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From: smcgerty@unix1.tcd.ie (Stephen John McGerty)
Subject: Re: Protext
Keywords: Protext
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 19:31:59 GMT

In <ianm.02zx@laghey.UUCP> ianm@laghey.UUCP (Ian Moran) writes:

>I have been asked to post some details on the Amiga wordprocessor PROTEXT

Protext... That has a nice history dating back to the CPC machines!
Well worth a look everyone. Take the man's advice:

>I would suggest that anyone interested should contact Arnor and have them
>fax a copy of their current advertisment.

Stephen.

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From: rick@clark.edu (Rick Randall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: What is the popular Amiga FTP site?
Date: 29 Sep 92 22:41:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: clark.1992Sep29.224134.10404
Organization: Clark College, Vancouver, Wa.  USA

I have been away for the summer and have lost touch with the net
I was wondering what is the popular FTP site for Amiga now days?
Any information would be appreciated.

Rick Randall
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: dardiswa@cda.mrs.umn.edu (Wayne A. Dardis 1500099)
Subject: Re: I Need some help to reclaim a file fast!
Organization: University of Minnesota - Morris
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 15:07:26 GMT

Where can i get this program?

-Psycho


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From: kaarts@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Kenneth John Aarts)
Subject: Re: ASDG VD0: device (or similar) under ADOS RELEASE 2.05
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 19:26:40 GMT

In <1992Oct4.164331.679@sarah.albany.edu> hibrown@vidar.albany.edu (Herb Brown) writes:


>Actually, the report was that it works under 2.04 and appears not to
>work under 2.05.

>Sorry for the apparently 'bad' news.

No, it works fine under 2.05.  It had to be fixed to work with 3000's.  The
fix was made a long time ago.  I have no problems using it with my 2.05 A3000.

I think it speaks volumes for the authors good programming practices and the
AmigaDos operating system.

Ken
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: boncelet@claude.eecs.umich.edu (Charles Boncelet)
Subject: Help: can't open audio.device?
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 14:58:06 GMT

I'm running an A3000 with 2.04, 6 mbytes of ram.  I can't run many
programs that worked on my A2500 under 1.3.  It seems to be an audio
related problem.  The most frequent error message I get is "can't open
audio.device".  Another program (Katie's Farm) exits with the
frustrating message, "something wrong for audio".  Note some programs
work just fine, both with voice and digitized audio.

Got any ideas how I might correct this? 

Thanks,
	Charlie Boncelet <boncelet@eecs.umich.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: pooler@aix02.ecs.rpi.edu (Robert Peter Poole)
Subject: Re: Making a 'custom' CD-ROM?  Anyone interested?
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 21:48:51 GMT


>- animation players and lots of animations

If you're really considering having this CD mastered, and this is not smoke,
I have two things to say...
(1) I'm interested!  I don't have a CD-ROM drive (yet), but a new Amiga-
specific CD-ROM would definitely swing me in favor of making a CD-ROM drive
an acquisition in the near future.  (I decided the laser printer was a bit
more necessary than a CD-ROM last time I made a big purchase.)
(2) If, as the above seems to indicate, you'd like to include animations on
the disk, then may I strongly recommend that you include Eric Schwartz's
animations.  ASK HIM FOR PERMISSION FIRST!!!!!  If you're nice, and you ask
very politely, you might even be able to cut a deal and get him to allow you
to incorporate his new Amy the Squirrel animation (A Day at the Park) on the
disk.  It's a HUGE animation (20 DD floppies), so CD-ROM distribution is a
good idea.  I don't think that the Amiga community should have to be content
with watching Amiga animations only on videotape.

A couple requests:
(1) Since the Fred Fish disks are already available in a couple different
incarnations on CD-ROM, please minimize the overlap with the Fish collection.

(2) Could someone tell me, either on this newsgroup or via email, if the CD
ROM of the AB20 archive is still available, and how much it costs?  Thanks...

Rob Poole
pooler@rpi.edu
From: markus@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Markus Illenseer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Telnet wanted
Keywords: telent
Date: 6 Oct 92 10:35:42 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Bielefeld, Technische Fakultaet.


 I am looking for a telnet version for Amiga, using the Shell as
 input, not an own screen as it does the current AS225 software.
 It must use the socket.library of course.

Thx for any hint, Markus
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From: c91carce@IDA.LiU.SE (Calle G Cederberg         )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Fish disk list updates via Email ???
Date: 30 Sep 92 12:58:05 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Organization: CIS Dept, University of Linkoping, Sweden


Sent the following question to Fred Fish :

Is there a possibility to recieve updates of the Fish list via Email?
That is only the list, not the programs.
I suppose you have some sort of mailing list ( or ??)

To which he replied :

I don't maintain any email lists.  As with supporting ftp sites, I
leave that to other people to do.  I send the list to the amiga
announce group moderator, who then posts it on usenet.  You might ask
on comp.sys.amiga.misc about getting on any lists maintained by
other people.

So now I wonder :

Is there anybody  out there ( who keeps some kind of
mailinglist ? )

In that case :

ENTER OUR NAMES !!!

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: rosborn@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Ryan H Osborn)
Subject: Need CATS or Express Service #'s
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 92 22:43:46 GMT


      I need the numbers for CATS and/or Commodore Express service please.  I'm
having trouble with my joystick port and would like these numbers to try and
get some info.   Thank you.
							Ryan Osborn
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From: mbuc1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Matthew Richard     Buchanan       )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Aliases...
Keywords: ALIASES UNIX
Date: 28 Sep 92 21:45:20 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland

In <griffita.717474433@sfu.ca> griffita@fraser.sfu.ca (David Stuart Griffiths) writes:

>Can anyone tell me how to change/make an alias for UNIX (Sun/SGI)
>systems?  This isn't "quite" the right area to ask this in, but Amiga
>users as a whole tend to be more pleasent than asking IBM types :-)

>Dave

An alias on our Unix system is just like under AmigaDOS:

alias lo logout

to make an alias for logout - I have this one in my .login file.

hope this helps, Matt.
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From: crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: .PCX files - Conversion to PageStream?  (Repost?  I'm not sure)
Date: 27 Sep 92 20:17:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: glia.crystal.717625069
Organization: University of Washington

If this is a duplicate, please forgive the wasted bandwith - our newsreader
is broken and I have been unable to tell if this ever got posted the first
time.  It is still flakey, but I have at least been able to read a few posts,
much less than I KNOW have been posted here in the last 10 days...
----------------------
(Please reply via EMAIL - our newsreader is broken - I can post but NOT read)

Is there a program that converts .PCX files (from PC Paint) to something more
universally recognized by the Amiga?

I recently discovered the following:

   Superbase4 can read/display/print .PCX files (but can't convert them)
              (This is what prompted my question - I now know it's *possible*)

   PageStream 2.2 can access LOTS of formats, but .PCX isn't one of them.
	      (Can Hotlinks deal with them?)

   DeluxePaint2 can't convert to/from anything.  Are later versions able to?

I have a collection of clipart files in .PCX format that would be nice to
be able to use with PageStream.  Has anyone done this?  (I'm also on a DTP
mailing list and keep getting offers for ClipArt libraries, but they are
always in MS-DOG or MAC format. :<)


Oh...and I have *MANY ACCOLADES* for Superbase4!!!  That program is
EFFICIENT!!! :>  (And VERY easy to use in spite of its complexity!)

I fed a 187K dBaseII file to it and after it got through digesting it, it 
spit back a database only 37K in size with NO LOSS OF DATA!!!  Truly a most
efficient use of disk space!!  What took up 10 IBM floppies, now sits on
3 Amiga floppies!  And PageStream documents, likewise, take up less space
than Ventura did!  (Hmmm...maybe I should have posted this paragraph in
C.S.A.advocacy??? ;> )


Thanks everyone for all the help you've given me!

Crystal     
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: pooler@aix02.ecs.rpi.edu (Robert Peter Poole)
Subject: fifo.library and fifo: handler
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 15:53:28 GMT


I just recently downloaded the latest version of the gnu emacs port for the
Amiga, and I need Matt Dillon's fifo.library and fifo-handler to make use
of processes running under emacs.  The docs that come with gnu-emacs say
that the fifo stuff is located on one of the fish disks, but doesn't say
which one(s).  Anyone know where I can get the most recent fifo-handler
and fifo.library?  Thanks...  (A fish disk number would be sufficient.)

Rob Poole
pooler@rpi.edu
pooler@cs.rpi.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: whitem@jester.usask.ca (Matt White)
Subject: Re: Making a 'custom' CD-ROM?  Anyone interested?
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 15:58:21 GMT

Jukka Marin (jmarin@messi.uku.fi) wrote:
: Dear All,
: 
: I have been thinking of having a custom CD-ROM disc made.  A disc which
: would contain _useful_ and _interesting_ stuff, a disc worth having.

[Description of proposed contents deleted]
 
:   Jukka Marin

I would be very interested in a disk like this.  I haven't got my CD-ROM
yet, but it shouldn't be long now.  The idea of a disk full of usable
stuff like that is great!

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: mlednor@tower.demon.co.uk (Mark `Jay' Lednor)
Subject: Re: Looking for BMS sites
Distribution: na
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Private Internet Node
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 14:07:43 +0000

dave martin (dave@news.ccutah.edu) wrote:
>
>P.S. whats the latest version of UUCP and BMS for the amiga?

1.16D & 1.16.02 respectively.

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From: ianm@icsbelf.co.uk (Ian Moran)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Cygnus Ed & Turbotext
Date: 6 Oct 92 12:35:04 GMT
Organization: ICS Computing Group Ltd., Belfast
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Hello there

Has anyone had experience of the above two editors and if so, which
would you rec. for purchase. Also in the UK where would be the
best place to buy either.

Regards

 Ian

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: brett@visix.com (Brett Bourbin)
Subject: Re: Problems with the A4000
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 18:51:42 GMT
Reply-To: brett@visix.com
Organization: Visix Software, Reston, Virginia

In article <35075@cbmvax.commodore.com> mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael  
Sinz) writes:
> What you call
> the "SCSI" work-a-like was work that Randall had done even for the A600.
> This is why the IDE driver is called scsi.device.  HDToolBox works with
> it unmodified.  In fact, programs that do scsi-direct do too.  And this
> is true in the A600 and the A4000.

This is interesting. What happens when, like any high-end workstation user  
would do, I add my Zorro III SCSI-II card to my A4000? Does this mean that  
the scsi.device now does IDE AND SCSI work? How will this impact 3rd party  
developers?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: dingebre@imp.sim.es.com (David Ingebretsen)
Subject: Re: "Family Values"...& vulgar programs!
Reply-To: dingebre@imp.sim.es.com (David Ingebretsen)
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, UT
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 16:07:48 GMT

In article <1992Sep30.075650.28510@bristol.ac.uk>, ccsw@bristol.ac.uk (EthaStorm) writes:
> In article <gem6fjG00j_HA0ZVx=@cs.cmu.edu> Michael.Witbrock@cs.cmu.edu writes:
> >If the programmer thought the words belonged there, then I'd say they

Nicely presented and restrained argument deleted...

> not impressed by it. The two I did keep were by two unknown groups (both
> Australian I think). Their routines were good, put together well, and the
> music was interesting. But, no swearing. I wonder why? Cos mebbe those guys
> knew that their code could stand on it's own two feet without the need for the
> coders to prove that they were ADULTS!!
> 
> EthaStorm  *8)

Me too. I don't need to grab a demo, unpack it for my kids and have them
showered with profanity.

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From: Hans_Bergengren@p1.thulos.bbs.bad.se (Hans Bergengren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: CDTV INFO. WANTED. Answers needed...
Date: 2 Oct 92 23:38:50 GMT
Reply-To: Hans_Bergengren@p1.thulos.bbs.bad.se (Hans Bergengren)
Organization: THULOS!, STROMSTAD, SWEDEN


  (> What can a CDTV do that my 500 couldn't?

Play CDs... :)

  (> What can an A500 do that my CDTV can't?

Use harddisks. (CDTV currently has no harddisk controller!)

  (> Can I run any amiga software in the drive w/CDTV? (word
  (>  processors/games?)

Yup. Unless your games thrash around too much in the system (CDTV ROMs are 512
kB, and should differ slightly from standard 1.3 ROMs...), they will run fine.

  (> Can I hook a printer up to CDTV?

Absolutely!

  (> Can I hook a modem up to CDTV?

Nema problema! (Yes)

  (> Can I hook a hard drive up to CDTV?

No, not until somebody produces one to go into the expansion slot at the back
of the CDTV. CBM has prototypes for one, I think it was SCSI, but as usual,
they seem to think that if we've waited two years for that product, we can
just as well wait a little longer... :-(

  (> Can I run European Demos in PAL mode with CDTV?

Yes.

  (> I heard that joysticks are incompatible with CDTV, but there is an
  (>  accessory I can buy to get them to work..what is it?

"The Brick". Trackball/joy+mouse interface/control pad, all in one. Can be
used stand-alone (via IR signals), or attached via a cable. Smart unit!

  (> I heard you can play CD's (music) on CDTV, how easy is it to do this?
  (>  (Insert and play?)

Yes. Very easily.

  (> Can I extend the memory of CDTV?

Ehmmm... Tough one! There are PCMCIA cards for CDTV, altough I think they only
are for storage. And it seems that the distance between the CPU and top cover
is too small for a "piggyback board", so the only option left is the expansion
slot at the rear, and currently, there are no boards for it... :-(

  (> And anything else of interest... THANKS.

CDTV is nice, but CBM doesn't promote it the way it deserves (no SCSI, no
memory, no network/PIP Genlock, no nothing)!
But after all, it _IS_ an Amiga, and that says it all!



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: "robert buonincontro" <robert.buonincontro@canrem.com>
Subject: re^2: an open letter
Reply-To: "robert buonincontro" <robert.buonincontro@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 26 Sep 92 15:00:36 EST


EB>Yes, that's very good if you actually *HAVE* a 3000.  What really p***es ME off
EB>is the fact that people are saying that you might, MAYBE be able at some point in
EB>the future be able to fit AGA&3.0 to a 3000, but all the other 99.9% Amiga owners
EB>(particularly in Europe, where the average machine is a 500), either upgrade
EB>to the 1200 (or whatever it's currently called :) or stick with ECS&2.0 - it's all
EB>very well for C= to continue support for the Amiga, but what about the Amiga's
EB>user base?

EB>(Sorry, just had to get that off my chest.  Phew!)

 Commodore has also offered trade in prices for users who own older machines. 
They usually give you something like $500 off and let you keep your old machine.
 
 They'll have to get a little more agressive with their trade in polices. The
more AGA machines they get out on the market the more AGA programs will be
out on the market.

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From: dardiswa@cda.mrs.umn.edu (Wayne A. Dardis 1500099)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Thanks for all your help
Date: 5 Oct 92 05:22:53 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Minnesota - Morris

I'd just like to thank all those who helped me out.  Unfortunately
the file was unrecoverable and i had to go to my back up (at least
i don't have to redo the whole thing).  Even though things didn't
work out this time i am prepared if it shall ever happen again.
I've also learned to back up more often :)  Again thanks to all
who helped i really appreciated it!


-Psycho


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From: ps296au@sdcc4.ucsd.edu (Steven Cobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Making a 'custom' CD-ROM?  Anyone interested?
Date: 1 Oct 92 01:09:22 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

It sounds like a great Idea.  I like the Idea of the includes &
autodocs, as well as amiga mail. Also the TeX fonts.  Also some
good demos and anims.  Count me in.

Regards,

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From: d1wizo@dtek.chalmers.se (Ola Lundkvist)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Looking for `OpenDrawer' program
Date: 6 Oct 92 11:31:55 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden

Until a couple of months ago I hardly used the Workbench at all, but
did everything from CLI/Shell. Now when I've got a hard drive and 2.0
it's much more pleasant to use Workbench. So when I boot from my
hard drive one of the first things I do is doubleclicking on the disk
icon to open the root directory. What I'm missing is a command to
put in my WBStartup drawer (or alternatively  in the startup-sequence
after LoadWB), that can automatically open any drawer/disk window on
the Workbench. Could also be usable if you want to open that 
`misc/strange/games/adventure/funny' (or whatever) drawer without
having to open the first four drawers. Would do nice as a commoditie
that could open a directory requester and/or using Tooltypes and
possibly from CLI using command line arguments and/or a directory
requester.
Is there anybody out there that got a feeling what I'm looking for?
If so, do you know of a such program, or maybe someone could write one.
IMHO Commodore should include something like this with Workbench.

Ola

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