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CUMMINS JOHN WILLI writes

>To: cal@otter.hpl.hp.com


>Sounds like a failing PS or perhaps chip.... (I had a chip get zapped in my
>MEGA that caused similar behaviour.  If the same chip had oxidation (can't
>spell corosion...) on a pin and needed reseating, similar symptoms would
>result!)

>Don't despair.... sounds like a $20 problem to me!

I'll upgrade my TOS first and see what happens.

>(hpl?  california?)

Bristol, in the UK.

Cheers, and thanks for the suggestion.
From: jensk@hpbbn.bbn.hp.com (Jens Kilian)
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:52:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Porting UNIX Code to the ST
Organization: HP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech

Three different solutions:

1) setenv UNIXMODE b

   This will also work with the MiNT library, which supports the `b' flag.

2) Recompile the program after adding a call to binmode() at the start of
   main(). You may need to give binmode() a parameter (I may also have the name
   wrong).

3) If your program needs to do both binary and text I/O, recompile the program
   after changing all the fopen's for the binary files:

	fopen(..., "r")   to   fopen(..., "rb")
	fopen(..., "w")   to   fopen(..., "wb")

Good luck,

	Jens.
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From: lchd_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Ho Ling Cherd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Floppy drive dead
Date: 7 Jan 93 01:01:11 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)


Hi, my external floppy drive SF314 stopped working 2 days ago.
This was what happned. 
I tried to format a new HD disk into 720K from the desktop. It went fine
until the pyrosave scrren saver come out and the computer crash with
2 bombs (or maybe 3, I don;t remember). Then I rebooted the
computer but this time the disk can't read any of my disk anymore.
The desktop still come out after a while but when I tried to format
any disk, the drive will try to write but never proceed further than
then 1st sector (the bar doesn't move on the scrreen). So, I clean
the drive with a floppy drive cleaner (disk type) and try to read again
but it never does anymore and what I get was the normal mesasage saying
"please use the right kind of floppy or make sure the hard drive is connected
properly...."

So, can someone tell me if the drive is dead?
I don';t have another drive to test if this is because of the compuyter
itself. It's a 520ST so it doesn't have an internal drive.
If the drive is dead, where can I get a replacement drive?
Can I used any drive for PC to put it into the case?

Thanks

...
Ling Cherd
From: rossin@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Ted Rossin)
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:04:18 GMT
Subject: How do you write a CPX
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech

Now that I have TOS 2.06 I have a few questions:

	1. How do you write a CPX
	2. What is the deal with the fast load bit people talk about.
           All the programs seem to be doing the fast load thing (I have 4 Meg)
	   How do you disable it.  Do you need to use pinhead to no fastload.
	3. Should I buy Warp 9?


		Thanks
			Ted Rossin
From: dxo@cs.bham.ac.uk (David Oakley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: chdir in sozobon
Date: 4 Jan 93 12:03:01 GMT
Organization: University of Birmingham

In article <1993Jan4.015926.26383@oz.plymouth.edu>, pyr579@oz.plymouth.edu (Technoid) writes:
|> Hello,
|> 
|> 	I am having difficulty with chdir() is Sozobon 1.33i ( Heat N
|> Serve ). It won't change drives. According to the dlibs text file,
|> chdir() will change the drive if a drive letter is given to it. I assume
|> this means that if I enter "d:\telecomm" for a string, it will ( with
|> the proper end slashes added. ) change the current drive to D: and then
|> change the directory to \telecomm. The problem is, it does not do this.
|> I'm only trying to implement a simple cd command for a mini TOS shell
|> and I've got most of the other commands finished. This one, that should
|> be easy, doesn't want to work. Any help would be great or if you have a
|> working cd command implemented, I'd love to see your code.
|> 
|> Stephan

If it uses the GEMDOS setpath() call it won't change the drive. GEMDOS keeps a
current path for every drive, so you probably need to chdir() and then chdrive()
(I haven't used C much so I don't know), or the other way round.

I think.

David.
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From: cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Curses/CRT problems
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Ottawa
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 22:25:08 GMT


I've got 3 problems that are kind of troubling me right now.  All of
'em have to do with text i/o, and particularly that which relates to
things like termcap/curses.

By the way, I'm using GCC 2.3.1, the version that I think was ported
by Howard Chu.  It's the one that supports -mbaserel.  I'm also using
the MiNT libs version 0.25, gotten from a.a.u.e.

1:  Missing BCRT0.O
I haven't really searched this one out too far:

In trying to compile stuff with -mbaserel, I get some complaints that
BCRT0.O doesn't exist.  CRT0.O does, as well as GCRT0.O.

Correspondingly, I haven't gotten anything compiled with -mbaserel.

I'm trying to get some of the Infocom interpreters ported.  Partial
success; I've got pinfo, the Portable Infocom interpreter v4.01
sort of working.  I'm also trying to get the other one, that supports
more versions of ZIL, working.  Two problems, #2 and #3:

2: Some constants from termcap/curses:
There's some constants called stuff like:
A_BOLD, A_NORMAL, A_DIM, A_BLINK, and other such text attributes.
I can't find these strings ANYWHERE.  Not in /gnu/include/*.h, not in
/gnu/include/sys/*.h.

And the main I/O subroutine therefore won't compile.  I couldn't find
them in the Sun's /usr/include, or its subdirectories, either.  The
names aren't consistent with either termcap/curses naming conventions
either (as far as my Ultrix manual set tells me).

Where are they supposed to be?

3: Some difficulties with stream input.

The other interpreter that IS working is only compatible with MiNT,
and not TOS.

The problem is in text input.  Under TOS, commands seem to get
terminated as soon as I hit the FIRST character.  No chance to wait
until I hit <Return>.  Is there some typical "why" that this would
happen, and that can be easily fixed?

Under MiNT, life is rosier, but not perfect.  I THINK that I've gotten
the input spot located in a particular fscanf command; which SHOULD be
ok.  The problem right now is the unfortunate fact that I SHOULD be
able to use some combination of <BackSpace/Delete> to correct typing
errors, but that it doesn't accept it.  Could there by a stty that I
ought to do?  Or do I take out the fscanf, and put in my own function?

I'd really much rather that the programs work under BOTH MiNT and TOS.
By the way, there IS an incentive to get 'em working: The
"Undiscovered Treasures of Infocom" are now available on the IBM PC
for about $60 per volume.  Each of the two volumes has about 15-20 of
the classic Infocom adventure games.  Adds up to a little over $3 per
game...  Great deal!  Unfortunately, there's no Atari version planned
:-(.  However, between the two interpreters I'm trying to port, it
should be possible to run MOST of the games on the Atari.

-- 
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Subject: Mercury uucp
From: jonc@status.gen.nz (Jon Clarke)
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 17:55:28 GMT
Organization: The Z*NET Global News Gateway in Parnell New Zealand.

Hi netters,
 
 A quick question re Mercury.uucp  
 
 Can someone send me a sample /mercury/paths file please or at leaste
 the format of the file. Also can someone send me a quick overview of
 Palias.prg
 
 Kind regards for '93


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From: tries@obelix.kph.uni-mainz.de (Volker Tries)
Subject: ICD modem connection wanted!!
Organization: Institut fuer Kernphysik, Uni Mainz
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 00:18:53 GMT


Hi,
a few days ago I've asked for a german modem connection of the ICD company
in germany. I got the following number:

           (+)49 6104 67582,

but this doesn't work. It rings a hundret times and nothing else happens.
So, here is my question: Is this number right or is there another Nuber?

Thanx for the help

Volker
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From: mh1@irz213.inf.tu-dresden.de (Michael Hohmuth)
Subject: Re: How to run a Subroutine by using MiNT?
Reply-To: hohmuth@freia.inf.tu-dresden.de
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:28:36 GMT


In article <1i9jd5INNbd3@mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE>, prissi@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Markus Pristovsek) writes:

> is it possible to call a subroutine so that it can run at the same time as the 
> main program? [...]

I think the tfork() library call of the MiNT library does what you want.
See the MiNT library source's thread.c.

Michael
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From: richard@op.ph.ic.ac.uk (Richard Syratt )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: A Printer Question.
Date: 8 Jan 93 13:33:35 GMT
Organization: Imperial College, London University
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I've recently got hold of a really old 9 pin dot matrix printer, I'm
having a bit of trouble setting it up though.

The printer is a Facit 4510.  It's got a parallel and serial interface,
I havn't had any luck with the serial interface, but the parallel
interface sort of works.

With a solder bubble shifted so that the parallel port is expecting
epsom timings (as opposed to centronics timings - is this right?) I can
transmit characters to the printer, and, they do actually appear on the
paper, but generally there's two of each.  Sometimes three.  Occasionally
I'm lucky and just get the one character.

The test page prints OK, so maybe things would print through the
serial port.  (Assuming there's a fault and it's between the parallel
port and the input buffer).

Anyone had any experience with one of these beasts or some ideas on
getting it working?

Thanks

Richard
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
From: mike@medsun.unige.ch (Mike morris)
Subject: AfterDark challenge
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 10:15:20 GMT

Can/has anybody out there produced an After Dark equivalent for the
Atari platform (all models, all modes)?
If not, why not?
Mike

Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
From: ripley@cs.tu-berlin.de (Hans-Ch. Eckert)
Subject: Re: AfterDark challenge
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:48:40 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.163516.734@newshost.lanl.gov> hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson) writes:


   AfterDark for the ST sounds like a cool project, though.

You might want to try midnight (as found on ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de, in the
directory pub/atari/demos; midnight.lzh 42355 bytes).  This is the
one-minute demo of a commercial product that will be sold for DEM 99.
The readme is in german only (so far), but usage is pretty simple.
Just keep in mind, that you intercept the saver before a minute is
over.  Otherwise it'll be completely disabled until reboot.

Greetings,
				Ripley

Disclaimer: I'm not connected with midnight except that I donwloaded it
from a bbs here and put it onto the server.  Ask the authors for more info...
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From: dxo@cs.bham.ac.uk (David Oakley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: How do you write a CPX
Date: 8 Jan 93 16:31:12 GMT
Organization: University of Birmingham

1. The best way to find out about CPXs is to buy DocSupport II. Not that I've
managed to write one... Anyone have CPX code for Lattice C?

2. TOS by default clears all unallocated RAM before running a new program so that
it can guarentee(sp!) that any spare memory is all zero's
That's OK on a 520, but clearing 4Mb of memory on an 8MHz 68000 is painful to say
the least.
PinHead stops TOS clearing all that space, and is compatible with MOST software.
The Fastload bit with is the 28 byte header at the start of any TOS/PRG program
is Atari's way of doing the same thing. Any program with this bit set won't have
its memory cleared by TOS 1.4+.

3. Dunno!

David.
From: ekrimen@wet.UUCP (Ed Krimen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: AfterDark challenge
Date: 6 Jan 93 05:58:41 GMT
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco

In article <1993Jan5.101520.25520@news.unige.ch> mike@medsun.unige.ch (Mike morris) writes:
>Can/has anybody out there produced an After Dark equivalent for the
>Atari platform (all models, all modes)?

The latest version of Warp 9 from Codehead Software encorporates Extend-O-Save,
which enables you to load different screen saver modules.  If you have 
programming experience, you can create your own modules.



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From: ekrimen@wet.UUCP (Ed Krimen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: AfterDark challenge
Date: 7 Jan 93 02:24:43 GMT
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco

In article <1993Jan6.095807.3402@news.unige.ch> mike@medsun.unige.ch (michel morris) writes:
>
>But I use NVDI, not Warp 9 - can I use _just_ the Extend-O-Save (sounds like a 
>washing powder additive), without Warp 9 ?

You can turn off Warp 9's acceleration, but I don't know if NVDI and W9 will
work in that configuration; I've never tested them.

You may like Warp 9 better than NVDI anyway. :^)


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From: d2viktor@dtek.chalmers.se (Viktor Fougstedt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Help with writing STOS-extenisons.
Date: 11 Jan 93 08:10:49 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden


Hello.

Has everyone had a merry Christmas and a happy new year?
Glad to hear that.


I would like to know how to write my own STOS extensions. The manual
don`t say nothing about it.

And the PACK command. It is a kind of short explanation in the manual,
right? It has a zillion (slight overstatement *8-) extra parameters that are
not to be found.

Please advice.

Viktor.


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From: michael.smith@f842.n800.z3.fido.zeta.org.au (michael smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: AdSCSI Micro Hostadaper trouble
Organization: Fidonet. Gate admin is fido@socs.uts.edu.au
Date: 25 Dec 92 21:37:16 GMT

Original to: mjuschke@tartarus.uwa.edu.au
In a message of <16 Dec 1992 10:53:2>, mjuschke@tartarus.uwa.edu.au
(3:713/602) writes:

 >>> Most suitable SCSI drives are now manufactured in permanent parity
 >>> enable as it is used with most PC's. It was only possible for me to get
 >>> an affordable drive as there were some old stock of drives availabe at
 >>> one supplier. One supposedly jumpered drive I ordered turned out with
 >>> enabled parity and no jumper, as it was already a newer model.

Hmm, odd - a goodly number of PC host adapters I have seen (most were some
time ago) did not support parity - this is obviously a new (and annoying)
development, not to mention a deviation from the spec.

 >> Well is it EVEN or ODD parity that is enabled? It does make a
 >> difference. BTW what is suitable? Quantum, Maxtor, Seagate, Conner, and
 >> Micropolis drives are still all selectable for EVEN, ODD, or NO parity.

Bullshit. Pure & utter. Well, at least for seagate & connor - _never_ seen a
'parity type' jumper on either - there are 4 jumpers on an ST296N - which is
the parity type one? 3 drive ID jumpers and a parity enable.

 m> Suitable is a drive in the price range below $AUS 1000 which is
 m> low-profile and will fit into a Mega. I had no trouble finding drives
 m> with PE jumpers in the range $1500-4000. You might have that kind of
money,
 m> I don't.

I can't make too many suggestions, except that the Quantum LP80S/LP105S will
certainly work OK in a TT, and should have a parity disable option.  So
should the Maxtor 7080S - all of which _should_ come in under $1K retail.

 m> Tell this to the shops that are around here, most of them sell PC's only
 m> or Mac's. Most shops sell SCSI's low-profile only above 300Mb. And as
 m> before, there are so-called SCSI drives (Conner 60, Quantum 85) which DO
 m> Not have the jumper.

So get a little picky - make them work for their margin - be a bastard!

 m> Michael

\`miff`                                                       /|\

(ps call the Ogre BBS and get involved in the Oz atari community! )
(If you need more info, check a local BBS for the BBSlist, or call)
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From: rossin@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Ted Rossin)
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:21:55 GMT
Subject: Re: Porting UNIX Code to the ST
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech

Instead of using:

	fprintf(fp,"Life is hell\n");  /* Carriage return and Line feed */

Try using:

	fprinf(fp,"Life makes my head hurt\r");  /* Carriage return */


If I remember the reason that you are seeing the control M is because you
opened the file up in binary mode ("wb").  If you were playing in ASCII
mode ("w"), then the \n would generate the output that you would like.  


		I hope this does the trick

			Ted.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
From: mgm@world.std.com (michael g moncur)
Subject: I/O redirection
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:09:25 GMT

I've been living with "redirection" for some time.  Command shells allow 
you to redirect the output of a command, and even to redirect a device
permanently...

Outside of a CLI, and inside of a 'C' program (Mark Williams), how do I
accomplish this?  Specifically, I would like to be able to redirect "con:"
to "aux:" and vice versa, or redirect "aux" to the printer.  
 
Thanks.  I would appreciate any info, and code examples in assembly or
preferably C.  There's a brief mention of it in the Mark Williams C
manual, but it's terribly unclear.

Please reply via e-mail, as I don't keep up too well on this newsgroup.  I
will, however, post a summary of replies to this group.

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From: marco@sys6626.bison.mb.ca (John Perry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: UNIX/Terminal Programs
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 08:30:34 CST
Organization: System 6626 BBS, Winnipeg Manitoba Canada

Thanks to all of you that responded to my request for info reagarding 
terminal programs and UNIX. I found many of you suggested UniTerm, which 
I will certainly have to look into. The main thing I was looking for was 
inproved emulation modes. Flash is OK, but it's not perfect. Are 
UniTerm's emulation modes more UNIX-compatible?

Thanks.

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From: ue@nathan.do.open.de (Udo Erdelhoff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Organization: cyberspace
Subject: Re: Utility needed to read Amiga disks.
Reply-To: ue@nathan.do.open.de
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In <1993Jan3.153141.8252@brt.deakin.edu.au>, ajmex@brt.deakin.edu.au writes:

Hi,
>I have some files on an amiga formatted diskette that I want to read on
>an atari. Is there any ultility that will enable this?
sorry, but it is impossible for an atari to read a disk formated on an amiga.
The reason is the format used by the amiga: gcr coding, different number of
sectors on different tracks. Ask the amiga owner to copy the data to an
ms-dos disk. The amiga owner will need kickstart 2.0 or one of the dos disk
converters (crossdos, dos-to-dos) to do this....
/s/
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From: hyc@hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov (Howard Chu)
Subject: Re: Sending objc_draw to a memory buffer rather than screen
Organization: SAR Systems Development & Processing, JPL
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 09:42:52 GMT

In article <3_800_842_fidonet2b3c3741@Kralizec.fido.zeta.org.au> michael.smith@f842.n800.z3.fido.zeta.org.au (michael smith) writes:
>Original to: bpat@cs.mcgill.ca
>In a message of <10 Dec 92 12:16:14>, bpat@cs.mcgill.ca (3:713/602) writes:
>
> b> have the books with me right now. Also, could someone tell me if it's a
> b> perfectly legal thing to do. It will work on any ST, and most probably
>on
> b> the STe, and MEGASTe. But does the TT still have this screen-switching
> b> stuff available ? Will the Falcon have it?
>
>Yes and probably yes, however it's a _really_bad_ thing to do under MTos,
>for obvious reasons - just imagine if there's a context switch while the
>logical screen is pointing in the wrong direction...
>
>(unless this is one of the context items saved in the switch??)

Yes, MiNT saves a private copy of the logical screen pointer for each
process. This was already mentioned when this thread began a month or so
ago...
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