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From: davidm@consilium.com (David S. Masterson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Any relational DBMSs out there?
Date: 27 Jul 92 21:16:40 GMT
Organization: Consilium Inc., Mountain View, California
In-reply-to: cs902125@ariel.yorku.ca's message of 27 Jul 92 04:04:30 GMT
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>>>>> On 27 Jul 92 04:04:30 GMT, cs902125@ariel.yorku.ca (SHUK C YIP) said:

> In article <mhall.04y0@amiganet.chi.il.us> mhall@amiganet.chi.il.us (Mike
> Hall) writes:

>>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?

> SuperBase Professional is relational and has SQL server, networking
> supports.

To my knowledge SBPro4 for the Amiga does not have SQL support.  It may have
networking support, although I remember Precision saying that it was waiting
for the Commodore standard -- then they got bought by SPC who traded the Amiga
version to Oxxi for a player to be named later.

I'm not up on where Oxxi is going with SBPro or how connected they are with
the main line development at SPC.  Ashame -- SBPro looked like a real,
industrial strength, relational database.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: alexm@leland.Stanford.EDU (alex matthews)
Subject: TwinPC future PC<>Amiga networking?
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 18:46:47 GMT

To: csanii@bmera226.bnr.ca
Subject: Re: TwinExpress, IBM<--->Amiga networking
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Cc: 
Bcc: 

About two and a half years ago I asked a question here about whether
or not it was possible to network a little laptop I had without
a hard drive to the Amiga, something I didn't think should be that dif-
ficult considering that the Amiga multitasks so well.  I received no
response, no replies, nothing.  Evidently it is now possible to
at least -connect- them.  I've always thought that something reminiscent
of Parnet or Sernet for PC-Amiga connection would be a hell of a utility,
since quite a few Amigoids have PC's floating around for one reason or 
another.  I've taken a look at Twin, and it's OK for what it does, which
is transfer files, but personally I find it just as easy to dump the
files on a 720K disk to move them back and forth.  Now if the program
allowed you to actually RUN PC files from an Amiga hard drive, THAT would
be a hell of a program.  Just imagine, one accelerated amiga stuffed with
serial cards could act as a server to several PC's, without any special
hardware on either the amiga or the PC's.  

I wonder how much more difficult it is to run a program on a pc from an
Amiga hard drive than to just copy it over.
From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: What is PostScript ?
Date: 31 Jul 92 07:03:48 GMT
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Organization: Commodore Germany

In article <30JUL199223400911@admingate> sd7047787@admingate (SD7047787) writes:
>What si Postscript?

It's a programming language. If you know Forth, than here you see something
very similar.

But normally it's not conisdered to be a general-purpose language, but a
"page description language". Its commands serve to create some image on
a paper. But with these powerful features of a whole language you can do
much more than just put some dots on paper that vaguely remind you of a
letter, no you can have lines, curves, areas, shadings. You can take
existing shapes and modify them (rotate, shear,...).

So a text program that wants to control a PostScript printer has to
produce not simply text, but *program* source text, that's then sent to 
the printer, interpreted by it and printed.

-- 
Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to \\  Only my personal opinions...
Commodore Frankfurt, Germany  \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk
				   or  peterk@public.sub.org
From: rigby@pyramid.unr.edu (Wayne Rigby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Amiga <-> Unix
Date: 24 Jul 92 05:29:36 GMT
Organization: University of Nevada, Reno  Department of Computer Science

In article <21JUL199207103915@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov> smneyln@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Michael Neylon) writes:
>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...

Yes.  Most Unix boxes that have 3.5 inch drives usually read and write IBM
formats.  The Sun Sparc IPC's at my university did and Sun 2's probably do
too.  You just take a double density floppy (or high density if you have
the AE HD drive or one of the 3000's with CBM's HD drive), and format it
either on an IBM, Amiga, the Sun, whatever.  Save to disk on the Sun, read
on the Amiga using CrossDOS or whatever.  There are some good PD/SW software
that will read IBM disks out there.  I used MTOOLs on the Sparc (and RS6000's)
to format and write my disks.

Have fun!

Wayne Rigby
Computer and Systems Engineer
rigby@cs.unr.edy
From: warda@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: 'Shar' for Amiga or VAX?
Date: 27 Jul 92 18:13:53 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAXcluster

Anyone know where I can get hold of a program for unpacking Unix shell 
archives which runs either on an Amiga or under VAX VMS?  I'm interested in
some of the stuff on comp.sys.amiga.binaries, but they're stored using shar. 

Cheers,

   Bill Bennett                           JANET: warda@uk.ac.oxford.vax    
   CRC Growth Factors Research Group   Internet: warda%vax.oxford.ac.uk
From: greg@cbmozq.adsp.sub.org (Greg Perry Australia)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Jonathan Potter, RU STILL HERE?
Date: 27 Jul 92 13:27:42 GMT
Reply-To: greg@cbmozq.adsp.sub.org (Greg Perry Australia)
Organization: CBM Australia - Developer Access Queensland

In article <1992Jul26.123420.8817@bsu-ucs.uucp> 01ksdavis@bsu-ucs.uucp writes:
>
>....
>
>	Hope this gets to you, Jonathan Potter.  Just in Case, I will look for
>your email address in my back-log of email.
>

Jon Potter is available via direct mail at

	cbmehq!cbmaus!potter!jonp@cbmvax.commodore.com


__
Regards,
Greg
From: FELIX-ONE@cup.portal.com (Dan A Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: cd-ROM caddys, where to get them
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 16:18:59 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: na

A while back, I was asking for where I could get extra CD-ROM caddys..
Some people said they'd be interested if I found a place.
well, I have found a place ( cheap ! ), and am now the proud owner of
4 ( four ) caddys. It makes life easier, thats for sure.
anyways heres the address ( keep in mind that I am not associated with
these people other than being a VERY satisfied customer.
( they also have the ab20 cd, good stuff )

 walnut creek CDROM
 1547 palos verdes mall, suite 260
 walnut creek,ca 94596
 phone # (510)-947-5996

  P.S. the cheap part----> $5.00 each ! ( I was going to get them for $11)

   dan


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de (Georg Hessmann)
Subject: Re: Need answer to FAQ, What the heck is TeX ?????
Organization: University of Passau, Germany
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 10:13:08 GMT

In article <13797@mindlink.bc.ca> Lloyd_Sumpter@mindlink.bc.ca (Lloyd Sumpter) writes:
>> Andrew Arensburger - R writes:
>>         TeX [*] is a typesetting language, sort of like PostScript or troff;
[...]
>
>      Thanks! (I, too, wondered what TeX was!) One question, though:
>      What is the output? Does it use Amiga's built-in printer driver? Or can
>it output a Postscript file ( similar to troff)?

The output format of TeX (virtex command) is the DVI format.
(DVI: device independant)

You need a driver to preview or print a DVI file.

PasTeX comes with two drivers: 
ShowDVI to preview the text on the monitor and
DVIprint to print the text on a printer (or in an IFF file).

DVIprint prints normaly directly to the printer. It can print on
a DeskJet (LaserJet) and on many dot printers.
DVIprint also has the possibility to use the standard WB drivers.
This is much slower, but it should work with all printers.

There exists some more DVI printer drivers. E.g.:
dvips : convert a dvi file into a postscript file.
dvilj : a faster LaserJet driver than DVIprint (uses font downloading).

	Georg.

-- 
  hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de		(Georg Hemann)
						(Oberer Markt 7/D-8712 Volkach)
From: Ernie_Gorrie@mindlink.bc.ca (Ernie Gorrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Nag 4.1
Date: 31 Jul 92 00:26:51 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

> Jerry C. Hudgins writes:
> Can anyone suggest an alternative to Nag?  Commercial programs would be
> acceptable.

        Funny you should ask.  I just downloaded Nag 1.7 the other day and
found that it didn't work under 2.04, but worked fine under 1.3 using a Multi
Start board.  I e-mailed Richard Stockton and learned that they are currently
selling a few remaining copies of Nag 4.1 (WB 2.04 compatible) for $50.00 US
each, including shipping.  The reason they are selling these copies cheap is
that they include 4.1 on disk but include the print manual from the previous
revision.  The 4.1 docs are on the disks as readme files.  When these ones are
gone, they're gone.

        Anyway, you can reach Gramma Software (publishers of Nag) in a number
of ways.  Richard Stockton is e-mailable at "RLStockton@cup.portal.com".
Gramma Software is mailable at "17730 - 15 Avenue NE, Suite 223, Seattle WA,
98155-3804, USA".  They operate a BBS at (206) 744-1254.  They have a FAX
number at (206) 361-0429.  Oh yeah, you can also talk to them at (206)
363-6417. :)

--
Ernie_Gorrie@mindlink.bc.ca (Port Coquitlam, British Columbia,
Canada)CompuServe Information Service (CIS) 72647,2150
From: dhansen@amiganet.chi.il.us (Dave Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Super_DJC, prefs & PageStream
Date: 23 Jul 92 06:08:18 GMT
Organization: Amiga Network Information Systems


I've started seriously using the Super_DJC driver recently.  I've tried using
this driver with PageStream and its Preferences.Printer, but haven't got a
configuration that works solidly yet.  Have you?
 
Also, I'm considering writing a CanDo application to replace th CBM
PrinterPrefs and PrinterGfx preferences programs with something that more
correctly represents what the Super_DJC does.  Have you used CanDo, and if so,
do you have any ideas for the look and functions of the Gadgets that this
application should have?  Even an IFF showing what you think would be useful
would help.  One thing that I'll need to figure out will be the proper
preferences settings for a variety of programs, both color and monochrome
applications such as PgS, WP, DPIV, etc.  This would mainly
be for example data files that can be loaded with this application
preferences.  Save/Load of these data files wuld accomodate user
customization.  Feedback appreciated, preferably via EMail.

Dave Hansen
Commonwealth Edison Co.
1(708)691-4747
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: kopackm@lonex.rl.af.mil (Michael A. Kopack)
Subject: Re: Need answer to FAQ, What the heck is TeX ?????
Organization: RL
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 14:06:26 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.131214.10027@lonex.rl.af.mil> kopackm@lonex.rl.af.mil (Michael A. Kopack) writes:
>Could somebody please give me a good description of what the heck TeX is.
>I've seen it talked about on this newsgroup before, but never really understood
>what it was. In fact, I've always thought it was some commercial product
>untyil I saw it listed on Fish Disks 611-616. They are awefully big files
>and I don't feel like dl them unless it's something I will use. So, wehat
>is it? I have speculated that it might bwe some sort of word processor or
>possibly a program for evaluting complex mathematical formulas, but I reaslly
>don't know.
>
>Sorry if this is a FAQ but I really want to know.
>
>--Mike Kopack
>
>--
>Mike Kopack                         | Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll and my Amiga,
>Internet : gt6758b@prism.gatech.edu | what more could anyone want?
>           kopack@bugs.rl.af.mil    \              -- Me
>           kopackm@lonex.rl.af.mil   -------------------------------------------

Forgot, since I usually just FTP the files down to the SUN server at work
then dl to one of the PC's w 720K drives and use Dos-2-Dos to convert them
I have a BIG problem. How can I get the program since it won't fit on a 720K
disk? Anybody know of a way to break up .lzh files under Unix and then rejoin
the files before decompression? HELP!!!!!

--Mike Kopack

-- 
Mike Kopack                         | Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll and my Amiga,
Internet : gt6758b@prism.gatech.edu | what more could anyone want?
           kopack@bugs.rl.af.mil    \              -- Me 
           kopackm@lonex.rl.af.mil   -------------------------------------------
From: cs902125@ariel.yorku.ca (SHUK C YIP)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Any relational DBMSs out there?
Date: 28 Jul 92 04:31:45 GMT
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada

In article <DAVIDM.92Jul27141640@consilium.com> davidm@consilium.com (David S. Masterson) writes:
>
>> SuperBase Professional is relational and has SQL server, networking
>> supports.
>
>To my knowledge SBPro4 for the Amiga does not have SQL support.  It may have
>networking support, although I remember Precision saying that it was waiting
>for the Commodore standard -- then they got bought by SPC who traded the Amiga
>version to Oxxi for a player to be named later.
>
>I'm not up on where Oxxi is going with SBPro or how connected they are with
>the main line development at SPC.  Ashame -- SBPro looked like a real,
>industrial strength, relational database.
>--

I don't have SBPro, however, Oxxi does advertise those features in AC's
Guide Amiga. Maybe someone please verify this.
From: fheitkamp@desire.wright.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Panasonic printer driver wanted
Date: 27 Jul 92 12:16:24 GMT
Organization: Wright State University

Does any one have the name of, and where I can get a, printer driver
for a 24 pin Panasonic printer.  I have a KX-p1624 and an A2000.
Thanks.  Please E-Mail.


			fheitkamp@desire.wright.edu
From: maze@diku.dk (Mads Haahr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Printer Driver needed
Date: 29 Jul 92 20:59:41 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

I have an old program lying around, that can help you write your own
printer driver, if something usable doesn't show up.  It's called PrtDrvGen
(don't try to pronounce it :-) and requires a fair amount of coffee and
patience if you want your driver to handle graphics as well as text.
Quite cumbersome, but with a lot of helpful explanations.

Mail me if you're interested.

-- Mads Haahr
=====================================================================
Mads Haahr                                         maze@freja.diku.dk
Department of Computer Science -  University of Copenhagen -  Denmark
=====================================================================
           "No, my first name doesn't mean that I'm nuts."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.audio,comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999)
Subject: Re: Deluxe Music Construction Set - Upgrade??
Keywords: DMCS Upgrades, Music, MIDI
Organization: NCR (Torrey Pines Development Center)
Disclaimer: This posting does not neccessarily reflect the opinions of NCR.
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 19:44:03 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.024808.1322@afterlife.ncsc.mil> bkwilli@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Bryan Williams) writes:
>If you like DMCS-style editing, I suggest OctaMed 3.0 or Octamed Pro ?? as it
>may be called. It has musical notation as well as module editor type....

I keep hearing this from various sources, but I'd really like to know how OctaMed compares
to DMCS in terms of the METHOD used to do musical notation.  I got burned on this promise
before with BarsNPipe (early version), and would rather have something equal to or better
than the DMCS interface for plugging music in.  I've a lot of original scores from my 
musical stage of life that I'd prefer to copy into the computer verbatin, as opposed to inter-
preting it to something that's "kind've like" musical notation, if you know what I mean.

I'd appreciate any information you can give me on this.  Tell me WHY I should look into
OctaMed.

-- 

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Jeff Grimmett [SuperBitMap BBS]        | fido!1:202/1401.0 [619-460-7290]
NCR -- Torrey Pines Development Center | Jeffrey.Grimmett@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com
==========    "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain."   =============
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de (Georg Hessmann)
Subject: Re: LaTeX question: the 1-inch offset
Keywords: LaTeX,TeX,PasTeX
Organization: University of Passau, Germany
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 12:10:33 GMT

In article <Brr6y2.7Fy@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jmrg9881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon Reid) writes:
>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.....

TeX don't use any offsets. TeX sets a (0,0) point at the left top border
and you can set your letters at any point. E.g. the headline is over
the top border e.g. (x, y) , y<0.

The drivers are responsible for using such offsets for the (0, 0) point,
so that all text are shown. 

The default offset, which nearly all drivers are using is 1 inch left and
1 inch above. So all text which is more than one inch above the
(0, 0) point, will be not printed.

But the PasTeX drivers does have the ability, to change the offsets. 
Try the keywords 'hoff' and 'voff'.

	Georg.


PS: Can someone send me a *real* english version of my posting? :-)

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  hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de		hessmann@unipas.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: khuynh@triton.unm.edu ()
Subject: Looking for a DMS File Utility to Split/Join files on UNIX
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 00:31:28 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Summary: DMS File Join UNIX

	Hello,  I was ftp'ing some demos and came across a DMS file > 730,000
bytes and thus I cannot save it to an MS-DOS disk so that it can be read by
Dos2Dos or CrossDos.  I am looking for a file utility that will:

	- Split DMS files on UNIX and Join Files on AmigaDos or
	- Join the files on AmigaDos splitted by the UNIX command SPLIT

	I know this is probably a FAQ, but please send me any info regarding
this topic.  Thanks

	BTW, I do have the LZH.Tools which will split lzh compressed files,
but I can't get it to work.  

		Kien

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de (Georg Hessmann)
Subject: Re: Where's PasTeX
Organization: University of Passau, Germany
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 10:15:34 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.043219.15648@sarah.albany.edu> tw5232@albnyvms.bitnet writes:
>I know that the latest incarnation of TeX is available on fish disks, but this
>version doesn't come with fonts, a previewer, or fig!  Where over anonymous ftp
>can I get the most recent release of PasTeX???

You can get PasTeX always from ftp.uni-passau.de [132.231.1.10]
/pub/amiga/PasTeX1.3
(This server will always have the newest PasTeX version)

Sorry, but 1.3 is still the most recent version.

	Georg.


-- 
  hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de		(Georg Hemann)
						(Oberer Markt 7/D-8712 Volkach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: ged@phantom.cs.hut.fi (Camillo S{rs)
Subject: Re: LZH split that creates LZH files?
Reply-To: Camillo.Sars@hut.fi
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, CS lab
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 09:58:25 GMT

In <shjmg3p.fuzzy@netcom.com> fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:

>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?

Try registering a copy of LhA, then you have an arhiver that
automatically splits the archives to several disks if necessary. It
even sniffs the size of the disk, so using HD disks is just as easy.

And of course it's configurable, the default is not to split archives.
The unregistered version doesn't split files automatically.

--
ged@hut.fi                   Amiga 500 //
ged@niksula.cs.hut.fi             2.04// Aim for the impossible and you
Department of Computer Science    \\ //   will achieve the improbable.
Helsinki University of Technology  \X/     --- Camillo S{rs