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From: jmw@chem.ucsd.edu (John M. Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Distant Suns 4.1 questions.
Date: 30 Dec 1992 19:58:12 GMT
Organization: University of California San Diego, Chemistry
Distribution: na
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Summary: Math chip/2.0 support?

In article <C02tDL.LwD@netnews.jhuapl.edu> bandy@netnews.jhuapl.edu (Mike Bandy) writes:
>
>I installed DS 4.1 a few days ago (neat package!).  How can I tell if
>it's using the FPU?  I assume it is, but is there a utility that shows
>FPU usage?  I'm running on an A3000/25 with 68882.  The program is at times
>slow, but calculating the coordinates of several thousand stars has to
>take a little bit of effort.
>
I concluded that it is *not* using the math chip because the title bar
says "--1.3-ffp" instead of "--2.0-fpu", and also because it would not
use the "state" files from directory states1 (where the fpu-version state
files are stored, according to the manual).

   John Wright	Chemistry, MS 0314, UCSD, La Jolla,  CA 92093-0314
	jmw@chem.ucsd.edu  jwright@ucsd.edu  (619) 534-3049


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From: bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche)
Subject: Re: Trying to add a Gadget to DirOpus - help me
Organization: MetaPro Systems, Perth, Western Australia
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 08:22:58 GMT

In <1992Dec21.005029.8562@news.ysu.edu>
   ac463@yfn.ysu.edu (Rich Yauman) writes:

>This is the same line.  Ihave added a gadget that recognizes
>file type.  It will regognize a .gif file and show it using a
>.gif viewer, No problem.  The other function of the gadget calls
>on a program called shamsharp, and converts the file to .iff.
>My problem is this... it would name a file called dragon.gif
>as dragon.gif.iff.  
>My lline that I use reads C:shamsharp {fu} "{f}.iff"
>now what I would like is for the new file to be named dragon.iff.
>I'll keep working on it, but any ideas would be helpful.
>Maybe if I use {fu} "{f}" maybe Shamsharp can handle it. I'll 
>let you know how it goes

What DirOpus seems to be lacking is a "basename" function on
the variables which allows you to strip off a filename
extension (historical artifact -- I know it's not really an
extension, just the part of the name). Did I put that on my
wish-list, Jonathan?
   e.g.	{b.ext} where .ext would be stripped off?

In such situations, I wind up relying on the user (me) to
edit the name using the prompt option {aSomething: [o]}.
Somebody with AREXX can easily do better, I expect.
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From: Lloyd_Sumpter@mindlink.bc.ca (Lloyd Sumpter)
Subject: Re: Home budgeting program requested!
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 03:18:50 GMT

> Tony Christie writes:
>
> [...personal opinion starts...]
> Why anyone would want to use a spreadsheet to do home finances I can't
> fathom.
> Don't get me wrong, I think spreadsheets are ok if there isn't anything
> that
> does the job already, but they are a hell of a way to do anything complex.
> Give me a "package" anyday. Its sort of like giving all computer users a
> programming language with their machine and telling them to write their own
> customised software, whereas most of them would much rather buy what they
> want off the shelf (at the right price of course).
> [...personal opinion ends...no flames intended or requested...]
>
> --
>  Tony Christie, Wanganui N.Z. // The person rowing normally doesn't have
> time
>  tonyc@gnome.amigans.gen.nz \X/  to rock the boat.

   Personally, I can't fathom why anyone would use a computer to do Home
Finances. As Dave Barry said, you type in how much money you make and where
you spend it, and (stay with me on this!) it tells you how much money you
made and where you spent it. I use a calculator.


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From: gromyko@sputnik.rhein-main.de (Michael Grom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Home budgeting program requested!
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 26 Dec 92 20:02:17 MED
Organization: private Amiga Site

In article <18889@mindlink.bc.ca> Lloyd_Sumpter@mindlink.bc.ca (Lloyd Sumpter) writes:
>    You need a spreadsheet program. Unfortunately, the choices for Amiga
[...deleted...]
> anything in the same league as Excel or Quattro. Also, don't expect to find
> "packages" for the Amiga programs (like you can for the MSDOS ones) that
> would set up your Home Finance stuff for you.
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Not true. Look out for Desktop Budget. This shall suffice for
home financing stuff. A pretty simple and cheap package.

Regards,
	Michael



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From: ps296au@sdcc4.ucsd.edu (Steven Cobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Amiga outliner?
Date: 26 Dec 92 18:25:43 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

I'm looking for an outline editor.  Something that will allow me to
dynamically expang, contract and move text subheadings and text.  I
would like it to save primarily ascii format  (to use with
AmigaTeX).  Does anybody know of anything? - comercial or PD.

Thanks and regards,

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Date: 22 Dec 92 22:30:31 GMT+2
Subject: Re: Prowrite 3.3 Patches for the *many* bugs yet?
From: harry@elfuerte.fipnet.fi (Harri Pesonen)
Distribution: world
Organization: Fipnet, Helsinki, Finland
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article ??? jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
> Has anyone else got a Prowrite 3.3 update?  I'm impressed overall but
> noticed *many* little bugs.  Are there any patches out yet?

I have a ProWrite 3.3.1 and I haven't noticed any bugs, except the
printing.

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From: wood@kepler.pss.fit.edu (Matt A. Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Pagestream impressions sought
Date: 2 Jan 93 22:37:27 GMT
Organization: Physics and Space Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology
Originator: wood@kepler.pss.fit.edu

To users of Pagestream:  Could you please take a minute to tell me
your impressions of the program?  I'm thinking of buying it for my
wife, who's an 8th grade school teacher and who currently is using
Wordperfect.  She'd be using the program for generating tests, 
quizzes, flyers, and banners (this last feature is really why we're
considering it).  She's not a computer jock and doesn't much like
reading user manuals, so ease of use and on-line help are very
important.  Some questions that come to mind:
	
	* Is the program easy to learn or is the learning curve 
		steep?
	* Does the program have a good "feel", or are refreshes
	  	and such too slow?  (we have a stock A500 w/ 3Mb Ram
		and 20 Mb A590 HD)
	* How good is the output?  We have an Epson LQ800 24-pin 
		printer.  Will the program use the printer's fonts
		for 10 and 12 point for NLQ printing?  Can it mix
		NLQ printing and the slower 'graphics-mode' 
		character printing in the same document and on the
		same page?
	* Are extra fonts a must-buy, or are they really only needed 
		for those doing extensive newsletters and such?
	* Any problems with the program crashing the system?
	* Is the clipboard supported?  AREXX?

Plus, if you have any other comments -- especially warnings -- please
pass them on to me.  Thanks *very* much for your time!


	
	
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: mike@rahul.net (Mike Smithwick)
Subject: Re: Distant Suns 4.1 questions.
Organization: a2i network
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 23:07:04 GMT

In article <MJL.92Dec23025526@dino.ph.utexas.edu> mjl@dino.ph.utexas.edu (Maurice J. LeBrun) writes:
>This is unrelated to the previous discussion, but I've recently started
>playing with Distant Suns again, and I'm wondering: what is the upgrade
>policy for DS 3.0 users?  Thanks,
>

It is something like 25 or 30 bucks plus the original disk. Just call
up VRLI's "customer support department" and they will cheerfully answer
all of your questions.

Although I would suggest waiting a couple of weeks before upgrading. ;-)

>Maurice LeBrun    mjl@dino.ph.utexas.edu
>Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin
>

Mike


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: mkiteam@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Ed Japel)
Subject: Re: MatLab help & Circuits
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 02:25:21 GMT

Phillip_Eastham@kumear.apana.org.au (Phillip Eastham) writes:

>Hello everybody,

>     I would like to know if anybody out there who knows about Nyquist
>plots, Root-Locus plots and Bode plots and if they can be done and used on
>AMIGA MATLAB which was featured on the Fish Disk collection. Also if there
>are any other programs capable of doing these plots.

>     If you do know could you please tell me how to get them working and
>how to get a picture of the plot on the screen.

>     I would also like to know if there is any other programs out there,
>commercial or PD, that you can draw circuits on and then the program can
>analyse the circuit as well? 

>     Thanks for your help.

>-- Via DLG Pro v0.992

>This message proudly bought to you by:

>                               phillip_eastham@kumear.apana.org.au

I tried the MatLaB in the Fish disk collection and it does not do BODE plots, Ifyou get a response from someone who knows of an Amiga version, let me know...
 
michael Moe
mkiteam@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu
From: crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Art Expression upgrade
Date: 2 Jan 93 22:48:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: glia.crystal.726014892
Organization: University of Washington
NNTP-Posting-Host: glia.biostr.washington.edu

In <db562s445.05ul@sycom.mi.org> db562s445@sycom.mi.org (Dave Birdsong) writes:

>>>There should be also a fix release to BME version 1.1.2.  That version
>>>crashes violently when there is the DLGPro enviroment started.
>>I suspect DLGPro (is this a PD program?) or another program in your
>>user-startup or WBStartup drawer is the culprit. Try starting
>>enforcer and mungwall before running DLGPro.
>DLGpro is one of the best BBS programs out there....
>It might be costly,but it does do the job better than most bbs Programs I have 
>seen on the AMiga...

BME being run on a BBS?  Isn't that kinda illegal for a commercial program?

Well, at least now I know WHO this foreign girl named "Via" with the lastname
of "DLGPro" is that I have been seeing signing messages from various accounts.
I thought all the guys had given her their passwords, or something... ;>

Crystal
   ;>
From: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Amiga outliner?
Date: 28 Dec 92 05:10:23 GMT
Reply-To: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Organization: BLAZEMONGER INCORPORATED

Steven Cobb (ps296au@sdcc4.ucsd.edu) wrote:
> I'm looking for an outline editor.  Something that will allow me to
> dynamically expang, contract and move text subheadings and text.  I
> would like it to save primarily ascii format	(to use with
> AmigaTeX).  Does anybody know of anything? - comercial or PD.

	I wrote a comprehensive review of "Flow" by New Horizons
Software and posted it in comp.sys.amiga.reviews.  This is one of
the major commercial Amiga products that does outlining.  My review
was mixed.  You can ftp it from math.uh.edu in the comp.sys.amiga.reviews
archives, or send mail to amiga-reviews-requests@math.uh.edu and request
a copy.

                                                        Dan

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From: jonathan@cats.ucsc.edu (Jonathan Cano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Gnu emacs - help me ...
Keywords: Which emacs to use on my A2000
Date: 28 Dec 92 19:14:09 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: si.ucsc.edu


jonathan@cats.ucsc.edu (Jonathan Cano) writes:


>about 4 months ago I began using Gnu Emacs v18.58 at work.  After 
>using it 5 days a week, 8 hours a day for 4 months I've come to
>realize that this is the one TRUE editor :^).  Well maybe not but
>emacs is pretty good.

      .
      .
      .

Thanks to all who responded (I received 10 mail messages :^).  I
now know where to find the ONE TRUE EDITOR via ftp.  

--Jonathan

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: franke@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Michael Franke)
Subject: Re: BackUP & ABackup (fish disks)
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 06:19:51 GMT

wlanders@nexus.yorku.ca (W L Anderson) writes:

>I haven't used ABackup 2.0 yet (it's sitting on my drive until  I
>need  to do another backup), but I found Abackup 1.70 to be quite
>good.  My only complaint was that if it found a disk to be faulty
>in  the  middle  of  a backup, you had to start all over.  If 2.0
>remedies this problem, it's awesome.
>
>Tom Hayko
>wlanders@nexus.yorku.ca

I used it once. It is quite nice, supports Kompression via XPK,
can handle backups to more than one floppy, can deal with bad disks, can 
backup to a file .... BUT ... When I used it I had to run it without having
my startup-sequence being executed, because it messed up when I did a complete
boot and it crashed exactly when it just had to write the last backup disk -
bad luck. It might be a nice program, worth the suggested donation, but seems
not to be 100 percent stabe at this moment.

greetings franke (franke@cs.tu-berlin.de)
From: walker@twix.unx.sas.com (Doug Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Is SAS C V6 C++ compatible
Date: 21 Dec 92 14:16:49 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Originator: walker@twix.unx.sas.com


In article <1992Dec21.095036.27419@sunbim.be>, accs1@bagheera.mumath writes:
|> >as using the C compiler itself.  Speed and debuggability are not
|> >dependent on the intermediate language used.  Choice of algorithms

|> Have you ever considered turn-around times as being important? Not that I would change
|> to a PC, but seeing the compile speed of Turbo-Pascal or Turbo-C simply impresses me.
|> 
|> Will the debugger, which is hopefully delivered with the compile package, handle it
|> properly (meaning: I'm debugging my C++ source and not the C source) ? 

Basically, my words "Speed" and "Debuggability" cover those two
paragraphs.  Yes, compile speed is important, and we will be 
doing all we can to make the translator fast enough.  Yes, 
debuggability is important.  The first version will not have
full debuggability, but subsequent versions will.  The first
version will have C++ source-level debugging, setting breakpoints
on functions, and symbolic-level examination of variables (but
it probably won't understand their types.)  These are compromises
that we are making in order to come out with a C++ in 1993 rather
than 1994.

|> Frank  

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From: graham@venus.iucf.indiana.edu (JIM GRAHAM)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: .DMS problems
Date: 3 Jan 93 18:43:01 GMT
Reply-To: graham@venus.iucf.indiana.edu
Organization: Indiana University Cyclotron Facility, Bloomington, Indiana
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4

In article <1hii2pINNn4k@crcnis1.unl.edu>, kweis@nde.unl.edu (kris weis) writes...
>j0nez@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (J0nez) writes:
> 
>>I recently DMSed several of my less used utilities in an effort to free up
>>some disks...Now, upon trying to unDMS them, every one comes up as being a
>>non-DOS disk.  When I go through with FIXDISK, there's some kind of error
>>on the very first track of every unDMSed disk, always the same error, always
>>on the first track.  What went wrong???  (Yes, I did have the program set
>>to run from track 00 to track 79...)  Any help would be appreciated!
> 
>>John "I think all my utilities are hopelessly lost" Bowman
> 
> 
>  I had that problem also with a few programs...I had luck using a newwer 
>version of DMS, but if you are using the newest one, then you are 
>SOL..HOWEVER, I know this didn't answer your question, so if there is 
>anyone else who knowz about this, POST! I would like to know what is going 
>on as well!!
> 

I'm glad that I'm not alone with dms problems.  

It seems that every other demo or game that I ftp and try to un-dms
produces a "fatal error" at the end of the operation.

I too wonder what's going on.  I've been using dms 1.11, but had similar
problems with earlier versions.

Thanks,


Jim Graham 

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From: WALLY@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject: MachII and OS2.x
Organization: University of Keentookey
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:33:28 GMT

Does Mach II not work properly with 2.1?
 
I can NOT save the configuration file *to hard drive* without the file
becoming corrupt, yet I can save it to floppy with no problem.  This
is entire repeatable..
 
 
I have a 500 with MMR, Quantum 105LPS formatted with new FFS, Xetec
controller.
 
I know..  The answer is prolly MachII is broke under 2.x and to pay the
shareware to use Mach III.. :)
 
(Which I haven't tried...  But I don't think you can save, so it'd be
a moot test anyway.)
 
Thanks.. :)
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From: laire@klee.uni-paderborn.de (Ralph Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: ToolManager & 4000
Date: 30 Dec 1992 20:19:30 +0100
Organization: Universitaet Paderborn, Germany
NNTP-Posting-Host: klee.uni-paderborn.de

markus@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Markus Illenseer) writes:

>In article <1hrdmdINNpkb@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, cc069@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Daniel Sternklar) writes:
>|> 
>|> Hello Does ToolManager work ok on the 4000?
>|> At times on bootup the toolmanager handler fails.
>|> This has happened on two different 4000
>|> -Dan
> 
> I don't see any reason why this happen. I think the problem is WB3.0
> rather the A4000. But even then, i am surprised TM doesn't work on
> WB3.0.... 
> Unfortunately the author (Stefan Becker) can not read this group
> for the next two months, i try to contact him anyway.

> Good luck

TM 2.0 runs without any problems on my A4000 and also on 2 friends
A4000. I use a PRIORITY of 120 in the WBSTARTUP.

Regards...

-- 
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University of Paderborn (Germany)
From: o.roehrig@cl-hh.comlink.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re:Post 2.0?
Date: 25 Dec 92 16:26:29 GMT
Reply-To: o.roehrig@cl-hh.comlink.de
Organization: Freies Telekommunikations-Zentrum Hamburg e.V.
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Content-Length: 411
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WFAUST%VENUS.ADSP.SUB.ORG@UUCP.ZER schrieb am 21.12.92 um 11:19
mit Betreff: Post 2.0?

|> Now, Post V2 is still missing and I need 24 Bit support. Does
|> anybody know the status of Post?

I'm highly interested in this topic as well!

Ottmar Roehrig

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