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From: dulcaoin@cats.ucsc.edu (Joshua J Delahunty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Excellence 3.0 loses Tabs
Date: 21 Jan 1993 19:41:08 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: si.ucsc.edu


In article <19853@mindlink.bc.ca> Graham_Parkinson@mindlink.bc.ca (Graham Parkinson) writes:
>
>   The ONLY problem that I have with Ex. Ver3 is that it loses tabs when
>printing.  The screen format is ok but when a document is printed
>(postscript) or imported elsewhere some of the tabs are often missing.
>
>   Atempting to figure things out from the manual would be easier if the
>updated manual was available to those of use who updated from 1 -> 2 -> 3
>
>   There was a more recent program version than 3.00 but I don't know
>what they are up to now at Micro-Systems, presumably an AGA version.
>
>   Additional Features that would be great: Column cuts ala CED
>                                            Column math!
>

Import of EPS!
Style Sheets!
Documents SECTIONS, so different column (and other) settings apply to a
	section, and not the entire document!
Import of foreign file formats!  At LEAST RTF (Rich-Text Format).
Better control of GUI features, either by key or ARexx -- like indent marker
	setting, margins settings, spacing, etc.  I'd like to hit one key to
	indent the current paragraph, and another to zip back out again.
	Fonts, too.  I am REAL tired of bringing up the font requester each 
	time I want to select a new font!  (Style sheets could fix this).

There's lots more that would be great.

						-- joshua
From: groth@valentin.fmi.uni-passau.de (Peter Groth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: PopUpMenu
Date: 25 Jan 1993 13:59:54 GMT
Organization: University of Passau, Germany
Distribution: world
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Keywords: pop up menus bogabogabogabogabogabogaboga

In article <cmp0119.727956492@oxygen.sys.uea.ac.uk>, cmp0119@sys.uea.ac.uk (Paul Harrison) writes:
> 
> After a spate of unpleasant crashes I finally convinced myself that
> *something* was mucking up my system and proceded to remove (and after
> each test replace) each utility in my WBStartup draw/user-startup file
> until the machine started working properly again. To my utter horror,
> everything suddenly worked perfectly when I removed PopUpMenu...
> 
> Q: Is PopUpMenu at all notorious for not working under KS2.04, or is
>    my copy corrupted/ancient?
> 
> I miss my pop up menus! I want them back!
> 
> Paul
> cmp0119@uk.ac.uea.sys

Try MagicMenu V1.17 - it does all you want and more :-)
Available from amiga.physik.unizh.ch and its mirrors in the directory
os20/cdity.
-- 
Peter                                  groth@peschl.fmi.uni-passau.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: msmcknig@unccsun.uncc.edu (Michael S McKnight)
Subject: WBStartup -- How can I move it?
Organization: University of NC at Charlotte
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 22:18:52 GMT

I have an Amiga 3000/25-100 Running system 2.1.  As those of you out there who
bought this same machine know, the SYS: partition is only 6MB.  Now I have
finally ran into a problem I dont know how to fix. 

I dont have enough room for all of the items I want to put into my WBStartup
drawer.  I have moved all but the basics  out of SYS:.  I have a LIBS: , FONTS:
and  C: drawers created on my WORK: partition with the ASSIGN ___ ADD command.

Problem is, when I do this with WBStartup it doesn't look at the drawer I
created on my WORK: partition where I have plenty of room.  The LIBS: FONTS:
and C: all work great that way.

Does anyone know how I can tell the system to look at WORK:WBStartup instead of
SYS:WBStartup at boot-up time?

Thanks for any replies and please send EMail to:

_________________________________________________________________________
| Michael McKnight -- msmcknig@unccsun.uncc.edu |    Amiga 3000-25/100  |
|                     msmcknig@mosaic.uncc.edu  |  Insight 386DX-25/105 |
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From: jerry@truevision.com (Jerry Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: hard drive compression
Date: 25 Jan 1993 15:58:02 -0500
Organization: Truevision Inc., Indianapolis, IN
NNTP-Posting-Host: epic.truevision.com


Has anyone been able to get XFH to work?  I tried to install it but it didn't
seem to work.  Do I need to create a mountlist entry for CDISK:?  What is the
deal with CDPartition?  I don't want it to use any of my units!

-Jerry Thompson


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From: slee@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Sylvia Hiu Fu Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Mac file copier needed!
Date: 22 Jan 1993 17:37:11 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
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Is anyone aware of a utility to read double-density HFS Mac disks on an Amiga?
I have heard it is possible to copy Mac disks on the Amiga, but what I am
looking for is a Mac FILE copier.
 
Alternatively, if anyone knows of a utility which can read files off DD Mac
disks (*NOT* high-density) on an IBM (with a HD 3.5" drive), I would also be
very interested to hear from them.
 
Thanks in advance.

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From: tron@uni-paderborn.de (Matthias Scheler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: ASSIGNS using XPK-HANDLER
Date: 22 Jan 1993 11:02:23 GMT
Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn, Germany
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: erle.uni-paderborn.de

In article <C0rLuK.IDB@javelin.sim.es.com> dingebre@imp.sim.es.com (David Ingebretsen) writes:
|> 
|> How can I make an assign stick to a device created using the xpk-handler
|> device included in the latest XPK distribution?
|> 
|> This is what I want:
|> 
|> In user-startup...
|> 
|> mount xh1: from devs/mountlist.xpk-handler
|> assign <device name>: xh1:<directory path>

Don't use XPK-Handler, it's buggy. Use XFH-Handler V1.32 which is now avaible
for download on all Aminet-Sites (e.g. amiga.physik.unizh.ch [130.60.80.80].

-- 
Matthias Scheler                                         tron@uni-paderborn.de
University of Paderborn (Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: walrus@wam.umd.edu (Udo K Schuermann)
Subject: Re: KingFisher
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:59:43 GMT

In article <1k2bikINNid9@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> jonathan@cats.ucsc.edu (Jonathan Cano) writes:
>
>Has anyone else experienced any problems with KingFisher?  Say perhaps
>KingFisher hanging?  

This bug is fixed with version 1.15.  The problem involved inadvertent
compilation with signed char (rather than unsigned char) types and the
presence of national characters ("a, "o, "u, etc.) in the description.

> KF should have a way of traveling to the beginning or the end of the
> database

v1.15 has two (small) gadgets next to the disk number to jump to the first
or last fish in the database.

 ._.  Udo Schuermann
 ( )  walrus@wam.umd.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: blatter@amiga.physik.unizh.ch (Martin A. Blatter)
Subject: Re: Latest version of ProCalc ?
Organization: ICU - University of Zurich, Dept. of Computer Science
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 22:15:30 GMT

Mark Thomas (amigamat@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu) wrote:
: In article <1993Jan25.175302.17733@rzu-news.unizh.ch> blatter@amiga.physik.unizh.ch (Martin A. Blatter) writes:
: >By the way. Does ProCalc 1.1 support IFF DR2D export? Would be
: >very nice if you'd adopt Commodore's standard format for structured

: I'd just like to point out that DR2D is not a Commodore format.  

Ok, you're correct. But DR2D is the only 2D format documented in
the latest RKM Devices manual. Other formats (e.g. Professional Draw
Clip) are proprietary and kept secret by their creators.

: The DR2D form is a ProVector format (I forget the company's new name).  

Stylus, Inc. (Taliesin, Inc.). 

: As far as I know, Commodore hasn't adopted any specific format for 
: 2D graphics.  Currently, both DR2D and DRAW (New Horizons 2D format) 
: are registered with Commodore.

The DRAW FORM is `reserved by Jim Bayless 12/90' according to the RKM
but it is not documented yet. The DR2D specs have also been published
in Commodore's Amiga Mail (the official technical newsletter for Amiga
developers). DRAW may be the better format (I can't judge it because
I don't know it) but DR2D has somehow gained the status of an `official'
format. 

:     Name: Mark A. Thomas              | "Spatium est absolutum."
: Internet: mthomas@cs.utexas.edu       |               - Newton

--Martin

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: arzheim@wilbur (Kai Arzheimer )
Subject: Ghostscript probs
Organization: Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 08:50:18 GMT

Yesterday I installed gs and everything seemed to went fine but: 
When I call gs golfer.ps (or any other .ps file) I just get:
inititializing ... invalidfileaccess in setdevice.
A temp-file (tmp:gs5xxxx) is created but empty.

***Any*** suggestions are very welcome.

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* arzheimer@mzdmza.zdv.uni-mainz.de                       *
* arzheim@goofy.zdv.uni-mainz.de                          *
* "It's life Jim - but not as we know it." -Dr. L. McCoy  *
From: dsr@lns598.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: PasTeX1.3 vs CTeX2.1 info please?
Date: 25 Jan 1993 11:31:34 -0500
Organization: Wilson Lab, Cornell U., Ithaca, NY  14853
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: lns596.tn.cornell.edu


In article <1993Jan24.121558.1@woods.ulowell.edu>,
edmondse@woods.ulowell.edu writes:
> Finally, after spending a bit of time using the CTeX demo from one of the Fred
> Fish disks I may be interested in picking up the commercial version of TeX.
> What is the general consenus on this version? Is it worth the purchase price 
> as compared to the public domain or shareware version?

The Fish disk demo is an antique--Tom has released many, many updates since
then.  I believe the current version is AmigaTeX 3.1, and it is a very nice
package, and very well supported.  You should really contact Radical Eye for
a more recent demo version if you want to see for yourself.

I have not compared AmigaTeX to the PasTeX--I started using AmigaTeX long
before PasTeX was available, and, as I've had no complaints, I've stuck
with it.

> If it also has a driver
> for a HP Laserjet IIP I may be sold.

Printer drivers (for a wide range of printers) are extra cost options.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: edmondse@woods.ulowell.edu
Subject: Re: Flow Charting Software
Organization: University of Lowell
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:57:20 GMT

In article <C0pAr6.119@srgenprp.sr.hp.com>, kevint@sad.hp.com (Kevin Taddeucci) writes:
> Dale Poole (cadpoole@atlas.cs.upei.ca) wrote:
>> 
>> I have constructed some easy objects in DPaint, but DPaint doesn't seem to
>> fill the entire page, leaving little vertical room for long charts.
> 
> I did this too, for a while, but the printout left me with the jaggies.
> 
>> Keep in mind that I am a student and can't afford a CAD program! ;>,
> 
> Don't be so sure. There is a program called IntroCAD which I pick up a 
> couple of years ago for $30(US). Once you get the symbols made, it works 
> great for making flowcharts and the printouts are great. It doesn't use 
> the standard preferences printer drive though, so you may have to create a 
> small file telling it the commands and density of your printer.
> 
> I think I read somewhere that this program was released on a cover disk of 
> a Euro Magazine. Sorry can't remember which one. Maybe someone else knows?
> Anyway, if you can find out which Magazine, you can probably get it for 
> $10-$15 (US).
> 
>        ----------------------------- ------------------------------------
>       | Kevin J. Taddeucci          | e-mail: kevint@hpsad.sad.hp.com    |
>       | Hewlett Packard Firmware QA | HPDesk: Kevin TADDEUCCI /HP5300/A0 |
>       | Telnet: 794-4192            | HP Mailstop: 2LR-N                 | 
>        ----------------------------- ------------------------------------
> 

I purchased IntroCAD PLUS and sent in my registration card but was very
disappointed when I would attempt to print my sketchs on my HP Laserjet IIP.
I takes a long time for the program to send the info to the printer and once it
gets there it is jagged (bad) and very light and blotchy.  I contrast printouts
on my 9 pin KX-1180i Panasonic are excellent.

I wonder has anyone been successful using this software with the HP Laserjet
series of printers.  Tim Mooney if you are out there, I would really appreciate
your assistance.

BTW I have 512K of memory in the Laserjet but IMHO small sketchs should not
be a problem.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Eric Edmonds
University of Lowell
edmondse@woods.ulowell.edu




Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: terjem@stud.cs.uit.no (Terje Normann Marthinussen)
Subject: Re: ProDraw 3.0 and 4000
Organization: University of Tromsoe
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 02:28:56 GMT

In article <1993Jan24.002618.13791@news.uit.no>, terjem@stud.cs.uit.no (Terje Normann Marthinussen) writes:
>In article <root.037g@brimston.apana.org.au>, root@brimston.apana.org.au (Justin Deeley) writes:
>>
>>Anyone got any ideas on when ProDraw will be updated to run with the 4000 and 
>>3.0 - My business is starting to suffer ???
>>
>
>Well, PPage 4.0 with AGA support as well as lots of other features has been
>advertised in Amiga World. Don't know if it's available yet though.
>
>But anyway, PPage 3.0 could be used with a little care on the A4000.
>At least I do.
>
>Avoid switching between color and B/W modes.
>Avoid getting low on chip.
>
>Well, that should do it I think.
>I agree it's good solution but at least if you need the program while waiting
>for an upgrade it's probably the only solution.
>
>Although.... I still think it's incredible that Gold Disk couldn't release
>an OS 3.0 compatible version the day when the A4000 was released.

Ahh... shouldn't answer news posting when it's late night and I'm tired :(
I did by some reason thing PPage instead of PDraw.

Well in general PDraw will work to with the same limitations.
I've used it a bit too, but it's somewhat more unsable than PPage 3.0
Just be carefull and save often.

Sadly though, from what I've read here on news there could be a while before we
se a new version of PDraw out. 

Just let us hope that it will have at least as many features as the windows
version by that time...


Terje Marthiunssen
terjem@stud.cs.uit
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.unix.gnu
From: kennethm@cc.gatech.edu (Kenneth Moorman)
Subject: Re: GhostScript available for the Amiga
Reply-To: kennethm@cc.gatech.edu (Kenneth Moorman)
Organization: College of Computing
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:02:53 GMT

In article <1993Jan23.094736.2696@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU> trevore@vast.unsw.edu.au (Trevor Elbourne (Supr. Hell) BE) writes:
>	Well GhostScript is available now for the amiga, and I have managed
>to set it up (It's available on Amiga.physik in text/dtp/) Even though
>very few must have got it yet, has anyone managed to get the epson
>driver working ? It garbles the printout, gifmono works fine but the reolution
>is too small and does not seem to change. For anyone that is having probs,
>I set a very high stack (ie 200000) so it won't crash. It prints to PAR: well
>but refuses to do so corectly. Can or has anyone managed to get it to work.
>	Thanks in advance
>		George

Well, I have problems with ghostscript.  I have the font files 
in usr:lib/ghostscript/fonts, and the binaries in usr:bin.  
When I CD to the examples directory and say 
	GS -sDEVICE=epson chess.ps 
it starts, thinks for a while, says >>showpage, hit ....
and gives me nothing.   If I try to specify an output file, 
I get a rangeerror in get and it dies on me.   I have tried the
other examples and the other drivers with no success.  

Stack = 500000
Machine = A2000 / A2630 + 4 megs ++ Supra 2 megs ++ WB2.1 ++ various
commodities running in the system.

Any thoughts, comments, etc. ????

Thanks.  

			- Kenneth Moorman (kennethm@cc.gatech.edu)
From: matt-dah@dsv.su.se (Mattias Dahlberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Office programs?
Date: 27 Jan 93 11:21:38 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Hi all,

Which one of those "office" programs (integrated spreadsheet, wp,
business graphics, database and such) do you think is the best?

Opinions?

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From: bartosz@stein.u.washington.edu (Bartosz Kijanka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Is there such a utility?
Date: 25 Jan 1993 06:30:27 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: stein.u.washington.edu


	I am wondering if there is a little utility which would allow me
to off-load files larger than 835K from my HD onto floppies.  Yes, a backup
program can do this, I know.  I am looking for just a simple painless 
utility which would break a file up accordingly, and save it off onto an X
number of floppies, and be able to restore a file from such an operation.
I am aksing this because I have many large *.lha files which I would like to
move off my HD without having to deal with a cumbersome backup program.
Help me out if you've seen such a utility.  Thanks.




bartosz@u.washington.edu
From: tron@uni-paderborn.de (Matthias Scheler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: SAS 6.2 update
Date: 27 Jan 93 16:12:12 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn, Germany
NNTP-Posting-Host: joan.uni-paderborn.de

[stuff deleted]

|> We do plan to send a mailing to all registered customers informing
|> them of the existance of 6.2.  We didn't do this with 6.1 because
|> there was a major bug having to do with the MATH=68881 option (other
|> than that, by the way, 6.1 was pretty clean.) 

Pretty clean ?? The peephole optimizer of 6.1 was unusable, too.
But because the 6.2 peephole optimizer works fine again it doesn't matter.

[stuff deleted]
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Matthias Scheler                                         tron@uni-paderborn.de
University of Paderborn (Germany)
From: ag@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (andy garton)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:48:43 GMT
Subject: Re: Yak's mouse blanking
Organization: Hewlett-Packard SSG/CSY-PWD, UK.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications

I have Yak 1.3 which claims to do a nicer mouse blank (just blanks sprite 0).

However, it doesn't seem to work anymore :-(  It worked in 1.2.  Anyone else
noticed this?  (I have an A1200)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: cobra@coyote.datalog.com (Ken Thompson)
Subject: Re: better 'CD' command wanted!
Organization: Datalog Consulting, Tucson, AZ
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 02:02:20 GMT

e228reac@credit.erin.utoronto.ca (Rea  Christopher Wi) writes:

> 
> The reason for a replacement CD command is simple. Sure, auto-directory
> navigation with Release 2 was made incredibly easy, but there are those of
> us whose fingers are just itching to do "cd .." to return to the parent
> directory. After using UNIX for a long time and AmigaDOS too it gets
> confusing. I find myself using "cd .." on the Amiga side occasionally and
> "cd /" when I'm logged into a UNIX system; one CD command that could handle
> both would solve the problem for me on the Amiga. (UNIX is a different
> story... :-)

 
alias cd /  cd ..
 
Wouldn't that work in the Shell-Startup file?
 
(Speaking of that, I gotta get cracking on that and get it fixed up the 
way *I* like it myself...  :)  )

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: WALLY@UKCC.UKY.EDU (Walter R Francis)
Subject: Re: Newlist 7.1 bug?
Organization: University of Keentookey
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:10:11 GMT

In article <geider.060m@amigdr.gna.org>
geider@amigdr.gna.org (Frank Geider) writes:
 
>WALLY@UKCC.UKY.EDU wrote:
>> I don't know about the two other "versions" of Newlist included in the
>> 7.1 archive, but the International version of NewList 7.1 seems to have
>> a slight bug..
>>
>> The s option gurus the machine with 80000003.  All other options seem
>> to work fine, except for being kinda incompatible with version 6.0..
>>
>> :)
>>
>> It seems to sort by name regardless of the s option being speficied
>> or not, but it shouldn't guru.. :)
>
>What's your config ?
>and what's the date of the archive ? or the file newList itself ?
>the good newlist is the 7.1a (25-Dec-92)
>I try to use the s and S option here without problems ...?!
 
I obviously had a corrupt copy of Newlist..  I extracted the copy
again and it works perfectly..  :)
 
Thanks Phil!  :)
 
>        Bien Amicalement
>
>                          Frank Geider
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: mcuddy@fensende.Rational.COM (Mike Cuddy)
Subject: Re: Twilight Zone
Organization: Rational
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 20:30:15 GMT

hgm@ncsu.edu (Hal G. Meeks) writes:

>I managed to get all of the screen blanker modules to run, including Avant
>Garde (needs PAL mode to run). I found out, however, that Twilight Zone does
>some generally evil things, unappropriate for a screen blanker. 

Yep.  Evil. 

>After playing with it for a week, I threw it away, and went to something a
>little simpler, and more stable. Pity -- I'd really like to see a modular
>screen blanker similar to After Dark. 

... Try shadowmaster.  Mike Meyer's modular blanker system.  (uses any screen
hack that takes a ^C to stop.  Quite nice and very stable (I've run it for
almost a year now -- The registered version has lots of saver modules, too)

		 - Mike