HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: Dana_Huggard@tfbbs.wimsey.bc.ca (Dana Huggard)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Re: Attempt: Supra+GPFax+Getty (FAILED) (fwd)
Distribution: world
Date: 5 Nov 92 15:21:21 PST
Organization: TERRA-FIRMA-BBS

In a message dated Tue  3 Nov 92  3:31, Drew@cgou11.cgo.dec.com (steve Drew
wrote:

 DD> Just to make it clear this is all with SUPRAFAX modem with latest
 DD> ROMS
 DD> and GPFAX with latest patches. Modem settings are simply
 DD> AT&F2M0S0=1&W

 DD> If usefull to anyone I could post or forward my arex script(s).

I'm interested... Would love forwarded scripts.. 

Thank you!

Cheers,

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From: liam@durie.amigans.gen.nz (Liam Greenwood)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Re: DUUCP1.16 UUXQT: Slower than death!
Date: 8 Nov 92 11:23:14 GMT+12
Organization: It's Home, really...
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Bob Lindabury - SysAdmin (bobl@bobsbox.rent.com) wrote:
> In article <liam.08xt@durie.amigans.gen.nz> liam@durie.amigans.gen.nz (Liam Greenwood) writes:
> > allows people to have UUCP news and mail on a 1 meg, 2 floppy Amiga. I can't
> > see anyway that this could be acomplished with Cnews.

> Actually, the CNews binaries and scripts don't take up much room at all.
> You can delete all the man pages and source code and you are left with
> probably something less than 300k.  What takes up some room is your
> Active file and history files.  If you don't keep much history around,
> it might be possible to run on a floppy system.
    I would be _very_ interested in seeing such a bootable floppy, with
newsreader, mailer, editor, and front-end for C-news. When I looked it
didn't seem achievable.
>
> I can't see why anyone would run any type of news system on floppies
> anyway.  Jezz...small hard drives are cheap these days.
    Money. There are still people in the world who find upgrading to a
second floppy a financial struggle. Throwing more hardware at the problem
may not always be an available solution. If someone asks, I'll tell them
they would be better off with a harddisk and more memory. If they have to
be satisfied with their current system, them I'm happy be be able to help
them set up a somewhat limited, but functional, system.

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                 Don't tell my Mother I'm a programmer,
               she thinks I'm a piano player in a brothel
From: hugh@kink.PhaedraV.On.Ca (Hugh D. Gamble)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Re: How to get started?
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:03:23 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Phaedra V

In article <Dana_Huggard.04ih@tfbbs.wimsey.bc.ca>, Dana Huggard writes:

> In a message dated Thu  5 Nov 92 15:11, Doug "bish" Bischoff Emt-Mast <deb1
> wrote:

> I have to ask.. what is a FAQ?

That is. :-)

A FAQ is a Frequently Asked Question.
FAQ is also what a file that is posted to a group at some regular
interval that has answers to frequently asked questions is called.

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From: dac@dacami.cmhnet.org (David Culberson)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Hard Links not able to be created..?
Distribution: usa
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 11 Nov 92 10:49:51 EST
Organization: Connectivity Inc, Culberson Plaza

  I upgraded to WB2.04 a few months ago, and there's been something bugging
me about RNews (1.16).  It says:

RNews,-,- Couldn't create hardlink to UUNEWS:comp/sys/amiga/advocacy/178
(209), copying instead

  I was wondering if there was anything I need to do to WB2.04 or to UUCP to
let it create hardlinks?  I don't know anything about them, so any help you
could give me would be appreciated.

            David

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From: Leon@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Leon)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Re: cron for v2.04
Distribution: world
Date: 13 Nov 92 12:46:53 EST
Organization: Amiga BitSwap Central Dispatch

In a message dated Fri 13 Nov 92 12:10, Jdp@caleb.uucp (jim Pritchett)
wrote:

 JP> The dcron (v2.0) that comes with Matt's uucp distribution requires
 JP> 1.3 (according
 JP> to the man file.)  Does it work with v2.04?  If not, what do you use
 JP> for a cron?

Dunno...

I use TpTCron...  VERY nice Cron...  When Mike gets around to releasing
2.20, it will have an ARexx interface.  For now, only DLG pre-release
owners have the latest Cron.  Which means the most recent version you can
get is 2.0 -- it has everything but ARexx...

If you're fido capable, you can freq it from me:

TPTCRON20.LHA  21473bytes "Schedule programs to be run at prespecified
times"

Or BMS for 'FILE:201/TPTCRON20.LHA'

The number below is not my fido number.
That would be 1:139/950.0 -- 906-482-8050 (USR 16K8 Dual Standard)

\Leon

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From: Dana_Huggard@tfbbs.wimsey.bc.ca (Dana Huggard)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Re: How to get started?
Distribution: world
Date: 5 Nov 92 15:33:33 PST
Organization: TERRA-FIRMA-BBS

In a message dated Thu  5 Nov 92 15:11, Doug "bish" Bischoff Emt-Mast <deb1
wrote:

 DBE>      Can somebody send me an FAQ or a "How to Get Started" etc.  I

I have to ask.. what is a FAQ?

Thanks..

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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 20:18:14 EST
From: Doug "Bish" Bischoff EMT-MAST <DEB110@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: How to get started?

     Can somebody send me an FAQ or a "How to Get Started" etc.  I am about to
lose my account at Penn State (I graduated) and need to keep on being able to
get mail and SOON!!

     Also, what would I ask someone in, say, University of Louisville (or anyon
e that has feeds in Louisville, KY) so that I could have a connection?  Thanks!



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From: mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us (Michael B. Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Re: Hard Links not able to be created..?
Distribution: usa
X-NewsSoftware: GRn-beta 1.16g (11.07.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 13 Nov 92 06:38:59 EDT
Organization: Well, I haven't decided on a name yet...

In article <dac.05qy@dacami.cmhnet.org> dac@dacami.cmhnet.org (David Culberson) writes:
>   I upgraded to WB2.04 a few months ago, and there's been something bugging
> me about RNews (1.16).  It says:
>
> RNews,-,- Couldn't create hardlink to UUNEWS:comp/sys/amiga/advocacy/178
> (209), copying instead
>
>   I was wondering if there was anything I need to do to WB2.04 or to UUCP to
> let it create hardlinks?  I don't know anything about them, so any help you
> could give me would be appreciated.

First and foremost, you need to be running FFS. Did you reformat your disks?

You may need a ROM upgrade for some older Controllers/drives.
--
  //   Michael B. Smith
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x-gateway: rodan.UU.NET from amiga-uucp to alt.sys.amiga.uucp; Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:35:07 EST
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:07:06 EST
X-Mailer: //\\miga Electronic Mail (AmiElm 1.13)
Reply-To: bernie%bpc.uucp@bbn.com
Organization: Fantasy Farm
From: tww2568@venus.tamu.edu (WEEKS, THOMAS WILLIAM)
Subject: 14.4 Supra Auto Answer
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 00:37:00 GMT

You need to type ATS0=1 (or 0-255 for how many rings)... Your AA LED should come 
come on indicating AutoAnswer mode.

Tom
From: mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us (Michael B. Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Re: Patches?
Date: 7 Nov 92 15:48:35 GMT
Organization: Well, I haven't decided on a name yet...
X-NewsSoftware: GRn-beta 1.16g (11.07.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <92311.193620DEB110@psuvm.psu.edu> DEB110@psuvm.psu.edu (DougBish Bischoff EMT-MAST) writes:
>      NOW someone comes along and mentions patches for this program.  Okay: what
> patches?  I have the Dec 1991 upload of UUCP 1.16.  I didn't find any patches
> anywhere for it.

There wasn't a December 1991 release of AmigaUUCP 1.16.

AmigaUUCP 1.15 was released in October, 1991.
AmigaUUCP 1.16 was released in May, 1992.

I personally have posted patches for RNews, DNews, and TrimNews since the
May, 1992 release to alt.sys.amiga.uucp.patches. Others have posted patches
to UUCICO, SendMail, and other stuff to the same newsgroup.

>      Secondly, for the benefit of the people setting up my feed... and me...
> Just what does a feed DO for you?  Does it call your machine when you get mail?
> Or does it hold it some mysterious place until you poll it and ask for mail?
> Thanks!

A feed batches and transfers mail and news to your (and other) sites. Who
calls whom, is worked out between you and your feed's administrator.

If you have a AmigaUUCP release, the file uucp_how_to.lzh explains many of
these things. The FAQ list posted monthly (biweekly?) to this newsgroups
explains many of them as well.
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  //   Michael B. Smith
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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 17:31:50 MDT
From: wuth@castrov.cuc.ab.ca (Brett Wuth)
Subject: Re: Amiga NFS
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
>I'm trying to connect to a SUN 3/50 via a serial connection.  I'm going
>to use slip and Amiga NOS.  The ultimate solution would be to find a implimentation of Network File System for the Amiga and use that instead.
>Unfortunately I don't know if such a beast exists.  If someone knows where
>I could get what I need or is running a similar setup I'd love to know.

>     Geoff Wells.                      gwells@descartes.uwaterloo.ca

I believe DNet can do all that you would want (dial-up file system).
Should this discussion be in comp.sys.amiga.datacomm?

Cheers,
-- 
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U302, 3510 44St SW, Calgary, Alberta, T3E 3R9, CANADA  Tel: +1 403 242-0848

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From: wusel@hactar.hanse.de (Kai 'wusel' Siering)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Re: DUUCP1.16 UUXQT: Slower than death!
Date: 6 Nov 92 04:34:58 GMT
Reply-To: "Kai 'wusel' Siering" <wusel@hactar.hanse.de>
Organization: Villa Straylight, Hamburg, FRG
X-Newsreader: Ann 0.9
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
MIME-Version: 1.0
Copyright: Nachdruck, auch auszugsweise, ohne schriftliche Einwilligung des Autors bei Strafe verboten.

In article <liam.08xt@durie.amigans.gen.nz>, liam@durie.amigans.gen.nz (Liam Greenwood) writes:
% Hugh D. Gamble (hugh@kink.PhaedraV.On.Ca) wrote:
% > 3.0 DirCached FFS would help with the former, ditching AmigaUUCP's
% > news s/w would fix the latter. :-)
% >
% > Cnews does all that stuff in scripts so you can set it up anywhere you
%     I'm sure Cnews is wonderful, but AmigaUUCP fits on a single floppy with
% Dnews, Elm, and editor and the OS, and an Intuition frontend to AmigaUUCP.
% A second floppy provides the UUSPOOL, UUNEWS, and UUMAIL directories. This
% allows people to have UUCP news and mail on a 1 meg, 2 floppy Amiga. I can't
% see anyway that this could be acomplished with Cnews.

     I don't,  too; well, assuming a maxiumum of 1.7 MB (HD floppy) for the
news, you  may  be able to run CNews with this setup, but it simply doesn't
make  sense.  (I  started  with  3  floppies  and 3 Meg of RAM, two of them
devoted  to  a recoverable ram disk - and `Amiga UUCP Plus', which is CNews
+ DUUCP 1.08 ...)

     The `baby  news  system'  (someone  called  it  so recently, and in my
opinion,  that  term  fist  well) of Amiga UUCP works fine for small (leaf)
sites;  but  it lacks some features you will miss if you're doing more than
getting  news  for  your  own  ...  But for providing such things like dupe
recognition  or cancellation of expired (via `Expires:'-header)/superceeded
articles, it needs of course some amount of resources.

     To make  it  short, `use CNews' isn't always the appropriate solution,
but doing so may cause some less headache in some areas =:->
			kai

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                                                                -- Sledge Hammer
From: Dana_Huggard@tfbbs.wimsey.bc.ca (Dana Huggard)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Re: BBS
Distribution: world
Date: 5 Nov 92 15:10:54 PST
Organization: TERRA-FIRMA-BBS

In a message dated Mon  2 Nov 92  6:30, Ertle@kira.uvm.edu The Sneaky Devil
wrote:

 ETS> Hi All,
 ETS>    I've got some friends that want to start up an Amiga bulletin
 ETS> board.  Can anybody e-mail the names of public domain/shareware
 ETS> bulletin board systems for the Amiga?  I don't own one, so I don't
 ETS> know the names of any.

I'd suggest either Falcon or Transamiga.. Both shareware.

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x-gateway: rodan.UU.NET from amiga-uucp to alt.sys.amiga.uucp; Mon, 9 Nov 1992 10:59:34 EST
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 10:54:32 EST
From: DMH@mitvma.mit.edu
Subject:      Re: DUUCP1.16 UUXQT: Slower than death!
X-Acknowledge-To: <DMH@mitvma.mit.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
On 6 Nov 92 09:15:43 GMT you said:
>I can't see why anyone would run any type of news system on floppies
>anyway.  Jezz...small hard drives are cheap these days.

Depends on what you mean by 'cheap.'  When I was running my Amiga-UUCP
system on 2 floppies, hard drives for the A500 were running $850-$900.
I think I finally broke down and got one when they hit the $500 mark or
so.  I'd hardly call that cheap though.  Now I've got a 52M drive and am
wishing for a bigger one.  :)

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          >>> Dave                         Internet: DMH@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
                                             BITNET: DMH@MITVMA
From: mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us (Michael B. Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Re: Patches?
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: GRn-beta 1.16g (11.07.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 8 Nov 92 07:58:11 EDT
Organization: Well, I haven't decided on a name yet...

In article <Opal_Sullen.00mt@republik.fidonet.org> Opal_Sullen@republik.fidonet.org (Opal Sullen) writes:
> In a message dated Sat  7 Nov 92 16:48, Mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us (michael B. S
> wrote:
>
>  MBS> I personally have posted patches for RNews, DNews, and TrimNews
>  MBS> since the May, 1992 release...
>
> hey.  i don't think i got the patched rnews.  know where i could ftp or
> freq it?  i would like to try it out.

I don't typically put my interim stuff up for FTP, as the multitude of
versions can get confusing. Is anyone archiving alt.sys.amiga.uucp.patches?
It should be there....
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From: kellym@wowee.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Kelly Martin)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: uudecode & BMS
Date: 8 Nov 92 01:40:27 MST
Distribution: world
Organization: Not an Organization
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

Can anyone tell me how to *manually* uudecode a BMS received file? The
format is different from what I'm familiar, and circumstances won't allow
'BMS batch' to do it for me...

--
% kellY Martin  UUCP:kellym@wowee.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca  (1:342/53.5@fidonet)
%"Vhuuut, you donna' like'a my zooop?" -Fred Flinstone, impersonating a chef
From: slhmz@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos
Subject: Re: Has anyone gotten the lemmings-2 demo to work?
Date: 10 Nov 92 15:24:52 MDT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Utah State University

In article <1dotfsINNetf@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu>, gunnbr@nextwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu. (Brian R Gunn) writes:
> In article <1992Nov9.164539.24954@teetot.acusd.edu> gs@teetot.acusd.edu (Greg  
> Simon) writes:
>> The header says it all--
>> 
>> It guru's under 2.04, 1.3 (!) and all memory conditions!
> 
> I've got a 500 with 2.04, 1 meg chip, 4 megs fast, and the demo works just  
> fine.
> 
> Brian

  Demo works just great on my A3000 16MHz 2 meg chip, 4 meg fast NTSC machine
  running 2.04.

  I hope they do some graphic re-touch-ups.  The graphics just aren't as
  good as the original lemmings.  Looks like they "hurried-up" on them.  I
  especially hate the blue back-ground with red letters.   Yuck.

--
Faith
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From: mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us (Mike Meyer)
Subject: Re: Programming
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos,comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.introduction,comp.sys.amiga.marketplace,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: Amiga Yarn 3.4, 1992/08/12 15:49:52
Keywords: 
Summary: 
Date: 14 Nov 92 16:41:33 PST
Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica

In <1e41q2INNne0@ub.d.umn.edu>, rfentima@ub.d.umn.edu (Robert Fentiman) wrote:
> As with ANY language, these properties that you describe are code dependant.

No, they aren't that way for ANY language. There are languages that
ALWAYS open their own screen, and you ALWAYS have to operate on that
screen. From the evidence I have, AMOS is in that class. That's a
strike against it. From the same evidence, AMOS always disable
commodites by stealing the input stream. That's a strike against it.
The other problems are all in the same class - I've never seen an AMOS
program that does things correctly, so I have to question whether it
can. There are *SO* many such things that it's not worth my money to
buy AMOS to find out, as ANY of them would mean I couldn't use it for
90% of the things I would be interested in doing with it.

> I could write a C program that would not allow what you have said.
> Does that make C bad?

No, it doesn't. It's not being able to allow those things that make a
language unusable for specific things (note: this is NOT the same
thing as bad; if the application at hand needs to do those things,
then not being able to not do them isn't a problem).

Here's a simple, standard task. Given some arbitrary application,
write an AUISG compliant preferences editor for it. That means 1) if
started from the CLI with the appropriate arguments, or from WB with
the appropriate tooltypes, doesn't open a window at all; 2) if not
started with those, opens an intuition window on the default public
screen, or the one specified by the user.

> I am fairly positive many (if not all) of what you have suggested
> can be implemented in an AMOS program.

Well, anything short of ALL means it isn't system compliant.

> For answers to these questions, ask a more experienced AMOS user.

I don't know any experience AMOS user; all the programmers I know
disdain it. I've tried asking on the net, and nobody has ever come
forward with a "YES, you can do that." Your "I think you can do those
things" is the closest I've seen yet.

Hmm - I wonder if AMOS programs run on an A4000. I'll have to go find
out.

	<mike
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos
From: larshaug@ifi.uio.no (Lars Haugseth)
Subject: hardware-hacks, illegal??
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 12:37:52 GMT
Originator: larshaug@holmenkollen.ifi.uio.no


In article <1946@lysator.liu.se>, marvil@lysator.liu.se (Martin Vilcans) writes:
> keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider) writes:
> 
> >That's because so little has changed... besides, somehow I doubt that
> >the demos (which emply many hardware tricks) will work so well on the
> >A4000.  Many of them won't even run on my 3000...
> 
> Amiga demos does NOT do many "hardware tricks", as the Amiga hardware
> can't be fooled to do things it shouldn't, as the hardware of the C64,
> which has lots of "features" (such as border sprites etc.). The Amiga
> hardware is well documented (until now with the AA chipset), so hardware
> coding is legal, as long as you do it the right way.

You mean it was illegal on the C64? 8-)

dec $d016
inc $d016
nop
nop
nop
nop
nop
nop
nop
nop
dec $d016
inc $d016
nop
nop
.
.
... and so on... 8)

+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| Lars Haugseth                                             +-+
| Dept. of Informatics,               <larshaug@ifi.uio.no> | |
| University of Oslo, Norway                                | |
|                                                           | |
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Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos
From: u920659@daimi.aau.dk (Carsten S|rensen)
Subject: Re: Music and Code from Demos
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 10:44:23 GMT

tfinn@crash.cts.com (Aaron Grier) writes:

...

>>>   Would someone kindly define what exactly copper and blitter plus
>>>   any other amy specifics are?
>>
>>Hope you got some ideas.
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>Thanks! Yeah.. the PC still has a way to go. Fact is it wasn't designed
>for demo-making. I guess that's why it took this long. Plus you still
>run into the "multiple-standards"... kinda funny. Well you could say that
>VGA is a standard, as almost all IBM demos do some register level "hacking"
>to achieve their ultra-smoothness. Sound is another matter... lessee...
>you can choose between SB, SB pro, homade DAC, stereo-homade DAC, DMA run,
>timer run, etc... what a mess! :-)

The amiga wasn't designed for demo-making either. It was originally designed
for arcade-games. Especially fast flight simulations...
On amiga we also see more and more of what you call "multiple-standards".
In one way it's great 'coz you can configure your system so it suits your
needs (and wallet :-) but on the other hand it's a NIGHTMARE for us 
democoders...

>I want my plasma... also that budbrain demo... that is some cool stuff!
>especially that "it began in Africa" part. Simply awesome.

Yep... Budbrain has a special style... Either you like it or you don't like it
(I guess I like it)

BIRDIE NAM NAM FOREVER

Carsten















Organization: Senior, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA