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From: ldtaylor@tbag.UUCP (Lance Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Panasonic printer driver wanted
Date: 30 Jul 92 10:18:34 EST
Organization: Tampa Bay Amiga Group

The answer to that one is simple FHEITKAMP - use the EpsonQ driver, or whatever is comparable to the wide-carriage Epson...  Panasonic is FULLY Epson compatible (I am using a Panasonic 1124i right now...)

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From: warda@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Find File utility for the Amiga
Date: 29 Jul 92 20:07:19 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAXcluster

You didn't say whether you use a hard disk, but if so, then I recommend
'Qfind', which I got from a magazine coverdisk.  If it's not around for ftp,
I'll be happy to upload it to wuarchive.  I haven't used 'Find', which I notice
several people singing the praises of, but the reason I like Qfind is because
it's FAST!  
You run a sub-program called UpdateDB, which reads and stores every file and
directory name on every partition of your HD in a small file.  This takes a
couple of minutes, but you only have to do it after changing files on your HD,
say at the end of a session, or once or twice a week if you're as lazy as me.
When you type in "Qfind STRING" (CLI only), it will do a case-insensitive
substring search through this file and respond with all found files or
directories within a second or two on a stock 7MHz 68000 system. 


Cheers,

   Bill Bennett                           JANET: warda@uk.ac.oxford.vax    
   CRC Growth Factors Research Group   Internet: warda%vax.oxford.ac.uk  
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: mlelstv@speckled.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Subject: Re: Virtual Memory for the Amiga?
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Radioastronomie
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 22:42:29 GMT

In <1992Jul26.191201.26801@wam.umd.edu> walrus@wam.umd.edu (Udo K Schuermann) writes:
>Where, pray tell, can it be found?  Is it commercial or freely
>distributable?  From what you describe, it may just be a functional
>solution.  More info, please!!

It's commercial, we just ran a test with a 2Gig Harddisk on A3000
and A2500/30 machines. Markus Illenseer will post a summary this
week.

Regards,
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: vailm00@DMI.USherb.CA (MARC VAILLANCOURT)
Subject: Re: Virtual Memory for the Amiga?
Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke -- departement de Mathematiques et d'Informatique
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 15:34:50 GMT

-> As a matter of fact I do.  If something is available in Europe but 
-> not in the U.S., then for me for all practical purposes that 
-> product does not exist. Like I said, until this virtual memory 
-> product is released over here, it will remain vaporware to me.
 
  Does it mean you consider the A600 to be vaporware?

	Marc
From: smneyln@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Michael Neylon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Amiga <-> Unix
Date: 21 Jul 92 12:10:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: ariel.21JUL199207103915
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Is there any way that one can read/write data between a UNIX (
sun spacestation2) machine and an Amiga?  If necessary, I can use
CrossDOS to do an intermediate step at IBM format...

Mike Neylon          aka Masem the Great and Almighty Thermo GOD
  // Only the | Univ. of Toledo - Chemical Engineering - Senior
\X/   AMIGA!  |   NASA Lewis Research Center - Summer Intern
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.audio,comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: tribioli@arcetri.astro.it (Francesco Tribioli)
Subject: Re: Re: Deluxe Music Construction Set - Upgrade??
Organization: Osservatorio di Arcetri
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 07:36:52 GMT

In article <1992Jul26.210726.6081@news.iastate.edu>, barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
|> In article <62848@cup.portal.com> DennyA@cup.portal.com (Denny Lee Atkin) writes:
|> >
|> >If my little birds aren't tweeting lies, then you'd better type your
|> >words onto a hamburger buns and bundle up before the end of Fall... 
|> >
|> > :-)
|> 
|> 
|>    I'll believe it when I see it.  If the upgrade for DMCS is real, it had 
|> better not be a simple collection of bug fixes.  I've been waiting and waiting
|> and waiting and waiting for an upgrade for DMCS for five years, and I want
|> some actual improvements after all this time.  My biggest gripe about DMCS
|> is the inability to use any resolution mode other than 640x200, though 
|> other improvements I'd like to see include full SMUS importing and exporting
|> (instead of the partial SMUS support in the old version), much better MIDI
|> support, much better speed on unaccelerated Amigas (not hard to achieve, given
|> how slow the old version is), and an ARexx port.
|> 
|> ---
|> | Marc Barrett -MB-  |  email: barrett@iastate.edu
|> --------------------------------------------------

I would like too see 64th notes too, and a better output on printers (a Poscript
output?), and a better support of dynamics, and the possibility to change speed
in the middle of a bar, and .... and .... and .... :>

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From: mhall@amiganet.chi.il.us (Mike Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Any relational DBMSs out there?
Date: 26 Jul 92 22:07:51 GMT
Organization: Amiga Network Information Systems

Hi, all!  I'm looking for a good relational DBMS for the Amiga (of course).
I've been looking at SuperBase and dbManV, and can't quite cut through the
glitz to find out what they really are?  Are they relational?  Do they have
SQL support?  Is there any DB on the Amiga which has SQL?

Pointers, praises, and horror-stories will be eagerly accepted.  Thanks!


--
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mhall@amiganet.chi.il.us
From: blatter@amiga.physik.unizh.ch (Martin A. Blatter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Virtual Memory for the Amiga?
Date: 26 Jul 92 11:35:55 GMT
Organization: ICU - University of Zurich, Dept. of Comp. Sci.

In article <1992Jul24.100519.617@cheshire.oxy.edu> leavitt@cheshire.oxy.edu (Thomas VanNess Leavitt) writes:
>>>  AVM - the Amiga Virtual Memory      by F. Buergel and C. Schneider
>>>     At last - the benefits of virtual memory for existing software
>>>     like AdPro, CygnusEd, Imagine, etc
>I'm not sure, but possibly virtual memory can be implemented on
>the 68000 with some nifty software.  In any case, the MMU is not necassary.
>All 68K CPU's above the 68000 can support virtual memory.
>Is this program actually available?  In use?  Any comments?

The program has been released and is available in Germany under
the name of `GigaMem'. It *requires* an Amiga with MMU (68020
with 68851 or real 68030). GigaMem can make secondary memory 
(e.g. space on a hard drive) available as primary memory (RAM).

It's fully transparent, this means applications don't have to
specify that they want virtual memory (e.g. with a MEMF_VIRTUAL
flag for AllocMem), they just get it. That way, GigaMem is compatible
with almost any existing application program. It even allows
you to specify well-behaving programs and decides according to
this information which programs will get virtual memory and which
won't.
-- 
Martin A. Blatter - ICU
blatter@ifi.unizh.ch, blatter@amiga.physik.unizh.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: blatter@ifi.unizh.ch (Martin A. Blatter)
Subject: Re: Virtual Memory for the Amiga?
Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 08:20:46 GMT

In article <37030044@hpfcdc.fc.hp.com> koren@hpfcdc.fc.hp.com (Steve Koren) writes:
>blatter@ifi.unizh.ch (Martin A. Blatter) writes:
>> Take my word: The program exists and is available in every good computer
>> shop in Germany, and it *works* (I'm using it right now on my A3000)
>Does it work with the 68040 MMU?

Not yet. Give us a 68040 and we'll try our best to do a version for
the 68040 MMU ;-)

>  - steve
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: flui@fraser.sfu.ca (Francis Wai Gee Lui)
Subject: Re: Find File utility for the Amiga
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 05:48:41 GMT

In article <62957@cup.portal.com> HeroSoftware@cup.portal.com (Bits of Magic) writes:
>I need a "find file" utility for the Amiga.  Can anyone recommend one?
>
>Or, if there's a good way to do it with Amiga DOS, thus rendering an
>application unnecessary, then that would be great too.

`Find,' by Olaf Barthel on Fish disk 690, is THE BEST!  Here's the description 
straight from Fred Fish:

Find            Yet another file find utility, different from other programs
                of this kind in that it requires Kickstart and Workbench 2.04
                (or higher) to run, sports a font-sensitive user interface,
                includes Workbench AppIcon/AppWindow support, filetype ident-
                ification and other goodies.  Version 1.7, includes source in
                `C' and assembly language.

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From: hugh@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca (Hugh D. Gamble)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Is ispell available for Amiga?
Date: 24 Jul 92 19:38:45 GMT
Organization: NTT Systems, Inc., Toronto, Canada

In article <3708@svin02.info.win.tue.nl> dedos3@info.win.tue.nl writes:
>If anyone knows where to get ispell by anonymous ftp, please let me know.

I expect it's in the archives at wuarchive.wustl.edu
It's also on bix, and on Tom Rokicki's Radical Eye Radio bbs along
with guispell, ispell.el, and large and small dictionaries and hash
lists.



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From: jonathan@cats.ucsc.edu (Jonathan Cano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.audio,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Deluxe Music Construction Set - Upgrade??
Keywords: DMCS Upgrades, Music, MIDI
Date: 26 Jul 92 06:59:02 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: si.ucsc.edu


cs902125@ariel.yorku.ca (SHUK C YIP) writes:

>In article <1992Jul22.214013.27288@news.stolaf.edu> newton@mari.acc.stolaf.edu (newton) writes:
>>Does anyone know about the status of Electronic Arts DMCS upgrade for
>>the Amiga?  With some current file transfer software like Copyist
>>Companion available, I have gone back to sketching with DMCS and
>>converting to Dr. T's notation software.  In particular, I have been
>>having some problems with DMCS and 2.0 which occasionally cause the
>>system to crash.
>>

>Latest source said Electronic Arts are still looking for programmer to
>write the upgrade version.

Ha!  I dearly love DMCS even though it is badly in need of bug fixes and
a major upgrade but I will very shocked if EA does anything to benefit
amiga users!  Watch for weather forcasts of ice storms in *hell* the
day that EA comes out with the upgrade for DMCS on the amiga!

--Jonathan

P.S.  I'd love to have to eat my words ;^]
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999)
Subject: Re: Hard drive defragmenting
Organization: NCR (Torrey Pines Development Center)
Disclaimer: This posting does not neccessarily reflect the opinions of NCR.
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 16:31:35 GMT

In article <X204KSJ@minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de> arzheim@goofy.zdv.uni-mainz.de (Kai Arzheimer ) writes:

>Better solution: Try ReOrg (shareware). It does very well (with enough memory)
>and can be found e.g. at amiga.physik.unizh.ch (dir should be /amiga/disk or so)

... and then again.... I've heard a few disquieting reports of ReOrg not doing it's job right --
or doing it too good, depending on how one looks at it.  Files that were good before
ReOrg got them were no longer useable.  Even text files have been trashed.  I have *not* gotten
the particulars on what version (I just checked, I have *two* on my BBS), but as usual it
appears caution is the watchword.  :-(

Anyone else hear of this?  I've had two verified reports from both No. and SoCal, and the people
reporting it included the re-org`ed files and the backups of the originals.  The originals were the
same size as the reorganized ones, but the ReOrged ones were not useable.  This did not happen to
all files, but a sufficient number to send off alarm bells.
-- 

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: chris@alchemy.tn.cornell.edu (Chris Wolf)
Subject: Re: Cache-Prog ???
Organization: Alchemy International
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 00:41:25 GMT

In article <VB54CZG@minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de> arzheim@goofy.zdv.uni-mainz.de (Kai Arzheimer ) writes:
>Subject says it all:
>Does anyone out there know a good cache-prog that is PD/Shareware,
>runs under OS2.0 and has more impact than addbuffers xxx ?
>Thanks, Kai
>
>-- 
>* Kai Arzheimer                                           *
>* arzheimer@mzdmza.zdv.uni-mainz.de                       *
>* arzheim@goofy.zdv.uni-mainz.de                          *
>* "It's life Jim - but not as we know it." -Dr. L. McCoy  *

yeah, the one I'm almost finished writing 8)  Its called DynamiCache and its
in beta right now.  It works on both floppies and hard-disks, uses and
intelligent cacheing algorithm, dynamically allocates and deallocates cache
memory so that any unused memory is always used as cache memory, has
a complete Intuition/Commodities/2.0 look interface, achieves hit rates
of 60-75% in most cases, and achieves transfer rates of over 4 megs+
second on cache hits on a 68030 machine.  It requires OS 2.04.  The 
program is currently undergoing beta-testing and will be released soon
either as Shareware or inexpensive commercial program.

							- Chris
.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.audio,comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: cs902125@ariel.yorku.ca (SHUK C YIP)
Subject: Re: Deluxe Music Construction Set - Upgrade??
Keywords: DMCS Upgrades, Music, MIDI
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 03:31:04 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.214013.27288@news.stolaf.edu> newton@mari.acc.stolaf.edu (newton) writes:
>Does anyone know about the status of Electronic Arts DMCS upgrade for
>the Amiga?  With some current file transfer software like Copyist
>Companion available, I have gone back to sketching with DMCS and
>converting to Dr. T's notation software.  In particular, I have been
>having some problems with DMCS and 2.0 which occasionally cause the
>system to crash.
>

Latest source said Electronic Arts are still looking for programmer to
write the upgrade version.
From: kehlet@kehlet.adsp.sub.org (Jesper Kehlet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Virtual Memory for the Amiga?
Date: 27 Jul 92 22:35:25 GMT
Organization: Compos Mentis Software Systems
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <1992Jul27.093108.757@ifi.unizh.ch> blatter@ifi.unizh.ch (Martin A. Blatter) writes:
> Take my word: The program exists and is available in every good computer
> shop in Germany, and it *works* (I'm using it right now on my A3000)

So give us a name for this VMS and an address and phone/fax for those who
developed it.

I might just be interested in bringing it to Denmark...


> Martin A. Blatter

-- 
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     "Yet another emotional suicide, overdosed on sentiment and pride"
From: koren@hpfcdc.fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 13:37:29 GMT
Subject: Re: Virtual Memory for the Amiga?
Organization: HP Fort Collins, Co.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications

blatter@ifi.unizh.ch (Martin A. Blatter) writes:

> Take my word: The program exists and is available in every good computer
> shop in Germany, and it *works* (I'm using it right now on my A3000)

Does it work with the 68040 MMU?

  - steve

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: LZH split that creates LZH files?
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 07:21:01 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

I have discovered a nifty program called LZ that looks like it could be
useful for backup purposes.  The only trouble is that sometimes it
creates files too large to put on a floppy disk.

In the MS-DOS world there is a magic program called Zip-Chunker which
takes a .ZIP archive and breaks it into floppy-sized chunks, but the
resulting files are .ZIP files, so all you have to do is unzip each file
in turn, and you'll end up with the original archive contents.  No
messing with joining or splitting or anything.  It's great.

Is there a similar program for LZH files on the Amiga?  Is anyone
working on one?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: rcj2@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (ray.c.jender)
Subject: ProDraw/ProPage Upgrade costs?
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 19:48:54 GMT


o
	I'm pretty sure the upgrade cost to go from ProPage v2.0
	to v3.0 is $75.00 right?

	What about ProDraw v2.0 -> v3.0??? I have received nothing
	on ProDraw v3.0 from GD yet.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: aduncan@rhea.trl.OZ.AU (Allan Duncan)
Subject: Re: Good, cheap text processors
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 01:02:37 GMT

From article <1992Jul21.222823.21252@trl.oz.au>, by
soh@tmp_ip_003.trl.OZ.AU (Soh Kam Hung):
> I'm looking for a PD or cheap text processor for my fianc\'ee.  She
...
> At the moment, I use emacs 18.58 (Amiga port 1.24), but it doesn't
> automatically fill / wrap a line if the cursor is not on the rightmost
> column, or if characters in a paragraph are deleted.  I've mapped a
  ^^^^^^
The memacs on the C= distribution behaves correctly on this.

> function key to perform a fill-paragraph operation, but my fianc\'ee

But I'd like to be able to do this in it!

~
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: jmrg9881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon Reid)
Subject: LaTeX question: the 1-inch offset
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 19:18:00 GMT
Keywords: LaTeX,TeX,PasTeX

Hey folks, help me out.  A fellow on GEnie posted the following question,
and I don't have a copy of the TeXbook.  I seem to recall a couple
variables called \hoffset and \voffset.  Am I right?  Here's the post:

Amiga RoundTable
Category 5,  Topic 39
Message 29        Mon Jul 20, 1992
E.LADNER1 [Eric]             at 20:07 EDT
 
  I have another question about LaTeX.  
  It seems like you can't override the margins set up by the \documentstyle
command.  I have tryed everything to get it to change but it always shoves it
down and over by about an inch (even in the  ShowDVI program, with the margin
lines on, it don't match).
  If anyone has any insight into this problem, I would really a appreciate
it.....
 
           Eric
From: zxmgn01@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Philipp Knirsch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Hard drive defragmenting
Date: 24 Jul 92 19:11:35 GMT
Organization: Comp. Center (ZDV) U of Tuebingen, FRG

In <1992Jul20.152330.15946@ncsu.edu> dwjohnso@eos.ncsu.edu (DAVID WILLIAM JOHNSON) writes:


>How much memory does it want?!?  I have 4+ M of FastRAM and it reports not
>enough memory to optimize a 40M drive.  That seems alittle excessive. 
>Am I doing something wrong??

Hello....

I have had the same problem, but it`s not an error of Reorg but of your
controller or controller software to be exactly (so it was in my case):

My software and my harddisk claimed that it had 1 head and 468 sectors/track
and 468 sectors/cylinder.
Now reorg needs about 3k for every sector/track, that is about 1.5mb. Additio-
nally it takes some memory for the size of the partition, etc.

I ran it with 2.5 mb free memory and was then able to reorg my smallest 
partition (my boot) with 22mb.

So check out how many memory you have free when you try to reorg. Perhaps
break your startup-sequence just at the beginning, remove some of your hd-
buffers (reorg uses it`s own :) and if it isn`t working then try to
write other harddisk-parameters to your RDB (i think you use an SCSI
harddisk :)

But be aware!!! Rewriting these parameters destroy your partitions!!! So
backup your hd bevor you do it!!

For exact explanation email me, and we could check it out.

Read ya, Beat

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