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From: mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Subject: Re: Virtual Memory for the Amiga?
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Radioastronomie
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 10:15:44 GMT

In <1992Jul27.024218.17053@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
>   Rumors about this German-written virtual memory system have been filtering
>around the net for over a year, but nothing solid ever seems to come about 
>from it.  For all the rumors and good reports from German Amiga users, the
>thing remains totally vaporware for anybody outside of Europe.  If this thing
>really does exist and works as advertized, why doesn't the company at least
>develop a crippleware demo of the vmem system that can be freely distributed,
>as proof that it really exists?  Until the company behind this product does
>something to show that this thing is not vaporware, I will remain solidly
>skeptical.

It's rather Swiss-written and you may remain skeptical. Fact is that it
did work stable. In how far VMEM is a performance problem (and this implementation
in particular) has to be determined.

BTW, ADPro crashed with more than 512Megs virtual memory available.. dunno why.

Regards,
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From: "xternal functions" <xternal.functions@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: re: xpk help!!!!!
Date: 31 Jul 92 15:42:12 EST
Reply-To: "xternal functions" <xternal.functions@canrem.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

In a message dated 07-30-92, bombadil@diku.dk (Kristian Nielsen) wrote ...
 
KN> NOTE!!! You do *NOT* want to get this. It's a BETA release only meant
KN> for the registered beta testers, and it's not stable (it fact it is
KN> rather unstable as far as I've experienced). Why do you think the
KN> directory is call 'priv' and isn't readable? That's right it's for
KN> 'private'. The only released version is the one on the german mag
KN> 'AmigaPlus', and it should be available on some ftp sites by now
KN> (can't say which, though).
 
KN> Please understand that we are only trying to get the best possible Xpk
KN> available to the amiga community. Having buggy beta versions floating
KN> around all over the world won't help the development at all. So please
KN> don't spread this beta version.
 
Funny, since XPK was released by a fidonet file bone method 'SAN' around 
July 16th.  So a couple hundred boards if not thousands already have it.  
Not sure if this is a beta release thou?

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From: w_kueting@tron.gun.de (Wolfgang Kueting)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re^2: Good, cheap text processors
Date: 29 Jul 92 18:14:00 GMT
Organization: TRON Public Mailbox, Neurath, Germany

soh%tmp_ip_003.trl.OZ.AU@USENET.ZER schrieb am 28.07.92 unter
'Re: Good, cheap text processors':

] That might be ``TeXt Plus Professional V4.00''.  From the brief
] description in the article I have, it seems to generate TeX code.
] I'll have a look at it.

Yes, it's a fine tool. Very good for standart things, like letters, books
and articles. You put special keywords into the text and TPP generates the
LaTeX-Source. With a special keyword you can include pour LaTeX-Code into
the text.
And it makes code for tabulars and IFF-graphics, you configurate it with
requester.

It's not so fine for working with special, other style-files because it's
not so easy to edit the standart parsing-files.

After typing text you call compiler, previewer and printer easy by TPP.

TPP has an ARexx-port and needs AmigaOS 2.0.

] Regards,
]
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: flui@fraser.sfu.ca (Francis Wai Gee Lui)
Subject: The status of CrossPC
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 03:49:44 GMT

What's the current status of CrossPC?  I sent in for an upgrade, and got a
postcard that mentioned an early-June shipping date.  It's now the end of
July!  Are they laying out the manual with Mac Classics or something?  What's
taking so long?

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From: dedos3@wsinfo10.info.win.tue.nl (Wilco Boumans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Is ispell available for Amiga?
Date: 21 Jul 92 09:52:59 GMT
Reply-To: dedos3@info.win.tue.nl
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands

Is there a version of ispell (compatible to UNIX ispell ?) version available
for the amiga. I've been looking for some time now, and haven't been able to
find it. I know there's a gnu version available by anonymous ftp, but I
haven't got the diskspace to install gnu c++.

If anyone knows where to get ispell by anonymous ftp, please let me know.

thanks,

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: leavitt@cheshire.oxy.edu (Thomas VanNess Leavitt)
Subject: Virtual Memory for the Amiga?
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA.
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 10:05:19 GMT

From: jayson@tbag.UUCP (Jayson Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Virtual Memory found for Amiga
Date: 30 Apr 92 04:08:03 EST

 
>From: dridi@choco.UUCP (Gilles Dridi ERF004)
>Subject: Re: Virtual Memory found for Amiga
>Date: 22 Apr 92 16:35:32 GMT
>
>>sjc28473@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steven Joseph Chmura) writes:
>>
>>I spotted this announcement in the readme file for mmux32 on ab20:
>>
>>Available by Feb, 1992:
>>  AVM - the Amiga Virtual Memory      by F. Buergel and C. Schneider
>>     At last - the benefits of virtual memory for existing software
>>     like AdPro, CygnusEd, Imagine, etc
>>     Hardware independent and 100% multitasking!
>> ...
>>It detects acess to  paged-out memory by marking memory
>>as 'invalid'.
>>Yours sincerely
>>Friedemann U. Buergel
>
>    Can someone explain what does this program do ?
>    Does it use MMU on 68030 system ?
>    Or is it a joke ?
>
>--
>{cbmvax!cbmehq}!cbmfra!choco!dridi
 
OK let's get one thing straight here.  The MMU stands for Memory Management
Unit.  It doesn't (necassarily) have anything to do with virtual memory. It
supports what is known as Hardware Memory Protection, or memory translation.
That is, or course, memory management.  In the 68K series of CPU's the
Vector Base Register is used to support virtual memory in the following:
68010, 68020, 68030, 68040.  The 68000 and 68008 do not have the Vector Base
Register.  I'm not sure, but possibly virtual memory can be implemented on
the 68000 with some nifty software.  In any case, the MMU is not necassary.
All 68K CPU's above the 68000 can support virtual memory.
 
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Is this program actually available?  In use?  Any comments?

Thom

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From: u2112539@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Re: What W Processor will save a file to Postscript
Date: 22 Jul 92 11:06:33 +1000
Organization: University of New South Wales

In article <Brq4Gr.Hu0@DMI.USherb.CA>, vailm00@DMI.USherb.CA (MARC VAILLANCOURT) writes:
> -> Excellence can only produce acceptible output using a printer's 
> -> internal fonts or to postscript. All other options are awful. 
> -> CompuGraphic fonts for excellence! simply means Amiga bitmaps at 
> -> any desired size.
>  
>    Kevin, any idea why developpers of Excellence! and ProWrite haven't managed
> yet to get nice output when using Compugraphics fonts? I mean, how hard is it
> to check the resolution of the printer you selected, and scale the fonts
> properly to match that resolution, and dump the resulting hi-res bitmap
> to the printer? This would give output as nice as with PageStream or PPage.
> 
>    A few months ago, Mark of New Horizons was saying it was C='s fault for
> not having the bullet.library available yet.... what's so important about
> that library that you can't do currently with 2.04 CG fonts?
> 
> 	Marc

	I can see many problems with sizing fonts acording to your printer but
this could be a very mem hungry way but easy to implement.
	Sort of a virtual resolution, each pixel represents a pin on the
printer. Realy true WYSIWYG. Offcource scrolling around is the only way to go
but to fit on screen why not make a square of four pixels one and use a
grey scale to represent them. ie. a 2x2 pixel could be represented by four
shades 4x4 can be represented by 16 shades. the only one I know that comes
close is PageStream. On a virtual WB you can create (given mem) a screan as
big as you want. Very usable, very fast scrolling, better than the inbuilt
routines. This was fast enough for my 4 meg A500 and it's FAST on my A3000
	George



Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: vailm00@DMI.USherb.CA (MARC VAILLANCOURT)
Subject: Re: Re: What W Processor will save a file to Postscript
Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke -- departement de Mathematiques et d'Informatique
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 05:26:50 GMT

-> Excellence can only produce acceptible output using a printer's 
-> internal fonts or to postscript. All other options are awful. 
-> CompuGraphic fonts for excellence! simply means Amiga bitmaps at 
-> any desired size.
 
   Kevin, any idea why developpers of Excellence! and ProWrite haven't managed
yet to get nice output when using Compugraphics fonts? I mean, how hard is it
to check the resolution of the printer you selected, and scale the fonts
properly to match that resolution, and dump the resulting hi-res bitmap
to the printer? This would give output as nice as with PageStream or PPage.

   A few months ago, Mark of New Horizons was saying it was C='s fault for
not having the bullet.library available yet.... what's so important about
that library that you can't do currently with 2.04 CG fonts?

	Marc

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.audio,comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: newton@mari.acc.stolaf.edu (newton)
Subject: Deluxe Music Construction Set - Upgrade??
Keywords: DMCS Upgrades, Music, MIDI
Organization: St. Olaf College; Northfield, MN
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 21:40:13 GMT

Does anyone know about the status of Electronic Arts DMCS upgrade for
the Amiga?  With some current file transfer software like Copyist
Companion available, I have gone back to sketching with DMCS and
converting to Dr. T's notation software.  In particular, I have been
having some problems with DMCS and 2.0 which occasionally cause the
system to crash.

Some hoped for improvements to DMCS:

	Auto Save
	Better notation output, i.e., postscript, laser printer drivers
	Quicker and more accurate realtime MIDI note entry
	Alpha-numeric keyboard note entry
	Cut and Paste between multiple screens

To name a few.

Dale

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From: lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Protext - do you recommend it?
Date: 24 Jul 92 11:25:04 GMT
Organization: City University, London

Would you recommend Protext for text based word processing?
What is the difference between version 4.3 and the latest
version 5.5? They are still selling 4.3 at half the price of
5.5, so presumably it is still a good product?

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From: soft-logik@cup.portal.com (Kevin W Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: The status of CrossPC
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 18:09:16 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>What's the current status of CrossPC?  I sent in for an upgrade, and got a
>postcard that mentioned an early-June shipping date.  It's now the end of
>July!  Are they laying out the manual with Mac Classics or something?  What's
>taking so long?
>
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>  \_\/         friends use MS-DOS.
>


I was told by someone from Consultron that CrossPC would begin shipping
TODAY (July 27). There have been reportedly many enhancements beyond the
original IBeM on which CrossPC was based. Mine's on order too.

Kevin Davidson, Asst. Moderator AmigaZone Vendor Support - PORTAL
               <soft-logik@cup.portal.com>
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From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Virtual Memory for the Amiga?
Date: 28 Jul 92 11:30:40 GMT
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Organization: Commodore Germany

In article <1992Jul27.024218.17053@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
>
>   Rumors about this German-written virtual memory system have been filtering
>around the net for over a year, 

What may be confusing you and others is that at least two such programs
are currently finished in Germany. When you read the names Martin Blatter
or Markus Illenseer with one, then just consider it rather serious :-)
(Not trying to put any competitor down, it's just that I know these
persons and trust their comptence from personal experience.)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: miller@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Geoffrey M. Miller)
Subject: Another DIRECTORY OPUS question...
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 19:03:12 GMT

I am trying to get Directory Opus to include the name of the file I've
selected in the requester for the new file name a la the RENAME function.
In my command I use {aEnter New Name:[f]} but this does not output any
name in the requester... what am I doing wrong???

Geoff Miller
University of Illinois
From: hkr@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Holger Kruse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Hard drive defragmenting
Date: 22 Jul 92 18:58:33 GMT
Organization: Point of Presence Hamburg

jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999) writes:

>In article <X204KSJ@minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de> arzheim@goofy.zdv.uni-mainz.de (Kai Arzheimer ) writes:

>>Better solution: Try ReOrg (shareware). It does very well (with enough memory)
>>and can be found e.g. at amiga.physik.unizh.ch (dir should be /amiga/disk or so)

>... and then again.... I've heard a few disquieting reports of ReOrg not doing it's job right --
>or doing it too good, depending on how one looks at it.  Files that were good before
>ReOrg got them were no longer useable.  Even text files have been trashed.  I have *not* gotten
>the particulars on what version (I just checked, I have *two* on my BBS), but as usual it
>appears caution is the watchword.  :-(

>Anyone else hear of this?  I've had two verified reports from both No. and SoCal, and the people
>reporting it included the re-org`ed files and the backups of the originals.  The originals were the
>same size as the reorganized ones, but the ReOrged ones were not useable.  This did not happen to
>all files, but a sufficient number to send off alarm bells.

A comment from the programmer:

The latest ReOrg version is V2.31. I have not received any bug reports
about that version yet. If ReOrg does not work correctly on your system,
please make sure that you are using an unmodified original copy of ReOrg
and - for a first try - do not change the default gadget settings.
And for best results (speed and reliability): switch off your startup-
sequence when you want to optimize your boot partition.

If ReOrg still does not work on your system: please send me a bug report to
my home address in Germany !
I haven't received a bug report about scrambled files yet. So, if this
bug really exists, I guess that it affects only very few systems. If someone
can really verify that bug, I would very much like to fix it,
so PLEASE send me a bug report....  Thank you !

Bye, Holger

hkr@mcshh.hanse.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999)
Subject: Re: Virtual Memory for the Amiga?
Organization: NCR (Torrey Pines Development Center)
Disclaimer: This posting does not neccessarily reflect the opinions of NCR.
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 19:41:55 GMT

In article <Bs3vA2.1uq@DMI.USherb.CA> vailm00@DMI.USherb.CA (MARC VAILLANCOURT) writes:

>-> As a matter of fact I do.  If something is available in Europe but 
>-> not in the U.S., then for me for all practical purposes that 
>-> product does not exist. Like I said, until this virtual memory 

>  Does it mean you consider the A600 to be vaporware?

Sounds more to me like wishful thinking :-) :-)


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From: bkwilli@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Bryan Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Hard drive defragmenting
Date: 27 Jul 92 02:36:45 GMT
Organization: The Great Beyond

Personally, I haven't experienced any problems with ReOrg after having used it
for the first time after backing up my hard drive.  I use a GVP Series II 
22MHz 68030/SCSI w/Quantum 105S.
 
 
My obervation: it's BY FAR --- or should I say, BY HOURS faster than anything
else, including BAD (which, when last I checked, couldn't do hard links right--
please correct me if it now does) AND Quarterback Tools.
 
My drive's 76MByte partition, 77% full, was done in under 30 minutes. Actually, 
probably under 20 minutes, but I didn't time it...
 
I haven't come across a trashed file yet--- not to say their isn't one, but 
I booted fine, & Term is still in order...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: jmrg9881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon Reid)
Subject: (FAQ) Where is DMS 1.11?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 22:02:15 GMT

I have DMS 1.02, but that isn't sufficient to undo Lemmingoids.
Where can I find version 1.11 for FTPing?
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From: HeroSoftware@cup.portal.com (Bits of Magic)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Find File utility for the Amiga
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 19:28:07 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

I need a "find file" utility for the Amiga.  Can anyone recommend one?

Or, if there's a good way to do it with Amiga DOS, thus rendering an
application unnecessary, then that would be great too.

Thanks,
Ken Zarifes
<HeroSoftware@cup.portal.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: kxs5829@ultb.isc.rit.edu (K.X. Saunders )
Subject: Re: Any relational DBMSs out there?
Originator: kxs5829@ultb
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 23:42:51 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.040430.3745@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca> cs902125@ariel.yorku.ca (SHUK C YIP) writes:
>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.

	SuperBase does not do SQL.  Whether it supports connectivity to an
SQL server, I do not know.

	I have written an SQL server for the Amiga.  It has an ARexx port,
multiple user support, and will have GUI query and form tools, plus a C API.
The version currently available is way out of date, but I need to get my
3000 before I will be able to release a new version, which will be happening
within a month (I hope).

	Currently, only the SQL engine is available.  The unregistered server
does not have query optimization nor multi-user support.

	If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail.

	- Kyle

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