing up my workbench disk (just to test out the blazing speed of the DOS
copy)  Yeah, it was fast.  Real fast, but itsure as hell wasn't a copy of
Workbench on the other disk.  How am I supposed to believe it will back up
my expensive software when it won't even backup Workbench?!  I called Jim
Drew... "It will work better on copy protected disks..."  What the hell
does that mean?  A disk copier that won't copy totally unprotected disks is
worthless.  I called and called and finally had to call the Better Business
Bureau on them (I think THAT'S why they moved from Oregon to Arizona...) I
finally had to drive 3 hours to their 'place of business'  I was surprised
I didn't step in horse shit... it was a barn!  Yes, a barn!  Sure it had a
concrete floor, but nothing changes the fact that it was a barn.  And
conveniently, the person I needed to see wasn't there and nobody there
could answer ANY of my questions...  I'm never buying ANY other UU products
again (and I'm recommending other people against doing so) until I see one
functioning 100% in front of me and have heard of at least one OTHER person
getting the same results...  The guy seems like a con artist to me... don't
be fooled into thinking that this is the first time they've done this...
the delays, the excuses, it's all well practised!
From: aj639@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: ATonce Plus & the A1200
Date: 17 Nov 1992 18:15:13 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: aj639@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael Cox)
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I don't suppose anyone knows whether they will work together??

Also, does anyone use their ATonce with an A500 and an accelerator?

Mike
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From: achim@video1.han.de (Joachim Gothe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Emplant Stuph.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:03:25 GMT
Reply-To: achim@video1.han.de  (Joachim Gothe)
Organization: Mix Broadcast Video and Computer
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00 beta rel1

In article <D0iBuB1w164w@cellar.org>, Steve Winokur writes:

>Latest update to Emplant, Via the UU bbs...

[...]
>(If you want it, let me know and I'll mail it to you.)
>
>If there's demand, since the file is only 9k I suppose I could just post it
>here...

I think, you should POST it HERE. Or must we create a new news-group

alt.sys.amiga.emplant.patches

Achim

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,gnu.emacs.help
From: keithh@bnr.ca (Keith Hanlan)
Subject: Amiga GnuEmacs 18.58 and file-system case-insensitivity
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 01:04:32 GMT

I've recently started using GnuEmacs at work and at home.  I'm in
the process of trying to set up a friendly coding environment at
home.  (For Amiga users:I want to use the scmsg facility from
SAS-C 6.0 to use GnuEmacs instead of "se", the supplied SAS
editor.)

My first exercise is to write a front-end to emacs (in ARexx) so
that I can go "ed fred.c" in a CLI and if "fred.c" is already
being editted, it is simply made the current buffer.  Otherwise,
if "fred.c" is *not* already being editted, I want to find-file
it.

The problem is making it behave appropriately regardless of the
case that I specify.  Buffer names seem to be the filename without
the path in exactly the case specified.

So say I use dired to bring up "Makefile" and then later say
	ed makefile

Now under AmigaDOS, "Makefile" and "makefile" are the same file
but I can't think of a way to find the buffer named "#<buffer
Makefile>" when I am given the string "makefile".

One possibility I thought of was to ensure that my macro always
converts the supplied filename to its correct case before I go
looking for an existing editor.  The problem is that I have to be
confident that I will never do a "C-x C-f makefile".

The other idea was to replace find-file with a wrapper function
which forces the filename to the correct case if it exists.

Any elegant solutions? There must be something I missing.

Thanks,
Keith Hanlan  KeithH@bnr.ca  Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada 613-765-4645
From: mrosen@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Michael David Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Pagestream/ImageClubFonts
Date: 22 Nov 1992 10:16:25 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

Yesterday I posted a lengthy reply to a post from Soft Logik concerning the
Postscript type library that the offer. Since I edited the previous statements
down it appeared that Kevin Davidson responded on behalf of Soft Logik. As far
as I know this was not the case. 

I apologize to you, Kevin for this oversight. 

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: jeremym@fraser.sfu.ca (Jeremy Thomas McDonald)
Subject: Looking for Fujitsu printer driver
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 08:24:53 GMT

I have a Fujitsu DL1100 printer...  Is there a prefs printer driver for
this printer, and if so, where can I get it?  Thanks!
(p.s. EpsonQ works, but not to 360x360 dpi which is supported by the
printer)
.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: pcrayne@halcyon.com (Peter C. Crayne)
Subject: Re: CD Roms readable on a PC ?
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 08:15:03 GMT

In article <41260@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> jfriesne@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Jeremy Friesner!) writes:

>Just out of curiosity, what does MS-DOS do when you try to read
>a directory?  Does it hang, or say "directory error", or what?

While in just plain old dos, it never hung. It usually got directory
errors, but when trying to go into invalid directories, it sometime
reported errors that didn't seem totally relevant. Such as "file not
found". 

Windows, however was another story. Not only did file manager not read
the disk, but when trying to read the directory tree from it, it
cold-booted the machine!

When in dos, and attempting to read files that it can deal with, it
generally worked, though.

>Jeremy

-Pete
"An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys."
From: kzyx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: ProDraw & Gold Disk
Date: 19 Nov 92 14:53:26 EST
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell University


	I've had a bad experience with ProDraw 3.0 and Gold Disk
too.

	Its encapsulated postscript support is buggy. I called
customer  support just to get (what seems to be a standard
answer) : "yeah, we know about it"," we do not know when a
fix will be available",...

	My luck is that the program where I use the eps files
is AmigaTeX.  I called Tom Rockiki BBS, and Tom send me a dvips 
version that he "fixed" to take care of ProDraw bug (Thousand
thanks Tom!!!!).

	Now I wish I had purchased ProVector...   :(

	Just my 0.02 worth

	Edval

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: mmj7455@ultb.isc.rit.edu (M.M. Jacyszyn)
Subject: Panasonic KX-P4410 Printer driver problem.  HElp Please!
Originator: mmj7455@ultb
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 23:46:40 GMT



I am having problems getting my Panasonic KX-P4410 Laser Printer to
print properly.  If you have this printer, I would be greatly obliged to
hear from you via E-mail.

I currently have HPLaser.Driver in my devs/printers directory, and am
using it in my preferences.  Now I have not been able to get anything to
print from the CLI or a disk manager program.  So I tried printing a
file from my WordPerfect program and they have a different list of
Printer preferences to chhoose from and none of those allow me to print
either.  Whenever I attempt to print via WP or Cli, my system crashes.

If you have the Pan{sonic KX-P4410 driver,{would it be possible for me
to mail you a disk to send back?  Or is there an ftp site that has
drivers available to download.  Any help I can get on the matter would
be MUCH appreciated.  Thanks!

mmj7455@ultb.isc.rit.edu     <----- E-mail address

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: adap@edmund.cs.andrews.edu (Edsel Adap)
Subject: dvi to pcl?
Organization: Andrews University
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 05:06:21 GMT

Does anybody know of a utility to convert .dvi files (TeX output files)
to PCL (HP Printer Control Language).  I know there are utilities out
there to convert dvi to ps and postscript interpreters for the amiga but
I'm one of those guys who like to accomplish everything in one step.

Thanx to all of those who will reply...

Edsel Adap
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From: mrosen@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Michael David Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Pagestream/ImageClubFonts
Date: 16 Nov 1992 23:22:47 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4
Originator: mrosen@csd4.csd.uwm.edu

For those of you who are doing page layout on the Amiga and are tempted to 
use the Image Club Fonts offered by PageStream because of their low price, this
is a warning. 

These fonts are very low quality products (even by Amiga standards ;^) ). When I
puchased a family of typefaces from Soft-Logik I found the postscript output to
be poor on a laser printer, despite the fact that they are supposed to be Type 1
hinted typefaces. Even this was no so bad since I intended to use them with 
Linotronic output (1200-2500 dpi) and I could use the laser output for proofing.

Unfortunately, the fonts don't letterspace properly either.  Aside from poor
kerning, the numerals don't align properly so columns of figures are impossible
from a practicle standpoint.

The tech support person tried to claim that proportional spaced fonts don't 
align but she was wrong in this. Virtually all typefaces use consistent 
letter spacing for numbers precisely so you can create columns of readable
numbers. The Image Club font I purchased doesn't do this and the tech person
didn't express any surprise (or understanding) about this. I can only assume
that this is not an oversight by the manufacturer (Font Club) but a wrong
implementation that is probably common to all of their postscript typefaces
(excluding of course any typewritter face they may offer).

I requested either a refund or a credit for the typefaces I couldn't use, 
along with the return of the offending fonts. I figured I might be able to
exchange the unusable "body" fonts for a few "display" faces that would never
be used with columns of figures. "No" was the answer. So, I'm out $50.00 for
the useless fonts and am posting a warning to fellow netters that you should
think several times about purchasing these cheap typefaces.

The position of Soft-Logik, stated by the tech-support person, was that there
was no "but" in the fonts and that they were not the responsibility of Soft-
Logik, but of Image Club even though Soft-Logik sold me the fonts. 

I got the impression that Soft-Logik is well aware of the inferior quality of
these products. If so, they should not be offering a product of such dubious
quality; a product that they are unwilling to support.

I do understand that fonts are software and as such are at least difficult to
return. Soft-Logik should be aware of this too when they allow such product to
be distributed under their name.

A long post. I'm attempting not to "flame" in this message and I understand 
that I bought a cheap product and got burned by it. I just want others to 
know that if they want decent, usable Postscript Type 1 typefaces that 
Soft-Logik doesn't have such a product and you should be prepared to pay more
to get decent product.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: saj31052@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Scotty A Johnson)
Subject: MAPLE V
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 03:38:57 GMT

WHat is the status of Maple and the Amiga?

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


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?

Thanks,

  Scotty AJ
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: terjem@stud.cs.uit.no (Terje Normann Marthinussen)
Subject: Re: ProDraw + A4000 = :-(
Keywords: prodraw 4000 no workee
Organization: University of Tromsoe
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:15:34 GMT

In article <1992Nov18.031030.6187@cbnews.cb.att.com>, itch@cbnews.cb.att.com (richard.m.brack) writes:
>
>I don't know how others generally feel about Gold Disk but I'm not too
>excited at the moment.  If you haven't heard ProDraw crashes on the
>A4000.  Are there any developer types out there that have tried to run
>it on a non-4000 machine running 3.0?  Just wondering what happened.

Well, I've tried it and PPage on both A4000 and an A2500 running 3.0.
As long as the OS is v. 39.29 an KS is v. 39.106 the program runs on
both machines. If you have anything earlier than that it will crash.

What I've discovered is som very serious bugs though.
1. Changing between color and mono is dangerous.

2. The memory warnings don't work anymore, meaning that it is fully possible to
run out of chipmem which in most cases will force you to reboot (you'll not be
able to open menus, drawers etc.).

3. If the biggest free chipmem fragment gets below approx. 130K then you'll
get recoverable alerts all the time (freeing mem dosen't help, you'll have to 
reboot). 


Terje Marthinussen
terjem@stud.cs.uit.no
From: gad@fncrd6.fnal.gov (greg deuerling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Provector questions
Date: 17 Nov 1992 19:45:59 GMT
Organization: Fermilab
NNTP-Posting-Host: fncrd6.fnal.gov
Keywords: drawing printing provector stylus font

In article <1992Nov17.190258.5849@news.acns.nwu.edu> vsanchez@casbah.acns.nwu
.edu (Victor Sanchez) writes:

> The lack of lines with arrows (although 
>the provided me with a couple of ARREX scripts for doing that, which work
>very well). Letter drawing seems very slow in a package that prides itself
>in being very fast, I do not know if font cacheing is being done.

I saw some time ago from a post from Ross that lines with arrows would be
supported in the next version of P.V.

>There are other minor details, like, when using the symbol font, I would like
>to see the actual font in the requester and not the roman version of it (i.e.
>they need to provide a map from amigados type fonts to actual ProVector font).
>I have a slow Amiga (an A1000 running 2.04) and large requesters like the 
>fill and border ones take a long time to draw, a simple set of requesters 
>would provide faster access to them. What I have done is to have all the 
>possible preferences I use, not many, defined in AREXX macros so that can 
>do the all the changes with a single menu invocation, etc. Nothing that a A4000
>would not fix :-).

Have you talked to their tech support ??? These sound like great ideals, and
these guy's seem to bend over backwards to please you.

>		Victor

>PS, I would like PSimport to import the text also, at least if I have
>the font available. I have to import scientific drawings and plots, which
>are full of text.

I talked to one of the tech. support guys some time back, and he said they
have had lots o complaints that PSimport does not import fonts with the
EPS file, he also said that it would more than likley be in the next version.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: obelhawk@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Rolf Kunisch)
Subject: Re: DirOPUS questions!
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 08:16:42 GMT

thly@pe.chalmers.se (Thomas Lydhig) writes:

>Some questions about DirOPUS v3.41 from INOVAtronics:
>    1. What is the latest version?
>    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!
Maybe you can stop it like all operations. There is a kind of cancel operation. 
Something like pressing mousebuttons in the top of the window, but I can t
remember which one...

>    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?
It should be easy either with Arexx or with the file type options.

>    4. Is it possible to reach INOVAtronics on Internet? How?
Hmm, maybe you want to read the author himself? He is Jonathan Potter and his
mail address should be:

jpotter@itd.adelaide.edu.au

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

So long, Rolf.
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From: tron@uni-paderborn.de (Matthias Scheler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: MAPLE V
Date: 22 Nov 1992 14:18:25 GMT
Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn, Germany
Distribution: world
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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?
|> 
|> I know that 5.2 is coming out for other machines, but
|> I haven't heard anything about it for the Amiga.

Don't, here at University Paderborn we've Maple V V1.0.

|> Also, I have never used Maple, but I have heard that
|> 
|>   1) The interface on the Amiga is poor

It has an ARexx-Interface, 2D and 3D Plots are supported. You can use it a
CLI-Window or in a kind of multiwindow user interface.

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University of Paderborn (Germany)
From: thly@pe.chalmers.se (Thomas Lydhig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: DirOPUS questions!
Date: 15 Nov 92 23:39:41 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology

Some questions about DirOPUS v3.41 from INOVAtronics:
    1. What is the latest version?
    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!
    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?
    4. Is it possible to reach INOVAtronics on Internet? How?
    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)?

THANX,
	Thomas Lydhig		/ 	thly@pe.chalmers.se
From: jechawke@unix2.tcd.ie (Lone Rider)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: CD Roms readable on a PC ?
Date: 18 Nov 92 13:13:03 GMT
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin

Does anyone know if I can read a CD-Rom for the Amiga (eg FISH disks)
on an IBM PC ? (the PC has a Soundblaster Pro CD-Rom drive)
I can't afford to buy a CD-ROM drive for the Amiga, so I figured
maybe it would be possible to stick the CD into the PC's CD-Rom
drive and copy the files I want to an 800k 3.5" and then use
dod2dos or similar to read them on the Amiga.

What do you think ?
thanks in advance for your help,
Jonathan

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From: rmal@jet.uk (Richard Lucock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: GNUEmacs problem
Keywords: emacs, GNU, compile
Date: 18 Nov 92 16:26:59 GMT
Organization: Joint European Torus

Hi,
	I have a difficulty with the gnuemacs amiga port (18.58). The
problem occurs when I use the compile command.  This seems to work in
general (eg if the command line I specify invokes a simple rexx script
that prints to '*' or to the standard output). However, if the command
line invokes 'lc', then emacs hangs. I seem to recall people having
similar problems, which were thought to do with the pipe handler that
emacs uses. Does anyone know the solution for this ?

Cheers,
	Richard


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