HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: tsm2124@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: DMCS 2.0
Reply-To: tsm2124@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 05:17:58 GMT

	Reprinted by Permission from the 5-MINUTE Weekend New Network
, a *StarShip*(tm) Production on GEnie(R).

, a *StarShip*(tm) Production on GEnie(R).

DMCS Upgrade!
Another much heralded project was confirmed today at World of Commodore
Show as well:  EA has officially announced an upgrade to DELUXE MUSIC
CONSTRUCTION SET for the Amiga! Among other things, DMCS 2.0 will take
advantage of the new hardware features of the Amiga 4000, will support
ALL screen modes, and will include a freely distributable DMCS song
player!  It does NOT look the same on the screen as the original DMCS.
Availability is set for "early winter" -- hopefully by Christmas!

END QUOTE

	I wonder if they are referring to the DSP.......


				Todd Major
From: cardinal@amiganet.chi.il.us (Paul Nowatzki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Final Copy's 35 fonts?
Date: 13 Sep 92 18:13:17 GMT
Organization: Amiga Network Information Systems

In article <1992Sep12.213718.26837@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>,
aciceran@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (A. J. Ciceran) writes:
>In article <1992Sep12.205357.22786@sfu.ca>flui@fraser.sfu.ca
>(Francis Wai Gee Lui) writes:
>
>>>A related question--I would like to use Final Copy (II) to print
>>>(remotely) on a PostScript printer that has the standard Adobe fonts...
>
>>In fact, Final Copy has ALWAYS supported the use of the standard internal
>>Postscript typefaces via Nimbus Q copies that are the same size as the
>>originals.
>
>Does anyone happen to know if PC Nimbus Q fonts (for example those bundled
>with Geoworks) are compatible with Final Copy?


I can't get them to work, but if you do, PLEASE let me know how.

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From: David_Corn@fcircus.sat.tx.us (David Corn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Disk Doubler
Date: 10 Sep 92 13:20:28 GMT
Organization: The Flying Circus BBS, San Antonio, TX
X-NewsSoftware: BBX-UMB 0.23 (Sep 10 1992)



Where can I get XPK 2.3?



-- 
David_Corn@fcircus.sat.tx.us
.. david corn ...
From: tdenbo@dwp.la.ca.us (Tom Denbo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: DJHelper with excellence
Date: 4 Sep 92 20:24:57 GMT

I can't get excellence to eject the last page with DJHelper.

AutoFF works ok with "copy file prt:" or even AZ but not with e.

What's the fix?

Thanks
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: markus@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Markus Illenseer)
Subject: Re: Disk Doubler
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 08:20:45 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Bielefeld, Technische Fakultaet.

In article <David_Corn.0cev@fcircus.sat.tx.us>, David_Corn@fcircus.sat.tx.us (David Corn) writes:
|> 
|> re:XPK
|> 
|> As of the last version I saw, 1.0, it could not compress, ON THE FLY,
|> files saved to it - one had to manually compress the files.  Also, it
|> didn't seem to save as much space as Imploder did.
 
 Did you specify the right Algorithm ?
 XPK provides (it's a library...) several. You can choose the one you like.
 EG. the fastest (but not the best in packing) , or the best, but not the
 fastest... Best compromiss is NUKE (does 600k/s decompress on a 030)

|> 
|> For the short term, I'll stick with Imploder.
 Bah :-)

|> 
|> I want something that I put in WBStartup, and is automatic from there on
|> out.  The Mac has it (Autodoubler) ... why can't we?

 Well, Version 2.2 of the XPK-Package is already out, but has a temporal
 Copyright by a german Amiga Mag. This Copyright is obsolete from the 31.9.
 From then on, you will get XPK 2.2 and probably the successor 2.3.

 In V2.2, the Auto-Compress for the XFH Filehandler is included.

|> David_Corn@fcircus.sat.tx.us
|> .. david corn ...

 Mac ? What is Mac ? A Screensaver-Machine.

 Markus
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: zarthac@camelot.bradley.edu (Matthew Simmons)
Subject: PasTeX
Organization: Bradley University
Date:  9 Sep 92 16:34:54 GMT

First:  There's a guy name Jochen who's been E-Mailing me whose
address I seen to have lost.  If you (Jochen) could mail me, it'd be
great...


Second:  I CAN'T GET THIS THING TO WORK!!!  Could somebody give me a
cookbook method to make PasTeX work on my machine (I got DVIShow to
work, not DVIPrint)  assuming I have installed the 6 PasTeX disks, the
8 Previewer fonts disks, and the 2 Metafont disks.  I have a Panasonic
KXP-2123 printer and WB2.0.
From: soft-logik@cup.portal.com (Kevin W Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Final Copy's 35 fonts?
Date: Wed,  9 Sep 92 20:16:03 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>Are Final Copy's 35 included fonts the 35 Postscript Classic by
>any chance? 

YES

If so, can they be used in PPage3 as well? 

NO

>Also can Soft-Logiks Soft Faces be used in anything other than Final Copy?

That's Soft Wood. And they can only be used by some PC programs (maybe). 
Nothing else on the Amiga that I know of uses the Nimbus format. There are
PC font conversion programs that might be able to convert them to something
else (look at ALLTYPE).

>
>--
>Lionel Tun   (lionel@cs.city.ac.uk)
>Vision Group, City University, London, EC1V 0HB. 071-477 8000 x 3889
>


Kevin Davidson, Asst. Moderator AmigaZone Vendor Support - PORTAL
               <soft-logik@cup.portal.com>
        SOFT-LOGIK BBS (PCP MOSLO) (314) 894-0057
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: flui@fraser.sfu.ca (Francis Wai Gee Lui)
Subject: Re: Final Copy's 35 fonts?
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 20:53:57 GMT

In article <1992Sep12.181131.7160@cbnews.cb.att.com> ampe@cbnews.cb.att.com (john.e.ampe) writes:
[]
>A related question--I would like to use Final Copy (II) to print
>(remotely) on a PostScript printer that has the standard Adobe fonts
>built-in (Times-Roman, Helvetia, Courier).  Is this possible, i.e.
>does Final Copy have fonts that have dimensions identical to the
>Adobe fonts?
>
>John_Ampe@att.com

YES!!!!  YES!!!!!!!!!!  YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In fact, Final Copy has ALWAYS supported the use of the standard internal
Postscript typefaces via Nimbus Q copies that are the same size as the
originals.

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 / /\ /_/\__   Francis Lui
/_/ /\\ \ \/\  e-mail: flui@sfu.ca
\ \  / \ \  /
 \ \ \  \_\/   You know you're a techno-dweeb when
  \_\/         floppy drive applies more to your love life,
               and hard drive to your machines.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: barber@jazz.concert.net (Scott Barber)
Subject: Kermit uploading crash with Term
Organization: Center for Communications, MCNC; RTP, NC
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 13:00:07 GMT


I recently got the latest version of Term and the associated XPR 
libraries off the Fish disks.  Most everything that I've tried so
far seems to work fine, including downloading with XPR-Zmodem and
XPR-Kermit.  However, when I try UPloading with XPR-Kermit, the file
transfer window opens up, and then before things get going, I get 
a 80000003 guru.  

I've tried this with a clean s-s and just ModeNames in my WBStartup 
and get the same result consistently.

Any ideas?  Thanks in advance,

Scott

"How would you react if I    \ Scott Barber            \ "I don't know, 
told you that I'm not from    \ barber@jazz.concert.net >  do you think 
Guildford after all, but from  \  MCNC                 / it's the sort of
a small planet somewhere in the >  RTP, NC            / thing you're 
vicinity of Betelguese?"       /  BVD                / likely to say?" 
						--- Douglas Adams
From: jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jake Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: New Amiga user's dumb questions
Date: 9 Sep 92 00:55:49 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA

z_morasma@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:

>  Help, i just bought an amiga 500 from a friend, and i like it, but 
>as an old IBM PC pro, everything is just a little bit different.

>  I would like to hook the amiga up to an NFS server, can anyone give me a
>company name and phone number, also what is a good comm program?  I have
>seen several available, but need something simple for now.

I recommend Term, although it is a bit quirky sometimes, under 2.04 - it's
"giftware," which is a big plus, and it has more and better features than
JR-Comm and NComm, to name a few competitors.  If you aren't running 2.04,
you probably want to upgrade - many new PD software packages and utilities
will only run under 2.x, which is good and fitting since it's vastly
superior to 1.3 (it looks keen too :) ).  The upgrade is around US$80 (I've
seen $70, I've seen $90, so I average. :) ).  Welcome to the world of Amiga,
where the machines are great and the support is faltering - use your fellow
user, please!  We're (well, most of us) willing to help!

>  One last request, is there any good refernce material for the amiga, that 
>you think would be good for a novice like me??

What do you want to do with it?

>Mike Moras
>z_morasma@ccsvax.sfasu.edu

Wulf                    | "Martha, it's another one of those CS majors asking
jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu |  if cow chips are pin-compatible with 68040s..."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: flui@fraser.sfu.ca (Francis Wai Gee Lui)
Subject: Re: Why Final Copy 1.3 crash with DEL-HELP?
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 21:13:39 GMT

In article <65279@cup.portal.com> Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) writes:
>I too am a registered Final Copy owner and up to now have received quite
>a few mailings from SoftWood. In fact a couple months ago they sent
>me the full glossy manuals for their two accessory Final Copy font
>packages with an offer to buy them at a discount. Thus I'm also kinda
>surprised I haven't gotten a mailing from them concerning Final Copy II.
>Unless SoftWood has changed hands and the mailing list went into
>the dumpster. 

In fact, out of all the Amiga software companies, they probably have the BEST
update service.  They have sent me so many free upgrades that it has almost
become a regular occurrence:  "Oh, yet another Proper Grammar upgrade."

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 / /\ /_/\__   Francis Lui
/_/ /\\ \ \/\  e-mail: flui@sfu.ca
\ \  / \ \  /
 \ \ \  \_\/   You know you're a techno-dweeb when
  \_\/         floppy drive applies more to your love life,
               and hard drive to your machines.
From: jpjt@ukc.ac.uk (J.P.J.Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: dvips for use with PasTeX 1.3
Date: 9 Sep 92 17:49:16 GMT
Reply-To: jpjt@ukc.ac.uk (J.P.J.Thomas)
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.

In article <1992Sep5.073724.6033@ultb.isc.rit.edu> kxs5829@ultb.isc.rit.edu (K.X. Saunders ) writes:
>
>	Does anyone know where to find the Amiga port of dvips?  According
>to the documentation from PasTeX 1.3, it does exist.

It does indeed exist, and was ported by George Hesseman himself. It worked
after a fashion, but for some reason font compression was broken. I have
a slightly updated version to which I have added support for George's
fontlibrary format and which has a working font compression scheme.

It isn't entirely finished yet and I'm not sure when it will be since I have
60 more pages of Thesis to write in about 1 week!

I'll try to upload it somewhere if people are interested, and I'd particularly
like to hear any encouraging noises from George Hesseman.

P.S. I hope to add caching of the font library directories in the near future
so that they aren't continually reopened each time a font is requested, but
I'm not sure when I'll have time!
>	The reason I ask is that I find that the output from TeX to be 
>somewhat lacking compared to Post 1.7 with real Adobe fonts or Final Copy.  
>There also appear to be some bugs in the DVIprint program (at least with the
>LQ printer).
>
>	- Kyle

It could be that the fonts you're using were generated with non optimal
settings in mf.modes. Changing some of the setings for extra blackening
and o-correction etc. can have a quite drastic effect on the final quality
of the fonts on a particular printer.

	- Julian
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From: mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us (Mike Meyer)
Subject: Re: Gizmos2.0 Stuff
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: Amiga Yarn 3.4, 1992/08/12 15:49:52
Keywords: 
Summary: 
Date: 14 Sep 92 23:33:01 PST
Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica

In <mkoch.04ku@amisys.UUCP>, mkoch@amisys.UUCP (Mike Koch) wrote:
> In article <65596@cup.portal.com> joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan) writes:
> > And BTW- how about some cheers for these early (1986!) Digital Creations
> > gems.  They may still be the best set of all-purpose desktop utilities ever
> > written for Amy.
> 
> I agree, and I still use the Gizmoz Rolodex to hold all my names and
> addresses.  Except for not forcing topaz8 in the titlebar, it works just as
> well under 2.04 as it did under 1.2 and 1.3, and I have yet to find anything
> more recent that works as well.

While I dropped RolloDex for MFF+ a while back (another 1.3 utility
that made the transition to 2.0 and beyond), I agree. I'm still using
some of the calculators from Gizmos under 3.0.

Every once in a while, I bludgeon Digital Creations to upgrade Gizmos.
Maybe if enough of us start doing that, they'll actually _do_ it!

	<mike
From: lawrence@ucdavis.edu ( Patrick J. Lawrence )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Post 1.7 and dvips
Date: 8 Sep 92 16:17:40 GMT
Reply-To: lawrence@ucdavis.edu
Organization: UC Davis Department of Mathematics

In article 26709@wam.umd.edu, walrus@wam.umd.edu (Udo K Schuermann) writes:
>In article <1992Sep08.042229.19206@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> zcapd49@ucl.ac.uk (Mr C Jomaron) writes:
>No, it's not a bug.  Tell dvips 5.47 NOT to compress the font encoding.  As
>far as I recall, some option like 'Z' will do that for you.  It's
>documented and can be "permanently" set in the dvips.config file (or
>whatever it's called.)
>
> ._.  Udo Schuermann     "If I went around calling myself emperor just because

Yes, it is a bug with the Amiga port of DVIPS 5.47.  However, this is a solution that
does indeed work.  Besides your documents will print out faster with the compression
turned off anyway, so lets call it a feature, ok? ;-)

Pat
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: s37732v@vipunen.hut.fi (Markus Juhani Aalto)
Subject: re: "Screen-choosing" Commodity?
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Date: 7 Sep 92 17:52:16


In article <52751@dime.cs.umass.edu> barrett@gleep.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett) writes:
>
>
>	I'm looking for a Commodity (or similar background program) that
>will pop-up a menu of all existing screens, let me choose one, and
>automatically activate that screen and bring it to the front.
>

> //////////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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>| University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA  01003  --  barrett@cs.umass.edu |
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This sounded quite decent idea, so I started hacking commodity like
this.

I uploaded it to amiga.physik.unizh.ch today (7-Sep) under name
ScreenSelect.lha. It works with public screens and normal screens.
And requires KS2.04 (V37) of course!

It's quite big. About 8k, but has TOOLTYPES in WB and CLI and also
font-sensitive GUI.

Hope it works!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: alexr@capella.EETECH.McGill.CA (Alex Rousseau)
Subject: Re: New Amiga user's dumb questions
Keywords: n
Organization: McGill University - Montreal, CANADA.
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 01:22:14 GMT


Hi. As far as NFS software/hardware is concerned, I cannot be of help. But
as far as comms software is concerned, you should definitely try VLT. It is
available by ftp from wuarchive.wustl.edu (in systems/amiga/comprgs). Defini-
tely worth the download time. Ideally, you should have Workbench 2.0X+, as it
shines there.

Alex.
From: yurick@vaxr.llnl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: HD info program?
Date: 9 Sep 92 03:59:56 GMT
Organization: LLNL_LIS

Hello,
  I was wondering if there is/are any good (PD) program(s) that will tell you
specifications about installed hard drives.  I'm looking for info such as:
highest available cylinder, any bad blocks, how many heads, etc.  I've seen a 
few programs that tell you what HD you have hooked up to your Amiga, but not 
much more than that.

  The reason I would like this program is because I recently acquired a second
hard drive.  I bought it used, so I did not get the technical info along with
it.  I'm not sure what the last available cylinder is, therefore I'm not sure
if I'm formatting my HD out to it's full potential.  (It's only a 40 megger, so
I'd like to have as much storage space on the thing as possible).  Through
trial and error, I tried to format it out to different HighCyl #'s.  I noticed,
on one of my formatting attempts, that the format hung up on a particular 
cylinder.  I then formatted the drive out to this cylinder MINUS 1, and it
worked ok.  I then did an INFO command, and noticed that my 40M HD was only
about 38.9M formatted under FFS.  (Actually, that total number also consists
of a 9.5K partition under OFS).  I suppose I could call the manufacturer up and
ask them, but I'd rather have the info any/every time I want it, regardless of
how many different HD's I own.

  I know that an x MEG HD does NOT have to exactly equal x, but I'm not sure if 
I reached the last cylinder, or if I just hit a bad block which made my format
hang up.  My 20M HD, (also with a 9.5K OFS partition), formats out to about
21.5 Meg.   

  I have a 2090 HD, which is why I have an OFS partition on my HD.  It also
means that I have to manually put the HighCyl # into a mountlist.  The
selections of HD's on the prep program didn't cover this drive. (I also have
an Amiga 2000, and 2.04).

Thanks,
Joe
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: docbrown@eskimo.celestial.com (Dan Sanderson)
Subject: Re: ProWrite & the DeskJet (Was: ProWrite 3.3 Press Release)
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 00:48:42 GMT

Here's another HPDJ/Prowrite problem, one that's turned me off of
Prowrite for a long time.  Sorry if this is an old question; I just
started getting into the nets.

Anyway, my problem is missing pixels.  Along the left edge of every
letter there is a line of missing pixels.  I've tried everything from
threshold settings to different printer drivers (excluding DJHelper-- I
don't have money for something like this unless it's absolutely
necessary, and it sounds like it isn't) and nothing gets rid of this
problem.

I could also complain about the speed, but that's the DJ's fault.  It's
slow on graphics.... Isn't it?  Can it _not_ be slow?  It's always slow
with Prowrite because it always outputs graphics.  Could it do better
than 1 minute 30 seconds a page?

I bought Prowrite because I wanted a word processor comparable to my
school's Macintoshes (pardon my language).  At school I could type in
stories in any font I wanted, any size, and any style, very fluently,
then print them out before my lunch period ended so I could get to
class.  I don't have that kind of fluency with Prowrite because of the
printing (though there's nothing wrong with the writing part-- I've done
it before and I'll do it again).

And again I hesitate because of the spotted edges.

Could someone help me make this $140 (I bought it 6 months ago)
investment worthwhile?

Thanks.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: danaf@bray1a.its.rpi.edu (Frank R. Dana Jr.)
Subject: Re: Fix for PPage 3.0 Avery Label #4241 page genie
Reply-To: danaf@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 01:46:43 GMT

Hey, Harv!

(Looking for a magazine editorship? Call (800)FLAMERS)  9)

					/*It's a wink!   ^   */

Gold Disk has always had WONDERFUL technical support. When they were shipping me
my free upgrade from PPage 1.3 to 2.0, they had a lot of problems getting the
packages through customs. I had to call them THREE times, and each time the
representative (sorry, GDers... I don't remember names, but you were all great)
promptly sent out a new package for me. THREE copies of the program were sent
out, and eventually one turned up on my doorstep. The other two have never been
found, but they were wonderful through the entire (two-and-a-half month...) 
process. 

A lot of Amiga companies have GREAT tech support. GVP is another company...
they've actually CALLED ME BACK when the proper tech support people aren't 
around to help me out. That's one thing I really like about the Amiga community,
you get a lot of help. Ever called Microsoft? I have, when I worked for the
Stuyvesant library. UGH. The place is so big, they have their own "radio
station" - a DJ on the hold lines plays music and announces wait times... 
usually around a 10-minute wait just to have the Windows support guys tell you,
"It must be a problem with the application, call them." I think that's the only
answer they know.

The new Amigas are coming! Save your money! DO NOT, repeat, DO NOT sell your old
machine! If they're compatible with more than 10% of your old software, I'd be
pretty damn surprised. (And a little annoyed... it would mean that Commodore
sacrificed technical advancement for compatibility...)

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From: tomb@hplsla.hp.com (Tom Bruhns)
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 15:49:35 GMT
Subject: Re: PasTeX and Laser Printers
Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA