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From: bruceg@Cadence.COM (Bruce Gustifson)
Subject: Re: china white
Organization: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 20:34:29 GMT

In article <19ki29INNpgm@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cd741@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Paul Andarti) writes:
>
>In a previous article, n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio) says:
>
>>tyu@ecst.csuchico.edu (    ) writes:
>>Before I got outta that town, the last thing I heard about these two
>>was that the buyer was on the lam from the maniac, who was going to put 
>>the buyer in the hospital because he was too drunk and wacked out on 
>>cocaine to remember that he had already been paid.
>
>This is the problem with alcohol!!!
  Alcohol is a serious problem in the world, but in my experience
it ussually takes 20 or 30 years to destroy a persons world with
it, but I have seen people go down FAST with coke. Like in 6
months they have nothing left in the world (friends and possesions).
This is mostly result of the drug being illegal, and thusly being 
expensive. However, I believe there is another aspect to it. For
one, someone who is doing coke all the time can be VERY difficult
to get along with. Another thing is that coke can easily become
the most important thing in  a persons life. Not that this does
not happen with alcohol, but it just seems to happen so damn fast
with coke. IMHO. Flame on!
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Newsgroups: alt.co-evolution
From: hank@netcom.com (Hank Roberts)
Subject: 25th Anniversary of Whole Eath Catalog: Summer 1993
Summary: Opening a thread
Keywords: party? gathering? what next?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 21:26:47 GMT



Next summer there will be some sort of gathering in the
San Francisco Bay area -- no specifics available yet.  Here's
a thread to note those plans as they become available, and also
to think ahead a bit -- what to do for the _next_ 25 years?
----------------
   Claimer: I'm a proofreader at Whole Earth; email    wer@well.sf.ca.us
            for info on the magazine/Catalogs/books.
Newsgroups: alt.co-evolution
From: hank@well.sf.ca.us (Hank Roberts)
Subject: Re: co-evolution?
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 03:37:00 GMT

In <1992Sep26.002327.11365@wixer.cactus.org> sparky@wixer.cactus.org (Timothy Sheridan) writes:


>So what's the purpose of alt.co-evolution?
>It sound like it could be a visionary forum but i get the feeling it's like
>some old relic-O-the-past......

>if so why do these groups persist?  Perhaps they should. Can somone tell me?

>Tim




It's both old and new; we started the group within the past month or so, for
readers of the Whole Earth Catalog, Coevolution Quarterly (now known as the
Whole Earth Review), and related publications from the Point Foundation of
Sausalito, CA.  Ask your librarian for copies.  Next summer will be the 25th
anniversary of the Catalog.

For more info on the publications themselves, contact the magazine's office
staff -- email     wer@well.sf.ca.us

Claimer: I proofread WER and most of the varous Catalogs that have come out in
the past few years; all errors in them have my name on'em (wry grin).  But
this newsgroup is for and by readers, "not officially supported" by Point.

Visionary?  I hope so.
Newsgroups: alt.books.reviews,sci.anthropology
From: kbanerje@grad09.math.ncsu.edu (Kaushik Banerjee)
Subject:  The Symmetric Eigenvalue Problem by Beresford Parlett
Organization: NCSU Mathematics Dept.
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 16:23:51 GMT

Does anyone have a copy of the above mentioned book that
they are willing to part with? If so, at what price?

K. Banerjee
From: rbecerra@dcc.uchile.cl (BECERRA GUZMAN MARCELO)
Subject: Need to buy "FILE FORMAT FOR MOST POPULAR ..."
Originator: rbecerra@dcc.uchile.cl
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 21:06:24 GMT
Organization: Universidad de Chile, Depto. de Ciencias de la Computacion

  Hi,

       I need to buy the book : "File formats for popular PC software"
 by Jeff Walden, because I have to do a Object Oriented Proyect at my
 University.

           Please, send me e-mail.

                                      Thanks ...


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From: nikolay@tut.fi (Tchamov Nikolay)
Newsgroups: alt.books.technical
Subject: Just a Test
Date: 5 Oct 1992 09:49:35 GMT
Organization: Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Distribution: world
Reply-To: nikolay@cs.tut.fi
NNTP-Posting-Host: kanahaukka.cs.tut.fi
Keywords: Test


I am sorry but I really need to make a test
because of technical problems.

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Tampere University of Technology                  FAX: 358-31+16-1857       
P.O.Box 553, SF-33101 Tampere, Finland       E-mail: nikolay@cs.tut.fi
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Tampere University of Technology                  FAX: 358-31+16-1857       
P.O.Box 553, SF-33101 Tampere, Finland       E-mail: nikolay@cs.tut.fi
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
From: mortenk@dhhalden.no (MORTEN KNUDSEN)
Subject: Finding the mouse
Organization: Ostfold College
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 21:22:00 GMT


I'm writing a program that needs to know what port the mouse is
connected to. Do anybody know how to do this, or is there a .DOC
file that explains direct mouse programming? I couldn't find it
in the HELPPC file.
From: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: Programming challenge
Date: 30 Sep 92 18:00:46 GMT
Organization: Zortech, Seattle

I have heard that there is a "well-known trick" for evaluating
	(a > b) ? a : b
in assembler language without using any jump instructions. I haven't
been able to discover what that trick is. Does anyone know?
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
From: tomw@stephanie.megatek.uucp (Tom Wright)
Subject: Re: HELP Appendin two files
Reply-To: megatek!tomw@uunet.uu.net
Organization: Megatek Corporation, San Diego, California
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 00:11:00 GMT

In article <oHu8RB2w165w@mindvox.phantom.com> ricky@mindvox.phantom.com (Richard Velez) writes:
>I'm going to re-write what I wrote, I dont think many of ya are going to 
>know what the heck I am talking about :),
>
> I receive yesterday a 10 part binary file, and I will like to append 
>them together the problem is that I could only use my text edit to append 
>5 at a time, due to my low in memory, which I only have 1 meg, anyway I 
>now have 2 files with 5 parts in each, each file is over 180,000 in 
>bytes, and I was told by using the append command in Dos, I could put 
>them together, anyway I will like to know how do I appened them, hope 
>this has a better look then my last message (1083)
>
append? no! no! no!

append is like "path" but for data files.

that is, if i include in my autoexec.bat

append c:\borlandc\include

then in my editor i can open stdlib.h regardless of where i am and up
pops the file in c:\borland\include (which is a very quick way to get to
a file to look at it, grab text, etc.)

you want

xcopy p1,p2,p3,p4,p5,p6,p7,p8,p9,p10 together

to build one big file.

regards,
tom
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: Rotating a bitmap
From: sjmadsen@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Steve Madsen)
Date: 28 Sep 92 00:07:08 -0500
Organization: Miami of Ohio

        First off, this deals with Turbo C++ 1.0 and 256 color VGA graphics.

        I've got a problem with some code I'm trying to develop to rotate an
image.  This is pretty basic stuff.  All I'm trying to do is have an image in
putimage() format, pass a couple of pointers to memory and an angle to rotate,
and have the destination image be the rotated version of the source.  I've got
most of the thing completed, but it just does not work right and I've spent
about 4 1/2 hours trying to debug it.

        So, if any cares to look at the code and see what's wrong, or maybe
knows where I can look for some information on this type of thing, PLEASE let
me know!

        Code follows .sig...

-- 
Steve Madsen
Miami University  Oxford, OH
Internet: sjmadsen@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu

--
/**************************************************************************
   rotateimage:
 
   Rotates an image in putimage format "angle" degrees.  The resulting
   image is stored at "dest".
**************************************************************************/
 
void rotateimage(char *src, char *dest, int angle)
{
  double hypotenuse;
  double theta;
  double radians;
  int x, y;
  int dx, dy;
  int width = src[0] + src[1] * 256;
  int height = src[2] + src[3] * 256;
  int centerx = width / 2, centery = height / 2;
 
  // First fill up the destination memory with "normal" values:
 
  dest[0] = src[0];
  dest[1] = src[1];
  dest[2] = src[2];
  dest[3] = src[3];
  for (x = 0; x < width * height; x++)
    dest[x + 4] = 0;
 
  angle = angle % 360;  // reduce & adjust for clockwise rotation
  radians = (M_PI / 180) * angle; // convert degrees -> radians
  for (y = 0; y < height; y++)
    for (x = 0; x < width; x++) {
      dx = x - centerx;
      dy = y - centery;
      hypotenuse = sqrt((double)(dx * dx) + (double)(dy * dy));
      if (hypotenuse == 0.0) {
        dx = x;
        dy = y;
      } else {
        theta = asin(dy / hypotenuse);
        dx = cos(theta + radians) * hypotenuse;
        dy = sin(theta + radians) * hypotenuse;
      }
      if (dx >= 0 && dx < width && dy >= 0 && dy < height)
        dest[dy * width + dx + 4] = src[y * width + x + 4];
    }
}
From: ricky@mindvox.phantom.com (Richard Velez)
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: HELP Appendin two files
Date: 6 Oct 92 09:20:59 GMT
Organization: [Phantom Access] / the MindVox system

I'm going to re-write what I wrote, I dont think many of ya are going to 
know what the heck I am talking about :),

 I receive yesterday a 10 part binary file, and I will like to append 
them together the problem is that I could only use my text edit to append 
5 at a time, due to my low in memory, which I only have 1 meg, anyway I 
now have 2 files with 5 parts in each, each file is over 180,000 in 
bytes, and I was told by using the append command in Dos, I could put 
them together, anyway I will like to know how do I appened them, hope 
this has a better look then my last message (1083)

===============================================================
 Richard Velez                      Electronic Mail
 South Bronx, Homeboy!               Richard Velez - 1:278/712
 Born and Raise in New York City     Ricky@MindVox.Phantom.Com
===============================================================
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
From: linet2@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Lord Eugster)
Subject: Info needed: 3D Rendering
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 16:46:19 GMT

Does anyone know where to get good info and source to store, manipulate, scale,
and display 3-D objects?  Many books I've read uses wireframe, but I need good
color rendering.  The image will be displayed on 320x200 -256 color MCGA/VGA.
Speed is important, but I do not require "arcade" speed.  Clipping is a must.

Eugster
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
From: petera@bcars630.UUCP (Peter Ashwood-Smith)
Subject: Screen Output using BIOS
Keywords: BIOS, VIDEO
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 15:49:58 GMT

    I do not seem to be able to get the forground color of characters I write to the screen using the BIOS to be anything other than white? The background color attribute bits work but the forground does not. I can make em blink etc... what gives? Anyone know what I screwed up?

    P.S (yes I have a color monitor)
From: terry@wag.caltech.edu (Terry R. Coley)
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: Wanted:  recommend reliable FORTRAN compiler for DOS
Date: 29 Sep 92 01:02:44 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: picasso.wag.caltech.edu

I colleague of mine at Argonne National Lab needs to compile some analysis 
routines written in Fortran on a PC running DOS.  I would appreciate hearing 
from people with with Fortran experience on what compiler they would recommend 
for DOS systems.  Commercial responses are welcome also.

-- 
	- Terry
terry@wag.caltech.edu 818-397-2724 818-585-0918 (FAX)
Terry Coley, Caltech 139-74, Pasadena, CA  91125
From: ceharris@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Carl Harris)
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Toggling NumLock
Date: 30 Sep 92 22:29:54 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA

While simply turning off the NumLock bit in the BIOS' keyboard status
variable requires only 16 bytes or so, turning off the appropriate 
indicator lights on the keyboard iff the machine is an AT-class box takes
several additional instructions.  Hence, NUMOFF.COM is about 40 bytes long.

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| CS @ VA TECH  |banging one's head against a wall, but with fewer  |
|               |opportunities for reward.                          |
From: mats.astrom@neurofys.uu.se (Mats Astrom)
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: DMA : numder of transfers
Date: 1 Oct 1992 07:39:13 GMT
Organization: Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, University of Uppsala
NNTP-Posting-Host: mats.neurofys.uu.se

While doing DMA-transfer it's possible to read the number of transfers done
by reading a specific register of the DMA-circuit. I've manage to do so but
the result seem to be somewhat instable ! The instability is due to reads of
the register in the middle of a transfer, isn't it ????
Assuming I'm setting up everthing correctly, how do I read the number of
transferred bytes to get the correct value every time ?????

I program in TP 6.0, with the following declarations the code is:

BTW, I'm doing integer ( 2 bytes ) transfers, see odd(lobyte1) below !

   lobyte1,
   lobyte2,
   hibyte1,
   hibyte2  : byte;

   DMACountReg = $03; { byte Count, ch1 }

    version 1:
                      {--- check how far DMA has gone ---}
                      repeat
                         lobyte1 := port[DMACountReg];
                         hibyte1 := port[DMACountReg];
                         lobyte2 := port[DMACountReg];
                         hibyte2 := port[DMACountReg];
                      until odd(lobyte1) and
                            (hibyte2=hibyte1) and
                            (lobyte2=lobyte1);
    version 2:
                      {--- check how far DMA has gone ---}
                      repeat
                         lobyte1 := port[DMACountReg];
                         hibyte1 := port[DMACountReg];
                         lobyte2 := port[DMACountReg];
                         hibyte2 := port[DMACountReg];
                      until odd(lobyte1) and ( ( (hibyte2=hibyte1) and
                                                 (lobyte2<=lobyte1) ) or
                                              ( (hibyte2<hibyte1) and
                                                (lobyte2>lobyte1) ) );

The calculation of how many transfers done in both versions is:

                     nr_of_transfers := ( hibyte2 shl 8 + lobyte2 ) shr 1;

None of the above versions seem to give a stable result of the amount of
transfers done !!!
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Mats strm             email:        mats.astrom@neurofys.uu.se
tel: +46 18 66 34 52                  Dept. of Clinical Neurophysiology
fax: +46 18 55 11 32                  University Hospital
                                      S-751 85 Uppsala
                                      Sweden
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From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson)
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Mouse programming
Keywords: Mouse
Date: 5 Oct 92 14:09:04 GMT
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates

In article <1992Oct5.000501.3735@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> stuartw@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Stuart Woolford) writes:

>How do you write a routine in pascal ( or C...asm...etc ) which will be called
>by the standard callback function of the driver ( when a button is pressed, etc
>), and which can still address the programs global variables, the problem is
>that, when the routine is called, DS points at the MOUSE DRIVERS data segment,
>and I at least could not think of an easy way to address the programs global
>data, which will NOT be at a fixed address :-(

You could stick a copy of the program's DS into the ICA (4F0:0-F) on
startup and then have your routine pick it up from there.

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Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
From: FREE1178@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu
Subject: How to get keys from keyboard without removing them
Organization: C.C.S.O.
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 01:50:23 GMT

Hi all--
 
  I need to check the keyboard buffer and store keypresses in a buffer
to be stored in a file.  I want to do this as an ISR.  I was planning
on writing it in C and then porting it to Assembler.  The question
is how to check the keys in the keyboard buffer without removing them.
I want whatever program that is running to be able to execute those
keystrokes.
 
  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
From: walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Walk)
Subject: Re: HELP Appendin two files
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 21:33:37 GMT

ricky@mindvox.phantom.com (Richard Velez) writes:

>I'm going to re-write what I wrote, I dont think many of ya are going to 
>know what the heck I am talking about :),

> I receive yesterday a 10 part binary file, and I will like to append 
>them together the problem is that I could only use my text edit to append 
>5 at a time, due to my low in memory, which I only have 1 meg, anyway I 
>now have 2 files with 5 parts in each, each file is over 180,000 in 
>bytes, and I was told by using the append command in Dos, I could put 
>them together, anyway I will like to know how do I appened them, hope 
>this has a better look then my last message (1083)

Do:
copy file1+file2+...+file10 fileall


					Todd Walk
					walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu

Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
From: jt@fuw.edu.pl (Jerzy Tarasiuk)
Subject: Re: Programming challenge
Organization: Warsaw University Physics Dept.
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 18:14:10 GMT

>>>>> On 30 Sep 92 18:00:46 GMT, bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright) said:

Walter> I have heard that there is a "well-known trick" for evaluating
Walter> 	(a > b) ? a : b
Walter> in assembler language without using any jump instructions. I haven't
Walter> been able to discover what that trick is. Does anyone know?

Probably something like: mov r1,a / mov r2,b / sub r2,r1 / cmc
sbb r3,r3 / and r3,r2 / add r3,r1 / mov result,r3
The SUB sets CF when a>b, CMC complements the CF, after the SBB
if a>b r3 is 0 (and then AND gives 0, ADD gives r1=a), otherwise
r3 is 0xFFFF (and then AND gives b-a, ADD gives b).
This all for unsigned arithmetic only... Jerzy Tarasiuk
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
From: bmc@mayo.edu (Bruce Cameron, Med Sci 1-14, 4-3288)
Subject: Non-buffered Keyboard Input
Reply-To: bmc@mayo.edu
Organization: Mayo Foundation
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 15:08:44 GMT

I am looking for a way to avoid buffered keyboard input, the application
I am developing needs to be able to do the following:
	1) register a key press
	2) tell what key was pressed
	3) register when the key was released
All without buffering.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to do this in C/C++,  or
am I going to have to get into assembly? If I have to get into assembly,
any suggested alogrythms?

Thanks in advance.

---
--Bruce
-----------------------------------------------------
Bruce M. Cameron		bmc@mayo.edu
Mayo Foundation			voice: (507) 284-3288
200 1st St SW			fax:   (507) 284-9623
Rochester, MN 55905		ARS -- WD9CKW
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
From: sunderma@cs.scarolina.edu (Jack Sunderman)
Subject: Re: stdprn and laser printers
Organization: USC  Department of Computer Science
Date:  1 Oct 92 17:38:15 GMT

klangevi@cs.ulowell.edu (The Raven) writes:

>Sorry, this isn't quite a followup, and since I'm new, I don't know how
>to post to newsgroups yet (I mostly just followup, anyway).  This sort
>of has to do with printers, though.  I need to locate a printer file for
>use with WordPerfect 5.1 for an Epson LQ-570 printer.  If anyone has one
>or knows where I can FTP one, please let me know.  I haven't had any
>success so far.

>							-Kev

You can call Word Perfect directly at 

1-800-541-5170  this is there printer support line and they will mail
you a disk with the driver on it.

Any other problems and you can call

1-800-641-5096 they will transfer you to the write number.

NOTE -- These are free help lines and the last time I called for a
print driver that did not even charge me for the disk or postage.


This should help

Jack


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Disclaimer: Jack's views are solely his own and to be taken with a
	grain of salt.
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