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From: umward10@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Derek Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: CSH and mounting RAD:
Date: 15 Oct 92 18:11:47 GMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada





     What would be the corresponding CSH script to mount a RAD: drive?  I mean, for example, the
following AmigaDOS script would check if the RAD drive exists, if not, then mount it..

(Something like...)

IF RAD: EXISTS
  ECHO "RAD drive installed..."
ELSE
  MOUNT RAD:, etc.
ENDIF

  How could I program CSH to the this for me?


  
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_   ///         Computer Science                    It's just the right thing
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 \X//  AMIGA!   umward10@ccu.umanitoba.ca           do it.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: stigove@flipper.pvv.unit.no (Stig Ove Johnsen)
Subject: Drivers wanted!
Organization: University of Trondheim, Norway
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 10:53:34 GMT

Hi!


I have 2 questions conserning drivers:

1. Does it exist a driver for the Genius Tablet GT-1212A that
   works on an 68040?
   Does somebody have the adress to Summa Grafics Corp?

2. Does it exist a driver for the Printer/Scanner Canon CLC10
   for the Amiga? Any information/status in there are anyone
   that are working on it?

Please send any replies to stigove@lise.unit.no

Thanks,

Stig Ove Johnsen

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: alewis@cs.weber.edu (alan lewis)
Subject: Compress utility
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 23:55:41 GMT

I know there is a compress utility for AmigaDOS somewhere.
I checked wuarchive, but couldn't find one.  I have tar, but
I still need compress.  Anyone?

Al
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: eyvind@Lise.Unit.NO (Eyvind Bernhardsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Good C Programming book required - where
Date: 12 Oct 92 17:42:25 GMT
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology

>I don't know of anything in paper form (except the Rom Kernal Reference 
>Manuals), but the "Amiga C Encyclopedia
>" (sometimes called "Amiga C Manual" in older versions) is an excellent 
>electronic book, which should be available on your favorite large BBS's 
>or perhaps by FTP.  It is by Anders Bjerin and is very helpful in 
>learning C.  Version 3.0 filled 2 binders whith duplexed pages. 

ACE is on Fish disks 691 to 695, and unarcs onto twelve floppies.  (I put mine on
my hard drive :).

-Eyvind (eyvind@lise.unit.no)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: tempelma@prl.philips.nl (Harald Tempelman)
Subject: Re: Request for list of A4000 compatible monitors
Organization: Philips Research Laboratories Eindhoven, Netherlands
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 11:15:04 GMT

fihsu@athena.mit.edu (Hsu I-wei) writes:

>In article <70428@hydra.gatech.EDU> ch41@prism.gatech.EDU (ch41 ch41 ) writes:
>>Please post this list of compatible monitors...

>To be more precise, would someone please post/repost what multisyncs will
>sync down to 15kHz horizontal, and if they should work with all known
>screenmodes? Oh, and if you have the specs handy, they'd be nice too. :)

>For starters:

>Monitor        size   horizontal freq.    vertical freq.   max resolution
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>NEC 3D/3DS     14"     15.5 - 38 kHz       50 - 90 Hz      1024x768 (int.)

According to me, the NEC 3D monitor has been replaced by the NEC 3FG monitor.
This monitor does not have the horizontal frequency of the 3D monitor 
anymore (31-38 kHz ????).


					Harald


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Harald Tempelman <tempelma@prl.philips.nl>
From: agb16@mbuc.bio.cam.ac.uk (Alan Baxter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: MultiPlot
Keywords: MultiPlot plot plotting
Date: 11 Oct 92 10:33:16 GMT
Organization: U. of Cambridge, England

>Does anyone know where I can get a copy of MultiPlot XLNf (or whatever the
>latest version is)?  All help is greatly appreciated.                     
                                                                          
>Thanks -                                                                  
>Richard Boyd (udmx@mcl.ucsb.edu)

SHORT ANSWER: Dr Alan Baxter, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court
Road, Cambridge CB2 1QP, UK.

LONG ANSWER: The current version of Multiplot is XLNe v 1.2, however
Multiplot XLNf is in beta testing and would almost certainly suit your
purposes better. Some of the changes are:

NOTE: Multiplot is now WB2.1 compatible.                                        
                                                                                
New Feature:    Multiple windows supported.                                     
New Feature:    Multiple Y axes supported.                                      
New Feature:    Zounds! user interface added.                                   
New Feature:    Support for asymmetrical errors in X added.                     
New Feature:    Data file contains more formatting information.                 
New Feature:    Save/Load default settings and axes added.                      
New Feature:    Improved PLT: support with pen colours and thicknesses settable.
New Feature:    Colour print preview.                                           
New Feature:    Grid line types and colours user definable.                     
New Feature:    Auto alignment available.                                       
New Feature:    Text font and size user definable.
New Feature:    Full ARexx port and ARexx macro facility.
Bug Fix:        Bounding box on EPSF fixed.

If you are interested in beta testing XLNf, you need to register which
will cost you $25 USD. The alternative is to wait until XLNf is released
when registration will cost $30 USD. Currently registered users of XLNe
will be given the oportunity to upgrade for $5 USD is they have not
already prepaid for the upgrade.

Regards Alan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.introduction
From: lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: WordPerfect HP500 Drivers
Date: 16 Oct 92 13:26:16 GMT
Organization: City University, London

In article <je75210@pro-haven.cts.com> roycer@pro-haven.cts.com (Royce Robinson) writes:
>Does anyone have a newer version of the WordPerfect driver for the HP
>DeskJet 500 that doesn't put a "/" thru the zeros?  This is bothersome.

I did not think WP Corp were bothering to support the Amiga in
this way. Would this be a 3rd party driver? The only WP driver
I have is the old DeskJet (not even 500).

--
Lionel Tun   (lionel@cs.city.ac.uk)
Vision Group, City University, London, EC1V 0HB. 071-477 8000 x 3889
From: Jamie_Krutz@a68k.denver.CO.US (Jamie Krutz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: A-MaxII+ ?
Distribution: world
Date: 9 Oct 92 08:53:05 MST
Organization: The Arvada 68K BBS- Westminster, CO

Having just seen a demo of the digital film board on the mac using adobe
premier I have to say the mac is worth looking at for non-linear editing. 
However give them a few months as there are still glitches happening. 
Picture quality is probably usable as final output for training tapes, but
you'll still want to do an online tape edit for higher end productions.  On
the Amiga the DMI EditMaster system has the potential to be of equal
picture quality (maybe better if they can get faster HD data transfer on an
Amiga) and better and more flexible audio using the SunRize 16 bit 8 track
digital audio board.  I'm assuming the chipset used on the dmi board for
jpeg is comparable to that used on the digital film board.  You'll also
have to give DMI a few months to get their editing software together,
probably a few more months than the digital film/premier combination.  But
the Amiga system will be far less expensive and could have some advantages.

Does that answer your questions?  Oh yeah, about AMAX, it's a one bitplane
display, and I don't know how you'd get the digital film board into an
Amiga, so if you want to go mac for editing, get a mac (and from what the
guy at the demo said you'd better get a quadra).

Later,
 -J

-- Via DLG Pro v0.995
From: unseen@mcl.ucsb.edu (Invisible One)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Stuff It!!!!!
Date: 15 Oct 92 05:34:53 GMT


The Mac apparently has an archiver called StuffIt, which generates compressed
files with '.sit' extensions.  Can anyone direct to (preferably) an amiga
util to uncompress .sit files? If not, how about a Unix version? I've heard
reference to an 'unsit' for Unix, but I haven't seen the source for it.

Help? Anyone?


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: terjem@stud.cs.uit.no (Terje Normann Marthinussen)
Subject: Re: A4000 and scan-lines, mode promotion, flicker
Organization: University of Tromsoe
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 02:25:49 GMT

In article <1992Oct09.222945.18390@microsoft.com>, dark@microsoft.com (Dar Korra'ti) writes:
>In article <1992Oct8.031833.3257@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
>>   Not necessarily.  With mode promotion turned on, the OS will try to
>>force all interlaced screens to open to a non-interlaced screen.  But it
>>does not often work. [Mentions PageStream specifically in another article]
>     Which, of course, is why I've been hallucinating when I've thought
>I've been running flickerless high-resolution PageStream on my ECS A500
>without a display enhanser - by having Workbench "promote" it to
>Productivity mode.
>     Marc, meet killfile. Killfile, meet Mark. I've been putting off
>introducing the two of you for quite some time, but I think that last
>article was quite enough, thanks...
>                                                  - R'ykandar.
>
>--
>R'ykandar Korra'ti | LOW ORBIT PUBLICATIONS
>dark@microsoft.com | "JUST SAY NO!!!" to -MB-

It won't help much to put him in your kill file.....
Everybody is flaming him so much (and thus posting som many followups)
that you would have to search all the text if you'd really want to avoid 
reading what he's saying.

Hmm... I believe Marc Barret postings and all their followups are more or less
unbeatable when it comes to wasting bandwith.

Terje Marthinussen
terjem@sttud.cs.uit.no
From: pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk (Jakob G}rdsted)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: How to "leave out" the trashcan
Date: 16 Oct 92 08:38:50 GMT
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark

peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany) writes:

>In article <70491@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt2038a@prism.gatech.EDU (gt2038a gt2038a BROWNING,CHRIS SHERMAN) writes:
>> Have you ever tried to leave out the trashcan under 2.04 so that it would
>> be accessible for whatever you are doing?  Unfortuately, it doesn't work.

>It isn't possible. The trashcan is just a normal drawer (subdirectory)
>where you can drag (move) other icons in, just like when you move (*not*
>copy!!!) an icon from one place on a volume to another place. And this is
>the point: The trashcan can only work on its very own volume, not on
>others. And thus it is forbidden to leave it out.

I know I'm not supposed to, but I've done it anyway... In my setup,
the inconsistency has not yet given rise to problems, as I only use
it on the harddisk. But it can be done... Allthough I wouldn't recommend
it to anybody not aware of what they're doing. This is one of those things,
that 'must not fail' for Mactypes of users.

Have a nice day.
--
      Jakob Gaardsted   .    .  | Black Rainbow(TM)     .         .      .
  Computer Science Department . |. Invaporated      .        .        .    .
University of Aarhus, Jylland(!)|   .            .      . Cordless Life  .  .
 .  pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk   .    |          .    .    .     Pointless Mouse .
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: thumper@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Chris Mojica)
Subject: Iff2Ascii Converter
Organization: Computer and Technologies Theme Program, NCSU, Raleigh
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 05:13:21 GMT


Add me to the list for this to.

Thanks,
Chris

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: ggiles@cie.uoregon.edu (Gregg Giles)
Subject: Re: Finally got to play with an A4000
Organization: University of Oregon Campus Information Exchange
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 16:06:05 GMT

In article <54564@dime.cs.umass.edu> barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett) writes:
>
>	A few of the Prefs programs had a scrolling list setup that looks a
>bit like the ASL file requester.  Does GadTools now have a generic scrolling
>list gadget?  (Or has it always had one?  I don't know.)  If so, then great!

   If you mean a scroll bar, it's been in GadTools since V37 (at least).

>	I found some unidentifiable files in the devs:DataTypes drawer.
>They had names like ILBM, 8SVX, and AmigaGuide, and their default Workbench
>tool is c:AddDataTypes.  Is this some new way to recognize certain types of
>files?  Any more details on it?

   The data types are new, and are used as a sort of database for programs
like MultiView (which replaces Display in WB3.0). You could add data types
such as GIF and JPEG later when made available. I've not dealt with these
much yet, so that's about all I know. Ask one of the Commodore software guys
that hang around here on the net (like Mike Sinz).

>[Note to prevent
>rumors -- I don't know if DiskSalv comes with 3.0 or whether the dealer
>put it on disk himself.]

   Just before WOC, Commodore was telling developers that DiskSalv wouldn't 
come with Workbench 3.0. That may have changed - ask Mike Sinz.

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From: shane@peeker.uucp (Shane R. McCarthy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Sony CD-ROM Drive (CDU-541) on Amiga?
Date: 16 Oct 1992 06:09:22 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Not an Organization
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <QsqOr*Sr5@jwdata.se> jw@jwdata.se (Johan Widen) writes:
> In article <drew.03ip@bootrom.MtRoyal.ab.ca>, Steve Drew writes:
> 
> > In article <rUvMr*1m5@jwdata.se> jw@jwdata.se (Johan Widen) writes:
> > > I have a Sony CD-ROM drive, model CDU-541. Is it possible to use this
> > > on the Amiga. If so what SCSI-controller and filesystem have you used?
> > > I have tried it on an Evolution SCSI-controller with the Asim filesystem,
> > > but no luck (this drive is not one of those supported by Asim, it is
> > > not even mentioned in the manual).
> >
> > Mine works both with Xetec or Canadian Replicas CDFS. Although Xetec is
> > a better all around package in my opinion. I'm using a ICD controller
> > but also works on 2091 and GVP controllers.
> 
> I now have the Sony drive working with the Asim CD-ROM file system.
> My thanks to Dan Barrett who pointed out that the Sony drive has a bug
> in its SCSI protocol (they are "SCSI reselection bugs"). The drive works
> if it is the *only* drive on the SCSI bus.

  I presently have a Sony CD-ROM, Syquest removable and 2 HD on my GVP SCSI
controller.  GVP allows you to turn off/on reselection by software so you
can kill reselection to the sony drive.  Everything works great.   

-- 
Shane McCarthy                  Please forward mail to
Windsor, Ont.                   cs.uwindsor.ca!jabba!peeker!shane
From: robertk@taoami.lerctr.org (Robert Kesterson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: A4000 and scan-lines, mode promotion, flicker
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 11 Oct 92 07:37:38 CDT
Organization: Not an Organization

In article <bmccnnll.718497481@unix1.tcd.ie> bmccnnll@unix1.tcd.ie (Barry McConnell) writes:
> In <1992Oct7.063412.6947@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
>
> >   Most of the A4000 screens will have scan-lines.
>
> Oh heck...
>
> >But if a program tries to open a screen in a standard mode, you
> >will get all of the scanlines and flicker just as if the screen were being
> >opened on an Amiga 500.
>
> What is "mode promotion"? I thought that meant that anything opening PAL
> Hi-Res-Laced via Intuition would end up with a flicker-free display? Does
> this mean that *every* program that opens an interlace screen, without the
> option to select your desired screenmode (like Term), will flicker?
>
> Sh*t. I _was_ considering buying one, but I'm now having second thoughts.
> Although I suppose someone will quickly come up with a utility to force all
> flickering screens into flicker-free, either via DblPAL or Productivity...
>
> Barry.

There is already at least one utility that will do that.  It's called SetScr21,
and it forces all new screens to open in whatever mode the Workbench is in.
What would be *really* cool is a utility that could (optionally) pop up a window
every time an OpenScreen() call is made with all the display modes and let
you pick which one you want.
   I got SetScr21 from:

Host forwiss.uni-passau.de   (132.231.1.10)
Last updated 13:51 26 Sep 1992

    Location: /pub/amiga/os2.0
      FILE      rw-rw-r--      3046  Jul 27 14:52   SetScr21.zoo
--

=====================================================================
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 robertk@taoami.lerctr.org    got me very far.  Beer and Granola is
                              the breakfast of champions."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: fihsu@athena.mit.edu (Hsu I-wei)
Subject: Request for list of A4000 compatible monitors
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 22:58:38 GMT

In article <70428@hydra.gatech.EDU> ch41@prism.gatech.EDU (ch41 ch41 ) writes:
>Please post this list of compatible monitors...

To be more precise, would someone please post/repost what multisyncs will
sync down to 15kHz horizontal, and if they should work with all known
screenmodes? Oh, and if you have the specs handy, they'd be nice too. :)

For starters:

Monitor        size   horizontal freq.    vertical freq.   max resolution
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
NEC 3D/3DS     14"     15.5 - 38 kHz       50 - 90 Hz      1024x768 (int.)

>
>- C. Hart
>-- 
>Claye K. Hart
>Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
>uucp:	  ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!ch41
>Internet: ch41@prism.gatech.edu

Francis

P.S.  I think I asked about this before, but I didn't save the list of 5 or
      so other monitors which someone was kind enough to post.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: dark@microsoft.com (Dar Korra'ti)
Subject: Re: A4000 and scan-lines, mode promotion, flicker
Date: 09 Oct 92 22:29:45 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <1992Oct8.031833.3257@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
>   Not necessarily.  With mode promotion turned on, the OS will try to
>force all interlaced screens to open to a non-interlaced screen.  But it
>does not often work. [Mentions PageStream specifically in another article]
     Which, of course, is why I've been hallucinating when I've thought
I've been running flickerless high-resolution PageStream on my ECS A500
without a display enhanser - by having Workbench "promote" it to
Productivity mode.
     Marc, meet killfile. Killfile, meet Mark. I've been putting off
introducing the two of you for quite some time, but I think that last
article was quite enough, thanks...
                                                  - R'ykandar.

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From: mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Avoid the Amiga 4000
Date: 11 Oct 92 14:50:08 GMT
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Radioastronomie

In <1992Oct9.202700.1317@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
>   You are posting nonsense.  The "flicker-fixing" features of the A4000 is
>done entirely in software, and I do not trust software as much as hardware.
>With the A3000, all screens can be promoted to 31Khz through hardware, which
>cannot be bypassed by any software program.  With the A4000, if a program
>explicitly opens an interlaced NTSC or PAL screen, the screen will flicker

But nearly no program will open a NTSC or PAL screen.

>and there will be nothing you can do about it.  On the A4000 there are also
>no facilities available to promote non-interlaced 640x200 or 320x200
>screens to 31Khz to remove the scan-lines.

Wrong.

Regards,
-- 
Michael van Elst
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: MSAASTAMOINE@finabo.abo.fi (Mika Saastamoinen Tkkk)
Subject: Montana is out!
Organization: Abo Akademi University, Finland
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 22:00:01 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.23

Hi!

I've just released a card game for the Amiga. See below for 'details'. 
I uploaded it to the following sites:

	nic.funet.fi		pub/amiga/games/Montana-0.1.lha 
			(ie. it has already been moved from the incoming-dir)
	amiga.physik.unizh.ch	amiga/new/montana.lha
	archie.au		micros/amiga/incoming/montana.lha

Let me know what you think of it! It's my 1st ever PD-release! :)

-MiS-

      Turku School Of Economics And Business Administration, IS Science

         \       /  .____/           /  Mika Saastamoinen           // Amiga
                /              _____/ Tallgreninkatu 6 P 89     \\ // A MIG A 
       \_.     /       /           /  20380  Turku, Finland      \X/ A M I G A 
       /      /       /  .____    /                             In  an  insane 
      /      /       /           /  mikasaas@polaris.cc.utu.fi  world it's the 
.____/ .____/  .____/  .________/   msaastamoine@finabo.abo.fi  sanest choice! 


------- readme file below ----------


File:		Montana.lha	(packed with Lha v1.38)

Program:	Montana v0.1	(both Finnish & English versions included)

Short:		A simple (but addictive :) patience-like card game. 
		Requires AmigaOS v2.0 (or later)
From: mustang@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Paul Christopher Miranda (I love Cheese))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Fan noises are subtly changing.  Need I be
Date: 12 Oct 92 03:17:25 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

this is interesting...
my original A2000 power supply had a "normal" fan.. no chnages in pitch

after it went up in smoke, it was replaced and the new PS
has a fan that goes up and down every few minutes..
there are 2 or 3 discrete frequencies it produces and will switch from
one to the other for no apparent reason.. it does not coincide with
SCSI drives or floppies going on and off or accessing

I havent had any problems but i just gotta wonder...


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