HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: bartosz@stein.u.washington.edu (Bartosz Kijanka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Looking for IMPLODER cli ver.
Date: 19 Nov 92 00:28:17 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle


	I like imploder 4.0, but it doesn't have a real scripting option.  So,
does anyone have an imploder that will Library compress executable files
if passed the arguments in the CLI.  I don't want to sit there and compress
EVERY SINGLE file by hand.  I'd much rather write a script or configure
DirOpus to do it...  Yes, I know about FIMP, but that doesn't create Library
executabe files...  Can anyone help me out here?  Or maybe you could recommend
a different compressor?  I know about PowerPacker, but it's not as fast as
Imploder, and it dosen't work properly when I try to compress fonts.
Any suggestions?

bartosz@u.washington.edu
From: S.J.E.Champion@bradford.ac.uk (SJE CHAMPION)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Icons Outside Windows on A500 HELP !
Date: 18 Nov 92 11:33:25 GMT
Organization: University of Bradford, UK
Originator: 92161060@mail
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Hello. I would like a PD program which I can run from Startup-Sequence
on my hard-drive which will put icons for my main utilities on screen
without opening any windows. I understand that wb2.04+ can do this
by itself, but I only have 1.3.1 ( I'm saving for a 1200 )

All help gratefully received,

	Slimey

	S.J.E.Champion@Bradford.ac.uk
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From: jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.programming
Subject: Re: Tape Backups, Quarterback
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 06:19:50 GMT
Organization: is sometimes desirable

In article <BxIyHA.Fpy@comp.vuw.ac.nz>, John Matthews writes:

> I managed a while ago to get a ArchiveData Viper 2150S  150Mb Tape Drive.
> Since then, however, I have not had a lot of luck in using it as a backup device.
> I can read from it quite well though.
> 
> Through much experimentation, mainly with BTNTape2.1, I have managed to identify the problem (sort of).
> 
> I can write to the drive with BTNTape2.1, as long as I write only 1 block at a time. The drive has an internal 32K buffer, but this still results in very slow backups (as the tape must rewind a bit every 32K) and the only software that currently uses BT
NTape2.1 is TAR. No commercial software seems to allow for the writing of 1 block at a time, or deals with this drive specifically.

I'm using BTN v2.1 and tar.  I don't have those problems.  Try increasing the number
of blocks used for buffers in your MountList.  Are you using Johnathon Hue's tar
port from the early Fish disk?


                                                Jim Pritchett


UUCP:  rwsys.lonestar.org!caleb!jdp
 or    utacfd.uta.edu!rwsys!caleb!jdp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,gnu.emacs.help
From: maxwell@cs.uiuc.edu (Scott Maxwell)
Subject: Re: Amiga GnuEmacs 18.58 -- where can I get it?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 03:55:28 GMT

	Me, too, please.

------------------------------+-----------------------------------------
        Scott Maxwell         |  ``The comments [of spin doctors] do not
  maxwell@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu    | necessarily have the extra added benefit
Scott.Maxwell@bbs.oit.unc.edu | of being true.''  -- G. L. Marshall, UPI
From: bmaple@burner.com (Bob Maple)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: DirOPUS questions!
Date: 16 Nov 92 14:58:29 MST
Organization: The Back Burner BBS (via C-Net Amiga)

On Mon 16-Nov-1992  2:54p, Thomas Lydhig wrote:

TL> Some questions about DirOPUS v3.41 from INOVAtronics:
TL>     1. What is the latest version?

I think it's 3.5 or something?  (I'm still using 3.41)

TL>     2. Is it possible to stop OPUS from continue remove files then it
TL>        already have started removing files? I could not find any solution
TL>        to it in the manual!

Use both mouse buttons. This is right at the top of Chapter 2....even in in
the index...

TL>     3. I would like to have a "join" function, there I mark some files,
TL> give
TL>        them a name and then they will be joined to one file. I have tried
TL>        several times but nothing works. Do anyone have any idea?

The only way would be to make either an ARexx script which takes filenames and
does it, or make a gadget that repeatidly joins one file to the output file
until it's completely finished.

TL>     4. Is it possible to reach INOVAtronics on Internet? How?

Not Inovatronics, but Jonathan is available.  Use the 'About' menu of Opus.
v

--- Via UCI v1.17 (C-Net Amiga)

 .............................................................................
 : Internet: bmaple@burner.com    : If at first you don't suceed, lower your :
 :     UUCP: ..csn!burner!bmaple  : standards.                               :
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From: keithh@bnr.ca (Keith Hanlan)
Subject: Re: Amiga GnuEmacs 18.58 -- where can I get it?
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:08:05 GMT

It is available at most archives including wuarchive.wustl.edu
poke around and you'll find it somewhere. There are two large
archives:
	a1.26-emacs-18.58-bin.LHA	 969340
	a1.26-emacs-18.58-src.LHA	2963672

Poke around /systems/amiga/utils
	and /mirrors4/amiga.physik.unizh.ch/amiga

Totally painless installation.

Regards,
Keith Hanlan  KeithH@bnr.ca  Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada 613-765-4645
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From: cunniff@cup.portal.com (Ross Alan Cunniff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Applications and Plotter output?????
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 18:54:21 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>I am looking for titles and makers of software that can send output
>to a plotter.
ProVector v2.1 can output to a plotter.  The output is adjustable
as far as page size goes; additionally, the HPGL output can be
put out as multiple pages (ideal for making REALLY big pictures).
With the addition of PSImport, you get (essentially) a PostScript
to HPGL converter.

Ross Cunniff
President, Stylus, Inc.
cunniff@cup.portal.com
From: dingebre@imp.sim.es.com (David Ingebretsen)
Subject: Re: Amiga GnuEmacs 18.58 -- where can I get it?
Reply-To: dingebre@imp.sim.es.com (David Ingebretsen)
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, UT
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 15:30:03 GMT

In article <1e962jINN9to@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, jonathan@cats.ucsc.edu (Jonathan Cano) writes:
> 
> Speaking of emacs - where can I get it?  I recently switched
> over to using emacs at work and now I can't use my old amiga
> editors --> 40 hours a week of typing in emacs vs. 1-2 hours
> of using an editor on my amiga (usually less that that actually)
> and I can't remember the QED (my old editor) commands ...
> 
> --Jonathan
> 

It is at amiga.physik.unizh.ch and mirrors. Get port version 1.26. This is 
the most recent port of Gnu 18.58.

-- 
	David

	Disclaimer: The content of this message in no way reflects the
	            opinions of my employer, nor are my actions
		    encouraged, supported, or acknowledged by my
		    employer.
From: cs90rol@brunel.ac.uk (Richard O Lavey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Wordworth 2 preview (long)
Date: 23 Nov 92 15:21:49 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, West London, UK

On the subject of Compugraphic fonts, which flavour of CG does Wordworth use ? IE is it the WB 2.x version with _bullet_outline, *.otag and *.font, or is it the ProPage/PageSetter variety with *.lib, *.atn etc.

Or does it use it's own format ??

I _Really_ hate having to have the same fonts stored twice on my HD. Once for WB 2.x and once for ProPage. Why Can't they use the same format. More to the point, why can't WW et al use the CG support built in to 2.x and save us from all this duplication ??


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: hibrown@sarah.albany.edu (Herb Brown)
Subject: Re: MAPLE V
Organization: State University of New York at Albany
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 19:58:14 GMT

In article <BxuCsy.JJB@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, saj31052@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Scotty A Johnson) writes:
> WHat is the status of Maple and the Amiga?
> 
> I know that 5.2 is coming out for other machines, but
> I haven't heard anything about it for the Amiga.
>


Release 2 for the Amiga is scheduled to be released by the end of the
first quarter of '93. This is the same scheduled release date for ports
to the Mac and the Next.

Herb


-- 
Herb Brown  Math Dept  The Univ at Albany  Albany, NY 12222  (518) 442-4640
Director,                                          hibrown@math.albany.edu  
Computer Assisted Instruction in Mathematics       hibrown@csc.albany.edu
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From: aites@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Jim Aites)
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:57:45 GMT
Subject: Re: Screen Grabber
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Loveland, CO
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications

| Where I can find a screen grabber that can store images in IFF?

Luis,

I'm fairly sure that 'snap' does this.  At least after snaping a graphic 
or screen, and saving it to file, I have to use 'zhow' or seeilbm (sp) to 
view it again.  ;')

Jim 8')s
aites@hpsmpa.lvld.hp.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: courtn@hercules.cs.uregina.ca (todd courtnage)
Subject: Re: IS XPK SAFE?
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:12:41 GMT
Organization: University of Regina, SK, Canada
Keywords: semprini, spam, ni, naught bits, Bruce

In article <Bxnwv6.At@javelin.sim.es.com> dingebre@imp.sim.es.com (David Ingebretsen) writes:
>
>I'm very impressed with the XPK package and the XFH and XPK-handler
>file systems. BUT how reliable are they?
>
>If you use/have used either of these, I would appreciate you thoughts.
>
>1. Have you ever lost data?

No.

>2. Was it obnoxious in any way?

No.


>3. Would you do it differently if given another chance?

I'd like to see an option to allow certain directories to NOT be compressed.
That way, you could set up an XFH to handle dh0:, but tell it not to do 
anything with directories like libs: devs: s:, etc.
 
>4. Which handler would you recommend?

Huh?  Do you mean which compression?  I'd suggest nuke.

>5. Do you back up your data in the compressed format?


Yes, with the nuke compression.
>

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: Walter.Harms@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Walter Harms)
Subject: mEmacs for amiga
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 12:57:34 GMT
Keywords: memacs



i am in search for a newer version of memacs for the amiga.
i looked at some gnuplaces and the std. amiga ftp's and cant find
anything. who knows where is could find it ?

a1000 forever           walter
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: blatter@amiga (Martin A. Blatter)
Subject: Re: PageStream 2.21 questions!
Organization: Another Amiga UNIX System
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:43:14 GMT

In article <Bxs5z3.9oJ@news.chalmers.se> thly@pe.chalmers.se (Thomas Lydhig) writes:
>EPSF. It's possible to import EPSF but you can't see the picture (WYSIWIG???)
>and you can not Print it on non-postscript printer. Will PageStream be able
>to do this in the future?

Just read the manual. Page 3.3 "Working with graphics": "EPS files with
TIFF headers can be imported with or without the header intact. PageStream
will show the headers when the SHOW PICTURES toggle is active so the
drawing will appear as an ordinary bitmap picture."

Regards
--Martin
-- 
-- 
Martin A. Blatter - blatter@ifi.unizh.ch, blatter@amiga.physik.unizh.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: jim@cs.curtin.edu.au (Jim McGrady)
Subject: FinalCopyII opinions ?
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 11:24:30 GMT

Hi all

Several posters are now using FCII. I'd like to know how it compares
with FCI in terms of

- graphics print speed and quality
- font rendering quality
- general feel and speed of operation

Regards

Jim
From: soft-logik@cup.portal.com (Kevin W Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: PageStream 2.21 questions!
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 18:33:49 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

In answers to questions:

Why can PageStream print certain CompuGraphic fonts to PostScript
printers?

The CompuGraphic routines Soft-logik licensed from AGFA CompuGraphic
return bitmaps to PageStream from the outline font files. Bitmaps
at high resolution are fine for dot-matrix printing or the screen.
PostScript printers, on the other hand, require Adobe format font
information to print. So, you need an Adobe type I version of the
font for PageStream to download to your PostScript printer. Soft-
Logik provides these PostScript for the fonts it supplies with
PageStream. There is a possibility that CompuGraphic will supply
routines that return font outlines rather than bitmaps and then
perhaps PageStream will not need a separate Adobe font.

Another question deals with display of EPSF files on screen.

Currently PageStream does not include a full PostScript language
interpreter. This means that it cannot interpret an arbitrary
EPSF file on screen or print it to a dot matrix printer. PageStream
displays such files as a box on screen. They will print to a 
PostScript printer and can be displayed with a PostScript interpreter
such as POST. Some subsets of PostScript such as those EPSF files
produced by Adobe Illustrator CAN be interpreted by PageStream,
displayed on screen and printed to all printers. I don't have an
answer as to when PageStream will add a full PostScript language
interpreter.

Kevin Davidson (soft-logik@cup.portal.com)
From: lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Wordworth 2 preview (long)
Date: 23 Nov 92 18:21:25 GMT
Organization: City University, London

cs90rol@brunel.ac.uk (Richard O Lavey) writes:
>On the subject of Compugraphic fonts, which flavour of CG does Wordworth use ? IE is it the WB 2.x version with _bullet_outline, *.otag and *.font, or is it the ProPage/PageSetter variety with *.lib, *.atn etc.
>
>Or does it use it's own format ??

Don't think so.

>I _Really_ hate having to have the same fonts stored twice on my HD. Once for WB 2.x and once for ProPage. Why Can't they use the same format. More to the point, why can't WW et al use the CG support built in to 2.x and save us from all this duplication ??

I think Wordworth uses the CG support built into WB2.

Yes, its a pity about ProPage and its own font format.

--
Lionel Tun   (lionel@cs.city.ac.uk)
Vision Group, City University, London, EC1V 0HB. 071-477 8000 x 3889
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: SID2 ASCII Files
From: glen@glenb.actrix.gen.nz (Glen Bremner)
Date: 22 Nov 92 19:44:45 PST
Distribution: world
Organization: Not an Organization
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

I'm trying to setup SID2 so that if I click on a text file it reads the
file using PPMore, or if I click on a PowerPacker file it also runs
PPMore, and also if a click on a .Guide file it runs ShowHyp, but
the only only way that I've got this to work is by setting up a new button
for ShowHyp and linking that to the amigaguide file type.

If I setup the READ button to load the .Guide files, when I click on
ASCII files it brings up the default command (PPMore) in a requestor
and I have to click to continue.

Is there any way to set on the Muptiple Commands a command for ASCII
files?

Also does Timm Martin have an EMail Address?

Cheers
Glen
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: bell@ufp.enet.dec.com ()
Subject: Re: Amiga 1200
Reply-To: bell@ufp.enet.dec.com ()
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:25:13 GMT



Yeah, I thought about that after I sent it.  I was in a bad mood that
day, sorry if I set the burner up a little high...  :(

But I really was trying to stress the problems with a news-net type
operation, instead of flaming the guy.  I mean, seriously, how is he
supposed to get old messages if his server just joined a group?  He
can't, unless someone sends them to him.  So it's not his fault.  But by
the same token, I can't count the number of "does someone have the specs
on the A1200" posts, when the answer is just a couple of posts back. 
It's such a drag.  Very repetitive.  

So like I said, sorry if I was in a sore mood that day.

But seriously, is there anything that can help out this situation? 
Maybe standardized news-readers that always have the ability to scan
backwards for arcticles?  (I had a terminal news reader that made this
operation nearly impossible; now using a Motif reader).  What about when
adding groups, is there a "big server" that your machine could talk to
to get the most number of back-posts?

Should I shut up, stop wasting bandwidth, and accept it?   ;^)

Mike - disclaimer, as always
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran)
Subject: Re: Atalk3 Vt320 X-windows All of it!
Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 05:10:43 GMT

In article <1992Nov16.182009.4454@spcvxb.spc.edu>5marte_f@spcvxb.spc.edu writes:

>	I am also looking for an X-windows emulation. Clues anyone?

Your best bet would be to contact GfxBase Inc., and inquire about their
X-Windows system.

GfxBase, Inc.
1881 Ellwell Dr.
Milpitas, CA 95035
(408) 262-1469
(408) 262-8276 (FAX)

You should also be able to reach Dale Luck via dale@ntg.com.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: rittle@supra.comm.mot.com (Loren James Rittle)
Subject: ISpell 3.3LJR Released Today
Organization: Land Mobile Products Sector, Motorola Inc.
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:06:21 GMT
Keywords: n

I placed the package on amiga.physik.unizh.ch at 10:40 am local time.
It was uploaded to /amiga/new with the hint that it be put into os20.

Sorry about the delay in the release (I know some people have been
waiting for this), but a shiny new A4000 got in the way of things... :-)

From one of the READMEs:

Subject: ISpell

Description: Interactive Spelling Checker with ARexx Server Mode for the Amiga

Version: 3.3LJR [with ARexx Server Mode]

Requires: AmigaOS 2.04 or later

Long_Description:
Plainly speaking, ISpell is a spelling checker with a few features
you don't get anywhere else...
Most importantly, unlike the unix spell program, ISpell is interactive.

ISpell v3.3LJR can be used in two major modes:

1. Original Interactive Mode (does not require ARexx):
This mode will allow the user to interactively spell check and correct a
text document.  Regular expression lookup of word patterns is possible.
All operations are *fast* because ISpell uses an in-core hash table of
words (i.e. no disk access once we get going).  This mode is considered
obsolete by myself.  There are some problems related to window size
(due to original port job) and usage from workbench (conversion to
SAS/C from MANX) that I have never bothered to fix.  ISpell hooked to a
good text editor via ARexx just works so much better that it seems not
worth the effort...

2. ARexx Server Mode (of course ARexx server mode requires ARexx):
This mode allows the end user to hook ISpell up to text
editors and other things that need a spell checking service.
Regular expression lookup of word patterns is also possible
in ARexx Server Mode.  This mode appears to be even faster than
the above mode, because ISpell stays in memory waiting for requests ---
the mumble, mumble (500K) hash file only has to be loaded into
memory once at startup time.

Currently supported ARexx commands:
Add, QuickAdd, Check, QuickCheck, FileCheck, ExtendedFileCheck, Lookup,
Version, Exit.

ExtendedFileCheck is new with this release of ISpell.

ARexx macros are provided for
GUISpell 1.1 (package now included),
CygnusEd Professional v2.12,
TurboText (when used with GUISpell - Thanks Christopher A. Wichura),
TurboText (with plain ISpell - Thanks Willy G. J. Langeveld),
mg3beta4 or later(Thanks Mike Meyer!),
GNU EMACS (Thanks Steve Koren!),
VLT v5.517 or later,
WShell, and the command line.

From man/readme.old:
``My eternal gratitude to the author of ispell -- I don't know how I
ever lived without it.  I received his permission to post ispell to
the net...'' - Walt Buehring [a long time ago]
Permission to freely distribute for non-profit use is hereby granted.
Fred Fish is welcome and encouraged to place this on a ><> Disk.

Loren J. Rittle
rittle@comm.mot.com
Fri Nov 20 01:20:41 1992
--
Loren J. Rittle (rittle@comm.mot.com)
Systems Technology Research (IL02/2240)
Motorola, Inc.
(708)576-7794
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: adap@edmund.cs.andrews.edu (Edsel Adap)
Subject: Re: Amiga 1200
Organization: Andrews University
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 05:39:12 GMT

In article <1992Nov19.165353@IASTATE.EDU> meyer@IASTATE.EDU (W T Meyer) writes:
>I still haven't been able to find out what processor running at what frequency
>is in the A1200.

Perhaps, you are looking at the wrong newsgroup?  You should try
Comp.sys.amiga.hardware since you asked about a hardware question.

Oh, BTW, the A1200 has a 14 MHz 68EC020.

>Yes, I did a backwards search - I didn't find it.  C= failed to mention this in
>their press release.

Of course you won't find it.  You're in the wrong group!

>Does anyone have the answer?
>--
>Thomas Meyer                             internet: meyer@iastate.edu
>High Energy Physics                      hepnet:   isuhep::meyer
>Ames Laboratory                          bitnet:   meyer@alisuvax
>Ames, Ia 50011
>USA

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forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid
meeting."
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From: rthorstr@doc.bmd.trw.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Applications and Plotter output?????
Date: 18 Nov 92 12:28:37 MST

I am looking for titles and makers of software that can send output
to a plotter.  I recently acquired an hp7470A plotter and would like
to use it with my Amiga 2000. I would appreciate any information that
can be provided.

                                      Thanks,
                                      Rod T.
                                      EMAIL -->rthorstr@oz.bmd.trw.com


PS. To the individuals I sent an earlier message.  If you responded to
my message via email, it was lost since we had a disk crash and I lost
my mail for 2 days.  
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